Chapter 53 Shen Jin, don't run away!

Bai Yujin stared blankly at his phone for a while, thinking he had misheard. He didn't come to his senses for a long time until he heard a hiccup coming from the receiver. Then he frowned and said, "You're drunk."

Even though he and Yan Yu only knew each other through work and weren't really friends or that close, he was aware of the man's inherent pride.

Therefore, Bai Yujin found it hard to believe that he was now drunk and calling to say he missed Shen Jin and wanted to see him.

"If you're drunk, just rest well. Don't call in the middle of the night and disturb my sleep," Bai Yujin said calmly. "When you're sober, you might change your mind again."

When he's drunk, he might not be able to distinguish things clearly, and some words might come out of his mouth without him even realizing it, but it's a different story when he's sober. He knows Yan Yu quite well, so he didn't want to say much more.

Yan Yu said decisively, "Don't hang up!"

Bai Yujin followed him, not hanging up for the moment, and then heard him questioning, "What right do you have to take him away? Huh? Did I agree to it? Who do you think you are to him? Huh? Did he come with you on his own? What right do you have?!"

“You’re really drunk. If you have any questions, call me when you’re sober during the day,” Bai Yujin said. “In your current state, talking to you is pointless and won’t help. That’s all.”

Yan Yu said, somewhat exasperated, "Stop! Who gave you permission to hang up!"

"Then what else do you want?" Bai Yujin knew he shouldn't argue with a drunk person, but he didn't get along with Yan Yu and had many grievances, so he didn't want to spend the middle of the night chatting with a drunk person.

Yan Yu continued his drunken rampage, saying, "Let Shen Jin answer the phone! Yes, that's right, let him answer the phone! Ever since he sobered up, he hasn't said a word to me or even seen me once before disappearing. Haha, I don't believe it!"

When he's sober, he won't let himself think about those things, because his pride won't allow it. After all, what is his status? So many people are desperate to get close to him, so why is Shen Jin keeping his distance?

Is it because he treated him badly?

This question startled Yan Yu. He paused, tilted his head, stared at the antique-looking lamps above him, and muttered softly, "That shouldn't be the case..."

He remembered that when he first got together with Shen Jin, she was very good to him, never yelled at him, and even gave him money...

But who told Shen Jin to break his word? Since they had already made a deal with him, why did he still provoke Bai Yujin...?

Thinking of this incident, a faint anger rose in his heart again, a mixture of resentment and jealousy towards Bai Yujin, and a vague rage at Shen Jin for breaking his promise and not knowing how to maintain his integrity.

He then completely changed his drunken, slurred speech, as if he had instantly become sober, and shouted confidently, "Let Shen Jin answer the phone! Now! I have something to ask him! Immediately! There's no room for refusal!"

Bai Yujin disliked his tone very much, so he smiled and said calmly, "Why?"

"Why?" Yan Yu scoffed, gulped down a few mouthfuls of the half-finished bottle of wine, narrowed his eyes, and loudly told him, "Because I'm his sugar daddy! I'm keeping him!"

At this moment, Yan Yu vaguely remembered that he and Shen Jin had this relationship. Although there was no written contract, Shen Jin had agreed to it back then. The so-called transaction between the two of them had not yet reached its time, so why could Shen Jin say that he could not see him if he did not want to?

He won't allow it! At least his permission is required!

The frustration that had been building up inside him for days, finding no outlet, had now found a new one. He didn't need to care whether Shen Jin wanted to see him; that wasn't important. As long as he wanted to see Shen Jin, that was enough!

The terms of the transaction, as promised, are still valid and available anytime!

Bai Yujin, being good-natured, didn't hang up the phone, but he frowned unhappily and calmly asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

"You heard me right!" Yan Yu didn't know why, but he really wanted to provoke Bai Yujin, and even more so, he wanted to make him look humiliated and miserable. So he sneered, "I made a deal with Shen Jin back then! I was the one who kept him. Why should he be able to just not see me now? Let me tell you! Dream on!"

The anger that had been bottled up inside him for the past few days finally found a reason to erupt. Yan Yu naturally wasn't going to let this opportunity slip by, and at the same time, he didn't forget to humiliate Bai Yujin: "He's taking him away now, he's taking one of my people! Someone I've slept with, you can't..."

Before he could finish speaking, Bai Yujin, having already realized that he couldn't say anything nice, calmly cut him off without waiting for him to finish: "Also, you're overthinking it. We're not in that kind of relationship."

