Chapter 36

Chapter 36

At three thirty in the morning, Lu Yan pressed the back of his neck with his hand. When he turned his head, he found that the person sitting next to him had disappeared. He looked back.

Lin Si fell asleep leaning on the back of the folding chair, leaning on his side, his wrists folded together obediently and placed on his lap.

The data on the display screen begins to recover on its own, and the current progress is 13%.

Lu Yan pushed away his chair and stood up, approaching Lin Si.

He thought, with his eyebrows lowered like this, Lin Si looked like a young boy who was inexperienced in the world.

A long eyelash fell from the white cheek and curled up.

Lu Yan flexed his index finger and used the first knuckle to gently scrape across Lin Si's cheek, removing the disturbing eyelash.

The moment he got closer, he heard Lin Si's shallow breathing and smelled the fresh milk fragrance on his body. It was light but had the magic power to make people instantly intoxicated.

Before the smell could become clearer, Lin Si felt something and his shoulders shrank inward.

Lu Yan reacted conditionedly and took two steps back in time to make sure that Lin Si had not woken up before going over to close the gap in the window a little smaller.

Then he took off his sweater and put it on Lin Si, barely covering his shoulders and chest.

Progress bar 56%.

Lu Yan folded his arms and leaned on the back of the chair, tilting his body towards Lin Si. He stared at the time, planning to get his clothes back before dawn.

The progress bar is 71%.

Progress bar 100%.

The thin morning light shines through the window lattice, and the incandescent lights throughout the night are as bright as the sky.

Lin Si moved and felt a slight soreness. He almost suspected that his neck was about to be broken.

Gritting his teeth and slowly straightening his neck, he felt an inexplicable weight fall off his shoulders.

The light brown sweater slipped down his thighs, and Lin Si quickly picked it up without letting it fall to the ground.

This dress……

He hugged the sweater and looked at Lu Yan who was sitting in front of the computer.

Lu Yan fell asleep.

He folded his arms together, raised his chin slightly, and sat upright on an ordinary artificial chair, wearing only a thin black long-sleeved T-shirt.

Lin Si looked at the sweater in his hand, then at Lu Yan, and repeated the action twice without understanding.

Until he was sure, Lu Yan took off his clothes and covered him up.

The sky outside the window was still blue. At 6:13, Lin Si stood up lightly, walked around Lu Yan, and touched the mouse.

The screen wakes up.

Progress bar 100%.

Lin Si stood there and didn't dare to move. He hugged Lu Yan's sweater and didn't know whether to cover him again or just wait for him to wake up.

Seventeen minutes later, Lu Yan's cell phone vibrated in his pocket.

Lu Yan opened his eyes almost immediately, took a few more seconds to realize where he was, and his next move was to look back for Lin Si.

Lin Si also heard the vibration and was waiting for Lu Yan.

Lu Yan looked at him, and he stared at Lu Yan until he saw the red bloodshot eyes clearly.

Lin Si moved the corners of his mouth and asked in a low voice, "Are you awake?"

"Yeah." Lu Yan replied in a hoarse voice.

Lin Si stood up and handed him the folded clothes on his lap: "...Thank you." He pressed his thumb nail on the pad of his index finger, "You go back and take a nap. The monitoring records have been restored. The remainingI’ll just come and see it.”

Lu Yan put on his clothes and asked, "Did you sleep well?"

Lin Si was stunned for a moment, and when he spoke again he stuttered: "Oh... I, I... slept well. Didn't you cover me with your clothes..."

He touched his wrist, all kinds of words and things he wanted to say were in his mind, but he couldn't come up with a sentence that could fully express his heart.

Lu Yan, who had stayed up all night, and the sweater covering him, sown a lot of guilt seeds in his heart.

"I'm sorry, I accidentally fell asleep." Lin Si lowered his head and looked at Lu Yan again, "Do you want breakfast? I'm going to buy you breakfast now."

His long fingers tapped on the edge of his chair: "Don't run away."

