Chapter 107 The True Story of the Present World
The last time they played the game was to kill time and get to know each other. This time the game was much simpler. Qi Yan only took two cards, the Ghost King and the Ace of Hearts. After all, he didn't really want to play a game. It was just a chance to give each other an answer.
However, this time, Chen Xiliu didn't seem to be as comfortable as last time, and he drew the wrong card in the first hand.
"Then I'll just ask directly." Qi Yan stared at the joker card in his hand, a little surprised.
After all, after recovering his memory, he knew that Shen Xiliu was quite good in these aspects. Not to mention the experience on the ship in his previous life and the events mentioned by others, even the last time they played the game, Chen Xiliu won with ease countless times before he deliberately let him win.
Shen Xiliu didn't expect that he would draw the wrong card. Looking at the joker card in his hand and then at Qi Yan's increasingly serious expression, his heart suddenly tightened.
"Why did you send someone to monitor me this time?" Qi Yan didn't like beating around the bush. He opened the photo album on his phone, pulled out the photo Qi Ge had sent him before, and placed it directly in front of Shen Xiliu. "You should know that I hate it when someone follows me and monitors me from behind."
Qi Yan's expression was serious and his tone was a little cold. The stalking in the previous life left a very bad impression on Qi Yan, and he could never forget it. When he went to ask Chen Xiliu that time, the other party's attitude was very cold, which made Qi Yan feel nameless.
He actually knew the reason why the other party did it at that time, and there was no need to ask, but he still asked, just still hoping to get an explanation from Shen Xiliu, or a little apology...
Shen Xiliu also remembered this all of a sudden. He clenched his hands, his nails digging into his palms. He tried his best to control his panic and explained quickly: "I'm sorry, I was just worried that Yi Hongli would hurt you, so I sent people to follow you around and watch you. They were only responsible for your safety! They didn't take pictures of you secretly, and didn't violate your privacy. The pictures in the room were all taken by me, but after we met again, I didn't take pictures secretly anymore..."
Because there was no need, Qi Yan was by his side, so he didn't have to spend the whole day looking at those photos.
"...Can you accept this reason?" Shen Xiliu was afraid that Qi Yan would show a disgusted expression, so he asked him carefully, "I will not send anyone to follow you anymore. All the assets under the name of the Yi family have been sealed, and Yi Hongli, Song Yili, and Yi Yang have all been arrested."
Yi Hongli has many cases on his body. Song Yili is suspected of murdering Qi Yan's grandparents. Yi Yang previously sent people to the school to replace the drugs that Qi Yan was going to use with contraband. Maybe he won't be detained for long, but this time Shen Xiliu will send people to watch him for a long time.
After listening to Shen Xiliu's explanation, Qi Yan recalled the time when he was taken away by Yi Hongli's bodyguards and Shen Xiliu rushed to the rescue in time.
"That's acceptable." Qi Yan nodded, "As long as you don't send anyone to follow me anymore."
The person who was following Yi Hongli indeed disappeared shortly after he was arrested. Qi Yan originally couldn't ask the sick Shen Xiliu any questions, and wanted to ask Brother Xu and the others for help to catch the person and question him directly, but because Shen Xiliu had already left, they caught nothing.
Brother Xu also asked him if he had PTSD due to being stalked.
Hearing this, Shen Xiliu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and his back felt slightly cold, but he still did not dare to let his guard down.
In the next round, Qi Yan won again.
Shen Xiliu took the cards, and even though he wanted to control his emotions, he always lost control when facing Qi Yan, and when Qi Yan saw his expression, he drew the Ace of Hearts almost effortlessly.
"Second question." Qi Yan stroked the Ace of Hearts in his hand, "There's something wrong with the equipment at home, right? All the reports I've seen so far are wrong, right?"
This is actually two questions, but Qi Yan doesn't care, and neither does Shen Xiliu. After all, the core is still one problem.
