Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Losing your integrity in your later years
The yellow-haired man licked his lip and quickly changed the subject, "You really spent a fortune on your beloved tonight. I didn't realize you were into this kind of thing."
Spend a fortune on a beautiful woman?
Zhou Boye glanced at the stage, his eyes lingered on Jiang Mu for a moment, becoming increasingly gloomy.
"Let's go." He was tall and blocked most of the light source when he stood up. His black hair and black eyes were very oppressive.
Huangmao: "Ah? What's wrong?"
Lin Yan took a sip of wine and shook his head.
…
Jiang Yuxia went out and found that it was raining outside. He called for a designated driver for a long time but no one accepted the order, so he could only sit in the car and wait.
The temperature in the bar was high, but the parking lot was much colder. Jiang Yuxia had drunk a lot of wine, and the wind blew, causing his temples to bulge.
He closed his eyes and relaxed.
As soon as I closed my eyes, Xiao Shixian's face appeared, with black hair and black eyes. His peach blossom eyes were slightly upturned at the corners, and he looked a little scary when he had no expression.
Jiang Yuxia quickly opened his eyes, frowned, and stuffed a candy into his mouth, trying to get rid of the taste of alcohol.
Click.
With a hard bite, the sugar broke and the orange flavor spread in the mouth.
Ah, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. Why did I run into him here? It’s so annoying. It would be great if a fight could solve all the problems.
"Knock knock knock."
There was a knock on the car window, and Jiang Yuxia looked over with a cold face.
Zhou Boye bent over and put his face very close.
Jiang Yuxia's pupils shrank slightly, and his head tilted back subconsciously. Was he really coming to fight him?
"Jiang and Xia."
Jiang Yuxia was stunned for a few seconds before he finally reacted and rolled down the car window. His face was expressionless. "What's wrong?"
Zhou Boye glanced inside the car, and when he saw it hadn't started, he stepped back, his lips curled slightly. "It's okay, I just wanted to see your expression after you lose."
There was a faint smell of alcohol on his face when he spoke.
grass!
Jiang Yuxia was holding back his anger, but pretended to be calm on the surface. If he got so angry, it would be obvious that he cared about her. So he smiled and said, "It's just a song. I'll give it to you."
Zhou Boye narrowed his eyes slightly, his smile deepened, and after a pause, he asked softly, "Which one do you like?"
Just then, Jiang Yuxia's phone rang. It was a sales call. He casually answered it with a few words, and after hanging up, he looked at Xiao Shixian: "What did you just say?"
Zhou Boye shook his head: "Nothing, I'm leaving now."
He took two steps and then stepped back. "Oh, by the way, if you drink and drive, I'll report you."
After saying this, he left completely.
Jiang Yuxia: “…” Ah, this guy is so annoying.
He raised the window, opened another candy and put it in his mouth, biting it with a crunching sound. Jiang Yuxia leaned back in the chair, not knowing if it was an illusion, but he always felt a hint of woody incense lingering in his nose.
It's the smell of Zhou Boye.
Opening the car windows for ventilation was useless. Jiang Yuxia closed his eyes, feeling irritable and enveloped by his entire body. He took a deep breath, grabbed an umbrella, and walked towards the ground.
The red rainstorm warning was broadcast on the mobile phone. This road will be blocked if it rains.
Jiang Yuxia was stunned for a moment and looked up at the sky. In the blink of an eye, the rain got heavier. Many people were standing under the eaves to shelter from the rain. He sat on a dry stone pier to get some fresh air. Because there were so many people, he found a mask from somewhere and put it on.
He watched the people coming and going. There was a young couple. The girl had clearly brought two umbrellas, but she had secretly hidden one. When the boy came out, she regretfully said that she only had one umbrella and said with a hint of disdain, "I told you never to bring an umbrella. You always use my umbrella. Don't let me get wet."
The boy made a promise with a smile, and hugged the girl tightly under the umbrella to prevent her from getting wet by a single drop of rain. The two of them were pressed tightly together, looking a little embarrassed, but their faces were red and they were both smiling.
In fact, when the girl hid the umbrella, her boyfriend was standing behind her, looking at her with a smile, but he didn't point it out until the end.
Jiang Yuxia's eyes darkened and he leaned against the pillar behind him. He didn't know if it was because he was too stuffy wearing a mask, but he had already taken off his coat, but he still broke out in a thin layer of sweat. He felt very uncomfortable and weak all over.
What he didn't notice was that there was an honest-looking man wearing glasses sitting behind a pillar and looking at him. That angle of view happened to be Jiang Yuxia's blind spot. The man looked at him with a madness in his eyes that didn't match his appearance.
Jiang Yuxia turned around and saw Zhou Boye again. He turned his head away speechlessly, "The ghost is still there."
Zhou Boye was indeed the most conspicuous person in the crowd. Under the rain and soft lights, he looked like a painting standing there.
