Cloud of Doubt
"What is Philo's father's name?"
It was still the familiar coffee shop, Wei Shao and Ji Peiyan sat opposite each other, and Wei Shao asked directly in Chinese.
The waiter nearby heard this strange string of syllables and looked at them curiously.
"Why are you asking this suddenly?" Ji Peiyan took a sip of coffee.
"I have to get this matter cleared up before Kweiyi, so that I can deal with it easily if anything goes wrong." Wei Shao's tone sounded a little serious, and there was an indescribable coldness in it.
Ji Peiyan looked at him and said, "I can tell you, but I still want to remind you - the more the plot changes, the less help I can provide to you. Maybe one day, even I won't know what will happen next."
Wei Shao paused for a moment because of this sentence. He shook his head and said, "Ji Peiyan, everything has been different since the moment we came in."
Ji Peiyan didn't know what he was thinking of, with a hint of emotion in his eyes, he whispered: "Okay, that makes sense."
"Filo's father is--" Ji Peiyan pulled Wei Shao's hand over and wrote a name in Chinese characters on his palm, stroke by stroke.
Wei Shao's pupils shrank slightly.
Ji Peiyan breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "I thought you were going to scold me again."
Wei Shao clenched the fingers of the hand holding the "word" and said, "Since I have decided to stay, I will not worry about the outside world anymore. Ji Peiyan, thank you."
Ji Peiyan looked at him quietly for a while, then sighed and said, "Now I really believe that you have decided to stay, Wei Shao, is it worth it?"
"I didn't think too much about it. I just wanted to do this." After Wei Shao finished speaking, he glanced at a position diagonally opposite them. The customer was pretending to place an order. When he saw Wei Shao looking at him, he almost dropped the menu in his hand to the ground.
He looked at Ji Peiyan meaningfully: "I don't know about you and me."
Ji Peiyan: “…”
Ji Peiyan shook his head, his eyes showing no emotion: "Child, it's difficult."
"I have two more questions for you," Wei Shao checked the time and got back to the point, "What is the ending of this world in the original text?"
Ji Peiyan noticed that the word he used was "this world" rather than "Philo and so-and-so".
"I wrote about love, and love ended happily. I didn't write about what happened after love, so I don't know. But..." Ji Peiyan paused, "For a government that is extremely repressive, there are only two possible endings."
Wei Shao looked at him and opened his mouth: "An egg broken from the outside is food, but broken from the inside is a new life?"
"That's too literary," Ji Peiyan smiled and held up two fingers. "The oppressed group launched a rebellion, and the greedy foreign races carried out the invasion."
Wei Shao was silent. Many thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, but he said nothing.
It seems that no matter which one it is, Philo cannot remain immune.
"What about the other one?" Perhaps because the topic was too heavy, Ji Peiyan took the initiative to bring it up.
Wei Shao frowned and asked, "How did Fei Luo's brother die?"
Philo had mentioned this matter to him before, but his description was too vague. Wei Shao didn't want to bring up his sad memories, so he didn't ask again.
Besides, Ji Peiyan must know these things better than Fei Luo himself.
But the strange thing is that Ji Peiyan showed a puzzled expression after hearing his words.
"elder brother?"
Wei Shao frowned slightly: "Yes, what's wrong?"
Ji Peiyan also frowned: "Wei Shao, Fei Luo has no brother."
"bite--"
The spoon in Wei Shao's hand hit the coaster, his eyes filled with disbelief mixed with some indescribable emotions.
After a long while, he finally uttered two words: "No?"
Ji Peiyan also noticed that his mood was not right, and said carefully: "At least my brother doesn't have one, Wei Shao, what happened?"
Wei Shao's hand on the table clenched little by little, and he was slow to respond to Ji Peiyan's words.
Some of Philo's words and expressions replayed in his mind frame by frame like images.
He closed his eyes and tried to put aside the worst guesses: "Nothing."
Ji Peiyan hesitated: "You don't look well, did you hear any rumors..."
Wei Shao was silent for a long time before he said, "Ji Peiyan, before Fei Luo and Keweiyi - I mean the original plot - did you ever like her..."
Ji Peiyan immediately said: "No, absolutely not! Don't worry about this."
Wei Shao's tightly clenched hands suddenly loosened, and there were some cut debris on his palms. He looked down and realized belatedly that he seemed to have used too much force just now.
He threw the broken spoon into the trash can, took a sip of cold coffee, and said softly, "Oh."
Ji Peiyan guessed a rough idea from his expression: "It may be a plot that automatically fills in the world background. It must be an insignificant character. Don't take it too seriously. Besides, maybe that brother is a female insect?"
Wei Shao thought of certain scenes and pursed his lips: "I didn't mean to doubt him."
It's not that he can't accept that Philo once liked someone else.
But he couldn't accept that the person was thinking about something else in his arms.
Since Philo said he liked him, then he had no choice but to like him. Since he grew up, he has not forced anything, because some things cannot be forced - but he cannot be generous with what has been said and promised.
He hoped it was just a misunderstanding.
Wei Shao lowered his eyelids, called the waiter to settle the bill, and then said to Ji Peiyan: "Thank you for today, I won't have lunch with you - Chen He."
He waved to the older boy who was still hiding on the other side and said, "Come and keep Teacher Ji company."
Ji Peiyan: "...You are repaying kindness with enmity?"
Wei Shao smiled and said, "You can also reject him. Don't try to lure him in, Teacher Ji."
