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The butler sat on the sofa for a while, silently fetched the medicine box, and went to Zhan Yang's room to give him the massage he needed every day.

In the room, Zhan Yang had already changed into loose pajamas, leaned against the bed with a book, and seemed to be waiting for the housekeeper.

Because Zhan Yang suddenly confided his heart just now, there was no more communication between the two.

The housekeeper warmed the special ointment in the palm of his hand, and massaged it on Zhan Yang's arm properly.

There was a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine in the air, and suddenly, a drop of warm liquid fell on Zhan Yang's arm.

"What... what's wrong with this traditional Chinese medicine today, it's always irritating my eyes!" The housekeeper forced a smile.

Zhan Yang looked down at the old butler who had taken care of him for more than ten years, raised his deliberately lowered head, and pushed him to sit on the edge of the bed.

"Why are you crying!"

Zhan Yang's tone was definitely not gentle, but the housekeeper's nose was sore.

"Thank you, Mr. Zhan." The butler took the tissue from Zhan Yang and wiped away his tears.

For so many years, he has been doing his own job dutifully and never intervened in Zhan Yang's affairs.

However, today he has something to say to Zhan Yang no matter what.

The housekeeper is not afraid of Zhan Yang's anger, after all, as an "old man" around him, he always has some privileges.

Zhan Yang also acquiesced in the housekeeper's behavior of relying on the old and selling the old, letting him sit by the bed and cry like a child.

After a long time, the housekeeper sniffled his nose and said in a muffled voice, "Are you serious about what Mr. Zhan said just now?"

Zhan Yang flipped through the book, and replied lightly: "I usually like to joke?"

"...That's true." The butler murmured.

He was silent for a while, then asked again: "Is Mr. Yuan really a policeman?"

"Um."

"Then he is...or is he?"

"Perhaps, did you notice any difference between him and before?" Zhan Yang looked away from the book and looked at the butler.

The housekeeper thought about it seriously, and finally shook his head firmly, "I didn't find it."

Zhan Yang withdrew his gaze, and said flatly, "Housekeeper, you should wear glasses."

"..." The housekeeper became angry.

After a while, he turned his head and looked at Zhan Yang, "Mr. Zhan, what if Mr. Yuan is here to harm you like before?"

Zhan Yang froze his fingers flipping the book, then covered the book upside down on his chest, thinking for a while, "He won't."

He also said that he should wear glasses, so that he could clearly see the smile on Zhan Yang's mouth in such a dark room!

The butler secretly thought.

It seems that the question that should be asked has been finished, the butler stared at the toe of his shoe for a long time, and muttered unhappily: "Although Mr. Zhan said so, I still don't want to forgive Mr. Yuan."

"It's up to you." Zhan Yang threw aside the book used to pretend, and raised his right hand slightly, the butler continued the massage just now with a lot of thoughts.

"Can I not prepare dinner for him when he comes to see Mr. Zhan?"

"……Can,"

"Then he wants to stay, and please ask Mr. Zhan to refuse him to enter your room."

"……it is good."

The butler thought for a while, and it seemed that there was nothing else that Zhan Yang needed to cooperate with, so he stopped talking in satisfaction and concentrated on massaging Zhan Yang.

His behavior made Zhan Yang dumbfounded, thinking that this man really looks like a child the older he gets.

After the butler left, Zhan Yang was about to go to bed, closed his eyes, and what happened today flashed before his eyes like a movie.

He never deceived himself or others, the main reason that made him determined to go back to China was always clear to him, it was because of Yuan Xiao.

Whether it's hate or love for Yuan Xiao, you have to meet someone in order to truly feel it.

With his eyes closed, Zhan Yang couldn't help curling his mouth. In the duel, he did lose to Yuan Xiao, but he won his heart.

This business is worth it!

After thinking about it, his consciousness gradually became unclear, but Zhan Yang's drowsiness was driven away by the sudden ringing of the phone.

"Zhan Yang, where are you?" Ling Xiao's voice on the phone sounded anxious.

Zhan Yang rubbed his eyebrows, "I'm at home."

"That's right..." Ling Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, "It's good to be back, I called you just now but no one answered, I thought you..."

If he only said this sentence, Zhan Yang would never be angry, but I don't know if he did it on purpose, Ling Xiao said: "That Yuan Xiao didn't do anything to you, did he?"

Zhan Yang paused, he straightened up from the bed, and warned Ling Xiao who was too busy: "Doctor Ling, you just need to do your job well."

"Zhan Yang, don't be angry!" Hearing that Zhan Yang was really angry, Ling Xiao panicked and coaxed softly, "I'm just worried about you, nothing else."

"Thank you, but Doctor Ling, I think you made a mistake," Zhan Yang said coldly, "I don't need your meticulous care."

It was not the first time that such a clear rejection was made, but this time with Yuan Xiao, Ling Xiao could no longer ignore Zhan Yang's words as if nothing had happened.

"I know..." The bitterness in his heart was fully expressed through his voice, and Zhan Yang frowned.