Yan Yu scoffed dismissively, took a few more gulps of wine, let out a burp, and said coldly, "So what kind of relationship do you two have? A relationship that doesn't require money?"

Bai Yujin: "..."

I was so angry I wanted to punch him hard on the head to bring him to his senses and show him that there are many other relationships besides money and profit.

"Bai Yujin, I don't want to listen to your nonsense. I'll say it again, let Shen Jin answer the phone! Your words don't count! I want to hear what he has to say!" Yan Yu ordered impatiently. "Hurry up!"

Bai Yujin frowned and said calmly, "He's already asleep. If you're going to have a drunken outburst, you can choose to find someone else."

"Asleep? Asleep..." Yan Yu frowned, his hazy eyes staring blankly at the antique lamp. He didn't understand what he meant for a moment, then nodded as if he did. "Oh, asleep. Okay then, you can put him to sleep..."

Bai Yujin: "..."

He knew this man was really quite drunk.

Just as he was about to hang up, Yan Yu's dazed mind suddenly realized something, his eyes widened instantly, and he hurriedly shouted, "No! Wait! Let me finish what I'm saying! You're not allowed to get near Chen Jin! Not allowed! Not allowed! Do you hear me!"

“I really regret it,” Bai Yujin said, pinching his brow and letting out a sigh of relief. “If I had known that President Yan would act like this when he’s drunk, I should have recorded it properly from the beginning so that you could experience it for yourself when you’re sober during the day.”

Yan Yu sneered and shouted impatiently, "Bullshit! I won't allow you to get near Chen Jin! Stay away from him! Do you hear me! If you dare disobey, I'll! I'll! I'll—"

After stammering for a while, he suddenly stopped, unsure of how to continue. He could only let out a burp and vaguely recall the words that had worked on him when he was talking to Shen Jin.

So he chuckled and said, "Or I'll kiss you!"

Bai Yujin: "...???"

“Oh no, no,” Yan Yu shook his head, feeling that he shouldn’t have said this to Bai Yujin, it wasn’t appropriate, and muttered with a hint of disappointment, “You’re not Shen Jin…”

Bai Yujin shook his head helplessly and asked, "You got drunk and acted crazy in the middle of the night, isn't Young Master Xie going to do anything about it?"

Yan Yu hiccuped: "Why should I let him tell me what to do?"

"..." Bai Yujin was speechless. He didn't really know much about the relationship between the two of them, but he had heard that President Yan was infatuated with the young master of the Xie family. Now that the two of them were living together, he assumed that they were already in love.

Therefore, Bai Yujin disliked his behavior of pursuing Shen Jin even though he already had someone else. He felt that if you like someone, you should treat them well and not be fickle or flirtatious.

After all, he might just be playing around out of habit, walking through the flowerbeds without taking it seriously, but some fools still take it seriously and get hurt as a result.

Although Bai Yujin didn't have a particular interest in prying into other people's affairs, he was still a little curious and couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you two already together?"

"Who? Shen Jin?" Yan Yu laughed drunkenly. "If you know, hurry up and let him answer the phone! Hurry up! Don't waste time! Stop rambling on and on!"

Bai Yujin took a breath: "It doesn't make sense, he's really dead."

Yan Yu was stunned for a moment, staring blankly at his phone, which was already off. He put it to his ear and listened, but there was no sound. Even the room he was in was quiet.

After a moment of realizing what was happening, Yan Yu instantly flew into a rage, grabbed an empty wine bottle, smashed it on the ground, and angrily cursed, "You bastard! How dare you hang up on me!"

The sound of him smashing the bottle was so loud that it startled Xie Li outside. After a moment of confusion, Xie Li rushed over and gently knocked on the door: "Ah... Yu, what's wrong? Are you alright?"

Hearing his voice inexplicably displeased Yan Yu. He then grabbed an empty wine bottle and smashed it on the ground with a "crack," before angrily shouting, "It's nothing! Don't worry about me!"

Even though he said that, Xie Li couldn't really ignore him. She could only slowly push open the study door and cautiously say, "A-Yu, you've had too much to drink. Calm down first..."

When he saw Yan Yu lying on the ground, completely drunk and utterly unkempt, surrounded by empty bottles, he was startled. He blinked, somewhat blankly, and asked, "What happened to you...?"

