Lofty future

"He just wants money. Don't tell me, he's really bold. The price he offered is higher than any paparazzi, but it's not outrageous. Most artists will agree to it if you see twice more. But our sister Chu is an iron rooster. I'm wasting time with him. When you put it that way, his price is indeed too accurate——right, sister Chu?"

After hearing my doubts about Xiang Rong, Chi Xue asked him about the company's progress and discussed with me.After both sides, everyone agreed that the investigation of this person was not enough.

Sister Chu must have blamed him again, he said with a smile: "You know, I will do it for the last time, and I will never let Sister Chu worry about me again."

It wasn't for me, so I didn't say anything.How it came back over there, I can only guess based on his reply.

After a while, he became more serious and tired: "Don't you know me yet? I don't have that much pursuit of this, and the great future I want is not to reach the top of the gods. Just let it go and leave no regrets." .Okay, I'll hang up first, let me know if you have any news."

Then hang up a line.

Then, his tone and tone became much more relaxed.

It's not that he was nervous just now, but the feeling of relaxation is different.If I have to say it, it is the difference between working hours and off-duty hours.

"Xiang Cheng, don't worry, it's okay..." He murmured to comfort me, sounding like he was talking to himself, a little bit half awake or confused when he was extremely sleepy.

In front of my eyes, he returned to his own space after finishing his troublesome work, buried his body in the sofa, stretched his limbs, closed his eyes, turned on his mobile phone hands-free, and talked to me with the remaining waking will.

It's very late at night, and his city has thousands of lights, but he doesn't like to turn on the lights.

At this moment, he may be alone in the dark, or he may be empty, or his brain can't stop thinking about the unsatisfactory worries in his heart... In short, he is alone.

I remembered Zeng Yuhan asking, if Chi Xue needed me to go to Beijing, would I go?

I didn't answer directly at the time, but the answer has been lingering in my heart-yes.

Not to mention the current relationship, even if there is no such development, just to recognize a younger brother, whenever he needs me, I will go.

I can't bear the picture that comes to my mind, I can't bear that he is still lonely when he is tired, and he still misses me when he is lonely.

"Chi Xue."

I lowered my head slightly and stared at the ground, only to find that the words I wanted to say rolled down my throat and became extremely hot. Not only did my throat feel dry, but it also made my whole heart jump.

Luckily he couldn't see and my embarrassment wouldn't show.

"I miss you a little bit."

As soon as I finished speaking, I realized that some things should not be said indiscriminately.Especially not late at night.At this time, people are confused and impulsive, and can do anything.

I don't know what Chi Xue was doing there, I just heard him say "Aw" as if in pain, my breath also changed, my tiredness was swept away, and my whole body became excited.

"Don't be like this, where did you hit?"

"The corner of the table." He replied nonchalantly, and then asked, "Do you have any plans for tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow Song Weiran will take Jasmine to play, and I will look at the shop."

"What about the day after tomorrow?"

"Assistant Bai said that he can apply to visit Zhan Yunpeng, I want to meet him, after all..."

His voice sank slightly: "Oh, that's very important. Xiaobai is not a native of Yangcheng. During this period of time, he went out to do errands under the banner of Xiao Tailin, so what he can find out is limited. Maybe you can communicate with Zhan Yunpeng more clearly. "

I silently responded: "Yes."

He never asked me about my previous business with Zhan Yunpeng.Maybe before Zhan Yunpeng's accident, he didn't think it was important, so he didn't need to ask.

But now that Assistant Bai has worked here for him, he should already know what he should know.The sentence just now is comfort and communication.

I instinctively resist.

However, since I have started to see a doctor and decided to try to face the dirt in my heart and look forward to health and sunshine, I still have to overcome my resistance and discomfort and be positive anyway.

"Back then... I mean when I was still around, we weren't really participants. We were just 'photographers' who didn't participate in anything but filming, my code name was Thorn Bird..."

This is the first time I have personally mentioned my work in the border and Southeast Asia after I returned to Yangcheng.

In the past, whenever I evaded the subject with a smile and vaguely said "nothing, nothing, small business", I knew that other people's imaginations were nothing more than smuggling trade.

This is the most common business in border areas. When it was rampant, no one in the whole area could say that they had never participated in it. In the late 90s and early [-]s, many people got rich from it.

But in my day, it's long gone.Zhan Yunpeng and I first went to Vietnam to do photography for people.

Take pictures of the girls waiting to be "married" over there.

Some of the people who want photos are intermediaries and some are Chinese buyers.The latter can choose arbitrarily for three to five thousand, and buy a beautiful "bride" of the right age.

Zhan Yunpeng did not know how to get into this business, and found that I could fight without being afraid of hard work, and was good at taking pictures, so he dragged me into this business.

This is where it all started.

The "team" was just the two of us at first, he took orders and I took pictures.After gradually becoming famous, there were more people, and he started to take on some video jobs.

These tasks, like photography, range from relatively normal to curious.

"Indeed, for a while, I became numb. I didn't think about morality or law. I only had one thought in my mind, which was to make money. I didn't know what to do to make money. It seemed that it was for you and Xiang Meifang, but in fact it was for you and Xiang Meifang. You have nothing to do with each other—if you make money, Xiang Meifang will not come back to life, and you will not come back... But I just want to make money."

"We have shot a lot of videos and live broadcasts, sexy, cruel, scary, human, animal... everything. They are posted on the dark web by employers, and many people will pay to watch them."

"My subjects and I often need to work for more than thirty hours in a row in the closed hotel dungeon. Above the dungeon, the hotel is magnificent and palatial for the wealthiest class in society to enjoy."

"Sometimes, they're one of the people who watch a video on the dark web, and some of them order 'food' right from the video. I've seen my subjects get clicked right after they finished performing in a dungeon , take the special elevator directly to the highest floor of the hotel. I also know many cases of not being able to return."

"As photographers, our commissions and commissions are very low, but the money I earn is enough for me to come back and do a round of cleaning, and there is still a clean sum of money left to lose money for three years."

"The name Thorn Bird was once well-known in the industry, because I have good eyesight, quick work, can shoot, and have a tight mouth. I think the only dissatisfaction Zhan Yunpeng and his employer have with me is that I don't want to join their official business. Organization, give up the great money, insist on returning to the dilapidated Yangcheng."

"This is the past that I didn't explain to you before."

I have already said this in the most concise, superficial, and understated language. After I finished speaking, I still felt like I was out of strength, and my limbs were cold and sore.

Some crap is like that.

If you pile it up in the attic for too long and occasionally move it, you will be exhausted.They also have a lot of smoke and dust, and they are heavy, and they are particularly hurt when they breathe in and move.

I can't bear to look more closely.

If you had to go over and take a closer look, the poisonous gas would suffuse your nostrils, and you might be killed immediately.

There are such rubbish in a person's life, fortunately, they can be expected to be covered by layers of ashes of time, sealed tightly, decayed, and turned into soil.

Unfortunately, a malignant tumor formed in the bottom of my heart, becoming a hidden disease that cannot be touched or poked.

In fact, even so, people can still live normally, after all, people's self-deception ability is extraordinary.

But I disobeyed the instructions of the Gua, and I was not good enough to others, so I was naturally the unlucky one among the unlucky ones.

Not only developed cancerous hidden diseases, but also had to be cut open to see the light.

Under such circumstances, not only do I not want to "see the light and die", but I also hope to treat the symptoms and cure the root cause and recover healthily - when I think about it myself, I feel so arrogant.

I just don't know what Chi Xue on the other end of the phone thinks.

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Tomorrow night too~