The two men looked at each other silently for a long time.

Shen Si seemed to have guessed Wen Yan's purpose for coming here, he didn't show surprise or frustration. On the contrary, his expression was too calm, like a prisoner who had been waiting in the dark for the judgment of fate, and finally found relief the moment he learned that he had been sentenced to death.

"I'm glad you're back here." Shen Silent said with a smile.

This is the old house of the Shen family, which is only one road away from the old house where Wen Yan lived when he was a child. The house has been inhabited for generations, and now it is very old, and although it has new furniture and the floor is covered with elegant and ornate marble, the room is slightly dimly lit and the atmosphere is old-fashioned and quiet. Over the years, Shen Mu's brother Shen Mou has long since moved away, but he has been living here. Wen Yan vaguely knew the reason in his heart, but he never asked. She looked around and said softly, "It's changed a lot, I remember there used to be a bench there." Wen Yan glanced at a corner, was in a trance, and retracted his gaze, "After my mother and I moved away, I thought you would move away too." ”

"I'm waiting for you." Shen Si looked at Wen Yan thoughtfully, and said seriously word by word, "I know that one day you will come back, I'm afraid you won't find it." ”

Wen Yan was silent: "My memory is not so bad. ”

There was a sneering smile on Shen Si's lips: "It's not that good." ”

Wen Yan frowned slightly and stopped talking. Shen Shi's gaze rose under her slightly angry expression, and he bent the corners of his mouth beautifully, patting the position beside him: "Come here, sit here." ”

Wen Yan hesitated for a second, and then walked over very obediently.

She didn't sit down, just lowered her gaze slightly, and her voice was cold and clear: "I'm here to hear an answer." ”

Her voice was very calm, there was no sense of urgency and no trembling, if everything yesterday made her afraid, even frightened, at this moment she sat here, putting aside everything and just wanting to hear Shen Silent say the truth, but it calmed her.

Shen Silent smiled. Wen Yan is indeed very smart and understands his character, she said that she "listens" to an answer, not "wants" an answer, so that she is much less aggressive and purposeful, she does not put the two of them in a hostile position at the beginning, and she does not mean to be a strong man. Shen Silent looked up at her, and ordered in a tone of course, gentle and stubborn, "Then sit down." ”

Wen Yan sat down beside him, neither far nor close to each other, just a distance of a person in between.

Shen Silent looked at the face in front of him, and there was a moment of distraction, as if some long-awaited emotion hidden in the depths of his heart was about to pour out uncontrollably. He unconsciously raised his hand to touch Wen Yanqing's thin cheek, but he avoided her before he could touch her.

Shen Silence's hand paused in the air awkwardly, for a while, and smiled bitterly: "I know you don't want to contact people, I took the initiative to show favor in the past, and you only frowned at most." Now, they're avoiding me. He lowered his hand, his voice lowering along with his gaze, "It's still so obvious." ”

"Shirao." Wen Yan didn't pick up Shen Shi's words, but went straight to the point, she knew that he had seen the previous temptation, and if he wanted to get the answer, there was no need to be cowardly.

"Shirashio?"

The pretentious fell silent.

Wen Yan pursed his lips and added, "The cause of death." She almost gritted her teeth and said these words, and then waited in silence.

Both men fell silent at the same time.

The mansion was already empty, and when neither of them spoke, it was so quiet and suffocating that it was frightening.

Wen Yan's eyes hung very low, and at this moment, even if she didn't look at Shen Shi's face, she could feel that his hot gaze was firmly fixed on her face at this time. Like an ant on a tarsal bone, she felt uncomfortable, and she leaned slightly to avoid his gaze.

Shen Silent glanced at her calmly, and an expression of sudden realization appeared on Junyi's face: "Oh, Bai Xiao, the cause of death." "The voice is so deep and determined, there is no attempt to hide it.

"What do you think it is?" Shen Si suddenly asked.

