companion ghost

"I'm a little nervous." Casey knocked on Dino's table in front of him. "The jury's been there for too long, right? It's been two days."

Dino grabbed his index finger: "It's okay, you forgot last time? It took three days for the jury to come up with a result."

"Brother, stop talking, I'm even more scared." Casey rolled her eyes, pulled her fingers back, and the roots of her ears were a little pink, "It's true that they discussed it for three days last time, and the result was too much Is it worse?"

Dino comforted him: "Don't worry, it won't happen this time, trust me."

Casey felt a little relieved, looked at his watch, stood up and picked up the coat on the back of the chair: "I'm going to pick up Carl."

Dino finished typing the last word: "I'll go with you."

Casey nodded and walked out the door with him.

During the jury's intense discussion, Shen Lie didn't seem to have much reaction, but in fact Ning Yuan could tell that he was also very nervous.

——After all, washing dishes, throwing dishes in the shower, wrestling, shaving foam and using it as facial cleanser are not normal things that Prosecutor Shen can do.

After eating, Shen Lie sat on the sofa to write documents, Ning Yuan nestled in Shen Lie's arms to read, seeing that Shen Lie hadn't typed a word for 10 minutes, he couldn't help asking: "Why don't you type?"

Shen Lie was like waking up from a dream, and said awkwardly: "I'm in a trance, hit me now."

Then Ning Yuan watched him type a long string of garbled characters on the computer.

Ning Yuan: "..."

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Ning Yuan decided to fight poison with poison. He put his book and Shen Lie's laptop aside, turned slightly, wrapped his arms around Shen Lie's neck, and let him look at him: "I want to tell you something."

Shen Lie was shocked by his momentum: "What's the matter?"

Ning Yuan smiled coquettishly at him: "Come home with me for dinner tomorrow night, my family wants to see you."

Shen Lie: "!!!!"

Instantly more tense, okay?

Lying on the bed at night, Ning Yuan put down his book and reached out to turn off the small warm orange desk lamp. Shen Lie reached out to stop him, held his little paw in his hand and put it back under the quilt, whispering: "I also want to Tell you something."

Ning Yuan was curious: "What's the matter?"

Shen Lie was silent for a moment, then said, "About my family."

Ning Yuan scratched him and held his palm: "It's okay, don't force it, I live with you, neither with your family nor with my family, you can say it whenever you want, no need To accommodate my parents."

After all, they have been together for such a long time, and they have always kept secrets about their family. Today, they decided to speak out when they heard that they were going to have dinner together. This semi-coercive feeling made Ning Yuan feel very bad.

"Don't think too much, eating together is just a catalyst. I've been thinking about when is the best time to tell you," Shen Lie kissed his hair, "I just realized now that there is actually no such thing as the best time to tell you." Good timing, that was just an excuse for me to try to delay."

Ning Yuan nodded, feeling a little better, his fluffy hair rubbed against Shen Lie's chin because of nodding.

Shen Lie unconsciously touched Ning Yuan's thin and soft hair, gave up the organized language, and instead thought of what to say: "When I was in the third year of high school, I came out of the closet with my family on impulse. My grandfather is an old man. A generation of red revolutionaries, I lived in the compound of the military region when I was young, and my father, too, worked in the government system. No matter how I think about it, I can’t accept it,” Shen Lie laughed at himself, “They were furious, and I was angry at that time. I am also stubborn. I am so stubborn that I still don’t understand where that courage comes from. No matter what threats or temptations, I have never compromised. After dying, what is there to miss?"

Ning Yuan felt pain in his heart when he heard that, he groped for Shen Lie's other hand under the quilt, and clenched it tightly.

"My mother is a very gentle woman." Shen Lie said slowly, "Because she really loves me so much, she accepted me like this. After I was kicked out of the house, she secretly sent me to America , let me go to university and master’s degree here, so that I can put down roots here.”

Ning Yuan raised his head and kissed him: "After this case is over, let's take a leave of absence and go back to China to see my mother."

It's so natural what my mother said!

Shen Lie smiled wryly and shook his head: "Three days after I just won the Sophiales case, my mother passed away."

Ning Yuan wished to give himself a big slap in the face just now, why didn't any pot be opened and which pot was lifted!I have never heard Shen Lie mention his mother for such a long time, don't tell me he hasn't counted it in his heart!madness!

"During that time, my mental state was very bad, partly because of that case, partly because of my mother." Shen Lie gritted his teeth, "After I heard the news, I immediately flew back to China, but grandpa and father, they didn't Let me go to the mourning hall."

Ning Yuan frowned tightly: "What?!"

Shen Lie smiled wryly: "They still hold stubborn ideas, thinking that I have shamed them, and that even if I come to mourn my own biological mother, it is an insult to them."

Ning Yuan's heart ached: "You really didn't get in after that?"

Wouldn't that be a lifetime of regret.

Shen Lie sneered, very mean: "I threatened them, if they don't let me in, I will announce at the gate that their eldest son is gay, and see who is more humiliated."

Those with bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes.

Ning Yuan was stunned, he didn't expect his man to use this method: "...a good way."

"When I knelt in the mourning hall and looked at my mother's picture, I knew," Shen Lie said in a low voice, trembling slightly, "in this world, no one who truly loves me there is none left."

Ning Yuan moved around in his arms, struggled to fall, held his face, and saw the tears in his dark eyes.Ning Yuan kissed the tears that flowed from Shen Lie's eyes, kissed his eyes again, and whispered softly in his ear: "You still have me, and you will always have me in the future."

Originally, Shen Lie didn't want to cry that much, he just said that he couldn't help but wet his eyes when he said that he was sad, but when Ning Yuan came to coax him to comfort him, his heart suddenly surged up with grievances, loneliness, incomprehensible pain, and many other things The mixed emotions caused tears to flow from his eyes that had been dry for many years. He did not try to cover up or wipe away the tears, but just kept his previous posture motionless, letting the salty liquid flow smoothly. It flows over Ning Yuan's lips on his cheek.

Ning Yuan licked it, the taste was salty and unpalatable, his heart ached, and at the same time it was soft beyond measure.

This steel-like man is really heartbreaking.