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【True and False】

The rain caused the sky to darken earlier than usual, and the city lights in Beijing were just lit up, and the hazy water vapor made the dim light of the street lights into blurred balls of light.

After nightfall, the birds chirped from time to time, as if a croaking crow was hiding in a nearby tree.

Cars were passing by on the road, Li Huan was holding the heavy bouquet of roses and standing on the sidewalk with Xing Yi, waiting for the signal light, while talking in a low voice, seemingly intimately.

Under the black umbrella, Xing Yi held Li Huan's shoulder with one arm, like a standard perfect boyfriend, he would lower his head slightly when he was talking, and stare into his eyes with the most focused and gentle eyes, but his voice was not like that The intimacy attitude is completely opposite to the seriousness, he said: "After entering, don't act rashly, imagine yourself as an ordinary customer, and behave as naturally as possible, there are only two of us, it is impossible to leave at the same time—"

At this point, Li Huan opened his mouth and was about to interrupt, but Xing Yi didn't give him a chance to speak at all. The palm that was originally on the shoulder moved to the back of his head, inserted into the hair, and then kissed very domineeringly—the two The wings of his nose touched lightly, and the tip of his tongue instantly opened his lips and drove straight in. Xing Yi looked deeply into those slightly surprised eyes, and at last he lightly crushed the gap between his teeth, and he punished the soft bottom with the tip of his teeth lip.

Li Huan let out a low "huh" from the pain, his cheeks flushed, and he cast a questioning look at him.

In the eyes of passers-by, this move is nothing more than a couple who abuse dogs on Valentine's Day. The human girl behind them who is also holding an umbrella and waiting to cross the road smiled knowingly and stood aside consciously, but she still couldn't help but quietly looked at the very pair. Eye-catching same-sex couple.

After the kiss was over, Xing Yi maintained the ambiguous posture of touching his lips together, and whispered in a voice that was only audible to each other: "I know what you want to say, I can't let you investigate that tea house by yourself, wait a minute You give me a good seat to eat, and leave the rest to me."

Someone frowned unhappily: "But..."

"Do you still remember what you said when we went out?" Before he could finish speaking, Xing Yi interrupted and asked back.

Li Huan was at a loss.

Seeing his reaction, Xing Yi's cold eyes were suddenly stained with a smile. He conveniently put a lock of hair that fell on the side of his face behind his ear, and after a few seconds of silence, he repeated: "After you are with me You don't have to do anything, I just want to spoil you, I want to spoil you more than Kyuubi, and I can't let you get involved in even the slightest danger."

Hearing this, Li Huan suddenly opened his eyes wide.

Just at this time, the green light came on, and all the passing vehicles stopped.

Xing Yi took his hand instead, and the two walked side by side on the asphalt road that was washed by the rain and shone brightly.

"Do you know what is the one thing I regret the most so far?"

Li Huan turned his head to look at the man's stern side face. At that moment, he couldn't help flashing back countless images of the two of them meeting up to now—could it be the aforementioned incident of hurting himself with a dagger?Li Huan thought about it, and felt that based on the standpoint at that time, Xing Yi didn't kill him and was sucking blood. In fact, he was showing mercy.

It's okay, it's actually not serious, after all, he also tore his neck to suck the blood back.

"I don't know," he replied truthfully, "I think you have always been good to me, even when you lost your memory of personality, in that case you can't even tell who you are, where you are, and who I am , why lock you up, but every time I ask you for help, you never refuse me."

"No!" Xing Yi shook his head very solemnly, "That time I was deprived of the control of my physical body by the Qinglong soul, and you were in danger under his guidance—"

"Xiao Huan, you may not know that my consciousness was fully awake at that time, and I could watch him use my body to approach you, touch you, and seduce you through the same perspective. I don't want to experience this helpless feeling in my life!"

Li Huan fell silent for a moment when he heard the words. He was silent for a while. He didn't rush to speak, but simply clasped the hands of the two, "It's actually okay," the gentle and elegant voice unique to young people seemed to be comforting, and there was a faint smile The meaning is inside, "Although we didn't have the relationship we have now, and I have been wondering which one is the real you, but what I am sure of is that when he occupies this body for a moment, I will Know it's not you."

