After Dawn (Bing Kuai'er)

There was a second of silence in the backseat.

"Why do you think so?" Duan Xingye asked, "Do you know who it is?"

Li Luo shook his head: "That's not true, but think about it, the police didn't even find out before, why now that the trial is coming to an end, why does he suddenly have evidence? Apart from someone revealing it to him, what other channels are there?" ?”

Duan Xingye frowned, as if he still didn't quite believe it: "There shouldn't be such a person around me, and there may be someone deliberately slandering. Mr. Li, have you seen his so-called evidence with your own eyes? What is it about?"

Li Luo sneered in his heart, Duan Xingye was still playing tricks on him, he was just trying to get his words out.

"I'm not his confidant, why would he show it to me?" Li Luo picked up the champagne and shook it lightly, "Believe it or not, anyway, I suggest you be careful and check the people around you if you have nothing to do. People, especially those who keep accounts for you. Mr. Duan should be the most aware of the lessons learned by our family, right?"

He took a sip of champagne and watched Duan Xingye's face change slightly.

"Mr. Li, does this mean anything?"

Li Luo: "You just need to understand it in your heart. How can a person who has betrayed once be guaranteed not to betray him a second time?"

Duan Xingye was silent for a few seconds, leaned his head back on the seat, and sighed: "I thought that after my ex-wife left me, I wouldn't have to worry about being betrayed anymore."

Li Luo showed no sympathy: "If you do too many bad things, don't be afraid of retribution."

Duan Xingye laughed out loud, and it was rare for him to choke back: "Then Mr. Li was betrayed by my younger brother, and because of something wrong?"

Li Luo rolled his eyes: "I want you to take care of it."

He and Duan Mingyang are on good terms, no one has betrayed anyone, it's not because of the bastard in front of him.

Duan Xingye still smiled: "Okay, I don't care, but don't really break up with him, don't forget the purpose of our cooperation."

Li Luo said impatiently: "Understood, I'll just talk, and I'll give in to him when I get back. You've also seen, how can I give up revenge on him when he treats me so well?"

Duan Xingye nodded: "It's good that you know the seriousness, but I didn't expect that he would hit you. If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I couldn't believe it."

Li Luo: "Now you should believe that I will never help him, right?"

Duan Xingye: "I have always trusted you, Mr. Li."

Li Luo convinced him of his thick skin.If you really trusted him, why would you rush over to find out after receiving the news that he came to the group to find Duan Mingyang?

It's a lie and not drafting.

This short road trip finally stopped at a secluded street near Li Luo's house. Duan Xingye didn't even get out of the car. He only said goodbye to him briefly and politely, and asked the driver to turn around and go back. It's time to be cautious. pole.

Li Luo cursed and watched the car drive away, so he wrapped his coat tightly, covered his face with Duan Mingyang's scarf, brushed up his long hair, faced the cold winter wind, and walked back on foot with his head bowed.Fortunately, the night was dark, and the cold forced passers-by to hurry. Few people looked at his face carefully, and no one recognized him all the way.

When he got home, half of his exposed face was almost frozen, so he quickly turned on the heater to the maximum, and only took off his heavy coat when the indoor temperature rose a bit.

Just as he breathed a sigh of relief, the phone rang.

The vibration of the video phone was urgent, and the two big characters of "Ming Yang" were displayed aggressively on the top of the screen, which made me feel very stressed.

Li Luo poured himself a cup of hot water unhurriedly, took a few sips from the cup, and pressed the green call button until his lips, which had been whitened by the cold, turned ruddy.

"I was wrong."

Duan Mingyang was stunned for a moment with his sullen face.

The young man in the video has a well-behaved demeanor, with a thin layer of red floating on his fair cheeks. I don't know if it was blown by the cold wind or because he was drunk. Inside the scarf that was not taken off, a pair of clear amber eyes looked at him innocently.

Pure and lustful.

Duan Mingyang stared at him in silence for a while, then asked, "Why did you promise me this afternoon?"

