captured by your prey

The bathroom was brightly lit, Zhou Sheng leaned on the wall to support her body, water flowed down her cheeks, Xie Xiyuan waited at the door, asking if she was okay from time to time.Zhou Sheng was a little dumbfounded, in fact Xie Xiyuan wanted to follow her in, but Zhou Sheng pushed her away, he was such a big person, what did he ask someone to help after taking a bath?

Although it is true that her legs are still hurting, and there will still be a few traces of blood oozing out when she moves, but it is still okay to take care of herself standing up.Xie Xiyuan even called the doctor just now. Zhou Sheng was not used to such things and always felt embarrassed, but he couldn't resist Xie Xiyuan, who was more anxious than her, and finally reluctantly agreed to Xie Xiyuan to give her the medicine in a while. wipe it up.

Coming out of the bathroom, Zhou Sheng raised his hand to wipe his mottled body in the mirror, and was a little surprised that he accepted it.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Xie Xiyuan went up and grabbed Zhou Sheng who came out.

"Is it okay to take the medicine?"

"Don't worry, I feel fine, it doesn't hurt as much as before."

"But it still hurts?"

Xie Xiyuan prepared all the medicines and put them by the bed. How could she not know what the consequences would be if she sent them in without any lubrication? Now there are countless regrets.

It is also fortunate that the conditions here are sufficient, allowing them to stay in the store for one night, and the environment is also very comfortable. Zhou Sheng didn't expect to be able to go up to another floor.Xie Xiyuan told her that most of the rooms on the upper floor were for guests, and only a few were reserved for some small and expensive business experiments, but they were shelved for some reason, so the few rooms at the end of this side were reserved for some small and expensive business experiments. The rooms are relatively new.

It stands to reason that Xie Xiyuan can come to sleep here when she usually stays here for the night, but she doesn't know why she doesn't like it, she usually goes home, and occasionally she is tired on the sofa in the studio Sleep till dawn.

Xie Xiyuan wiped some medicine on his hands, and said to Zhou Sheng: "It will still be uncomfortable when you apply it, but it will be much better after that, I will try to lighten it as much as possible."

Zhou Sheng leaned halfway on the bed, and asked again with some embarrassment if he could come by himself, but was also held down by Xie Xiyuan and said not to move.I don't know why, even though the two of them were entangled so intensely before, she wouldn't be as embarrassed as she is now. "Although it's a little strange for me to ask now, but... what are you looking for me for today?" Xie Xiyuan tried to chat with Zhou Sheng while rubbing the medicine to make her feel less awkward.

"You haven't come to the company for a long time, it's normal to be worried." Zhou Sheng said calmly, and at the same time, her body froze because she felt Xie Xiyuan's touch. In order to make it more convenient for Xie Xiyuan, she moved her body down slightly moved.

In Xie Xiyuan's eyes, this action seemed to cater to her, Xie Xiyuan turned his head, she felt that the expression on her face must be very flustered, there might be something else in it, at least she knew her heartbeat Not normal.

"Because it's annoying recently..." She found some words for herself, "A few weeks ago, a gangster from the next block came to the store, and he liked Qingge very much... Qingge is a good-looking sister here, but she He has a bad temper towards acquaintances, you probably haven’t seen him before. After that, he would bring a lot of people every time he came, and he came very frequently, which made the regular customers of the store never see the people they wanted to see every time they came. It's no wonder that the order is not chaotic, so it needs rectification, but it's really troublesome to deal with...the collar, pull it down a little." She took out a piece of paper to wipe her hands, and then changed a medicine, mainly to wipe the week The skin that was red, swollen and cracked by Xie Xiyuan.

"After all, the other party is also a small person in the next block. If you get along well, it will be beneficial, but if you get along badly, it will be a little troublesome. Although I don't like to play that kind of thing, but my own affairs must continue to operate, so just I specially made a set of plans for them. Even if they get bored and don’t plan to continue to come to my place, they can continue to use it to entertain other people. As I just wrote, there are inevitably many small problems that need to be rectified while operating, so I almost Never left the store…”

After Xie Xiyuan finished speaking, he looked up at Zhou Sheng, helped her tidy up her clothes, and put the finished medicine back on the bedside.

Zhou Sheng was not very surprised, because she heard Su Su tell some things about Xie Xiyuan before she came up.But she finally understood the reason why although Xie Xiyuan was very childish, he didn't make people feel childish.

After finishing everything, the two sat side by side on the head of the bed, Xie Xiyuan sat next to Zhou Sheng with his knees hugged.Up to now, her mind is still full of guilt, she has already said the apology countless times, Zhou Sheng also said many times, don't worry about it, maybe Zhou Sheng is tired of comforting her.

"You asked me before why I didn't finish college..." Xie Xiyuan buried his face in his arms, "Because at that time I needed money, not academic qualifications... But what I said was not lying to you. After leaving school, I can still learn those contents by myself, but if the tuition fee is so much money as the starting capital, it will be difficult for me to get it from other more suitable places, and I don’t want to borrow usury, after all, I didn’t know it at the time Can I pay the interest by myself?"

Thinking about it this way, if Xie Xiyuan really resigned and never returned to the company, Zhou Sheng would understand.Not to mention other things, what Zhou Sheng saw and came into contact with just now, from the perspective of the management alone, she thinks that Xie Xiyuan runs it like this is very good, but if it is a long period of time she It must be extremely hard work to keep things organized like this.

That's why even though Xie Xiyuan is very popular here, she only raises the price and is unwilling to expand to make her business bigger.She knows that the energy she can spend is limited, and it is impossible not to increase the risk of exposure if this business becomes bigger. Here, safety is one of the features that attract frequent customers.

