Chapter 19#
Accident#
Ye Sheng thought about the departure just now under everyone’s gaze, and said in disbelief: “Do you think this counts as us sneaking away behind their backs?”
“Doesn’t it?” Ning Weichen laughed, not caring: “Oh, then we are having an affair openly and honestly.”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Affair my ass.
Ye Sheng returned to being expressionless and held out his hand: “My fish scale necklace.”
Ning Weichen stood in front of the flower trellis, looked down at his open white palm for a while, smiled and gently placed the flower he took from Ye Sheng’s hair into his hand: “Is this the only thing you want to say to me?”
“There’s nothing else to say.” Ye Sheng didn’t really want to get the fish scale necklace back. After all, it was something he gave away on the train. He thought for a while and said frankly and honestly: “I really need to use that necklace to open something now. Borrow it for a while, and I’ll return it to you immediately afterwards.”
Ning Weichen was amused by him: “Do you really think I like that necklace?”
Ye Sheng: “…” Isn’t that what you said yourself?
Ning Weichen said: “I just like the things you give me, the point is that you gave it.”
Ye Sheng was concise: “Will you return it or not?”
Ning Weichen said: “I didn’t bring it with me. It’s in the hotel now. Do you want to go to the hotel with me?”
Ye Sheng: “Let’s go.”
The curling water vapor on the lake floated between the two, and the bustling lights behind them seemed to be blurred in the dissolving moonlight. Ning Weichen looked at him with peach blossom eyes for a while, and chuckled: “Do I need to remind you that going to a hotel with an ex-boyfriend looks very much like a hint.”
Ye Sheng was stunned and frowned: “What?”
Ning Weichen shrugged and said: “A hint that you want to rekindle old feelings with me.”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Ye Sheng couldn’t bear it anymore: “Ning Weichen, I am seventeen years old now. I haven’t left Yin Mountain for seventeen years, and I only have no specific memories when I was very young. Are you trying to say that you had a relationship with me when I was five? Are you a pervert?”
Ning Weichen thought for a while and reasoned with him seriously: “Ye Sheng, I am a few months younger than you. If we really fell in love at that time, you should be more perverted than me.”
“…”
Damn. Ye Sheng felt that when he was with Ning Weichen, the emotions belonging to a normal person on him would be particularly strong. Nine times out of ten, it was anger.
Ning Weichen was very good at interpersonal communication, and his control of propriety and distance was always just right. Although generally speaking, he gave others a sense of distance and made others keep their propriety. But when facing Ye Sheng, that perfect persona of handling things with ease seemed no longer necessary.
Ning Weichen laughed out loud, then immediately restrained himself.
“Sorry, I was just joking.” He blinked and said ingratiatingly: “Of course you wouldn’t be a pervert, I am.”
Ye Sheng didn’t want to comment on whether he was a pervert or not. He had heard too many negative comments about himself in Yin Mountain, freak, evil seed, pervert, scum, he was too lazy to argue. As for whether Ning Weichen was a pervert or not, he felt that on train 1444, he also understood it very thoroughly.
“I promised Qin Liushuang to stay, leaving early is not polite.” After Ning Weichen explained, he looked down at the watch on his wrist again and said with a smile: “After the banquet is over, I will take you to the hotel and return the necklace to you. But now, do you want to go back to the banquet hall or walk with me by the lake?”
He didn’t want to choose either.
Ye Sheng said: “Is there a third option?”
Ning Weichen looked up at him, and suddenly smiled meaningfully: “Ye Sheng, you always say that I pretend in front of you. But aren’t you pretending now?”
His tone was slightly cold: “You are obviously very interested in our previous relationship, why pretend not to care and suppress asking.”
Ye Sheng pursed his lips, his dark eyes bright as cold stars, looking at him quietly, not answering.
Ning Weichen smiled brightly, and changed the subject calmly: “Is university life still enjoyable?”
Maybe the wind on this quiet night was too gentle, making people’s thoughts peaceful. When Ning Weichen’s voice was not smiling, it was like a cold spring and clear stream, as if it could purify and heal people’s hearts. Ye Sheng’s previous irritability about the box, hostility towards idiots, and disgust towards Huang Yiyue all slowly dissipated.
Ye Sheng threw the flower stuffed into his hand into the lake, and after a long silence, he said indifferently: “Enjoyable.”
Ning Weichen said: “Then why appear here? You obviously don’t like everything here.”
His tone was smiling but merciless: “I think the university life you arranged for yourself shouldn’t include these things, right?”
Ye Sheng had long recognized the fact that his acting skills were not good. Especially in front of a movie king like Ning Weichen, no disguise would count, so he was too lazy to pretend, and said bluntly: “Come and see what kind of fire pit my biological mother wants to push me into.”
He already knew how to open the box in the car, and also knew that the grandmother’s last words heard from Huang Yiyue’s mouth were only 70% false and 30% true. In fact, in terms of personality, Ye Sheng would not be a person who would cherish and miss the last words of the deceased.
Nothing could force him to come. Agreeing to this banquet was, in the final analysis, just to give himself a reason to take revenge on Huang Yiyue.
After figuring this out, Ye Sheng twitched the corner of his mouth self-deprecatingly and lowered his head. His eyelashes cast a shadow in the moonlight, concealing the emotions in his eyes.
Sure enough, countless psychological presets and countless self-hypnosis were actually useless. He had the mark of Yin Mountain’s sin engraved in his bones, and would always speculate on others with the greatest malice at any cost.
He simply couldn’t calmly forgive this biological mother who abandoned him and threatened him.
