AWB Chapter 362 Kang Zhuyu
Chapter 362 Kang Zhuyu
Once Liu Bujing had calmed down, Yu Ru spoke again: "Liu Bujing, you'll stay at my house and use the special electronic devices I've given you. You can't use anything else, otherwise, if someone with ulterior motives wants to investigate you, they'll find your location. I'll protect your life on the condition that you don't affect my family. Also, I'm going to set a few rules for you that you must follow. First, after you leave, you must completely withdraw from the entertainment industry. You can't take on any work related to the entertainment industry, and you can't contact anyone in the industry. Second, if anyone asks you any questions, you must always answer that you don't know. Third, if anything happens, you must report to me immediately. Don't hide anything, and don't think you're bothering me. If you conceal something and cause other consequences, that's when the real trouble will begin."
Liu Bujing nodded seriously, "Boss, I will follow your instructions." After saying that, he felt uneasy and asked with a worried expression, "Boss, maybe it's better not to go to your house. Those people are very powerful. If I stay at your house... it will cause you trouble. What if they bring people to harass you near your house?"
"And..." As if thinking of something bad, Liu Bujing's expression became very dejected, "They really are capable of anything. I was in my own home at the time, and they just had someone break down my door and forcibly take me away."
Yu Ru picked up her drink from the table, took a sip, and replied, "Aren't the people who come to harass us all downstairs crying and begging for mercy? I won't let them leave here alive. Even if they don't die, they'll have to be qualified to take revenge later. With those bastards' qualifications, they can't even get through the gate of my area, so you can stay there without worry."
"Oh...I see, that's good..." Liu Bujing nodded.
“There’s no safety issue with you staying at my place, but if you contact people, there might be. Don’t contact those so-called friends of yours anymore.” Yu Ru picked up the tablet computer next to her, turned it on, opened a file, and then handed it to Liu Bujing. “Take a look. These are your friends’ real personal resumes.”
Liu Bujing hesitated for a moment, but still accepted it.
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After reading the documents Yu Ru handed him, Liu Bujing was utterly dejected, his eyes reddening. He had never imagined that the kind friend he thought was actually a pedophile who had preyed on countless young boys and girls. The seemingly compassionate friend who dedicated himself to charitable foundations was, in fact, secretly conspiring with the foundation's owners to embezzle donated funds…
"Boss, thank you for letting me know this. I understand, I will cut off contact with them."
"Very good." Yu Ru nodded. "Let's eat."
After a long while, Yu Ru ate the food in her bowl and said, "Actually, those people were never your friends from beginning to end. They all knew you were in trouble, but even people of different statuses and with different connections were afraid of getting into trouble, so not one of them dared to speak up for you or contact you at a critical moment. Only someone who cares about you can be called a friend. So you haven't lost any friends; you've just seen the true colors of a few insignificant people."
"It's not a big deal to not have friends. Birds of a feather flock together. You will have friends who are like you. If you are a kind, good, and beautiful person, it's normal not to have friends. After all, there are very few kind, good, and beautiful people in this world. Wait a few more years, and when you have completely said goodbye to the past, you will probably have friends."
Liu Bujing looked up at Yu Ru and saw that she was focused on eating her meal, her gaze not falling on him, as if she hadn't been talking to him at all. He lowered his head and replied, "Boss, you're right, thank you."
The video ends here, and the next video will begin playing.
The next video seems to connect to the previous one, showing Yu Ru and the others rescuing the thing they dragged out of the basement.
The footage shows Yu Ru sitting in a chair in a room, next to a large bed where a badly injured woman lies. The woman is in a semi-reclining position, her head and neck resting on a pillow. She is conscious and looking at Yu Ru.
Although this video seems to be a continuation of the previous one, it's unclear how many days have passed. In this video, Yu Ru's hair is visibly much grayer.
"Who are you?" the woman lying on the bed asked.
“I’m just a passerby,” Yu Ru replied. Then, she picked up a bowl of porridge that was placed next to her, stirred it gently with a spoon a few times, scooped out a spoonful, blew on it to cool it down, and handed it to the woman. “Eat.”
