Chapter 130 Are You Ready?
Xie Xingchen, however, keenly sensed that something was wrong with him.
"What's wrong? Are you not feeling well today?"
Lin Yao moved his lips. Because it was already late at night and the corridor lights were dimmed, he spoke very softly: "No, you know how to make it comfortable better than I do."
"So you're asking if you practiced a lot in the past, and whether practice makes perfect?" Xie Xingchen smiled. "You have a very strong competitive spirit."
Lin Yao gave a vague "hmm": "I just... feel like you're not doing well."
I knew from the start that this disease wouldn't be easy to get better, but now that I've experienced even a tenth of the pain he's going through, I already feel heartache for him.
These past few years, without an Omega by my side, I've relied entirely on suppressants, without any comfort whatsoever.
But he held back.
Although he didn't say it directly, Xie Xingchen probably knew what he was thinking, and said in a relaxed tone, "It's not as agonizing as you think. I'm a bit of a psychopath, and I'm afraid that if I told you what's on my mind, it would scare you."
"...It's not like I just found out you're a pervert." Lin Yao said calmly, "Go on, tell me."
Now it was Xie Xingchen's turn to remain silent.
He suspected that Pei Yizhong's being taken away might have triggered him; sometimes panic would cause his mind to become confused.
Or perhaps today's experience opened the door to a new world for Lin Yao, and, having tasted its sweetness, he couldn't wait to explore more?
Xie Xingchen said slowly, "If you really want me to say..."
Lin Yao hummed in agreement and shifted his position against the wall. He really wanted to know how Xie Xingchen had managed to get through it.
"I want to see you cry, hear you beg for mercy, pinch me but you have no strength, hit me and scold me, I won't stop, just like in the car today."
Xie Xingchen lowered his eyes, shifted his sitting posture, and smiled, "Want to hear more?"
Fragments he wanted to deliberately forget flashed through Lin Yao's mind.
He was indeed begging the other party to give him a quick death, but Xie Xingchen deliberately ignored him, as if he were teasing a cat.
"Xie Xingchen, I'm really going to die." He couldn't take it anymore and pinched him.
"Let's make the baby happy first." Xie Xingchen was overjoyed.
...It was utterly shameful.
So, in the end, kicking him out of the car, looking back now, was somewhat of a revenge tactic to regain home advantage.
"Xie Xingchen." Lin Yao kept his voice low, wary of people passing by. "Shut up, you really dare to think like that."
Xie Xingchen said slowly, "I dare to do it again. Next time, I'll add fluffy cat ears and bells around its neck that jingle."
Lin Yao felt like he was steaming, both hot and irritated.
He shouldn't have stood in such a sacred place as the police station to inquire about the other person's condition; his few words were downright provocative.
"You're a real pervert," Lin Yao commented.
He thought to himself that this guy was too good at entertaining himself, and probably wasn't living as badly as he imagined.
Noticing that the other person's tense mood had relaxed a little, Xie Xingchen smiled and said, "Why don't you get some sleep? The lawyer will be here at seven in the morning, there's no point in waiting now."
Lin Yao, holding his phone, half-squatted by the corridor, quietly listening to the other person's breathing: "Xie Xingchen, tell me, we used to be good friends, why did things have to come to this?"
He had thought about this question countless times, but could not find the answer.
“I want to know too,” Xie Xingchen said in a low voice. “If they hadn’t gone their separate ways, we would have been best friends since we were little.”
This idea was so beautiful it was like a shattered dream.
Lin Yao put himself in your shoes: "If we had grown up together, I probably wouldn't dislike you so much. You were a bit more well-behaved when you were little, so you might not have been so annoying. But would you still like me?"
Xie Xingchen said firmly, "Of course."
"How do you know?" Lin Yao mocked him. "Maybe seeing each other every day would make you lose interest. Who would do something to their best friend?"
Xie Xingchen said quite seriously, "You're exactly my type, I'll like you no matter what. When I met you as a child, I gave you candy, didn't I? I wouldn't give candy to a child I don't like."
Lin Yao paused for several seconds before finally humming in agreement.
Even if it's just saying things to coax him, I'm still happy.
If I could go back to my childhood and be bolder enough to tell him, "Xie Xingchen, take me away," would the ending be different?
But there are no "what ifs".
As dawn broke, Lin Yao had to force himself to stay awake and face the utter chaos.
He told Cheng Boyan to go back and catch up on his sleep, and after pulling strings several times, he finally managed to get ten minutes to see Pei Yizhong.
