Ye Zeyan woke up early the next morning and habitually looked at his mobile phone. He read Lin Xi's message twice and translated all kinds of typos before he understood what she was talking about.

She had previously said that she was going to have a Christmas party at home.

made a phone call to my mother, and learned that the complaint phone was really made by Yu Shumei.

"Ouch, it's scared to death in the middle of the night, I thought it exploded somewhere. Yu Shumei, the mother on the other end of the phone, said exaggeratedly, "Your father didn't get home until 10 o'clock after a meeting last night, and he was woken up by fireworks as soon as he fell asleep." ”

Ye Zeyan comforted his mother and casually "objectively" said a few good words for Lin Xi.

"You said that you father and son, at the end of the year, you will have such a big case for yourself, and you will not be idle. Your grandfather said that next year, your father's order will almost come down, and then he will return to the imperial capital, and he will be idle. ”

"And you have to give me dinner tonight, I haven't seen you in almost a month. ”

"Hey, let's say okay, you won't be allowed to work overtime in the New Year's Day, and your grandfather will be angry with you. ”

"......" Mother's laser gun-like strafing, Ye Zeyan couldn't catch it.

In the end, he reluctantly left a sentence, "Then you let my dad give me a holiday." ”

"Let's go! I have to let go! Lao Ye heard it, your son said that he wanted to take a holiday!"

She didn't go to the second scene with a group of people last night, so she took off her makeup and went back to the bedroom on the third floor and fell asleep.

When he woke up in the morning, Lin Xi didn't have the hangover he expected, but he could feel the discomfort of his body being eroded by tobacco and alcohol, and he urgently needed to detoxify.

She went downstairs to make a pot of coffee, tied her somewhat messy hair into a high ponytail, and prepared to go out for a run before coming back to shower. While waiting for coffee, Lin Xi leaned on the breakfast bar and looked at his phone.

Before unlocking, there were several missed calls, several emails, and dozens of WeChat notifications on the screen. Swiped the screen, but Lin Xi clicked on the information first.

Ye Zeyan replied to her message.

Two words.

"Read. ”

Read?!Read?!When he replied to a text message, was the first long approval?

Lin Xi stared at those two words in a daze, and suddenly burst out laughing. What kind of old cadre style is this?

She slid up and flipped the text message she sent to Ye Zeyan last night, and looked back at it again, the love was true, but there were so many typos that even she didn't understand it. Get rid of a drunk and talking nonsense.

The embarrassment came up in an instant, even if Ye Zeyan couldn't see her at the moment, Lin Xi still covered his face and wanted to find a hole to drill.

The man "read" the word, coupled with her drunken words, where did Lin Xi kindly ask or explain, poured two sips of coffee and went out for a run.

After running and buying a bottle of water at the supermarket in Mingyu, the music in the headphones stopped abruptly and rang the ringtone instead.

"Miss Lin, this is the security office, there is a visitor at the door who said he is looking for you, are you waiting for someone?" The security guard's voice was a little familiar, and it sounded like the one who stopped her little BMW before.

"Huh?" Speaking of visitors, Lin Xi first thought of takeout, but she didn't order it.

"He said it was Duan Xuyang, and he left a coat at your house last night. ”

"Poof-" Lin Xi was drinking water and squirted out like this.

"Can you let it go?" the security guard continued.

When "Uh......" got up, the house was indeed a mess, and she didn't pay much attention to it, so she called Aunt Huang with disgust and asked her to come to the house to clean up.

"Are he sure the clothes fell on my house?"

"...... "security guard," I'll give him the phone and tell him yourself." ”

"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Lin Xi stopped and hesitated for a while, "Then you let him in." ”

What did she want to say when she took the phone to Duan Xuyang? The other party had already arrived at the door, let him call back to the house directly? Lin Xi really couldn't say such an unkind thing.

Duan Xuyang wore a long black down jacket, put his hands in his pockets, walked uphill from the sidewalk, and saw a petite figure waiting outside the villa gate in thin clothes from a distance.

