"Are you stupid! Look at the lower half of that officer's face and you know, it looks exactly like Wei Dongheng ...... It must all be Wei's family ......"
"I heard that Wei Dongheng had a fight with his family in the dormitory, and it seems that he won't come to school in the last semester of his senior year, and his father told him to go to the Northwest."
"What's the point of going to the North West?"
"I don't know ...... but isn't his dad himself the head of the western war zone? Probably thought his son was too much of a loser, and grabbed him so he could give him a piece of his mind."
"...... Wei Dongheng That rogue nature, can he agree to it ......"
The students tittered and walked past the military jeep.
"...... Ergo."
"Oh, here it comes." The officer turned around, smiling.
In front of him stands Wei Dongheng with a cold face.
"I sent you a rendezvous time of three o'clock, you're a real piece of work, you're out at four fifteen. If you were in our army, I'd have to throw you in the mountains and make you run a drill, fifteen kilometres to start with, with a discount for being my brother, ten kilometres a must."
Wei Dongheng, who seemed to be in a bad mood, said, "Don't you hold that against me."
"Oh my little ancestor, I wouldn't dare to take charge of you, I'm not good enough." The second brother laughed and trembled, "Well, you'll be blessed when our father takes charge of you personally."
"Don't you talk to me about that old bastard."
"Fine, don't mention it then." The second brother was quite happy, probably because he had been in the army for a long time and was particularly excited to be out, especially since he was at an art school with so many beautiful women, he couldn't help but be a bit nosy, "Hey, let me ask you."
"What are you doing?" Wei Dongheng resisted this sudden greasy behaviour of his brother, pushing him away by pressing his head.
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Ergo winked, "Where's that little beauty you were talking to?"
"......"
"You haven't been here for so long, you've been talking to someone, haven't you? Why didn't you just bring it over to show me, it's so uncomfortable."
"Look at your mother! You deserve to look?"
Wei Dongheng rudely unloaded his school bag and slammed it directly into his second brother's face.
The second brother finally couldn't hold back his energy and laughed maniacally there, "Fuck Lao San, you have your day too, you are crying, right? As soon as I saw your eyes I knew you had cried, hey seriously, why don't you call her over, I'll treat her to a meal and we'll leave again, otherwise you'll be gone for most of the year ......"
"I'm not going to be a soldier! I'm going to work as a fucking labourer for Commander Wei! I can't come back yet I?"
Ergo tsked, "Hang on."
"Get lost you!"
"You really don't want to bring a pretty girl to meet?"
"Get out!"
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Meanwhile, in the unoccupied multimedia classroom at HU, Xie Xue wiped her tears, steadied herself and walked out of it alone, locking the classroom door.
The building was not scheduled for any exams and was empty and uninteresting.
She stood in a trance, frozen in the corridor for a few moments, watching the silver-haired boy get into the military jeep, which roared off and soon disappeared out of sight at the end of the boulevard.
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She couldn't help the tears falling again, but she lifted her hand, saw the new ring on her finger and tried to calm herself down again.
It's okay ...... it's only six months ......
She was dazed for a while, then carried her bag down the stairs alone as if she had lost her soul, but to her surprise, she met two people on the open grass outside the school building who were completely unexpected.
Xie Xue was so upset that she didn't get over it at first.
But a few seconds later she suddenly realised that something was wrong -
Are those two He Yu and ...... her brother?
The combination was so strange that it completely dragged Xie Xue out of her sadness, and she rubbed her eyes to make sure she hadn't misread it - but hadn't the two of them argued earlier?
How can you walk out of an empty classroom alone like that now? And pulling and tugging?
"You go away."
"I'll give you a lift."
"Go."
"I-"
"Are you leaving or not."
Xie Qingcheng had been speaking with a cold face and little expression when, at a corner, Xie Qingcheng violently pushed He Yu away. His expression was too cold, his eyes too sharp, and his tone too non-negotiable.
He Yu was pushed so hard that a cold look finally appeared on his face.
