Chapter 255 They Are Not Alone

Ning Yan asked for half a month's leave from work and prepared to return to Beijing to visit Yu Li and the others.

Two nights before departure, he received a call from Cheng Zhengze, asking him to meet.

When he made the call, Yu Chengbai was next to him, helping him pack the luggage to take back. As if by telepathy, Ning Yan had just looked at him for two seconds when Yu Chengbai turned his head.

"Friend?" The voice on the phone was not quiet, and Yu Chengbai asked even though he knew the answer.

"Um."

Ning Yan turned on the hands-free mode of the phone, handed it to him, and said, "He once shot a good friend of mine with a gun."

Yu Chengbai didn't look at the phone screen, smiled, and said generously: "It's up to you. If you want to go, go. If you don't want to go, just refuse and say you're busy lately."

Ning Yan glanced at the phone, then glanced at him, back and forth several times, frowned and said: "I didn't hang up, he could hear it."

Yu Chengbai said: "Yeah, I know."

Ning Yan said firmly: "You don't want me to go, I understand."

Yu Chengbai shook his head: "No, I can do anything."

Ning Yan immediately said, "Really? Then I'll go meet him. It's been quite a while since I've seen him, and I have something I want to ask him."

Yu Chengbai didn't say anything and quietly packed his things under the light. He also put the small cup that Ning Yan liked very much into the suitcase, and planned to urge him to drink more water and go out less to drink after returning to the capital.

Ning Yan and Cheng Zhengze agreed on a meeting hotel and time.

A day later, Ning Yan went to the hotel to meet Cheng Zhengze, and chose the sea view hotel where he had met Cheng Zhengze again.

He was sitting on the terrace, dressed casually in a white shirt and a khaki jacket.

When he woke up in the morning, Yu Chengbai braided his hair into a side ponytail. Maybe it was because he hadn't dyed it for a long time, so his hair color was lighter than before. When he lowered his head to play with his mobile phone, his hair covered his eyebrows and eyes, making him look very gentle and calm.

When the waiter came over, he mistook him for a woman.

When she saw him look up, she immediately blushed and apologized embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, I thought you were..."

"It's okay." Ning Yan smiled, lowered her head and continued to reply to Yu Li's message, sighing: "My husband used to braid my daughter's hair, but my daughter went back to her grandfather's house, and my husband felt itchy, so he liked to braid it for me."

Calling her partner doesn't sound like they're married, calling him husband is too corny as Ning Yan only accepts flirting in bed, and calling him husband is too official and doesn't seem intimate enough.

Just for this question of address, Yu Chengbai could keep Ning Yan awake for hours in the middle of the night to discuss it.

Ning Yan was really afraid of him, and finally chose this name that both parties were satisfied with.

Not to mention, when Ning Yan heard this title, he felt like a cultured person.

The waiter came over several times to add water, and even the waiter changed several times, but Cheng Zhengze didn't come over.

Ning Yan had lost several games and had no intention of playing anymore. He quit the game and called Cheng Zhengze to ask if he had died in a car accident. A normal person would have died in a wheelchair.

Make a phone call.

Buzz buzz buzz...

The phone vibrated on the table, and a hand wearing a watch reached out and hung up the call.

Cheng Zhengze turned his head to look out the window. The young man with long pink hair was staring at his phone. He frowned hard and moved his lips up and down.

Judging from the shape of his mouth, he was cursing the grass, which was as light as eating and drinking water.

"Brother, aren't you going out? Your sister-in-law is waiting for you." Cheng Jin was sitting opposite him. Seeing that he turned off the incoming call and didn't go out for a long time, he held his cheeks with both hands, his face full of confusion and puzzlement.

Didn’t you say you wanted to keep a date?

What are you doing sitting here for half a day?

"He is not." Cheng Zhengze said suddenly.

"Not what?"

"Not your sister-in-law."

Cheng Jin was stunned, thinking he was joking.

Just as he was about to laugh, he noticed that his brother was looking outside with a serious expression, without a trace of joking on his face.

His eyes were filled with complex emotions.