Ji Peiyan: “…”
As I walked out of the cafe, a cold air hit me.
According to Ji Peiyan, the Zerg he set up can be traced back to the humans in their world. Basically, when humans were on the verge of extinction, the mutated and evolved Zerg ate human genes. From then on, they could survive and reproduce in the form of humans, but they also suffered revenge from nature. For example, the IQ of the earliest batch of Zerg was not even as good as that of primitive people, and their blood was violent like a thorn in the flesh.
The current Zerg rulers probably carry the biological genes of the subtropical monsoon climate - it’s snowing on the Imperial Star.
The snow is made through special means, and each piece is a standard hexagonal crystal without even a trace of impurities.
The terminal vibrated.
.-- .. ..-. .
Luo Luo: [It’s snowing.] 】
Wei Shao moved his fingers but did not respond immediately.
He drove back to the military apartment.
After the wedding, he proposed to move upstairs to sleep with Philo, but Philo said that there were not enough rooms upstairs and the utility room was full and difficult to clean, so all their common living items were moved downstairs.
There are four rooms downstairs, two of which are small rooms that were connected to form their shared study room like the ones upstairs, and one medium-sized room was Wei Shao's previous workshop, which has not been moved yet.
The largest one serves as the master bedroom. It has a suite structure, includes a dressing room and a master bathroom, and is approximately 50 square meters in total.
But it was different upstairs. Philo used this place as a storage room, and he lived in the room where Wei Shao's workshop was located.
Wei Shao also asked about it, but the other party explained that the room was too big and it would feel lonely living there alone, and that he had too many military items and the small room couldn't hold them all. This made it convenient for Wei Shao to take advantage of the situation and move him down - it wouldn't be lonely if two people lived together.
Wei Shao put the car keys away, went straight into his workshop, opened the Internet and searched for "Abandoned Star 016".
Just like the previous times, the result that popped up was still a bunch of text and depressing and glaring blurry photos.
He searched for "Carlos Langley" again.
Carlos Langley, a famous general during the reign of the previous emperor.
At that time, the current emperor was only the third prince, and the fifth prince was virtuous and kind, and had a high reputation among the people. He was also on good terms with Marshal Carlos, who held a large number of troops, so it was basically a foregone conclusion that he would become the crown prince.
But Carlos later attempted to rebel and was sentenced to death by hanging for treason by the late emperor. The fifth prince was also implicated and lost the late emperor's trust.
Marshal Carlos had never been married before he was sentenced. If it weren’t for Ji Peiyan... Wei Shao would never have thought of him.
He wrote down several key points of information on paper, and then listed the relevant information he knew in a network.
"Knock knock knock--" Wei Shao paused with his pen and subconsciously turned the folder over and closed it.
"exist."
The door opened and Philo walked in, still feeling the chill from the wind and snow. Wei Shao pulled him over and let him sit on his lap, stroking his left ring finger. The transparent stone inlaid on the ring felt a little rough to the touch. Wei Shao knew that the inner ring of the ring was engraved with his initials.
"You came back early today."
"Well, I'm back early." Philo looked at him, his shadow reflected in his eyes, "Why didn't you reply to my message?"
Wei Shao paused and kissed his cheek: "I didn't see it."
Fei Luo pursed his lips, perhaps feeling a little disappointed, but he never showed these emotions. He just stubbornly said to Wei Shao again: "It's snowing."
Wei Shao pointed at the mark left by the melting snow on his shoulder and said, "I know this."
Feiluo frowned slightly and suddenly asked: "Are you unhappy today?"
Wei Shao curled his lips and smiled: "Why do you ask?"
Philo looked at the curve of his mouth, and the confusion between his brows did not disappear.
Wei Shao lowered his eyes and grabbed his hand: "I've been a little busy recently and I'm tired."
Philo breathed a sigh of relief: "Just do as you please. The parliament won't dare to do anything to you. For a trivial matter like this—"
As he spoke, he opened the folder that Wei Shao had closed, and his voice suddenly stopped.
Wei Shao's heart was in his throat for a moment, but he quickly calmed down - he was writing in Chinese, his handwriting was illegible and the words were scattered all over the place.
Philo's hands were a little stiff, and he asked softly, "What kind of painting is this?"
Wei Shao closed the folder again: "It's just a casual scribble, not work, go on."
Fei Luo did not continue, but silently leaned his head on Wei Shao's neck and wrapped his arms around his waist.
Wei Shao was slightly surprised: "What happened today..."
The doubts in his heart were temporarily dispelled by this small gesture of dependence. He frowned and gently rubbed Philo's hair, and mentioned the previous agreement: "I'll carry you back to the bedroom to watch the snow?"
The large curved floor-to-ceiling window on the bedroom balcony is a great place to watch the snow.
Philo certainly had no objection.
Unfortunately, the young man's self-control was really poor. Halfway through seeing the snow, Philo's eyes were covered with wet mist, and no matter how beautiful the scenery was, it was difficult to appreciate it.
In a state of confusion and passion, he rubbed Wei Shao's chest and called him brother again.
Wei Shao's heart turned as cold as the snowflakes flying in the sky outside. He stared at Fei Luo's blushing face buried in the pillow. His expression was even uglier than the day he traveled through time.
He couldn't even maintain the illusion, so he just withdrew, leaving Philo alone in the room, changed his clothes, slammed the door and left.
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