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He just stayed where he was and watched while Xie Qingcheng left without looking back.
"......"
He Yu watched Xie Qingcheng's figure disappear at the end of the stairs and turned back to meet Xie Xue, who hadn't had time to hide.
In that moment, He Yu's expression became strange, as if he had been caught in the act of doing something wrong.
"Why are you here?"
It was the first time they had met alone since they had quarrelled and broken up. They had seen each other on other occasions, but only in the classroom.
Xie Xue was in a bad mood and had caught the beast at her door. She said sternly, "I should be asking you, why aren't you here for the exam? What were you and my brother doing?"
"...... We're not doing anything."
"You're lying!" Xie Xue got fierce, "He couldn't have come to this kind of place with you for no reason, are you bullying him again?"
"I bullied him." He Yu sighed, "Sis, I can bully him? If you were watching just now, you should have seen what kind of attitude he had, I'm the one being hooted at, right?"
Xie Xue hesitates.
The scene earlier was odd, but listening to the conversation between the two, it was indeed her brother who had the worse attitude. He Yu was much gentler than the time she had overheard him in the car park, where he was hurting and insulting Xie Qingcheng, but this time Xie Qingcheng was scolding him and listening, without even a harsh word in return.
Xie Xue's tense nerves eased a little: "Well, that's true."
She glared at He Yu again, "I don't think you'd dare - why didn't you go to the exam?"
"It was so easy, I turned in my paper early."
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"......"
"Teacher, you don't even think it's a problem to turn in your paper early, do you?"
"You turned in your paper early to meet my brother?" Xie Xue cat-like sniffed a hint of something fishy and stared at He Yu warily .
"I'm almost done writing just in time to see him walk past outside."
"So you and he don't fight anymore?"
"...... hmm."
"That's more like it." Xie Xue muttered, "You were just a real badass then, after what happened to him, you still followed the outsiders and called him names ......"
He Yu faded, "I don't feel I did anything wrong in that case."
Xie Xue's temper, which had just subsided, flared up again: "What did you say?"
"You saw the video from the radio tower, he said those things in red, the facts are right in front of him and he can't be blamed for being a doctor."
"He Yu! So you haven't changed at all!" Xie Xue was furious, "You're talking like a brute! You've been with him for so many years, don't you know what kind of person he is? Do you have that little trust and understanding of him ......?"
"How have I not trusted him." He Yu says, "I used to, very, very much, trust him."
There is a second half of the sentence that He Yu did not say to Xie Xue -
I am different from you, you are normal people and there are many things you have not experienced and do not know how painful it is to be in them.
So what Xie Qingcheng said may not sound like much to you.
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In my case it stung and conked.
Not to mention that there are all those chats, contractual deception ...... things you don't know about, so of course you can choose to believe him without any hard feelings.
I can't do it.
"But the truth is the truth."
"So what you see, what you hear, must be the truth?" Xie Xue shouted, "My brother is the only one who knows what the truth is! Yes! He left the hospital shortly after Qin Ciyan's death, but do you think he was in a good mood?"
"He came back from the hospital at that time and my sister-in-law asked him what he was going to do after that, and you only had to have seen the look in his eyes at that time - He Yu: you only had to have seen the look in his eyes at that time and you wouldn't have said he got relief!"
"He's not telling the truth, he's not running home because he's scared!"
Xie Xue's voice was hoarse, filled with so much resignation and insistence.
"His eyes don't lie, there was only pain in his eyes then, no awe ......"
By the end of her sentence, she had taken on a sobbing tone.
Perhaps she wanted to say this to everyone, but she knew that not many people would believe her. When she met He Yu, the sadness that had been pent up for so long broke through.
She lowered her head and took a hand to wipe her eyes desperately, wiping the tears she had just shed for Wei Dongheng, but this time for Xie Qingcheng, as she sobbed and cried out, "I ...... my brother he, he's not a deserter ......!!!"
My brother he was not a deserter.
