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Ten years ago, one of the hot summer afternoons was gloomy and cloudy.

The swimming room was brightly lit. Yang Ke practiced backstroke and went back and forth in the standard swimming pool several times. The coach timed him.

When he was about to swim close to Yang Ke's fastest record, the door of the swimming pool opened.

Yang Ke's fingertips touched the wall of the swimming pool, and he leaned his upper body out of the water. Just as Secretary Xu pulled the glass door to the bottom, his grandfather stepped into the hall, followed by a thin boy.

Grandpa stood still a few meters away from the pool and said, "Yang Ke, let's get acquainted. This is Yu Zhinian, one of my Special Needs Scholarship recipients.

"Zhi Nian is the same year as you, and I came to Ning City for a study tour with the funding project. I went to give a speech to the project in the morning, and I hit it off with Zhi Nian. I heard that the project omitted Zhi Nian from the list, and booked a room less. The hotel was full. I couldn’t make up the order, and I felt aggrieved by letting my little classmate sleep in an extra bed, so I took it home.”

"Zhi Nian," Grandpa turned his head to look at Yu Zhinian, smiled kindly, and said in Yang Ke's overly loving voice, "This is what I told you just now, my grandson, Yang Ke. He At the same level as you."

Yu Zhinian said "Hello" to Yang Ke with a little restraint.

This is the scene where Yang Ke and Yu Zhinian met for the first time.

Yang Ke forgot what clothes Yu Zhinian wore and what hairstyle he had on that day.Because he thought it was just another weird behavior of his grandfather at the time, and he never imagined that this impoverished student who came to Ning City for a study tour would stay in his house for so many years.

Ten years later, the grandfather who brought Yu Zhinian home passed away.

The old house in Ning City was empty, and only a few workers stayed at home to take care of a large piece of land.

Yang Ke did not choose to directly inherit the property left to him by his grandfather, but partnered with a friend to establish a private equity fund institution, and the development is not bad.

As of November last year, he and Yu Zhinian lived together in a house in Rosser District, leading a busy but not boring life.

Lawyer Li Luli called Yang Ke at nearly one o'clock in the morning.

Yang Ke was still working, and he turned on the speakerphone to answer the call. Li Lu's tired voice rang out in the study: "The ticket is ready. I'll ask my assistant to pick him up then."

"Yes." Yang Ke replied while reading the financial statement sent by the secretary.

"You just give me an 'hmm' like that?" Li Lu reprimanded with some dissatisfaction, "I contacted you, and I violated some terms of trust."

Yang Ke turned another page, looked away from the report, glanced at the phone screen, and said to Li Lu, "Thank you, Lawyer Li."

Li Lu was the most trusted chief consultant of the company by Yang Ke's grandfather, Yang Zhongyun, and the trustee of the testamentary trust related to Yu Zhinian, temporarily handling one-third of Yang Zhongyun's company shares.

"...I'm not asking for credit, I don't miss your thank you," Li Lu was dissatisfied, and emphasized in a complaining tone, "Yang Ke, if I hadn't watched you grow up, and I didn't want to let down your grandfather's treatment of you at that time. I shouldn't do these things for you, nor should I have so many contacts with you."

Yang Ke started to look at the report again, and found that the company's financial situation was not as healthy as he imagined, so he made some comments.

But Li Lu was still chattering: "I don't know how to restrain myself. If I knew that you would turn around and buy a house next to the school, how could I tell you that Lin Kai received the information that Zhinian wanted to rent a house?" Yang Ke, your behavior is very dangerous."

After reading the last page of the report, Yang Ke closed the file and opened another one.

"What if other shareholders of the company find out, what will you do?" Li Lu insisted, "Lin Kai will tell me, but won't tell others?"

"I won't do it next time," Yang Ke apologized to him, "I'm sorry."

"..." Li Lu probably didn't expect him to apologize so simply, so he paused before saying, "Forget it."

"But I see Zhinian's attitude, it seems that he still wants to give up." Li Lu spoke slowly, with a little doubt mixed in with the question, "What's going on between you two? Did you quarrel?"

"No," Yang Ke denied, "There was no quarrel."

Li Lu was quiet for a while, then said: "I won't ask any more questions, I hope you will be well on behalf of your grandfather."

Hang up the phone, the room is quiet.

Yang Ke finished reading this report intently and was about to rest.He got up and walked to the bookshelf, intending to pick a book and read it before going to bed.

This study room was used by Yu Zhinian in the past. There are three rows of bookshelves on the entire wall opposite the desk occupied by Yu Zhinian’s books. bought novels.

Yang Ke searched for a few minutes, but he still couldn't choose one of the novels he was interested in, so he finally randomly took an old professional book in the first row.

Yang Ke has lived in this house in the center of Rosser District for more than six years.

Yu Zhinian moved here two years ago, because according to the state law, same-sex lovers need to live together for two years before they can apply for marriage registration.

The day before Yu Zhinian moved in, there was a heavy snowfall in Heshi.

Smith contacted the moving company, packed Yu Zhinian's things, and shipped them to Yang Ke in the early morning.

Yu Zhinian himself only carried his schoolbag, was wearing a coat, and his shoes were stained with snow.Wrapped a gray scarf.He smiled at Yang Ke and said, "Good morning, Yang Ke".

Yang Ke didn't say anything, Yu Zhinian said, "Why don't you talk to me again?"

"Don't say a word, it seems that you don't want me to move in again."

Yu Zhinian smiled, and Yang Ke said to him, "No. Come in."

Sometimes Yang Ke felt that Yu Zhinian was the thickest-skinned person he had ever met, and no matter how cold-eyed or ignored him, it would be difficult to drive him away; It may be because he suffered too much poverty when he was young, so he became extremely eager for money.

Sometimes Yu Zhinian feels pitiful.

Sometimes I feel that Yu Zhinian is hateful.

It was late autumn when Yu Zhinian left Heshi.

Yang Ke was on a business trip, and they originally planned to register their marriage on the afternoon he came home.Smith has already made an appointment for the marriage registration hall for Yang Ke, and also contacted Li Lu to prepare for the change of trust and shares.

After returning home, Yang Ke found that Yu Zhinian was not there.

Smith called Yu Zhinian and asked about his whereabouts.Yu Zhinian didn't answer the phone, so the housekeeper called the police.

While waiting for the police to arrive and the housekeeper went to the monitoring room to retrieve the monitoring records, Yang Ke received the last text message Yu Zhinian sent him.

"After thinking about it for a long time, let's forget about getting married. I followed the professor back to China to do a project. Goodbye. I wish you happiness."

Yang Ke only watched the surveillance video once.

Yu Zhinian wore a gray sports coat, trousers and sneakers, dragged his thirty-inch silver suitcase out of the house, went straight ahead, and walked smoothly to the iron gate under the sun.

The taxi driver he had appointed was waiting for him to load the suitcase into the trunk for him.

Yu Zhinian got into the car, closed the door, left, and never came back.

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Baomen, Ningshi is in China, where Yang Keyu Zhinian went to high school; Heshi is abroad, where they went to college and later settled down