not in love

"I saw it as soon as I entered the flower shop. I think it matches you very well. When I came to my senses, I had already paid for it."

Lin Xie pursed her lips and handed the bouquet to Yu Zhijuan.

The seats in the pink shop were already crowded, once such a big bouquet of roses was put on the stool, there was not enough room for another person, so Yu Zhijuan and Lin Xie finally squeezed to the same side side by side.

"This is too ostentatious."

"Anyway, there is no one else in the store except us."

Lin Xie picked up the menu,

"Have you ordered food yet?"

"I ordered it for you too, a medium spicy snail powder with duck feet and dried radish, I remember right?"

Yu Zhijuan is in a good mood these two days, not only because Chen Hao started to lose confidence in his body and took the initiative to get out of the gym, he also received a piece of good news from Zhuge Yunbai - he had been busy for more than half a year before returning to China. Papers were officially included in SCI.

Although Yu Zhiyi has lived a luxurious life in the entertainment industry for a long time, Yu Zhijuan has never forgotten his own job, and this is the only good news he has received these days.

"Lin Xie? What are you in a daze for?"

Seeing that Lin Xie didn't respond for a while, Yu Zhijuan stretched out his hand and shook it in front of his eyes,

"Did I make a mistake? You...why are you looking at me like this?"

"I took care of some things before I came here."

Lin Xie paused, hanging the broken hair by Zhijuan's ear, and stroked the fake sapphire on his ear.

Since I gave this pair of earrings to Yu Zhijuan, I haven't seen him wearing anything else.

"tired?"

Yu Zhijuan didn't ask what was the specific matter,

"I see there is a foot massage shop upstairs, how about I treat you to a massage after dinner?"

"It will be recognized. Do you want to see the photo of the two of us being secretly photographed in the foot-washing city on tomorrow's hot search?"

"If you don't mind, I can help you too,"

Yu Zhijuan raised his hand and squeezed Lin Xie's shoulder in a dignified way,

"When I was studying, the technique taught to me by my instructor was particularly effective in relieving fatigue."

It just so happened that two bowls of steaming spicy noodles were served on the table, and the mist filled the tired sunglasses. At the same time, there was also a glass bowl containing plums. Send to customers.

The green plums turned yellow in the reflection of the aged glass bowl. They looked astringent and sour, and soon they were covered with a greasy color of chili oil.

"Let's eat first."

Lin Xie rarely answered Yu Zhijuan's words, but took out a pair of chopsticks from the chopsticks basket and handed them to him.

Yu Zhijuan was stunned for a moment, then retracted the hand on his shoulder awkwardly, and obediently took the chopsticks.

Where did he provoke Lin Xie?

Yu Zhijuan picked up a pair of snail noodles with chopsticks and pondered quietly.

Could it be that he was scolded by the nurse in the hospital?Lin Xi has a dog at home?Or did Tan Chaolu say something wrong again?

Even Yu Zhijuan didn't notice it himself. He was able to detect Lin Xie's gloomy mood so quickly not because he was too sensitive, but because he had been spoiled by Lin Xie before, so he had hardly heard of Lin Xie's gloomy mood. There is a tone of pampering and indulgence.

In fact, Lin Xie didn't want to kill him, nor did he want to be angry with him, but when he heard Yu Zhijuan say the word "mentor", he felt an uncontrollable tension in his heart.

"Do you... have a good relationship with him?"

After a while, Lin Xie still couldn't hold back.

"Who?"

Yu Zhijuan raised his head, and stopped picking out the sour bamboo shoots in the bowl.

"Your mentor."

"Zhuge Yunbai, it's pretty good."

Yu Zhijuan answered truthfully,

"He is a Chinese, and he is relatively young. He is not as old-fashioned as the other old Glencos, and he takes good care of me. If he hadn't introduced me to a part-time job, I couldn't even pay the tuition for a while. Speaking of which, you should know Him? The first place we met was his studio."

"When I first started doing academics, I didn't understand the market. The data of my first thesis was almost stolen by a classmate. It was he who discovered it in time and helped me report it to the school."

"Gransu's school discriminates against Chinese when evaluating scholarships, and he helped me win the places for several years."

"He also told me about the tricks of abducting people to be careful in nightclubs. Remember Guarana? This is what Zhuge Yunbai taught me."

