Netherworld Investigator

Waking up from the darkness, Wen Baifan lifted the quilt, came back to his senses, and made sure that he was not in a dream this time.He rubbed his forehead, stretched out his hand to check for the bedside lamp, but missed, and bumped into a furry object instead.

Even though the alcohol dulled his vigilance, the smell and touch of the bedding under his body made him inexplicably at ease, but once he realized that this was not his own home, Wen Baifan quickly built up his defense and vigilance.

A vague figure approached him, Wen Baifan stretched out his hand without thinking, and accurately grasped the wrist of the visitor.

The slightly cool skin under his hands made Wen Baifan stunned for a moment, a familiar warm breath hit his face, he was suddenly clasped by the backhand, and pushed back.The situation was reversed, and Wen Baifan was locked in the narrow space between the man and the bed.

The other party did not continue to move, but looked down at Wen Baifan from a high place, and said slowly: "Are you awake?"

"Release." Wen Baifan frowned, feeling a little headache, "Why am I at your house?"

"You're drunk." Qiao Kejun relaxed his grip and straightened up, "I'm reluctant to keep you for a night."

Wen Baifan curled his lips and muttered softly, "I didn't realize you were such an enthusiastic person."

"This can only show that you lack basic judgment." Qiao Kejun raised the corners of his mouth slightly, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.He gently turned on a wall lamp in the room, the orange halo seemed to carry a sweet aroma in the quiet air.

Only then did Wen Baifan see clearly that the furry he touched just now was the Fat Dajun who was sitting on the side of the bed in a big pose at the moment.He patted it on the head, and his mood brightened a little with the light. "Why don't you take me home?"

"I didn't find your key." Qiao Kejun handed Wen Baifan a glass of water, staring at him as he drank it with both hands.

"Really, it might be in the office... Then just let me sleep in the bar, it's always been like this before." Wen Baifan smacked the taste in his mouth, it was sweet and honey.

"Have you ever been drunk before?"

"Occasionally."

"I don't see that you are such an indulgent person."

"Didn't realize it, I actually like to drink a lot, and you must not know that my alcohol capacity is not bad." Wen Baifan scratched his head, smiled, and began to mutter, "I was thirsty in the middle of the night once, The mineral water was gone, and the milk was gone, so I just poured a bowl of plum wine from someone else and drank it all in one gulp before going back to sleep. Guess what, when I got up to work the next day, I was scolded by Director Liao He's bloody hahahaha he actually said that I was absent from work the day before without a reason..."

"Well, sure enough, the old man surnamed Zhao didn't lie to me. You are very annoying after you sober up." Qiao Kejun pursed his lips, but his expression did not show any troubled look, "Mumbling around, no wonder he wants to throw you away." Give me."

At this time, the phone rang.

Wen Baifan still looked dull-witted, and looked up at him blankly. Qiao Kejun looked at him and picked up the phone: "...No problem, as long as he wants to, there are not many children. Opportunity to attend my mother's wedding."

wedding?

Wen Baifan thought of the little boy in the dream just now, and vaguely felt that the outline of his eyebrows and eyes were quite similar to Qiao Xin, but his expression was not the same.

He blinked at Qiao Kejun who hung up the phone, and asked, "Where's your son?"

"I'm asleep." Qiao Kejun pouted, motioning him to look at the wall clock on the wall, "What time do you think it is?"

Wen Baifan leaned against the head of the bed with a smile, closed his eyes, and rubbed the bridge of his nose with two fingers: "Is the person I saw today your wife or your ex-wife?"

"I've never been married." Qiao Kejun looked at him.

"Oh." Wen Baifan replied drowsily, didn't hear what he said at all, and continued on his own, "Then remember to notify me in advance of the wedding at that time, I... I'll save money to make up for it. "

Qiao Kejun snorted softly: "What does it have to do with you?"

Hearing such a merciless answer, Wen Baifan couldn't help but change his face even though he had a great temper.

Qiao Kejun admired him for a while when he wanted to get angry but couldn't speak, and then smiled lightly: "You don't know her, and you don't know the person who married her, so what does it have to do with you? Make up for it, if you have too much money, let’s burn it.”

Turn the clock back to this afternoon.

After Wen Baifan left, Qiao Kejun's office was only left with the mother and son who came to visit suddenly.

Qiao Xin lay on the table, picked up a thirteenth-order Rubik's Cube on Qiao Kejun's desk, and twisted it seemingly intently, but in fact he was pricking up his ears, listening carefully to the unfamiliar words of his nominal parents. dialogue.

"Why did you suddenly return to China? Did you encounter any trouble?" Qiao Kejun asked her.

"It's really not like you to care about people. As for why I came back..." Xia Ruolan blinked at him, and lightly brushed the back of Qiao Kejun's hand with her well-maintained fingertips, "Don't you know ?"

Qiao Kejun's face froze, but this time, before he could react, Xia Ruolan withdrew her hand first, clicked her tongue softly, and said with a smile: "It's been so many years, why are you still the same?"

