Chapter 241 Unable to Extricate Myself
The moon rises and sets, and ten days pass in the blink of an eye.
Cheng Yi said he would be back in three or four days at the latest, but there has been no news for ten days.
After the phone call that night, Lu Qian never heard from him again.
The days of waiting are not easy, and Lu Qian can only keep himself as busy as possible.
She worked hard to learn the skills and iron-fisted methods of running a gang, but these things were indeed much more difficult and harder to accept than she had imagined.
This world is darker than she imagined.
Bai Yao is indeed a very good teacher, patient and knowledgeable enough.
He also gave Lu Qian a lot of insightful advice, suggesting that she should choose a method that suits her to strategize instead of blindly learning everything.
What surprised Lu Qian was that they both had surprisingly similar preferences and opinions on ancient books, and their reading habits were also surprisingly consistent.
As she gradually became familiar with him, she also realized that although the Baiqing Society was a force rooted in Fusang, Bai Yao was a true Chinese.
The Bai people are a family formed by the mixing of major surnames in Fusang, such as Shiratori, Shiraishi, Shirakawa, etc.
It is also because of this that the branch of the Bai family he belongs to has the lowest status among the Bai people, and his family naturally also has the lowest status.
Relying on his own planning, he climbed up step by step from the bottom of the tribe to the top position of the Baiqing Society, and firmly grasped the family business that had been accumulated for a hundred years in his hands.
Of course, Red Owl also deserves half of the credit.
Lu Qian went to the cathedral again during these ten days, but this time he went alone.
Sure enough, Louis was still there, which was no surprise at all.
The two of them sat on the top platform of the church, watching the spire pierce the dark sky. Louis counted the Gothic sculptures on the roof and told Lu Qian their stories one by one.
As expected, Lu Qian was amused by him again.
The weather in October was getting colder. Lu Qian sat on the stone bench in the pavilion, looking at the yellow leaves falling outside, his thoughts turning.
She took out her cell phone, opened the empty chat box, and rubbed it repeatedly.
The terrorist attacks and financial crises reported in recent international news have shown signs of calming down, proving that things in the dark were handled well under the decision-making of her and Bai Yao.
But what about Cheng Yi? Where is he now? What is he doing? Will something happen to him?
No matter how busy he was, how late it was, or where he was, he would always come back to sleep with her. Even if he just needed to stay in the study for a while longer, he would specifically tell her.
But there has been no news from him in these ten days.
If she could help Cheng Yi like Vanessa, would she be the one staying with him now?
Lu Qian held the phone tightly in her hand, close to her chest.
A suffocating feeling of longing swept into her heart, and she missed him madly and felt pain in her heart.
In the torment of anxious waiting, Lu Qian just confirmed over and over again how much she loved him and how much she couldn't bear to lose him.
"Why are you here?"
A familiar voice came into his ears, and Lu Qian subconsciously looked back.
Bai Yao, holding two cups of coffee in his hands, ran towards the stone table where Lu Qian was sitting.
"It feels like the weather is neither too hot nor too cold today, so I'll come out and sit for a while."
Lu Qian took the coffee handed to him by Bai Yao, smiled, and explained casually.
"Is the decryption mission going smoothly over there, Lele?"
"Same old."
Looking at Lu Qian's forced smile, Bai Yao knew what she was thinking.
Bai Yao sat on the stone bench opposite her and took a sip of coffee. "Give yourself a day off today. There's no need to rush anything."
Lu Qian lowered his head and took a sip of coffee without answering.
She knew that Bai Yao was talking about giving her a "lesson".
Once upon a time, she also advised Jiang Luan in this way.
But when it was her turn, she suddenly realized that this kind of advice was useless.
Seeing that Lu Qian didn't answer, Bai Yao didn't intend to force her. He just sat on the stone bench with his eyes half-closed, not saying a word.
"Why do you like Cheng Yi?"
After a long time, Bai Yao suddenly asked this question.
Lu Qian smiled and shook her head, then answered without hesitation, "I don't know."
"What about you? Why do you like Lele so much?"
Bai Yao pushed his glasses and smiled warmly, "What a coincidence, I didn't know either."
The two looked at each other and smiled, as if they knew what the other was thinking.
Perhaps it is precisely because we don’t know that we cannot extricate ourselves, cannot quit, and cannot escape.
Bai Yao actually didn't have high expectations for Lu Qian at the beginning. People like him and Cheng Yi had seen too much cruelty and blood, so they were numb, but their woman was different.
Therefore, even towards Qu Le, Bai Yao mostly treats him with a protective attitude.
He didn't think Lu Qian could accept all this.
But he didn't expect that Lu Qian's love for that man could reach this extent.
She resisted her instinctive rejection, accepted it, faced it, and even asked him to teach her more.
One day, when the business was over, the two sat together and chatted, and Bai Yao heard Lu Qian tell him in person that she wanted to protect Cheng Yi.
He just thought she was joking, "Does a man like Cheng Yi really need your protection?"
Lu Qian's eyes fell on Bai Yao, but there was the shadow of another person in his dark eyes.
She smiled and nodded, "Yes."
Bai Yao was shocked by the certainty in her words and didn't know what to say for a moment.
For the first time, he realized that gentle love could be so passionate and so unforgettable.
Bai Yao put down his coffee cup and glanced at Lu Qian's face lightly, "Cheng Yi is really lucky to have met you."
Lu Qian grinned at Bai Yao, "Yeah, I think so too."
But Lu Qian hadn't said the second half of the sentence yet. She felt that she was luckier than Cheng Yi because she met him.
Bai Yao's eyes wandered aimlessly as he admired the scenery in the garden.
Autumn is warm and bleak. It does not have a fixed color. The scenery you see depends on your mood.
Just as he was about to look away, he saw an inappropriate figure around the corner in the distance.
He frowned and snapped his fingers at Lu Qian, attracting her attention and pointing it into the distance.
"Is that person Ling Shuo?"
When Lu Qian heard the name, she was surprised. Didn't Ling Shuo go to Spain with Cheng Yi? How could he appear in Tavia?
She turned around hurriedly and saw the profile of the person who almost disappeared around the corner of the garden.
Her eyes widened a little and she nodded towards Bai Yao, "It is indeed Ling Shuo."
Ling Shuo is here, which means Cheng Yi is back?
Lu Qian stood up suddenly, looked at the corner, then looked back at Bai Yao, and the sadness on his little face disappeared unconsciously.
Bai Yao chuckled and raised his chin, "Let's go and take a look."
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