rain.
Continuous raindrops fell from the sky, soaking the green bricks in an instant. Yi Wan looked at Bo Jiang from afar through the rain, and Bo Jiang lowered her eyes and looked at Qin Xuexin on Yi Wan's shoulder.
Bo Xin used his pawn to frame him.
His gaze shifted from her face to Yi Wan's face.
Yi Wan looked at him innocently: "Actually..."
"This way... go this way..."
The voices of Bo Xin's friends and paparazzi could be heard from afar. They ran towards the pavilion to carry out the plan. Yi Wan glanced at them, frowning slightly, but unexpectedly heard Bo Jiang's voice.
"Go this way." Bo Jiang said, "This way we can avoid their sight... and your cameras."
He did not ask any more questions, but led the two of them through the corridor and arrived at a room.
After confirming that several people had entered the house, Yu Rongshi held an umbrella and silently waited outside the house.
He looked at the lights in the house, his face looking slightly gloomy.
…
This room looked like the Bo family's warehouse, with a lot of sundries, medicines, and a water dispenser lying around. There were some things scattered on the table in the warehouse, such as a roll of used tape.
A blood-stained piece of broken porcelain was lying on the ground next to the tape.
It was still raining outside. Bo Jiang rummaged through the cardboard box and found a bag of Chinese patent medicine. He squinted at the ingredients, took a paper cup and brewed a cup of hot medicine, then handed it to Yi Wan.
"Let her drink it." He said, "It will sober her up."
Yi Wan took the cup, but when it touched Bo Jiang's fingers, he found that he was very cold. He supported the girl and tried to feed her medicine, but he was a little unskilled. Bo Jiang replied: "I'll do it."
He pinched the girl's mouth open, and with skillful movements, he quickly poured the potion into her mouth. Then, he stretched out his hand and pinched several acupuncture points on her body, and put her steadily on the ground.
Yi Wan followed him and said, "You seem to be very skilled."
"I've practiced it before." Bo Jiang said.
That happened during the last days of his previous life when the city was besieged by rebels. As a loyal man, he ignored the opposition of his subordinates and personally went to help rescue the defenders. In times of crisis, there is no distinction between ruler and subject.
When he got here, Bo Jiang felt that the world he was in was much more real. Thinking of the past always made him feel that he was still alive.
Until the sound of rain pulled him back to reality.
His homeland and the world of the past are gone, and now he is just drifting in this era, facing a lot of questions.
Bo Jiang then said to Yi Wan calmly: "Don't you think you should explain why you came here?"
After Yi Wan left, Bo Xin's people took advantage of the invitation to play poker to plot against him, and forced him to drink wine with sleeping pills, and made him leave with a charge of molesting Qin Xuexin while drunk. After waking up and resisting, he broke the vase, but also got a temporary sobriety when the broken porcelain shards pierced his arm. He knocked Bo Xin unconscious, and ran outside to vomit the wine and treat the wound.
At this time, he thought of Qin Xuexin. Although he didn't like this woman, Bo Jiang also planned to come. But after all, Yi Wan didn't know that he and she came together.
Although it would be a relief to let Bo Xin suffer the consequences of his own actions, Bo Jiang still disdains to use such means.
But before he came out, she saw Yi Wan walking out of the door with Qin Xuexin on his back.
There are always these dirty secrets in a big family. But Bo Jiang didn't understand why Yi Wan knew about it, got involved in this incident, and quietly wanted to rescue Qin Xuexin.
Or maybe he was originally involved in this matter.
"I had already arrived at the underground garage, and when I was there I heard that there were paparazzi who were planning to plot against you and Sister Qin, so I came here." Yi Wan answered naturally.
Bo Jiang's tone was still gentle: "Why would someone walk around in the underground garage while making plans?"
Yi Wan pointed to his phone and said, "Many villains in novels are like this. Perhaps it is to make it easier for passersby to send text messages to inform the protagonist after hearing the news..."
Only this time he came running over by himself.
Bo Jiang: …
Yi Wan: "By the way, I also recorded it, do you want to listen to it?"
The sound of rain outside the window became louder. Qin Xuexin drank the medicine and seemed to be about to wake up. No matter how many doubts and questions Bo Jiang had, he could only suppress them for the time being. He closed his eyes and said, "When she wakes up, I will take you to another way to avoid other people..."
"Your arm seems to be bleeding." Yi Wan said.
When Bo Jiang lowered his head, he found that, perhaps because of Fang's rummaging, the wound that he had simply treated had split open.
He bandaged it carelessly, just using gauze to seal the wound and wrapping it with tape a few times. It didn't seem like he was treating a wound, but more like he was roughly handling something, just stopping the bleeding.
Now blood was leaking from the gaps in the tape.
"Do you want me to help you re-wrap it?" Yi Wan asked.
"No need." Bo Jiang said. He saw Yi Wan fetch the things he had casually thrown on the table, so he said, "Forget it, I'll deal with it myself later."
But Yi Wan kept staring at him. This look made Bo Jiang feel pressured for no reason. He finally sat down and tore off the tape.
There was some blood on the wound.
Yi Wan handed him the alcohol he had found: "Bo Jiang, you can't do this. Healthy eating will accompany you throughout your life - for many years."
Bo Jiang said: "I know."
"But I feel like you don't seem to like your own body. Don't do this next time." Yi Wan said.
Yi Wan's words sounded unintentional, but Bo Jiang paused for a moment, then continued.
He really didn't like it.
Bo Jiang doesn't like anything about this era, including himself who is in this era.
