Category: Morbid Addiction (Page 9 of 11)

       After they finished eating breakfast, Ning Junyan went to start the car and turned on the heater.

       When Chen Yuncheng got into the car, the temperature in the car was already very high. Ning Junyan in the driver’s seat took off his thick down jacket, leaving only a slightly thin grey knitted shirt underneath.

       The knitted sweater was actually not tight-fitted, but because of its thinness and how it seemed to dr4p3 down, it fit Ning Junyan’s body so well that one could clearly see the well-proportioned muscles on his shoulders and arms.

       Chen Yuncheng also took off his jacket. He was wearing an old brown sweater, the sleeves and hem of which were frayed with fur balls and had been washed too many times and had long since lost their colour.

       He subconsciously tidied up the badly worn-out cuffs and turned to look at Ning Junyan. Ning Junyan’s attention was not on him but on setting the navigation address on his mobile phone.

       “Is it here?” Ning Junyan showed him the phone.

       Chen Yuncheng saw that the destination Ning Junyan had set was the county of Zhou Yan’s hometown and nodded his head.

       Ning Junyan put the phone on the bracket next to the steering wheel and turned the steering wheel to let the car drive off the side of the road and merge into the traffic on the street. He said to Chen Yuncheng, “Take a nap if you’re sleepy. It’s still early.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I’m not sleepy.” He quietly watched the scenery outside the car window for a while, then turned around and said to Ning Junyan, “When you get tired, let me drive.”

       Ning Junyan did not answer him.

       Chen Yuncheng asked “Hm?” with some doubts, wanting to know what Ning Junyan was thinking.

       Ning Junyan looked ahead and said in a flat tone, “Not tired.”

       Although Chen Yuncheng said he was not sleepy, the inside of the car was too warm. After the car left the city and entered the highway, the scenery on both sides of the road became monotonous. Chen Yuncheng leaned on the back of the chair, and it didn’t take long for him to fall asleep.

       He didn’t sleep deeply, but intermittently, occasionally waking up but still managing to fall back asleep.

       Until one time, when he woke up, he found that the car was parked in the service area, and Ning Junyan, who was beside him, had disappeared.

       Chen Yuncheng adjusted his movements and sat up straight, and found that his down jacket was covering his body. Probably because Ning Junyan had turned off the engine when he got out of the car, so he had covered him with a piece of clothing.

       He opened the car door and got out of the car, and felt that the temperature here was at least three or four degrees lower than that in the urban area. The cold wind that suddenly blew on his face forced him to put on his jacket. He took out his mobile phone and glanced at the time. It was almost two hours had passed since their departure.

       It was not the travelling season, and there were not too many cars and people at the service station.

       As soon as Chen Yuncheng got out of the car, he saw Ning Junyan walking toward him from a distance, holding two bottles of mineral water in his hand.

       Ning Junyan approached and handed him one of the bottles.

       Chen Yuncheng took it and suddenly found that the bottle in Ning Junyan’s hand was still frozen. In this cold season, the bottle was also covered with a layer of water mist.

       “Isn’t it cold?” Chen Yuncheng lowered his head and gestured to the ice water in his hand.

       “No,” Ning Junyan answered him, then unscrewed the bottle cap, raised his head and took a sip of water, then continued, “I’m used to it.”

       Chen Yuncheng knew that Ning Junyan studied abroad a few years ago and thought it was a habit he had developed at that time, so he did not continue to ask. Chen Yuncheng also unscrewed the cap himself. When the mineral water flowed into his throat, he realized that he was thirsty, so he drank half the bottle in one go.

       Ning Junyan looked at him quietly.

       When Chen Yuncheng moved the mouth of the bottle away from the corner of his mouth, he felt that there was still some water on his lips, so he turned to his side, slightly avoiding Ning Junyan’s sight, and wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve.

       Ning Junyan asked him at this moment, “Still want to take a rest?”

       Chen Yuncheng shook his head, “I don’t need to rest, do you want to sleep for a while and let me drive?”

       Ning Junyan looked at him and still said, “I’m not tired.”

       Chen Yuncheng suddenly felt that Ning Junyan’s gaze was too straightforward. He couldn’t help lowering his head as if to confirm whether the cap of the mineral water bottle was tightened, loosened it and screwed it again, and said, “Then let’s go.”

       Ning Junyan asked him, “Do you want to go to the bathroom? The next rest area is quite far away.”

       Chen Yuncheng looked back in the direction of the bathroom and nodded.

       When he turned to leave, Ning Junyan suddenly raised his hand and grabbed his wrist. Chen Yuncheng was taken aback and looked at Ning Junyan.

       Ning Junyan’s hand holding his wrist slid towards his palm, took the bottle he was holding in his hand, and said to him, “Don’t bring the water bottle in.”

       Chen Yuncheng could only laugh to hide his surprise just now and said, “Okay.” He turned and walked towards the bathroom, putting both hands into the pockets of his down jacket, but the touch of Ning Junyan’s hand in his hand was still evident.

       Ning Junyan’s palms and fingers had very rough calluses, perhaps worn out by the scalpel, but his palms were very hot, and it was like he was not in this cold winter weather at all.

       When he came out of the bathroom to wash his hands, Chen Yuncheng saw a large mirror in front of the sink. He looked at himself in the mirror. He was a handsome young man, but his hair hadn’t been trimmed for a long time. He didn’t look very energetic as the hair covered his forehead when he put it down, and his clothes were old. The down-fill¹Down is a fantastic insulator as the loft (or fluffiness) of down creates thousands of tiny air pockets which trap warm air and retain heat, thus helping to keep the wearer very warm in cold winter weather. in the down jacket had probably all run out, leaving only a thin layer on his body, which was not very warm.

       He looked like the kind of man who worked in a car wash, and Ning Junyan was the owner of a luxury car who parked the car at the door of the car wash, handed him the car key, and would not even look at his face.

       They were like people from two worlds.

       Chen Yuncheng had nowhere to wipe the water in his hands, so he only shook the water off and walked directly to the parking lot. As he walked, he thought that if it weren’t for the accident that Ning Junyan encountered when he was a child, they would have been people from two worlds.

       Back in the car, Ning Junyan was still driving. Chen Yuncheng sat on the passenger seat but lost his sleepiness and stared at the repeated scenery and roads with his eyes open.

       Ning Junyan turned on the music in the car, it was all very peaceful and simple music.

       Chen Yuncheng asked him, “Won’t you get sleepy listening to it?”

       “No,” Ning Junyan answered succinctly.

       Chen Yuncheng thought for a while and then said, “You are wasting your time.”

       Ning Junyan’s posture seemed relaxed. He looked ahead and still replied, “No.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “You said your vacation is precious.”

       Ning Junyan’s eyelashes drooped slightly, but his expression didn’t change, but there was a faint smile in his eyes, which could not be seen from Chen Yuncheng’s line of view. He said, “It’s not a waste if it’s for you.”

       Chen Yuncheng was quiet for a moment, then slowly turned his face away to look at the car window on the right. His hand beside his leg clenched and loosened as he felt like he shouldn’t ask. So he stopped talking.

       For the next three hours, there was music playing in the car, and Ning Junyan really didn’t show the slightest sign of fatigue as he said.

       They only stopped at two service stations for a short time. They then drove down the highway all the way and got off the highway at the exit of Zhou Yan’s old county just before one o’clock at noon.

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       Ning Junyan briefly talked to Gu Yaojia about the child’s current physical condition. Actually, these attending physicians had already talked to Zhou Yan, Gu Yaojia and others. After that, he went on to talk about the follow-up treatment after the surgery. Gu Yaojia listened silently and kept nodding her head.

       Chen Yuncheng stood by and forwarded the photo of Zhou Yan’s ID card in Gu Yaojia’s mobile phone WeChat to himself, and then returned the phone to Gu Yaojia.

       When he was leaving, Gu Yaojia asked Chen Yuncheng, “Cheng ge, are you going to find Zhou Yan?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I don’t know if I can find him.”

       Gu Yaojia nodded, “Anyway, thank you very much both of you.” She said this to Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan at the same time.

       Ning Junyan responded flatly, “It’s fine for you to only thank him.”

       Chen Yuncheng couldn’t help but glance at Ning Junyan, and then said to Gu Yaojia, “Don’t worry about it, take good care of the child.”

       After they took the elevator down to the lobby on the first floor, Ning Junyan went directly to the finance office to swipe the card to pre-pay the child’s treatment fee.

       He came out of the office and saw Chen Yuncheng sitting quietly on the seat against the wall. As soon as Chen Yuncheng saw him, he immediately stood up.

       Ning Junyan walked to Chen Yuncheng.

       Chen Yuncheng asked him, “Do you still have to go back to work?”

       Ning Junyan raised her wrist and glanced at the time, and replied, “I haven’t gotten off work yet, but I don’t have any work for now.”

       Chen Yuncheng looked at him and suddenly didn’t know if he should tell that he was leaving, but if he didn’t leave, he didn’t know what else to do in the hospital.

       At this moment, Ning Junyan suddenly said, “I have two days off tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.”

       Chen Yuncheng gave a soft “um” and waited for his next words.

       Ning Junyan said, “Can you go out with me for two days?” Before Chen Yuncheng answered, he said again, “To have consecutive vacations are more precious to me.”

       Chen Yuncheng was silent and did not answer immediately. His expression was even a little strained, firstly because he had that ambiguous feeling again from last night, and secondly because he did not quite want to refuse Ning Junyan when he had just done him such great favour, but he did have other arrangements.

       After a while, he said to Ning Junyan, “I want to visit Zhou Yan’s hometown tomorrow.” He tried his best to keep his tone and expression very sincere, and he didn’t want Ning Junyan to think that he was just making excuses.

       Ning Junyan was not angry, and asked him calmly, “Is Zhou Yan that important?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I feel like I have a responsibility to Zhou Yan.”

       Zhou Yan was five or six years younger than him and had been brought back by his foster father less than a year before the foster father and foster mother were arrested by the police, and Zhou Yan had not spent nearly as much time with him as Ning Junyan had. But when Chen Yuncheng came out to work at the age of eighteen, within two years, he met Zhou Yan, who also came out to work and earn money. At that time, to the adult Chen Yuncheng, Zhou Yan was really still a child.

