Crown Prince

Chapter 3 Mysterious Man + Death

"Xiao Li, I'm going to entertain other guests." Seeing other people ordering, Jie tapped Li Ying's cup and told him, "Since you're bored, wait for me. We'll go out for supper then."

Li Ying nodded, his expression seemed to have relaxed a lot.

"Go ahead, I'll take a look for myself."

Jay's mouth curled up.Every time Xiao Li came, his smile would not stop.For example, the sentence "I just look at it casually".Who wastes time just sitting in a bar and watching?But Li Ying would look at everyone around him like a curious baby.There will be no implicit or explicit desire in his eyes, only lively curiosity, which will not make people disgusted.

He shook his head and went to the wine cabinet on the other side to start working, and he glanced at the man out of the corner of his eye—well, there was another person on Xiao Li's side as well.Every night when Li Ying was there, this man's leisure content was to look at his back, and just "look".While shaking the shaker cup in his hand, Jie thought, when exactly is he going to make a move?

The wound in Li Ying's heart still needs care to heal, right?Not all wounds can heal without medicine without leaving any scars.

Besides, Li Ying was just sipping milk in boredom, when suddenly a glass of orange and lovely wine was pushed in front of him.He turned his head in surprise, and found that a stranger sat next to him at some point.

"Tujin orange wine, considering that you may not be very good at drinking." The other party showed his white teeth, and glanced at the milk in Li Ying's hand.

Li Ying looked at the lively and noisy atmosphere around him, and then at the glass of wine in front of him... Well, he couldn't tell what it was, maybe it was a cocktail?Or fruit wine?But it's always wine... He hesitated and turned his head to look at the back of Jie who was chatting with a regular customer. When he turned his head, the strange man still had a patient smile on his face.

"Try it, it's delicious."

Li Ying felt that his saliva was being secreted at a high speed.Actually, he really needs a little alcohol, right?After all, he fell in love...

"I...can I just drink?" He carefully picked up the beautiful wine glass, and then said to the stranger, "I mean, um, nothing else?"

"Pfft." The strange man couldn't help laughing, his young and handsome face was filled with a soft smile: "It's okay, you can drink it at ease...Give it a try, I can see that you really want to try it."

Well, Li Ying picked up the wine glass very resolutely, and drank half of the glass in one gulp.

"Ha..." He breathed out comfortably.

The strange man suppressed a smile, looked at Li Ying staring at him, with a silly smile on his face: "...Well, it's delicious...Jie's craftsmanship...not bad..." The blush quickly spread on that fair and delicate face, It almost surprised him, and then he saw the head bartender in this bar - walking out of the bar with a face full of anger, standing next to him and staring down at him.

"Who asked you to give him a drink?"

He Nanzhi smiled and said to Jie, "Is he an adult? Jie? I just treated him to a Chinese-style cocktail with very low alcohol content."

Jie glanced at him impatiently, and then angrily snatched the completely empty wine glass from Li Ying's hand.Normally, he wouldn't treat guests like this, especially people he didn't know very well - but it was simply too careless for someone to make this guy behave like this under his nose.

After all, a bar is a complicated place, especially a bar like this.

"There are always some people who can't accept alcohol at all, even a little bit, sir." He said to He Nanzhi coldly, then picked up Li Ying's collar and greeted another bartender.This is the biggest difference between a bartender who is also a shareholder and a pure bartender-he can choose his off-duty time at any time, as long as it is not too frequent.

He Nanzhi watched the bartender carry the person he liked all the way to the VIP box not far away, and there was already a person sitting there.

This Jay is very interesting, very interesting.

The "very interesting" Jie gently threw Li Ying into the soft sofa, then folded his arms and looked at the man who had been leaning on the sofa.

"I thought you'd stop him drinking before I did," Jay said softly.

The man's face with glasses looked profound under the dim light.He was silent for a while, then suddenly spoke.

The sound was pleasant beyond Jie's expectation. It was deep and mellow, but also permeated with the penetration of jade and stone, just like the lingering sound of a guqin's plucked strings. .

"He wants to drink," he said.

Jie quickly came to his senses and raised his eyebrows: "You mean, if he wants to kill someone, you'll let him do it too?"

The man didn't make another sound, but the corners of his mouth curled up in the light that penetrated between the crystal curtains, as if nothing had happened.

Jay didn't say anything more.He thought it was weird... weird.When he was far away, he didn't feel much—but now, facing this strange and familiar man at such a close distance, he felt that he was instinctively attracted, and at the same time, he felt a strong fear. complex--

"I don't know what you think about him." Jie tried to speak normally. In fact, when he talked about Li Ying, he felt suddenly relieved: "Do you want to pursue him?"

Li Ying, who was drowsy beside him, suddenly groaned, smacked his lips impatiently, and turned over.

The man then stood up, bent down and easily hugged Li Ying in his arms.He turned to face Jie, and because he was close to the inside, the light couldn't reach this angle: "You worry too much...I can't pursue him."

Jie opened his mouth wide in astonishment, and subconsciously grabbed the man's hand holding Li Ying: "What—what? You said you didn't plan to chase him?" He felt very unbelievable, very angry—very cold.

