Chapter 6 - 2#
The flat-headed man didn’t pay much attention and casually moved a piece, trying to cut off Li Meng’s unformed dragon.
Unexpectedly, Li Meng’s expression didn’t change, he didn’t even lift an eyelash.
As soon as the flat-headed man’s hand left the chessboard, he picked up a piece from the bowl and said lightly, “Didn’t you say I couldn’t kill?”
The flat-headed man was stunned.
“Actually, I love to kill the most. But killing a little at a time is not satisfying. I like to fatten up the white pieces, and then swing the knife—”
Li Meng gently placed the black piece:
“—Kill your whole family.”
The flat-headed man’s face changed dramatically!
With one move, the seemingly random black pieces were instantly unsheathed, and a fierce knife slashed into the belly of the white dragon—so fierce and so experienced, as if the king’s sword descended from the sky, killing everything in its path like mercury pouring on the ground!
The flat-headed man stood frozen for a long time, and after a while, he managed to say, “How… how is that possible…”
“Keep playing, it’s not over yet.” Li Meng looked up and smiled slightly: “—For the sake of you treating me to dinner, today black will give you an eight-and-a-half-point handicap.”
When Jin Yan drove home, he saw that the apartment was dark from downstairs.
Jiang Qin went upstairs with a last glimmer of hope and confirmed that Li Meng was not home. He couldn’t stand it anymore.
Jin Yan watched him sit motionless on the sofa, feeling very distressed. He walked over and knelt by the sofa, asking softly, “You haven’t eaten all day, how about I make you a bowl of noodles?”
“…” Jiang Qin glanced at him and said nothing.
“I’ll take you to get a pair of glasses tomorrow. It’s my fault, my hand was too heavy.”
“…”
“Jiang Qin,” Jin Yan held his hand and asked in a deep voice, “Can you wait one more night? Tomorrow, I’ll find Li Meng for you no matter what. Come on, be good, go eat something and get some sleep, be good.”
Jiang Qin gently pulled his hand away.
His expression was full of exhaustion and heaviness, as if he had been hit head-on by a cruel fact under an unbearable burden, so cruel and so direct, like a silent and bloody pantomime.
“No.”
Jin Yan didn’t react to what Jiang Qin was saying for a moment: “—No?”
“I don’t have anyone outside.”
Jin Yan was stunned.
“We’ve known each other for so many years, you should know that I never lie. Although in the early years on Shi Xing’s financial statements…” Jiang Qin paused and said in a low voice, “But that was also for you.”
A very bad premonition suddenly arose in Jin Yan’s heart, “…Yes, I know.”
“Do you still remember Zhao Chengqiang?”
Jin Yan’s eyelids twitched, and he said, “I remember.”
“That’s the only thing in my life besides Shi Xing Entertainment that I can’t tell anyone about.”
Jin Yan struggled from a small-time gangster to his current position. His beast-like sensitivity and intuition had saved him from danger many times. Wei Hong once described him as a beast with fangs wrapped in human skin, which shows how keen his sense of danger is.
At this moment, this sense of smell was constantly issuing warnings, and he suddenly felt very dangerous.
“Jiang Qin, why don’t you wait until tomorrow to talk, tonight is really…”
“Let me finish.”
Jin Yan didn’t dare to speak.
“Without me, you wouldn’t be sitting in the position of power at Shi Xing Entertainment today. Without me, you would have died a thousand times when Zhao Chengqiang’s incident happened. Jin Yan, I’ve done these two life-threatening things for you. Today, just be kind and let me go.”
Jiang Qin raised his hand to cover his eyes, his voice sighing: “Forty percent of Shi Xing Entertainment’s shares belong to you. If you can find Li Meng, Li Meng will also belong to you. I only want the twelve percent under my name and half of the savings. I’ll take my car, this house is for you, and the one for rent in the west is for me.”
Jin Yan was dumbfounded, with only one sentence in his mind: He’s serious!
“I’m going to cash in the antiques and collectibles because I need cash now. Don’t misunderstand this either. If I go in one day, you know what it’s like in there, you need money for a sip of water.”
Jin Yan lost his voice: “Don’t joke! How can I let you go in!”
Jiang Qin ignored him, just staring at a certain point floating in the air, and after a long time, he said in a hollow voice: “I’m really too tired, Jin Yan… After so many years with you, I’m really too tired.”
A huge panic instantly seized Jin Yan’s heart, and he immediately spoke without thinking: “Don’t talk nonsense with me! I have shortcomings but I’m definitely not that bad! The past is over, and even if it’s brought up again, I won’t let anything happen to you! Don’t say anything now, I’ll take you to eat something and then bring you back to sleep, don’t think about things! I’m still here!”
Jiang Qin was silent.
Jin Yan paced back and forth in the room like a trapped beast, and suddenly said sharply: “Don’t you just hate me for messing around with those people outside, and at the beginning of the year, someone who didn’t know better called and said she was pregnant? I know all that, you just can’t get rid of this psychological cleanliness! Jiang Qin, at worst, I’ll come home on time at seven o’clock every night from now on, and if it happens again, I’ll chop off my own hand! I mean what I say!”
Jiang Qin looked up at him this time, and just as Jin Yan was about to make a poisonous oath, he saw him smile and say, “No.”
“…What?”
“It’s not because of that,” Jiang Qin said, “at least not at the beginning.”
Jin Yan frowned. The words “at the beginning” reminded him of a certain day nine months ago, when Jiang Qin first started to reject him and treat him coldly, “—Then you are because of…”
Jiang Qin was silent for a long time, and for a moment, Jin Yan almost felt that his gaze was painful.
This was strange.
Jiang Qin, who was always in control of everything and never panicked or made mistakes, the calm, deep, and extremely rational Jiang Qin, was also tormented by something and unable to make a decision.
As the one who was often corrected by Jiang Qin, if the timing wasn’t wrong, Jin Yan would almost admire his posture.
“I… can’t tell you.” Jiang Qin said, “I can’t… tell you.”
The room was silent.
A dark river swept in from the floor-to-ceiling windows, slowly drowning them.
Just as Jin Yan was about to say something, his phone suddenly rang. The caller ID showed Wei Hong’s number:
“Hey, Lao Jin, good news! Director Duan just saw a photo of Li Meng on Weibo while browsing on his phone. He’s playing Go with a Korean at a chess club on Yongqing Road!”
Jin Yan asked sharply, “Which chess club?!”
“Qingquan… Qingquan… Hey wife, which chess club is it?”
Duan Han’s iconic friendly voice came from the other side of the phone: “Who are you calling wife, Comrade Wei Hong? Has your IQ been lowered by hanging out with Jin Yan for too long? Is it too difficult and complicated for you to forward the Weibo to him?”
Wei Hong: “…”
“I told you not to worry about Jin Yan not understanding Weibo. Hasn’t Jiang Qin officially dumped him yet? I’m confident in Jiang Qin’s IQ. Forward it, and remember to @ him.”
Wei Hong: “…”