Previously, due to the promise he made to his grandmother, he endured all the way. Now he came to find a reason to send Huang Yiyue to hell openly and honestly.
“Biological mother?” Ning Weichen raised his eyebrows.
He was too lazy to care about everything in Huaicheng, so he didn’t pay attention to these things.
“Mn.”
Ye Sheng didn’t really want to tell Ning Weichen about these things.
Walking along this lake, all the singing, dancing, dark fragrance, and flowing gold lights were left behind.
Ye Sheng spoke up: “How did we know each other before.”
Ning Weichen knew him far better than he imagined.
Ye Sheng finally admitted this.
—He was indeed very curious about the relationship between them.
Ning Weichen chuckled lightly and asked leisurely: “How do you think we would know each other?”
Ye Sheng: “Have you been to Yin Mountain?”
Ning Weichen smiled: “No. I said, I was born abroad and grew up abroad.”
Ye Sheng said sarcastically: “So you were my ex-boyfriend in a dream?”
Ning Weichen sighed: “It would be great if it was really a dream.”
Ye Sheng frowned.
Ning Weichen thought for a while and smiled: “Do you believe in past and present lives?”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Ye Sheng: “…………”
Believe my ass.
Both he and Ning Weichen had seen ghosts being purified and disappearing with their own eyes, how could they still believe in past and present lives.
Ye Sheng: “Don’t believe.”
Ning Weichen’s eyes were smiling, and he said frivolously: “I didn’t believe it originally, but after I saw you for the first time, I believed it a little. I think we must have been very loving in our previous life, otherwise how could I fall in love with you at first sight again.”
“Although I haven’t been in love, my intuition tells me that the feeling of being in love with you must be great.”
Ye Sheng found it incredible.
In love with him? He couldn’t even imagine falling in love with himself.
With his personality, whoever falls in love with him is unlucky.
…But why was he discussing this kind of issue with Ning Weichen by the lake in the middle of the night.
Ye Sheng declined politely: “Thank you, I’m homophobic.”
Ning Weichen laughed, the corners of his lips hooked up: “Don’t worry, brother, I don’t plan to pursue you either.”
Ye Sheng looked at him strangely.
Ning Weichen said: “Since we are ex-boyfriends, it means our love didn’t last until the end.” He turned his head, the smile in his peach blossom eyes covered a layer of deep cold darkness, his tone indistinguishable, and he smiled and sighed softly: “Not becoming enemies, it’s all because I liked you too much.”
“A broken mirror, there is no need to reunite.” Ning Weichen smiled and said: “I just simply want to chat with an old friend.”
From the moment he said the four words “past and present lives”, Ye Sheng had already classified everything as Ning Weichen playing tricks on him.
Until now, he still couldn’t figure out what Ning Weichen’s attitude towards him was.
He seemed to like him very much and helped him repeatedly.
But his intuition was not wrong, Ning Weichen harbored deep wariness and even vigilance towards him. Let’s just say “love and hate” for now. But Ning Weichen was a qualified movie king, making this love unserious and hate erratic. No one could guess what he was thinking in his heart.
Ye Sheng said: “How long will you stay in Huaicheng?”
Ning Weichen thought for a while, made a honored look and smiled: “Do you want to contact me?”
Ye Sheng said: “No. I’ll return the necklace to you after I use it.”
There is no reason to ask for something back after giving it away. He said this sentence, not caring whether he would get Ning Weichen’s ridicule or teasing.
But Ning Weichen, such a person good at flirting, did not emit any ambiguity towards Ye Sheng’s sentence which could be called “unrequited love”.
Ning Weichen was silent for a moment, and said casually: “Just report my name to the front desk at the Rose Empire Hotel in Huaicheng.”
Ye Sheng: “Okay.”
Ning Weichen was silent again, then smiled, his eyes obscure: “In principle, I shouldn’t give you any of my contact information, but towards you, it seems difficult for me to have principles.”
Ye Sheng poured cold water on him: “How long are you going to immerse yourself in your script of past and present lives? We have known each other for less than half a month.”
Ning Weichen was thoughtful: “Probably have to act for a lifetime.”
Ye Sheng: “Then act slowly.”
Ning Weichen smiled and said: “No, I probably won’t act anymore after leaving you. After all, you are my only male protagonist and my only audience.”
Ye Sheng: “Oh, so this is still madness directed only at me.”
Ning Weichen chuckled: “So ruthless, you actually think I’m going mad.”
Ning Weichen was different from Ye Sheng. He was good at making various expressions and also good at smiling. But it seemed that only in front of Ye Sheng, he smiled truly for some reason.
Ye Sheng held back the urge to roll his eyes. Unknowingly, they had already walked to the other side of the lake.
Familiar small Western-style building, familiar small woods. Jackdaws were silent, the moonlight was turbid yellow, and the laughter and joy from the other side couldn’t spread here at all. Everywhere was desolate and lonely.
Crack.
Stepping on a dry branch, Ye Sheng was stunned. He keenly smelled a little bloody smell in the air. Ye Sheng’s eyes suddenly looked vigilantly at the place where he had put down the two bodyguards earlier.
Ning Weichen spoke at this time: “Oh, I haven’t asked yet, why do you have that blue pill in your hand.”
Ye Sheng was paying attention to the unexpected situation and didn’t notice his words: “What?”
Ning Weichen smiled faintly, but his eyes were cold: “Sapphire, an aphrodisiac that is very popular in the black market and has excellent effects. So, brother, who is your target tonight?”