To die

That night, Lu Hanqian almost stayed up all night.

Ever since he parted with Lin Yan and returned home, he had been in a trance state.

He took a bath as if he lost his soul, lay down on the bed, and then kept his eyes open until dawn.

Until six o'clock tomorrow night, he can still breathe the air of the same city as Lin Yan.

Although he couldn't see him, Lu Hanqian knew that he was in a certain corner of Lancheng, existing safely.

If Lin Yan didn't leave, he could have been waiting for the evening to arrive.

After getting through the morning and afternoon, at [-]:[-], I can't wait to put on the thick doll costume, go to the park and happily sit beside Lin Yan, listening to Lin Yan talking to him with a smile.

It's not that from then on, the world will never meet again.

He will no longer know where Lin Yan is, whether he is doing well, or how his health is.

Even if one day, Lin Yan quietly stops breathing somewhere in the world, Lu Hanqian may still be waiting for the day when he returns.

Lin Yan will die in a corner that he doesn't know.

Thinking of this, Lu Hanqian's heart ached like a wrenching pain, and he even felt a little suffocated for breathing.

He spent the whole day like a walking corpse. In the evening, without dinner, Lu Hanqian still put on the thick doll clothes, went to the park, and sat in the leisure place where he had been sitting with Lin Yan for the past few days. chair.

The park was still bustling with people coming and going, and it didn't make any difference because of Lin Yan's departure.

Under the red sunset, a huge Kumamon bear hangs its head alone and sits quietly on an empty chair.

There was a space around him, but the person he was waiting for never appeared again.

"......raging!"

A toddler leaned over, his baby teeth were not fully grown, he pointed at Lu Hanqian, and said with a giggle, "Mom, bear!"

He threw himself on Lu Hanqian's knee, Lu Hanqian was stunned and stunned, and he didn't respond to such a bump.

Under Kumamon's red cheeks and the hood with a silly grin, Lu Hanqian was crying with his eyes open unconsciously.

His fingers kick back on the bench, gripping very, very tightly.

He tried his best not to stand up, not to rush to the airport recklessly, like a rascal without dignity, grabbed Lin Yan, hugged him tightly, and told him not to leave.

You have to have a little backbone.

Lu Hanqian said to himself in his heart, if he likes it terribly, he must also be decent.

He tried his best to suppress himself like this, for a whole hour, until the clock tower in the park finally crossed six o'clock, and a plane flew across the distance in the sky, leaving only a white cloud of the plane, he suddenly trembled and relaxed. open hands.

Due to excessive force, Lu Hanqian's fingers had been picked to the point of turning white and numb.

He raised his head tremblingly, looking at the bell tower——

Six minutes and seven seconds past six.

September 13 NO.[-], [-]:[-]:[-].

At this moment, he finally lost Lin Yan forever.

Sweat dripped from his forehead drop by drop, and flowed into Lu Hanqian's eyes.

Kumamoto sat there calmly with his head bowed, but under this heavy disguise, Lu Hanqian choked up and cried like a child who lost his most beloved one.

He couldn't control the tears, and the tears kept pouring out——

This was the first time Lu Hanqian cried aloud in more than 20 years.

When Mrs. Lu stabbed him with a needle when he was a child, Lu Hanqian just stared at this woman viciously, without saying a word. The little boy's dark eyes were full of hatred, and he vowed to make her look good when he grew up.

When he grew up, he became even more domineering, and no one had ever dared to make him cry.

It was Lin Yan who gave him a wonderful dream, and pushed Lu Hanqian away.

There are more than [-] "little things" to be done in the mobile phone memo.

But Lu Hanqian can no longer realize it.

A week after Lin Yan left, Lu Hanqian didn't go out.

He found out all the things Lin Yan left unintentionally before, such as the worn-out leather case for his lawyer's certificate, the scarf he forgot in the car, a few perfumes he didn't take away...

Lu Hanqian put all these things in the bedroom, and then fell asleep.

Occasionally when he woke up, he would touch each of them, his movements were very, very gentle.It was as if Lin Yan was still by his side.

Lu Hanqian became more and more lethargic.

——Lan City no longer had Lin Yan, so he went to Meng Li to look for it.

During this period, some things happened in the Lu family.

Mother Lu's headache was getting worse and worse, but Lu Beizheng always only called the family doctor to see him, and kept bringing the newcomers back for the night.

Mrs. Lu questioned that Lu Beizheng wanted to kill her, and fought with him, but accidentally slipped and fell down the stairs.

Lu Hanqian asked, and after making sure that she was not dead, he acted as if nothing had happened, and didn't even go back to take a look.

