his mermaid

***

The off-road vehicle struggled through the bar street lined with supper stalls, which was very lively at night.

The taxis waiting to pick up passengers on the side of the road are almost full, and no vehicles are allowed to pass by quickly.Nearby is a commercial block full of entertainment venues.The car finally drove into a slightly narrow street. The first floor was a row of brightly lit shops, and the upper floor looked like an office building, but the floor was not high, so it should be very old.

"Our club and studio are upstairs." After getting out of the car, the car just stopped at the door.

Shijie used the key to open the rusty iron door familiarly. Although it was an office building, there was no service desk.Shijie turned around and saw that Yueguo and Luggage were standing by the roadside at the gate. He was wearing prosthetics, but he still needed crutches for support, and he seemed not quite used to it yet.Even with prosthetics, the legs don't look very natural.However, Shijie has no plans to go up to help, and the most important thing is to make Yueguo independent as soon as possible.

"Do you live here?" Yue Guo stepped forward and found that the air in this building was full of cigarette smell.

"How is it possible, my apartment is still the same as before. But our company is not here, it is in the Central District."

"Well... on Park Avenue." I have been there a few times before——Yueguo still remembers.

The music company that Shijie belongs to is fairly well-known in this city, but Yueguo has never been here.where is this place?Club opened here?

"Our studio has a dormitory, although it's not big, you can rest here first."

Now, Yueguo's house must be full of dust and no one has cleaned it. It is inconvenient to go back alone. Shijie has a friend here who can take care of him. He already said in the car.

There are many private studios, entertainment rooms, bars in this office building.There are also billiards, Internet cafes and other places, and the old elevators are full of advertisements.

It seems that Shijie and the others did not do well during the half a year of separation, and they only rented such an old building as a studio. The people who come and go here must not be high-level people. maybe.

The studio is on the seventh floor, and the same floor is also a club for their fans.

They gathered, drank, sang K, and gambled here. The lighting in the room was colorful but dim, and the electronic music drowned out the conversation in the crowd. Yue Guo could only follow Shijie's figure in the corner to the backstage.In the colored spotlights, some men and women hug each other, but it looks like two women, or two men. Although the genders are unclear, what they are doing is clear at a glance.

Backstage is the so-called music studio, where the background music of the club is manipulated.

For convenience, the people in the club arranged several bedrooms here for resting or doing something else. All the rooms looked messy, with books, clothes, and fast food boxes piled up in disorder.However, the room that Shijie brought Yueguo into seemed to be clean. It seemed that it had been cleaned for Yueguo to live here.

"Is it too noisy?"

"It's okay, after all, it's a place for entertainment." Yue Guo shook his head and said, it's not a bad thing to be lively, at least the depressed mood won't fall into despair too quickly, and the warmth in the room is also reassuring.

Through the door, the crazy and sexy music is still coming, it seems that it will not stop for a while, and they will not leave until early in the morning.Shijie knew that he was the only person Yueguo could rely on right now, so he asked himself to take some action, Yueguo was easy to deal with, and he would thank him.Even if he lived here, Yiyue Kingdom's personality would not refuse.

Just as Yue Guo sat down by the bed, a young man in avant-garde clothes entered the background, looking very young.

Yueguo took off his prosthesis on his own, it was time to rest, he felt very tired.He also doesn't want to care about other people's eyes, even if he is seen as a disabled person, it doesn't matter.

"Hey, who did you bring back?" the boy asked Shijie, and then saw Yueguo.

"My friend." Shijie turned his head, the boy entangled him and kissed him, but he let go quickly, which surprised Yueguo.

This should be a friend who has an affair with Shijie, and he shouldn't come.

"Wow."

Seeing the crutches and prosthetic limbs beside the bed, the boy instantly understood that Yueguo's body was handicapped. He glanced down at Yueguo's body and saw the empty trouser leg on the left side.

"Hey, you didn't do this by playing an extreme game, did you?" He tentatively asked.

