Shen Yu stood by the roadside, smoking one cigarette after another.
Staring at the vast expanse of white and feeling the faint chill in the air, this winter was extremely warm yet bone-chillingly cold.
Yi Pin didn't know when he came down. He casually took the cigarette from Shen Yu's hand, frowned slightly, looking a bit uneasy.
Then he took a deep puff.
When Shen Yu turned around, he saw the scar on Yi Pin's hand. It should have been from smashing it against a roadside tree last night. The wound was a bloody mess.
"Did you sleep with... Qi Mingyang last night?"
Shen Yu already knew what had happened, but he still wanted to hear it from Yi Pin himself.
Hearing this, Yi Pin frowned. The words sounded extremely harsh.
Seeing that Yi Pin had no intention of answering, Shen Yu let out a breath. A chill came over him in waves.
"You know he's gay!" Shen Yu said coldly. He randomly took out a cigarette and tried to light it, but couldn't. The wind was too strong.
Yi Pin opened his outer coat and covered the two of them, blocking the wind.
Shen Yu was stunned for a moment, and then managed to light the cigarette.
"Aren't you also entangled with your ex-girlfriend? Mind your own business. I don't need you to worry about or interfere in my affairs!" Yi Pin curled his lips and said nonchalantly.
These words made Shen Yu extremely irritated. After coming to his senses, he pushed Yi Pin away forcefully. "How can that be the same?"
Then he stormed back to the car, started it in one go, and sped away in a cloud of dust.
He left Yi Pin alone in place, not knowing what to do. Yi Pin just stared blankly at Shen Yu's back, shocked beyond words.
This guy actually left him in this godforsaken place and drove away by himself.
Yi Pin frowned, feeling a growing sense of unease and annoyance.
"Damn it!"
Yi Pin cursed coldly and kept making phone calls.
Shen Yu never answered.
After making more than a dozen calls, Shen Yu finally drawled, "Didn't you say you didn't need me to interfere in your affairs? I'm just fulfilling your wish!"
"Are you fucking crazy?" Yi Pin frowned and said viciously.
"Yes, I'm crazy. That's why I've been desperately trying to make you change your opinion of me, trying to..." Shen Yu let out a breath and then didn't say any more.
Yi Pin stood still, not knowing how to respond.
So he walked slowly on the road alone in the cold wind. He picked up his phone but didn't know who to call.
He exhaled white puffs of cold air and walked for a long time. He kept scolding Shen Yu in his mind. Just thinking about him made him feel irritated.
Not long after, Shen Yu's car turned back and came to the original spot, but Yi Pin was nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly, Shen Yu felt a bit panicked. He had been so absent - minded and angry just now that he left in such a hurry.
He made phone calls, but Yi Pin didn't answer.
"Damn it, answer the phone!"
Shen Yu was extremely irritated. He rested his head on the steering wheel. It seemed that a lot of things had happened in these few days, weighing him down so much that he could hardly breathe. In fact, he never really cared about being misunderstood by others or whether anyone could understand him.
But it was different with Yi Pin. Yi Pin had always been a simple - minded kid who only saw the surface of things.
Suddenly, Shen Yu felt a bit regretful. Why had he lost his temper so inexplicably? Who Yi Pin slept with was his own private matter after all, and there was no need for him to interfere.
"Open the door!"
Shen Yu was lying in the car, almost falling asleep, when he heard a familiar voice. It seemed like a dream but also very real.
Outside the car window, Yi Pin was holding two roasted corns and a roasted sweet potato in his hands.
He was smiling brightly, as radiant as the sun.
Shen Yu opened the car door in a daze and watched as Yi Pin, breathing out cold air, sat in the passenger seat with a smile.
"Here! Eat!"
Yi Pin handed over the roasted sweet potato, smiling slightly. His hands were red from the cold.
Shen Yu was a bit dazed. He grabbed Yi Pin's hands and blew on them, rubbing them to warm them up.
"Where... did you go?" Shen Yu frowned and asked guiltily.
"I thought I'd go get something to eat. There happened to be an old man selling these by the roadside. They're freshly roasted!" Yi Pin said with a smile. The smile on his face was hard to hide.
"Sorry!" Shen Yu suddenly said, feeling a bit guilty. This was the first time he had treated Yi Pin like this.
"It's okay. I've also been a bit impulsive these days!" Yi Pin smiled and took a bite of the corn. His face and hands were both red.
When they got back to the law firm, Gu Yang was there. He looked at the mud on Yi Pin's shoes in shock and said absent - mindedly, "Did you go farming?"
"Bullshit!" Shen Yu said coldly and walked towards his office. Then he took out a box and handed it to Yi Pin. "Just bought it. I haven't worn it. I bought it one size too small. It should fit you."
Gu Yang watched this scene silently, smiling faintly. Shen Yu had always been a very strict person. He was even very tough on himself and always demanded a high standard of himself. The probability of a low - level mistake like buying the wrong shoe size was almost zero.
Shen Yu glanced back at Gu Yang, his eyes a bit evasive.
"Old Yu, have you been hiding something from me recently?" Gu Yang said with a smile, crossing his arms in front of his chest and looking at Shen Yu calmly.
"No!" Shen Yu said coldly.
He saw that Yi Pin seemed to like the gift very much.
Yi Pin opened the box and saw a pair of white Jordans, the style he had always longed for.
Gu Yang shrugged, smiling mischievously.
"I'm going to find Zi Qi!"
After Yi Pin changed his shoes, he smiled slightly.
At this moment, he felt completely relaxed because he knew that although Zi Qi had suffered a great deal last night, they had now collected accurate evidence.
"No!" Shen Yu said coldly.
"Why not? Don't we already have the evidence?" Yi Pin frowned, looking dissatisfied.
But there are just some people. When you look at them, you even start to lose confidence in yourself.
"So what if we have the evidence now? The most important thing is that they won't admit it at all. They'll just say it was a joke. Zi Qi is also being monitored. He won't easily put himself in a dangerous situation and won't say anything. So we need more evidence, both witnesses and physical evidence."
Shen Yu blurted out.
In the past, no matter how much dissatisfaction or confusion he had in his heart, no matter how he was questioned, he would never reveal his true thoughts.
But now he had to explain it to Yi Pin over and over again in a reasonable way.
"He's already in a dangerous situation. He's at the end of his rope!" Yi Pin frowned, feeling irritated.
"Yi Pin, I think we should listen to Shen Yu on this matter. From what you've said, we can tell how difficult those two people are to deal with. Don't act rashly. We don't want to tip them off."
Gu Yang patted Yi Pin's absent - minded shoulder.
Yi Pin stood still, frowning.