octopus don't cry

Jingxuan sent a text message saying that he wanted to see me one last time before going abroad.

I thought about it, asked him to a coffee shop near the airport, and bought him a gift, an exquisite wine bottle pendant.

As I said before, his bartending is like juggling with a knife, which makes people feel shocked from the bottom of their hearts. I liked his aura very different from ordinary people at that time, so I brought him to the bar. He is my longest friend The clerk is also a friend.

Or a family-like existence.

"When will you be back?" I asked him.

"I don't know." He answered me truthfully, "There is still an interview in the UK. Only after passing the interview can you stay there as an apprentice."

He went to England to study bartending.

I'm glad he had the opportunity to say, "This is for you."

He took it, his fingers were pale and slender, with distinct bones.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" I smiled gently, and tapped my fingertips on the glass table with a crisp sound, "You boy, it's not like you won't be back, why did you ask me to meet?"

He didn't answer, but suddenly reached out and touched the corner of my mouth, and said softly, "...it's true."

He lowered his eyes, and the overhead lights cast soft shadows on his handsome face, like a sculpture that the artist has spent his entire life carefully polishing.But what reminds me is that when we first met, he was just a boy, taciturn and not deeply involved in the world.

It took me a long time to react, and what he said was my smile.

"I still like the four-leaf clover pendant the most." He said suddenly.

After all, I have been with him for too long, and just a word can bring back heavy memories.I couldn't answer the conversation for a while, so I took a sip of coffee and didn't make a sound.

In fact, I probably know what he is going to say.

"I'm sorry." He raised his head, probably with a lot of determination, "but I'm not here to ask for forgiveness for what I've done, I'm here to tell you a fact."

He looked at me steadily, "Actually, Qi Ji knew that I had a problem a long time ago."

I was stunned.

"But he didn't tell you." He affirmed, "He helped me, and even took the initiative to join hands with Shi Lin to bring down the Qian family together."

"The Qian family once ruined my family, but Qi Ji actually got involved for no reason. The whole thing has almost no meaning to him. But with him, many things are much more convenient, and the traces have been cleaned up. , but I never understood why."

"After much deliberation, I finally feel that he should be because of you."

I looked at him in shock, and couldn't believe my ears for a while, "...what did you say?"

However, he stood up and didn't answer, but said: "I'm going to board the plane." After a pause, his eyes seemed to be a little embarrassed, "Will you not give me a hug?"

I don't know why, but I stood up and gave him a hug.

He is taller than me, and his shoulders are wider than mine, but he still puts his chin on my shoulder like a young man who has not grown up, preventing me from seeing his eyes.

"The next thing should be said by him himself." He raised his head, his eyes were rarely bent, but he couldn't hide the deep sadness, "I sent him a text message, you two have a good chat."

He mouthed me a goodbye.

-

With a stomach full of doubts, I slumped back to the chair.

I didn't intend to leave, although I had always hoped that Qi Ji would say this voluntarily, but Jing Xuan's words were like a thunderclap, which made me suddenly find it difficult to wait any longer.

In less than 10 minutes, the person who made me lose my mind appeared in my sight. The temperature in city B has turned cold, but he was wearing a gray shirt with indifferent opinions, and strode in.While holding up the phone, he was talking very fast.

Since I lived in the villa, I have hardly seen the panic-to-anger expression on his face.

But in the next second, he suddenly raised his head, and his eyes met mine very accurately.

He was obviously taken aback for a moment, then turned off his phone, and almost ran towards me.

"Don't worry, I won't go."

I understood the meaning of his series of actions just now, sighed, and patted his shoulder proactively, and he grabbed his wrist.

"It's useless for you to do this." My expression turned cold, and I was just about to ask "What do you want to tell me", but when it came time to open my mouth, there were only two words: "Tell me."

It's one thing not to go, quite another to fix the problem.I don't intend to let him go, so my attitude is very firm.I'm even a little lucky, maybe Jingxuan helped me a lot.

His brows were deeply knit together, and he wanted to make it clear to him before coming to Jingxuan.But he didn't answer my words, he just said in a deep voice, "Go home first."

I heard this and shook his hand violently. Although it was unsuccessful, the strength and expression deceived him very well, making him think that I was cruel.But what I want is more than this. I said word by word: "What are you afraid of, Qi Ji? Are you afraid that I will leave without saying a word?"

I thought of something, and added with a sneer: "Indeed, I had this ability seven years ago, and I still have it now."

His face turned pale, and his hands tightened.

The two of us just looked at each other and didn't speak for a long time.Just when I couldn't hold back the expression on my face, he suddenly compromised and turned his head slightly.

His tone became soft, "I'll tell you what you want to know. Don't go."

I breathed a sigh of relief, and then sat back where I was just now. He took my hand and sat opposite.

In a hall full of people coming and going, under such circumstances, he finally wanted to confess to me.I think I will never forget these pictures, every word, every expression in the future.

