After Marrying The Wrong Person, I Can’t Leave

Chapter 15

When he listened to the voice message, Song Linchu suspected that he might have heard wrong. He couldn’t help but listen to it again before he could confirm that Tan Yue had really come over.

Wait, even after he had already arrived at the gate, this guy still sent a message to anger him? This man was too much.

Had he really never been beaten up before?

Regardless of his complaints, Song Linchu left KFC happily and headed towards the entrance No.1.

At this moment, it was close to midnight, and the mall was shrouded in silence, except for a few stores that were open 24 hours a day. There were no pedestrians to be seen on the road and as soon as Song Linchu stepped out, he exhaled a large cloud of white mist, indicating how cold it was outside.

He pulled the hood of his down jacket over his head and jogged towards entrance No.1. He crossed the square and indeed saw a black sedan parked in a temporary parking area outside the fountain.

Without even asking, Song Linchu could tell that it was Tan Yue’s car just by looking at the high-profile car emblem and license plate.

The window on the passenger side rolled down a little, and Song Linchu peered inside. He saw Tan Yue sitting in the driver’s seat, with one hand propping up his head on the window and the other tapping the steering wheel intermittently.

“Gege, why did you come in person?” Song Linchu opened the door on the passenger side and got in, his tone filled with undisguised surprise.

He thought Tan Yue would send his driver to take him back to school at most, but he never expected that Tan Yue himself would come, and even drive personally.

He was a terminally ill patient that only got out of bed and then walked last Sunday!

In the dead of winter, having a patient come out to pick him up in the middle of the night made Song Linchu feel embarrassed despite his thick skin.

Tan Yue turned his head towards Song Linchu and his gaze flickered.

The young man had a hood with a fur rim over his head, it should have been a shabby style, but when Song Linchu wore it, he looked youthful and vibrant, even his smile became more brilliant and lively, making people can’t help but take a few more glances.

He raised the car window and said, “Subway and bus drivers have hours off work.”

“Ah?” Song Linchu said in surprise.

“My driver also knows that,” Tan Yue said.

“…”

He couldn’t argue with the reason.

This steel straight man had some humanity, even his driver could get off work on time.

Again, “steel straight man” is an ironic way of describing men who have low EQ and don’t react in the expected way when it comes to emotions or affection. You’ll be seeing this term a lot 😅.

If Tan Yue’s driver heard this, he would probably cry on the spot.

The driver was on call 24 hours a day yet the client only needed the car for two trips a day at most. However, the unscrupulous boss used him as a shield and he could only pretend to be a chauffeur who’s on call from 9 am to 5 pm, not a secret agent like 007.

Song Linchu asked with concern, “How are you feeling? Can you drive? Do you need me to call a designated driver for you?”

“No need,” Tan Yue replied briefly, “Just give me the address.”

Hmm…

It would take about an hour to drive to his school to. Tan Yue had used half an hour to come here after seeing his Moments, so he must have been nearby. If he drove from his school, it would take another half an hour to drive there. So it would take one and a half hours for Tan Yue to go back and it would almost be dawn by the time he finished the whole journey.

Song Linchu’s eyes flickered, and he whispered, “The curfew in my dormitory has passed. I can’t get in if I go back. Can you…let me stay for the night?”

As he spoke, his voice became almost inaudible.

Song Linchu felt he was taking advantage of Tan Yue more and more.

He felt Tan Yue’s gaze on him, colder than the cold night outside, as if he was about to freeze him into an ice sculpture in the next second. He felt a bit guilty and dared not meet his eyes.

In fact, there were ways to get into their dormitory despite the curfew…

Tan Yue quickly withdrew his gaze and started the car.

Did this mean he agreed to take him home?

Was it that easy for him to enter his home? Song Linchu was a bit excited at the thought.

Song Linchu was secretly happy, but he looked uneasy on the surface and asked, “Gege, are we going in the direction of your home?”

Tan Yue looked straight ahead and said indifferently, “There’s a spot next to that homeless man. You can sleep there for the night.”

Song Linchu: ???

Song Linchu almost couldn’t catch his breath.

If it was someone else, he might have thought it was a joke, but with Tan Yue, the stinky straight man, he didn’t doubt that he could really do such a crazy thing!

Song Linchu didn’t want to sleep next to the homeless man. He wanted Tan Yue to drop him off at the roadside so that he could go back to KFC to sleep. But when he turned his head, he saw a faint smile on Tan Yue’s cold face.

Damn it!

