Chapter 97

His residential complex was right in front of him, but after stopping, Lawyer Bian found that he was reluctant to step in.

Go home? It wasn't a warm word for him.

His father's indifference and his mother's pickyness made Bian Lu feel that he couldn't feel the warmth of home. What's more, he was demoted now, which was a demotion in the ancient Xia country. He wouldn't be in a good mood when he returned.

Although Bian Lu is an only child and has his own private room, he still chose to rent a house.

He lives in a guesthouse a few kilometers away from his home.

There was a slight intoxication in the wind, and the fishy smell of sea fish. This familiar sense of home made Bian Lu feel a little better. He packed his luggage, went downstairs to eat something, and strolled to the nearby food street.

The most abundant thing in the underwater base is seafood, so these roadside stalls mostly sell squid skewers and the like.

He was just sitting down when his wristband vibrated. It was a message from Liu Li. Bian Lu had forgotten when he had added her.

Liu Li: Have you really been transferred?

Bian Lu looked at her and thought it was funny. She spoke to him in a sarcastic way at work, and now she came to comfort him for no apparent reason - it just made people think she was hypocritical.

Bian Lu: Yes.

He answered her with only one word without any disguise.

Liu Li actually thought they were close enough to chat, and she added, "You shouldn't have left. As soon as you left, Chang Haojie took your place. We had a meeting yesterday, and the director praised you for your dedication to your work, but you're just too stubborn and don't know how to get along with others."

Seeing this, Bian Lu sneered twice and typed a line: "I'm really not as good as Chang Haojie who carries water to the boss's office every day..."

Halfway through his words, Bian Lu deleted it and started again: Maybe, but my return to District F has nothing to do with others. It’s mainly because I want to go back to my hometown.

After saying that, Bian Lu clicked on "Do Not Disturb" for Liu Li. He breathed a sigh of relief, as if his guard had been lowered, and decided to forget about them and start a new life.

As luck would have it, the squid skewers were served, and Bian Lu chose to pack them up and take them away, intending to enjoy them in his rented room.

The bracelet vibrated several times during the process. Bian Lu thought that Liu Li didn't check it. It was only when he went into the room and closed the door that he saw that the calls were from An Jing.

Bian Lu frowned. To be honest, he really didn't want to continue with An Jing.

But out of courtesy, he chose to call back and asked, "Hello, Teacher An, what do you want to talk to me about?"

An Jing was holding his boat ticket at the dock, having been waiting for the submarine for nearly half an hour. He shouted angrily, "Why did you say it was over again? And what about you saying you didn't want to play house with me? Why?"

He was sweating profusely and was very emotional. His pupils trembled where Bian Lu couldn't see, and he even looked haggard and sad.

"Why would you ask for that?" Bian Lu replied, "I didn't really like you in the first place. I was just kidding you. You did too. Why did you take it so seriously?"

"I..." An Jing's fingertips trembled, his amber eyes filled with tears. After a long moment, until Bian Lu wanted to die, he finally replied, "I didn't."

Bian Lu sighed, his voice softening as he said, "It's strange, An Jing. Sometimes I think you're very smart, and sometimes I think you're childish."

Bian Lu: "We are not young anymore, and you are married. No matter how your relationship with your wife is, I don't see any future with you."

"Do you want me to divorce my wife?" An Jing asked.

"No, not at all," Bian Lu said urgently. "I really didn't mean that." He took a deep breath on the phone and said seriously, "Let me put it this way. I naively thought that being with you would be a boon to our interests, but you... you actually just wanted to date me. Oh my God, An Jing, that's why I said you were childish and naive."

An Jing froze on the other end, his passion surging as if icy water had been poured down his throat. He couldn't help but laugh and asked, "So you're also taking advantage of me like all my exes?"

"What do you mean by 'freeloader'..." Bian Lu realized it belatedly and said, "Oh," explaining, "No, An Jing. That's not the case. Okay, then I'll be frank with you. I admit that you're very attractive, and I admit that I'm a little attracted to you. But, but, in this world, there's more than just goodwill that determines an intimate relationship."

"Let me put it this way, I... I think you're too good, so I can't let go of my pride and be with you." When Bian Lu mentioned this, his eyes turned red even faster than An Jing's. He blinked and endured the silent grievances.

Only he knew that this grievance and awkwardness came from class, not because An Jing was a promiscuous scumbag.

Bian Lu said: "You didn't do anything wrong, because you don't understand what love is, so I can completely accept your previous complicated relationship."

A complicated relationship? An Jing's expression was solemn, his heart aching. He pursed his lips, stubbornly refusing to let the tears fall.

"But—" Bian Lu continued to ruthlessly attack him, saying, "It's precisely because of your complicated relationship that I feel like a scapegoat. Do you understand what I mean?"

"I admit that I am a prodigal son..." An Jing said in a tired tone.

"It's not important." Bian Lu sighed and muttered to himself: "Oh, maybe it's important to others, but it doesn't matter to me anymore."

