3 am
When Xu Zhiyuan came back after finishing his business, Jinnan was already curled up on the accompanying bed and fell asleep.
You's parents sat holding hands, like two extinguished and solidified candles, which only slowly began to burn when they saw Xu Zhiyuan coming back.
Xu Zhiyuan took off his coat and covered Jinnan with it. The heating in the VIP ward was already on. The patient was still in the intensive care unit. There were only a group of relatives and friends in the room who were worried about him.
Xu Zhiyuan brought the aunt he brought with him and introduced her to You's parents.
"This is Aunt Wang. She has worked in our family for more than ten years. She came here to help take care of You Yi during this period."
After some trivial explanations, Jin Nan remained asleep. Aunt You was a little worried: "Xiao Nan fell asleep while talking to us. Is he okay?"
"It's okay. He was entertaining people tonight and had a few drinks." Xu Zhiyuan said, "Auntie Wang will take you to the rest area later. I'll take Xiaonan home first. Call me if you need anything."
It was already past midnight, and after working hard all night, Aunt You already regarded him as half her own son.
"Xiao Xu, you can come back to Liancheng when you have time. Auntie will entertain you." Auntie You looked at Jinnan and said, "This child misses home very much."
Xu Zhiyuan's heart sank, but he didn't show it on his face and just replied with a "OK".
Jinnan wasn't from Liancheng. His mother had given birth to him there and, at the age of one, had thrown him into an orphanage, where he grew up rootless and homeless for fourteen years, without a place he could call "home."
Xu Zhiyuan still remembers it.
Jin Nan's blood sample had been stored for the high school entrance exam physical, and by chance, it matched Jin Licheng's. When the Rolls-Royce arrived at the old residential area, Jin Nan was still selling cardboard.
Jin Licheng only brought Jin Nan home for a week; the young man bought his own bus ticket and took a four- or five-hour ride "home." Jin Licheng, a wealthy boss, couldn't bring himself to ask his son to come home, so he entrusted Xu Zhiyuan to go to the countryside and bring his son back.
Jinnan lives in a tube-shaped building that cannot be called a residential area at all. The first floor is a kindergarten, the second and third floors are single rooms for rent, and the toilet is shared by all floors.
Liancheng is not kind to Jinnan.
After deducting the food from the orphan subsidy, Jinnan only had enough money to live in such a cramped place. He was not good at studying, was thin, and at first glance looked like an unpleasant and gloomy child.
If he hadn't known it in advance, Xu Zhiyuan would never have believed that the child was fourteen years old.
The first time they met was in that tube-shaped building. When Nan Wan returned home today, I don’t know if he had eaten or not. He met the nobleman Xu Zhiyuan who was waiting at his door with a gloomy face.
"I'm Xu Zhiyuan." Xu Zhiyuan introduced himself like this.
Jinnan didn't respond for a long moment, then glared at him.
This kid probably hates himself.
Xu Zhiyuan thought at the time, if the situation were reversed and he were to live in such a shabby house, and when he turned on the light he saw that the winter quilt was not as thick as his down jacket, would Xu Zhiyuan be able to live like a human being?
Jinnan dressed himself very neatly, but he was thin and his clothes didn't fit him.
It’s really clean. Even a little boy of his age has his nails filed neatly.
On the first night, Xu Zhiyuan forced him to go out, ate a bowl of hot noodles, bought him a pillow, quilt and new clothes. When he wanted to change his schoolbag, Jinnan struggled desperately.
Xu Zhiyuan opened his schoolbag and found scraps of paper, pen tips, a ballpoint pen that couldn't be refilled, and a key to a broken house.
Not a single book.
Xu Zhiyuan said that he had nowhere to go and asked Jin Shao to take him in for one night, and was granted exemption to enter Jin Nan's nest for one night.
He searched almost the entire house, but the only book he found was a tattered copy of Fahrenheit 451, which Xu Zhiyuan later repeatedly flipped through in his hands.
The first time, Xu Zhiyuan didn't bring Jinnan back. When Jin Licheng was about to send bodyguards to kidnap someone, Xu Zhiyuan said, "Give me two months."
It took Xu Zhiyuan a month to call the school to check the surveillance footage and expel the children who burned all of Jinnan's textbooks.
During this month, Xu Zhiyuan became a frequent visitor to the tube-shaped building and replaced almost all the unused items in his home.
Jinnan didn't appreciate the new things he bought, except for the electric kettle which made it convenient for him to boil water for washing his body and hair.
Unlike what he appears to be, Xu Zhiyuan knows that Jinnan has a very tough personality and he will not bow his head unless something extremely serious happens.
Jinnan doesn't trust him and is afraid of him, so it's useless even if he opens his heart to him.
What's more, Xu Zhiyuan didn't want anything.
He had usurped the wealthy life that belonged to Jinnan, and everything he owned was held in safekeeping for Jinnan. One day, he would return it to Jinnan.
He was willing to be the sword in Jinnan's hand, his arm, and the shadow behind him. If Jinnan needed him, Xu Zhiyuan would be at his command.
lifetime.
The only life Xu Zhiyuan is sure of.
Does Jin Nan hate the firemen who burned his books? What about Xu Zhiyuan who took everything from him? Does Jin Nan hate him?
Hate or not, at least Jinnan's eyes were on him.
After passing Dongzhang, the lights were still on in Manhe at one in the morning. Jinnan was sleeping soundly, so soundly that he didn't even notice Xu Zhiyuan holding him in his arms.
Xu Zhiyuan hugged him tightly, not daring to use too much force. The smell of shampoo, exactly the same as his, mixed with alcohol, had not yet dissipated.
Drunk, asleep, angry, Jinnan was different every moment. After eight years of nurturing, the once severely malnourished boy was now lean and trim, still wearing the pair of earrings he'd gotten in a fit of pique against Xu Zhiyuan.