Yan Yu ignored him. A shard of glass from the broken beer bottle had pierced his palm, causing a sharp pain that made him frown. He said irritably, "I don't need to calm down. Get out!"

He was somewhat puzzled, thinking, "It wasn't Shen Jin who came in... and right now, he didn't want to see Xie Li..."

Right, why isn't Shen Jin here? No, no... why doesn't he want to see me?

When Xie Li saw the bright red blood in his palm, she was stunned for a moment. She ran to his side with some concern and wanted to help him up: "Ayu, you're bleeding!"

"Blood...you're bleeding..." Yan Yu let Xie Li help him up, his gaze drifting lightly to the wound on his palm. He narrowed his eyes, suddenly feeling a sense of familiarity for some reason, and then vaguely said, "That's right, I remember now...blood..."

Yan Yu laughed in a daze, but the laugh was tinged with sadness. His head drooped slightly to the side, and his eyes lowered as he murmured to himself, "Chen Jin was injured... lying in a pool of blood, bleeding a lot. He was in so much pain... he must have been in so much pain, but I wasn't by his side then..."

Not only did he not stay by his side, but when he was at the critical moment of his life, he stayed by Xie Li's side and didn't even look at him once...

If something had really happened to Shen Jin back then, would he not have even been able to see him one last time...?

Yan Yu's hazy, drunken eyes dimmed and became dark and unfathomable in that instant, filled with a deep sadness. He moved his pale lips and said, "I want to be with you now... is that alright...? It's not possible anymore... He's angry, he doesn't want to see me anymore..."

"You...who are you talking about?" Xie Li rarely saw Yan Yu so drunk that he didn't care about his image and was muttering strange words, which was quite inexplicable.

At this moment, Yan Yu had no time to care about anything else. He just stared at the floor with a sad smile on his lips, somewhat self-deprecating, and finally fell asleep.

After he fell asleep, Xie Li couldn't help but complain a couple of times in his heart. He couldn't drag such a drunk man who had fallen to the ground back to his room, so he simply pulled him onto the sofa next to him and decided to let him take a nap on the sofa.

"Alright, you can sleep here for now." Xie Li breathed a sigh of relief. Sometimes even simple physical labor could make him feel tired. Just as he was about to go back to his room to rest, Yan Yu suddenly grabbed his hand from behind.

Xie Li turned around, somewhat bewildered, only to see him with his eyes closed, reeking of alcohol, looking rather disheveled. He moved his lips slightly, saying, "Don't go..."

"What?" Xie Li thought, "Don't leave. Do I have to sleep in the study all night? There's no soft bed here, only a sofa. I don't want to suffer like this."

After all, he felt that he was born to enjoy life, to enjoy the kindness of others, their admiration, and their meticulous care... while Shen Jin, on the other hand, was probably born to serve others.

That's the difference between the two of them.

"Stay with me...don't go..." Yan Yu gently grasped that hand, squeezed it, and said drunkenly, "Shen Jin..."

Xie Li's expression froze instantly, his temperature plummeting to freezing point. He gritted his teeth, withdrew his hand, and left the study without looking back.

As he walked out the door, he slammed it shut in a fit of rage, making a loud "bang."

"Why didn't you go a little easier? It hurts..." Yan Yu, who was lying on the sofa, reached out and grabbed at things haphazardly, but couldn't grab anything. His hand, which had been shaken off, was still a little sore, so he smiled foolishly again, knowing that the person was not Shen Jin.

Because the Shen Jin he knew was the gentlest, didn't like to get angry, and was very good to him. If he said that, Shen Jin would definitely stay by his side obediently...

Thinking about it this way, he seemed even more upset.

During the day, Yan Yu slept until noon before waking up, feeling his head was incredibly heavy and confused.

When he saw the broken empty bottles around him, he was stunned for a moment. He had forgotten how he had acted crazy while drunk last night, only that he had drunk a lot of alcohol and called out Shen Jin's name many times...

"What a coward." Yan Yu sneered, then glanced at his hand, which was injured by shards of glass. The curve of his lips widened, filled with sarcasm.

Afterwards, he had the maid come in to clean up all the broken glass and empty bottles, and acted as if nothing had happened. He then went about his usual routine of washing up, getting dressed, going downstairs to eat, and then going to work.

I want to put the matter of Chen Jin aside, not think about it, and pretend that nothing ever happened, as if this person had never existed in my world.

