After the Fake Young Master Ran Away with His Child, the Villain Went Crazy - Chapter 2

Over the past few days, Jing Ruan had been coming to the hospital from time to time to build goodwill, and he had already become good friends with the protagonist. That day, Jing Ruan came in carrying a fruit basket to visit Yan Jin.

In the hospital room, Yan Jin was on the phone, looking for someone to help smooth things over through connections. The moment he heard footsteps, he looked toward the person coming in.

“Brother Yan.”

Seeing that Yan Jin was on the phone, Jing Ruan consciously greeted him, then stood to the side and waited for him to finish the call.

Jing Ruan was not very educated. The knowledge he had learned only amounted to recognizing and writing words. Beyond that, there was nothing more. Even his literacy had been taught to him by his grandmother.

Jing Ruan had been an orphan from birth. It was his grandmother who had found him and raised him. When he was sixteen, his grandmother passed away, and Jing Ruan had no choice but to go out and look for food.

He had rummaged through trash cans before. When he was unbearably hungry, he had also stolen food. Unfortunately, he had not managed to run away. He was caught, the food was snatched back, and he was beaten viciously.

When Jing Ruan was starving badly, he would hide in the broken-down house and flip through novels to distract himself. The world he lived in had already entered a fully information-based era. Paper books had long been discarded by people. Only in the Lower Fifth District could such trash be found.

Those books had all been picked up by his grandmother to teach Jing Ruan how to read. They were also incomplete. Some only had the beginning of the story, while some only had the final pages.

As Jing Ruan listened to his stomach growl, he thought of the extravagant, luxurious lives of the rich young masters in novels, and he yearned for them terribly. He wanted more than anything to become someone above others, to become the young master of a wealthy family.

He did not want to go hungry. He did not want to be bullied. He also did not want to be stared at by those ill-intentioned people with lecherous eyes. He could only try his best to make himself dirty and smelly, using that to protect himself.

He was like a rat in a gutter. He could only see the tiny patch of land he lived on, and danger filled every corner of it.

The era he had lived in before was divided into five major districts. The First District was where those in power lived, equipped with powerful armed forces. The Second District was the top-tier rich district. The Third District was the district where mercenaries were based. The Fourth District was for the moderately wealthy and ordinary civilians. The Fifth District was the exile zone, which the other districts called the garbage district, also known as the Lower Fifth District.

No one governed the Lower Fifth District. Only the outer perimeter was heavily guarded by armed forces, who did not allow the people inside to leave. It was chaotic and unbearable, filled with all kinds of people. Every day, one could see someone die.

From childhood to adulthood, Jing Ruan had survived by hiding in the cellar beneath a broken wooden shack. Whenever someone came to rob them, his grandmother would make him hide inside. Later, after his grandmother died, he spent two years hiding from place to place. Up until the moment he transmigrated here, he had thought he would either silently starve to death one day, or be beaten to death.

“Brother Yan, have you run into trouble? Do you need my help? I have money. I can spend money to find someone to help you solve the problem.”

Yan Jin turned back in surprise and looked at Jing Ruan’s utterly serious face. He thought Jing Ruan was naive and inexperienced, so after hanging up the phone, he deliberately teased him.

“How would you solve it?”

Jing Ruan made the expression of a hanged ghost sticking out its tongue.

Jing Ruan’s worldview had been shaped in the Lower Fifth District. He did not feel there was anything wrong with what he had said. He only knew that with money and power, one could do whatever one wanted.

Yan Jin’s heart jolted, and he quickly pressed him.

“Who taught you that? You can’t do that in the future. That’s illegal, do you understand?”

“You can’t? Then I won’t do it that way. Do you need money, then? I can lend it to you, but after you earn money in the future, you have to pay me back a lot, okay?”

Jing Ruan thought the male lead was definitely the most impressive. If he helped him through his difficulties, then surely benefits would not be lacking in the future. Still, he had to say it in advance. What if Yan Jin really thought he was helping for free?

Wouldn’t that be a loss?

Listening to Jing Ruan’s words, Yan Jin was caught between laughter and helplessness.

He did not know how Jing Ruan’s family had raised him. There was a kind of innocent cruelty in Jing Ruan, and his mercenary nature was not concealed in the slightest.

Yan Jin had already had someone investigate. That day, Jing Ruan had deliberately appeared there, and his goal had been very clear. He had gone straight to the place where Yan Jin had the accident.