Li Luo collapsed on the sofa with his mobile phone in his hands, his hair let loose, then he turned sideways, his face was closer to the screen, as if Duan Mingyang was trapped between himself and the back of the sofa: "I went to see Duan Xingye for a reason. Yes, can you listen to me explain before scolding me?"

"I didn't want to scold you." Duan Mingyang raised his hand and loosened his bow tie, picked up the water glass and took two sips, the muscles on his strong forearm bulged, and the protruding Adam's apple rolled continuously. After putting down the water glass, he said in a deep voice: " Speak, I'm listening."

Li Luo's Adam's apple hidden under the scarf also moved.

This smelly man, why does every move seem to be teasing him?

While coveting the beauty in front of him, he explained the ins and outs of cooperating with Duan Xingye, and at the end he didn't forget to complain: "I wanted to tell you that day at your father's birthday party, but you refused to listen and let me Stay out of it."

"I still have the same attitude now." Duan Mingyang's expression didn't ease much, "You are indeed very smart to provoke the relationship between their father and son, but have you ever thought that if you made a mistake that day, you might not be able to get out of that room .”

Li Luo: "I know you're worried about me, but didn't I come out well? How could I not participate in my dad's affairs? Besides, I took the risk that day because... I wanted to show myself in front of you and make up for it. .”

Duan Mingyang: "Mr. Li, I should have made it very clear. You are not wrong, and I am not blaming you. If you insist on saying something wrong, it is also my fault."

Li Luo lowered his head and buried his face in the scarf, muttering softly: "You are clearly blaming me, our misunderstanding has been explained clearly, and you still haven't reconciled with me. I like you so much, you heartless."

"I'm not..." Duan Mingyang paused, and after a few seconds, he sighed softly: "You are still the same as before."

Li Luo: "Huh?"

Duan Mingyang: "You always talk about your liking. You seem to obey me and rely on me in front of me, but in fact, you are very willful."

Li Luo: "You don't like me like this?"

"That's not what I meant." Duan Mingyang lowered his eyes, "I just think that your attitude towards me now is the same as before."

Li Luo was slightly startled, turned his mind around, and then understood.

The attitude is the same as before, which means that the ending may also be the same as before.

They seem to have fallen into an inextricable loop. As long as he shows his love and dependence on Duan Mingyang, Duan Mingyang will think of the past, then doubt his sincerity, worry about their ending, and hesitate to start again with him .

Because I don't want to end up with him again.

No wonder, he made a bad start. From the very beginning, he didn't lay a solid foundation of trust between each other, and his love was full of hypocrisy, so that when he started to say love sincerely, It was hard for Duan Mingyang to trust him anymore.

Later, I finally believed it, and this weak trust with an unstable foundation was shattered by a misunderstanding.

During those five or six years, Duan Mingyang probably thought that he had been cheated, but he still managed to pick up a broken heart and come back to him again, cautiously and restraintly testing his feelings, trying to find out something that he once loved. evidence.

But how did he treat Duan Mingyang?

Li Luo recalled for a while, it seemed... there was not a single good word that was worthy of Duan Mingyang's relationship with him again.

The two of them missed the opportunity to solidify their trust again and again, and they got to where they are now, not knowing how to fix it or how to continue.

"Then, if I can prove that I once loved you, are you willing to make up with me?" He asked with a glimmer of hope.

Since the root cause of all conflicts stems from the initial suspicion, let's go back to the beginning and sort out the timeline of the beginning and development of his relationship.Let Duan Mingyang know that he didn't cheat from beginning to end.

Duan Mingyang asked back: "How do you prove it?"

Li Luo thought for a while: "For example, on your birthday that year, I ordered a cake for you and spent the night with you. At that time, I would treat you—"

"It's only that year, and on your birthday later, you broke your promise." Duan Mingyang interrupted him, "Time blurs memory, I'm not sure, but you really smiled at me from the bottom of your heart that day , it’s just a beautification in my memory.”

Li Luo was anxious: "Then what about the words I said when I slept with you for the first time? It must not be a lie, don't tell me you can't remember it."

Duan Mingyang: "You were so drunk that day, you said you liked it many times, and you said you hated it many times, how can I tell which ones are true and which ones are false? And no matter what it is, I have no evidence."

