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At three o'clock in the afternoon, New World Karaoke Hall.

During the day, there is no one here, many rooms are empty, and the front desk is lazily cutting nails.

Pei Shan knocked on the table, "Excuse me, is the proprietress here?"

The front desk scratched his faded tattooed eyebrows, and said impatiently, "Not here."

"Where did she go?"

"You don't book a box, do you?" The front desk glanced at him, "If you don't book it, don't stand here and block my TV."

Pei Shan recited "Don't get angry" many times in his heart before he kept the smile on his face, and stepped aside, "Not sure. But can I trouble you to tell the proprietress that someone is coming?"

The receptionist scoffed and gave him a blank look, "What's your name?" Before waiting for an answer, he said to himself, "Oh, I know you, Pei Shan, right?"

As he spoke, he dialed a number with the landline, and after a few seconds, he turned to the other end and said strangely: "Hey, Miss Zheng? Someone came to see you, called Pei Shan, and asked where you are. If you want, then I will tell him speak."

After hanging up the phone, the front desk blew on his nails, "Go into the second room on the left, and the proprietress is inside."

Pei Shan thanked him and turned into the corridor.

When Pei Shan was far away, the front desk took out the scorpion again, and while grinding his nails, he muttered: "A pair of shameless ones."

Pei Shan pushed open the door of the room and heard a burst of rhythmic music.

A woman is sitting on the sofa.Her hair was disheveled, her eyeliner was down to her eyes, her clothes were hanging loosely on her shoulders, and she held a bottle of wine in her hand.

Pei Shan smelled the strong smell of alcohol and frowned, "Sister Zheng? I'm Pei Shan."

"Pei Shan, I remember you, so you don't need to introduce yourself to me." The woman called Sister Zheng lazily leaned on the sofa, put her bare feet on the tea table, and pointed to the TV screen, "Would you like to sing a song?" ? Sing a song with me."

Pei Shan shook his head.Ben was about to ask questions straight to the point, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the woman raising her head.

There was a bluish-purple wound at the eye that was just covered by the hair, and there were scratches on the left half of the face.

Pei Shan paused for a while, thinking about how to ask without being too offensive.

But Sister Zheng obviously didn't care about this, she grinned and said, "Yes, I was beaten again."

After a pause, Pei Shan sat down on the sofa and said, "I can't drink alcohol. But if you need—" "No need." Sister Zheng laughed, "Why are you still so soft-hearted, you were soft-hearted last time, Let me enter your house to hide, and cause trouble for myself, right?"

last time?Pei Shan silently recalled the last time he saw her in his heart.

It's very similar to now, but much more embarrassing.

His clothes were torn to pieces, so he could only run while clutching his chest, stumbled and fell many times.The right face was swollen high, and the left eye had a long gash that was dripping blood.

Pei Shan met her on the way downstairs.

At that time, not long after Pei Shan came to Yancheng, he immediately panicked when he saw a woman who was injured like this.The woman kept begging him, saying that she was raped by her husband, and he was chasing after her. The neighbors persuaded her to go back, but she was very afraid that she would be beaten to death if she went back.

From a distance, Pei Shan saw a man in a suit and leather shoes, who was going from house to house asking questions, with a very polite smile on his lips.

"Please, please." The woman was trembling, and took out an ID card, "The only thing I brought out is this, I keep it close to my body, you can take it away if you don't believe me, please, I I don't want to be beaten to death..."

Seeing that the man was about to look this way, Pei Shan quickly turned around and brought her into the house.Until the door was locked, the woman trembled, hugged her body, and curled up on the chair.Pei Shan wanted to deal with her eyes briefly, but was blocked by a violent stress reaction.

"I'll call the police for you." Pei Shan said, "Your injury is a little serious, you have to go to the hospital."

Later, in order to avoid suspicion, Pei Shan left her in the living room for a while, and went into the side room by himself.But her intermittent crying could still be heard.

It wasn't until night that Pei Shan guessed that the man had already left, so he dared to take her out, sent her to the hospital, and helped her contact the Women's Federation.

In fact, Pei Shan didn't pay much attention to what happened later.In his impression, after the injury was healed and the police were called, the divorce procedure logically followed.He's a stranger and really can't help.

But the way people look at him seems to have become weirder since then.The rumor has changed from "climbing the bed" to "men and women are not taboo".Anyway, almost everyone has "seen" men and women haunting Pei Shan's house every night.

But now Pei Shan, thinking about the situation at that time, smiled wryly and shook his head.

"To be honest, if I just met you today, I might choose a smarter way." Pei Shan said.

Sister Zheng squinted at him, "What way? There is no way. This place is like this."

"Where did you go then? I don't have your contact information, so I haven't had time to ask."

"Pull it down, Boss Pei, I'm not less famous than you." The woman sneered, imitating the eccentric tone of others, "Zheng Caiyun, a vixen, who doesn't know that she can play tricks on men? Don't want a good husband at home, every day Complaining about divorce—a decent woman, who would get divorced just because she was slapped twice?"

