Chapter 19 Leaving
In the darkness, Shen Ci silently clenched his palms.
He clenched his fists so tightly that his nails almost dug into his flesh, leaving crescent-shaped marks on his palms, but he was completely unaware.
Xie Yu was lying next to him, and the heat was continuously sent to him through the quilt. As long as Shen Ci wanted, he could roll into Xie Yu's arms with just a little roll.
The sleeping Master Xie was very easy to talk to, allowing people to twist and turn him around, hug him if they asked him to, and let go if they asked him to, but Shen Ci just stared at him quietly, his dark tea-colored eyes drooped, and his emotions were hidden under his eyes.
The hotel had air conditioning on, and the bedroom was as warm as if a charcoal stove was burning. The quilt was made of top-quality down, the down coming from white geese on the Siberian ice field. It was extremely fluffy and the warmest ever.
But Shen Ci still felt cold.
*
The next morning, when Xie Yu woke up, Shen Ci was gone.
He spit out toothpaste foam and asked the system incoherently: "Why didn't he wait for me to have breakfast?"
Shen Ci also left directly at first, then waited for him to eat breakfast for a while, and now he left again.
The system shut down after finishing the plot, and was even more confused than Xie Yu: "What's going on? I don't know."
Xie Yu waved his hand: "Forget it, it's not a big problem."
He ate as usual, went out for a stroll, and spent money like a rich second generation. The system was silent for a long time. After more than half a month, it quietly appeared beside Xie Yu.
"Two pieces of news, which one do you want to hear first?"
Xie Yu: “Whatever.”
System: “In the past half month, Shen Ci went to the ward to see Lin Yin again.”
Xie Yu hummed, the Shen Ci in the original text was not an ordinary person, he was the best at seizing opportunities, he was not surprised.
"And more."
"Also, Xie Yuanshan knows about your investment. He lost his temper in the company's conference room in Los Angeles, bought a ticket back home, and is heading here now."
Xie Yu casually opened the shopping website and tried to pay with his credit card, but the screen showed that the payment failed.
His card has been frozen.
Xie Yu was not panicked at all. Xu Qingshan helped him to set up an overseas account with a few million in cash, enough for him to live a carefree life for several years.
Sure enough, that night, the phone rang. He answered it and heard Xie Yuanshan's gloomy voice, full of anger and gnashing teeth: "Xie Yu, get out of here and go home."
Xie Yu nodded and said yes perfunctorily.
He was eating wontons at the stall at that time. After hanging up the phone, he ate the wontons slowly and drank two sips of soup. Then he got into the car and drove back home.
Xie Yuanshan was so angry that he wanted to attack him as soon as he saw him, but Xie Yu was no longer a weak child. He was over 1.8 meters tall and was a head taller than Xie Yuanshan. If he wanted to slap him, he had to tiptoe.
Xie Yuanshan looked at him. Xie Yu stood in the shadow of the corner of the wall. His dark brown eyes were also hidden in the darkness. They were cold and indifferent. It seemed that as long as Xie Yuanshan dared to make a move, he would fight back without hesitation.
“…”
Xie Yuanshan retracted his gaze and gave up the idea of taking action. He said bluntly, "You've been hanging out with your bad friends all day. What kind of person are you? Hurry up and pack your bags and get out of here to City C."
Xie Yu put his hands in his pockets, not taking his punishment seriously at all: "When is the flight?"
Xie Yuanshan was so fed up with Xie Yu that he wanted to throw him out of the country right then and there. His secretary checked the system and selected a flight for him tomorrow afternoon.
Xie Yu was well prepared and accepted the offer well. He packed all his luggage that night, and then, according to the requirements of the plot and character setting, he called He Zhiyuan and Zhou Yang one by one, crying about his tragic experience, and invited them to get together the next morning as a farewell party.
Xie Yu certainly couldn't cry. He pinched his nose and forced out two sobs: "Brother, I won't be able to see you for a long time."
The system was standing by and made a painful sound.
A bit disgusting.
Ever since the incident with Lin Yin last time, He Zhiyuan felt ashamed and returned to his ancestral home in Beijing. He has not been to Jiangcheng for a long time. Now his movements are restricted by his family and he cannot come tomorrow.
Zhou Yang agreed readily. After a chat, the two chose a bar they often went to by the river.
According to the original text, Shen Ci was in the hospital at the moment, and no matter how good Young Master Xie was at having fun, he was afraid that someone might get killed, so Shen Ci had nothing to do with the party tomorrow, and it became a two-person game between Xie Yu and Zhou Yang.
Xie Yu hated He Zhiyuan and had an average impression of Zhou Yang. He didn't like him very much, but he didn't hate him either. The two of them drank a few cocktails in the bar and then took a walk along the river.
Zhou Yang asked him, "You're really gone for five years and never come back?"
Xie Yu smiled and said, "Really go."
Zhou Yang smoked and blew smoke rings towards the river: "Your father is really not a good person... By the way, I heard that he froze your card. Are you short of money? Do you want me to give you some?"
Xie Yu shook his head: "No, I'm not short of money, but there is something I need your help with."
Zhou Yang raised his eyebrows: "We have been friends for more than ten years, just say it."
