Chapter 43 Countdown
Lu Yan didn't know how Yu Zechuan found this place, but he couldn't deny that he felt flustered as if he had been caught cheating. His tongue was tied before he could speak: "Why are you here?"
Yu Zechuan looked directly at Lu Yan, his eyes filled with deep suspicion and inquiry, as if he wanted to see through his heart: "Then why are you here?"
Lu Yan couldn't explain it, so he had to change the question to divert attention: "How long have you been here?"
Yu Zechuan lowered his eyes and glanced at his watch: "Two minutes."
One minute and sixteen seconds, to be exact.
Lu Yan heaved a sigh of relief. Two minutes was not bad. Yu Zechuan probably didn't have time to see anything. "I came here to meet a friend... I know who you want to ask. Let's go home first. I'll tell you when we get home."
Otherwise, it would be too ugly if two old men fought in the street.
Yu Zechuan raised his eyebrows lightly: "Okay."
His neutral attitude made Lu Yan feel a little relieved. Yu Zechuan really knew nothing. If he knew that the person he was going to meet was Jiang Boyun, he would not be so calm.
Lu Yan: "I'll stop the car first."
Yu Zechuan said, "No need, I drove."
Lu Yan then noticed a pure black Bentley quietly parked on the side of the road. It was covered with a light layer of dust. He didn't know how long it had been parked in the underground garage. He subconsciously asked, "Don't you dislike driving?"
Yu Zechuan opened the car door and got into the driver's seat. He still remembered that Lu Yan had come to the hotel for no reason. He said coldly, "I just don't like driving, but it's not like I can't drive. Do I have to carry a cat around the world to find you?"
"cat?"
Lu Yan glanced towards the back seat and saw a blue and white airline box with the stray cat he had adopted in the flower bed that day lying inside.
Yu Zechuan frowned slightly: "You didn't come back and didn't answer my phone calls, so I went to the pet hospital to look for you. The doctor said you had something to do temporarily, so you left the cat with them."
Lu Yan was worried about being exposed, so he temporarily blocked Yu Zechuan's phone when he met Jiang Boyun. He sat in the passenger seat and asked in confusion: "Then how did you find this place?"
Yu Zechuan: “…”
Yu Zechuan just drove and didn't say anything.
Lu Yan suddenly remembered something. He slowly lowered his head, took out his phone, and looked at the battery which was rapidly depleting. He asked in disbelief, "Did you install a positioning system on my phone?!"
Yu Zechuan raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he had not expected Lu Yan to be so sharp, and he praised him: "You are really smart."
Lu Yan had lied to him too many times. Once he disappeared from under his nose, he would become anxious and irritated, especially when he couldn't contact him.
Yu Zechuan had secretly installed a positioning function on his phone a few days ago, but he didn't expect it to come in handy today. Yu Zechuan looked at the winding road ahead, tapped his fingertips on the steering wheel, and said calmly:
"Lu Yan, don't leave my sight next time."
“Even if you leave, you have to stay connected.”
Lu Yan put his phone away and regained his composure in a short moment. After all, he had been through so much in the previous few games, so what was the point of pretending to be in the game? "Is this all you want to tell me?"
Yu Zechuan stared at the road ahead, the light from the street lamp fell on his face, his expression was gloomy: "Otherwise, do you want to hear my apology?"
Lu Yan asked back: "Can you do it?"
Yu Zechuan sneered and spat out two words: "No."
Yu Zechuan had reminded Lu Yan as early as when he moved in that anything he set his eyes on could only be his and no one else could touch it. Anyone who touched it would die.
He must know what the other person does, where the other person goes, and who the other person knows.
This is a life-or-death love that does not tolerate any betrayal. It is suffocating and morbid.
Yu Zechuan knew better than anyone that this action was terrifying, but he needed this method more than anyone else to gain a sense of security.
Because he is not normal.
The second half of the journey was surprisingly quiet, and the man next to him never said a word. Yu Zechuan seemed calm, but his heart was sinking deeper and deeper. He clenched the steering wheel in a suffocating silence, and a boundless darkness arose in his heart:
What is Lu Yan thinking about?
He might be afraid, or regretful, regretting why he was so blind to fall in love with someone like himself. After all, Lu Yan was a normal person.
What about me? Am I wrong?
This thought actually made Yu Zechuan feel a little sad, because the other party could not pull him ashore, and he was also unable to drag the other party into the water. His mood instantly became extremely bad.
Because Yu Zechuan doesn't like cats, the cat in the airline box was taken to Lu Yan's home after arriving at the apartment. The cat was listless when it was brought back two days ago, but today it seemed to have a last gasp, struggling to get up and eat something.
Yu Zechuan stood at the door and saw Lu Yan squatting on the ground with his back to him, feeding the cat with patience and care. He felt more and more that he and he were from different worlds. Finally, he couldn't help but whispered in a low voice: "Lu Yan——"
Lu Yan turned around subconsciously, but heard Yu Zechuan ask seriously: "Do you want to hear my apology?"
Lu Yan suspected that he had heard it wrongly: "What?"
