madness

Cui Qingqing knocked on the door for a long time, but there was still no answer from inside. She squinted her eyes and tried to look in the old anti-theft window, but she could only see a piece of darkness and couldn't see clearly.

"Why haven't you come back yet?"

It was getting dark outside, and the night in the old residential building was always very quiet.

The letterbox on the wall that used to deliver milk was suddenly blown open by the wind, and countless envelopes fell out with a clatter.

Cui Qingqing raised her head to watch them flying in the air like butterflies, and then slowly falling down.

She gathered up the envelopes that had fallen on the floor one by one, and accidentally discovered that there were several identical large characters written on each envelope——Gu Zehuan's own letter.

She was a little curious about the contents of the letter, because the handwriting on each envelope was exactly the same. After a long hesitation, Cui Qingqing still didn't open it, and stuffed the envelopes back into the milk carton.

A series of footsteps sounded from the stairs, gradually approaching here.

Cui Qingqing saw Su Zhiyun at first glance, stood up abruptly, couldn't help but be overjoyed: "You are finally back, I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Su Zhiyun was still holding a lot of things in his hands, and there was only one low-wattage lamp in the corridor, which was dangling. It took him a while to squint and see the girl under the lamp clearly.

"Cui Qingqing? Why are you here?"

So Cui Qingqing laughed, she knocked on the old and mottled iron door, shrugged: "Shouldn't you not invite me in at this time?"

As soon as she sat down on the sofa, Cui Qingqing began to complain that Su Zhiyun didn't contact her for several months during the holiday, and she had to find them herself.

"It's really unsatisfactory."

When she said this, she was rather coquettish, with a pair of watery cat eyes hanging up, half angry, half smiling.

Su Zhiyun told her to stare at it for a long time, and subconsciously recognized it, and after thinking about it, he took out the bracelet he had put on the vendor from the plastic bag.

In fact, it was just a small pendant, a small porcelain white rabbit was dropped, it was not worth a lot of money, but Cui Qingqing seemed very happy, and immediately put it on her wrist, not only looking over and over again, but also smiling with crooked eyebrows.

"How did you know I was at Gu Zehuan's house?"

Su Zhiyun asked.

Cui Qingqing ate the grilled skewers they bought back, and lazily raised her eyes to look at Su Zhiyun: "Of course I know, your brother called me, although he didn't directly say that you ran away from home, but I can probably guess what happened from his tone."

"But don't worry, I didn't tell him that you are here with Gu Zehuan."

Said the girl blinked slyly.

Su Zhiyun was silent for a while, and said thank you softly.

Cui Qingqing curled her lips and looked displeased: "Isn't it too polite for you to say that, we are obviously friends, aren't we?"

She seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and turned her gaze to Gu Zehuan who was at the side again: "By the way, I accidentally dropped your letter when I came in, sorry, I didn't mean it."

"letter?"

Cui Qingqing began to explain: "It's just a white envelope. There is no stamp, no address, and no signature. It only says Gu Zehuan's personal letter. I don't know when it was delivered, but it seems to be piled up a lot. I haven't opened it yet."

The girl asked casually: "Gu Zehuan, who sent you the letter?"

The person under discussion seemed to have no intention of revealing any news at all. His eyelashes were slightly lowered. After a long time, he leaned back and leaned on the sofa.

"I don't know, it should be just ordinary harassment information."

"That's not right." Cui Qingqing looked at him without blinking, and smiled slightly: "The handwriting is all the same person."

Gu Zehuan slowly took out a candy from his pocket, peeled it off and put it in his mouth, silent.

Cui Qingqing looked at him with a half-smile in her eyes.

The atmosphere gradually became stiff, almost frozen.

"What kind of drink would you like to drink?"

Su Zhiyun took out a few aluminum cans from the plastic bag and put them on the table, breaking the silence.

"Strawberry, watermelon, or lime?"

Cui Qingqing was taken aback for a moment, and then she returned to her nonchalant expression. She leaned over from the sofa to pick up the pink aluminum can, and sat back down.

"Just let me drink this, strawberry flavor, and the packaging is also very cute, by the way, does this cat look like my Qiqi?"

Maybe because she saw that Gu Zehuan didn't want to talk about it, Cui Qingqing didn't mention anything about the envelope after that.She nestled on the sofa like a kitten and yawned, her eyelids twitching.

Su Zhiyun glanced at the wall clock on the wall, the movie has already ended.

Cui Qingqing also looked at the wall clock, sleepy-eyed: "It's almost 09:30, I have to go back."

The combination of two men and one woman walking on the road is a little strange, but Cui Qingqing didn't care about those strange looks, and complained to Su Zhiyun along the way that she was forced to attend many cram schools this summer vacation.

"What about English, mathematics, Chinese, piano and dancing? How can the time of a young girl be wasted in cram school. I originally wanted to go to Japan to watch the fireworks festival, but it all went to waste."

Su Zhiyun answered dryly: "The class is also pretty good."

Cui Qingqing was very dissatisfied: "At this time, I should be the same as the enemy. Of course you feel good that you didn't make up lessons."

Su Zhiyun didn't seem to be able to find something to say, so he kept silent.

"Oops." Cui Qingqing touched her pocket, her expression suddenly changed: "It seems that my key is at Gu Zehuan's house."

