night escape

"You...why did you ask him?" Liang Ye's face froze, he retreated from Xie Li consciously, and sat on the edge of the sofa resignedly.

Xie Li tidied up his clothes, and when he looked at Liang Ye's flickering eyes, doubts arose in his heart: "Have you seen him? Your...cousin?"

"Why ask about him?"

Liang Ye didn't dare to look at Xie Li, he pretended to walk to the window easily, and lit a cigarette with his back to Xie Li: "What's your relationship with him?"

Xie Li didn't notice that there was a flash of guilt in Liang Ye's eyes for a moment, but he hid it very well, when the sunlight hit his eyes, there was only light left.

What's the relationship with Duan Ye?In fact, Xie Li couldn't answer for a while. Duan Ye once saved his life, so he could be regarded as a life-saver, but such an answer seemed too heavy.So are they friends?But in the final analysis, they have only known each other for a few months, and they cannot be regarded as friends in the true sense... Then what are they?

After thinking for a while, Xie Li chose a compromise answer: "...the relationship between the creditor and the debtor."

"Cough!" Liang Ye choked on the smoke in his nostrils, leaned on the window and coughed, "You owe him?"

"No, he owes me."

Liang Ye opened the window, and the cold air rushed into the room instantly, blowing away the smoke around him.

"He's dead, don't you know?"

"I know."

"Then why do you still ask..."

"I want to know, where is his tomb?" Xie Li was very anxious. After many years, he finally met someone related to Duan Ye. He had waited too long for this day.

"I want to see him."

But what Xie Li didn't know was that his words were like a huge rock falling into the deep sea, causing turbulent waves in Liang Ye's heart - it turned out that he had never forgotten himself.

Although his heart was already turbulent, he still tried his best to behave very naturally, except for the slightly trembling fingers holding the cigarette, and the moist corners of his eyes brought out by the cold wind.

The window was wide open, and Liang Ye stood by the window, letting the cold wind beat his tired face.The strong wind blew his hair into a mess, making his eyes a little irritated.The cigarette in his hand shortened extremely quickly, and it was burned out before he could take two more puffs.He used these ten seconds to adjust all his emotions, closed the window, crushed the cigarette butt with two fingers, and returned to his nonchalant smile before turning back to the living room.

"It might be cruel to say that to you...but it's true.

"He doesn't have a tomb. His family said that unmarried children cannot be buried, so no one erected a monument for him."

This is of course false, but this custom does exist in many places, and it doesn't sound like it's made up.

Xie Li's face, which was full of expectation, suddenly became dull. He was silent for a few seconds, and his voice became hoarse: "What did you say?"

He didn't believe it...he didn't believe that he had been looking for Duan Ye's grave for so long all these years, and it was only for such an absurd reason!

It's ridiculous, isn't it?

"I didn't lie to you. If you ask any member of the Liang family, he will say so."

After an unknown amount of time, Xie Li finally said, "You Liang family members are really hard-hearted."

Xie Li couldn't accept it, why didn't they even set up a cheap tombstone for him!Why... I didn't even have the chance to send a bouquet of flowers to his grave?This is his deepest regret, and it is also the reason why he has been obsessed with finding the Liang family all these years!

Liang Ye's Adam's apple twitched, and he was about to say something, but Xie Li stopped him first: "Go, I'm not in the mood today."

"A Li..."

Liang Ye was at a loss for a moment, it's not that he didn't see the red in Xie Li's eyes.

Liang Ye had told this lie for ten years, and he had lied to countless people, but at this moment, he felt guilty.

Because he clearly saw deep regret in Xie Li's eyes.

Why did he lie to Xie Li?Why can't he just tell him that he is Duan Ye?Why can't we recognize Xie Li like Li Tingjun and the others?

why?

Ten years ago, Duan Ye left without saying goodbye and missed an appointment with him. In his eyes, Duan Ye has been dead for ten years. If Liang Ye suddenly tells him that Duan Ye is not dead at this moment, and that he is Duan Ye, Xie Li What would you think?Would he be happy for a friend he lost and found again, or would he feel that he had lied to him for ten years, and would he feel resentment or resentment and push himself further away?

Furthermore, Liang Ye still had doubts in his heart that reminded him like a wake-up call.It wasn't long before he reunited with Xie Li, but Xie Li's shadow always appeared in every case Liang Yecha investigated during this time.Every time Xie Li passed by the key clues of the case, he also cleared himself up without any flaws, and now Xie Li's identity and position are unknown, which made Liang Ye have to be paranoid.

As long as the father's injustice is not solved, and the black hand behind the scenes is not brought to justice, he can only be Liang Ye, and the young man named Duan Ye can only be buried deep in the ground for a long time, disappearing in the eyes of the world.

...Take another step back, if Xie Li is really innocent and has nothing to do with the case he is investigating, that would be the best. Liang Ye is even more unwilling to let Xie Li know his true identity.

Maybe one day suddenly, Liang Ye will leave without saying goodbye like Duan Ye, disappear out of thin air and become a dead person, which Liang Ye cannot predict.

He would rather stay innocent to the end, it is better not to know anything, he doesn't have to know how dangerous a case he is getting into, and he doesn't have to understand what kind of forces he is fighting against, and he doesn't have to understand that he is embarking on a road that is likely to go nowhere. way back...

...and don't have to like yourself either.

He will continue like this, and be his Dr. Xie from nine to five.Then, in the long and trivial rest of his life, he gradually forgot an old friend who could never come back, so that he could recover from his mistakes and watch him die again.

"Alright." Liang Ye forced a smile that was uglier than crying.

Liang Ye put on his own suit and went to open the door, the sleeves were tightened, causing the wound on his arm to hurt a bit, he touched the sore spot with his hands, and felt the knot that Xie Li had tied up for him.

He looked back to the living room, the fierce sunlight poured in from the balcony, wrapping Xie Li's body, he only wore a T-shirt with the simplest style, but he looked so good-looking.

The light spread in the room, but it just stopped at Liang Ye's feet. He was still standing in the dark, staring at Xie Li in the light for a long time.

At this time, Liang Ye realized how naive and ignorant his confession was last night. He was too eager to get a result, but this result had exceeded his expectations, and he could not bear it if he wanted to.

But now this result is actually not that important.

It was also at this moment that he finally understood that the gap between him and Xie Li was not only ten years, but also two life trajectories that could never be crossed.

Just be yourself, Ah Li, you don't have to remember me, and you don't have to like me.

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The door was closed tightly with a "bang", and Xie Li heard his leaving footsteps.

What Liang Ye didn't know was that although the winter sun was generous and bright, it couldn't warm people's hearts at all.

On this day, Xie Li sat down on the sofa for a long time, even forgetting the time to go to work.He stared blankly ahead, with deep, unconcealable sadness.The little black cat jumped on his lap and meowed at him for a long time, but he still didn't respond.

But after an unknown amount of time, the sadness on his face suddenly receded.For no reason, a strange idea suddenly popped out of his mind...

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