That family was so exhausting, Lu Hanqian sometimes thought that if he lived with someone like Lu Beizheng for the rest of his life, even if he was blessed with wealth, his life would probably be shortened by more than ten years.

He really couldn't figure out why Mother Lu didn't just divorce Lu Beizheng.

At the cost of falling down the stairs, Lu's mother finally entered the hospital as she wished.

She called Lu Hanqian from the hospital bed: "Son, do you know any doctors, can you introduce them to your mother? Don't let your father know..."

Lu Hanqian was in a daze, and after reacting for a long time, he slowly reported a series of numbers.

On the way there seemed to be a nurse who came to make rounds and said to Mother Lu:

"Your blood picture is not good, you need to do a more detailed examination..."

Mrs. Lu reflexively covered the receiver, and Lu Hanqian said "Hello" several times before hearing the voice over there again.

He didn't notice at the time that Lin Yan's departure made him unable to recover for a long time, and his reaction was much slower than usual.

Sometimes sleeping until midnight, Lu Hanqian would habitually grope around, trying to grab Lin Yan into his arms.

But it wasn't until he fell off the bed with a "bang" that he realized that Lin Yan had left.

The moonlight shines in through the floor-to-ceiling windows lonely, and hits the floor silently.

Lu Hanqian sat under the bed blankly, a corner of the quilt was pulled down by him, he was bathed in the white moonlight, his expression showed an indescribable loneliness and sadness.

Lin Yan went to Beijing and then went abroad, everything was arranged by Gu Zhao.

In order not to be tempted to inquire about Lin Yan's whereabouts, Lu Hanqian even cut off contact with Gu Zhao.

He didn't dare to call Gu Zhao, and just stayed silent, forcing himself to come out slowly.

However, until one day, Gu Zhao took the initiative to call Lu Hanqian.

"Where are you?"

Gu Zhao opened his mouth to ask, for some reason, his voice sounded inexplicably nervous.

"...at home."

"I have something to tell you."

Gu Zhao said seriously, "Did you know... Lin Lu came back from Beijing by car after arriving in Beijing?"

Lu Hanqian didn't know what it was like to be in spring.

But when he was unshaven, with bloodshot eyes, wearing crumpled pajamas and holding up the phone, when he heard Gu Zhao say these words, he could only feel his heart beating wildly, like a walking dead monster that has been numb for many years , suddenly came back to life!

"......What did you say?"

Lu Hanqian was trembling, almost unable to lift the phone, and urgently confirmed with Gu Zhao inarticulately: "Lin Yan hasn't left? Is he still in Lancheng?"

"Yes, Hanqian."

Gu Zhao whispered: "But this is not good news - because after he came back, he submitted a material to the court very secretly and reported your family. After he came out of the court, he disappeared."

Before Lu Hanqian recovered from the sudden joy, Gu Zhao continued: "I'm calling here mainly to ask you, Hanqian, are you clear about your father's relationship with the public prosecutor and the law? Where have we come?"



"...Where did you go?"

Lu Hanqian was taken aback when he heard the words, and subconsciously said: "Ju Yin calls my dad brother, and comes to our house every New Year's Day to pay New Year's greetings, what do you think?"

He also thought that Gu Zhao was worried about the Lu family, and said, "It's okay, Lin Yan can't make trouble if he turns the world upside down, he is just so naive..."

Unexpectedly, Gu Zhao took a breath and said the next moment, "It's broken."

Lu Hanqian didn't understand the seriousness of the matter, so he asked out of the blue:

"......how?"

"I said, why does Lin Lu go to Beijing and come back again—if he doesn't want to leave, he doesn't have to get on the plane and it's over?"

Gu Zhaofei said quickly: "I sent Qingqing to follow Lin Lu, mainly because I was afraid that Lin Lu's mental condition would be bad and something would happen on the road. But yesterday, Qingqing told me via video that Lin Lu went back. Before leaving, we met in Beijing A 'Mr.'."

"..."

Lu Hanqian's mind was buzzing.

"I felt something was wrong at the time, and wanted to get Lin Lu back, but there was no news."

Gu Zhao said anxiously: "Until just now, Xiaoxiao finally found out that the last place where Lin Lu appeared was the court."

Lu Hanqian could hardly lift the phone anymore.

"......He's crazy......"

Lu Hanqian murmured, almost speechless: "Why, how come he still doesn't know how unruly our family is!?"

Lan City is the main merchant, and countless wealthy merchants have settled here.

From the level of development of its entertainment industry, it can be seen that this city can almost be said to be a gold-selling cave for the rich.