"You're talking nonsense." Li Luo immediately exposed him, "Didn't you record the video yourself? And you said before that you watched that video many times."

Duan Mingyang was silent for some reason after listening, and said after a while: "Sorry, I lied, I deleted it a long time ago, and I haven't read it once."

"What? You deleted it? Don't you..." Don't you love me very much?How could such a commemorative video be deleted?

Li Luo thought for a few seconds, then suddenly said: "Could it be because I scolded you that day and you were so angry that you deleted it?"

"No." Duan Mingyang's face looked a little pale on the phone screen, "In short, I've already deleted it completely, so it's meaningless to mention it again."

Li Luo wanted to ask, "What exactly was in that video of yours?"

Duan Mingyang shook his head, obviously he didn't want to talk about this topic any more, and said: "It's very late, I'm going to sleep, you should go to bed too, there is a schedule at eight o'clock tomorrow morning."

Seeing that he was so stubborn, Li Luo was afraid of making him unhappy again, so he had to temporarily compromise: "Okay, if you can't sleep, remember to call me, I will rush over to warm the bed immediately, and stop taking sleeping pills."

"……Um."

After hanging up the phone, Li Luo suddenly realized, how did Duan Mingyang know that he has a schedule tomorrow?

It's fine if you know it, you can even remember the time so clearly... This man is really getting better and better.

He originally planned to obediently obey and go to sleep, but Duan Mingyang's indistinct ambiguity really tickled his heart, he hesitated for a long time, and finally chose to be willful again:

He clicked on the surveillance video.

The video was transmitted from Duan Mingyang earlier, and it recorded the whole process of that night in its entirety, lasting three to four hours.Li Luo started playing from the beginning, sat on the sofa, crossed his legs and held his mobile phone, watching himself in the screen pestering Duan Mingyang to bed like watching a pornographic film.

If it was in the past, he would definitely feel uncomfortable with the contents of the screen, but now he looks at it in a different mood, and even thinks that when he and Duan Mingyang go to bed in the future, he can use this video to add to the fun.

At the beginning of the video, he was really drunk in the screen, slamming his soft fists on Duan Mingyang indiscriminately, cursing angrily, "Heartless", "Can you laugh at me, I hate it to death", "Turn me "Who are you" and so on, but when the fast forward was played for more than an hour, he was obviously dizzy and couldn't find the north.The whole person was suppressed by Duan Mingyang, covered in the quilt, hugged the other party's neck and kept yelling drunken words such as "Mingyang, I love you so much", "You must love me forever".

At this time, Duan Mingyang reached for the mobile phone on the bedside table.

finally!Li Luo slapped his thigh, immediately turned the volume of the phone to the maximum, switched back to the original speed, and stared intently at the screen.

"Say it again." Duan Mingyang held up his phone and only took pictures of his face.

In the video, he was unaware of the presence of the camera, obediently obeying the instructions: "I love you... um... Ming Yang... I will always love you... I want to be with you forever..."

"Did you lie to me?"

"No……"

"What if you lied to me?"

"I won't...well...if I lie to you, I'll...just go out and get busted—uh..."

Duan Mingyang covered his mouth to prevent him from continuing.

"If you lied to me, you lied to me forever, okay?"

He nodded.

"I recorded everything, you can't break your promise."

Duan Mingyang let go, put the phone back to its original position, leaned down, and kissed his lips, his cheeks, and his forehead, tenderly and softly.

Li Luo recalled the words Duan Mingyang once said: Kiss is love, sex is desire.

In the video, he may have sensed it too. He was fascinated to find the lips of the person on his body, still muttering in his mouth: "I didn't lie to you...I love you so much..."

After talking for a long time without getting a response, he frowned and complained again: "Why don't you say you love me...do you...don't love me...I know..."

Duan Mingyang squeezed his face, then took his left hand, and pressed a kiss on the position of the middle finger.

At the same time, the wide back facing the camera trembled slightly, and there was an obvious smile in his voice, and there must have been a smile on his face:

"I'll tell you again when you wake up tomorrow."