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After Vincent left, Xi Ling climbed into bed, ready to turn off the lights and go to sleep.

The door was opened again with a key. This time, when Xi Ling heard the familiar footsteps in the silent corridor, he already knew who it was. He sat on the bedside, anxiously waiting for that person to appear.

Not long after, the bedroom door was opened, and Chang Qin's slender figure stood upright between the door frame.

The two looked at each other with complicated expressions for a long time, Chang Qin suddenly came back to his senses, coughed lightly in embarrassment, and asked, "Are you feeling better?"

Xi Ling nodded, and continued to look at the other party.

Chang Qin took a deep breath, and said straight to the point: "I think I have to ask about some things today. If you don't want to talk about it, then I'll stay here until you are willing to talk about it."

His eyes were extremely fierce, and there was no sign of compromise in his shining pupils.

Xi Ling stared at him for a long time, then lowered his head, and said slowly: "Back then, the person in charge of the Riverside City project was Zhang Mingyuan."

Chang Qin was stunned, and it took him a long time to realize: "You mean, the project where your father failed to invest and eventually led to the bankruptcy of your company?"

Xi Ling nodded calmly: "Zhang Mingyuan and my father have always been close friends. At that time, he was the director of the Building Approval Office of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, so he naturally had a lot of inside information in his hands. My father relied on his relationship to slowly grasp the As the company grows bigger, the lakeside city is naturally also his suggestion. At that time, he revealed to my father that many high-ranking officials in the government have taken a fancy to this community because of its beautiful scenery, beautiful environment, far away from the urban area and less pollution. As long as you dare to spend money, Turning this land into a high-end residential area will definitely not worry about not being able to sell it. My father was very excited after hearing it. He felt that Zhang Mingyuan's analysis was reasonable, so apart from anything else, he took out most of the company's funds and invested them in the construction of the community. Unfortunately, the result...you know it too."

"However, just because Zhang Mingyuan gave your father a suggestion back then, it doesn't mean that he harmed him." Chang Qin said.

"Yes." Xi Ling nodded, "So when Dad passed away, Zhang Mingyuan came to our house to visit my sister and me every day, and even took care of me when I was sick. We never blamed him. He always said that he and Dad are good friends. My friend, now that my father is gone, it is natural to take care of our siblings. Until one day, my sister couldn't bear it anymore and told me the truth, and I realized how dirty Zhang Mingyuan, a man with a human face and a beast heart, is under his gentle and elegant appearance. "The more Xi Ling spoke, the angrier he became, and the last few words were almost squeezed out between his teeth.

Xi Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and continued: "My sister told me that she only found out when she went to court to sue that the water behind the lakeside city project was extremely deep, and the instigator of all this was Zhang Mingyuan, who was colluding with the construction company. Secretly changed the initial plan, which led to the failure of the house to pass the trial after it was completed, and finally became an unfinished building, poor my father, and became a scapegoat for their black-hearted transactions."

"Didn't the prosecutor find out what happened back then?" Chang Qin was puzzled.

Xi Ling shook his head bitterly: "Father is the largest shareholder of the project, the direct investor. Once there is a problem with the project, all the responsibilities must be borne by him. However, if we can have enough funds back then, please hire a better one." Lawyers fight for us, we will not lose, this is why, after returning to school, I continued to choose the law, and must obtain a lawyer's certificate. At that moment, I realized that the reason why my father wanted me to learn The method is to avoid that if one day, I am tricked by someone, but there is nothing I can do.

"After I finished my studies and returned to China, I began to plan how to get revenge on Zhang Mingyuan. Because of him, my father died suddenly at the conference table, but he made his way to the top and was promoted all the way to deputy director. This world is really unfair." Xi Xi Ling shook her head and sighed, "I heard that when the cultural village project starts to operate, he will be promoted to director soon."

Chang Qin listened quietly: "And then?"

"The first step I took to get close to him was to take the initiative to visit him and beg him to help me find a job in a law firm I know well. I know in my heart that only by working under his nose can I secretly collect criminal evidence related to him. I believe that a dog can't change his shit. As a person, sitting in his position, there must be quite a lot of black material. However, he is too strict. I have been investigating secretly for so long, but found nothing. Later, I learned that the government has started public bidding for the cultural village project, and Zhang Mingyuan is in charge of it. Such a large and complicated project involves many internal interests, so I decided that no matter what, I must find a way to participate in this project.”

"So you begged him to speak for you and let him recommend you to Jiang Lida to join the cultural village project, right?" Chang Qin said coldly.

