Like you in the sun

In Jinghai City, Li Xiang was reading a book at home when he received a strange call on his cell phone.

Li Xiang answered the call and asked in confusion: "Hello, how are you?"

A strange male voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello, your friend Zhang Yan is drunk, I'm sorry, please come and pick her up. We are about to close here."

“The bar is located at the corner of Southwest Road, 200 meters west.”

Li Xiang: “Who?”

Before I could ask clearly, the other party hung up the phone.

I was in a dilemma for a moment. I really didn't want to pick up Zhang Yan. I had no good feelings for her in the first place, and she had been pestering me recently, which made me very annoyed.

But after all, it is not safe for a woman to be outside after drinking too much. What if she encounters any danger?

I don’t know why you called me. Last time you made it clear that after dinner, I won’t bother you anymore or pester you anymore.

After a while of hesitation, I finally decided to go to the bar.

After all, he was once a people's policeman, and the sense of justice and responsibility is integrated into his blood.

After arriving at the bar, I saw Zhang Yan lying on the table with a pile of wine bottles, still drinking.

When Zhang Yan saw Li Xiang, she stumbled over to him and said, "I thought you wouldn't come."

He walked unsteadily and reeked strongly of alcohol.

Li Xiang asked: "Where is your home? I'll take you back."

Zhang Yan gave a bitter smile and replied, "Home? I don't have a home!"

There were almost no people on the street late at night, and Li Xiang kept asking.

However, Zhang Yan did not answer, and asked meaningfully: "How about we go to your house?"

Li Xiang felt helpless after hearing this. Of course, he understood the meaning of this sentence in an instant, and just said lightly: "Can you please stop making trouble!"

Zhang Yan sat on the side of the road, neither speaking nor moving.

He drank quite a lot and was a little drunk, but not to the point of being unconscious.

Li Xiang stepped forward to help Zhang Yan up and asked again: "Where do you live? I'll take you home. Don't sit here."

After pulling several times, Zhang Yan showed no intention of getting up.

Li Xiang asked helplessly, "What are you going to do? How about I call the police and have them send you home?"

Zhang Yan suddenly burst into tears, hugged Li Xiang's legs and asked, "Do you hate me so much?"

At this moment, I just felt like crying, wanting to vent, and wanting to find someone to talk to.

Even if the man in front of me hates me...

Who is Li Xiang? He used to be a criminal police captain. What kind of people has he not seen? What kind of scenes has he not seen?

Just like when I was working on a case with An Xin, when I felt sympathy for An Xin, I said that the fact that I couldn't bear it showed that I hadn't seen her often enough, and I would get used to it after seeing her more often.

An Xin asked Li Xiang, is that a habit? That's numbness!

Maybe it was numbness, maybe it was a habit, or maybe it was because he had seen too much of human nature, Li Xiang's heart was not cold, but calm.

But Li Xiang still explained: "That's not what I meant. I came to pick you up just because..."

Zhang Yan interrupted, "I know! I'm not pretty, my family isn't well off, I don't have anything special about me, and I'm almost thirty years old."

Then she raised her hand to wipe away her tears, smiled bitterly, and said faintly: "Who would like me? Who would care about me?"

"It seems like every step I took in my life was wrong! I don't know how I ended up like this. It seems like my youth is over before I had time to do anything."

"Li Xiang, do you know? I am really not happy at all. I have never been happy since I was a child. Many people say that they miss their childhood and the days when they were with their parents. They want to go back to their childhood, but I don't want to! Not at all!"

"My life is just like this, and I can see the end at a glance. I don't know what the meaning of life is."

"I grew up in a family that favors boys over girls. There was no family affection. What about love? There was no love either! I have always been sincere to others, but others have never been sincere to me. I once foolishly followed a man who had nothing and gave everything to him. I lived in the basement, drank toilet water, and ate the cheapest meals, but in the end, all I got was betrayal."

"As for my career, no matter how hard and tired I am, and how I have endured hardships that no man can endure, in the end I still have accomplished nothing."

"Why is my life so miserable? I'm really tired, so tired. Maybe I shouldn't have come into this world."

The more I talk about this, the more I feel wronged. I usually smile and entertain guests, but I can only swallow the bitterness in my heart silently.

Li Xiang didn't offer any extra comfort. When he helped Zhang Yan up, his tone became much softer as he said, "Life is the meaning! I'll take you back."

After sending Zhang Yan home, he stood downstairs, watched the lights in the room come on, and then left.

I returned home and lay on the bed, gently stroking Lin Fanyin's photo. As the night deepened, my longing for her deepened.

I can only fall asleep after turning off the lights and placing the photo on my chest.

The next day, when he arrived at work, Nan Ji greeted him enthusiastically, "Brother Xiang, good morning."

Li Xiang: "Morning."

The two of them were talking and laughing as they walked towards the traffic police team.

Nan Ji really likes Li Xiang so much that even though he knows he has a girlfriend, he still can't help but pay attention to him and get close to him.

When Li Xiang laughs, Nan Ji will laugh along with him. When Li Xiang is unhappy, Nan Ji will also be unhappy along with him.

But none of this was ever shown, and we were in contact as colleagues.

I was worried that if Li Xiang knew how much I liked him, a man as upright as him would definitely choose to distance himself from me.

When he was free at work, he would come to Li Xiang's office. He wanted to give Li Xiang a piece of chocolate, but he was afraid of being rejected, so he gave a piece of chocolate to everyone in the office.

While talking with An Xin, his eyes followed his heart and always looked at Li Xiang.

Nan Ji: "Brother Xin, I heard you are getting married soon."

An Xin replied: "Yeah."

Nan Ji seemed to be unintentional, but in fact he asked tentatively: "Brother Xiang, what about you? Are you getting married soon too?"

However, I don't want to hear a positive answer at all.

Li Xiang replied: "No."

After hearing this, Nan Ji felt a burst of joy in his heart, as if a dead tree had come back to life. He asked, "Brother Xiang, isn't your girlfriend anxious? Why don't you get married? Aren't you afraid that such a good man will be snatched away?"

Li Xiang: “Uh~”

Nan Ji: "When your girlfriend came to the team to look for you before, she might have misunderstood the relationship between us and was a little bothered."

"Brother Xiang, you didn't quarrel over this, did you? In fact, your girlfriend is angry, which means she cares about you."

"It's just that I think that when two people are together, there should be a minimum of trust. If this continues, Brother Xiang, will you feel that you have no private space?"

Li Xiang was confused by what Nan Ji said and really didn't understand what he was talking about.

An Xin, who was standing by, laughed and replied, "The lady who came to the team to look for Xiang is not Xiang's girlfriend."