However, the more he deliberately tried to make him forget, the clearer the memories became. They tormented him every moment.

By the time he realized what was happening, he had already driven to Bai Yujin's office building, strode in, and went straight upstairs, intending to confront him.

Bai Yujin's secretary was uneasy seeing him storm in, looking like he was seeking revenge. Not daring to offend him, she could only try to reason with him: "President Yan, President Yan, you can't do this! There are other guests in President Bai's office, please wait a moment!"

"Don't stop me! Tell your CEO Bai to get out here and see me right now!" Yan Yu impatiently shook off her hand, feeling that the suffering he had endured for the past few days should be over. Whether Shen Jin wanted to see him or not didn't matter. To think she could just disappear without a word like this was just a dream!

"This...this..." The secretary had a headache and could only try to block his way again, earnestly persuading him, "Mr. Bai is busy right now! You can't do this! There are clients in the office, and they are important clients!"

Yan Yu, hands in his pockets, was used to being arrogant and conceited, so he didn't take it seriously and sneered, "I don't care what big client he's meeting, he has to hand over my people first! Otherwise, this isn't over!"

Yes, he kept quiet before because he couldn't find a reason, but now he has found one: his status as Shen Jin's financial backer! Why should he be allowed to avoid seeing him?

Even though he thought that way, the thought that Shen Jin might genuinely not want to see him made him feel incredibly bad, yet it also made him want to see him even more, otherwise he would feel uneasy...

The secretary, with a worried look on her face, forced a smile and said, "Wait a little longer, wait a little longer, we can talk about it later! We can talk about it later! Can you talk to him after the client inside leaves?"

"Get out of my way." Yan Yu frowned impatiently, walked past her, and headed straight for Bai Yujin's office. Ignoring the secretary calling after him, he slammed the office door open and yelled, "Bai Yujin, get out here!"

His loud banging and talking startled the two people talking inside the office, who turned to look at him.

Yan Yu didn't care about anything else. His gaze simply swept from Bai Yujin to the young boy in front of him, then paused, took another look at the other boy, and felt that he was somewhat familiar.

Bai Yujin's veins bulged, and he said angrily, "Yan Yu, what's wrong with you!"

Yan Yu withdrew his gaze from the young man and strode over to Bai Yujin's desk, slamming his hand on the surface: "Who is this madman! I'm here to find someone! Hand him over, who wants to come here!"

The young, handsome boy standing beside him, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, pushed them up slightly and let out a clear laugh. He said slowly, "It seems I've come at the wrong time."

Yan Yu glanced coldly at the young man beside him. The young man showed no displeasure at Yan Yu's impolite behavior, displaying a maturity beyond his years. Instead, he smiled slightly and said, "Nice to meet you. Isn't this President Yan? Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Rong Lan."

Yan Yu hadn't intended to pay him any attention, but when the young man gave his name, he paused slightly, as if something had occurred to him, and couldn't help but glance at him a few more times.

Rong Lan? What is the young master of the Rong family doing in this city?

Yan Yu didn't have much interaction with the Rong family, since the two families lived quite far apart in different cities, so their interactions were naturally limited. However, he had heard about the affairs of the three major families in the capital city.

It is said that Madam Rong originally had two sons, but unfortunately, her eldest son died in an accident when he was ten years old. Moreover, he died in such a way that his body was not found, and his body could not even be found.

Therefore, over the years, Madam Rong has often been in tears.

The youngest son is probably not even eighteen years old yet, and he has been studying abroad and rarely appears in public.

Yan Yu forced a smile from his sullen face: "It's a pleasure to meet you. I didn't expect to run into Young Master Rong here."

Rong Lan smiled gracefully: "You two chat, I'll be going now."

As Rong Lan walked out of Bai Yujin's office and closed the door, Yan Yu turned around, grabbed Bai Yujin's collar, and said in a deep voice, "Where is Shen Jin? Where is Shen Jin! I need to see him!"

Bai Yujin slapped his hand away forcefully: "Yan Yu, this is not your territory. Don't think you can do whatever you want here, or I'll call security to kick you out!"

Yan Yu released his grip, took a deep breath, and couldn't understand why his emotions were so turbulent, but he just couldn't calm down: "I want to see Shen Jin. Tell him to come out and see me."

Bai Yujin now gets a headache just looking at him and doesn't want to talk to him or take him to see Shen Jin. The two argued and almost got into a fight in the office, but the secretary rushed out and stopped them from fighting for the time being.