"If nothing else, I'm hanging up."

Zhan Yang threw the phone aside in boredom, thinking about changing doctors.

The phone rang again, and when I picked it up, Yuan Xiao's lazy voice came: "It's so late, who are you calling?"

"Is something wrong?"

From Zhan Yang's point of view, Yuan Xiao would not call him in the middle of the night without anything to do, and make a special call to express concern about such boring things, which is the patent of Ling Xiao and others.

Yuan Xiao heard the impatience in Zhan Yang's tone, and chuckled lightly, "Why, haven't you ever been in a relationship? I don't know that talking on the phone in the middle of the night is the greatest pleasure between lovers!"

"Are you free?"

"It's okay," Yuan Xiao suddenly lowered his voice, and laughed nonchalantly, "Tell me, if we sleep in the same bed at this time, how much phone bills will be saved?"

"Not doing well?" Zhan Yang raised his eyebrows, "I can't afford the phone bill."

Yuan Xiao laughed softly, "How can it be compared with when I was with Brother Zhan, don't you think?"

"It's good to know, if you want to come back, I will agree because of the past friendship." Zhan Yang said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"With Brother Zhan's words, I feel relieved. If I really can't get along in the future, at least someone will take me in."

Zhan Yang said solemnly: "Don't get me wrong, this is not a shelter, homeless people are not allowed to enter."

Yuan Xiao laughed happily, then sighed, "Okay, you and I both know it's impossible."

His words made Zhan Yang feel melancholy, which was almost unfamiliar to Zhan Yang.He felt that standing on the opposite side with Yuan Xiao did not get entirely positive emotions.

"Why didn't you speak suddenly?" Yuan Xiao asked, "Did you fall asleep?"

"What on earth are you going to tell me?" Zhan Yang suddenly didn't want to continue the phone call. It's better to talk face to face. In addition to the voice, he can get more information from the other party's expression.

"Ah..." Yuan Xiao said absent-mindedly, and suddenly asked very quickly, "Will you hate me?"

Zhan Yang thought he heard it wrong, Yuan Xiao, who was so overbearing that he couldn't resist when they met, actually asked if he hated him!

Yuan Xiao sighed: "You didn't see the eyes of the three of them today, I'm about to become a peerless devil king!"

Zhan Yang could hear the half-truth and half-false depression in his words. Although Yuan Xiao was cruel, he was kind in his heart.He guessed that he had already included the housekeeper and the others as family members, that's why he was so frustrated when he was hostile.

"Yuan Xiao, if you want to cry, remember to close the window, so that you don't have the face to go out the next day." Zhan Yang added insult to injury.

"I've failed my studies!" Yuan Xiao dragged his voice, but after Zhan Yang interrupted him, he felt better.

Then, he heard Zhan Yang say: "Just now I have explained our relationship to the housekeeper and the others, and you can figure out the rest."

Yuan Xiao froze for a moment, grasped the key words in Zhan Yang's words, and asked knowingly, "What's our relationship?"

"It's nothing," Zhan Yang lightly confused the question, and then said, "It's nothing, I'll hang up."

"Wait a minute!" Yuan Xiao laughed sullenly.

From the sound of Zhan Yang, one can imagine the smirk on his face.

"I'll pick you up tomorrow." Yuan Xiao said.

"where to?"

"Meet the brothers?"

The atmosphere became tense instantly, and Zhan Yang knew that the "brothers" Yuan Xiao referred to were his former subordinates.

It is an unchangeable fact that Yuan Xiao had successfully destroyed Zhan Yang and left him with nothing.

No matter how Zhan Yang thinks about this matter, in the eyes of others, they are enemies!Especially from the perspective of the brothers who were implicated for this, they must wish to cut Yuan Xiao into pieces!

Yuan Xiao proposed to visit his brothers, and he was telling Zhan Yang indirectly that even if everyone opposed him, he would stay with Zhan Yang.

And he used interrogative sentences, saying that he was asking Zhan Yang if he would like to wait with him for the arrival of real happiness.

Zhan Yang understood the meaning of Yuan Xiao's words.

However, for some reasons that even he himself couldn't explain clearly, he didn't answer Yuan Xiao immediately.

Just like he knew Yuan Xiao, Yuan Xiao also knew what he was thinking.

Therefore, Yuan Xiao suddenly said a word: "Love!"

Seeing that Zhan Yang hadn't spoken yet, Yuan Xiao scolded with a smile, "That's enough, don't push me too hard!"

"I'll return this sentence to you as it is!"

Although Zhan Yang's voice was as steady as ever, Yuan Xiao still felt proud of it, but he was willing to indulge Zhan Yang's little waywardness.

"In a word, are you going or not?"

"go."

"Okay, I'll pick you up tomorrow morning."

Zhan Yang suddenly remembered the request from the butler, and "kindly" reminded Yuan Xiao, "Come back after breakfast."

"What do you mean?" Yuan Xiao was puzzled.

"Literally." Zhan Yang didn't want to say more, and hung up the phone.