Bright Throne

The dark clouds deposited in the sky seemed to be overwhelmed, and there was a bang, and raindrops fell.

As if awakened by the muffled thunder, Pei Hanrui suddenly woke up. Although his face was still calm, his voice had regained his composure: "This room, sublet it to me, and I will pay twice the price."

There was undeniable toughness in his deep voice, the man was stunned for a long time, then faltered and said: "I... have you made a mistake, then where do I live?"

"three times."

The young man swallowed his throat, and nodded hastily like a chicken pecking at rice. The price difference alone is almost worth his one month's salary, and a fool would not agree!

Coming out of Qin Yi's house, Pei Hanrui found someone to find Qin Yi's booking record for him as quickly as possible, and the boarding time happened to be more than half an hour left.

The torrential rain washed on the windshield of the car, and was instantly divided to both sides by the wipers. The road was slicked by the rain, and most drivers drove more restrained, except for the silver car that was constantly passing through the dense traffic. sports car.

Pei Hanrui's lips were tightly lined, his hands holding the steering wheel were slightly clenched, his eyes were fixed, his face was as sinking as water, and he turned a deaf ear to the abuse of the car owner who was overtaken and cut off by him.

Time is passing by every minute and every second. Seeing the still congested road ahead, Pei Hanrui's eyes are getting more and more gloomy. After being forced to stop again, he finally couldn't help but take out the cigarette case. I don't know if the lighter is broken. Yes, I pressed it several times in a row and it didn't light up.

It's still raining, and it's getting bigger and bigger.

Qin Yi dragged his suitcase and sat in the waiting hall, feeling a bit bleak about being away from home. Ji Hangfeng ran over panting and told him that it was time to board the plane. Qin Yi nodded slightly, got up and walked to the boarding gate.

"I heard that there are many great restaurants in San Francisco. After eating chicken drumstick rice for so many years, it's a good time to change the taste. Fortunately, I got a visa in advance because of the commercial shooting. Now that I think about it, I really have the foresight..."

All the way to the airport, Ji Hangfeng has been talking to Qin Yi in different ways. Qin Yi barely cheers up and occasionally responds, but his mood is cold and silent almost all day long. Ji Hangfeng watched With his absent-minded side face, he was secretly worried, even when he broke up with Yan Gui, he was never so silent.

"By the way, you should be fine after studying English for so long, right? I saw you wearing earphones to practice listening a few months ago. Could it be that you have thought of going abroad for a long time, haha, I can't see you kid It’s also quite visionary…”

Qin Yi's gaze under the sunglasses was startled, and he lowered his eyes and said lightly: "Ah, Pei Hanrui forced me to learn it. Speaking of which, I have to thank him..."

After saying this, he shut up again, dragging his luggage and walking forward silently.

Ji Hangfeng followed him helplessly. For a moment, he felt awkward again. He looked at Qin Yi's back with vain eyes. .

"It must be an illusion..." Ji Hangfeng shook his head.

The airport radio scrolled through the check-in prompts for their flight. There was a long queue at the boarding gate. The two walked slowly and stood at the end.

As the wall clock on the wall circled every minute and every second, the team slowly moved forward, and after a while, it was their turn.

Ji Hangfeng handed over the ticket he had already prepared, and went to see Qin Yi, but found that the other party stopped at the ticket gate, and turned his head to look back at the entrance.

There were pedestrians in a hurry, without any familiar faces.

Qin Yi only took one look, a deep look, the dark glasses covered the emotion in his eyes, only his lips seemed to be pursed tighter.

"Sir?" The lady who checked the ticket gave a strange reminder, and Qin Yi turned around and handed over the ticket as if nothing had happened.

Ji Hangfeng looked at him hesitantly, hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help saying: "If you..."

"Let's go." Qin Yi interrupted what he was going to say next, tightly holding the handle of the suitcase, as if forcing himself to walk quickly to the aisle, all the way to the end, without turning back again.

