The next day, Huo Lian sent a driver to pick up Lu Shijin and sent him to Huo Lian's office.
Huo Lian's secretary led Lu Shijin upstairs to the door of Huo Lian's office, stopped and smiled to signal Lu Shijin to go in by himself, and then left.
Lu Shijin pushed the door open, and Huo Lian stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows. He was wearing a crisp smoke-colored suit. From the back, he could see his perfect inverted triangle figure.
Lu Shijin resisted the urge to whistle, knocked on the door twice, and greeted softly: "Mr. Huo, I'm here, can I come in?"
"Come in." Huo Lian didn't look back.
Lu Shijin walked into the office and closed the door behind his back. Huo Lian's attitude of ignoring him when he called him over made him unpredictable and dared not rush forward.
"Mr. Huo," Lu Shijin said eagerly, "When can I see Huo Qi?"
"See Huo Qi?" Huo Lian turned around slowly, with an unclear facial expression against the light, but he could hear the coldness in his tone, "Why should I take you to see him?"
Lu Shijin opened his eyes wide in astonishment: "But you promised me..."
"I promised you," Huo Lian approached Lu Shijin step by step, his stern and handsome face became clearer, he raised his lips and smiled, "But that's because you said you were Huo Qi's boyfriend."
Lu Shijin: "But I am indeed..."
"That's enough, I don't want to hear your lies." Huo Lian interrupted him coldly, "You can't be Huo Qi's boyfriend, I have already investigated, he has never had a partner by his side, where did you come from?" from?"
Lu Shijin was at a loss for words: "I..."
Huo Qi and Lu Shijin have taken confidentiality measures when they met, and they have never brought Lu Shijin out in public, and Lu Shijin has always been strictly forbidden to tell outsiders about their relationship.
Except for a very few people, no one knew of Lu Shijin's existence.
So facing Huo Lian's doubts, Lu Shijin really couldn't explain clearly.
Huo Lian seemed to have expected Lu Shijin's reaction long ago, and said sarcastically, "I can't tell, can I?"
"I'm not lying... I really am..." Lu Shijin was so wronged that his eyes were covered with mist, "Huo Qi is really my boyfriend, if you don't believe me, you can take me to see him, I can prove it to you! "
Huo Lian's tone became severe, "When you are the Huo family's prince, you can meet anyone casually? What's more, I know that Huo Qi already has someone he likes, and the two of them have been dating each other recently. Together, you asked me to take you to see him now, do you want to drive a wedge between our uncle and nephew? Tell me, what is your intention to approach me on purpose?"
"What did you say?!" Lu Shijin froze as if struck by lightning, "Who is Huo Qi with?"
"Heh, you're still pretending. Since you dared to pretend to be Huo Qi's boyfriend, didn't you investigate clearly beforehand?" Under Lu Shijin's unbelievable eyes, Huo Lian continued, "Huo Qi has a boy from a teenager The person I have liked since the beginning, that man is Ruan Siheng, a well-known young painter, now that Ruan Siheng has returned to China, the two meet almost every day. But you ran out and said that you are Huo Qi’s boyfriend, you treat me as Huo Lian Can it be deceived and used by others at will?!"
"How could this be?" Lu Shijin took two steps back in a daze, lowered his head and muttered to himself, "It's me who is obviously dating Huo Qi..."
"Do you admit that you are a liar?" Huo Lian's voice was emotionless, "Admit it now, I can still pretend that nothing happened, otherwise, I will bear the consequences."
Lu Shijin choked up in anxiety, and loudly defended himself: "I'm not! Everything I said is true"
Huo Lian asked in a deep voice, "Where's the evidence!"
Lu Shijin gasped for breath twice, lowered his eyes as if he was thinking about how to prove his relationship with Huo Qi.
"Secretary... By the way," Lu Shijin thought of something, and suddenly raised his head, "Huo Qi's secretary can testify for me! He is usually the one who picks me up to meet Huo Qi!"
Huo Lian sneered: "You are trying to make another plan? If I really went to the secretary to ask about you, wouldn't the secretary tell Huo Qi? What do you think Huo Qi will think of me as an uncle?"
