Deer in the forest

As soon as Li Jibai went downstairs, he was surrounded by Qihang's major shareholders.

Coincidentally, today is Qihang's annual meeting of shareholders. Li Jibai also received an invitation earlier, but he turned it down for any reason.Qihang has been doing business with Hongbai for a long time, and he is familiar with several shareholders, so he never thought that he would meet them in the bathroom.Now, it would be unreasonable not to go downstairs to say hello.

After a few pleasantries, one of the familiar shareholders began to inquire about Li Jibai's "lover", apparently he had already told everyone about the person he met just now.Li Jibai didn't intend to hide Lin Shen anymore, so he readily admitted that his lover was the original special assistant Lin Shen.

Hearing that the person involved himself confessed, the people present congratulated each other with different expressions.Li Jibai didn't care what the unimportant people thought, he cared about the people upstairs, and after a few words of entertainment, he took his leave and left.

Lin Shen was still sitting there with his head down, as if he was looking at something.

When Li Jibai called him, a trace of panic flashed across Lin Shen's face when he raised his head.There is nothing wrong with the picture in front of him. There is still half of the dessert in front of Lin Shen, and there is a small piece of crushed rosemary in the plate farther away. The mobile phone is still placed next to the plate.

Pretty much the same as when he left.

Li Jibai sat down with a calm face, and Zhuangruo asked again unintentionally: "What were you doing just now? Are you bored by yourself?"

The palms of his hands were slightly sweaty, and the tinnitus came without warning, and the buzzing sound all around made him very uncomfortable, but he didn't dare to shake his head, because Li Jibai knew that his tinnitus would happen when he was nervous.

"I didn't do anything, I just looked at the night scene outside." He struggled to distinguish his own voice in the noisy white noise.

Li Jibai looked at him with a bit of research and judgment, but then he smiled and returned to his previous harmless appearance, as if he was just asking casually.

"There will be a better night scene in a while." He turned his head and gestured to the waiter in the corner, and said, "Ah Shen, I have a surprise for you." Then he turned his head and looked outside.Lin Shen hadn't recovered from the tension just now, and instinctively followed him to look outside.

The floor-to-ceiling windows have a panoramic view of the whole city at night, and the fireworks that burst into the sky are reflected in the pupils of the eyes. They are gorgeous, grand, and luxurious, and clusters are lit, bloomed, and then fall gorgeously in the air. The 19-year-old Lin Shen seemed to wake up suddenly. The birthday at the fireworks display that year, the surging love in the boy's heart that year, and the happiest day in Lin Shen's life that year all came roaring back.

He stared at the outside in a daze, the mottled light and shadow of the fireworks hit his face, and he couldn't recover for a moment.

Li Jibai was very satisfied with Lin Shen's reaction. He is a master of words and an expert in controlling people's hearts.He wanted a wholehearted Lin Shen in terms of results, and he thought it was understandable to use some means in the process even if they were deformed and extreme.

"What I said just now was not on a whim." Li Jibai said what he had been thinking about for a long time, "I hope that our relationship will change from now on, not as friends, colleagues, enemies or brothers, but exclusive, A stable, long-term relationship. There is no concealment, hatred, deceit or calculation, only absolute trust and love. Ah Shen, I promise that I can do it, and you must also promise that you can do it.”

He paused, stared into Lin Shen's eyes, and added, "Just like before."

Lin Shen tilted his head and looked at the silent night sky outside. The residual heat after the fireworks can be felt through the glass, but it will completely disappear and become silent after a while.

It's probably the same with people!

Lin Shen turned his head and woke up from the daze.

But he is not the 19-year-old Lin Shen after all, and the 25-year-old Lin Shen no longer has extravagant hopes.

Those past days were like fireworks, whizzing up and then disappearing in the night.How could he still be like before!

Li Jibai was still waiting for his response, Lin Shen pressed his lips tightly, and finally gave an expression of "whatever you say, I will stand still".

On the way home, the speed of the car was stable, and the expression was normal, and the two of them were the same as when they came.Li Jibai's driving hands were very steady, with his cuffs rolled up to his elbows. If one didn't look carefully, it was difficult to find that the muscles of his forearms were tense, and even the backs of his hands had bruised veins and blood vessels.

The low air pressure flowed in the compartment, and it became more depressing as the time went on and the silence between the two of them coincided with each other.

Li Jibai's side face is hidden in the dark night, the lines are as sharp as a thin blade, which makes people tremble with fear.Lin Shen's palms were sweaty, slightly wet and cold.He rubbed his palms vigorously, and finally turned his head to look out the car window, but still didn't say a word.

I looked out the window all night today, what did I see?Li Jibai held back the questioning and dissatisfaction that was about to blurt out, took a deep breath, and increased the speed of the car again.

It was the same tonight, he didn't wait for Lin Shen's answer.But he knew that adult silence represented rejection.

The atmosphere is not good.

But Li Jibai could only endure it.

The car drove into the basement, and the two went upstairs one after the other, and then went back to the room together.Aunt Su brought up supper, Lin Shen didn't have an appetite at all, and now he couldn't eat any more, so after getting Li Jibai's approval, he went to take a bath and go to sleep.

As if hiding something.

