After getting off work on Friday, He Yuxuan dawdled and didn't leave until he and Xu Ran were left in the office before saying, "Tomorrow at two o'clock in the afternoon, okay?"
"Okay," Xu Ran smiled at him, "Whatever you want to eat, I'll make it for you."
He Yuxuan pursed his lips and said nothing, Xu Ran smiled wryly, "Look, I don't know what you young people like, otherwise... let's go to the movies, it's lively outside."
"It's fine at home." He Yuxuan muttered.
Xu Ran didn't know what he was arguing about, so he said with a good temper, "Then at home, did you rent the house yourself?"
"I have a roommate, but he will go back to his hometown on weekends. I told him that someone will come." He Yuxuan said, "Brother Xu, you don't need to take anything, just come here."
In the end, he didn't say what he was going to do, Xu Ran reckoned that he would put a movie in the living room and cook a meal at night. He didn't have anything in particular he wanted to do, but he was afraid that He Yuxuan would feel bored.
Speaking of which, he is not very old, he is not yet thirty years old, but he feels that there is a generation gap between him and He Yuxuan, who just graduated. Will He Yuxuan be happy staying with him? Xu Ran couldn't help thinking this way.
Even if He Yuxuan said he didn't need to bring anything, since he is older, he still has to be serious. On the way home, he was thinking about what he should buy for He Yuxuan, as a thank you to the child for taking care of him before. The phone vibrated, turned it on, and found that it was a text message with He Yuxuan's address.
Xu Ran stood on the side of the road and had fun. He didn't know why he was laughing, as if there was nothing else in his life that could make him happy, he could only point to this gap to completely empty himself.
Wanting to say "yes" to He Yuxuan, he just clicked on the keyboard, when suddenly, he keenly caught a series of heavy footsteps behind him, and when he turned around, a tall and rough man was standing two steps away from him.
Such a big guy appeared without warning, Xu Ran broke out in a cold sweat, and took two steps back in a panic, but his body swayed and he almost fell down.
The right knee was twisted, and it was excruciatingly painful. Xu Ran bent down in pain, rubbing the twisted knee.
The man looked at him condescendingly, his rough face was full of jokes. Xu Ran remembered this expression, the last time they met in the hospital.
"Awen?" He spat out the name with difficulty.
Ah Wen is Mai Xing's follower, after so many years, Xu Ran doesn't know why he is still willing to follow that man as a running dog. I only heard Awen say, "Brother, please come."
"I'm not going." Xu Ran shuffled back and looked at him warily, "I have nothing to talk to him about."
His body was trembling, Xu Ran's finger was on He Yuxuan's phone number, and he almost pressed it.
No, He Yuxuan is still a child, there is no way to fight Mai Xing and the others.
The moment he let go of his fingers, Ah Wen stepped in front of him.
Xu Ran sadly found that the few steps he took to escape with all his might, in Awen's eyes, were nothing more than a small fight. He is like an ant, Ah Wen only needs to lift his foot, and he can kill him.
"I'm not going," Xu Ran's voice kept trembling, and there was even a trace of begging for mercy that he didn't realize, "He Cheng and I have already broken up, we have nothing to do with each other, don't, don't bother My life, okay?"
Ah Wen frowned, apparently still not aware of the breakup between him and He Cheng, hesitated for a moment, but still stretched out a pair of tiger claws towards him.
Xu Ran was in pain from his grasp, and looked around desperately, trying to find someone to help. It's a pity that this is an old community, there are too few young people, and there is no one around.
"Let go of me... let go!"
Xu Ran struggled, and he yelled desperately, hoping that someone could hear him, or that Ah Wen's conscience would let him go. But Awen's five fingers were as hard as steel bars, and they were deeply tied into his arm.
The scene in front of him merged with that evening after school ten years ago. Xu Ran was horrified to see a few people standing there not far away, as if they were waiting for Ah Wen to take him there.
Ten years ago, he was also dragged into the alley by Ah Wen's group. The pain of cracked bones still remained in his body, and his ears had begun to hum uncontrollably. He once thought that this farce was over, but he never thought that today, ten years later, the nightmare would recur.
He yelled loudly and struggled, but was pushed into the van with his head pressed.
Mai Xing poked his head out from the front row, smiling, "What did I say, we meet again."
"Let me go!"