Speaking of this, Li Huan couldn't help smiling, his eyes were very bright in the dense water vapor, like a ray of light shining from the depths of his soul.

"I think that's when I knew that I didn't feel the same about you, did I?"

Xing Yi was taken aback, his usually calm and indifferent face showed a rare look of surprise and absent-mindedness.

"Are you moved?" Li Huan looked at him with a smile.

Xing Yi said, "Yes."

"Then I have to remind you." A certain person cleared his throat seriously, and the snow-white earlobes under his temples turned suspiciously red, and then whispered unwillingly: "You haven't said 'I love you' to me yet. , this matter is more important than I forgot that today is Valentine's Day. Now that I think about it, you only said "I fell in love with you" and didn't even mention that you liked it. I agreed in a daze. ah!"

At the end, Li Huan seriously urged: "Remember to make up when you have time!"

Xing Yi: "..."

While talking, the two had already walked to the door of the hot pot restaurant. Because this old Beijing hot pot restaurant wanted to reflect the local characteristics, the guy who greeted the guests at the door wore a mandarin jacket and a long white cloth on his shoulders. up.

It was inconvenient for Xing Yi to say anything more, but he felt in his heart that there was no indication that someone's unrestrained associative ability was prone to accidents, so he put away his umbrella and kissed him on the cheek by the way.

The enthusiastic guy just took two steps, without speaking, he was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him.

Li Huan took Xing Yi's arm as if no one was there, and his eyes were bent when he smiled. He really liked this guy's simplicity and rudeness, and he used intimacy as a way of appeasing no matter what differences there were.He tilted his head to meet Xing Yi's eyes, and the frivolity in his eyes disappeared without a trace in an instant.Xing Yi looked at him tacitly, and smiled silently.

"Being natural, the two are right next door, and no one can tell if there is any real connection."

"clear."

Then the two guys who blatantly showed their affection walked into the hot pot restaurant arm in arm, leaving only the guy who suffered tons of damage in the wind and rain.

At this time, the evening peak of the hot pot restaurant has just started, and the occupancy rate of the restaurant is less than [-]%. There is a misty misty feeling.

Li Huan was sensitive to five senses, and his eyes and nose were uncomfortable in this environment, so he frowned unconsciously.

A waitress wearing a red cheongsam behind the counter stepped forward, bowed respectfully to the two, and said politely, "Are you two, sir?"

Xing Yi said: "There are only two, but we need a quiet place, we don't want to be disturbed."

The waitress looked at Xing Yi and Li Huan in turn, and finally looked at the flower in Li Huan's hand. After guessing the relationship in her heart, she smiled meaningfully, and stretched out her hand as a gesture of invitation: "Please follow me."

The interior of this hot pot restaurant is very elegant, and there is no sense of chaos like a store. In addition to a dozen large tables in the lobby, there are booths separated by curtains and wooden screens. Not soundproof, but at least there is a certain amount of privacy.

Li Huan noticed that there were stairs leading upstairs in the store, so he casually asked, "Is the upper room a private room?"

The waiter replied: "Yes, but at least eight people can use the private room, so the two of you..." She smiled apologetically.

"It's okay." Li Huan said.

The three went straight to the deepest part along a passage, and the nearby booths were all empty. The waiter opened the gauze curtain to show them the booths for four people inside, and asked, "Is this possible?"

"Thanks for your hard work." Li Huan said as he sat down in the booth next to him, took off his backpack and bouquets and put them together against the wall.

Xing Yi behaved more naturally, sat down directly next to him, then casually took the ipad from the inside of the dining table, put his arm around Li Huan with one hand, and swiped the screen of the ipad with the other to show him the menu.

The waitress looked at the two of them enviously, and said, "Sir, just place the order directly after ordering. Our colleagues in charge of this area will come to place the order with you after seeing the reminder." After finishing speaking, she put down the gauze curtain and returned to the front desk to guide new guest.

When the footsteps went away, without any communication, the two guys who were absently looking at the electronic recipes got up and took off their relatively heavy winter windbreakers, and used this natural movement to observe the nearby monitoring facilities.