Xia Ruolan sat back in her seat, put away her provocative aura, and showed a heartfelt smile on her face: "In the past few years, I have used the money you gave me to open a dessert shop in a foreign town. I'm doing pretty well. When I came back this time, I originally wanted to meet my sister, and if she was willing to get back together with me, I would invite her to go to country A to be my bridesmaid."

"Yeah, I'm getting married." She looked at Qiao Kejun, with countless time and memories passing through her eyes, "The object is a small doctor in a local rural clinic, and it's fulfilled. I used to want to marry a doctor When I first arrived in country A, it was all thanks to him that I gradually adapted to the local life."

"Congratulations." Qiao Kejun blessed her calmly.

"I am very grateful for what Mr. Qiao did back then." Xia Ruolan smiled slightly, "He is right. Proper forgetting is beneficial. I am not a very strong woman. Under the circumstances at that time, this was my best Way to go."

The gambler's biological mother, the stepfather who coveted her body, the fearful life of avoiding debts all day long, was forced to go to sensual venues to sell jokes for money, acted as a spy under the coercion of Shen Siyuan, and gave birth to a surrogate... These experiences were for a man who was only twenty at the time. For a girl in her early years, each of these incidents may become a fatal vortex that draws her into despair.

Rather than being entangled in the mud and tied to death by the past, it is better to cut everything and start anew.Many years later, when she stared at this gloomy past again, she already had enough strength to face it.After all, every kind of pain can only be talked about by those who have got rid of it.

"Mr. Qiao found out my immigration record, met me in a convenience store and left contact information." Xia Ruolan pursed her lips, "Although I don't know the specific reason, but he asked me to go back this time, Don't come back in a short time. So I decided to take my little sister and leave together, their company just needs an expatriate to go to country A."

"That's right, I haven't seen him for a long time." Qiao Kejun replied lightly.

Xia Ruolan sighed: "You are really the strangest father and son couple I have ever seen."

"Uncle Wen said the same thing." Qiao Xin interrupted abruptly, "He said that my father and I are the strangest father and son he has ever seen. Is there any father and son stranger than us?"

Xia Ruolan couldn't help laughing: "Baby, you are so cute."

Qiao Xin snorted softly: "I'm already seven years old, don't call me a baby."

Xia Ruolan glanced at Qiao Kejun thoughtfully, walked to the side of the child, squatted down, and said to him softly, "Baby, you must be very unhappy when Mom and Dad are separated. Come on, Mommy asks you, Do you want to live with your mother in the future?"

Qiao Kejun's face froze slightly, but he still restrained himself from interrupting her.

Qiao Xin lowered her head slightly, staring at her knees, with a lonely expression: "I don't know, I didn't know you before."

Xia Ruolan felt pity in her heart, and was about to say that if you want to go abroad with me, I found you a very handsome stepfather, when she was about to speak, she heard Qiao Xin continue: "...so I don’t know if you talk about hygiene, whether you will clean the sink after brushing your teeth, how to place the shower curtain when taking a bath, whether you are allergic to dog hair, etc. I don’t know anything about your personal information and living habits. So I'm not sure I can live with you."

"Compared to living with you, I care more about why you left me back then, and whether it was my fault." Qiao Xin raised her chin slightly, her calm and rational attitude was not at all like that of a seven-year-old child, "But Now I probably have the answer, so I don't feel unhappy."

Xia Ruolan let out a long sigh, and resolutely withdrew the result of her evaluation of "the strangest father and son" just now.Compared with Qiao Hengjing, who is elegant, wise, mature and charming, the father and son in front of him are undisputedly strange No.1.

"Surrogate?" Wen Baifan repeated in a low voice, his head was a little dazed under the influence of alcohol, and after a few seconds, he stood up abruptly, "Surrogate?!"

"Ah."

Qiao Kejun's expression was very calm, as if this was just a trivial matter like eating and drinking water, so calm that Wen Baifan felt that he shouldn't make such a fuss.

Wen Baifan shook his drowsy head and sat back.After a while, he couldn't help asking again, "Surrogate?"

Qiao Kejun sighed: "Are you out of your mind?"

"What, it's normal to be surprised, so it's illegal!" Wen Baifan said puzzled, "But, if you really want children so much, with your conditions, it's not okay to find a woman to marry and have children ?"

Qiao Kejun added a little more water to his glass, "What I need is a biological offspring of me, not a family with social significance. So I choose the right partner, make a contract and abide by each other, Although it violates the existing law to some extent, at least it strictly follows the spirit of the contract."

Wen Baifan was holding the cup, leaning on the head of the bed with a blank expression.He opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

But Qiao Kejun understood the meaning behind the sudden silence.

For Qiao Xin, such a decision was a bit cruel.

Qiao Kejun sat down with his back against the wall, bent his right leg, and rested his arm on it.His gaze stayed on his palm, on which there was a slightly raised but almost invisible scar.

