After Transmigrating As The Second Male Lead In Qn Old-School Angsty Romance - Chapter 16

“This heir is in a good mood today, so you had better disappear immediately. Otherwise…”

Sun Zibai looked down from above and slowly began his threat, but in the end—

“Heir, please calm your anger! Heir, please calm your anger! I’ll get lost now. I’ll get lost immediately.”

However arrogant Qin Hanlin had been just now was exactly how cowardly he was now. Sun Zibai impatiently kicked him to the side. Watching him scramble and crawl away, he sneered before turning back into the private room.

Qin Mo’s father, Qin Wancai, was someone who knew how to do business—the kind who wished he could crawl into a money hole. But when it came to management, he was lacking. His household of wives, concubines, sons, and daughters was also a complete mess. The one in the Qin family who truly had brains was Qin Mo’s eldest brother, Qin Baofu. On the surface, that man looked kind and courteous, but in reality, he was the silently rotten type.

As for this second son, Qin Hanlin, he was just a brainless wastrel. He bullied the weak and feared the strong, and he loved relying on others’ power to act arrogantly. He was comparable to Sun Ziheng.

In the original plot, he often went around bullying people and committing evil deeds under the title of the heir’s second brother-in-law. The original owner indulged them purely because of Qin Mo. In truth, he looked down on them from the bottom of his heart. But Sun Zibai would not indulge them.

After this commotion, the waiter happened to return from gathering information at the medical hall.

Logically speaking, the medical hall should not reveal a customer’s information. But this waiter was clever. Not only did he give an appropriate benefit, he also promised that in the future, he would often recommend the medical hall to guests of Misty Rain Tower. The shopkeeper thought there was nothing especially confidential about it, so he told the waiter the whole story.

That young man in blue-green clothes had appeared at the medical hall half a year ago. Since then, he had basically come twice every month to get medicine. However, he only ever bought medicine and never saw a doctor, because he brought his own prescriptions.

The prescriptions were all for treating cold syndrome, and there were also quite a few for pain relief. But the shopkeeper could tell at a glance that they were prescriptions written by someone with superb medical skills.

It was not some rare illness, but it was difficult to treat.

The medical hall’s shopkeeper also said that the young man in blue-green clothes should come from a wealthy family. The medicines on the prescription were all extremely expensive among medicines of the same effect. There were even several kinds that the medical hall could not fully prepare and had to order from the capital. It could be seen that his household did not lack money.

Sun Zibai listened quietly, then only after hearing everything did he have Sun Hong reward the waiter.

They had already been in Sucheng half a year ago. At that time, Sun Zibai had not yet come to this world. And yet such a banished-immortal-like man was unknown to everyone, which showed that he was extremely low-key. Moreover, he had been taking medicine for half a year, so he was more or less a medicine jar.

Cold syndrome? Pain relief?

Sun Zibai could not help thinking of that person sitting in the wheelchair, looking like a deity descending to earth. Presumably, beneath that dazzling radiance, he also had hardships ordinary people could not see.

But aside from that accident that night, there was currently no connection between them, so Sun Zibai temporarily set it aside.

After what had just happened, everyone knew that Sun Zibai was in a private room on the second floor of Misty Rain Tower. Not only did no one come up to cause trouble, even the voices in the outer area unconsciously lowered by several degrees, afraid of provoking that tyrant heir.

Only when the private room door was knocked on again did another visitor arrive.

This time, it was Xiao Yiyan.

After not seeing him for a period of time, Xiao Yiyan had become much more steady. He was no longer as reckless and brainless as when Sun Zibai first met him. Of course, he still looked somewhat unnatural when he saw Sun Zibai, but he no longer had as much hatred and impulse as before. It was just that unwillingness and awkwardness were still there.

He was the male lead, after all. It was inevitable that he was proud and arrogant.

“Heir.”

Facing Sun Zibai’s scrutiny, Xiao Yiyan bowed.

Not bad. He had improved quite a bit. At the very least, he had already learned to restrain his emotions.

“You did well. This Misty Rain Tower—this heir is very satisfied.”

Sun Zibai remained high and mighty. He leaned crookedly to the side, drinking tea while sizing up Xiao Yiyan. His tall, straight figure was very male-lead-like, and his handsome face was actually very dazzling. However, right now, his whole person gave off a suppressed feeling.

He was enduring. He felt extremely stifled.

