Seeing him like this, Luo Shujing stepped on Luo Cheng’an’s back and looked down at him condescendingly.
“You really are a pair of good brothers. But Luo Cheng’an, instead of worrying about someone else, you’d better worry about yourself.”
“Today is the day you die—”
Luo Shujing’s foot stomped down hard on Luo Cheng’an’s back.
Luo Cheng’an’s face turned pale from the pain, and he let out a painful cry.
Seeing this, Xi Yu felt somewhat reluctant to watch. He was just about to ease Luo Cheng’an’s pain when Luo Cheng’an suddenly grabbed Luo Shujing’s ankle.
He did not know where the strength came from, but he actually flipped Luo Shujing onto the ground.
“Brother! Run!”
Using both his hands and feet, Luo Cheng’an staggered toward Xi Yu, fear spreading without limit through his heart.
He could not have sensed it more clearly—Luo Shujing had gone mad.
Luo Shujing wanted their lives!
Luo Shujing fell hard and let out a muffled groan of pain. Immediately afterward, overwhelming anger surged through him.
He strode toward Luo Cheng’an, grabbed him by the collar, and slapped him across the face.
“You idiot! You’re about to die, and you’re still thinking about Xi Yu?”
The slap was delivered in anger and panic. A slap from a grown man was no small matter. Even though Luo Shujing was in poor health, blood still seeped from the corner of Luo Cheng’an’s mouth, and his face quickly swelled.
……………………..
Luo Shujing crouched down and grabbed Luo Cheng’an’s hair again, admiring his miserable appearance.
“Worried about Xi Yu that much?” Luo Shujing laughed. “Don’t worry. He’ll go down there and keep you company too.”
【I just let out a piercing scream in my dorm!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!】
【It’s scripted, right? It has to be scripted!? This show has a script, doesn’t it!?】
【Luo Cheng’an was beaten until he bled. What kind of script would let them play it this way? Tell me!!!】
【Wait, what is Luo Shujing doing!? Is he trying to kill someone????】
【What’s going on with Luo Cheng’an? And Yu Bao too!!! They were drugged! When did this happen!!!】
【Oh my god~】
The livestream was instantly flooded with countless viewers.
Xi Yu used an unknown hidden camera and swept a glance at the drone from the corner of his eye, making sure they were within a range that could be monitored. Then he spoke in a weak, breathless voice.
“Luo Shujing, you’ve gone crazy.”
“If you hadn’t spoken, I would’ve almost forgotten about you. You’re even more deserving of death than Luo Cheng’an! Xi Yu, you bastard! I’m going to kill you right here!”
Luo Shujing shoved Luo Cheng’an away and walked toward Xi Yu, his eyes dark and sinister.
“Aren’t you capable? Aren’t you good at divination? Then did you calculate that today would be the day you die?”
Luo Shujing looked down at Xi Yu condescendingly.
Yes.
This was finally how everything was supposed to be.
Xi Yu should be beneath his feet.
The Luo family’s eldest branch should have been his ladder to the heavens in the first place.
Xi Yu raised his head, his expression indifferent.
“This is a variety show. Aren’t you afraid someone will discover you?”
“A variety show?”
Luo Shujing laughed, looking at Xi Yu as though he were a stray dog.
“Hahahahahaha! Where’s the drone? In a place where ordinary people would have a nine-in-ten chance of dying if they came in here, even the production crew can’t guarantee absolute safety. If you die here, what does that have to do with me?”
Luo Shujing laughed smugly and raised his foot, about to kick Xi Yu.
Seeing this, Luo Cheng’an suddenly threw his arms around Luo Shujing’s leg, preventing him from hurting Xi Yu. His eyes were bloodshot as he begged,
“Don’t hurt my brother!”
Luo Shujing staggered and nearly fell again. His anger instantly shifted toward Luo Cheng’an. He viciously kicked at Luo Cheng’an, trying to make him let go.
Luo Cheng’an had clearly been drugged, yet at this moment he burst forth with astonishing strength, repeating over and over,
“Don’t you dare hurt my brother! Don’t you dare hurt my brother!!!”
Xi Yu: …
Even Xi Yu was beginning to feel reluctant to watch.
Luo Cheng’an really was…
“Luo Cheng’an may not be very bright, but the kindness you’ve received from him all these years was genuine, Luo Shujing,” Xi Yu said coldly. “Why exactly are you so determined to kill him?”
No matter how hard Luo Shujing kicked, he could not shake Luo Cheng’an off. Furious, he stepped on Luo Cheng’an’s head.
Hearing Xi Yu’s question, his eyes were bloodshot as he gritted his teeth.
“Why? Then I’ll ask why! We’re both human, so why is Luo Cheng’an blessed with so much fortune? Why has everyone loved him since he was little, while I was born a sickly child? Why was he surrounded by stars the moment he was born, while I could only ever be his accessory? In terms of ability, grades, and effort, in what way am I inferior to him? Just because he has the identity of Luo Yuan’s son and is the heir to the Luo family?”
Xi Yu had originally intended to coax Luo Shujing into confessing the evil deeds he had committed himself. But seeing that he could not bear to watch Luo Cheng’an being beaten any longer, he began listing all the things Luo Shujing had done to him.
“Is that why you framed him, slandered him, and even created the Life-Swapping Lock to steal his fortune? And now you want to kill him?”
Xi Yu’s words were light, yet they struck Luo Shujing’s heart like a heavy hammer.
He almost felt as though he were about to vomit blood from hatred. He looked at Xi Yu with a crazed expression.
“I’m not the one who wants to kill him. It’s you, Xi Yu! If you hadn’t come back, the Life-Swapping Lock would have needed at least another nine months before something happened to him. But you came back and broke his Life-Swapping Lock. You’re the one who brought death to him!”