Yu Zechuan walked up to Lu Yan and slowly squatted down. The chill of the night enveloped his body like a damp rain. He frowned and stared at Lu Yan, asking word by word, "Do you want to hear my apology?"
If Lu Yan wanted to listen, he would apologize.
Yu Zechuan has never bowed his head to anyone in his life, but in the end he still has to give in.
"I apologized, so you are not allowed to be angry."
This was the most sincere way he could think of, even though the tone was awkward and stiff.
In fact, Lu Yan was not angry with Yu Zechuan. The reason why he didn't say anything was that he was thinking about how to explain what happened in the hotel when he got home, but he didn't expect to cause misunderstanding to Yu Zechuan.
Lu Yan came to his senses, put the cat food bag on the ground, and directly reached out to pull Yu Zechuan into his arms to sit. The latter's eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, but he did not struggle.
Lu Yan asked with a half-smile, "Do I look angry?"
How could Yu Zechuan know? After all, he had never seen Lu Yan angry before: "I installed a location sensor on your phone, aren't you angry?"
Lu Yan thought that this was nothing, he had even installed a bug on Yu Zechuan, so he considered it fair. But he certainly couldn't say that: "Of course I'm angry."
Yu Zechuan sat in Lu Yan's arms. Hearing these words, his heart suddenly tightened. However, before he could open his mouth, a warm and wet kiss fell on his ear, making him close his eyes subconsciously due to the itchiness.
“But I was also wrong.”
Lu Yan said this sincerely, "It's because I didn't give you enough sense of security."
Although he tried his best to be nice to Yu Zechuan in this relationship, the lies and secrets he was forced to tell still caused irreversible harm to the other party. Yu Zechuan was already nervous, so how could he accept such stimulation again?
Love is supposed to be a beautiful thing, but Lu Yan made him taste the bitter fruit.
Yu Zechuan didn't expect such an answer, and his heart trembled. However, before he could be happy, the next second Lu Yan's dense kisses fell on his cheeks, and then moved gradually down, lips against lips, tongue against tongue, you retreat and I advance, and neither of us is willing to show weakness.
“Hmm…”
Yu Zechuan groaned.
The temperature in the room rose rapidly, making it difficult to breathe. Otherwise, why would I feel a lack of oxygen and a wild heartbeat?
Lu Yan pulled Yu Zechuan up from the ground and stumbled with him towards the bathroom. The glass door closed, the panting sounds gradually became unclear, and intermittent whispers came from inside.
"Oh...oh...you haven't told me who I'm meeting at the hotel today..."
"Oh, Jiang Boyun."
“Bang!!!!”
After a three-second silence, a deafening noise suddenly erupted from the bathroom. The showerhead slammed to the ground, the shower gel bottle fell to the ground, the water splashed, and...
Lu Yan's painful voice begging for mercy.
It turns out that it's pretty ugly when two old men fight in the bathroom.
"It hurts, it hurts, let go first! Let go! Let me explain it to you!"
Yu Zechuan grabbed Lu Yan's hand and pressed him against the tile wall. His good mood disappeared, leaving only a gloomy and terrifying face. He gritted his teeth and asked, "What did you just say? Say it again?!!"
Lu Yan turned back aggrievedly: "Then let me go first."
Yu Zechuan narrowed his eyes dangerously: "Are you going to tell me or not?"
Lu Yan: "I say! I say!"
So Lu Yan told the whole story, but changed the plot slightly and omitted some key details:
"Two days ago, Jiang Boyun suddenly contacted me with an unfamiliar number and said he wanted to temporarily store a USB flash drive with me. That thing was very important to you, so I wanted to trick him into coming over. I didn't expect the address to be in a hotel..."
With every word Lu Yan said, Yu Zechuan's eyes became more murderous, until finally, his expression could no longer be described as ugly.
Lu Yan noticed that the other party's strength had loosened, so he covered his wrist and turned to look at Yu Zechuan, taking the moral high ground before the other party got angry: "I did this all for you, and you are still so fierce."
He seemed very aggrieved.
"Forget it. I knew you wouldn't believe me."
He seemed to be giving up on himself.
"You are just like Jiang Boyun. You deceived me and don't cherish me anymore."
He began to put the blame on others.
However, Yu Zechuan didn't have the heart to care about those messy things now. He clenched his teeth silently, his eyes dark and deep, as if it was a sign of impending storm: "Did Jiang Boyun do anything to you?"
Does it count if I just touch her little hand and hug her waist?
Lu Yan shook his head firmly, his tone somewhat regretful: "No, luckily Lin Annie arrived at that time, and I slipped out in the chaos, but I couldn't help you get the USB flash drive."
Yu Zechuan's murderous look finally softened after hearing this, but only a little. He hid his rage under a false appearance of calm, raised his eyes to look at Lu Yan, but saw that he still looked aggrieved.
After a long silence, Yu Zechuan suddenly walked up to Lu Yan and held his face. He didn't know how to make up for his loss of control, so he could only kiss him awkwardly.
Again and again, the force gradually increased, and even the kiss tasted blood.
"I don't want the USB drive, and you are not allowed to see Jiang Boyun again."
