The beautiful CEO falls in love with me
Chapter 591 - 572: Abandoning a Forest

Chapter 591: Chapter 572: Abandoning a Forest

"Hmph, this bastard doesn’t know how to cherish you, and won’t learn to love a woman properly without a good lesson," Dian Ling snorted lightly and said, "Let’s just turn the pretense into reality. You should arrange a fake wedding, then invite this bastard to attend. I really want to see how he’ll handle it!"

"This... isn’t that a bit much?" Although Zhang Yantong was quite curious about testing Ye Chen, she felt that it might be going too far.

"Not at all!" Dian Ling immediately shook her head and said, "It’s only by doing this that he’ll learn to value you!"

"Then... what should we do?" Zhang Yantong furrowed her brows.

"Let me take care of it!" Dian Ling said, a mischievous smile on her lips, then she hugged Zhang Yantong and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

Smack!

That kiss was quite loud, making Zhang Yantong’s cheeks turn as red as a ripe apple. She immediately pushed Dian Ling away and said, "You crazy girl, get away from me, I’m not into that sort of thing."

"Hee hee, it’s okay, I’m into both men and women. Come on, my dear!" Dian Ling immediately pounced on her again in a frenzy.

The two soon began to create a commotion in the office, while Ye Chen was squatting outside, smoking. After Zhang Yantong’s last decision, the Provincial Committee had already transferred a number of inmates from other full prisons to Jianghuai Prison. Ye Chen glanced over the vast exercise yard, where the inmates were out airing themselves, gathering in twos and threes.

"Hey, isn’t that Brother Chen?" a man in prison uniform pointed in Ye Chen’s direction.

"Damn, it really is Brother Chen!" another youngster immediately stood up and said, "Let’s go and see Brother Chen!"

A group of people walked toward Ye Chen, but unfortunately, they could only move within a fixed area, and would be blocked by the electrified mesh net beyond it. Only the gate to the safety area could be passed, but, unfortunately, it was guarded by armed prison guards, who made the inmates stand there without moving.

"Brother Chen, Brother Chen!" a group of people inside shouted at Ye Chen.

Ye Chen stood up and walked towards them with a smile. The prison guard hesitated for a moment and then said, "Brother Chen, some ignorant youngsters just arrived, I’m afraid they might bother you!"

"It’s fine, let me in!" Ye Chen smiled, handing out two cigarettes to the guard.

The guard immediately opened the gate, letting Ye Chen through. With several packs of cigarettes in his pockets, originally intended for the prison guards, Ye Chen realized that he now needed to distribute some to those youngsters. Pulling out several packs, he handed them to a few familiar faces and said, "Share these with everyone."

"Right on!" The lads took the cigarettes, tearing open the packaging, and each took one to light up first, while the rest were quickly distributed among the group. The commotion over the scramble for the cigarettes was quite a spectacle.

Not far away, Zhang Dadan stood with a group of his little brothers, watching.

"What a bunch of bumpkins, fighting over cigarettes, really shows their lack of sophistication!" Zhang Dadan spat, then crossed his arms and watched from a distance.

"Brother Dandan, when do we get to go out and strut our stuff?" One excited little brother asked.

"Why go out?" Zhang Dadan turned and looked at his little brother with disdain, "It’s all Brother Chen’s world now in Jianghuai City, we would be asking for trouble. Here it’s so good, with food and drink and people to serve us, why would we want to go out!"

"But there are no girls!" The little brother lamented to Zhang Dadan, "We haven’t been with a woman in so long. Every day we have to deal with our physical needs by ourselves. If this keeps on, our hands will get calluses!"

"That’s a problem indeed!" Zhang Dadan nodded, and as he did so, he couldn’t help but glance at his right hand. Damn it, it really felt callused, perhaps from masturbating too frequently?

Meanwhile, the others had already finished distributing the cigarettes, each passing around Ye Chen’s lighter to light their smokes. Each man proudly smoked his cigarette, while Zhang Dadan’s little brothers looked on enviously, practically drooling. Zhang Dadan lived well in prison, but with so many little brothers under him, he simply couldn’t satisfy all of them, especially since their finances had run dry after the fall of the Anti-Chen Gang and Xiao Bai’s defection to the Heavenly Reversal Gang.

Just as the atmosphere was at its peak, suddenly, a fight broke out in one corner. Soon after, a bunch of inmates started brawling.

