A dark and sweet night.

Until a gust of cool morning breeze woke Huo Ranyin from his sleep. He moved his hand and touched to the side. His memory still stayed on last night, when Ji Xun held him in his arms.

But the outstretched hand came up empty. The warm body he expected did not appear in his palm. He only felt cold hands.

Huo Ranyin opened his eyes and turned his head with a hint of awakening. The other side of the bed was empty.

"Ji Xun?" Huo Ranyin shouted.

However, there was no echo. There was only the flowing cold air in the empty house. The cold air surrounded his voice and traveled alone in the house.

The last trace of confusion faded from Huo Ranyin's body.

He frowned, touched the mobile phone on the bedside, glanced at the time, and immediately felt a sense of annoyance.

Eight o'clock in the morning, so late?

I didn't do much last night, so my routine that had been fixed for many years was broken.

The last time I was broken was—

He thought of some... some scenes of himself and Ji Xun, and there was a sudden heat behind his ears.

He forced himself to turn his attention away from these pictures and think again:

Where is Ji Xun? Is he gone?

On the side of the bed that belonged to Ji Xun, the sheets were not messy and neat, leaving no trace of a human being. It was as if Ji Xun, who was lying on it, had never even turned over.

Did the other person not sleep all night? Is there anything that requires leaving so early?

He sat up straight, put on his clothes, stood up, and opened the bedroom door.

The early morning light had entered the window. Standing in the corridor of the house, the first thing Huo Ranyin saw, apart from the increasingly deserted interior in the morning blue, was the sofa in the living room with its plastic film removed.

Although Ji Xun was standing at the door waiting for him last night, all the lights except for one in the bedroom were turned off. He followed Ji Xun from the darkness to the light, completely unaware that anything was wrong in the room.

He stopped and looked at the sofa for two seconds, then turned around and walked to the study.

His steps were a little hurried. At this moment, he remembered more things, such as Ji Xun's eyes resting on him last night, such as the wine appearing on the bedside, and Ji Xun's determination to sleep with him.

Change the angle.

As long as you are slightly vigilant and observe from a different angle, you can easily realize another possibility, a possibility that is completely opposite to what you felt last night - Ji Xun would do this just to prevent him from leaving his sight.

There's something I don't want him to find!

He broke into the study and glanced at the cardboard box.

The cardboard boxes placed on the ground were all empty.

The empty boxes, like huge mouths opened wantonly, rushed towards him, biting his flesh and blood.

Weird weakness came over his body. Huo Ranyin raised his hand to hold on to the door frame. His eyelashes trembled, like butterflies that could not be broken by the strong wind, but his eyes were still raised. Under the butterfly-wing-like eyelashes,

It is a pair of black eyes with cold light.

He withdrew his hand and walked forward.

At this time, Huo Ranyin no longer had the hurried pace he had before.

His steps were neither fast nor slow, unusually light, and every time his toes landed on the floor was silent.

He came to the bookshelf and pulled out the "Personality Psychology". His hand fell on the cover and rubbed it slowly. His expression did not change much, only the corners of his mouth straightened and flattened little by little, and he made a sip.

Deep blade.

Ji Xun stayed in the cemetery.

He drove the car and parked it in the parking lot of the cemetery. Not far from the parking lot was the farewell hall. He stayed in the car and just glanced down, he could catch a glimpse of Gao Shuang and Zhuo Zangying.

family.

They came later than Ji Xun, and arrived one after another. When they arrived, it was as if they had separated the Chu, He and Han realms, and they were determined not to take a step towards the other party's position.

The weather is quite good today. The sun is high in the sky, which perfectly complements the song "The Sun Never Sets" playing in his carriage.

He looked at the flat ground in front of the farewell hall from a distance.

Both families have only one son and one daughter. Both families have white-haired people and black-haired people.

Both families were aware of the deceased couple's lawsuit.

They still appeared here together, perhaps because of many considerations, such as neighborhood gossip, the reputation of their children, and their grandson, the only child among the four gray-haired old people.

That's Xiaojun.

He is the son of Gao Shuang and Zhuo Zangying, who is in the first grade of elementary school this year.

The staff of the funeral home were cleaning up the farewell hall. The two families left the farewell hall and walked up the mountain road for a while, which happened to be close to the parking lot where the inquiry was located.

Xiaojun followed grandma.

Gao Shuang's mother suddenly waved to him: "Xiaojun, come to grandma."

