Yusen Building.

42nd floor.

Law Zero Law Firm.

Ling Xiao flipped through the file in his hand, turned on his mobile phone and put it on the right hand side of his desk.

Li Shang walked in with the documents and sat on the chair opposite Ling Xiao, very interested.

On the other side of the phone is an adult man's voice: "She didn't go home directly from work today, she went to buy a car, bought a car and went to the vegetable market......

"Wait." Ling Xiao spoke, his eyes moved from the file to the phone screen, "She doesn't have a domestic driver's license, what kind of car do she buy?"

「...... Battery car."

Ling Xiaomei's heart jumped: "Have you bought a helmet?"

"Bought it."

Ling Xiao retracted his gaze and said indifferently, "You continue."

"I went to the vegetable market and bought vegetables and went home, and I didn't come out again."

Ling Xiao explained a few more words, and then hung up the phone.

Li Shang chuckled sideways, and quipped, "You look like a pervert, and you are still looking for someone to follow Shanshan!"

"It's called protection." Ling Xiao was right, "I'm looking for someone to protect my wife, what? Can't you?"

"......" Li Shang knew that he was unhappy, handed over the documents, and changed the topic, "The clerk of the court sent it over today, and the trial date of Prosecutor Shu's case has been set."

Ling Xiao: "Put it there."

Li Shang pouted, "tsk" twice, and exited the office.

The office was quiet, and the sound of the pen in Ling Xiao's hand sliding over the paper could be heard.

He fastened the file, closed his eyes and leaned back, turning the cap slightly.

The thick eyelashes are imprinted on the eyelids, and there are slight creases between the eyebrows, which has always been obvious aggression is weakened, and the whole person reveals impatience and boredom.

Ling Xiao sent a message to Zhu Shan in the past few days, and she basically sent him away with the words "um", "oh", and "good".

Still buying a car?

Ling Xiao let out a soft snort from his chest, is this going to stay there permanently?

He threw the pen on his desk and scooped his phone with his long arm.

Looking at the time, it was not yet twelve o'clock, and I thought she should not have slept yet.

He opened WeChat, clicked on the chat page with Zhu Shan, and typed.

Ling Xiao: [It's cooled down these days, so you have to wear more clothes. 】

Soon, there was a reply.

Zhu Shan: [Hmm.] 】

Ling Xiao: [The birthday gift that my aunt sent you has arrived, and I will sign it for you. 】

Zhu Shan: [Oh. 】

Ling Xiao: [Would you like to take a look at the birthday present first?] It's your birthday the day after tomorrow, I'll pick you up? 】

Zhu Shan: [Don't!] 】

Ling Xiao: "......" is two words this time, refuse.

At the same time, Zhu Shan received a message from Prosecutor Su.

said that he wanted to prosecute Ren Xingyan for intentional homicide, hoping that Zhu Shan could testify in court.

Zhu Shan immediately responded.

She didn't know what Ling Xiao was planning to do, she wanted to ask, but she didn't know how to ask.

Maybe she knew that Ling Xiao didn't want to say it, and she couldn't ask anything at all.

September 9th.

Zhu Shan's twenty-third birthday.

She didn't wake up until nine o'clock, and took a morning off work because she had to go to the police station later.

Zhu Shan turned on her phone as usual and read the unread information first.

Ling Yue: [Happy Birthday! 】

Ling Yue: [Have you received the gift?] 】

Zhu Shan: [No. 】

Ling Yue didn't reply to the message immediately, so Zhu Shan watched the news on the bed for a while.

Seeing that the time was almost up, she got up to wash up and eat breakfast.

There was the bread she bought last night on the dining table, and it seemed that the portion had not decreased at all, and it was speculated that Wu Jing had gone to work without breakfast.

Zhu Shan and Wu Jing's living habits are very different.

Take eating as an example, she finally knows why Wu Jing is in shape

Slimmed.

It turned out that she was a woman who only ate protein for breakfast and was directly reduced for dinner.

Zhu Shan can't do it, she will be hungry if she doesn't eat carbs for a meal, she will be hungry if she doesn't eat meat, and she will be afraid that her nutrition will be unbalanced if she doesn't eat vegetables.

