"Speaking of which, I've met some very strange people recently." Yu Yao ate the rice in the bowl quickly, puffing out her cheeks and speaking vaguely.
"What's the matter?" Bai Fang looked up, supported his chin with one hand, picked up the water cup and took a sip.
She actually liked the way Yu Yao's cheeks looked puffy, a bit like a hamster.
"Recently... I seem to have been noticed by the boss of a gang." Yu Yao muttered gloomily.
"Cough cough cough!" Bai Fang almost choked on his mouthful of water.
She was silent for a moment, not knowing where to begin. "What's going on with that little gangster boss you mentioned?"
"It's like this." Yu Yao swallowed the food in her mouth and recalled seriously: "When I went home that day, two hooligans suddenly came to see me. I thought they were looking for trouble again, but they opened their mouths and called me sister-in-law."
"They say I'm the target of their boss, but I don't even know any gang bosses. Do you think there's a gang boss I don't know who's interested in me?"
"What kind of gangster boss is he who calls me sister-in-law without my consent? He doesn't even consider whether I am willing to be his sister-in-law or not."
Yu Yao snorted softly and stuffed food into her mouth angrily.
"...That's right. He called you sister-in-law without any explanation. You can tell at a glance that he is not a serious person. But don't take it to heart. It's possible that he recognized the wrong person." Bai Fang comforted her softly, smiling without changing his expression.
"It's possible I might have mistaken someone for someone else... but if I were actually targeted by some gang leader, it would be pretty scary." Yu Yao quickly finished the rice in her bowl and put down her chopsticks with a satisfied look on her face. "I'm done!"
"Yeah, I've finished eating too." Bai Fang nodded.
After paying the bill, Yu Yao and Bai Fang walked back in the wind.
Bai Fang was a little worried that Yu Yao might encounter something if she went back. Even if she was at home, she might be targeted. He was very worried about letting her go back alone, so he took the initiative to suggest it.
"Why don't you come to my house and sleep tonight?"
After having a good meal and a few drinks, Yu Yao, who was enjoying a walk with Doctor Bai with satisfaction, was stunned. Her steps and whole body stopped. She looked at Bai Fang blankly. After two seconds of silence, a smile gradually blossomed on her face and she jumped for joy with excitement.
"Really?! Doctor Bai! Can I sleep over at your house tonight??"
"Well, I'm quite worried about you being at home alone and encountering danger." Bai Fang nodded, and had prepared himself in advance for the scene of welcoming Yu Yao with shining eyes, but he didn't expect Yu Yao to be more enthusiastic than he imagined.
"Great!" Yu Yao pointed towards home with anticipation. "Can I go back and pack my pajamas? And some clothes to change into?"
She looked as excited as a child going on a spring outing, and her eyes were full of anticipation.
Bai Fang was unconsciously led by her and nodded in agreement, "Sure, you can bring anything."
Yu Yao clenched her fists excitedly.
The second time I went to Dr. Bai's house to sleep! She could put her hands on her hips and laugh loudly, announcing to the quilt that she was here again!
The two walked towards Yu Yao's house.
Bai Fang kept an eye on her surroundings along the way, and found that no one followed them except her curious little brothers.
All the way to Yu Yao's house, Bai Fang memorized the route, and Yu Yao saw a familiar figure standing at her door from afar.
"Shu Wen!" As soon as she saw that person, Yu Yao jumped up happily and prepared to pounce on him.
Bai Fang subconsciously wanted to hold Yu Yao down, but his hand was a step too slow and Yu Yao had already pounced over.
Seeing the person who was usually excited and happy in front of him suddenly pounce in front of someone else, Bai Fang felt a little sad.
"Shu Wen! Why did you come to see me all of a sudden?" Yu Yao arrived at her door, circled around Shu Wen, and then approached her mysteriously. "Let me tell you, that mysterious client you introduced to me before, Miss Wu, is not a pushover."
Shu Wen nodded, looking calm and elegant, and tapped Yu Yao's head. "I know, but I only found out after I investigated that this person couldn't find any relevant information, and all the information he gave me was fake. I came to you specifically, did anything happen when you were investigating?"
Yu Yao frowned and immediately told Shu Wen exactly what had happened to her.
Shu Wen listened quietly and nodded thoughtfully. After Bai Fang called to save Yu Yao, she looked up at Bai Fang.
"So you're planning to capture Miss Wu next, right?" Shu Wen stood back calmly and leaned against the wall.
"Yes," Yu Yao nodded vigorously, her face firm, "they are targeting me now, we can counterattack."
Shu Wen nodded silently, and reached out to rub Yu Yao's head. "Go and get the documents I left with you last time."
"Documents?...Ah!" Yu Yao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered. She turned around in panic, "I forgot where I put it. Let me look for it."
As she said this, she turned around and hurriedly went into the house.