"Uh, not..."

The way I dress up, I don't look like someone who plays extreme games.Yueguo thought hard, he was really different from the people here, he didn't want to answer their words, but when he thought that the people here might take care of him, he had no choice but to hold back his dissatisfaction.

"I know a lot of parkour friends, and some of them broke their legs just like you."

The boy kept looking at Yue Guo, "I don't mean anything else, I mean this is very common."

"You go out first." Shijie pushed the boy, but the boy still smiled jokingly.

The young man leaned on Shijie and whispered: "It's not a simple friend, is it? I heard they said that you talked about it before? Which one?"

"You go out first, and I will tell you when you go out."

"Is he going to live here? The luggage is brought, how long will he stay? This is our place."

"I have already greeted Amin, he will leave after staying here for two days."

"cut."

Seemingly bored, the boy turned around and left the backstage, slamming the door on the way.

Crap.This will definitely scare Yueguo, Shijie feels a headache.

Unexpectedly, after the young man left, Yue Guo immediately said: "I thought so too. I have a rest today, and I will go home tomorrow to clean up. I will hire a domestic worker to clean up."

"Understood, I'll be with you." Shijie looked stunned, "It's really too noisy here, and we just rest here when it's too late to play. Don't mind, they are not bad people."

"It's okay, if you can help me, it's too late for me to be grateful, having a friend like you..."

Halfway through the speech, Yueguo's weak voice did not continue.

"Of course, of course I will help you." Shijie continued this sentence in embarrassment.

He was just perfunctory to that young man just now, so he used the words of a friend. In fact, he didn't want to give Yue Guo such an impression. If he said he was a friend now, it would be difficult to change in the future. He wanted to change it quickly.

"Yueguo. Why don't you stay with me, it's inconvenient for you to live alone, can you take care of yourself?"

"Already equipped with prosthetic limbs? I don't have any serious problems in my own life. It's really useless for you to think about me." Yue Guo said.

"That's not what I meant. Don't you still have to look for a job? Live in my apartment first, so that I can discuss with you in time, and wait until you find a suitable position before deciding on the next step."

From time to time, Shijie remembered that half a year ago, after a quarrel with Gao Yuehui, she had an accident in a car accident.This dealt a big blow to Yueguo. Only by helping Yueguo as much as possible can he alleviate the guilt in his heart. Whether it is mixed with emotions, Shijie himself can't tell.

"Thank you. But let's talk about it tomorrow, I'm already sleepy." Yue Guo stopped tidying up and lay down on his back.

"Sorry, I should have let you go to my place today, you need to take a shower."

"It's ok."

It seems that Yueguo should have been allowed to go to his apartment in the first place.It's just that sometimes his "friends" live in the past, so Shijie didn't make up his mind.To be honest, he has a new date recently, and he didn't make it public in Moments, so it's impossible for Yue Guo to know about it.Whether it will be successful or not is still unknown, so he doesn't want to talk about it.

The next day, friends who were having fun at the club fell asleep in the backstage room, which was enough to describe chaos.

After eating the delivery breakfast downstairs, Yueguo called Shijie to discuss where to go next.Soon, Shijie drove over to pick him up and went to his apartment, which was also the house where the two had lived together, but the cohabitation relationship did not last long.Now the decoration and furnishings in the room have changed, the most obvious change should be that it has become very messy.The apartment is in a high-end residential area, especially the living room is the most spacious, but the huge room becomes very crowded because of the many cardboard boxes.

"Anyway, after you stopped coming, I piled them all over the place." After entering the room, Shijie laughed at himself first, "I'll go to the room to tidy up."

Yue Guo fell on the sofa, feeling something was wrong, so he sat up again.

The phone on the table was vibrating.He didn't know who was calling, but he felt that the number was very familiar.Yue Guo was startled, that was Yaochen's number, how could he forget it?He quickly snatched the phone on the table and pressed reject.I'm really afraid of the consequences of contacting Yaochen!It seems that Yaochen may still be brooding over the matter of money, and now, Yueguo is not in the mood to talk to Yaochen at all.