"Why don't you just quit your job at the company?" Zhou Sheng noticed that Xie Xiyuan's complexion had changed for a day or two. She used to think that Xie Xiyuan had her own entertainment at night, but now it seems that she is just busy with the shop things in here.With Xie Xiyuan's position in the company, one month's salary may not be as high as the net profit of three days here.

Xie Xiyuan turned his head and smiled at Zhou Sheng: "Because of you."

"We are not common in the company."

"Yeah, but I can walk over and see you anytime."

"Delayed work time." Zhou Sheng raised his hand and tapped her forehead.

"I did my job well—" Xie Xiyuan quickly explained to himself, and there was a bit of coquettishness in his words.But it was only for a while, and soon she returned to the somewhat absent-minded look, "However, I still feel that it is easier to be in the company, and I actually want to live the life like you. If I graduated successfully at that time, probably You can fully commit to it.”

"But my life is the same, every day is the same, as boring as you describe your college life." In Zhou Sheng's view, Xie Xiyuan is clearly distinguished from others in the crowd, which is why she always attracts Let others look at her, she has an experience that people don't want to be contaminated with, but she also does her best in this experience.Zhou Sheng has always liked Xie Xiyuan's appearance brought about by such an attitude.

"Maybe..." Xie Xiyuan said softly.

Zhou Sheng pursed her lips, she didn't know why, it seemed that every time they talked about topics related to each other's lives, Xie Xiyuan would show such a powerless expression.Often times like this, if Zhou Sheng doesn't say anything, Xie Xiyuan will fall into silence for a while.

But this time, after a short period of silence, Zhou Sheng heard Xie Xiyuan say slowly: "My mother is a girl, and I grew up in such a building."

"I can't remember clearly when I was a child, and maybe I can't remember because I couldn't see clearly. The corridors in the building were also dark, only a few open skylights gave a little light, but when it rained It's completely dark... In short, no one wants to stay there, and the people who live there are because they have no choice but to leave."

"At that time, other rooms in the building were occupied by older sisters who worked with my mother. I remember that they were beautiful and had a nice voice. They would buy me snacks. But because the environmental conditions on this floor were too poor, they put The two or three rooms downstairs have been tidied up. They are not very clean and comfortable, but at least people are willing to go in. The sisters in the building, of course, my mother is also there, and they take turns to use those rooms when they have guests. The room picks up the guests."

"A Sheng, I don't know what kind of feelings and opinions you have about my life..." Xie Xiyuan still lowered his head when he said this, and did not look at Zhou Sheng. "But me, I have always hated my life like this. If I could choose, I don't want to fall into this place anyway."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Sheng saw Xie Xiyuan looking sideways at him, the pain in his eyes was undisguised.

This was the first time she saw Xie Xiyuan's eyes so directly, and then Xie Xiyuan leaned towards her and hugged her gently.Zhou Sheng didn't know what to do, so he could only let her hug him.

"Especially today."

Xie Xiyuan put his arms around Zhou Sheng, unwilling to leave a gap between them as if he wanted to convey his warmth to her.

"Aren't children afraid of the dark? I think this is written in our bones. Whether it's my mother or those sisters, no matter how gently they read stories or texts to me before I go to bed, How kind and warm to hold me and accompany me... I always pester them, always let them be with me, and they will take the trouble to tell me. But no matter what, I am alone in the room at night When you wake up in the dark, you will find that there is no one around you."

"How did I understand that when I was young, I only knew that they would leave and disappear. When I grow up, I understand that this is all for granted. They are virgins and need to do their work at night."

"Later, there was a man who seemed to care about his mother very much. Now that he thinks about it...he probably likes his mother very much. He often visits his mother, and occasionally orders her but does nothing. He just hopes that she can take a rest. A gentle person, right? Probably, it’s just that I’m often woken up by his voice. Obviously I don’t remember the faces of my mother and sisters, but I still remember the man’s yelling and cursing, which can be heard upstairs. When I walked to the door The sound is as clear as it is in the ear."

"Sometimes he smashed things, sometimes he hit my mother, sometimes he just pushed her to the ground and forced her to stop her from leaving... Then my mother really didn't come back all night."

"So the only way I know to keep them is to be like that man...Obviously I was also very afraid of the sound of those things falling down, and I was very unwilling to let my mother be beaten by him, and I didn't want my mother to cry, but I Later, I became more understanding of him than anyone else.”

"He knelt down and apologized to my mother every time after beating her. My mother had thought about whether to take me away countless times. I knew she wanted to run away from that man, but she had no other place to go. In the end, she stayed. come down."

Every time she sees Zhou Sheng and that Zheng Yi together, she feels that Zhou Sheng is going to leave her side and go to the other side, which makes Xie Xiyuan feel flustered, like she heard just now in the dark for countless nights in the past. It's the same as the footsteps of the people who accompany me going away.It turned out that she finally did the same thing as that man and said the same thing as him.

"Was my childhood monotonous? If I could categorize what I experienced, then almost my entire childhood could only be labeled as hazardous waste, yes, the kind that can't even be recycled."

So it's a lot of things happening, but it's monotonous, because without exception, it's all bad bad things.

"Later, when I was halfway through college, my mother was killed. I didn't know who the other party was. I only knew that it was a new guest she picked up. When the police came, everyone was scattered, and I was finally killed. The few people left took me in, I couldn't go on to university, I didn't have anything, and I didn't have anything left at that time, I only knew that I was still standing on that dark street with no sun."

Xie Xiyuan hugged Zhou Sheng tightly, and buried his cheek in Zhou Sheng's neck.

Zhou Sheng looked at Xie Xiyuan like this, and reached out to touch her head: "Didn't I say, just apologize."

Xie Xiyuan gripped Zhou Sheng's clothes tightly.

"Sorry……"

"Well, it's alright."