What Cheng Ye didn't expect the most was that after he felt a little better and was able to get out of bed, Jin Yuan actually took him to see Xie Yan.

He also thought that with Jin Yuan's possessiveness towards him and the extent to which Jin Yuan hated Xie Yan, there was probably no possibility that the two of them would meet again in this life.

However - as 666 said, it is not an exaggeration at all, Xie Yan does not have a single piece of good flesh on his body.

666 said mysteriously, "Jinyuan wants you to see how miserable he is and then completely lose the last bit of good impression he has." Isn't that how TV dramas are played out... dying at the best age, his youthful appearance will turn into white moonlight and stay in Daye's heart forever.

In ancient times, when a beautiful woman fell ill, she would not want to see the emperor. This was because she wanted the emperor to think of her as a beautiful woman every time he thought of her, rather than her unkempt and haggard appearance.

but--

For Xie Yan now, it would not be an exaggeration to call it a nightmare, let alone a good memory.

He was still wearing the clothes he had worn in the elevator that day. Because the weather was hot, he was only wearing a round-neck T-shirt. The color of the shirt was no longer recognizable, and the collar was deformed from being pulled all the time, exposing most of his shoulders.

Xie Yan had lost a lot of weight. The muscles that were faintly visible in the gym had deflated. He looked emaciated and covered in blood, which was quite scary.

His back was covered with whip marks, his clothes were tangled in his flesh, staining black and red, and the narrow room was filled with a strong smell of blood.

As soon as he came in, Cheng Ye was choked by the smoke and dust and started coughing non-stop. There was also a damp and moldy smell that was pungent. Cheng Ye accidentally sniffed it twice and almost coughed out his lungs. If Jin Yuan hadn't touched his waist, he would have vomited if he bent over.

Through the only window, the first thing he saw was a dark mass huddled in the corner. It stared blankly at Jin Yuan for a long moment before the other party let go of his hand and said, "It's Xie Yan."

Cheng Ye was stunned and took two steps back in fear, his back leaning against the door that had not yet closed, his eyes full of panic.

"Don't be afraid!" Jin Yuan stretched out his hand to hug his shoulders and force him to look over, but Cheng Ye dodged.

Cheng Ye looked at Jin Yuan with extremely vigilant eyes. The latter's eyes showed disappointment. He turned his face away and did not dare to meet his questioning eyes. He just tried his best to calm down and explained, "He tried to get close to you, hurt you, and threaten me."

Cheng Ye looked at him blankly, as if trying to determine the truthfulness of his words.

You don't believe me, you actually don't believe me. Just for such an outsider?!

Jin Yuan looked at Cheng Ye with a suddenly fierce look. He suddenly grabbed Cheng Ye's shoulders, his eyes suddenly sharp, like an eagle holding its prey tightly, as if he wanted to swallow the person in front of him.

Cheng Ye stumbled as he lifted his foot, and his body swayed as he was caught by Jin Yuan. He leaned against Jin Yuan's arms, covering his mouth as he looked at Xie Yan, who was no longer in human form, and murmured, "This is... Xie Yan?"

In the small basement, there was still a faint unpleasant fishy smell lingering around. It had been almost a week since the elevator accident, and Xie Yan had been locked up here and had not gone out. New wounds piled up on old ones on his body, and they had long been inflamed and festering.

The air was cramped and filled with various complex smells. Coupled with the stagnation in his heart, Cheng Ye felt like he couldn't breathe.

He gasped for breath and clutched Jin Yuan's clothes tightly, as if he was the only duckweed in the vast ocean.

Hearing the noise, Xie Yan raised his face with difficulty, revealing a relatively intact but extremely thin and pale face. Seeing that his originally bright eyes had become lifeless, Cheng Ye could not bear to watch it anymore and could not help but lower his eyes.

He bit his lower lip, unable to resist the torment of his conscience, and looked at Jin Yuan for help, as if he could not imagine that this unknown creature was once a human being. He could not even remember what Xie Yan looked like before.

It was partly his fault that Xie Yan became like this. If he hadn't come to find him, Xie Yan wouldn't have been trapped in that elevator. If he hadn't misplaced his phone, Xie Yan wouldn't have been exposed and become half-dead now.

He opened his eyelids and looked at Xie Yan furtively, as if he saw the original owner.

The original owner was locked up in a small dark room on false charges, and his fate was similar to this.

Xie Yan was also one of the culprits who caused such tragic consequences.

It was Xie Yan who approached the original owner with a purpose and brought hope to the original owner, but with a slap he directly pushed the original owner into the abyss of despair.

