Chapter 060 Shadow Man-16
"What's your next class?"
The broken sunlight softened the cheeks of the boy in the corridor. Jiang Yan was completely unaware of how beautiful he was at the moment. He looked through the railing at another teaching building in the distance, and his slightly long eyelashes trembled a few times.
The shadow man in human form looked at Jiang Yan quietly, "Physical education? No, Chinese?"
Jiang Yan chuckled and said, "Forget it, it's not important. Come skip class with me."
The shadow man was startled, "Skipping class?"
"Peach...hungry..."
Before Jiang Yan could say anything, the little paper figures living in his hood came out first. They had misheard the words and thought there were some delicious peaches waiting for them, so they all drooled and said in a soft voice: "I want to...eat peaches..."
"You guys eat p-each!"
The shadow man said indifferently, but when he met Jiang Yan's gaze, his face instantly turned into a smile, and he even winked at him, "Wife, I used this word well, didn't I?"
"It's quite standard." Jiang Yan said calmly.
"Wow..." The little paper people, who were scolded by their daddy and whose mommy didn't even stand on their side, began to shed tears, "Daddy... is bad... Mommy... is also bad..."
The shadow man proudly put his arm around Jiang Yan's shoulders and said, "Don't you see whose wife this is? Of course she's on my side."
Jiang Yan: “…” I don’t want to talk to you anymore.
"Okay, let's skip class." The shadow man put his arm around Jiang Yan's shoulders and said with a grin, "Where are we going?"
Jiang Yan was silent for a while, and finally gave an address.
The shadow man was slightly startled, then said, "Okay."
At the same time, the class bell rang.
“Ring, ring, ring.”
Everyone was rushing to the classroom, only two figures were walking against the crowd and light towards the playground behind the school.
"Hey, isn't that Meng Tang? Who is the person next to him?"
"Aren't they already in class? Why are they still going outside?"
"Brother Lu, isn't that Jiang Yan? Why is he with Meng Tang again?"
"Could the rumors be true?"
Lu Hui threw the last basketball into the basket, a three-pointer. He grabbed a handful of hair, unscrewed the water handed to him by his younger brother, raised his head and drank half of it.
"What rumor?" He let the water drip down his neck onto the ground, and slightly tilted his head to catch sight of Jiang Yan's back in the crowd.
It really looks like it.
Very similar to the anchor Xianxian.
The younger brother replied: "It's Jiang Yan and Meng Tang who are together. Brother Lu, don't you know that? When we blocked Jiang Yan's warehouse before, wasn't it Meng Tang who came to rescue him?"
Lu Hui rubbed his nose and said in a nasal voice: "Yeah."
"It's time for class, Lu Ge, we should go back."
Lu Hui threw the basketball to his younger brother, and while tidying up his school uniform, he said, "You guys go to class. I have something to do and I'm leaving first."
"Ah, Brother Lu, aren't you going to the classroom?"
Lu Hui waved his hand at them and said, "Just say I have a stomachache and ask for leave."
"Okay. Then Brother Lu, remember to come back early."
Lu Hui nodded, and then called Jiang Yan and the other two to join him.
"Someone is following behind..."
The four little paper men discovered the sneaky person behind them. After they said this, Jiang Yan and the shadow man gradually became aware of it as well.
"Why is he following us?" This was asked by the shadow man, and Jiang Yan just shook his head.
"Tsk, I can tell from the first glance that this boy is not serious." The shadow man smacked his lips, "Wife, do you want me to help you teach him a lesson? He always bullied you before."
"That guy was just a little dull."
In fact, I didn't really do it.
On the contrary, when Jiang Nao wanted to use violence against him before, it was Lu Hui who stopped him nonchalantly.
Although Lu Hui is a school bully, he has never really bullied anyone. He is more of a bully taking advantage of the power of others.
"Wife, why do you praise him?"
Jiang Yan was startled when the voice reached his ears. He looked up and met the jealous gaze of the shadow man. He laughed a little helplessly, "You also call it praising..."
"Humph, anyway, I won't allow another man to say it from your mouth."
The shadow man groaned, then leaped onto the wall. He stopped there and stretched out his hand to Jiang Yan below, "Give me your hand, honey."
Jiang Yan extended his hand and placed it on the other person's palm. The next second, the other person wrapped his hand around his and pulled it upwards, and Jiang Yan quickly climbed up by pushing against the wall.
