Chapter 91 Guilt
Zhou Yang never expected Lin Qiyuan to do this. He didn't react in time and was carried away.
Lin Qiyuan was soaked, and Zhou Yang was being carried. Even though they ran very fast, and even Lin Qiyuan snatched the small umbrella from his hand and covered Zhou Yang tightly, Zhou Yang's thin clothes were still soaked, and he felt a little cold, which also made him wake up a little from his confusion.
"Lin Qiyuan, are you crazy? Put me down!"
Lin Qi's voice was buzzing, barely audible in the rain: "No!"
Zhou Yang was so angry that he died. He didn't expect that this person looked smart but was actually stubborn and did things foolishly.
Zhou Yang struggled desperately, but he was no match for Lin Qiyuan, who was taller, stronger, and had exercised more than him. He could only be carried, and even held up... by the butt, and shamefully carried into the taxi.
Fortunately, it was a villa complex and there were not many people there on a rainy day. Zhou Yang cursed, feeling angry and ashamed. Lin Qiyuan finally stopped a taxi on the road, stuffed him into the back seat, and quickly got in himself.
Zhou Yang's stomach ached from Lin Qiyuan's shoulder blade. Fearing he might escape, Lin Qiyuan grabbed his arm and pinned him to the small area near the back window. Zhou Yang's entire body ached, and he wished he could slap Lin Qiyuan in the face, but his hands were restrained, preventing him from moving.
This didn't stop him from talking: "Lin Qiyuan, are you sick? If you are sick, go get treatment. What's wrong with you?"
Lin Qiyuan was about to respond when the driver turned around and said, "Sir, where are you going? And...how can I help you?"
Lin Qiyuan had stopped the car, but the driver's eyes were clearly fixed on Zhou Yang. The wariness in his eyes towards Lin Qiyuan seemed to be asking, "Sir, do you need to call the police?"
It seems that Lin Qiyuan is regarded as a bad guy and Zhou Yang is regarded as a poor little person who was held hostage.
Lin Qiyuan noticed the driver's anomaly, but he didn't care. He replied, "To 37 Changyun Road." After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Do you have any dry towels?"
Lin Qiyuan was indeed completely wet, and he would definitely catch a cold in the afternoon.
The driver didn't have any dry towels, but he did have an old piece of clothing he didn't wear. He pointed behind the seat and said, "That piece of clothing is clean. It's old. I've gained weight and can't wear it anymore, so I'm going to throw it away. If you don't mind, you can change into it."
Lin Qiyuan pulled out his clothes with one hand, shook them, and then covered Zhou Yang completely with dry clothes: "Your clothes are wet, you will be cold soon, warm yourself up quickly!"
The driver was starting the car when he subconsciously looked back after hearing this. He looked at the two of them in surprise, his lips moved, but he wanted to say something but didn't say it.
Even though he was soaked, he was still thinking about others. The person who was talking should not be a bad person. The driver could finally drive with peace of mind.
But, have his friends, even his brothers and father, ever been so considerate? A flash of doubt passed through the driver's mind.
Zhou Yang was like a pissed-off frog the whole time. He didn't appreciate Lin Qiyuan's behavior at all, and he wasn't moved at all. He just felt even angrier.
Is this person made of iron? Even when I'm soaked, I'm still thinking about him?
Zhou Yangte wanted to curse, but there were strangers in the car, so he couldn't curse.
Seeing that he had stopped cursing and struggling, Lin Qiyuan became more aggressive, put his arm through Zhou Yang's shoulders, and hugged him. He put his mouth close to Zhou Yang's ear and whispered softly, "When we get home..."
Lin Qiyuan didn't say anything about what happened when they got home. Zhou Yang wasn't curious at all. He intuitively felt that the hot breath exhaled by that person made his ears itchy. He was extremely ashamed and wanted to hide but couldn't.
He wanted to break free from Lin Qiyuan immediately, but Lin Qiyuan was cold, so he thought it would be nice to warm him up with his body temperature. But then he thought again, this bastard had been lying to him all along, and his parents looked down on him. He didn't deserve such kindness from him, so he wanted to use some strength to get him out of here.
Zhou Yang hesitated until he got off the car, and was carried out of the car by Lin Qiyuan. The city was different from the villa complex. People were coming and going. A grown man carrying another grown man was simply an eye-catching weapon. Lin Qiyuan didn't feel embarrassed at all, but Zhou Yang was ashamed and could only urge Lin Qiyuan to walk faster.
When they got home, Lin Qiyuan put Zhou Yang down and Zhou Yang quickly ran out. Lin Qiyuan had expected that he would not be obedient, so he reached out his hand and stopped him.
It was difficult to move in the car just now, but this time Lin Qiyuan didn't say a word. He picked up the person and carried him horizontally, kicked open the bedroom door, put the person on the bed, and locked the door from the inside.
Zhou Yang stood up, his eyes wide open: "Lin Qiyuan, what on earth do you want to do?"
Lin Qiyuan had a lot of things he wanted to do. Looking at Zhou Yang, whom he hadn't seen for almost two weeks, the thing he wanted to do most was to kiss him and hug him, but he had more important things to deal with, so these things he wanted to do now had to be postponed.
Lin Qiyuan stripped off his soaking wet shirt and pants and casually put on a new one. There was a cloakroom next to his room, but he had no intention of going there. He changed his clothes right under Zhou Yang's nose. Although they had been intimate before, Zhou Yang was not thick-skinned enough to see each other naked in broad daylight.
Showing off his figure was just a small part of Lin Qiyuan's plan. Although he deliberately slowed down his movements, changing clothes only took two minutes, and any longer would be deliberate.
