Anze has been busy these days, or rather, he deliberately kept himself busy. Because, once he is free, he can't help but think of that person, the hug and comfort he gave himself in the hospital that night.
That feeling seems to be back to when he was a child. Xiao Anze, who just returned to China and was not used to having diarrhea and collapsed, had no energy to get up when he was lying on the bed. His brother had been sitting on the edge of the bed and patiently coaxing him, feeding him porridge one by one. That warm feeling will never be forgotten by An Ze for the rest of his life.
When his arm was cut by a branch when he was a child, he was injured and bleed. It was also when his brother sat on the bedside to treat the wound, carefully wiped off the blood with cotton balls, disinfected, and bandaged. Every step was so patient and gentle.
Since he was a child, An Ze has always liked the feeling of his brother sitting next to him. Later, that feeling gradually turned into a strong desire for monopoly. He wanted to monopolize his brother, but he was unwilling to share his tenderness with anyone.
In the hospital that night, the moment An Luo hugged him, An Ze even thought that his brother had returned to his side.
When An Luo told his brother that he had passed away, although he was very sad, because An Luo was still by his side, he always had the illusion in his heart that "it seems that my brother has not left". But now, with the complete disappearance of An Luo, the fear of "really losing my brother" began to clearly magnify in his mind.
An Luo left, and walked very casually. Except for his ID card, he didn't take anything belonging to his brother with him. But An Ze's heart suddenly became empty.
Opening the wallet and looking at the photo of the two brothers, An Ze finally realized the fact that his brother had left.
In the past few days, my brother's shadow has been in my dreams every night. Or feeding myself when I was a child, or holding my hand on a lost street, or sitting on the edge of the bed and dressing my wound... His eyes, his voice, the cool temperature of his body, his face The occasional smile, everything about him, replayed in my mind over and over again.
At the end of the dream, he always returned to the cold corridor of the hospital that day. An Luo hugged himself gently and said in a gentle tone, Anze, cry when you are sad, don't hold back.
When awakened from a dream, Anze's eyes were always wet with liquid.
He knew that An Luo should not be turned into a substitute for his brother, let alone confuse the two of them. However, in uncontrollable dreams, An Ze always linked the two together. Later, he didn't even know that he was there. Which An Luo is missing, I don't know which An Luo is more concerned about now.
It is impossible for An Ze to change his mind about his brother. After so many years of love, An Ze believes that even if his brother dies, he will not easily fall in love with others. But now, he couldn't help missing An Luo, the An Luo who had clearly told him "I can't be your brother".
The guilt in his heart for "betraying his brother" tortured Anze day and night.
In order to avoid idle thoughts, Anze had to focus all his energy on work.
The death of his parents and the departure of An Luo have left An Ze with two troublesome messes. Recently, it happened to be the peak tourist season of the summer vacation. The number of guests in Hua An Hotel has doubled than usual, and the entertainment company is just about to launch For several newcomers, An Ze takes care of both sides by himself. He has to work overtime until nine o'clock almost every day before going home. When he gets home, he is often exhausted and exhausted. Sometimes he can fall asleep directly after soaking in the bathtub.
Only in this way, he didn't have time to think about An Luo.
If you don't have time to think about it, you won't regret it, you won't change your mind, and you won't leave pride and principle behind to find his whereabouts.
***
When he arrived at the company this morning, An Ze met his assistant Yu Tingting at the elevator door. Yu Tingting greeted him with a smile: "Mr. An early."
"Morning." An Ze nodded at her, turned and walked into the elevator.
The elevator began to go up quickly. After a moment of silence, An Ze suddenly whispered: "By the way, before my brother left, he should have mentioned to you that I would take over his position. Did he tell you what to pay attention to?"
Yu Tingting nodded and said, "Well, he said, your thinking is mature and rational, and you are very decisive and straightforward. You are a very good boss. He asked me to help you well... By the way, he also said that once you are busy, you may be Forgot to eat, he asked me to order takeout for you on time."
"..." An Ze clenched his fingers stiffly in his pocket, "Is there anything else?"
"there is none left."
An Ze didn't speak anymore, and the elevator just stopped at the floor where the office is located. An Ze turned around and walked straight to the office. After closing the door, he took a deep breath, clenched his fists tightly, and slammed it towards the wall!
The fist hit the solid wall, causing a dull pain, but the pain in the hand was far less than the pain in the heart.
