Mom, I can’t figure it out.

By the time Gou An reacted, she had really stood up obediently like a puppet... She blushed, but sitting back seemed a bit too deliberate.

Her long hair slipped from the man's hand. She raised her hand to gather her hair and could only bite the bullet and make an official closing statement: "I'm relieved to see that you're okay. I'm leaving now. Anyway, my father has already fired me and I guess I won't see you again in the future—"

"Gou An."

A hoarse male voice interrupted her speech, and like a screaming chicken with its throat strangled, her voice suddenly disappeared.

When someone calls you by your full name, you can't help but feel that the other person is murderous.

Gou An stared at the weak, sickly and pale handsome man sitting on the bed with vigilance. He saw him move his hands and the blood-stained IV tube swayed slightly. He exhaled slowly: "I'm sorry for what happened in the past. I was ignorant and stupid."

Gou An pursed his lips and looked at him.

Just a bright heart——

Sure, he must know something.

After all, if he was the simple bodyguard he used to be, he might feel a little embarrassed about the butterfly cakes, but he would not apologize again and again for this matter.

——Even though Ye Lang didn’t know whether Miss Gou, who was standing in front of him, could understand his apology.

However, the way he looked at her was completely different from the way he used to look, which was sometimes confused but mostly firm and calm...

At this moment, those eyes, and all the eyes that Ye Lang looked at Gou An in the dream, completely overlapped.

"I will move out of Zhaipu District." Ye Lang said in a hoarse voice, "From now on, I will no longer talk to Lu Wan."

This sentence had such power that Gou An was like a cat, slowly opening his eyes from confusion.

The hand hanging by her side moved, and her lips opened, as if to say "keep your word", or perhaps "what does it have to do with me"...

But Ye Lang had no way of knowing.

Because when she uttered the first syllable, a deep male voice came from behind them -

"alright."

At the same time, they turned their heads and saw the man standing behind them, with a smile on his lips and looking at the two of them with a gentle smile in his eyes.

"It's just the end of a short employment relationship. Why do you make it look like a breakup between lovers?"

After He Jinxing finished speaking, he stared at Gou An for a long time until she gave up saying another word and moved her feet towards him.

When the two of them got closer, she clearly heard a light sneer from the man above her head. She looked up reflexively, but saw that he just curled the corners of his lips slightly and made a gesture to embrace her.

He patted her shoulder gently and motioned her to go forward.

When she reached the door of the ward, Gou An wanted to look back to see what Ye Lang was doing. However, just as this thought came to her mind, she heard a light voice coming from above her head -

"An An, if you look back one more time, I guarantee that he will appear in a block tomorrow in any sewer in Jiangcheng."

It was a volume that only the two of them could hear.

The curve of the smiling man's lips never changed from beginning to end.

When the strands of hair on Gou An's head stood up one by one, the man paused for three seconds, then rubbed her head with his big hands and sneered -

"Look how scared you are... I'm just kidding. I'm a law-abiding citizen."

Gou An got into He Jinxing's car. After a while, the door on the other side opened and a man wrapped in cold air got into the car.

The sky outside was gloomy and the clouds were thick. He Jinxing took a serious look and said with a sigh, "It looks like it's going to snow."

The calm tone of his self-talk was as if nothing had happened.

Gou An sat in his seat, seemingly oblivious to what he said. He just turned his head and looked at him blankly, and then someone tapped him on the forehead.

"What are you daydreaming about?"

The man's voice was still tinged with a hint of laughter.

She blinked, and her eyes regained some focus.

The atmosphere was quite relaxed. Seeing this, He Jinxing drove the driver, who was already sitting and ready to start the car, out of the car. He leaned back and casually rested his fingertips on his legs and bent them slightly: "Want to talk?"

Gou An still looked at him.

The eyes are calm.

This makes me look like a petty, jealous, crazy old man, right?

He Jinxing sighed silently in his heart, and he didn't understand what he was trying to do with his impatient look. In fact, he said he wanted to talk, but he didn't know how to express his current state.

Because he was unfamiliar with the topic and had no experience, he had no idea how to organize his words well to tell her that he was a little unhappy.

To be precise, he had felt "unhappy" about half an hour ago.