Yan Yu finally realized that Bai Yujin was determined to oppose him and didn't want him to see Chen Jin. So he simply stopped caring about the methods he used and had people wait outside Bai Yujin's office building every day to follow him and report his address to him.

Shen Jin was completely unaware of all this and continued living his life as usual.

At first, he was very happy because he had plenty to eat and drink, lacked nothing, could sleep whenever he wanted, and wake up whenever he wanted. There were also many cute little animals around him that he could play with when he had nothing to do. He lived a carefree and happy life.

But ever since that day when he accidentally met that handsome stranger in the dilapidated house, he's felt strange and often thinks about him...

Sometimes he feels very happy... but sometimes, for some reason, when he's lost in thought, tears will fall from his eyes, and he'll feel extremely sad...

He had thought about it many times: "Could I be sick? Should I tell Big White?"

But every time he saw Big White, he couldn't bring himself to say it and could only keep it to himself. He felt that Big White had already been very good to him, and he couldn't trouble him with such trivial matters. He felt bad about it.

Today, Bai Yujin brought Shen Lian to see him.

Bai Yujin told him that she was his sister, who had always lived with him and was his closest person. But Shen Jin couldn't tell the difference at this moment and just stared at her, laughing heartily.

"Waaaaah... How could this happen..." Shen Lian couldn't control her emotions when she saw her brother like this. Large tears streamed down her face as she wiped them away, sobbing, "Brother, how could you become so stupid? Waaaaah..."

Seeing her cry, Shen Jin felt a pang of heartache. He had originally wanted to comfort her, but upon hearing the second half of her sentence, he felt a pang of grievance. He pursed his lips and cautiously explained, "I... I haven't become stupid..."

Ignoring everything else, Shen Lian wiped away her tears: "Waaaaah, you still say you didn't! You're just stupid now! Waaaaah! This is too much, how could you do this, waaaaah!"

"You...you shouldn't cry..." Shen Jin quickly took out a tissue to wipe her tears, patted her slightly red cheeks, and awkwardly comforted her, "If you cry, your face will swell up and you'll look ugly..."

Shen Lian bluntly cried out, "You've already become stupid, why do you care if I've become ugly! Waaaaah!"

Shen Jin didn't understand why she was crying so sadly, and he felt that what she said was too much. How had he become stupid? He hadn't at all. How strange.

Shen Lian cried harder and harder, patted his shoulder, and earnestly promised him, choking back tears, "I will earn money to support you from now on! I will support you even if I have to collect scraps! If I run out of scraps to collect, I will steal electric bikes to support you, waaaaaah!"

Shen Jin was completely confused, so he could only tilt his head and chuckle at her, nodding innocently and saying, "Okay!"

The more he sank into tears, the more heartbroken he became. Even as Bai Yujin saw him off, he kept wiping away his tears, and couldn't help but blurt out, "Big Bai, my brother is really handsome. If you don't mind that he's a bit slow, you should marry him, sob sob sob..."

Bai Yujin: "..."

Bai Yujin chuckled, and after a long while, he replied, "It won't always be like this. It will recover, it just takes time."

"Oh, I see..." Shen Lian sniffed and breathed a sigh of relief. "That's great. If things continued like this, my brother would have suffered a huge loss in his life. He has worked so hard for so many years and has never had a chance to enjoy life properly."

Bai Yujin smiled, recalling the doctor's reply during the blood transfusion test at the hospital that the two were not related by blood, and couldn't help but look back at her again.

No one had mentioned this to Shen Lian, so naturally she didn't know. At the same time, Bai Yujin was somewhat suspicious: if the two weren't siblings, what was their relationship? Who were their parents? Why had they become separated?

He then thought of the person who had inexplicably disguised himself as a doctor to get close to Shen Jin. To this day, no clues have been found, and he has no idea what the other party's motives were.

The words "Atlantis City" flashed through Bai Yujin's mind again, causing him to pause and then smile as he asked Shen Lian, "Have you heard of Atlantis City? Does it have any image to it?"

Shen Lian, still nasal from crying, replied, "I've heard of her. I saw her online before. She's quite pretty. What's wrong?"

"It's nothing," Bai Yujin smiled, then casually asked, "Were you and your brother in an orphanage when you were little?"