As a monster, when you go out on a mission, what you are most afraid of encountering is not the same kind, or even the most natural enemy, the demon-subduing master, but electronic facilities that cannot be deceived by demons.The monitoring of public places such as restaurants will prompt the image collection area, and locations such as booths that pay attention to the privacy of guests will never set up direct monitoring.

After checking in a circle, the two only found a probe in the upper right corner of the passage outside the gauze curtain. From the point of view, this deck happened to be stuck in the dead corner of the monitoring range, and they were lucky.

"What did you find?" After taking his seat, Xing Yi continued to look at his iPad to order food.

Li Huan took out a rose from the bouquet, put it under his nose, sniffed it deeply, and said, "There is no evil spirit. The waiters and diners I met along the way are all ordinary human beings." He sat down by the wall again Sitting down, he pressed Xing Yi twice while holding his mobile phone, and listened to the noise next door, then sighed disappointedly, "The sound insulation is really good, there shouldn't be anything in this wall, right?"

"It's normal to have it. There is a tea room for people to drink tea and negotiate. It is very important to have a quiet and elegant environment. For this reason, there will naturally be a lot of soundproof panels and the like." Xing Yi calmly looked down at the menu, faintly He said, "Okay, Xiaohuan, come over and see what you want first, and I can go out and have a look after you eat."

Li Huan was still studying that wall, he said "oh" casually, and didn't move after answering.

Xing Yi waited for a long time but did not see someone coming to let him hug him, so he could only call out patiently: "Huanhuan?"

Li Huan instantly had goosebumps all over his body, and turned to look at him speechlessly: "Fortunately, there is no one around, do you dare to be more nasty?"

Mr. Demon Subduing Master smiled calmly, and took the time to say: "Honey, if you don't come to order food, believe it or not, I ate you here?"

Li Huan: "..."

Li Huan thought about it carefully, and based on his understanding of this pristine, well-dressed guy, he felt no pressure at all for doing this!

Although it does sound inexplicable to say that the hot pot restaurant card seat play...

etc!The young master was stunned, when did he become so unscrupulous?To be expected to be pressed on the table of shabu-shabu...

Li Huan gathered himself together, and drove the strange picture-style brain-filling scene out of his mind, then obediently walked over, and randomly clicked on the bottom of the pot and a few dishes on the menu.

"When will you come back?" Li Huan said, "I don't worry about you being alone."

Xing Yi clicked to place an order and said, "It's not normal to go out for too long, so I'll go around the office building to see where the back door is."

His voice fell, and the two of them consciously muted when they noticed footsteps coming towards them.

The person who was in charge of taking the order was a slightly fat male waiter. He served a pot of tea first, and then Xing Yi used the ipad in his hand to check the dishes with the two of them. Finally, he looked at his watch and said, "All will be ready within half an hour." , do you two have any taboos?"

"Don't serve the green onion in the seasoning," Li Huan said.

Xing Yi scratched the bridge of his nose dotingly, and told him, "You can eat first when the food is served, don't wait for me." Then he looked at the waiter. "Where is the bathroom, please?"

It is obviously more difficult for male creatures in this world to accept people of the same gender as their own. The male waiter had a horrified expression of being horrified by Reg, but he had to restrain himself quickly because the two were customers, and he said awkwardly: "Sorry, there are none in the store, you have to go out through the back door to the office building."

"Where is the back door?"

"At the end of the corridor on the second floor, the company in the office building is still on holiday. There are no lights. After you go, remember to come back the same way. Don't go wrong, and don't go to other floors. It's dark, so be careful not to touch it."

Xing Yi thanked him politely, got up and looked back at Li Huan, meaning "don't run around".

Li Huan nodded, still a little worried.After Xing Yi and the waiter left, he leaned back on the back of the booth, took out his mobile phone and absently swiped through WeChat Moments, trying to distract from the long-lasting sense of weirdness in his heart.

Suddenly, footsteps sounded, the sound of high heels hitting the ground was steady and clear, and they were walking towards this side at a leisurely pace.

That thing has no demonic aura, is it someone passing by by chance, or... a high-level monster that is good at hiding its aura?

Li Huan's back stiffened, and the muscles under his shirt tensed inch by inch. He realized that the frequency of this pace must not be that of a restaurant waiter. nike bag.