He walked all the way up and looked at the villas on both sides, and his heart was already a little turbulent. Last night, he sat in the car with the crowd and drove directly into the villa area in the darkness of night and dim street lights. Seeing the huge white mansion of Lin Xi's family now, Duan Xuyang has not seen a mansion, but he is still shocked at this moment.

Lin Xun had just run a few laps, and now he stopped, his body, which was warm by boiling blood, gradually cooled down, and the cold invaded his body, so he could only take small jumps in place to maintain his body temperature.

Duan Xuyang was a little surprised when he saw her without makeup.

Compared with wearing makeup, Lin Xi, who has no makeup, is very pure and lovely, and his little face seems to be a little red from the cold at this time, but it is extremely attractive.

Duan Xuyang saw that she was cold, and while walking towards her, he was about to pull down the zipper of his coat and give her the coat gentlemanly. saw Lin Xi turn around, open the small door on the periphery of the villa, and walked towards the villa through the front yard without looking back.

The lower body was wearing dark yoga pants, and the upright good figure was unobstructed, which Duan Xuyang did not expect.

Lin Xi pressed the combination lock, shrugged his slightly trembling shoulders, and was relieved by the heating that gushed out as soon as he opened the door. Although Duan Xuyang was left behind by Lin Xi, fortunately, his legs were long, and he caught up with her and entered the house in two steps.

Lin Xi was still thirsty, so after the two entered the house, she walked through the messy living room and casually asked politely as she walked to the kitchen, "Do you want water?"

Hearing a good answer behind him, he took two glasses from the cupboard, took his own water, and took a glass for the other party while drinking.

This move was interpreted by Duan Xuyang as Lin Xi's good impression of him.

"Thank you, Sister Xi. ”

"Ahem. That sentence of "sister" choked Lin Xun again, didn't she say don't call her sister.

"Are you alright? Like a friend who has known each other for a long time, he stepped forward and patted Lin Xi on the back.

Lin Xi quickly turned sideways to avoid after he slapped him twice.

"Lin Xi, I'm sorry, they all called you Sister Xi in Vixx last night, I forgot for a while," in Duan Xuyang's opinion, Lin Xi was able to let him into the house, which had already been expressed, "Don't be angry." ”

"Uh......" Lin Xi looked at Duan Xuyang's handsome face, although he was not disgusted, but there were really no ripples in his heart.

When socializing, because his brain is always short-circuited, he can't remember people's names, so Lin Xi uses a trick, which is to keep repeating the name every time he talks to the other party.

This act has also been misunderstood several times as her sultry. Now that Duan Xuyang has used the same "means", he didn't forget to say her name without saying a word, Lin Xipu suddenly opened his mouth, and understood why he was misunderstood by others.

"You can look for your clothes in the living room yourself, I haven't just gotten up and haven't packed them yet. ”

After Lin Xi finished speaking, he put on a blanket and took another cup of coffee and walked to the backyard. There was still a blueberry cigarette case on the table that she had smoked from last night, and she stared at it for a moment and couldn't hold back, pulling out one and lighting it.

When I exhaled the first puff of green smoke, my whole body and mind were relaxed.

It was almost noon, Lin Xi picked up his mobile phone and looked inside and out.

There is no text message, let alone WeChat.

Didn't he say that the bureau has been busy lately? Very busy means he must be up now, right? That must have seen her message, right? Didn't he say that he would come back as soon as he saw it?

What does the word "read" mean when you reply to it?

She waited for more than 12 hours, why didn't Ye Zeyan make a sound?

Song Xiaoran's disappearance case and Jin Ya's death case, the two cases were parallel, and Ye Zeyan at the end of the year was very busy.

When I got up early in the morning and read Lin Xi's text message, I called my mother first to inquire about the situation. After hanging up the phone, I hurriedly drove to the police station and started the meeting.

Qin Youwei was also the one who took over Song Xiaoran's transfer at that time, not only confessed to his companions when he committed the murder against Huizi that day, but was successfully arrested by the police. But although the two confessed to take over Song Xiaoran's next family and the human trafficking organization behind it, in order not to startle the snake, the provincial task force decided not to rescue Song Xiaoran for the time being, but sent people to secretly go to the village under Liu County to monitor and protect her. At the same time, operational arrangements were made for the arrest of human trafficking organizations.

