Chapter 36#
Those Who Listen to Stories (Part 3)#
Ye Sheng opened the passenger door, stepped in, and quickly closed it, shutting out the curious and probing gazes from the entire street.
His movements were decisive. The crowd held up their phones, trying every angle, but in the end, they only captured Ye Sheng’s tense jawline and indifferent profile. As for the person in the driver’s seat, they were completely hidden in the darkness.
“Let’s go,” Ye Sheng said after fastening his seatbelt.
Ning Weichen looked up, curled his lips at Ye Sheng, and smiled, “Do you want to go get some food with me first?”
The car’s interior was elegant and noble. His hand rested casually on the steering wheel, revealing an azure blue starry square diamond watch on his cold white wrist.
Ning Weichen’s clothes were always from a few specific brands. Dressed in a tailored black suit, with peach blossom eyes smiling affectionately when he looked over, he looked completely like a cynical noble young master. Coupled with words like “University City” and “Food Street,” and Ye Sheng’s current persona of an impoverished college student, it was really hard not to let people think crookedly.
However, their relationship was already quite “crooked.”
Ye Sheng coldly rejected his invitation: “No need. Thank you for reminding me that the monster fetus is still in my stomach. I don’t think I’ll have an appetite all day.”
Ning Weichen smiled slowly and blinked: “Don’t be like that, brother. The books I read say that during pregnancy, one must supplement nutrition well.”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Damn it! Ye Sheng instantly clenched his teeth, his gaze looking at Ning Weichen as if quenched with ice.
Receiving his warning, Ning Weichen immediately restrained himself, gave a mocking smile, and obediently drove the car.
His posture was skilled and casual; at a glance, he was not a novice who had just reached adulthood and got a driver’s license.
Ye Sheng leaned back, his gaze quietly looking at the bustling lights constantly retreating beside him.
Ning Weichen thoughtfully thought of something, then smiled and said, “This is the first time someone has sat in the passenger seat when I’m driving.”
Ye Sheng didn’t want to chat with him about such boring questions and asked directly, “What did you tell your private doctor?”
Ning Weichen: “Hmm? Tell him what?”
Ye Sheng said indifferently, “About the monster fetus in my stomach.”
Ning Weichen chuckled softly, nonchalantly: “Oh, I didn’t tell him about the monster fetus. I repeated the explanation I gave at the Qin family that night to him, just asking him to deal with the A-rank anomaly in your body.”
Ye Sheng paused slightly, lowered his eyes, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If possible, he didn’t want another person to know that he had devoured an anomaly.
Ning Weichen said, “So remember to cooperate with me when the time comes.”
Ye Sheng frowned: “Cooperate with what?”
Ning Weichen: “He thinks you still have my stuff inside your body, so he might ask some relatively private questions.”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Just then, the car stopped at a traffic light intersection.
Ning Weichen smiled beamingly, tilted his head and said, “Although it’s a bit presumptuous to ask this, we don’t have much time. Brother, do you need me to educate you on how homosexuals have sex?”
“…” Damn. He really got on a pirate ship.
Ye Sheng looked at him, trying hard to maintain an expressionless face, and answered with disgust: “No need, I’m just homophobic, not an idiot.”
Ning Weichen smiled slightly: “Alright.”
The red light passed.
Ning Weichen continued driving and suddenly changed the topic: “Were the two people eating with you today your colleagues?”
Ye Sheng: “One is a colleague, one is the boss.”
Ning Weichen said: “You work at a haunted house?”
Ye Sheng: “Mm.”
Ning Weichen: “Why?”
Ye Sheng: “…”
Ye Sheng said: “Because I need money to eat.”
He actually didn’t really want to talk about money with Ning Weichen, because talking about it easily caused heart attacks, making him realize the disparity of the world in minutes. Even if Ning Weichen appeared kind, amiable, and approachable on the train, after getting along for a long time, that innate indifference and arrogance would inadvertently show. It had nothing to do with family background or ability; it seemed to be Ning Weichen’s original character.
However, his original character was hidden behind impeccable acting skills. For example, now, Ning Weichen’s eyes revealed worry just right, his tone gentle and puzzled.