As soon as Yu Yao left, only Shu Wen and Bai Fang were left outside the door.
"Long time no see, Miss Bai." Shu Wen greeted Bai Fang with a smile, took out a pack of cigarettes from his coat pocket, took out a cigarette and put it in his lips, then handed the cigarette box to Bai Fang.
Bai Fang paused, not knowing whether to answer.
"You should be a smoker, right?" Shu Wen stared at her, with no intention of retracting his hand.
Bai Fang had no choice but to go forward and take out a cigarette.
The two stood side by side by the wall outside Yu Yao's house. Shu Wen lit a cigarette and handed it to Bai Fang.
Bai Fang lowered his head and lit it skillfully, and two wisps of smoke slowly rose.
"Doctor Bai, you are the leader of a gang, right?" Shu Wen held a cigarette and stared calmly at the floor in front of him.
"You know?" Bai Fang was not particularly surprised.
"Well... after all, you are someone close to Yu Yao, so I must have done some investigation. But don't worry, I still respect personal privacy. I didn't investigate too deeply. It's enough for me to know that you are not a bad person." Shu Wen responded nonchalantly, squinting her eyes and twitching, her expression as lazy as the smoke slowly exhaled from her mouth.
"You seem to be very nice to Yu Yao. Do you have a good relationship?" Bai Fang glanced at her sideways.
Shu Wen nodded calmly, paying no attention to Bai Fang's slightly wary gaze, and didn't even react much to the delicately made-up profile.
"It's definitely good to have a good relationship, but right now Yu Yao cares most about you, so don't be nervous."
Bai Fang paused, shaking the cigarette between his fingers, "How did Miss Shu tell that I was nervous?"
Shu Wen smiled, as if he had heard something funny. He sighed softly and said calmly, "Your attitude towards Yu Yao has become very good recently."
"Changing your attitude towards someone is the first step to opening your heart to them. Once you open your heart to someone, it becomes easy for that person to conquer you."
"Has anything intimate happened between you and Yu Yao recently?"
Bai Fang remained silent. When Shu Wen mentioned it, she remembered the kiss she received when she was drunk that day. That was indeed the key to changing her attitude towards Yu Yao.
Shu Wen remained calm, taking a light puff of his cigarette. "I really don't understand what Yu Yao was talking about, the sound of the heart, but she must have made her own judgment in liking you."
"Don't tell me you didn't even realize she liked you?"
Bai Fang was silent for a moment, then put the cigarette between his lips, nodded, and made a small sound in response, "A little bit."
Shu Wen looked at her sideways, as if observing something interesting. "So what do you think of Yu Yao?"
Bai Fang thought for a moment, "She's very cute and enthusiastic. After learning that she has that special ability, I feel she's very strong. After all, she can't just tell anyone her secret."
"It's hard to be around people when you have a secret, and it's also hard to be isolated and live on your own."
"Strong...?" Shu Wen grinned, exhaled a puff of smoke, and shook the cigarette butt. "You probably don't know, Yu Yao is very fragile. How can someone who thinks she is an outsider and hides it all the time be strong?"
"Even in Yu Yao's opinion, things that can talk are far more approachable than people."
"For her, the boundary between humans and the supernatural is blurred. She even wants to be more distant from humans."
Shu Wen looked up at Bai Fang and said, "It's human nature to exclude those who are different from you. Yu Yao has tried hard to fit in with the crowd and has even shared her secrets with others. However, what she said was a bit scary in the eyes of others. Later, she was blocked in an alley and beaten by a group of people, thinking she was a psychopath."
When Shu Wen mentioned this, she paused slightly, and her voice seemed to be a little low, as if the smoke had choked her throat.
"I was just... in the hospital for a while."
Bai Fang was stunned and didn't know what to say for a moment.
"But she was very calm. She told others with the understanding that she might be excluded. She was mentally prepared for any kind of treatment afterwards, and the exclusion became her due."
"The biggest blow to her was probably that she made a friend who she thought was an object."
Shu Wen took a deep breath and took a drag with the cigarette butt in his mouth.
Bai Fang pondered, "Do you think you are a human being?"
Shu Wen looked up at the sky and thought for a moment. "Maybe there was a window with a human figure reflected on the curtains. Yu Yao thought it was a person, and they had a great conversation. Yu Yao thought she had a human friend, and she would go to talk to her every day. She was very happy and excited."
"I went there every day. Even if I sensed something was amiss, I refused to believe it. Until one day, the wind blew up the curtain of that window, and Yu Yao saw with her own eyes that there was a life-size doll sitting inside. It was very delicate, wearing a long dress, a beautiful wig, and its eyes were polished to look very beautiful. But no matter how beautiful it was, it was not a person."
"A doll is also an object. After a while, it will start to talk. The moment she saw it was a doll, she must have collapsed."