Lu Shijin's eyes were flushed, and his boyfriend who had been in love for three years was very likely to have a new love, but he couldn't prove his relationship with Huo Qi.
Like a lamb lost in the way and abandoned by the world, he was seized by a deep sense of powerlessness, forcing him to feel tight in the chest and short of breath, and his face was pale, as if he was about to faint.
"I have to say, with your heartbroken appearance, your performance is really good." Huo Lian said indifferently, "You said you are a student of the Academy of Fine Arts, but I don't think you are from the Acting Department of the Academy of Film, right?"
Lu Shijin pursed his lips, took a deep breath and calmed down, "Mr. Huo doesn't need to be sarcastic, I can't do anything if you don't believe me, but forgive me for not being able to believe what you said about Huo Qi being with other men gone."
Huo Lian's eyes were gloomy, "Interesting, do you think I'm lying to you?"
Lu Shijin straightened his back and raised his chin stubbornly, "I believe in Huo Qi."
Huo Lian smiled instead of anger, and narrowed her eyes with interest, "Very well, I appreciate your character of not shedding tears when you don't see the coffin."
Lu Shijin stared back unwillingly, "Unless Huo Qi admits it himself, I won't believe anyone's words! It's not speculative, Mr. Huo, if you let me come just to humiliate me, then I don't think I'll stay any longer." It's necessary, goodbye."
After finishing speaking, he turned around and wanted to leave, but he silently said in his heart: "Three, two..."
Before "one" could be counted, Huo Lian really stopped him: "Wait."
Lu Shijin's hand was already on the doorknob, "Does Mr. Huo have any other advice?"
Huo Lian casually touched the cuff buttons, and walked towards the door, "Didn't you want to see Huo Qi? I'll give you this chance. I hope you can still trust him so firmly after seeing him."
Finally, he got into Huo Lian's car and set off to find Huo Qi. Lu Shijin sat in the back seat and tried to lean his body against the car door on his side to keep a distance from Huo Lian, as if Huo Lian was some kind of scourge.
Lu Shijin ignored Huo Lian, and of course it was impossible for Huo Lian to take the initiative to talk to him, and the two of them kept no communication.
However, Lu Shijin has someone else to talk to, "Convenience store, how was my acting just now?"
711: "Perfect, superb, reaching the pinnacle!"
Lu Shijin: "Your flattering skill is also the same."
711: "However, Huo Lian will take you to find Huo Qi now. What if Ruan Siheng bumps into you when you meet and finds out about your existence in advance, what should you do?"
Lu Shijin: "No, Huo Lian won't let me appear in front of Huo Qi yet."
711 puzzled: "Why?"
Lu Shijin: "Because it's not time for them to turn their heads."
711: "Yes, from Huo Lian's tone just now, it seems that he still cares about his relationship with Huo Qi."
"Heh." Lu Shijin sneered, "If he really cares about the relationship with Huo Qi, he can just leave me alone, why bother to call me over and talk to me about this. After talking so much, he is just testing me."
711 was even more puzzled: "Then why would he do this?"
Lu Shijin said eloquently: "He first told me about the relationship between Huo Qi and Ruan Siheng, which made me suspicious, but during this process, he always stayed out of the matter. He seemed to be just a good uncle who cared about his nephew, and would not make people think that he was a good uncle. There are ulterior motives. Taking me to see Huo Qi now is to let me see the truth on the surface, but if I see the truth and hate Huo Qi from love, then he can just use me to deal with Huo Qi. That's Huo Lian's real purpose."
Huo Lian thought he could play with others, but he forgot an old saying.
People who bully others will always bully them.
It depends on who is better than who and who can act.
The car drove for a while and stopped in front of a gallery in the downtown area.
Lu Shijin pretended not to understand, and asked, "Why did the car stop?"
"Didn't you want to see Huo Qi?" Huo Lian looked indifferent and slid his fingers on the tablet, "Just wait here."
Sure enough, not long after, Huo Qi and Ruan Siheng came out of the store.
The two talked and laughed all the way, and Ruan Siheng put Huo Qi's shoulder affectionately from time to time, looking very close.