This man... Could this man already have a family? Well, it shouldn’t be surprising even if he has a family. Judging by the appearance and temperament of this man, and at the age of 31, it’s not surprising even if he is married. .

But if this is the case, Li Ying cannot be with this person, even if he tries.

"Put him down!" Jie said softly with cold eyes, "He can't have a ridiculous fruitless relationship with someone like you. You can afford it, but he can't."

The man smiled lowly.

"You're thinking of him, son."

Jay was almost outraged.How old is this person at most? How could he speak in such a condescending tone?He couldn't help taking a step closer, and looked up at the unusually tall man. God knows, he is already 1.8 meters six!

"Put him down, sir!" As soon as he finished speaking, Jie realized that the man suddenly approached him, and the moment their eyes met——

He felt his soul being ripped out of his body by a pair of eyes.

A pair of eyes like topaz.

'Forget it. The man's lips didn't seem to move, and his face was still blurred, but Jie heard these words from those eyes.

He made him forget about Li Ying...

Jay fainted.

Then the man grandiosely carried Li Ying and walked out of the box.

After a while, He Nanzhi opened the crystal curtain and walked in. When he saw the man lying face up on the sofa, he couldn't help frowning.He leaned over to look at Jie, and lifted the other's eyelids with his slender, white fingers, and the fingertips suddenly lit up extremely faintly.

"Oh? Is there a restriction?" He Nanzhi smiled with interest.It's a very simple restriction, and it seems that the other party doesn't want to hurt Jie either.So he flicked his fingers lightly, and after a few crisp sounds, a layer of white light flashed, and Jie's eyelids trembled, and he began to wake up.

"Li Ying!" Jie sat up abruptly, his face pale.He looked around hastily, and found that Li Ying and that man were gone, only the man who had accosted Li Ying before. "Did you see Li Ying! A man is holding him!!" He grabbed He Nanzhi and asked sharply.

"..." He Nanzhi looked down at Jie and grabbed his hand. His white fingertips and clean transparent nails were pretty...but he was a little too tall.

"I can't beat him..." He said to Jie in a guilty tone, "The car seems to have gone away." Maybe it was not a road at all, and of course there was no so-called car.

Jie immediately let go of his hand and took out his cell phone, but Li Ying's cell phone rang on the sofa.

"He dropped his mobile phone here." He Nanzhi bent down and picked up the Nokia.

Jie was a little desperate, he didn't even know the exact address of Li Ying's home.Damn it, why did he bring Li Ying here in such a daze?That man... Where did that man take Li Ying?He then called Xu Bing's phone number, and the other party showed that the phone was turned off.

"We can't call the police yet." He Nanzhi looked at Jie who was in a state of desperation, and said kindly.

"I know, thank you." Jie stood up calmly, planning to find the real major shareholder of this bar.Anyway, he should have some way to find out the origin of that man. All VIP boxes in the bar must use VIP cards, and there should be records on the computer.

He Nanzhi watched Jie rush to the back area of ​​the bar, where non-staff members were not allowed to enter.He rubbed his chin and glanced at the phone in his hand thoughtfully.How should I put it... Maybe I can't find it?

Jie stayed up all night, stood by the phone with red eyes and called Li Ying's home over and over again, but the line was always busy.He originally wanted to find out Li Ying's home address, but suddenly all the computers in the bar, including the nearby ones, were paralyzed.Li Ying and Xu Bing couldn't get through on the phone, the worst plan was to call the police, but they had to wait another day...

At around ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, Li Ying's home phone got through suddenly, and Jie couldn't help but lift up his spirits.

Li Ying dazedly dragged his slippers to the living room, huddled himself up on the sofa, and then slowly picked up the phone: "...Hello?"

Jie's anxious and hoarse voice came from the phone: "You are at home... why did you answer the phone now - last night and this morning why the phone couldn't get through, and why did you come back home yesterday? That man knocked me out and took you away Are you alright?!"

Li Ying felt dizzy when he heard it, and couldn't help but move the receiver away from him: "I'm fine..."

"How did you get home?!" Jie roared angrily, completely unlike his usual gentle and calm appearance.

Li Ying grabbed the receiver and hummed, hesitantly glanced at the tall figure who was busy in the kitchen.He frowned slightly and thought about it, and finally whispered: "I don't know either... I was at home when I woke up... I thought he was your friend, and you asked him to send me back." Added: "The phone didn't even ring this morning."

Jie's face was ashen, and he opened his mouth but still didn't say anything.

"...What about that person?"

Li Ying sighed, smelled the aroma of porridge in the air, covered the microphone and said in a low voice, "Mm - he is making breakfast for me."

"What—!! What did he do to you to make you breakfast?!"

Li Ying's face was flushed red: "Hey Jie, your voice should be quieter...no, I didn't do anything..."

While talking, he suddenly stretched out a hand to gently pick up his microphone, and then clicked it on the phone.Li Ying looked up, and saw that the man in a white shirt and black suit pants was holding a tray in one hand, looking at him with a smile.The porridge on the tray was steaming and fragrant, and the black-rimmed glasses on the man's tall nose matched his smile, making him look gentle.