When talking about Zhuge Yunbai, Yu Zhijuan is like a treasure. The absence of his parents makes him rely on such a compatriot who is also a teacher and a friend in a foreign country.

"In short, he has always taken good care of me, and he also said that the two of us..."

"Is Zhuge Yunbai just a mentor to you?"

Lin Xie interrupted Yu Zhijuan, the words "the skull matches well" could only be swallowed by Yu Zhijuan,

"It's not just a mentor, is it?"

Yu Zhijuan thought,

"The tutor only cares about academics, and he will also take care of my life. It feels more like... an elder brother?"

Yu Zhijuan actually felt that Zhuge Yunbai's role in his life was more like a worried old father, but considering that Zhuge Yunbai was not that old, he classified him as "brother".

"what about me?"

Lin Xie pretended to be indifferent, and asked casually, but in fact, he had almost smashed the fried eggs in the bowl into egg flowers.

Yu Zhijuan didn't know why he suddenly started to struggle with this question, but he couldn't think of a suitable answer for a while, so he blinked,

"good friend?"

"Where's Keman? Is Keman your friend too?"

Lin Xie said his name casually.

"He is so upright, who wouldn't want to be friends with him?"

Yu Zhiwei looked at Lin Xie in bewilderment.

"Then I and Coman are the same to you?"

Lin Xie pressed every step of the way, not as persuasive as usual, Yu Zhijuan always felt that he felt a little more oppressive tonight, and this gloomy oppressive feeling seemed to come from some kind of anxiety.

"Lin Xie, don't you know what's different?"

Yu Zhijuan saw that the noodle soup would be cold after a while, so he put down his chopsticks and stared at Lin Xie steadfastly,

"Do you think I will bring Keman to eat snail noodles? Will I call him behind Chen Hao's back? Say goodnight to him every night? Or will I kiss him?"

"..."

Lin Xie closed his eyes and slowly let out a breath.

"What the hell happened today?"

Yu Zhijuan knew that it was impossible for him to ask these questions for no reason, things that would make Lin Xie feel troublesome or even worrying... most of them had nothing to do with the Harris family.

"Inthedarkblueskyyoukeep,foryouevershutyoureye, do you remember this song?"

"remember."

Yu Zhijuan nodded.

This was the first time Lin Xie took him home. When he confronted Tan Chaolu, the nursery rhyme that Leslie hummed in the recording that Tan Chaolu played to them.

"I found out whose eyes my mother was talking about,"

Lin Xie paused, her tone was calm, but slightly tired,

"It's Lu Yao."

"...Road Butler?"

Yu Zhijuan frowned.

Lu Yao grew up with Lin Xie, and his position in Lin Xie's heart may be the same as Zhuge Yunbai's to him.

"Ah."

Lin Xie told Yu Zhijuan the whole process of Leslie's murder, from being drugged to being hypnotized, but did not specify that the hypnotized person was Zhuge Yunbai.

At that time, Zhuge Yunbai was not very old, but he was able to be sent by Lewis to carry out such an important task, either because of his outstanding skills or because of his close relationship with Lewis.

"It's really hypnosis..."

Yu Zhijuan listened carefully to Lin Xie's words with lowered eyes, and helped him analyze,

"People have self-protection mechanisms even when they are sleeping. For example, when they were about to fall off the bed when they were young, they would dream of falling off a cliff and feel weightless, forcing their brains to wake up before they fell off the bed. Being hypnotized cannot hinder the operation of this mechanism, so theoretically speaking, it is actually very difficult to create the illusion of suicide through hypnosis, unless the hypnotist is very capable."

"Can Zhuge Yunbai do it?"

"Honestly, I'm not sure either,"

Yu Zhijuan bit his chopsticks,

"He is very good at hypnotism, but it is usually used in therapy. And your mother was able to consciously sing to Tan Chaolu before she fell from the building, which means that she had broken free of her mind control at that time, but she chose to jump in the end. Go down, do you know what that means?"

"Ok?"

Lin Xie watched Yu Zhijuan quietly. He didn't know whether Yu Zhijuan would defend Zhuge Yunbai and lead the suspicion to other people, or would help him restore the truth as much as possible as before.

"It means that she understood at that time that even if she can escape this time, there will be another time. It is more accurate to say that she jumped from the roof of the building under the control of others, and was threatened to have to jump. So the hypnotist probably I knew your mother before."