"After that, she started yelling that she no longer believed objects could talk, and that everything she heard was just hallucinations."
"Maybe he was injured."
Bai Fang was stunned and listened quietly to Shu Wen talking about Yu Yao. He really didn't know what Yu Yao was like before.
"Anyway, Yu Yao has always wanted to be close to someone, someone who knows her secrets and doesn't despise her. So she probably cares about you a lot."
Bai Fang listened to Shu Wen's words, smoking a cigarette in a trance for a while, then suddenly froze, turned to look at Shu Wen, "Aren't you the same?"
Someone who knows her secrets, doesn't despise her at all, is even very close to her, has been with her for a long time, and knows a lot about her.
Shu Wen smiled and said, "If I were really a——"
The door of Yu Yao's room next to him suddenly opened. Shu Wen paused and quickly pressed the cigarette butt in his hand against the wall next to him to put it out.
Seeing this, Bai Fang subconsciously put out his cigarette. The two of them hurriedly hid the cigarette butts and pretended nothing had happened.
"Shu Wen! I found your file!" Yu Yao happily jumped out of the house holding a white folder. "I almost forgot where I put it. Luckily, something in the house reminded me."
As she spoke, she handed the document to Shu Wen.
"Well, very good, I'll just get the documents. As for Miss Wu's matter, if you need any help, you can call me. Good luck to you two." Shu Wen raised his hand and patted Bai Fang's shoulder, "Remember to protect our weak and pitiful Yu Yao."
Bai Fang nodded.
As Shu Wen passed by her, he paused and whispered, "Yu Yao blurs the line between humans and spirits. She treats all spirits as humans. You must keep an eye on her."
Bai Fang was dazed for a moment and nodded subconsciously.
Shu Wen picked up the cigarette butt hidden in her palm, smiled meaningfully, and then left with the folder.
"Why did you and Shu Wen become so close?" Yu Yao looked at Shu Wen's back and muttered to Bai Fang, "What did she say to you just now?"
Bai Fang was silent for a moment, then put on an extremely gentle and brilliant perfunctory smile, "She told me to look after you."
Yu Yao blushed, "Then you have to look at me."
"Okay." Bai Fang's voice softened unconsciously.
Yu Yao went back to the room, packed her things, took her pajamas and some clothes to change into, stood at the door and told the things in the room that she was going out for a night, then turned around happily and left with Bai Fang.
Although it was unlucky to be targeted by the murderer, Yu Yao felt very lucky to be able to sleep at Dr. Bai's house!
Her mind was full of happy thoughts and she couldn't hide it at all. She followed Bai Fang to her side with a smile on her face.
"Oh, Yu Yao." Bai Fang suddenly remembered the question Shu Wen hadn't answered yet. "Ms. Shu Wen, is she a human?"
Yu Yao paused, then burst out laughing. "Of course it's a human. What else could it be? She has a heartbeat and a pulse."
"That's right..." Bai Fang thought about it. Shu Wen was indeed a living person that everyone could see. It would be a bit strange to say that he was not a human.
Yu Yao already had someone who treated her well and knew her secrets, but she didn't seem to have any romantic feelings for Shu Wen.
Is there any difference between Shu Wen and her?
This thought lingered in Bai Fang's mind. For some reason, he was very concerned about the question that Shu Wen did not answer.
"Yu Yao, what is it about me that you like?" She couldn't help but turn around and ask Yu Yao.
"What do you like..." Yu Yao's cheeks flushed faintly, and there was a hint of shyness and confusion in her eyes. "Doctor Bai is beautiful, thoughtful, and kind. Of course I like everything."
To Bai Fang, Yu Yao's answer sounded like no answer at all.
"Then Miss Shu Wen is not kind and good-looking, and not thoughtful?"
When Bai Fang asked this, Yu Yao was stunned again. She scratched her head in a daze and laughed.
"Doctor Bai, are you...jealous?"
Bai Fang was silent, not knowing what to say for a moment. She was jealous, but she wasn't quite sure. She always felt that Shu Wen could replace her. They had many similarities, but Yu Yao was looking at her with loving eyes.
"Doctor Bai, please don't be jealous." Yu Yao grinned happily, secretly feeling happy for Bai Fang's little jealousy. "Shu Wen is like a sister to me."
"If she's so nice, why didn't I like her? It's because when we were closest, I didn't have that awareness and always treated her as a sister."
"By the time I had that thought, Shu Wen had already become like a family member in my heart, and I can't be liked by everyone." Yu Yao muttered.
After she finished speaking for a while, she suddenly realized something.
Did I confess to Bai Fang unconsciously?
She secretly observed Bai Fang's reaction, feeling lucky that she didn't seem to hear it, and was completely unaware that she wore her favorite thoughts on her face every day.