       Over the years, Zhou Yan had always trusted and relied on Chen Yuncheng very much. Once Chen Yuncheng was injured and hospitalized, Zhou Yan went everywhere to lend money to Chen Yuncheng to pay for the hospitalization. The reason why Zhou Yan got to know Zhang Wenyong was through Chen Yuncheng. People like Zhang Wenyong were not good people. Although Zhou Yan did not listen to Chen Yuncheng’s advice and insisted on continuing to work with Zhang Wenyong, Chen Yuncheng always felt that everything started because of him.

       Now, as long as he could do so, he would definitely pull Zhou Yan along.

       Ning Junyan looked at him calmly and said, “Okay.”

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t understand what Ning Junyan meant for a while, he hesitated a little, and then said, “I’m sorry, next time as long as you have time, I’ll invite you out to play, and can go anywhere.”

       Ning Junyan didn’t seem to care much about this issue, he just said, “I will accompany you to find Zhou Yan tomorrow.”

       Chen Yuncheng suddenly showed a surprised expression.

       Ning Junyan continued, “Is it the address on the ID card?” He had seen it on Gu Yaojia’s mobile phone just now.

       Chen Yuncheng said subconsciously, “No need, it’s too much trouble.”

       “It’s no trouble,” Ning Junyan said, “You said it was a responsibility.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “But Zhou Yan’s matter has nothing to do with you. You have already helped so much, how can I cause you any more trouble.”

       Ning Junyan said, “It doesn’t matter. The last thing I care about is you giving me trouble.”

       No other words come out of Chen Yuncheng’s lips anymore because although Ning Junyan’s expression was serious, there seemed to be frivolous teasing in his tone, and Chen Yuncheng didn’t even know if it was his own delusion.

       However, the next moment, Ning Junyan’s tone became serious, he said, “You’re going to have to pay it all back anyway.”

       As soon as Ning Junyan finished speaking, the phone on his body suddenly rang. He said to Chen Yuncheng softly, “Sorry,” picked up the phone and walked aside to pick it up.

       Chen Yuncheng looked at his back with mixed emotions.

       After a minute, Ning Junyan hung up the phone and came over and said to Chen Yuncheng, “The director is looking for me, I’m going back to the department.”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded, “Get on with your work.”

       Ning Junyan said, “At what time do you want to leave tomorrow?”

       Chen Yuncheng opened his mouth, but couldn’t say what he refused, and finally said, “Early.”

       Ning Junyan nodded, “How about I pick you up at 7.30 am?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “Okay.”

       Before Ning Junyan left, he put his hand on his shoulder and said, “Don’t worry too much, everything will work out.”

       Chen Yuncheng forced a smile and said, “I know.”

       Before 7:30 the next morning, Chen Yuncheng opened the shutter door and saw that Ning Junyan’s Land Rover had parked in front of his store.

       Ning Junyan was not in the car but stood by the side of the road leaning against the car, wearing the thick down jacket he had worn last time.

       Chen Yuncheng was a little surprised, “Why didn’t you tell me when you arrived?”

       Ning Junyan glanced at the time and said, “It’s not even half past seven, so I can’t bear to bother you.”

       Chen Yuncheng had actually woken up a long time ago, he had something on his mind and had not slept well last night. Apart from Zhou Yan’s matter, he could not help thinking about Ning Junyan’s attitude.

       All of this had made Chen Yuncheng annoyed and perplexed.

       The small county where Zhou Yan lived was about a five-hour drive from the city. If everything went well, they should be able to go back and forth on the same day; if Zhou Yan was not found, or Zhou Yan did not go back there at all, then there was no need to stay there overnight.

       So Chen Yuncheng only brought his wallet and mobile phone, nothing else, he just pulled down the rolling shutter and locked it from the outside.

       After locking the door, he asked Ning Junyan, “Have you eaten breakfast? Do you want to leave after breakfast?”

       Ning Junyan said, “What do you want to eat?”

       Chen Yuncheng glanced at the noodle shop next door and asked, “Is it okay to eat noodles?”

       Ning Junyan said, “Yes, I’m fine with it all.”

       The owner of the noodle restaurant and Chen Yuncheng had known each other for a long time, and it was too early for business. He stood at the gate and kept looking at the Land Rover that Ning Junyan parked on the side of the road.

       When he saw Chen Yuncheng and the others come to eat noodles, the boss greeted Chen Yuncheng loudly and invited them to sit, and then asked Chen Yuncheng, “Is that your friend’s car? I’ve seen it a few times.”

       Chen Yuncheng let out a laugh and replied, “Yes.”

       The boss took a rag to wipe the table for them, and said, “An eight hundred thousand dollar¹around $120k car, right? That’s nice.”

       Chen Yuncheng glanced at Ning Junyan and saw that Ning Junyan took two pairs of chopsticks out of the chopstick holder with a blank expression, and Chen Yuncheng said to the boss, “It’s not like other people’s cars are mine, so I have no idea.”

       When the boss saw that Ning Junyan had no intention of saying anything, he laughed dryly and turned around to go inside the shop.

       Ning Junyan handed a pair of chopsticks to Chen Yuncheng and said, “You can take the car and drive it if you need to.”

       Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and brought over both pairs of chopsticks. While getting up to go to the pot to heat the chopsticks, he said, “I don’t need it, I’m afraid I can’t afford it.”

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Notes:
Okay, not only he doesn’t mind Chen Yuncheng troubling him, lending him a large sum of money, helping Chen Yuncheng look for another man, and picking him up earlier than the scheduled time, but he also offered his $120k car to use

Good thing they are canon or I’m gonna go mad >:(

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       Chen Yuncheng ended the phone call with Guan Anlin and immediately went out to the hospital.

       He arrived at the hospital early, and they were still doing rounds in the ward. He stood outside the ward and waited patiently for a large group of doctors in white coats to leave before knocking on the door to enter. He saw that the person guarding the child’s bed was not Zhou Yan but Gu Yaojia

       Gu Yaojia was sitting on the edge of the bed and was wiping the child’s face with a towel. Suddenly, she saw Chen Yuncheng and got up in surprise, “Cheng ge, why are you here so early?”

       Chen Yuncheng asked, “Where’s Zhou Yan?”

       Gu Yaojia said, “He’s not there.”

       Chen Yuncheng felt it was somewhat strange, “Wasn’t he the one who kept watch here last night?”

       Gu Yaojia shook her head, “Yesterday he came over and said he had some urgent business to attend to, so he didn’t stay long before he left. I ended up being the one to keep watch over the child here.” Having said this, Gu Yaojia’s tone unconsciously carried some complaints.

       Chen Yuncheng asked, “Did he contact you after that? Do you know why his phone was turned off?”

       Gu Yaojia suddenly averted her eyes and said, “I don’t know, he didn’t contact me.”

       “Jiajia, think about it carefully,” Chen Yuncheng said, “Could I have harmed Zhou Yan? Is there something you’re helping him hide from me?”

       Gu Yaojia didn’t look at Chen Yuncheng and turned to look at the poor child lying on the hospital bed.

       Chen Yuncheng continued, “I contacted a doctor friend who can help lend money to the child’s treatment. I wanted to tell Zhou Yan the news last night, but I haven’t been able to find anyone else.”

       Gu Yaojia suddenly turned her head to look at Chen Yuncheng, “Really? Are you serious, Cheng ge?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I’m serious, you tell me where Zhou Yan went. I will tell him the news as soon as possible, and then I’ll bring my friend here to see the attending doctor in the afternoon.”

       During this period of time, Gu Yaojia looked very tired, as if she had suddenly aged several years and the bright and beautiful shadow of her past could not be found. At this time, her eyes became brighter, and she looked at Chen Yuncheng with anticipation. However, she soon frowned again and said softly, “But I really don’t know where Zhou Yan went.”

       Chen Yuncheng looked at her.

       Gu Yaojia said, “Zhou Yan called me last night and said that he was going to leave to borrow some money for our son’s medical treatment. He told me not to look for him, and that he would come back as soon as he got the money.”

       “Who else can he borrow money from?”

       Gu Yaojia shook her head, looking like she was hiding something, “I really don’t know. I asked him, but he wouldn’t say anything.”

       Chen Yuncheng finally asked, “Who else do you think he might be looking for?”

       Gu Yaojia still shook her head.

       Chen Yuncheng left the ward. When he walked to the door, Gu Yaojia suddenly stopped him and said, “Cheng ge, you know that Zhou Yan’s parents are still around, right?”

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t answer but only looked back at Gu Yaojia.

       Gu Yaojia was still holding the wet towel that had gone completely cold in her hand, and said in an uncertain tone, “He didn’t mention his family, but I asked him at the beginning if he could ask his family for money and he didn’t answer me, do you think there’s a possibility that—” After she said this, she paused and hurriedly said, “I’m just  guessing, I’m not sure.”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded, “I’ll find a way to ask someone.” After he said that, he quickly left the ward.

       As he left the hospital, Chen Yuncheng called a friend he was originally close to for information and asked about Zhang Wenyong’s specific situation.

       After contacting several people, he barely knew that Zhang Wenyong was summoned by the police because he had been involved in the car theft case involving the two X-ethnic people.

       Some of them knew the police assistant at the police station, and after they asked around, he found that the police had evidence of the two X-ethnic people were stealing cars. And last night, in a unified operation, they arrested the two X-ethnic people and Zhang Wenyong at the same time. They were supposed to arrest Zhou Yan, but they couldn’t find him, so they guessed he might have got wind of it and fled.

       As for further information, no one could find out now.

       In the afternoon, Chen Yuncheng called and arranged to meet Ning Junyan on the first floor of the inpatient building.

       Ning Junyan was at work today, and when he appeared, he was wearing a white coat and a work tag. Chen Yuncheng found that as long as he wore a white coat, Ning Junyan’s whole demeanour seemed to have a gentle and serene aura.

       Chen Yuncheng had been busy since the beginning of the morning, inquiring about Zhou Yan’s whereabouts everywhere and simply ate a box lunch outside for lunch. He happened to pass by a mirror in the hospital hall and saw that the people inside were a little haggard.

