Author: hoenimochi (Page 64 of 95)

MTL and currently learning HSK

Chapter 24

       How exactly should Suo Yang’s voice be described?

       It was clean and clear, like a ray of light penetrating the clouds.

       In the past, when Shen Huiming was dealing with all kinds of people, he would try to analyze the logic and behaviour style of the other party through their appearances out of his businessman’s instinct. He was good at predicting the next move in advance after the other party made their first move. This was the kind of foresight a businessman must have.

       But when he met Suo Yang, his original framework of dealing with people was no longer applicable.

       He was reluctant to guess or analyze the actions that Suo Yang might take next. All of his logical analysis of Suo Yang was wiped out, and he just wanted to follow his heart and be sentimental.

       Now Shen Huiming was so sentimental that even hearing Suo Yang’s voice felt extremely healing.

       “Coffee.” Shen Huiming looked up at him with a smile, “Black coffee.”

       Suo Yang originally wanted to appear tense and to suspend Shen Huiming’s appetite, but the other party asked for coffee, which made it impossible for him to not remember their first meeting.

       “On an empty stomach…”

       “It’s not an empty stomach this time,” Shen Huiming smiled, “I just ate a piece of small cake while waiting for the plane.”

       Suo Yang laughed, looked at him helplessly, and said: “Okay, please wait a moment.”

       It was funny. It was like a bubble suddenly appeared in a pool of stagnant water.

       While waiting for Suo Yang to come over with coffee, Shen Huiming flipped through the book and turned to the first page again, where the story begins.

       The first sentence of the whole book—In this world, there is nothing stronger than the desire for love.

       If it were before, Shen Huiming would not agree with this sentence at all and even sneered at it, but now, as he looked at the clouds outside the window and thought about the person who would be coming over with coffee later, he felt that this statement hit him right in the heart.

       On a whim, he tore off a sheet from his notebook, quickly wrote a line, and stuffed it into Suo Yang’s trouser pocket when the other party came over.

       Suo Yang looked at him, didn’t ask any questions, just smiled, put his coffee away and turned to leave.

       For the next few hours, everything went on as usual. Shen Huiming didn’t cause trouble for Suo Yang, and Suo Yang didn’t express special attention to him because there was an ‘acquaintance’ of his own sitting in the cabin.

       They both knew only too well that Suo Yang was in the middle of his work and that Shen Huiming should not disturb him, nor should he be distracted. This was the self-control he should have, at the very least.

       However, Shen Huiming didn’t feel bored during the seven hours or so he spent on the connecting flight to Moscow. He flipped through books, processed the documents sent by the assistant before he boarded the plane, and then took a short nap. The time passed like this.

       For him, it was never possible to have a dull moment of free time. For a long time, Shen Huiming wished that he could have 48 or even 72 hours a day, and the things that he needed to deal with were simply endless.

       Under such circumstances, he was willing to divide his attention and time to be close to Suo Yang, which was enough to show how irresistible Suo Yang’s allure was to him.

       When the plane arrived in Moscow, the weather conditions were not very good, it was overcast, and it looked a bit bleak.

       They had more than two hours of transit time and needed to change to another terminal to board the plane.

       Shen Huiming walked out with the other passengers, and before he got off the plane, he took a second look at Suo Yang and thought that even if there was a row of flight attendants standing there, Suo Yang was the only one who stood out.

       This was not because love was blind, Shen Huiming thought; this was a fact.

       It would take another two or three hours to arrive in Berlin after taking off from Moscow. While waiting to board the plane, Shen Huiming had already started planning how to invite Suo Yang to take a walk in Berlin together after landing.

       Berlin was a place he was looking forward to. After all, in his shallow understanding of the city, it should be colourful and full of a strong artistic atmosphere. In such an environment, it seemed easier for people to indulge in it and become emotional. In this way, it would be easier to open up and not to mention that it was where Suo Yang had his first international flight, so there should be unique emotions here. Shen Huiming felt that this place was perfect for the two of them to spend some time together.

       However, the saying that plans would never be able to catch up with changes1this would be similar to ‘People may make plans in their minds, but God decides what they will do.’ would always be true.

       Lightning and thunder began to strike outside half an hour before their boarding time.

       Thunder and lightning weather was a terrible situation for flying. People like Shen Huiming who flew around all year round knew this all too well.

       He got up, walked to the window, looked at the sudden rainstorm outside and the lightning that split the sky in half, and suddenly had a bad feeling.

       A few minutes later, Suo Yang found him.

       “We probably won’t be able to fly.” Suo Yang was just taking his chances to see if Shen Huiming was waiting obediently at the gate, but to his surprise, he actually saw him at the window.

       “I have a hunch,” Shen Huiming spoke as a thunderclap rumbled, and Suo Yang frowned, “It doesn’t matter to me. I originally came here for you.”

       Shen Huiming was so straightforward that Suo Yang forgot how to respond for a moment.

       Shen Huiming smiled and said, “It’s alright, I’ll follow the arrangement, but it seems you need to appease the other passengers.”

       At this moment, the broadcast sounded, announcing the news of the flight delay.

       To everyone’s surprise, the delay was a long one, and the flight did not take off until late at night.

       The sudden change of weather made many passengers restless. Shen Huiming sat on the side and looked up from time to time.

       The airport staff tried their best to calm everyone down. Shen Huiming looked at the time and felt that he might have to stay here tonight.

       At ten o’clock, they were told that they would not be able to take off today, and the airport staff took them to the hotel.

       Before leaving the airport, Shen Huiming sent a WeChat message to Suo Yang while there was still WiFi, telling him about his current situation.

       Suo Yang replied to him: OK, I will contact you later.

       From the airport to the hotel, Shen Huiming felt how bad the weather outside was at the moment.

       Indeed, it was impossible to take off in such conditions.

       As he sat on the bus and looked up at the dark sky, he suddenly felt uneasy.

       How many times had Suo Yang encountered such a situation over the years? How many times had he encountered an unexpected situation during a flight? Has he ever been afraid?

       Shen Huiming frowned and tried not to think about it as much as possible, he couldn’t accept any bad thoughts sprouting up.

       They were taken to the hotel, where first-class passengers were accommodated in a deluxe room, which was not bad.

       Shen Huiming’s cell phone was almost out of battery right now, so he changed his clothes, charged his cell phone, and waited for Suo Yang to contact him.

       There was still lightning and thunder outside the window, and it felt like the end of the world, with the wind and rainstorms causing the branches to be broken.

       He was a little worried about Suo Yang and was surprisingly a little anxious as he waited.

       In order to ease this lousy mood, Shen Huiming turned on his laptop and started working.

       At almost twelve o’clock, Suo Yang finally sent a message.

       Suo Yang said that he had also arrived at the hotel and asked Shen Huiming how things were going on his side.

       Shen Huiming: Everything is safe, but I am a little worried about you.

       Suo Yang had just entered the room with his colleagues and felt relieved after seeing Shen Huiming’s message.

       He replied: Have you eaten anything tonight? I brought a boxed meal back.

       Five minutes later, Suo Yang knocked on Shen Huiming’s door.

       Shen Huiming did not eat anything at night, but it was not because he couldn’t eat. The airport prepared a very good dinner box for them, but he just didn’t have an appetite at that time.

       What’s more, even if he had eaten, he would have to say he hadn’t; otherwise, how could he get Suo Yang to come to his door?

       He opened the door and saw Suo Yang had already changed his uniform and wearing a light-coloured striped shirt and jeans. He looked like a refreshing college student.

       Suo Yang held two sets of meals in his hand and said with a smile, “The steward took care of me and gave me two portions.”

       Shen Huiming looked at the person in front of him and was a little dazed. This feeling of having a familiar person visit him late at night while he was temporarily settled in a foreign country was very heartwarming.

       Despite the strong wind and heavy rains, lightning and thunder outside, the atmosphere in the room was not affected at all. Because of Suo Yang’s appearance, the atmosphere became warm and soft.

       The two sat on the carpet and used the hotel’s promotional brochure to pad their meal box. They just sat on the floor and ate their dinner, which was several hours late.

       They were like old friends, chatting in the dim light of the room. Suo Yang was no longer on the edge, after all, he was tired enough for today.

       “By the way,” Shen Huiming reached for his phone, “I heard a song by accident that day.”

       He opened the music software and searched for ‘Berlin’.

       Before the start of this trip, Shen Huiming had checked countless information related to Berlin, even including the song.

Sometimes darkness, it creeps in
to my body while I’m sleeping.
and I watch you fall,
from the pedestal,
where you’ve rested for so long.

       Suo Yang sat there, looked at the swaying branches outside the window, and listened in fascination, while Shen Huiming sat opposite him and looked at him.

       Shen Huiming didn’t know what Suo Yang was thinking at the moment, but what he thought was: When you fall from the pedestal, I can catch you.


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Chapter 35

       It was indeed already warm in the house.

       Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan had both taken off their jackets when they entered the room. Chen Yuncheng was only wearing a white shirt, while Ning Junyan had rolled up the sleeves of his coffee colour sweater, exposing a part of his arm.

       Ning Junyan was obviously angry just now. Chen Yuncheng didn’t want to provoke him, so he subconsciously raised his hand to hold the shirt button closest to the collar and said, “I’m really not hurt.”

       Ning Junyan said, “Then what are you afraid of?”

       Yes, what was there to be afraid of? He didn’t get hurt, and they both were men anyway. They’ve bathed together for how many times he didn’t know anymore when they were a child. What was he afraid of?

       Of course, he was afraid that it would be too ambiguous and was afraid that the other party was harbouring unspoken thoughts. Chen Yuncheng knew it well, but he couldn’t say it.

       In the dim light of the bathroom, he and Ning Junyan looked at each other. Ning Junyan’s expression was very calm, and there was no extra emotion in his eyes.