Xi Ling took a deep look at him and nodded again.

"It's also because of this that you betrayed yourself..." Chang Qin swallowed hard, slashing his throat like a sharp knife, and spit out the next two words, "Flesh."

Unexpectedly, Xi Ling sighed self-deprecatingly: "If I can really break the boat like that, it's fine, so that I won't be caught by others later and bite back."

Seeing Chang Qin's frowning and puzzled face, he smiled slightly and explained: "Whether you believe it or not, the person in the photo is really not me. To tell you the truth, I really thought about sacrificing myself back then. To take revenge on him, I couldn’t do it in the end, and it’s not worth the sacrifice to deal with him as a beast. But,” Xi Ling paused, and continued, “Who is the person in the photo, and how did I get it? I really can't tell you about this photo."

Chang Qin twitched his brows, narrowed his eyes to examine Xi Ling carefully for a moment, and eased his tone: "Okay, I believe you for now, but since you insist that the person in the photo is not you, why on earth did you take the photo Send it to Jiang Lida? If you just want to prove your relationship with Zhang Mingyuan to him, you can just show him the photo, and if you send it to the other party's phone, aren't you afraid that he will catch you?"

"I just want to be caught by him." Xi Ling replied naturally, "Only in this way can he trust me completely and give me all the internal information of the Cultural Village project. In addition, I also want to use this as a test. After the incident happened, will he choose to side with Zhang Mingyuan or with me? Facts have proved that I lost the bet." Xi Ling looked up at Chang Qin, twitching the corners of his mouth helplessly.

"You mean, he showed me that photo to drive a wedge between me and you?" Chang Qin asked

"Ever since I was falsely accused of falsifying my academic qualifications, I knew that this was Zhang Mingyuan's warning to me. He wanted to warn me. He had already noticed that I was secretly investigating him. I don't know what he said to Jiang Lida. At least Now it seems that his goal has indeed been achieved, hasn't he?" Xi Ling looked straight at Chang Qin with playfulness in his eyes.

Chang Qin was stared at by him so guilty that he touched his nose and said, "I'm sorry, I was impulsive this afternoon."

"I didn't blame you." Xi Ling replied softly, looking down at her fingers, "It's normal for you not to believe me at that time."

Chang Qin deliberately changed the subject and asked, "Since you said that you took over the cultural village project for revenge on Zhang Mingyuan, then from the very beginning, you approached me also for revenge, right?"

Xi Ling suddenly raised his head to look at the other party.

Chang Qin raised the corners of his lips, his Adam's apple rolled around, and continued: "From the first time we met, you kindly sent me home and cooked porridge for me, and then you sent me home drunk one after another. At the time, I really thought it was just a coincidence, but now that I think about it..." He couldn't bear to go on, and gave a bitter chuckle.

When Xi Ling heard him say these words, his eyes couldn't help turning slightly red, he quickly looked away, shook his head slightly, and murmured softly: "You actually look at me like this."

Chang Qin didn't hear the other party's soliloquy, and analyzed it on his own: "Actually, thinking about it, it wasn't a 'coincidence' that I let you live in my house that day. You called me with an excuse and said that the documents were left in the office. , and asked me to go to your house to pick it up, so that I found out that Magnolia lives there, in fact, you are indirectly testing me to see if I will let you move to my house out of good intentions, right? "

Xi Ling felt a cold arrow-like light shooting from above his head, and his heart was icy cold.

Seeing that the other party was speechless, Chang Qin thought that this meant acquiescing. He smiled hoarsely, and said, "Do you all think I'm a fool who only cares about love, unlike you? You have lofty ideals, and you don't pay any attention to such an illusory thing as love. Xiao Lu is like this, and you are like this..." He said these words like a sigh, and there was self-pity between the lines ridicule.

Xi Ling lowered his head, pondered for a long time, and finally said three words: "I'm sorry."

He really couldn't deny that when he got close to Chang Qin, he more or less had such a purpose.After all, Chang Qin is the lead designer of this project, if there is anything, he can find out in time through him.

Chang Qin sneered: "Do you have anything else to explain?"

Xi Ling replied slowly: "I have been using others all the time, so if someone else is also using me, all my life is a relationship of mutual use.

"Then what about me, am I also a pawn of yours?" Chang Qin asked without thinking.

Chi Ling looked at him for a long time and said, "Yes."