If he hadn't wanted to use the original owner, if he hadn't cooperated with Xiao Chubai, the original owner wouldn't have died so miserably.

He took advantage of the original owner's obsession to get rid of his unstable life as soon as possible, approached the original owner, and pinned all the confidential information he got from Xiao Chubai on the original owner's head, causing the original owner to be suspected, imprisoned, and eventually died.

So, this is what Xie Yan should repay.

Xie Yan now received the same treatment... While Cheng Ye was panicking, his gaze was more focused and even fell on Xie Yan without any concealment, as if he wanted to see every scar on his body clearly, and compare whether he was more miserable or the original owner was more miserable?

But when Jin Yuan saw his serious look, he could see other unspeakable emotions.

Jin Yuan looked at Xie Yan with a cold and cruel look, as if he was thinking about how to make this person disappear from this world completely!

Cheng Ye, who was held in Jin Yuan's arms, stared at Xie Yan, as if to stimulate Jin Yuan, and even more as if to completely imprint the image of Xie Yan, who was now covered in bruises, in his mind.

You never expected that the person you thought was simple and unpretentious is actually the god of death who leads you step by step into the abyss.

Cheng Ye curled the corners of his mouth. If Xie Yan had not been on guard against him at all, he might not have been able to completely remove himself from this matter. If he was not careful, he would have turned to Xie Yan, but turned against him when he saw that it was impossible to succeed. Even if Jin Yuan still believed in him, he would still have a knot in his heart.

But now——I am just an innocent seducer, right?

The evidence from the audio was completely laid out before Jin Yuan. He even witnessed Xie Yan's attempt to commit indecent acts against him... Tsk, Bai Lianhua was the most innocent. He was just a poor wretch who was dragged into this situation for no apparent reason.

Jin Yuan suddenly got angry, pinched Cheng Ye's chin, lifted his face and forced him to look: "His phone has recordings of every conversation between you and him, so you don't have anything to say to me!"

"I don't know, I know nothing." Cheng Ye's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly grabbed his hand and explained, "I really don't know, I don't understand what he is saying at all, and I don't believe him! You...you don't believe me?" Cheng Ye looked a little hurt, and grabbed Jin Yuan's clothes tightly.

Jin Yuan looked at Cheng Ye calmly, but didn't say whether he believed it or not. Instead, he asked, "Then why do you have Lin Ru's number saved in your phone? Are you a tadpole? You're already this big, and you still have to look for your mother?"

Cheng Ye: “…” Eighteen years ago, I was really just a tadpole.

Sensing the displeasure in Jin Yuan's tone, Cheng Ye had never seen Jin Yuan angry before. He was frightened and said with a stiff upper lip, "I didn't. I never made that call. Really, you can check the records. I really didn't make that call."

"He said I must meet him, so I saved it. Jin Yuan, you can't doubt me, at least not over something like this."

Jin Yuan was worried and confused. He knew that Cheng Ye would definitely not betray him, but he was afraid, so he wanted to prevent the possibility of it happening in the future. He simply made a big deal out of this small matter and wanted to teach Cheng Ye a "lesson" to let him know the consequences of leaving him!

Jin Yuan stared at him for a long moment, then said in a cold tone, "No, or no chance?"

"Don't you know if there's a chance?!" Cheng Ye's face changed drastically. He broke away from Jin Yuan's hand with a start, and his voice became high-pitched. "After all, you still don't believe me. If you believed me, you wouldn't have brought me here today."

Jin Yuan's eyes turned dangerous, and he said slowly, "Is this why you've always been so obedient by my side and never asked for anything? Waiting for an opportunity to strike? Cheng Ye, have I really underestimated you?"

Cheng Ye's face turned pale, and he quickly said, "No, Jin Yuan, how could it be possible! I said it at the beginning, I just wanted to make my life easier, but I didn't expect that I would have such a blessing to meet you. You are so good to me, why should I look for someone else, someone I have never met before?"

Jin Yuan looked at him without saying anything.

Cheng Ye was weak, and after standing for a while, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He looked at Jin Yuan's always cold eyes, from the initial anger to the anxiety to defend himself, to the current disappointment, his eyes gradually became cold.

He stared at his hand holding Jin Yuan's and chuckled twice: "I was overthinking it. So that's how it is. Well, whatever you want is up to you."

Cheng Ye slowly, slowly, walked towards Xie Yan, step by step, like a mermaid, each step was stepping on the edge of a knife. Painful but also mixed with relief, she turned to look at Jin Yuan: "You brought me here, is it simply because you want me to see his end, or do you want me to become like him now?"