Xie Yu: "Keep an eye on He Zhiyuan and keep him away from Shen Ci."
Zhou Yang paused while smoking.
In the original text, He Zhiyuan wanted to get Shen Ci, and he did it. He was a man who got bored after getting it done, so he didn't care anymore. He didn't bother Shen Ci again afterwards. But this time, Xie Yu was on high alert and didn't let him get involved. He Zhiyuan felt itchy inside, and who knows what he would do.
Zhou Yang was stunned: "This is the first time I see you taking this seriously...Okay, I'll protect him. Before you come back, He Zhiyuan can't even touch him."
"Thank you very much."
"It's just a small thing, no need to thank me." Zhou Yang teased: "But Mr. Xie, if you like it so much, why don't you leave him some more money?"
Xie Yu: “I’ll keep it.”
Given the original owner's personality, it was impossible for him to leave money for Shen Ci, so Xie Yu found Xu Qingshan and asked him to keep a portion of the donations to the mental hospital as a backup, in case Shen Ci's grandmother had any emergency and needed money, she could transfer it from there. When Shen Ci asked about it, he would say it was a charity donation and he had won his family's number.
Shen Ci didn't know that Xu Qingshan had any relationship with him, and he couldn't associate it with Xie Yu.
The two chatted about some other things and then went back.
Xie Yu took out his luggage from the hotel, which consisted of two large suitcases. He counted the important items one by one, and the small kraft paper bag he had found earlier was carefully placed in the liner of the suitcase, with a layer of lining paper underneath.
The system looked at it curiously: "What on earth is this?"
Xie Yu pushed it aside, buckled the box, and carried it downstairs.
He got into his secretary's car and drove all the way to the airport. After passing security and sitting down at the boarding gate, he called up the system screen and opened the novel page.
There is one last plot before Xie Yu goes abroad.
He took a deep breath and dialed the number.
The default ringtone of the phone rang, and after three seconds, the call was connected. Shen Ci suppressed his voice: "Xie Yu?"
He seemed to be in a laboratory, the volume was very low, and in the background there were the sounds of glass test tubes colliding, and the rustling of pen tips sliding across straw paper... These sounds were very peaceful, like the sleep-inducing white noise in ASMR.
Xie Yu held the phone in his hand, as if listening intently, and did not speak for a long time.
"Xie Yu?" There was another call from the other end. Shen Ci should be coming out. The receiver could hear the friction of fabric when a white coat was folded, followed by the sound of a card being swiped, footsteps, and finally bursts of bird calls.
The long silence made Shen Ci feel a little uneasy. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "...What's wrong? Did something happen? Should I come to the hotel to find you?"
“No need.” Xie Yu heard his own calm voice: “In the future, you don’t need to come to me.”
“…”
There was a long silence.
There was silence on the other end of the receiver, with nothing but the noisy background noise of the campus.
After a long time, Shen Ci asked softly, "What do you mean?"
Xie Yu: "I am going abroad, I will take a flight this afternoon, and I will not be back within five years, so the agreement is void."
After a pause, he smiled again, in a cynical playboy tone: "Congratulations, Assistant Professor Shen, you are free."
This is the original line. Before leaving the country, Young Master Xie did not forget to mock the poor canary. His tone should have been cold and perverted, but Xie Yu was serious.
He was congratulating Shen Ci seriously for breaking free from his confinement and regaining his freedom.
“…”
There was another long silence.
After a long while, Shen Ci spoke. His clear voice sounded a little muffled through the receiver: "What time is your flight? I'll take you there?"
Xie Yu: "No need, I've already reached the security checkpoint."
This part was not in the original script, and he had added it. But Xie Yu thought about it and added, "Goodbye."
Xie Yu hung up the phone.
When we meet next time, you will have to go to a mental hospital.
The phone went completely dark, and Xie Yu's face was reflected on the screen. The young man's eyebrows and nose formed a beautiful arc, and his eyes were hidden in the shadows, dark and subtle.
"Passengers heading to City C, please note that your flight JC5846 is boarding. Please proceed to ..."
When the broadcast sounded, Xie Yu looked up, put his phone in his pocket, picked up the ticket, and boarded the plane.
The flight lasted twenty hours. Xie Yu leaned against the window. The retractable screen showed that they flew over Japan, passed through the Aleutian Islands and Alaska, and crossed the Pacific Ocean. Looking down from the window, the azure blue sea was distant and deep, connecting with the sky.
The system poked him silently: "Are you unhappy, host? We can travel around the world!"
It was a new system that had never seen the world. It immediately pulled up hundreds of guides from the Internet and spread them out in front of Xie Yu. It excitedly said, "Look at this. A seven-day, six-night free tour in Iceland. The itinerary includes the Ice Blue Cave and the Blue Lagoon. And this, a first experience at a Las Vegas casino, with beautiful dealers in uniform..."
Xie Yu lazily pushed it aside: "We are on the plane, can you connect to the Internet now?"
System: “…Huh?”
Xie Yu: “Turn off the phone.”
system:"."
It tried to explain that as a high-tech system, its networking would not interfere with communications, but Xie Yu had already put the magazine on his face and refused to communicate.
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