He looked at me with deep eyes, and the first thing he said was: "Actually, I have always been very grateful to Jingxuan."

"He has been helping you for the past seven years. You have no relatives, and there are only a few people close to you, and Jing Xuan is one of them."

"If such a person uses you, I can't bear your sadness."

I felt incredible: "So, you just... help him?"

Help him and Shi Lin to bring down the Qian family together?

I don't know if I should use the word "helping the tyrants to abuse" or not. I am not very good at Chinese, and I know that the Qian family is not a good thing, but Jing Xuan's method of destroying the Qian family is not necessarily clever.

Call me naive or pedantic, but thinking about Qian Shunxing, who is still in a vegetative state, I feel a little bit stuck-yes, maybe he really does all kinds of evil, but that is also his life.

But having said that, whose life is not life?

I was puzzled before, but now the truth is in front of me, I am not moved, nor angry, I am more at a loss.

"I'm just in charge of mopping up and cleaning up the traces." Qi Ji looked at my surprised expression and didn't panic. Instead, he tried to bargain with me: "They were the ones who really did it. Didn't get any benefit, so..."

"Crazy." I said suddenly, staring at him fiercely, "Are you crazy, and you still help them! If something really happens, what will you do?"

There are people coming and going in the hall, and the sweet voice of the flight attendants will always be in my ears.But now I can't hear anything, I'm out of breath, I just feel my heart beating extremely fast, and it's bombarding my ears.

He seemed to finally know that I was angry, and his voice stopped abruptly.However, in the face of my question, he didn't show guilt or fear, he just looked at me very seriously, there was no doubt in his eyes, but he suddenly looked so sad.

He answered me calmly: "Nothing."

"What!" I was furious.

However, there was no tremor in his voice, "Jing Xuan should have told you that the Qian family was the reason for his broken family, but he didn't say it, and Shi Rin did the same. Even if these two people don't have me, they won't stop. Those two are the real lunatics."

I knew about this a long time ago, but now that I have really figured out the reason, I still find it difficult to accept it, so I can only continue to listen.

"So instead of trying to stop them and watch them fight and bleed, I might as well help." His eyes looked at me, like clear glass, suddenly reflecting some deep and weak emotions, "Because I am very Be clear, even if you know all the truth, it is impossible for Jing Xuan to go to jail."

"But if it was me, things might have turned around. Even if I did go in, those properties would be managed, and Qi Shen would be led by people from the Qi family. My family and lawyers would try their best to get me out."

"But if something happens to you. I don't know what I'll do."

He said these words, but his expression was ordinary, only his eyes were so serious that they were twisted and stubborn, like a mountain, until it weighed down my face and made me speechless.

I don't know why I can still sit here, but obviously my mind is still spinning, although he is no longer under my control, making a more difficult question come out in a hurry: "...What about Qishen's mother, you Tell me why."

As soon as this question was uttered, his expression finally became a little flustered, but it was obviously just a simple surprise. He quickly straightened his expression, but all the muscles in his body tensed up, and his eyes were fixed on me.

I had no way to avoid it, so I could only stare straight at him.

He frowned heavily.

"Qi Shen's mother is the last selfish thing I left for myself,"

My eyelids twitched suddenly, and some bad premonition came out.

"I must have a son. I am an illegitimate child, and it is impossible for me to sit in the position of the head of the family. But if I don't have the strength in my hands, it is even more impossible for me to be with a man. It will become a stain on the family and be removed mercilessly. .”

That short sentence contained countless bitterness and blood, but his tone seemed to be stating something, "I must have a child."

"..." I really can't ask why, why did he choose to be with me...

"But you may be very angry and sad, and I have been using Lu Chang to test you before, and I have done a lot of wrong things, you will definitely not believe me... When I find out about this, our relationship is almost irretrievable, and there is no Time was saved."

"After you left without saying goodbye, I suddenly no longer cared about the position of the head of the family. I was drunk and dreamed for a long time, and was even locked up in the ancestral house for a while. But I later thought that maybe you were right to leave someone like me. "

"What happened to Qi Shen was an accident. But I later found out that his eyes look like you, and many of his preferences are also the same as yours, but he looks like me overall."

"In the past seven years, I've often thought, if I let you meet someone better, but got Qi Shen, God treats me kindly."

-

It's all crazy.

I don't know how I got back to the villa with Qi Ji in the end.But as soon as I got back to a familiar place, I suddenly felt extremely tired, my eyelids couldn't hold it anymore, my head was like a fragment, I couldn't think of anything, and fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already nightfall.Before I had time to sort out the things in my mind, I saw Qi Ji sitting on the edge of the bed. He noticed it almost as soon as I opened my eyes, put down the documents in his hand, and brought me water and medicine.

"You have a low fever, take your medicine."

I was a little stunned, and obediently swallowed the medicine.

He probably had a lot of fun seeing me blankly, so he couldn't help but rub my hair again.

"Qi Ji."

"Ok?"

"……nothing."

"Ah."

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