There is no happiness that money cannot buy here.

And in this city above the clouds, at the top of the pyramid is the Lu family.

Back then Lu Hanqian dared to speak out and threatened Lin Yan that he would not be able to win a lawsuit from now on.

Political and business collusion has become the norm in Lancheng, and the relationship is intricate. With the Lu family's connections and power, it is not an exaggeration to say that Lancheng is half of their family's back garden.

Lin Yan thought that the more evidence he had, the better his chances of winning, but it was not the case.

——but the more evidence he had, the less he could survive!

"...Maybe he hid it himself?"

Lu Hanqian was a little trembling, forced a smile, and said: "What can he know... Just the financial transactions? Are you kidding me..."

"Hanqian," Gu Zhaoya said in a low voice, "I know you're panicking now, but you can't lie to yourself. Lin Lu has been with you for so long, and he has the full time and conditions to find out what he wants to know. everything."

"We now ... have to prepare for the worst."

Lu Hanqian didn't speak for a while.

"...Okay, I'll let Li Nan find it now."

After a long time, Lu Hanqian said in a hoarse voice, "Is the court right? I'll call Yin Chang."

"I'm sorry, Hanqian."

Gu Zhao said in a low voice, his voice was full of guilt: "I didn't do this well, I was careless, if there is something wrong with Lin Lu—"

"He won't have any ups and downs."

Lu Hanqian said softly: "If there is, it's useless for you to apologize."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Hanqian stood quietly in the living room for several minutes.

From Lin Yan's departure, knowing that he has returned to Lancheng, to now that he is gone, every item is a shock to Lu Hanqian.

After recovering, Lu Hanqian took a deep breath, walked to the bathroom, and started calling Li Nan.

15 minute later.

"Well, yes, get everything ready. I'm going back over there."

Lu Hanqian raised his eyes calmly. After taking a bath, he could no longer see the sluggishness of the past few days.He looked at himself in the mirror, washed his face, trimmed his beard, finally put on a clean shirt and suit, and quickly gave himself a haircut.

Lu Hanqian opened the drawers one by one, found a suitable bottle of perfume and sprayed it on his wrist and neck:

"And find me a child, clever and tight-lipped, I'll go to Jinye to take him with me in 10 minutes."

"...Yes, boss."

"Li Nan, I'm going to explain to you today, I can't tell the second person, understand?"

Lu Hanqian put the things he needed into the bag one by one, and finally said in a low voice: "You belong to me, not the Lu family. This is the question I asked you on the first day you went to work. After so many years, you Is the answer still the same?"

How dare Li Nan say that there is any difference—Lu Hanqian has already given him the plan. Isn't it just waiting to be silenced after disembarking at this time? He replied instantly:

"Yes boss. I will never betray you."

Lu Hanqian nodded: "Okay. You know the result of not doing it."

Li Nan's back almost went cold.

Lu Hanqian drove all the way to Lu's house. Before getting out of the car, he stared at the newcomer selected by Li Nan with cold eyes:

"Has Li Nan told you all about it?"

The little newcomer shrank and nodded.

"When did we both start?"

"Half, half a month ago."

"Anyone who asks you has to say that."

Lu Hanqian said coldly: "Otherwise, you won't be able to stand out in this life. The liquidated damages of [-] million, if I sell you to Yundu to accompany you, you will have to pay it back in ten fucking lifetimes, understand?"

"......Yes."

"go in."

Lu Hanqian closed the car door: "Perform yourself well, I'll get you any leading man on the big screen."

The Lu Family Manor was as extravagant as ever.

Lu Hanqian walked in through the main entrance with the young novice in his arms, and the concierge and several servants immediately came out to greet him: "Master is back?"

"Where's my dad?"

Lu Hanqian threw the car keys to the concierge: "It's parked outside, you don't need to go into the garage, just turn around for me."

With a smile on his face, the servant helped Lu Hanqian take the things in his hands, and handed him a handkerchief to wipe his hands: "Sir, I'm on the fourth floor with my friends. It's been a while, so it's just right for you to go up."

Lu Hanqian nodded, also smiled, and waved to the newcomer: "Come on, Anan, come up with me."

He intimately led the little newcomer up to the fourth floor, and there was nothing unusual about him.At the top of the stairs, a man happened to come out of the living room and passed by Lu Hanqian.

Lu Hanqian didn't look sideways, and didn't even turn the corner of his eyes, but after the man walked by, he suddenly turned his head slightly, and looked at Lu Hanqian belatedly.

"Jinye's turnover this quarter."

Lu Hanqian walked into the small hall and threw the file bag on the table: "The profit is not bad."

