Chapter 67 If this is the only face worth liking, then like this face.
Since their reunion a year ago, Pipa has rarely looked at Shen Yun's face with such focused attention.
Shen Yun always remembered the way the other person looked at her, piercing through the first snow of that winter solstice and landing on her from afar.
Then, the next day, in the snow-covered courtyard, Shen Yun once again felt the same gaze.
Following the gaze, he saw the child being held in his cousin's arms.
Even though they had never met before, they felt that the face, including the eyes, had an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
—Have they met?
Shen Yun's excellent memory immediately gave a negative answer, but the child's eyes gave a completely opposite message, making Shen Yun secretly wary.
At that time, Shen Yun had just started his current position. The fact that he was the only son of Lord Shen made it easy for him to stay until the end among many competitors without any suspense. However, it could not guarantee that he could stand out among his colleagues and make a name for himself.
There are sycophants who fawn over the Shen family, and there are also so-called upright people who uphold fairness and justice.
Whether it was praise or disdain, Shen Yun didn't care. He just threw himself into his work, investigating the case day and night, because he desperately needed an opportunity to prove himself.
Visits, patrols, arrests, interrogations... Shen Yun worked overtime with incredible efficiency, achieving outstanding results in the final assessment of new recruits and was eventually assigned to a department specializing in handling major cases.
The night the assessment ended happened to be the Lantern Festival that year.
After several months of getting to know each other and chasing each other, they may not have built a deep working relationship, but they did shut up many guys who were clamoring for nepotism to get out of the company.
Shen Yun walked alone on the street, not staying to attend the social gathering organized to celebrate the end of the assessment, nor planning to go home to share the fruits of her hard work with her father.
I was just wandering aimlessly.
Unbeknownst to her, Shen Yun had walked to the place where she had first encountered that gaze.
The streets were now brightly lit and bustling with people, a stark contrast to the quiet, snow-covered streets of that day, a scene from two different worlds.
Shen Yun had no idea why she had come.
Perhaps it was just a coincidence.
But when she saw the familiar figure struggling through the crowd, Shen Yun seemed to suddenly understand something.
Shen Yun followed that figure from a distance.
Tracking someone in a crowded place is no easy task, but for Shen Yun, it's more like a daily routine.
Shen Yun looked at the child who was looking around blankly and struggling to move forward in the crowd, and suddenly realized that the child was actually looking for someone.
—Who should we look for?
It's nothing more than his dim-witted cousin.
Although she didn't investigate deliberately, Shen Yun gradually obtained some information about the child.
It seemed that the other person was not a local and had never been to this place before last summer.
It has a strange name, loquat.
Until recently, she had been following Lan Yunzhi around, but it seemed that she had already become very close to Li Xiao back then.
He has a pre-existing leg injury and an acquired scar on his forehead, the latter of which is speculated to be related to Li Xiao.
Shen Yun recounted every little detail about the other person, yet she couldn't understand why she was following behind them like this, and why she was unconsciously getting closer and closer—
Perhaps it was out of curiosity, perhaps out of concern, or perhaps simply because there was nothing else to do.
Finally, at that critical moment, Shen Yun reached out and pulled the child who was almost swallowed up by the crowd.
The reason the other person almost fell was simply because they were protecting the colorful lanterns in their arms.
The lantern was nothing special; in Chen Yun's eyes, its unique shape could even be described as ugly.
But there is no doubt that it was written by Li Xiao.
Looking at the loquat in front of her, which was bowing its head and thanking her repeatedly, Shen Yun suddenly felt a little annoyed.
Why?
For something so insignificant...
Shen Yun knew from the beginning that her cousin Li Xiao disliked her. At first, it was because of their innate incompatibility, and later it was because of the Lan family's affairs. It could be said that he blamed Li Xiao for his father's wrongdoings.
In Shen Yun's mind, her cousin was always the type who wasn't very bright but wasn't a bad person.
And then... nothing more.
I wouldn't say I hate her, nor would I say I like her. We're just acquaintances who greet each other when we meet, nothing more.
But at that moment, a strange unease suddenly arose within Shen Yun Kong Kong.
Then, as if possessed, he whispered something almost frivolous in that person's ear.
"If you miss that face, you're welcome to visit him anytime. In some ways, he's much better than that petty guy."
So, look at me.
Look at me.
If this is the only face worth liking, then like this face.
Even if you knew from the beginning that the person you were looking at wasn't me.
As she watched the two walk away hand in hand from the shadows, a series of crazy thoughts suddenly surfaced in Shen Yun's mind.
Shen Yun was taken aback.
He ultimately attributed it to mental confusion caused by working day and night for days on end.
He thought he should probably go back and rest... or maybe have a few drinks before bed.
For a long time after that, Shen Yun forced herself to fully immerse herself in her work.
For some reason, Shen Yun had a terrible premonition that if he didn't do that, he might follow in his mother's footsteps. He could almost see the face of the woman who hanged herself beginning to overlap with his own.
After all, the mother and son originally looked very similar.
Despite this, strangely enough, Shen Yun still frequently learns news about the other party.
After the princess's mansion was burned down, Shen Yun saw loquat once from afar. Several years have passed, and the half-grown child has grown into a young boy.
Shen Yun saw the boy lingering in front of the ruins for a long time, but in the end he did not go in, and he did not notice her peeking from the corner.
Then it was at the Flower Moon Pavilion.
Perhaps it was some kind of predestined fate that brought Shen Yun together with the loquat again, but in such an unexpected way.
Why not ask yourself for help?
Why has he never come to find me?
The moment her mind was disturbed by distracting thoughts, Shen Yun realized that she actually harbored resentment.
So he deliberately didn't recognize the other person, just as the boy didn't recognize him either.
Shen Yun rapped a song, but it was just a deliberate attempt to make things difficult, because he knew the other party's background all too well; he knew that Pipa wouldn't.
So Shen Yun just wanted to scare Pi Pa as a small punishment for the latter who had never thought of her.
Unexpectedly, the boy not only sang, but he also sang a song he knew all too well.
That was a lullaby that Shen Yun had occasionally heard her mother humming softly in a corner when she was a child.
Whenever she sensed someone approaching, the woman would abruptly stop humming and then act as if nothing had happened.
Despite the passage of time, Shen Yun can still clearly recall the strange expression on the woman's face, a mixture of a smile and a cry, just before the music stopped.
The faint traces of rouge, dampened by tears, meandered down like two shallow streaks of blood and tears.
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