       Ning Junyan’s eyes swept over him, and only said, “Let’s go.” Then he walked towards the elevator first.

       In the elevator, Ning Junyan asked about the child’s situation, but Chen Yuncheng couldn’t explain it clearly. Ning Junyan said, “It’s okay, I’ll go ask the doctor.”

       It was still noon at that time. Although the lunch break was over, most of the patients in the ward, especially the sick little children, were still in bed taking naps, and the whole floor was quiet.

       Chen Yuncheng walked to the door of the ward and saw that the door was open, so he walked in quietly. He saw that Gu Yaojia was sitting beside the bed with her upper body lying on the bed as if she was asleep. Chen Yuncheng turned his head to look at Ning Junyan and did not speak.

       Ning Junyan just walked to the door of the ward, glanced at the bed number and name on the sign at the end of the bed, and then turned around and went out.

       Chen Yuncheng followed.

       Ning Junyan said to him, “I’ll go talk directly to his attending physician, wait for me here.”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded, and when Ning Junyan left, he didn’t go in to disturb their rest and sat down directly on the chair in the corridor.

       After waiting quietly for about ten minutes, Gu Yaojia came out of the ward and was stunned when she saw Chen Yuncheng in the corridor.

       Chen Yuncheng stood up and said, “I said I brought a friend over to have a look. He went to the child’s attending physician.”

       Gu Yaojia nodded quickly, “Thank you, Cheng ge.”

       Chen Yuncheng shook his head.

       Gu Yaojia stood there for a while and asked, “Cheng ge, did something happen to Zhou Yan?”

       Chen Yuncheng asked her, “Did he tell you anything?”

       Gu Yaojia said, “No, I just have a bad feeling. I’m very worried about him, but I can’t leave to find him.”

       Chen Yuncheng was silent for a moment and asked, “Do you know the address of his old hometown?”

       Gu Yaojia shook her head, “I only know it’s in the county town¹the town that is the governmental centre of a county..” After she said that, she paused and hurriedly searched for her mobile phone, “He had sent me his ID photo before, and it had his household address on it.”

       She lowered her head and rummaged through the WeChat chat records.

       Chen Yuncheng leaned in to see it.

       The footsteps of leather shoes suddenly sounded in the quiet corridor, gradually approaching from a distance.

       Chen Yuncheng looked up and saw that Ning Junyan had returned.

       Ning Junyan looked at him, and then his eyes fell on Gu Yaojia.

       Gu Yaojia was too serious and didn’t notice Ning Junyan, but Chen Yuncheng didn’t know what he was thinking, and subconsciously took a half step away from Gu Yaojia.

       “I found it!” Gu Yaojia’s tone was a little excited, and she handed the phone to Chen Yuncheng to see.

       Chen Yuncheng took the phone, but instead of looking at the photos, he looked at Ning Junyan and asked, “What did the doctor say?”

       Ning Junyan did not say anything and kept walking up to Chen Yuncheng. From a very close distance, he lowered his eyes and glanced at the screen of Gu Yaojia’s mobile phone in his hand, and then said, “I have a general understanding of the situation, I will go and pay the money later, and ask the department over here to arrange for the surgery as soon as possible.”

       Gu Yaojia stared at Ning Junyan in a daze. A surprised smile slowly appeared on her face, and then she reached out and grabbed Chen Yuncheng’s arm and said, “Cheng ge, is this doctor your friend?”

       Ning Junyan also looked at her, took out his right hand that was in his pocket, and said, “Hello. Ning Junyan.”

       Gu Yaojia was still too young, and few people around her would shake hands with her in a serious manner. She was a little nervous, and quickly let go of Chen Yuncheng. She shook Ning Junyan’s hand lightly and released it quickly, and said, “Hi, hello, I’m Zhou Yuqi’s mother, and my name is Gu Yaojia.”

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Notes:
Lmao Ning Junyan didn’t even bother to say anything other than hello and his name

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       Ning Junyan drove Chen Yuncheng back.

       Chen Yuncheng sat in the passenger seat and was a little absent-minded all the way.

       It wasn’t until Ning Junyan pulled up in front of Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk that he said to Chen Yuncheng before he got out of the car, “Take me to see Zhou Yan’s child first, and I will talk to his attending physician.”

       Chen Yuncheng had already unbuckled his seat belt, he nodded and asked, “When is it convenient for you?”

       Ning Junyan replied, “Tomorrow, I don’t have surgery scheduled in the afternoon, give me a call before you come.”

       Chen Yuncheng replied, “Okay.” Then he said, “Thank you.”

       Ning Junyan did not say anything.

       After Chen Yuncheng got off the car, he stood on the side of the road and watched Ning Junyan drive the car away. His whole self still felt a little disoriented, and it took him a long time to find the key to the rolling shutter door.

       As he entered the store, Chen Yuncheng locked the door, but did not rush into the inner room, and sat down on the chair at the counter.

       The words that Ning Junyan had said to him were always on his mind.

       He was twenty-eight years old this year, and he grew up in a complex environment since he was a child. He had come into contact with all kinds of people in society, but he had never had a girlfriend because he had not met the right one. Most of the girls he could meet in this environment were from poor families and had come out to work at a young age to earn money. Some of them had taken the initiative to show him affection, but he just didn’t feel that way and didn’t feel he could take on the responsibility of a family.

       Although his emotional experience was in a blank state, it didn’t mean that he had no social experience to judge the world.

       Ning Junyan said that his words were all in jest, but Chen Yuncheng felt that the two men would not joke like this. Even with his brothers and friends who had a good relationship with him, no one would make such ambiguous jokes like this.

       As he thought of this, Chen Yuncheng suddenly felt a little irritable. He reached out and picked up the cigarette case that was sitting on the counter, and shook out a cigarette. He didn’t usually smoke, and he didn’t light the cigarette. He just held it in his mouth, as if it could relieve his anxiety a little.

       He wanted to borrow money from Ning Junyan, and it was not a small amount. With money involved, many things became more complicated. It was difficult for him to refuse Ning Junyan’s request, and he had no idea what kind of request Ning Junyan would make of him.

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t hate Ning Junyan, not at all, even in the two years they just separated, he still missed Ning Junyan very much, but he never thought he liked men. Today, Ning Junyan held his hand, which made him squirm a little. After tomorrow, how should he continue to face Ning Junyan?

       However, in the next second, Chen Yuncheng began to wonder if he was thinking too much. Perhaps Ning Junyan was really just joking. He wanted to recall every word and expression of Ning Junyan today but found that his memories were not quite clear. Aside from their childhood experience, Chen Yuncheng couldn’t even think of the reason why Ning Junyan liked him. They were like people from two worlds who had crossed paths because of childhood misfortune, and it was a rare occurrence for them to be friends.

       Chen Yuncheng threw the cigarette on the counter. After he sat in the store for a long time, he began to feel the cold of the night eating away at his body, so he got up and carried the small heater from the counter into the room inside.

       He plugged the heater in and reached out to turn the switch, which instantly emitted strong orange light, but after less than two seconds, the heater’s glow suddenly disappeared.

       Chen Yuncheng turned off the heater and turned it on again, but this time the heater was completely off. Annoyed, he unplugged it and left the broken heater in the corner of the room.

       It was only before he went to bed that Chen Yuncheng remembered that Zhou Yan had not called him.

       At this time, it was already past 10.30 pm. Chen Yuncheng sat on the edge of the bed, clutching the quilt and dialling Zhou Yan’s phone. But Zhou Yan didn’t pick up after many rings.

       He was not sure if Zhou Yan was on the night watch in the hospital ward, and turned off the sound of his mobile phone for fear that it would affect other patients and their families in the ward.

       After hesitating for a while, Chen Yuncheng didn’t call Zhou Yan again but sent a WeChat message asking Zhou Yan to call him back when it was convenient.

       In the end, Zhou Yan did not call Chen Yuncheng back until the next morning.

       Chen Yuncheng got up, and when he opened the shutters of the kiosk, he put the phone on his shoulder and called Zhou Yan again. This time, it was not that no one answered, but the call prompted that the other party had turned off.

       He was a little inexplicable. He didn’t know what Zhou Yan meant by turning off his phone, or whether his phone was out of power when he woke up in the morning.

       Chen Yuncheng stood in front of the kiosk, hesitating whether he should go directly to the hospital to find Zhou Yan now. He wanted to quickly tell Zhou Yan about Ning Junyan’s promise to lend money for the child’s medical treatment so that Zhou Yan could draw a clear line with Zhang Wenyong earlier, and the impact on them after the crime could be minimized.

       Afterwards, Chen Yuncheng wanted to call Gu Yaojia first and ask her if Zhou Yan was still in the hospital. Just when he was looking for Gu Yaojia’s phone number in the address book, a police car stopped in front of his store.

       Chen Yuncheng stopped, locked the mobile phone screen and put it on his chest as he watched Long Zhan Yu get out of the car with another male police officer who looked quite familiar.

       Long Zhanyu was wearing a crumpled-down jacket, his hair was not properly groomed, and his whole body looked a bit haggard.

       He was smoking a cigarette. After he got out of the car, he took the cigarette in his hand and said to the other policeman, “I want a big bowl, mixed sauce.”

       The policeman nodded and went directly to the noodle shop next to Chen Yuncheng’s kiosk. It seemed that the two had come to have breakfast nearby.

       Long Zhanyu walked to Chen Yuncheng and asked, “So early?”

       Chen Yuncheng stuffed his phone into his trousers pocket and said, “Officer Long, are you working the night shift?”

       Long Zhanyu said, “I worked overtime last night and was busy all night, so I only had time to come out and have something to eat now.”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled, turned to look at the noodle shop over there, and said, “Do you want to eat noodles? Let me treat you.”

       After he finished speaking, he turned to walk towards the noodle shop, but Long Zhanyu suddenly stopped him, “Hey! What about what I asked you to inquire about?”

       Chen Yuncheng stopped, turned his head and said to Long Zhanyu, “Officer Long, you think too highly of me, this area is so big, unless I go and keep an eye on those two X-people every day, how else would I be able to know who they are hanging out with?”