       After a while, Chen Yuncheng turned his eyes away first, his eyelashes dropping slightly as he dropped his gaze to Ning Junyan’s chest and began to unbutton his buttons one by one.

       Chen Yuncheng looked thin, but he was actually very strong. When his shirt slid off his shoulders, his well-proportioned chest and abdomen were gradually revealed, and there was also a scar on his chest that had only a whitish thread-like mark left.

       At this moment, Ning Junyan raised his hand and gently touched the scar on his chest.

       Chen Yuncheng felt that the hairs on his body stood up in an instant. He forced himself not to dodge and said, “I got injured before.” Then, he turned around to show Ning Junyan his back, which was also clean and free of wounds. He put his shirt back on and buttoned it up with his head down, “Told you, I wasn’t injured.”

       Ning Junyan said, “Don’t button it up.”

       Chen Yuncheng paused when he heard his words but continued to button his buttons.

       Ning Junyan extended his hand to take down the towel he had hung up earlier and said, “The wound can’t get wet, so don’t take a shower today, I’ll wipe it for you.”

       Chen Yuncheng looked up at him and wanted to say that he could wipe it himself, but then remembered that his hands would still be covered in water.

       Ning Junyan had already turned on the hot water, wetting and wringing the towel, and looked at Chen Yuncheng.

       Chen Yuncheng took a deep breath and resigned himself to unbuttoning his shirt again. This time, he took off his shirt and placed it on the dry shelf next to him.

       Ning Junyan wiped his body with a towel. The movements were not very warm, but they were meticulous, and the skin on Chen Yuncheng’s chest flushed a thin layer of red. When Ning Junyan wiped his neck, he subconsciously tilted his head just as Ning Junyan looked down at him, and the two were so close that Chen Yuncheng couldn’t help but turn his eyes away first.

       “Pants,” Ning Junyan said to Chen Yuncheng after wiping his upper body.

       Chen Yuncheng looked at him and said, “Forget it.”

       Ning Junyan didn’t say anything.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I’m already so old. Spare me my pride.” He felt that he was almost begging Ning Junyan.

       In the end, Ning Junyan didn’t force the matter and handed him the towel after scrubbing it with hot water and wringing it out so that he could wipe it himself, and then left the bathroom.

       Chen Yuncheng felt as if his chest was still hot until he lay down on the bed, leaving the distinct touch of the hot towel wiping over it.

       Too much had happened today in one day, and after seeing Ning Junyan in the evening, his anger faded a lot to the point where he now closed his eyes in the dark and began to recall the scene where those three men had smashed his kiosk again.

       At this point, it was impossible to say how angry he was anymore, and there was just a sense of powerlessness. Now, his kiosk would definitely not be able to be sold. He could only inventory the goods, and the most suitable way was to resell anything that was still worth something and sublease the shop directly.

       Then the money he owed Ning Junyan would remain unpaid, and there was no telling when he would be able to pay it all back. Originally, he wanted to drag Zhou Yan, so the two of them would go out to work and return the money to Ning Junyan as soon as possible. But now Zhou Yan’s whereabouts were unknown, his stepfather’s case was still unfinished, and he didn’t know if Zhou Yan had anything to do with it or not.

       As he thought of this, Chen Yuncheng had to think about Ning Junyan’s attitude towards him. Ning Junyan was too obvious, and sometimes it was too much for him to handle. He asked himself if he hated Ning Junyan, and even faced with Ning Junyan’s ambiguity towards him, it was not at all as distasteful as one might expect; it was more a kind of not knowing what to do. But it was obviously impossible for him and Ning Junyan. Even if they didn’t consider their gender, their living conditions were so different. How could they keep going together?

       Just like the eldest daughter who eloped with a poor boy after the madness of love subsided, what was left was the daily life necessities, and that was the most torturous part. If it didn’t work out, it didn’t work out, and if you had to force it to work out in the future, it wouldn’t work out well.

       Chen Yuncheng rolled over and lay on his side, and pulled up the quilt a bit.

       The bed in this guest room was soft, and the surrounding area was quiet, except for the occasional car; no loud noises could be heard.

       He was still a little excited, but his body was really tired, and it pulled him into a deep sleep before too long.

       The next morning, Chen Yuncheng woke up early.

       The worst thing about living in someone else’s house was that you were not free. If you got up too early, you would be afraid that you would disturb your host; if you got up too late, you would feel that you were not polite enough.

       After Chen Yuncheng changed his clothes and came out of the guest room, he saw that the door of Ning Junyan’s room was still closed, so he went into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator to take a look and found that there was nothing but mineral water in it, not even an egg.

       Today, Ning Junyan was supposed to be at work, but Chen Yuncheng didn’t know what time he would leave.

       Chen Yuncheng wanted to go out to buy breakfast for Ning Junyan, but after putting on his coat, he realised that he didn’t have a key and he was afraid that the community gate guard probably wouldn’t let him in easily, so he had to give up.

       He came back to the empty dining table and sat down. He turned on his mobile phone and found that Gu Yaojia had sent him a WeChat message at about 6:00 in the morning.

       Gu Yaojia said: “I’m sorry for bothering you, Cheng ge. Qiqi was scheduled for surgery this morning. I’m afraid I have to deal with it by myself, so could I ask you to come over and take a look?”

       Chen Yuncheng could feel the cautiousness of the other party’s words, and he quickly replied: “No problem. What time does the surgery start?”

       After a few seconds, Gu Yaojia replied: “It starts at ten o’clock.”

       Chen Yuncheng replied with the word “Okay”.

       At this time, the door of Ning Junyan’s room opened. He came out of the room wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and saw Chen Yuncheng sitting in the dining room. He stopped and asked, “Have you washed yet?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I brushed my teeth.” He was still afraid to get his hands wet and did not wash his face.

       Ning Junyan said to him, “Come over and wash your face.”

       For a moment, Chen Yuncheng felt like a little child, getting up in the morning and waiting for his father to wash his face, then eating breakfast and going to school.

       This was an experience he had never had before because his father left very early, and for as long as he could remember, he and his mother were the only ones at home. Until his mother also passed away and he became the child no one wanted.

       Ning Junyan wiped his face with a wet towel.

       Chen Yuncheng took the time to ask, “What do you have for breakfast?”

       Ning Junyan paused, “I usually go to the hospital cafeteria to eat. If you want to eat, I can make it for you.”

       Chen Yuncheng asked him, “You know how to cook?”

       Ning Junyan turned on the water and scrubbed the towels, “I used to study out on my own and learned to do some of it.” Then he hung up the clean towel and said, “I can make it for you every day if you want.”


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Chapter 34

       Chen Yuncheng packed up simple daily necessities, brought a change of clothes and left with Ning Junyan.

       He turned off the lights in the room, pulled down the shutters and locked them. When he opened the back row door of Ning Junyan’s car and put things in, he saw a new heater box placed under the seat.

       Chen Yuncheng paused for a while, put the things away and closed the door. Then he pulled open the passenger side and got in.

       Ning Junyan had already started the car and waited until Chen Yuncheng got in, then he silently drove the car away from the curb.

       Chen Yuncheng also sat quietly for a while and asked, “Is the heater in the back for me?”

       Ning Junyan did not answer him.

       Chen Yuncheng asked again, “Are you angry?”

       Ning Junyan just glanced at him.

       Chen Yuncheng suddenly couldn’t help lowering his head and smiled. He remembered when the two were young, there was a time when Ning Junyan was also angry.

       He couldn’t even remember why Ning Junyan was angry at that time. Perhaps it was a minor matter in Chen Yuncheng’s opinion.

       Ning Junyan ignored him for the whole evening that day and was very grumpy. When the foster mother kept rambling on about them during dinner, Ning Junyan pushed his rice bowl away and stared at his godmother with a cold gaze.

       The foster mother was angry at the time, slapped the table and cursed, “What are you looking at me like that for?”

       Chen Yuncheng was startled and stretched out his hand to pull Ning Junyan under the table. When he saw that Ning Junyan didn’t respond, he kicked him lightly with his foot.

       Luckily, the foster father was in a good mood that day and said to Ning Junyan, “If you are not going to eat, get out.”

       Ning Junyan stood up and left the kitchen.

       The foster mother was still angry and cursed, “You just know how to waste food!”

       Chen Yuncheng reached out and pulled over the half bowl of rice left by Ning Junyan over and said, “I’ll eat it.”

       The foster mother pointed at him and cursed at him, “You just know how to eat! It’s better to raise pigs than raising you!”

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t know whether he should eat or not for a while.

       At this time, the foster father raised his head and said, “What are you arguing about, eat quietly.”

       After that, did not say anything further and asked Chen Yuncheng to wash the dishes after she finished eating.

       When Chen Yuncheng finished washing the dishes and returned to his room, Ning Junyan was lying on his side with his back to the door and did not turn around even when he heard his voice.

       He went over and leaned over the bed, poked Ning Junyan’s back with his fingers, and said, “Don’t be angry.”

       Ning Junyan didn’t respond.

       Chen Yuncheng took off his shoes and climbed onto the bed, knelt down and approached Ning Junyan. He stretched his head over Ning Junyan’s body from behind to look at his face and saw that Ning Junyan’s eyes were open as he stared at the wall coldly.

       “Don’t be angry,” Chen Yuncheng stretched out his finger and poked Ning Junyan’s face.

       Ning Junyan suddenly raised his hand and grabbed his finger with such force that it wrenched Chen Yuncheng’s finger into pain.

       Chen Yuncheng shouted, “Ouch, that hurts.”

       Ning Junyan glanced at him and let go of his hand.

       Chen Yuncheng simply lay on top of Ning Junyan’s body and shouted, “Yanyan, don’t be angry with me, okay?” He didn’t wait for Ning Junyan to answer and asked again, “Did you have enough for dinner? There are still biscuits in the cupboard, do you want me to feed you?”

