In the golden cage

For a long time, Li Chen was silent, and his deep face remained motionless.

The pictures in his mind were quickly flipping page by page, all the details about the marriage: choosing the ring, cutting the dress, measuring around the shoulders, waist and hips, cutting out the most tailor-made new clothes, putting them on, becoming Stand side by side in pairs in front of the mirror.

These are all the realities that he and Ji Shaoting have experienced before. In the screen, Ji Shaoting's smile remains the same, but the person beside him has changed a strange face, and it is no longer Li Chen.

Ji Shaoting will marry someone else, and he, Li Chen, will be replaced in this rightful position where he can marry Ji Shaoting.The wedding set was still dreamlike, only it would be someone else standing beside him to receive the world's blessing.

The wedding ring that Li Chen regards as his life will be permanently abandoned, and Ji Shaoting's left ring finger will belong to someone else.

Just imagining these things makes Li Chen feel miserable.

"No..." He murmured in a low voice, over and over again, "No..."

Ji Linzhang was no longer willing to spend time with Li Chen, so he walked past him to the front of the house, opened the evening outside, and drove away the guests without any politeness: "Do I need to repeat it again? You are not welcome here, please take it immediately." Leave your stuff."

Li Chen turned around and took the document, then tore it up.

Ji Linzhang was only surprised for a moment, but soon regained his composure.He watched coldly the white paper split in two falling from Li Chen's hands, and his heart became clearer and clearer: why Ting Ting, who has always been timid, had the courage to run away.

When he looked at Li Chen, it was like looking at a terminally ill mental patient, his words and deeds were utterly irrational, and he was hopelessly ill.

"Ji Shaoting is mine," he said, "my own..."

Unable to realize this point of obsession, Ji Linzhang renounced communication, and he walked back to the house, ignoring Li Chen: "I will ask the lawyer to email you another copy of the asset transfer contract, you'd better leave by yourself within 5 minutes. Otherwise, I'll call the security. Isn't Boss Li the most concerned about face? Let the security carry you away and you won't save any face."

"please."

Ji Linzhang's footsteps froze immediately.

That pleading was too weak to be heard, Ji Linzhang turned his back to Li Chen, and couldn't believe his ears: Li Chen was...begging him?

This proud son of heaven, assertive, self-confident and domineering, proud to the core, would actually say the three words "please" out loud?

Li Chen hung his head in despair, his whole body lost its brilliance.Ji Linzhang's words hit too hard, directly smashing all his pretense, forcing him to expose his truest and most vulnerable self.

The fear of losing Ji Shaoting completely occupied his entire consciousness, and everything else no longer existed.His face, his pride, his long-standing self-protection mechanism, all of them don't exist——

"Please," his voice trembled, "give him back to me."

If Ji Shaoting was present, he would definitely soften his heart.

But Ji Shaoting wasn't there, and only Ji Linzhang was there. He turned around and looked at Li Chen with a complicated expression. After some time passed, he said slowly, "I don't love him that way."

He pointed to his neck: "If love has rules, then this is the first rule: You can't exercise any form of violence against him."

But Li Chen was already in an extreme panic, he just kept repeating "Give me back Tingting".Ji Linzhang suddenly felt pity, and he sighed deeply: "I told you, I don't know where Ting Ting is."

Li Chen raised his head suddenly, with a fierce look on his brows again: "How could you not know?!"

There is definitely something wrong with this person's psychology, Ji Linzhang thought.

His mood swings are quite large, and he can go back and forth between anger and humbleness in such a short time interval.

Why did Tingting provoke such a person?

But only Tingting can save him.Ji Linzhang is very clear that Ji Shaoting has an endogenous healing power, but it must be induced in the right way, such as showing him fragility, tears, and truth.

But Li Chen never gave Ji Shaoting these things.

"I really don't know," Ji Linzhang said, "I'm not a control freak like you. I don't need to know what Ting Ting is doing at this moment. Everyone needs private time to settle down and wait for him When you settle down, you will let me know."

Li Chen suddenly became excited: "So he will contact you! He—"

"Impossible." The trace of pity dissipated in an instant, and Ji Linzhang could only think of eight words when facing Li Chen: the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change.