Unexpectedly, the phone vibrated again, it was still the same number.

What will he say?Will this be the last call.Yue Guo pressed the answer button with a sense of fear, but the phone was placed on the table, so that he could feel safe.At first he was stalemate and didn't speak, but Yue Guo's breathing was enough for the other party to confirm that the call had been connected.

"Moon Kingdom?"

"..."

"Now, I have something to ask you." Yaochen's voice sounded from the phone, "Do you have any memory of the name Ou Che?"

"No... I don't know." Yue Guo said nervously.

It wasn't about the money, he seemed relieved.But even if money is mentioned, he shouldn't be so worried and should face it bravely.

"Think about it again, have you really never met?" Yaochen asked again hastily.

"I really don't know."

Yue Guo has no impression of this name at all.

"is it?"

"I do not recognize……"

"You like to lie, but this matter is very important, you'd better tell me the truth."

"Why should I lie to you?" Yue Guo frowned, these few words showed a tough attitude, making him even more speechless, "If I want to pay back the money, I will call you..."

There was another pause on the phone for a few seconds.

"unnecessary."

That indifferent answer made Yue Guo unable to answer.At this time, Shijie came out from the house.

"What's wrong? Is someone calling?"

Yue Guo shook his head.

"Who is calling?" Shijie picked up the mobile phone on the table, ignoring Yue Guo's tense eyes. "What did you say to pay back?"

"It's nothing, it's not money..."

The phone was in Shijie's hands.

"It's me, I have something to ask Yue Guo."

"Shijie, hang up quickly." Yue Guo stretched out his hand in a panic, he didn't want the two to have another conflict, but Shijie had already walked to the other side of the room with the phone.He recognized the owner of the voice, and a nameless anger surged to his head, and his expression became extremely displeased.

"It's you. Jiang Yaochen, stop calling and pestering Yueguo!"

"Hey, stop talking...he didn't call for money." Yue Guo dissuaded him.

"I know what your plan is. Don't forget that the car accident between Yueguo and his sister was not an accident. The debt has not been settled yet."

"Quickly hang up!" Yue Guo raised his voice.

Shijie said a few more words to the other party, his attitude was tough, and he pressed the red button immediately.No one's voice came from the phone.

"Enough is enough, you can't stop pestering me."

Yue Guo opened his mouth to explain something, but because the fear in his heart could not be subdued, he did not speak.

***

Lying on the bed, Yueguo began to hesitate whether to return the money to Yaochen.

Since the car accident, all his medical expenses have been paid by Yaochen, which cannot be justified on anyone.Even if the car accident was man-made, so what if it had something to do with Yaochen's family?It is also a fact that Yaochen paid the medical expenses, plus other expenses, it is not a small sum.What's more, he still didn't believe that Yaochen would be the main messenger of these events.

Today, Shijie hung up the call from Yaochen, it would be embarrassing to call again.Maybe Yaochen misunderstood that he instructed Shijie to quarrel.Yue Guoyuan didn't want to develop to this stage. Right now, there is only one person who can still be contacted. He sent a long message to Yuhan.

Knowing that he intends to pay back the money, Yuhan answered the phone.

"Repaying the money? Thank you for remembering. Why don't you just go to Brother Yaochen? If you want to pay it back, just pay it back. I will send you the card number later."

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry for you, but there's nothing I can do now."

After two or three days, Yueguo and Yuhan made an appointment to go to the bank to go through the formalities together.

Hope everything will calm down.

Of course, the following life is far from being as simple as he thought.If you can quickly find a suitable job nearby, you can live a life that is not much different from normal people.Maybe it’s because I’m not used to prosthetics, and because of my introverted personality, I’ve hit the wall repeatedly at work before, and now it’s even more difficult to find a job. Although Yueguo has the specialty of piano, it’s not so easy to be a music teacher. Physical defects, training The school will hesitate again and again, and the place that promised to give him a reply will eventually be ignored.