Xu Ran sat up desperately, but was kicked down by someone outside. Several other people got into the car, a few burly men trapped Xu Ran in the middle, Ah Wen leaned over to Mai Xing and said something in Mai Xing's ear, Mai Xing's expression changed, "Divided?"
"Mai Xing, let me go!"
Xu Ran was completely terrified. When he was brought into an alley by them when he was a child, it could barely be regarded as a bad boy's prank, but now, in broad daylight, it was naked|naked kidnapping. They could take one leg off him then, and they can take the other off now.
The mobile phone was snatched by Ah Wen and trampled to pieces, Xu Ran crazily grabbed the back of the front seat and shouted to Mai Xing, "I have nothing to do with He Cheng anymore, you put me down, I won't tell him ,Ok?!"
The car started slowly, and Xu Ran's head thumped again. If I don't get out of the car now, I'm afraid I will never have a chance to go home again.
Mai Xing frowned, thinking about something, and looked at him for a long time, "Are you really divided?"
Xu Ran bit her lower lip and stared at him, her eyes were red.
Mai Xing looked him up and down, and suddenly said to the driver, "Send him to my place."
The driver nodded in confusion and turned the steering wheel around a corner.
Xu Ran seemed to hear the sound of his heart falling to the bottom.
He had never felt so embarrassed before, but his intuition told him that this would be a journey with no return.
What is waiting for him at the end of the journey... Maybe only Mai Xing knows.
The car went all the way north, arrived at the outskirts of the city, and stopped outside a group of villas that were rarely visited by people. Awen dragged Xu Ran out of the car, and threw him into the basement in the back garden like trash.
The basement was two meters high, and Xu Ran fell so badly that he didn't care about the pain in his body, so he quickly got up and moved to the door.
The door was unlocked, only Ah Wen was leaning outside, Xu Ran gritted his teeth but couldn't push it away.
"What should I do?" Ah Wen asked Mai Xing.
Mai Xing sneered, "What to do, I got it back, so I can do whatever I want."
"What if He Cheng doesn't take the bait?"
"Even if we broke up, it's impossible to watch him die." Mai Xing said, "Go tell Lao Mao and proceed as planned."
Xu Ran yelled through the crack of the door, "Mai Xing! Don't do this, let's talk!"
After a while there was no movement outside, suddenly the force on the door was released, Xu Ran almost fell out, and was kicked back.
Mai Xing turned on the light in the basement, walked down the steps step by step, and came to Xu Ran's side.
He knelt down, looked at Xu Ran who was lying on the ground struggling in pain, and said with a pleasant face, "Okay, let's talk."
Xu Ran was in so much pain that he could barely hear what he said, so Mai Xing squatted there patiently waiting, and smiled, "Does it hurt?"
"Why?" Xu Ran gritted his teeth and asked, the blood vessels on his legs were throbbing, as if they were about to break through the skin and burst.
Mai Xing lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, "Why? You have been with He Cheng for so many years, why didn't you ask him?"
"What does this have to do with He Cheng?" Xu Ran said angrily, "What on earth do you dislike about me? Have I provoked you?!"
Mai Xing smiled, and the corners of his eyes slanted upwards, looking particularly weird under the dim light.
"You don't like it? Stop putting gold on your face."
He took a deep puff of the cigarette and spit it all on Xu Ran's face, choking him so much that he coughed.
"If you want to complain, just blame He Cheng. If it weren't for him, who would give you a rare look?"
Xu Ran closed his eyes in pain, of course he knew it.
"Is there anything else?" Mai Xing stood up and looked at his watch, "Is there anything I want to say to that man, maybe I can bring it to you."
"What do you want to do to me?" Xu Ran had a bad feeling in his heart.
Mai Xing smiled evilly, but the smile didn't penetrate into his eyes at all.
"you guess."
The two words were like ice skates, and Xu Ran's whole body trembled when they were stabbed.
Mai Xing left, taking away the only light source, Xu Ran curled up on the cold concrete floor, the surrounding darkness seemed to swallow him from head to toe like an abyss.
He Yuxuan waited at home until four o'clock in the afternoon, and called Xu Ran more than a dozen times, but the other party's phone was always turned off. He couldn't bear it anymore and went straight to Xu Ran's house, but was told by the neighbor that Xu Ran didn't come back last night.