Originally he thought he could at least endure it until he got home and sat down to have a good talk, but after getting in the car just now and seeing Gou An sitting next to him as if his soul had left his body, he suddenly felt like he couldn't endure it for even a second.

He originally thought that the people around him would play dumb, but he didn't expect her to tilt her head, her eyes still calm, without any change: "Where do you want to start?"

"I thought you would resist."

"…I'm afraid you'll send me into the sewer too."

"..." He Jinxing reminded silently, "Don't make such a joke seriously, An An."

Gou An turned away and rolled his eyes slightly toward the car window, "Didn't you start it first?"

"Mind telling me what happened with Yelang?"

Staring at Gou An's profile, he carefully and selectively chose a tactful beginning...

Then he paused, as if he regretted it.

"No - you have to tell me even if you mind. I almost forgot that as her fiancé, you should be qualified to clarify this kind of question."

Gou An turned his head back and asked a question instead of answering: "Why didn't you mention this before?"

"I can't tell what went wrong. It seemed to happen all of a sudden. He looked at you on the day of the school anniversary."

He Jinxing rarely showed a trace of confusion.

"You and Ye Lang didn't have this kind of atmosphere before."

Then he changed his tone to one of affirmation.

"Otherwise I would have found a way to get rid of him a long time ago."

Not to mention how lightly this person said "I will get him away", Gou An always had a creepy feeling. This person's sixth sense was too straightforward -

Is this the sense of smell of a child of destiny? Don't be too outrageous! She was dumbfounded, and finally didn't know how to answer. She stuttered for a long time, blinked and had to admit: "There was a little bit of this before, a story."

He Jinxing fell silent after her answer and seemed a little surprised. After all, Gou An and Ye Lang had nothing in common no matter how you thought about it.

"Did Ye Weiyang know you at that time?" He Jinxing asked, raising his eyelids to glance at the little girl who was hesitant to speak, and said frankly, "I checked the surveillance later, so I know who you left with at that time--"

"You adjusted the surveillance? Why?"

“…”

Pure curiosity.

He Jinxing felt that this answer was a little frivolous, and answering it would ruin the current serious atmosphere, so he chose to skip this question, "Didn't you say that you were only with He Ran..."

He used a tone of "How can you lie?" Who knew that Gou An's brows frowned faster than his, as if he had been cursed: "Who has been with He Ran?"

"Hmm? Didn't we hold hands?"

"Didn't you hold hands with a female classmate when crossing the road in kindergarten?" She said expressionlessly, "Ye Lang and I weren't together either. At that time, I was still engaged to He Ran. I couldn't do that. Otherwise, what would be the difference between me and him?"

He Jinxing thought about it and said in a tone that was totally unclear whether it was a compliment or not, "You have integrity."

"Ye Lang and I later met by chance..."

Because of Lu Wan.

Because of the butterfly cake.

Because of Meituan's battery bikes and Qingshan Prison...

"Not together anyway."

He Jinxing sat up a little, with a rather large amplitude of movement. He pulled the wound on his back, frowned and hissed, then realized that he was now like a complete fool——

So the whole person paused for a moment, and under Gou An's puzzled gaze, the man slowly leaned back, turned his head and coughed a few times. It was unclear whether his throat was really itchy or he was trying to hide his embarrassment.

Even though he knew it wouldn't be contagious, he still opened the window in the car. When a slight breeze blew in, Gou An heard the man's calm voice: "The core question is, what now?"

Now?

What now? It took Gou An two seconds to react to what this person was asking. She was a little shocked. She raised her finger and pointed at herself and opened her mouth.

At this time, He Jinxing turned his head back, looked at her, and said with a smile: "I rarely sincerely want to give others a chance to answer questions, so, An An, think about it before answering."

"Don't think about it." Gou An said, "There is nothing now."

If I have to say there is, it’s probably that after awakening, I still miss this person foolishly—

Then I was hit hard.

Anyone would feel resentful if they found out that the person closest to them is the biggest traitor.

Gou An is not actually a person who holds grudges. Even the biggest issues will fade away with the passage of time. When she has slightly forgotten that "it turns out that Ye Lang has known Lu Wan for a long time and they have a good relationship", and can barely speak to Ye Lang calmly...

