drowning tide

It was already late at night when Yi Huai and the others came out of Wu Yichun's villa. Occasionally, there was a rustling sound of insects in the quiet garden, and fine dust flew up and down under the dim light of the courtyard lamp.

There were several black BMWs parked on the driveway of the main entrance, and several bodyguards in black were standing on the side of the road smoking, but when they saw the target appear, their eyes instantly focused on Yi Huai beside He Kun.

The gentle man at the head, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, walked up to Yi Huai and bowed respectfully, "Mr. Yi, please forgive us for being late, we will send you back now."

Yi Huai looked at the whole train team and the bodyguards waiting in front of him, his pale face showed no expression.

This person is a familiar face he has seen around Luo Yi, even if he met before, it was only a nodding acquaintance, but it was the first time for him to have such a direct conversation.

"It's very late now, do you have anything else to do?" The gold-rimmed glasses saw that he was motionless, and there was more probing interest in his gaze.

Yi Huai glanced at him, and then he spoke with the same expression as usual, "Is Fei Chuan okay?"

Even if he knew the existence of that will, he still didn't feel that he could dispatch Luo Yi's cronies at will. In this case, it would be clear at a glance whose handwriting it was. It's not him but Fei Chuan.

The man wearing glasses opened the car door for him, and gave him an extremely professional standard smile by the way, "The doctor said that there will be no problem after resting."

"Really? That way I'm relieved."

Yi Huai leaned over and got into the car, and after a while the gold-rimmed glasses followed suit. Whether it was intentional or not, He Kun and the others were completely separated from him, leaving no room for a few brief explanations. No.

During the more than an hour of driving on the road, Yi Huai just quietly watched the flying scenery outside the car window, and occasionally said a few words to the gold-rimmed glasses.

"Were you there last night?"

The gold-rimmed glasses turned his head, a crack appeared on the shell of cold politeness, revealing the hesitation in it, "I'm here. This matter is our fault, I didn't expect that woman to..."

In fact, everyone present was related to what happened last night. They obeyed Luo Yi's arrangement and let him and Mo Xinya sit alone in the back row, so they couldn't react at the moment the incident happened.

If it wasn't like this... Yi Huai closed his eyes and opened them after a long time, "Then...is he in pain?"

The gold-rimmed glasses, who thought they would wait to criticize and criticize, opened their mouths, and then closed them abruptly.

Yi Huai saw his slightly funny reaction, "Forget it, you don't need to answer this question, I know it well."

This woman Mo Xinya's marksmanship is really average. The bullet missed the heart but accidentally injured the pulmonary artery, causing massive blood loss and suffocation. How could such a death be painless?

The car stopped in front of a majestic high-rise building, the Jinlong Hotel, and Yi Huai had a rough idea of ​​the number in his mind as he read those resplendent and magnificent characters.

This external publicity has repeatedly emphasized that the hotel with six-star facilities is one of the most famous properties of the Luo family. It has opened up a new world of exquisite luxury in the city center where every inch of land is expensive. Since then, it has become an important meeting point for the local high society by virtue of its unbelievably expensive prices and service quality that can satisfy all wishes of customers.

"Let's go in."

Yi Huai was surrounded by Luo Yi's bodyguards and cronies, but He Kun and the others still couldn't get close.

These people looked at him with different emotions, the better ones were curiosity that they thought they had hidden well, and the ones that almost put their disapproval on their faces.

"Boss Luo has been living here before."

They took the direct elevator to the 31st floor—the 31st and 32nd floors are not open to outsiders, and are the private space of investor Luo Yi.

After the elevator doors opened, Jinsi Glasses briefly introduced the purpose of each door to Yi Huai, "This is Mr. Luo's study room. The password was set by Mr. Luo before. I don't know what it is. If you don't You can reset it if you like."

He handed the magnetic card to open the door to Yi Huai, "If you lose this card, you have to change the lock."

"Just keep it like this."

Yi Huai opened the door with a magnetic card. The furnishings in the study were still the same as when Luo Yi left. He casually picked up a document on the table and opened it to read two pages. His breath stopped when he saw the familiar writing on it.

"Do you have any other orders?"

Standing at the door with golden glasses, Yi Huai raised his eyes, "Go down, I want to be alone."

"Yes." Before leaving, the gold-rimmed glasses suddenly said again, "Fei Chuan asked me to bring you something."

"what?"

"White Eagle Cruiser."

Yi Huai was stunned.

The white eagle cruiser model is a birthday present from Fei Chuan. This model focuses on scale reduction without missing any details. There are a lot of exquisite small parts. If one is missing, the whole ship may have problems. As soon as he got it, he looked at the list and put the parts from different places into the box by category.When the box was almost at the bottom, he noticed that there was a note inside, which was written with a series of complex letters and numbers - most people might throw this away after a second glance, but he has been more cautious than others since he was a child , so immediately put the note away.