Lu Yan took advantage of the situation and hugged his waist, lowered his head and kissed him back. The unclear sound was drowned out by their entangled lips and teeth. He said in a playful tone: "You are so jealous. What if one day I really go out and have an affair with you when you are not around?"
Yu Zechuan wanted to compensate Lu Yan, so he tolerated all the tricks the man played. Hearing this, he suddenly raised his eyes and looked at him, his eyes red: "Unless I die!"
Lu Yan just smiled and said, "Then remember to make a will when you die, and leave most of your property to me."
Yu Zechuan pursed his lips upon hearing this, and after a long pause he managed to utter a sentence: "I only have nine cards in total."
Lu Yanjing waited for the next words: "And then?"
Yu Zechuan turned his head away and said in a muffled voice: "All eight are given to you."
Lu Yan then remembered that Yu Zechuan seemed to have given him all the cards in his wallet last time, leaving only one card for daily expenses, and wondered where this fool came from. He stroked the other's soft waist, and his eyes softened unconsciously: "Aren't you afraid that after you die, I will use your money to go out and spend it?"
He was waiting for Yu Zechuan to lose his temper or threaten him viciously. After all, after living with him for a while, he had figured out the other person's character.
But Lu Yan only felt a pair of hands around his neck. The person held him very tightly, as if he was relying on and trusting him with his whole body and soul. He said in a hoarse voice, "You won't."
Yu Zechuan closed his eyes and leaned on Lu Yan's shoulder: "Lu Yan, I believe you."
In other words, you are all I have left.
Yu Zechuan is at his most vulnerable when he is in bed, which means all his weaknesses are exposed, to the point that he is as naive as a child and believes whatever others say.
Lu Yan was lost in thought, wondering if a liar like him would ever be trusted by others?
Without saying a word, he hugged Yu Zechuan tightly, turned on the hot water in the shower, and carefully cleaned her body. His voice was once inaudible in the sound of the water: "Yu Zechuan, then you should try to live longer, okay?"
Yu Zechuan closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembled for a moment, as if he heard it, but also as if he didn't hear it.
In the evening, Lu Yan poured some meat paste into the cat's food bowl. This stray cat had black and white cow patterns. It would have been very cute if it had fattened up, but unfortunately it was so thin that it was just a bag of bones and looked listless.
But occasionally it would still try hard to raise its head and gently touch Lu Yan's fingertips, obedient and weak.
At that time, Yu Zechuan was sitting in front of his computer working. The sound of keyboard tapping rang out softly, and the fluorescent light of the screen illuminated his dark eyes, like the last tranquility before the storm.
With the release of a land risk analysis report, it won't be long before Jiang Boyun will experience what it means to be ruined. The powerful network power can make this report a hot search in just a few hours, and Yinchuan Group will also face unprecedented public pressure.
But Yu Zechuan always felt it was not enough.
He even wanted Jiang Boyun to pay the price with his death.
"What do you think would be a better name for this cat?"
Lu Yan suddenly spoke up, interrupting Yu Zechuan's contemplation. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw Lu Yan combing the cat's fur from time to time. After a moment of silence, he said, "Lu Yan, the doctor said it won't live much longer."
When Yu Zechuan went to the hospital to pick up the cat today, he also took the medical examination report: "The doctor said that it may have been in a car accident before. Not only is its right leg broken, but its internal organs also have varying degrees of damage. It also has severe kidney failure and needs to be sent for an injection tomorrow."
In fact, after all this, Yu Zechuan only wanted to say one thing:
"It's doubtful whether it will survive this week, there's no need to give it a name."
A name is just a title, but a name means "memory", and "memory" means something that is hard to forget. There is no need to invest too much emotion in a dying cat, otherwise you will be the only one who is sad.
"Kidney failure?"
Lu Yan was stunned when he heard this, then he came to his senses. He touched the black pattern on the cat's head, feeling a little sad, but not too sad. After all, he had only had the cat for a short time. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Why don't we call it Longevity?"
Yu Zechuan complained: "Vulgar."
Lu Yan: "A hundred years old?"
Yu Zechuan: "More vulgar."
Lu Yan: "Never mind, just call it Bai Sui."
Lu Yan carried Baisui into the newly bought cat bed and patted his fur. He then walked to the desk and forcibly picked up Yu Zechuan, the "big cat", and turned to walk towards the bedroom: "What were you busy with just now? You didn't even sleep."
Yu Zechuan: "Nothing, I just gave a gift to a friend."
Lu Yan gently threw him onto the bed, and seemed a little jealous. He threw a series of questions at him, leaving him no idea how to respond: "What friends? Male or female? Old or young?"
Yu Zechuan put his hands around his neck and said vaguely, "Nothing, just a dying friend."
He finished speaking and tilted his head to kiss Lu Yan's neck, leaving marks one after another, as if marking his possession.
Little did they know that on the other side, Jiang Boyun learned that there was a problem with his real estate project. He was so angry that he almost went crazy in the middle of the night and smashed things all over the floor.
He collapsed into a chair as if exhausted, his teeth clenching and uttering three words sinisterly:
"Check it for me!!!"
The wall clock ticks silently, heralding the beginning of a new day and the countdown to the completion of a task.
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