       Ning Junyan turned over and lay flat on the bed, reached out and grabbed Chen Yuncheng’s collar, biting him on the collarbone.

       Chen Yuncheng suddenly shouted, “Don’t bite me!” He was a little scared, afraid that Ning Junyan would really bite down hard.

       At that time, they had been together for nearly two years, and Chen Yuncheng was familiar with Ning Junyan’s character. He knew that Ning Junyan was holding back anger in his heart and couldn’t vent it. Opening his mouth to bite him was a form of a temper tantrum, and it was also to relieve the resentment in their close relationship. Chen Yuncheng was not angry, but he was just afraid that Ning Junyan won’t be able to control his strength.

       Fortunately, Ning Junyan let go after a while, leaving a clear tooth mark on Chen Yuncheng’s collarbone, with no broken skin or blood.

       Chen Yuncheng lowered his head but couldn’t see it and felt pain, so he leaned in front of Ning Junyan to let him see and said, “Look at the bite you gave me.”

       Ning Junyan watched silently for a while and tried to bite the other side of his collarbone.

       Chen Yuncheng pushed him away, rolled over and got out of bed, saying, “No more biting!” He found the slippers under the bed and put them on, went over and opened the cupboard to find the biscuits hidden inside, then came back to the bed and knelt down, saying, “Eat something first.”

       Ning Junyan lay still.

       Chen Yuncheng patiently broke the biscuits into small pieces and fed them to his mouth, “You want to eat or not?”

       Only then did Ning Junyan open his mouth, chewing the biscuits slowly.

       Chen Yuncheng fed him the biscuits at night and gave him water to drink before lying down and asking him, “You’re not angry anymore, are you?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t answer but silently reached out to hug Chen Yuncheng, buried his head on his shoulder, and closed his eyes to sleep.

       Chen Yuncheng knew that this meant that he was no longer angry.

       For Chen Yuncheng, Ning Junyan was still very easy to coax.

       After driving the car into the underground parking lot of the neighbourhood, Ning Junyan got out of the car and opened the back row door before Chen Yuncheng, and took all the things that Chen Yuncheng put in the bag out of the car.

       This was the first time Chen Yuncheng had been to where Ning Junyan lived and judging by the location and the level of the neighbourhood, he knew that the price was not cheap. However, Ning Junyan can drive an 800,000 yuan1around $110k car, so it was not surprising that he lived in a several million yuan house.

       Chen Yuncheng suddenly remembered Ning Junyan’s parents, who had picked him up by car at the time when Ning Junyan had come to his senses and recognised his parents. The middle-aged couple obviously cared a lot about Ning Junyan, their son, and his mother even hugged him and cried. They were very well dressed and drove a car that must seem very expensive to the young Chen Yuncheng’s eyes, and took Ning Junyan to the car.

       Before he got into the car, Ning Junyan shook off his mother’s hand and ran to Chen Yuncheng to hug him tightly.

       Chen Yuncheng felt sad, but he tried to look happy as he patted Ning Junyan’s back and said, “Hurry up and go back with your mum and dad.”

       Then, Ning Junyan got pulled away from behind, although he was hugging Chen Yuncheng very hard, and Chen Yuncheng almost felt that he was about to be dragged over by Ning Junyan. He then reached out and pushed Ning Junyan, gasping slightly as he stood on the ground and watched Ning Junyan being pulled into the car.

       After the car left, Chen Yuncheng followed the police back to the police station, waiting helplessly for his future arrangements.

       They had no phone number, no mailing address, no contact details, and no expectation that they would ever meet again.

       Chen Yuncheng stood in the elevator, looking at the floor that kept skipping, and asked Ning Junyan, “Where are your parents?”

       Ning Junyan stood beside him, holding his things in his hand but never looked at him. Chen Yuncheng almost thought that Ning Junyan would not answer, and Ning Junyan said, “We don’t live together.”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded.

       The first thing Ning Junyan did when he got home was to turn on the heater.

       Chen Yuncheng looked at the whole room and felt a very masculine cleanliness and desolation. He asked, “How many rooms are there? Is it going to bother you?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t answer, walked straight inside, opened the door of a room, stood at the door and said, “This is a guest room.”

       Chen Yuncheng followed him and saw Ning Junyan put the bag on the bedside table. Then Ning Junyan took out the toothbrush and towel that Chen Yuncheng brought and left the room to go to the bathroom.

       Ning Junyan hung up the towel, put the toothbrush in the mouthwash cup, and said to Chen Yuncheng, who was standing at the door, “Take off your clothes.”

       “Huh?” Chen Yuncheng’s entire body froze.

       Ning Junyan said, “I said earlier to see if you had any injuries on your body. Now that you’re not cold anymore, you can take off your clothes.”


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Chapter 23

       When Suo Yang first saw Shen Huiming’s name, he thought he had read it wrong, or maybe it was just someone else with the same name.

       But soon he realized that this was Shen Huiming’s strategy, and the guy was discharged from the hospital without telling him at all.

       Suo Yang was not the least bit upset. Instead, he looked at the passenger list and smiled. A colleague next to him asked, “What’s wrong?”

       “Nothing.” Suo Yang politely responded with a smile.

       Suo Yang wondered if Shen Huiming had ever thought that his whereabouts had been revealed before he even boarded the plane. This so-called surprise made him at a loss whether to cry or to laugh

       For the first time in his career, Suo Yang was a little distracted as he went to get ready after the meeting.

       Suo Yang suddenly remembered the first time he met Shen Huiming on the plane. On that occasion, just like now, he was given the list of first-class passengers during the meeting. However, at that time, he did not feel any strange emotions when he saw the name Shen Huiming, and at that time, he did not know that he would later become so involved with this person.

       At this moment, Shen Huiming, who had completed the check-in procedure and was walking to the VIP lounge, took his mobile phone and wanted to send a message to Suo Yang, but he was afraid that he would affect the other party’s work, so he could only force himself to suppress such thoughts.

       He went to the waiting room and received a cup of coffee. When he sat down and was about to drink, he remembered that he had been told by Suo Yang on the plane not to drink coffee on an empty stomach.

       Shen Huiming got up with a smile and went to pick up a small cake that was individually wrapped.

       He didn’t expect he would be so obedient. After Shen Huiming sat down, he took a photo of the coffee and cake in front of him, ready to find a chance to ask for praise from Suo Yang.

       This was the first time Shen Huiming went to Berlin. He was not sure if Suo Yang would stay there and how much free time he would have if he did. However, he took the time to prepare himself properly so that if Suo Yang said he had enough time by then, they could just walk around Berlin.

       Just a casual walk, not really a date.

       Shen Huiming was very cunning. He believed that there should be a complete setup for dating. Meeting, eating, walking, and even watching movies were not considered real dates.

       He anxiously waited for the boarding announcement. He, who has always been calm, even got up from time to time to check the news at the boarding gate.

       This was what it felt like to want to meet someone so badly as if he had smelled the aroma of the other person from a long distance and couldn’t wait to follow this faint fragrance all the way.

       Shen Huiming was holding the half-read copy of ‘On Love’ in his hand, which almost became his ‘love bible’.

       Because Suo Yang had spoiled the ending in advance, Shen Huiming actually started to read the first 120 pages and kept rereading the previous parts again and again.

       He felt that, at least at this moment, his relationship with Suo Yang was more suitable for the first eleven chapters. He refused the entertain the idea of the so-called ‘Romantic Terrorism1it was actually the 18th chapter’, and he only needed to discuss ‘Romantic Fatalism2and Romantic Fatalism is the 1st chapter in the book’ with Suo Yang.

       During his stay in the hospital, Shen Huiming gave serious thought to the relationship between them and what attracted him to Suo Yang.

       Although everyone says that love has no reason and that any love that has reasons would collapse on the first blow.

       But in fact, Shen Huiming felt that everything that happened in the world had its reasonable reasons, including love.

       The emergence and development of love follow the same principle—to touch the soft part of your heart.

       Love was not without reason at all. The first time Shen Huiming saw Suo Yang, he saw the rare calmness and tenderness in the people around him. Although Suo Yang always maintained a ‘professional’ attitude, the just right sense of distance attracted him.

       As they spent time together afterwards, Shen Huiming felt more and more that Suo Yang’s life was like a beautifully wrapped gift box that everyone wanted to take for themselves, but the price was so high that many people had to turn away.

       But he wanted to go out of his way to get it back at a high price, not to get a glimpse of what was inside, but to untie the packaging that was binding him and give him freedom.

       Shen Huiming felt that Suo Yang was yet another kind of himself, a person who was raised high by life and forced to tighten his nerves.

       Therefore, he wanted to be Suo Yang’s hero, or at least allow the other person to be unrestrained when he was by his side.

       The most clichéd metaphor to describe the relationship between the two he imagined was that Suo Yang was a swimming fish, and he wanted to be the everlasting lake for this fish3in a sense Shen Huiming wanted Suo Yang to be able to keep swimming on and on because he would be the lake that has no end.

       It was challenging and fun.

       Shen Huiming waited for a long time and finally got the boarding notice.

       He took his book and walked towards the boarding gate with his ticket and passport in his hand.

       Here we are again.

       Finally, we meet again.

       He won the bet anyway, albeit with a little less than honourable tricks.

       Shen Huiming smiled and walked towards the shuttle bus, which was going to take him to Suo Yang’s side, and he was looking forward to his reaction when he met him.

       Suo Yang stood there to greet the first-class passengers, dressed in a neat uniform, with a decent smile and standardised conversation.

       When Shen Huiming walked up, he looked at Suo Yang from afar, and the two of them looked at each other without any unusual reaction from Suo Yang.

       When Shen Huiming arrived in front of Suo Yang, Suo Yang smiled and said, “Hello Mr. Shen, welcome to this flight.”

