Black Lotus

Wen Niannan grabbed Shen Luoan’s hand that was playing the piano and pulled him up. Shen Luoan was frightened and struggling quickly, “Niannan what are you doing? Let me go.”

Gu Yansheng was shocked by the sudden scene in front of him. He did not expect that Wen Niannan, who had always been pretending to be weak, was so strong.

“Where did you get this from?”

“What do you mean? I wrote it myself. It is my birthday gift for Yansheng,” Shen Luoan tried to pull his hand free but failed.

Seeing that he was still lying, Wen Niannan became even more furious, “Lier! I wrote this music placed in a filing envelope in my room. You stole it from me!”

“Shut up! Let go of him!” Gu Yansheng shouted harshly with a cold face.

“Yansheng, I didn’t. I really wrote it myself. I prepared for a long time and was about to use this for a competition.” Tears flooded down Shen Luoan cheeks, and his aggrieved appearance made people feel distressed.

Gu Yansheng glanced at him, lowered his head, said two words.

“Let go.”

“What?” Wen Niannan was stunned.

“I said let go of him!” His voice was colder than ever.

“You… trust him and not me?”

Seeing that Wen Niannan was not letting go, Gu Yansheng got impatient. He stepped forward, broke his hand free, and swung it back.

After breaking free, Shen Luoan threw himself in Gu Yansheng’s arms and complained about how hurtful it was. Gu Yansheng looked down and saw the red marks on the hand. He walked to Wen Niannan and said coldly, “Apologize now.”

“Why should I apologize if I haven’t done anything wrong?”

Wen Nian Nanshou was trembling while denying Gu Yansheng’s words. He didn’t want Sheng Luoan to trick him using the same method for the second time.

“Wen Niannan, you are too cruel. Just one sentence of yours can ruin another’s reputation. How disgusting of you!”

“I didn’t…” Wen Niannan didn’t know what to say. No matter how much he explained, no one would believe him.

Comforting the person in his arms, Gu Yansheng said with a harsh look in his eyes, “Aren’t you saying that you wrote this music? In front of so many people, you are just randomly accusing him of plagiarism without any concrete evidence. Aren’t you just trying to ruin his reputation?”

“He really stole it from me… I placed the music in my room after I finished… but who knew he would do such a thing…”

Seeing that his situation was being exposed, Shen Luoan immediately reacted and said, “You are the one that left me your room. I am planning to use the guest room for the night.”

This reminded Gu Yansheng of that night and now completed trust Shen Luoan, “Oh, so this is how it is…”

“I am at first wondering why you would offer to let Luoan stay in the master room. So, you planned this out the whole time.”

Wen Niannan clenched his fists but loosened eventually. He asked with a wry smile, “Will you think I’m crazy if I tell you that he also stole my music I was planning to attend the music competition with that year?”

“Everyone knows that it was you who stole from Luoan that year in high school for the music competition. How dare you bite back now and accuse him instead? Wen Niannan, you truly make me sick!”

In the past few days, his mind has already changed a little about Wen Niannan, but never did he expect that Wen Niannan would try to destroy Shen Luoan’s reputation on a public occasion like this to take revenge for his jealousy.

Translated by: Summit

Edited by: UnderTheMoon

Translator’s Notes: 

Hello readers! It’s your translator Summit here. I’d like to say that this is definitely the most emotionally taxing work I have ever translated, and certainly, as a reader myself, want to slap the hell out of Gu Yansheng to wake him up. I’m just translating the content（＞人＜；）. However, I do want to point out something about the work’s title. 

The original novel’s updated title should be translated as “The Tyrant President said I am a Black Lotus.” At first, I assumed that some experienced reads will know what the web novel slang “Black Lotus” means, but now that I feel the need to reiterate since there might be some newcomers here.

Black Lotus means a person who appears to be weak or kind, but in fact, his/her actions are full of tricks and despicable means. Of course, there might be some differences depending on the context, and hopefully, I am able to clear up some confusion that you might have so far about why in the world is the author doing this to our MC. 

That’s it for this chapter! Let me know in the comments if this helps ????