Lu Beizheng stood in front of the French window of the balcony, holding a wine glass in his hand, he took a sip slowly, and said "um" casually.

"I am leaving."

Lu Hanqian said: "The crazy woman slipped down the stairs? Is it serious? I'll go to the hospital to see her."

Lu Beizheng was very indifferent, as if what Lu Hanqian mentioned was not her first wife, but some unrelated stranger.

"Business must be done well, and people around you must also be careful."

Lu Beizheng seemed unintentional and said, "If you don't even know the person next to your pillow, you don't even know how you died."

Lu Hanqian smiled, and snorted lazily: "Isn't it about the little lawyer, you can just say it straight, there's no need to make guesses like this."

Lu Beizheng looked at him, and Lu Hanqian went on to say: "I guess I missed him, and I will pay attention next time. Thank you first this time, ah."

He never mentioned Lin Yan's whereabouts, as if he didn't care at all.

"Anan," Lu Hanqian waved, "Let's go."

The little newcomer stepped out slightly from the door, showing his face slightly.

He was wearing a white shirt and black trousers, with a beautiful and affectionate complexion, and a tear mole under his right eye——

This is already the person Li Nan can find that best suits Lu Beizheng's aesthetics in a short period of time.

"This is Anan."

Lu Hanqian smiled, and said to Xiaoxin: "You wait for me here, I'll go downstairs and get my mother something she wants to take to the hospital."

The little newcomer nodded, Lu Hanqian had told him that he would at least delay Lu Beizheng for 15 minutes.

He was actually quite nervous. For a newcomer in the entertainment industry, getting close to Lu Beizheng and gaining his favor is simply a shortcut to success that many people dream of.

It is already a godsend opportunity for Lu Hanqian to bring him close to Lu Beizheng, and it is up to him whether he can grasp it or not.

However, what was disappointing was that Lu Beizheng didn't seem to have the slightest interest in him. During the time when Lu Hanqian left, Father Lu didn't even say a word to him.

Lu Hanqian quickly took the things back, before leaving, he smiled at Lu Beizheng and said:

"You really only listen to the laughter of the newcomers and don't hear the crying of the old ones. My mother is already in the hospital, and you still sing and sing every night."

"Aren't you the same?"

Lu Beizheng smiled, and he motioned to Anan: "This one is not as good as that lawyer surnamed Lin. But you don't even care how pitiful he is now."

Lu Hanqian slightly tightened the hand holding Anan's shoulder, did not speak, but still had a smile on his face.

"He's really nice..."

Lu Beizheng shook the wine glass in his hand, seemed to be in a daze, and said with no meaning, "It's as charming as a person I met 20 years ago...it's a pity."

Lu Hanqian didn't know how he insisted on leaving the Lu family as if nothing had happened.

As soon as he entered the urban area, he immediately stopped and let the little newcomer go back to Jinye by himself.

Mrs. Lu once eavesdropped on Lu Beizheng's phone calls, and came to arrest his outer room.Although it was discovered by Lu Beizheng later and he dared not use it anymore, the equipment was still secretly kept.

When Lu Hanqian entered Lu's mother's bedroom just now, he used this device to export all of Lu Beizheng's recent call records.

"Take someone to a psychiatric hospital in the suburbs."

Lu Hanqian sent a text message to Li Nan, then turned the car around abruptly, stepped on the accelerator and sped away.

Before that, Lu Hanqian didn't know that there was such a hospital under his family name.

He almost never heard Lu Beizheng mention it, and he didn't think carefully about where those people who opposed their family ended up going.

The car arrived soon, and Li Nan was still on the way.

But Lu Hanqian couldn't wait anymore, he jumped out of the car and immediately walked into the hospital gate, and said to the front desk with a slightly different expression:

"Lin Guyan is here? The mess that Lu Beizheng asked me to make myself, I cleaned up myself."

......

The vice president led the way, and Lu Hanqian followed him.

The light in the building is very dark, for some reason, Lu Hanqian always feels that this inpatient department is not like a hospital, but like a prison.

Behind the iron fence are faces with different expressions, all of which look strange and crazy, and the smell in the air is also very bad.

"Aren't you going to call Lu Beizheng again to confirm?"

Lu Hanqian asked as if nothing had happened.

"No need, Mr. Lu..."

The deputy director apologized, he had already dialed twice in front of Lu Hanqian just now, but he didn't get through, showing that he was on the phone - Li Nan was doing his best to report to Lu Beizheng on his work in detail.

Lu Hanqian was waiting at the front desk, even if he didn't speak and just watched, it was a huge oppressive force for the vice president.

