Chapter-22: Reality Or A Vivid Nightmare?

The whole S University was in an uproar after getting the news that the most eligible bachelor in the entire country, Wang Mu Chen whom they thought was taken by Feng Xin Yi his childhood friend was engaged to the whore of S city, Song Xiao Bo?

Everyone knew who Song Xiao Bo was due to the popular scandal of B city's mayor.

But to think he was the Fiance of the great Wang Mu Chen who accomplished many things at a young age and even owned a company aside from his family business came as a huge surprise for them.

This news wouldn't have spread if not for the girls' group who were classmates of Song Xiao Bo tried to help him.

By secretly taking a video of their Dean, Principal, and the Professor being unfair to him and bringing some support from the social media so that they wouldn't dare to expel him.

But when they were recording, what they caught on their camera was the sensational news of the year.

The fabulous entry of Wang Mu Chen and how he announced that Xiao Bo was his Fiance made everyone's jaw drop to the floor.

Then how he made them kneel and beg for forgiveness in front of Song Xiao Bo for insulting him and how he got angry at them and warned them to look forward to the consequences of offending his Fiance.

Everyone's minds were blown out seeing the dynamic video that was posted by those girls on the University forum.

Not only S city was in commotion, but the whole country was as they heard it through news channels.

While Song Yi Ming was enjoying his newfound wealth from Feng Mian's payment for the contract, his secretary abruptly entered his office and shared surprising news about his youngest son...

"Sir...you have to see this," He called and quickly took the remote and turned on the television.

╰┈➤ BREAKING NEWS

"According to the video posted on the S University forum, the most eligible bachelor of S City who is the only son of the influential Wang family, Wang Mu Chen is secretly engaged with the Song family's youngest son Song Xiao Bo who is in a scandal with B city's mayor a month back.

This shocking news has broken the hearts of many young women/men who dreamt of becoming Wang Mu Chen's wife/husband. Till now everyone has thought that Feng Xin Yi who grew up with Wang Mu Chen would be married but this video showed that was not the truth..."

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Song Yi Ming got up from his seat with his mouth wide open, his heart was beating crazily just thinking about how much fortune he could make by this.

His secretary checked something on his tab,

"Sir, our stocks are high rocketing!" He exclaimed.

Song Yi Ming was on cloud nine hearing it, "Good, good! Very Good!"

He immediately took his phone and called Wei Chen.

"Hello, Father?"

Wei Chen was so angry at him but still, he couldn't show it openly, so he just suppressed himself and answered the phone.

"What am I hearing? When did that trash Xiao Bo got engaged with Wang Mu Chen?" 

Song Yi Ming questioned, even though he was jumping from inside cause his plan worked out.

"WHAT?"

Wei Chen was the most shocked one hearing it.

"So, you didn't know about this? Haha, I thought that garbage son of mine wouldn't be of any use, but he is engaged to the Wang family's young master without us knowing. Go to the University and bring him back home. I need to talk with him about it and also we need to go meet our In-Laws soon."

Song Yi Ming had an eldritch smirk on his lips and was planning how to take full advantage of this to make more money.

Wei Chen hung up the phone with a very anxious look on his face,

"What's going on?" He mumbled to nothing and went through the news on his phone.

His Father was right, the news of Song Xiao Bo being the Fiance of the great Wang Mu Chen was trending all over social media.

He too looked at the video and got furious seeing how those people accused his little brother and were trying to expel him if Wang Mu Chen didn't interfere.

He was still in Li Feng Mian's apartment and now he had to take his permission to leave.

He ran to the other's room and knocked on its door a few times on it.

Feng Mian opened the door and stood in front of him with a raised right eyebrow.

"What is it?"

"I need to go," Wei Chen voiced out.

Feng Mian frowned upon hearing it, "I have clearly told you that you will be staying here with me till I leave S city, haven't I?"

"Not that... I need to go to the University to see Xiao Xiao."

Wei Chen's voice was very concerned, and he looked like he was in a hurry.

This was noticed by Feng Mian,

"What happened?"