"I don't want to eat," the woman said, turning her head away.
Upon hearing this, Yu Ru put down her bowl and spoon. "Would you like to have a chat?"
"Do not want to."
"Oh." Yu Ru looked at the woman's head and noticed that it was bleeding again. She got up and went to the table next to her to get the first-aid kit. As she rummaged through the medicines she needed, she said, "Your head is bleeding again. Let me change your bandage."
"Why are you being so kind?" the woman asked Yu Ru warily.
"Why would I be so malicious?" Yu Ru asked with a smile.
The woman didn't speak again. Seeing that she didn't seem to mind, Yu Ru took it upon herself to remove the gauze from her head. "Bear with it, it might hurt a little. You'll feel better once it's clean."
Her movements were very light and gentle, and the woman could feel her kindness, so she didn't move and quietly let her fiddle with the gauze on her head.
After changing the woman's bandages, Yu Ru brought over some medicine to apply to her other wounds. Just then, the woman suddenly spoke, "My name is Kang Zhuyu."
"Mm." Yu Ru nodded, while carefully treating Kang Zhuyu's wounds.
Kang Zhuyu looked at Yu Ru with displeasure and asked, "Aren't you going to say something?"
Yu Ru raised her head, thought for a moment, and said, "A good name." After saying that, she lowered her head again to continue treating Kang Zhuyu's wound.
Kang Zhuyu frowned. "It's not good at all. This name sounds completely unnecessary."
"Is that so?" Yu Ru smiled as she continued treating the wound, saying, "But I think this name is very meaningful. The Classic of Mountains and Seas records: 'There is a grass that looks like chives but has blue flowers, and its name is Zhuyu. Eating it will not make you hungry.' Zhuyu is a kind of grass that will fill you up. And your surname is Kang. Perhaps this name means that you will be healthy and have no worries about food and clothing. Never get sick, and always have plenty to eat. That's good."
Kang Zhuyu was silent for a long time before saying, "I didn't ask you to explain my name; I wanted to ask you what your name is?"
“My name is Lin Xiaocao, you can just call me Xiaocao.” Yu Ru looked up and smiled at her.
“You’re lying, your name isn’t Lin Xiaocao,” Kang Zhuyu said with certainty. “You look very young, and your family must be very wealthy. Why would wealthy parents of this generation give their child such a name?”
"I'm not lying to you." Yu Ru took out her phone without changing her expression, opened her electronic ID card and showed it to Kang Zhuyu. "Look, this is my ID card." She has four ID cards, all of which are valid, so she wasn't afraid that Kang Zhuyu would see through her lie.
Kang Zhuyu looked at her phone and saw that the name written on her electronic ID card was indeed "Lin Xiaocao". She asked in confusion, "Why did your family give you this name?"
Yu Ru put away her phone and replied, "My family is from the countryside. I am a true country person. My parents favored boys over girls and were not very educated, so they gave me this name. There is an old saying that a humble name is easy to raise. They gave me this name because they wanted me to grow up normally."
Kang Zhuyu looked Yu Ru up and down. "You don't look like a country person."
"Really? That's the best compliment for me. It means I've succeeded. But we rural people also work hard to earn money, buy what we like, and dress the way we like. Many rural people are fashionable now, instead of always toiling in the fields with their faces tanned dark."
"You're right, but you're definitely not a country person anymore; you've become someone of high status. Ordinary people can't get in here, so how did you get in? What are you doing here?"
"My lover was kidnapped by these bastards here. I fought my way in. Whoever tried to stop me, I killed them. After I killed them, I got in." Her wounds had been treated again, and Yu Ru began packing her first-aid kit.
Are they dead?
"Not yet." Yu Ru put away the first-aid kit, took off her gloves, mask, and goggles, and threw them into the trash can.
"Why aren't they dead yet?" Kang Zhuyu raised his voice, somewhat agitated, his hands gripping the blanket covering him tightly.
“Living is far more difficult than dying, so I didn’t let them die. Wait a minute, I’m going to wash my hands.” Without waiting for Kang Zhuyu’s reply, Yu Ru left to wash her hands.