Chapter 307: Susan's Shyness! The Collapse of the Child of Destiny!
"Damn it, it's that idiotic rich second-generation's car again. He's like a haunting spirit!"
Lin Xiang, who had been waiting bitterly for Susan for so long and was already in a foul mood, immediately cursed when he saw the familiar luxury car arrive. The sleek, metallic beast crawled down the narrow street of the old neighborhood, looking utterly out of place among the peeling paint and cracked pavement.
"Could this guy have found my address and is coming to demand compensation?"
Lin Xiang pondered, his brows knitting together. But he didn't run away, showing no signs of genuine worry.
He had noticed yesterday that there were no surveillance cameras where the scrape happened, and he had checked the car—no dashcam. There was no evidence. It was his word against this rich stranger's.
What was he afraid of?
Lin Xiang had already prepared his excuse. If that idiotic rich second-generation came to demand compensation, he would directly claim defamation and deny everything. He would play the victim, accuse the rich man of bullying a poor student.
Anyway, only three people were present for that incident. Lin Xiang himself wouldn't admit it, and Susan... Susan was his childhood friend. She couldn't possibly testify for that idiotic rich second-generation against him. She was on his side. She had to be.
What could he do? Sue him? Without proof, it was meaningless.
Soon, the Bugatti Veyron came to a smooth stop. The scissor door opened coolly, rising like a wing, and the handsome man familiar to Lin Xiang stepped out.
"Pretty boy, why are you so handsome..."
Lin Xiang muttered sourly under his breath, jealousy bubbling up like acid. Even though he was quite handsome himself—in a rough, youthful way—and many girls liked him, he felt instantly inferior.
During his school days, some rebellious and unruly boys who skipped classes and got into fights were actually quite popular with many girls. The 'bad boy' image worked for him.
It was just that Lin Xiang secretly loved Susan and disdained all other girls; none of them were as good as his Susan. Other girls were just noise; Susan was the melody.
At school, Susan was truly the undisputed campus belle. She was beautiful in appearance, with skin like porcelain and eyes like deer. She had a good personality, gentle and kind, and spoke softly, like a breeze in spring. Countless boys pursued her, writing her love letters and trying to walk her home.
However, with Lin Xiang acting as her self-appointed protector, other boys couldn't even dream of getting close to Susan. He was her guard dog.
From childhood to adulthood, Lin Xiang didn't know how many times he had fought for Susan, fiercely attacking love rivals with his fists. He took pride in his bruises, wearing them like medals of honor earned in defense of his princess.
Lin Xiang thought to himself with delight, Susan was his, and could only be his. Susan must also like him. It was inevitable. It was destiny.
No one else could take her away.
At this moment, looking at the handsome man before him, Lin Xiang had to admit that he was excessively handsome. The man wore a casual but clearly expensive shirt that fit his broad shoulders perfectly. His hair was styled flawlessly, not a strand out of place despite the summer heat.
And even if he was handsome, he was also so rich.
While waiting for Susan to return, Lin Xiang, bored and sweating, had searched online for the car that his bicycle had scraped.
Good heavens, it was a top-of-the-line Bugatti Veyron, worth over a hundred million!
The five million repair fee earlier really wasn't an exorbitant demand. In fact, it was practically a discount.
As soon as he thought of this, Lin Xiang gloated. Such a huge loss would surely make even this pretty boy, idiotic rich second-generation feel the pinch. He hoped the scratch was deep. He hoped it ruined the man's day.
Seeing Shen Anyu's gaze sweep over, indifferent and calm, Lin Xiang felt a surge of irrational anger. He deliberately put on a provocative expression, sneering, and raised his middle finger high in the air.
Fuck you, he thought. You have money, so what? You don't have Susan.
Shen Anyu smiled slightly, a gesture full of disdain, and completely ignored Lin Xiang. To Shen Anyu, Lin Xiang was nothing more than an ant waving its tiny legs. He turned back to the car, leaning in.
Gently, he held the inconvenienced girl out of the car. His movements were tender, treating her like a fragile piece of glass.
"Baby, you're home. You're not feeling well, I'll carry you upstairs," Shen Anyu said softly, his voice carrying clearly in the quiet street.
"Husband, I can do it myself."
Susan blushed, her voice weak and raspy. She struggled to get down, her legs trembling visibly. If the neighborhood uncles and aunts saw her being carried like a princess by a strange man, it would be utterly mortifying. The gossip would never end.
Who could blame her for being unable to refuse any of Shen Anyu's requests, no matter how excessive they were?
Although she had been treated by Shen Anyu with [Divine Medical Skills], she was still soft all over and had no strength. The intensity of the previous night and morning had drained her completely. Her knees felt like jelly.
She hung on Shen Anyu's body like a soft noodle, relying on his strength to stay upright.
"Su... Susan?"
At this moment, a familiar voice came from nearby, trembling and filled with disbelief. It was a voice that cracked under the weight of shock.
[Ding! Child of Destiny Lin Xiang was struck by lightning. Plundered +9999 Destiny Points.]
[Ding! Child of Destiny Lin Xiang's mentality exploded. Plundered +9999 Destiny Points.]
...
Looking at this scene, Lin Xiang's eyes were practically splitting, and his face was contorted into a mask of horror.
He absolutely could not believe that Susan, the childhood campus belle he had secretly loved for many years, the pure goddess he had protected since kindergarten, was in the arms of another man.
So intimate. So bashful. Her body pressed against his without resistance.
