On winter nights in the capital, the wind is as cold as a knife.
The fine snow particles were blown by the wind and swirled in the empty square below the Fengqing Internet Building.
It hit the cold marble floor and the bare landscape trees, making a slight rustling sound.
The dim light of the street lamp seemed particularly lonely in the wind and snow, barely illuminating a small patch of wet ground.
Lin Feng walked out of the revolving door, the collar of his black coat standing up to block the biting cold.
He immediately saw the figure wrapped in a large black down jacket in the shadow of a lamppost not far away.
The brim of his hat was pulled down low, and the scarf covered most of his face, leaving only a pair of eyes visible, flashing with anxiety and vigilance in the shadows.
"Let's have coffee first." Ye Linyun spoke first.
Lin Feng didn't say anything, but just quietly picked up the coffee on the table.
"It seems like I haven't looked at the night view of this city so relaxedly for a long time." Ye Linyun took the initiative to speak.
"By the way, Lin Feng, do you still remember participating in the event? A girl asked me for your contact information and was asking about you." Ye Linyun said with a smile.
"Also, why didn't you..." Ye Linyun was interrupted by Lin Feng before she could finish her words.
"Just tell me what you want to say."
Ye Linyun's beautiful eyes moved slightly, and she took a sip of coffee and said, "Don't you have anything you want to say to me?"
Lin Feng put down his coffee and looked at the woman in front of him. After a long while, he said calmly, "I'm quite curious, what were you thinking about that night?"
"I..." Ye Linyun wanted to say something but stopped at her lips.
"Forget it, it's over." Lin Feng crossed his legs and looked at Ye Linyun.
"Do you know the hotel?" Lin Feng suddenly asked.
Ye Linyun stopped stirring the coffee and looked at Lin Feng helplessly.
"Room 1919, next to room 4332. The girl who died in the bathtub...her last name was Sun, right?"
Ye Linyun's body shook violently!
She suddenly raised her head, her eyes widened and her pupils contracted.
"You...what did you say?! I don't understand!" Ye Linyun's voice was a little high.
Subconsciously, he leaned back in his chair, his back pressed against the cold lamppost, making a muffled sound.
Lin Feng moved his upper body closer. His eyes were like ice, fixed firmly on Ye Linyun's face. His voice was still steady, but with a chill in it:
"Don't understand? That woman named Sun. Her family received a sum of money not long ago."
Lin Feng's speech was not fast, and every word clearly struck Ye Linyun's tense nerves:
"I think that money was transferred by you, and the figure I saw in the room at the door that day must be the one in your family called..."
Lin Feng deliberately paused for a moment and said, "Zhao Qing, right? I think I have seen him in your company."
After Lin Feng finished speaking, he leaned back in his chair, watching her face turn from pale to ghastly, and her eyes turn from horror to panic.
"It seems that I guessed correctly." Lin Feng said lightly.
Ye Linyun's breathing became extremely heavy and her chest rose and fell violently.
She lowered her head, neither admitting it nor denying it vehemently.
But her silence, every subtle reaction of her body - the fingers that stiffened for a moment.
Those dodging, not daring to look directly at each other - are all a kind of silent consent.
The wind and snow seemed to have died down a bit, leaving only the sound of the two people's breathing.
"Why?" Lin Feng asked
Ye Linyun looked at Lin Feng with a frown on her face.
"But you know, right?" Lin Feng continued.
Ye Linyun remained silent for a long time, so long that she almost collapsed in this silent torture.
She made an extremely faint, nasal and infinitely tired voice, like a muttering:
"When I knew it, it was already too late."
Lin Feng continued: "So, you sent money to her family to comfort yourself?"
She paused, raised her head, and looked at Lin Feng again.
This time, her expression was extremely complicated.
There was the embarrassment of having the secret revealed, there was the fear of Lin Feng's insight, and there was also a feeling... that was indescribable.
An extremely faint light buried deep beneath the eyes.
The light flashed away so quickly that Lin Feng thought it was an illusion, but it brought with it a long-forgotten, almost bitter nostalgia.
Her gaze lingered on Lin Feng's angular face for a moment, passing through time.
She saw a figure who was full of vigor and vitality and made her look at him involuntarily.
Lin Feng at that time was not what he is now.
At that time, he was like a dazzling light, with a purity and strength that she could never reach.
It also briefly illuminated her heart.
She was attracted to him the first time they met.
His eyes were very clean and pure at that time.
When she regained her consciousness, she twitched the corners of her mouth slightly, more like a self-deprecating smile:
"Lin Feng... do you know..." Her voice was so soft that it was almost drowned out by the sound of the wind and snow.
"...Sometimes I really envy... really envy... envy the woman next to you... named Meng Qing..."
She didn't say she was envious.
Do you envy Meng Qing’s uprightness?
Do you envy Mengqing for having someone you can trust wholeheartedly?
Or did she envy Lin Feng for being able to maintain the almost foolish persistence that she had long lost in the quagmire of fate?
She didn't finish her words, nor did she need to.
The unfinished words and the complex look at this moment have already said it all.
Two parallel lines that once briefly intersected but are destined to go in opposite directions.
That faint, abnormal love that may have sprouted in the darkness has not yet seen the light.
The two are destined not to be together.
Ye Linyun finally looked at Lin Feng deeply, her eyes were complicated and indescribable.
It contains too much - a hint of relief in despair, and that insignificant, long-polluted old mood.
Then she turned around and almost staggered, still insisting on leaving.
She didn't want Lin Feng to see this side of her.
Her figure quickly blended into the darkness filled with wind and snow.
Lin Feng stayed in the chair, staring at the cold coffee in front of him.
Then he looked down at the USB drive in her coffee cup, and then raised his eyes to look in the direction where Ye Linyun disappeared.
The wind and snow quickly wiped out the traces she left behind.
Under the dim light of the street lamps, the fine snow still fell silently.
Lin Feng picked up the USB drive and rubbed the cold edge of it unconsciously with his fingertips.
Ye Linyun's words "I envied the woman named Meng Qing beside you"
It was like a feather with icy edges, gently brushing across the tip of my heart, leaving a slightly cool trace.
He tightly gripped the USB drive; the cold metal edges poked his palm, bringing a sharp pain but also dispelling those unnecessary thoughts.
Ye Linyun's envy or regret is actually not that important to him.
He has never been a promiscuous person.
It is enough to have Mengqing by your side.
This war is finally coming to an end.
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