Sun Zibai did not care at all.

“Sun Hong, give him another three thousand taels.”

“Yes.”

Sun Hong never asked the heir for reasons. No matter how confused he was, he would still do as told. This was one of the things Sun Zibai liked about him. Of course, absolute loyalty was also indispensable.

Xiao Yiyan lowered his head and accepted it. No matter how stifled he felt, he no longer rashly and ignorantly contradicted Sun Zibai like he had the first time.

Moreover, he was currently working for Sun Zibai. This was the choice he had made that night.

A man should pay the price for his own choices. This was what Sun Zibai had told him.

Sun Zibai suddenly changed the subject.

“This heir has always been very curious. Those two useless younger brothers of yours are more useless than the other. Since Xiao Yuan clearly has a son with brains like you, why does he not use you?”

“Could it be only because of the difference between legitimate and concubine-born children? But this heir has heard that Xiao Yuan treats Xiao Yifeng very well.”

Xiao Yifeng was Xiao Yuan’s youngest son. He was also concubine-born, but Xiao Yuan treated him extremely well. Not only had he specifically hired martial arts masters for him, he had also hired several tutors. He even often kept him by his side to study. Sometimes, even the two legitimate young masters could not compare to him in terms of favor.

“Can you resolve this confusion for this heir?”

Sun Zibai stared at him. Xiao Yiyan silently clenched his fists. If he knew the answer, how would he have fallen to this point?

“I do not know.”

“Then think of a way to know.”

Sun Zibai’s expression turned serious. “If it is only because of the difference between legitimate and concubine-born children, then you can still find an excuse for yourself and call it unfair fate. After all, a person cannot choose their birth. Whose belly you came out of was not something you could decide.”

“But what if that is not the reason? Do you not want to know the truth? Do you not want to know where you differ from Xiao Yifeng? Why does Xiao Yuan hate you to this extent?”

Xiao Yiyan’s body trembled slightly, and his fists clenched even tighter.

“I want to!”

These questions had troubled him for nineteen years. He asked himself all the time, but he had never known the reason.

Sun Zibai looked at the tall youth whose emotions were so easily stirred by him. He could only say: young man, your road was still very long.

“If you want to know, then go seek an answer.”

“Since Xiao Yuan cannot see your ability, then work hard to make him see it. Not only must you make him see it, you must make him fear you, make him dread you, make it so that even if he hates you, he can do nothing to you. You must even make him support you in return and rely on you.”

Xiao Yiyan seemed to hear such words for the first time. He stared at Sun Zibai in a daze, and an unprecedented light burst from his eyes.

In that instant, he was like a child who had suffered helplessly in the fog for too long, suddenly seeing light, seeing a direction.

Sun Zibai’s words successfully awakened him. Xiao Yiyan seemed to have received guidance within the fog.

Looking at Xiao Yiyan’s gradually clearing eyes, Sun Zibai expressed inwardly: today’s PUA master achievement unlocked.

“Only when you have enough strength and stand high enough will you possess the qualification to be valued by others. And at that time, the confusion you once thought had no solution will not be worth a fart.”

“You do not know now only because you are not qualified enough. You are not worthy. Do you understand?”

He was practically a life mentor.

Sun Hong, too, looked at his heir with worship all over his face, as if Sun Zibai was currently shining with boundless light.

As expected of my master.

Well then. He had successfully brainwashed two people.

Xiao Yiyan’s nails were almost digging into his flesh. He gritted his teeth tightly, and his body still trembled slightly from the stifled resentment. But he could not say a single word in rebuttal, because what Sun Zibai said was the truth.

He truly was not worthy. He was not qualified enough. But sooner or later, he would become powerful. He would make those contemptuous gazes turn into reverence. He would also stand on equal footing with the person before him. He would personally snatch Ah Mo back from his hands.

Xiao Yiyan was secretly making vows, not knowing that his thinking had completely followed Sun Zibai’s lead. Moreover, his hatred toward Sun Zibai was also quietly turning into awe.

Something suddenly surfaced in Xiao Yiyan’s mind. When he was seven or eight years old, he had accidentally heard his father and the principal wife talking. He heard his father curse him as a bastard seed.

“It must be because of this bastard seed that I was harmed like this. Hmph. Sooner or later, I will make them regret it!”