Seeing the commotion, the prison guards immediately pushed open the door and charged in with batons raised, shouting, "Don’t move, don’t move!"

However, the guards’ shouts didn’t stop the involved parties; if anything, the fighting only intensified. Ye Chen stepped forward, bellowing, "What are you doing? Stop it right now. Do none of you want your sentences reduced?"

Ye Chen’s roar instantly quieted everyone down, and they all turned to look at him. One of the little brothers angrily said, "Brother Chen, that guy stole our cigarettes!"

Ye Chen glanced over with narrowed eyes and saw several guys with bruised and swollen faces. He asked with a grin, "Aren’t you Zhang Dadan’s men?"

"Yes!" the men nodded in unison.

"Why would you steal cigarettes?" Ye Chen asked with a smile.

"We... we haven’t had cigarettes for a long time, so..." the men said as they wiped the blood from their noses, then clenched their teeth and said, "As men of honor, we take action, we take responsibility!"

Ye Chen didn’t say much but turned his head to look at Zhang Dadan not far away, saying, "Zhang Dadan, aren’t you going to manage your little brothers?"

"I can’t manage them anymore!" Zhang Dadan sighed and said, "Times are getting tougher by the day, I can’t give them as much anymore. If you like, you can take all these little brothers with you!"

After saying that, Zhang Dadan immediately walked away, leaving behind a group of lonely little brothers, appearing especially cold. Ye Chen waved his hand and said, "Alright, give them a cigarette."

The problem was that there were more monks than porridge. Reluctantly, Ye Chen had the prison guards contribute a few packs of cigarettes and promised to repay double later. Ye Chen’s gesture won him the good favor of everyone, including the group of little brothers under Zhang Dadan. Honestly, Zhang Dadan’s current plight was largely due to Ye Chen. While Zhang Dadan hated Ye Chen, he loathed his useless little brothers even more.

When leaving the prison, Dian Ling and Zhang Yantong came out to see him off.

"Ye Chen, December fifteenth is Tongtong’s wedding day. Will you come?" Dian Ling said with a sly smile, then looked at Ye Chen.

Ye Chen looked unsettled and took a deep breath before saying, "I’ll see, I’ll try to come."

"Alright, you’ve promised!" Dian Ling said with a light laugh.

Ye Chen turned to leave, and on his way out, he looked back at Dian Ling and Zhang Yantong. His expression was a bit unpleasant. The Infiniti roared furiously, then shot off like an arrow from its bow. Watching Ye Chen’s departing silhouette, Zhang Yantong said, "I hope nothing happens to him!"

"Hee hee, that just shows he still has you in his heart, silly!" Dian Ling laughed.

"But what good does that do?" Zhang Yantong sighed softly and said, "I just can’t forget him. If I could, why would I come back? It would be good to let go of him, to give up a forest for a tree."

"I advised you, but you’re the one who wanted to give up a forest to hang yourself on Ye Chen, this one tree!" Dian Ling huffed.

"But I just can’t forget him!" Zhang Yantong said, her eyes closed, tears streaming down her face.

"Enough already, I think you’re too tormented by this whole emotion thing!" Dian Ling shrugged her shoulders, then helplessly said, "Look at me, so carefree and independent. I do what I want and I don’t care how many women he has. As long as he loves me and I love him, that’s all that matters!"

"But I can’t!" Zhang Yantong turned her head, gazing into the sky that had lost Ye Chen’s trace.

"Men want freshness forever, women want preservation forever!" Dian Ling shrugged her shoulders, then turned and re-entered the prison, while Zhang Yantong, unable to comprehend those words, could only silently follow Dian Ling inside.

Returning from the prison, Ye Chen felt his mood was particularly oppressive. Upon returning, he didn’t even eat lunch, but simply lay down on his bed and dozed off into a troubled sleep until the evening. At night, a phone call woke him up. It was Feng Zhixiao who told Ye Chen that he had established a foothold in Shanghai Pudong District, starting up a branch of the Heavenly Reversal Gang in an abandoned factory. They planned to slowly expand and strategically weaken the Little Knife Gang.

After instructing Feng Zhixiao to be careful, Ye Chen immediately went downstairs for dinner.

When he came out, the sky was dotted with sparse stars and a faint moon. Ye Chen stretched his arms and felt much better after a good sleep. All those things about Zhang Yantong, about Feng Zhixiao and their departure—perhaps it was all destined to be.