Sorry, it's a different price to be a stand-in

Lu Yunqi didn't answer Aunt Song right away, while he was thinking, a sturdy man in security uniform passed by the stairs facing him.

Lu Yunqi thought that person was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him.

Seeing that he was still silent, Aunt Song called him "Mr. Lu" a few times.

Lu Yunqi came back to his senses, shook his head, and politely rejected Aunt Song's proposal.

"...Think about Xiao Nan, if you do this, he will be very happy..." Seeing Lu Yunqi's determined refusal, Aunt Song brought out Lin Zhinan to persuade him.

The records of Fang Sui'an's investigation showed that Aunt Song also had problems, and she kept instigating, which seemed very abnormal.

Guessing that Aunt Song might be someone sent by Lin Wei to test the relationship between the two, Lu Yunqi had a plan.

"I can agree, but I need time to prepare," Lu Yunqi shrugged, "You should also know that I have a lot of flowers and plants outside, if one day someone is jealous and hurts Xiao Ning, I will feel distressed. "

Auntie Song finally showed a smile on her face. She nodded and said impatiently, "Mr. Lu, hurry up and get ready."

Saying goodbye to Aunt Song, Lu Yunqi walked towards the elevator, but he didn't expect to see a conspicuous figure from the back in the crowd. He chased after a few steps and grabbed the man's shoulder.

He didn't expect to meet Bai Hao here.

Bai Hao's face was pale and nervous, holding his mobile phone, the sweat on his brow was too late to wipe off, he didn't have the usual cynical and playful look at all.

"You... heard everything?" Lu Yunqi frowned and approached slowly.

Bai Hao lowered his voice, glared at Lu Yunqi, with bulging veins on his forehead, "Yes! I saw everything, I saw you..."

The next second, his mouth was suddenly covered by Lu Yunqi, and he was dragged into the elevator.

The two people who entered the elevator were out of breath, Lu Yunqi glanced at the surveillance camera, and stopped Bai Hao's words.

It was only after arriving outside the nursing home that Lu Yunqi allowed Bai Hao to speak.

Lu Yunqi remembered the content of the conversation very clearly, it was nothing more than not allowing him to disappoint Lin Zhinan, but after seeing Aunt Song's strange reaction, Lu Yunqi determined to investigate the past thoroughly.

Bai Hao didn't bother to listen to his explanation, and drove away angrily as if there was something urgent.

Lu Yunqi stayed alone on the mountain for a while, and after thinking for a long time, he decided to go home first

But before his car started, a message popped up suddenly. The screen showed that there was a car accident on the outer ring road. Lu Yunqi glanced at it and was stunned.

The white car that was burning belonged to Bai Hao.

When driving past the scene of the car accident, a body that had been burned beyond recognition was carried out by the firefighters. Lu Yunqi saw that his hands and feet were cold.

When he got home, he waited for a while before picking up his phone.

The most popular car accident news was replaced by boring gossip. Lu Yunqi suddenly thought of something, picked up his phone and dialed a series of numbers.

The busy tone of the mobile phone echoed in the silent room, and the person didn't answer the phone several times in a row.

As the night fell slowly, the sense of loneliness slowly enveloped Lu Yunqi. He propped his forehead with one hand, and sighed deeply.

If Bai Hao died, how sad would Lin Zhinan be?

Lu Yunqi felt that it was ridiculous that he was still childishly jealous at this moment, because of a relationship that didn't exist at all.

But he couldn't help guessing about the relationship between the two, so that when Lin Zhinan took the initiative to call a week later, he lost his temper again.

He also said the slightly insulting word "姘头" indiscriminately.

After hanging up the phone, Lu Yunqi began to shut himself up.

He originally wanted to persuade Lin Zhinan to come back, and then the two of them would solve the problem together, but now it seems that he pushed Lin Zhinan away again.

It was another busy day at work, Lu Yunqi's time was occupied by work, and he only had time to look at his phone when he got off work.

In the private mailbox, an email was sent.

The sender was Fang Suian, who decompressed the file with the password agreed upon by the two, and there was only one sentence and a photo inside.

[This is information from THER company, you can read it yourself. 】

The text of the company information on the photo is in a small language, and the place of registration is also a distant country in the far north. Few people would think of going to such a place to register a company and then come back to invest.

Lu Yunqi's eyes fell on the column of the name of the chairman of the company, and his eyes widened in disbelief.

The chairman of THER company is Lin Zhinan.

On the back of the legal person of the company, Bai Hao's name was written.

The huge amount of information made Lu Yunqi a little unprepared. He stared at the photo for half a minute, then called up the domestic information about THER on the computer, and found that many things were actually traceable.

For example, THER has transformed the largest urban village in Huacheng District, turning it into a nationally famous characteristic small town.

Another example is THER's investment in the construction of elderly apartments and capsule hotels in an unknown prefecture-level city nearby—because that city is where Bai Hao's biological mother grew up.

Now it seems that every investment of THER has a certain purpose and implication.

The first thing Lu Yunqi thought of when he got the news was whether Lin Zhinan was going to have a showdown with him.

He suddenly didn't dare to call Lin Zhinan to come back.

He knew that once Lin Zhinan gained confidence, he would definitely leave him—the same as many years ago.

Numbing himself with work and leaving get off work very late, Lu Yunqi stopped the car and stared at Lu's villa from a distance in a daze.

Suddenly, a light came on in the dark house, which was very dazzling in the night.

