The Swan Bay Murders

I didn't expect that I would get angry with Jiang Luo, but I have to admit that I was really angry.

But what is the anger, I can't say.

Am I angry that he decided to move out without discussing with me, angry that he rented the house on his own initiative, angry that he broke the agreement and told my mother that he was moving out, or angry that he wanted to leave me?

I feel a little shameless for trying to influence Jiang Luo's life.

To be honest, I don't want him to go, I wish I could be with him 24 hours a day.

It's really too much to think about him like that.

I have never felt that I am a very possessive person, but this time, Jiang Luo induced this factor in my body, I want to protect him and take care of him.

When he said he was leaving, I started to panic.

I told Yi Li that I took Jiang Luo as a stand-in for Berlin, but in fact, I was completely messed up myself.

I don't know whether I want to treat him well because I regard him as Berlin's stand-in, or because I want to replace Berlin to make up for what I owe him, or some other reason.

Anyway, I want to keep him by my side.

But I couldn't say it, as if saying it would cause some unpredictable disaster, so I could only watch Jiang Luo plunge into his new life.

A life without me, without my parents.

I think I need to see a psychiatrist too.

I didn't eat during the lunch break, and once again experienced that I didn't think about food or tea.

I saw Jiang Luo walking outside while making a phone call before, but it was rare for him not to ask me to have dinner together, so I was very upset about it.

So like a psychopathic voyeur, he lay down in front of the glass window of the office and looked down, but only saw Jiang Luo, who had turned into a small one downstairs, walk into the restaurant opposite, still not knowing what he ate, and Who eats together.

I couldn't stand myself like this, so I finally decided to talk to "Emotional Expert" Yi Li.

However, I sent him a message, but he didn't reply for a long time.

When Jiang Luo came back, his face was very strange, and he ran away as soon as he saw me.

I followed him to his office to ask what was wrong with him, and I happened to chat about his moving and apologize to him, after all, it was indeed my mistake to get angry at him.

But as soon as I pushed open the glass door of his office, Yi Li called.

Jiang Luo and I looked at each other, and he looked at me like a flustered deer.

I backed out first and picked up Yi Li's call.

"What are you doing?" He still had the same tone, smiling, not doing anything right.

"In the company."

"Of course I know you're in the company," Yi Li said impatiently, "I'm asking what are you doing in the company?"

I looked back at Jiang Luo's office, where he was standing there flipping through documents.

Today he was wearing a light blue shirt with the cuffs rolled up to his little arms, which made his skin fairer.

His health has gradually improved a lot these days, and he looks healthier and more sunny than when I first met him. Looking at it from my perspective at this moment, it is really fascinating.

Thinking of this, my heart jumped twice, and I quickly looked away.

"Did you get disconnected?" Yi Li whispered on the phone, "Hello?"

"I'm here." I replied quickly.

"What are you thinking about?" He became even more impatient, "I still miss Jiang Luo?"

After he finished speaking, he started laughing, making people helpless.

"You want something from me?" I didn't dare to peek at Jiang Luo anymore, and started to walk to my office.

"Didn't you find me first?"

I remembered that it was indeed him who I contacted first.

"Sorry, I forgot." I closed the door, looked back to make sure no one was outside, and then said to Yi Li, "When I have time, I want to talk to you."

When he hesitated, I added: "I can pay."

When he heard it, he started laughing again, and said again and again: "That's good, since you are willing to pay, I have time anytime."

We made an appointment to meet after get off work tonight, at the coffee shop downstairs from the company.

"Okay, then I won't go far. Is there any interesting place around here?"

"Are you near my company?" I asked.

"That's right, he had dinner with Xiao Jiangjiang at noon, he didn't tell you?"

I was speechless again.

"Find yourself a place to stay." I said to him, "I'll meet you at the coffee shop at six o'clock, see you there."

After hanging up the phone, I still couldn't work with peace of mind.

His mind was full of matters about Jiang Luo and Yi Li, and he didn't know what they would talk about when they got together.

I found that all my restlessness during this period was because of Jiang Luo, which is very interesting, and it reminded me of a word.

The roots of troubles.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help laughing. If Jiang Luo knew that I used this idiom to describe him, he would probably be so shy that he would ignore me.

Near the end of get off work, my mother called to say that she and my father went to sit with an old friend, and came back late at night, and Zai Zai was also taken away by them.

After answering the call, I checked the time and called Jiang Luo through the company's internal line.

"Boss Xing." He said these two words lightly in a clean voice, which made my ears itch.