He also turned his head and saw Ning Yan's increasingly impatient expression outside. He couldn't help but get anxious and urged, "Brother, stop playing hard to get. I feel like my sister-in-law is really going to get angry. You'd better hurry up..."

Cheng Zhengze's tone was a little tougher: "He is not your sister-in-law."

Cheng Jin looked at him blankly.

...That's not right.

...That's not what I said before.

Before, right here, his brother had clearly said that his sister-in-law was the most powerful killer, that her name was Ning Yan, that she was incredibly beautiful, and that she died because of him...

"Isn't that my sister-in-law?"

Cheng Jin pointed at Ning Yan outside and said quickly, "I've met him before with my sister-in-law. He's exactly like what you described! Very powerful! And very handsome! I think he must have lost his memory. That guy named Yu Chengbai stole my love!"

"It wasn't him who stole my love." Cheng Zhengze said, "It was me."

“…” Cheng Jin opened his eyes wide, his face full of disbelief.

The night after Cheng Zhengze called Ning Yan to arrange a meeting, an unexpected guest arrived at his home. Yu Chengbai sat in the living room, drinking a cup of tea handed to him by a servant, his face gentle and his face lightly smiling.

Alone, alone.

There was no apparent hostility at all.

Cheng Zhengze walked past him and went upstairs, as if he didn't see him and didn't take him seriously.

Just after he stepped onto two steps, Yu Chengbai called out to him, "Mr. Cheng."

Cheng Zhengze ignored him and continued to go upstairs.

"I came here to apologize to you."

Cheng Zhengze stopped walking but didn't turn around. He just frowned slightly, a hint of disgust and ridicule flashing across his eyes. He said coldly, "Is this considered a friendly greeting from the winner to the loser, Mr. Chairman?"

He turned around, "Or is it a provocation?"

Yu Chengbai said: "It's a sincere apology."

Cheng Zhengze looked at him expressionlessly without saying a word, his black suit jacket draped over his arm.

The servant seemed to want to come over and help him take it away and hang it up, but he didn't dare to move.

His eyes moved cautiously between the two of them, and finally he lowered his head in silence, trying to blend into the background.

"Excuse me, Mr. Chairman, what is it that you sincerely apologize for that warrants your visit in the middle of the night?"

"Your wife."

Cheng Zhengze was stunned for a moment, then quickly smiled: "The hatred of having your wife stolen from you?"

Yu Chengbai corrected: "It's an unjustifiable injustice."

"...Whose?" Cheng Zhengze frowned.

"Ning Yan's."

"What injustice did he suffer?"

"Your child has nothing to do with him."

Cheng Zhengze immediately said, "I know."

He stood high up, looking down at Yu Chengbai standing next to the sofa, and couldn't help but lower his eyes slightly. "He's a man, he can't have children. I used the DNA sample he left at 735 to do a paternity test with Engel, and the report showed that the paternity was confirmed."

"It's really strange. How can a man give birth to a child?"

"Either there's something wrong with the report or there's something wrong with the DNA sample."

Yu Chengbai said: "Yes, the DNA sample you took from 735 was not Ning Yan's, but someone else's."

Cheng Zhengze's eyes lit up slightly.

He had always firmly believed that there were two Ning Yans, and that the man who had appeared before him during this time could not be his wife, nor the mother of his child. He tried every possible way to dig the truth out of Ning Yan...

But unfortunately, there is no such truth.

There is no clue to prove that Ning Yan is an identity code shared by a man and a woman.

Now Yu Chengbai's words gave him a glimmer of hope.

"There are two Ning Yans, right? One male and one female." Cheng Zhengze stared at his expression closely, not daring to miss any details.

"Which one do you like?"

“…”

"Is it the Ning Yan who used to appear and disappear mysteriously, who would share with you the interesting stories of his time as a killer with a smile, and who would ask you if you wanted a cigarette when he was smoking? Or is it the Ning Yan who later stuck by your side every day, who would look at you tenderly and imagine the future with you?"

"Is there any difference?" Cheng Zhengze frowned.

"Yes, they are not alone."