Chapter 27: Can't Escape (Part 2)

After a while, the car stopped outside the garden.

When DuYan walked into the house, he found that the empty living room was filled with furniture. Both the style and the color of the furniture were exactly the same as when they used to live here.

HeJin walked in after him and saw DuYan's eyes stay in the living room, "Uncle, how is it? I know all your habits.”

The password of the house had not been changed, and DuYan did not ask HeJin how he moved the things in.

He just asked, "Did you bring the things here from Beicheng?”

"How could I. You are used to those things, and eventually we will live in Beicheng for a long period of time.” HeJin took off his suit and skillfully hung it on the coat rack by the door.

"These are sets that I let people customize according to those furniture."

After dinner, DuYan wanted to go upstairs to rest, but he was dragged by HeJin into the living room, saying that nephew and uncle had not seen each other for so long, and wanted to catch up.

"Why didn't I see Fang Xiangxiang this afternoon?"

HeJin took off his glasses and put them on the coffee table, leaning on the sofa casually. Only then did DuYan discover that what he had been wearing was a pair of non-prescription glasses.

DuYan sat down on the one person sofa and asked, "Why didn't I see Fang Xiangxiang this afternoon?"

"Why, do you miss her?"

DuYan looked at him blankly.

HeJin spread his hands, "Just kidding, Fang Xiangxiang is naturally busy with work. If I place her next to uncle, then I would be eating vinegar (be jealous).”

"Then why did you let her stay outside my office this morning?”

HeJin froze for a moment, and then smiled, "I get jealous easily, uncle. You don't know how attractive you are, how eye-catching you are. I don't want more people to see you, talk to you, know you. Whether it is good or bad, you and Fang Xiangxiang already knew each other back then…”

DuYan ignored HeJin's messy logic, frowned slightly and said with a bit of displeasure, "You are a person with a family now, don't say such ambiguous things to me."

HeJin was a little stunned. This was the first time DuYan saw some other expressions on his gentle face ever since their reunion.

Then, HeJin covered her face, and his shoulders began to tremble slightly.

Towards this abnormal yet normal HeJin, DuYan really couldn't guess the other party's thoughts at all. He couldn't even tell whether HeJin's current intense emotions were due to being exposed thus angry or because of something else.

After a while, HeJin raised his head, still showing a smile on his face.

"Uncle, I am really happy. This is the first time I’ve been so happy in the past eight years. Those words can’t even be compared to when I made my first successful merger and acquisition. I’m so happy…”

DuYan looked at him without any emotion, and did not answer, because he didn't want to be led away by this clearly neurotic person in front of him.

HeJin didn’t care about DuYan’s indifference, and continued, “I’m happy. One, is that uncle finally treats me as a man. That’s why you think that my actions are too close and ambiguous. Two, is that because of Fang Xiangxiang, uncle is eating vinegar."

"Eating vinegar?" DuYan finally couldn't help but speak.

"Yes, you thought Fang Xiangxiang married me, so you got upset, and even questioned me."

DuYan spoke, "I’m just acting on my own moral values. I don’t like this kind of cheating behavior.”

"Uncle, shouldn’t you not care about me? Haven't you been using me all the time? Then why do you want to educate me about what I have done wrong? The family is not harmonious, and in the end, the family breaks up or something. You shouldn’t be caring about this stuff. So why do you have to intervene in this matter again. It’s completely different from what you showed.”

HeJin's logic was obviously unreasonable, but DuYan couldn’t find a place to refute. He couldn’t say that he was trying to eat food, so he couldn’t just watch as HeJin ended in a tragedy.

Looking at HeJin's expression, DuYan only felt his temples jump. He stood up silently and went upstairs, "I'm going up to take a rest.”

"Wait." HeJin stood up and grabbed DuYan's arm. "There is one thing I must clarify. Fang Xiangxiang's marriage partner is not me. Uncle, don't wrong me."

DuYan didn't look back. He moved his arm gently and HeJin released his hand.

He walked to the top of the stairs and looked back. HeJin was still standing in the middle of the living room.

The moonlight today was not good, and the only light came from the yellow floor lamp in the living room, causing the place to look like a faded poster. Everything was blurred and indistinct.

What really stood out was HeJin standing there in a white shirt and black trousers. The whole being was cold and out of place.

However, the expression on his face was warm, and the fuzzy light softened his lines, bringing about a bit of pity.