       Shen Huiming smiled at him and nodded, responding, “Hello.”

       After he said that, he went inside and found his place.

       Thirteen hours. The journey was divided into two parts.

       For the first time, Shen Huiming felt that the long flight time was a good thing.

       Suo Yang greeted the passengers and returned to the cabin to continue the service in order. He helped the passengers to place their carry-on luggage and asked them what their needs were.

       Shen Huiming sat there peacefully the whole time, but his attention was focused on Suo Yang.

       His voice.

       His smile.

       The way he lifted his arms as he helped people set up their luggage.

       And that waistline.

       The uniform shirt was tucked neatly into his trousers, and even the belt uniformly distributed by the airline seemed to be a limited edition of a luxury brand on Suo Yang.

       The only one of its kind in the world.

       Everything seemed like yesterday once more4a reference to The Carpenter-Yesterday Once More song. Shen Huiming seemed to have returned to the day he left for New York when a flight attendant called Suo Yang caught his attention and made his long and tiring journey full of mystical tales.

       Ultimately, Suo Yang was very professional and held himself to a very high standard of professionalism.

       He would not let the presence of Shen Hui Ming interfere with his working routine. He treated the other party as ordinary passengers during the whole process, following all the procedures and regulations, without even any unnecessary pleasantries.

       Safety demonstrations routine, after that broadcast tasks routine.

       Shen Huiming listened to Suo Yang’s voice on the speaker and tapped his fingers on the cover of the book with pleasure.

       His fingers landed on the word ‘love’, as if he was tapping on the door of the heart one after the other as if notes were popping out of it.

       The plane took off, and once again, Shen Huiming and Suo Yang flew together into the blue sky and into the clouds, and Shen Huiming felt as if he understood why Suo Yang liked this job.

       It was so romantic.

       Leaving the footprints of his life at an altitude of 30,000 feet, the footprints were the notes, and each route was the lines of the music scores5stave, and not everyone could write such a tune.

       Now, it was not only Suo Yang who had left footprints in his life, but also love who stepped in and forced himself into this life.

       Their relationship sprouted in the blue sky, and it would also sprout and bloom here.

       Shen Huiming looked out the window and watched as they moved further and further away from the familiar city, as they were wrapped in clouds and their love was as sweet and soft as a cloud-shaped cotton candy.

       Does Suo Yang like to eat cotton candy?

       He vaguely remembered that Suo Yang seemed to say that he didn’t like sweets very much.

       But it didn’t matter. He just had to eat this one. Keep this one and put it in his mouth, and let it melt little by little for a lifetime.

       In the midst of Shen Huiming’s wild thoughts, the plane reached the stratosphere, Suo Yang came over, stood beside him, leaned slightly and said, “Mr. Shen, can I get you something to eat?”


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Chapter 22

       The opportunity was definitely there, and Shen Huiming had been waiting for this opportunity.

       However, the fact that he was hospitalized seriously affected his progress with Suo Yang and once again proved that ‘Your health is your most precious asset’.

       When one’s health was poor, one’s efficiency in pursuing others was forced to decrease.

       After Suo Yang met Shen Huiming in the hospital, he never saw him again until Shen Huiming was discharged from the hospital.

       In fact, Suo Yang was worried about him. However, on the one hand, he had to fly all over the place, and on the other hand, he did not want to show too much concern for the other party. It was not his style to be too attentive.

       However, the two of them kept in touch with each other, and before Suo Yang left the hospital, Shen Huiming successfully added his WeChat.

       WeChat was much more convenient than texting.

       Several times, when Suo Yang landed, he subconsciously wanted to report his position to Shen Huiming, but most of the time he held back. The only time he didn’t was when he flew to New York again, and that night he stayed at the same hotel as his colleagues on the same shift.

       This time he declined the invitation to go to the bar and stayed at the hotel alone under the excuse that he had a ‘headache’.

       At night, just after it rained in New York, he stood by the hotel window and smoked a cigarette.

       The cool air refreshed his mind and made him not sleepy. He hadn’t smoked for a long time, and he almost choked when he took a puff.

       It was on this night that Suo Yang suddenly began to admit that he had some concerns. He used to think that he would not care too much about anyone because he was taught to love himself more since he was a child.

       His parents had their own education method, which always regulated and constrained Suo Yang’s life. Even though he had lived alone for many years without his parents, the rules he strictly followed since childhood had been engraved in his bones and could not be changed.

       Don’t like others easily, and don’t be kind to others easily because everyone is selfish, except for parents; no one would love you without limits, and it was not worth your selfless love.

       These were the principles that his parents taught him.

       Suo Yang always felt that what his parents said was right, that perfect, unreserved love could only be found in literature or artworks that had not been embellished; Romeo and Juliet, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai1The Butterfly Lovers(梁山伯与祝英台) is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo (梁山伯) and Zhu Yingtai (祝英臺), whose names form the title of the story., none of them were real.

       If they did exist, they were few and far between.

       It was said that people would meet 29.2 million people in their lifetime, and the probability of two people falling in love was only 0.000049%.

       Influenced by his parents’ ideas, Suo Yang had also become a ‘love pessimist’ and thought that such things could never be found.

       He thought he would never meet such a person in his life who could hit his nerves, but accidentally, this person seemed to really appear.

       Suo Yang was on guard while dealing with it. He thanked Shen Huiming for not rushing in and knocked on his door calmly.

       He casually took a picture of New York late at night after the rain and sent it to Shen Huiming.

       He didn’t say where he was, but he believed Shen Huiming would recognize the nearby landmarks.

       Shen Huiming was a bit flattered to receive the message. Although in this relationship, it was not that he was the one who always took the initiative while the other party stayed indifferent. At times, Suo Yang would respond to him, but after all, there were very few times he would take the initiative to send messages.

       It was noon in China, but the picture sent by the other party was midnight.

       This feeling of two worlds crossing and overlapping made Shen Huiming Ming feel somewhat fascinated.

       On one side was the warm light of an autumn day, and on the other was the cool rain of an autumn night. One was warm, and one was cold. After he had given some thought to it, Shen Huiming raised his hand and took a picture of the view outside the ward and sent it to Suo Yang.

       After Shen Huiming finished sending the photo, he then said: When will we meet again in New York?

       Suo Yang smiled, held his cigarette in his mouth, typed with both hands, and replied to Shen Huiming—it depends on when you will be discharged from the hospital.

       The two didn’t talk for long. Shen Huiming remembered that it was already late at night there and urged Suo Yang to get some rest.

       He was now all too aware of the importance of a good night’s rest, and staying up late was not an option.

       Suo Yang was still not sleepy when he lay down. He took the phone to look at his previous chat records with Shen Huiming. When he realized how stupid his behaviour was, he quickly turned off the phone and went to sleep.

       He had a dreamless night, but when he woke up in the morning, he received a greeting from Shen Huiming.

       —Good morning. It should be dawn on your side of the world.

       Suo Yang sat on the bed hugging the quilt and smiled. When someone inquired him about a good morning, his annoyance vanished instantly.

       Regarding that bet, both of them kept it in their minds.

       Originally, when Shen Huiming brought up this bet, he intended to follow the will of God. He always felt that there was an invisible hand between him and Suo Yang that was connecting them. Otherwise, how could he explain the previous coincidental encounters one after another?

       So, at the very beginning, he didn’t want to do anything deliberately. It would have been the most romantic thing to have a willow grow out of nothing2to hardly do anything to reap the outcome3.

       However, when he was finally discharged from the hospital and returned to the company to deal with the accumulated work for two days, he felt that to leave everything between him and Suo Yang to destiny was a little bit unfair to Fate.

       Fate was only responsible for letting them meet, not for the subsequent development.

       It was up to them to decide how far they would go.

       It was up to them to plant the ‘cause’ and taste the ‘fruit of the ‘cause’  by themselves. In the end, whether it would be good or bad, whether they would be satisfied and happy or whether they will end up with regret. The responsibility should be their own, not Fate.

       What’s more, Shen Huiming discovered that Suo Yang was actually looking forward to it as much as he did.

       Since this was the case, how could he let Suo Yang down?

       Shen Huiming got discharged from the hospital and didn’t tell Suo Yang. He was going to give him a surprise.

       It was not difficult to know where Suo Yang would fly on a certain day. Shen Huiming expedited the visa application, freed up time, and bought a plane ticket.

       The flight to Berlin took nearly thirteen hours, with a flyover in Moscow.

       When Shen Huiming set off to the airport with his simple luggage, he couldn’t help but think: It was not easy to court a flight attendant. You have to have the money and the time.

       The streetscape kept receding, and Shen Huiming was getting closer and closer to the airport.

       At this time, Suo Yang didn’t know anything about Shen Huiming’s whereabouts. He had just arrived at the airport and was about to go to a meeting.

       Before he left home, he was still sending a message to Shen Huiming. At this time, he didn’t know that Shen Huiming had been discharged from the hospital, and he was about to win their bet.

       Suo Yang stood in front of the bathroom mirror and adjusted his uniform again, making sure that he was in perfect condition.

       He walked out of the bathroom and went to the meeting with other colleagues in the team.

       He had to fly to Berlin today. The first international flight in his flight attendant career was to Berlin, but he hadn’t had the opportunity to fly this route since then.

       He liked the place quite a lot.

       When all the staff are there, the meeting begins.

       The first-class passenger list was handed over to Suo Yang. He looked through the information of each passenger as usual and then saw the familiar name—Shen Huiming.


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Chapter 33

       Long Zhanyu called out to people to leave. He got into a police car parked at the roadside, handed the keys to his colleague and sat on the passenger side himself.

       Before he left, he leaned over next to the car window and called Chen Yuncheng, “Come here.” He hooked his finger.

       Chen Yuncheng walked over and bent down to look at him through the car window.