The girl was sobbing when she said this.
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Not a deserter?
......
So why did he leave?
He Yu spent many days in his own home during the holidays, and whenever he had free time, his ears echoed with Xie Xue's sobbing confession.
Once again he was caught up in the thought of this question that had tormented him for too long before.
Xie Xue's words have certainly touched him in some way.
Although it was a bone-chilling ordeal for He Yu to think back on the information he had read.
But at the slightest glimmer of light, he would dart that way again.
Trying to touch the truth, even if it turns to ashes.
In this self-torment, He Yu thought over and over again that the information, the evidence, all pointed to Xie Qingcheng's weakness and flight, what else could there be to hide?
Xie Xue said, "If you had seen the look in his eyes at the time, you wouldn't have said he got relief."
This is completely contradictory to all of He Yu's evidence so far. In his view, Xie Qingcheng should have been happy when he left the hospital, should have been in pain, should have been glad that he had survived his robbery and could live in peace from then on.
But Xie Xue says he had a pained look in his eyes.
...... Could it be that Xie Xue was mistaken?
Could it be that Xie Xue, like the old him, had too deep a filter and too much trust in Xie Qingcheng, so that she was deceived by Xie Qingcheng's appearance?
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He Yu does not know.
But her words did throw a heavy stone into his heart, sending ripples through his already frozen heart.
He Yu was suddenly eager to know the true state of Xie Qingcheng at that time - the state that was revealed.
But there was no way Xie Qingcheng was going to talk to him about it now.
He could only toss and turn on his own, thinking about these conversations, wondering - Xie Qingcheng ...... if he was hiding something else.
If so, is what Xie Qingcheng is hiding a good thing? Or is it bad?
How many more unseen secrets are hidden in that man's human heart, forged in flesh and blood ......
"He Yu ."
As he was rambling, a woman's voice sounded outside the bedroom door.
He Yu was stunned for a moment before he realised it was his own mother.
He Yu is a very busy woman, but recently she has been spending a lot of time at the Hu Zhou residence. When she first said she wanted to spend more time with herself, He Yu didn't take it seriously, and took it as a casual remark.
He Yu is very uncomfortable.
But he opened the door anyway and lowered his eyelids to look at the chubby noblewoman, "What's wrong, Mom?"
"I'm ...... not a bit worried when I see you've been shutting yourself up inside." Lv Zhishu turned his face sideways, trying to look past He Yu to his curtained off interior.
He Yu stands motionless and off to the side, blocking the door.
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"I'm always like this, you don't have to be nervous."
"Mom is also concerned about you ...... night mum booked a hotel, that hotel's braised pork is one of the best, sometimes ah, this the more ordinary food, the more difficult to make delicious, once the good cooking then, that is a rare enjoyment. Would you like to--"
"I'm going out for the evening on some business."
Lv Zhishu's smile faltered slightly, but the smirk that had almost fallen was quickly glued back onto her plump face by her sticky disposition. Her cheeks quivered, and there was some pity in her hypocrisy.
"He Yu: mum has been back for so long, you don't spend more time talking with mum ......"
"...... next time." He Yu said, "Next time for sure."
He couldn't get used to such fatty, heavy warmth, like a vegetarian who suddenly swallowed a bite of fatty meat, choking in his throat without pain or itchiness, but just too greasy and disgusting.
He threw on a coat and left for home under the complicated gaze of Lv Zhishu.
He Yu drove his own car, aimlessly, but probably because he had been thinking about Xie Qingcheng, he found himself in the vicinity of Strange Rain Lane when he returned to his thoughts.
He Yu simply pulled over and saw two men coming out of a nearby restaurant, squeaking along on the snow.
It is Xie Xue and Xie Qingcheng.
He Yu wanted to get out of the car and go to Xie Qingcheng's house, but thought of the inconvenience of Xie Xue still being there, so he took his phone off the car mount and thought about it, and sent a message to Xie Qingcheng.