Shen Lian shook her head: "No, I heard that she was abandoned by the roadside and then taken to an orphanage. It has been an orphanage since we can remember. I don't have much of an impression of things before that, it's too vague."

Bai Yujin hadn't expected to get anything out of them, but he still sighed in disappointment. After all, this concerned the identities of the two siblings, but both of them seemed to know nothing about it.

Not only that, they also readily accepted that they were abandoned by their parents on the roadside and then taken to an orphanage by someone else. They had no particular feelings about their so-called parents, considering them dispensable and getting used to it.

He didn't know whether to say they were too carefree or to praise them for being so adaptable.

After they all left, Shen Jin could only stand there in a daze. He started to find things to do, teasing the birds, feeding them, and then sitting under the tree with a smile, painting.

“It gets boring after drawing too many birds…” Shen Jin frowned in distress, staring at the birds he had drawn on the white paper. They looked pretty good from every angle, but after drawing too many, he started to get bored.

He had drawn many flowers and plants as well, but he had lost interest in them now. After a moment of silence, he laughed heartily, revealing his white teeth. He said innocently, "Forget it, I'll just draw whatever else comes to mind. As long as I'm happy, that's all that matters."

The pen in his hand gradually began to move according to his thoughts, leaving marks on the white paper stroke by stroke, slowly outlining a rough outline, and then slowly adding details.

When he came to his senses, a man's image appeared on the white paper. He had handsome eyebrows, a pair of beautiful, smiling eyes that were very charming, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned. The image leaped onto the paper, making him slightly dazed.

Shen Jin stared at the man she had drawn for a while, her fingertips gently tracing his delicate features. Her eyes curved slightly, and she couldn't help but smile and exclaim, "So handsome..."

After offering a compliment, he seemed to think it wasn't enough. He ran his fingers down from the bridge of the man's high, straight nose, finally touching the thin lips a few times, and murmured to himself, "So handsome..."

Suddenly, he felt a strange soreness in his nose and his eyes sting. Before he could react, a hot tear rolled down his cheek and stained the portrait he had inadvertently drawn...

"Ah," Shen Jin was a little confused and stunned for a moment. She didn't even have time to care about her tears. She only saw that the painting was messed up and dirty because of her tear. She immediately became anxious. "How could this happen? I worked so hard to finish this painting..."

He frantically picked up the clean white paper next to him, trying to wipe away the smudged lines and marks in the portrait. However, no matter how many times he wiped, it was no use. Instead, he wiped the painting beyond recognition, and the man's appearance became very blurry.

Shen Jin stared blankly at the man who had been smiling, now unrecognizable because of her rubbing. A sharp pain pierced her heart, as if something had suddenly vanished. She murmured hoarsely, "He... he went to so much trouble to draw this, and he won't even let me look at it for a second... That's too much, too much..."

He repeated "too much" several times, and for some reason, his vision gradually blurred and became somewhat wet. Confused, he reached up to touch it, only to find cold liquid. He stammered, "I...I...what happened to me again, sob..."

I don't know what's wrong with me, but my chest just hurts, I feel uncomfortable, and I can't help but want to cry...

He released the painting, and like a wounded child, he hugged his thin, frail body, trembling, and choked out, "I don't even know what happened... but I still feel sad... sob..."

He didn't know if he was sick, or why he was feeling this way. He didn't want to be like this, but he just couldn't control his emotions.

Bai Yujin took very good care of him. There was an aunt who took care of his daily life at his place of residence. When she saw him crying with his head in his hands, she quickly went over to comfort him.

But it had no effect. Deep down, Shen Jin felt an indescribable loneliness and solitude, and he couldn't stop thinking about the man he had seen in the dilapidated house that day...

After dinner, Shen Jin couldn't sleep, so he sat in the hanging chair with a cushion in his arms, staring blankly at the stars, and muttered to himself, "Who is he...?"

"I know it makes me so sad just thinking about him..." Shen Jin rubbed his face, muttering to himself in a voice only he could hear, "But why can't I stop thinking about him..."

He racked his brains but couldn't come up with a solution, yet he could clearly distinguish his feelings and thoughts. He knew he desperately wanted to see that person again, even if it was just a fleeting glimpse from afar...

Just as he was lost in thought and feeling melancholy, a loud barking suddenly came from outside: "Woof woof woof—!"

The barking of the dog pulled Shen Jin back to reality. He hugged the soft pillow in his arms and rubbed it a few times. He glanced outside in confusion and muttered to himself, "That's strange. All the dogs in the neighborhood are so well-behaved..."