Pei Shan seldom goes to places where crowds gather, and he is only sensitive to his own name, so he really has never heard of it, "Why do you say that?"

Zheng Caiyun smiled and shook the wine in his hand, "I run a karaoke bar, I don't want to be ugly in public, and I'm married twice. My husband, who runs a factory and makes a lot of money. Although he's also married twice, he's a man. Everyone I'm so envious of you."

After finishing speaking, he took a sip of wine viciously, and uttered a few words through his teeth, "I wish everyone who admires me will marry him, and then be beaten to death."

"Sister Zheng." Pei Shan reminded.

"No other meaning." Zheng Caiyun shrugged, "Oh, by the way, do you know what people from the Women's Federation said at that time?"

Pei Shan motioned for her to continue.

"They said, 'Your husband is good-looking and rich, your wound is almost healed, man, beating is kissing, scolding or loving, why did you beat you if you didn't make a mistake? Just go back and apologize '. Exact words. Exactly one word."

Zheng Caiyun stared at Pei Shan with no emotion in his eyes, "Then they sent me home."

Pei Shan couldn't help shivering.

He couldn't imagine that Zheng Caiyun, who had just recovered from his injuries in the hospital, would be mistreated when he returned home.

Although there was no better choice at the time, Pei Shan couldn't help but blame himself.

"Then you..." Pei Shan stopped talking for a while, thinking about how to ask his doubts, "How are you doing recently?"

Zheng Caiyun raised his head and drank the last drop of wine in the glass, then raised the bottle high and filled the whole glass, "That's it. He's getting more and more crazy, even beating children this year. I'm in the lawsuit divorce."

After speaking, he twitched the corners of his mouth as if mocking himself, "The bastard is still suspecting that I have cheated in marriage. The men who have a relationship with me must have been harmed by him."

really.

Pei Shan sighed, "Yes. Even I have been included in the scope of harassment."

Zheng Caiyun hooked his toes to the high heels, stepped on them and stood up, "I'm sorry, Boss Pei, when this matter is over, I will compensate you how much you want."

"There's no need for money." Pei Shan shook his head, "Where do you live now?"

"Here. I dare not go home again."

"Won't he find it here?"

"Bodyguards are hired, and if you dare to come, call them out."

"When will the court be held?" Pei Shan asked, "Are you going to live in such fear?"

Zheng Caiyun twitched his lips, and said with a smile: "Boss Pei still has the heart to worry about me? Go back quickly, I think that bastard is not clear-headed now, maybe find someone to do something outrageous. If I have time, Ask someone to talk to him, let him come to me if he has something to do, and don't keep catching irrelevant people and causing trouble."

Pei Shan bowed slightly to her, ready to say goodbye.

"Go back and be careful, and keep any evidence for me." Zheng Caiyun shouted behind him, "Maybe, I can win some more money for me."

When Pei Shan returned to the bookstore, he found that the paint had been cleaned up by Shi Pei, and there were only some bits and pieces of remnants left, but they were still eye-catching.

Shi Pei went to the Art Academy, so Pei Shan didn't have to wait for him.Pei Shan bought something to eat nearby, feeling his eyes were piercing, he quickly paid the money and went back to the shop.

While unpacking the bag, Pei Shan stared at the red dots that hadn't been wiped clean, thinking about how to wipe them clean.Although you can wipe glass but not people's hearts, you still have to do some superficial work.

Pei Shan picked up a piece of meat, and as soon as he put it in his mouth, he spat it out because of the salt.

"This restaurant is not so bad." Pei Shan frowned and stuck out his tongue, "The diners in front didn't see any reaction."

At this point, Pei Shan understood what the store meant.It would be stupid not to see such an obvious target.

The chopsticks were thrown into the bowl.

For a while, Pei Shan didn't know whether to go back and ask someone to make another one, or to order takeaway again.

The wall clock struck twice, and Pei Shan felt that he was also exhausted by the weather.He simply lay back on the sofa, took out his phone and read the local news.

Nothing major happened.The sales of the Cai family's factory broke new highs, and the poverty-stricken counties in Yancheng sold a lot of oranges.

Pei Shan felt bored, so he retreated to the main interface and stared at the contact list for a while.

There is no record in Zhiding.

Sliding his finger on the screen again and again, Pei Shan thought, should he explain to Tang Liyan what happened recently - he was very worried that Tang Liyan would misunderstand.

After struggling like this for a long time, when Pei Shan came to his senses, the number had been inadvertently dialed.

"Oops, oh no." Pei Shan frantically prepared to press it down, but he didn't press it in the right place twice.

Before he had time to hang up, Tang Liyan's voice sounded from the other end of the phone, mixed with the noisy background sound, hoarse and eager:

"Hello, Pei Shan?"