Chapter 21

The rain never stops, even in a foreign country.

Jiang Anqing walked quickly into a small phone booth with his coat on.

The red rectangular grid stood in the drizzle, and raindrops kept hitting the glass beside it, dripping all over the ground.

Jiang Anqing pressed the button of the landline almost without hesitation. The string of phone numbers does not need to be deliberately recalled, or even deliberately memorized, it is instinctive like breathing.

beep - beep - beep -

There was an empty noise of waiting to be answered in the small phone booth, and cold wind blew through the open door behind him.

Jiang Anqing clenched his coat tightly, his knuckles turned white, and the phone he was holding stopped by his ear.

Called from an unknown number in Germany, I don't know if Shen Shucheng will answer...

After waiting for a long time, Jiang Anqing's mood gradually calmed down from the initial agitation, and gradually a trace of embarrassment and bewilderment mixed with the eagerness to contact Shen Shucheng.

Jiang Anqing waited here hesitantly, he was afraid that Shen Shucheng would not answer the phone, and he was also afraid that Shen Shucheng would answer the phone.

Jiang Anqing only came to his senses belatedly at this moment. After so many years, maybe Shen Shucheng had already changed his phone number.

Before he could continue thinking, the phone was connected.

"Hey?"

The sizzle of electricity connects the two worlds.

Jiang Anqing blinked her eyes and was stunned. The voice on the other side was deep and hoarse, it was Shen Shucheng's voice.

"Looking for me?" Shen Shucheng asked.

Shen Shucheng's tone trembled a little, he didn't ask who it was, but only asked if he was looking for him.

Jiang Anqing knew that Shen Shucheng recognized her.

"Yeah." Jiang Anqing pursed his lips, someone was already waiting outside the phone booth with an umbrella, and his time was limited.

"Just wanted to ask if you're okay?"

Shen Shucheng's laughter came, and it hit Jiang Anqing's ear softly.

"It's okay, I heard from Li Xiaoshan that you went to Berlin."

At this moment, Jiang Anqing didn't pursue why Li Xiaoshan had close contacts with Shen Shucheng, and only responded.

"I'll go back tomorrow." Jiang Anqing said.

Shen Shucheng's voice froze for a rare moment, "Tomorrow?"

Jiang Anqing was always like this, doing something astonishingly bold with a soft and indifferent expression.

Obviously that day they still acted like they were never in touch with each other, but now they are so anxious about their own affairs.

How can people let go.

Shen Shucheng asked: "Shouldn't you go shopping for a while?"

Jiang Anqing turned his head and glanced at the glass window. It was really uncomfortable for the two of them to pretend that nothing happened.

"I can help you. If you have any questions, you can come to me..." Before Jiang Anqing finished speaking, Shen Shucheng on the opposite side quickly interrupted.

"No need." Shen Shucheng took a deep breath, as if he was sorting out his emotions.

"In what capacity did you call me this time? Huh?" Standing by the window, Shen Shucheng almost collapsed. He had been running around all day, not only for Sanqing, but also to avoid being too embarrassed in front of Jiang Anqing.

But now that Jiang Anqing called, he knew everything.

Jiang Anqing knew how he was framed and was on the trending searches, and he also saw those swearing comments.

Shen Shucheng sometimes felt that Jiang Anqing was cruel and terrifying.

"Still friends?" Shen Shucheng asked this question with a sense of probing, he wondered if Jiang Anqing's attitude had changed.

Shen Shucheng didn't understand why he and Jiang Anqing had to make each other bloody every time they had a conversation, and they had to hurt each other to the point of heartache before they would stop.

"Ah."

Jiang Anqing agreed.

And again, really again.

Damn... Shen Shucheng cursed silently in his heart, he held up his heart like an idiot to let Jiang Anqing fuck.

It fucking hurts.

Shen Shucheng sneered, "Then thank you first."

Jiang Anqing felt that it was a mistake for him to make this call, but he really had no other choice.

Shen Shucheng came to Nancheng alone, and faced the current situation again.

Jiang Anqing couldn't pretend to turn a blind eye.

"Shen Shucheng, don't make trouble." Jiang Anqing said softly, "I'll go back tomorrow, I know some people from the entertainment company, they can help you."

Shen Shucheng looked out of the window with strong emotions in his eyes.

dong dong.