“Is it not good to live with me?”
Ye Sheng rejected: “Our relationship is just to fool others. You have already helped me a lot, no need to trouble yourself.”
Ning Weichen: “But I don’t find it troublesome.”
Ye Sheng thought to himself, he found it troublesome. But he opened his mouth to perfunctory: “Director Cheng wants me to live as usual, and going to work is an indispensable part. Contacting more people also makes it easier for anomalies to find me.”
Ning Weichen smiled brightly and said regretfully: “Alright then.”
“Can I pick you up from work?”
Ye Sheng almost choked on his last sentence, his almond eyes staring straight over: “What did you say?!”
Ning Weichen was even more confused than him: “You are now a person wanted by Remiel, and also my fiancé. I worry about your safety. Is it wrong to pick you up and drop you off?”
He smiled and said: “Even if it’s fooling others, we have to put on a show, right?”
Ye Sheng: “…Fine, as long as you’re happy.”
Ning Weichen curled the corners of his lips: “Of course I’m happy, brother.”
Ye Sheng twitched his mouth: “Open the window.”
After the car window opened, the cool breeze of midsummer calmed Ye Sheng’s thoughts a bit.
He was now an ally tied to Ning Weichen, but he still couldn’t see through Ning Weichen clearly until now.
His plan for the next stage was to investigate the matter of the Story King post scriptum clearly, so what about Ning Weichen? From Cheng Ze’s tone, one could guess that with the Ning family’s escort, Ning Weichen didn’t take the anomaly wanted order to heart. So far, among the high-level executors, Ye Sheng had only contacted Luo Xingyan. An S-rank executor who could directly sense the aura of an A-rank anomaly in the western building.
The biggest disadvantage in the struggle between the Non-Natural Bureau and anomalies was that the enemy was in the dark while we were in the light.
And now the situation was reversed on them.
Ye Sheng’s gaze was entangled by the colorful neon lights of the city. He pursed his lips and thought for a long time before speaking calmly.
“Ning Weichen, I agreed to cooperate with the Non-Natural Bureau’s investigation because I am interested in the forum itself.”
Ning Weichen raised his eyebrows, his smile slightly restrained.
Ye Sheng said: “You expressed on the Yinshan train that you don’t like being assigned tasks, nor do you like contacting anomalies. So you don’t have to be tied to me. Because now even if anomalies don’t find me, I will take the initiative to find them.”
He must investigate the truth of that note clearly.
“Thank you for helping me so many times, but now I don’t seek stability anymore.”
Ye Sheng’s expression was a bit strange, after all, he rarely spoke his heart out to people. Overcoming the weirdness, he quickly said: “You go do your own thing. Following me will only make you constantly contact things you don’t like.”
Speaking of which, who hated anomalies more, him or Ning Weichen?
Ye Sheng only recalled this question now.
Ning Weichen’s attitude towards the tasks assigned by his family was very average. After arriving at Chonghe Village in Yinshan County and discovering that the Fetal Maiden had been taken away, he directly reported the mission failure. Later, when he found clues in the carriage, the first person he contacted was also his private doctor.
He had never understood Ning Weichen.
Ning Weichen sensed that Ye Sheng said these words very seriously.
His lips pressed into a line, driving the car, his expression obscure in the changing light and shadow.
Ye Sheng shut up after finishing speaking; that was all he had to say.
A moment later, the black Bentley had driven out of the city area, and on both sides was a place Ye Sheng was familiar with.
After a long time, Ning Weichen said faintly: “Ye Sheng, it’s not that I’m not interested in anomalies.”
Ye Sheng frowned.
Ning Weichen’s voice was slow, flowing in the night.
“I just don’t like being assigned tasks.”
“Baby, you guessed wrong.”
“I stayed in Huaicheng, actually the main reason is because of the forum. Like you, I am very interested in the forum.” He looked up and smiled, his lips blood-red, his peach blossom eyes rippling and affectionate, saying faintly: “Especially, the founder of the forum.”
The founder of the forum!
Thin wooden branches on the remote lane swept past rapidly, the moon emerged from the clouds, and cold starlight poured into the car window, shining into Ye Sheng’s black and white eyes.
