pure white crown

--it's all over.

The grotesque scenes disappeared as the people who came to see them off went away, and the playing and singing of suona and gongs and drums also disappeared with the erection of the tombstone.

Lu Yunkai felt in a trance that he probably invited several tables of wine in some hotel - but he couldn't remember.By the time he had a sense of "self," he had taken off his clothes and stood under the shower in the bathroom of his room.

As soon as he raised his face, countless streams of water fell from the sky, wet his face completely.

He shivered subconsciously, put his arms around his shoulders and neck, and then realized that something was wrong—what's wrong?

The drops of water slid all the way down Lu Yunkai's face, and his hands touched the bumps on his skin.

The coldness enveloped his whole body like a huge and close-fitting air bubble. They seemed to seep from the skin into the bones, or spread from the cracks of the bones to the outside of the skin. No matter which one it was, it made him tremble all over.

Lu Yunkai woke up a little bit.

His eyes fell on the knob of the hot and cold water in the shower in front of him, but he quickly realized that the reason why he was awake was not because the cold water made him like ice, but because the frequency from the bathroom door was a little faster. knock on the door.

There was a "dong dong" knock on the door for a while, and then Jiang Xing's voice: "Cloud opening?—"

Jiang Xing stood outside the bathroom door.

The house opened by Lu Yun uses a frosted glass surface. Through the glass surface, people can be vaguely seen inside, but it is not real. The design concept probably comes from a kind of hazy beauty.

But the current Jiang Xing obviously doesn't have the energy to appreciate such a beauty.

He stood at the door, knocking on the door and looking at his watch.

Half an hour ago, he and Lu Yunkai returned home, and Lu Yunkai said he wanted to take a bath, so he walked into the bathroom; to be honest, Jiang Xing was a little worried.

All things happen.

The impression of the past and the reality of the figure overlap step by step.

He hardly dared to think about whether Lu Yunkai would make such a terrible choice.

The bathroom door suddenly opened.

Lu Yunkai stood in the bathroom wrapped in a bath towel. There was a string of water footprints he stepped on on the light blue ground. His hair and upper body were still dripping with water, and a bath towel was wrapped underneath.

He didn't look too good, but not terribly bad.

Jiang Xing was a little relieved.

He touched the other person's face with his hand, frowned when he felt a little cold, then took out another bath towel from the bathroom, led Lu Yunkai to sit on the sofa, and wiped Lu Yunkai's hair by himself.

He thought for a long time, and felt that no matter what he said, he seemed pale and weak.

All he could say was, "My condolences."

Lu Yunkai let out a "hmm".

He leaned against Jiang Xing's body, and the body temperature from another person gradually made his body warm and energetic.

At first, he just snuggled up to absorb the warmth of the other person, but after only one minute, he was not satisfied. He waved away Jiang Xing's hand wiping his hair, turned over and sat on the lap of the other person, and then bent down anxiously. kiss each other—

Jiang Xing was taken aback by Lu Yunkai's sudden movement at first.

But almost immediately, the moment Lu Yunkai kissed and stroked him anxiously, he understood.

He threw away the towel in his hand and put his arms around him.

His palms lingered on the other's naked back and body - not too much lust, more of gentle comfort.

He first let Lu Yunkai's tongue mess around in his mouth, and he passively endured it. When the other party had to stop because he was out of breath, he then freed up one hand to hold the other party's chin, Gently kissed Lu Yunkai.

They are now sitting on a leather sofa by the window.

The towel around Lu Yunkai's waist loosened a little due to the rubbing just now. Although it was still hanging on his waist and abdomen, it could hardly cover anything.

Jiang Xing held the other person's face, he was a little uncertain: "...Continue?"

Lu Yunkai expressed his meaning with actions.

He could hardly bear the heat in his body—or it couldn't be said to be the heat at all, it was an even more unbearable anxiety and panic, and he urgently needed to prove something, or use something to comfort himself.

...let your mind relax.

He kissed Jiang Xing again.

They were leaning against the sofa, and the sofa was leaning against the window. Just as the two were kissing and Jiang Xing put his hands on Lu Yunkai's bare shoulders and waist, in the darkness, a fleeting flash of light was captured by the corners of the two people's eyes. !

