"Will you jump or not? Make a quick decision, Zhang Chen, we are all tired."
The crowd divided the top terrace. On the side opposite to Fan Xiao, Zhang Chen was really trembling at this moment, and the leg hanging in the air seemed to be weighed down by a thousand pounds, as if an invisible hand was constantly pulling him down.
He held onto the fence tightly, his legs clamped against the wall, and roared in disbelief: "You Shulang, are you talking like a human being?! What good would it do you if I died? My mother really raised an ungrateful person. She should have let you freeze to death in the garbage dump that winter!"
He looked like a demon crawling out of the fire of karma, his bony neck muscles exposed: "You are a damn TXL, what's so precious about you? What can you use to fight? Isn't it just sleeping with men a few times? Why are you so picky? Someone is willing to sleep with you and accompany you to do such disgusting things, you should be grateful!!"
The man in the corner suddenly looked fierce and fierce. He clenched his fists, his knuckles bulged, his forehead twitched a few times, and then he stepped away to separate the crowd.
Shi Lihua was startled and quickly grabbed Fan Xiao's arm.
"If you go over there now, things will only get worse! Isn't this clearly admitting that it was you who ordered Zhang Chen to jump off the building?"
Fan Xiao's eyes shone, and he stopped hesitantly. His expression turned from angry to cold, and he retreated to the corner again with his lips pressed down.
Zhang Chen's voice was still high. Seeing the strange look on the rescuer's face, he actually felt a little proud of his victory: "You Shulang, don't put on your noble face. Do you look down on Fan Xiao's money? My father is right. You are just waiting for a good price!"
The distorted face made Zhang Chen, who was still handsome, look horrible. "Everyone knows what you are doing. You are just playing hard to get and trying to raise your own value! You are scheming, fine, but can you please leave me a way out? I just want to keep my job, is that not even possible?!"
Even the biting wind could not blow away the bad words. Zhang Chen's bloodshot eyes were filled with cruelty: "Are you afraid that I will get in your way? Or are you afraid that I will take your money? You Shulang, you are too selfish!"
Zhang Chen finally ended his one-sided roar, and the rooftop suddenly became eerily quiet. Everyone looked at You Shulang, spying on this man who was described by his brother as dissolute, disgusting, and despicable.
"I was too kind to him last time." Fan Xiao pinched the deformed matchbox with his fingertips, "The cigarette should have burned his tongue."
He also looked at You Shulang, and his heart was filled with a sharp pain like needles. It turned out that this was the feeling of heartache, and Fan Xiao did not like it.
You Shulang in his eyes suddenly smiled, and although he curled the corners of his lips, his face looked like broken jade.
"No wonder." He said, "I have been wondering why you have become so greedy all of a sudden. It's not surprising if you are involved with Wei Linming."
"You've started calling him dad?" You Shulang raised his head slowly, his eyes blazing with a fierce look. "Have you forgotten who caused our mom to suffer in this life? Have you forgotten the evil deeds he did? Or have you forgotten that our mom would scream in fear whenever she heard his name!"
"I..." Zhang Chen was speechless, avoiding his gaze guiltily, his expression changing from light to dark. After several changes, he began to choke again, "What can I do? After all, he is the only relative I have in this world."
Suddenly, Zhang Chen began to feel wronged: "When I was a child, all the candies I could eat were bought by him secretly. My first pair of sneakers, my first trip to the arcade, my first ride on a motorcycle... I know I should hate him, but he made me realize many of the ordinary wishes of an ordinary child!"
"So you followed him to gamble!" You Shulang suddenly asked.
"I didn't..." Zhang Chen's panic and guilt were clearly shown in front of him. You Shulang's heart suddenly sank. He had just lied to him, but now it seemed to have come true.
He rubbed his face vigorously, his brows showing an undisguised fatigue. "If that gambler and his wife couldn't have a son, would he have given you such cheap fatherly love? His gambling ruined his family, and you saw it. Are you going to follow in his footsteps?!"
At this point, You Shulang paused for a moment, and after a moment of thought, he raised his eyelids and asked, "Did Wei Linming instruct you to jump off the building this time?"
From Zhang Chen's subtle expression, You Shulang knew that his guess had been verified once again.