The words An Luo left to Yu Tingting were extremely sad to hear at this moment, and I don't know how he felt when he left these words. Thinking about it carefully, he personally forced him to leave, "You can't replace my brother", "I will move away from the An family", these words are actually the same as "Please disappear from me", he must have understood , It must be very sad when he understands it, that's why he was so determined when he left, he didn't even want to bring a piece of clothes that belonged to his brother. His packed suitcase is almost empty...
An Luo is completely unfamiliar with this world, and he will definitely have to get used to it again when he goes abroad. An Ze is very aware of that feeling. When he returned to China from France, where he was used to life, he was not used to the climate, and he was not used to his diet. I couldn't sleep, and it was a very hard time during that time. Fortunately, my brother was always by my side to take care of him.
But now, An Luo went to a foreign country alone, not to mention that he couldn't eat and sleep well. In case of a cold and fever, there would be no one around to pour water. Thinking of the picture of him lying on the bed alone, wrapped in a quilt, Anze felt his heart aches and he could hardly breathe.
How could he be so heartless and let him go? Even if he is not his brother, at least he should help him arrange his future life. How hard would it be for a person from twenty-seven years ago to survive alone in this world? !
The strong regret made An Ze frowned and took out his mobile phone. Seeing the three words "I'm gone" in the text message record, An Ze hurriedly dialed the phone, but a mechanized prompt sounded in his ear: " Sorry, the number you dialed is empty..."
Empty number? It seems that An Luo has cancelled this number. Obviously, he has made up his mind to completely cut off contact with the An family.
Perhaps, An Luo, who once came from an underworld family, can take care of herself abroad
Despite this, Anze still couldn't put his mind down.
I miss him so much now, probably because he still has the shadow of his brother on his body. In a few days, this feeling will gradually fade away... An Ze finally convinced himself, and pressed his heart to search An Luo's address. On the urge, he retracted his phone and focused his attention on the files on the desktop again.
***
At 5:30 in the afternoon, the door of the office was suddenly knocked open, and assistant Yu Tingting came in. She changed her clothes in the afternoon and seemed to have a unique temperament compared to the morning. She walked to the desk and put down a document for An Ze, and said softly, "Mr. An, this contract needs your signature."
Anze looked down at the contract carefully, and then swiped on it to sign his name twice. Seeing that Yu Tingting hadn't left yet, An Ze raised his head and asked suspiciously, "Is there anything else?"
Yu Tingting smiled and said, "It's half past five, isn't Mr. An off work? I want to invite you to dinner."
An Ze was about to say no, but saw that she suddenly took out two meal coupons and placed them in front of him, "This is the coupon for the western restaurant that your brother left to me before he left."
Anze took the coupon from her, but saw the words "couple vip package" in the lower right corner of the coupon.
An Luo has never been to this newly opened western restaurant, and it is even more impossible to get the couple's set meal coupon for this restaurant. With such an obvious loophole, either Yu Tingting is lying, or she must have other purposes.
An Ze was silent for a moment, then said in a low voice, "You wait for me downstairs. I'll go downstairs to find you after I've dealt with the matter at hand."
"OK."
Ten minutes later, An Ze wore a suit jacket and went downstairs to the parking lot. Yu Tingting was waiting beside a white car. Seeing An Ze approaching, she opened the door and said with a smile, "Take my car, You are not familiar with that place, I will drive you there."
Although An Ze was a little puzzled, he still sat in the passenger seat.
Instead of driving to the restaurant, Yu Tingting drove the car to an unfamiliar neighborhood. The location of the community is more than 30 minutes' drive from the city center. It is opposite to the subway station. The transportation is very convenient.
An Ze did not expect that Yu Tingting would bring him to such a place, and frowned: "Didn't you go to eat western food?"
Yu Tingting turned her head and said, "I just said that because I was worried that your office has a bug. Actually, I'm here to show you someone."
"who?"
"An Yang."
An Ze frowned slightly. He always felt that the tone of Yu Tingting's words was very strange, but somehow familiar. After staring back at her for a while, An Ze said with certainty, "Aren't you Yu Tingting?"
The other party stretched out his hand, took off the waist-length wig, smiled and said, "I'm Susie."
"...It's you." Of course An Ze remembered this woman, the policewoman who once pretended to be Xu Wan and lurked beside Xu Shaoqian and successfully rescued An Luo at his grandfather's birthday banquet. She was An Yang's competent subordinate. Now she has actually repeated her old tricks and pretended to be Yu Tingting to the Hua'an Hotel. Could it be that the police found something suspicious in the hotel, so they sent the "Queen of Variety" to enter the hotel to investigate
He followed her upstairs in the elevator in silence, and after ringing the doorbell, someone soon came to open the door, and it was Zhou Yueping.
