Mysterious level up! Shen Ye cries and begs for reconciliation again

Shen Rao wanted to say something else but was stopped by Qi Yan. She raised her hand forcefully to stop him from speaking, and soon her brows softened again.

"You've already sacrificed a lot by choosing to be with me..."

"No, wait a moment."

A male voice mixed with doubt suddenly interrupted.

Shen Rao's brows furrowed even deeper, he was extremely puzzled.

"What did I sacrifice?"

He rolled up his sleeves, revealing on his wrist a million-dollar watch given by Qi Yan, and he also had a bunch of luxury cars and mansions given by her.

He was like a kept gigolo, he got the money and the woman...

How could Qi Yan tell that he had sacrificed himself?

Shen Rao sighed and said, "You gave me luxury cars and mansions, and helped me deal with the Han family. You made me even more precious than when I was in the Shen family. You're just short of giving me the stars in the sky."

"And I have done so little for you, yet you still say that I have sacrificed a lot. Do you... have any misunderstandings about me?"

His silent eyes flickered darkly.

Qi Yan looked at him for a long while before he rolled his eyes and uttered something off topic.

"Do you want stars?"

Shen Rao: “…”

The corners of his lips twitched violently, veins bulged on his forehead, and he spoke through gritted teeth.

"Qi Yan, is this the point?"

Can he really get her if he wants her?!

Qi Yan thinks so.

However, seeing Shen Rao's increasingly gloomy expression, he tactfully did not mention it again.

She looked up and responded to his previous question very calmly.

"Being with me, I can't let you live worse than the Shen family. Those are just the most basic things. Compared with what you lost, they are not worth mentioning."

Shen Rao didn't understand at first, but looking at her silent eyes, he slowly realized something.

He approached slowly, staring straight at her.

"You mean... I'm your canary, so I just have to enjoy myself without worrying about anything else, right?"

The last line of his voice rose, which had a strange allure and a hint of danger.

"..."

Qi Yan did not refute or respond, just looked at him in silence.

Now, there is nothing Shen Rao doesn't understand.

He didn't know what expression to make for a moment, so he put his hands on his waist and turned around twice on the spot.

There was a smile on his lips, but his narrow eyes did not reveal the slightest hint of smile.

"Qi Yan, do you think it's appropriate?"

He previously thought that 'Canary' was just a hobby, but he never thought that she really had such thoughts in mind.

Shen Rao felt a little uncomfortable, a little bit unacceptable, and a little bit aggrieved.

Is he so weak that he can only be a canary in her eyes?

"What's wrong with that?"

Qi Yan didn't think there was anything wrong.

Shen Rao instantly exploded, "Nowhere is appropriate! Did you listen to me?! I don't want to be protected by you all the time, I don't want to be a useless canary!"

"Is it not good to be protected by me?"

She twisted her fingers occasionally, her eyelids drooping to block the dark light rolling in her eyes.

When it was raised again, it had already disappeared.

"How can you be useless? You are very useful."

"..." Shen Rao was silent for two seconds and glared at her, "Even if you praise me, it won't work. I'm serious."

"I'm serious too."

The tone in her eyes gradually turned cold. "I don't want to restrict you. You are not alone. You also have the Shen family and the thousands of Shen's employees. I have brought you into a world that does not belong to you..."

What she said was not nice, but it was the truth.

Shen Rao was too careless, and they were not the kind of people who could act impulsively. The weight on their shoulders was not light.

Shen Rao said anxiously: "But, I don't care about these, I can give them up..."

"you can not."

Qi Yan interrupted him and stared at him with a solemn look on his face.

"Shen Rao, you can't give up your life and career for anyone, not even me. If you do this, we'll end it immediately."

"..."

Her words seemed to have weight, weighing heavily on his heart.

Shen Rao pursed his thin lips tightly.

Qi Yan finally softened her tone and held his slightly cold hand.

"So just leave everything to me, this is what I should do."

"…Then what should I do?"

Shen Rao's voice trembled slightly.

"be yourself."

Qi Yan smiled.

Shen Rao: "...I said myself, I want to be worthy of you..."

"You already match well."

Qi Yan curved the corners of his eyes and smiled sincerely.

Shen Rao blushed and said slowly: "...you only know how to say these to coax me."

"I'm not kidding you. I said I wouldn't lie to you. I meant every word I said."

She raised an eyebrow.

Shen Rao turned his face away, his ears slightly red, "Who would believe you?"

Qi Yan stepped in front of him, put his hands behind his back and smiled: "You believe it."

Shen Rao: “…”

……

On the outskirts of the city, old-style alleys.

The snow has melted in the capital recently and the temperature has dropped sharply.

In the usually dry and cold imperial capital, the wind was rarely mixed with moisture from the melting snow, which turned into cold thorns that penetrated into the bones.

It describes a thin man walking on a patch of white bluestone, wearing a cotton hat that covers most of his face, a cotton jacket wrapped around him, and holding an egg-filled pancake bought on the street corner.

As soon as I turned the corner, a deafening noise was heard.

He stepped back warily, his hand quickly reaching for his waist, a pair of vicious eyes revealed by his action.

"Uncle, I'm sorry, I didn't know someone was coming..."

The little boy quickly apologized.

The man then realized that it was a group of children playing with firecrackers and sparklers. The sound of a firecracker exploding on the ground sounded like a gunshot.

He finally let go of his worry and left quickly without responding to the boy, pushing open the door of a house at the end of the alley.

The courtyard gate was closed to block out the noise of the children outside.

He walked into the house carrying an egg-filled pancake, opened the door curtain, and stopped when he was about to take off his cotton hat.

In front of the stove in the middle of the room, a woman with a calm expression was carrying briquettes of coal.

"came back."

She spoke in a very calm tone, like an old friend who had known each other for many years.

The man hurriedly stepped back, but his body stopped when the other party's next sentence fell.

"Are you sure you want to go out now?"

"What do you mean?"

The man swallowed and stared at her every move.

Qi Yan pointed to his temple and said, "As long as you take a step forward, the sniper outside will..."

She didn't say it explicitly, but she spread out her five fingers and made a flower gesture.

The man's steps, which were about to run, were completely frozen in place, and he kept swallowing the saliva that kept secreting.

The room was warm, but he felt cold all over, as if he was in an ice cellar.

After a long while, he finally loosened his hands that were curled around his waist, sat down opposite the stove, and silently took out the cooled egg-filled pancake and ate it.

The crust was cold, the eggs had a fishy smell, and it wasn't as tasty as when it was hot.

He didn't care about the taste now and just wolfed down mouthful after mouthful.

For a moment, the only sounds in the closed air were the sound of him eating and the greasy smell of food.

Qi Yan picked out the charcoal ash from the bottom of the stove, and considerately handed him some hot water that had just been boiled on the stove after he swallowed the last bite.

"..."

The man clenched his hand around the packaging bag, but finally took the glass of water.