Chang Qin's expression froze for a second, he tried his best not to crack, and asked in a hoarse voice: "In your interpersonal relationship, is there anyone who is not a pawn?"

Xi Ling pondered for a while, and replied: "Yes." After a pause, he added, "Vincent."

Chang Qin didn't know what kept him from collapsing on the ground. When he came to his senses, he had unknowingly walked to Xi Ling's side. He fished in his pocket, took out a bunch of keys, and gently Put it on the bedside table next to Xi Ling: "This is the key to your house, now, I will give it back to you." He took a deep breath, "You have a good rest, I'm leaving first."

After speaking, he walked out of the house without looking back, and closed the door behind him.

Xi Ling stared blankly at his back disappearing outside the door, only then did he feel a sharp pain in the palm of his hand.He looked down, and found that in the palm of his left hand, there were mottled blood stains dug out by the nails of his right hand at some point.

He clenched his fists tightly, leaned back on the soft cushion, and helplessly raised the corners of his lips. It was extremely abnormal to find that at the moment Chang Qin turned around just now, the icy cold expression on the other party's face made him tear up. Outside obsession.

I finally let him show his true self.He thought so in the silent room.

Chang Qin dragged his exhausted body back to his long-lost home.

As soon as the door was opened, the room smelled of dust.

He waved his hand to disperse the choking gray smoke in front of his eyes, and couldn't help sighing, unknowingly, he lived at Xi Ling's place for more than half a month, and even drove in the wrong direction several times when he drove home just now.

He froze in place, then went to the bathroom to take out a broom and mop, cleaned the house inside and out, and wiped off all the dust on the table. After finishing his work, he planned to take a shower, only to realize his All the close-fitting clothes were moved to Xi Ling's place.

He was stunned in place, and then he remembered that fortunately, he had just returned from a business trip, and the suitcase was beside him. He squatted down to open the suitcase, and the things inside were all tidied up for him by Xi Ling before departure: the umbrella, the usual cold Medicine, anti-inflammatory medicine, motion sickness medicine, clean pillow towel, dust mask...everything, Chang Qin took out these things one by one and put them away, feeling faintly in his heart, did Xi Ling prepare such a box for him on purpose? , Maybe the other party has long expected that the relationship between the two will fall apart when he returns from a business trip, so he has prepared these necessities for him in advance.

In the past, of course, he couldn't doubt that Xi Ling would have such an idea, but now, whenever he thinks of the word Xi Ling, he feels a chill down his back.

He took out a set of pajamas and pajama pants. After taking a shower, he collapsed on the bedside exhaustedly. He took the notebook and pressed the start button. The display screen lit up, and a clear desktop wallpaper appeared in front of him.

It was Xi Ling who sat down to watch him receive the award on the night of the architectural design awards from the four regions across the Taiwan Strait.

He picked the one he was most satisfied with and set it as his computer wallpaper.

The one look, the same smile, and the same almost obsessed expression, now looked like a trace of irony.

Chang Qin stared at Xi Ling on the screen for a long time, and suddenly shut the computer with a "snap", losing interest in surfing the Internet.

He felt that he must have been blind back then, but through those photos, he decided that Xi Ling was deeply infatuated with him.

Leaving Zhang Mingyuan aside, at least, he never said "I love you" to himself.

How ridiculous!Chang Qin chuckled self-deprecatingly, turned off the light and went to sleep.

In the morning, Xi Ling woke up from the unbearable cold and fever, and faintly felt that there seemed to be someone beside him. Seeing that he was awake, the person leaned down and whispered softly in his ear: "Awake? I will learn by myself." I made some porridge, would you like to try it?"

"Chang Qin?" Xi Ling blurted out.

The person beside him immediately sighed.

Xi Ling opened his eyes, and found that Vincent was staring at him blankly, with a very resentful expression on his face.

Xi Ling coughed a few times in embarrassment, slowly sat up with his drowsy head, and opened his mouth like a broken bellows: "How did you get in?"

"Did you forget the key you gave me?" Vincent replied.

"Oh." Xi Ling nodded, disappointment was evident on his pale face.

Seeing this, Vincent was full of displeasure, curled his lips, forced himself to suppress those complaints, turned and walked to the kitchen: "Get up and eat, and I'll take you to the hospital after eating."

"I won't go to the hospital today." Xi Ling replied without thinking, and couldn't help coughing again.

"Why? You're not fully recovered yet." Vincent hurried back and patted him on the back.

"A lot of work, very urgent, can't wait." Xi Ling said while coughing.

"Work anytime..." Vincent said.

