Aromatherapy

Li Xinyun had been staring at the man standing on the phone on the side of the road for a long time.

The man looked ordinary, wearing a suit and standing on the side of the road with a briefcase. He looked no different from office workers hurrying on the road.

"Xiao Rong! Xiao Rong!" The aunt across the table called Li Xinyun several times, and Li Xinyun realized that she was calling himself, "Draw the cards! What are you thinking!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I lost my mind." Li Xinyun apologized in a hurry, and hurriedly reached out to touch the cards. He glanced at his own cards absent-mindedly, only knowing that he didn't want them, and then threw away the cards he just got. Going out, the aunt who just called his name on the opposite side immediately snatched the cards and slapped the table excitedly: "Look, all of them! Give me the money, Xiao Rong!"

Li Xinyun looked back and found that the man on the side of the road had disappeared.

The others laughed: "Xiao Rong, Xiao Rong, it's not okay to be distracted at the poker table!"

Li Xinyun smiled apologetically, and lost the money embarrassingly. An old man sitting beside him watching the battle said, "Oh, Xiao Rong, you are too absent-minded. Get off the table and let me come around."

Li Xinyun gave up his seat, and the cards began to be shuffled on the card table. During the interval between the shuffling, the old man asked casually, "Xiao Rong, what kind of company is yours, how is it going?"

After Li Xinyun met his adoptive mother, he planned to return to his own life.He was used to the business of private detectives, so he decided to open a new firm and continue to be a private detective.The adoptive mother knew that he was involved in trouble because of investigating others, so she was still worried about Li Xinyun's decision to return to his old career, but in the end she chose to respect Li Xinyun's ideas, but told him to be more careful and to talk to him about anything. Talk at home.

The original house had already been demolished, so Li Xinyun could only make other plans. He re-selected a place to open his office in the past two days, and just negotiated the rent a few days ago.Fortunately, his business does not need to be located in a busy city, so the rent is not too expensive, but his contacts need to be re-accumulated. Most of their business sources rely on some web advertisements and secret word-of-mouth among the masses, so Li Xinyun these days has nothing to do except The procedure is to chat and play cards with the nearby uncles and aunts, so it's easy to talk about if you get to know each other well.

These days, in order to reorganize the office, Li Xinyun has been busy, running up and down, sometimes he suddenly feels that he has returned to the time when he became independent from his master for the first time, when nothing happened.His adoptive mother advised him not to be so anxious, just take his time, but he almost intentionally kept himself busy and didn't think about everything about Chen Hongting.

Whether it is Chen Hongting's deceit or Chen Hongting's love, Li Xinyun has forgotten all about it, as if this is the case, Li Xinyun can act as if this person has never appeared in his life.

But there are still many details that make him still be haunted by the name Chen Hongting, such as the identity of Rong Yun that he has to temporarily adopt, such as those incoherent and fragmented dreams in the dead of night, For example at this moment - Li Xinyun will always notice the people who follow him.

In the past, Li Xinyun never thought that he would be followed, so even though he was familiar with following and investigating these things, he never noticed that someone around him was always watching him.

But once he knew about it, Li Xinyun would be able to notice it.

Li Xinyun has been observing for a while, and he can be sure that there must be several people following him.

For example, the man who was standing on the side of the road and making a phone call just now——Chen Hongting's way of sending someone to follow him is much more subtle than Li Xinyun's. He just moved here, just a few days after Li Xinyun and his adoptive mother came home. He has a serious job, and all his actions are very regular. On the surface, he looks like a normal office worker, but his route to work will pass by Li Xinyun recently. A mahjong parlor for building relationships with grandpas and aunts.

Li Xinyun didn't think much about these before, but once he realized it, it was not difficult to find these stalkers.

The man had already left, and where the man was standing, a young girl appeared again, as if waiting for someone.She was wearing a shirt and dress, with a ponytail, and she was listening to music with headphones, looking very youthful and beautiful.Li Xinyun knew her. She was a "college student" who was renting a house. She was studying at a nearby university. Every day, the route to class would pass in front of the house that Li Xinyun rented to open an office.

This is the eyeliner that he can be sure of, but Li Xinyun doesn't know how much he can't be sure of.

The uncle who replaced Li Xinyun on the mahjong table finished a round, but still lost to the aunts, and asked Li Xinyun to help their men "recover their shame", Li Xinyun refused, saying: "I have to go to the government affairs center later A file, I won’t type today, let’s go first.”

Li Xinyun bid farewell to the elders and aunts, walked out of the mahjong parlor, and strode towards the young girl, the young girl noticed him coming, she didn't move, she seemed to be on the phone, and said angrily: "Why haven't you come here yet. "It certainly looked like an unhappy young girl who had waited too long for her lover.Li Xinyun walked up directly, stood in front of her, and said to her, "Hello."

The young girl seemed to be intimidated by him, and looked at him in horror while pulling the headphone cable.

"I want to see Chen Hongting." Li Xinyun said.