       Long Zhanyu leaned close to Chen Yuncheng’s ear and whispered, “I will definitely catch those few people, and I will also ask someone to keep an eye on your side, and I will not give Zhang Wenyong another chance to trouble you.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “Thank you, Officer Long.”

       Long Zhanyu said again, “But you are the one who let Zhou Yan run away from me. You go and ask him to come back and surrender.”

       Chen Yuncheng was a little helpless, “I don’t know where Zhou Yan is.”

       Long Zhanyu said, “His wife and son are in the hospital now. I believe he can’t run away. You tell him that if he turns himself in, he can go to the court and asks the judge for mercy. Considering his family situation, it is not impossible to give him probation. Let him clear his head a bit and don’t get into bigger trouble.”

       When Chen Yuncheng heard Long Zhanyu’s last words, he suddenly remembered Zhou Yan’s stepfather who was beaten to death at home, and his heart beat a few times uncomfortably.

       Long Zhanyu looked at him, “What’s your expression?”

       Chen Yuncheng closed his eyes to keep his expression from looking too grave. He stood up straight from the car window and said, “Got it, Officer Long. As long as I see Zhou Yan, I will definitely persuade him.”

       Long Zhanyu nodded and asked the colleague beside him to drive.

       When Long Zhanyu left, Chen Yuncheng turned his head and saw Ning Junyan standing there expressionlessly looking at them. He hurried over and hesitantly explained, “That one just now is the officer in charge of the case.”

       Ning Junyan did not speak.

       Chen Yuncheng turned to look at the small kiosk he had been running for more than two years and could not suppress a sigh as he reached for the broom that was leaning against the corner.

       He wanted to sweep all the broken glass together, but before doing so, he squatted down and picked up the cigarettes and other things on the floor that still looked intact in their packaging.

       Ning Junyan walked in at this time, took the broom from Chen Yuncheng’s hand, grabbed his wrist and said, “Go to the hospital first.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “No need, I’m not injured. It’s just my palm was cut by broken glass.”

       Ning Junyan said, “Show me.”

       Chen Yuncheng lowered his head and wanted to untangle the messy gauze on his hands and showed him.

       Ning Junyan said, “Also on the body”

       Chen Yuncheng stopped and looked up at him.

       Ning Junyan stopped talking, grabbed Chen Yuncheng’s hand, and personally helped him untie the gauze on his hand.

       The wound on his palm stopped bleeding, but it still looked bright red, and there were two deep wounds that looked somewhat hideous.

       Ning Junyan asked him, “Has it been disinfected?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I sprayed it with alcohol.”

       Ning Junyan let go of his hand, turned and left the store and went to the pharmacy behind the street. He bought iodophor1 and cotton swabs. After he returned, he held Chen Yuncheng’s hand and carefully used the cotton swabs to disinfect the wound on his palm with iodophor.

       Chen Yuncheng looked down at him, but there was not much expression on his face.

       Ning Junyan wrapped his palm again with clean gauze and said, “Don’t get it wet.”

       Chen Yuncheng gave a soft “mmm”.

       Then Ning Junyan took off his coat and helped Chen Yuncheng to tidy up the store simply. The goods that hadn’t been smashed were picked up from the ground and placed on top of the counter.

       “Who did it?” Ning Junyan asked in a cold tone.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “It’s just a few gangsters. I’ve already called the police, and the police will take care of it. Don’t worry.”

       Ning Junyan asked, “What are they up to? Is it related to Zhou Yan’s incident?”

       Chen Yuncheng leaned against the still intact counter and said, “It’s alright. It’s just that there was a little conflict before, not a big deal.”

       He was very afraid of involving Ning Junyan. Ning Junyan was not like the likes of them; it was not a big deal if they got caught and locked up for a few days. Ning Junyan was so good that he shouldn’t get involved in such things.

       After he finished tidying up the store with some difficulty, when Chen Yuncheng was about to enter the inner room, he suddenly saw a small head peeking out from the door and looking in.

       He stopped and saw that the person who was secretly peeking in the doorway was the little girl who hadn’t been seen for quite some time stealing things.

       As she saw that Chen Yuncheng had seen her, the little girl asked, “Is there any more bread?”

       The bread had a short shelf life. Chen Yuncheng didn’t open a shop two days ago and didn’t ask anyone to deliver it. He said to the little girl, “There’s no more bread, do you want biscuits?”

       The little girl shook her head, “No, then.” After she said this, she turned around and was about to leave.

       Chen Yuncheng quickly stopped her, “Little missy.”

       The little girl looked back at him.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I don’t want your money, I’ll give you the biscuits.”

       The little girl looked at him hesitantly.

       The biscuits and snacks, which are not valuable goods, did not suffer much. Chen Yuncheng said to Ning Junyan, “Help me get her a bag of biscuits.”

       Ning Junyan glanced at the counter and asked, “Which bag?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “All of them. There should be stuffed cookies, I think.”

       Ning Junyan took a bag of Oreos, walked to the entrance of the shop, reached out and handed it to the little girl.

       The little girl looked up at him but did not reach out to take it.

       Chen Yuncheng leaned over the counter, looked at them with a slight smile, and said to Ning Junyan, “Be gentle.”

       Ning Junyan half-squatted down and said to the little girl, “The boss gave this to you. Take it.” His tone sounded slightly warmer.

       The little girl finally reached out to take it. She turned her head to look at Chen Yuncheng and said, “Thank you.” Then she turned and ran away.

       Ning Junyan stood up, Chen Yuncheng was still looking at him with a smile and said to him, “Will you be gentler with your own children in the future than you are now?”

       “I won’t have children,” Ning Junyan said in a calm tone as if he was saying he hadn’t eaten dinner yet, and walked inside, “The life that I like didn’t happen.”

       The smile on Chen Yuncheng’s face suddenly froze and then warmed slightly. He thought that his face was probably red, but at that moment Ning Junyan wasn’t looking at him and didn’t notice.

       The condition of the inner room was not much better than the outside. A lot of drinks that Chen Yuncheng had piled up against the walls were knocked over and stepped on. The ground was still wet. Because the drinks had sugar in them, it was very unpleasant to step on them as they were sticky and greasy.

       Then he found that the scarf that Ning Junyan had given him that he was hanging in the room had been torn off, and it fell to the ground and stepped on it a few times.

       Chen Yuncheng walked over to pick up the scarf and said, “I’ll send it to dry cleaning tomorrow.”

       Ning Junyan followed him to his side, reached out and took the scarf and casually tossed it aside, saying, “Come and stay at my place tonight.”

       “No need,” Chen Yuncheng refused without thinking.

       Ning Junyan said, “There is no way to sleep here.”

       Chen Yuncheng turned his head and glanced at the whole room, “The bed is still good.”

       Ning Junyan didn’t speak and just looked at him silently.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “Let me sweep the water off the floor—”

       “I’m not discussing with you,” Ning Junyan interrupted him, his voice was soft, but his tone was heavy.


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Chapter 32

       That afternoon, there was a lot of commotion in the usually quiet streets of the old town, and Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk was smashed.

       The three tall and strange young men were obviously come directly to smash things. Without saying any unnecessary words, they directly overturned the wine and cigarettes in Chen Yuncheng’s container to the ground; the glass bottles were shattered, valuable cigarettes were scattered on the ground, and the packaging was trampled to pieces.

       Chen Yuncheng struggled to fight back. He grabbed one of the youths and pressed his face hard against the broken glass on the ground. Then another person grabbed his collar from behind and lifted him away, where he sat with his palms pressed into the broken glass. At this time, someone even broke into the inner room, overturned all the goods he had stored and then stomped on them hard.

       These three people ran away after smashing the kiosk, not holding back in the slightest.

       Chen Yuncheng chased them out with a limp foot, but the three men were already gone before he could get very far. He stopped, his chest heaving violently with anger, and he couldn’t help but curse.

       The people in the shops next door heard the commotion, but no one dared to come out to meddle in their business. Only someone secretly called the police.

       The police arrived quickly. Long Zhanyu pulled the police car to the side of the road, pulled open the door and got out, and saw Chen Yuncheng sitting in front of his own kiosk, which was in a mess.

       Long Zhanyu walked over, looked down at Chen Yuncheng, and said, “What happened to your hand?”

       Chen Yuncheng’s palm was dripping with blood, and he was his nails to pick out a piece of broken glass that had been stuck into his palm, his brow furrowed tightly.

       Long Zhanyu asked him, “Do you want to go to the hospital first?”

       Chen Yuncheng looked up, and his face was a little gloomy. He shook his head and said, “No need.”

       Long Zhanyu then stopped asking him. He walked past him and went into the kiosk. He was careful not to step on the glass fragments on the ground, and after looking briefly, he stood at the door of the store and asked Chen Yuncheng, “What’s going on? Go back with us first and make a statement in the office. I’ll find someone to do the investigation now.”

       Chen Yuncheng stood up and said to Long Zhanyu, “Wait for me for a while.” After he said that, he walked along the street towards the front.

       Long Zhanyu stood there, looking at his limping figure from behind.

       Chen Yuncheng went to the pharmacy to buy gauze and alcohol. He used the alcohol spray to spray his palms a few times randomly as disinfection and wrapped them in gauze while enduring the pain.

       While doing this, he was following Long Zhanyu in the police car to the police station to make a statement.

       As Long Zhanyu was driving, he asked him, “You were also crippled?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “No, I broke it myself.”

       Long Zhanyu said, “Then you are quite unlucky.”

       Chen Yuncheng was not in the mood to argue with him and silently looked out the car window.

       When the statement was taken, Chen Yuncheng gave a complete account of what happened, “I don’t know those three people, I’ve never met them before,” he finally said.

       Long Zhanyu asked him, “Who have you offended recently? Or anyone you suspect that might be targeting you?”