The resentment level reached its peak again because of the butterfly pastry incident.

She raised her hand and scratched her head. She really didn't feel like she was lying.

The most straightforward evidence is that if she really still had feelings for Ye Lang, He Jinxing shouldn't have waited until recently to realize something was wrong.

Gou An herself didn't realize that she was actually using the male protagonist of the original novel as a drug sniffing dog.

There was even a feeling of complete relief: Yes, that’s right, that’s it, the evidence is conclusive.

He Jinxing raised an eyebrow and looked at her, as if she had figured it out, and kindly reminded her: "But Ye Lang's performance today seems to be different from your situation."

"Why do you care about him?" Gou An asked curiously, "Isn't it me who is engaged to you?"

“…”

That makes sense.

He Jinxing found himself convinced, and after a few seconds of silence, he lowered the window and called the driver back.

To thank Gou An for her cooperation, he took her to have lunch at a Japanese restaurant that he didn't like but was difficult to make an appointment with and the girl should like.

He personally sent the person home, and then turned around and went back to the company while Secretary Liu kept sending him ellipsis messages every half hour to urge him.

According to statistics, when he stepped into the He Building, the temperature test at the door showed that his temperature was 38.7°C, a low-grade fever.

Also, there were a total of eight ellipsis messages from Secretary Liu in his WeChat.

After Ye Lang was discharged from the hospital, he went to the Gou family to hand in his resignation. It was snowing in Jiangcheng on the day he went there, and it was the first snow of the year.

There was heavy snow on his head. Ye Lang took a high-speed train and then a ferry. When he set foot on the other side of the sea again, the snow on his body had already melted away without a trace.

Hearing a strange yet familiar language, with no luggage and only a turned-off cell phone, the man took the subway alone and came to the sanatorium halfway up the mountain.

The weather in City C is very good today, with bright sunshine. The nurse from the nursing home pushed a wheelchair into the garden to bask in the sun.

In the wheelchair, the woman in her fifties had long been emaciated by illness, but her hair with silver threads was meticulously tied up behind her head with a white jade hairpin. She had a peaceful smile on her face, and her eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to the handsome man in front of her, but not as stern and sharp.

Ye Lang came to the woman, half squatted down, and called out "Mom".

Suzhen raised her hand and touched her son's head like she did when they were little.

The past is probably over, but no one can guarantee that those people back then won't suddenly remember and want to kill everyone again -

So normally, in order to avoid trouble, Ye Lang usually doesn't show up here.

Appeared today.

He had a trace of confusion and haste that he had never had before, and although he tried to hide it on his expressionless face, Suzhen could still see it at a glance, perhaps because of the mother-son bond.

"Mom, I have someone I like."

"But it was my fault that I missed her."

"From childhood to adulthood, no one taught me how to behave, let alone how to treat the person I like correctly. I might be really stupid and know nothing about this kind of thing, so I did something stupid and irreparable on my own."

"No one can live a lifetime and start over many times. I got this opportunity, and after thinking about it, I always feel that if I work hard, there may be a little room for improvement."

"After all, the person who temporarily gets her may not necessarily be a good person."

"Is there still time to start over? Otherwise, why would God give me this opportunity?"

"I want to get her back."

"I want to get her back."

"I'm sorry, I promised you that I would live a good life."

"Mom, I'm going to break my promise."

"sorry."

Suzhen sat in a wheelchair and watched her son take three steps back, kneel on the ground, and kowtow to herself three times while apologizing.

That face, which seemed to have seldom shown any expression due to its inherent lack of emotion, now looked serious and earnest.

Suzhen didn't know what happened to her son, nor did she know what he was talking about. She just roughly guessed what would happen next -

And there was even a hint of joking in her mind that she had never heard her son talk so much at once in her entire life, as she did today.

In the sunshine, the woman in the wheelchair smiled, took the hand of her son who stood up and returned to her, and patted it gently.

This time she did not say anything against it, but simply said: "When you leave, go to the cemetery and burn some incense for your father and your brothers and sisters."

Ye Lang disappeared for three days after he was discharged from the hospital.

No one could contact him during these three days.

When people thought he was dead outside, he reappeared in Jiangcheng.

