Sole decision

No one could explain whether what happened that night was a hallucination or a dream. The only remaining evidence was the hickey mark on Pei Zhaoxue's neck.

Pei Zhaoxue injured her leg, so she could only rest in bed.Zhou Ce came to visit him every day during his recuperation period. There was no one else in the room. Zhou Ce would not say anything strange, but he always stared at Pei Zhaoxue with an explicit look.Pei Zhaoxue had nowhere to go, and he who was always calm seemed to have been pried into some hidden switch. When he met Zhou Ce, he became very anxious.

Zhou Ce didn't tell the truth, he even enjoyed the state of Pei Zhaoxue watching him tensely.He viciously disturbed the water in the pool, and saw emotions in Pei Zhaoxue that he had never had before. Even if Pei Zhaoxue didn't have that expression on his face, even if Pei Zhaoxue pretended to be appropriate, he still knew what Pei Zhaoxue was thinking.

Until Pei Zhaoxue couldn't bear it anymore, she finally spoke to Zhou Ce.

"Can you stop coming?"

"Why? I can take care of you."

"I don't need you to take care of me. I'm fine by myself."

"Axue, are you afraid?" Zhou Ce smiled, "I won't eat you. Or, I'm not good enough for you? You can just tell me what you want, and I can give it to you." He leaned closer Pei Zhaoxue, Pei Zhaoxue unexpectedly didn't move, he and Pei Zhaoxue were face to face, even breathing could touch each other, he really wanted to kiss him.

"Zhou Ce, do you like men?" Pei Zhaoxue suddenly threw out such a sentence, Zhou Ce thought for a while and shook his head.

"Then don't do that." Pei Zhaoxue said flatly, "I can pretend nothing happened."

Zhou Ce distanced himself from Pei Zhaoxue. He stood up straight and looked at Pei Zhaoxue, but Pei Zhaoxue didn't look at him.An unknown fire ignited in Zhou Ce's heart, but he had nowhere to vent it.He clenched his fist, then let it go, turned and left, leaving a nonchalant "Oh" to Pei Zhaoxue.

After Zhou Ce left, Pei Zhaoxue turned to look at the door.His heart was not as calm as his expression. After that day, he finally began to understand the emotions he had read from Zhou Ce's strange eyes. It was clearly the same as now, but he didn't notice it at all.

Facing Zhou Ce's behavior, he felt deep fear—not fear of Zhou Ce, but fear of the confusion at the end of his heart.It was the first time for him to deal with such a problem, he didn't know what to do, he resisted to face it, because his feelings towards Zhou Ce were complicated.

He wants to be true to his promises, and he also wants to be true to his beliefs, but sometimes he can't have both.

He prayed to God, hoping that Zhou Ce was just making a silly joke, and hoped that everything would pass quickly.

Hope so.

Zhou Ce touched his nose full of ashes at Pei Zhaoxue, and his hostility was unobstructed, but his aura was calm and silent from the beginning to the end.

He needs to get A Fei out. Liu Rui has found many relationships but the situation is not very optimistic.During the period, people from the investigation team also frequently entered and exited the company, causing quite a lot of battles.Zhou Ce didn't worry about these things. With the foundation of the Zhou family in Lucheng, these things would at most bruise the skin.

But he knew that someone wanted him dead.

Liu Rui was worried that A Fei wouldn't be able to confess anything, but Zhou Ce just shook his head, saying that A Fei wouldn't do that.Liu Rui felt that Zhou Ce was young and impulsive, and A Fei was from outside, so he didn't know the root and the bottom line. How could he win Zhou Ce's trust?

Zhou Ce told Liu Rui that maybe there was not, but now that A Fei has entered, A Fei will not betray him. Liu Rui thought for a long time but did not understand Zhou Ce's meaning.

It turned out that when the accident happened, Zhou Ce found Zhang Wenjie to help him deal with A Fei's files.People like Ah Fei who can't live in the sun have a very "rich" past. Once it is exposed, ten heads are not enough for him to lose.It doesn't matter if you get caught, it doesn't matter what you are asked, the key is that he must be that person.

What if he is not?

It happened that Zhang Wenjie was in charge of files in the city hall, and he was promoted during this period.He helped Zhou Ce do some tricks in the system, so that the police could only transfer a fake file.

He was just a misguided social youth with a clean background, and the danger was instantly reduced a lot.

Of course, this is just a tactic to delay the attack, in order to create chaos and buy time for them. Zhou's powerful lawyers continue to put pressure on them, and I believe the situation will become clear soon.

Jin Rongda contacted Zhou Ce immediately after knowing what happened, and Zhou Ce knew that the problem did not lie with the Jin family.After thinking about it, I can't figure out which link is wrong and which person is suspicious, but this feeling of being secretly calculated is not good.

Just when he was at a loss, Zhang Wenjie called him.

"Wen Jie, what's the matter?" Zhou Ce leaned on his desk, looking at the scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. It has been cloudy and gloomy recently, and the clouds outside are thick and low.

"Zhou Ce, that Ah Fei..." Zhang Wenjie organized his words, "Does he know your third brother?"

"what?"

"He didn't have an entry record before, but I checked later. It's not that he didn't have an entry record, but the record was cancelled. The false identity he used before came here as a worker, and he was attached to an unknown small trading company. .” Zhang Wenjie told Zhou Ce the names of the trading company and the boss, and Zhou Ce made sure that it had nothing to do with their family.

"The problem is that the registered address of this company is associated with another company, which belongs to your third brother." Zhang Wenjie said, "Do you know about this?"

Zhou Ce was startled, and did not answer for a long time.

"Hello? Zhou Ce? Are you listening?"

"Listening. I see, thanks for telling me that."

Zhou Ce hung up the phone, resting his hands on the table, frowning.He felt an inconspicuous thread emerging from a tangled ball of wool, and he needed to grab hold of it.

The scene of A Fei's first appearance resurfaced again, when he was ambushed when he came out of Zhou Ang's shop, and now A Fei has some subtle connection with Zhou Ang.

What is behind this?

Zhou Ce stared out of the surrender window. The clouds were getting lower and lower, as if they were about to cover the skyscrapers. Scene after scene flashed in his mind. Suddenly, muffled thunder came from outside the clouds. His eyes widened, and he caught something.