The Jing family was only a minor, bottom-tier family with a little money. Jing Ruan’s parents had died early, and the two of them had worn themselves out planning for their son. They had set up a trust and stipulated that their son could only take over all the property when he was thirty-five.

Before that, it would only provide for his daily living expenses, with a sum of money distributed to him every month. This arrangement was not only because they were afraid their son would be coaxed and deceived at a young age, but also because they feared he would be murdered early by treacherous people.

Moreover, after Jing Ruan finished high school, he refused to go to school anymore. The information Yan Jin had gathered all said that Jing Ruan did not like talking, was introverted, disliked interacting with people, and was somewhat world-weary.

The person in front of him was completely different from the information he had heard.

Too suspicious.

Yan Jin became friends with Jing Ruan because he wanted to see what he was really up to. If Jing Ruan had been sent by his older brother Yan Qian, then was Yan Qian deliberately placing such a person by his side to lead him astray?

That scheme would be far too obvious.

After Jing Ruan finished maintaining their relationship for the day and was preparing to leave, Yan Jin called out to him.

“Jing Ruan, in a few days, I’m going to attend a banquet. I can bring one person in with me. Do you want to come along? I heard there will be a lot of impressive people at the banquet. Jing Ruan, can you help me with something?”

Yan Jin intended to test Jing Ruan.

“Really? But I’m a little stupid. If it’s too complicated, I can’t do it.”

Jing Ruan was somewhat worried. He had never attended any banquet before, and he did not know what he should do. He was afraid he would mess things up.

“It won’t be too complicated. Little Ruan only needs to help me bring one sentence to someone.”

Yan Jin guided him patiently as he spoke, watching Jing Ruan’s reaction all the while.

Jing Ruan thought this matter was simple. Delivering one sentence was something he could do.

So he patted his chest with his hand and said yes.

Yan Jin still could not see any problem, so he arranged with him that one week later at seven in the evening, he would pick Jing Ruan up at his house and take him to attend the banquet.

Jing Ruan still did not know what the address of the place he was currently living in was called. He told Yan Jin to wait a moment while he went to the washroom.

In the washroom, Jing Ruan called the steward at home and asked what the name and number of his house were. The steward did not answer the question right away. Instead, he asked Jing Ruan why he was asking this.

Jing Ruan said that in a few days, a friend was coming to his house to pick him up to go out and have fun, but that friend did not know the address.

The steward on the other end of the phone fell silent for a few seconds, then asked Jing Ruan what kind of friend it was and what their name was.

Jing Ruan obediently answered everything one by one.

But the steward said it would be best not to go. He said that upper society had too many rules. If Jing Ruan went and accidentally offended someone, that would not be good.

Jing Ruan thought to himself, the male lead is my friend. If I don’t help him while he’s in trouble, then once the male lead rises up, where will there still be a place for me?

He still wanted to borrow the tiger’s might!

After hanging up the phone, Jing Ruan walked back to the hospital room.

“Brother Yan, how about we meet at the hospital entrance when the time comes? The steward won’t let me go with you, so I’ll sneak over then.”

Jing Ruan said this in a quiet voice.

As early as when he was on the phone, Yan Jin had silently walked behind the door and eavesdropped. He more or less heard some of it, and he only found it rather strange.

How could a person not even know their own home address? At worst, once he got home, he could send his location.

Even more suspicious.

“Okay.”

Yan Jin nodded.

No matter how hard Yan Jin guessed, he would never have guessed that Jing Ruan had come from another world. He did not know how to use electronic technology. Even his phone was something he had only recently learned to use, and there were still many things he had yet to learn.

After Jing Ruan left the hospital, he went straight home by taxi. When he got out of the car, Jing Ruan took out paper money to pay. The paper money was something Jing Ruan had asked the steward for at the very beginning, and he had asked for quite a lot.

Every time he tapped into mobile payment, it required a password. Jing Ruan did not know the password. After randomly trying a few times and getting it wrong, he could only slowly study it blindly by himself.

Jing Ruan did not dare ask the steward either. He was afraid that if he asked too many questions, the steward would discover he was an outsider. What would he do if he were driven out then? He would have no choice but to wander the streets.

He had no skills at all. He only knew how to pick through garbage.

Jing Ruan was terrified of his past life. He desperately wanted to find a backer, and Yan Jin was the golden thigh he had chosen.