Feeling depressed, Song Linchu couldn’t help but scrutinize Tan Yue’s side face and ask, “Gege, are you smiling?”

The faint smile on Tan Yue’s face disappeared immediately upon hearing this sentence, and he said with a straight face, “I’m crying.”

“…” the standard Tan Yue response.

For some reason, Song Linchu heard a bit of embarrassment in Tan Yue’s usual choking words.

This was a rare occurrence, after all, Tan Yue was always calm and indifferent, as if nothing could stir any emotions in him.

Song Linchu fearlessly said, “You look good when you smile, you should smile more.”

Tan Yue’s facial muscles tightened even more. If it were before, Song Linchu would not have dared to overstep like this.

But ever since Tan Yue came to pick him up tonight, Song Linchu felt that Tan Yue was not as cold and distant as he seemed on the surface, otherwise he wouldn’t have come to pick him up in the middle of the night.

The car only drove for about fifteen minutes and entered the yard of a luxurious villa.

Song Linchu peered out and couldn’t help but exclaim, “Wow, gege, your house is so big and beautiful.”

This house was located in the most expensive area of the coastal city, where someone even buying a suite was considered a tycoon. However, he owned a villa with a yard as big as a garden. Even in winter, there were fresh blooming flowers, as well as a fountain, swimming pool, and glass greenhouse, which was extravagantly rich.

As a country bumpkin, Song Linchu was kneeling to the rich.

But Tan Yue said, “Who told you this is my home?”

Song Linchu was confused, “Isn’t it?”

“The buyer I found for you,” Tan Yue stopped the car at the gate, “specifically buys naïve college students.”

Song Linchu: “…”

Although he knew Tan Yue was talking nonsense, Song Linchu couldn’t help but ask, “How much can I sell for?”

Tan Yue turned off the engine, undid his seatbelt, and said two words, “Negative amount.”

?

?!

The phrase “negative amount” kept replaying in Song Linchu’s mind, and after a moment…

“You’re the one who should sell for a negative amount, your whole family should sell for a negative amount!”

Tan Yue had already opened the car and gone out. Inside the house, a man in his forties opened the door to greet him.

He was Liu, the butler of the Tan family.

Butler Liu couldn’t hide his concern as he saw his master getting out of the car late at night. “Sir, why did you go out in the middle of the night? Are you okay? Should I call Doctor Luo to come and see you?”

“No need,” replied Tan Yue calmly.

At this moment, Song Linchu also got out of the car. Butler Liu was stunned on seeing him. It was not because of Song Linchu’s good looks, but because in all the years that he had followed Tan Yue, it was the first time he had brought someone home.

Tan Yue was a very territorial person. For him, his home was his personal space. Apart from his family, he did not like unfamiliar people coming to his house. But this young man not only made Tan Yue personally go out to pick him up late at night, but also brought him home…

Butler Liu was taken aback, but remained polite and friendly to Song Linchu. “Who might you be?” he asked.

Song Linchu introduced himself, “I’m Song Linchu, a friend of Mr. Tan’s… well, you can call me Little Song.”

Liu nodded and replied, “Mr. Little Song, I’m Liu, the butler here. It’s cold outside, please come in quickly.”

Tan Yue had already stepped into the house and was changing his shoes in the foyer, and Song Linchu quickly followed suit.

The décor inside the house was even more luxurious than he had imagined. Unlike Tan Yue’s cold and aloof personality, the interior of the villa was warm in color, spacious and bright, with a very homely feel to it.

It was obvious that Tan Yue was very familiar with the house, and it seemed to be his home.

This man never spoke a true word!

The butler opened the shoe cabinet, first handing Tan Yue his shoes, and then taking a look at Song Linchu’s shoe size before finding him a suitable pair.

Song Linchu accidentally glanced inside the shoe cabinet and was surprised to see several pairs of women’s shoes placed on the top shelf.

His body tensed up.

Tan Mingqing had told him that his uncle’s mother had passed away early, and he was an only child. It didn’t seem like Tan Yue enjoyed living with others, so there shouldn’t be any women’s shoes in his house.

Even if there were, there shouldn’t be so many, with several pairs lined up like that.

Furthermore, the shoe cabinets on either side were not opened, so there might be more inside.

Could it be…

Damn it, this can’t be happening! Why does it have to be so clichéd?!

He had been flirting with Tan Yue so obviously, but Tan Yue had never said anything like “I have a partner, stop flirting with me.”

But then again, that dog Tan Mingqing had been in a relationship with him before and had eventually cheated on Su Zhan.

Could this mean that the genes of scum men were inherited in the family?!