Why don't you pursue me anymore? Xu Zhiyuan wanted to ask him.
Jinnan now couldn't answer a single word.
02:00 am
After washing Jinnan, Xu Zhiyuan put him into bed, his eyes tracing the small bright red mole on his waist.
Who drew the picture of him? Did they also take off his clothes and pull his pants down so far?
Have you ever touched him like this?
Did he ever bathe Jinnan? Blow his hair? Live in Jinnan's house like Xu Zhiyuan did?
Who drank with him? Who drove him? Who stole the lighter Xu Zhiyuan had just given him? Did Jinnan share the cigarettes he bought for her?
Who is it, who is next to Jinnan?
If it’s not Xu Zhiyuan, then who is it?
"Be restrained, Xu Zhiyuan. Jin Nan has so many women around him. He wants to get married in the future. He wants to marry a lady from a prominent family in Lido. Jin Licheng has already found some for him. You compiled that list, remember?"
Xu Zhiyuan, don't touch him.
Don't touch him.
What had Jinnan been doing for the past two months? He hadn't booked any flights to other places, and there hadn't been any major purchases on his card, nor were there any inconsistencies in his inbound and outbound records... If Xu Zhiyuan were to investigate, Jinnan would surely find out.
Xu Zhiyuan, be quiet.
03:00 am
Jinnan opened his eyes hazily, as if he was in his own home.
The curtains were not drawn, and there was a person sitting by the bed. He crawled out of the covers and reached over.
Just like the dream he had before, no face was shown, but Jinnan knew it was Xu Zhiyuan.
He propped himself up and sat up, then leaned over to kiss her, and heard the man's breathing becoming heavier.
He has many kinds of dreams, and Xu Zhiyuan usually doesn't show his face, probably because he doesn't want to face it.
Most of the time he works very hard, a small part of the time he wakes up after a nap, and sometimes he dreams of Xu Zhiyuan, who asks him with a cold face what he is doing.
What is your dream today?
Jinnan leaned over to kiss her and heard a rapid, breathless sound similar to sobbing.
"Konami, what are you doing?"
Jinnan clicked his tongue.
Nightmare.
He fell back on the bed, waiting for Meng to wake up, but Meng still followed him.
"You want to kiss me, Jinnan?" Nightmare said, "Who am I?"
Jinnan buried himself in the quilt.
"who I am?"
I know, it’s so noisy.
If I can’t kiss Xu Zhiyuan during the day, can I kiss him in my dreams?
Talkative.
He fell asleep again, leaving Xu Zhiyuan alone in the frying pan, suffering.
With such a natural kissing pose, does Jin Nan have a partner? Who is it?
No matter who he was, Jinnan didn't do it. Xu Zhiyuan felt very disappointed.
All his delusions floated lightly above the atmosphere, so thin that it suffocated him. Xu Zhiyuan often wondered if he had not come to the Jin family and had not owed Uncle Jin so much, would he have been able to be calm with Jin Nan?
It's time to go, Xu Zhiyuan.
Jin Nan woke up the next day and had no hangover symptoms at all. Li Hongfang's hangover soup was very effective.
But how did he come back?
Jinnan always felt that he had forgotten something. He rubbed his head and got up. He turned on the surveillance camera and found that Xu Zhiyuan had already started work.
The bruises under my eyes are a bit heavier today.
"Give Mr. Xu some chicken soup at noon, and tell Claire not to give him too strong coffee."
"He's not allowed to ask for anything."
"Forget it, let's give Mr. Xu a day off this afternoon. Send the urgent documents over and I'll sign them."
Jin Nan was talking while getting dressed when he glanced at his phone and saw a new message coming in.
Youyi: "Xiaonan, thank you for yesterday. I'm awake now."
Cruising?
woke up?
Jinnan thought about it for a long time but couldn't remember it. He flipped through his phone and saw several calls from his bodyguard yesterday, as well as a large amount of expenditure noted to the hospital.
I seem to remember something. Youyi was hospitalized due to a car accident.
You Yi was his senior from the same high school. Xu Zhiyuan was actually also a Jinnan alumnus, but they were only three years apart in age. He had just graduated when Jinnan enrolled, so he had only seen his photo on the school honor roll.
During his freshman year of high school, You Yi, a senior, took great care of him. After You Yi graduated and went to college, their interactions faded. You Yi had always been more familiar with Xu Zhiyuan.
Anyway, he had to go check it out after the car accident. Jin Nan put on his clothes and went into the garage to find that there was a car that was not his.
The license plate was familiar; it was the Land Rover Xu Zhiyuan often drove. The keys were carelessly placed on the rearview mirror, as if he didn't take the three million yuan seriously at all.
There is no speech in the south now.
"Did Xu Zhiyuan come here last night?" Jin Nan asked the bodyguard.
"Well, Mr. Xu sent you home at one o'clock last night, and didn't come out until after three o'clock."
I stayed at his house for more than two hours.
Jinnan rubbed his neck, a momentary fear building. He'd been drunk the previous night, and he had no recollection of how he'd met Xu Zhiyuan. What had Xu Zhiyuan been doing at his house for two hours? Planning a murder?
Jinnan only regretted that his home did not have surveillance cameras installed.
"I'm going to the hospital now. He's not allowed to come before five o'clock."
Bodyguard: "Mr. Jin, Mr. Xu protests."
"No matter what, he's not allowed to come!"
Sometimes, Lin Jiaze's domineering young master style is more effective in dealing with Xu Zhiyuan. No matter why, Jin Nan doesn't want to see Xu Zhiyuan now.
He dreamed of Xu Zhiyuan last night. I hope Xu Zhiyuan doesn’t know about this.
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