california galaxy

Ning He and Luo Pinen walked out of the meeting room, leaving behind a copy of the revised will and notarized marriage.

The door of the meeting room was open behind them, and Ai Chengjin's voice came from inside, sounding like he couldn't hide his breakdown.After all, he is Ai Xing's biological father, and he has always been proud of his son. This kind of reaction is also reasonable and not surprising.

Luo Pinen glanced at Ning He who was walking beside him, his pace was fast, his lips were pursed in silence, but the end of his eyes was faintly red.Luo Pinen knew that he had endured too much, so he slowed down his voice to comfort, "You have done nothing wrong, don't criticize yourself."

They had already walked halfway through a very long corridor, when suddenly there was the sound of chasing footsteps behind them.

The thick carpet absorbs sound well, and the crackling of high heels cannot be heard clearly, and it turns into some panicked muffled sounds.

Ning He turned his head and saw Ai Zhinan running towards him.

Luo Pinen was very witty, and when Ai Zhinan suddenly reached out to grab Ning He and asked him, "Why is this!?", he retreated four or five meters away in time.

Ning He was in a mess, and the calmness he showed in front of Ai's people just now seemed to have exhausted his remaining mind.

He didn't respond to Ai Zhinan in time, and let her say a lot of things, such as, "You are pretending, right? How is it possible for you and Ai Xing? Since you can promise Ai Xing to act with him, why can't you promise me?"

Until Ai Zhinan fell silent, Ning He withdrew his hand from her without a trace, then took off the wedding ring on his ring finger, and turned it inside out for her to see.

There is a diamond inlaid in it, and Ai Xing's name is engraved on it.

Ning He said softly, "You don't have to be as real as us in acting, right?"

Ai Zhinan's eyes widened and he stopped talking.

"Don't lie to yourself." Ning He said again. In fact, he was a few years younger than Ai Zhinan, but at this moment he gave Ai Zhinan the last respect, "You will meet someone who is more suitable for you."

After finishing speaking, he turned to Robin and said, "Sorry for the long wait."

The old lady understood and asked him after entering the elevator, "Do you still have a personal relationship with Ai Zhinan?"

Ning He shook his head, feeling a little helpless, "I knew her after Ai Xing, how could she have a personal relationship."

"Ai Zhinan is useful." Luo Pinen commented from the objective standpoint of a lawyer.

Ning He was silent for a while before saying, "Forget it, it's not appropriate to take advantage of a girl's feelings."

Luo Pinen looked at him unabashedly, thinking to himself, no wonder Ai Xing could not wait to marry him so much, Ning He possessed the rare tenderness and empathy of these rich kids.As keen as Ai Xing must have discovered very early on, Ning He's demeanor and consideration are innate, he will not treat people differently because of the difference in status, just like he will not treat people differently because Ai Zhinan's father is Ai Hong Shin Er took his anger out on her and would still say things like "it's not appropriate to take advantage of other people's feelings".

When the elevator descended to the first floor, Ning He's cell phone started to vibrate, he took it out and glanced at the caller number, frowning slightly.After hesitating for a while, I finally didn't answer.

Then he said to Luo Pinen, "Attorney Luo, thank you for coming out today. I will mail you the fee by check."

Luo Pinen was about to say that there is no need to pay, but Ning He seemed a little anxious, and added, "It was my mother who called just now. I may need to go back and explain today's situation to her face to face."

After he finished speaking, he lowered his head slightly, with tiredness that could not be concealed between his brows.

Luo Pinen knew that he was in a difficult situation, so he didn't talk to him any more, and let him leave first.

Ning He got off the taxi and entered the building against the howling wind, his steps slightly heavy.

He didn't know what was waiting for him behind that familiar door.

This is not Ai Chengjin's single-family villa, but an apartment that Shao Yin bought shortly after arriving in the United States seven or eight years ago.It is located along the subway line in downtown Los Angeles, not far from the Einstein Building.

Ning He had already sent Shao Yin a message on the way here.He opened the door with his own key, asked in as calm a voice as possible, "Mom, are you home?" Then he put on his slippers and walked in.

With her back to the door, Shao Yin was talking on the phone facing the balcony, when she heard Ning He came back, she suddenly cut off the call, turned around and looked at him.