"I'll jump first, don't move."
The shadow man jumped down. Outside was a busy street with shrill, hysterical noises. Jiang Yan half sat on the wall, looking at the people below stretching out their arms towards him.
"Dance."
Jiang Yan was silent for a moment, looking at the man without a shadow in the sunlight. However, the man seemed to be completely unaware of his strangeness and smiled a human smile, "I will catch you."
"good."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Yan fell into an embrace that was not that warm.
Although shadow people look the same as humans, in fact, their bodies are often in a cold state. They only have the skin but lack the memories and emotions of humans.
So they can only become a "normal person" by continuous learning.
These were what the shadow man had told Jiang Yan before, but he still didn't know how the shadow man next to him learned so quickly.
Strong emotions, just the right smile... If it weren't for the fact that the other person had no shadow, Jiang Yan would really have mistaken him for a living person.
Oh, by the way, the shadow man next to me can also ride a bicycle.
"Honey, sit in my back seat."
"Um."
They rode along the river, the cool breeze blowing past them. Jiang Yanxu hugged the shadow man's waist, his eyes fixed on the long river in the distance. After a moment, he asked, "Are there many shadow people in society now?"
The shadow man noticed that Jiang Yan had changed his name for things like them. At first, he called them "shadow monsters", but now he called them "shadow men". He put on a little smile with his human face, "It depends on the individual. After all, we were created by you."
"To put it simply, every human being can have a living shadow of their own, and when they are overly happy/sad/angry/lonely...the overflowing emotions will create a monster that devours their emotions."
"But some people died when their shadows came back to life," said the shadow man. "They had an accident, suddenly got a terminal illness, jumped off a building... They strangled themselves, and their shadows naturally ended as well."
"But there are some people who try their best to live until the birth of their shadow people, and then die because of something. They let their shadows replace themselves to accompany their children and partners..."
The shadow man said slowly, "Do you know that the popular and real Mengtang in your school is actually a shadow man?"
"The pressure from his parents caused him to collapse, so he died a long time ago." The shadow man paused, his eyes also fell on the river in the distance, "Because you are not familiar with him, I didn't realize that he was the same as me in school before. I only found out this when I pretended to be him later."
"These things were told to me by that person's shadow. After the good student jumped into the river, he let his shadow take his place and go to the school his parents wanted him to go to."
"Actually... is there such a thing?" Jiang Yan murmured, as if he had heard a shocking secret.
"It turns out that being a human is so troublesome. Fortunately, I am just a shadow."
Jiang Yan said calmly: “Then you were so active as a human being before.”
The shadow man smiled and said, "Because of you. I just want to be of the same species as you, so that the possibility of being together will be greater, and I can also experience your life. Anyway, even if you are a spider ant, I will imitate you anyway."
"So are you done with the experience now? You can go back after you're done."
“Hey, hey, don’t be so heartless.” The shadow man pursed his lips. “It was you who created me out of loneliness first. So my existence is to make your wife no longer lonely. So don’t always drive me away... It was obviously you who needed me first.” At the end, his voice became smaller and smaller.
"Hey, honey, look, that mother is also a shadow person."
Jiang Yan followed the guidance of his shadow and looked across the street, where a mother was pushing her child walking under a large area of shadow.
Occasionally I would walk into a sunny road, but there was only the shadow of the baby carriage, and the mother in the sunlight was so hazy that she seemed non-existent.
But the child in the stroller didn't cry because he felt his mother was by his side.
Shadow people are very sensitive, so the woman pushing the stroller felt someone was looking at her from a certain direction. She turned her head and saw Jiang Yan and his kind.
Jiang Yan noticed that the woman's gaze stayed on him for a few seconds, and then turned to the shadow man beside him.
They seemed to be communicating, using some special way of communication.
When they stopped communicating, Jiang Yan finally spoke, "What are you talking about?"
"Well...she told me her story."
"Um?"
"She said that the woman she replaced was killed by her husband, who then hanged himself. As a newly born shadow, she accepted the woman's orders as she used up her last breath, hid the bodies of both, and then she, the woman who replaced her, would take care of the baby who couldn't speak yet."
"She said being a mother is difficult, but her baby is very well behaved, not crying or making a fuss, always blinking his big watery eyes, which makes her feel that she must persevere no matter how difficult it is."