Lin Si let out a soft "Ah" and asked confusedly: "Then where should I go?"

"Sit here." Lu Yan dragged his chair to his side, approached the computer again, organized the recovered files, and re-imported them.

Lin Si sat next to him: "Aren't you sleepy?"

"It's okay." Lu Yan found the time yesterday, played the video, and watched it intently.

Lin Si took a breath unconsciously and sat upright.

"Look here." Lu Yan pointed to him.

Lin Si nodded.

After five minutes, Lu Yan pressed pause: "Are you hungry?"

"I'm not hungry." Lin Si shook his head and asked him, "Is it almost time for you to go to work?"

"I'll be there on time." Lu Yan called Duan Yang, explained what happened in the morning, and asked him to send breakfast over.

The sky was clear. Lin Si rubbed his eyes, supported himself with one arm, and leaned against Lu Yan to watch the screen. He wanted to say a few words to Lu Yan, but Lu Yan's work efficiency and attitude were really awe-inspiring.Respect, Lin Si had to tense up.

The picture was played at double speed. Lin Si and Lu Yan watched it intently without blinking. A picture flashed by and Lin Si grabbed Lu Yan's arm: "Hey!"

Lu Yan pressed pause.

Lin Si patted Lu Yan on the arm: "Back up a little, here, here."

Lu Yan did as he said and retreated to where he said it was okay.

"He's out." In the picture, Bai Fan came out of the B24 elevator, looked to the left for about a minute, and then walked straight out of the picture.

Lin Si calculated the time: "It will be almost twenty minutes before he enters B24." Lin Si thought, "Can you prove that he came here specifically to take photos?"

Lu Yan saved the time cut: "There may be some other proof needed, including his actions before and after."

Lin Si nodded like a fool, but Lu Yan didn't press the play button and turned his head to look at him.

Being stared at by Lu Yan, Lin Si felt uncomfortable and shrank back: "What's wrong?"

Lu Yan lowered his eyes, and his gaze seemed to fall on Lin Si's collarbone, or down to Lin Si's elbow, but after a while he turned his head, continued to play the video, and replied in a low voice: "It's okay."

Lin Si always felt something strange there, and it took him a while to realize what he was doing. He quickly retracted the paw that was grabbing Lu Yan's arm, and held it down with his other hand guiltily.

"Sorry." He moved his shoulders to keep himself away from Lu Yan.

With the approximate time point, it is much easier to find them.

In the middle of the journey, Liao Ji called and said that Bai Fan could not be contacted from yesterday to now, and he was not in the apartment arranged by the company. In addition, the performance teacher was willing to testify for Lin Si, and several singers from the same company offered to support him on social platforms.Lin Si spoke up.

Lin Si and Lu Yan found that there was no trace of Bai Fan entering or leaving the elevators in Building 17 and the surveillance cameras on the 25th floor at the same time.

The paparazzi car was also captured by the camera. An inconspicuous black car had come in since the afternoon, wandered around the community a few times, and finally parked in a public parking space. After Bai Fan left, he followed suit not long after..

The more detailed the time point, the easier it is to find clues. Bai Fan's car entered from the northeast entrance of Xijiang. Lu Yan wrote down the license plate numbers of both cars and sent them to Duan Yang, asking him to check the owner.

At 7:40, Lin Si and Lu Yan came to an end. They had found out everything they could. He stretched out and sighed tiredly: "It's finally over."

Lu Yan uploaded all the required data to the cloud and gave a copy to Lin Si to take back.

"Lu Yan," Lin Si took the hard drive and looked at Lu Yan seriously, "Thank you."

After he finished speaking, he wanted to give Lu Yan a small bow in a formal manner, but Lu Yan pressed his forehead with his palm.

The temperature was not high in the early morning, and his forehead felt cool. When his warm palms were placed on his skin, his skin felt unusually obvious. Lin Si raised his head against Lu Yan's palms.

"Huh?" His line of sight was blocked by Lu Yan's forearm, and he could only see Lu Yan's chest.