Wen Yan was slightly stunned, what did she think?

yes, what are the facts? She had her own ideas, her own doubts, and even bold inferences before she came. She just wanted to get an answer from Shen Silence's mouth, but she didn't dare to imagine whether this answer would be so cruel and heavy that she couldn't bear it at all, and she wasn't sure what she would do if she had the answer. Can you pretend to be ignorant and hide it with him, or do you want to bring him to justice and give Bai Xiao justice. Or maybe those chaotic thoughts are just wishful thinking and ridiculous speculation, and all she gets in the end is the mockery of reality and the collapse of their relationship.

"I did it."

The whole world stood still. Only that familiar voice rang in her ears, Wen Yan looked at Shen Silent in disbelief, what did she hear?

"I did it." Shen Silent took a sip of red wine and repeated nonchalantly.

He confessed? So direct, so calm!

Wen Yan looked at Shen Si, and at that moment, she clearly heard the sound of something suddenly cracking in her body. She looked at Shen Shi in surprise for a long time before she suppressed her trembling voice and asked, "Why?" ”

Shen Silent did not answer. But Wen Yan's eyes were too sharp and stubborn, like a sharp knife, just a light touch, cutting people's internal organs along with the hair and skin of the body, making him unable to continue to be silent.

"I didn't want to hurt her, but she wanted to hurt you." The silence was soft, but it was fierce.

"She didn't want to hurt me, we weren't as it was from the outside, she wasn't hostile to me, even if others didn't understand, but you should see it clearly, what's more, even if there was friction and collision? How can you ...... because of this trivial matter" Wen Yan's voice suddenly lowered, she bit her lip tightly, and her eyes stared at Shen Silence, "Are you crazy?!" ”

"I'm not crazy, it's you who are naïve." Shen Silent put the wine glass on the coffee table, turned his body completely to Wen Yan, and pressed her shoulder hard, "How could I be because of this trivial matter, I won't pay attention to the inexplicable jealousy and secret war between you women, she is a grain of dust to me, it doesn't matter whether she exists or not, I don't need to dirty my hands for her." That day I overheard her calling, someone asked her to frame you, she refused at first but then agreed, I don't know what the other party caught her, I just hope she stays away from you, it's she, because of her weak heart, will struggle desperately, will accidentally fall from the upstairs. Wen Yan, I didn't want to kill her, her death was an accident. ”

Wen Yan looked at Shen Shi as if he were looking at a complete stranger, his answer was so straightforward and so understated, he didn't pay any attention to the fact that it was a human life, and his attitude towards that human life was not disdainful at all.

"If it weren't for you, that accident wouldn't have happened." After a long time, Wen Yan slowly spoke.

"If it weren't for me, how would you know it wasn't you?" Shen asked rhetorically.

Wen Yan had nothing to say. She exhaled deeply and closed her eyes.

Shen Xi's heart tensed instantly, he nervously glanced at Wen Yan's pale and emaciated cheeks, and patted it lightly with his hand: "You're angry." ”

Hearing the voice, Wen Yan paused for a short three seconds, opened his eyes, and saw Shen Shi's worried face and his thick but slightly furrowed brows.

His hand was resting on his face, and in the slightly dimly lit room, he looked very gentle and cautious.

This man has treated her so gently for more than 20 years, never forced, never angered, and never defended her.

But he was a murderer, he had a human life in his hands, she was only in her twenties, her face was always filled with an innocent and enthusiastic smile, no matter how much filth she went through, her life could have started over, but she never had a chance.

Are all men created equal? As long as you work hard, will you succeed? Bai Xiao, if you had known everything that followed, would you still think so?

Wen Yan was too calm, and Shen Silent was even more worried, but he wanted to maintain the subtle peace between the two at the moment, so he didn't say anything more, just slowly put down his hand.

At some point, the sky suddenly became overcast. The wind was blowing outside, like a storm was coming.