He doesn't call me "Brother" in the company, he always calls me "Boss Xing" just like everyone else, I was not used to hearing it at first, but later I felt that this is also a seasoning for ordinary life.

"Go home first after get off work, your parents are out, have you brought your keys?"

"Ah?" He hesitated for a moment and asked, "Aren't you going home?"

"I have an appointment with Yi Li tonight." I added, "I'll talk to him about some serious business. We'll be at the coffee shop downstairs from the company."

"That..." He seemed a little embarrassed.

"what happened?"

"I forgot to bring the key when I came out today."

I glanced at the keys on the table and sighed inwardly.

Usually I never bring my house keys. This is a habit I have developed since living with Jiang Luo, because most of the time my parents are at home, and Jiang Luo is by my side when they are away, and he will carry the keys.

"I left in a hurry this morning..." He paused and said, "Then I'll go back to the security room and wait for my uncles and aunts. I'll call you when they come back and you..."

"Let's go out for dinner tonight." I said without hesitation, "Yi Li can make an appointment at any time. Think about what to have for dinner."

After I finished speaking, I hung up the phone, and then picked up the phone to call Yi Li.

However, before I could think of a suitable reason that would not be laughed at by him, Jiang Luo knocked on my office door.

"What's the matter?" I asked Jiang Luo.

He stood at the door, puffed his cheeks, and said, "You all have an appointment for the evening, so it's not good to cancel it at the last minute. In fact, I still have some work to do, so I just stayed and worked overtime."

I looked up at Jiang Luo, he really couldn't lie, his nervous appearance was more like a deer in the forest.

"Otherwise you can go with me." I said, "I have nothing important to do with Yi Li, the three of us can go together."

"Really not." He waved his hands again and again, "I'll work first, and then I'll contact you later."

After he finished speaking, he ran out without giving me a chance to discuss it.

As soon as I got off work, I left first, and Xiao Chen at the front desk asked me in surprise: "Boss Xing, don't you go off work with Jiang Luo?"

I froze for a moment, and glanced at Jiang Luo's office, the door was open, obviously I really didn't leave.

"I have something to do at night." When the elevator arrived, I waved to Xiao Chen and entered the elevator.

When I arrived at the coffee shop, Yi Li had already finished drinking a cup of coffee, with an empty cup beside him and a cup of dark beer in front of him.

"Drinking in a coffee shop, I really have you." I sat opposite him, looked at the time, because I was worried about Jiang Luo, so I wanted to make a quick decision.

"What are you doing!" Yi Li asked me, holding the wine glass in both hands, "I started counting the time as soon as I sat down? I haven't said to start counting yet!"

"That's not the case." I explained, "Jiang Luo didn't bring the key..."

"Oh." Yi Li put his palms on his face, looked at me with a smile and said, "You came to me just to talk about Jiang Luo, right? Let me tell you, Chenbo is actually..."

"It's my business." I interrupted him, and said it so bluntly for the first time in my life, "I seem to have...a mental problem."

Yi Li started laughing again, in the coffee shop.

It made me think he was very rude.

I knocked on the table and said in a low voice, "You can control yourself, can you stop laughing?"

He laughed so hard that tears came out, he kept nodding and said, "You finally found out that you are sick?"

I kind of want to give up and continue chatting with him. It would be better to take Jiang Luo to dinner while listening to him laugh here.

I picked up my phone and sent Jiang Luo a message, asking if he ordered takeaway.

"Stop laughing." Yi Li wiped away his tears, and asked me with restraint, "Tell me, what's the matter, since you are so self-aware today, I won't charge you any more, just pay me the bill later gone."

Jiang Luo quickly replied to me, saying that he had ordered takeaway and was waiting to deliver it while working.

I didn't believe Jiang Luo's words. Without my watching, he would definitely not have dinner honestly. I wanted to call him, but I was eager to hear Yi Li's analysis of my situation.

"Stop playing with your phone." Yi Li took off my phone and asked me, "What's wrong with you?"

I was silent for a while, organized my words in my mind, and then carefully described my state for the past few days to him, for fear that something wrong would make him misunderstand my feelings for Jiang Luo.

Yi Li narrowed his eyes and looked at me. After a while, he said to me, "I had a meal with Jiang Luo at noon today. Do you know what I told him?"

I remembered how flustered Jiang Luo was when he saw me after the lunch break, and asked curiously, "What did you say?"

He took a sip of his wine, then smiled and said, "I said you fell in love with him."