There are several big dogs in the neighborhood across the street. They are usually very well-behaved. When Chen Jin goes for a walk outside, he likes to play with them and they get along very well. It is rare to see them barking angrily like this.

Meanwhile, Yan Yu, surrounded by several dogs in the residential area, had veins bulging on his face. He held his phone in his hand, wishing he could crush it to pieces, and gritted his teeth as he said, "Why didn't you tell me there were dogs in this residential area!"

The person on the other end of the line said, "You only wanted the address, you didn't ask for anything..."

That's what he said, but Yan Yu could still detect a hint of schadenfreude in the other person's voice, which made him furious. He coldly cursed, "You bastard! You just wait!"

He had just finished yelling and hung up the phone when the dogs surrounding him gave him no chance to catch his breath, baring their fangs and barking fiercely, "Woof woof woof!"

"Damn it!" Yan Yu cursed, wishing he had a few more phones so he could smash a dog to death with one of them instead of wasting time with them.

Yan Yu was bitten by a vicious dog when he was young and received a preventative vaccination. This left him with some psychological trauma, and he is not very good at dealing with these fierce beasts. He is also instinctively a little afraid of dogs.

Now, because Bai Yujin had secretly arranged for Shen Jin to come here, after investigating and figuring it out, he rushed over overnight. But on the way, he encountered these beasts barking incessantly around him.

The veins on Yan Yu's forehead hadn't subsided, and in a fit of rage, he kicked a nearby tree hard, cursing, "Damn it, what bad luck!"

While he was furious with the dog, he naturally transferred his anger to Bai Yujin, feeling that if it weren't for Bai Yujin insisting on bringing Shen Jin here, there wouldn't have been so much trouble, and he wouldn't have had to sneak over like this.

"Wait a minute, why would I be sneaking around?" Yan Yu couldn't help but chuckle, a hint of mockery in his voice, though he himself didn't understand what he was mocking.

At this moment, the dogs barked again, clearly annoyed.

Yan Yu felt a headache coming on as soon as he heard the dogs barking. Since he didn't have any tools at the moment, he could only grab a few flowers from the side and throw them at the dogs. Then he quickly darted into the flower bushes.

Fearing that the big dogs behind him would catch up again, he could only run faster, relying on the map that Ji Nuo had given him to quickly run towards the direction where Shen Jin was.

However, perhaps because he's been having a run of bad luck lately, those big dogs followed him around, barking.

Yan Yu frowned, his face as black as ink. He glanced back at the large dogs chasing after him. Fortunately, he had already reached the place where Shen Jin lived.

The big dog quickly caught up, barking, "Woof woof woof!"

Yan Yu quickly stepped onto the stone bricks, braced his hands on the wall, and nimbly flipped himself from the ground onto the wall. After catching his breath, he coldly looked at the dog below the wall, and then leaped into the yard.

Sitting on the hanging chair, Shen Jin watched in horror as a man was chased by a dog, jumped onto the wall, and then nimbly jumped down. He was so scared that his soul almost left his body. He didn't care that the pillow he was holding fell to the ground and ran away as fast as he could!

Yan Yu was a bit exhausted from being chased by the dog. He had just jumped down, and his clothes were still covered in leaves. He was haphazardly patting them off when he heard hurried footsteps ahead. He immediately looked up.

By the bright moonlight, Yan Yu could see the fleeing figure ahead. His breath caught in his throat, and a surge of barely suppressed joy welled up inside him. He shouted in a broken voice, "Chen Jin!"

Shen Jin hadn't gotten a good look at the other person, but he figured that anyone climbing over the wall in the middle of the night couldn't be a good person, so he ran away. But when he heard the other person's voice, he couldn't help but turn around and look: "Who!"

Yan Yu hurriedly said, "It's me! It's me! Shen Jin, don't run away!"

By the moonlight, Shen Jin could see his face clearly. His face turned pale instantly, and he turned and ran away!

"Wait!" Yan Yu immediately rushed over with all his might, trying to grab the person who was trying to escape, but the other person struggled, causing the two of them to fall and tumble onto the grass.

The moment he fell, Yan Yu's face turned deathly pale. Remembering the wound on Shen Jin's head, his heart raced. Afraid that Shen Jin would get hurt, he instinctively used his hand to protect the back of Shen Jin's head...