Cheng Ye walked up to Xie Yan, slowly squatted down, and brushed away the sticky hair on Xie Yan's forehead. His fingertips rubbed against a trace of dark red, which should be the blood that had not yet dried. He muttered to himself: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's all because of me. I'm really sorry."

His face was sincere, his eyes were filled with tears, and he buried his head deeply, shaking as if he was out of strength.

Xie Yan was even weaker than him, but seeing his painful expression, his originally stern face slowly frowned. He raised his hand with difficulty, as if wanting to touch Cheng Ye's face: "No, no, I don't blame you..."

At the moment when the dirty black nails were about to touch Cheng Ye's cheek, Cheng Ye suddenly raised his head, and two lines of clear tears flowed down his cheeks and fell to the ground in mist.

Xie Yan's hand trembled, and finally fell down weakly, unable to lift it up at all.

Jin Yuan looked coldly at Cheng Ye's back as he gradually moved away from him. His mind was in a mess, the coldness in his eyes gradually thickened, the blood in his chest was churning, and he was restless and wanted to split the room apart.

He clenched his fists and watched Cheng Ye and Xie Yan interacting. He wished he could beat Xie Yan to death on the spot and carry Cheng Ye out of the house completely.

But - he stood there for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. He punched the wall hard, took two or three steps forward, grabbed Cheng Ye's wrist, and forced him to look at him!

"Cheng Ye! You feel sorry for him, don't you?!"

He didn't believe it! This person clearly said that he loved him! Why, why did he betray him, why did he collude with the Lin family!

Cheng Ye opened his eyelids, his eyes were indifferent, as if he had lost the lingering affection of the past. He said calmly: "If you think it is, then it is. Anyway, you won't listen to anything I say now. You only believe what you want to believe."

Jin Yuan felt that the fire in his heart was burning more and more intensely, and he was about to lose control of himself.

He looked down at Cheng Ye and said slowly: "You kill him, as long as you do it now, I will believe you."

"No, you don't believe me. No matter if I make a move or not, you will always have doubts about me." Cheng Ye laughed at himself, and the shadow fell on his face, making him feel even more sarcastic. "Just like after my first meeting with Xie Yan, I even honestly reported every word he said to me, but you still sent more bodyguards, didn't you?"

Jin Yuan doesn't trust anyone at all, especially me, the person who has been in contact with him with a "purpose" from the beginning to the end!

Jin Yuan couldn't hear a word he said, and just sneered: "You don't want to? You can't bear it?"

Cheng Ye didn't want to talk to Jin Yuan anymore who had lost his mind. He pursed his lips tightly and refused to even look at him.

Jin Yuan sneered: "Want to go with him?"

Cheng Ye suddenly looked up and stared at him for a long time before she opened her lips and uttered the cold words, "I don't want to."

"Do you really not want to, or is this just a temporary solution?" Jin Yuan roughly pressed him against the wall, one hand on his lower lip.

Cheng Ye didn't struggle at all, but Jin Yuan's hand was like an iron clamp, and soon a look of pain appeared on his face.

Jin Yuan also felt distressed, but when he saw Gang Cheng Ye being so intimate with Xie Yan without any hesitation, he felt extremely dissatisfied. A strong sense of betrayal surged in his heart. In an instant, his rationality completely disappeared, and his heart and eyes were filled with possession and plunder.

After a long silence, Cheng Ye pleaded softly, "Please let Xie Yan go. Let him go."

Jin Yuan's brows furrowed fiercely, his features becoming ferocious: "You, what did you say!"

Cheng Ye forced herself to turn her head away and not look at him: "Jin Yuan, no matter who he is, he saved me, and I have nothing to do with him. You can't arrest him because of me. I will die, and I will die of guilt."

Cheng Ye clutched his chest, his face full of tears. "Let him go. I'll be yours, your cats and dogs, your inanimate objects, okay?"

Xie Yan looked up in shock, his pale, dry, and peeling lips moving, but he couldn't make any sound because he hadn't been hydrated for a long time. Only his eyes were misty as he shook his head frantically at Cheng Ye, and the strips of cloth on his body swayed in the wind, revealing the mottled flesh underneath.

Jin Yuan pinched his neck, lowered his head and bit him madly, his voice low: "You want to negotiate terms with me?"

Cheng Ye closed his eyes slightly, a tear running down his cheek and landing on his pointed chin. He laughed at himself and said, "Do I have the right to negotiate terms? This is a plea, a request, an extravagant hope. I beg you, if you want, I'll kneel down and do anything, just to ask you to let him go."