Jin Ya's case came to an end because of the capture of Chen Zhibiao, but knowing that the real murderer was still at large, Ye Zeyan did not want to close the case. According to the vague memory of the taxi driver who drove her away at that time, as well as the area identified by the communication records, Jin Ya went to Bar Street after coming out of the hot pot restaurant.

It's a pity that he watched the video in the monitoring room all morning, but still didn't get any useful clues.

By the time he was done, it was already noon, and he didn't have time to eat breakfast, and his stomach was churning from time to time due to lack of food. Maybe he was overly hungry, but he didn't feel hungry. Yang Li knocked on the door of the monitoring room and reminded him to go to lunch.

The man looked up from his phone, "Okay, you guys go first, I'll be over later." ”

After Yang Li left, Ye Zeyan called Lin Xi.

In today's era, how many people's mobile phones are set to silent, and answering calls depends on fate. There are also many people who are disgusted and afraid to answer the phone, and even let the phone ring so loudly, preferring to text back again.

He hurried to the bureau in the morning, and it would be better to explain to her what he wanted to do, and it would be better to say it with emotion in person. So at the moment, I just replied to "read" and fulfilled my promise that I would reply to her when I saw the text message.

Again, he kind of wanted to hear her voice.

After beeping five times, a delicate voice sounded, "Captain Ye......"

Why are you pitiful again?

Ye Zeyan simply explained the work of the next morning, and indirectly explained the reason why he did not reply to her message in time. He hadn't bothered much to explain such a thing before.

"It's going to be the New Year, you're still so busy......" Lin Xi sighed on the other end of the phone, and no longer entangled in the word "read", "Then it's basically impossible for me to find you for New Year's Eve?"

"I'm not sure I'll have to work overtime now, but people will be in the South City. "Judging from today's meeting, the arrest operation is still in the early stage of planning, and it will be deployed after it is set, and the real operation will be at least until the next year, "When the time comes, try to get off work early, have dinner and supper together?"

It's too late for Lin Xi to be happy to be happy with him on New Year's Eve, where do you care about what to do, you can do anything, and you can promise to come down.

And seeing his attitude, it seems that his crazy text message last night did not scare him. Just thinking about it, the man's next sentence made her nervous again.

"So—" the elongated coda was the most suffocating, "what happened to you last night?"

"Huh?" It's just too hypocritical to pretend to be stupid at this time. Lin Xi explained the ins and outs, and by the way, scolded Zhang Peng for being a bloody dog, and cleared himself of responsibility.

"I really promised the doorman that I would never have a party at home again this year!"

“......”

Ye Zeyan said, "There are still 5 days left this year. ”

"I won't do it next year! If I do, I must not disturb my uncle and aunt! Do your parents say anything?" I thought that this might be the intention of the man's call.

"The complaint call was made by my mother. Ye Zeyan didn't plan to hide it from her.

Lin Xi's whole heart suddenly rose to his throat, covered the phone, and let out a deep "ah-" sound. It's like a sigh, more like a roar of chagrin.

Speaking again, cautious and cautious, his voice softened and said obediently, "Then your mother, how did you tell you?"

Ye Zeyan leaned on the back of the chair, put one hand on the table casually, habitually tapping the table with his fingertips, and hooked the corners of his mouth, "She said that she thought someone's house was blown up by a nuclear bomb." ”

The man said more exaggerated than Yu Shumei, Lin Xi sat in the far side of Banyu Mountain in the backyard, and made up the scene of a bomb falling down and blowing up the rocks, feeling that her mood at this time was more like being blown up by a nuclear bomb.

Later, I thought about it, hey, just blow it up, and then I will save my image in the future.

The other end of the phone was quiet for a long time, and Ye Zeyan seemed to have her tangled and embarrassed little appearance in her mind, and she was inexplicably happy, "I said a few good words for you, my mother shouldn't think about it anymore." ”

Lin Xi was coquettishly thanking him, and Duan Xuyang's sentence "Lin Xi, I haven't looked for clothes for a while and I haven't found them" came out.