       Long Zhanyu looked a little serious. He said, “It’s not that you don’t know. You’re just afraid of implicating your friends, so you don’t dare to say anything, right?”

       Chen Yuncheng suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart.

       Long Zhanyu said, “Where is Zhou Yan?”

       Chen Yuncheng asked, “What did he get into?”

       Long Zhanyu sneered, “I’ll give you a chance. It’s not too late for you to ask Zhou Yan to turn himself in.”

       After he finished speaking, Long Zhanyu walked toward the noodle shop next to him. He and his colleagues sat at the table by the roadside.

       Chen Yuncheng looked at them, and the two of them were also looking at Chen Yuncheng. The other policeman said something to Long Zhanyu, but his eyes fell on Chen Yuncheng’s face. Long Zhanyu nodded, stretched out his hand and took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick holder, placed it on the table with a clean chopstick, and waited for his large bowl of mixed sauce noodles to be cooked.

       Chen Yuncheng turned around and went back to the store, took out his mobile phone and called Guan Anlin.

       The phone rang for a long time before it was connected. Guan Anlin didn’t seem to awake yet, and his tone was impatient, “What?”

       Chen Yuncheng asked, “Did something happen to Zhang Wenyong?”

       Guan Anlin was silent for a moment, “How do you know?”

       Chen Yuncheng asked, “What happened to Zhang Wenyong?”

       Guan Anlin said, “The police came and took him away last night and asked him to assist in the investigation.” After speaking, he paused for a while and then asked, “How do you know? You betrayed him too?”

       Chen Yuncheng ignored him and just asked, “Where’s Zhou Yan? Do you have any news about Zhou Yan?”

       Guan Anlin said coldly, “No.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “Okay.” Then hung up the phone.

       Guan Anlin was about to taunt him with a few words, but when the phone was suddenly hung up, he suddenly slammed his phone onto the bed in anger.

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Chen Yuncheng: There’s something I’m not really comfortable talking about, I’m still a virgin at the age of 28…

Ning Junyan: It doesn’t matter, I’m 30 years old.

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       Until Ning Junyan finished his meal and they left the fast-food restaurant, he did not say exactly what kind of price Chen Yuncheng had to pay.

       Chen Yuncheng had always felt a little apologetic in his heart. From the very beginning, he didn’t think he should seek Ning Junyan’s help, and neither he nor Zhou Yan could get the money back in a short time if they borrowed more than a hundred thousand yuan from Ning Junyan. Even if Ning Junyan was willing to lend him and didn’t care about the hundred thousand or so yuan, Chen Yuncheng still felt like he had taken advantage of that previous friendship between the two to hijack the other.

       “I will pay you back the money, but it may take a long time,” Chen Yuncheng said.

       Ning Junyan did not say anything.

       The two of them walked to the intersection and Chen Yuncheng walked somewhat absent-mindedly towards the zebra crossing when Ning Junyan extended his hand to hold Chen Yuncheng’s wrist and said, “Red light.”

       Chen Yuncheng looked up and saw that the traffic light on the sidewalk was indeed still red.

       However, Ning Junyan didn’t let him go immediately.

       Although it was winter, Ning Junyan’s palm was still warm. He kept holding Chen Yuncheng’s wrist until Chen Yuncheng looked at him a little strangely, and then said, “I know you can’t pay back this money.”

       Chen Yuncheng felt a little embarrassed. He deliberately made himself laugh and said, “I promise, I will pay back the money, and when tomorrow comes I will contact some people to sell the current store.” Opening a small kiosk was the stability that Chen Yuncheng pursued, but in fact, it was another kind of refusal to make some progress. His kiosk didn’t make much money, but it was just enough to meet his simple needs. If he really wanted to make money, he could obviously choose to work for someone else, whether as a food deliverer or courier. As long as he was not afraid of hard work, he could always make money.

       Ning Junyan glanced at the opposite side and said, “The light is green.” Then he held Chen Yuncheng’s wrist and pulled him towards the opposite side.

       Chen Yuncheng was an arm’s length behind Ning Junyan. He lowered his head to look at the hand that was held and then turned to look at other passers-by around him.  A strange feeling arose.

       He couldn’t describe it.

       When they reached the opposite side of the street and the hospital gate was not far ahead, Ning Junyan still didn’t let go of his hand. He stopped and said to Chen Yuncheng on the side of the road, “It’s okay, I don’t need you to pay me back.”

       Chen Yuncheng suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and looked at Ning Junyan.

       Ning Junyan leaned closer to him and said, “I can give you as much money as you want, money is not an important thing. Do you remember when the old man beat you up?”

       The old man he was talking about was the foster father, and Ning Junyan had never called that person his foster father.

       Chen Yuncheng said subconsciously, “Yes, I remember.”

       Ning Junyan said, “When he beat you up, I thought I would kill him. You see, I’m not even afraid to kill for you. What’s money worth?”

       At that moment, Chen Yuncheng felt his face tingle a little. He looked at Ning Junyan, and he wanted to make a joke to defuse this odd topic, but only the corners of his mouth twitched. He didn’t laugh, and he didn’t say what he wanted to say, because Ning Junyan’s expression was too serious.

       Ning Junyan had almost killed someone for him. At that time, Ning Junyan was over thirteen years old and taller than the foster father.

       Chen Yuncheng had heard the foster father and foster mother have discussed sending Ning Junyan away more than once because Ning Junyan didn’t talk to them or listen to them. Ning Jungyan also always looked gloomy and they both felt somewhat afraid in their heart. However, after discussing it for a year or two, they didn’t really send him away, for reasons Chen Yuncheng did not know. Perhaps it was because Ning Junyan’s memory was always incomplete, or because he wasn’t in a good state of mind, and the foster father had never been able to find a suitable method of disposal.

       Then on that day, the foster father got angry because Chen Yuncheng was disobeying him and made him kneel down. The foster father then took a rolling pin and smacked Chen Yuncheng directly.

       Ning Junyan and Zhou Yan were both standing at the side at that time, Zhou Yan being young hid in the corner and did not dare to approach, but Ning Junyan rushed over to grab the rolling pin and knocked the foster father’s shoulder.

       The foster father was blinded by the blow and he didn’t react at first, but even if he reacted, he was no match for Ning Junyan at all.

       Ning Junyan beat him hard with the rolling pin, pushed him to the wall, and then pressed the rolling pin horizontally against his neck as if he was going to strangle him to death.

       Both Chen Yuncheng and the foster mother were terrified, and the two of them came forward. The foster mother tried her best to grab the rolling pin, while Chen Yuncheng hugged Ning Junyan’s waist and dragged him back.

       “Let go, let go!” Chen Yuncheng kept shouting at him.

       Ning Junyan finally let go and threw the rolling pin on the ground.

       The foster father covered his neck, choked, and coughed loudly, while the foster mother supported him, cursing Ning Junyan from beginning to end.

       Chen Yuncheng took Ning Junyan’s hand and pulled him out of the kitchen.

       As soon as the foster father caught his breath, he unwillingly picked up the rolling pin and chased after him to hit Ning Junyan. Ning Junyan stopped and turned around to look at him with a grim expression.

       Chen Yuncheng was still very nervous and shouted, “Foster father!”

       The foster father looked at Ning Junyan for a long time, but in the end, he was probably scared and put down his rolling pin to let them go.

       Chen Yuncheng took Ning Junyan back to the room.

       Ning Jun stretched out his hand and pulled up the T-shirt on Chen Yuncheng’s body to see the wound on his back.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I’m fine. You scared me.”

       Ning Junyan didn’t speak, walked over to the bed, and sat down.

       Chen Yuncheng knelt down in front of him, reached out and took his hand. He tilted his head up, and asked Ning Jungyan, “Did you really want to kill foster father just now?”

       Ning Junyan nodded.

       Chen Yuncheng asked, “Why?”

       Ning Junyan said, “He hit you.” The teenager entered the period of voice change, and his voice began to be hoarse and unpleasant.

       Chen Yuncheng felt a little sad and said, “Then you can’t kill people either.”

       Ning Jun extended his hand and touched Chen Yuncheng’s face, “No one would have beaten you after he died.”

       Chen Yuncheng shook his head, “No, not in the future.”

       Ning Junyan did not speak.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “You promise me that you won’t do this kind of thing in the future.”

       Ning Junyan looked at him for a long time, nodded and said, “I won’t kill him.”

       At that time, Chen Yuncheng still remembered the conversation between the two very clearly. He knew that he was very important to Ning Junyan, but at that time, he was not in his right mind and had been abandoned by his parents to be adopted by human traffickers.

       They had been separated for too many years. Sixteen years was four times as long as they have been together, and Ning Junyan’s mind already recovered. He already returned to a wealthy family and had received a good education. Ning Jungyan had grown from a teenager whose voice was changing into a 30-year-old adult man, and Chen Yuncheng no longer knew him.

       He didn’t understand what Ning Junyan meant by saying these words now. After getting out of such an environment, Ning Junyan should no longer have the urge to kill, nor would he be able to kill for him again. So what was his position in Ning Junyan’s heart now?

       Ning Junyan finally let go of Chen Yuncheng’s wrist this time, but instead of letting go of Chen Yuncheng, he directly held his hand.

       “You ask me the price,” Ning Junyan said slowly, “Actually, it’s not a price, it’s just my little attempt. I hope you can always be there when I need you.”

       It was difficult for Chen Yuncheng to describe his mood at this time, he just asked, “How long is always?”

       Ning Junyan suddenly squeezed his hand tightly, so strong that he felt a little pain, and then said in his ear, “It means that you are not allowed to leave until I let go.”

       Chen Yuncheng’s heart skipped a beat, and when he was about to speak, Ning Junyan suddenly let go of him.

       Rarely, Ning Junyan showed a faint smile and said to him, “Just kidding.”

       Chen Yuncheng’s expression could not be eased for a while.

       The smile on Ning Junyan’s face remained for a while, and then he said, “Don’t be nervous.”

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Ning Junyan: I have to hold back and not break the law

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       Zhou Yan looked at Ning Junyan in a panic, as if he didn’t know how to react.