Almost as soon as the two stepped on the plane, Pei Hanrui stepped into the airport.

He didn't have an umbrella on him, and the heavy rain wet his hair, slowly dripping down his shoulders along the ends of his hair, ignoring his distress, his eyes flew past the crowd, halls, waiting rooms, Ticket gate……

No, no, there is no one he is looking for!

In the end, Pei Hanrui stopped in front of the flight prompt screen at the end of the ticket check, until the large characters that repeatedly rotated on it clearly caught his eyes, and the burning light in his eyes seemed to be wiped out by the rain, he finally slowly Closing his dry and sore eyes, only his still straight legs and waist support him, standing there silently...

It's night, the office of the president of the NL building.

In the past two days, the time to turn off the lights in the work area of ​​this building has been getting later and later. Even if there is no work left, the employees are afraid to leave work on time-the boss has not left, how dare they leave in a hurry?Every time the female secretary saw the indifferent and gloomy face of the boss, she was trembling and nervous.

This night, the lights are turned off especially late.

Except for the duty room, only Pei Hanrui's office is still lit.

It has been raining heavily all day, and now the rain has finally become lighter. The dark clouds still cover the moonlight tightly, and the cold wind blows the branches on the side of the road. It seems that it is not enough, and I smile grinningly. Vigorously slap on the glass windows of the building.

The originally well-organized desk was full of messy paper balls, the cigarette butts in the ashtray almost fell out, and there was a bottle of brandy that was only half left, and a faint smell of drunkenness permeated the air , Like dark clouds in a rainy night, lingering and unable to go back.

Looking for someone to check Qin Yi's whereabouts, there is no news yet.

Perhaps it was the sound of the strong wind outside that was disturbing. Pei Hanrui dropped his pen, resting his forehead on the back of his hand, and holding the goblet with strong wine with his fingers. The amber liquid swayed slightly with the glass, and under the light, There was a gloomy cold light shining on the ground.

The computer screen is full of reports about Qin Yi, some of which have been deleted one after another some time ago, and now there are not many that can be found.

Unexpectedly, one day, he could only see him again in this way...

Pei Hanrui raised his head and took a sip of the wine. The cold liquid slid down his throat. After a while, there was a burst of hotness. He rarely drank this kind of strong wine, but at this moment, nothing could help him paralyze A scrambled brain.

Missing, pain, and nostalgia that I have never felt before linger in my heart, entangled, intertwined, unclear, and constantly cut.

Up to now, he can no longer use any excuses to deceive himself and others, and the things he was most worried about and feared happened one after another.

For example, the love that was once abandoned by oneself.

For example, Qin Yi who completely left her.

Pei Hanrui frowned, his deep eyes were dimly drunk from the smell of alcohol, he tilted his head and stared at the report being played on the screen, Qin Yi admitted to the camera nonchalantly that he was dating himself.

In the picture, Qin Yi's eyes seemed to meet him through the screen, honest and arrogant.

There was a smile on the corner of Pei Hanrui's mouth, that smile was very ugly, he felt that he was drunk, and his drunk mouth had a bitter taste...

After living for so many years, he never imagined that he would have a day when he would truly fall in love with someone.

The most ridiculous thing is that this fact was discovered after the loss.

"May I ask if you were unspoken voluntarily, or were you forced? What is your feeling for Mr. Pei?"

Ah, I seemed to see this last time, but I was interrupted by my father's call. Later, I was so busy with that matter that I didn't bother to look for it.

Pei Hanrui's eyes sank, he looked at the screen quietly, and drank his wine one after another. He was amused to see Qin Yi in the picture impatiently rolling his dead fish eyes at the camera.

——"Don't open your mouth and shut up the unspoken rules, the children will be unable to control it after reading it, okay?"

There was only the last one left in the cigarette case, Pei Hanrui took it out and lit it, and held it in his mouth.