It was when he was very young, once he cut his hand, and there was a lot of blood, and the scar was so deep that he could almost see the bones.Qiao Kejun's first reaction was not to disinfect and stop the bleeding. He stared at the mixture of flesh and bone, imagining how they grew from scratch in the mother's womb.

This was the first time he looked inside himself, and suddenly realized that he knew nothing about life itself.

The love described so beautifully in books and on TV, whether it is family affection or love, where are they?

He can't see.

He has seen the person who is said to be his biological mother on movie posters. She wears a beautiful long dress and has loved many people affectionately.

Among these people, he is the only one without him.

He was the forgotten child of his mother, abandoned before he was born, and his father let him grow into a freak in the eyes of others.

He looked at the two people who were called close relatives, like looking at the wound that made him feel ignorant.

"For some more traditional reasons, I must continue to descendants, although this inheritance has not brought happiness to anyone." Qiao Kejun smiled and said slowly, "I don't believe in the love promised by blood. It is nothing more than healthy frozen sperm and enough money to get a relative and reproduce, and it couldn’t be easier.”

Wen Baifan narrowed his eyes slightly, not knowing what he should say at this moment.His consciousness is still not very clear, but Qiao Kejun's lonely expression made him even more dazed for no reason, and a strange and paradoxical emotion flooded his chest like a rising tide.

"Have you ever liked anyone?" Wen Baifan asked suddenly.

At that moment, Qiao Kejun's eyes suddenly softened.

Surprisingly, he nodded.

"Really?" Wen Baifan was a little nervous for no reason, and asked, "What kind of person is the other party?"

"It's someone I met when I was young." Qiao Kejun lowered his eyes and said slowly, "He lived in my house for a while. I was 11 years old and he was seven years old."

"My childhood sweetheart." Wen Baifan smiled, but the inexplicable sourness wrapped around his heart like a vine growing in the dark, making him suddenly out of breath. "She must be pretty."

"It's quite cute." Qiao Kejun was immersed in the memory, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, "At that time, he watched a Shaolin Temple movie, and he was clamoring to shave his hair off."

Wen Baifan struggled to imagine a bald little girl, and suddenly felt a little horrified, "How cute is this?"

"Isn't it cute?" Qiao Kejun thought for a while, and said seriously, "I think it's not bad. His head is very round, and the head of ordinary people is rarely so round. After shaved, he looks like a little boy from a distance. Like a light bulb."

"You, you actually like such a little girl." Wen Baifan was dumbfounded.

"If I say," Qiao Kejun paused, and took a deep look at him, "I like little boys, do you think there is something wrong with me?"

"Of course!" Wen Baifan said without hesitation.

Qiao Kejun's face turned pale.

"Not only is there something wrong, but pedophilia is against the law." Wen Baifan was righteous.

Qiao Kejun frowned: "What a mess, when did I say that?"

"Just now, you said it." Wen Baifan was alcoholic and unrestrained, only hearing him imitate Qiao Kejun's tone vividly, "If I said that I like little boys, would you think there is something wrong with me? ...Of course there's something wrong with that!"

Qiao Kejun took a deep breath and explained patiently: "When he was a little boy, I was also a little boy. Then I grew up, and he grew up too. Now we are not little boys anymore. , is a man." Qiao Kejun solemnly highlighted him, "I mean, I like men, people with full civil capacity."

"Oh, that's it." Wen Baifan thought hard for a while, then whispered: "Then can you change it?"

"Do you think it's wrong? That's why you need to correct it." Qiao Kejun lowered his eyes to cover up the embarrassment in his eyes.

Wen Baifan had a sad expression on his drunken face: "Can't it be changed?"

"No." Qiao Kejun's tone was a little harsh.

Wen Baifan's voice was like a mosquito: "...can you change it into liking me?"

"What did you say?" Qiao Kejun's cold eyes suddenly deepened, "Say it again."

"Can you change it? Can you... Ugh!"

The moment he was kissed, Wen Baifan suffocated and his back went numb.

The lips touched briefly and then parted.

Qiao Kejun's eyes were drooping, and his long eyelashes trembled slightly like butterfly wings.

"It can't be changed," he said.

Wen Baifan's eyes widened, the sound of the whole world disappeared, only the thunderous heartbeat remained.

Qiao Kejun reached out and took off the black-rimmed glasses on his face, staring at his light pupils, "Why, are you scared?"

The intoxicating smell of wine and the sweet scent of honey lingered in each other's breath, Wen Baifan whispered, "Doctor, I, I need first aid."

"Okay." Along with the words, there was another kiss.The feeling of the lips and tongue entangled makes the scalp numb, but it is also indescribably wonderful.

Wen Baifan simply closed his eyes.

The world seemed to be shaken in the dark for a few seconds, the sea surface returned to the quiet and deep after violent churning, and the lazy stars in the sky shook down on it.