       It was Chen Yuncheng who said, “It has been sixteen years.”

       That year, when the foster father and foster mother were arrested and imprisoned, Ning Junyan left with his parents, Zhou Yan was sent back to his hometown, and Chen Yuncheng entered a welfare institution. After they separated, they did not get together again until this year.

       It should have been a touching scene, but Zhou Yan couldn’t care about it at this time, he still had his own worries.

       Ning Junyan took out his right hand from his jacket pocket and stretched it out in front of Zhou Yan.

       Zhou Yan took his hand and forced a smile.

       When he let go, Ning Junyan asked Chen Yuncheng, “Did I interrupt your conversation?”

       Chen Yuncheng shook his head, “No, how did you know we were here?”

       Ning Junyan raised his head slightly, “I saw it from the office window.”

       When Chen Yuncheng heard the words, he looked up and saw that directly opposite the garden was the inpatient building where Ning Junyan’s department was located, with a glass window facing his office. At that time, Chen Yuncheng glanced down from his office window and vaguely remembered that there was a garden below.

       “Still not off duty yet? Or are you on duty today?” Chen Yuncheng asked.

       Ning Junyan said, “There is an operation in the afternoon, and I just finished it.”

       When Chen Yuncheng heard him say this, he suddenly noticed that his hair was still slightly damp, probably it was not long after he took a shower.

       “Have you eaten yet?” Chen Yuncheng asked him.

       Ning Junyan shook his head.

       Zhou Yan standing beside was somewhat a little irritable, he gently pulled Chen Yuncheng’s sleeve, and whispered, “Cheng ge, I have something to tell you.”

       After he said this, Ning Junyan looked at him.

       Ning Junyan’s eyes seemed calm and did not contain any emotion, but Zhou Yan’s heart trembled for no reason, and for some reason he suddenly recalled the first time he met Ning Junyan when he was a child.

       Zhou Yan was different from Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan. He ran away from home by himself when he was only seven years old that year. He was alone on the street and met the foster father. The foster father bought food for him and said he would find him a place to live. He could work in exchange for food and asked him if he wanted to follow. He agreed.

       When Zhou Yan followed the foster father back to the yard, he saw Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan. At that time, Chen Yuncheng was tolerable, but Ning Junyan was already quite tall, almost taller than the foster father. Chen Yuncheng was very friendly to him, but Ning Junyan left him with a deep impression.

       He still remembered that when they went into the yard, the foster father called out Chen Yuncheng, saying that he had brought a child back.

       Chen Yuncheng squatted on the steps, greeted him with a smile, and said, “My name is Chen Yuncheng, what’s yours?”

       Zhou Yan, who had been wandering alone for a month or two, was not afraid of someone new and said to Chen Yuncheng, “I’m Zhou Yan.”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled and said, “Hello.”

       The foster father went into the kitchen at that time, and only Chen Yuncheng and Zhou Yan were left in the yard. Chen Yuncheng suddenly waved to Zhou Yan and motioned him to go over.

       Zhou Yan approached nervously.

       Chen Yuncheng approached his ear and asked him in a low voice, “How did you come here? Where are your family members?”

       Zhou Yan lied, “I have no family.”

       “Oh,” Chen Yuncheng’s eyes instantly became gentler when he looked at him, probably feeling a little sympathetic to him.

       At this time, Ning Junyan walked out of the room, stopped beside Chen Yuncheng, and looked down at Zhou Yan.

       Ning Junyan, who was already tall, was standing at the bottom of the steps. He looked at Zhou Yan with a cold gaze and did not open his mouth to speak.

       At that moment, Zhou Yan felt a strong sense of oppression, and he subconsciously stepped back several steps, farther away from Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan.

       Ning Junyan crouched down beside Chen Yuncheng.

       Chen Yuncheng turned his head to look at him, took out candy from his pocket, and asked him, “Want some candy?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t answer, but just reached out and took the candy, his nimble fingers quickly peeled off the candy wrapper, and then fed the candy into Chen Yuncheng’s mouth.

       The candy was fed to Chen Yuncheng suddenly, and subconsciously opened her mouth to take it in before he whispered, “It’s for you.”

       Ning Junyan just said “um”.

       Zhou Yan looked at them, and at the same time heard his foster father calling him loudly in the kitchen, so he responded and walked towards the kitchen. Before he entered the kitchen, he couldn’t help but look back and saw Chen Yuncheng turning his head to Ning Junyan’s ear. After saying something in a low voice, Ning Junyan didn’t move. After a while, Chen Yuncheng smiled and reached out to pat Ning Junyan’s face, then turned back and continued to look at the middle of the yard.

       The first time he saw Ning Junyan, Zhou Yan was not afraid of him at that time. What made him feel that Ning Junyan was a scary person was the latter half a year together. Ning Junyan almost killed his godfather and was stopped by Chen Yuncheng and the foster mother.

       Zhou Yan was in the corner at that time and did not dare to move a muscle. It almost became difficult to breathe, so this fear of Ning Junyan has spread to the present.

       He originally wanted to chat with Chen Yuncheng in private for a while, but at this time he couldn’t say anything, and could only look at Ning Junyan nervously.

       Ning Junyan said to Chen Yuncheng, “Would you like to accompany me to dinner?”

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t answer him immediately but glanced at Zhou Yan.

       Zhou Yan didn’t dare to speak and anxiously waited for Chen Yuncheng’s answer.

       In the end, Chen Yuncheng nodded to Ning Junyan and said, “Sure.”

       Zhou Yan couldn’t help calling out again, “Cheng ge.”

       Chen Yuncheng said to Zhou Yan, “Let’s go together, you haven’t seen each other for so long either, we can talk.”

       Zhou Yan was not in the mood to eat, and he didn’t really want to stay with Ning Jun for an extended period of time. He said, “I have to go see my son. Jiajia should go back to take a bath and rest.”

       Chen Yuncheng knew it was no good to force it and said to Zhou Yan, “Then go, I’ll call you later.”

       Zhou Yan responded quickly, “Okay.”

       Ning Junyan had a very simple dinner. He did not drive, but left the hospital on foot with Chen Yuncheng, went to a nearby fast-food restaurant, and ordered a set meal.

       “Don’t you want to eat something?” Ning Junyan asked Chen Yuncheng.

       Chen Yuncheng shook his head and sat opposite him, “I’ll watch you eat.”

       The fast-food restaurant was brightly lit, and since it was already after dinner time, there were only seven or eight tables of guests, all of whom were far away from each other, so the surroundings around the two of them seemed quiet.

       Ning Junyan ate in a very refined manner. He picked up the cola delivered with the set meal, and then unwrapped the plastic packaging of the spoon, when he lowered his head to scoop the rice, he raised his head and asked Chen Yuncheng, “Are you here to accompany me to dinner?”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled and said, “Yeah.” But then he said, “You eat first, and I’ll tell you something after eating.”

       Ning Junyan said, “You can just say it.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I’ll wait for you to finish eating.”

       The spoon in Ning Junyan’s hand didn’t move, he just said, “I told you, you can come to me with anything.”

       Chen Yuncheng hesitated for a moment, and he said, “Can you help Zhou Yan?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t speak, and just motioned Chen Yuncheng to continue with his eyes.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “His son is sick and is now hospitalised in your hospital, he still has to wait for the right time to have an operation, which will cost a large sum of money.”

       When Ning Junyan heard this, he lowered his head and started to eat the food on his plate. While eating, he asked in a flat tone, “How much is a large sum of money?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “A hundred thousand or so, I don’t know how much money he has now.”

       Ning Junyan ate and didn’t speak, Chen Yuncheng looked at him quietly and didn’t want to disturb him, until he stopped to drink water, and when he raised his head again, he said to Chen Yuncheng, “Did you ask me for help or did he ask me for help?”

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t answer, but asked, “Do you mean you won’t help if he was the one asking for your help?”

       Ning Junyan looked at him and said, “The price is different.”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled, “I’m the one who asked for your help, so tell me what the price is, can I afford to pay it?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t answer for a long time and looked straight at Chen Yuncheng until Chen Yuncheng was a little uncomfortable with his gaze, and then he said, “You can afford it.”

 

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Chen Yuncheng was not a big shot in the past. In fact, he and his friends are people at the bottom of the social ladder. They have no money and have never read any books. They always wanted to make a lot of money but had no channels, and most of the time the little money they made was quickly spent ……

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       From then on, the group of delinquents who lived nearby never came to mess with Chen Yuncheng again. Chen Yuncheng knew that they were talking in private, and they all said that the boy with Chen Yuncheng was a lunatic. No one wanted to provoke a desperate lunatic.

       Chen Yuncheng lay on the bed and did not fall asleep. He put his arms under his head and looked at the scarf hanging in the room. The light in the room was quite dim, but it was not like he couldn’t see anything, at least the outline of the scarf was still barely distinguishable.

       He remembered the events of his childhood, and the way Ning Junyan strangled Guan Anlin’s neck tonight. He felt that Ning Junyan was still a little crazy. There was some paranoia and madness in his heart, but Ning Junyan didn’t become a lunatic after all. He was measured and had a bottom line in his actions, and he was no longer someone who was not in his right mind like when he was a child.

       The next morning, Chen Yuncheng didn’t open the store. He planned to go out.

       When he went out, Chen Yuncheng took off the scarf hanging in the house and put it on his neck. The moment he got out through the half-opened shutter door, he felt a bit awkward and was not used to it, so he went back and hung the scarf back in its original position.

       Chen Yuncheng went to the second-hand car dealer where Zhou Yan worked as a salesman.

       When he first entered, the sales staff in the store thought he was a customer who was going to buy a car and took the initiative to come over to serve him.

       He turned around and didn’t see Zhou Yan, so he asked the salesperson if there was a staff member named Zhou Yan there.

       The salesperson asked, “Are you a customer of his?”

       Chen Yuncheng said “um”, “He contacted me before.”

       The salesman continued, “He no longer works here.”

       Chen Yuncheng seemed surprised, “Why didn’t he tell me.”

       “He hasn’t been here very long,” the salesperson said.

       Chen Yuncheng heard the disdain in the other party’s tone, and continued, “But he still asked me to see the car if I had time?”