There was a knock on the door of the phone booth behind him, and Jiang Anqing turned around to see three or four people waiting outside with umbrellas.

It was too late, Jiang Anqing left a message on the phone waiting for me.

"Don't be afraid of Shen Shucheng." Jiang Anqing said hastily, "I'm here."

-

When he walked out of the phone booth, Li Xiaoshan was waiting outside, "Finished?" His tone was somewhat helpless.

From the moment he got off the plane, Jiang Anqing asked the phone all the way out of the airport, and after finding the phone booth, he made an ungentlemanly act of procrastinating and making people wait in a long queue.

Li Xiaoshan held Jiang Anqing under the umbrella, with a slight accusation in his eyes.

Jiang Anqing just said to himself: "We have to find a hotel with an international network. It is best to provide telephones and computers...I have to contact someone I know right away..."

"Jiang Anqing." Li Xiaoshan called him formally.

Only then did Jiang Anqing draw attention to look at Li Xiaoshan, "What's wrong?"

Li Xiaoshan held his forehead helplessly, "Do you know what you are doing now?"

"I understand that you lost your cool after meeting Brother Cheng, but you can't play your temper at this time."

Jiang Anqing frowned slightly, but he wanted to refute but didn't speak.

Li Xiaoshan tried to use simple words to explain: "You are no longer the relationship you used to be, you can't do the things you are doing to help him before you solve this matter, he will misunderstand."

"I have to help him." Jiang Anqing was too stubborn.

"The letters spread all over the floor, and the hot porridge he came over in the middle of the night, these are all signs of relaxation." Li Xiaoshan was a little aggressive, "You can't help him after ignoring these, and pretend to be a friend!"

"Not friends." Jiang Anqing looked straight into Li Xiaoshan's eyes. Jiang Anqing had always been cold and indifferent. Even at the moment when the two were tense, there was no sign of Jiang Anqing breaking the coldness.

"What?" Li Xiaoshan held up his umbrella, a little hesitantly.

"You're right." Jiang Anqing nodded, "It's just deceiving yourself to say you're friends."

"And to be honest, I don't want to go to any auction at all right now." Jiang Anqing quickly walked into the rain curtain, and Li Xiaoshan quickly followed after seeing this, holding an umbrella.

Jiang Anqing's figure was shrouded under the umbrella again, and the two walked quickly towards the surrounding hotels.

"If it wasn't too far away, I should buy a ticket to go back now." Jiang Anqing said with a cold look.

Li Xiaoshan was so dizzy by Jiang Anqing's series of words that he thought he heard it wrong for a moment, "What, what?"

When the red light came on, Jiang Anqing stopped on the side of the road, surrounded by pedestrians and horses, and he unbuttoned his somewhat wet collar.

For the first time, his usually indifferent face was covered with deep anger.

"I'm not a saint, and I'm not frigid." Jiang Anqing's Adam's apple rolled, "So I'm not a friend. I never regarded Shen Shucheng as a friend."

"Who would regard a person who wants to have sex with each other as a friend."

What Jiang Anqing said hit Li Xiaoshan's head, causing his eyes to turn white.

At this moment, on the streets of a foreign country in the afternoon, all Li Xiaoshan's views on Jiang Anqing collapsed.

Jiang Anqing in front of him frowned and was a little irritable, and his calm eyes were covered by heavy emotions.

The edge is exposed.

Li Xiaoshan's memories that were suppressed in his heart suddenly came out.

He remembered when he changed his name and stopped calling Jiang Anqing Brother Jiang. It was after Jiang Anqing returned to work in Nancheng that he became calmer, colder and softer, and gradually Li Xiaoshan called him Jiang Anqing.

Jiang Anqing in this form now is a cold mountain wrapped in magma, no longer lifeless and soft.

This is the original Jiang Anqing, the original Jiang Anqing that Li Xiaoshan knew.

"Brother Jiang." Almost uncontrollably, Li Xiaoshan called out the title again.

After taking a deep breath, Jiang Anqing's mood eased a lot. He smiled lightly, and returned to the teacher An that Li Xiaoshan was familiar with.

"Let's find a hotel to rest first." Jiang Anqing said.

"Then, where's Brother Cheng?" Li Xiaoshan crossed the road after him.

"Shen Shucheng won't let anyone bully him."

