Personal protection

【Don't let the actor make a promise】

"Group Li? Good evening, this is..." The colleague on duty in the forensic department looked at Zhou Cheng curiously.

Li Xiaoran didn't have time to explain to him, he was getting goosebumps from the conjecture now, "Can you detect what was written before the page that was torn off?"

Colleagues from the forensics department picked up the diary and looked carefully at the last page that was torn off by the light.

"Only one page was torn, so it should be fine." The forensic department nodded, "However, this person's writing strength is not strong, and it has been a long time, so it is not guaranteed that all the information can be restored."

Li Xiaoran nodded, indicating that it's okay.

"Then we will make an appraisal report and send it to your team."

"Thanks for your hard work."

Zhou Cheng looked at Li Xiaoran who wanted to run away from the forensics department and grabbed his wrist, "What's wrong?"

Li Xiaoran's expression was a little excited, the fog that had troubled him for so long was about to be dispelled, and he was as excited as a child, "I'll take you to see a magic show."

Zhou Cheng was taken aback, although he didn't know what happened, but at this moment he just wanted to answer him - "Okay."

"Su Yang!"

"...What are you arguing about?" Su Yang looked sleepy, and was woken up just after falling asleep, it was for Li Xiaoran's sake that he held back his breath and sat on the stool with his legs crossed, "Say. "

Li Xiaoran pushed the bag full of diaries in front of him, "Help me do a psychological profile."

Su Yang raised his brows high, and his eyes fell on Zhou Cheng's wrist, which was tightly held by Li Xiaoran, "Whose is it? Yours? Or his?"

Li Xiaoran was helpless, "The owner of the diary and the person he described."

"Oh——" Su Yang said meaningfully, "Don't you want to hear my psychological profile of you?"

"I don't want to." Li Xiaoran panicked inexplicably, pulling Zhou Cheng's wrist and walked out, "Tell me if there is a result."

"Oh—" Su Yang was no longer sleepy, and stared at the two of them jokingly, "If you don't do it, don't do it, why are you running?"

"How did I run away?" Li Xiaoran walked out of Su Yang's office and muttered, turning his head to look at Zhou Cheng, "Did I run away?"

Zhou Cheng was silent for a moment, then compared his fingers, "A little bit."

Li Xiaoran: "..."

Five seconds later, Zhou Cheng caught up and put his wrist into his palm, "I didn't run, I didn't run."

Li Xiaoran curled his lips, why did he go so early?Can't speak at all, deserves not to be able to find a girlfriend.

No, what does it matter if he finds a girlfriend or not?

not right either...

Li Xiaoran suddenly stopped in the middle of walking, and sat on the window sill.

"Xiao Ran?"

Li Xiaoran let go, looked at Zhou Cheng's red wrist, "I'm sorry."

"What's wrong?" Zhou Cheng didn't understand why his mood suddenly became depressed.

"I'm just..." Li Xiaoran held his head with both hands, and found that his body was trembling unconsciously.

Zhou Cheng squatted down, looked at Li Xiaoran's expression, and frowned, "What happened?"

Li Xiaoran's face was full of helplessness.

"I just suddenly felt that... love is too illusory..."

"Well, then what?" Zhou Cheng continued to ask him.

"Ordinary families can still be maintained through marriage and children." Li Xiaoran paused, "What if marriage and children can't be maintained?"

"Xiao Ran." Zhou Cheng's eyes fell on his face, "Are you uneasy? Why?"

"Zhou Cheng..." Li Xiaoran suddenly leaned over and hugged Zhou Cheng who was squatting halfway, and said in a daze, "I don't want to fall into such a pathetic situation as them."

"Isn't it good to be friends? Why does it have to be love?"

Zhou Cheng froze immediately, and after a long while, he stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around his back, feeling the force on his back bent under his arms.

Then he heard his own hollow voice, "Don't be afraid, it won't."

"Zhou Cheng..." Li Xiaoran felt that he was going crazy, and he didn't know why he was acting like a little girl.But when he thought of the truth of the case that he had deduced, his emotions became fierce and inexplicable.

But he couldn't control it, his fingers slowly sank into the folds of Zhou Cheng's clothes, clasped his shoulders firmly, and pressed his forehead against his shoulders, "Zhou Cheng, will you leave me?"

After hesitating for a long time, Zhou Cheng's palm finally landed on his neck, gently rubbing the back of his neck, "What do you want?"

"I don't want us to be strangers, I don't want only polite small talk between us, I don't want..." One day we will end up like Sun Yun.

But rationality told him that they are different from Sun Yun, and that's right, he and Zhou Cheng will never have the same feelings that Sun Yun has for the person he likes.

"You want a quarrelsome friendship?"

Li Xiaoran suddenly felt a little hot in his eyes, and instinctively exerted more force on the arms around Zhou Cheng.

"You want this?"

"Yeah." After a long time, Li Xiaoran said in a hoarse voice, "I thought we could drink tea and play chess together when we were old."

"Okay." Zhou Cheng heard his promise——

"I promise you."

Next to Li Xiaoran's ear was Zhou Cheng's pleasant and gentle voice as always, but he felt a little cold for no reason.The bottom of my heart seemed to be empty, empty, and the north wind passed through the hall.

I don't know how long it took, Zhou Cheng sighed, "Is it better?" He got up and patted Li Xiaoran on the head, "Then I'll go back first?"

"Don't..." Li Xiaoran grabbed his cuff.

"Zu Li! I've found you!" The colleagues in the forensic department trotted all the way, "The identification has been identified, and the report has been sent to your office."

Li Xiaoran felt a little embarrassed, got up and thanked him, and watched the colleagues from the forensic department leave.Li Xiaoran took a deep breath, trying to suppress the uneasiness in his heart.

"Then I first—" Zhou Cheng looked at Li Xiaoran eagerly, hesitated for a long time, and put his hand holding his sleeve back into the pocket of Li Xiaoran's police coat, rubbing it reluctantly , "I'll go first, you should be careful not to catch a cold."

"Do you understand?" Zhou Cheng's palms covered his eyes, the warmth faded away, and the palms were stained with the coldness of the night, "Don't look at me like that, look at me like this... I will want to take back my promise. "

There was darkness in front of Li Xiaoran's eyes, he couldn't tell whether it was himself shaking or Zhou Cheng's shaking hands.

What he didn't see was that Zhou Cheng wanted to press his lips down, but he left suddenly when he was close at hand.

The thumb stroked his lips through the air, and finally landed on his cheek, Zhou Cheng murmured: "You are so cold."

"Aren't you too?" Li Xiaoran really felt the coming of winter, Zhou Cheng's hands were frighteningly cold at the moment, and it was difficult for the two of them to tell who was colder.

When Li Xiaoran reached out to cover his hand, Zhou Cheng withdrew his palm, "I promised you, I will definitely do it."

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"Boss!"

Dazed Li Xiaoran returned to the office, and Sun Xian greeted him, "Boss, you are amazing! How do you know that there is a clue on the torn page?"

Li Xiaoran took the report without saying a word, and the recognizable handwriting was photocopied on it.

The door was knocked open suddenly, Su Yang held up a sketch in a big stride, and said angrily, "We were cheated!"

Looking at the portrait on the sketch and the photocopied entry in the torn diary.

Li Xiaoran closed his eyes slightly, suppressing the messy emotions in his heart.Surprisingly, there was no joy but sorrow for this truth, and he said with a serious expression, "Go! Ask Xue Lin."