More than half a month passed like this, and Yueguo was a bit ashamed to live in Shijie's apartment. Fortunately, he paid the water and electricity bills and was also responsible for hygiene. In his daily life, he gradually got used to standing while wearing prosthetics, and his movements did not hinder him.

Shijie suggested that he go to the club to work as a cashier. Although it was a bit noisy, it was a shift system.Yue Guo agreed.

There are many Shijie's friends in the club.They know that Yueguo used to be Shijie's boyfriend, they also know about his family affairs, and they also know what happened to him after the car accident. After all, those friends accompanied Shijie to visit him in the hospital. You can't hide it no matter what, even if no one asks it face to face, you have to discuss it behind your back.This made Yueguo extremely awkward to get along with others, and coupled with the particularity of his body, the barrier between him and normal people could not be easily eliminated.Everyone could see that he was disabled and unable to move freely.If someone asks, someone next to it will whisper that it is a prosthetic.

After talking about some uncomfortable thoughts with Shijie, Shijie told him: "You just need to be responsible for your own work, and don't care what they say."

The club will only come to guests at night, so the working time is from [-]:[-] pm to early morning.When Yueguo is on duty, he will have to stay here overnight, and he will be able to go back to clean up and make breakfast in the early morning of the next day.

One morning, after finishing work, Yueguo took a taxi to the apartment.

The room was as messy as ever, as long as he wasn't here for a day, things would be piled up in chaos.He made coffee and knocked on the door of the master bedroom. He thought that Shijie hadn't woken up yet, just to remind him to get up and go to work.

Unexpectedly, Shijie yelled a few words in the room, and Yueguo thought he was disturbing him.

Next, a shirtless man bursts out of the bedroom door, pulling a sweater over his head.He quickly changed his clothes, and left the room without looking at Yue Guo or saying hello.It was only seven o'clock, and there was no doubt that the man had spent the night here, and he still shared a room with Shijie.If it's just ordinary friends who can sleep in the guest room of Yueguo, it's definitely not ordinary friends.

Yue Guo went back to the kitchen to clean up, trying to ignore it.

But his cheeks kept burning hot.It is normal for Shijie to have a boyfriend, but it is abnormal to take in himself.If that man misunderstood something, I would have committed a heinous crime.

There was another movement in the bedroom. Shijie washed up a bit, and when he came to the dining table, he asked aggressively, "When did you come back? Didn't you stay on duty all night last night? You shouldn't have slept yet. Why don't you just stay there?" Take a break, and come back in such a hurry."

After a while, Yue Guo finally spoke. "I just plan to come back to eat, so as not to spend money."

"Call me before you come back next time, you're embarrassing others."

Asking aggressively, as if waiting for an apology.

It's a pity that Yueguo was eating breakfast, his eyes were slack, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Hello? Talk to me." Shijie called him, but Yueguo didn't respond.But he couldn't continue to condemn Yue Guo, who caused Yue Guo to suffer family upheaval, and the gloomy part of his character became more and more obvious.Friends in the club have mentioned more than once that Yueguo is not suitable for working there.

"Forget it. I'll go to the company first."

Shijie noticed that there was another sandwich on the table, which should be prepared by Yueguo for him.But he was impatient and had no appetite at all, and when he went out he put the matter behind him.

Finally, Yue Guo was the only one left in the apartment, and the movement of eating stopped immediately.

Why didn't he pay attention to it when he was dating Yaochen before, and didn't cook?If we had been more attentive and devoted at that time, maybe we would not have left any regrets, but that kind of devotion would be even more painful when we parted.Tears dripped on the table, he knew that this job would not last long.

***

After a few days, Yueguo learned that the person who stayed overnight in Shijie's apartment was exactly what Shijie was pursuing.