Not knowing what to post, he glanced at a poster advertising the Chinese New Year blockbuster on the street, so he lowered his eyelashes and typed, asking Xie Qingcheng if he was going to see the movie.
Xie Qingcheng did not reply to him.
He Yu added: "My car is across the street from your house."
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Xie Qingcheng replied, "I'm not at home."
"Then who was the one who just ate spicy hot pot with Xie Xue at the door?"
"......"
"Come out. I'm not doing anything else today, just watching a movie, why are you hiding from me."
"Nothing else crosses my path with you."
He Yu is a bit fired up.
"Xie Qingcheng You and I can only meet for sex, can't we? That's fine, then you want to do it in the cinema, I can accommodate you too."
"......"
He Yu finished typing these words and added: "If you don't want to see me, I'll come to you. You can figure out how to explain to Xie Xue yourself."
He knew that this was an old, albeit nonsensical, tactic, but it worked well against Xie Qingcheng.
Xie Qingcheng is a very clear-headed person, so he would definitely choose between "watching the film" and "arousing Xie Xue's suspicion".
Sure enough, it wasn't long before Xie Qingcheng came out, and despite his grimace, he got into He Yu's car and slammed the door, throwing the door of a nice supercar out of the way of a taxi pickup.
He Yu wasn't offended and smiled, "Where are you going, honoured guest?"
Xie Qingcheng didn't want to joke with him at all and said coldly, "Didn't you want me to watch a movie with you?"
"Which cinema do you want to go to?"
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"All fucking as you wish."
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At the same time, on a small island in the high seas.
Fugitive suspect Jiang Liping soaks up the sun and heads for his villa on the island.
As she walked to the front door, she met a wrinkled woman who was sitting in a wheelchair, looking in a poor state of mind, her breath dying, like a dying flower, lifeless.
Hearing her approach, the woman opened her eyes slightly, almost eagerly, and looked for a moment at her young and beautiful features.
She turned her gaze to the distant horizon: "...... Hey, I don't have time for that."
Jiang Liping stopped in his tracks, saluted her respectfully and advised in a soft voice, " An Dongni is still outside, he went to find the data records of the 'First Emperor' for you as Duan had instructed, he will surely find them."
"It's too late." The woman said, her voice sounding like it was coming from an old stereo that had been muffled.
"The First Emperor ...... is just a legend in the end, it is the most comprehensive simulation system for RN-13 takers, it is just a set of data, it is too late to get it back and study it again, there is no way to restore me to my original form."
Jiang Liping: "...... won't, there is still hope ...... Duan is always thinking of a way, you should not be so sad."
The woman snorted, "Sad? No. There is no way to stop me from dying, but the technology that will keep me alive, even without the First Emperor's data, is what we have ......"
"It's just." She paused and gave her an eerie, sorrowful look, "I don't want to live in that way. Do you understand? I hate men."
Jiang Liping: "......"
"Why are we talking about this?" The old woman stared at her steadily for a few seconds, then turned her eyes away, "You're just a dog licking that old man Huang Zhilong. I don't know what's so good about him that he's got you all charmed up like this."
Jiang Liping forced a smile on his face.
"By the way, your family's Huang Zhilong's new movie is opening soon, right?"
"Hmm."
"So what are you going to do?"
"I'll find a way to get back to the country and go back to the company safe house and hide. There are some things in the company that only I can do most reliably, and Mr. Wong needs me."
The old woman grunted again, "You're a lover, too."
Jiang Liping is silent.
The old woman went back to looking at the sea: "There are still a few weeks to go ...... If we can't find the data of the first emperor again, then we will have to operate. The boy's body is still fresh, so if we delay any longer, I'm afraid it won't work well."
"......"
"If you go back, find that old shoemaker in Hu Zhou for me and order me a pair of red high heels to bring in on the boy's feet." The old woman said, "Make them like the ones in the old Hong Kong movies, the ones you always wear. In our day, it was popular to dress like that ......"
Jiang Liping lowered his eyelids, "Yes. Madam."