- "There is nothing voluntary and forced..."

Pei Hanrui squinted his eyes, propped his cheeks, greedily stared at Qin Yi's face, and listened to his melodious voice.

——"Because I like him."

"Bang -" a crisp sound was heard in the empty office, and the wine glass in Pei Hanrui's hand suddenly slipped from his fingers and shattered into pieces!

The wine splashed out, wet the design draft, wet his expensive suit, and scattered broken glass on the floor tiles.

The expression on Pei Hanrui's face froze, as stiff and motionless as a sculpture.

Because I like him.

Because I like him...

For a moment, Pei Hanrui's mind was full of these words, his slightly constricted pupils stared blankly at the face on the screen, and after a while, as if awakened by a start, he hurriedly held the mouse to click pause, his fingertips But it was trembling uncontrollably, and it stopped after clicking a few times, and then pulled the progress bar back.

Replay, pause, rewind...

In just a few seconds of footage, Pei Hanrui watched it over and over again, listening to the man in the screen repeating that sentence again and again - it seemed that as long as he kept watching, Qin Yi was really in his It's the same as confessing again and again in front of you.

Looking at it like this, looking at it like this, he suddenly laughed, the muscles on his face trembled, the fine lines at the end of his eyes appeared, he exhausted all his strength from the smile, and finally he slowly leaned his head back on the back of the leather chair inside.

His laughter was no longer as deep and mellow as before, only hissing and hoarse, full of mockery and pain, echoing in this empty and deserted office, echoing in this cold winter night.

After a long time, the laughter gradually died down.

The light on the ceiling was a bit dazzling, Pei Hanrui blocked the light with his hand, and half of his face was hidden in the shadow.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Keming came to the door suddenly.

"My Young Master Pei, how busy are you staying here in the middle of the night? So busy that you don't even answer my phone?" Zhang Er pulled the door of the office dissatisfied. When he looked back, he was suddenly surprised by the messy desk in front of him. After a moment, I felt sensitively that something was wrong with the other party.

"Young Master Pei, what's the matter with you?" He glanced at the broken wine glasses on the ground and the messy tabletop, then walked around the table and asked with a frown.

After a long while, Pei Hanrui sat up a little bit, wiped the alcohol on his fingers and clothes with a paper towel, and regained his steady and calm appearance in front of others, and said calmly: "I just accidentally broke the glass."

Although he knew he shouldn't watch it, Zhang Er accidentally caught a glimpse of the frozen picture on the computer screen, and those very familiar figures on the spread paper.

Pei Hanrui put away the half-drawn design draft calmly, raised his eyelids and glanced at the other party: "What's the matter?"

"Isn't it just that the magazines and advertising agencies you asked me to make appointments with last time were all asking me about the things I said before, but you couldn't find any of them... Forget it, don't mention this, you and That boy Qin Yi... you really fell on him, right?" Zhang Er watched his expression carefully expressing his curiosity.

This time Pei Hanrui didn't evade any more, he suddenly chuckled, with a hint of self-mockery and nostalgia in his smile, he nodded and said: "Ah, yes."

This time it was Zhang Er's turn to be shocked. He really wondered if there was something wrong with his ears. Pei Hanrui - would admit that he fell in love with a man?

"really?"

What responded to him was Pei Hanrui's deep and dull eyes.

Zhang Er sighed, and couldn't help asking again: "What does it feel like to fall in love with someone?"

After being silent for a while, Pei Hanrui lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then said lightly: "Probably... suddenly had a weakness, and suddenly—"

There was a slight sigh and clarity in his eyes: "——Suddenly there is armor again."

These words made Zhang Er's eyes widen slightly, and he was a little dazed. Then he heard the man continue: "Help me get back the things I arranged before. I don't need them for the time being. I have to leave for a while. My father's side His actions help me keep an eye out."

"Well, yes, yes, but where are you going?"

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