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Bai Shen arrived in his hometown alone, but at the airport, he saw a familiar figure wearing a coat waiting for him at the door.

He didn't walk over immediately, but stopped after a short distance.

Xiao Qin turned around, stroked his wind-blown hair behind his ears, and laughed as he watched him.

Only then did Bai Shen walk up to her: "Why are you here?"

"I said I would always follow you." Xiao Qin said.

Bai Shen didn't know how to answer, Xiao Qin took his love for helping him too much, and might even be willing to give him his body.

Xiao Qin never wants to respond in vain, she can always give silently, as long as she does her best to protect him, but she doesn't have any great ability to protect him from harm, so she can only accompany him.

"Have you asked Shen Hai for leave?" Bai Shen asked.

"No," Xiao Qin said, "you left the deep sea, what am I doing there?"

Bai sighed deeply: "Listen, Xiao Qin, you are not my appendage, you should have your own life. Go back to the deep sea, that job is very suitable for you."

"But..." Before Xiao Qin finished speaking, Bai Shen dragged the suitcase and walked past her.

"Wait a minute!" Xiao Qin chased after him, "Don't ignore me like this, I'll go back soon and stay here with you for two days... okay?"

Bai Shen turned his head to look at her, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Yes, but don't tell anyone that you have been here."

Xiao Qin nodded desperately and followed beside him.

Although Bai Shen agreed, Xiao Qin thought she could stay in this small city for two days and followed him secretly, but Bai Shen took her directly to her parents' house.

Bai Shen walked to the door, raised his hand and knocked on the door.The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman with a kind face. As soon as the door was opened, the mother and son embraced happily.After hugging for a moment, Bai's mother pushed her son away and hurriedly shouted to the room: "Old Bai, don't throw away the leftovers! My son is back!"

Bai Shen frowned: "Mom, I don't eat leftovers."

"Okay, okay, your dad will eat," Bai Ma took the luggage into the room, and then saw Xiao Qin standing behind, "Come in, girl."

While holding the luggage, Bai Ma turned her head and said quietly to Bai Shen: "What's the matter, you didn't say anything when you brought your wife back?"

"No..." Before Bai Shen had time to explain, Bai's father ran out. He was taken aback when he saw Xiao Qin, and hurriedly gave Bai Shen a few winks, but Xiao Qin was still shy as if by default. smile.

"Ordinary friends," Bai sighed deeply, and poured a glass of water for Xiao Qin, "I just fell out of love, where did my wife come from?"

"Breakdown?" Bai Ma asked in surprise, "You are already in your thirties, I thought you were going to be single for the rest of your life, that's great, that's great."

How can parents be so happy to hear that their son has broken up in love?What the hell is more than thirty?Bai Shen corrected with a question mark on his face: "Mom, I'm 26."

"Really?" Dad Bai obviously knew this for the first time, "You are not at home every birthday, and we don't know."

Sitting, Xiao Qin looked around the room. It was a set of three bedrooms and two living rooms. The room was not very big, but every part was very simple, with a taste of the old days.

This is a quiet small city, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a gentle breeze and sweet spring, completely different from the hustle and bustle of big cities.

In the afternoon and evening, Xiao Qin bought vegetables and cooked with Bai's father and mother, but Bai Shen sat on the balcony in a daze, and seemed not to want to talk much.

He deleted all social software on his phone, and cut off contact with the outside world as if sitting alone on an isolated island.

Xiao Qin lived in their house for two days and had to return to the deep sea to work.On the way Bai Shen sent her to the airport to go home, he found a public phone booth on the side of the road and called Li Ke.

"Hello." A familiar voice came from the phone.

"It's me, Bai Shen." He said calmly.

"Why don't you answer the phone or return the message? What if something happens to you?" Li Ke asked anxiously when he heard his voice.

"No, don't worry," Bai Shen leaned against the phone booth, twirling the long phone line with his fingers, "Xiao Qin was absent from work for two days without reason, please bear with me."

"Okay, small matter." Li Ke replied.

Bai Shen didn't speak any more, watching the call time increase every second.Except for emergency calls like 110, he only remembered Li Ke's number that he could dial now.

He should be thankful that he hadn't left a note on Li Ke's number before, and every time he called, it was an unfamiliar number. After several years, he had already memorized this string of numbers by heart.

"Where are you?" Li Ke asked.

"In my hometown," Bai Shen said, "I'll be leaving in a few days."

"Lu Xun has already returned..." "Stop talking."

In the middle of Li Ke's speech, Bai Shen interrupted him, and continued: "I don't want to hear it."

"Then remember to call me often." Li Ke said.

"En." Bai Shen replied and hung up the phone.

After returning home, he booked a plane ticket and didn't arrange any itinerary, just thinking about where to go.

At this time, there was still no news of Bai Shen from the beauty mole waiting inside the Nine Heavens organization. He felt strange, since he had already withdrawn from Deep Sea, it stands to reason that he should join Nine Heavens now.Those who do underground work will inevitably face many obstacles if they leave the organization.