"Are you stupid! Look at the lower half of that officer's face and you know, it looks exactly like Wei Dongheng ...... It must all be Wei's family ......"
"I heard that Wei Dongheng had a fight with his family in the dormitory, and it seems that he won't come to school in the last semester of his senior year, and his father told him to go to the Northwest."
"What's the point of going to the North West?"
"I don't know ...... but isn't his dad himself the head of the western war zone? Probably thought his son was too much of a loser, and grabbed him so he could give him a piece of his mind."
"...... Wei Dongheng That rogue nature, can he agree to it ......"
The students tittered and walked past the military jeep.
"...... Ergo."
"Oh, here it comes." The officer turned around, smiling.
In front of him stands Wei Dongheng with a cold face.
"I sent you a rendezvous time of three o'clock, you're a real piece of work, you're out at four fifteen. If you were in our army, I'd have to throw you in the mountains and make you run a drill, fifteen kilometres to start with, with a discount for being my brother, ten kilometres a must."
Wei Dongheng, who seemed to be in a bad mood, said, "Don't you hold that against me."
"Oh my little ancestor, I wouldn't dare to take charge of you, I'm not good enough." The second brother laughed and trembled, "Well, you'll be blessed when our father takes charge of you personally."
"Don't you talk to me about that old bastard."
"Fine, don't mention it then." The second brother was quite happy, probably because he had been in the army for a long time and was particularly excited to be out, especially since he was at an art school with so many beautiful women, he couldn't help but be a bit nosy, "Hey, let me ask you."
"What are you doing?" Wei Dongheng resisted this sudden greasy behaviour of his brother, pushing him away by pressing his head.
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Ergo winked, "Where's that little beauty you were talking to?"
"......"
"You haven't been here for so long, you've been talking to someone, haven't you? Why didn't you just bring it over to show me, it's so uncomfortable."
"Look at your mother! You deserve to look?"
Wei Dongheng rudely unloaded his school bag and slammed it directly into his second brother's face.
The second brother finally couldn't hold back his energy and laughed maniacally there, "Fuck Lao San, you have your day too, you are crying, right? As soon as I saw your eyes I knew you had cried, hey seriously, why don't you call her over, I'll treat her to a meal and we'll leave again, otherwise you'll be gone for most of the year ......"
"I'm not going to be a soldier! I'm going to work as a fucking labourer for Commander Wei! I can't come back yet I?"
Ergo tsked, "Hang on."
"Get lost you!"
"You really don't want to bring a pretty girl to meet?"
"Get out!"
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Meanwhile, in the unoccupied multimedia classroom at HU, Xie Xue wiped her tears, steadied herself and walked out of it alone, locking the classroom door.
The building was not scheduled for any exams and was empty and uninteresting.
She stood in a trance, frozen in the corridor for a few moments, watching the silver-haired boy get into the military jeep, which roared off and soon disappeared out of sight at the end of the boulevard.
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She couldn't help the tears falling again, but she lifted her hand, saw the new ring on her finger and tried to calm herself down again.
It's okay ...... it's only six months ......
She was dazed for a while, then carried her bag down the stairs alone as if she had lost her soul, but to her surprise, she met two people on the open grass outside the school building who were completely unexpected.
Xie Xue was so upset that she didn't get over it at first.
But a few seconds later she suddenly realised that something was wrong -
Are those two He Yu and ...... her brother?
The combination was so strange that it completely dragged Xie Xue out of her sadness, and she rubbed her eyes to make sure she hadn't misread it - but hadn't the two of them argued earlier?
How can you walk out of an empty classroom alone like that now? And pulling and tugging?
"You go away."
"I'll give you a lift."
"Go."
"I-"
"Are you leaving or not."
Xie Qingcheng had been speaking with a cold face and little expression when, at a corner, Xie Qingcheng violently pushed He Yu away. His expression was too cold, his eyes too sharp, and his tone too non-negotiable.
He Yu was pushed so hard that a cold look finally appeared on his face.