The light brown sweater is twill, not dense, every fold is the same, and the distance is the same, just like Lu Yan used to be, rigorous, steady, and meticulous.

The man who was always accustomed to silence let go of his hand and said to him: "Good morning."

When his field of vision expanded, those deep eyes looked at him solemnly. Time and space fell, and parallel worlds passed by. Lin Si thought in a trance that Y was standing in front of him.

He closed his eyes hard.

Lu Yan curled his lips out of sight.

"Let's go back."

Lin Si nodded vaguely and followed Lu Yan for two steps, his hands unconsciously clasping his forehead.

Why did he touch my forehead.

Why did he say good morning to me.

...Also, why did he cover me with his clothes?

"Lu Yan," Lin Si called him from behind and said what he wanted to say, "Don't you hate me?"

There was half a ray of clear sunlight coming in from the corridor, hitting Lu Yan's hair, making it golden and warm.

"I don't hate it." Lu Yan walked towards him until he was in front of him, "I apologize to you for what I said to you before."

Lin Si was stunned for a long time before asking in disbelief: "Huh?"

"I apologize to you for all the unreasonable things I have done and the unreasonable words I have said." Lu Yan said, "That includes the time I pushed you away five years ago."

"Lin Si, I'm sorry."

Lin Si's eyes were a little sore. He didn't know what it was, but he felt heartbroken.

All his hatred for Lu Yan came from Lu Yan's indifference and condescension when he was young. He begged Lu Yan when he was most hopeless in life, but to no avail.

Although he told himself that for Lu Yan, it was a good intention to help and it was his duty not to help, but he still had no way of not counting Lu Yan and Lu Shaoming as one.

Lu Yan may not be wrong, but Lin Si has been grudged for many years.

Now that Lu Yan came to seek peace with such a low profile, Lin Si was completely in chaos.

He clutched the corners of his clothes, like a man who had lost his voice, unable to speak. He opened his mouth several times without uttering a single syllable.

"Your phone number." Lu Yan said.

Lin Si lowered his hand and grabbed it in his pocket. He found that he grabbed the wrong pocket and then switched to the other side. He picked up the call without looking at the caller ID.

"It's almost the same here. I asked a notary office to record the nanny car's driving recorder," Liao Ji said. "How about the monitoring? Do you want me to have someone check it for you?"

"Oh." Lin Si pressed his temples with his hands and saw Lu Yan pointing at him from the corner of his eye. He followed Lu Yan downstairs and said as he walked, "I checked Bai Fan's surveillance and it can prove that he arrived on purpose.Came downstairs to take photos.”

Liao Ji suddenly clapped his hands, the sound was so loud that Lin Si's ears buzzed.

"That's great!" Liao Ji said, "It's a secret! Fortunately, the surveillance video of Xijiang is still there!"

Lin Si told him tactfully: "Actually, it has been deleted."

"What?" Liao Ji went crazy again, "Deleted?"

"Lu Yan did the data recovery." Lin Si said, glanced at Lu Yan walking under the shade of the trees, and said, "He didn't rest all night."

He briefly explained a few words and said that he would wait until Liao Ji came over to discuss the rest of the matter, then ran over to follow Lu Yan and entered the elevator with him.

The numbers kept changing. When they reached the 25th floor, Lu Yan opened the door to his home and let him go in first.

Lin Si slowly changed his shoes. When Lu Yan stood on the steps of the entrance, Lin Si called out to him.

"Lu Yan."

Lu Yan turned around and lowered his head: "Yeah."

"I will never forgive Lu Shaoming." Lin Si said, "But -"

Lin Si stood at the foot of the steps, looking at him with wet eyes.

He was much shorter than Lu Yan in this way, his Adam's apple rolled up, and he rubbed his hands on his clothes nervously, then raised them up and stretched them out to Lu Yan: "If you don't mind, will you be friends with me?"

The author has something to say: Lu Yan: It’s better to be your boyfriend.