Chapter 106: The House of Pain
At Shen Xiliu's request, the head of the Shen family found Doctor Zhai and asked Qi Yan to get rid of the memories he didn't want and help Xia Yunqie with treatment; he arranged for Qi Jingsheng to come and let him meet Xia Yunqie and Qi Yan mother and son; he also dealt with the Yi family and made it so that Yi Hongli and Song Yili couldn't find Qi Yan and his family, creating an environment that should belong to Qi Yan...
Originally, he wanted to deal with the Yi family directly, but perhaps out of selfishness, or perhaps because he wanted Qi Yan to take revenge personally, he didn't do much.
However, over the years, Yi Hongli has not been as easy as he appears to be.
After all, after his rebirth, Shen Xiliu was very good at giving people hope and despair, and he had teased him several times in the business world over and over again. Although it's nothing, it's one of the few pleasures for Shen Xiliu.
After saying what he needed to say, the head of the Shen family took out a document from the drawer and handed it to Qi Yan: "Actually, I don't want you to feel too much pressure. This is a gift that Xi Liu prepared for you, but I didn't dare to give it to you all this time, and I knew you wouldn't accept it."
When Qi Yan opened the file, he froze in place.
"He specially arranged for someone to take care of this house, hoping that it would be exactly the same as your childhood memory." The file contained everything about the Xia family's old house, where Qi Yan had lived since he was born. It was full of memories of their family, but unfortunately it was later auctioned off by Yi Hongli.
Some time ago, he accompanied Xia Yunqie on a walk around the area, but they did not go in. After all, the old house had already belonged to someone else, and with today's prices and the buyer's status, they simply could not buy it back.
Unexpectedly, Shen Xiliu had already obtained it, and looking at the photos taken in the file, the layout inside was exactly the same as his childhood memory. Even the antique furniture in the hall was placed according to his memory, completely restoring its past appearance.
This made Qi Yan feel stunned.
"I remember... those antiques should have been auctioned off a long time ago..." Qi Yan remembered that many of the antiques in the photos had been auctioned off a long time ago, but he saw them in the old house now.
Even before Yi Hongli was arrested, the antiques that he and Gu Yanxing suspected contained evidence were among them. With Chen Xiliu's personality, it is impossible for him to use fake items, so it is only possible that he collected them one by one and tried to restore everything to the way it was in Qi Yan's memory...
"Well, Xi Liu spent a lot of effort to bring them all back." said the head of the Shen family.
Hearing this, Qi Yan suddenly felt a little pressured. If he relied on himself alone, he probably wouldn't be able to collect it all in this lifetime. He had never thought about collecting it all, but unexpectedly...
Shen Xiliu did everything that he had never even thought of doing.
"He doesn't need to go to this extent." Qi Yan reached out and touched his forehead and couldn't help but sigh.
There was really no need. In this life, Shen Xiliu didn't owe him anything.
"He wanted to do it, so he did it." Patriarch Shen was used to it and chuckled, "He is just like this. If he doesn't do these things, he will only feel uneasy and panic. Doing more will comfort himself. Don't put pressure on yourself just because he did such a stupid thing. Xi Liu is very selfish."
The head of the Shen family saw it very clearly. Shen Xiliu had done so many things, and he might have thought of using them to "force" Qi Yan. After all, Shen Xiliu knew Qi Yan's character best. He knew that this person would give in to soft words but not to hard ones. He knew how to make him look at him more and stay for him more.
As long as he doesn't make any more mistakes in this life, they will never reach the same point as in their previous life. However, no matter how much he thought it through, reason and emotion were at odds with each other. The reason made sense, but the emotions did not obey him. The ending of his previous life was still a psychological shadow for Chen Xiliu, especially when Qi Yan did not appear at that place.
The head of the Shen family knew that as long as Shen Xiliu was alive, it would be difficult for him to get out of this situation, unless Qi Yan was willing to give him a hand.
Qi Yan slowly closed the file. Is Chen Xiliu very selfish?
He didn't think Shen Xiliu was selfish. If he was really selfish, he should have acted recklessly like he did in his previous life instead of doing so many things for him in secret.
She bore the pain brought by the memories alone, but never dared to appear in front of him. She followed him secretly and arranged everything for him, but turned her new life into a joke.
Obviously this time, Shen Xiliu did nothing wrong and nothing happened. Instead, because of his existence, she got the life she had dreamed of in her previous life.
…
"Shall we talk?"
There was a slow knock on the door. Qi Yan went home first and asked his mother about Chen Xiliu's situation before turning around and knocking on the door. However, he knocked several times but heard no sound from inside, so he simply used the spare key on him to open the door and go in.
Shen Xiliu was in the house, and the shoes in the entrance hall were untouched, just as they were when he left this morning. But this time, Shen Xiliu was not in the place where he usually stayed, but in the room that Qi Yan had never entered, which Qi Yan had jokingly called the Blue Beard's Room before.
Maybe he fell asleep inside. Qi Yan knocked on the door several times and asked a few questions, but Shen Xiliu did not respond.
This seemed a bit abnormal. After all, Qi Yan knew that if Chen Xiliu was there, he would reply quickly. But now, after waiting for more than ten seconds, Shen Xiliu still hadn't replied. This was a bit abnormal.
"Shen Xiliu, are you there?"
