Deer in the forest

There was only one floor lamp left in the room, and Jon was already asleep.This is the habit of the two of them. If one of them hasn't come back yet, the one who comes back first will definitely leave a light for the other.They have lived together in the same apartment for so many years and have never been separated.

When there is no task, Jon usually goes to bed very early.Waking up thirsty in the middle of the night, he squinted his eyes and got up, seeing Luo Yi sitting silently in the small living room, not knowing what he was thinking. "When did you come back?" Jon yawned and asked again, "Why aren't you sleeping?"

After Jon drank the water, he went to the toilet again, dragged his way to his bedroom, passed by Luo Yi, and found that this man was still in a daze and didn't answer his own words.No, the tough guy Luo Yi has something on his mind?

"Ask you, why don't you pay attention to me." Jon kicked Luo Yi's calf, with a puzzled look on his face, "What are you thinking? What happened?"

"I'm thinking about Lin Shen."

"What?" Jon sat down next to Luo Yi, and he became more curious.Although both of them and Lin Shen work for the Li family, they have always performed their own duties, and they rarely interact with each other, and there is no friendship.Even if you send a cake on your birthday, it's mostly a courtesy among ordinary colleagues.

Luo Yi felt uncomfortable, Li Jibai did not hide from him what happened tonight, even the medicine was put in the wine glass by Luo Yi and served to Li Jibai.He was in the dark, saw Lin Shen drink alcohol unsuspectingly and then went upstairs, and listened to Li Jibai calling in the car to ask him to stay.

None of his business.

But there is something stuck in the chest, which makes people feel frustrated.

"It's okay, go to sleep." Luo Yi said, "I'll sit down for a while."

Jon was still about to say something when the phone at hand rang suddenly.Luo Yi glanced at the incoming call, stood up abruptly, and quickly pressed the answer button.

It was Li Jibai: "Luo Yi, go over there and watch, and see... nothing happens."

"Okay sir, I'll go right away." Luo Yi ignored Jon's bewildered expression, walked to the door in a few steps, grabbed a car key and ran out.

On the return journey to 120 miles, the black off-road was galloping on the mountain road.It was about ten kilometers from the foot of the mountain to the winery. At a bend, Luo Yi slowed down and calculated the time and distance to the winery in his mind.

A figure flashed past, and Luo Yi stepped on the brake.

—It seems that someone is hiding on the hillside near the bend.

Luo Yi got off the car without hesitation, took two steps up the hillside, and tentatively called, "Lin Shen?"

No one responded.

He took two steps forward and saw a man sitting behind a tree.

The air was quiet for a few seconds. Luo Yi's professionalism allowed Luo Yi to endure the shock in his heart and maintain his usual calmness.

The man was covered in blood, leaning against the tree trunk, looking at him quietly, his dark eyes were empty.Luo Yi took two steps closer, took off his coat, put it on him, and called him again: "Lin Shen."

Seeing that he still didn't respond and he didn't know where the injury was, Luo Yi had no choice but to carefully support him and pull him up with some strength.

Lin Shen followed his force and was brought to the side of the car.As if suddenly realizing something, Lin Shen shook Luo Yi's hand slightly: "Luo Yi...where are you taking me?"

Luo Yi was stunned for a moment.The husband only asked him to come and take a look, but he didn't say what to do in such a situation. Who would have thought that Lin Shen would escape.If it was sent back to Wei Qidong, Luo Yi would feel that he was not human.

For the first time in his life, he showed selfishness and compassion: "Get in the car first, don't worry, I won't send you back."

Li Jibai quickly answered the phone, Luo Yi briefly reported the situation and waited for instructions.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, and Luo Yi couldn't bear it, even if he was disobedient, he admitted it: "He was seriously injured, I'm afraid..." He gritted his teeth, and blurted out the words, "If you send him back again , I’m afraid it won’t last long.”

After a long time, a sentence came from the other end of the phone, let's go back to the villa!

The car quickly turned around on the narrow mountain road and drove down the mountain.

Lin Shen was locked in the basement that night and did not see Li Jibai.

The basement in Xianyue Villa has two functions, torture and imprisonment.In the early years when the world was chaotic, Hongbai had a lot of business secretly. The basement was set up at that time. Those who failed in the task would be locked in the basement to receive punishment.This is the rule of the Li family.

After Li Jibai took over Hongbai, the basement was basically left unused.Lin Shen didn't expect that he would be lucky enough to experience it for himself.

The bed and bathroom in the basement are all available, but it is slightly damp and cold. Luo Yi called the doctor to stop the bleeding and bandage him.Lin Shen let the doctor deal with him, and endured the pain without saying a word.Most of his injuries were external, Wei Qidong was probably afraid that internal injuries would be boring, so he didn't do much to kill him.But there were too many traumas, there was no good flesh in the whole body, and the place where the belt had been pulled was already red, swollen and festered. Even the doctor was used to seeing such scenes, and when he started to apply the medicine, his face could not bear it.

More than an hour later, the doctor finished the treatment and left. Luo Yi came over to take a look, and left without saying anything.