An Ze was stunned, "Cousin? Why are you here?"
Zhou Yueping smiled and said, "This is my home. Don't worry, come in and talk about it."
An Ze walked into the house with strong doubts, and saw An Yang was calling on the balcony. The real Yu Tingting brought a fruit plate and put it on the table in the living room, smiled at An Ze and said, "Mr. An."
Zhou Yueping said next to him: "Okay, don't call him Mr. An at home, it sounds awkward." Then he patted An Ze's shoulder and explained, "An Ze, Tingting is my girlfriend, I didn't know him before. Knowing that she works at the Hua'an Hotel, of course, she also doesn't know that you are my cousin, if it wasn't for An Yang, this matter would probably not be known until we got married."
An Ze turned to look at Yu Tingting, Yu Tingting scratched her head embarrassedly and said, "Don't be angry, An Sir asked Miss Su to pretend to be me to go to the hotel for an afternoon, saying that she was going to investigate the case. I wanted to inform you, but Yueping asked I'll keep it a secret."
Zhou Yueping said helplessly: "An Yang has always been unscrupulous in investigating cases. An Ze, don't mind this for the time being. Let's talk about the important things first."
An Yang just happened to return from the phone call, and stretched out his hand to Anze, "Long time no see."
An Ze frowned, "What's the big deal of you calling me here?"
An Yang turned back to Zhou Yueping and said, "Let's go to the study to talk."
Zhou Yueping nodded, "Okay. Tingting, please entertain Miss Su first. Let's go to the study and talk about something."
***
After Zhou Yueping walked into the study, he turned on the computer, An Yang found a sofa and sat down, but An Ze stood aside with a sullen face, and said a little displeased: "Can you tell me, you sent someone to sneak into the Hua'an Hotel, what are you going to investigate? what?"
An Yang exhaled softly, "This matter is very complicated. Let me focus on the key points. Your father's autopsy report came out yesterday. There is a tattoo of a hexagram on the back of his waist."
An Ze frowned slightly, "Tattoo?"
An Yang nodded, "This logo belongs to an underworld organization called the Illuminati. Only the core members of the organization are qualified to get this tattoo. For them, the six-pointed star symbolizes light."
"..." An Ze frowned slightly.
"Some time ago, we captured a drug smuggling plane. The drug dealer surnamed Lin was arrested by the police and then committed suicide in prison for no apparent reason. He also has a six-pointed star tattoo on his waist."
"… "
"Anze, your parents didn't die in an accident at all, it was a deliberate murder." An Yang came to a conclusion calmly.
An Ze stood silent for a long time, his dry throat suddenly unable to utter a word. The fist on his side was clenched stiffly, which made his emotions as calm as possible. What kind of underworld organization, drug trafficking, what Anyang said, these words sound so unfamiliar, how can they be associated with his father? Even linked to the death of a parent? The father has tattoos on his body, and he, as a son, never knew about it...
In An Ze's heart, An Yudong has always been a gentle and loving father, how could he...
"I suspected your father was related to the Illuminati, so I sent Susie to sneak into the Hua'an Hotel to investigate. Sure enough, Susie found traces of hidden drugs in rooms 2137 and 2139 of the Hua'an Hotel. As far as I know, those two The room is a suite reserved by Huaan Hotel exclusively for the distinguished customers, and other guests are never allowed to stay.”
"Obviously, your father is using the hotel as a cover to sell drugs secretly."
"And he had a car accident this time, just because the boss of the Illuminati had returned to China. He knew that the police had already suspected An Yudong's head, so he left his army and killed him. The Lin who died at the police station Sir, and Lin Xiaotong, who died by the river before, was also silenced by that person."
An Ze frowned in pain. He knew that everything An Yang said was true. As the leader of the special case team, since An Yang called himself over to explain everything, it proved that he had mastered enough. evidence.
However, An Ze couldn't accept the fact for a while. His father was the leader of the underworld and was involved in drug trafficking. This was ridiculous.
Parents have passed away... why can't they find peace even after they pass away
"Anze, in addition to telling you the truth about your father, there is another purpose for calling you here this time. I hope you will do everything possible to call An Luo back as soon as possible. An Luo's determination to go abroad this time is very firm. He never answered, and you are the only one who can call him back." An Yang paused, looked up at An Ze and said, "If I guessed correctly, the next one to be silenced must be your brother An Luo."
"... My brother?" An Ze looked up at An Yang suspiciously, but saw An Yang and Zhou Yueping looking at each other, and then nodded solemnly and cautiously.
An Yang whispered, "An Ze, An Luo, he is your brother."