"Then she asked me about myself." The shadow man changed the subject, "She asked me whose shadow I was."
The shadow man stepped on the pedals and started riding again.
Jiang Yan fixed his eyes on the man in front of him: "What did you say?"
The shadow man replied: "I said I was your shadow. But she said we look different."
"I said it would be a bit weird for people who look the same to fall in love, so I pinched someone else's face."
Jiang Yan complained: "Isn't it weird to talk to your own shadow?"
"You used to always talk to me in secret." The shadow man whispered, "Where did that kid who always talked about other kids having parents to pick them up and you didn't have go?"
"Now you have your boyfriend to pick you up from school, aren't you happy?"
Jiang Yan: “…”
“Wow, here we are.”
The shadow man rode his bike to the address given by Jiang Yan, which was a green forest.
Whether in the orphanage or later moving to a relative's home, Jiang Yan always ran to this forest.
When he was a child, he could still see the stars here, but when he grew up, the city became seriously polluted and he could no longer see the stars.
"When I have nothing to do, I always come here to stare blankly." Jiang Yan walked in the woods, the interlaced light and shadows between the branches fell on his head. He exhaled and continued, "Before, I could see the stars here, and there were some wild animals, little rabbits and little hedgehogs, but now there are none, and now I can't see anything."
The forest is getting smaller and smaller, as many trees have been cut down by unscrupulous people or transplanted for other purposes. It used to take an hour to see the end, but now it only takes more than 20 minutes to reach the other end of the forest.
The other side is the river.
Jiang Yan stood at the end of the forest, looking at the long river not far away. Suddenly, someone hugged him from behind, and a warm breath was sprinkled in his ears, "Nothing is eternal, and now you have me."
"So when you said that nothing is permanent, does that mean you will leave one day too?"
"As long as you need me, I'll always be here."
Jiang Yan smiled and said nothing more.
"Mommy..."
At this moment, four little paper figures jumped onto the two men's arms, hooked their fingers together, and then said in baby voices, "Daddy...Mommy...let's stay together forever."
"Look, our baby said so. What do you think, honey?"
When the annoying voice came, Jiang Yan's eyebrows moved slightly, and after a moment he said: "If there are stars tonight, I will... be with you."
"Oh~" the shadow man sighed with pleasure.
Then they waited until evening.
"Mommy...is that a star?"
“That’s an airplane.”
"Mommy...what about that?"
“That’s the flashing lights on the other side.”
"Mommy... there are so many mosquitoes here..."
"Well... there won't be any stars. Let's go back then."
As soon as Jiang Yan finished speaking, the shadow man clapped his hands. He lifted up his arm, revealing a large red mark, and said viciously: "I was bitten so many times and didn't say anything, what are you guys saying?"
“There must be stars tonight!”
After the shadow man finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Yan with a smile on his face, "Honey, are you cold? Come and put on my coat."
Just then, a meteor shower fell from the sky. The sharp-eyed little paper people shouted excitedly: "It's stars!"
"How is it possible..."
The last word was swallowed in his throat, and Jiang Yan tilted his head with a look of surprise.
It's a meteor shower.
This can also be considered a star.
"See, nothing is impossible."
"Yeah... you're right."
"Hey, hey, hey, so can we go home to our wedding night now?"
The shadow man, who was serious for a second, started to become abnormal again.
Jiang Yan had no choice but to say, "Take me home first."
When going home, Jiang Yan always felt that someone was following them, especially when they arrived at the community.
Meng Tang parked his bike and walked side by side with Jiang Yan in the community. Lu Hui, who had been following them all the way, scratched the itchy spots on his body that were bitten by mosquitoes.
Strange, why did Mengtang go home with Jiangyan?
Lu Hui was suspicious. Didn't he remember that Meng Tang lived in a big villa?
So there was only one result, that is, Meng Tang took the initiative to follow Jiang Yan home. And Jiang Yan lived in the house of his cousin Jiang Nao.
Could it be that Meng Tang, the "boyfriend", knew that Jiang Nao always bullied Jiang Yan, so he was going to vent his anger on Jiang Yan?
"Mommy...it seems like someone is following us..."
A small paper man on Jiang Yan's shoulder gently pulled his short hair, and Jiang Yan said "hmm", "I know."
The shadow man next to him was furious, "Which pervert dares to stalk my wife?!"
Jiang Yan: “…” Actually, I think you are more perverted.
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