guest of honor

Staying in Shenshi was a complete accident.

Qin Mu's plane from Frankfurt to Jiangzhou was unable to land due to heavy fog, and instead stopped in Shen City.Manager Wu, who is in charge of the Northwest business, also came from Jiangzhou in the early morning of the same day, in order to discuss cooperation with a local underwriter.

The two ran into each other, and Qin Mu decided to go back to Jiangzhou with Manager Wu the next day.Manager Wu was going to the company to discuss business in the morning. It was inconvenient for Qin Mu to stay in the hotel with his female secretary, so he simply followed Manager Wu as an auditor.

As a result, the three of them waited at the airport for a quarter of an hour, and the person sent by the other company to welcome them disappeared.Manager Wu walked around the pick-up hall twice with his mobile phone, but came back alone, and shook his head at Qin Mu: "I didn't find it."

Qin Mu asked, "Did you call?"

Manager Wu shook the phone screen in front of him. It was a photo of a young man: "The other party didn't leave the driver's phone number, but only sent me a photo..."

It was just a quick glance, Qin Mu couldn't believe what he saw, and his mind went blank for a moment.When he realized it, he had already grabbed Manager Wu's hand, wanting to snatch the phone over: "Show me!"

Manager Wu didn't know why, but he still handed over the phone to Qin Mu.

The man in the photo wears black-rimmed glasses, a cheap suit and shirt.He couldn't help reaching out to touch the corner of the man's eyes on the screen, but accidentally clicked the entire photo.

"Boss Qin?" Manager Wu asked suspiciously as he looked at his clenched jaw.

"Don't wait, he won't come." Qin Mu returned the phone to him, "We'll go to that company now. Xiao Zheng stays here, and uses all methods to contact his acquaintances in Shangshenshi, and ask them to keep an eye on the photo. people. Call some 'security guards' from the group, hurry up."

"Yes." Secretary Xiao Zheng hesitated, "Then the air ticket back to Jiangzhou tomorrow..."

"Cancel," Qin Mu strode out of the airport, "I won't be going back."

He can't wait to catch Ye Li out of his hiding place right now, no matter how much he pays.Even if it was just a second wasted, he was afraid that this person would disappear again, making him continue to wait in endless thoughts and hatred.

He still remembered that the last sentence Ye Li said to him was the most absurd lie.

"You wait for me, I will find you again."

Ridiculous and pitiful, he actually believed it.

In four years, Qin Mu's anger was never appeased for a moment.Ye Li refused to see him, and even persuaded Ji Yunmin to help him hide the truth, but can he hide it for a lifetime?Don't let him find him, Qin Mu swears, otherwise he will pull out all his wings and be unable to fly from now on.

Thinking of the extreme, Qin Mu let out a sneer.

He doesn't care if Mr. Ye's uncle is still his half-brother, he will go to hell.Ye Li just needs to be one of his sparrows, tied to his ankles and kept in a golden cage, singing only for him.

But unexpectedly, when he saw him again, what he saw was a curved back.

With his back turned to him, Ye Li bent down to the two insignificant strangers, his respectful appearance stabbed his eyes.Through a layer of glass doors, Qin Mu could even tell that his legs were shaking slightly.

That humble arc cut a knife in his heart.For a moment, Qin Mu even had doubts and fears. This person was no longer the Ye Li he knew, but a stranger who had been obliterated by his livelihood...

The glass door was pushed open.He rushed in first, but he didn't dare to let the man raise his head.He just stood there quietly and stared at him, feeling suffocation engulfing him like waves, and the salty sea water filling his abdominal cavity.

"This is the assistant to the president of our company, Ye Zhu."

The man finally raised his head, barely holding up a polite smile on his tired face, and at the same time stretched out his hand: "You... good."

Qin Mu grabbed his hand, and the uncontrollable force hurt himself.He disassembled every expression on the man's face, surprise, panic, fear... After that, he paused every word on purpose: "President Yuanyang, Qin Mu."

Qin Mu even said it with a smile, which belongs to the ridicule of the winner.

Only he himself knew that this heart still didn't die after being riddled with holes, and was beating ecstatically.

He forcibly wanted to take the man away from the company, Ye Li knocked down many tables and chairs one after another because of struggling, the sound of limbs and metal bumping scared the strangers working in the lobby.Qin Mu glanced back, grabbed Ye Li's waist and his weak legs, and carried the thin man into the elevator.

After getting in the car, he humiliated him as best he could, and after taking him to the hotel, he used almost brutal methods to force him to embarrass himself under him.

However, when Ye Li finally passed out from the unbearable torment, he couldn't control his hands, and hugged the man from the wet bed sheet into his arms, and continuously and softly kissed him on his hair, temples and neck. .

"Ye Li..."

After blurting it out, Qin Mu himself was stunned, not understanding what the almost gentle affection was.

The bright and clear moonlight shone in through the gap in the curtains, and after the tide subsided, he finally saw Ye Li's haggardness clearly.The man's lips were pale, his eyes were closed, and his brows were furrowed. Even in a coma, he still couldn't find peace.Qin Mu carried him to the bedside, turned on a lamp, and a soft yellow light enveloped them.

Finally, Ye Li gradually relaxed and fell asleep in his arms.Qin Mu couldn't understand his peace of mind, and hated his own kindness.

Why should he be afraid of waking him up?

Thinking of this, Qin Mu's eyes became colder and colder.

He turned over and pressed Ye Li onto the mattress, but his movements froze in mid-air.