       Chen Yuncheng spread his hands and saw that the gauze was soaked with blood. He slowly clasped his palms, felt the pain, and said, “I don’t know.”

       A young policeman was typing in front of the computer to record, and when he heard the words, he typed in the words “I don’t know”.

       At this time, Long Zhanyu raised his hand to indicate that he did not need to write down the following content for the time being and said to Chen Yuncheng, “Did you get hit in the head today?”

       Chen Yuncheng looked at him and said nothing.

       Long Zhanyu said, “Zhang Wenyong has harassed you like this, and you still protect him? Did your brain get hit?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I don’t have any evidence, so I don’t dare to speculate.”

       Long Zhanyu said, “It’s the police’s job to find evidence. You only need to provide clues. You can just tell us the names of all the people who have had conflicts recently, and we will investigate them one by one. Do you understand?”

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t answer but asked Long Zhanyu, “Why did you let Zhang Wenyong out?”

       Long Zhanyu leaned on the back of the chair, clasped his arms lazily on his chest, and said, “Because of the lack of evidence, the prosecutor’s office will not arrest him even if he has detained him. He only admits that he introduced the person who modified the vehicle to the X-ethnic gang that stole the car, but now neither the person who modified the car nor your brother Zhou Yan has arrived at the case. The evidence cannot bite him, so they can only let him go first. So where the hell is Zhou Yan?”

       Chen Yuncheng lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, “I don’t know.”

       Long Zhanyu said, “Were you the one who tipped off Zhou Yan?”

       Chen Yuncheng said softly, “I want to ask him to surrender.”

       Long Zhanyu said, “Forget it, let’s get back to your case, do you suspect Zhang Wenyong of finding someone to smash your kiosk?”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded, “Yes.”

       After the statement was recorded, Chen Yuncheng stood at the entrance of the police station and saw that it was already quite late and the sky was dark.

       Long Zhanyu parked the police car in front of him, pressed down the passenger’s window, and asked him, “Do you want to go to the hospital?”

       Chen Yuncheng replied, “No need.”

       Long Zhanyu said, “Then I’ll take you back.”

       Chen Yuncheng looked at him for a moment, pulled open the passenger door and sat in, “Officer Long is being so kind today?”

       Long Zhanyu turned the steering wheel with a cigarette in his mouth, “The technical guys are still doing a field investigation over there to see if there’s something to mention, and by the way, I’ll go and pull a surveillance.”

       Chen Yuncheng sat quietly for a while and said, “Thanks.”

       Long Zhanyu laughed and said in a less serious tone, “It is my job to safeguard the safety and interests of the people, so what is there to thank.”

       When they returned to the store, the on-site investigation had just ended, a few fingerprints and a few bloodstains had been extracted, and the entire scene had been photographed.

       People from several nearby shops were still looking over their shoulders, and there were also pedestrians passing by who stopped to watch out of curiosity.

       Chen Yuncheng stood at the door, looked at the cigarette case soaked in wine on the ground, and slowly took a breath.

       Long Zhanyu handed him a cigarette.

       Chen Yuncheng glanced at it and said, “No need.”

       Long Zhanyu said, “Take it. You look upset.” He saw that Chen Yuncheng was wrapped in gauze, and directly put it in his mouth, and then used a lighter to help him light the fire.

       There was smoke from the corner of Chen Yuncheng’s mouth.

       Long Zhanyu also lit one for himself and said, “I’ll adjust the surveillance later. As long as they haven’t run far, we’ll definitely arrest them. However, this group of people is obviously paid for by Zhang Wenyong. Arresting them won’t bite Zhang Wenyong, let alone compensate you for the financial loss, so you should be mentally prepared.”

       Chen Yuncheng understood this in his heart, but when he heard Long Zhanyu say this, he couldn’t restrain his emotions, bit his cigarette and said vaguely, “Motherfuc…”

       He didn’t say a few words completely, and the last sound disappeared from his mouth.

       Long Zhanyu looked at him a little strangely but saw him turn his head to look at a tall man standing on the side of the road.

       When Chen Yuncheng saw Ning Junyan, he remembered that Ning Junyan had said to come to him after work. He suddenly felt a little dazed, wondering if Ning Junyan had heard him swearing. He didn’t seem to have ever cursed in front of Ning Junyan.

       Then, he took the cigarette from his mouth with his gauze-wrapped hand.

       Long Zhanyu looked at him inexplicably, then looked at Ning Jun Yan in front of him and said, “Don’t crowd around here.”

       Chen Yuncheng said quickly, “He is my friend.”

       Ning Junyan’s eyes fell on his hand, then turned his head to look inside the kiosk again, and with a calm expression, “What’s wrong?”

       Chen Yuncheng was suddenly a little nervous. He raised his hand to grab Ning Junyan’s arm but found that his fingers were still holding the cigarette he hadn’t finished smoking, so he threw it aside and gently squeezed Ning Junyan’s sleeve with his fingers, and said, “It’s nothing, don’t worry.”


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Chapter 31

       Chen Yuncheng was eager to know more about this murder case, but he had to go today. He had no one he was familiar with in this small county, and no one would reveal to him the situation of the investigation at the present; whether any property had been stolen, and whether any fingerprints had been found. He guessed that the police must have investigated the monitoring of the gate of the community for the past two or three days, but he did not know whether Zhou Yan had come back.

       Ning Junyan was still the one who was driving on the way back, and Chen Yuncheng was very quiet all the way. He didn’t sleep because he couldn’t sleep at all and spent most of his time looking out of the car window quietly.

       Ning Junyan parked the car in the service area and went to the mini-mart to buy two bottles of water. As he stood next to the car drinking, he asked Chen Yuncheng, “You have so little faith in Zhou Yan?”

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t feel thirsty. He just unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip, and suddenly stopped in surprise when he heard Ning Junyan’s words.

       Ning Junyan’s bottle of water was taken out of the freezer, and the bottle was covered with a layer of mist. He said, “What are you worried about? Do you think Zhou Yan may have done it? He came back and asked his stepfather for money, and when he refused to give it, he picked up something in the living room and knocked someone to death in his anger?”

       “No,” Chen Yuncheng said, “Zhou Yan is not such a person. You don’t know him.”

       Ning Junyan said, “I didn’t know him at all. Since you know him well and don’t think he did it, there’s nothing to worry about.”

       Chen Yuncheng raised his head and took a sip of water, and then said, “I know, I just don’t feel very good.” No matter what the real cause of Mr Qi’s death was, after witnessing all this, Chen Yuncheng felt very uncomfortable.

       Ning Junyan seemed to understand what he meant and did not talk to him again after that.

       They were delayed by making a statement at the police station, and it was past nine o’clock in the evening when they returned to Chongfeng City.

       Ning Junyan parked the car on the street outside Chen Yuncheng’s kiosk. When Chen Yuncheng got off the car, he asked Ning Junyan, “Would you like to go in for a rest?”

       They had dinner about three hours ago. After that, Ning Junyan drove all the way without stopping. The water Ning Junyan had bought before getting off the highway had all been drunk. Now Chen Yuncheng was not only tired but also began to feel thirsty. He thought that Ning Junyan needed a break as well.

       Ning Junyan didn’t say much, took the car key and got out of the car with Chen Yuncheng.

       He opened the shutter halfway and entered, Chen Yuncheng first felt a chill in the room. As Ning Junyan went to the bathroom, he hesitated and considered boiling a pot of hot water to drink.

       When Ning Junyan came out, Chen Yuncheng said to him, “Sit for a while. The water is about to boil.”

       Ning Junyan said, “No, I’ll drink cold water.”

       Chen Yuncheng went to the kiosk outside to get a bottle of mineral water, and when he came back, he saw Ning Junyan playing with his heater.

       “It’s broken,” Chen Yuncheng said.

       Ning Junyan turned to look at him, “Why is it broken?”

       Chen Yuncheng handed him the water, “It suddenly stopped heating up. Maybe there’s a faulty wire.”

       Ning Junyan took the water and didn’t rush to drink it. He squatted down and fiddled with the heater and found that it really didn’t work. He stood up and said, “I’ll go buy a new one.”

       Chen Yuncheng saw that he was going outside and grabbed him, “Where are you going to buy one so late?”

       Ning Junyan said, “There will be somewhere open.”

       In such a big city, there were always supermarkets or household good store that was still open.

       Chen Yuncheng grabbed him and wouldn’t let go, “No need, it’s only for one night, I’ll go buy a new one tomorrow.”

       Ning Junyan still insisted, “I’ll go and have a look.”

       He headed outside with Chen Yuncheng still holding his arm. The palm of Chen Yuncheng’s hand slipped down from the smooth surface of the down jacket until he grabbed Ning Jungyan’s wrist and then pulled him again, “It’s really not necessary, I’m not that afraid of the cold.” For a moment, Chen Yuncheng felt that Ning Junyan was no different from the stupid boy who couldn’t turn his head, and began to coax him unconsciously, “Isn’t your down jacket still here? You can lend it to me for another day, so I won’t be cold if I put it on at night.”

       Ning Junyan looked down at Chen Yuncheng’s hand that was holding his.

       Chen Yuncheng hesitated for a while, but he still didn’t let go. Instead, he took Ning Junyan’s hand and walked to the side of the bed, pressed his shoulder to make him sit down, and said, “Sit here and drink your water. Go back and rest early. You have to work tomorrow.”

       Ning Junyan didn’t insist any longer. He unscrewed the mineral water in his hand, raised his head and gulped half a bottle of water. When he got up, he said, “I’ll come over after getting off work tomorrow.”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded.

       The next morning, Chen Yuncheng waited until the dry cleaner across the street opened and sent Ning Junyan’s down jacket to be cleaned first.

       When the young lady working in the dry cleaner was looking for the cleaning label of the clothes, Chen Yuncheng was a little worried and asked, “Can it be laundered?”