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He just stayed where he was and watched while Xie Qingcheng left without looking back.
"......"
He Yu watched Xie Qingcheng's figure disappear at the end of the stairs and turned back to meet Xie Xue, who hadn't had time to hide.
In that moment, He Yu's expression became strange, as if he had been caught in the act of doing something wrong.
"Why are you here?"
It was the first time they had met alone since they had quarrelled and broken up. They had seen each other on other occasions, but only in the classroom.
Xie Xue was in a bad mood and had caught the beast at her door. She said sternly, "I should be asking you, why aren't you here for the exam? What were you and my brother doing?"
"...... We're not doing anything."
"You're lying!" Xie Xue got fierce, "He couldn't have come to this kind of place with you for no reason, are you bullying him again?"
"I bullied him." He Yu sighed, "Sis, I can bully him? If you were watching just now, you should have seen what kind of attitude he had, I'm the one being hooted at, right?"
Xie Xue hesitates.
The scene earlier was odd, but listening to the conversation between the two, it was indeed her brother who had the worse attitude. He Yu was much gentler than the time she had overheard him in the car park, where he was hurting and insulting Xie Qingcheng, but this time Xie Qingcheng was scolding him and listening, without even a harsh word in return.
Xie Xue's tense nerves eased a little: "Well, that's true."
She glared at He Yu again, "I don't think you'd dare - why didn't you go to the exam?"
"It was so easy, I turned in my paper early."
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"......"
"Teacher, you don't even think it's a problem to turn in your paper early, do you?"
"You turned in your paper early to meet my brother?" Xie Xue cat-like sniffed a hint of something fishy and stared at He Yu warily .
"I'm almost done writing just in time to see him walk past outside."
"So you and he don't fight anymore?"
"...... hmm."
"That's more like it." Xie Xue muttered, "You were just a real badass then, after what happened to him, you still followed the outsiders and called him names ......"
He Yu faded, "I don't feel I did anything wrong in that case."
Xie Xue's temper, which had just subsided, flared up again: "What did you say?"
"You saw the video from the radio tower, he said those things in red, the facts are right in front of him and he can't be blamed for being a doctor."
"He Yu! So you haven't changed at all!" Xie Xue was furious, "You're talking like a brute! You've been with him for so many years, don't you know what kind of person he is? Do you have that little trust and understanding of him ......?"
"How have I not trusted him." He Yu says, "I used to, very, very much, trust him."
There is a second half of the sentence that He Yu did not say to Xie Xue -
I am different from you, you are normal people and there are many things you have not experienced and do not know how painful it is to be in them.
So what Xie Qingcheng said may not sound like much to you.
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In my case it stung and conked.
Not to mention that there are all those chats, contractual deception ...... things you don't know about, so of course you can choose to believe him without any hard feelings.
I can't do it.
"But the truth is the truth."
"So what you see, what you hear, must be the truth?" Xie Xue shouted, "My brother is the only one who knows what the truth is! Yes! He left the hospital shortly after Qin Ciyan's death, but do you think he was in a good mood?"
"He came back from the hospital at that time and my sister-in-law asked him what he was going to do after that, and you only had to have seen the look in his eyes at that time - He Yu: you only had to have seen the look in his eyes at that time and you wouldn't have said he got relief!"
"He's not telling the truth, he's not running home because he's scared!"
Xie Xue's voice was hoarse, filled with so much resignation and insistence.
"His eyes don't lie, there was only pain in his eyes then, no awe ......"
By the end of her sentence, she had taken on a sobbing tone.
Perhaps she wanted to say this to everyone, but she knew that not many people would believe her. When she met He Yu, the sadness that had been pent up for so long broke through.
She lowered her head and took a hand to wipe her eyes desperately, wiping the tears she had just shed for Wei Dongheng, but this time for Xie Qingcheng, as she sobbed and cried out, "I ...... my brother he, he's not a deserter ......!!!"
My brother he was not a deserter.