“I heard from the police that the other party is insisting that you are colluding with them. Why won’t they say why you were there?” Lin Yao went straight to the point. “Unless you are cleared of suspicion, you will have to stay locked up indefinitely.”
After being tossed and turned all night, Pei Yizhong looked quite haggard: "Without evidence, there's no explanation."
Lin Yao was stunned, then realized what he meant and asked meaningfully, "You went there because of my report from back then?"
Pei Yizhong nodded: "I know it might be bait, but I really wanted to give you the truth, so I went. I was afraid that if it was true, I would miss this opportunity and never have another chance."
"You really are..."
That's so stupid.
To leave such a stain on an otherwise impressive resume for the sake of an outsider.
Lin Yao said softly, "Why are you being so good to me? We're not even related by blood. You're putting yourself in this situation."
Pei Yizhong moved his lips, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped himself: "It was my own choice, so I can accept this result."
Lin Yao's eyes welled up with tears, but he quickly lowered them to hold back before saying, "I will bring you back safely. Just wait for me."
"Have you thought this through?" Pei Yizhong knew exactly what he was going to do and reminded him, "He will retaliate, he will be furious, and he may even threaten your safety. I've seen his methods. Yaoyao, if you can't bring him down, you and... will truly have no future."
This was the first time he called himself Yao Yao.
It was very affectionate, like a father calling his child by their nickname, but only at a time like this.
They all knew that if Yun Qing's evidence was used to exchange for Pei Yizhong's, Xie Hengzhi would be very angry, but Lin Yao couldn't bear to see innocent people wrongfully imprisoned.
"I've made up my mind," Lin Yao said softly. "It's the right thing to do, both morally and logically."
After leaving the meeting room, he used his own phone to add Xie Xingchen back and send him a message.
[01]: I plan to submit some evidence first, and then wait for the police to arrest Yun Qing to see Xie Hengzhi's reaction.
【01】: Once the items were exchanged, our secret relationship could no longer be kept a secret.
【01】: Xie Xingchen, I'll make up for the date I owe you this afternoon.
【xxc】：Okay
Lin Yao thought that Xie Hengzhi was testing him with inhibitors, and he couldn't hide his symptoms. Sooner or later, it would be exposed that he had been intimate with Xie Hengzhi. It would be better to strike first.
He took a deep breath, turned and went into the police station office, selected the laboratory and some of the smuggling orders related to it, and submitted the evidence.
When she came out again, Lin Han was still crying at the door, her eyes red and swollen, and her voice was terribly hoarse when she spoke: "How is Lao Pei?"
"It's alright, he should be able to go home soon," Lin Yao reassured him. "I just saw him, and apart from his dark circles, he wasn't being bullied. After all, he's a general, he won't be treated badly."
"They wouldn't let him go yesterday, so why were you able to go home so quickly? How did you manage that?" Lin Han grasped the key point, her eyes filled with worry. "You wouldn't trade yourself for him, would you? That won't do."
“That’s right, brother, you absolutely can’t do anything stupid. Dad is innocent. Even if he’s locked up for a few more days, he’ll definitely be released eventually.” Pei Xiang said anxiously. “Don’t give false testimony.”
Lin Yao felt a bittersweet ache in his heart, as if an umbrella had finally appeared over his head just before a torrential downpour.
He smiled, his tone becoming lighter: "No, it's just that my brother's boyfriend is quite capable. He used the evidence to find the real person who should be arrested, so my godfather will be fine soon."
"Boyfriend..." Pei Xiang was stunned for several seconds, exchanging glances with Lin Han. "You only had one, and you broke up with him..."
Lin Yao hummed in agreement, turned around, and just then saw a sports car drift in and stop in front of the police station.
It was the first car he ever rode in, the one driven by Xie Xingchen.
The gaudy colors and the fact that the roof was wide open, which he had initially resisted to the point of death, made a grand display. The man in sunglasses in the driver's seat looked over, as if he wanted everyone to know, and flaunted it ostentatiously.
"...Did you break up?" Pei Xiang slowly added the last sentence.
"No points." Lin Yao raised his hand and patted the back of her head. "I'm leaving this to you. I'm going on a date."
Pei Xiang nodded slowly, and then saw him stride over there, grab the window sill, and nimbly jump into the passenger seat.
Then he openly kissed the person in the driver's seat.
"Ready to announce it to the world, boyfriend?"
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