Standing in the villa courtyard, Jing Ruan tilted his head up and looked at the beautiful big house in front of him. When he had first transmigrated here, he always liked walking around the house and looking at it. He was always afraid this was a dream.

This beautiful big house was his home.

The steward noticed that Jing Ruan was standing in the courtyard without coming in, so he turned his head and spoke to the nearest servant.

“Go call the young master inside. Tell him I have hired several teachers for him, and from now on, he needs to attend lessons at home. Tell him to go out less.”

The servant lowered their head and softly said yes.

When Jing Ruan heard the servant tell him that the steward had hired teachers, he was so happy he could hardly stand it. These were things he had never dared to even imagine before.

Jing Ruan ran up to the steward, happily bounced twice in place, then asked him with great enthusiasm when the teachers would come and what preparations he needed to make.

“I have already ordered people to prepare everything necessary. Young Master only needs to listen carefully in class.”

When the steward reached this point, he paused almost imperceptibly.

“Young Master, once lessons begin, you won’t be able to go out often.”

Jing Ruan nodded and said he knew.

At worst, he would not go out at all over the next few days. He would only go out on the night Yan Jin took him to the banquet.

The next day, the teachers the steward had hired arrived. Jing Ruan listened for an entire day in a fog, and by the end of the day, he had not understood anything at all.

On the third day, all the teachers were replaced. Jing Ruan could immediately understand the new ones. The new teachers also taught him how to write and recognize words, and Jing Ruan studied with incomparable seriousness.

Very soon, the agreed-upon day arrived.

The steward did not agree to let Jing Ruan attend the banquet. Jing Ruan acted shamelessly and begged him for a long time, but the steward still would not agree. In the end, Jing Ruan climbed out of the kitchen window and ran away by himself. He ran quickly, and the steward did not catch up to him.

Jing Ruan thought that after attending the banquet, he would come back and apologize to the steward.

By the time Jing Ruan took a taxi to the agreed meeting place, Yan Jin had already arrived. He was dressed very formally, and when he saw Jing Ruan wearing casual clothes, he looked a little puzzled.

“You’re going dressed like that?”

Yan Jin saw that Jing Ruan was even wearing slippers on his feet.

Jing Ruan did not know the rules of banquets, nor did he know how he should dress. If the steward did not arrange it for him, then he knew nothing.

“Brother Yan, I climbed out the window and secretly ran away. The steward didn’t agree to let me come.”

Jing Ruan answered with something completely unrelated.

Yan Jin suppressed his doubts. Time was tight, so he could only take him to a nearby mall to buy a new suit for the emergency. The suit they bought was not as well-fitted as a custom-made one.

Jing Ruan’s body was too thin, so he could only barely wear it.

Ordinary people would not be able to see the problem, but in the eyes of anyone who understood a little social etiquette, it would be obvious at a glance.

Jing Ruan cherished the outfit on his body very much, stroking it with his hands. He thought it looked so good, and that it was also very expensive. He had seen the amount when Yan Jin paid.

Yan Jin drove the car, his peripheral vision glancing toward the passenger seat from time to time.

Jing Ruan was curiously examining the decorations inside the car.

The doubts in Yan Jin’s heart grew heavier and heavier. He increasingly suspected that Jing Ruan was a trap sent over by Yan Qian.

He wanted Jing Ruan to help him deliver one sentence to someone.

That person was Yan Yi He.

Yan Jin knew that Yan Qian belonged to Yan Yi He’s circle. All of them revolved around Yan Yi He. He wanted to send Jing Ruan back to them in return, as a test.

He wanted to test Yan Qian’s reaction to Jing Ruan.

If Jing Ruan really was someone Yan Qian had arranged, then Yan Qian would definitely not let him walk up to Yan Yi He and get in the way. He would also immediately understand that his plan had been seen through.

If Jing Ruan was not someone Yan Qian had arranged, then Yan Qian would also be happy to watch Yan Yi He become the joke. After confirming that there was no danger, he would most likely let Jing Ruan pass.

A person like Yan Yi He had no interest in fussing over minor figures. Besides, the words he wanted Jing Ruan to deliver were harmless. They would not endanger Jing Ruan’s life. At most, he would lose a little face.

Once he confirmed that there was nothing wrong with Jing Ruan, he would compensate him with something.