He was neither stunned nor shocked, just looking quietly at Ning Weichen.
All along, everyone told him about the seven major moderators, about various elusive S-rank anomalies.
Only Ning Weichen said this word to him that no one had ever mentioned.
Founder.
Ye Sheng had seen too many sides of Ning Weichen, but at this moment he clearly knew that he saw the most real side of Ning Weichen.
Ning Weichen’s thoughts, Ning Weichen’s purpose.
Ye Sheng thought in a trance.
Was it because he had spoken those words to Ning Weichen seriously earlier? Saying he was very interested in the forum.
…Seriousness exchanged for seriousness.
“So our goals are the same now, brother.”
Ning Weichen finished speaking, curled his lips in a lazy smile, and quickly closed his mouth. Obviously not wanting to talk more. His gaze looked coldly ahead.
Ye Sheng didn’t continue speaking either.
He looked away, dazed for a while, feeling a very strange feeling in his heart.
Ye Sheng always felt that Ning Weichen was a very “unreal” person. So he treated many words from Ning Weichen’s mouth as farting, including every “brother” and “like”.
Because Ning Weichen was too dangerous.
If a person could change expression, temperament, lines, and tone in an instant, and while telling a lie could supplement all causes and consequences, performing any personality seamlessly.
Then who could distinguish whether his words were sincere or lies.
Ning Weichen was a perfect movie king, so this meant. He could play a “perfect train passenger”, “perfect rich young master”, “perfect friend” and… “perfect lover”.
Gentle, considerate, elegant; deep affection, stubborn, measured in advance and retreat.
Fake to the extreme.
However, now Ye Sheng found that he seemed to be wrong.
Making Ning Weichen serious with him seemed very, very, very simple.
As long as… he was also serious.
Ye Sheng was lost in thought for a moment, starting to recall his communication with Ning Weichen all along. It seemed that from the train, he had always held the mentality of cutting off contact after getting off the car, chatting perfunctorily with Ning Weichen. Fortunately, Ning Weichen thought the same.
Later when they met at the banquet, he never seriously told Ning Weichen about his own affairs.
Regarding the purpose of coming to the banquet, regarding Huang Yiyue’s matter, he skimmed over it; regarding the reason for his “crying” in the western building, he also avoided talking about it. Later on the winding mountain road when asking Ning Weichen about “past and present lives”, it was also just a bare “What was I like before?”
With Ning Weichen’s keenness and understanding of human psychology, how could he not have discovered the weirdness.
But Ning Weichen never asked.
Never asked “Why are you suddenly so interested in our past matters.”
Ye Sheng pursed his lips, looking at the asphalt road outside with some irritability. The moonlight flowed and shone on his exquisite cold white features, the boy’s picturesque eyebrows and eyes were coated with soft light by the starry night.
He suddenly had a weird and crazy thought.
If he laid his cards on the table with Ning Weichen now, talking about the mercy of god, talking about his life experience, talking about that gun.
What would Ning Weichen’s reaction be?
But this thought was weird and absurd, and was quickly hidden by Ye Sheng sarcastically.
Forget it, he still couldn’t overcome his nature.
The suspicion, malice, vigilance, and doubt given to him by Yinshan were implanted in his soul.
He and Ning Weichen were not familiar enough to reveal everything.
Ye Sheng shook these things out of his mind.
After a long silence in the carriage.
He took the initiative to speak: “So you enrolled in Huaian University also to facilitate the investigation of the forum?”
Ning Weichen said: “Part of the reason.” Ning Weichen suddenly smiled: “Do you want to cooperate with me, Ye Sheng?”
Ye Sheng said: “Are you willing?”
Ning Weichen said: “Of course.”
Ning Weichen drove him to the Qin family’s main residence.
No wonder Ye Sheng felt this place was familiar.
Ning Weichen said: “My father told the Qin family about you being my fiancé. He was afraid I wouldn’t take good care of you, so he specifically asked the Qin family. My aunt wants to see you. Andrew is there, Luo Xingyan is also there, just in time to put on a show for the Non-Natural Bureau.”