One of Zhou Boye's shirt buttons was undone, revealing part of his neck. Jiang Yuxia's gaze uncontrollably fell on the small black spot, but after realizing what was happening, he quickly looked away.
I don’t know if something happened after he left, or if the rain disrupted his plans, but Zhou Boye’s expression was not very good.
Fortunately, Jiang Yuxia was sitting in the crowd and Zhou Boye did not see him.
The rain was so heavy that the surrounding buildings could not be seen clearly. Under the cover of rain, only blurred neon lights could be seen, some far and some near.
Huang Mao shouted, "Wow, it's raining so hard."
After a while, two cars stopped in front of them. Even with such congested traffic, the cars arrived so promptly.
The driver trotted over with an umbrella. Zhou Boye took the umbrella, lowered his head and said something.
Jiang Yuxia didn't open the taxi-hailing app until the car drove away. The hundreds of people waiting on the app made him turn around immediately, open his umbrella and go home. At least he had to walk through this congested road.
The rain hit the taut umbrella, making a rustling sound.
The wind was so strong that the rain was blown sideways. The umbrella couldn't block the rain and a few drops landed on his face. His trouser legs also got wet quickly and stuck to his legs. It felt wet and heavy, which was not a good feeling.
Lin Yan's car was stuck and he was one step behind Zhou Boye. When he was staring out the window bored, he happened to see Jiang Yuxia holding an umbrella.
Lin Yan: “…” Why did he have to see it again?
He opened the chat software and clicked on Zhou Boye's chat box. There was still a photo he sent a few hours ago. Because the lights in the bar were dim, the photo was blurry, with only a vague outline.
He hadn't expected the other party to recognize him, and before he could send out a supplementary message with a mentality of watching the fun, the other party's message came, very brief, just like him.
"Where".
Lin Yan sighed slightly, and took another picture of Jiang Yuxia through the car window under the puzzled look of Huangmao.
…
Jiang Yuxia's current residence is quite far from this bar. He originally just wanted to bypass the most crowded road and take a taxi, but after walking through this street, he found that this area was not a downtown area. The further he walked in, the less he saw the shadow of a car.
There is a big park next to it. It’s getting late and it’s raining so hard, so there must be no one here.
At this point in the journey, the taxi app still hadn't accepted the order, and no one was accepting the designated driver. Jiang Yuxia frowned, took off his mask, and took a light breath. The strange heat moved up along his tailbone, and after walking a few steps, even his head felt a little groggy.
The symptoms are really similar to when you have a fever for a few days, and even raising your hands feels weak.
He found a pavilion in the park to shelter from the rain and sat down. His trouser legs were wet and stuck to his skin. The sticky and damp feeling was really uncomfortable.
The cell phone rang. It was a message from Li Qi, asking him if he had arrived home.
He leaned back in his chair tiredly, and just as he was about to reply to the message, his phone ran out of battery and turned off. At this moment, two footsteps suddenly sounded behind him, and they could be heard to be noticeably lighter.
Jiang Yuxia glanced sideways. In order to create an atmosphere, the lights in the park were dim. At this distance, he could only see a vague figure.
"Da da da."
The rain hit the taut umbrella cloth, making a muffled sound.
Under the dim light, the man was holding a red umbrella. Such a bright color always makes people feel panic.
"who?"
In the car.
Zhou Boye stared at the increasingly heavy rain outside the window, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter, feeling inexplicably irritated. He took out his cell phone and saw the message that he had missed because the phone was muted - the photo of Lin Yan.
Jiang Yuxia walked in the rain with an umbrella.
He made a "tsk" sound. It was raining so hard, couldn't we just wait?
His finger accidentally touched the photo, and the photo was enlarged. Zhou Boye, who was about to close the photo, glanced at the corner unintentionally and saw a man staring at Jiang Yuxia with a terrifying look in his eyes.
Wow!
The rain outside the car suddenly became heavier, and the car was instantly surrounded by the sound of rain.
Zhou Boye frowned and said, "Turn around."
When he arrived at the door of the bar again, there was no sign of Jiang Yuxia.
He stood where Jiang Yuxia had stood before. The surroundings were in a mess, and the ground was covered with footprints, making it dirty and slippery.
He looked up at the camera in the corner and walked into the store.
…
On the other side, Jiang Yuxia squinted his eyes and looked over there, trying to see who was under the umbrella. His animal instinct made him grab the umbrella next to him. It was the only thing he could use as a weapon.
The umbrella slowly moved upwards, and just as it was about to reveal its face, a headlight suddenly pierced the darkness.
Jiang Yuxia used his hand to block the dazzling light. When he put his hand down, the red umbrella was gone. He frowned and looked at the footprints left on the ground. Was it someone passing by?
He lowered his eyes and thought, and a pair of leather shoes appeared in his sight. However, unlike before, the clean leather shoes were stained with several small spots of mud. He looked up along the leather shoes, and when he saw the mole, he paused. After a few seconds, his eyes continued to move upwards until they met those eyes.