He smiled bitterly: "He also jumped like this once when he was young and successfully got what he wanted. No wonder he instigated you to do this."
There was only a ray of light in the sky, unable to shine into the heart that was blocked by layers of obstacles. You Shulang raised his hand weakly: "Zhang Chen, if you want to jump, just jump. If you jump, don't go to our mother, because you don't deserve it!"
Zhang Chen was suddenly enraged. He howled like a madman: "Do you think I want to lie here? Do I want to threaten you with my life? It's all because of you! My dad and I took the customers' money to play. At first we won some, but in the end... in the end we had nothing left. We lost a lot and couldn't fill the hole. I borrowed money from loan sharks again. Now the loan sharks are asking me for the debt! If I can't pay it back, they will drag me to sell my organs!"
Zhang Chen's face was covered with snot and tears: "What can I do? I can only get Fan Xiao's money first and pay back the loan shark. But you..." His eyes seemed to be blazing with fire, "But you ruined my business! Do you know? If you ruin my business, you will kill me!"
You Shulang looked at Zhang Chen quietly, watching the once familiar face become strange and ugly.
"I broke my promise." The man's face was as calm as the sky after rain. "When Mom passed away, she asked me to take good care of you. I'm sorry that I didn't take good care of you. What's even more sorry is... I don't plan to take care of you in the future."
"Zhang Chen, take care of yourself."
After saying that, You Shulang straightened his back and walked towards the entrance of the rooftop.
Looking at that back, Zhang Chen was completely panicked. For the first time, he let go of the hand that was tightly holding the railing and reached towards You Shulang.
"Don't go, don't go! What will I do if you leave?!"
No one paid any attention to him. The corner of You Shulang's clothes was gently blown by the wind, leaving only an arc.
Zhang Chen looked at the solid figure he had admired since he was a child, and suddenly opened his mouth and howled: "Brother! You can't just ignore me!"
Perhaps because he was too panicked and moved his body too much, the railing began to shake slightly again. Zhang Chen, who was sweating coldly, subconsciously glanced at the bottom of the building and suddenly felt dizzy! The tall building with straight walls and reflective glass was as long and deep as the passage to hell!
Frightened in panic! Zhang Chen's strength disappeared, he swayed twice, and was about to rush downstairs!
"careful!"
"Don't move!"
"Danger!"
The sounds exploded one after another on the rooftop. You Shulang turned around suddenly and saw that Zhang Chen was acting strangely. Without a second thought, he turned around to rescue him!
"You Shulang!" Fan Xiao shouted and rushed out like a wild beast.
Everything happened in an instant. The rooftop, which was in chaos, became quiet again in just three or five breaths.
Zhang Chen was rescued by the firefighters who had ambushed him in the chaos; while You Shulang was intercepted by Fan Xiao on the way...
The crowd gradually dispersed, and the frightened Zhang Chen was carried away on a stretcher by medical staff.
When Shi Lihua's shadow also disappeared on the rooftop, the thirty-story strong wind only surrounded two people.
"Let go!" You Shulang's voice was colder than the gale.
Fan Xiao knew that he was not in a position to be willful, so he let go of her hand, but the anger in his eyes remained: "Why did you save that scum? Aren't you afraid of risking your life!"
There was a pain in his ankle, probably because he sprained it when he ran so hard just now. You Shulang endured the pain and propped himself up, found a corner away from the wind, and sat on the ground: "What I do has nothing to do with you."
He took out a cigarette and Fan Xiao brought him a light. You Shulang held the cigarette between his teeth and let the wind blow out the jumping flames.
Fan Xiao felt a little embarrassed. He threw away the matchstick and half-knelt in front of You Shulang.
"This has nothing to do with me. It was all Zhang Chen's own idea." He explained again.
You Shulang lit a cigarette himself, tilted his head and blew out a long puff of smoke, still indifferent: "Can I be alone for a while?"
"Shulang, can you..."
"Can't."
You Shulang interrupted Fan Xiao and finally looked him in the face: "If you don't leave, then I will be the only one to leave."
Fan Xiao remained silent, his eyes scanning You Shulang's body, endless greed and desire arose in his heart again.