How dare you make a third call.

"How long will it be?"

Lu Hanqian looked at the puddles of water stains on the concrete floor, frowning——

He couldn't imagine how Lin Yan, who couldn't bear even a wrinkle on his shirt collar, could stay in such a horrible and disgusting environment for more than a week.

"It's coming soon," the vice president said, "Go further inside."

Finally, at the end of the hallway at the penultimate

Lin Yan sat on the edge of the bed with his back to the iron gate and a small window in the back, Lu Hanqian could only see his back.

He was wearing a very old hospital gown, the material looked like it was going to melt.

The vice president used the key to unlock the lock, and when the iron gate was pulled and started to make a loud and piercing "Come on", Lin Yan didn't even look back.

He wore heavy shackles with chains on his hands and ankles, as well as around his neck.

Like an isolated, violent manic patient.

Lu Hanqian almost didn't know him anymore.

It was clear that they had only been gone for dozens of days, but Lin Yan at this time seemed to be a completely different person from the Lin Yan who smiled and handed him his business card in the park.

His back looks silent and lonely, with a sense of strangeness that Lu Hanqian has never felt.

"President Lu, please."

Lu Hanqian's Adam's apple rolled, and followed the vice president into the room.

The Vice President stood in front of Lin Yan. Lin Yan lowered his eyes quietly and looked at the ground without any response.

"Actually, we're almost done with it."

Vice President Road, he seemed quite complacent, smiled and stretched out his hand to lift Lin Yan's face, the dazzling white woven lamp was facing Lin Yan's eyes, but his pupils didn't even shrink in the slightest when stimulated——

His dark, lusterless eyes stared at the empty air without focus, and his pale cheeks were lifeless.

At that moment, Lu Hanqian's heart tightened, and he suddenly had a very bad premonition——

Sure enough, the next moment, the vice president said: "We've already 'washed' him, what he knows, it's impossible for him to say anything in this lifetime."

Probably wanting to prove his achievements, the vice president suddenly raised his hand and slapped Lin Yan across the face without warning. Slowly turned his head, still looking down at the ground.

Lu Hanqian's hands trembled violently, the vice president didn't notice his strangeness, and continued:

"Mr. Lu, we have put in a lot of effort... When we first came in, this guy surnamed Lin was very powerful. Both of our nurses were kicked into the hospital by him."

"He still has heart failure. Mr. Lu said that he can't be allowed to 'unnaturally die', otherwise someone from Beijing will come to explain it... If you want me to say, it's better to hang like this, He won't live long, and it will be over when he himself dies of illness."

"..."

Lu Hanqian's ears were buzzing, since just now, he didn't listen to a single word that the vice president said.

"Lin Yan."

He uncontrollably walked to Lin Yan's side and squatted down so that Lin Yan could see him even if he lowered his eyes to the ground.

Lu Hanqian touched Lin Yan's cheek that was slapped and left a red mark just now, and said in a hoarse voice:

"I'm here, Lin Yan, what can you say, Lin Yan...?"

Lin Yan kept his mouth tightly shut, Lu Hanqian could see his shadow in his eyes, but he didn't show any sign of recognizing Lu Hanqian.

"say?"

The vice president seemed to hear some joke, and said happily: "Mr. Lu, he can't scream in pain now, you expect him to talk...he shut up completely!"

......how come?

Numbly, Lu Hanqian took Lin Yan's hand in a daze, patted his cheek lightly, stood up and hugged him into his arms, trying every means to make Lin Yan speak.

However, Lin Yan never responded.

He went to Beijing to find a trustworthy senior, who promised to report to the relevant department and asked him to go back to Lancheng first and report the Lu family to the court.

Lin Yan holds several powerful materials.

From tax evasion in the entertainment and film industry 20 years ago, to the many times of bribery in collusion between government and businessmen today, and even the case about Gu Li's daughter - when Gu Li mentioned that there was a big man named Lu present, Lin Yan thought it was Lu Hanqian, but in fact it was Lu Beizheng, Lin Yan has found all these.

He believes that these evidences are enough to overthrow the Lu family and Lu Beizheng will go to jail.

When Lin Yan walked into the court, he was in a very happy and relaxed mood. The matter that had been investigated for so long finally came to fruition, and the boulder that had weighed on his heart for more than 20 years was about to be broken.

He loves and trusts this industry so much—when Lu Hanqian chatted with him in the park in a doll costume, Lin Yan always suggested him to become a lawyer before he left.

But he didn't expect that the ones who betrayed him in the end would be people in the system.

That's why Lin Guyan, known as "the last conscience of the legal profession", will never speak again.