After Dawn (Bing Kuai'er)

The torrential rain covered the roar of the passing Maybach under the sound of the rain, and a string of water splashed like waves wherever it went.

"It's almost winter, and it's still raining so hard."

Su Zhi wrapped her warm cashmere shawl tightly, leaned on the back seat, and looked sideways at the glass windows that were blurred by the rain.After waiting for a long time without a response, she couldn't help turning her head to look at the man beside her.

Eyes still closed, silent, as if asleep.

But she knew that the other party was not asleep, and felt that the atmosphere was too quiet, and then she had nothing to say: "Aren't you going to change cars? Always drive this one."

The man who was closing his eyes and meditating slowly opened his eyes.

"Nothing else to like."

"Is there any special significance?"

"No."

Su Zhi looked at him helplessly.

The street lights quickly passing by outside the window outlined a golden line on the man's side face, only the downcast eyes were hidden in the darkness, dim.

"You seem to be in a bad mood for more than a week, what happened, Ming Yang?"

"I'm fine, you worry about yourself first." Duan Mingyang said in a deep voice, "Duan Xingye is collecting evidence of your 'infidelity', you must hurry up with the divorce procedures, and don't let him preemptively strike."

"What are you afraid of? Anyway, I already have evidence that he cheated in the first month of marriage." Su Zhi snorted softly, "He is so powerful that he thought we had already shown our cards, and we didn't find out that he was involved. Evidence of the transaction. When he succeeds in cleaning up his crimes and gets carried away with pride, he will come back and see how he ends up."

Duan Mingyang looked sideways: "Since that time you let the private detective follow him?"

"Yeah, there are only zero or countless cheating times. He thought my patience was connivance and became more and more presumptuous. In fact, I was just waiting for an opportunity. Otherwise, I would not be able to defeat him even if I had evidence. So, I still want to thank you, Ming Yang, and Jiang Liushen, for taking advantage of this incident to finally get me a divorce, otherwise I don’t know how long I would have to endure it.”

"I owe you, you don't have to suffer this."

Su Zhi shook her head: "You owe me, but in the final analysis, I don't listen to persuasion. I knew what kind of person he was before I got married..."

"In this case, why did you marry him in the first place? I told you that he only pursued you because—"

"I know."

Su Zhi interrupted him, and then fell into silence. After a long time, she sighed and said softly:

"Because he seemed to really love me back then."

"I know what his motive for chasing me is, and I heard that he is famous, but when he chased me, he was so persistent and enthusiastic..."

Su Zhi cast her eyes out of the window, unfocused somewhere in the void behind the rain curtain.

"He would personally buy a ticket to come to my concert, wave a light stick in the first row, and sing along to my songs. He would considerately send me home, keep a distance from me in a gentlemanly manner, and would not have physical contact with me. She will still stand in front of me and insist on marrying me, regardless of the obstruction of her family, instead of other well-matched rich ladies."

"He told me so many times that he likes and loves me, and I thought lightly that I changed him and made his prodigal son turn back..."

"But after I promised him, fell in love with him, and even married him, he changed."

The street lights passed by quickly, reflecting the flash of water in her eyes.

"I hate him so much now, not because I can't accept his 'not love', but because I can't accept that his past 'love very much' are all fake."

Duan Mingyang lowered his head, slowly turning the ring on his finger.

"Even if it's false, I want to hear him say it again."

Su Zhi took out a tissue, gently pressed the wet corners of her eyes, adjusted her demeanor, and looked at him: "You are too deep, I advise you to come out early, don't let Duan Xingye discover your weakness, he Now that you think you love me, you can ignore our former husband and wife relationship and try every means to ruin my reputation. If you let him know your real sweetheart, he will definitely not let it go. "

"He won't find out. I hid it very well. He hasn't found out for so many years."

"Hey, it's hard for you. Living under his surveillance, you can't even show that you like anyone. It must be very painful, right?"

"It's okay." Duan Mingyang lowered his eyes and fiddled with the ring, "It's not about enduring the pain in front of Duan Xingye."