The secret door was open, and the sound of running water in the bathroom could be heard clearly.Li Jibai was sitting on the sofa, playing with the phone, turning on and locking the screen, his eyes were as black as ink.

He called Luo Yi to come up, and threw the phone to him directly: "Go and find out what's wrong with my phone."

Lin Shen lay down after taking a shower. He was very tired from dealing with Li Jibai today, and he was so sleepy that he couldn't keep his eyes open.In a drowsy state, he felt that the door was opened and someone walked in.

He tried his best to open his eyes, Li Jibai stood by his bed like a steel tower, staring at him with a gloomy expression.

Surprised, he had already lost seven points of sleepiness, and before he had time to react, he was grabbed by the shoulders and lifted up.

Li Jibai's voice came word by word, very heavy and fierce: "You installed a virus in my phone, are you trying to escape?"

The exposure came so quickly, Lin Shen suddenly didn't know whether to admire Li Jibai's shrewdness or to lament his own bad luck.

Late at night is indeed a time of emotional collapse, and the fear after being found out seems to be diluted, because fear is useless.So, he just asked calmly, "Is this weird?"

Li Jibai was stunned for a moment by his question, and his complexion became worse with naked eyes: "I said, we can be like before, I can give you whatever you want."

He exerted a little force in his hand, and there was a trace of pain and unwillingness in his brows. After hearing Lin Shen's soft hiss, he subconsciously let go of his hand again.

"But why do you always want to leave?"

He pulled the necklace around Lin Shen's neck: "You promised never to take it off and stay with me forever."

"You killed your uncle's family and escaped far away. Some people advised me to kill you to pay with blood, while others advised me to forget it and let you live. I can't do both."

"It's better to forget each other than to forget each other. That's fucking bullshit. I'm going to find you out, and I want to be with you for the rest of my life."

"I don't hold you accountable for lying to me, and I'll do my best to make it up to you. I just hope we can go back to the past and be together." Li Jibai was deeply caught in the pain of Lin Shen's plan to escape again, and he tasted the heart-piercing pain. Feeling unresponsive, he took off his disguise, lost his usual calmness and control, and asked over and over again, Ah Shen, why, why is it not working now?

A morbid madness gradually appeared on his face.

"Don't force me to lock you up forever!"

Then he was afraid that he would scare Lin Shen, so he stepped forward and hugged him tightly, saying I love you over and over again, Ah Shen, I love you.

"You love me?" Lin Shen was on the verge of suffocation in his increasingly tight shackles, and the emotions accumulated for many years were about to collapse.He forcefully pushed a gap between them, and for the first time questioned Li Jibai with an unusually unfamiliar tone and expression.

"You say you love me?"

"That's why you threw me to Wei Qidong just because of Jiang Ning's few words? So you caught me back and locked me in the house like a dog? So you can fuck me like you treat garbage and toys?"

The corners of Lin Shen's eyes were red, there was bottomless hatred and pain in his eyes, and his lips turned white from exertion. He had never talked to Li Jibai like this before. After encountering so much neglect and injustice, he had been silent all the time. Endure it and digest it by itself, and after a while, he will be like a normal person, still a decent and capable Lin Shen.

So much so that Li Jibai selectively forgot what kind of grievances he had suffered, and then ignored whether he left indelible injuries and pains as a flesh and blood person.

Everything in the past has been hidden, but it doesn't mean it won't hurt when it is revealed.It turns out that once some scars are uncovered, there is no room for maneuver.

Li Jibai was standing by the bed, still holding Lin Shen's arm in his hand, his questioning sound was like a hammer, smashing into his flesh and blood and breaking his bones.

He only felt a wave of physical nausea coming from his abdomen, and heard Lin Shen's calm voice.

"That day at the reception, from the time you told me that you would stay tonight, we couldn't do it."

It turned out that it's not that it's dead now, but that Li Jibai and Li Jibai were dead long before Li Jibai realized it. In Lin Shen's heart, he and Li Jibai were dead.

The scene where Lin Shen drank the glass of wine he handed and turned to leave approached his eyes again. He deliberately ignored and hid it, thinking that he couldn't see, hear, or remember, and it seemed that it could be regarded as something that never happened. In fact, it was always in his heart Subconsciously, shouting, mocking, stinging, leaving him nowhere to hide.

It is he himself who has been deceiving himself.

Li Jibai opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say a word in the end.His face was ashen, his hair was messy, and he was in a mess.

He thought of what he said and did when Lin Shen was brought back from the small island; he thought of serving wine to Lin Shen with his own hands, and then casually threw him to others; he thought of Lin Shen being ignored because of Jiang Ning's injury Thoroughly; thinking of the things he did while drunk in country M.

He also thought of Lin Shen's body when the gun rang out; he thought of taking revenge time and time again in order to pick Hongbai out; he thought of the boy who was beaten and torn because of himself in the school bar street.

It turns out that if you do something wrong, you will have to pay it back no matter how long it takes.

Don't blame love for coming too late or regret for coming too late, you deserve it.He thought to himself and said, I have the final say whether you owe me or not.

It turned out that I really had the final say.

It turned out that I was the one who owed a lot of debt.

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Under the blizzard, I had to write at home.

A person like Ah Shen just endured it for a long time, but it doesn't mean he has no temper. It's time to explode.