       The salesman said, “He may ask you to go to other places to see the car. He has been dishonest from the beginning and stealing our customers.”

       Chen Yuncheng said in surprise, “Really? It’s all commission based anyway, so there’s no point in stealing customers to other shops, is there?”

       The salesman shook his head, “I don’t know.” He didn’t seem to want to continue talking about Zhou Yan and raised his hand to pat the second-hand Audi in front of him, “What do you think of this car? The performance is really good, I can give you a detailed introduction.”

       Chen Yuncheng listened to him for a few minutes, then made an excuse to leave.

       After leaving the second-hand car dealership, Chen Yuncheng called Zhou Yan as soon as possible. The phone rang a lot, but the other party didn’t answer.

       Chen Yuncheng then sent a WeChat message to Zhou Yan, “Call me back.”

       But until the afternoon, Zhou Yan neither called Chen Yuncheng nor even replied to his WeChat.

       Chen Yuncheng contacted Gu Yaojia in the hospital and asked her when Zhou Yan usually went to the hospital to see their children every day.

       Gu Yaojia said to Chen Yuncheng, “He will come every night when he’s done working except when he has a dinner party, he would come very late. He usually comes to the hospital at seven or eight o’clock.” After speaking, Gu Yaojia asked nervously, “Cheng ge, is there something wrong?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “It’s nothing, don’t worry.”

       Zhou Yan arrived at the hospital after seven o’clock in the evening that day. When he got out of the elevator, he saw Chen Yuncheng waiting for him in the elevator room. He suddenly stopped, and his whole body became stiff.

       Chen Yuncheng said to him, “Let’s go. Let’s talk somewhere else, don’t disturb your wife and children.”

       Zhou Yan didn’t move, and with a pleading tone he said, “Cheng ge.”

       Chen Yuncheng walked in front of him. Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and place it on his back while at the same time reaching out to press the elevator.

       Zhou Yan frowned tightly, but in the end, he gave up his resistance and followed Chen Yuncheng downstairs obediently.

       The two of them came to the garden downstairs of the inpatient building. Because the weather was too cold in winter, there were not many people walking in the garden after dinner, and the garden benches were even empty, without a single person.

       Chen Yuncheng and Zhou Yan sat down on the bench.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “I went to the second-hand car dealership where you work today. They said that you didn’t work for long before you quit, and when you were working there, you ate your way out while you were working there and took the customers who came to the dealership elsewhere.” He finished dryly in one breath, “And then you wouldn’t answer my calls or return my texts.”

       Zhou Yan raised his hand and pushed back the hair that fell on his forehead, showing a restless look.

       Chen Yuncheng put one hand on the back of the bench, facing him from the side, “I’ll ask again, what are you doing with Zhang Wenyong and those two X-ethnic people?”

       Zhou Yan didn’t speak and didn’t look at Chen Yuncheng.

       Chen Yuncheng said, “If you don’t say anything, I still have a way to find out.”

       Zhou Yan bit his lip, and after a while, as if he had made up his mind, he raised his head and looked around. Seeing that there was no one nearby, he lowered his voice and said to Chen Yuncheng, “Those X-ethnic people are a car theft gang, they stole a car in the city, and originally drove it directly to the autonomous county over there to sell the stolen goods. Later, Zhang Wenyong somehow got in touch with them, so he found someone to modify the frame and engine numbers of those stolen cars, registered them under someone else’s name over there in the autonomous county, and then sold them back as second-hand cars.”

       Chen Yuncheng was silent for a while and asked, “Are you introducing them to clients?”

       Zhou Yan said, “It was Zhang Wenyong who introduced me to the job of second-hand car sales. He asked me to choose some greedy and careless customers and introduce them to cheaper second-hand cars. It didn’t take long for the boss to notice, so he asked me to pack up and leave. I changed to another second-hand car shop and went to work. “

       “How many cars have you sold?” Chen Yuncheng asked.

       Zhou Yan stretched out two fingers, he saw Chen Yuncheng looking at him, and whispered anxiously, “This business is not easy to do, because people don’t trust me, and Zhang Wenyong did not give me a high commission, but he was willing to lend me money for my child’s medical treatment.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “Of course he is willing to lend it to you, but he doesn’t give you a high commission, because the money is all in his pocket.”

       Zhou Yan grabbed Chen Yuncheng’s arm and said, “Cheng ge, just pretend you don’t know about this. Otherwise, when the police will really investigate later, I’m afraid it’ll implicate you.”

       Chen Yuncheng pulled his arm out of his hand, “No need to wait for later, the police are already investigating.”

       Zhou Yan’s face suddenly turned pale, and he looked at Chen Yuncheng in a panic, “What?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “If you don’t want to go to jail now, just go to the police station and report to yourself, and you may have a chance to get probation.”

       Zhou Yan said, “No, Zhang Wenyong won’t let me go.”

       Chen Yuncheng’s voice was a little cold, “Then go to jail with Zhang Wenyong.”

       Zhou Yan’s face was pale. He suddenly grabbed Chen Yuncheng’s hand and asked, “How did you know? Did the police officer surnamed Long tell you?”

       As soon as he said that, before Chen Yuncheng could answer, both of them heard footsteps approaching from the front at the same time.

       Chen Yuncheng looked up and saw Ning Junyan wearing a dark coat with his hands in his coat pockets, walking towards them along the garden path until he stopped in front of them.

       Zhou Yan also looked over, he didn’t recognize Ning Junyan, and for a moment remembered Chen Yuncheng said that the police had been eyeing them. He instantly thought that Chen Yuncheng had lured the police to arrest him, so he stood up violently from the bench.

       Chen Yuncheng got up slowly. He grabbed Zhou Yan’s arm and found that his muscles were so tense that he was a little puzzled. He said, “Zhou Yan, this is Ning Junyan, do you still recognize him?”

       Zhou Yan was stunned, looked blankly at the tall and handsome man in front of him, and repeated, “You’re Ning Junyan?”

       Ning Junyan’s eyes fell on Zhou Yan’s face, cold and emotionless, he just said, “Zhou Yan, it’s been years since I’ve seen you.”

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       After dinner that day, Chen Yuncheng took Ning Junyan to play in the abandoned factory building nearby. The open space in the middle of the factory was already overgrown with weeds, waiting for the land to be sold for redevelopment. Usually, there were hardly any people.

       When Chen Yuncheng went there, he didn’t expect anyone and asked Ning Junyan to watch over first. When he tried to get into the empty factory building through the broken window, a stone was thrown at him and hit him right on the buttocks.

       At that time, Chen Yuncheng was a little stunned, and pop his head out of the window, and asked Ning Junyan who was standing by the window, “Yanyan, did you hit me?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t answer but looked in the direction where the stone was thrown. Chen Yuncheng followed his line of sight, only to find a young man sitting on a dilapidated wall over there.

       He was one of those gangsters who used to bully him.

       Ning Junyan didn’t say anything and walked directly toward the boy.

       The young man was acting haughty and smiled when he saw Ning Junyan coming over. He held a small stone in his hand, and said, “What do you want?”

       Ning Junyan bent down and picked up a large stone from the ground, and threw it directly at the young man on the wall. The stone hit the young man on the shoulder, causing him to lose his balance on the wall and suddenly fell backwards.

       Chen Yuncheng was startled, and hurriedly ran over to grab Ning Junyan’s arm and ran out.

       Ning Junyan didn’t know why Chen Yuncheng wanted to run, but he wouldn’t resist if Chen Yuncheng pulled him along. The two of them stepped on the weeds and scraps of the old factory, turned their heads, ran out, and all the way back to their foster parents’ yard.

       It wasn’t dark yet, but the foster father and mother had already returned to the room.

       The two of them ran in. Chen Yuncheng didn’t catch his breath, so he hurriedly locked the courtyard door. Before locking the door, he went out and looked around, and then leaned behind the door and gasped for breath.

      Ning Junyan was also panting, and as he did so, his eyes fell on Chen Yuncheng and noticed that Chen Yuncheng had a long piece of grass dust on his head at some point. He reached out to pick it off, and used the grass to rub it against Chen Yuncheng’s face.

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t have the energy to slap him away, and only said, “Stop it.”

       Ning Junyan threw the grass aside.

       After a while, Chen Yuncheng went to pick up the grass and threw it into the trash can in the corner, he said to Ning Junyan, “Don’t mess with them, there are just too many of them. If you mess with them, they will keep looking for you, it’s very annoying.”

       He didn’t know if Ning Junyan heard and understood it or not.

       Chen Yuncheng walked over to the plastic basin, turned on the faucet, splashed cold water, and washed his face. He then raised his head with water all over his face and asked Ning Junyan, “Are you taking a shower?”

       Ning Junyan nodded and walked over.

       Chen Yuncheng took off all his clothes and didn’t bother to enter the basin, so he stepped into the basin and stood directly under the faucet to rinse.

       He didn’t dare to rinse for too long, as he was afraid that the foster mother would hear the voice and scold them for wasting water, so he quickly climbed out and let Ning Junyan, who had already taken off his clothes, go in to take a cold shower, and ran away to get a dry towel to wipe his body.

       The next day, Chen Yuncheng caught a cold.

       He didn’t know why he caught a cold. He was usually in good health, and it wasn’t the first time he took a cold shower, but this time he caught a cold.

       Early in the morning, Chen Yuncheng sneezed several times, yet his foster parents still urged him to take Ning Junyan out to work quickly.

       The foster mother also said to him, “The cold will clear up on its own in a few days, don’t be fussy.”

       Chen Yuncheng felt that he was not being fussy, but that he was dizzy and had little energy.

       The two of them came out of the yard.

       Chen Yuncheng said to Ning Junyan as he walked forward, “Let’s not go far today.”

       Ning Junyan nodded and followed him silently.

       As a result, by noon, they met the group of gangsters. Including the boy he met yesterday, there were five or six people in the other party, all of whom were older than Ning Junyan.

       Chen Yuncheng wanted to slip away, but he was drowsy and didn’t run in the right direction, and was finally surrounded by the group of people in the old factory.

       This was the first time Chen Yuncheng had really seen Ning Junyan fight someone.