The movements of the two of them stopped suddenly, Lu Yunkai stood up from the sofa, opened the curtains that covered half of the window, stood in front of the window and looked down for a while, his face almost turned cold.

He quickly turned his head and said to Jiang Xing, who was a step behind, "Someone secretly took pictures down there, maybe they caught us kissing, you go first, I'll go down and find him."

"No need..." Jiang Xing said.

But Lu Yunkai had already picked up his clothes from the sofa, put on his shirt and jeans indiscriminately, and went out the door.

Just before Jiang Xing finished his sentence, Lu Yunkai had almost reached the door, and at this moment, the other party's shirt buttons and jeans zippers were not securely closed yet!

Jiang Xing grabbed Lu Yunkai's arm.

His strength is much stronger than usual, and it is enough to make people pay attention and calm down.

He forced Lu Yunkai to stop.Then he walked up to Lu Yunkai, put his hands on the other's shoulders, looked straight into the other's eyes and said, "It's okay, it's just a photo, I'll go down and buy it now, you don't want to - like this..."

He laughed as he spoke, and leaned forward to kiss the other person's forehead. He reassured: "It's nothing, I'll come up in 5 minutes after going down. You call the property management here and ask him not to let him go."

After Jiang Xing finished speaking, he opened the door and walked out. At this time, Lu Yunkai's voice came from behind: "What if there is something wrong?"

"Then we will face it together." Jiang Xing said back, his tone was gentle and affirmative, "We can face it together, face anything."

Lu Yunkai stopped talking, turned around and picked up the phone to call the property management of the community.

Jiang Xing went down from the elevator to the first floor.

Artists choose the community they want to live in, even if they don't value the location and age of the house, as long as they have the conditions, they will choose the community with the best property.

So when Jiang Xing walked downstairs, the security guards in the community had already detained the sneak shot reporter in the security room. When the two met each other, the sneak shot reporter heaved a sigh of relief, thinking that Jiang Xing was better than Lu Yunkai. After all, Jiang Xing was not violent; Jiang Xing called out the other party's name unsurprisingly: "Mr. Han, let's come out and talk."

Han Qi, who was watched by the security guard, followed Jiang Xing out, he took the first step and said: "I did take a photo, but I won't sell this photo—" Then he put on a look like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water and you can beat me Come on!

Jiang Xing didn't care about Han Qi's answer, he turned his mobile phone screen to the other party to see, he pressed a string of numbers on the mobile phone just now, and now said to Han Qi: "You take this photo, sell it to No newspaper or anyone else in the world can sell it for such a price - you can write the first number as you like - please give me the camera."

Han Qi looked at the phone screen flickering in the dark.

He was shocked by the whole string of zeros at the first glance, and when he glanced over, he could hardly see how many zeros there were. He immediately forgot his mentality of "resolutely not selling" just now, Instead, he earnestly raised the zero on the phone screen——

one two three four five six……

"I'll just fill in the previous numbers...? Before six zeros?" Han Qi stuttered.

"Yes." Jiang Xing definitely told the other party, "You say a number, and I can transfer the money now."

"Then... just six?" Han Qi carefully suggested, and waited for Jiang Xing to counter-offer.

"Okay." Jiang Xing didn't care about this at all, what had to be made clear was something else, "I didn't just buy this one photo, I bought all the photos of me and Yunkai that you might take in the future. So you can think about it again and see how much you need to fill in the previous number."

it is as expected!

Han Qi finally recovered a bit of the shrewdness of a professional reporter. He thought to himself that Jiang Xing didn't look like a fool who took advantage of him. It was impossible to spend 600 million yuan to buy a photo, but if he had to spend 600 million yuan to seal his mouth, it would still be worth it. Understandable-of course, the price tag is indeed high enough.

Han Qi felt that if he asked for 900 million yuan at this time...Jiang Xing would agree if he didn't think well.

But he hesitated for a while, and gave up the idea of ​​the lion opening its mouth wide. Now that he barks freely, who knows if there will be any sequelae afterwards?

He quickly laughed, and handed the camera he was carrying to the other party trustingly: "Brother Jiang, don't worry, I know the rules, the master film is in the camera. Then I made two copies," he said from He took out his mobile phone and USB flash drive from his pocket, "It's all here."

He handed the USB flash drive to Jiang Xing directly, and deleted the photos on the phone in front of Jiang Xing.