"It doesn't matter...hahahaha." An Jing was completely hurt by his words. He asked, "So you're just like them. You're all pretending to be affectionate because you want to benefit from it, right?"

"But I never asked you for anything..." Before Bian Lu finished speaking, An Jing had already hung up the phone.

The human voices disappeared, leaving only the dead silence of the room. Bian Lu looked at the empty room and did not feel relieved at all because of the bad fate he had gotten rid of. Instead, he felt that the room was even more gloomy and desolate.

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On An Jing's side, the submarine came up, but he suddenly tore up the ticket in his hand, and his original intention to fight back to find Bian Lu suddenly disappeared.

He stretched out his hand and let the scraps of paper scatter into the sea.

An Jing chose to turn back, put one hand in his pocket and dragged the suitcase, leaving the dock without looking back.

When they arrived at the hotel, An Jing threw himself on the bed. He didn't cry, but just stared at the ceiling, as if he was in a trance, for a long time.

Until, he took out the remote control from his pocket, released Lu Chao, and asked: "Did I do something wrong?"

"What?" Lu Chao, completely unaware of what was happening, blinked and said with a smile, "The problem is, I have no idea what you've been through."

An Jing covered his face, twisted and turned several times on the bed, suddenly raised his head, jumped up and hit the sheets with a pillow, saying, "I really want to spend my whole life with him! Why did it turn out like this? Ahhhhhh——"

Lu Chao narrowed his eyes, crossed his legs, and looked at An Jing jumping on the bed, until he became exhausted and paralyzed, lying on the bed and burst into tears emotionally.

“…” This person started again, his mood was like the weather forecast, sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny.

"Why are you doing this to me?" An Jing said with a sad face and a hoarse voice, aggrieved, "I've loved each of them with all my heart. They all say I'm a scumbag, but when I was with them, I was truly affectionate."

Lu Chao, with his face transformed into An Jing's, hesitated to speak, and finally said, "Why don't you go see a psychiatrist? I think you really need some medication since you keep laughing and crying all the time."

"Get out!" An Jing threw the pillow at his face.

Lu Chao dodged, even though he was invisible and it didn't matter if he didn't. He reminded: "Let me make it clear first, I am you now. If you hit me or scold me, you are hitting yourself and scolding yourself."

"I don't want to see a psychiatrist." An Jing, who had someone to chat with, sniffed and suddenly said, "Hey, little An Jing, I'll get you a physical body. You can be my twin brother and chat with me all day long. How about that?"

After being dumped, you immediately want the next one? Haha, Lu Chao is not stupid, how could he not see that An Jing wants to use him as a backup.

——Of course, that is impossible.

"I have a name, my name is Lu Chao." He smiled slightly, with a hint of anger in his eyes, but then he thought about it and thought that it was harmless to hear him give himself a nickname.

"Alright." An Jing sat up straight again, wiped his tears, and said, "So, Lu Chao, what do you want most right now? Tell me, maybe I can help you achieve it."

Lu Chao sneered. He stood up from the sofa, stood in front of the French window and looked out at the skyscrapers. He said, "You want to tell me the truth? I want to be like you. In other words, I want to be a real person, a real person named Lu Chao, living in this world."

"You..." An Jing looked depressed. He chuckled dryly, "You're just trying to embarrass me. After all, you know you have a special status. You want human rights, and that's not something a small person like me can decide."

"An Jing." Lu Chao turned and said, "Do you know why you can never find happiness? It's because you are actually very selfish, whether it's towards me or that person named Bian Lu. You subconsciously always feel that others should try to please you, but you only know how to enjoy yourself and not give back."

"..." An Jing raised his head suddenly and looked at him with some confusion.

Lu Chao said, "I'm not some emotional guru. But I can tell that Bian Lu feels very inferior and insecure in front of you. The fact that he's willing to call you shows that he's taken the initiative. Now, the initiative is in your hands."

"The initiative is in my hands?" An Jing chewed over this sentence.

Seeing that he was still slow, Lu Chao's aversion to stupidity kicked in. He added, "Teacher An, for me, I don't think chatting with you will bring me happiness, because you're just a stranger to me. You're not special to me, so I'm not happy with you. Please stop being so lost in your own world."

After Lu Chao finished speaking, he wanted to log off and wait.

At the last second before leaving, An Jing seemed to have an epiphany. He jumped off the bed, his expression solemn and serious, and asked, "Are you saying that I should go find Bian Lu?"

"It's up to you. It has nothing to do with me." Lu Chao rolled his eyes at An Jing. He didn't want to bother with his love history anymore and turned back into an ordinary little cube.

It can be seen that Lu Chao really dislikes An Jing.

An Jing stood up straight, paced on the spot, and even bit his thumbnail for a long time as if thinking deeply. Finally, he looked at the ticket purchase record on his bracelet and decided to find Bian Lu.