Yin Zhan was about to fall asleep in the sofa. Gu Heng kept looking at his phone, as if he had been hesitating to call out.

Yin Zhan lifted his eyelids and said lazily: "If you want to fight, you can fight, I really don't understand you people, I'm entangled to death." ”

Gu Heng coughed and tried his best to hide it: "I'm thinking about whether to order takeout." ”

"What is it called takeout, there are eggplant noodles in the pot, a big pot is cooked, and none of you will eat it." Yin Zhan closed his eyes and hummed, suddenly, lifted his eyelids again, and said to himself, "I don't know what's going on, I always feel that something is wrong." ”

Gu Heng looked at his phone and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yin Zhan thought for a moment, then sat up from the sofa and said with a serious face: "Before Sister Wen Yan came back yesterday, she told me on the phone......

"Say what?" Gu Heng turned his head to look at Yin Zhan.

Yin Zhan hesitated: "She's a little scared. ”

"Scared?"

"Well, I'm afraid." Yin Zhan nodded, then grabbed his messy hair, and said confusedly, "Isn't it weird, it's not like what she said?" I didn't see her scared when she was kidnapped, but now, what are you afraid of? ”

Gu Heng's expression became complicated.

Outside, a light rain finally began to fall, and it was pounding on the eaves one by one.

Wen Yan and Shen Jing didn't speak all the time, and when the room was so quiet that it seemed that the whole world was dead, Gu Heng's call came in.

Wen Yan glanced at it and didn't answer.

Shen Jing also glanced at it and smiled: "You have reconciled?" He shifted his gaze to Wen Yan again, "Are you back at the Gu family again?" ”

The phone rang non-stop, and Wen Yan pressed it directly.

Shen Shi's smile deepened, but the smile was full of bitterness and sarcasm: "He treats you like that, how can you still trust him again?" ”

Wen Yan still didn't speak, but his body moved and put the phone in his trouser pocket.

There was a long silence again.

"I'll tell you a story." In the strange silence, Shen Silent suddenly spoke.

"More than 20 years ago, there lived a little boy here, he had a very naughty personality, he didn't like to listen to adults, and he ran around like crazy all day long. One day, he took advantage of the adult's inattention, ran to the yard of the next house, while playing, accidentally fell into the cistern, the pool is not big, but he couldn't get out with all his strength, he was very scared, but there was no way, in the end he could only wait for death in despair. Later, it was the neighbor's little sister who cried and called the adults to rescue him. ”

"Later, when the little boy grew up, he forgot the feeling of fear at that time, but he firmly remembered the little sister who saved his life."

Shen Shi looked at Wen Yan deeply, his eyes were blazing as if he could penetrate her line of sight, and looked into her dark eyes: "I have loved to run after you since I was a child, because I know that no one is worthy of me except you." His voice was very low, very soft, revealing a bit of helplessness and weakness, but it was not at all abrupt in the silence, but there was a kind of warm warmth.

Wen Yan looked at this well-defined face, as if she saw the boy who always liked to follow her back then, with two cute little tiger teeth, and kept giggling, and couldn't help but ask softly, "You fell in love with me because of this?" ”

"Probably, I can't tell."

"You don't like to be refreshed?"

Shen Silent shook his head: "I don't love it." ”

Wen Yan frowned: "You don't love her?" ”

"I don't love it."

"Then why are you with her?"

There was silence for a moment: "I always feel that she has your shadow on her." ”

Wen Yan didn't speak, she raised her eyes to look out the window, where the drizzle was pouring and the leaves of the willow trees were trembling in the wind. After a long time, she withdrew her wandering gaze and muttered in a low voice: "Have you ever thought that in fact, it is actually me that there is her shadow." ”

Nothing more to say, she got up and straightened her clothes to leave. With a snap, she had just lifted her steps when something fell off her.

Shen Si looked at the recorder lying quietly on the ground, and his face changed. 166 Reading Network