The first person Qi Yan went to see today was Shen Yunshu, but Shen Yunshu didn't tell him anything. Instead, he smiled and said, "If you want to get the answer, you have to at least tell me what your secret is, right?"
"How about exchanging this?" Shen Yunshu was very interested.
But after working with him for a while, Qi Yan understood how bad he was. If he really told Shen Yunshu about this, there would definitely be big trouble.
So he gave up on getting the answer from Shen Yunshu, since Shen Xiliu was the key anyway.
"Chen Xiliu, I don't like others hiding things from me." Qi Yan reminded him.
"...I won't lie to you again!" Shen Xiliu didn't expect that the second question Qi Yan asked him would be about his physical condition, and tears welled up in his eyes. He got up and went to the pain room and took out all the examination reports. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to lie to you. I just wanted to make you happy."
Shen Xiliu is a very contradictory person. He wants to force Qi Yan to be with him, but he also doesn't want to force him. The instruments had been tampered with by Shen Yunshu, so it was not easy to discover the truth. Shen Xiliu deliberately created an illusion for Qi Yan that his health improved because of Qi Yan's presence, but in fact it did not.
On the contrary, due to the huge fluctuations in emotions, the condition has been getting worse.
"I won't be happy about this kind of thing!" Qi Yan interrupted him with a low voice, "I'll say it again, I don't like people hiding things from me. You doing this kind of thing will only make me angry, do you understand?"
“Yeah.” Seeing him reading the report angrily, Shen Xiliu did not feel scared, but the mood in his heart improved a little. If Qi Yan really hated him, he would probably act the same as in his previous life, not caring about anything and not taking it to heart.
“…”
Qi Yan glanced at him, then looked at the actual medical report, he really didn’t know how Shen Xiliu could laugh at a time like this!
I don’t know why Shen Yunshu was so bold to help Shen Xiliu hide it. If he hadn’t recovered his memory now, he might still be kept in the dark. If he recovered his memory in another year or two, Shen Xiliu would just be able to follow the path of his previous life.
"This won't work. Tomorrow, you and I will go to the research institute together." Qi Yan didn't ask for his opinion and just decided it.
Shen Xiliu said, “Okay.”
Qi Yan saw the smile on his face and wondered what Shen Xiliu was so happy about. Now thinking about it carefully, Qi Yan remembered that Shen Yunshu once deliberately held a very serious patient's medical record in his hand and asked him if he wanted to see it. It was estimated that at that time, Shen Yunshu was giving him a hint.
It’s a pity that Qi Yan’s attention was all on Shen Xiliu at that time, and he didn’t notice Shen Yunshu’s hint.
"Go on." Qi Yan held the cards in his hand. Shen Xiliu had lost twice in a row, but after two rounds, his emotions had stabilized a lot. This time he was finally able to observe Qi Yan's expression calmly.
However, nothing could be seen. Qi Yan didn't care about winning or losing, and his eyes didn't even fall on the cards. But Chen Xiliu cared too much, and after losing two games in a row, he cared even more.
Even after calming down now, Shen Xiliu was still a little unsure, to the point that even his ability to observe, which he had always been proud of, could not observe anything. The result of emotions controlling reason was probably like this, becoming confused, and finally just pulling it out casually.
Fortunately, this time, he was lucky and drew the Ace of Hearts.
Qi Yan stared at the joker card in his hand, flipped it lightly with his fingers, and landed on the sofa. He smiled slowly, raised his eyes and stared at Shen Xiliu, who could not hide his excitement: "Ask, now no matter what the question is, I will answer you."
There are too many problems.
Compared to Qi Yan, Chen Xiliu had too many questions in his heart, questions from his past life, questions from this life, so many that he didn't know which question to start with.
"Why...why didn't you show up at that time?" Shen Xiliu asked the question he cared about most without thinking, and even his voice was a little choked.
Why didn't you show up there?
You are obviously not such a cold person, why did you leave me there alone? Even if you don't care about me, you can save me with your memories, and then seize this opportunity to use me!
There was only one reason Shen Xiliu could think of, and that was that Qi hated him and hoped he would die soon.
