Embrace the light

It has been more than a week since the big gathering with Tut and Christine, and Ian has basically forgotten about Aria and Aval.

The ten plush dolls caught from the claw machine in the video game city were all sent to the orphanage. The director's aunt said in a voice that the younger brothers and sisters were very happy after receiving them, and they hugged them when they went to bed at night.

There are now a total of 23 children in the orphanage, the oldest is 16 years old and the youngest is just a few months old.Most of these children are healthy, and half are disabled.Fortunately, none of them were seriously ill, and they would not be life-threatening.

Ian hasn't been to the orphanage since he was an adult, because he is busy with learning skills, improving skills and making money.

Orphanages do not encourage people who do not have enough time to come in contact with orphans in the orphanage, because if they cannot visit these children regularly and frequently, once these children have expectations and emotions for the visitors, if they cannot get a response, it will be another Abandoned damage.

Heng has been running between bars and kung fu halls recently, and today he has received salaries from two jobs.

When Ian opened a bank account for Heng, he had the right to know all the dynamic information of the Heng account, but Yian chose to cancel this option.

Constantly with him, not an exile, but his friends, his family.The law does not grant Heng any civil rights, but Ian is willing to give him his own private space.

The basic salary given by the bar is not high, mainly depends on the commission after the customer places the order.In general, Heng's income is pretty good among bartenders.The salary offered by the Kung Fu gym is higher, which gave Heng the idea of ​​working full-time at the Kung Fu gym.Now his bartending skills are very proficient. After improving his skills, his primary goal is to make money.

However, there is no rush to resign for the time being, the New Year is only a month away, and the bar will have its annual vacation as usual. Ian said that he would go on a trip with him.

Back home, wash up and enter the bedroom.

Ian and Hehuan were still sleeping on the side of his bed, and he didn't ask, and Ian didn't mention why they slept here with him.

Heng pursed the corners of his lips, and after lying down lightly on the bed, he reached out and brushed aside the broken hair on Ian's forehead.

Hehuan looked up at Heng's movements for a few seconds, then turned to look at Heng.Heng stared at it for a few seconds, then reached out and gently touched its head.He Huan raised his head and rubbed Heng's palm a few times, then lay on his side again and got ready to fall asleep.

Thanks to sharing the same bed these days, He Huan and Heng are getting closer again.When looking at Hengshi before, although Hehuan's eyes were not guarded, but he paid attention to Heng's every move, but now, there is trust and intimacy in Hehuan's eyes, and he even meows when he looks at Heng during the day Say hello twice.

However, for Heng, there is also a disadvantage of Hehuan sleeping between him and Ian.Ever since He Huan slept between the two of them, Ian has become very honest in sleeping, where he was before going to bed, and where he was when he woke up.

Heng has been waiting for Ian's further action, but Ian is like a hibernating radish that has buried himself in the soil and refuses to move. His pit has predicted the jumping and landing locations of many radishes, but the other party is late. Too late to act.

Heng hugged He Huan to the other side of Ian's pillow, they were all beside Ian, He Huan didn't mind, looked up at Heng, and obediently slept in the position over there.

Sure enough, there was no obstruction in the middle, and when he fell asleep, Heng felt a person crawling into his arms.

In the morning, it was still Ian who woke up first.

Waking up in Heng Huai, Ian can be very calm in this situation now.Anyway, Heng won't wake up before ten o'clock, so he is not in a hurry to move away.

His cheek was pressed against Heng's chest, and his arms were still around Heng's waist. This was something Ian wanted to do to Heng when he was awake, but he hadn't figured out how to implement it reasonably.

Today is the day of Ian's new book signing, but his signing time is at two o'clock in the afternoon.

After lying in Heng's arms for more than ten minutes, Yi'an got up and got out of bed.

Hehuan followed Ian and got off the bed. Ian gently brought Hehuan's cat litter, litter box and cat food tray to the living room, then closed the bedroom door and went to the kitchen. After stretching for a while, he walked catwalks and followed.

Because I have something to do in the afternoon, Ian's lunch should be prepared and eaten in advance.

But when Ian came out of the control room and came to the kitchen, he found that Heng hadn’t eaten the porridge in the rice cooker. Ian first went to the bedroom to take a look. Heng had already got up, and then he opened the door of the study. Watching a cast video on the couch.