After Jiang Xing confirmed that it was correct, he took out the SD card in the camera and took it away, and returned the camera body to Han Qi. Then he called Chen Liang and ordered Chen Liang to transfer a sum of money to the camera in front of Han Qi. On the account given by Han Qi.

Chen Liang probably guessed something, but he didn't ask about it on the phone, but just followed Jiang Xing's instructions to complete the transfer.

Han Qi's cell phone quickly received a text message.

He wisely left Jiang Xing behind his back, and before leaving, he promised Jiang Xing: "Today I'm just watching TV at home, I don't know anything, I didn't see anything!"

Jiang Xing returned to Lu Yunkai's room.

The curtains of the room had been completely drawn at this time, the door was open, Lu Yunkai had changed his clothes and sat on the sofa in a daze.

Compared with the previous person who was mostly naked just for a bath towel, now Lu Yunkai is fully clothed, and there is almost no trace of skin except his face.

After Jiang Xing came in, he threw the SD card of the photo to Lu Yunkai, and said easily, "It's all good, there's nothing wrong with it."

Lu Yunkai raised his hand to accept the memory card, a smile appeared on his face, then he put the memory card on the table and smashed it with pliers.

After a "bang", the memory card split from the middle depression.

Jiang Xing sat next to Lu Yunkai, and continued to do what he hadn't finished at the beginning: he picked up the bath towel that had just been thrown on the sofa, and continued to wipe Lu Yunkai's half-dried hair.

He said, "What are your plans for the moment?"

Jiang Xing's voice overlapped with Lu Yunkai's.

Lu Yunkai said, "Do you still have something to do in England? Are you leaving tomorrow?"

"Huh?" Jiang Xing said, "I'm not in a hurry, why don't we go to relax—go abroad for a trip or something?"

"No, there's no need to delay your plan." Lu Yunkai said.

"It can't be delayed for a few days. Do I have to work 360 days a year without a day off?" Jiang Xing joked.

Lu Yunkai stopped talking for now.

Jiang Xing pressed the soft towel on the opponent's head, and rubbed strands of wet hair. Not long after, when he picked up the hair on the other side of the opponent's head, Lu Yunkai spoke again.

"...I want to be alone." Lu Yunkai said, "Just me."

Jiang Xing stopped his movements.

After a moment of silence, he tried to ask: "Yun Kai, are you okay?"

"I'm fine." Lu Yunkai said in a blunt tone.

"You don't want me to stay with you at this time?" Jiang Xing said.

"Yes."

"why?"

"There is no reason," Lu Yunkai said impatiently, "If I really want to say - I can solve my own affairs by myself, is this enough reason?"

"We don't need to quarrel..." Jiang Xing tried to speak clearly calmly.

"Do you think we are arguing?" Lu Yunkai turned to look at Jiang Xing, his tone was aggressive.

"If you don't think so, then of course not—" Jiang Xing said, but his words were interrupted by Lu Yunkai again.

Lu Yunkai raised his voice, and he said in an almost stern voice: "It's not what I think, it's what you think!"

Jiang Xing looked at Lu Yunkai.

They stared at each other in silence.

A few minutes later, Jiang Xing said calmly: "I think we should all calm down. If you don't need my company, I do still have a job in the UK. I will fly back to the UK by tomorrow's plane."

"..." Lu Yunkai.

Jiang Xing said: "I'll go back first, you go to bed early... at night."

He turned and walked out the door.

Lu Yunkai followed, and when Jiang Xing left the entrance and went outside, Lu Yunkai suddenly said: "Brother Jiang..."

Jiang Xing turned his head. Looking at Lu Yunkai's expression, he felt that the other party almost regretted it.

But Lu Yunkai said: "Be careful all the way, I may not be able to see you off tomorrow."

Jiang Xing almost sighed.

He said, "...I see. Don't be too sad."

The door is closed.

Lu Yunkai leaned against the door, listening to the sound of the elevator going up and down, realized that his teeth had been clenched until he lost consciousness.

But the pain in the back didn't.

They are lively and active, like an awl, like an electric drill, and like the naughtiest six or seven-year-old child, kidnapping his nerves, making all his nerves focus on feeling and resisting, or trying to escape the tormenting pain.

He didn't know what was wrong with him.