When Huo Qi and Lu Shijin were together, they rarely smiled. Lu Shijin always thought that Huo Qi's personality was like this.
But seeing the smile on Huo Qi's face at this moment, he realized that some people don't smile, they just can't smile at you.
Lu Shijin pressed his forehead against the car window, trying to see more clearly, because he couldn't believe his eyes.
Huo Lian said slowly: "Did you see it? Did you give up?"
Huo Qi and Ruan Siheng were about to go far away, Lu Shijin desperately pulled the door of the car to get out of the car and catch up to ask what happened.
But Huo Lian seemed to have anticipated his action, and asked the driver to lock the door in advance.
"Let me get out of the car!" Lu Shijin turned his head, his eyes were red, like an angry and sad beast.
"Let you get out of the car and let you go to Huo Qi?" Huo Lian threw the tablet on the seat unmoved, "Watching the original mistress fight on your street, my Huo family will lose face ?”
Lu Shijin clenched his fists tightly, restraining his emotions on the verge of collapse, "It's just a shopping together, they may not have anything, you let me get out of the car, I promise I won't mess around."
Huo Lian snorted and said, "As you said, Huo Qi has been in love with you for three years, so why does he avoid seeing you when he has time to go shopping with others? You have seen it with your own eyes, don't you want to deceive yourself? ?”
Lu Shijin gritted his teeth: "Don't you believe that I am Huo Qi's boyfriend?"
"I did have doubts before," Huo Lian twitched his lips, "but after seeing what the man with Huo Qi looked like, I believed it."
"What?" Lu Shijin asked.
Huo Lian casually pointed to the tablet computer on the seat, "Look for yourself."
Lu Shijin stared down at the computer screen, it was a photo of a man, when he saw clearly the appearance of the man in the photo, his pupils shrank suddenly.
"Does it look familiar?" Huo Lian's thin lips parted, and what he said was like a sharp knife piercing Lu Shijin's heart, "He is the first love that Huo Qi has always missed, and the one you just saw."
Lu Shijin lowered his head, his nails dug into the palm of his hand, but the heaving of his chest became more and more intense.
"Huo Qi," Huo Lian turned to stare at Lu Shijin, and said without a word, "he just regards you as Ruan Siheng's substitute."
Big tears rolled out of Lu Shijin's eyes without warning.
Huo Lian hadn't seen others cry in front of him for many years, so when he saw Lu Shijin crying, he was a little startled.
The boy was weeping silently in the narrow carriage, obviously extremely sad, but still biting his lower lip with his teeth, not saying a word.
Seeing Lu Shijin crying so miserably, Huo Lian finally realized his conscience, softened his voice a little, and comforted Lu Shijin unskillfully.
"It's not your fault, cry if you want to cry, and feel better."
All the strength in Lu Shijin's body was taken away, and he collapsed powerlessly on the back seat, staring blankly at the back of his sweetheart going away.
Huo Lian asked the driver to drive Lu Shijin back. Along the way, Lu Shijin kept his head leaning against the car window, weeping silently until he fell asleep from crying.
The car accidentally ran over a stone, and it was jolted for a while, causing Lu Shijin's body to shake, then changed direction, and leaned towards Huo Lian without noticing it.
Huo Lian instinctively wanted to push Lu Shijin away, but when she lowered her head, she saw the boy's eyes swollen from crying, and the eyelashes trembling restlessly in his sleep, and held back.
Forget it, since you want to win over others, the relationship can't be too rigid.
Huo Lian convinced herself so.
At the destination, when the car stopped steadily, Huo Lian tried to wake up Lu Shijin who was sleeping soundly with his head on his shoulder.
"Wake up."
Lu Shijin's tightly closed eyelids moved, and he slowly opened his eyes.
When she looked up, she met Huo Lian's profile.
The side face that resembled Huo Qi made Lu Shijin's already unclear eyesight even more confused.
In a daze, Lu Shijin thought it was Huo Qi who appeared in front of him.
Tears flooded the eyelashes again, and when he opened his mouth, his voice was soft and glutinous, like anger or resentment.
"husband?"
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