To die

It was already 36:[-] when Lin Yan left the hospital.

There were only 24 minutes left, but he didn't wear the navy blue windbreaker that Lu Hanqian bought that day at all.

After quickly catching a taxi on the side of the road, Lin Yan had no choice but to go back first.

I hurriedly looked for the windbreaker that hadn't even cut the tag since I bought it, and was now crumpled.

It was already four fifty.

Lu Hanqian's company is located in Gaoxing Technology Business District, at least half an hour's drive away from Lin Yan's small apartment.

Lin Yan gritted his teeth and got on the taxi, staring at the time all the way, only wishing that 1 minute could not be broken into 2 minutes.

However, this time coincides with the rush hour for people getting off work, and the viaduct is congested, and at a glance, there are mountains of vehicles and a sea of ​​vehicles.

Five minutes later, Lin Yan was blocked by the side of the road, motionless.

At 57:[-], Lu Hanqian called.

He lazily asked on the other end of the phone:

"Hey, Lawyer Lin, where are you? I'll be off work in 3 minutes."

"...It's Carpeade Avenue."

"Oh, that's pretty far."

Lu Hanqian said in a nonchalant, even gloating tone, "Then you probably won't be able to make it."

Lin Yan pursed his lips tightly, holding the phone tightly with his fingers.

He patiently said in a hoarse voice: "Lu Hanqian, I was in the hospital just now, half an hour didn't even—"

"Then what shall we do?"

Lu Hanqian suddenly raised his voice, interrupted him, and said with a smile: "Lawyer Lin, your case is actually very embarrassing to me, why don't you let it go."

"..."

"Or so."

Lu Hanqian sat in the office with nothing to do, lazily said: "Or I'll wait for you for another half an hour, how about it?"

Lin Yan held the phone and said nothing.

But there was a faint, tiny breathing sound through the earpiece.Lu Hanqian knew that he didn't hang up the phone and was still listening quietly.

"What conditions."

After a long time, Lin Yan asked calmly.

"You beg me."

Lu Hanqian smiled, his legs were resting on the edge of the table, his smile was a bit sinister: "Lin Yan, I remember I taught you, you want to ask me for help, what should I say?"

"..."

Lin Yan was sitting in the back seat of the taxi. He raised his eyes and quietly looked at the translucent window glass.

Outside the gray glass is a blue sky without a single cloud.

A few tired birds stopped on the branches, rested for a while, then flapped their wings and flew away freely.

After a long silence, Lin Yan let go of his clenched lower lip, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Please, Mr. Lu."

Lu Hanqian closed his eyes and leaned back in the comfortable and spacious leather chair, feeling a little triumphant.

He raised the corners of his lips, said "um" casually, and asked, "What else?"

"..."

But this time, Lin Yan remained silent for a long time.

Lu Hanqian waited for a long while, his patience was gradually exhausted, his tone became cold, he said coldly: "Why, can't you say it, Lawyer Lin?"

"..."

"Okay," Lu Hanqian sneered, and was about to cut off the phone: "Lin Yan, you asked for this."

"……I love you."

But suddenly, at the last moment when Lu Hanqian was about to hang up, Lin Yan said suddenly.

His Adam's apple rolled slowly, Lin Yan leaned against the window glass, closed his eyes in a slumped manner, and said in a low, dumb voice:

"I love you, Mr. Lu... I beg you."

"..."

This sentence seems to be a spell, hidden in a mysterious magic power.

Lu Hanqian was burned by it, his whole body couldn't help burning up, his heart was hot and dry, and his mouth was extremely dry.

Every cell is faintly excited, trembling, and at a loss.

"I'll wait for you until 05:30."

Lu Hanqian choked for a moment, unconsciously licked his lower lip, and said in a low voice, "This is the last chance."

However, halfway through, the sky began to rain gradually.

The dense rain curtain seemed to be poured down from pots of water, and the sewer was rattling non-stop, and the raindrops hit the ground, stirring up a layer of white water vapor.

Pedestrians outside the car walked in a hurry, hurrying on their way in the pouring rain.

Lin Yan glanced at the time: five nineteen.

"Master, how long will it take to arrive at Jinye Mansion?"

Lin Yan looked at the long queue of traffic ahead and asked.

The driver glanced at Lin Yan in the rearview mirror, also helpless: "There are only three or four kilometers left. If there is no traffic jam, it will take up to five or six minutes. But now that the traffic jam is like this, it's hard to say how long it will take."

Lin Yan was silent, thinking of what Lu Hanqian had said, he took out a piece of cash from his pocket and handed it to the driver in advance: "Please stop in front, I will walk over by myself."

At 23:[-], Lin Yan got out of the car.

He didn't have an umbrella, and his hair and face were covered with water.

When he walked into the lobby of Lu Hanqian's company, his whole body was already soaked.

Every time he took a step, a wet rain mark was left on the smooth white marble floor.

(under)

It was far from six o'clock, but the elevators were all out of service.

——Lu Hanqian gave all the employees off work early, just to tease Lin Yan, telling him to climb the stairs to the seventeenth floor.

In order to catch up with the last 7 minutes, Lin Yan ran here in the rain.

He was already out of breath, and there seemed to be a cluster of flames in his lungs, climbing up the trachea, so hot that it hurt even to breathe.Looking at the endless stairs at this moment, I simply don't know how long I have to climb.

From head to toe, there was no place where Lin Yan was not dripping water. He had never been so embarrassed.

It was completely dark outside at this time, Lin Yan turned on the light of his mobile phone and walked up the dark stairwell.