Two centipede-like slender scars ran through the knees, crawling on the once white and tight legs.This is an old injury that has been going on for years, and it is clear that it was not there four years ago...

How painful it is, only Ye Li knows.

Qin Mu suddenly remembered that today at the company, Ye Li's legs trembled because he could not support the weight of his upper body after bending down. Dragging out of the conference room, those tables and chairs knocked down along the way...does it hurt?Ye Li, does it hurt?

He wanted to ask, but it was impossible for the man to give him an answer.

Qin Mu propped himself up expressionlessly, walked into the bathroom, turned on the shower, and let the cold water hit him head and face.

After the desire finally subsided, he went to the sink and twisted a hot towel, and walked back to the bedroom barefoot.

Ye Li fell into a deep sleep, not knowing that he just escaped from a nightmare.Qin Mu carefully cleaned his body for him. When he wiped the scar on his thigh, Ye Li twitched his knee as if afraid of pain, but he still didn't wake up.

Qin Mu knelt beside him, paused for the hand holding the towel, and took it back.

"Ye Li." He lowered his head and muttered to himself, clenched his fists tightly and then let go.The angry roar and the piercing pain collided with each other in his chest, and after mixing together, there was only a long and bone-piercing bitterness, which eroded all his obsessions for the past four years.

"What exactly do you want me to do?"

noon the next day.

Ye Li fell asleep in a daze.He dreamed that Qin Mu found him four years later, turned into another person like a reborn person, and collected debts from him brutally and cruelly.He wanted to catch him in pain, like a person floating in the ocean desperately grabbing a piece of driftwood, continuing to wait in endless despair...

Until he saw a little yellow floating at the confluence of the night and the sea, symbolizing the lighthouse, the harbor and the land.He struggled to get closer to the light, and the clump of light became brighter and brighter, covering and bathing his icy body.

Ye Li opened his eyes.

He was not lying in his [-]-square-meter burrow, nor was he lying on a cold wooden bed.There was no one else in the bright and clean bedroom, he lay quietly on the soft mattress, facing the soft gauze in front of the French windows.

Ye Li was shocked, and tried to get up from the bed with his elbows on his back, but he fell back because of the pain all over his body.

It was not a dream.

Footsteps sounded outside the house, and a tall man appeared at the door: "Are you awake?"

Ye Li turned his head to look at him, and nodded slowly.

Qin Mu walked in, with two pieces of clothes hanging on his left arm, and a paper bag in his right hand, which he threw on the quilt: "Change your clothes and go back to Jiangzhou this afternoon."

He didn't explain, Ye Li naturally wouldn't ask, but those two clothes looked a bit weird.He took a hand out of the quilt and pressed the swollen duvet. The clothes spread on the quilt were a gray hoodie and sweatpants, which looked extremely young and casual.He hadn't worn this kind of clothes for many years, so he frowned.

He didn't have the capital to dislike him.The expression of dissatisfaction flashed by, but Qin Mu shrewdly caught his attention: "Don't want to wear it? That's right, Ye Shao still looks better without clothes."

Ye Li didn't say a word, he got under the quilt, trying to avoid Qin Mu's explicit eyes.

Unexpectedly, Qin Mu asked, "What's the matter with the injury on your leg?"

It's clearly an old injury, but it still hurts when someone mentions it.Ye Li buried half of his face in the quilt, lowered his eyes and remained silent for a long time.Just when Qin Mu thought he would not be able to wait for his answer, he suddenly said, "Retribution."

Qin Mu suffocated, wishing to dig him out of the bed and force him to tell the truth.The more Ye Li avoided this question, the more he wanted to know: "You also know about retribution? Ye Li, I don't care at all whether you are injured or disabled. But before you die, you must pay back every penny you owe me." .”

Ye Li nodded incredulously: "I know."

you know?You know shit!

Qin Mu sneered, and lifted Ye Li's quilt nonchalantly, but turned his eyes away not wanting to look at the bruises and scars on the man's body: "The plane at [-] o'clock in the afternoon will not wait for you."

Ye Li simply took a shower and changed into the clothes Qin Mu had prepared for him.The size of the hoodie is too big, I don't know if it is an oversize design or because the size is not suitable, Ye Li dangles in the clothes.The legs of the sweatpants tighten at the ankle so they don't drag.

He was not in good spirits, and when passing by the restaurant, he only quickly raised his eyes to look at Qin Mu, and then lowered his head again.

The man at the table put down his knife and fork: "Where are you going?"

Ye Li paused and stopped in place.

"Come and eat." The man ordered.

Ye Li stepped forward, only to find that opposite to the bloodshot steak in front of Qin Mu, there was still a bowl of clear soup and a glass of orange juice next to the glass of red wine.Even the chairs were pulled halfway, obviously waiting for someone to sit down.

He glanced at Qin Mu again, but the man didn't look at him, so Ye Li could only obediently sit opposite him.

There were a few slices of coriander floating in the middle of the clear soup, Ye Li picked up the chopsticks, carefully picked the leaves to the edge of the plate, and then picked out the shredded ginger.He was so absorbed in his work that even Qin Mu didn't notice that he was glancing at him from the corner of his eye.

Qin Mu picked up the napkin and wiped his mouth, then asked unintentionally, "Is it delicious?"

Ye Li nodded: "It's delicious."

"Tastier than mine?"

Ye Li subconsciously wanted to nod again: "Hmm...huh?"

He raised his head in surprise, not knowing why Qin Mu asked this question.But the man had put down the napkin and stood up, leaving him sitting at the table alone, seemingly not waiting for his answer at all.