Do not lie to me

Shang Xuechen stood in the corridor for a while, and when he recovered, Xu Xueshi had already left.Shang Xuechen glanced at the closed elevator door, as if he was waiting.Maybe the elevator door will open, and then Ji Shuping will come out of the elevator, so he can't help but go forward and hug him tightly, telling Ji Shuping that he did something wrong and shouldn't approach Shao Ji on his own initiative.

But he looked at the elevator door for a long time, but the elevator never stopped on his floor.Shang Xuechen lowered his head, turned around and walked back unsteadily.Opened the door and closed it again, passed by the entrance and saw the broken vase on the ground, knelt down/body to get the trash can beside it, picked it up piece by piece and threw it into the trash can.

The shard rested on his hand, and he saw his finger cut open and blood come out.Shang Xuechen didn't care, just looked down at the debris on the ground, thinking in fear, would the final ending of him and Ji Shuping be like this pile of debris on the ground?Broken to pieces, all in pieces, just like dad and uncle.

At this moment, Shang Xuechen felt the pain of being cut open by the fragments. The pain caused him to close his eyes, as if he didn't want to look at the pile on the ground, and he didn't want to face the possibility of their ending.Then the blood dripped to the ground, and after one or two drops, Shang Xuechen suddenly opened his eyes.Standing up in a panic, he stumbled and ran inside.

He didn't want to find a first-aid kit, he just ran to the living room, knelt down in front of the coffee table, bent down to stick to the ground, and stretched his arms to feel under the coffee table inch by inch.Changing angles along the coffee table, facing directly, facing sideways, and after touching a few times, I finally fished out the ring that fell under the coffee table.

Shang Xuechen took the ring and blew the dust on it to his mouth, then wrapped it with the corner of his clothes and wiped it carefully, when he took it out again, the ring was still as bright as new.Looking at the wiped ring, Shang Xuechen smiled as if he was comforted and encouraged.

He stood up with the coffee table, sat on the sofa, held the ring in front of his eyes, and looked at it in a daze.After closing his smile, his eyebrows were tightened again, Shang Xuechen took a deep breath, as if if he mustered up all his courage, he would put the ring on his ring finger.The ring hung on the protruding joint and stopped, Shang Xuechen raised his eyebrows and sighed, taking away all the courage he had just summoned up.He took out the ring, held it in the palm of his hand, and looked up at the door.

"Ji Shuping, come back. I'm waiting for you."

Ji Shuping stood outside the security door for a while, instead of taking the elevator, he turned around and went down the stairs step by step.When he got down to the last level, he obviously stepped on flat ground, but in his heart, it seemed that he had stepped on a step empty, empty and uncomfortable.

Ji Shuping walked through the corridor, glanced at the overhead light, clapped his hands, the light flickered twice and then went out.He stomped his feet twice again, and the voice-activated light was fully lit, but it went dark again after a while, not enough time for people to enter the elevator.

The corridors are pitch black, and if you walk in the dark, you will have to stumble twice if you don't pay attention.Standing in the darkness, Ji Shuping murmured, "Why didn't I pay attention before." Because the people who came here were always in a hurry, and they always ran into the elevator with long strides, afraid that the people upstairs would be waiting.

Then he walked out of the corridor and returned to his car, and sat in the car all night, watching the sky outside turn from dark to bright, the community gradually resounded with birdsong, and people began to come out of the buildings, some Those rushing to send their children to school, some rushing to work with bread in their mouths.Ji Shuping spotted the building where Shang Xuechen was, and he didn't see anyone coming out of it for a long time.

There was a horn sounding from the back of the car, and he was blocking someone else's parking space.Ji Shuping was brought back to his senses by the horn, started the car, turned the steering wheel and drove the car out.It's just that I didn't go out directly from the gate of the community, but turned to the property center instead.When he got off the car, he happened to meet someone from the property center who was going to work.

