Chapter 62#
While Lin Fengzhi was speaking, Yan Heqing had already thought of a new idea.
With Lu Muchi locked up in the Lu residence, his next plan lacked an opportunity.
Now that Lin Fengzhi was asking him to visit, it undoubtedly gave him the most legitimate reason.
But Yan Heqing was not in a hurry to agree to Lin Fengzhi.
He wanted to be “chased” by Lin Fengzhi to agree.
Sure enough, Yan Heqing remained silent and said nothing. It was Lin Fengzhi who felt guilty himself; he also knew that his request was excessive enough.
“I know it’s difficult for you to face Lu Muchi…” His expression actually showed a bit more seriousness. “If you need anything in the future, I will help you too!”
Yan Heqing finally spoke, “We’ll see. School is starting, and I’ll be very busy.”
The class group chat had been very lively recently, and Lin Fengzhi only now knew the reason: school was about to start.
He bit the corner of his lip, “Is this weekend okay?”
He didn’t mean to rush Yan Heqing, but the situation was too urgent. The longer it dragged on, the more he worried that something bigger would happen.
He knew Lu Muchi’s temper best; when stubborn, he was more stubborn than anyone.
Yan Heqing still didn’t give a definite answer, “We’ll see about the weekend.”
Lin Fengzhi had been surrounded by stars since childhood; everyone liked him and spoiled him. Except for Lu Lin, Yan Heqing was the second person who didn’t go along with his wishes. Lin Fengzhi wasn’t used to it and felt doubly aggrieved.
He let go of Yan Heqing’s arm and lowered his head unhappily, “Oh. Then let me know as soon as you’re free, and I’ll tell you the address.”
For now, the trouble was barely resolved. Lin Fengzhi’s nerves, which had been tense for days, finally relaxed for a moment, and he remembered that crystal ornament worth hundreds of thousands.
Not Lu Muchi; he thought of another person, the woman who sent Yan Heqing expensive fruits.
He probed curiously, “Brother, what’s the name of the friend pursuing you?”
Giving away a crystal ornament worth hundreds of thousands casually, maybe they were also in their circle, or maybe he knew them.
Yan Heqing didn’t expect Lin Fengzhi’s memory to be surprisingly good on such trivial matters. He said calmly, “He isn’t pursuing me.”
Lu Lin was currently only in the contact stage with him.
Lin Fengzhi didn’t care, “Let’s not say pursuing, just that friend who treats you quite well.”
Yan Heqing looked calm, “I’ll introduce you next time there’s a chance.”
“Is it that mysterious… never mind.” Lin Fengzhi muttered. He raised his hand to check the time, “It’s getting late, I’ll go first. You rest well.”
Walking to the door, he stopped abruptly.
There was a question that had been hovering in his heart for a long time.
Like a silkworm constantly spinning silk, during this time it had finally wrapped into a thick, large cocoon.
If he didn’t ask, the cocoon would explode.
His teeth left a few marks on his lip. Without turning back, he spoke, “Brother, can I ask one more question? You have to answer me honestly.”
Yan Heqing looked at him, “Okay.”
“Did you…” Lin Fengzhi summoned up his courage to ask, “When my parents went to the welfare institute to adopt an orphan, did you hide on purpose to give the adoption opportunity to me?”
This sentence exhausted all of Lin Fengzhi’s strength.
He had thought about this question countless times and forced himself to forget it countless times.
He was afraid the result would be an answer he couldn’t bear.
Don’t be!
Must not be!
Lin Fengzhi’s chest heaved violently.
He hoped immensely that Yan Heqing would answer, no.
The air was silent. For Lin Fengzhi, seconds felt like years. In reality, only one second passed before Yan Heqing answered.
“Yes.”
Yan Heqing’s voice was clear and gentle, “I said, I will protect you forever.”
Lin Fengzhi’s back stiffened.
He bit his lower lip hard before forcing a mechanical smile, “Oh.”
He opened the door and left.
After a few steps, Lin Fengzhi started running. Panicked and hurried footsteps filled the stairwell.