It's not that he has never been curious about the usefulness of this string of characters, but after being disappointed too many times, he gradually stopped trying it. To this day, it is still deeply imprinted in his mind.

Fei Chuan will specifically emphasize this point at this time, does it mean that this string of characters will help him?He took a deep breath, "I see, thank you."

When he was leaving, the gold-rimmed glasses thoughtfully closed the door for him.

Yi Huai sat where Luo Yi used to be, and tried to log in to Luo Yi's main account in the internal system with the password Fei Chuan gave him.

Wrong password, you have up to two more chances.He looked at the error message on the screen with no surprise - after all, it happened so many years ago, how could someone like Luo Yi never change his password?

He stood in place, watching the dark background, his brain running at high speed.No matter what kind of person Fei Chuan is usually, it is absolutely impossible for him to joke with him about this kind of thing, that sentence must have some meaning...

"Impossible..." He glanced at Luo Yi's name from the corner of his eye, and an almost absurd idea came to his mind.

He entered his name with trembling hands, and then tried to log in using that string of characters as a password.

The account was successfully activated, and the three main permissions were activated... He finally couldn't help it when he heard the female voice of the system, and punched the mahogany desk, making a loud noise.

"Why do you all like to do this kind of thing?"

This account has the same authority as Luo Yi, and can freely access all information classified as top secret.

He pressed his trembling right hand, forcing himself to calm down and look at the documents and records left by Luo Yi—in Fei Chuan's ward, he boasted that Haikou would finish what Luo Yi hadn't done, but in fact it was him He didn't even know exactly what Luo Yi had done.

Now he must grasp the status quo in the shortest possible time and then make a decision.

After an unknown amount of time, someone knocked on the door, and he subconsciously wanted to call someone's name, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered where he was at the moment.

"Come in."

"It's dawn soon, you'd better sleep."

He Kun put the cup in his hand in front of him, he took it and put it aside, his eyes still did not move away from the screen, "Why is it your turn to do such a thing?"

"Who else but me?"

Normally, his assistant would do this kind of thing, but due to the bad weather next door, his personal assistant could only come here tomorrow, so He Kun could only temporarily wrong himself.

"You look bad."

Yi Huai didn't touch the coffee he brought over, his eyes stayed on the report, "I know, I'll go to sleep after reading this."

He Kun had done his duty, and stopped persuading him to rest, "I'm just outside, call me if you need anything."

The dead silence returned to the study room, and Yi Huai maintained the same posture until the hour and minute hands changed from an acute angle to a large obtuse angle.

As a big man who once called the wind and rain in the underworld, Wu Yichun is naturally not a fuel-efficient lamp. Although he has passed his initial test, if he cannot be satisfied with the follow-up, then this fragile alliance based on the past friendship with Luo Yi It might be torn apart at any time, and...he suddenly couldn't bear to look any further, pushed away everything in front of him, his eyes fell on a certain point in the void, and his chest heaved violently.

Moreover, Wu Yichun still has Mo Xinya as the key bargaining chip in his hands, so he can be said to be completely at a disadvantage.

How long has it been since he was so panicked?The last time it all dates back to the time when Nie Xicheng had an accident. He stayed alone in a deserted room, thinking that the destruction of the world was nothing more than that.

The complex business of the group, the tightrope-walking partnership with Wu Yichun, and Mo Zhengya, who is a centipede who is dead but not stiff... all the pressure is on his shoulders. If he fails to do a good job in one place, then Luo Yi's revenge, which he had planned for so long, would fall short.

If he failed, how would he face everyone including the dead Luo Yi?

"How could I be this material, you really think too highly of me..." He slumped back, covering his sore eyes with his arms, "You never consider my situation, and I'm not How could you do such a thing?"

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Probably due to the fact that he was bedridden and overwhelmed with worry, the first night he spent in the guest bedroom, Yi Huai slept very restlessly, and kept having strange and bizarre dreams.

In his dream, he could also hear the high-rise wind blowing against the windowpanes, and the countless scattered fragments in front of him put together and turned into a large montage of dark gray.

He stumbled and walked in this mist, and the afterimage of the past stretched out long tentacles to wrap around his body.

In the pain of almost suffocation, a certain figure appeared in front of his eyes.

The handsome man looked down at him with teasing eyes, but there was no warmth in his words, "Why should I help you?"

"……I have no idea."

I really don't know?He lowered his head to look at his hands, which were a pair of grown-up hands, with well-proportioned joints, and a thin callus on the fingertips from holding guns all year round.In fact, I know, I know the answer.