He didn't finish his sentence, but Su Zhi heard something: "Although I don't know who the person you care about is, but seeing that she has ignored you all these years and allowed you to suffer in Duan's house, do you want to come here?" I don’t treat you very sincerely, so I advise you not to be obsessed.”

Duan Mingyang silently retreated the ring to the outermost circle of joints, played with it for a while, and then slowly pushed it back.

"Well, I have given up."

Su Zhi nodded, and in a blink of an eye, the car had already driven into the residential area, so she returned to the main topic: "I came to you today because I want to hand over the last batch of evidence in my hand to you, and I can't do anything about the rest. He has never allowed me to participate in the company's affairs. These were collected when he was not wary of me a few years ago. I only wanted to find evidence of cheating. Can come in handy."

"what is inside?"

"The whereabouts of part of the money, it seems that there is still a video, I don't know what it was shot, I didn't open it to watch."

"Well, I arranged for someone to be there with him, and I'll let you know if he has any new moves."

"Okay, thank you, and thank you for staying with me for one night." Su Zhiyuan folded her shawl and laughed at herself, "It's really not easy to create a false impression for him, every time I go all the way to your private suburban villa Pretend to have an affair, now that you are divorced, you can finally come to your house to have an affair."

Duan Mingyang: "Sorry, I still need to pretend for a while, otherwise he will easily see the flaws. The guest room has been prepared for you."

"Students, you're welcome, then I'll—"

Before he could finish speaking, the car stopped suddenly. The driver in front knocked on the fender. After receiving his consent, the fender between the front and rear seats slowly lowered. The driver turned his head and said, "Master, there is someone at the door."

Duan Mingyang frowned: "Can you see who it is?"

Su Zhi also leaned forward: "Is it someone sent by Duan Xingye?"

The wipers in front of the windshield of the car swung vigorously back and forth, diverting the rainwater that washed on the glass to both sides, but the rain was too heavy, and the vision was clear for half a second before returning to blur.

Fortunately, the eyesight of the exclusive driver of the Duan family is one in a million. After staring carefully for a while, he reported, "A tall man, wearing a mask, standing under the porch... Huh?"

Su Zhi hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Driver: "He walked towards us, and he didn't hold an umbrella yet, so he's all wet..."

As soon as the voice fell, the car window was knocked twice by "dong dong".

Li Luo pulled off the mask, wiped the rainwater on the car window with his hand, and looked inside hard.But there was an anti-peep film on the glass, it was pitch black, and he couldn't see who was sitting inside, so he could only shout with the mentality of giving it a try: "Duan Mingyang!"

He yelled a few times, but there was no response. He was about to change the car window and yelled, when the car suddenly started moving.He quickly took two steps back, watched the car drive towards the garage, was stunned for half a second, and immediately ran to follow.

His boots were filled with rainwater, and they were as heavy as if they were tied with lead weights. The rain-soaked coat had no effect on keeping warm, and sticking it to his body accelerated the invasion of the cold.

But he didn't have the energy to care about these trivial matters.

I bought the latest air ticket overnight, flew for more than ten hours, and traveled thousands of kilometers... I just wanted to ask a question in person.

The rain-drenched Maybach finally stopped in the garage. The people who got out of the car didn't get a drop of rain. They were dressed in a neat suit and shiny leather shoes, noble and calm, and looked at him in a panic.

"Duan Mingyang, I..."

The driver opened the door on the other side, and it was Su Zhi who got out.

Li Luo's voice faltered in an instant, seeing Duan Mingyang reaching out to Su Zhi: "Go in."

Completely ignore his existence.

Su Zhi hesitated, looked at Duan Mingyang's outstretched hand, then turned her head to look at Li Luo, thought for a moment, suddenly her eyes lit up, and then she smiled: "I'll just go in by myself, Mr. Li seems to need it more than I do." Your help."

"Thank you Miss Su." Li Luo also smiled at her, not paying attention to the rainwater flowing down his cheeks into his mouth.

"You're welcome, I hope you have a good chat."

