Prey [Zhu Chaoyang x Ye Chimin]

In front of the hospital bed, a middle-aged man in a police uniform was sitting on a chair, and there was another standing behind him. Both of them had serious expressions and said nothing.

Zhou Chunhong's heart was in her throat again. Every time the police came to the door, nothing good happened. It was either this or that. She silently poured two cups of boiling water for the guest, put a cushion behind Ye Chimin, and went to the balcony to close the outer window. , drew a thin layer of curtains to block out the dazzling sunlight, and finally picked up the handbag and went out.

"Uncle Li, thank you for coming to see me." Ye Chimin's pale lips moved.

"This is what we should do." The person called Uncle Li coughed lightly, and exchanged a subtle look with his colleagues, but he still couldn't say anything, and said a few more official-sounding formulas before getting to the point .

"My father has always been in good health. He just had a physical examination this year. There is nothing wrong with him except gastric polyps and blood stickiness." Ye Chimin's eyes were red. "He likes swimming. He is usually busy with work and has no time." tears.

"Yes," Officer Li nodded, "The autopsy report has come out,... Logically speaking, I shouldn't be telling you this at this time, but Team Ye only has you as a relative."

Ye Chimin wiped away his tears, and said in a shy voice, "It's okay, just tell me."

"The report records that there is a large amount of drowning in the respiratory and digestive tracts, and there are reddish bleeding plaques on the surface of the lungs, which proves that...he died of suffocation and circulatory failure."

Ye Chimin's face turned paler and paler, but she still insisted on hearing the last word. Superintendent Li looked at her sympathetically, and could hardly bear to continue.

The orphan girl left by a colleague reminded him of his two children. If something happened to him one day, he couldn't imagine how miserable it would be.

"We're here today, but we still want to know something else," another police officer broke the silence, "it's about Zhu Chaoyang."

"He was the only witness who was there at the time."

"Why don't you ask him?" Ye Chimin said softly.

"I want to talk to you first, is it convenient?"

Ye Chimin nodded.

The superintendent took a pen to record, "Zhu Chaoyang and you are in a relationship, right?"

Ye Chimin nodded again.

Zhu Chaoyang, dressed in suits and leather shoes, walked briskly out of the consulate. He first went to the depository to pick up his bag and turned on his mobile phone. Five or six caller IDs on the screen showed his mother Zhou Chunhong. He was about to call back when the phone rang again. He answered Get up, but there is silence.

With a solemn expression, he walked back to the car quickly, handed out the change with one hand, and quickly turned the steering wheel with the other. At this moment, he heard Ye Chimin talking, and his voice seemed to be buzzing from under the quilt.

"Uncle Li, thank you for coming to see me."

He took the ticket blankly, turned right, and the white crown merged into the traffic flow.

"He usually likes to swim, and he can hold his breath for 3 minutes at the longest."

"3 minutes." Officer Li repeated.

"His father promised to take him across the Pearl River if he could do it, so he practiced very hard at that time, and later,..."

Zhu Chaoyang's eyes were fixed on the red light ahead, and his fingernails were tightly digging on the steering wheel.

"He will have a nosebleed after 3 minutes, maybe it's because of the stimulation, it's the king..." She tried her best to search in her memory, her beautiful eyebrows slightly frowned, "What is the king... ..”

"Wang Li."

"It seems to be called this name, I can't remember it."

"3 minutes." Police Officer Li frowned. In this way, the time for committing a crime—let's assume that there is a crime—is not enough, and blindly suspects that a person who is about to marry the victim's daughter has excellent academic and moral character Young people are also irresponsible.

The name Wang Li brought him back to seven years ago, when Xiao Min was a child.

Zhu Chaoyang is also a child, thin and thin, his clear eyes are always full of anxiety, and he is so polite.

In this case......

The horn sounded loudly from behind, Zhu Chaoyang came back to his senses and found that the signal light had turned green, so he hurriedly started the car.

He drove the car into the garage, turned off the engine, buried his head on the steering wheel, and let out a long sigh of relief.

There was a sneer from the side, Zhu Chaoyang raised his head angrily, and looked at him fiercely.