It is completely different from his lean figure.

"Breakfast."

Li Ying was in a daze for a moment.The man's voice is really nice and gentle.

It had been a while since anyone had been so gentle with him.

It's just inexplicable...

"I don't like porridge." Li Ying said sullenly.

The man's eyes seemed to be isolated by the frame, but his smiling and unmoved expression was still fully expressed.

"I like it," he said softly.The tone is so natural.

Li Ying suddenly felt very angry.Why does he have to eat something he doesn't like early in the morning? !

——Because this inexplicable person likes it.

What kind of reason is this? ?

……

Li Ying felt that the current situation was very strange——

He sneaked a glance at the man sitting across from the bowl, and clicked his tongue for his elegant dining posture.God, it's just a bowl of porridge...

"You must concentrate on eating." The man still swallowed a mouthful of porridge slowly. He didn't pay special attention to Li Ying, but he could remind Li Ying casually.

"..." Li Ying lowered his head and drank the porridge. He was surprised to find that the porridge, which looked like red rice porridge, tasted like meat, and it didn't seem like ordinary pork, nor beef or mutton?

"Well, this is...how is this made?" He couldn't help asking curiously, "I didn't see any meat in it."

The man stretched out his hand to lift up the mirror frame, a little smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Do you like to eat?"

Li Ying fell silent.He just said that he doesn't like porridge... This man is really cunning.However, it is really delicious.

"I used a special material," the man wiped the corner of his mouth, then smiled gently at him and said, "You don't want to know."

Li Ying's complexion suddenly turned a little ugly.What is "he won't want to know"?Could it be some kind of scorpion meat or some kind of bug?He hesitated for a long time, and felt that it was better not to continue to explore.

The man watched him continue to eat the porridge sullenly, and his smile couldn't help but deepen.Are you willing to be at ease even if you are uneasy about the unknown?

Well, I hope you can do the same in the future.

my son.

……

In this way, the man who appeared at that time was originally an uncertain factor.

Li Ying vaguely thought that he didn't seem to have doubted it from the beginning to the end... How abrupt it is for such a man to appear beside him.

At twelve o'clock tonight, Li Ying fell from the roof of the top floor and died silently in this world.

Jie, who had just met Li Ying an hour ago, saw his body in the morgue of the hospital three days later.Xu Bing hurried over from the engagement ceremony four days later.

"He Nanzhi, why did Xiao Li commit suicide?" Jie leaned against the corner in a black suit, his face was pale, and the corners of his eyes were red.He looked at the two men standing in front of the tombstone in the distance, one was Li Ying's adoptive father, and the other was Xu Bing.

"He clearly told me that the dream has woken up..." Jie covered his face and choked up.I used to look forward to Li Ying coming to the bar every day, but I didn't want to see him...just because there was always a man by his side.

He likes Li Ying, but he is not qualified to fight for him.

He Nanzhi silently accompanied him, looking at the direction of the tombstone thoughtfully.

"I also don't believe that Li Ying committed suicide." He looked at the young man floating in front of Xu Bing, and the tall man behind him, "Didn't Xu Bing say that Li Ying's jade disappeared?"

Jie's eyes suddenly changed: "That man! Xiao Li was with that man on the day he died—but why did he find no such person... Xiao Li's death must be related to that man!!" At first, I thought that that strange man would bring Xiao Li new happiness...Oh my God.

Keen intuition.He Nanzhi glanced at the gentle-looking man in surprise, his violent emotional ups and downs could affect him.

"Why did he get close to Xiao Li—why did he kill him?"

Good question.

He Nanzhi looked at the tombstone again, and met the man's eyes.When he saw Li Ying and that strange man in the VIP area for the first time, that man had always been wearing a pair of ordinary black-rimmed glasses... Now, he could see those eyes clearly.

A pair of eyes condensed with eternal starlight.

He lowered his head abruptly, the pain from his eyes spread directly to his brain, his whole head was throbbing uncontrollably, and his whole body trembled.That person... who the hell is he? !No - he must not be human -

No one can exert such coercion on He Nanzhi!

He Nanzhi's closed eyes rolled under his eyelids.

So, what is the reason for "he" to obtain Li Ying's soul?That piece of jade...Xu Bing said that it was the ancient jade that Li Ying had been wearing since he was born. Since "he" is not a person in this world, what does he want this piece of jade for?

"He Nanzhi?"

Jay's hoarse voice rang in his ears.

He Nanzhi slowly opened his eyes, and the brows of the haggard man in front of him were full of vitality that was completely different from a few days ago.

Just a few days ago, Jie's eyebrows were still full of death.Jay is an AIDS patient.He didn't know that he had avoided the ubiquitous death, and the broken lifeline was reconnected.

"...I'm fine." He Nanzhi smiled slowly.He looked over Jay's shoulder and saw the man in the bright yellow robe curling his mouth at him.

'Thank you for taking care of my son, please convey it for me. '

Then Li Ying's soul was taken away by the man in front of He Nanzhi's eyes.

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