"Well, I promise you. Correspondingly, you have to make a deal with me... Don't worry, I know you can't afford the money. I want you."

Don't talk about it.He covered his ears unbearably, but the voice kept drilling into his mind like a gangrene.

"From today onwards, you will live here and live with me. Don't think too much, I have no habit of abusing people, I will send you to school, and the people who take care of me will take care of you. Generally speaking, daily life is the same as There is not much difference between you and Nie's family. There is only one thing, and that is, if you dissatisfy me in any way, I will kill you. "

You won't, you won't kill me.He crouched down and buried his head between his legs.You won't kill me, you are just a horrible person, but in fact you are not such a person at all.

"Now you can go back to your room... Well, it's the one over there. I've had someone decorate it for you."

Hearing the sound of the door opening, he opened his eyes suddenly, looking at the time on the wall clock, he fell asleep for less than an hour.

This short sleep didn't give him a feeling of relaxation. There seemed to be a tendon in his head twisted, throbbing, and the pain made him frown.

"Ro..."

In the darkness, someone was quietly watching him by the door.

This person is not Luo Yi, Luo Yi will not come back, this person is more familiar to him...

"Nie Xicheng."

He heard his own weak voice.

"it's me."

Nie Xicheng's tense outline relaxed a little.

He walked towards this side quickly, and Yi Huai tried to sit up, but he couldn't use his hands and feet, so he was pushed back before he succeeded.

"Xiao Liang?"

Yi Huai tried to tease him, but Nie Xicheng shook his head, "No, it's your bodyguard, the one named He Kun, and I let him go when I saw it."

"Thank you so much, I'll give him a raise another day."

Nie Xicheng bent down, and the faces of the two were so close that they could both see their own reflection in the other's eyes.

Yi Huai blinked, he always knew that Nie Xicheng was a very attractive man, but at such a close distance, his deep and handsome facial features still made him a little dizzy.

"Is there anything you want to say to me?"

Nie Xicheng's breath made him itchy. He put his arms around the man's neck and pulled him down slowly, "Do you want to sleep with me?"

"That's not it."

It's a pity that Nie Xicheng didn't buy it, "Your eyes are saying, this is not what you want to tell me."

Yi Huai looked at him silently.

"I'll listen to whatever you say, so don't lie in front of me..."

"yes……?"

"Yes," Nie Xicheng rubbed his cheek with the tip of his nose, "I am the person who understands you best in this world."

Yi Huai didn't speak, but just increased the strength in his hands, hugging him tightly like a drowning person grabbing the last piece of driftwood.

The expensive woolen cloth was crumpled under his fingers, and he buried his face in the man's neck. The familiar breath calmed his restless heart, followed by a more terrifying panic.

What should I do if I lose even this person?I really can't live, I'm going to die.

I will die, I must die, I must die from the pain of heartbreak.He bit his lip until the smell of rust permeated his entire mouth, then he said hoarsely, "I only have you left, Nie Xicheng, I only have you left."

"I know." Nie Xicheng let him hug him without moving, "So I won't abandon you."

At this moment, they are like the mirror images of ten years ago.

The teenager who had lost his father hugged him desperately, with such strength that he doubted that he would be crushed.

——Ah Huai, I don’t have a father anymore.

The bleak moonlight slipped in through the cracks in the curtains, lingering on the floor, and he tried hard to draw the living strength from this person, like a vine.

"You don't need to be patient with me."

The more he bit the inside of his mouth, the more scalding heat surged up uncontrollably, blocking his throat.

Because he was too depressed in front of other people during the day, now he doesn't know how to cry.

The backlog of pain made him tremble silently, Nie Xicheng stroked his gentle hair, his voice was almost unbelievably gentle, "You can tell me about him."

Nie Xicheng's words seemed to turn on a switch. He took a deep breath and spoke weakly, "The day before he left, I called his brother, and he agreed, and he actually agreed."

He and Luo Yi had never been close, until the hidden truth was revealed, they never sat down to have a proper conversation.

The hatred, misunderstandings, and complex emotions that have been passed down from the previous generation have become huge mountains between them.

With great difficulty, he overcame all obstacles and came before his biological father whom he had never known and his elder brother who had just let go of his suspicions, but on the eve of everything getting better, the thread connecting them was broken again, leaving only Leave him alone in this world looking at the broken thread in his hand.

"I'm not used to calling him brother, but I think I'll get used to it one day..."

But that day will never come again.He grabbed Nie Xicheng's clothes, "I..."

At first there were only a few sporadic whimpers, but once the forcibly suppressed pain started, it could no longer be hidden, and it turned into almost voiceless wails.