Too Much To Handle! The Canary Forced Love on The Grim/Vicious Villain - Chapter 18

Zhou Xuning had always known that Si Yuhuai was stubborn and stuck to his own views. He never expected that one day in his life, he could actually sway his thinking. He was so thrilled.

So, breaking free from the butler’s restraint, he ran over and asked, “Are you two going to get divorced tomorrow?”

Si Yuhuai’s cold gaze swept across and he said flatly, “Starting tomorrow, you’ll be going to school together.”

Zhou Xuning: “!!!” Fantastic!

Jiang Xu: “……” Oh no…

Jiang Xu’s face looked on the verge of tears. “Why! I don’t wanna go to school!”

Si Yuhuai: “……”

Jiang Xu shook Si Yuhuai’s shoulders. “Hubby, say something!”

Si Yuhuai’s expression was all business, leaving no room for negotiation. “Go to school.”

Go get some quality education. Stop filling your head every day with trashy, vulgar nonsense.

Jiang Xu really was about to cry. He first grabbed Si Yuhuai’s sleeve, then hugged his neck tightly. “I don’t wanna go to school!”

Like a little kid refusing to go to kindergarten, he treated his partner’s embrace as his only safe zone.

Once he had his arms wrapped around Si Yuhuai’s neck, he even looped his legs around him like a clingy koala, chattering nonstop: “Hubby! Aren’t I your canary? Aren’t you supposed to lock me up at home so I can’t go out?”

Jiang Xu really had put on a little weight lately. With his whole body clinging onto him, Si Yuhuai almost stumbled. Once he steadied himself, he supported Jiang Xu by the butt so he wouldn’t fall off, utterly speechless. “What canary? Is this your new script now?!”

It felt like Jiang Xu’s kinks updated faster than his own metabolism.

Today it was sugar daddy and canary.

Tomorrow—who knows?

Jiang Xu really was on the verge of crying, and Si Yuhuai could clearly feel his sorrow.

Because the little figure above his head was crying rivers of tears all the way down to his neck.

And his inner voice was blasting in sharp, deafening bursts.

【Ahhh! I don’t wanna go to school! Can’t you just let me stay at home as a proper, dignified waste of space?】

【Daddy sponsor, whatever position you like, I’ll learn it frame by frame tonight! Please don’t push me to school!】

Si Yuhuai almost threw the person in his arms away.

Did he even hear himself?!

【Ahhhhhh!】

【Ahhhhhh!】

【Ahhhhhhhhh——】

Jiang Xu buried his face against Si Yuhuai’s neck, sobbing silently. He didn’t make a sound, but his sorrow was noisy enough in Si Yuhuai’s head.

“Jiang Xu, shut up. I’ll count to three!”

Jiang Xu gasped sharply, his luminous black eyes filled with grievance.

“I didn’t even say anything.”

Si Yuhuai: “……”

Rubbing his aching temples, he grew puzzled seeing Jiang Xu actually start crying.

“Weren’t you always desperate to run? Now I’m letting you go, and you don’t want to?”

Jiang Xu clung to his neck, genuinely heartbroken, his red-rimmed eyes pitifully wet, lips trembling with the occasional sob.

【School life is too exhausting. Working is too miserable. And after getting scammed by a scummy boss, I even had to pay him tens of thousands in compensation. I don’t want to keep struggling. Everyone out there is a villain!】

【Compared to those people, Si Yuhuai practically radiates the light of human kindness!】

Si Yuhuai: “……”

Why did that sound more like an insult than praise?

He frowned slightly, staring at Jiang Xu. That strange, off feeling resurfaced again after many days.

In some ways, Jiang Xu seemed even more pessimistic than him. It was as if he had already given up on communicating with the world.

Why?

He said he worked three jobs a day?

That he couldn’t afford decent fruit?

That he was tricked by a boss into losing money?

Si Yuhuai had never heard of any of that.

Jiang Xu really was crying.

【Sometimes I doubt whether these carefree days of eating and drinking without labor are just hallucinations—dreams I have after working three jobs, eating cheap takeout, and poisoning myself with reheated meals!】

【Is my life of lying flat really slipping further and further away from me?】

【What if tomorrow morning I wake up half-blind again, forced to keep working off debts?】

Meeting those teary, wronged eyes, hearing these inner voices, made Si Yuhuai’s hair stand on end.

He looked at Jiang Xu strangely. Jiang Xu only thought he was losing patience and lowered his gaze, discouraged.

After a long silence, Si Yuhuai finally asked, “Jiang Xu, is there no one out there you want to meet?”

Jiang Xu shook his head almost immediately, then hugged his neck tightly again, sobbing. “I—I don’t want to see anyone!”

He clung to him like he was bracing for impact, terrified that everything before him was fake.

He’d rather live in this illusion than return to the reality where he had suffered so much.

Too exhausting.

Far too exhausting.

In that world, he was a complete loser, a half-blind cripple, someone who couldn’t see a shred of hope in life.

At some point, the butler had already dragged Zhou Xuning away.

The butler looked at this silly kid still basking in his joy of “finally, stubborn Huai-ge has changed” and could only sigh, shaking his head.

What misfortune for this household.

That evening Jiang Xu didn’t come down for dinner, saying he had no appetite.

When Si Yuhuai left his study, he received the latest findings from Li Xiujie.

“Many years ago, Young Master Jiang Xu grew up in an orphanage. His childhood might not have been too happy, but the director was kind. Thanks to donations from good-hearted people, the children never lacked food or clothing, and they definitely didn’t make kids go out to work.

There were government subsidies as well, so when Young Master Jiang Xu got into college, much of his tuition was waived.

Before the Jiang family found him, he never worked any jobs, much less got swindled out of money.

He spent all his time studying. Also, that younger brother of his has been working part-time lately, so he hasn’t been in contact with him.”

Back when Jiang Xu was dead set on escaping the Si family estate, he had once contacted a boy midway through—his younger brother from the orphanage.

Jiang Xu had always gotten along well with kids his age there. Even after they went their separate ways to study, they kept in touch.

He treated that younger brother as family. Naturally, when something happened to him, the first person he reached out to was him. Nothing wrong with that.

But today Jiang Xu had been so adamant, saying he didn’t want to contact anyone.

It was as if he had forgotten this younger brother existed.

After hanging up, Si Yuhuai returned to the bedroom. Jiang Xu sat on the bed, hugging his knees, still sobbing.

The way he wiped at his tears was unconsciously rough, rubbing his eyes red. His cheeks puffed out as he sniffled, looking pitiful.

When he saw Si Yuhuai, he quickly turned his head away. He felt Si Yuhuai couldn’t understand his sadness.

At that moment, Si Yuhuai finally realized—this really was a boy ten years younger than him.

He even hated school?!

Walking over to the bed, Si Yuhuai pinched his soft chin and asked, “Hungry?”