In the golden cage

Ji Shaoting woke up as soon as he heard the sound of conversation outside: there is someone else in this house other than Li Chen.

When Ji Shaoting was sick, he was lethargic and had to sleep eighteen or nineteen hours a day, because the dizzy state was very difficult to bear, and he could only temporarily escape the discomfort by sleeping.

To Li Chen, he is like a walking corpse, but as long as there is an aura that does not belong to Li Chen, he will suddenly come back to life.

He didn't know that his dizziness at that time was due to his primitive instinct to survive. The long-term comfortable life made this instinct sleep peacefully in his genes. Now that the situation is extreme, it has once again taken control of Ji Shaoting's behavior.

It made Ji Shaoting degenerate back into a beast, a beast in a cage, hoping to return to freedom and capture all possible escape opportunities.

Although the final result was another fatal blow.

Ji Shaoting put on a blanket and moved to the back of the bedroom door with weight. From the crack of the door, he saw two strangers flirting with Li Chen.

In order not to be discovered by Li Chen, Ji Shaoting only pushed the door through a tiny crack, looking out from the inside, the whole world became extremely narrow.

But he still saw that rectangular black box, small and exquisite, held in the palm of one of the strangers.Ji Shaoting heard him say: "Our model is just right for home use, and the records can be stored for one month."

"It doesn't need a month," Li Chen said, "I just need you to guarantee its power."

"Of course there is no problem, Mr. Li. This model was jointly developed by us and the United States. It has excellent battery life and can operate 24 hours a day, ensuring real-time monitoring—"

Ji Shaoting couldn't hear what he said later, the electricity suddenly cut off in front of him, it was pitch black, and there were only four words in his mind: real-time monitoring.

Li Chen turned on the air conditioner for ventilation, and it made very slight white noise when it was operating.Ji Shaoting stood behind the door blankly, thinking to himself what is all this?

After Li Chen confiscated his mobile phone, Ji Shaoting thought this was the limit.After all, Li Chen is still a person with a sound mind, what more extreme things could he do?

It turned out that I was too simple, and it turned out that it was just the beginning, and the truly terrifying thing was waiting behind.

What is Li Chen going to do next?Are you really looking for an iron chain to lock Ji Shaoting up?Or use animal cages, the kind in circuses, even a lion can be locked up tightly, even if it bites its teeth, it can't escape.

Li's house also has a basement.

Li Chen has gone completely insane, and the possibility of him escaping has been sealed off by him.

When Ji Shaoting returned to the bed, his feet did not touch the ground.

After laying on the quilt, he stared at the crystal chandelier, thinking that in the next few years, ten years, or even forever, he could only live by attaching to Li Chen deformedly in this posture, so he thought it would be better to call this big lamp When he smashed it down, he smashed his head and blood, so the soul broke free from this imprisoned body and became free.

When he came back to his senses, he was immediately frightened by himself, and tears welled up in an instant.

How can you have suicidal thoughts.

More than anyone else, he is grateful for his own happiness, having a family that cherishes him, doing a job he likes, having a rich social life, and having no shortage of close friends.

Before Li Chen forcefully intervened in his life, he was happy just to breathe, and the thought of suicide never flashed for a moment.

After Li Chen returned to the room, Ji Shaoting had already cried out two pools of dark water stains on the quilt, and the total number of tears he shed in his whole life was not as much as these few days.He asked Li Chen: "Does it have to be like this?"

"Did you hear that?" Li Chen had expected that Ji Shaoting would find out sooner or later.

"24 hours a day," Ji Shaoting repeated key words, "real-time monitoring."

Li Chen didn't answer again.He sat on the bed, took Ji Shaoting's left hand, stroked his ring, and almost said to himself: "I have to go back to the company, but I will come back sooner to accompany you in the future."

Ji Shaoting's head started to hurt again, and his stomach was full of chaos.Li Chen also asked him if it was okay.What is good?Did he think that he had consulted Ji Shaoting for his opinion?

He cried and yelled at him so much that his throat was almost torn, but Li Chen didn't listen to a word.

Or he was born with such an arrogant personality who knew his mistakes and never changed them, and he had already been aware of this in a subtle way, so he kept all the grievances in his heart and kept silent.

Although Ji Shaoting knew that he was giving Li Chen a chance.