He Yuxuan stood in the corridor in a daze.
Xu Ran is not such an unrepentant person, no matter what happens, he will always make a phone call, unless...something happened that made him unable to use his mobile phone.
This imagining is very scary, He Yuxuan shook his head, and got rid of this unrealistic idea from his mind. There is no such a coincidence, maybe Xu Ran's phone just broke temporarily.
The mobile phone is broken, the mobile phone number cannot be found, and the text message with the address is missing, which is the most logical explanation. But after thinking about it, He Yuxuan felt something was wrong again. Even if the phone number is gone, you can always say it online.
Everything is because Xu Ran won't release pigeons for no reason. He Yuxuan firmly believed in this.
But who else can I ask? There was no evidence to prove that something happened to Xu Ran, and he could not even file a case if he wanted to call the police. He Yuxuan left his mobile phone number to Xu Ran's neighbor aunt, and told her that if he saw Xu Ran coming home, he should call this number immediately.
After leaving the community, He Yuxuan looked blankly at the towering residential buildings around him. In such a large community, how many families live there, Xu Ran is so big that a person is lost, but no one notices anything.
It was the first time in He Yuxuan's life that he encountered such a situation. He didn't know what to do. After thinking about it, there was only one person who could contact Xu Ran except his work unit.
That ex-boyfriend. He Yuxuan didn't even know his name.
But he decided to try his luck at the place where he ate barbecue with Xu Ran last time. Halfway through the last meal, Xu Ran was clearly in a bad mood.
It happened to be a coincidence that Bai Jinming happened to have dinner with someone on Saturday evening, and it was at this barbecue restaurant, which was the same location as last time, so the two of them met each other as soon as He Yuxuan entered.
"It's you?" Bai Jinming asked in surprise. The last time He Cheng went to find Xu Ran, he was the one downstairs who was in charge of stopping He Yuxuan from going upstairs.
Seeing him, He Yuxuan frowned unabashedly in disgust, but still asked, "Do you know where Xu Ran is?"
"Xu Ran?" Bai Jinming didn't expect to hear this name, and lowered his voice, "What are you asking me for?"
"Didn't you go to find him with that man last time? Do you have brother Xu's contact information? I can't find him."
He Yuxuan was really in a hurry, and his words were a bit inconsistent, Bai Jinming listened to it like a joke, and couldn't help laughing, "Dude, you are his colleague, come to ask me what I do, he doesn't just have a mobile phone number, you can call chant."
"I can't get through!" He Yuxuan grabbed his sleeve, "Have you met Brother Xu, and do you know where he can go on weekends? I asked him to come to my place for dinner, but he never came, and the phone was turned off .”
Hearing what he said, Bai Jinming also frowned. But the friend behind him kept looking this way, so he could only sigh, "Okay, my relationship with Xu Ran is just like that, I really don't know where he is. He is so big that he can't lose himself , you go home and wait."
Said to bypass He Yuxuan and was about to leave, but was dragged to death.
Bai Jinming also lost his temper, dragged He Yuxuan to the corner, and scolded, "I said, are you sick, you kid, and don't care about things you shouldn't care about? You know about Xu Ran's situation, can you not Adding chaos all day long?"
"Because of Brother Xu's situation, aren't you worried that he can't be contacted suddenly?" He Yuxuan said angrily, "Is Brother Xu such an unrepentant person?"
Bai Jinming was taken aback by what he said. Xu Ran is indeed not a person who will disappear casually.
For some reason, the scene when Xu Ran left that night suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. Such a slender person, dragging a big suitcase, limped into the darkness, as if once in, he would never come out again, and Bai Jinming was shocked to see it.
Sighing, Bai Jinming took out his mobile phone and said in resignation, "I'll call, can I?"
With the mobile phone next to his ear, Bai Jinming looked around boredly, and suddenly saw a familiar figure walking downstairs through the window.
"Damn it!"
He cursed involuntarily, and didn't even care about the mechanical "I'm sorry, the number you dialed is turned off" on the phone, pushed He Yuxuan away and ran out.
What is Mai Xing doing here at this hour? Are you looking for He Cheng
Bai Jinming apologized to his friend, grabbed his coat and rushed out.
He had to stop the two before they met, otherwise the roof of the company would be torn off.
Cursing silently in his heart, Bai Jinming rushed towards the company at full speed.
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