       Ning Junyan must have learned about it. However, Chen Yuncheng didn’t understand it either. He knew that some children would learn Taekwondo, Judo, or something. He didn’t know what Ning Junyan had learned, but he fights in a systematic way.

       If it was just an organized martial art style or a series of martial arts routines, Ning Junyan shouldn’t be the opponent of those children who had grown up in society, but he had an unstoppable ruthlessness in him.

       The five or six teenagers had originally scattered in order to surround them, and when at first two people come to him, one of them was beaten by Ning Junyan before the other one shouted for someone to come.

       When the group of people gathered, Ning Junyan first protected Chen Yuncheng in a corner, and would not let anyone approach Chen Yuncheng. Later, he couldn’t hold back too many people by himself. After being pulled away, someone took Chen Yuncheng out and kicked him to the ground.

       It was not that Chen Yuncheng couldn’t resist, but after all, he was several years younger, thinner, and smaller, and his strength was a lot worse than that of the man opposite him. He fell to the ground, the man reached out and grabbed his shirt to pick him up, he lowered his head and bit the man’s hand, heard the other man scream in pain, and then he was slapped in the face, and his ears were buzzing sound.

       Ning Junyan rushed over at this moment, he no longer cared about others, he just pressed the boy who had attacked Chen Yuncheng to the ground and punched him all on the boy.

       The fight turned out to be extremely violent afterwards.

       Not only Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan were in a bad state, but the other group was also in a bad state. Ning Junyan’s head was covered in blood, but he still stood in front of Chen Yuncheng, looking at the person opposite him coldly, as if he would fight to the death if anyone dared to touch Chen Yuncheng.

       He didn’t know who in the group of teenagers said first, “Forget it, let’s go.” The others followed him and left. They didn’t want to fight with Ning Junyan, nor did they want to beat him to death here, so they retreated first.

       Only then did Ning Junyan turn to look at Chen Yuncheng.

       One of Chen Yuncheng’s trouser legs was torn, and a wound on his leg was bleeding. His face and eyes were swollen. When he opened his mouth to speak, he frowned when the wound was pulled, but he still asked Ning Junyan, “Are you alright? “

       This was not the first time that these gangsters had clashed with Chen Yuncheng. If it wasn’t for Ning Junyan’s tough attitude, they would not have attacked so hard, so this was the first time that Chen Yuncheng had been beaten so badly.

       But Chen Yuncheng didn’t blame Ning Junyan, he still remembered how Ning Junyan tried his best to protect him.

       When the two returned to the yard with their wounds, even the foster father was taken aback and took them to a nearby small clinic for the doctor to treat the wounds.

       At that time, the doctor examined them briefly and found that neither of them had any broken bones, only soft tissue contusions or skin lacerations. As for whether the internal organs were injured, the small clinic couldn’t detect them.

       The foster father didn’t plan to take them to the hospital. He simply took them back after the wounds were treated. On the way back, he scolded them while walking, blaming them for causing trouble outside and wasting his money.

       Later, Chen Yuncheng would think that it was fortunate that both he and Ning Junyan were lucky to have survived so many beatings without hurting their bones or internal organs, otherwise they might not be alive now.

       After they returned, Chen Yuncheng was in pain as if his whole body was about to fall apart, and all he wanted to do was to lie down in bed and rest.

       But after he and Ning Junyan had gone into the room, the foster mother appeared at the door again and cursed angrily at them.

       Chen Yuncheng sat on the edge of the bed with his head down and did not speak, while Ning Junyan stood at the end of the bed and kept looking at the foster mother who was scolding them at the door.

       After a while, Chen Yuncheng heard that the foster mother suddenly stopped talking. He raised his head and saw the foster mother staring at Ning Junyan with wide eyes, so he also looked at Ning Junyan.

       The lights in the room were not bright, and Ning Junyan had gauze wrapped around his head, but he could still see the expression on his foster mother’s face with a grim calmness.

       The foster mother pointed at him and said, “Why are you looking at me like that? Do you not agree with me?”

       Chen Yuncheng noticed Ning Junyan’s right arm dropping to his side, and the right thumb resting on the trouser leg slowly over the other knuckles between his fingers. He quickly stood up, walked over, grabbed Ning Junyan’s hand, and said, “You’ve hurt your head again, what if it’s even worse now?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t speak, only looking down at his hand that was being held.

       Chen Yuncheng looked at his foster mother and said, “Foster mother, he has a head injury.”

       The foster mother realized that Ning Junyan was originally a fool and did not want to continue to be angry with the fool, so she walked away with a cold face.

       Chen Yuncheng walked over and closed the door, then came back and took Ning Junyan’s hand, saying, “Go to sleep.”

       They didn’t even take a shower, just took off their dirty clothes and climbed into bed.

       Chen Yuncheng was so tired that he didn’t even have the energy to talk to Ning Junyan, so he fell asleep immediately. It was only in the middle of the night that he woke up from the pain of accidentally touching the wound on his leg and felt Ning Junyan sleeping close to him with a bloody smell. Vaguely, he reached out and touched Ning Junyan’s head, and soon fell asleep again.

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       Guan Anlin actually didn’t want to do anything to Chen Yuncheng. He only appeared here tonight just to meet Chen Yuncheng.

       He heard Chen Yuncheng’s voice in the darkness, and knowing that the other party could not see him, he reached out to stop the man, but he did not expect the man behind Chen Yuncheng to strike without mercy.

       Guan Anlin’s family was poor. After graduating from junior high school, he came out to work in society and was imprisoned for two years. He had fought countless fights since he was a child, and few of them could be his opponent, but the man in front of him was very strong. Once the man grabbed his neck, he held it firmly, and it made him feel suffocated almost instantly.

       He twisted his hand and tried to pull his fingers free while raising his knee to kick at the other man.

       The man reacted quickly, raising his leg to block his leg, and at the same time, his hand was gripping harder, choking Guan Anlin to the point where he almost lost the ability to resist.

       At this time, Chen Yuncheng grabbed the hand that was choking Guan Anlin’s neck, and said hastily, “This is my friend, let go first.”

       The indifferent Ning Junyan turned to look at Chen Yuncheng before slowly releasing the hand that was choking Guan Anlin.

       Guan Anlin stepped back and leaned against the wall, raised his hand to cover his neck, coughed twice in pain, then looked at Ning Junyan next to Chen Yuncheng, and hesitated to raise a hand to strike again.

       This time, Chen Yuncheng grabbed his arm, frowned, and said, “Are you here to fight today?”

       Guan Anlin didn’t speak, but still stared at Ning Junyan fiercely for a while, then turned to look at Chen Yuncheng and said, “I’m here to find you.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “Are you free to have a good chat with me?”

       Ning Junyan stood quietly beside Chen Yuncheng without speaking.

       Guan Anlin said, “I’m free, but you don’t seem to be free.”

       Chen Yuncheng knew that Guan Anlin minded Ning Junyan’s presence here, but he was unwilling to make Ning Junyan leave now for Guan Anlin’s sake, so he said, “We still have plenty of time to talk as long as you want.”

       Guan Anlin turned around and left.

       “Anlin!” Chen Yuncheng shouted at him, “Are you planning to continue following Zhang Wenyong?”

       Guan Anlin stopped, turned around, and said, “What does it have to do with you?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “As I said, Zhang Wenyong only has money in his eyes, and everything he wants you to do is to use you. If he really considered you a brother, he wouldn’t have encouraged you to do those things!”

       Guan Anlin was moved, turned around, and strode closer to Chen Yuncheng, “You think of me as a brother? You think of me as a brother but you would stand by and watch me go to jail?”

       Ning Junyan took half a step forward at this time, blocking half of Chen Yuncheng’s body, and preventing Guan Anlin from approaching.

       Guan Anlin then stopped again, laughed self-deprecatingly, and turned to leave again.

       Chen Yuncheng shouted at his back, “Have you ever thought that if you hadn’t been in jail for two years, you might have been arrested and sentenced to ten or twenty years? I’m sorry, but what else could I have done then?”

       Guan Anlin didn’t look back this time and kept walking along the street, his back gradually becoming blurred under the streetlights.

       Chen Yuncheng sighed.

       Ning Junyan turned to look at him, “Let’s go back?”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded, “Yeah.”

       The two stopped at the door of Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk.

       Chen Yuncheng’s mood was not too good. He squatted down, unlocked it with the key, and pulled the shutter door halfway up. When he looked up at Ning Junyan, his expression changed into a smile again and said, “I’ll call you a taxi.”

       Ning Junyan stood under the streetlight, his shadow was stretched and half of it overlapped Chen Yuncheng’s body, he asked, “Why calling me a taxi?”

       Chen Yuncheng said with a smile, “You’ve been gone for so long to bring me back, and I can’t take you back again, so it’s not too much to call a taxi for you, right?”

       Ning Jun said, “It’s not too much.”

       Chen Yuncheng lowered his head and used the taxi app to call for a taxi. When he entered the address, he stopped and looked up at Ning Junyan, “Where do you live?”

       Ning Junyan said, “I’ll just get a taxi directly.”

       Chen Yuncheng said quickly, “No, I want to take you back safely.” He handed the phone to Ning Junyan, “You can get lost by yourself.”

       Ning Junyan took his cell phone and entered the address of the community where he lived now.

       When he was typing, Chen Yuncheng stood beside him and looked at him, and suddenly said, “After not seeing you for so many years, you’re still so good at fighting. I thought you’d become rusty after becoming a doctor and rarely fight with people.”

       Ning Junyan returned the phone to him and said, “That’s a human instinct, and it’s impossible to be rusty as long as one lives.”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled and tapped the button for calling a car. When he saw that the taxi was coming in five minutes, he put away his phone and said, “But you’d better not get into a fight with just anyone right now.”

       Ning Junyan said, “I know how far I should go. I won’t hurt anyone.”

       “I know you have a sense of propriety,” Chen Yuncheng said, “I’m just afraid you’ll accidentally hurt your hand. You’re going to have an operation, your hand is so valuable now!”