Ning He was full of apprehension, and stopped two or three steps away from Shao Yin.

Shao Yin held the phone in her palm and asked him, "Did Ai Xing force you to do it?"

Ning He is a little helpless, from Ai Zhinan to Shao Yin, everyone seems to think that he is the forced party.

"No." He shook his head slightly, "I liked him first."

Shao Yin's expression suddenly changed.

In Ning He's impression, she was always an optimistic woman with vivid beauty. Even when she was young and ill, Shao Yin rarely showed negative emotions.But this time, it seems to be different from the past.

Shao Yin opened her mouth, but said nothing.She felt her legs were weak, so she went to sit on the sofa with a sullen face, and Ning He followed her, squatting halfway beside her.

"Mom, I shouldn't have kept it from you for so long." Ning He apologized in a low voice, but Shao Yin avoided looking at him, as if he couldn't face all this, "Ai Xing and I knew each other before that, we I never knew how to tell you."

There was a silence like a blunt knife cutting flesh in the air.After a while, Shao Yin looked at Ning He, "So, the person you kissed at the concert wasn't a fan?"

Ning He said slowly, "It's Ai Xing."

Shao Yin had a fashion magazine at hand, she suddenly picked it up in a hurry, and swung it heavily on Ning He's head.

Ning He had been beaten by Shao Yin for 20 years since he was a child.

The weight of the magazine, plus Ning He didn't dodge, the hard-covered corners of the hardcover hit the side of his face directly.Ning He's half-squatting posture was unsteady, and he knelt down in front of Shao Yin all of a sudden.

Shao Yin was stunned, and saw that Ning He's right cheek was red and swollen immediately, and the corner of his lips was cut by the corner of the book.

She immediately regretted it, knelt down and hugged Ning He, and asked him with a weeping voice, "Hey, why are you doing this? Is your mother not treating you well enough? Do you know that the choice you made will ruin our family?" ?”

Ning He reached out and stroked her back, apologizing all the time, "It's my fault."

But how could it be wrong for one person to fall in love with another person.

It was neither Ai Xing nor Ning He who was wrong.It's just that they love out of season.

It took Ning He some time to come out of the apartment.

Shao Yin was in a bad mood and asked him to make promises that he simply could not reciprocate.

Ning He coaxed her for a long time, and made her reluctantly agree to save Ai Xing first, and discuss the rest later.

He walked from the elevator to the lobby on the first floor of the apartment. Along the way, many residents saw him with expressions of astonishment.Ning He looked very embarrassed, with wounds on his face and bloodstains on the back of his hands, and his face was terribly white, like a piece of white porcelain that would shatter when touched.But he still called Luo Pinen as soon as he got out of the building. When he was comforting Shao Yin just now, Luo Pinen had already sent him a message saying that things about Ai Xing had turned around.

The wind outside was still strong, and the leaves on the street trees were rustled and piled up on the street corners.

Lawyer Luo's call was quickly connected, and she said to Ning He, "Confirming the ownership of the 20% of the shares really worked. These people must now protect Ai Xing for their own benefit. The Los Angeles Police Department has already taken over this matter. Maybe a lead will be found soon."

This was the first good news Ning He heard in three days, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "What else can I do?"

Robin paused suddenly for a few seconds, and then asked him, "Is your mother's attitude okay?"

Ning He let out a "hmm", maybe he wanted to say something at first, but then he gave up.

Luo Pinen did not force him, and continued to say, "I have already contacted the reporter of the Los Angeles Times. If I can confirm the document Ai Xing found that involved the corruption of officials in this state, the newspaper will disclose it on the front page. The whole matter The process will be greatly advanced, and the police department can also do things in a legitimate way."

"...So the password is the key." Ning He got through at once, and stood on the side of the street and started to stop the car.

The computer that Ai Xing left in the villa was taken away by the FBI, but he also had an old laptop that was not used very often in the apartment that Ninghe rented.Ning He found a memo from that old computer, which contained some simple dates and places, which didn't seem to have any special meaning.But the last line of the three-page memo recorded a series of very strange characters: 1-12, 2-3, 3-11T, 4-9, 5-9, 6-1, 7-18, 8- 8L, 9-4, 10-2, 11-9, 12-1, 13-2, 14-4.

