After Entrusting My Beloved to Three Brothers

[Everyone's Favorite, Love Polygon] [Main Story Complete]

Jiang University’s men’s dorm room 502 is home to the school’s four most handsome men. All come from prominent families and stand out for their looks and bearing.

Jiang Chuan from the law department is gentle and refined, with a scholarly air. A faint smile is enough to make countless girls blush and their hearts race, and he gets so many love letters they could fill his desk to bursting.

Qiao Wenyuan from the computer science department is a cold, aloof academic genius and the abstinent-type dream guy. His white shirt is always buttoned up to the very top, yet despite keeping everyone at arm’s length, he’s a regular fixture on the school’s confession wall.

He Yan from the mathematics department is handsome and hot-tempered, and captains the school basketball team. When he jumps for a dunk, his back and waist tense and his biceps bulge, while his shrieking admirers could blow the roof off the gym.

Chen Yan from the finance department is arrogant and sharp-tongued. The more handsome he is, the nastier his mouth. Countless girls love and hate him in equal measure, and some have even founded a fan club for his haters.

Everyone in room 502 knows that Jiang Chuan’s childhood friend and next-door neighbor, Jiang Mi, is the apple of his eye. He’s watched over her since they were children, and at last she’s about to enroll at Jiang University as a freshman. But just then, he’s about to leave the country for a year-long exchange program.

Jiang Chuan is downcast day after day. His roommates comfort him, promising to keep an eye on his childhood sweetheart, make sure no one bullies her, and see that no one charms her away.

Jiang Chuan thanks them profusely, then leaves the country without a worry.

Six months later,

In the study room, while Jiang Mi is in the restroom, the phone she left on the table keeps vibrating. Qiao Wenyuan picks it up, expressionless, declines Jiang Chuan’s call, and casually deletes the call record.

In the basketball gym’s locker room, He Yan, still in his uniform, scoops up the petite girl and pins her against a locker. Gazing at her tear-filled eyes, he murmurs coaxingly, "I told you, your Brother Jiang Chuan isn’t coming back. I’m here with you, okay?"

On the moonlit sports field, Chen Yan lies through his teeth without batting an eye. "I heard Jiang Chuan has a girl he likes overseas."

Watching the girl turn away, her long lashes trembling as tears stream down her cheeks,

Chen Yan says disdainfully, "Stop crying. Your eyes look even uglier when they’re all swollen."

But with his hands, he carefully draws her into his arms.

Just as the three of them are scheming against each other, tripping one another up, and joining forces to deal with Jiang Chuan,

Jiang Chuan returns home early.

Tips: The main story has an open ending; the bonus chapters have separate endings.

----Below is the blurb for the upcoming novel, What Could a Sea Dog Have Done Wrong?----

[The Growth of a Master Dog Trainer]

Si Le goes to the break room to make coffee with her coworkers. Just as she reaches the door, she hears men and women chatting inside.

"Did you see how Old Wang tore into Si Le at the meeting today? Her face went white. That man’s tongue is vicious."

"Si Le can really take it. If it were me, I’d have quit ages ago."

"What choice does she have? I heard her dad borrowed a lot of money from relatives for medical treatment before he died. She has to pay it all back."

"That’s pretty rough, but honestly, I wouldn’t dare be friends with someone like that. If she lives so miserably, who knows how dark her mind might be?"

Her coworkers cast her pitying, awkward looks. Si Le forced a smile and returned to her desk.

They were wrong. Si Le wasn’t dark-minded.

She was a psycho.

Most of the women at work blew off steam with fancy meals or shopping, but Si Le had found a way to relieve stress that cost nothing and worked especially well.

She harassed those high-and-mighty elite men, using the name of a lovesick puppy to make their lives miserable.

If fawning over one person makes you a lovesick puppy, what do you call fawning over a whole pack?

Si Le figured it should be a sea dog.

The cold, proud heartthrob from high school, who looked down on everyone; the warm-faced but phony senior from college; the playboy heir who lounged around in the company downstairs and was pursuing Si Le’s beautiful coworker...

The messages were sent to everyone at once. The handmade cookies were leftovers from her weekend stall. The cold medicine granules had accidentally expired...

Si Le went from being so nervous that her adrenaline surged to gradually handling everything with ease. She never expected to crash and burn with Lin Siheng, the head of the neighboring team.

Lin Siheng graciously offered to date her, saying that in light of her sincere feelings, he was willing to give it a try.

Si Le looked utterly overwhelmed, wondering whether Lin Siheng would make her life difficult across departments if she turned him down.

She frantically tried to come up with a suitable excuse.

Lin Siheng said, "I heard about your family situation. I’ll help you pay off the debt. Don’t feel burdened. It’s not much money to me."

"If anyone bullies you from now on, tell me."

"You live too far from the office. I have an empty place nearby. Don’t get the wrong idea, I don’t mean anything by it. You can live there by yourself."

Si Le, eyes brimming with tears, decided to turn over a new leaf and never again do anything so rotten as taking revenge on society.

Si Le sent heartfelt farewell messages to all the elite men she’d fawned over, then promptly changed her WeChat account and phone number.

Three days later, Si Le was happily leaving work when she saw five men standing outside her office building. They were all dressed like peacocks displaying their plumage, with armfuls of flowers and gifts.

Behind them, Lin Siheng sat in a black Maybach. His gaze passed over the men and landed on Si Le, and he gave a light tap on the horn.

Lin Siheng had little interest in romance and thought he would stay single all his life.

But one day, strange messages suddenly started appearing on his phone.

Sometimes lively, sometimes obsequious, sometimes flirtatious.

Deeply troubled by them, Lin Siheng decided to talk to the female coworker from the neighboring department.

At the cafe, Lin Siheng had barely begun speaking when Si Le looked at him pitifully from across the table. Tears streamed down her face as she choked out, "I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I just like you so much."

Lin Siheng froze. Before he could say a word, Si Le covered her mouth with one hand and ran out of the cafe in a panic.

Lin Siheng watched her frail-looking figure retreat and remembered what he’d heard about her. He couldn’t help feeling sorry for her and a little guilty.

That’s right, what had Si Le done wrong? She just liked him so much...

On the day he confessed, Si Le, who loved him so much she couldn’t help herself, was so surprised she couldn’t speak, and even cried tears of joy.

Lin Siheng often felt guilty, thinking that he didn’t love Si Le as much as she loved him, so he could only make it up to her in other ways.

Until one day, Lin Siheng accidentally logged into an alternate account on Si Le’s old phone.

The chat list was lined up in neat rows, numbered from one to more than ten.

His own profile picture was among them, with the note: "Number Twelve, dangerous. Watch out for a crash."

Lin Siheng frowned at the rows of red notification dots and tapped on "Number Eight, stupid and rich."

White chat bubbles filled the screen.

"Si Le, I was wrong. Please, don’t ignore me."

"I ate the cookies you made for me by hand last month. They were delicious."

"Si Le, I want to see you."

"Don’t worry, I won’t let your boyfriend find out."

Lin Siheng’s hand shook for ages. He still couldn’t hold on to the phone, and it fell to the ground with a smack.

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