"Heng, why didn't you eat breakfast? Did it not suit your appetite? Or did you feel unwell?" Ian asked him.

Heng replied, "Lunch should be made in advance, right? Breakfast and lunch should be eaten together."

"Ok."

At eleven o'clock, after lunch, Ian was ready to leave.

"Heng, when you go out to the gym, be careful to lock the yard door, and don't let Hehuan run out."

He Huan meowed at Ian when he heard his name mentioned.

After adding enough cat food and drinking water to its food tray, Ian hugged Hehuan and kissed its forehead, "Little Acacia, be good, don't run around."

"Meow~" Hehuan lightly licked Ian's chin.

When Ian was about to change his shoes, Heng also came over to join him.

Ian asked suspiciously, "Are you going to the gym now?"

"I'll go to City L with you."

"Really?" Ian was very happy when he heard the words, "But you have to go to work at night, I'm afraid you may not be able to make it in time."

The signing will end at six o'clock, but there will be some finishing work after the end.

"It's okay, I asked for leave before I got off work yesterday."

"Thank you Heng." Ian sincerely thanked him.

Heng is willing to ask for leave to accompany him to do something together, he is really happy.

He was about to take out his mobile phone to book tickets for Heng, but Heng stopped Ian, "I've already booked the tickets."

On the train, Ian changed seats with the person seated with He Heng. Fortunately, the carriages of the two tickets were adjacent, and the other party readily agreed to the seat change request.To express his gratitude, Ian gave the other party a box of newly made handmade snacks, and the other party happily accepted it, thanked him and left.

Sitting on the train, Ian felt drowsy gradually.

Although the train was stable, it was easy for the head to wobble after falling asleep.

"boom--"

Ian stretched out his hand in a daze to rub his forehead hit by the glass window, and then continued to fall asleep leaning against the back of the chair.

Dimly, Ian felt that his head had been flipped lightly, and then he put something hard on his pillow. However, it was indeed more comfortable to sleep this way. good smell.

The nose was suddenly pinched lightly, Ian stretched out his hand to grab it, opened his eyes, looked at it, smiled, it turned out to be Heng's hand.

Ian moved his head away from Heng's shoulder, stretched out his hands to help massage his arms and shoulders, and asked Heng: "Is it coming?"

"Ah."

Two minutes before arriving at the station, Heng took Ian's backpack from the luggage rack and put it on his back.

This is a strange city for Heng.

Ian has been here twice in L City, but it has been a year, and the place has changed, so now Ian looks at this place very strangely.

There is still some distance from the signing venue, and it takes about 10 minutes to take a floating car.

The two followed the navigation all the way, got on the floating car, and after getting off, it was today's destination.

Ian held Heng's left hand, and Heng turned his head to look at Ian.

Ian explained: "This place is very strange to you, I will hold you by the hand, let's not get separated."

Maybe because he accepted his words, Heng didn't refuse, and didn't pull out his hand, Ian exhaled lightly and secretly felt happy.

After showing his admission certificate to the staff, Ian took Heng into the signing venue.

Book fans and writers don't go through the same passage, and Ian takes Heng through the writer's passage.

The two found a rest area dedicated to Ian, and several boxes were piled up next to the sofa.Ian opened the boxes and checked them one by one, and Heng saw that there were wooden bookmarks with tassels hanging inside.

"This is a small gift for book fans. Some of them come from far away, and it is very hard work." Ian Xiangheng explained.

After sitting in the rest area for a few minutes, a formally dressed young woman walked towards the two of them smiling.

"Long time no see, Ling." She called out Ian's pseudonym.

"Long time no see, Kate."

Kate is Ling's editor. She is in charge of updating, publishing, and signing sales for the three writers on C.com.

In addition to Ian, there is also "Book on Pillow", a female writer who is good at writing supernatural and ghost novels.Pillow Book is much more famous than Ling. Although the two have the same amount of articles, the works of Pillow Book are characterized by ups and downs and multiple reversals and have accumulated more fans. Just now Kate was on her side.

Seeing a strange man sitting behind Ian, Kate asked, "Who is this?"

"It's my family, Heng."

Kate was stunned, but a little surprised, "You got married so soon? Congratulations."