Qi Yan knew what he was asking without Chen Xiliu telling him the time.
He lowered his eyes and played with the joker in his hand. He thought for a while and said, "There is no need to appear in front of you this time."
"!" Upon hearing this, Shen Xiliu almost froze.
Then Qi Yan continued to say calmly: "It was a bad fate in the first place, there is no need to repeat it again." If possible, I really don't want to meet again. Instead of continuing to repeat the bad life, it is better to break up early.
But I didn’t expect that Shen Xiliu was also reborn at that time.
"I was the one who reminded the traffic policeman." Although he wanted to break off this evil relationship, Qi Yan really couldn't ignore Chen Xiliu, or any innocent life lost in the traffic.
He left only after seeing the traffic police pull Shen Xiliu back. He thought that this would sever the relationship, but in the end, he was forced to continue the relationship by Shen Xiliu.
"So you were nearby at the time?" Even though he already had the answer in his mind, Shen Xiliu couldn't wait to ask, looking at him nervously and expectantly.
Looking at him, Qi Yan nodded slowly: "Well, I left after I saw you being pulled back by the traffic police."
Hearing these words, Shen Xiliu's mind was shaken. It turned out that Qi Yan had never completely abandoned him, never ignored his life, and he showed up at the beginning!
The pain and torture he had been experiencing all along became insignificant at this moment. Shen Xiliu felt extremely happy, and the haze in his heart seemed to have been swept away: "So that's how it is, so that's how it is..."
"Let's continue the game." Qi Yan sorted out the cards and handed them to him.
Chen Xiliu quickly took the cards. After untying the knot in his heart, he wanted more and more answers. Looking at Qi Yan's expression and thinking about his style of doing things, maybe... maybe many things in his previous life were not as bad as he imagined!
“…”
With his slender fingers hovering over the two cards, Qi Yan glanced at Shen Xiliu's expression in silence... It was too obvious.
It can almost be said that there are flaws everywhere. When Qi Yan put his finger on the Ace of Hearts, he would subconsciously widen his eyes, and when he put his finger on the joker, the corners of his mouth would unconsciously slightly rise...
This attitude has nothing to do with Shen Xiliu's previous expressionless demeanor.
Qi Yan simply closed his eyes, pretending that he hadn't noticed anything, and picked out the joker card.
"Any other questions?" Qi Yan asked.
Shen Xiliu seemed to have noticed something, but there were too many questions overlapping in his heart. He licked the corners of his dry mouth and asked anxiously: "I want to know, did you like me in your previous life?!"
I care too much, even though I have vague suspicions in my heart. Chen Xiliu still lacked confidence. He wanted to find out from Qi Yan. He wanted to know whether Qi Yan had liked him in his previous life. And whether this liking... was heavier and greater than his liking for Jiang Yuqing.
When he thought of the relationship between Qi Yan and Jiang Yuqing in his previous life, as well as the conversation he had with Qi Yan during their walk, Shen Xiliu could never let go of his worry.
——[Is there no one you like in all these years? 】
Chen Xiliu originally thought that many things had changed in this life, and Qi Yan probably wouldn't have someone he liked this time, right?
As a result, things are still just as bad.
——【Yes. 】
——【I have a secret crush on someone. 】
Just recalling it, Shen Xiliu felt like there was something stuck in his throat, especially when he thought about the fact that Qi Yan and Jiang Yuqing had a child in their previous life. His heart began to ache dully, and he felt unwilling, and even his breathing was filled with unspeakable bitterness.
Fortunately, in this life, Gu Yanxing is still alive, and Jiang Yuqing likes Gu Yanxing. Now the two of them are together. With Qi Yan's character, he can't do anything to let his friend down.
The three of them grew up together, and it is indeed a perfect childhood sweetheart relationship.
Qi Yan had explained it on the mountain, but Chen Xiliu still felt bothered by the words "having a secret crush", especially when thinking about the relationship between the two in their previous life.
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