Lu Yunqi stabilized his mind, and persuaded himself that maybe it was a servant who hadn't had time to leave, or a thief, but he couldn't control his faster and faster pace, and finally almost ran wildly.

Pushing open the door of the living room, a person sat quietly on the sofa, squatting at the feet of the old dog wagging its tail, hearing the footsteps, the old dog cast a curious look.

The man's back was facing the door, Lu Yunqi's footsteps stopped suddenly.

When Lin Zhinan heard the hurried footsteps, his heart shrank, and he still couldn't resist the fear of facing Lu Yunqi.

The sound of footsteps stopped abruptly, Lin Zhinan restrained his nervous expression, turned sideways, and looked at Lu Yunqi.

The atmosphere between the two was a little awkward.

The incident happened suddenly, Lu Yunqi didn't know whether to apologize first, or communicate about Lin Ning first.

But Lin Zhinan didn't have anything to say, just looked at him, unable to distinguish between joy, anger, sorrow and joy in his eyes.

Like a new but soulless pottery figurine.

"You... are you back?" Lu Yunqi asked nonsense.

Lin Zhinan gave a "hmm" and pointed to the sofa, "Sit."

Realizing that he had something to talk to himself, Lu Yunqi hurriedly sat over. The old dog lay on the gap between the two of the sofa, looked left and right like an owl, and kept wagging its tail.

After sitting down, it was Lu Yun who spoke first, "I'm sorry about Bai Hao's matter. The company investigated this matter and it was indeed the driver who was driving tired..."

"To cover up the truth", these four words popped up in Lin Zhinan's mind. In his opinion, this was a sign of guilty conscience.

After hearing Lu Yunqi's words, Lin Zhinan was a little impatient, but in order to find out the truth, he couldn't reveal it, so he could only pretend to be mourning and smiled feebly, shaking his head, saying that he didn't blame anyone.

Lu Yunqi seemed to believe Lin Zhinan's words, he was silent for a while, and asked him where he had been all this time and why he didn't go home.

Come back home?

Lin Zhinan almost sneered when he heard this word, he turned his head away, and said lightly, "Go back to the apartment and recuperate."

Lu Yunqi's eyes fell on Lin Zhinan's wrist. After being cruelly shackled, even a week later, the bruises on his wrist were still obvious.

"I'm sorry." Lu Yunqi apologized without any further hesitation.

But when Lin Zhinan heard these words, his heart didn't fluctuate, and he even wanted to escape from Lu Yunqi's side for a while, as if sitting with him, the air became hard to breathe.

Lin Zhinan knew that he was afraid, and he was extremely afraid of Lu Yunqi's capriciousness and sanctimonious appearance.

"I... went to see Lin Ning."

Lin Zhinan lowered his eyes, "I know."

After a pause, he spoke again, "Xiao Ning misses you very much, he always peeks at your photos, you really should go and see him."

This sentence stopped Lu Yunqi from what he was going to say next. He thought that Lin Zhinan would express something when he heard that he was going to see Lin Ning, even if he was slightly displeased, but he didn't.

His lip color is very light, coupled with his expressionless face, the whole person looks particularly bad.

Lu Yunqi gritted his teeth, and there was a hint of anger in his smile, "So...you think I should be with Lin Ning?"

What does it have to do with me?Lin Zhinan asked back in his heart.

"I'm just a substitute who can be beaten, scolded and humiliated at will. You should decide your own affairs." Lin Zhinan's eyelashes trembled, and when he said this, his expression was natural, as if he had accepted that he was Lu Yunqi's plaything.

Lu Yunqi was speechless by Lin Zhinan's attitude, he opened his mouth, unable to utter a word in anger.

Seeing that Lin Zhinan didn't buy oil and salt, Lu Yunqi had no choice but to mention Bai Hao, "I met Bai Hao the afternoon when his accident happened."

Although Lin Zhinan still bowed his head, his shoulders moved subconsciously, and Lu Yunqi saw at a glance that he was very interested in this topic.

"You came back because of Bai Hao, right?" Lu Yunqi decided not to make detours, and directly pointed out Lin Zhinan's purpose.

Lin Zhinan subconsciously denied it, thinking that if he confessed, he would be beaten or insulted by Lu Yunqi, but Lu Yunqi was surprisingly calm.

"I didn't do it," Lu Yunqi looked at Lin Zhinan who wanted to curl up and hide in a corner, and felt bitter in his heart, "Even if I'm jealous or hate someone, I won't do that kind of thing, Xiaoxu, you know of……"

The words stopped abruptly, and Lu Yunqi suddenly realized how similar the scene was.

Just a week ago, he had speculated wantonly about the relationship between Lin Zhinan and those men, but he didn't expect the retribution to come so quickly.

"I only spoke a few words to Bai Hao, and then he drove away from the nursing home, and I didn't do anything to him."

From Lin Zhinan's point of view, Lu Yunqi's explanation was not even a complete cover-up of lies. Of course, he would not believe Lu Yunqi's words.

But he still nodded, "I know, it's not your fault."

Lu Yunqi was stunned, took a deep breath, and asked calmly, "So you think I'm the murderer, right?"

Lin Zhinan squeezed his fingers, raised his head, and finally got a little more color in his eyes, "Of course not, I believe everything you say."

Pretending to be what others want is Lin Zhinan's forte.

The camouflage skills he had honed in society were finally applied to Lu Yunqi.

He smiled softly, put his arm on Lu Yunqi's shoulder, and leaned close to Lu Yunqi's ear, his tone was sweeter than ever before, "Bai Hao is dead, now, I belong to you alone."