Exiting the apartment building, Lin Fengzhi raised his hand to press his eagerly beating heart. A faint taste of rust spread in his mouth; it was the taste of blood.
He had bitten his lip.
It was actually true…
Meeting Mom and Dad, Big Brother and Second Brother, it was actually the opportunity Yan Heqing gave him!
Lin Fengzhi’s vision suddenly went black. His entire field of vision was thick blackness, but it was extremely fast, just 1 or 2 seconds.
His vision gradually cleared. Lin Fengzhi looked back at the stairwell where the sensor light had gone out.
Pitch black and deep, like an unknown bloody mouth.
He released his lip flesh, which had been bitten to a terrible state, then turned and ran to the car.
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Upstairs, Yan Heqing washed the dishes and chopsticks clean. He walked to the wall, pressed his back tightly against it, closed his eyes, and meditated on the overall structure of Lu Muchi’s mid-level villa.
These descriptions were scattered throughout the 5.01 million words, fragmented and messy.
Most of them appeared during the three years he was locked up in the mid-level villa.
Entering from the garden, the main house was a three-story villa. Behind the garage next to it, a small storage room was hidden.
That was the dark room where he was locked up for years.
…
Thin sweat gradually appeared on his fair and translucent forehead. After 15 minutes, Yan Heqing opened his eyes.
He walked to the coffee table, squatted down, turned on the computer, and used software to create a simulated villa model.
To prevent him from escaping back then, besides arranging people to guard him, Lu Muchi also installed surveillance cameras throughout the house.
Xu Qiaoyin was the motherly love Lu Muchi had craved for more than ten years, no less than his obsession with Lin Fengzhi.
This time, without Lin Fengzhi to mediate their conflict, and with an incredibly disgusting and terrible “reunion,” Lu Muchi would definitely install surveillance cameras to prevent Xu Qiaoyin from running away.
He needed to find the specific locations of these cameras.
In the villa model, Yan Heqing marked most of the surveillance points. For the remaining small part, he would find an opportunity to locate them.
After doing all this, Yan Heqing turned off the computer and went to take a shower.
It was still early when he came out, ten o’clock.
Yan Heqing didn’t read books or review textbooks as usual. School started tomorrow, and he planned to rest early.
Passing by the coffee table, Yan Heqing stopped.
He bent down and opened the drawer.
The Cube of Light lay quietly inside.
He took it out and went to the kitchen.
Opening the refrigerator’s fresh compartment, he took out the only remaining bucket of purified water, unscrewed the cap, poured it all into a basin, put the Cube of Light in, and wiped it carefully.
After washing it clean, he dried it with a clean towel and wrapped it up to return to the coffee table.
Opening the same drawer, the sapphire blue velvet box was as good as new.
Taking out the box and opening it, Yan Heqing was about to put the Cube of Light back.
He didn’t know this Cube of Light was so expensive, worth hundreds of thousands.
He uncovered the towel. The light falling from overhead shone on the Cube of Light. In Yan Heqing’s palm, there was one rainbow light after another.
His movement paused for two seconds.
Yan Heqing still put the Cube of Light back in its original place, closed the box lid, and tied the two ribbons of the same color into a lucky knot.
Gently, he put it into the deepest part of the drawer.
On the first day of school, the weather cleared up. Peking University, which had been deserted for a winter vacation, returned to its usual liveliness.
Yan Heqing had long memorized the new semester’s schedule.
He was the first to arrive at the classroom.
The first two periods were nothing special, College English 2. And it was a public elective course with students from different departments.
The third and fourth periods were Botany.
The classroom had to be changed from the first floor to the fourth floor. In the crowded corridor, Yan Heqing walked on the inner side.
In front of him, there was a remarkably tall boy. They were a group of people, talking and laughing as they went upstairs, very lively.
They were all holding Botany books.
Reaching the fourth floor, Yan Heqing turned left. The group of people who were in front of him just entered classroom B401.
Yan Heqing’s destination was also B401.
