Chapter 39 Chi Cheng is back
He paused, as if trying to organize his words. "It was a very long... a very terrible dream. In the dream, Wu Suowei died, and you disappeared... I couldn't find you, and I searched everywhere like crazy... But I couldn't find you anywhere... I could only drift aimlessly like a lonely ghost..."
There was a real, buried pain and fear in his voice.
Chi Cheng outside the door held Wu Suowei's hand and tightened it suddenly. The force was so strong that it hurt Wu Suowei and he looked at him subconsciously.
Chi Cheng's face suddenly became extremely ugly under the dim corridor light. His thin lips were tightly pursed, his jawline was tense, and his eyes were filled with a kind of sinister and... fear that Wu Suowei could not understand?
Jiang Xiaoshuai seemed startled by the heaviness and pain in Guo Chengyu's tone. He was silent for a few seconds before muttering softly, "You... don't let your imagination run wild... How could I possibly disappear? I don't owe anyone money and I'm running away... And isn't Dawei fine?"
Guo Chengyu's voice was almost pleading: "So, Xiaoshuai, no matter what happens, don't hide, okay? Even if the sky falls..."
He paused, his voice even softer, but with a heavy promise, "At least, I'm with you."
The house fell into silence.
Wu Suowei could almost imagine Jiang Xiaoshuai's expression at the moment, which must be awkward and a little moved.
Sure enough, after several seconds, Jiang Xiaoshuai's voice, pretending to be disgusted but unable to conceal a hint of embarrassment, was heard: "Who are you? You... I don't know you... It's so disgusting!"
Guo Chengyu immediately resumed his ruffian tone, wailing exaggeratedly, "Alas! Are you trying to draw a line between us? Are you forcing me to commit suicide right here and now?"
Jiang Xiaoshuai immediately exploded: "Who has feelings for you?! Why would you sacrifice yourself for love? You're crazy!"
After he finished cursing, he seemed to feel that the topic was too serious and quickly changed it, "But seriously... Guo Chengyu, you say..."
He lowered his voice a little, with a hint of curiosity and seriousness, "What if one day, as you said, Dawei suddenly... Chi Cheng... what will happen?"
Wu Suowei's heart suddenly rose to his throat outside the door.
He subconsciously held his breath and felt Chi Cheng holding his hand, which was as cold as an iron clamp and was still trembling slightly.
Guo Chengyu did not sneer as Jiang Xiaoshuai had imagined. Instead, he remained silent for a while, his eyes drifting unnaturally to the window, and the corners of his mouth trembled slightly.
“He…”
"He must be going crazy, hiding somewhere where no one can find him, and then leaving quietly?"
"In my dream, I asked him, are you planning to be decadent like this for the rest of your life?"
"He said I harmed him, and I shouldn't have looked for snakes, and he just... I like snakes..."
These words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Wu Suowei's heart.
He took a sharp breath and his body shook uncontrollably.
It hurt me...looking for snakes...
"Chi Cheng! Kill the snake! Which is more important, the snake or the person?"
"No... Chi Cheng... likes snakes..."
The dusty memories came back to his mind again, and he subconsciously looked at Chi Cheng beside him.
In the dim light of the corridor, Chi Cheng's face was frighteningly pale, and his lips were pressed into a stiff straight line.
Those eyes that always carried the aura of control over everything now seemed covered with a thick haze, surging with pain and fear that Wu Suowei had never seen before.
The touch from his palm was cold, stiff, and still trembling uncontrollably, revealing the violent shock in Chi Cheng's heart at the moment.
He even...his breathing was very light, as if he was afraid of disturbing something.
"Fear... fear?" Chi Cheng's voice was very hoarse, with a cautious temptation and... a subtle panic.
Chi Cheng imagined that there might be a day when Wu Suowei would know about his rebirth, or if the time was right, he might choose to tell Wu Suowei, or he might plan to seal that painful memory for the rest of his life.
At that time, Wu Suowei left, Jiang Xiaoshuai disappeared, and Guo Chengyu also left while looking for Jiang Xiaoshuai.
What reason does he have to stay?
Unexpectedly, when this happened again, Guo Chengyu came to find me. Guo Chengyu actually came back.
In this life, he just wants to live a good life with Wu Suowei.
His father? Snake? Wang Shuo? Who could be more important than Wu Suowei?
He turned his head and looked at Wu Suowei, his eyes full of uncertainty and an almost fragile nervousness, as if confirming whether he was really standing here.
When Wu Suowei looked at Chi Cheng like this, his heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand, sour and bitter, with an indescribable shock.
Guo Chengyu's words... Chi Cheng's reaction...
Thinking back to how Chi Cheng was frightened by his words "I'll die in front of you" in the stairwell...
Countless fragments flashed and collided wildly in Wu Suowei's confused mind.
All of this seemed to gradually illuminate his original absurd guess.
Could it be... Chi Cheng... also... ?
This thought was so terrifying that Wu Suowei's hands and feet turned cold instantly.
He shook his head violently, trying to get rid of this ridiculous idea.
Impossible! Absolutely impossible!
Maybe... it was just a coincidence, Guo Chengyu just happened to dream of a similar scene...
Guo Chengyu's dream doesn't mean Chi Cheng knows...
If Chi Cheng came back, he would have kidnapped him and killed him the first thing he saw. How could he have let him run around for so long?
But looking at Chi Cheng's eyes filled with fear at this moment, Wu Suowei could not completely deny this idea.
He suppressed the turmoil in his heart and tried to make his voice sound calmer, although it was still a little trembling: "...It's okay."
He paused, took a deep breath, as if to encourage himself, "I... I'm here."
He broke free from Chi Cheng's cold and stiff hand, not because of resistance, but because he raised his hand and, with a complicated mood, pressed the doorbell of Guo Chengyu's house!
“Ding Dong—Ding Dong—”
The crisp doorbell rang suddenly in the silence.
At the moment the doorbell rang, Wu Suowei's mind suddenly flashed with the words that Chi Cheng had just blurted out when he hugged him outside the stairwell.
This made it impossible for Wu Suowei to deny the fact even if he didn't want to think about it too much.
"Yes, yes, what our Dabao said is right..."
"Our Dabao..."
This name...
This tone...
This kind of natural intimacy...
Why would Chi Cheng... call him that? !
This is clearly...
In this life, he has never given Chi Cheng anything, nor is he as close to the little vinegar boy as he was in his previous life.
So... he has to believe it even if he doesn't want to.
Chi Cheng knows...
Chi Cheng knows everything...
He turned his head suddenly and looked at Chi Cheng beside him in disbelief, his pupils shrinking violently due to extreme shock.
Chi Cheng felt a little sore in the corners of his eyes. He raised his hand tremblingly and gently held Wu Suowei's sleeve, tightening it more and more. His white fingertips sank deeply into the grooves of the sleeve.
From the very beginning, he could clearly call out his own name, including those tests at Wu Suowei's house that he thought were flawless, and now, Wu Suowei's reaction when he heard Guo Chengyu recounting his past.
His fear was always his fear. He carried pain, despair, and the fear of Huang Long from the depths of his soul, and in the end he was entangled with himself.
Chi Cheng didn't dare to gamble. He was really scared. What would happen to Wu Suowei?
Will he hide from me even more from now on?
Then he would rather let Wu Suowei slap him or beat him up, as long as Wu Suowei didn't leave him.
The two of them just stood at the door of Guo Chengyu's house, looking into each other's eyes amid the shrill sound of the doorbell.
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