       Ning Junyan looked at him quietly. After a while, he raised his hand and stretched it out in front of Chen Yuncheng. The hand that was very precious in Chen Yuncheng’s eyes was also very beautiful. The fingers were slender, with well-defined joints. The nails were trimmed short and round, and they were also very clean.

       For a moment, Chen Yuncheng almost thought that Ning Junyan was going to touch his face, but Ning Junyan just helped him tidy up the scarf around his neck with his hands, and his movements were gentle. It was clearly the same hand that had just firmly strangled Guan Anlin’s neck, almost choking him.

       When Ning Junyan retracted his hand, he said, “Don’t be upset.”

       Chen Yuncheng froze for a moment at his words and looked at him in a daze.

       By this time, the taxi Chen Yuncheng had called for Ning Junyan had arrived, and the driver parked the taxi on the side of the road.

       Ning Junyan said, “I’m leaving.”

       Chen Yuncheng seemed to have just regained his senses. He watched Ning Junyan get into the car, and followed him to the side of the car, waving to Ning Junyan through the taxi window that was lowered.

       Ning Junyan said to him, “You can find me if you need anything, anything at all.”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled again and said, “Alright.”

       The driver turned around and asked, “Can we go now?”

       Ning Junyan said, “Let’s go.”

       Chen Yuncheng took two steps back and stood on the side of the road watching the taxi leave.

       In Chen Yuncheng’s memory, Ning Junyan had never lost a fight with anyone.

       At that time, they lived on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by a factory, a large area of undeveloped wasteland, and old houses and streets cluttering the city-rural area.

       The surrounding environment was messy.

       Chen Yuncheng had a problem with a group of gangsters who hadn’t graduated from the junior high school nearby. In fact, he didn’t offend them, but he was often dirty like a little beggar. The gangsters would cuss him, and even throw stones when they saw him.

       He couldn’t deal with so many of them by himself, so he always hides when he could, and didn’t confront them head-on. It was only when Ning Junyan came that the situation changed.

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       Chen Yuncheng didn’t move and simply said, “I’m not cold.” He actually had a pretty rough life, and even in the coldest winter, he didn’t wear a scarf or gloves when he went out. And now that he was in a well-heated room, he felt hot.

       Ning Junyan had already put on his coat. When he heard what Chen Yuncheng said, he reached out, took off the scarf, and said, “Let’s go then.”

       Chen Yuncheng felt the softness on his neck disappear in an instant. He saw that Ning Junyan was holding the scarf in his hand, and the other hand opened the office door and walked out, so he immediately followed.

       They passed by the nurses’ station.

       A young nurse raised her head and greeted, “Chief Ning.”

       Ning Junyan nodded, his attitude looking a little cold.

       Chen Yuncheng walked beside Ning Junyan and asked him, “You are already the chief? That impressive?”

       Ning Junyan said calmly, “It’s deputy chief.”

       Chen Yuncheng said with a smile, “That’s also very impressive.” He actually did not know that at Ning Junyan’s age, being able to become a deputy chief surgeon in this top three hospital was not something that could be simply described by the word ‘very impressive’.

       They took the elevator downstairs.

       Originally, Ning Junyan wanted to drive, but Chen Yuncheng said, “Why don’t you take a taxi? I’ll treat you to dinner today. You can have some drink if you don’t drive.”

       Ning Junyan had already pressed the underground floor button, but he then reached out and pressed the light on the first floor and said, “Okay.”

       They passed through the hall on the first floor of the inpatient building and came out of the garden from the main entrance, and the cold wind hit them instantly.

       Chen Yuncheng gathered up his lapel subconsciously.

       Ning Junyan stopped and once again hung the scarf around his neck. He then wrapped it around his neck and said, “It’s cold now.”

       Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and touched the scarf. The scarf was light grey with a dark grey logo on it. He was unfamiliar with these brands, but the scarf’s texture was as soft as cashmere, and the labels were all in English. It shouldn’t have cost cheap, and although the scarf didn’t have a tag, it looked new, and the folds were all neat and tidy.

       “Is this a gift for me, or do you want to lend it to me to wear?” Chen Yuncheng asked with a smile in order to ease the awkward atmosphere.

       Ning Junyan said, “It’s a gift for you.”

       Chen Yuncheng walked with him towards the hospital gate and asked, “Why did you give me a scarf? I’m not afraid of cold.”

       After a while, Ning Jun said, “It looks good.”

       Chen Yuncheng paused in his footsteps.

       Ning Junyan stopped and turned to look at him.

       The scarf was indeed quite nice, fuzzy, and soft around Chen Yuncheng’s neck. It made him look like he was several years younger. It was as if he was a college boy shopping with his girlfriend.

       Chen Yuncheng smiled and said, “Thank you.”

       It was Chen Yuncheng who chose the place for dinner, as he insisted on treating today, and invited Ning Junyan to a hot pot restaurant with a decent ambience.

       This kind of weather was suitable for eating hotpot, and everything was shrouded in a layer of steam.

       When Chen Yuncheng took off his coat, he also took off the scarf. He carefully folded the scarf a few times, wrapped it inside the coat, and then asked the waiter to cover it with a cloth cover.

       When it was time to finish eating, Chen Yuncheng took the scarf out and put it under his nose, and sniffed it. He was satisfied that it did not smell like a hotpot.

       As they stood outside the hotpot restaurant, Ning Junyan said to Chen Yuncheng, “Let me take you back first.”

       “No need,” Chen Yuncheng put on the scarf, then looked up at him, “You should take a taxi and go back to rest.”

       Ning Junyan disagreed and still said, “I’ll take you back first.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “It’s quite close for me to go back from here, and it just so happens that I ate a bit too much in the evening. So I will take a walk back.”

       Ning Junyan said, “I’ll walk with you.”

       In the end, Chen Yuncheng smiled and said, “Let’s go.”

       They walked slowly along the street together.

       This area was quite close to Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk. There were old urban areas nearby, where one could see tall buildings as well as old buildings and old shops.

       In this way, walking along the street with Ning Junyan reminded Chen Yuncheng of many things in his childhood.

       Back then, when the two of them went out to steal things, they often went out without any money on them and could not even afford to take the bus, so they walked along the street.

       Their foster parents’ compound was on the city’s outskirts, and they did not dare to steal too often nearby for fear of being recognised. So they could only walk along the street to the intersection of the city centre with dense traffic. The furthest they had walked was for two hours, as Chen Yuncheng remembered.

       Ning Junyan’s shoes didn’t fit. When they got there, they sat down in the shade under the overpass. Ning Junyan took off the shoes, and there was a big bright blister on his heel.

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t dare to puncture the blisters, so he just found some toilet paper, kneaded it to make it soft, and wrapped his heel up.

       As the result, when he returned that night, the toilet paper was soaked in pale yellow tissue fluid and bright red blood, and it started to be mushy as it stuck to Ning Junyan’s feet.

       The two of them hid in the room, and Ning Junyan sat on the edge of the bed while Chen Yuncheng squatted in front of him. Chen Yuncheng tore off the toilet paper a little bit, then brought in clean water to wash his feet, and then finally found a band-aid to put on Ning Junyan’s foot carefully.

       After putting it on, Chen Yuncheng squatted in front of Ning Junyan, looked up at him and smiled, and asked him, “Does it still hurt?”

       Ning Junyan shook his head.

       Chen Yuncheng picked up the basin on the ground and went to the yard to pour the water.

       Walking like this put Chen Yuncheng back in a trance. Ning Junyan had grown taller and he himself had grown taller, yet he was still a few centimetres shorter than Ning Junyan.

       It was already dark, and they had been walking for almost half an hour. There were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road.

       Ning Junyan spoke very little. After Chen Yuncheng gradually found the feeling of being in his childhood, he didn’t think that there was anything wrong with Ning Junyan not speaking. After all, from a long time ago their pattern of getting along was that he spoke and Ning Junyan listened, and he had long since gotten used to it.

       Near the front of Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk, there was a building whose exterior wall was being repaired. A row of scaffolding was erected against the exterior wall. Pedestrians could only pass through the narrow passage between the shop on the bottom of the building and the scaffolding and had to be careful of the steel pipes under their feet and over their heads.

       Originally, because it was cold in winter and the street was blocked by scaffolding, there were few people in the street. The shops in this area did not do well in winter and were closed early because of the cold weather and the scaffolding.

       The light of the street lamps was blocked by a layer of wooden boards at the height of the second floor, and the narrow passage was suddenly very dark.

       Chen Yuncheng walked ahead and said to Ning Junyan, “Be careful.”

       Ning Junyan gave a soft “um”.

       Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and put the fallen scarf back on his shoulders. As he walked, he thought that when he got to the front of the kiosk, he would help Ning Junyan call for a taxi to take him back. After all, Ning Junyan accompanied him all the way, and since it was getting late, it would be inappropriate to invite Ning Junyan in.

       When he looked up, he saw a man smoking at the end of the narrow passage.

       At that time, Chen Yuncheng didn’t think too much, until when he was almost in front of the man, the red light suddenly went out, and the man stretched out a hand to Chen Yuncheng in the dark.

       Chen Yuncheng subconsciously retreated to the back, and Ning Junyan was behind him who reacted faster than Chen Yuncheng. He grabbed Chen Yuncheng’s shoulders and pulled him backwards, and he stepped around Chen Yuncheng’s side and met the outstretched hand.

       The person in the darkness froze for a moment and then went to push Ning Junyan.

       But no one saw how Ning Junyan did it, the next second he had already grabbed the man’s neck and pushed him backwards. They were already at the end of the passage, so Ning Junyan’s push pushed the man outside the passage, exposing his face to the light of the street lamp.

       Chen Yuncheng saw that the person who attacked him was Guan Anlin.

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The author has something to say:

I asked my friend who is a doctor if it was possible to become the deputy director of a tertiary hospital at the age of 30. She said it was difficult, and I thought it was not impossible, so I just display it casually.

By the way, doctor Ningis a great fighter, which will be explained in the next chapter

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Notes:
Hey ho! Sorry for not updating Morbid Addiction for so long, I will try to compensate with multiple updates today (˶• ༝ •˶)
I no longer can guarantee consistent updates every week… But I will try to do multiple updates every time I have time to update this series ><

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