Duan Xuyang stood beside her at some point, looking down at Lin Xi, half of his face was buried in the collar of his down jacket, against the light, Lin Xi's first reaction was to shut him up.

He pointed to his phone, and put his index finger to his lips again, making him shush.

Ye Zeyan naturally heard it on the other end of the phone, his eyes were slightly stunned, "Have a friend here?"

"Well," Lin Xi felt that the man's voice was a little deeper, and she was a little at a loss for a while, but she didn't have any good intentions, and obediently explained, "Didn't you have a party last night, and a few people left their clothes at my house and came to look for them." ”

Ye Zeyan's cheeks tightened, and he was silent for a while. My gut told me that she was telling the truth, but I didn't know that something was wrong.

"Then you help them find clothes first, I'll be busy here-"

"Wait a minute!" Lin Xi would definitely not do it for this kind of inexplicable thing to be misunderstood, she raised her head and glared at Duan Xuyang a little unpleasantly, and motioned for him to go back to the house, and the other party did so.

"Are you going to be home tonight...... Go back to Mingyu?"

Ye Zeyan had already stood up, and his body was at the desk.

*

Lin Xi and Ye Zeyan came out for a walk after making an appointment for dinner, and their mood was so good that they flew up. When she turned around and went back to the house, she tried to purse the corners of her mouth and wanted to rise arbitrarily, if it weren't for the fact that there was still a Duan Xuyang in the house at this time, she could run back and forth in the villa a few more laps.

"Were you talking to your boyfriend on the phone just now?" Duan Xuyang was sitting on a high stool next to the breakfast bar, and blurted out after seeing Lin Xi go back to the house and get up.

He was very tall, and Lin Xi didn't bother to look up at him, and was displeased by his rash interjection just now, and replied lightly, "It has nothing to do with you." ”

Duan Xuyang was indeed unintentional, and was about to apologize when he was interrupted by Lin Xi.

"Are you really down to me, or do you want to find an excuse to come over?" Lin Xi is not narcissistic, but he is not stupid either.

"It's really up to you, I wasn't in a hurry to leave last night when you kicked it out," he said with a shy smile and rubbed his nose, "I found that I didn't take it on the Vixx car." Brother Qi gave me your WeChat and said let me add you to ask, but you never passed. I bought that coat after I made my first money, so I cherish it. ”

"If you run over without permission because I didn't say hello, I apologize to you," he said, he stepped forward and grabbed Lin Xi's sleeve and shook it coquettishly, "Don't be angry with me." ”

Lin Xi was stunned for a second and pulled his sleeves back.

"I'm not angry. What's there to be angry about. But don't move your hands and feet, you're not ripe yet. ”

Lin Xi felt that she was active enough, but she thought that she was sincere in taking the initiative. But looking at Duan Xuyang in front of her at this moment, she wondered if she was also this fake appearance in Ye Zeyan's eyes?

Duan Xuyang is outstanding, young and sunny, with dyed flaxen-colored hair, which looks good in the sun. When people see beautiful things, their hearts are always hardened.

Lin Xi didn't say anything unpleasant in the end, "You go back first, my aunt will come over to clean up and ask her to help look for it later, and if you find it, I'll tell you." ”

Duan Xuyang hesitated for a moment, "Okay, thank you." ”

*

Duan Xuyang has met two types of rich girls.

One is well protected since childhood, living in an ivory tower, simple-minded and delicate. This kind of girl is also the easiest to be picked up by him.

The other kind is spoiled by the family and wantonly domineering, always arrogant and arrogant in front of people, rejecting people thousands of miles away on the surface, but hiding a sullen and unrestrained heart.

And Lin Xi belongs to the latter in his opinion. It's difficult, but it's not impossible.

But what he ignores is that there are many people who are proud of themselves because of their broad horizons, they don't need to accommodate others, they don't care about the world's eyes, they don't care about being defined by others, and they grow in their own sunshine.

He walked through the front yard of Lin Xi's house, stood in front of the iron gate, and looked back at the huge white mansion.

His face had long since lost his previous youthfulness, half of his face was hidden in his collar, and his eyes were getting darker and darker.