And, she was sweetly calling him "husband."
Husband?
The word echoed in Lin Xiang's mind like a gunshot.
At first, Lin Xiang even thought he had seen wrong, heard wrong, and was hallucinating from the heatstroke. The sun must have baked his brain.
But after repeatedly slapping himself hard several times, the stinging pain on his cheek confirmed reality. Lin Xiang sobered up.
Everything before him was not an illusion. It was a nightmare made real.
At this moment, Lin Xiang, with red eyes brimming with tears of rage and betrayal, looked at the bashful Susan in front of him and asked tremblingly:
"Susan, you... you and him..."
He couldn't even finish the sentence. The words stuck in his throat like shards of glass.
Susan only then noticed Lin Xiang standing there, looking disheveled and sweaty. Her small face immediately flushed a deeper shade of red, burning with shame. She shrank behind Shen Anyu, trying to hide her small frame behind his broad back. She clutched Shen Anyu's clothes tightly, her knuckles turning white, too shy to speak.
She didn't know how to tell Lin Xiang, her childhood friend, about this. How could she explain that in less than 24 hours, her entire world had changed?
Susan also knew that Lin Xiang liked her. She wasn't blind.
Girls were always very perceptive about such things. She knew he fought for her, waited for her, and prioritized her.
In the past, Susan also had some good feelings for Lin Xiang—a budding, innocent crush. But yesterday, she met her true love, her Prince Charming.
Shen Anyu was like a god who had descended to save her. He was mature, powerful, wealthy, and overwhelmingly dominant. Compared to him, Lin Xiang was just a boy. A boy who caused trouble and needed saving.
Although they had only known each other for one day, Susan had fallen deeply in love, hopelessly lost. She had given everything—both her tender body and her precious maiden heart—willingly and completely.
At this moment, Shen Anyu, as a man, naturally stepped forward. He shielded Susan, blocking Lin Xiang's view of her, asserting his ownership.
Shen Anyu had a graceful, polite smile on his face, the kind that didn't reach his eyes. He looked at Lin Xiang and even thanked him:
"Brother, I still have to thank you for yesterday's scrape. It was truly a stroke of luck. It created the wonderful destiny between Susan and me."
Every word was a dagger plunged into Lin Xiang's heart.
Speaking of this, Shen Anyu reached back and held Susan's fair and tender hand, pulling her slightly forward to stand beside him. He looked at her, then back at Lin Xiang, and said gently and affectionately:
"You don't know what a good girl Susan is. It was love at first sight for me."
"After you left, running away like a coward, I went to great lengths to find Susan. I invited her on a date to make sure she was okay."
"At the Riverside fireworks display last night, under the exploding lights, I confessed to Susan. And Susan agreed."
"She also has a very good impression of me. We connected instantly."
"We even took wedding photos."
"..."
Shen Anyu smiled, reaching into his suit pocket. He took out the promotional photos taken yesterday at the jewelry store in the mall. He held them up for Lin Xiang to see, like a hunter displaying his trophy.
Looking at the photos, Lin Xiang felt his soul leave his body.
In the picture, Shen Anyu was impeccably dressed in a suit, looking like royalty. And Susan... Susan was wearing a pure white wedding dress. She looked more beautiful than Lin Xiang had ever seen her. She was standing on tiptoe, her eyes closed, shyly and actively kissing Shen Anyu.
It wasn't forced. It wasn't coerced. She was kissing him.
Susan listened to Shen Anyu's narration and looked at the photos, her beautiful eyes filled with memories and sweetness. She remembered the thrill, the romance, the feeling of destiny. She didn't deny a single word.
Meanwhile, Lin Xiang's mind went blank. The world spun around him. He stumbled backward, his legs giving out, and fell heavily onto the dirty ground.
The scene in the photo was a scenario he had always dreamed of: Susan wearing a pure white wedding dress, noble and beautiful, walking down the aisle towards him.
However, the groom was not him.
The groom was the man whose car he had scratched.
In just one day, his girl, his childhood friend Susan, had been snatched away by someone else.
Even the fate of their meeting was a result of him letting go of his bicycle handlebars and scraping a car, creating the opportunity. He had caused this. He had handed Susan over to this man on a silver platter.
The girl whose profile looked so much like Susan at the Riverside fireworks display last night... the one he had tried to deny... it really was Susan!
While he was being beaten up by a female bodyguard, they were confessing their love. While he was searching for her in the crowd, she was in this man's arms.
Recalling that Susan didn't come home last night...
And seeing Susan's current appearance—her slightly swollen lips, the love bite hidden poorly on her neck, her soft, weak posture, and her reddened knees that made it hard for her to walk.
How could Lin Xiang not guess what had happened? He wasn't a child. He knew what men and women did when they didn't come home at night.
Just as he was bitterly waiting for Susan under the thirty-five or thirty-six-degree sun, suffering heatstroke and hunger to prove his devotion, his girl had already left him.
Everything—her heart, her body, her future—had been taken by another man.
"No..."
At this moment, a mournful howl, like a lone wolf baying at the moon, escaped from Lin Xiang's mouth. It was a sound of pure, unadulterated heartbreak.
"NOOOOOOO!"
At this moment, Lin Xiang was in tears, snot running down his face, his mentality collapsing completely.
[Ding! Child of Destiny Lin Xiang's mentality collapsed. Plundered +9999 Destiny Points.]
[Ding! Child of Destiny Lin Xiang was in tears. Plundered +9999 Destiny Points.]
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