People in the club chatted more than once, and said that because Shijie took in Yueguo, it was inconvenient to take people home again, and their relationship was repeatedly frustrated.After Yueguo heard this, he realized that maybe it was all told to him on purpose, implying that he should stay away from this circle earlier, but he still had the cheek to refuse to leave. It is all thanks to Shijie that he can hold the cashier position here face.

He returned to the apartment as usual, but he had secretly planned to make it clear to Shijie when he came back that he would move back to his own home.

Probably because he played for too long, late at night, when Shijie came home drunk, a few friends sent him over.

Shijie collapsed on the sofa, his friend entered the room and turned on the air conditioner, sobered him up, and then yelled at Yueguo who opened the door: "Hey, stomach medicine, bring stomach medicine."

Without even calling Yueguo's name, Yueguo got up to search, but another friend found it before him.

Shijie's medicine box is always misplaced, it's normal for him to not know where it is.

"Tsk." The friend clicked his tongue after taking the medicine, as if he was dissatisfied with Yue Guo's slow movements, and complained again. "It's so annoying, what are you doing, drink like this."

It's better to be reliable on your own - a person who is so close to Shijie that he lives in his house, but he can't help at this moment, and usually depends on Shijie to take care of him.However, before Shijie opened his mouth, they were not qualified to rush to Yueguo. Taking advantage of this good opportunity when Shijie was drunk, they had a lot to say.

"Hey, you don't have to go to work at the club today, do you?"

"No need..." Yue Guo said.

"I said, you might as well stop doing it. To put it bluntly, it's a place for fun. I heard Shijie say that you don't hang out in those places at all, and you must be very uncomfortable there."

Yue Guo bit his lip and had to swallow his dissatisfaction.

He recognized that the people in front of him were Shijie's closest friends.Back then in the hospital, they even made a move on Yaochen and Yuhan, and confronting them would never end well.

"I think so too." Yue Guo showed what could be called a weird smile.

"It's not that we can't find other jobs. If you stay there, we will really feel disappointed."

"I see."

After sending those people away, the room was much quieter, but Shijie woke up from the sofa.He got up and flicked through his cell phone, but he smelled of alcohol and his thoughts were still not clear.

"Your friend fed you medicine just now, you should feel better." Yue Guo came to the sofa and asked with concern.

"A little hungry."

"Want to eat? There are still a lot of ingredients in the kitchen." Yue Guo asked again.

"You like cooking very much." Shijie said with a smile.Because he was drunk, his voice was slightly broken, "He can't cook. Do you like me? Always stay here?"

"No..." When Shijie looked over, Yueguo looked away. "I will look for another job and move home in two days."

"What's the matter, because I said you're here, aren't you happy?"

Shijie got up and approached him, Yueguo took a step back, and then fell down on the sofa. He yelled and showed an extremely frightened expression.

Shijie lowered his body, his movements really looked like he wanted to force a kiss.Unexpectedly, Yue Guo raised his hand in confusion and slapped him.

"Hey!" Shijie put more pressure on his wrist, stared at him with eyes full of disgust and shouted, "What are you doing?!"

Yue Guo didn't know what to say, but if he didn't stop Shijie, things would definitely exceed his expectations.This should not be Shijie's original intention, he was just very drunk, so he lost his mind.

Shijie continued: "It's just for fun, and we're not together, anyway, it doesn't matter for one night? What's there to be afraid of?"

"What?" As if he didn't understand, Yue Guo suddenly felt rebellious.

He must have drunk too much, Shijie's body was easier to push away than he thought.

Unexpectedly, Shijie fell down suddenly, with a loud sound, his head hit the coffee table, he closed his eyes, and passed out like this.Yueguo turned pale with shock, he panicked for several seconds before he dared to turn over to check, Shijie was bleeding from the nose.Is something wrong?

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry!" He shook Shijie's body, but there was no response. He could only apologize in panic, "Wake up... Shijie..."

But there is no way to go on like this.Yue Guo grabbed the phone and called the police and the ambulance.

☆、Chapter 36