Except for Li Jibai's study, Luo Yi can see the surveillance system of the entire villa.He was tired after a whole night of tossing around, and he was still a little worried before going to bed. He turned on his mobile phone and called up the basement monitor to take a look. Lin Shen was still sitting in the corner in the same posture, very quiet, and looked the same as usual—if Not after a while, he buried his head in his arms, his shoulders trembled imperceptibly, and then there was a continuous suppressed whimper.

Luo Yi looked at it for a while, then turned off the phone.

Lin Shen fell into a deep sleep and didn't wake up until the next morning.After waking up, he was confused for a long time, and even for a moment he felt that he was the same as usual, waking up on a normal day, and then it was time to go to work after breakfast.

But the pain in his whole body as if being run over reminded him that what happened last night was not a nightmare, it actually happened.

The belated dull pain twisted his heart tightly, and he was full of stamina.

Last night was a horizontal line that completely separated the previous days from the future life, and since then they have been clearly separated.

It is impossible for him and Li Jibai to be on both sides of the horizontal line.

Not long after, Luo Yi came to the basement and brought Lin Shen up.

What should come will always come, and what has to be faced cannot be avoided.

In the study, Li Jibai stared at him inexplicably, Lin Shen barely stood, neither of them spoke.There is no censure, no questioning, the atmosphere is subtly distorted and frozen, and some emotions are about to break out.

Li Jibai spoke first: "You should be glad that Wei Qidong is not dead, otherwise I would not be able to protect you."

In the middle of the night yesterday, the Wei family came to the door. He didn't know that Wei Qidong was opened by Lin Shen and almost died in the room. If the people below felt that something was wrong and rushed in, I'm afraid this matter would not be closed.

But it is very troublesome to end now, Wei Qidong and the Wei family are afraid that they will not let Lin Shen go easily.No, Uncle Wei came to ask for someone again early this morning, but he was kicked out by Li Jibai.

Now that it's all like this, cooperation is impossible, let's just tear it apart, Li Jibai has no scruples anymore.

In fact, he regretted it. If he had known the result earlier, he would not have pushed Lin Shen out in the first place.In addition, Luo Yi and the doctor told him about Lin Shen's injury last night, which made him even more annoyed.

He couldn't tell what it felt like, anger, heartache mixed with regret, these rare emotions came up all at once, making him unable to calm down.I completely forgot that I sent people out by myself.

Lin Shen remained silent, not responding, not insulting, not breaking down was the last decency he left for himself.

Li Jibai stared at him, watching Lin Shen put up a barrier to wrap himself up.So he was even more annoyed, and he didn't know who it was, his tone was gloomy and irritable, and he blurted out hurtful words: "Since you don't want to, why provoke him and meet him alone?"

There was a crack on Lin Shen's face, he slowly raised his head, the bruises on the brow bone were scary.He opened his mouth and made a hoarse voice similar to a mournful moan: "I didn't...provoke him."

After all, he was young, facing the person he loved the most who had just brought him a devastating injury, he gradually couldn't stand the collapse: "I met him alone twice in total. The first time, in the warehouse, you know. he……"

Lin Shen paused, gritted his teeth, took a breath, and calmed down when he spoke again, as if he was talking about other people's affairs, with a kind of understatement numbness: "He gave me medicine, and I cut my thigh with glass, so he I didn’t make it to the end. Later, he probably didn’t think it was interesting, so he sent me to the hospital.”

"That time he took a video, so when we met for the second time, he used the video to threaten me to follow him, otherwise I would be ruined."

Having said that, he lowered his head and sneered.

"Being ruined? Fame and dignity are only human... concerns. I have nothing to be afraid of."

I was actually afraid that you would be worried if you found out, and that you would bring trouble to Hongbai.

Really took myself too seriously.

Wei Qidong kicked his thigh desperately last night, standing for a while in pain, the pain was so painful that his temples bulged.Lin Shen shook his body and shifted his weight to the other side, with cold sweat streaming down his face, he gritted his teeth and remained silent.

In front of him, Lin Shen, who was struggling to endure the pain and was covered in scars, overlapped with Lin Shen who was beaten up in the bar street, stimulating Li Jibai's senses.

Who is Lin Shen?It is the person who never makes mistakes by his side, the person who works for more than ten days without rest, the person who will not get sick or injured, and the person who can perfectly solve any difficult problems.

He is the one who returns by himself no matter where he is thrown.

But Li Jibai forgot that Lin Shen is a human being first and foremost.

The 18-year-old Lin Shen is already too far away from Li Jibai, so far away that he and the current Lin Shen seem to be two people.Li Jibai fell into the memory, feeling a surge of discomfort in his heart.

He realized belatedly that he seemed to have made a very absurd and irreparable wrong decision.

Lin Shen didn't go to the basement again, but was sent back to his room.

"Don't go out until the matter is resolved." Li Jibai came to a conclusion, then turned around and stopped looking at him, letting Luo Yi take him out again.

On the off-white sofa in the corner, at some point, there was a starry sky blue watch. It was the watch that Lin Shen took out from his pocket just now, and Li Jibai left it in the room.

Like silent sarcasm.

Li Jibai picked up the watch, walked quickly to the window, and threw it out with a wave of his hand.

The cracking sound of the watch can be clearly heard in the distance, as if it exploded in the ear, and the debris splashed in the bottom of my heart.