Ji Shuping followed the people in, watched the people in the property center turn on their computers, waited for them to complete the registration before going to work, and then told them, "The voice-activated lights on the first and ninth floors of Building 25 are not very bright, please find someone Come and fix it."

Shang Xuechen sat on the sofa holding the ring, and the night passed without knowing it.He turned his face to look at the balcony, the sun coming from the east happened to cast light obliquely on the balcony, which did not match his mood.Shang Xuechen turned his face and took out his mobile phone to check. There were no missed calls or text messages. Ji Shuping never asked him for an explanation.

Putting away the phone, Shang Xuechen still stared at the door. Originally, there were only a few scattered lights on the balcony, but later the balcony was covered with a whole piece of light, and the living room became brighter.Because of the light, the door that Shang Xuechen was looking at became more and more clear in his sight, so clear that he could see the oily fingerprints on the doorknob. He guessed that the fingerprints on it were his own, because Ji Shuping's hands were always dry, Be as casual as you are.

Shang Xuechen stared at the doorknob for a long time, but the doorknob didn't turn around as he expected, and the door never opened.Shang Xuechen lowered his head and thought, maybe he should take the initiative to find him.But he was pinching the ring on his hand, thinking of Ji Shuping slamming the door in disappointment and leaving.Going to him now, would Ji Shuping want to see himself?Shang Xuechen wasn't quite sure.

When the phone rang, Shang Xuechen lit up his eyes and raised his head, and quickly grabbed the phone he had left on the sofa.

"Hey, book..."

"it's me."

Hearing Brother Zhou's voice, Shang Xuechen's voice dropped along with his shoulders, "What's the matter?"

"Why am I so unhappy hearing your voice? So unhappy to see me?"

"Don't you know that I'm angry about getting up in the morning?" Even though he didn't sleep all night, Shang Xuechen couldn't find any other good excuses.

"Morning? It's already noon, bro!"

Shang Xuechen was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at the clock hanging on the wall, it was indeed noon.Shang Xuechen's mood darkened accordingly, Ji Shuping didn't look for him all morning, is he really still angry?

"Forget it, no matter how angry you are, come here first."

"What were you doing in the past?" Shang Xuechen asked listlessly.

"Hey, what about Jiajia? You think you can let it go, don't you?"

Shang Xuechen almost forgot Zhou Ge's concern for Jiajia, "I'll be there soon after I know."

"Well, come quickly." Brother Zhou hung up the phone, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to the people around him, "Okay, I've already called out the person, so don't think about it anymore. Why do you insist on still Xuechen came out to look for us?"

When Yuan Li'an heard Brother Zhou say that Shang Xuechen had agreed to come over, he immediately lowered his head and typed on his mobile phone, not forgetting to say something back to Brother Zhou, "I'm curious what he said to Shao Ji yesterday, you are worried about Jiajia's condition , Aren’t we all asking from Brother Shang? Can it be done without asking him to come out and ask clearly?”

"That's right." Brother Zhou saw that Yuan Li'an was only focused on sending text messages without raising his head to look at himself. He just stretched his neck and said, "Who are you busy texting?"

Yuan Li'an saw Brother Zhou poking his head over, and immediately put away his phone, "It's nothing, just send a text message to ask my classmates to help me order it for class."

Ji Shuping was sitting in a daze in the office in a daze, and when Zhou Yuan came in to deliver documents and coffee, he also put on a serious look.Zhou Yuan didn't bother Ji Shuping's absent-mindedness, but just took a look at his suit, which was still the same suit as yesterday.Zhou Yuan pursed her lips and left Ji Shuping's office, sat down in her seat, opened the locked cabinet, and took out the white paper document inside, "Hurry up, I've helped her get rid of the last person who knew her identity." An outsider. It's time for her to fulfill her promise and help me cover up the crime."