The little girl's panic disappeared from the girl's face. She looked very confused, a kind of doubt that she didn't know why she showed her secrets at all. She whispered something into the microphone of the earphone, and then said: "Li Sir, please wait a moment."

Obviously, she knew Li Xinyun's true identity very well.

They didn't wait long, a car drove over, the girl asked Li Xinyun to get in the car, the driver's face seemed familiar to Li Xinyun, as if he had seen it somewhere before, after driving for a long time, Li Xinyun remembered where he had seen this The person—the day he just left Chen Hongting, he had no money to pay the fare, and a passenger who was going to the airport happened to rescue him—it was the "passenger", he said: "That night It's you."

The driver didn't answer, just smiled politely, and didn't ask Li Xinyun what night it was.

Li Xinyun looked at the driver and sneered: "Should I praise him for his meticulousness?"

The driver didn't answer, but just drove silently all the way.

The car soon arrived in front of a club.Different from those clubs that Li Xinyun often sees, the decoration of the club is very low-key and very quiet.After the driver led Li Xinyun into a tea room, he left very imperceptibly. Li Xinyun didn't even know when he left. When he saw Chen Hongting, Li Xinyun realized that he had disappeared.

Chen Hongting saw him and said, "Long time no see, Ah Yun, are you still angry with me?" His expression was still so gentle, his posture was low, and he only asked Li Xinyun with simple words like "angry", as if They were nothing more than ordinary quarrels between lovers.

Long time no see... How long has it been since?It has been more than a month since I left Chen's villa that day, but everything seems to be as clear as yesterday, whether it is the ambiguous and intimate relationship between Li Xinyun and Chen Hongting, or Chen Hongting's frank confession of the terrible truth .

Li Xinyun took a deep breath, did not answer Chen Hongting's words, but said: "Tell these people not to follow me anymore."

Chen Hongting said: "Did you find out? It seems that they have been too slack lately." His tone was calm, without any panic when Li Xinyun discovered it. "I'm just worried about you. It's really dangerous recently," Chen Hongting said helplessly, "That reporter friend of yours has already started to write that investigative report, and once word gets out, Lin Jingxian will definitely not sit still .”

Li Xinyun knew that what Chen Hongting was talking about was Lu Cong.

Li Xinyun and Lu Cong are still in touch occasionally.After Qin Zhifeng was arrested, Lu Cong had already started to prepare his own investigative report, and he and Li Xinyun also got angry.Although he didn't get along with Lu Cong for a long time, he also knew that he was a person with a stubborn pursuit in his heart. He couldn't stop Lu Cong, he could only tell him to be careful--Li Xinyun couldn't help him, he himself Still not out of danger.

Li Xinyun said: "Even if that is the case, it is my own business. My life has nothing to do with you."

After Li Xinyun finished speaking, Chen Hongting didn't speak for a long time, and finally Li Xinyun said: "Chen Hongting, I hope you don't force me to the point where I will die."

Before Li Xinyun left, Chen Hongting stopped him, "Ayun."

Li Xinyun looked back at him, the light cast mottled silhouettes on his beautiful face, there seemed to be countless stars in his eyes, and all the stars were named Li Xinyun.He looks like an extremely exquisite movie wallpaper, which makes people want to cherish it, no matter how terrible the plot is before and after this wallpaper.

He sighed, making people feel extremely trembling, "I know that I forced everything before. I know that you will no longer believe me. I'm just too scared, afraid that you will disappear from this world , I can’t even look at you from a distance. Isn’t everything going well?” He looked at Li Xinyun, as if he was a believer waiting for the mercy of the gods, “Ayun, you obviously like me too, don’t you? ?”

Li Xinyun looked at Chen Hongting, and blurted out: "I don't know."

After saying "I don't know", Li Xinyun froze in place.He seemed to hear the sound of something breaking, it was very subtle, and he would miss it if he didn't pay attention, but Li Xinyun had no way to miss it and ignore it-because it was the sound of some solid defense in Li Xinyun's heart, accompanied by Seeing this broken gap, a certain wall in Li Xinyun's heart collapsed, crushing on Li Xinyun's heart.

The cloud that had been hanging over Li Xinyun's heart since he knew the truth suddenly began to dissipate.

At this moment, Li Xinyun knew what he was afraid of.

It turned out to be the case.

It turned out to be the case.

It turned out that for so many days, what he was afraid of was not Chen Hongting's careful calculation, what he was afraid of was not Chen Hongting's difficulty in distinguishing the truth from the fake, and what he was afraid of was not the airtight cage made by Chen Hongting.

It turns out that compared to Chen Hongting's deceit and calculation, what he fears more is that he cannot confirm whether he really loves Chen Hongting.

Li Xinyun said: "Chen Hongting, what I can't believe is not you, but myself."

If everything is false and calculated, then can Li Xinyun's own heart be true?

"You said, I saved you before. Although I don't remember it, let's just treat it like this. That car accident... No matter what happened later, at least you saved me."

"So, that's fine. Chen Hongting, we don't owe each other any more."