Outside the gauze curtain, a blue-black bird feather fell out of thin air, barely covering the surveillance probe. The next moment, the gauze curtain was lifted from the outside by a snow-white palm with bright red nail polish——

"It's a good thing to have a strong sense of vigilance, but you can't tell that it's me or Brother Huan who is wrong." The visitor said softly.

Hearing that voice, Li Huan instantly relaxed, thinking that the birdsong he heard at the entrance of the flower shop was probably a raven, he looked up at the other party: "It can't be my fault, Senior Sister doesn't show any evil spirit, Xiao Huan has already I haven't heard you walk for more than half a year, so it's inevitable that I was negligent for a while..."

Ji Qingci was still dressed in black leather boots and heavy makeup. She pulled up the hem of the windbreaker and sat down opposite Li Huan, with a reserved and shallow smile on her beautiful face, and teased: "According to brother Huan, it is still Isn’t the senior sister’s?”

"Don't dare, Xiao Huan misses senior sister too much." Li Huan hurriedly picked up the teapot and poured water for her, and said, "It's just why senior sister came here all of a sudden?"

Ji Qingci picked up the teacup but didn't drink it, just held it in his palm and covered his hands, and joked with a smile: "Who else is there? Of course, the teacher is concerned about the safety of you, a little thing, and worried that the demon-subduing master can't protect you. Originally I wanted to call my brother to come, but in the past two days, there has been a lot of passengers returning to Beijing during the Spring Festival. Their special case team has to guard the airport and train station, and they really can't get away. That's why I can't even catch my breath after I come back Come and take a look."

Li Huan picked up his cup of tea and took a sip unhappily, muttering in a low voice: "Teacher is really worrying too much."

"It's normal, that person is a demon subduing master after all, and it's not easy for the teacher to trust him completely." Ji Qingci said, "How about it, did you two cause any trouble?" She glanced lightly at the vacant seat next to Li Huan, "What about others?"

Li Huan said: "We think that Nightmare came to trade through the back door of the tea house next door. Brother Yi went to explore the way and come back soon."

Ji Qingci said: "Assuming he is acquainted, he knows to let you stay."

At this time, the waiter came over with dishes in a copper pot, and when he lifted the gauze curtain, he saw that there was an extra woman, and he couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Ji Qingci reacted quickly. He raised his eyes and saw that Li Huan's whole aura changed. His tone was both reproachful and distressed. He scolded: "What can my sister say about you? You didn't go home for half a year because of a man! I don't know the age of my parents. Are you old enough?!" After finishing speaking, she turned to look at the waiter and said coldly, "What are you looking at? Believe it or not, I will complain to you?!"

The fat waiter didn't dare to say anything, and hurriedly put the bottom of the pot away, and the dishes were piled up on the shelf next to him. Before leaving, he could still hear the beautiful woman like a tigress scolding his younger brother, and threatening to clean up the "dog" who abducted him and ran away from home. man", could not help but wiped the sweat from his forehead, and began to sympathize with those gays who were suppressed by various aspects.

At the same time, the men's bathroom on the second floor of the office building.

The lonely incandescent light bulb on the ceiling flickered, as if it might be extinguished at any time, and the cold tap water gushed out of the faucet, which was especially clear in the quiet environment.

Standing in front of the sink, Xing Yi washed his hands unhurriedly, then straightened up, took a paper towel from the side to wipe off the water stains, he did not turn off the faucet, but turned on the other two to the maximum.

For a moment, the sound of running water filled the empty room, which sounded very ear-piercing.

After finishing all this, he still stood motionless in front of the sink, then raised his head, staring blankly at the closed compartment door behind him through the mirror.

"come out."

His voice was low, barely perceptible against the sound of the water.

But as if in response to that sentence, the tightly closed door trembled slightly, and then opened inward.Immediately after the sound of high-heeled shoes, a tall woman in black leather boots walked out slowly from the obscure compartment where the light could not reach.

"You are..." Xing Yi frowned, "Xiao Huan's senior sister?"

He quickly recalled the name Li Huan had mentioned: "Ji Qingci?"

The woman with heavy make-up had a gloomy expression and didn't answer. Instead, she raised the black umbrella, grasped the handle tightly, and slowly pulled out a knife from the umbrella.

——inued