Maybe it's because the atmosphere was too warm, or maybe because the lighting was too ambiguous. DuYan's heart softened.

"I understand. You should also sleep earlier.” DuYan said.

Seeing HeJin's bright eyes, he felt that he had done something superfluous. After all, the plans must have derailed and now he only had a glimmer of hope in Fang Xiangxiang.

DuYan closed the bedroom door and said to Xiao Ba in his mind, "If it is confirmed tomorrow that Fang Xiangxiang is indeed married to someone else, then forcefully leave the dream."

"I'll go get ready.”

In order to forcefully leave the dream and prevent any damage to the master of the dream, it was necessary to have Xiao Ba help arrange an array before leaving.

After Xiao Ba contacted the main body, he said, "I'm ready. We can leave at any time tomorrow."

"En."

"That is, after staying in this dream world for so long, and leaving so readily, won’t you feel at a loss?” Xiao Ba suddenly asked.

"Otherwise, what can I do? If Fang Xiangxiang really married someone else, then the whole plot line has been completely derailed and irreparable. There is no point in staying.” DuYan paused, "I already don’t know what HeJin wants anymore. In any case, even if I don’t eat this nightmare, he will create more nightmares…”

Xiao Ba was silent for a while, and said, "Actually, I think it's quite easy to eat this nightmare."

DuYan didn't expect Xiao Ba to be able to solve the current situation, "Tell me."

"I am a part of Dandelion. My thinking is not as complicated as yours. In my opinion, what HeJin wants is very simple. He just wants you to be with him. So why don’t you stay with him and love him, and be a family member for the rest of your life?”

Although DuYan's EQ was low, HeJin's performance was too obvious, and he couldn’t ignore the unusual feelings from the other party.

"Child, you are still too innocent. As a human being, I have to have moral integrity. I won’t agree to PY trading just to eat… (1)”

After he finished speaking, he stopped paying attention to the confused Xiao Ba. After washing up, he laid down in bed, ready to welcome the judgment day.

Early the next morning, DuYan did not object to HeJin bringing him to the Xie Group.

The car parked outside the garden was still the same car yesterday. But standing next to the car were two people, a man and a woman.

The beautiful woman wearing the business suit was Fang Xiangxiang. As for the other male, DuYan had never seen him before, but he thought that he looked a bit familiar.

Just when DuYan was thinking about the other party's origin, Fang Xiangxiang and the strange man came up and said hello.

"General Manager He, Mr. Xie."

Fang Xiangxiang saw DuYan's gaze on the person next to her, and smiled, "Oh, I almost forgot, Mr. Xie, you don't know YeZhou yet."

"Mr. Xie, this is my husband Chen YeZhou."

As soon as Fang Xiangxiang's introduction was said, DuYan suddenly realized.

Chen YeZhou, Fang Xiangxiang’s little white moonlight in the movie. He was the man who took her hand and walked into the place of marriage in the last scene of the movie.

Until he got in the car, DuYan was still thinking about what his earlier efforts were for. Obviously he had planned for everything, but why did everything change in the past eight years?

Fang Xiangxiang still married Chen YeZhou, so then what was the ring on HeJin's finger.

"Uncle, what are you thinking about, so distracted?"

The sound close at hand brought DuYan back to his senses. He saw HeJin leaning over his body, with a hand on the armrest of the car door.

DuYan suddenly had the illusion of being held in HeJin’s arms. HeJin’s breath brushed across his face, causing him to feel a sense of crisis from the bottom of his heart.

"Your pondering look is so special, it causes one's heart to move…” After HeJin said this, he lowered his head slightly.

DuYan decisively shouted in his head, "Xiao Ba, leave."

HeJin's body suddenly stopped, and the surrounding scenery began to become a little blurred. DuYan knew that this was a sign of forcibly leaving the dream. He closed his eyes and waited for the moment when everything returned to nothingness.

However, what was waiting was the soft touch on the lips.

DuYan opened his eyes abruptly and saw HeJin's face close at hand, and the surrounding scenery became clear again.

As if those few seconds of pause never happened.

Xiao Ba's somewhat flustered voice sounded, "Du--DuYan, something is wrong! I can't forcefully leave!"

Xiao Ba's words exploded in DuYan's mind like a thunderbolt in a clear sky, causing him to fall into sluggishness. Even HeJin's soft kiss didn't move him at all.