Zhou Yuan put the white paper document back in the drawer and locked it, "When I get rid of the people you hate the most, they should be next. Then you can let me go." After the drawer clicked It was locked again. On a hot day, Zhou Yuan's body couldn't help shaking. She sniffed, raised her hand and took out a tissue from the table. What she saw was her nails that had turned from green to black.The paper towel that was originally drawn to wipe her nose was now used to wrap her fingers. Zhou Yuan wrapped her hand and murmured, "It's okay, it's okay. It won't hurt after eating the cake."

Ji Shuping didn't come back to his senses until the notification sound came from his mobile phone. It was a text message from Yuan Li'an.He ordered Yuan Li'an to find Brother Zhou and ask them to find Shang Xuechen out for dinner. At least if Shang Xuechen had someone to talk with, he might be able to be happier and forget about yesterday's unhappiness for now.

Ji Shuping lowered his head and replied to the text message, "Remember to tell him to eat well. And talk to him more to make him happy."

After answering the text message, Ji Shuping sat for a while before picking up the landline, "Let Uncle Kang pick up Lawyer Fang."

Shang Xuechen went out in a daze, and as soon as he went out, he saw a worker on a ladder changing the bulbs of the voice-activated lights in the corridor.Shang Xuechen looked up along the ladder, and remembered that the houses on this floor were bought and invested by others, only Brother Zhou lived in that one, and no one lived in the others. Why did someone ask the property to fix the lights?

Shang Xuechen thought that last night Xu Xueshi specifically mentioned the problem of the insensitive voice-activated lights here, probably the property he specially found to repair the lights.Shang Xuechen bypassed the workers who were changing the lamps and walked into the elevator. When the elevator descended, he thought that although Xu Xueshi was fierce in his words, he would still think about himself in the end, and he would stop causing trouble for him in the future.

Yuan Li'an's text message notification tone kept ringing non-stop, Zhou Ge was so annoyed that he frowned and looked at him, "Did you be called, and your classmate urged you to go back?"

Yuan Li'an also answered the text messages on his mobile phone impatiently. He only replied four words to each text message when he came back. He hasn't arrived yet.Then the phone was silent for about 5 minutes, and the text message came again, and Yuan Li'an replied with these four words again, and the cycle repeated.

Shang Xuechen didn't come, and no one gave Brother Zhou any advice. Brother Zhou could only shake his legs without knowing what to do. When Yuan Li'an's cell phone kept ringing, Brother Zhou became more and more irritable. When the sound came on, the tone became a little aggressive, "You can either go back to school and answer, or turn off my phone, it's endless, is it annoying!"

Yuan Li'an wanted to simply turn off the phone, but he couldn't afford to offend the person opposite, so there was only one text message coming, and he kept replying.Brother Zhou kept tsk-tsk in disgust, and when he couldn't take it anymore, he got up and grabbed Yuan Li'an's phone.

Yuan Li'an was holding his mobile phone to reply to the text message, and was caught off guard by Zhou Ge who snatched the mobile phone, and got up in panic to grab it, he was afraid that Zhou Brother would become suspicious when he saw the content of his text message.

Fortunately, Shang Xuechen came at this time, Brother Zhou distractedly turned his head to look at Shang Xuechen who came in, and Yuan Li'an quickly snatched back his mobile phone.Brother Zhou didn't care, and went straight out to welcome Shang Xuechen into the house, complaining, "Why did you come? I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

Yuan Li'an didn't go out with Brother Zhou to meet Shang Xuechen, but was holding his mobile phone and quickly texting, "He's already arrived, you can rest assured."

When Shang Xuechen entered the room, he saw Yuan Li'an frowning and nervously sending text messages. He replied to Brother Zhou first, "Why are you waiting for me?" He turned around and asked Yuan Li'an, "Xiao Yuan, is there a school in your school? What's the matter? I saw you texting nervously, if you have something to do, you should go first. "

Yuan Li'an put away the phone with a guilty conscience, put his hand in his pocket and never took it out again, "It's okay, it's okay, I just asked my classmates to help me pay attention to my homework."