Su Zhi nodded in greeting, and walked into the house with her skirt in hand. The driver also took advantage of the gap between their conversations and left silently.

It was just the two of them in the garage.

Li Luo's body was dripping with water, his lips turned white from the cold, his voice was hoarse like rubbing sandpaper, and he still smiled: "Mr. Duan, don't you want to tell me about your relationship with Miss Su?"

Duan Mingyang: "The relationship is as you can see."

"Oh, I see, it doesn't seem to be the kind of relationship I thought."

"Whatever you think." Duan Mingyang walked away.

Li Luo took two quick steps to grab his hand: "Don't go, Ming Yang, I have something to ask you—"

"Snapped!"

Duan Mingyang clapped his hand away.

Li Luo was stunned, his dizzy mind couldn't figure out what was going on for a moment, his body was still leaning forward, his center of gravity was unstable, he staggered a step, his left foot mixed with his right foot, and fell onto the concrete floor with a loud "plop!" , His jaw hit the ground a little, and he grinned in pain.

Duan Mingyang walked into the house without looking back, and was about to close the door.

Li Luo didn't care about screaming for pain, he quickly got up from the ground, rushed over unsteadily, and finally grabbed his hand this time.

With ten fingers clasped together, the two rings touched together, and there was a slight sense of metal collision.

"Is it for me?"

Li Luo leaned his head against Duan Mingyang's generous back, absorbing his warm body temperature, and asked, "Did you buy your ring for me?"

Duan Mingyang's deep voice came from the front: "I don't know what you are talking about."

"I went to the jewelry store near our university, and the clerk told me that that day... the day I broke up with you, you went to buy me a ring, right?"

Li Luo was groggy and had no strength, so he could only hold him back with all his strength, clasped him with one hand, and wrapped his arms around his waist with the other, like an inseparable and inseparable lover.

"I don't want to ask anything else now, no matter what you did to me, what you did to my family, whether you used me... I just want to know, did you really like me at that time?"

Duan Mingyang did not answer for a long time.

He never let go.

"What's the point of asking these things now." Duan Mingyang covered his hand, but it was to break his restraint, "We are over, you said it yourself, Mr. Li."

Li Luo's strength was almost gone, and he couldn't stand without relying on him. With his forehead resting on his back, he asked in a muffled voice, "Then I'll talk about it..."

"There must be a limit to willfulness."

Duan Mingyang no longer paid attention to his unreasonable troubles, and walked into the house with his legs, the weight on his back lightened, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise behind him.

Li Luo, who suddenly lost his support, fell to the ground again, his head was buzzing, this time he really couldn't get up, he couldn't even move his fingers, the wet hair stuck to his forehead blocked his sight, and the rainwater flowed into his eyes It overflowed into the eye sockets, the tip of the nose was flushed with fever, and the rest of the place was pale.

In this life, I have never been so embarrassed the day I broke up with Duan Mingyang.

He wanted to tell Duan Mingyang a lot, but he opened his mouth and his vocal cords were too dumb to say anything.

As far as he could see, he could only see the toe of Duan Mingyang's leather shoes. He stopped in front of his eyes for a few seconds, then turned around and walked into the house.

The door slammed shut with a bang, and the garage was plunged into darkness.

Li Luo opened his eyes halfway, but couldn't see anything clearly. He didn't know how long he had been in a trance in the dark. His eyelids gradually became heavy and couldn't even hold them up.

When he was about to pass out, he felt a faint lightness in his body, as if his soul had left his body and floated in mid-air. He could no longer experience pain and sorrow, and only some good memories remained in his dissociated consciousness.

For example, the night when he went to Duan Mingyang's house for the first time to spend the night, Duan Mingyang gently picked him up from the chair and put him on the bed. The hug that followed was clearly so heart-warming...

Perhaps God couldn't bear to see him so miserable, in his coma dream, Li Luo also seemed to dream of the heat source approaching.

He subconsciously rubbed his cheeks, and felt very familiar with An Xin, so he put his whole face on it.

Subconsciously thinking silently, after absorbing enough warmth, go and give it to Duan Mingyang.

together with myself.