The white marble was clean and cold, and the light shone on it, showing an inhuman aura.

Lin Yan could imagine that outside of this pitch-black building, there was the low night, the alternately flashing neon lights, the warm and continuous lights of thousands of houses, and the bustling world of mortals.

But these never belonged to him.

When he reached the thirteenth floor, Lin Yan was really tired. The rain and sweat mixed together and stuck to his skin like a cold snake spitting out a letter.

His legs seemed to be filled with lead, his heart was beating fast, and Lin Yan felt that his ears were ringing again.

When Lu Hanqian called, Lin Yan flicked the screen numbly with trembling hands, and pressed the answer button:

"I'm here, on the fourteenth floor."

He said.

"Didn't I tell you that my office is on the seventeenth floor?"

Lu Hanqian's tone didn't fluctuate: "Lin Yan, is this your obedience?"

Lin Yan leaned against the cold wall and closed his eyes wearily: "...I really can't walk anymore. Lu Hanqian, my heart can't stand your tossing like this."

"What is tossing?"

Lu Hanqian asked him back: "Lin Yan, why are you late, why don't you ask me to guess?"

"Because you couldn't find the windbreaker I gave you—"

He said indifferently: "You will think, when did that scumbag give me a trench coat? Which one? You open the closet and find that the closet is full of things I gave you-but they were discarded by you at will. The heap, still in the corner of the closet like a heap of rags, waiting to gather dust, melt and rot without anyone knowing."

"..."

Lu Hanqian smiled, and then asked: "Lin Yan, how long did it take you to find it, why don't you tell me, maybe it can make me happier?"

Lin Yan was silent and did not speak.

"It was my birthday present to you last year, three months ago."

"Lu Hanqian—"

"So, I'm not torturing you, Lin Yan."

Lu Hanqian said: "It's just that you have to know that if you ruin other people's feelings, that person will also feel uncomfortable."

"Come down."

Lin Yan didn't make any excuses, just rubbed the center of his brows, and said tiredly: "I know what you want to do. I'm not qualified to sleep in Mr. Lu's bed anyway. Is it in the office or in the stairwell? So-called."

"I'm not in the office anymore."

However, Lu Hanqian said coldly: "Lawyer Lin, even a lowly mb must be punctual. Do you think it's so easy to make money selling your ass these days?"

Lin Yan was sitting on the steps of the stairs. There was wind in the stairwell, and it blew on his wet clothes. The cold air was like small knives, piercing into the bones of people.

He felt very cold, so he curled up a little, covering his heart with one hand.

"..."

He heard himself say in a hoarse, wooden voice, somewhat unfamiliar: "Mr. Lu, please do it|I'll do it... I beg you."

Sitting in the warm and dry living room, Lu Hanqian heard him say that, it was clear that he had succeeded, but he felt sour and strangely annoyed.

"I'll wait for you at home."

He replied in a very bad tone, and hung up the phone before Lin Yan could reply.

Lin Yan rested on the thirteenth floor, but still climbed the last four floors.

He walked to the entrance of the stairwell, and sure enough, the lights in the entire corridor had been extinguished.There are only a few green "safe passage" signs, glowing faintly in the dark.

Half of the building went dark, only a few floors were still working overtime, with a few sporadic lights on.

Lin Yan stood there quietly without moving for a long time.

Rainwater slid down the ends of his hair and landed on the collar of his windbreaker, which was also wet.

After a long time, Lin Yan turned around and went down the stairs very calmly.

The stairway was pitch black, like a long corridor with no light and no end.

Lin Yan could not see where he came from, nor where he was going, let alone how far he had traveled.

And this road, he has walked for too long.

The rain outside has not stopped, on the contrary, it seems to be raining harder.

Lin Yan's shoes were full of water, and his clothes were wet too. It didn't matter, but he felt a little guilty for getting the seat of the car wet while taking a taxi.

It was already ten o'clock at home, Lu Hanqian was really waiting in the living room, watching the football game after taking a shower.

Lin Yan opened the door and didn't even look at him, as if this person was air, he just changed his shoes in the hallway.

Then go to the bathroom to change out of the wet clothes and wash up.

The two of them didn't talk to each other, Lu Hanqian put his hands on Erlang's upturned legs, his eyes locked on the TV screen and remained motionless.

It seems to be very serious.

Until the sound of water came from the bathroom, his fingers holding the remote control tightened unconsciously.

The moisture in the bathroom quickly rose, and the narrow space was filled with white mist for a while.Lin Yan adjusted the temperature of the water so hot that it was almost scalding. When it poured on his skin that had just been drenched in the rain, there was a burning sensation.

But Lin Yan seemed to be having trouble with himself, and kept turning up the heat until his pale and cold skin became red and numb.

——Perhaps, he actually hoped that the warm water vapor would pass through the skin and flow through the blood to warm his heart.

Finally, he turned off the shower, wrapped himself in a towel and walked out.

The sound of the water stopped, and there was the sound of Lin Yanjian walking in cotton slippers.

The sound is getting closer.

Lu Hanqian's palms felt a little hot, and his Adam's apple rolled slightly unconsciously, but he still insisted on staring at the TV screen without squinting.

Finally, the footsteps stopped in front of him, and Lu Hanqian felt a warm and moist air, mixed with Lin Yan's usual light fragrance of bath liquid, blowing towards his face.

Lu Hanqian had to raise his eyes.

Lin Yan stood in front of him, just finished taking a shower, his hair was still dripping water, and the roots of his ears were white and delicate.

He smiled, with seven points of indifference and three points of sarcasm, and said softly: "Whatever you want, just come and get it."