The girl was sobbing when she said this.
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Not a deserter?
......
So why did he leave?
He Yu spent many days in his own home during the holidays, and whenever he had free time, his ears echoed with Xie Xue's sobbing confession.
Once again he was caught up in the thought of this question that had tormented him for too long before.
Xie Xue's words have certainly touched him in some way.
Although it was a bone-chilling ordeal for He Yu to think back on the information he had read.
But at the slightest glimmer of light, he would dart that way again.
Trying to touch the truth, even if it turns to ashes.
In this self-torment, He Yu thought over and over again that the information, the evidence, all pointed to Xie Qingcheng's weakness and flight, what else could there be to hide?
Xie Xue said, "If you had seen the look in his eyes at the time, you wouldn't have said he got relief."
This is completely contradictory to all of He Yu's evidence so far. In his view, Xie Qingcheng should have been happy when he left the hospital, should have been in pain, should have been glad that he had survived his robbery and could live in peace from then on.
But Xie Xue says he had a pained look in his eyes.
...... Could it be that Xie Xue was mistaken?
Could it be that Xie Xue, like the old him, had too deep a filter and too much trust in Xie Qingcheng, so that she was deceived by Xie Qingcheng's appearance?
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He Yu does not know.
But her words did throw a heavy stone into his heart, sending ripples through his already frozen heart.
He Yu was suddenly eager to know the true state of Xie Qingcheng at that time - the state that was revealed.
But there was no way Xie Qingcheng was going to talk to him about it now.
He could only toss and turn on his own, thinking about these conversations, wondering - Xie Qingcheng ...... if he was hiding something else.
If so, is what Xie Qingcheng is hiding a good thing? Or is it bad?
How many more unseen secrets are hidden in that man's human heart, forged in flesh and blood ......
"He Yu ."
As he was rambling, a woman's voice sounded outside the bedroom door.
He Yu was stunned for a moment before he realised it was his own mother.
He Yu is a very busy woman, but recently she has been spending a lot of time at the Hu Zhou residence. When she first said she wanted to spend more time with herself, He Yu didn't take it seriously, and took it as a casual remark.
He Yu is very uncomfortable.
But he opened the door anyway and lowered his eyelids to look at the chubby noblewoman, "What's wrong, Mom?"
"I'm ...... not a bit worried when I see you've been shutting yourself up inside." Lv Zhishu turned his face sideways, trying to look past He Yu to his curtained off interior.
He Yu stands motionless and off to the side, blocking the door.
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"I'm always like this, you don't have to be nervous."
"Mom is also concerned about you ...... night mum booked a hotel, that hotel's braised pork is one of the best, sometimes ah, this the more ordinary food, the more difficult to make delicious, once the good cooking then, that is a rare enjoyment. Would you like to--"
"I'm going out for the evening on some business."
Lv Zhishu's smile faltered slightly, but the smirk that had almost fallen was quickly glued back onto her plump face by her sticky disposition. Her cheeks quivered, and there was some pity in her hypocrisy.
"He Yu: mum has been back for so long, you don't spend more time talking with mum ......"
"...... next time." He Yu said, "Next time for sure."
He couldn't get used to such fatty, heavy warmth, like a vegetarian who suddenly swallowed a bite of fatty meat, choking in his throat without pain or itchiness, but just too greasy and disgusting.
He threw on a coat and left for home under the complicated gaze of Lv Zhishu.
He Yu drove his own car, aimlessly, but probably because he had been thinking about Xie Qingcheng, he found himself in the vicinity of Strange Rain Lane when he returned to his thoughts.
He Yu simply pulled over and saw two men coming out of a nearby restaurant, squeaking along on the snow.
It is Xie Xue and Xie Qingcheng.
He Yu wanted to get out of the car and go to Xie Qingcheng's house, but thought of the inconvenience of Xie Xue still being there, so he took his phone off the car mount and thought about it, and sent a message to Xie Qingcheng.