"What kind of key?"

Cui Qingqing said and gestured: "It's the one with a string of red lucky charms."

"I'll go." Su Zhiyun glanced at the time on the phone, and checked again: "Is it the key with the red lucky charm?"

Cui Qingqing nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, yes, that's the one."

When Su Zhiyun was about to leave, Cui Qingqing still looked sorry.

"sorry to trouble you."

"It's okay, it won't be long."

Su Zhiyun calculated the time. If he walked faster, he should be able to catch the last bus.

It wasn't until Su Zhiyun walked away that Cui Qingqing's smile disappeared.

"Who is the person who sent the letter?"

Gu Zehuan stood aside, warm white smoke drifting upwards from the corner of his lips.

"It has nothing to do with you."

He breathed out a puff of smoke unhurriedly, and a little scarlet spark flickered in the night between his fingers: "And we shouldn't be in a relationship where we have to report everything to each other."

When Cui Qingqing didn't have a smile on her face, her cat's eyes hanging upwards looked a little cold and impersonal, and she stared closely at Gu Zehuan.

"We agreed at the time that you should find a way to make Su Zhiyun like me, but what did you do in the end? For a dangerous person like you, if it wasn't because he likes you, I wouldn't let you get in touch with him at all."

"He likes you very much." Gu Zehuan leaned against the railing, there was no traffic on the road, his beautiful profile was reflected by the dim light, and he said casually: "It's just not the kind of liking you hoped for."

Cui Qingqing was angry for a while, and after a while, she asked coldly: "Gu Zehuan, do you believe in inheritance?"

"Your father was a serial murderer who shocked the country back then. He had low empathy, lack of empathy, and a low sense of morality, and you have the same blood in your body as your father. I am not discriminating against the son of a murderer, but so far I have never Judging from your performance, you are exactly the same as your father."

"Your father, Gu Tianyao, according to my investigation, he had the habit of killing animals when he was young. When he was in elementary school, he was expelled from school because he accidentally pushed a classmate down the stairs, causing a skull fracture. From his many experiences, The two of you, father and son, are literally carved out of the same mold. When he was young, Gu Tianyao liked to look for poor female college students everywhere, and under the guise of dating, he would take care of him. kick people away."

"It's easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but it's hard to go from extravagant to frugal. The girls he played with were forced to be abandoned like this, and they even gradually went nowhere in order to continue to maintain high living expenses."

"You all like to control and destroy others mentally, and enjoy the pleasure of being superior to others. If Su Zhiyun continues to follow you, you will only destroy him."

Gu Zehuan listened to her quietly, her expression didn't change much.

"Excellent inference, but I'm not my father."

Cui Qingqing shook her head: "Before your father was exposed to murder, everyone thought he was a well-deserved proud son of heaven, with excellent grades, an excellent family background, and good manners to everyone and everything. Until the day he was arrested, he Still chatting and laughing with employees, the scariest thing about people like you is that they are different from ordinary anti-social personalities.”

"You have strong self-control, and you are calm and smart enough to know how to disguise yourself and where the boundaries of acceptance are. If your father hadn't accidentally let a fish slip through the net, he might still be at large."

"So?" Gu Zehuan dusted off the cigarette, and finally turned to look at Cui Qingqing, her eyes were gray in the night: "Do you think I will kill people like my father in the future? Why do I have to do this. "

Faced with Gu Zehuan's rhetorical question, Cui Qingqing remained unafraid: "There is no need for a reason. Gu Tianyao had no reason to kill people in the first place, and it was not because of any stimulation, or even the opposite. It was precisely because of his lack of stimulation that his mind controlled others already Gu Tianyao couldn’t satisfy his desire, so Gu Tianyao started to kill people. If what he did before was walking on the edge of morality, then his subsequent behavior was completely deliberate trampling on the law in order to gain pleasure and excitement .”

"You are very dangerous now, there is no rope to tie you, you don't have the empathy and moral sense that normal people would have, and you don't have a sense of shame. Change your mind. You will start to feel dissatisfied with mind controlling other people, just like your father."

The girl's eyes were shining in the twilight, as if she had no fear at all.

Gu Zehuan slowly approached her, watching the girl shrouded in his own shadow, Cui Qingqing still looked directly at him, she was very beautiful, for a man close to an adult, she was too thin and fragile to be vulnerable.

After a long time, Gu Zehuan threw the cigarette butt in his hand into the trash can and looked away.

"Then you should stay away from me."

Cui Qingqing let out a breath slowly, her knees were a little weak, when she was watched by Gu Zehuan just now, she was almost unable to breathe due to the overwhelming pressure of drowning.

"Who the hell sent those letters?"

Gu Zehuan didn't answer her question.

Su Zhiyun was sweating profusely in the scorching summer, and his forehead was covered with glistening sweat. He ran over and put the key chain into Cui Qingqing's palm: "Is the bus here yet?"

Cui Qingqing took the key, and felt that the chill that fell on her just now had disappeared unconsciously.

"Not yet, I should be able to catch up with the last trip."

She subconsciously looked at Gu Zehuan.

The other party just leaned on the railing, looking at the busy street, the wind blew a little hair on his forehead, his skin was cold and pale, and he was holding an empty pack of cigarettes in his hand, without saying a word.

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