Chapter 93: Invasion
“Fake death… no identity? I didn’t expect it to be her. No wonder Gu Chuan dropped out of school later. You should have come to us earlier…”
That dark and sunless period was as absurd as a nightmare without any warning or logic. Every word he said was as raw as reading an obscure and difficult story. His voice was heavy and slow, and mentioning this unbearable memory made him fall into pain again.
He finally finished telling this story without any reservation, even though he didn’t know if this painful story had come to an end.
The last syllable was spat out of his mouth. He quietly raised his head and secretly looked at Xia Qiange, staring at her full, bright red lips, secretly looking forward to something in his heart. He longed to see her lips part and let out a little bit of a sound to pity him. But the atmosphere, contrary to his wishes, fell into silence.
Xia Qiange bit her lip, and her alluring eyes were slightly lowered. Her long and curled eyelashes covered the emotions in her eyes, and he didn’t know what she was thinking. This made him even more anxious. He fiercely despised himself in his heart for using such a despicable means to gain sympathy.
Did he say something wrong to make her unhappy? Or had she seen through his despicable trick? But no matter what, just say something. He no longer asked for comfort. It would be good to just talk. Please.
He was eager to get help, and he needed something to save him. He had so much grievance and sadness in his heart that he had nowhere to tell. Loneliness had driven him to be sensitive and neurotic, and he was about to lose himself.
His spine was still straight under his extreme restraint, as if this ordeal could not defeat him at all. But in fact, his humility had been pressing him down to the bottom of the table. No matter how he raised his head, he could only see the girl’s fair and exquisite ankles.
“I’m sorry… I thought you definitely wouldn’t want to talk about these things now, so I didn’t ask much. But I didn’t expect it to be like this.”
She suddenly spoke. Su Yu raised his head and stared at the lips that he had been dreaming of, which were gently opening and closing. He was like a devout believer waiting for the gods to issue a decree. Excitement and agitation were rushing and jumping in his nerves. His joy and sadness were completely controlled by her.
“We should call the police. This is illegal. She has no right to do these things. How could she imprison you for so long? She’s a madwoman. This is really… really too absurd.”
Xia Qiange put down the pen in her hand, and her delicate eyebrows were tightly furrowed. Because of her excitement, her strength was a little great, and the pen tube was rolling on the table, making a loud sound.
But Su Yu couldn’t hear a single word. He only saw Xia Qiange suddenly pick up the phone on the table, and her fingers were poking on it, as if she were about to dial a number. He grabbed the girl’s wrist and shook his head vigorously. “Don’t look for her. I’ve already escaped. No one can imprison me anymore.”
Su Yu pulled at the open collar of his shirt, indicating that he was free at this moment. He had escaped with great difficulty. How could he push Xia Qiange in now?
“But what about the others? Everyone thinks you’re dead. They’re all very sad…”
Xia Qiange looked up at him, her eyes sparkling with a watery light, and her eyes were red. She looked very sad, as if she had once been one of those people.
“I don’t know.”
Su Yu shook his head and could only tell the truth. He suddenly realized that he was still holding the girl’s slender and fair wrist. He let go with some fear, as if he had been electrocuted. He carefully looked at the other party, who was still angry because of his situation, and was completely unaware of his small action. He sat back down as if he had been pardoned.
“We can’t let them know yet. This will harm them…”
“Yeah, you’re right. We should think about it again.”
Perhaps it was because of her calm nature, or perhaps it was a habit that had been formed by her specific profession. It made her seem to know very well that it was not easy. Everything needed to be planned in the long run.
Xia Qiange readily agreed to Su Yu’s request. There were still crystal-clear tears hanging at the corners of her eyes, but her fingers lightly landed on the power button of her phone. With a light press, the screen, which had not even been unlocked with a fingerprint, was turned off, let alone the so-called alarm.
He was inexplicably dejected again, and his heart was filled with a sense of loss. He wished he could have put it off a little longer, to care for him for a while longer. It was just a matter of lifting a finger, and it could satisfy his particularly sensitive and fragile heart.
But the originally desolate and quiet house, which could hear the pounding of his heart in his chest at night, suddenly had a person he was so familiar with that he couldn’t be more familiar.
They had been through so much, and they had done everything. This made him no longer have the heart to speculate on the other party with malice. When he was extremely hungry, even a bright red cake with a fatal poison would be bitten down without hesitation.
Suddenly, someone could listen to him. The vocal cords, this human structure, finally had a meaning on his body. Just being in this enclosed space together, he was so excited that his heart was about to die from overload.
But how could he do this? The only remaining reason stood out under the erosion of greed.
He would get her killed.
His palm ran through the slightly curled ends of his hair and into his thick and messy hair. He felt that he was extremely selfish. Why could he worry about the safety of others, but not care about the life and death of the person in front of him? Was it just for his own selfish desires?
Su Yu suddenly raised his head and looked at her. His thin, red lips were pale and without a trace of blood. He forced a smile, which was a little fragile. “You too. I’ll be a burden to you. You should have a better future.”
“But you only have me.”
“Huh?”
His heart stopped for a few seconds, and his blood also lost its momentum to flow. His stubborn reason was shattered by the excitement, and the nest of little deer in his heart began to pound again. The movement was getting bigger and bigger. They were hitting his ribs with their dull and heavy antlers, and the pain made him uncontrollably think about things.
Why did she have to use such an ambiguous and unclear statement?
Was she also still on him…
It was as if he had been through a hot and oily pan, and his heart was burning hot.
“You also saved me before. I think… I can’t leave you alone now.”
Alright, so it was just because of something he didn’t care about at all. It was so pure that it was not stained with a single bit of selfish desire, which made him, who had been having all kinds of fantasies, look so filthy and pathetic.
He was doused with a basin of cold water in the harsh winter. His hot heart was frozen, and it began to fall heavily. Fortunately, it had not risen too high, so it would not be shattered.
“It will be fine. At least you should live a good life now. Don’t overthink it.”
“Yeah.”
He was speechless. The other party’s comfort was friendly and natural, yet it was also formal and had a sense of distance.
“I have to go. I can’t delay my internship for too long. I’ll come back in the evening.”
Xia Qiange stood up with the documents on the table. Her steps were not very fast, and they were silent. But it was as if every step was on the tip of his heart. This house was really too small. There was only a little distance from the living room to the entryway. Su Yu had not yet prepared his words, and she had already bent down to change her shoes.
“Um… where do you live?”
Su Yu chased after her from behind. He was panting from the few steps.
“Huh? Didn’t I tell you?” Xia Qiange squinted her eyes and thought for a while. Her head was tilted, and her pink cheeks were slightly puffed out. She looked playful and cute, and it made his heart itch.
“Maybe I forgot. I’ve been so busy recently. I just live behind this building. I moved in the day before yesterday. Because it’s a construction site dispute case, it’s the construction site next door. I have to go to the scene, so I rented a house here for convenience.”
“Just behind here…”
Su Yu murmured to himself. It was probably the distance where he could see the other party’s balcony from the floor-to-ceiling window of his bedroom.
He suddenly laughed.
