Chapter 125 The Past (Shen Yin's Perspective)

Today, Jiang Yanyu did not ride a motorcycle to pick up Luo Qinglin after get off work. Instead, he asked someone to drive to pick him up, and he and Luo Qinglin sat in the back seat.

After getting in the car, Jiang Yanyu pushed Luo Qinglin down and let him lie on his lap to rest.

"Are you very tired? Gu Nanan complained to me that you were lying on the deck and couldn't get up, and asked me what to do." Jiang Yanyu poked Luo Qinglin's face and said.

"I just don't want to move." Luo Qinglin snorted, adjusted the angle, and found a comfortable position to lie down.

Thinking of the scene on the hot search - Jiang Yanyu leisurely lying in a chair basking in the sun, drinking coconut juice, playing with his mobile phone, while Bai Shengyun was annoyed underwater, cursing non-stop and bursting with anger, Luo Qinglin couldn't help laughing.

"I'm not lazy like you. Are you here to work? I think you are here for vacation," Luo Qinglin said jokingly with a smile.

Jiang Yanyu said nonchalantly: "JL hasn't arrived yet. It's good enough that I'm here. I can't go in the water to demonstrate, so Silly Roe Deer can just give guidance."

Noticing the fatigue between Luo Qinglin's brows, Jiang Yanyu rubbed his temples and asked, "Good boy, do you want to sleep for a while in the car?"

"I'm not sleepy," Luo Qinglin said, shaking his head. "By the way, I have something to ask you."

Jiang Yanyu's massage was not proper. He rubbed from the temples to the other person's face. From time to time, he pinched Luo Qinglin's nose tip and thin lips, and sometimes pinched both the lips and nose together, deliberately preventing the person from breathing and teasing him.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Yanyu asked absentmindedly.

Luo Qinglin shook his head and shook off Jiang Yanyu's hand. "Stop playing around. I have something serious to ask you."

"What did you mean when you said yesterday that Shen Yin has a people-pleasing personality?" Luo Qinglin asked.

Jiang Yanyu looked at the porridge hanging on the front seat and said with understanding: "If he wants to please you, he will keep giving you 'gifts'. If you refuse him, he will pretend not to understand and give you gifts in a roundabout way."

"You know this so clearly?" Luo Qinglin asked sharply.

"Mansory adopted him just to please me, thinking that Chinese children would make me feel close to them. Maybe for this reason, he became like this."

"He knew I liked clafoutis, so he made cakes for me every day. I refused, so he started giving me other things, like hot cocoa and croissants."

Thinking back to the day when Mansory poured soup on Shen Yin's head, Luo Qinglin could tell without thinking that Mansory was definitely not a good person to Shen Yin.

"Then...was he abused as a child?" Luo Qinglin asked cautiously and tentatively.

"Abuse?" Jiang Yanyu thought for a moment and replied, "If you mean physical abuse, then there shouldn't be any. He was full of energy every day. But if you mean verbal abuse, then I don't know."

As soon as he finished answering, Jiang Yanyu half-closed his eyes alertly and asked, "Why do you start to care about Shen Yin? Are you going to fall in love with someone else, cheat on me, and then abandon me?"

Seducing and then abandoning?

Luo Qinglin made two "Puh" sounds and explained, "I think his mental state is not very good. He doesn't seem to like me sharing his cooking with others, and..."

Luo Qinglin thought that stepping on the dead seagull was a bit too much. No matter how stressful the situation was, one would not step on the dead body of an animal.

"Anything else?" Jiang Yanyu asked.

"Gu Nan'an said that he stepped on the dead body of a seagull on the beach yesterday," Luo Qinglin said hesitantly, "That's why I asked you if he had been abused and was in a bad mental state."

Jiang Yanyu thought for a moment and replied, "If he disturbs your work, I will find you a new assistant and let him go."

"He didn't disturb me. That's not what I meant." Luo Qinglin denied.

Luo Qinglin couldn't explain what the strange feeling in his heart was, he just felt uneasy, but it wasn't to the point where he wanted Shen Yin to leave.

In addition to these soups and porridge, Shen Yin did not do anything out of the ordinary. During normal shooting, he could discuss light and composition with him. As a photography assistant, he was not only qualified, but also was a waste of his talent.

"Forget it, no need to let him go." Luo Qinglin turned his head and continued to rest his head on Jiang Yanyu's legs.

"If you really don't like him giving you things, I'll tell him and ask him to be careful. Don't worry." Jiang Yanyu smoothed Luo Qinglin's hair with his fingertips and said soothingly.

The ride was steady, shaky and soporific.

When they were almost at the B&B, Luo Qinglin yawned in a daze and almost fell asleep, but he forgot to think about an important thing.