Zhou Boye lowered his eyes slightly, but his peach blossom eyes were not lazy at all. He met his gaze without flinching or avoiding.
The coolness of the raindrops falling on your face, the softness of the breeze caressing your hair, and the "dripping" sound left by water droplets from the treetops falling on the roof are like a slow motion in a movie.
Jiang Yuxia's pupils trembled, and he retracted his gaze. The moment he lowered his eyes, a trace of red appeared at the corners of his eyes. He was silent for a moment before asking, "Why are you here?"
Zhou Boye was holding a black umbrella, his suit was folded around his wrist, and his clothes looked neat yet a little messy.
He glanced at the path behind Jiang Yuxia and frowned slightly.
Jiang Yuxia followed his gaze and looked back in confusion. The next moment, a suit was lightly covered over Jiang Yuxia's head.
Zhou Boye: "Leave."
“…”
There was still some warmth on the clothes, and the nose was filled with the scent of wood, which was overwhelming and impossible to escape.
Jiang Yuxia was stunned for a few seconds. It was a very strange feeling. The person was right in front of him, but he always felt that he was not himself.
It was a kind of powerlessness left behind by the passage of time. He clearly separated the him in his memories from the him in reality.
There was silence for a few seconds, and then Jiang Yuxia said "Oh". He was very well-behaved, so well-behaved that he was almost unlike him.
He wanted to say something, anything at all, but he didn't say a word until he got in the car.
Not long after getting in the car, he took off the suit Zhou Boye gave him to keep warm and put it aside.
Zhou Boye glanced at him. Jiang Yuxia paused and uttered a word: "Hot."
He didn't know if it was because he was sitting next to Zhou Boye, but he felt the oxygen was thinning. Jiang Yuxia adjusted his breathing. He didn't know if it was because of this, but he felt hotter and hotter, so hot that his brain couldn't think, and a nameless fire was running around in his body.
Zhou Boye saw his pants were splashed with water and said to the driver, "Let's not go back to the old house, let's go to Jiangchen Garden."
This place is very close to Jiang Chen, and it only takes seven or eight minutes to drive there. Jiang Yuxia probably guessed his intention. In fact, the water on his pants was not a big deal. He didn't want to go to Zhou Boye's house.
"I want to go home." Jiang Yuxia sniffed, and in a moment, a nasal sound came out.
Zhou Boye: "You want me to take you home in such heavy rain?"
Jiang Yuxia: "..."
Zhou Boye: "Do you think I have the time for that?"
Jiang Yuxia: "Then why did you let me get in the car?"
Zhou Boye thought of the photo and frowned: "Because you are stupid."
Jiang Yuxia: "Huh? Are you sick? Why are you cursing?"
The exes who hadn't seen each other for a year and had a non-peaceful breakup were sitting in a car together, and the atmosphere was unsurprisingly tense.
The two of them exchanged a few words, but when there was really nothing more to say, Jiang Yuxia stared out the window. The rain was getting heavier, and it was pitch black outside, making it impossible to see anything. Instead, because the lights inside the car were brighter, the window was like a mirror, reflecting the scene inside.
His originally blank eyes slowly focused on the reflection in the car window. Zhou Boye lowered his eyes to handle official business, with no expression on his face. With peach blossom eyes and thin lips, he really looked cold and heartless, but he was very handsome.
Jiang Yuxia's gaze moved downwards, landing on his slightly moving Adam's apple, and then stopped.
The fever-like heat slowly surged up again, "bang, bang, bang", the sound of the heartbeat was infinitely amplified in my ears, as if it was knocking on the eardrum.
Jiang Yuxia pursed her lips.
"Click," the slight sound of the folder closing seemed to explode in his ears.
Jiang Yuxia trembled all over. He didn't dare to turn around and looked out the car window cautiously.
Their eyes suddenly met another pair of gazes, and their gazes met through the car window.
Jiang Yuxia was stunned, his mind exploding. He had actually been staring at Zhou Boye for a long time! Did Zhou Boye notice? How long had he been staring?
He quickly looked away, buried his face in his sweatshirt, and closed his eyes, like a kitten with its fur standing on end.
Zhou Boye's voice suddenly rang out, "Cold again?"
He didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that Zhou Boye's tone was not as calm as before. Jiang Yuxia gritted his teeth and said "hmm" in a muffled voice.
The environment inside the car made Jiang Yuxia very uncomfortable. Something was wrong, something was wrong, it was really wrong. Even if he was stupid, he would realize that he might have been tricked. He checked everything he had taken that day, and only that glass of wine had no source.
Thinking about what Li Qi said at that time...it's a pity that he didn't become a prophet, he could even guess right.
But he only took two sips, and wasn't the effect a little too good?
Jiang Yuxia gritted his teeth, a faint taste of rust in his mouth. Would he agree to Zhou Boye sending him back now? Mainly because he was afraid Zhou Boye would lose his integrity if he didn't...
If he forced himself on her, Zhou Boye should be able to beat him, right?
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