Jin Yuan's eyes were dark, and he lowered his head to kiss his lips, not wanting to hear any of the next words.

He actually felt jealous. Not only did he not want to let the damn man go, he even wanted to cut him into pieces.

"Go back, go back, okay?" Cheng Ye took the initiative to hug his neck tightly, kissed his Adam's apple, and sobbed softly in a tearful voice. It seemed that her whole body was shaking with fear because there was someone around her.

Jin Yuan didn't want to believe that he didn't want to be intimate with him in front of Xie Yan, but he really didn't want Cheng Ye to make any seductive moves or charming sounds in front of Xie Yan.

He pinched Cheng Ye's neck hard, forcing him to cough continuously, but withdrew his hand just before he suffocated. He stared at him viciously and walked out with him in his arms.

All that was left was Xie Yan's heavy breathing and the vague sound of calling for help.

…

Cheng Ye is autistic, which doesn’t mean that he is really autistic, but that he is self-enclosed.

He sat on the bed most of the time, unwilling to get down even to eat, and at most to go to the bathroom. Apart from Jinyuan, he would not see anyone else, and he would not even watch TV.

Jinyuan was worried about him. Mental illness cannot be seen or touched, and he was afraid of it.

But Cheng Ye's words made him even more scared. Cheng Ye said that he didn't want to watch TV because he was afraid that if he looked at an actor for too long, he would cause trouble for that actor.

Jin Yuan's heart trembled. He knew that his little Ye Zi was blaming him, both in words and in heart.

Jin Yuan hugs Cheng Ye every night, but they don’t do it every day. Sometimes they just cover each other with a quilt and chat.

Jin Yuan put his arm around Cheng Ye's shoulders, a warm smile in his eyes, but he said something chilling: "Do you want to know how Xie Yan is doing?"

Cheng Ye's body froze for a moment, and she leaned in his arms, lowering her head with no emotion visible: "I'll listen to you whatever you say."

Jin Yuan looked at him deeply and said, "Three months ago, the lowest bid from Europe was discovered by the rival company. We found out it was Xie Yan who spread the news. But he had never been to the company. How did he know such an exact number, even down to two decimal places?"

Cheng Ye's eyes showed a puzzled look, which turned into enlightenment in an instant. He smiled self-deprecatingly: "Okay, okay, I'm finally here."

Jin Yuan sighed: "I don't want to doubt you."

Cheng Ye grabbed Jin Yuan's collar, his voice pleading slightly, lowering his eyes and trembling as he said, "I don't recognize those words. I didn't look carefully, but I also remember that the page I turned to didn't have any numbers."

After a long pause, he looked into Jin Yuan's eyes. "Xiao Chubai, he saw it that day, too." Cheng Ye's nails were slightly pale due to the force he applied. "He said I was peeking at your documents, and I raised them to show him I didn't know any foreign language. I didn't even know what language it was."

Jin Yuan asked, "You really didn't do it?"

Cheng Ye nodded vigorously and looked at him firmly: "I can swear!"

After saying that, he suddenly looked at Jin Yuan with suspicion: "You don't believe me? You're not asking me, you're making a statement. Do you believe Xiao Chubai? He said I did it?"

Cheng Ye suddenly threw back the quilt, stepped on the ground with bare feet, looked down at Jin Yuan, and for the first time went crazy, crying loudly and asking: "Jin Yuan, do you believe him or me?"

After saying this, he smiled as if answering his own question: "Yes, in your eyes, I am Xie Yan's person. If anything happens to Xie Yan, I will naturally be affected. But Jinyuan, I love you. I love you. What do you want me to say so that you can believe me?"

"Or rather, it wasn't me you loved from the beginning. The one you truly loved was Xiao Chubai, and I was just... a source of fun?!" He shook his head frantically, and finally tightly grasped Jin Yuan's hand. "I want to confront him! Even a death row inmate has the right to appeal, right? Why did you single-handedly convict me? Why should I bear the blame for Xiao Chubai's one-sided statement? Jin Yuan, get Xiao Chubai over here, get him over here, I want to confront him... cough cough cough!"

Cheng Ye was so angry that his heart was about to burst. He had been lying in bed for many days and his body was extremely weak. He couldn't catch his breath, and with a twitch, his eyes rolled back and he fainted again!

666: "..." Daye is planning to wipe out everyone at once, not letting go of anyone who bullied the original owner!

Jin Yuan couldn't blame himself for being mad at Xiao Chubai, so Xiao Chubai had to bear the responsibility alone!