Wei Chen immediately showed his phone to the other, and he too was stunned to see the news,

"What the hell is going on? When did MuMu get engaged to Song Xiao Bo? Impossible!"

Wei Chen frowned upon hearing it.

Feng Mian looked at the smaller with a very dumbstruck expression.

"Alright, let's go. I am coming with you. I need to talk with my friend about this."

Wei Chen nodded, and they immediately rushed out of the apartment and accelerated to S University.

...

It flustered Xiao Bo when Wang Mu Chen announced to them straight away that he was interested in him.

He didn't know how to respond to that cause when he returned in time all he thought was to live a peaceful life with his Wei Dage away from the Main leads of the novel.

Strangely enough, Xin Yi became his roommate and his first friend.

So he thought he just have to stay away from Wang Mu Chen's eyes and support his friend's love.

But surprisingly Feng Xin Yi had no feelings for his childhood sweetheart- ahem, I mean, friend.

To add more to his astonishment, Xin Yi was in love with Wang Mu Chen's cousin, brother Wang Bai Hu, the famous idol.

Now, to add to everything, the main lead of the novel, who once hated him with all his heart in his past life, was telling him that he was interested in him...????

What sort of bullshit was that? It all happened because of the one decision that he made, to live in the dorms of the University unlike in his past life.

Just that one change caused chaos and turned the novel 180 degrees, which made him the Fiance of Wang Mu Chen.

Dissimilar to his past life, when he tried to gain the attention of Wang Mu Chen by following his Father's orders, but was ignored coldly.

Now, he avoided the main lead as much as he could, but weirdly, Wang Mu Chen was the one who followed him everywhere and tried to talk with him as much as possible.

He took him to the hospital, cared for him all night, fed him in the morning, carried him to his room while he was sleeping, stood up for him and helped him from getting expelled unfairly, and then... announced their engagement that never took place...

This was all like a dream... a dream too good to be true.

While Mu Chen was driving them back to the University tired, little Bo slept on the shoulders of Shen Yu.

In his sleep, he thought that this was all just him dreaming in that cold dusty basement about his death, rebirth, and all the good things that he wanted to experience.

He was afraid to open his eyes and see the same dark room and feel the same immense pain all over his body and in his heart.

A tear slipped through his closed eyelids as his lips quivered in fear. His body started spasming just at the thought of it.

He didn't want to ever experience the pain when dust accumulated on his torn-off skin and caused him to suffer in the pitch-black cold basement room.

He couldn't move even though he saw a few rats coming towards him due to the smell of his blood because of his severed legs and tied-up hands.

All he could do was scream in terror as those rodents started biting off his flesh but even the sounds coming out of his mouth were incoherent and he got scared of himself as it echoed throughout the basement.

His throat was dry, he was terribly hungry, and above all of it, his childhood trauma of being left alone in a dark room was acting up which was making him go insane with each passing second.

Only he knew what he went through the three days he was left alone cruelly in there.

It was three days for the people outside but for Xiao Bo every second was torturous and it seemed like a decade for him until Wang Mu Chen opened the door with a loud creak and stood in front of him with so much hatred oozing out of his eyes.

At that moment, all Xiao Bo wanted was Wang Mu Chen to end his agony.

He was so grateful when the elder pulled out his gun and pointed it towards him.

He smiled and closed his eyes as the bullet pierced through his glabella.

He felt the numbness that came through the rapidly escaping life from his body.

It was all real, or was he just hallucinating about his death due to the unbearable pain he was feeling...?

"N-No...it can't be...No...*hic*...just let me die...I don't want to feel...*hic* this pain...please kill me...Mu Gege..."

Song Xiao Bo wailed as he started shaking.

Shen Yu and Xin Yi who were sitting beside him, were trying to wake him up thinking that Smaller was having a nightmare but when they heard his words, they both froze and,

Wang Mu Chen stepped on the brake suddenly, stopping the car aside, and looked back at the smaller with widened eyes.

His pupils dilated as his eyelashes trembled.

Xiao Bo called him Gege for the first time and along with that he was begging the elder to kill him...?

"XIAO BO!"

Mu Chen shouted as he held his hand to wake him up.

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