As for the little rain and water that Zhou Yang got wet with, they had long been warmed up by his body. When he was hugging Zhou Yang just now, he touched his underwear and found it was completely dry, so there was no need to change it.
After changing his clothes, Lin Qiyuan picked up a large envelope from the table, pulled out a stack of documents, and handed it to Zhou Yang: "Take a look!"
Zhou Yang had just discovered such an envelope on the table. His first reaction was "I don't want to look at it and I don't want to listen to it", but when he thought of the lines in the idol drama, he still took it with gritted teeth.
This document is the result of Lin Qiyuan's hard work over the past two weeks, with almost no sleep and less than five hours a day.
Zhou Yang sat on the bed reading the document. Lin Qiyuan sat on the chair opposite him, staring at him without blinking.
There wasn't much material, just a few thin pages, but Zhou Yang took it seriously when he saw the first page. He read it very attentively and seriously, as if he didn't want to miss any details.
Lin Qiyuan looked at Zhou Yang and didn't want to miss any of his emotional changes.
Zhou Yang was a little emotional at first, but as time went on, his expression became calmer and calmer. Lin Qiyuan was extremely nervous.
Zhou Yang spent half an hour reading just a few pages of paper, and Lin Qiyuan quietly accompanied him for half an hour.
"That's great!" Zhou Yang sighed.
Lin Qiyuan stood up from his chair, sat on the bed, and hugged Zhou Yang: "Are you feeling bad?"
Zhou Yang buried his head in the crook of Lin Qiyuan's neck and replied after a long while: "It's uncomfortable, very uncomfortable."
Anyone who has endured so many years of unwarranted guilt would feel sad.
Lin Qiyuan ignored Zhou Yang who wanted to break up with him and insisted on going to Country Y, just to find out the truth of what happened back then.
Qi Dongdong's narration was very plain, but he discovered from his words that Ge Wen's social phobia was very strange, and Ge Wen's parents' reaction was even stranger.
When he pretended to be socially anxious, he looked up a lot of information about social anxiety on the Internet, but Ge Wen's behavior did not seem like that of a socially anxious person at all.
Although Ge Wen's parents reacted strongly, their resentment and unwillingness seemed to be mixed with a bit of understanding and resignation.
Maybe there was something wrong with Qi Dongdong's narration, or maybe Zhou Yang was too flustered to notice the details. He just wanted to find out the truth, for Zhou Yang, for Ge Wen, and for himself.
He knew that Zhou Yang had been carrying this knot in his heart for so many years. If the knot was not resolved, and he did not feel guilty about killing Ge Wen, he would always carry this guilt. Words like social phobia and suicide would become terrifying words that would accompany Zhou Yang throughout his life.
In recent years, he has indeed intended to develop overseas markets, but he has not yet done anything formal, and his network of contacts has not yet been established. To investigate this matter, he almost entirely relied on himself to run around, go to the hospital and school to argue for medical records, and go to Ge Wen's parents to try his best to get them to tell the truth.
Sure enough, a series of evidence and Ge Wen's parents' final explanation all revealed a completely different truth:
Ge Wen has never suffered from social phobia. His illness is schizophrenia, a very serious type. Due to confidentiality rules, neither the hospital nor the school disclosed this condition.
Afraid of not being able to make friends, Ge Wendu claimed to others that he was just socially anxious, but his personality was very different from that of a socially anxious person.
Due to long-term illness, Ge Wen became mentally unhealthy. His friends could not stand his sharp personality and gradually distanced themselves from him, which further aggravated his condition.
He fell in love with Zhou Yang at first sight, and tried his best to conceal his true character, approaching Zhou Yang and wanting to be with him.
Realizing Zhou Yang's rejection of him, his possessiveness increased sharply, and he wanted to cut off Zhou Yang's wings and tie him to his side.
He secretly altered Zhou Yang's design data so that he couldn't get an A+ in the final exam. This way, Zhou Yang couldn't get his scholarship and had to ask him for help.
He intentionally or unintentionally slandered Zhou Yang in front of his friends, leaving Zhou Yang with no relatives or friends, so that he could only rely on himself.
He planned all this very well, but Zhou Yang refused to ask him for help because he didn't get the scholarship that year. Instead, he moved to a cheaper house and stayed even further away from him, making his already depressed and guilty mood even worse. Jumping off the building was a hallucination he had at night, a common state of schizophrenia.
Ge Wen's parents knew all of this clearly from the thick diary. They knew that Zhou Yang had nothing to do with their son's death, but they still took their anger out on the innocent Zhou Yangyang.
Over the years, they accepted the money Zhou Yang sent them every year without hesitation.
Zhou Yang was like a toddler, asking over and over again, "Is this true? Does this really have nothing to do with me?"
Lin Qiyuan felt a knot in his stomach. For all these years, such a kind-hearted person like Zhou Yang had been accused of killing others. He must be so upset that he couldn't even sleep well in the dead of night.
Over the years, these things have been clearly imprinted in his mind, otherwise he would not have sent money to Ge Wen's parents every year.
The more contented Ge Wen's parents were with the decision, the deeper Zhou Yang's guilt became.
Lin Qiyuan really wanted to beat up the two old men to vent his anger on Zhou Yang, but he knew that this was enough, it was enough to take the burden off him.
He comforted her over and over again: "Yes, it has nothing to do with Yangyang. It's not your fault..."
When Zhou Yang fell asleep completely, Lin Qiyuan found that his shoulders were soaked. He settled him down, kissed the corner of his mouth, and went out.
Next, it's time to tackle other things.
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