At the time, Xiao Yiyan had been extremely hurt. However, the words “bastard seed” were carved deeply into his bones. He had not dared to ask his mother either. Those two words were like a curse placed on him. Every time he remembered them, he felt suffocated.

Just how much disgust did it take for a father to call his own son a bastard seed? But no matter how lowly he was, was he not still his seed?

He would definitely make him understand how the “bastard seed” he spoke of would one day step on his head.

Sun Zibai did not expect that Xiao Yiyan’s way of thinking had been completely opened up by him.

“Many thanks for the heir’s teachings. I will not disappoint the heir.”

A strong flash of hatred passed through Xiao Yiyan’s eyes.

On the surface, Sun Zibai looked calm and unconcerned, but in his heart, he had already thought through many things.

Xiao Yiyan was not Xiao Yuan’s son, but the current Xiao Yiyan did not know that.

Xiao Yuan had originally been a son of the Xiao family, the head of the four great families in the capital. A century-old aristocratic family had many branch lines, intertwined in complex ways. Twenty years ago, it had just been the time for a new round of struggle over the family head position. But Xiao Yuan had committed some unknown mistake and was directly expelled from the family.

At that time, Xiao Yuan left the capital with his entire household, bringing along many concubines and servants. In the end, he settled in Sucheng. Then, less than two years later, his elder brother became the new family head of the Xiao family, and remained so until today.

However, Xiao Yuan had not been expelled from the family because of the competition for family head. The one who had expelled him, and who had still not allowed him to return to the capital after so many years, was precisely his elder brother, who had become the family head.

Therefore, Xiao Yuan had always held hatred in his heart toward him.

In truth, in terms of strength, the Xiao family in Sucheng was far from comparable to the Qin family, the richest family in Sucheng. But Xiao Yuan considered himself lofty. The arrogance of the four great families was still in his bones, and he often regarded himself as a branch member of the Xiao family. As a result, in the original novel, this Xiao Yuan almost looked down on every person in Sucheng, including the original owner.

Of course, the ending would teach him how to behave, but that could be set aside for now.

In the original text, Xiao Yiyan was saved by Bai Ziyu and then entered the capital. Eventually, through investigation, he learned that he was not Xiao Yuan’s biological son, but came from the Xiao family of the capital, and even had countless connections to the Xiao family head.

Now that Sun Zibai had cut off that opportunity, he naturally had to guide Xiao Yiyan to discover this truth.

Afterward, Sun Zibai discussed the next plans with Xiao Yiyan. Only after an hour did he leisurely leave Misty Rain Tower.

The shopkeeper bowed and scraped, smiling until his face nearly froze, and personally escorted Sun Zibai all the way to the door. Yet he did not know that Sun Zibai was his true owner.

“In the future, that private room is reserved for my heir. Do not let every random cat and dog enter it.”

Before leaving, Sun Hong deliberately instructed the shopkeeper.

“That is only natural. From now on, that will be the heir’s exclusive private room. Unless the heir permits it, no one may casually step inside.”

The corner of Sun Zibai’s mouth curved up as he walked in front. With a snap, his folding fan opened, scaring those who had been about to approach and flatter him into retreating one after another.

Forget it, forget it. It was not as if this flattery had to be offered. Even if they flattered him, the heir might not remember. And even if he remembered, so what? He would turn around and forget…

The two returned all the way to the heir’s residence, and it was already dinner time.

The marquis residence kept many cooks, and they could make all kinds of dishes. They were no worse than the chefs in the most popular restaurants. So sometimes, rather than eating outside, Sun Zibai felt it was better to return home and eat more fragrantly.

But tonight’s dinner was destined not to be pleasant. Someone appetite-ruining had come.

Sun Zibai looked at Qin Mo kneeling before the table with a face full of bitter hatred. After not seeing him for a few days, he had become so haggard he hardly looked like himself.

“Heir, I heard that Divine Doctor Liao is in the marquis residence. Can I beg you to let him examine my dad?”

Qin Mo’s face was filled with sorrow. His cheeks were thin. His nine parts of beauty had been tormented by him until only seven parts remained. Although he now looked even more pitiful and lovable, unfortunately, Sun Zibai was not someone who cherished fragrance and treasured jade.

Sun Zibai was only thinking: both were unfortunate mandarin ducks, yet Xiao Yiyan had already improved. Why was Qin Mo still standing still?

Could two people like this truly last long?