“Besides, I’m only taking back everything that was originally mine! Shen Qing was injured. She was originally destined to never be able to have children in her entire life. My uncle said that the Luo family would eventually be mine! Why! Why did you have to be born!”
Xi Yu looked coldly at Luo Shujing.
Shen Qing and Luo Yuan truly had the destiny of being childless for life.
He had seen it the moment he met the couple.
Luo Cheng’an was not their biological son.
And he… wasn’t either.
Their biological child had stopped breathing at birth. He had merely been reborn by borrowing this body.
“Originally yours?” Xi Yu sneered. “You’re truly far more despicable and shameless than I imagined.”
“As far as I know, your father was nothing more than a street thug when he was young. He relied on his older brother, who built everything from nothing, to get where he is today. For all these years, he’s been nothing but a parasite in the company, drawing a huge salary. Even your debut as an entertainer was funded by the enormous amount of money he poured into you. Yet you aren’t grateful at all. You even want to kill his entire family. If I’m not mistaken, the car accident that left Shen Qing unable to have children was also something you two arranged, wasn’t it?”
Luo Shujing laughed.
“You’re really smart. But even though you’re so smart, aren’t you still going to die at my hands? Tell me, why did you come back?”
“How is it that you’re so lucky? Master Qingfeng clearly said you had a short-lived destiny and that your fate couldn’t be used for my benefit. How are you still alive!”
If Xi Yu’s destiny could not be used by him, why else would he have allowed someone as useless as Luo Cheng’an to stand on his head for so many years?
Luo Shujing pointed at Luo Cheng’an.
“Speaking of which, this wealth and status of Luo Cheng’an’s were given to him by me. I let him live in luxury for twenty years. If anything, he should be thanking me. Otherwise, he would’ve spent his entire life begging for food under a bridge!”
Luo Cheng’an clutched his stomach, his entire body trembling faintly. His pupils contracted, yet he still held tightly onto Luo Shujing’s leg, refusing to let him hurt Xi Yu.
“What… what do you mean? What do you mean you gave me twenty years?”
Luo Shujing carried himself like someone who had already risen above everyone else.
He had waited for so many years.
Endured for so many years.
He had humbled himself and pleased everyone at every turn.
Today, it was finally going to end.
With the fruits of victory already clenched in his hand, he was no longer in a hurry. He only wanted to savor them slowly.
Luo Shujing smoothed his disheveled hair and looked at Luo Cheng’an as though he were an insignificant ant.
“You were originally the scapegoat your parents chose for me.”
Shen Qing sat in front of the television, her face turning deathly pale in an instant. Luo Yuan held her tightly, staring fixedly at the screen.
The child-swapping incident from twenty years ago—a trap that had been laid many years ago—was now being exposed by Luo Shujing in front of tens of millions of viewers, despite there having been no clues at all.
The year Luo Shujing was born, Shen Qing and Luo Yuan got married. That same year, Luo Shan became almost incapable of having any more children because of his womanizing.
Luo Shan coveted Shen Qing’s family background and also wanted to take the Luo family into his own hands, paving the way for his only son. He deliberately caused a car accident.
He had originally wanted to eliminate them all, but in the end, only Shen Qing’s abdomen was severely struck, damaging her body.
After the accident, Shen Qing had originally wanted a divorce, but Luo Yuan refused. He said that if they had no children, then so be it. All he wanted was to spend his life with Shen Qing.
After the accident, Luo Shan had initially regretted failing to accomplish his goal. But when he saw Shen Qing showering Luo Shujing with affection because she had no children of her own, an idea began to form.
If Luo Yuan never had any children, wouldn’t everything belong to Luo Shujing after they died?
With this thought in mind, Luo Shan sent Luo Shujing to Luo Yuan and Shen Qing’s side every day.
But unexpectedly, when Luo Shujing was five years old, Shen Qing suddenly became pregnant.
Shen Qing had never imagined that she would have another chance to become pregnant in this lifetime. She cautiously gave up all her work and stayed home to protect the pregnancy.
She had been injured before, so Luo Yuan was especially attentive, practically having doctors watch over her twenty-four hours a day.
Luo Shan had no way to make a move.
Then, at precisely this time, Luo Shujing fell ill.
Luo Shan was very likely to have only this one child in his lifetime. When Luo Shujing became seriously ill right after Shen Qing became pregnant, he firmly believed that the child in Shen Qing’s womb had stolen his son’s life force.
It was then that he met a wandering occultist named Qingfeng.
After searching for a long time, he finally found a male fetus with an extremely noble destiny, one whose fate could be exchanged with Luo Shujing’s to extend his life.
When Shen Qing was in the late stages of pregnancy, Luo Shan used the excuse of praying for Luo Shujing’s recovery to deceive them into going out and switched the children.
Luo Cheng’an, who could take calamity in Luo Shujing’s place, was brought back.
Meanwhile, the true young master of the Luo family became a farmer’s child. One year later, he became an orphan, living by accepting food from different households.
Luo Cheng’an’s eyes were bloodshot as he muttered to himself,
“How could this be… How could this be…”
Seeing his pain, Luo Shujing felt nothing but exhilaration.
Every time he saw Luo Cheng’an carrying the identity of the Luo family’s young master, he felt disgusted!
Someone who should have been filthy and lowly—how could he possibly have such a good fate, standing above him and receiving everyone’s praise?
“Oh, right. Luo Cheng’an, your biological parents were also killed by my father. Underground, you’ll be able to reunite with them. Hahahahahahahaha!”
After switching the children, Luo Shan was afraid that the couple would discover something was wrong, so he set up a scheme and killed them.
Two living human beings.
Yet from Luo Shujing’s mouth, their deaths were described as casually as swatting two ants.