Ning He transcribed this string of characters in his mobile phone, and would read it over and over again whenever he had time, but he still couldn't figure out what these jumbled numbers and letters represented.

He also tried to discuss this string of characters with Lawyer Luo, but Luo Pinen stopped him, saying that if one more person knew it, there would be an additional risk of leakage.If Ning He can't crack it, it will be even more difficult for others to figure out Ai Xing.

It was almost noon when Ning He returned to the apartment.He ate something indiscriminately, took a nap on the sofa for 10 minutes, and when he woke up, he turned his phone to silent and started to continue his unfinished work in the morning.

After that, it was five or six hours of comparison and retrieval.Ning He stayed up until the evening, but still got nothing. The pressure of overuse of brain and lack of sleep forced him to have a splitting headache.He grabbed a pillow and hugged it in his arms, wanting to take a rest before getting up to work, he accidentally hummed the song he wrote for Ai Xing twice, and then stopped suddenly.

Then he threw off the pillow, bent down and picked up the wooden box containing various souvenirs of his love with Ai Xing.

He had already checked once this morning, and found nothing strange.When he opened it again at this time, he finally realized the problem.

The things in the box are arranged in chronological order. At the bottom is the first album of Invisible that Ai Xing bought, and then there are the group photos they took together, the tickets and dramas they have seen... and The top two items are a handwritten card attached to the bouquet, and the demo of Ai Xing's single that Ning He gave him on his birthday - the song "River of Star" was recorded.

But Ai Xing's birthday has passed half a year, and the song has already been downloaded by him on his mobile phone. If you just listen to the song, you don't need to be so troublesome.The only explanation can only be that Ai Xing has read it recently - for the part of the lyrics.

Ning He opened the envelope and counted the arrangement of the lyrics. There are a total of fourteen lines, which just correspond to the first digit of the password.

He suddenly became excited, touched a takeaway leaflet and a pen, lay down on the ground and began to decipher.The first number is 1-12, and the No.12 word in the first line of lyrics is "moving".Ning He thought for a while, counted the strokes of the character "Dong", and then wrote the number 6 on the leaflet.

Then came 2-3, the third word in the second line, Chang Ye's "Long", and he quickly wrote down the number 4.

The following 3-11T made him a little bit difficult, and he didn't know what the word T meant.He counted the number of "Ni", a total of 16 strokes, which is a two-digit number. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration. Maybe T means Top, that is, as long as the number of strokes in the upper part of the "Ni" character is needed, he came up with a digit. number 8.

The number corresponding to the ninth character of four elements is 2, but the ninth character of five elements is a punctuation mark. Ning He hesitated for a moment, thinking that since it does not contain strokes, it might be zero.

In this way, he compared them one by one, and finally he came up with a fourteen-digit password: 6482-0745-237458

Ning He held the takeout order, and could hardly believe that he had found out Ai Xing's hidden password.He double-checked it several times to confirm that the number was correct, then grabbed the phone, ignored the missed calls and unread messages on the screen, and directly dialed a call to Luo Pinen.

As soon as the old lady heard the joy in his voice, she guessed that he already had a clue, and immediately said to him, "Come to my house, the reporter from the Los Angeles Times is here too."

The full text of the lyrics and the corresponding password:

——Like the wind in the forest, blowing my heart (moving). 6

Like a (long) night's dream, embracing each other in intoxication. 4

Like the lights of a city, weaving (neon) rainbows. 8

Like a flowing river, merging into the starry sky. 2

I have imagined that your eyes (,) have a glance of thousands of years of haste. 0

(I) imagined your kiss, the uncontrollable touch. 7

Have you ever imagined me?imagine me standing in the wind like this, 4

The wind can't stop, but I (but) am willing to do it for you again and again until I understand you 5

Through the forest (of) your stars shines others of my dreams, 2

Through (the) city of your lights flows sits neongleam, 3

Who can tell where to find that (glimmer) in your eyes, 7

(That) dropintheriver, 4

That (light) in the city, 5

That moment of (eternity)? 8