       The little girl registered in the computer and said, “Of course, the down jacket can be laundered.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I don’t know what brand it is. I’m afraid it’s too expensive if anything happens if it is laundered. Please take a closer look.”

       The young lady rolled her eyes and said, “It can be washed. It won’t be damaged.” She then printed out a return slip for Chen Yuncheng to pick up the clothes and carried Ning Junyan’s down jacket inside.

       Chen Yuncheng returned to the kiosk and opened the shutter door to start the business. The owner of the lottery shop next door saw him open the door and even came over to chat with him for a while, smoking a cigarette before slowly returning to his shop.

       All morning, business was still slow.

       Chen Yuncheng’s sprained foot wasn’t completely healed, so he didn’t go anywhere. He planned to wait for Ning Junyan to come over after getting off work and ask Ning Junyan to accompany him to the hospital to talk to Gu Yaojia.

       Taking advantage of the lack of customers, he began to take inventory of the store’s goods. He never gave up the idea of selling the small kiosk. If no one took over, he planned to return the rest of the goods to the supplier and sublease the kiosk.

       He didn’t make much money by opening this shop. He used to be indifferent to the before, and he simply wanted to have peace of mind. Now that he owed Ning Junyan so much money, he really didn’t plan to drag it on for several years or more. Even if it was a courier or a take-out delivery, it was always better to work harder and earn more money.

       Chen Yuncheng was calculating in his mind. He originally took a pen and recorded the inventory in the store on a blank notebook. After walking for a while, he regained his senses and suddenly found that he had written Ning Junyan’s name on it.

       He was flustered at first and quickly smeared Ning Junyan’s name with a pen. When it was turned into a black ball, he thought about what he was doing. The reason why he had unconsciously written Ning Junyan’s name was simply that he had just been thinking about the money he owed Ning Junyan

       He moved his foot and felt the pain in his left ankle. Suddenly, he wondered whether Ning Junyan was the best person to him in the world? Why was he so nice to him? He was always afraid of owing people’s favour. If someone treated him well, he would like to pay it back with all his heart, but could he really afford to pay back what Ning Junyan wanted?

       Chen Yuncheng was caught up in his thoughts when his phone on the counter vibrated twice, and he received two messages almost simultaneously. One from Long Zhanyu asking him: “Have you found Zhou Yan?” The other was from Guan Anlin, that said: “Zhang Wenyong was released, I think he might want to get you in trouble.”

       He read the two messages and was about to ask Long Zhanyu why Zhang Wenyong could be released when three people suddenly appeared at the door of the store, blocking the light in front of Chen Yuncheng.


Notes:
I looked up the take-out delivery wage, and it says you could get around $300-900 per month. It’s not a bad deal I think.

Sorry for the non-existent update for a month.
I just lost my little sister at the start of this November, and honestly, translating and updating is the last thing I could think of. I gave some notifications in discord, but I’m not sure if everyone is in our discord. So I apologized to those who were waiting for the updates enthusiastically. I will try to keep regular updates, however, but with the loss of my little sister, my schedule will not be as flexible as before. So I apologize in advance because I might do sporadic updates after this.

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Chapter 21

       When Shen Huiming was in high school, he wrote a composition on the topic “The life I want to live”.

       At that time, he wrote that he hoped that one day he could travel around the world and leave his footprints in every place where there was a story to tell.

       Of course, this dream was never realised simply because of nothing more than a lack of time.

       In recent years, he suddenly discovered that people always skillfully put shackles on themselves. When he first started his business, he wished to have 48 hours a day to work. At that time, he thought that he would retire early when he had made enough money and that he should not spend all his life at work.

       However, the more time passed, the more he found that he couldn’t stop, not only because it was impossible to ‘earn enough’ money, but more importantly, he was carrying a whole company, many projects and a stable livelihood for dozens of employees on his shoulders.

       He couldn’t stop.

       It was the same for getting hospitalised for the operation. The doctor had said a long time ago that he had to take care of his health, and even when the doctor ordered him to be hospitalised, he put off coming to the hospital until the end of a project.

       “What’s on your mind?” Suo Yang brought a chair over and sat near the edge of Shen Huiming’s bed.

       Shen Huiming turned the page and said with a smile, “Wondering if you can do fortune-felling.”

       Shen Huiming’s speech tempo was completely normal, but when he said the words “Wondering if you”, Suo Yang’s breath unconsciously soared.

       When Shen Huiming finished his words, he knew that he had thought too much and started to laugh at himself again. He had to admit that his thoughts were more active when he was hung up by Shen Huiming.

       “Why do you say that?”

       Shen Huiming told Suo Yang about the beautiful life he had imagined in his middle school days, “I really dared to think about it at that time, but it is probably like this in adolescence, not thinking about things that are too realistic.”

       After hearing what he said, Suo Yang laughed softly, “In fact, there is a profession that can really do that.”

       He pointed at himself, “Travelling around the world and leaving footprints in countless cities.”

       Shen Huiming was stunned for a moment, then smiled, “It really is.”

       The two looked at each other, and Shen Huiming said, “I never thought that my adolescence dream would be fulfilled by you for me.”

       Suo Yang likes this kind of ambiguous rhetoric as if the two of them were involved in a past life and a present life.

       He found that he still seemed to like those romantic settings in his bones, but he knew very well that romance in this world is like stargazing in the daytime; you knew it was there, but it just wouldn’t let you find it.

       The same goes for love.

       “Do you know what I wanted to do when I was in middle school?”

       Shen Huiming asked curiously, “An astronaut?”

       Suo Yang smiled, “Why an astronaut?”

       “Actually, it could also be a pilot, it feels like you enjoy the feeling of flying.”

       “I really enjoy this feeling now. I’ve been working for many years, but I still find the experience of going through the clouds amazing,” Suo Yang suddenly smiled slyly, “However, this is me now. Back in middle school I actually wanted to be an archaeologist.”

       “Archaeologist?”

       “Yes, wearing a small vest, take a small shovel, and go digging in a deserted place.” Suo Yang smiled, “It was a time when I was lulled into a fascination by various tomb-raiding novels.”

       Shen Huiming laughed, “I didn’t expect you to read those novels.”

       “Of course I do.” Suo Yang also laughed, “At that time, I didn’t listen properly in class, so I put the novel in the middle of the textbook and read it secretly.”

       “I was the same, but I thought you’ve always been that kind of good student.”

       The two started chatting like this, perhaps because Shen Huiming on the hospital bed lost his usual impeccable elite style, which made Suo Yang relax his nerves subconsciously.

       The two were no longer trying to go through the motions of a back-and-forth through a relationship that had not yet fully unfolded. Rather, like two perfectly ordinary friends, chatting about grounded and light-hearted topics.

       Shen Huiming said, “Then I should be glad you didn’t go to the archaeology with a small shovel.”

       “How so?”

       “In that case, the two of us may not meet.” Shen Huiming looked at him with a smile, “After all, if I could still have a chance encounter with you doing that kind of work, either I’d be a grave robber and be caught by you, or I’d be living in a tomb.”

       Suo Yang was amused by his words and couldn’t help laughing. The two men, who had removed their delicate masks, were actually joking around like that.

       Ever since the two met, it seemed that Shen Huiming could surprise Suo Yang every time they met.

       In his past experience, the more people got along, the more boring they became, and he himself was a prime example of this.

       He was very aware of his significance. Because of his appearance, it was easy for people to be interested in him, but often, after spending time with him, he would become more and more boring.

       The legendary “A beautiful beauty, but have no soul”?

       He was never one of those people who, the deeper you dug, the more stories there were to tell, and while he was superficially light-hearted, he was indeed always empty.

       He was a pool of water, too clear to even keep fish alive.

       He was waiting for someone to oxygenate his pool of water so that water plants could grow at the bottom of the lake and the suffocated fish could come back to life.

       He suddenly felt that Shen Huiming seemed to have this possibility.

       But the problem was, it was only a possibility. Suo Yang was full of expectations, but he didn’t dare to jump to conclusions.

       It was a good idea to socialise as friends first. After all, a ‘favourable impression’ did not translate to ‘love’. There were many prerequisites for falling in love, and they were not yet at that stage.

       There was no need to be in a rush, provided that Shen Huiming was willing to take the time to take it slow with him.

       The two of them had been talking for more than an hour when the nurse came to do rounds.

       Only then did Suo Yang remember that he hadn’t even asked Shen Huiming what kind of surgery he had undergone.

       When the nurse left, he asked Shen Huiming, “Will you be in the hospital for a long time? If it’s stomach surgery, it’s quite serious, right?”

       Shen Huiming didn’t tell him too much and really didn’t want the other party to think that he was using his illness to seek sympathy.

       “If I recover well, I can go home to recuperate in a few days.” Shen Huiming said, “Actually, it’s my own fault. I don’t pay attention to my health usually, and even after the doctor reminded me, I didn’t pay attention to it. It was all my own doing.”

       When Suo Yang looked at the man who had lost a round of weight in front of him, he couldn’t say that he felt distressed, but he did feel that it was quite unpleasant.

       “Even if you’re busy with work, you also need to pay attention to your health,” Suo Yang said. “If your body breaks down, there will be nothing left.”

       Shen Huiming looked at him with a smile in his eyes and said softly, “Yes, it’s true that I didn’t care before, but I’ll have to care more in the future. After all, apart from work, I have the motivation to live longer.”

       Suo Yang looked at him.

       Shen Huiming smiled, “Okay, I won’t say it anymore. It’s weirdly embarrassing to say it too bluntly.”

       As soon as he said this, Suo Yang understood even if he didn’t say the next words.

       “Even if it wasn’t for this,” Suo Yang looked at him, looking down and flipping through the ‘On Love’ that was placed by the hospital bed, “you should still live a good long life.”