Li Chen later explained to him that he didn't intend to make it to the end at all on the night of delivering supper.Facing Ji Shaoting, he didn't have the slightest idea of ​​being unfaithful, but he was confused by Ji Shaoting's rejection for a moment, unwilling to find a substitute.

Ji Shaoting heard it in his ears, but felt that Li Chen was disgusted.

At the same time, there is a bottomless sadness: he actually accepts this rhetoric, as long as Li Chen is willing to take the initiative to explain to him earlier, he will really forgive him.

Ji Shaoting gave Li Chen time in his own way, but they still missed it.

Li Chen installed cameras in every corner of the house, and the control terminal was set into his laptop.Ji Shaoting tried not to look into those dark eyes when walking around the house.

Li Chen knew every move he made at any time, and it took him a long time to get familiar with this creepy feeling.

However, his illness continued to end, and his whole body was visibly thinned out by the naked eye.Once Ji Shaoting saw himself in the mirror and suddenly couldn't recognize who it was.

He confronted him, feeling that the pair of eyes were strange yet familiar, as if he had seen them somewhere before, and then he remembered that it was on the face of the girl who had been locked up in the basement for 13 years.

He has the same eyes as hers, the two eyeballs are dull, so empty that there are only two holes left.

Then Ji Shaoting stopped looking in the mirror.

Li Chen brought him everything, he was a nutritionist and a Chinese medicine doctor, but Ji Shaoting seemed to be hopelessly broken, and he could no longer build a healthy human figure from his muscles and bones.

His silence became longer and longer, and then he only had some meaningless vowels to Li Chen, and he stopped talking at all for the rest of the time.

Normally, Li Chen might have aggressively demanded his response again, but now he can't say anything to Ji Shaoting, who is sluggish.

So I could only hold him in my arms when Ji Shaoting was on the phone with his family at night, and fell into a state of obsessive listening. Listening to Ji Shaoting's rare long sentences, he was more pitiful than a beggar digging rice grains in the ground.

The order of Ji Shaoting's phone calls is usually from his parents to his brother, and the transition sentence in the middle is "Is my brother there?" To Ji Shaoting's surprise, his brother is there every time.

Ji Linzhang's career is taking off, and it is common for him not to return home at night. Recently, for some unknown reason, he stays at home every night.Ji Shaoting faintly felt that he was doing this phone call with himself, after all, this was the only way they could connect with each other.

Once he suddenly asked Tingting if she was happy?Of course Ji Shaoting said he was happy, but he couldn't say what he was happy about.

Then Ji Linzhang answered the wrong question and said, "Don't be afraid, there is brother here..."

It was a hesitant tone, and Ji Shaoting's heart trembled suddenly. He suddenly remembered that when he returned home during the Chinese New Year, he was lying on Ji Linzhang's bed. He saw Ji Linzhang sitting down beside the bed with a serious face on his face: "If you really live with Li Chen No more, just tell my brother."

Ji Shaoting sighed: "I can't help it, our family owes money."

Then Ji Linzhang's words made Ji Shaoting stunned on the spot, unable to move for a long time:

"I'll sell the company to him."

He saw Ji Linzhang smiling at him, saying that he had already discussed this matter with his father.

"We're family," he said, "and we're all there if you ask."

After hanging up the phone, Ji Shaoting understood that his brother already knew everything.He has been in contact with Li Chen, and he has long seen his character flaws, and has always been very vigilant.

Now the relationship between Ji Shaoting and Li Chen has evolved from friction and problems to disasters, but Ji Linzhang still takes care of Ji Shaoting's ideas in every corner, even in this situation, he still wants to respect Ji Shaoting's opinions.

He could indeed save Ji Shaoting, but he was unwilling to let the decision to sell the company become a psychological burden on him without authorization.After all, in Ji Shaoting's eyes, the family will always occupy the highest position, otherwise he would not have sacrificed everything to marry Li Chen.

Ji Shaoting knows better than anyone how difficult it has been for Ji Linzhang this year.

He really didn't want to make this last move, even if Ji Linzhang had repeatedly assured him that without the company, he would still be able to maintain the family's expenses.He is in the prime of life, and the network of human relationships is still there. Could it be that he has nowhere to go.

But Ji Shaoting is still unwilling to ask his brother to sacrifice, even though he himself is the most innocent victim.