"Didn't I ask you to follow Bai Shen?" The beauty mole looked at the mountain beside her.

"I lost my follower," Gao Shan said confidently, "He is in a bad mood. If he finds out that I am following him, what if he beats me up?"

"Aren't you afraid that you will be lost, and I'll beat you up in a bad mood?" the beauty spot said angrily.

"Then follow or not?" Gao Shan propped himself up on the table, full of anger, and it seemed that he didn't take this task seriously at all.

The beauty spot glared at him: "I'll check it myself."

Lu Xun, who had already returned to the city, desperately went to pick up the courier, and waited until a few courier brothers put the things in his home, before Lu Xun opened the huge package from Australia.

The log dining table, which was more than 20 years old, was completely in front of his eyes, and his fingers stroked it bit by bit.Lu Xun suddenly remembered the scene where Bai Shen was talking to that mother in his former home. It turned out that he was asking for this set of desks and chairs for him.

Bai Shen was kind to him, but now, he can no longer tell whether this kind of "goodness" is sincere or just acting on the spot.

He was afraid to think of the eyes that Bai Shen stood by the bed and looked at him that day in the inn on the plateau, cold, temperatureless, indifferent, detached, and full of distance.

They were like fetching water from a bamboo basket. At the beginning, they hugged each other tightly, but in the end, it was nothing but disappointing.

He was still not reconciled, still couldn't let go, struggled for a long time, and drove to Bai Shen's house by himself. When he arrived at the door, he saw an intermediary advertisement on the door.

Lu Xun went downstairs full of doubts, walked into the parking lot, searched for a long time, but there was no Bai Shen's car.

He had no choice but to dial Bai Shen's number, but he couldn't get through.

Then, he found Li Ke, but Li Ke didn't tell him anything, only that Bai Shen had left here.With Li Ke's consent, Lu Xun took Xiao Baijin away.

He didn't want to worry about whether Bai Shen's feelings for him were true or not, he only knew that he couldn't bear Bai Shen.As soon as Bai Shen left, he felt lost.

If you leave, I will decline, my heart will be scattered, and I will be ashes on the ground.

Xiao Xiao, who had just returned from Iraq, called Li Ke, a long-lost call.

"I'm going back to the city, at the airport." Xiao Xiao didn't greet, and said directly as soon as the phone was connected.

"Well," Li Ke said calmly, but his heart was already extremely nervous. He didn't know why Xiao Xiao called suddenly, "Then...shall I pick you up?"

"No need," Xiao Xiao replied, "Let's make a cup of Americano coffee in your shop and add sugar."

"Okay." Li Ke hung up the phone, his heart pounding in his chest.

He went downstairs to the store, made coffee and brought it upstairs, tidied up the room, looked at the display racks full of candies of various styles, and smiled.

Xiao Xiao didn't knock on the door, just unscrewed the door and walked in, locked the door behind his back and stood at the door.

"Where's the luggage?" Li Ke watched him walk over.

"Throw it away." Xiao Xiao said nonsense casually.

"The coffee is ready..." Li Ke said, Xiao Xiao moved closer, wrapped one arm around his waist, and wrapped his other around the back of his head, kissing him with all his might.

Li Ke closed his eyes and pressed down hard, the two of them leaned against the door and sat down on the ground.

It was still the same familiar brutal strength, the familiar entanglement of lips and teeth, and the familiar scent of clear white orchid.

"Don't you want to kill me?" Li Ke left with nostalgia, and said softly against the tip of his nose.

"I'll kill you right now." Xiao Xiao smiled, leaned closer and bit his lip, blood oozing from the corner of Li Ke's mouth.He frowned in pain, grabbed Xiao Xiao and rubbed it into his arms arrogantly.

Xiao Xiao turned over and pressed Li Ke to the cold ground below him, and tore off his coat forcefully.

There was no further action after the tearing, and the furry head rubbed against Li Ke's neck, and said something vaguely, but he didn't hear clearly.

"What do you mean?" Li Ke asked blankly.

"...I'm acting like a baby." Xiao Xiao said, and unbuttoned Li Ke's shirt.

"I can't tell," Li Ke smiled, "Why, do you have something important to ask?"

"My lord, it's unfair to say that," Xiao Xiao's fingertips got into Li Ke's shirt, "Can't you see that Xiaosheng wants your forgiveness?"

"I'm stupid, and I didn't see it," Li Ke said, "Where did you go wrong?"

"The fault is..." Xiao Xiao thought for a while, and did not delay the movements of his hands, "I have a deep affection for the young master."

Li Ke laughed, and also began to pull his collar, taking off the clothes one by one.

The old violin music came from downstairs, drowning out the short panting of the two people at different heights, and pieces of clothing in the room were randomly thrown on the ground.

The heavy curtains dimmed the light in the room, creating an ambiguous cloudy sky.On the tea table in the living room was only a cup of cold, cloyingly sweet coffee.

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