Qi Yan was worried that something might happen to him, so he asked again, but when he still got no answer, he simply used the key that Shen Xiliu had forgotten outside to open the door and broke in.
The light from outside poured into the dim room, and I could vaguely see someone lying on the ground sleeping. He seemed to have finally woken up.
"Why are you sleeping here? Aren't you cold? Why don't you even turn on the lights?" Qi Yan frowned. It was winter now, and although there was air conditioning, sleeping directly on the floor was very bad for the body.
"Wait...wait!" Shen Xiliu was startled when he noticed Qi Yan standing at the door reaching out to grope for the light switch on the wall. He pulled off his headphones and got up from the ground, "Qi Yan, don't turn on the light!"
“Snap!”
He spoke slowly, and Qi Yan's hand had already reflexively pressed the switch. The lights in the dark room turned on with a click. The bright white light illuminated the entire room clearly, and densely packed familiar photos came into view!
The number of photos was quite terrifying. Qi Yan looked over subconsciously. Some of the photos looked familiar, but some were taken from a candid perspective, faintly revealing the twisted and perverted voyeurism of the owner of the room.
If any normal person saw so many secretly taken photos of themselves at once, they would probably feel a chill down their spine.
However, Qi Yan only glanced at him indifferently, then set his eyes on Shen Xiliu who was kneeling on the ground. He pulled off his headphones and threw them aside, looking at him in panic, as if he was afraid of arousing his disgust.
"Isn't it cold?" But Qi Yan didn't show any strangeness about this room. He asked Chen Xiliu and turned to walk out.
At this moment, Shen Xiliu was even more flustered. He quickly got up and tried to explain to him: "Qi Yan, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it... No, I'm really sorry! I just wanted to use the photo to control my emotions. I didn't mean to peek at you. I was just afraid that I would be impulsive enough to appear in front of you and interfere with your life, so I did it..."
"Wow!" A thick plush blanket covered Shen Xiliu's body, interrupting his panicked explanation. His cold body was wrapped in warmth. "I say, aren't you cold? You are sleeping on the ground with only so little clothes on, and you don't even have slippers on..."
Qi Yan frowned, squatted down and put the slippers at his feet: "Lift your feet and wear them properly. It will be very uncomfortable if you catch a cold."
“…”
Shen Xiliu listened to him blankly, put on his slippers, and asked him cautiously: "Are you... not angry?"
Qi Yan looked up at his panicked expression and was silent for a moment. To be honest, he didn't want to see this strange expression on Shen Xiliu's face, which didn't belong to him.
"Why are you angry?" Qi Yan stood up and said calmly, "Isn't it just the Pain House?"
"Don't take it so seriously. I have to be thankful that at least you didn't customize my image into a pillow, a cup, a pain suit, a figurine, a cotton doll, or something like that, and play with it in your hands every day."
His cousin was like that. Compared to how his cousin treated some of his favorite anime characters, Shen Xiliu just took a room full of photos and was a little more clingy.
Shen Xiliu was a little stunned: "Can... it still be like this?"
Sounds... like it's pretty good?
Qi Yan: “…”
“Don’t learn from my sister.” Qi Yan asked Shen Xiliu to stop and not show his eagerness, and pulled him to sit on the sofa. “After I sorted out my memories this morning, I went to find many people. I looked for the director, Doctor Zhai, and Uncle Shen. I originally wanted to find Doctor He Sheng, but he was in City C, so I just called him…”
Qi Yan told him his schedule for today in an orderly manner. He would organize his memories in the morning and look for someone in the afternoon. Originally, he also planned to meet Jiang Yuqing and Gu Yanxing. As a result, when the call was connected, the two were at the airport. With Gu Yanxing's cry for help, Jiang Yuqing smiled and thanked his partner, and finally kidnapped Gu Yanxing...
During the trip, airport police came to question them, but Jiang Yuqing sent them away with a sense of fun.
Qi Yan finished talking about his daily life, brewed two cups of tea, and took out a deck of cards under Shen Xiliu's nervous gaze: "Now, let's play a game. Do you remember the rules of the game?"
His schedule for today was not arranged casually. Only by finding out what Shen Xiliu had done over the years could they have a good talk about the truth. From past lives to this life, the problems between them should have been completely resolved long ago.
Qi Yan held the key joker card between his slender index and middle fingers and shook it at Shen Xiliu: "Let's change it a little this time. The winner can ask the loser any questions, and the loser must tell the truth and not lie or hide anything."
This was the ghost card game they had played before when Qi Yan was susceptible. Facing such a calm Qi Yan, Shen Xiliu felt that his tense nerves seemed to relax, and even his mood calmed down.
"If you win, I can tell you everything about this life and the last life, including everything that happened when you were drunk." Qi Yan looked at Shen Xiliu's gradually relaxed expression and said seriously, "It's not a bad thing."
Perhaps, it can make Shen Xiliu less painful.
"real?"
Shen Xiliu suddenly opened his eyes wide and stared at Qi Yan. In his previous life, he had asked Qi Yan what happened after getting drunk and why Qi Yan's attitude would subtly change every time he drank, but he had never given a direct answer.
There are too many things to care about, and the problems left over from the previous life make Chen Xiliu uneasy day and night.
Qi Yan's current attitude made him feel a glimmer of hope.
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