Ian's cheeks flushed, it seemed that there was something wrong with his wording of introduction.

He was about to explain to Kate, and Kate had passed him and stretched out his right hand to Heng, "Hello, Heng. It's the first time we meet, and I wish you all the best."

"Thank you." Heng and Kate saluted.

After saying hello, Kate began to talk to Ian about the process.

"Are you still not showing your face this time?"

The signing venue is not a single writer's personal session. There are multiple writers from multiple websites appearing at the same time. Some of these writers are willing to show their faces to sign the sale, but there are also some like Ian who don't want to show their faces.

Many writers have very good looks and temperament, and sometimes they can use this advantage to attract new fans and strengthen old fans.

"No, I brought my own mask and I will wear it when I play."

"Okay." Kate didn't force it, "Then I'll be playing in 15 minutes. If you need to go to the bathroom, go there first, otherwise you'll have to wait two hours before you have time to rest again."

"Ok."

After Kate left, Ian asked Heng to sit here for a while, and he went to the bathroom for convenience.

Heng nodded, sat on the sofa and played with his mobile phone.

"Annard?"

Heng heard a greeting, looked up, and the person standing not far away was Gavin.

Jian Heng looked up at himself, Gavin confirmed the identity of the person in front of him, and then walked over very enthusiastically.

"I didn't expect you to be a writer."

"You too?"

Gavin shook his head, "I'm the person in charge of the organizer, and I'm patrolling to see if the backstage situation is normal."

Heng raised his eyebrows, "Is there anything abnormal in the background?"

Gavin pointed to the four burly bodyguards standing not far away, "Here, someone has to keep patrolling the backstage, because there are many fanatical fans who sneak in and harass the writer by various means."

"Won't you see it when you sign the sale?"

Gavin waved his hand, "You don't understand the fanaticism of these fans. They treat their idols as if they were the only ones, and correspondingly they long for themselves to be the most privileged among their idols, so they have to meet their idols when the time is right. And some writers don’t show their faces when signing sales, and those fanatical fans want to come backstage to see the true face of their idols.”

While the two were talking, Ian came back from the bathroom and saw a man in a suit talking to Heng with four bodyguards. He thought it was a conflict with Heng, so he rushed over.

Seeing Ian running towards this side, Heng was a little puzzled. Gavin followed Heng's gaze and looked back, turned around and saw Ian.

"Ian?"

Ian also saw that the person standing in front of Heng was familiar, "Gavin?"

"You're here with Heng." Gavin wanted to talk about the old days, but there was a notification in the backstage that the writers should start to enter.

Ian had no choice but to say: "Let's talk about Hagawen when I have time, I'm going to enter."

After speaking, he took out the mask from the backpack on the sofa and put it on, then asked Heng: "Heng, do you want to sit here and wait for me, or go to the venue to have a look?"

Heng said, "Let's go and have a look."

Ian originally wanted to bring Heng into the arena. When entering the arena, the writer can bring a staff member as an assistant.

Gavin now understands that Ian is the writer, and Heng came with Ian.

"Ian, you go on stage first, I'll bring Annard into the arena. If you enter as your assistant, you will never leave the signing table."

This is true, Ian nodded, and said to Heng: "Heng, then you can enter the arena with Gavin, and you can wander around inside. Sitting with me at the signing table all the time, it will be boring."

Heng nodded, and Ian entered the arena alone, followed by Kate.Just now Kate came with a few assistants, saying that she was going to move the gift box in together. When she saw Gavin standing next to Ian's rest area, she greeted him, but the time was urgent and the two didn't say hello sentence.

Gavin said, "I'm going to buy a copy of Ian's book later and ask him to sign it for me."

After the book signing officially starts, all book fans can enter the venue.

Gavin prepared a staff member's sign for Heng to hang around his neck, and then took Heng into the venue to check the order everywhere.

The book signing venue was noisy, and the book fans were very enthusiastic and excited. Everyone held a book in their hands or held a book in their arms, looking forward and waiting together.

Some book fans also have gifts in their hands, which are gifts for their idols.

Turning around for a while, Heng saw Ian's signing desk, and Gavin naturally saw it too.

Each author has a pen name and a new book introduction poster behind him, and the poster behind Ian has the words ""Forever"--Ling." and so on.