Grandma disagreed, and she suddenly sneered: "I haven't investigated your son's murder of my daughter yet."

Just as grandma was about to retort, a black car drove up the road, and both families shut up.

When the car left, the topic that had just been interrupted resumed.

"I don't even want to talk about those messy things about your daughter."

"What happened to my daughter?"

"You two, the body is here. Come and claim it." The staff of the funeral home who were cleaning up the farewell hall shouted to them. Naturally, the four people who had just stumbled and said a few words shut their mouths again.

Ji Xun in the car showed a mocking smile.

The white-haired people send black-haired people to each other, and they all have countless anger in their hearts.

But anger is always difficult to express directly on the face.

Maybe they are worried about Xiaojun who is next to him with his head lowered; maybe they are worried about their face, their self-esteem, their identity... After all, they are a family with some assets, and their face has been lost, and they cannot lose face again.

In this intermittent manner, no matter what, the two families, who have to pretend to be calm in front of outsiders, are unanimously and inevitably fighting for the only valuable thing now.

Xiaojun.

People from the Zhuo family want to rob him, and people from the Gao family also want to rob him.

Looking at Xiaojun now, Ji Xun thought of Changchang who narrowly escaped death last night. Different, yet similar.

The number of cars in the parking lot gradually increased, and they were relatives of the Zhuo Gao family, as well as their relatives and friends.

Because the body was irreparably damaged by Monet, the people in the memorial hall skipped the part of paying tribute to the body, leaving only a black-and-white photo hanging around to pay their respects.

Ji Xun walked to where Gao Shuang's relatives and friends were not that many in number. Compared with Zhuo Zangying's hospital colleagues of different ages, various classmates, patients' family members, Gao Shuang's relatives and friends were basically all here.

They were women of similar age to him, either classmates, best friends, or colleagues.

This can be heard from the soft conversations of these people.

Next to Ji Xun, a woman who claimed to be a classmate and a woman who claimed to be a former colleague were chatting.

The one in off-white clothes and the one in gray clothes introduced themselves as the HR of Gao Shuang's former company. The last time they saw Gao Shuang was around New Year's Day. The one in gray clothes said that the last time they saw Gao Shuang was when they got married. After Gao Shuang gave birth to a child, they lost contact. Unexpectedly

He left so young.

Ji Xun listened, and his heart moved slightly. He walked over and asked, "Why did you meet on New Year's Day?"

The woman in off-white clothes sighed: "What else could it be? She came to inquire about joining the job, and she almost became a colleague again. Isn't this the year when the second child policy will be fully allowed? Our boss thought about it and felt that she was like this

With such a good family background, it is very likely that I wanted to have a second child, but I finally decided against it."

The man in gray clothes asked curiously: "A-Shuang still wants to work? Doesn't she have no worries about food and clothing? She is very cool in her circle of friends traveling around and playing games? Why does she have to work with miserable people like us?"

The off-white clothes shrugged: "Jingji is thinking about moving? I don't know. She came to our boss two years ago and was also looking for headhunters to join other companies, but at that time her conditions were a bit high..."

Two years ago... Ji Xun's fingers were a little stiff and he subconsciously asked: "I heard that she used to be a senior executive and her salary was very high?"

"Yes, she is very capable, but our industry is developing too fast. She has been married and had children for so long. It would be a bit embarrassing to come back and take the same position - the position is lower, and she will definitely not look down on her.

, I know that several companies where she applied for jobs ended up being rejected because of this. But this year she came to ask, the requirements are not so high, she just wants to find a part-time job. Who knows that there will be unforeseen circumstances... She left so suddenly

."

Two years ago, before New Year's Day.

Highly cool and capable.

These two prerequisites played back and forth in Ji Xun's mind, and a highlighter was automatically generated in his mind to highlight them.

Time is so delicate!

"Besides these two points in time, has Gao Shuang ever looked for a job at other times?" Ji Xun asked the HR eagerly.

"Then I'm not sure." HR glanced at Ji Xun strangely. She didn't want to answer at first, but when she saw the handsome man's anxious face, she felt faint sympathy and said a few more words of comfort, "But I

Anyway, I have never heard of her looking for a job at other times. Most likely not. After all, our industry is not very big. People who have reached a certain position and have some ability have to look for jobs. Everyone can hear some rumors..."

A hidden card that had always been hidden was completely revealed at this moment.

Ji Xun figured out many things in an instant.
To be continued...