He walked into B401. The classroom was noticeably quieter. The front rows were all empty, and students started from the third row.
Holding his book, Yan Heqing walked to an empty seat in the first row and sat down.
Opening the new textbook, he previewed quietly.
“That is Yan Heqing.”
There were faint discussions.
“He lives up to his reputation, really good-looking! Like a manga guy, those eyelashes, that skin, those fox eyes!”
“Easy on the eyes! Has anyone dug up his schedule? I want to have the same schedule as him!”
…
As soon as Yan Heqing entered the classroom, Gu Xingye noticed him.
He couldn’t help but notice.
Almost the moment Yan Heqing stepped into the classroom, he confirmed that this student with a clean temperament, thin and handsome, was Yan Heqing.
Long before meeting Yan Heqing, his mentor Yang Rucheng had been talking about Yan Heqing to him for almost a month, as if he had obtained some incredible treasure.
Seeing him in person, Gu Xingye thought it wasn’t an exaggeration.
But Gu Xingye cared more about another thing.
Yan Heqing’s eyebrows and eyes looked very much like Lin Fengzhi.
He was sure the boy he met at the school gate yesterday was Yan Heqing.
Such exquisite and unique eyebrows and eyes weren’t mass-produced. Before Yan Heqing, he had seen Lin Fengzhi.
Gu Xingye looked at Yan Heqing’s back.
He was certain that the Yan Heqing in Lin Fengzhi’s phone was him.
——
Yan Heqing could feel the gaze from behind.
He didn’t care and read his own book.
Time passed exceptionally fast in a class of interest. Two periods of Botany passed in a flash, and the dismissal bell rang.
The teacher who taught Botany had a deep impression of Yan Heqing.
The only student in the first row. During class, she called Yan Heqing up to answer questions twice.
He answered them all.
After class, the teacher kindly kept Yan Heqing to chat for a while. When he went to the cafeteria, it was crowded with people, and every window had a long queue.
Yan Heqing had planned to have lunch in the cafeteria and then go to the library to read for a while. Now that there were many people, he decided to go home and cook a bowl of dumplings to make do.
Turning around, he almost bumped into an unexpected person.
Lin Fengyi held a food tray in his right hand and touched his bumped chin with his left hand; it was red.
He was subconsciously angry, but when he saw Yan Heqing’s calm eyes, he forcibly suppressed it.
“Yo.” He smiled insincerely, “What a coincidence.”
Yan Heqing ignored him, walked around him, and left.
Lin Fengyi slammed the food tray onto the nearby dining table and was about to chase after Yan Heqing in exasperation.
What kind of attitude was this from Yan Heqing!
Acting so nonchalant after bumping into someone?
He lifted his foot, but couldn’t put it down for a long time. Lin Fengyi watched helplessly as Yan Heqing disappeared at the cafeteria entrance.
Fuck!
Why did his legs go soft!
Lin Fengyi unwillingly withdrew his gaze, angrily grabbed the food tray, ignored the row of terrified gazes, and walked forward.
The young teaching assistant was waiting for Lin Fengyi. Seeing him come back with the tray, his eyes were full of amazement. “You really want to eat in the cafeteria? Is today the end of the world?”
He quietly lowered his voice. “You came to school to find me, don’t tell me you want classroom play? That won’t do, the school is sacred and inviolable!”
Lin Fengyi ignored him, pressing the rice hard with a spoon, treating the rice as Yan Heqing, gritting his teeth and compacting it back and forth.
He gave up his beautiful sleep to search at Peking University all morning, didn’t find anyone, and even waited in the cafeteria!
His brain must have been twisted by a bicycle chain!
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Leaving the cafeteria, Yan Heqing was almost at the school gate when his phone rang.
The call was from an out-of-town number.
Ershiqiao.
Yan Heqing stared at the screen, stunned for a long while.
When he answered, his fingertips were trembling slightly.
He didn’t even dare to speak first.
After a brief silence, a slightly aged male voice came from the other side, “Is this Yan Heqing?”