This body in the present day causes him to betray the era of his past.
He should have died completely with the city-state and that year when he died for his country, instead of becoming a deserter who fled to another era with his death.
He didn't like any of it. Who would like a place to escape to
But Yi Wan's words suddenly moved his heart... Bo Jiang said in a light voice: "Do I look like I hate my body?"
Yi Wan did not avoid answering.
"Yeah." He said, "very annoying."
The rain finally stopped. Qin Xuexin slowly woke up. When she saw her current situation, she almost screamed, but was blocked by Bo Jiang's cold eyes.
"Bo Xin originally locked us two drunk people together and brought in reporters. You can imagine what will happen next."
Bo Jiang was too lazy to explain more, but Qin Xuexin was already furious. Having been in the industry for many years, she certainly knew the consequences of being photographed by reporters. Even if Bo Xin originally framed Bo Jiang, she, as the "victim", would be splashed with dirty water that could never be washed away.
It may even ruin her entire career and life.
She was almost in a daze when they took her out of the house. Qin Xuexin's assistant was waiting by the car, anxious to the point of going crazy. Before she was taken into the car, she suddenly looked at Yi Wan with tears in her eyes.
"You saved me? Why did you save me?" she asked.
Didn't I hurt you? Why did you save me
Yi Wan just shook her head and said to her assistant: "Take Sister Qin with you."
Qin Xuexin was still crying in the car when it started. Her mind was in a mess, as if everything was telling her that this should not have happened. In the distance were the disappointed paparazzi, who had not captured any provocative news and were arguing with Bo Xin, who was only photographed drunk and out of control. It was as if a good filming that was supposed to have a beginning, a middle, an end, with the main character's highlight and the supporting role's ending was interrupted.
But when the car drove away, Qin Xuexin rolled down the window and suddenly called out to Yi Wan.
"I'll remember!" She said in a voice that she couldn't understand, but seemed to come out suddenly from the bottom of her heart, "I'll remember that you saved me... I'll repay you!"
She didn't know why she had to "remember", but she knew that tears welled up in her eyes, as if some shackles had been untied.
Yi Wan did not respond. Bo Jiang looked at their silhouettes and said calmly, "You still have to film tomorrow, right? I'll have someone drive you there..."
It was rare for him to have an interest in communicating with others in this era, but unfortunately, it was too late.
The car stopped beside them and flashed its lights.
"No need for the Bo family to see us off." The man in the car window said, "I've been waiting for you for a long time, Yi Wan, let's go."
After seeing the person coming, Bo Jiang subconsciously wanted to refute. But Yi Wan said: "Bo Jiang, it's okay, I will go with Teacher Yu."
"Brother Liu came over and asked me to send someone to take you there." Bo Jiang glanced coldly at Yu Rongshi, who was smiling gently.
Yi Wan: "It's okay, Teacher Yu..."
Bo Jiang: "Easy..."
Yi Wan: "He is a very simple boy."
Everyone looked as if they were struck by lightning at that moment, and Yi Wan took advantage of the chaos to get into the car.
When he got into the car, he was hit by a flash of light. Yi Wan turned around and saw a group of paparazzi got into the car and ran away.
Bo Jiang also saw the paparazzi. He said, "Don't worry about him. We are all men, so why should we be afraid of fabricated gossip. But Yi Wan..."
Yi Wan did not accept his attempt to stop him and quickly fled the scene in his car.
"Here's to you." After the car drove onto the road, Yu Rongshi handed Yi Wan a warm bottle.
Yi Wan opened the bottle and found that it was filled with red date milk.
He drank milk and said something as if in a trance: "In fact, in this world, when men are photographed together, it is easier to make up gossip news..."
"Yi Wan."
"Um?"
"Actually, I'm very curious, why do you want to help Qin Xuexin?" Yu Rongshi drove steadily, saying, "She hurt you before."
"Um."
"You're not happy about Jiang Bei's demise, are you?"
The car drove to the viaduct, and under the bridge was a world of lights and colors. There were tall buildings, and every window housed a family. Yi Wan looked at the warm yellow light, holding the phone in his hand, and suddenly spoke.
"Teacher Yu," he asked, "do you think Jiang Bei should die?"
Yu Rongshi paused. Yi Wan asked: "Do you think Qin Xuexin should die?"
"… You were once victimized by Jiang Bei."
"I used to..." Yi Wan started, but did not finish the next sentence. He paused and said, "Yes, I was insulted by many of his fans. They hoped that I would die and quit the entertainment industry. In their eyes at that time, I was no different from Jiang Bei in the eyes of others now."
"Now that Jiang Bei has fallen, I don't feel happy watching him being pelted with water bottles." Yi Wan said indifferently, "Sister Qin... is not going to die. I don't like her, she did some wrong things, but sometimes I think it doesn't have to go on like this. It seems..."
I hope.
In every building and every window under the viaduct.
In every home with dim lights.
Real people can live there.
Yi Wan held the painting belonging to Bo Jiang in his arms and thought of another problem.
He hopes that there will be one of his own in those windows, which will not be affected by the rising auction prices and inflation, and thus the mortgage will increase significantly again...
His own house.
At this point, he hugged Bo Jiang's painting tightly.
The car was still driving smoothly. Yu Rongshi said: "Next, you have also attracted Bo Jiang's attention. But fortunately, this incident was not planned by him, and you did not offend him."
"I feel like you're a little angry, Teacher Yu." Yi Wan asked back, "Can you tell me why?"