She had to eat everything.

As a result, she lived in Wu Jing's house, but she had to eat alone in front of Wu Jing every night, which was embarrassing, so she had to do it hastily every dinner.

Zhu Shan only received Ling Yue's reply when she went out.

Ling Yue: [I saw the receipt message yesterday. 】

That should be Ling Xiao's signature.

Zhu Shan didn't reply to the message, put her phone in her bag, put on her hard hat, and set off slowly to the police station.

She arrived at the police station a little earlier than the agreed time, and it was the policewoman who received her last time.

The policewoman told her the basics.

According to Zhu Shan, the police went to the "Bolang Entertainment Club" to check the surveillance, asked the bodyguard and the waiter's confession, and searched the bodyguard from the white pill similar to the one she mentioned that was almost forcibly poured in, and after testing, the main ingredients were vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, niacinamide, calcium pantothenate, and no harmful substances.

At this point, Zhu Shan already knew the result.

She signed, thanked her, and walked out dejectedly.

It was also at this time that she noticed the conversation of the police officer next to her.

Roughly speaking, a criminal changed his name and surname, and had plastic surgery, but he was still arrested, and under the secret network of today's public security system, these criminals are foolish dreams of hiding their identities.

Out of the police station, Zhu Shan sat on the electric car and put on a hard hat.

She didn't set off immediately, but took out her mobile phone, thought about it for a while, and sent a WeChat message to Officer Song.

Zhu Shan: [Officer Song, Han Bingbing's matter has made you embarrassed between me and Ling Xiao. 】

Zhu Shan clicked on it and went to the company.

When she arrived at the company, she parked the car and took out her mobile phone to check.

Officer Song has replied to the message.

Officer Song: [He's doing it for your own good, too.] 】

Sure enough, Officer Song found out about Han Bingbing's name change, and then was stopped by Ling Xiao, so he hid it from himself.

Zhu Shan stood in the unmanned, empty, dimly lit parking lot, and after sneering, she gritted her teeth and cursed, "Villain."

All afternoon, Zhu Shan was absent-minded.

Wu Jing glanced at her several times, seeing that her situation was more serious than a few days ago, she couldn't hold back, knocked on the table with a ballpoint pen, and asked, "Your cold war is not over yet?"

When Zhu Shan borrowed it, she only faintly mentioned "Cold War", and Wu Jing didn't ask much.

At this moment, Zhu Shan instantly understood Wu Jing's concern into another meaning, and said apologetically: "I have found an agent in the past two days, and I can move out this weekend."

Wu Jing was stunned for a moment and hooked her finger at Zhu Shan.

Zhu Shan buried herself in the past, and the next second Wu Jing buckled her neck with the crook of her arm: "Why are you so sensitive?"

"Sister Jing, you let go first, you can't breathe."

"I'll tell you, as long as the Cold War lasts, you can stay here for as long as you want, and dare to move out..." Wu Jing tightened her arms a little more, jokingly, "This is the end."

Zhu Shan patted Wu Jing's hand: "I know, I know, I'm really out of breath."

Wu Jing let go at this time.

Zhu Shan: "Sister Jing, thank you."

"What do you say?" Wu Jing waved her hand magnificently, "They are all friends."

Friend?

Zhu Shan was stunned for two seconds, then nodded.

After this trouble, the two did not continue the initial topic of "Cold War".

After all, Zhu Shan really didn't know what to say.

Although she promised Ling Xiao that she would believe him, she couldn't suppress the emotions in her heart.

Especially today, those emotions are like turning over the river and the sea, and it is extremely difficult to suppress.

It may be that she received a notice that the procuratorate indicted Ren Xingyan for intentional homicide;

It could be that she did

Ding, there is no evidence to convict him of the pill incident that was bullied by Ren Xingyan;

It may be that she discovered that from the very beginning of the investigation of Han Bingbing, Ling Xiao had already hidden something from her;

Perhaps, it was just that before this incident, the twenty-third birthday, which she was looking forward to every day, and the birthday she could spend with Ling Xiao came as scheduled......

Depressed, uncomfortable, disappointed, aggrieved, panicked...... All kinds of strange emotions were kneaded into a hemp rope that could not be torn or untied, and tied Zhu Shan.