He stared into Li Chen's eyes, and said word by word: "Even if I die, I won't tell you where he is."

It was already six o'clock in the morning when Li Chen got home, he had two flights, and was stranded at the transit airport for nearly three hours.

Whoever has tried to get off the plane in the early morning and go home empty, knows the kind of loneliness that hits the face.The placement of the furniture has not changed a bit, every line has been put together to form a familiar shape, and when the lights are turned on, the light is wiped away like a film.

And in the corner where the light can't reach, it's all cold and dark

The pale sky at sunrise is embedded in the window, and the morning light is weak.

Li Chen fell headfirst into the sofa, remembering that at this time yesterday, Ji Shaoting was still by his side.

The world was turned upside down overnight, and he only felt that he was more than 50 years old.

The ending between him and Ji Linzhang is not the end. In Ji's house, which is full of questioning, begging, criticizing and quarreling, Ji Linzhang's parents finally came back.Li Chen's appearance would scare anyone who saw him, and in the end he was pushed and pushed outside the door.

He couldn't forget the way Ji Mu looked at him, the disappointment, shame, and utter trust.

Ji Linzhang's voice lingered in his ears again: "It's all your fault."

It's his fault.

He propped himself up, walked into the study stumbled, and took out the marriage certificate of the two of them from the safe, a priceless treasure that was more valuable than his entire net worth.

The leather cover is bright red, and after opening it, their wedding photo comes into view. In the photo, they are wearing the same style of shirts, the first button is unbuttoned, and the corners of their mouths are smiling.At that time they all knew how to laugh.

These beautiful memories have always been well placed in the smooth and clear glass bottle, and then a big noise, it was suddenly pulled to the ground, and it was smashed into pieces.

To Li Chen, Ji Shaoting's smile seemed like a world away.Why did it end up in this situation.

Li Chen remembered that he stared at their wedding photo the same way on the night when he delivered supper, thinking that his court was the only one in the world that was irreplaceable.

Later Ji Shaoting told him that he really wanted to have a good time with him that night.Li Chen thinks back now, maybe it was when Ji Shaoting called "A Chen" with his most sincere tenderness.

It's just that he missed the opportunity he had been longing for all this time, the opportunity to really have a heart-to-heart with Ji Shaoting.

How much has he missed?That's why his Ting Ting was completely dead, and disappeared from the world.

It was all his fault, but he really didn't realize the problem.

If he is willing to change, will Ji Shaoting give him another chance?

Not anymore.

Didn't Ji Linzhang say that even if he died, he wouldn't tell him Tingting's whereabouts.

There are billions of people on this earth, and the corners and corners will never be counted, and Ji Shaoting is lost in the vastness, where should he go to catch his breath, even if it is just a wisp.

Li Chen lived in a daze for three whole days, forgot to eat and sleep, just sat and thought about Ji Shaoting all day long.If it wasn't for the family doctor's follow-up visit as scheduled, he would probably have been sitting like this until he was old, until he completely lost his human form.

When the doctor opened the door to see him, he was so frightened that he couldn't speak, but out of professionalism, he immediately recovered his normal expression, looked inside and asked, "Where's Mrs. Li?"

These three words immediately touched Li Chen's most painful and untouchable place.

He stood silently, but the doctor called out "Mr. Li?" again, but there was no answer.

He faced Li Chen, and saw that his whole body almost corresponded to the words "scarred and erect", his complexion was pale and there were two very dark bluish-gray marks under his eyes.He sighed softly inaudibly, and he had already figured out the whole situation in his heart.

"Do you need me to check your physical condition?" He still had to ask Li Chen for permission first.

Li Chen just said in a daze: "He won't come back."

There was a silence in the air, the doctor thought about his words, he seemed hesitant to speak, but finally said: "I understand, I will keep it a secret. Mr. Li, if you need anything, please contact me again."

Li Chen heard him close the door, step by step down the courtyard and leave.

But not long after, the mobile phone rang again in the empty mansion, and it was the family doctor who called back again: "Mr. Li, this sentence may sound offensive, but out of consideration for your health, I still have to I want to tell you: I have always felt that you have hidden dangers in psychology, if you don't mind, I would like to refer you to a psychiatrist for treatment."