When this man who disappeared after leaving the Gou family three days ago stepped into the underground casino belonging to the Jiang family on Huian Road, one of the three districts in the lower city, everyone was stunned.

No one thought that he was not dead, and no one thought that he would dare to come to Hui'an Road.

This is completely the Jiang family's territory.

The last time he came, he came with the instructions of Ye Weiyang's boss to mess up the place and took away millions, which made Jiang Yi very angry. At that time, the Jiang family had robbed him, but they still felt unsatisfied, so they sent people to Ye Weiyang to make a mess in order to find him.

And now Public Enemy Number One Ye Lang was standing at the door, wearing his usual cheap suit.

With a face like a coffin, he said to the dumbfounded henchman guarding the door, "Tell Jiang Yi that I want to see Master Jiang Jiu."

Master Jiang Jiu is the biological father of Jiang Yi, Jiang Zaiye and other young masters of the Jiang family. Compared with this "wild dog emperor", Master Jiang Jiu should be regarded as the real underground emperor of Jiangcheng.

Now, the wild dog asks for a meeting.

Gatekeeper: “…”

Oh my god, this is such a magical story development.

Another five hours later.

A shiny Audi A8 was parked in front of the alley of the tube-shaped building in Zhaipu District.

The car door opened, the lights inside the car came on, and a tall and handsome man got out of the car with a suitcase in his hand.

His cheap suit was casually draped over his elbow, the bruises on his face looked even more hideous, and the cracked wound at the corner of his lip was even still bleeding.

The shirt had long been stained by the dirty water in the ashtray when some table was overturned. Several buttons were missing and the cufflinks were completely missing.

Every time he moved, he felt as if someone was pulling out his bones and tendons. He didn't even need to take off his clothes to look carefully. He knew that the bruises on his body should be very interesting.

He even felt that his right big toe was broken, probably because he kicked a yellow-haired dwarf and hit his shin bone.

Exhaling a puff of milky white air, Ye Lang turned his head expressionlessly. In the luxury car behind him, the third son of the Jiang family sat nonchalantly. He no longer had the expression of wanting to eat Ye Lang. Instead, he waved at him jokingly and said with a smile, "Do you want me to help you move?"

Ye Lang slammed the car door expressionlessly, hitting the Jiang family's young master's frivolous and handsome face.

The Audi A8 drives away.

Ye Lang turned his head to look in the direction of his home, then walked towards the familiar alley, but his steps were much heavier than usual, and he walked slower and slower.

When he stepped onto the first flight of stairs of the apartment building, Ye Lang could no longer see the road ahead. He guessed that he probably had a mild concussion, but he had no memory of who had caused it or what had happened.

The box in his hand fell to the ground. I don't know where it hit, but the box bounced open with a "pop". The grass-green US dollars inside were put in too slowly, so they scattered all over the ground like fairy flowers as the box opened.

Ye Lang ignored them, swayed a bit, and was about to fall to the ground -

The next second, it was caught by a pair of soft hands.

The scent of a strange woman penetrated his nose, and Ye Lang frowned subconsciously. He rested his head on the thin shoulders of the person who came. He turned his head and looked into a pair of moist eyes.

"Alang?!"

In the darkness, her voice was filled with panic and worry, like a frightened little animal. "What happened to you? How did you become like this? Where have you been these three days? I've been looking for you everywhere—"

Lu Wan's voice was right beside his ear. Ye Lang heard her asking what was going on with the money. She had a lot of questions and was making a lot of noise.

"Did you disappear just for the money and end up in such a mess? Is it that serious? Is money worth exchanging your life for? What will your aunt say if you do this? Have you forgotten what you promised her... Is it because of what you said in the hospital that day? Alang, are you crazy? No one cares about your family background, and I have never wanted to get anything from you, even if you have nothing——"

Ye Lang was dizzy from the noise.

He just vaguely remembered one thing. He once told Gou An that he would move out of Zhaipu District and never see Lu Wan again.

This promise was like a sharp sword piercing his mind, giving him a glimmer of clarity.

He reached out and brushed away the soft, boneless hand that was resting on his shoulder.

The dark pupils met the girl's tearful eyes.

"Not for you."

Ye Lang heard his own voice ringing in the dark corridor.

"Also, don't talk to me, not even a word."

(End of this chapter)