——Why should Shen Yin try to please him?

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Shen Yin's room is on the first floor of the B&B, and everyone else's rooms are on the second floor.

Xiao Ruxuan was still elusive, leaving early and returning late, and no one knew where she was wandering.

After returning to the B&B with Gu Nanan and Qi Lin, Shen Yin did not greet them and went back to his room with a cold face.

As soon as he entered the room, Shen Yin locked the door, pulled out the chair under the desk, sat on it and turned on his personal computer.

After logging into his account, Shen Yin transferred all the photos on his phone to his computer one by one and saved them in a folder named "Brother".

After saving the photos, Shen Yin deleted all the photos of Luo Qinglin in his mobile phone album, clearing it without leaving any trace.

Destroying the traces, Shen Yin held his face and quietly looked at Luo Qinglin's sleeping face on the screen. His sight went from the slightly red corners of his eyes, a small teardrop mole, to the curve of his nose, his thin lips, his chin...

"Brother is so handsome." Shen Yin said as he looked at him.

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Our Lady's Welfare Home is the place Shen Yin hates the most. Just hearing about it makes him feel physically uncomfortable.

It carries memories of humiliation.

Because an extremely thin person will be bullied wherever he goes, regardless of his skin color or gender.

Going hungry and taking a cold shower are no big deal.

What disgusted Shen Yin the most were those white kids whose hormones grew rapidly during puberty, who were stronger than him and kept him immobile every night.

Before he was ten years old, Shen Yin would lie in bed looking at the dark sky of London and thinking about how he would climb over the wall of the orphanage and how he would live after escaping.

However, before he had a chance to escape, he was picked up by a woman in luxurious clothes.

Shen Yin had a hunch that this woman named Mansory was definitely not a good person, and her intention in adopting him was definitely the same as for those children.

So he decided to leave the orphanage first, then steal money from the woman's house and find an opportunity to escape.

Unexpectedly, the woman did not sell him to an old man or woman, but asked him to please a "brother".

Shen Yin didn't speak Chinese, so Mansory hired a Chinese teacher to teach him. Only when he could speak standard Mandarin did he take him to meet the brother.

The first time Shen Yin saw Jiang Yanyu, he didn't like him because people of the same kind repel each other.

The ants crawling in the mud are still lowly and bad things even if they are wrapped in the young master's skin. This can be seen from the look in Jiang Yanyu's eyes.

Shen Yin thought jealously that Jiang Yanyu was no different from him, except that he had a bad fate and was an orphan, while Jiang Yanyu had a good fate and could become a young master.

However, rather than calling him a young master, it would be more accurate to say that Jiang Yanyu is a tool for Mrs. Mayfield to alleviate her guilt.

When he was a child, the young master was very hot-tempered and disobedient, so he was naturally punished by being locked up in the attic and starved.

In Shen Yin's imagination, the way to please Jiang Yanyu was very simple.

As long as I show up when Jiang Yanyu is about to lose consciousness due to hunger, bring his favorite clafoutis cake, and say a few nice words, he will be grateful to me.

Unfortunately, no matter how many times Shen Yin sent him cakes or how many nice words he said, Jiang Yanyu always looked down on him and wouldn't even touch a bite of the cake.

What are you pretending for?

You are just a lucky guy, Shen Yin often thought so.

For five years, as long as Shen Yin was thick-skinned and pretended to please Jiang Yanyu, Mansory would let him live a comfortable life.

The ordinary life should have continued until Shen Yin came of age, but in the year that Jiang Yanyu came of age, Jiang Yanyu actually returned to China, saying that he wanted to go back to accompany his cousin through the mourning period.

During this year, Jiang Yanyu made various excuses and delayed his return.

Mansory thought Shen Yin was a useless idler, and his attitude towards him became worse and worse, asking him to date other girls.

When Jiang Yanyu was captured by Mrs. Mayfield, everyone in the family knew that Jiang Yanyu stayed in China only for the sake of a little boy.

The day after Jiang Yanyu came back, Mansory threw a few photos to Shen Yin and asked him to dress like the boys in the photos.

Seeing Luo Qinglin grinning in the photo, for some reason Shen Yin didn't feel disgusted.

Even though Luo Qinglin's white shirt and wide-leg pants looked cheap, Shen Yin wanted to wear the same clothes as him.

Losing weight, wearing glasses, shirts and canvas shoes, learning photography, Shen Yin followed the photos and videos sent by Mansory and got closer to Luo Qinglin step by step.

With every step closer, every time he got a little closer, Shen Yin felt a strange pleasure in his heart, and even in his dreams he saw Luo Qinglin.

After Jiang Yanyu was captured, he rarely returned to Mayfield Manor. He simply packed his luggage and lived alone in the dormitory of Imperial College.