"Every choice a person makes is the result of weighing the pros and cons." Zhang Dongsheng looked at him disdainfully.

"What do you think was the reason why Zhu Yongping deleted the recording back then?" Zhang Dongsheng's voice was sharp and piercing, "It's not because you acted well, but because he has only one son left!"

Zhu Chaoyang clenched his teeth and tried his best not to punch him.

"She only has you to rely on, who will you protect?"

Zhu Chaoyang picked up the car key and raised his hand to open the door.

"She's different from others, isn't she?" Zhang Dongsheng seemed to see through his thoughts, imitating his tone sharply, "I thought so too at the beginning, she's different from others."

The tone of the last sentence was inexplicably sad, and it was different from Zhang Dongsheng, who saw through the world and laughed and unruly.

Zhu Chaoyang slowly put down his hands, as if he had something to say, when Yan Liang in the back seat spoke.

"Chaoyang, don't be the second Zhang Dongsheng."

Zhu Chaoyang turned his head to look at his former friend, his eyes wandering slightly.

Zhang Dongsheng snorted, "Just like him to Pupu?"

"Shut up!" "Don't you tippup!" the two boys shouted at him in unison.

Zhang Dongsheng finally shut up.

"Don't you believe in fairy tales?" Yan Liang looked earnestly.

"What if fairy tales are false?"

"Pupe said she believed it."

"The princess in your heart is just a fox with chick feathers. He is nothing in his eyes. The person he cares most about is upstairs." Zhang Dongsheng raised his chin, "Isn't it, my good student? "

"A man won't do anything with the woman he loves, you're overthinking it." Yan Liang snorted.

"He did it because he didn't want to do it with her."

"What do you mean?" Yan Liang was stunned.

"You are the stupidest of the three chicks, and you were led away from the beginning to the end," Zhang Dongsheng leaned back and closed his eyes.

"She's smart, and she doesn't say a word that she shouldn't say. Do you think she is with you because she likes it or because she is afraid?"

On the TV screen, the male lead promised the female lead emotionally: "I promise you, everything ends here."

Zhu Chaoyang reached out and held Ye Chimin's hand under the blanket. She remained motionless, her red eyes staring blankly forward.

"Give me a chance, I won't let you down." The male protagonist knelt down and put the woman's little hand on his lips. The woman nodded in tears, and the camera zoomed to the tall buildings outside the window and the large and small ships docked in the harbor, and the waves lapped on the shore , the seabirds hovered, and the sun pierced through the clouds, shining on this lively and beautiful world.

"The porridge is ready," Zhou Chunhong came in holding a tray like a decree, "Feed her, I'll go and look at the fish soup."

Zhu Chaoyang took a spoonful, blew carefully, and then handed it to Ye Chimin's mouth, "It's a bit hot, try it."

Ye Chimin opened his mouth dumbly, and swallowed.

"I will take good care of you and the child," Zhu Chaoyang said, "Don't worry."

Ye Chimin's heart was sour, and something crystal clear fell on the quilt between his eyelashes, making a splash.

The door opened again, Zhou Chunhong showed half of her head, and mouthed: "The time is coming."

Zhu Chaoyang put the empty bowl by the table, "I'll go to the police station and come back to buy you a cake, do you want milk tea?"

Something complicated flashed across Ye Chimin's eyes, she raised her head, but hesitated to speak.

"It's not good to drink milk tea at this time." Zhou Chunhong brought a coat to her son, with a flattering smile on her face, "Eat some fruit, how good is milk, milk tea is full of additives..."

Zhu Chaoyang didn't respond, and the old horse came over to smooth things over, "Don't meddle in young people's affairs, it's okay to have a drink once in a while."

"I'm leaving." Zhu Chaoyang picked up the car keys, and Ye Chimin took his hand. He slowly lowered his head as if he had been frozen, and the two looked at each other, like moonlight melting into the night, like stars melting into the Milky Way.

Maybe that boat is still there, and it can take us where we want to go, just the two of us.

"I want some chips," she said.

Zhu Chaoyang smiled, "Okay."

"come back earlier."