-

The night lights are on and the moon is clear.

Jiang Anqing soaked in the bathtub and closed his eyes lightly.

He was thinking about the reason that made him lose his mind. He had suppressed his emotions for too long, but he didn't expect that he would finally vent it.

Li Xiaoshan was right, he shouldn't have called Shen Shucheng before he had figured out the relationship between the two of them.

Even if he wanted to help Shen Shucheng.

The emotions that had been well hidden all this time were suddenly exposed.

Jiang Anqing sighed helplessly, hoping that Li Xiaoshan would not tell Shen Shucheng.

The newly purchased mobile phone rang suddenly, and Jiang Anqing reached out to answer it.

"Hello, Teacher An."

It was Mu Tong's voice.

"I came to your house to feed Ah Hua cat food, but there seems to be someone in your house..."

Jiang Anqing lay on the edge of the bathtub with her head up, raised her hand to cover her eyes with a hot towel, and said calmly, "Maybe it's Auntie Cleaning, who will come to my house once a week, so you can go in without worry."

Mu Tong clutched the phone and trembled.

"No, it's not cleaning... Teacher An..."

"It's you again?" A male voice with a little tingle sounded.

Holding the phone, Mu Tong immediately turned around and apologized: "I'm sorry to disturb you. Teacher An asked me to feed the cat. I didn't know you were here."

Jiang Anqing took off the towel and frowned.

"Shen Shucheng?"

There was an instant silence on the other end of the phone, Shen Shucheng didn't know how to speak, while Mu Tong was too frightened by Shen Shucheng's gloomy face to speak.

"Sorry, I didn't break into your house on purpose." Shen Shucheng answered Mu Tong's call.

Shen Shucheng came here suddenly after receiving Jiang Anqing's call. Through the large French windows, he saw a fat cat lying on the ground as if dead.

The white cat's belly was very distended, and Shen Shucheng knew that it should be Jiang Anqing's cat, and now that Jiang Anqing was abroad, he was worried about something wrong with the cat, so he broke in.

After hearing Shen Shucheng's explanation, Jiang Anqing laughed helplessly.

"I opened a bag of cat food and put it in the living room. Ah Hua probably ate too much. It used to control itself. I don't know what happened this time."

Shen Shucheng hummed in a low voice, and after turning sideways, he caught a glimpse of Mu Tong standing aside, "Since someone is coming, I'll leave first."

Mu Tong noticed the somewhat hostile look Shen Shucheng looked at him.

She quickly waved her hand and said, "I'm just the proofreading editor of Teacher An..."

Without waiting for her to finish speaking, Shen Shucheng immediately raised his hand to stop her.

"You don't need to explain to me."

Jiang Anqing's heart skipped a beat when he heard it over the phone.

Shen Shucheng returned the phone to Mu Tong and said, "I know you have nothing to do with each other."

Mu Tong's eyes widened in doubt.

"What kind of eyes do you have?" Shen Shucheng frowned.

Mu Tong waved his hands and smiled, "No, I just think you should have a very good relationship with Teacher An."

Jiang Anqing, who was holding the phone, was stunned for a moment when he heard this, let alone Shen Shucheng who was standing in front of Mu Tong.

Mu Tong didn't notice that there was something wrong with the atmosphere, so he just smiled blankly and said, "Every time Teacher An talks to you, I'm very happy."

"I rarely see Teacher An smiling like that."

Jiang Anqing: "Mu Tong..."

Shen Shucheng: "What kind of smile?"

The words of Jiang Anqing and Shen Shucheng sounded at the same time, and Mu Tong was taken aback for a moment. She only heard Shen Shucheng's words in front of her, so she spoke softly.

"It's like seeing someone you like."

"Mu Tong." Jiang Anqing's tone became more serious. This time Mu Tong heard it and quickly apologized for talking too much.

Shen Shucheng had already walked away, Mu Tong held the phone and turned around to take a look.

The rainy season in Nancheng seems to have passed, and so has the cold and wet weather.

The sound of the pattering rain gradually became less clear in my mind, and it turned into a bright and warm sun.

Mu Tong looked sideways at Shen Shucheng's back.

Slender and straight.

Mu Tong felt a little familiar. She had seen Jiang Anqing's back several times in the past.

It's all so lonely.

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