"Well...sister..." Bai Fang nodded in a daze. For some reason, she felt relieved and felt a lot more relaxed.
"It's getting late, let's take a rest first. We'll go to Yelai River again tomorrow." Bai Fang turned around and smiled as he led Yu Yao upstairs.
The first thing Yu Yao did when she entered Bai Fang's house was to run excitedly to her bedroom, open the door of Bai Fang's bedroom with a bang, and stand at the door with a smug look on her face.
"What the hell? Why are you here again?" Sure enough, the quilt was still on the bed, and it made a shocked sound.
"You, you, you! Why are you here again? How did you trick Xiaobai into bringing you back?"
Yu Yao ran to the bed with an innocent look on her face and patted the quilt vigorously. Although she had an expression of deep emotion, she looked particularly worthy of a beating. "It was Doctor Bai who offered to take me back to bed today."
The quilt on the bed was so angry that it burst, but it was just a quilt and could do nothing to Yu Yao. It could only curse and quarrel with her.
"You short! Flat-chested! Unfeminine little brat! Get out of my room!"
"You're short and you have flat chest!" Yu Yao exploded and punched the quilt angrily, "You don't even have breasts!"
Each one started yelling at each other.
Bai Fang calmly sat in the living room, poured himself a glass of water, and listened to Yu Yao's noise in the bedroom.
Although I couldn't hear what her quilt was saying, it was clear from Yu Yao's one-sided response that the two of them were arguing fiercely.
She didn't care about the little noise, so she took out her cell phone and started fiddling with the screen.
Although she wanted to catch the murderer, she was quite worried about using Yu Yao as bait. In order to prevent various emergencies, she still had to prepare some people to wait near the park after they arrived to prevent the woman from escaping.
After leaving the message, Bai Fang sighed lightly, sat on the sofa and listened quietly to the voice coming from Yu Yao in the next bedroom.
It sounded like he was very excited and arguing with something loudly and vividly.
However, Bai Fang could only hear her voice coming out of the house intermittently. The voice was high-pitched and excited, but it made her feel some indescribable subtlety.
In the eyes of those who don’t understand her, Yu Yao is always talking to herself in strange ways.
Few people would accept her weirdness as naturally as Bai Fang and even find it very interesting. This is probably why Yu Yao is so attached to her.
I had given up on socializing with others, but Bai Fang picked it up again.
"Hmph! Stay inside! I never want to talk to you again!" Yu Yao walked out of the bedroom angrily, looking like a puffer fish that was about to explode.
Bai Fang is so heartless and yet he thinks it’s cute.
"How did your conversation with my quilt go?" she asked with a smile, handing Yu Yao a glass of water to soothe her angry mood.
"It's so infuriating! He doesn't even talk to me nicely! How can there be such an ugly quilt!" Yu Yao took a sip of water and put the cup on the table with a bang. Her expression gradually changed from anger to aggrieved.
"After all, it's Dr. Bai's quilt. I wanted to get along with it so we could get along better in the future, but it doesn't like me at all."
The more she talked, the more aggrieved she felt. She pouted and raised her hand to wipe away the tears that didn't exist on her face.
Bai Fang pursed his lips, trying hard to suppress a smile, "Isn't it enough that I like you?"
After she said this, Yu Yao's aggrieved voice stopped abruptly.
She peeked out her bright eyes from between her fingers, her face full of joy, "Really? Doctor Bai likes me?"
Bai Fang nodded.
Yu Yao covered her mouth and giggled secretly.
After she finished laughing, she realized that Dr. Bai’s preferences might be different from hers.
Thinking about it, I became depressed again.
My emotions can be said to be ups and downs.
"Go to bed early tonight. We will go to Yelai River tomorrow." Bai Fang rubbed Yu Yao's fluffy hair. Her hair was very fine and soft, and it felt very comfortable to rub. Just touching it made him feel hot.
Yu Yao was rubbed so hard that she felt dizzy and had no intention of resisting at all.
He was so obedient in front of Bai Fang that he was like food on a plate, waiting for her to taste him.
"Doctor Bai..." Yu Yao muttered softly and raised her head. The hands that were rubbing her head naturally fell on both sides of her cheeks.
The small white cheek was pressed against the messy soft hair and was held in Bai Fang's palm.
Those beautiful almond-shaped eyes flickered with ambiguous emotions, staring at her without blinking.
"Doctor Bai, do you really like me?" She asked tentatively in a small voice, as if Bai would hurt her with his words if he was not careful.
Being stared at closely by eyes as clear as a deer's, Bai Fang felt unconsciously nervous. Whether it was the answer Yu Yao requested or the gaze, it made her tense.
In my buzzing ears, I seemed to hear the sound of my heart beating in my chest.
It was beating abnormally fast.
The body reveals the answer to the question more directly and quickly than thinking.
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