companion ghost

Shen Lie keenly noticed that after Ning Yuan returned home from prison, he was very silent.

After entering the house, he hung up his coat and saw Ning Yuan sitting on the sofa in a daze, so he sat in his arms and kissed him on the lips: "Thinking about Flint?"

Ning Yuan hummed: "This case... I feel powerless."

Shen Lie touched his soft hair: "Don't think too much."

Ning Yuan rubbed his face with his hands: "I can't help but wonder why Sean Perry, Flint's mother and Megan Levy did wrong things back then, but now their children are required to pay for it? If not That ridiculous extramarital affair, none of this will happen now."

Shen Lie said indifferently: "Things are always like this. You do wrong things that you do for a while, but you don't know who will get the retribution."

"I'm still thinking about a question." Ning Yuan raised his head, but he could only see Shen Lie's chin because of the posture problem, so he scratched Shen Lie's chin and let him look down at himself, "Do you think Flint has treated Ike? Have you ever been sincere?"

Shen Lie was startled when he heard the words: "Why did you think of this question?"

Ning Yuan twitched the corner of his mouth: "I just think that in this tragedy, if there is no love, everyone should feel better."

At least for Flint it is.

After knowing all the truth in this way, after the whole world collapsed, and after removing that mask of hatred, he would not be swallowed by great regret.

"Now that I know the ins and outs of the matter, it's hard to tell who is right and who is wrong," Shen Lie said, "Megan is at fault, and she shouldn't pour all her hatred on the young Flint, even if it's not It's his fault, even she is a poor person; Flint is also at fault, he shouldn't be so resolute in choosing revenge in such a way that hurts both sides."

Ning Yuan also sighed: "It's a pity for Ike, life is innocent, and love is innocent."

Shen Lie hugged him tightly: "Xiaoyuan, if you are not used to this, you don't have to continue doing it. No one will blame you, and I won't, absolutely not. You don't have to do this, I'm serious. .”

"I know, I know," Ning Yuan hugged him back and buried his face in his neck, "I do this job not only because I want to know more about you, but also because I want to stand side by side with you "Ning Yuan said softly, although most of his voice was muffled by Shen Lie's shoulder and neck, he could still hear it clearly.

In fact, Ning Yuan could see very clearly that Shen Lie's job was difficult, not only because of his ability, but more because of his psychological endurance.

There are too many such helpless cases, he and Shen Lie haven't known each other for too long, there is no common topic, and Ning Yuan doesn't know how to guide Shen Lie, so it is easy to go further and further away.

So he came to Shen Lie's side and faced these various cases together with him. It was better for two people to face it together than to suffer alone.

Shen Lie didn't speak any more, and gently kissed Ning Yuan's forehead, but he knew how much love he poured into this kiss as light as a feather.

"Buzz-"

Both Shen Lie and Ning Yuan had already fallen asleep. Shen Lie had just fallen asleep when the vibration of the phone woke him up. He took the phone and looked at the caller ID, and then turned over when he heard the voice. After waking up, Ning Yuan got out of bed and walked outside the room to pick up the phone: "It's three o'clock in the morning, you better have something important to disturb my rest."

There was silence on the phone for a while.

When Shen Lie returned to the room, Ning Yuan had already woken up in a daze, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "Who is it..."

Shen Lie put the phone aside, bowed his head and kissed him on the face: "Sitton, he wants a deal."

Although Ning Yuan was sleepy, his curiosity overcame his sleepiness: "Why did he agree now?"

Shen Lie's tone was very light: "It should be Flint's decision. It is estimated that Sidon's persuasion will not work until now."

Just as Ning Yuan was about to open his mouth to say something, Shen Lie blocked his mouth. Shen Lie kissed him twice, and patted his back through the quilt: "Don't think about it, go to sleep."

Ning Yuan snorted, wrapped his hands and feet around him: "You sleep together too, don't think I don't know that if you wake up in the middle of the night, you will run downstairs and stay on the sofa overnight."

Shen Lie was a little surprised, so he had no choice but to smile, and continued to hug Ning Yuan and lay back on the bed, with his eyes closed, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.

Open your eyes until dawn.

The next morning, in court

Judge Lambert, who was still serious, sat on the bench and looked at them: "I heard that the defendant is going to change the plea of ​​not guilty to guilty?"

"Yes, Your Excellency." Sidon replied. Ning Yuan could see the dark circles under his eyes. He probably didn't sleep well last night.

Judge Lambert looked at Shen Lie: "Prosecutor?"

"Yes, Your Excellency," Shen Lie said, "At the same time, the prosecution will lower the charge from first-degree intentional homicide to second-degree intentional homicide."

"Although I agree, I still have to say," Judge Lambert looked at Shen Lie and Seton sternly from above her glasses, "like this situation where the result is about to come out and you reach a deal , there will be no next time. The resources of the jury are not for you to waste like this, understand?"

In front of Judge Lambert, Shen Lie and Sidon had no choice but to obediently confess.

And Ning Yuan still sat in the viewing seat behind Shen Lie, his gaze had been on Flint since he was brought into the court by the bailiff.

His complexion is too bad.

It was as if all the energy and life had been sucked away overnight.

At this moment, Judge Lambert spoke to Flint: "Flint Perry, do you agree to plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter?"

Flint didn't look at the judge, but looked down at his pale hands, and said softly, "Yes."

"Did you plead guilty voluntarily?"

"Yes."

"Has anyone persuaded or forced you to confess guilt?"

"No."

"Are your allegations of Ike Levy's crimes, as set forth in the indictment, true?"

Flint's hands trembled, and he closed his eyes slightly: "...It's true."

"This court accepts your guilty plea." Judge Lambert took off his glasses. "Is there anything else you need to say before I pronounce sentence?"

Flint raised his eyes slowly, his eyes moved from Judge Lambert to Shen Lie, and then to Ning Yuan, and he pulled the corners of his lips, revealing a cold arc.

At that moment, Ning Yuan instinctively felt that Flint was going to do something that no one wanted to see. The moment he yelled no out of his throat in court, Flint quickly watched from the side with his right hand. The bailiff who was watching him pulled out his gun from his waist and pointed it at Megan Levy in the jury, holding something in his left hand.

Shen Lie's pupils constricted, and his first reaction was to press Ning Yuan's shoulders and ask him to squat down and hide behind the chair that could serve as a temporary cover, but Ning Yuan didn't. He said to Flint, "Filint Te, listen to me, you don't have to do this, things don't have to end like this."

Flint didn't look at him anymore, but kept looking at Megan, his hand holding the gun was trembling, and his voice was trembling: "Why are you still sitting there so calmly as if nothing happened?" ?”

Following his eyes, Ning Yuan saw Megan Levi. She was wearing a black suit, her hair was coiled up, and there was no broken hair. She was sitting there with her back straight and her chin raised.

Casey aimed the gun drawn from his waist at Flint, and said sharply, "Flint, put the gun down!"

Flint didn't know what he thought of, but actually smiled, and pointed the muzzle of the gun at his heart, and it was a shot.

So fast that Casey didn't even have time to shoot that gun down.

Ning Yuan heard the shrill screams from someone in the courtroom, and he didn't know why he rushed forward, trying to block the blood gurgling from Flint's chest with his hands, someone pulled his arm to pull him up, He knew it was Shen Lie, but his brain had stopped turning now, he just stared at Flint who fell on the ground, watching the relieved smile on his face at the last moment.

But at this time, his eyes swept unconsciously, and saw the thing that Flint was holding in his left hand.

In the photo, he and Ike are both smiling happily.