       Shen Huiming watched him flip through the book to the page with the bookmark.

       Suo Yang saw that on that page, Shen Huiming had underlined a certain sentence with a pencil—What do I love about her? Almost everything about her.

       It was like a hint, evoking his fantasy of what Shen Huiming was thinking when he read that sentence.

       Was the other party also asking himself what he loved about him?

       But Suo Yang believed that they were just two people who did not know each other, and no one would love everything about the other.

       He closed the book and said with a smile, “It’s time for me to go.”

       Shen Huiming was a little reluctant, but he had to let the man go.

       Suo Yang stood up and stacked the books beside him.

       “I’m flying to London this afternoon.” Suo Yang said, “Eleven hours.”

       “It’s hard work.” Shen Huiming sat on the hospital bed and looked at him because he knew that the other party was leaving, but he didn’t know when the next meeting would be. As a result, his eyes were reluctant to blink.

       “It’s not too hard,” said Suo Yang, smiling, as if on purpose, “It’s still nineteen hours to New York, remember?”

       Shen Huiming smiled, “Of course I remember.”

       The two stared at each other in silence for a few seconds, and then Suo Yang prepared to leave.

       “By the way,” Suo Yang said to Shen Huiming before walking away, “recuperate well, our bet is still on. I will wait for you on the plane. If there is a chance.”


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Chapter 30

       Li Yanping asked Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan to follow her home. As she walked through the neighbourhood garden, she said, “My husband is not Zhou Yan’s biological father.”

       Chen Yuncheng was not very surprised; he had started to feel strange from the moment he heard that the male owner of the house was surnamed Qi. As he thought of the Zhou Yan that ran away from home at a very young age and was later sent back by the police only to leave home alone again. It was probably precisely because he had never felt that this home was his own.

       Li Yanping walked into the unit building, and the pace of climbing the stairs was slow, showing her age. She said, “So don’t mention any children or medical treatment. My husband won’t give money, and he has no money.”

       “Then what about you?” Ning Junyan, who was walking behind Chen Yuncheng, suddenly spoke in an emotionless tone, “Is Zhou Yan not your biological son?”

       Li Yanping stopped and looked back at them, “I worked odd jobs outside as a shopkeeper for someone a few years ago, but I’ve been out of work for the past two years. Where do I get the money?” Her tone was full of sadness, and after she finished, she turned around and continued walking slowly upstairs.

       For the next two flights of stairs, Li Yanping kept talking, “It’s not that I didn’t give him enough to eat and didn’t let him study, but it was he himself who didn’t study and wanted to go out to work. I also want him to be promising and earn money to let me enjoy happiness with him instead of me having to worry about getting money for his children’s medical care when I’m old…”

       Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan didn’t speak, and Li Yanping didn’t know whether the talk was for them or herself.

       On the third floor, Li Yanping took the key from her trouser pocket and opened the door.

       Chen Yuncheng stood behind her and saw the door open. It was very quiet inside, and it didn’t look like someone at home.

       Li Yanping put down the travel bag she was carrying, stood at the door with one hand on the shoe cabinet to change her shoes, and called at the same time, “Old Qi?”

       No one responded.

       Chen Yuncheng had not been invited and did not follow her in immediately, while Ning Junyan was standing outside the door waiting, seemingly not wanting to enter her house.

       Li Yanping changed her slippers, placed the boots she had worn home on the shoe rack, walked inside, and shouted again, “Old Qi?”

       There was still no response.

       Then Chen Yuncheng saw Li Yanping’s back suddenly freeze, and at the same time heard her let out a shrill and ear-piercing scream, and then Li Yanping’s whole body slid to the ground. Chen Yuncheng didn’t care whether he could change his shoes or not. He rushed up and supported Li Yanping from behind.

       Li Yanping was originally a plump middle-aged woman. She lost her whole body strength and fell to the ground when she fainted. Chen Yuncheng used a lot of strength to fully support her to the point he squatted and kneeled on the ground. At this time, his vision was completely blocked by the sofa, and he didn’t know what had happened.

       Ning Junyan, who was originally standing behind Chen Yuncheng, walked in and stopped when he saw the scene in the living room.

       Chen Yuncheng looked up at him, “What’s wrong?” At the same time, he helped Li Yanping to get up with difficulty, trying to help her to lie down on the sofa.

       Ning Junyan suddenly stretched out his hand to cover Chen Yuncheng’s eyes and asked in his ear, “Are you someone that’s easily scared?”

       Chen Yuncheng was in shock, “What?”

       Ning Junyan said, “There’s a man in the living room who looks like he’s dead.”

       Chen Yuncheng felt a chill behind him for a moment, but he said, “I’m not afraid. You help me get her to the sofa.”

       Ning Junyan said softly, “En, don’t be afraid.” Then he let go of the hand covering his eyes and walked over to him and lifted Li Yanping up with him.

       Chen Yuncheng held Li Yanping’s arm, and when he and Ning Junyan lifted her onto the sofa one after another, he couldn’t help turning his head to look at the middle of the living room. There was a man lying there, motionless, with bloodstains spreading from the back of his head, which seemed to have almost solidified.

       Li Yanping was put on the sofa and still did not wake up.

       Ning Junyan stood up and walked towards the middle of the living room.

       Chen Yuncheng grabbed his hand subconsciously. His face turned pale with panic, and said, “Don’t go.”

       Ning Junyan said, “I’ll take a look. Don’t touch him, and you should call the police immediately.”

       Only then did Chen Yuncheng react. He hurriedly took out his mobile phone and called the police.

       Ning Junyan was obviously much calmer than Chen Yuncheng. He walked to the person lying on his stomach in the living room, squatted down as usual, didn’t do anything, just calmly looked at the side of his face, looked at the wound on the back of his head, and then said to Chen Yuncheng, “This person may be Zhou Yan’s stepfather.”

       Chen Yuncheng looked at him.

       Ning Junyan raised his head and gestured to a photo frame placed on the TV cabinet. Inside was a photo of Li Yanping and her husband, Mr. Qi.

       Chen Yuncheng looked at the photo, and a very bad and terrifying thought came to his mind.

       Ning Junyan stood up and returned to Chen Yuncheng’s side, “We’d better wait outside and not touch anything in the house.”

       Chen Yuncheng glanced at Li Yanping who fainted on the sofa, “What about her?”

       Ning Junyan said, “Go knock on the door next door and see if you can settle her there temporarily. We will wait for the police to come.”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded.

       They knocked on the door of the older sister next door and settled Li Yanping who had fainted. Li Yanping who woke up in the meantime bawled her eyes out and lay on the sofa of the older sister’s house next door, not even having the strength to stand up.

       When the older sister heard that something had happened there, she was so scared that she hid in the house with Li Yanping with the door half closed.

       Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan didn’t leave, they just waited in the stairwell.

       Ning Junyan stood against the wall, while Chen Yuncheng said with a pale face, “I want to sit for a while.” After he said that, he sat down on the steps of the stairs.

       “Where do you think Zhou Yan will go?” Chen Yuncheng raised his head and looked at Ning Junyan.

       Ning Junyan didn’t answer. He was silent for a while, then bent down and put his palm on Chen Yuncheng’s head, and said, “Don’t think about things that are not confirmed.”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded, “Maybe it was a thief.”

       They waited less than ten minutes before the police arrived.

       Neither Chen Yuncheng nor Ning Junyan ever entered the house again. Because of Li Yanping’s emotional breakdown, the two of them were first invited to the police station to take notes.

       The two stayed in two rooms, answering the police’s questions separately.

       Chen Yuncheng explained their identities, the purpose of coming here, and the exact circumstances of discovering the bodies.

       The police were obviously concerned about Zhou Yan’s existence, “You said Zhou Yan came back to look for his parents?”

       Chen Yuncheng shook his head, “I don’t know, I’m looking for him too.”

       The policeman asked, “Then why did you come all the way here? Are you sure he’s coming back? Or did you hear someone say he was coming back?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I’m not sure, but I’m very anxious to find him, his son is about to have an operation, and his wife is worried about him, so I had to make this trip even if it might be for nothing.”

       The police asked again, “Does he have a conflict with his stepfather?”

       Chen Yuncheng said: “I don’t know. He never mentioned his family, and this is the first time I met his parents.”

       The statement was taken in great detail. When Chen Yuncheng came out after almost half an hour, he saw that Ning Junyan was already waiting for him outside.

       Ning Junyan was not like Chen Yuncheng. He knew less about Zhou Yan. This trip was purely to accompany Chen Yuncheng. The police asked some simple questions, mainly about how the crime scene was discovered, and after reading his ID card and work permit, they let him leave.

       When the police sent them out of the county public security bureau, Chen Yuncheng’s face still didn’t look too good. He was standing by the roadside in a daze.

       Ning Junyan didn’t urge him to leave but just reached out and held his hand and felt his fingers cold.

       Chen Yuncheng was a little slow to react and glanced at him.

       Ning Junyan suddenly unzipped his down jacket, took off the down jacket and hung it on his arm, and then went to take off Chen Yuncheng’s down jacket.

       Chen Yuncheng bowed his head along with Ning Junyan’s movement and asked absent-mindedly, “What’s wrong?”

       Ning Junyan took off Chen Yuncheng’s down jacket and then gave him his own to change into, carefully pulling up the zip.

       The warmth instantly hit him, Ning Junyan’s down jacket was obviously much thicker and carried Ning Junyan’s body heat, wrapping Chen Yuncheng tightly, which caused Chen Yuncheng to come back to his senses as he said, “I don’t need it.”

       Ning Junyan had already put Chen Yun Cheng’s feather-thin clothes onto himself, then reached into the pocket of the clothes Chen Yun Cheng was wearing and fished out his car keys, saying, “Let’s go.”


Notes:
Totally didn’t see that coming


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