Even though Jiang Yanyu didn't come back, Mansory was still restless and insisted on taking him to the university and staying in Jiang Yanyu's dormitory for a few days.

But as soon as Shen Yin entered the school gate, he slipped out after the driver left, secretly booked a plane ticket, and ran to China to see his "brother" whom he had been thinking about all the time.

When he first arrived at Jiangcheng Technology, Shen Yin was extremely nervous because Luo Qinglin clearly didn't know him.

After getting Luo Qinglin's class schedule, Shen Yin followed him every day, went to class with him, ate with him in the cafeteria, and worked part-time as a migrant worker outside the school with him.

While others were looking at the teacher, Shen Yin was looking at Luo Qinglin's cute round head.

While the others were concentrating on eating, Shen Yin was watching Luo Qinglin blowing gently on the noodles.

It seemed that every move of Luo Qinglin was cute, and every part of his face was beautiful, just like in his dream.

Unfortunately, Shen Yin could only stay in China for three days. The closer the day of boarding the plane was, the more anxious he became.

The weather in Jiangcheng is very changeable. It was sunny on the day he came, but it started to rain heavily the day before he left, just like Shen Yin's mood.

Shen Yin was not satisfied after secretly watching Luo Qinglin for three days. He wanted to at least say a word to Luo Qinglin.

On the rainy day, Shen Yin plucked up the courage and stopped following Luo Qinglin. Instead, he walked beside him and sat in the seat next to him, his eyes glued to him, unwilling to leave.

When the class was over, Luo Qinglin noticed his burning gaze, and while packing up his books, he turned his head and asked, "Do you...what's the matter?"

Luo Qinglin was not wearing glasses. His pupils were as bright as black pearls. His beautiful eyes were just like in the photo. Just a glance at them would make one's heart beat faster and face turn red.

This was the first time Shen Yin had this feeling. He stammered and was unable to speak. He shook his head and ran out of the classroom, fleeing in panic.

Holding his chest, Shen Yin ran through the crowded crowd to the entrance of the teaching building. Looking at the heavy rain outside, he realized that his umbrella was left in the classroom corridor.

Is he going back to get his umbrella?

If I go back to get it, will I meet Luo Qinglin again?

If they meet, will Luo Qinglin think he is a weird person and hate him?

All the students around him opened their umbrellas and walked into the rain. Fewer and fewer students were left in the teaching building. Only Shen Yin stood motionless at the door.

never mind.

Shen Yin thought that as long as he could see Luo Qinglin with his own eyes, it would be enough. He would talk to Luo Qinglin next time he came to China.

Shen Yin took off his fake glasses without prescription and prepared to run into the rain empty-handed, but just as he took a step, a hand grabbed his arm.

"Classmate, don't you have an umbrella?"

When Shen Yin heard the word "classmate", he knew whose voice it was. He didn't dare to look back. The place where Luo Qinglin was holding him felt like it was poisoned, numb and itchy.

Luo Qinglin walked to Shen Yin's side and looked at him innocently with a pair of bright eyes. "Is your dormitory on the east or west side?"

"East, east." Shen Yin's voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible.

"I live in the east, too," Luo Qinglin said with a smile, "If you don't mind, you can share an umbrella with me. It's easy to get a fever or a cold if you get caught in the rain in this season."

Shen Yin's eyes were fixed on Luo Qinglin's lips, which were opening and closing. He didn't hear what he said at all. He just felt that the world was extremely silent.

Getting no response, Luo Qinglin blinked and called out again: "Classmate?"

Shen Yin came back to his senses and stammered, "Okay, okay, thank you."

Luo Qinglin smiled and opened the umbrella, "Let's go."

Under the umbrella, Shen Yin didn't dare to get close to Luo Qinglin at all, with half of his shoulder exposed to the rain. A charming aroma came from the side, covering the fishy smell of rain and flowing into the nostrils.

Smells so good.

Shen Yin swallowed and thought to himself.

It was only ten minutes from the teaching building to the dormitory complex, but Shen Yin felt that time was long, and every second was like a century, like an automatically projected silent film, rotating in his memories over and over again...

Tick, tick.

It started raining on the island at night, and the salty and humid smell was different from that in the river city.

The phone on the table vibrated. Shen Yin opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Yanyu's name on the screen with a stern expression.

"Brother Jiang, what's the matter?"

"Okay, I understand."

"Well, I won't send it again."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Yin was silent for a moment with a sullen face, and then he smashed the phone to the ground.

Luo Qinglin's sleeping face was still on the computer screen. Shen Yin stared at the photo, put his lips close to the screen, and gently covered the lips in the photo.

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