When she got off work, Zhu Shan rode a battery car to the door of the company.

Because she remembered that Ling Xiao said on WeChat the night before yesterday that she was going to pick her up.

Although she refused.

Zhu Shan was very annoyed, not because Ling Xiao didn't appear, but because she clearly realized that she wanted him to appear, but she didn't know how to face him.

Zhu Shan rode back to Wu Jing's home.

Wu Jing said in the afternoon that she made an appointment to do nail art and would come back later tonight.

For the twenty-third birthday, Zhu Shan wanted to eat better, but she was not in the mood, so she bought a bag of dried noodles and a ham sausage in the small supermarket.

Finally, reluctantly eat a poached egg noodles with a ham sausage, which means birthday.

When Wu Jing went home, Zhu Shan was already washing the dishes.

The two said a few words, and then played with their own mobile phones.

Zhu Shan played for a while, and then inserted a call from an unfamiliar number into her mobile phone, and the number was marked as "Express" by the system.

Zhu Shan hadn't bought anything online since she lived here, and she went downstairs to get the package in a daze.

It's really her courier, the address is from home ... Bah! Sent from Ling Xiao's house.

Zhu Shan shook the courier box, but there was no sound, she borrowed the courier brother's knife and opened the box on the spot.

Inside is a white gift box.

Zhu Shan threw away the outer box and walked towards the unit building with only the gift box.

As she walked, she curiously opened the lock of the gift box, and there was a white gold diamond bracelet lying inside.

She took out the bracelet, a thin O-shaped chain with wavy diamonds on the front.

Zhu Shan remembered that her aunt said that the birthday gift sent was jewelry, and she thought that this was it.

So, it was Ling Xiao who sent the things over?

Zhu Shan was not at all happy to receive the gift, and what she wanted now was not that.

The sky has darkened, and when I look up, I can see the lonely moon, and there is no "stars holding the moon" described in the book at all, and even the moon is lonely.

Zhu Shan didn't know where to go, stepped on the small stairs in front of the unit building, and sat on the ground with a scream.

There was a babbling child next to him, who laughed when he saw this scene.

Zhu Shan didn't feel any pain.

It doesn't hurt at all.

However, this fall, as if the things that had wrapped her heart, broke a hole, and then those inexplicable things began to pour out uncontrollably.

Then came chest tightness, sore nose, astringent eyes, and tears falling out uncontrollably.

The parent with the child next to her gave her a strange look, and immediately hugged the child and left.

Zhu Shan got up from the ground and walked to the back of the unit building with the gift box in her arms.

She knew that her emotional appearance was not suitable to go back to Wu Jing's house.

Fortunately, at the back of the unit building, no one usually goes, and there are old row chairs stacked in the property management of the community, which is just right for her to secretly regulate her emotions.

Zhu Shan sat in a chair and hung her head.

Bean's big tears fell on the gift box on his knees, and were instantly absorbed by the velvet and disappeared without a trace.

The more she tried to hold back her tears, the more she sobbed.

I don't know when the sensor lights have dimmed, only the faint moonlight shining in from outside the fence.

Zhu Shan couldn't see clearly through her tears.

She didn't want to see it either.

She didn't care, either.

She even thought it would be nice to stay in a dark corner like this

。

At least the pitiful appearance of crying will not be seen and laughed at.

She just needs a little time, she can control herself and suppress the sadness in her heart.

She thought she could.

And just like that, after a while.

There was a sound of footsteps in the distance, from far to near, becoming clearer and clearer.

Zhu Shan subconsciously thought that someone was passing by, she snorted, and tried to suppress the choked voice, not wanting to be discovered.

As the footsteps approached, the lights suddenly turned on.

Zhu Shan's red, swollen and sour eyes were stimulated, and she closed in an uncomfortable moment.

Then she heard the footsteps so familiar.

Before she could open her eyes, footsteps had already fallen in front of her.

The gift box on her lap was removed, her arm was grabbed, and the whole person was grabbed and brought close to a hot embrace.

Ling Xiao rubbed her hair distressedly, and her voice was hoarse and astringent: "Don't cry, your heart is drowned by you."