"There is no need to discuss." Xi Ling interrupted the other party coldly, with an undeniable stubbornness on his face.

Vincent shrugged and said nothing more.

As soon as Xi Ling entered the office, he received a document from his assistant, which turned out to be the notice that "Chenxi" Construction Company had won the bid.

After receiving the notice, it was a routine tripartite seminar. Mr. Ye was still in the UK at the time and couldn't make it back for a while, so Vincent took his father's place to attend the first project negotiation meeting.

I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but this time Chang Qin and Xi Ling were the first to appear in the conference hall. Of course, Vincent was also added.

The atmosphere was quite awkward. Before entering the conference room, Xi Ling saw Chang Qin's lonely back in front of the long and narrow conference table from a distance. There was a gust of wind, and the leather shoes rattled on the floor.

Chang Qin raised his head and glanced at the other party expressionlessly.

Xi Ling didn't look at him, and just buried himself in the documents in his hand.

The two people seemed to have never known each other, and the air hovering between each other was so cold that it almost shattered.

However, seeing this situation, the most headache was Vincent who was caught in the middle. He looked at Xi Ling for a while, and then at Chang Qin, and he felt that he must have offended these two uncles in his previous life, and he was always caught in the middle in this life. The two steel cannons are in a state of desperation.

"I said..." Vincent cleared his throat, breaking the deadly silence, "Let's all be friends, don't, don't make it look like killing your father and enemy, okay?"

Xi Ling still buried his head in flipping through the materials, but the paper in his hand has not been replaced for a long time; Chang Qin still turned the pen in his hand blankly, but the frequency of the pen falling was so high that it made people speechless.

Vincent wiped the sweat off his head, 1 regrets why he followed him to the meeting.

"Then what." Vincent spoke again, desperately, "You two, can't you really get back together?"

"Unless you can get your lawyer Xi to apologize to me." Chang Qin said, flicking his pen.

Xi Ling snorted coldly and turned a page.

"What? Why do you still feel that you have been wronged?" Chang Qin raised his head and looked at Xi Ling coldly.

Xi Ling also looked up to meet the other party's eyes, not to be outdone, said: "This is a public place, if you want to go crazy, please go out and turn left."

"..." Chang Qin was speechless and turned his head angrily.

"That..." Vincent fanned the flames, "I take the liberty to ask, since Director Chang quarreled with Lawyer Xi, can I be with Xi Ling?"

Chang Qin: "..."

Xi Ling: "..."

The two glared at him in unison.

Vincent seemed to be directly illuminated by two kilowatt light bulbs, and he was sweating profusely. He quickly raised his hand and surrendered: "I'm just kidding, just kidding, the atmosphere is so dull, adjust the atmosphere, why are you two so covetous?" ..."

The two snorted at the same time and returned to their previous state.

As a result, Vincent was left alone in a dilemma.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the savior-like Jiang Lida arrived at the meeting room first, and Vincent looked at him gratefully. When we met for the first time, Vincent felt that the big boss of the "Chenxi" company was as radiant as an angel.

"Lawyer Xi, long time no see." Jiang Lida nodded at Xi Ling first, and greeted Xi Ling politely.

Xi Ling got up and shook hands with the other party, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, no emotion could be seen in his calm pupils.

"This is Mr. Ye's son, right?" Jiang Lida looked at Vincent and greeted him with a smile.

Vincent also got up and shook hands with the other party.

"I didn't expect Mr. Ling to be so talented at such a young age. He is a formidable young man, hahaha." Jiang Lida said with a smile.

"Where is it, Mr. Jiang, you are flattering yourself." Vincent said modestly.

"Wait a little longer, Director Zhang will be here soon." Jiang Lida looked at the crowd and said.

The word "Zhang Ju" was like a thunderbolt, and Chang Qin and Xi Ling turned pale in an instant, and unconsciously changed their sitting positions.

Even if Xi Ling lowered his head, he could feel how meaningful Jiang Lida's eyes looked at him when he said this.

And Chang Qin, the hand hidden under the table, had already clenched his fist tightly.

The author has something to say:

Reporter: Lawyer Xi, what do you want to say about the phenomenon that when you quarreled with Chang Qin, most of the readers took your side?

Xi Ling: Thank you for your great love for me. I will repay you with more daily life.

Reporter: What kind of daily life is it?We are looking forward to it.

Xi Ling: That is, everyday life.

Reporter: What?

Xi Ling: Every day, every day.

reporter:……