Not knowing what to post, he glanced at a poster advertising the Chinese New Year blockbuster on the street, so he lowered his eyelashes and typed, asking Xie Qingcheng if he was going to see the movie.
Xie Qingcheng did not reply to him.
He Yu added: "My car is across the street from your house."
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Xie Qingcheng replied, "I'm not at home."
"Then who was the one who just ate spicy hot pot with Xie Xue at the door?"
"......"
"Come out. I'm not doing anything else today, just watching a movie, why are you hiding from me."
"Nothing else crosses my path with you."
He Yu is a bit fired up.
"Xie Qingcheng You and I can only meet for sex, can't we? That's fine, then you want to do it in the cinema, I can accommodate you too."
"......"
He Yu finished typing these words and added: "If you don't want to see me, I'll come to you. You can figure out how to explain to Xie Xue yourself."
He knew that this was an old, albeit nonsensical, tactic, but it worked well against Xie Qingcheng.
Xie Qingcheng is a very clear-headed person, so he would definitely choose between "watching the film" and "arousing Xie Xue's suspicion".
Sure enough, it wasn't long before Xie Qingcheng came out, and despite his grimace, he got into He Yu's car and slammed the door, throwing the door of a nice supercar out of the way of a taxi pickup.
He Yu wasn't offended and smiled, "Where are you going, honoured guest?"
Xie Qingcheng didn't want to joke with him at all and said coldly, "Didn't you want me to watch a movie with you?"
"Which cinema do you want to go to?"
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"All fucking as you wish."
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At the same time, on a small island in the high seas.
Fugitive suspect Jiang Liping soaks up the sun and heads for his villa on the island.
As she walked to the front door, she met a wrinkled woman who was sitting in a wheelchair, looking in a poor state of mind, her breath dying, like a dying flower, lifeless.
Hearing her approach, the woman opened her eyes slightly, almost eagerly, and looked for a moment at her young and beautiful features.
She turned her gaze to the distant horizon: "...... Hey, I don't have time for that."
Jiang Liping stopped in his tracks, saluted her respectfully and advised in a soft voice, " An Dongni is still outside, he went to find the data records of the 'First Emperor' for you as Duan had instructed, he will surely find them."
"It's too late." The woman said, her voice sounding like it was coming from an old stereo that had been muffled.
"The First Emperor ...... is just a legend in the end, it is the most comprehensive simulation system for RN-13 takers, it is just a set of data, it is too late to get it back and study it again, there is no way to restore me to my original form."
Jiang Liping: "...... won't, there is still hope ...... Duan is always thinking of a way, you should not be so sad."
The woman snorted, "Sad? No. There is no way to stop me from dying, but the technology that will keep me alive, even without the First Emperor's data, is what we have ......"
"It's just." She paused and gave her an eerie, sorrowful look, "I don't want to live in that way. Do you understand? I hate men."
Jiang Liping: "......"
"Why are we talking about this?" The old woman stared at her steadily for a few seconds, then turned her eyes away, "You're just a dog licking that old man Huang Zhilong. I don't know what's so good about him that he's got you all charmed up like this."
Jiang Liping forced a smile on his face.
"By the way, your family's Huang Zhilong's new movie is opening soon, right?"
"Hmm."
"So what are you going to do?"
"I'll find a way to get back to the country and go back to the company safe house and hide. There are some things in the company that only I can do most reliably, and Mr. Wong needs me."
The old woman grunted again, "You're a lover, too."
Jiang Liping is silent.
The old woman went back to looking at the sea: "There are still a few weeks to go ...... If we can't find the data of the first emperor again, then we will have to operate. The boy's body is still fresh, so if we delay any longer, I'm afraid it won't work well."
"......"
"If you go back, find that old shoemaker in Hu Zhou for me and order me a pair of red high heels to bring in on the boy's feet." The old woman said, "Make them like the ones in the old Hong Kong movies, the ones you always wear. In our day, it was popular to dress like that ......"
Jiang Liping lowered his eyelids, "Yes. Madam."
