The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 50 - The Tempted Top Student (24)

Chapter 50 -50 The Tempted Top Student (24)

Chapter 50 -50 The Tempted Top Student (24)

Xu Zhiheng Extra

“During this time, just stay at home and don’t go anywhere.”

Xu Zhiheng listened to his elder brother Xu Zhiyan and wanted to retort, but he was simply overpowered by force.

Was he being held under house arrest?

The events had developed to this point, and he was utterly baffled.

He merely wanted to come back and ask about the issues with the An Family. As a result, he ended up being confined at home by his own brother.

Moreover, it was not until now that he realized his brother Xu Zhiyan’s leg had long since healed, and their grandfather was aware of it; only their parents still believed that the other would be bound to a wheelchair for life, bustling obnoxiously and annoyingly.

From his grandfather’s attitude towards him, it was clear that his own family had fallen out of favor.

“Don’t meddle in the An Family’s affairs anymore; it’s not something you should inquire about.”

Xu Zhiyan was also afraid that his naive cousin might inadvertently do something foolish and return to the situation, so he revealed a bit of information.

“Then tell me, what happened to Jiuge and the others?”

No matter how Xu Zhiheng inquired, he couldn’t pry open his brother’s lips.

Xu Zhiheng was utterly helpless, temporarily unable to even control his own freedom, let alone anything else.

During this period, he also received calls from Jiang Baisha and Du Ruoshen.

However, before they could say much, Xu Zhiyan appeared as if he had a tracking device installed on him, always showing up just in time, and directly took away his phone.

Eventually, when his brother graciously let him out, he felt like everything outside had drastically changed.

In just a few short months, the An Family had plunged from the core of power to the fringes, and the Ye Family seemed not to be doing well either.

Xu Zhiheng made inquiries all around and learned many insider stories.

Though openly banned from being shared, those in the circles all knew the details privately.

An Jiuge had offended the girl whose name he had heard before.

He had once stopped An Jiuge from playing that pointless game; if only he had known…

At that time, even at the risk of his brotherly bond, he would have stopped Jiuge’s actions.

Xu Zhiheng had also heard that the girl was in fact the biological daughter of the Ye Family and had been abandoned by Ye Wanhe with her own hands.

Whether these rumors were true or false, nobody knew for sure, as neither party had ever admitted to any connection with the Ye Family.

On the contrary, everyone in the circle knew that the girl had made her dissatisfaction with the An and Ye families clear in public.

Xu Zhiheng had accompanied his elder brother to important events and had seen that girl from afar.

She was a composed and indifferent young lady, yet when she smiled faintly, it made one feel as if the entire icy world had melted.

Afterward, he saw her several more times, each time she walked further away, soon becoming unreachable even to his own brother.

Many people surrounded her, with all kinds of titles, praises, and admiration focused on her.

Her spotlight stood in stark contrast to the An and Ye families.

Without saying or doing anything, just her implicit displeasure was enough to cause the once-great families to crumble and separate, casting a shadow over their former glory.

The An Family made the decisive move to withdraw from Jing City, seeking development in a somewhat remote city, while the Ye Family, although getting by, couldn’t compare to their former days and only lingered around the third or fourth rate.

Xu Zhiheng was a man of deep loyalties, regardless of what wrongdoings his brothers had committed, the bond between them always remained.

He pleaded with his elder brother for a long time until he finally got the chance to meet An Jiuge.

It was a drizzly afternoon when he sat opposite An Jiuge, separated by a glass and iron bars.

Xu Zhiheng couldn’t believe that the person before his eyes was the same proud, spirited man from his memory.

The man opposite him had a pale face and a frail body, shrouded in an aura of gloomy darkness.

In An Jiuge’s eyes lay a dead stillness. Upon seeing Xu Zhiheng, his first reaction was to howl loudly, wanting to break through the iron bars and rush to him.

Xu Zhiheng was startled by this sudden action.

“Quiet…” The prison guard, brandishing an iron rod, merely glanced over, and An Jiuge quieted down immediately, his body trembling uncontrollably, the fear in his eyes piercing Xu Zhiheng’s heart deeply.

An Jiuge tried hard to suppress his excitement, widened his eyes with hope, and gripped the iron bars, “Zhiheng, have you come to take me out?”

Xu Zhiheng was in a daze and didn’t even know how he made it out; he never dared to recall that scene…

He fled as if running for his life.

He wanted to help but was powerless.

Later, Xu Zhiheng met Jiang Baisha and Du Ruoshen again.

The once Four Musketeers of Shenghua University, each of their fates was deeply lamentable.

Like Xu Zhiheng, Jiang Baisha was confined to his home by his family from the onset of the incident, unable to step foot outside.

When they met again, Xu Zhiheng realized that the other’s cool demeanor had become even more ingrained in his bones.

With no words between them, only bitter smiles, Jiang Baisha felt even more self-reproach, believing he bore an undeniable responsibility for everything.

Why had they made that bet in the first place? Knowing Jiuge’s untamed nature, he should have advised him more, and then things might not have escalated to this point.

But now it was too late for regrets…

Du Ruoshen wasn’t so lucky.

When Xu Zhiheng saw him again, he was making a forced grin, drinking wine served by a group of young masters.

These were the same young masters who used to call Du Ruoshen “brother,” but now they jeered with contempt, “Drink up, after you down this bottle, that plot of land up north, I’ll get my dad to approve it for the Du Family.”

Without An Jiuge, without the An Family’s support and protection, the huge business empire of the Du Family became a sought-after sweet bun that everyone wanted a bite of.

Now, Du Ruoshen spent his days ingratiating himself to others from dawn till dusk, yet this couldn’t stop the Du Family’s decline.

Gradually, the once close brothers drifted farther apart, and in a city neither large nor small, they hardly met again.

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Much later, Xu Zhiheng thought he saw them once more.

Sitting in the car, he looked through the glass window and saw a staggering figure hunched over in a corner, the face vaguely resembling An Jiuge’s.

When he rushed out of the car in haste, the figure was nowhere to be seen.

Perhaps he had seen wrong; that was the only consolation Xu Zhiheng could offer himself.

He had never met Ye Wanhe but had heard some rumors.

Some said they saw her in the red-light district on the street corner, dressed provocatively and speaking seductively, having become a fallen woman.

Others said that after she got out of prison, she was kept by a man full of corpulence…

And still others said….