"Don't you want to know why I treated you like this?" Fan Xiao moved closer and whispered, "Can I explain it to you?"
You Shulang flicked the ash from his cigarette and didn't mind using Fan Xiao's expensive shoes as an ashtray.
"Get out!" he said in a deep voice.
If the gaze had substance, Fan Xiao felt that he had been tortured by You Shulang ten thousand times. But he actually felt a little perverted pleasure, being tortured at a close distance was better than the torment of not being able to see him.
"I was wrong before, you can punish me however you want. If it doesn't make you feel better, you can beat me again, any number of times. As long as you can give me another chance, we can start over, okay?"
Fan Xiao's heartfelt words were only met with a sneer. You Shulang bit the cigarette with his teeth, raised his chin slightly, and looked invincible.
"Fan Xiao, be careful when you fart, it stinks."
Although they were so close, Fan Xiao felt that there was a huge gap between him and You Shulang. He began to panic and get scared. Suddenly, he felt that he was no different from Zhang Chen who was lying on the railing. They were both desperately waiting for You Shulang to decide their fate.
However, You Shulang would also not want himself just like he did not want that trash!
The darkness in his eyes spread beyond the limit, as if he had made a difficult decision. Fan Xiao's voice was slow and hoarse: "Shu Lang, I don't want to force you."
"Haven't you pushed me hard enough?" You Shulang really didn't want to deal with Fan Xiao. He put out the remaining half of his cigarette and said, "If you don't leave, I will."
Just as he was about to stand up, the phone in his pocket rang loudly. You Shulang ignored it, he just wanted to leave this suffocating space as soon as possible.
"You're not going to answer the phone, Director You?"
Fan Xiao's voice was filled with a frightening mystery.
You Shulang realized later that this phone call was not ordinary.
He slowly leaned the back of his head against the rough wall. No matter how hard he tried to hide it, he still showed a bit of sadness: "Fan Xiao, now I am alone, without any ties. Even if I die, I am afraid there will be no one to be sad about me. I am really curious, what else do you want to threaten me with?"
The two looked at each other silently in the increasingly dim light; the only sound was the sound of ringing bells.
Another song started playing, and You Shulang was really annoyed. He took out his cell phone and glanced at it casually, but the screen was suddenly covered by Fan Xiao's hand.
At this moment, Fan Xiao was desperate and hesitant.
He knew that this phone call was another injury to You Shulang, and that he was being pushed to the edge of the cliff, facing imminent destruction.
You Shulang looked at Fan Xiao, holding the phone loosely.
"I don't have to answer this call, and you can take the phone with you. No matter what you did before, everything between us..."
"Then we are even."
"We're even?" Fan Xiao's expression gradually became crazy. "How can it be so easy to be even?"
Without further hesitation, he removed his hand, and the screen slowly appeared. You Shulang smiled bitterly, thinking that he really had a short memory. He shouldn't have placed his last hope on Zhang Chen or Fan Xiao.
He looked over with a dead heart, and when he saw the name above, You Shulang showed a shocked expression.
"Bai Ting!"
He quickly picked up the phone, and heard a woman's extremely panicked voice on the other end: "They called and said they wanted to take me back!"
The phone slowly fell off the hook, and You Shulang's anger was obvious: "Fan Xiao, you didn't even let go of a poor woman and you wanted to take advantage of her?!"
Fan Xiao lowered his eyes, his eyelashes trembling, and said softly: "Just think of me as crazy."
The last ray of light in the sky was swallowed up by the darkness, and the lights had not yet been turned on. In this dark night of carnival, You Shulang, who had been silent for a long time, finally compromised.
"You win, Fan Xiao." His dull eyes were shrouded in darkness. "I'm too tired."
Enduring the pain in his feet, You Shulang stood up with the help of the wall: "You'd better deal with Bai Ting's matter properly. Also, don't follow me. I don't want to see you now. Don't worry, I will find you. You really have a hold on me. You are awesome."
After crossing Fan Xiao, he walked with great difficulty, but his back remained straight in the cold wind...
After leaving the municipal building, he turned a few corners and walked into a hidden alley. He took out his phone and dialed a number.
When the call was connected, he blurted out in a low voice: "Second Young Master Fan."