All the channels for him to communicate with the outside world have been cut off by Li Chen, and time has become a black hole that cannot be filled.

He started to read the brick books that he only read at the beginning. Later, Li Chen asked someone to re-tune the piano, so Ji Shaoting spent most of his time on the keys.

Although Ji Shaoting has been learning the piano since he was a child, it seems to have been a century since he played the piano last time.He has never had a special feeling for music. It was his parents who told Ting Ting to choose a musical instrument to play, and he said yes.It is impossible for someone who has not experienced pain to perceive the true value of art.

So now he is more creative than ever. Sections of original melodies flow out from his fingers, and all the wounds have scabbed into an artistic breath, which has changed his background drastically.

Li Chen naturally noticed it, because he found himself more and more fascinated by Ji Shaoting.

There is a charming charm growing in Ji Shaoting's thin outline, his fingers touching the keys, his thick eyelashes when he closes his eyes, and the ocher red mole at the end of his eyebrow.Everywhere is not like a mortal.

Sometimes Li Chen thought obsessively that under Ji Shaoting's fair skin, there should not be flesh and blood, but crystals, pearls, diamonds, which are eternal and incorruptible.

He is like an angel, who can spread his wings and go away to the world at any time.So Li Chen can't be blamed, he is at the end of his rope, he can only keep Ji Shaoting in this way.

The temperature is getting warmer gradually, and the winter clothes are taken off one by one. After a night of heavy rain, Nanyun has entered the rainy season.

The slender raindrops are as dense as fog, covering the world from morning to night, and the long-lasting spring cold lingers in the misty white air.

When the weather is fine, when the yard is soaked in the spring rain, the flowers and plants bloom in large groups, blending and converging into a unique spring smell, which floats in from the window.

Ji Shaoting leaned against the window and listened to the chirping of birds, put one hand into the beam of light, and watched the color of his fingertips bleed in the sunlight.

Then, outside the Golden Arrow fence, a childish voice suddenly broke in: "What are you doing?"

Although Li's house is located in a commercial area, but next door is adjacent to a golf course, and most of the people who come and go are the so-called upper class people, and most of those upper class people know Li Chen, and they don't come here to bother them, so this is Ji Shaoting's first time Saw a stranger standing outside the fence.

It was a little girl about seven or eight years old, wearing a white dress, and shouted cheerfully to Ji Shaoting's face: "Wow! Sister, you are so beautiful!"

elder sister?

Ji Shaoting realized later, that's right, his hair had grown to his shoulders, he was afraid of seeing himself in the mirror, and Li Chen didn't allow him to make video calls with his family, so he didn't take care of his appearance all the time.

Both became sisters.

Afraid of scaring the little girl, Ji Shaoting let her misunderstand his gender, and asked softly, "Where are your parents?"

Holding a fence in one hand, the little girl squeezed a cute face into it, and proudly announced: "I ran out!" Then there was a sentence in English with a very pure American accent: "Golf is so boring."

Ji Shaoting thought that this was indeed a kid from the upper class.

He smiled at her and said, "Then let me play the piano for you."

He stood up and pulled the piano bench back to its original position. After thinking for a while, he chose the most common nursery rhyme in the world.

little stars.

He heard the little girl outside the fence echoing the melody with her throat, singing with a child's natural high voice, more vivid than Chunyang's breath, continuously flowing from Ji Shaoting's ear canal into his veins.

The stagnant blood began to circulate in the limbs again, and Ji Shaoting's heart was indescribably full.

It wasn't until he stopped playing that he realized that this feeling was happiness.Having been away from it for so long, he could barely recognize it.

He walked back to the window, and before the little girl had time to go back to her parents, she had already run away shouting "kitten, kitten".

Ji Shaoting watched her run farther and farther in the sunlight, every step was full of joy, and the surrounding air was shining with her light.So the thought of running away, which had been silent for a whole winter, suddenly broke through again from the tip of Ji Shaoting's heart.

He has to go, he has to go.

Even for a day, let him return to the world and walk into the sunshine again.He has never had such a strong desire, freedom, he wants to be free, to go to a place without Li Chen.

So before hanging up Ji Linzhang's phone that night, he suddenly asked, "Brother, are you there?"

Li Chen's intuition told him that this statement was weird, but there was no conclusive evidence.In the hands-free, Ji Linzhang was silent for two seconds, and replied softly: "Yes."