The two of them read the book introduction on the poster together, and Gavin said, "I didn't realize that Ian is actually a suspense writer."

The location of each writer in the venue is opposite to an entrance, where there is a book purchase booth, where book fans who do not carry or have not purchased new books can purchase them here.

Gavin walked over and bought two copies, and then handed one to Heng.

"Heng, do you want to wait in line for the signature? You can participate in the experience." Gavin said.

Heng thought for a while, went around by himself, and found nothing interesting, so waiting in line for an autograph is a novel experience.

"Ok."

Gavin just said it casually, but he didn't expect Heng to agree. He smiled and said, "Then help me to bring an autograph too? A TO autograph, 'Healthy and happy.' Let's go."

Although he didn't know what the TO sign was, he thought that Ian would know, so Heng nodded and took the second book that Gavin handed over.

The queue is still relatively long, and Heng needs to go out first, and then come in at the end of the queue.

Ian signed dozens of books in a row, and some fans asked for a lot of autographs, and Ian agreed to them one by one, but his hands were still sore after signing in this way.

There is a requirement for the number of words in the signature, but Ian usually does not go to Yanka. After all, every book fan sincerely likes his books. He is very grateful, but it is not too much to ask for a few words of blessing.

A few days ago, he specially practiced signing at home. He hadn't picked up a pen for a long time, and his appearance and speed were slightly worse.After a few days of exercise, it is still smooth and beautiful in practice today.

"Hello, what do you want to sign?" Ian asked a fan in front of the row.

This fan was also wearing a mask, but Ian still felt a little familiar.

After looking at each other for five seconds, the two blinked together.

"Hello, write 'TO Gene: Be brave to love.'"

"Gene..." Ian looked at Gene and smiled, signed and said, "Come on, Gene."

Gene looked at Ian with some uncertainty, and took the book from Ian.

"Hurry up, brother, there are still many people in the back."

There was an urging voice behind him, so Gene had no choice but to take the book and get out of the way. When he was about to leave, he stopped and looked at Ian for a few seconds.

Ian was signing an autograph for a boy, and the boy happily took the books, but no one expected that he would suddenly take out something from his satchel and throw it at Ian.

Ian only had time to close his eyes, and the cold liquid dripped down his cheeks onto the signing table.

He reached out and wiped the liquid on his chin. The liquid looked colorless and smelled odorless, like clear water.

For a moment, Ian forgot to be afraid, and just looked at the young man in front of him in puzzlement and astonishment.

There was chaos here, and the security guard, Gene and Hengdu rushed over immediately.

Heng took off Ian's mask and observed carefully. There was no damage on Ian's face.Heng observed and sniffed the liquid carefully, and Gene said, "It's clear water."

Heng wiped Ian's face with his sleeve. Seeing this, Gene handed over a handkerchief. Heng took it after thanking him, and then wiped Ian's cheeks with the handkerchief.

Seeing that Heng's face was cold and very unhappy, Yi'an comforted him and said, "It's fine, don't worry."

And the teenager who was dragged away by the security kept looking back at Ian and shouted: "Don't worry, this is just pure water. I'm sorry, you have been so mysterious, I just want you to take off your mask and see What do you look like?"

Heng paused, wanting to beat up the boy, but Ian stopped him.

"It's okay, Heng, I'm fine. Security will take care of it."

The manager of the venue, Kate and Gavin also came to care after hearing the news. Ian said that there is no need to pause and rest, and he can continue to sign the sale.

Fortunately, most of the water splashed by the young man flowed onto the signing table.Apart from his face, Ian's clothes were not much wet.

After all, it is not easy for many book fans to come here once, and there is actually no harm happening now, so there is no need to delay everyone because of this trivial matter.

"Heng, can you come inside and accompany me?" Ian said while holding Heng's hand and watching him.

In fact, he wasn't too frightened, but Heng was very angry now, and Ian wanted to keep Heng by his side.

Of course Heng would not refuse Ian's request at this time, he turned over on Ian's table and entered the signing table.

Yi'an went to find a seat for Heng, during which time the security personnel had already cleaned up the signing table.

When he was ready, Gene left with peace of mind, and Ian told Gavin that he could continue to sign the contract.

Gavin has mobilized many bodyguards, one for each author, to prevent similar incidents from happening again.