Shang Xuechen looked suspiciously at Yuan Li'an, and saw that Yuan Li'an put only his thumbs in his pockets with both hands, and the other four fingers were stuck outside the pockets. Hiding his thumbs was a sign of guilt and lack of confidence. What I just said was a lie.Yuan Li'an didn't understand why Shang Xuechen was staring at him like that, it was clear that he had said the right thing just now.

Brother Zhou took Shang Xuechen by the shoulders and led him to sit on the sofa, and said as he walked, "Xiao Yuan is like this, he just left there and sent text messages non-stop, saying he was in touch with a classmate, I guess who is it?" The girl is chasing him."

Shang Xuechen was distracted by Brother Zhou, followed him to the sofa, glanced sideways at Brother Zhou's hand on his shoulder, and shook his shoulder to remove Brother Zhou's hand.Brother Zhou glanced at him because he didn't know.Shang Xuechen pulled the clothes on his body and sat down, only saying, "He should be unhappy."

Brother Zhou didn't realize who he was referring to in Shang Xuechen's mouth for a while, and he glanced at Shang Xuechen and sat down beside him, "You are abnormal, you have cleaned up your previous wanderlust, now you have to Have you become a person of three virtues and nine strengths? Who are you going to show? He is not here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Yuan Li'an's cell phone rang again, Zhou Ge said "tsk" again, "Xiao Yuan, can you do it, either turn off the phone, or just call and talk to someone. After a while, one ringing, I was mentally weakened by you."

Shang Xuechen also turned his head to look at Yuan Li'an. It's nothing that Zhou Ge said, but in front of Shang Xuechen, Yuan Li'an couldn't tell a lie. Which classes."

Brother Zhou waved his hand at him, "Okay, then stay away from me, and don't let me hear the sound of your mobile phone again."

Shang Xuechen lowered his head and shook his head. He knew that Yuan Li'an was lying, and the tone of the second half of the sentence rose unconsciously. It seemed that he was nervous about making up a lie temporarily.But as for why Yuan Li'an lied, Shang Xuechen didn't want to pursue it. He guessed that Yuan Li'an had some thoughts about his going back with Shao Ji yesterday.

Seeing that Shang Xuechen and Zhou Ge didn't look suspicious, Yuan Li'an walked aside with his mobile phone and read the text message, "Send me the address."

Judging from the meaning of this text message, is it possible that Ji Shuping is coming over?Yuan Li'an looked at the text message and frowned. The current house is where Brother Zhou often stays, and few people know about it. If Ji Shuping came over rashly, no one else would be suspicious.But why did he ask me for the address, why didn't he just ask Brother Shang for it?

Yuan Li'an thought so in his heart, and turned his head to look at Shang Xuechen who was sitting on the sofa listening to Brother Zhou's words. His clothes hadn't changed, his dark circles were deep, and the cyan color of stubble appeared on his chin.He remembered that when he called Ji Shuping yesterday and told him that Shang Xuechen got into Shao Ji's car, Ji Shuping immediately hung up the phone. Could it be that Ji Shuping went directly to Shang Xuechen and bumped into the two of them, so they are arguing now state?

"Why don't you just ask Brother Shang for it? I told you the address, and they must have suspected me."

Ji Shuping looked at the text message sent by Yuan Li'an, and he also wanted to call Shang Xuechen directly to know his current state and apologize to him, but Ji Shuping remembered Shang Xuechen's exhausted sentence last night, "Leave me alone for a while." Ji Shuping couldn't bear to disturb him anymore.

"Forget it, take him out for dinner, remember to let him drink warm water to moisten his stomach before meals."

Yuan Li'an was relieved when he saw Ji Shuping's text message, he answered a message, put away his phone and sat on the sofa, quietly listening to Brother Zhou's endless troubles.But his eyes glanced at Shang Xuechen's pale face from time to time, it seemed that the paler face was more abnormal than usual, making the eye circles even darker.Looking at the exhausted Shang Xuechen, Yuan Li'an thought, did they really quarrel because of Shao Ji?So is this your fault?