Yu Zhijuan speculated carefully,

"She knew that the person was from the Harris family, and she also knew that she could not escape. That's why she left such a sentence for Tan Chaolu and jumped down resolutely... You can also find out that the person responsible for carrying out the Who is the doctor of psychological counseling?"

"The medical records were all destroyed by Lu Yao."

Lin Xie said lightly, concealing Zhuge Yunbai's participation.

At the same time, he also understood why Leslie was unwilling to accept treatment obediently. It turned out that she knew from the very beginning that Zhuge Yunbai was here to kill her.

The Leslie in everyone's mouth has always been a flower that was cared for by Governor Lin, beautiful, innocent, but extremely fragile.

Even Lu Yao regarded her as a burden and threat to the entire Lin family, and chose to sacrifice her in exchange for the peace of the Lin family, but Leslie was still protecting that family until the last moment before her death.

There was Lu Yao's surveillance before, and Zhuge Yunbai's pursuit afterward. Leslie, who woke up suddenly on the rooftop, knew that she had nowhere to escape, and that Governor Lin and Lin Xie might even be implicated.

So Leslie's death was not painless as Lu Yao thought, and she was even more sober than anyone else when she died.

"She has already left Glencoe, why does Lewis keep chasing after her?"

Yu Zhijuan really asked the same question as Lin Xie did back then.

"Because if Lewis wants to inherit the family title, he must get a representative of Harris' family crest. He suspects that it is in the hands of my mother. He is worried that my mother will return to the grid with the family crest after receiving my father's support. Lansu."

Lin Xie explained to Yu Zhijuan without reservation,

"I also just found out that what Lewis has been looking for is a brooch. It was sewn into my teddy bear by my mother so he couldn't find it. Now it has been put in the safe by me. The password is 925072180117..."

"Wait, wait a minute,"

Yu Zhijuan opened his mouth in astonishment, and quickly raised his hands to cover his ears,

"Is this what I know? Lin Xie! I don't believe you don't know that this brooch is a bargaining chip for you to save your life. Can't you swallow this string of numbers yourself?"

Yu Zhijuan looked at Lin Xie helplessly,

"And you still use my birthday...Even Lu Youyou can tell that I have an unusual relationship with you. Are you afraid that Lewis won't be able to crack your password?"

"He still doesn't know that the brooch is in my hand."

Lin Xie pursed her lips, unless the news would be passed on to Lewis by Yu Zhijuan.

He admitted that he was gambling.

If Yu Zhijuan is Harris's person, and the purpose of approaching him is nothing more than this brooch, then he will give it to him.

Lewis is extremely vicious, and if he can force Governor Lin to choose between Leslie and the future of the Lin family, and Mi Chen to choose between her own life and Lin Xie, naturally he can also force Zhiyi and Lin Xie choose between evil.

Lin Xie knew how difficult it was to choose between the two, so he didn't want Yu Zhijuan to be forced to make the choice.

"Aren't you afraid that I am from Harris, so I will go to your house to steal the brooch tonight?"

Yu Zhijuan sighed.

"Then are you?"

Lin Xie raised his eyes. Because of his mixed blood, his pupils were lighter than ordinary people, like ice domes formed from the bottom of his eyes, making it difficult to move his eyes away.

"...Are you testing me?"

Yu Zhijuan came back to his senses, recalling Lin Xie's abnormal behavior today, he couldn't help frowning and looking at him puzzledly,

"Lin Xie, your doubts will make me angry,"

Yu Zhijuan paused, then added,

"Very, very, very angry."

The author says:

One possibility: (pure oral hi has nothing to do with the text)

Yu Zhijuan, a thief in the dark, really went to Lin Xie's house to steal the brooch at night, but was caught by Lin Xie on the spot.Of course, the thief will be severely punished. In the end, although Xiao Juan stole the brooch, he also paid some "price".

After returning to Glencoe, Lewis saw that Xiao Juan had high performance and fast speed, and from then on he sent him to Lin Xie's house to steal everything he needed.

A month later, Xiao Juan retired honorably because of his weak waist.

However, there are also legends in the Jianghu that the Thief of the Night was caught and locked up. As for where he was locked up, it must be in the big villa of Lao Lin's family.