withered lover

Shen Guiwan was wrapped in Du Zhinian's overcoat, and got into a taxi not long after leaving the community.

Du Zhinian lived in the city center, and the transportation was so convenient that he could grab a car as soon as he reached out. It took less time to wait for the car, and it avoided the rush hour. It was not ten o'clock when Shen Gui arrived home late.

Before Shen Lu came back, Shen Guiwan returned to his room, hung Du Zhinian's coat and scarf in the closet, and threw the clothes that smelled of hot pot into the washing machine.

Shen Guiwan took a shower again, and turned off the tap until his body was covered with the scent of shower gel and there was no smell of hot pot.

He stood in the bathroom, and the water droplets from the shower sank into the fine hair, and formed water droplets at the ends of the hair, hitting the tiles in the bathroom.

The bathroom was filled with mist, but the air cooled down a little bit. Shen Guiwan put on his pajamas indiscriminately, and shuffled out of the bathroom. His freshly washed hair kept dripping water, leaving a meandering water mark on the ground.

Shen Lu probably won't be back tonight, Shen Guiwan locked the door behind him, dried his hair and curled up at the desk to read.

Shen Guiwan slept at Du Zhinian's house for a long time in the afternoon, and was choked on chili peppers after eating. His nerves had just been stimulated, and he is not too sleepy yet.

He took out the collection of short stories he bought earlier, and the novel of about [-] words seemed very fast, and he finished reading one-third of the pages in less than two hours.

The plot of the short story is very compact, but a few special terms appeared in a novel about surgeons, Shen Guiwan guessed the general meaning, but did not fully understand it.

Although the appearance of those words did not affect reading, Shen Guiwan had nothing else to do besides reading. After copying those words in the vocabulary book used in college, he took out his mobile phone to translate one by one.

By the time Shen Guiwan finished looking up the words, it was past midnight.

He still didn't feel sleepy, so he followed the word search results to find relevant news reports and read them.

But only halfway through the news, there was a loud noise outside the door, and the door of Shen Guiwan's bedroom was even shaken a few times.

Shen Guiwan stopped what he was doing, raised his head vigilantly, and fixed his eyes on the closed door.

Not long after the loud noise disappeared, heavy footsteps came from outside the door.

Shen Guiwan turned off the lights in the room, held his breath and leaned against the door.

He waited for a while, and heard Shen Lu's voice; "...a dog!"

"I have to follow up a broken project in person, let it go...for a month, come back...that little bastard is going to run away again!"

Shen Lu was so drunk that he couldn't control his voice, and was talking on the phone with someone in the corridor.

He slurred swear words inarticulately, scolded the partner for not being enough, and brought up Shen Guiwan who was not in front of him, and humiliated him from beginning to end.

Shen Guiwan blocked those obscenities, and captured the key information from Shen Lu's words.

He stood behind the door, his eyes that merged with the darkness were faintly shining.

Shen Lu restricted Shen Guiwan from going out, but Shen Guiwan never knew his itinerary.

The information between them is not equal, sometimes Shen Guiwan still deduces from the interval when Shen Lu returns home whether he is on a business trip.

This time when Shen Lu got drunk and slipped his mouth, Shen Guiwan didn't know that he was going on a business trip for a month.

But even though he overheard Shen Lu talking on the phone, he still had to pretend to be ignorant at home.

Shen Guiwan avoids Shen Lu every day, staggers the meal time, and tries not to meet him as much as possible.

This state lasted for a week, and when the first weekend of November was coming to an end, Shen Lu was finally about to leave.

Shen Lu called Shen Guiwan to the study.

Shen Guiwan opened the door and looked at the suitcase on the ground with a surprised expression.

Shen Lu didn't remember that he slipped his tongue that night, and looked at Shen Guiwan's reaction quite satisfied.

He sneered and warned, "I'm going on a business trip for a few days, so you should stay at home and don't wag your ass all day long to get fucked by men."

"If you let me know that you go out to fool around again, see if I don't break your leg!"

Shen Guiwan lowered his eyes, leaning against the door to listen to Shen Lu scolding himself.

Shen Lu's warning was never just a word of mouth, he beat Shen Guiwan many times, the worst time, Shen Guiwan broke two ribs and lay in the hospital for a month.

"Don't be like your mother all day long, doing things that embarrass me!"

Shen Guiwan heard Shen Lu mentioning his mother, and clenched his hands behind his back tightly into fists.

Having scolded enough, Shen Lu stopped and glanced at Shen Guiwan, then bent down to open the safe under the desk, and took out a stack of things from it.

He threw the pile of things into the suitcase, and one of the cards bounced off the bottom of the suitcase, tumbled in the air, and fell to the ground again.

The card landed at Shen Guiwan's feet, he looked at the content on the card, his eyes widened in astonishment.

The card had Shen Guiwan's photo and name printed on it, and recorded his date of birth and home address.

This is Shen Guiwan's ID card.

Seeing his ID card again after many years, the expression on Shen Guiwan's face couldn't be tense anymore.

His pupils trembled slightly, and his eyes stayed on the ID card for a long time, then he suddenly realized something, quickly moved his eyes away, and looked at other things in the box.

When she saw the contents of the box clearly, Shen Guiwan felt that the blood in her whole body seemed to be frozen at that moment, her hands were so cold that there was no warmth at all, and her teeth were trembling.

What Shen Lu took out from the safe was not only Shen Guiwan's ID card, but also the bank card and passport he had obtained during college.

Three or four cards of different colors were stamped on the passport. Shen Guiwan looked at it for a long time, and all he could see was the smooth corner of the passport.

Shen Guiwan's passport has been locked in the safe almost since it was processed, it has never been used, and it still looks like new.

After these things were taken away by Shen Lu three years ago, Shen Guiwan never saw his own documents again, and now they reappeared in front of his eyes, Shen Guiwan could see them, but couldn't touch them.

He knew that as long as he touched it, even if he just picked it up for Shen Lu, that man would severely interrupt his hand that touched the document.

Shen Lu looked at Shen Guiwan's expression, laughed sarcastically, and closed the suitcase heavily.

Shen Lu packed his luggage, said a few harsh words, and left with the suitcase under Shen Guiwan's dejected eyes.

The sound of the engine sounded again outside the window, and Shen Guiwan stood in front of the window, watching the cars in the yard slowly driving away.

The car parked in the yard drove away, and his heart seemed to be empty.

Before seeing the ID card, Shen Guiwan thought that no matter how much Shen Lu treated him, he would not have any emotions that could be called "fear" or "despair" towards this man.

However, he still underestimated Shen Lu's methods.

The man deliberately showed himself the documents and bank cards to let him know where they were stored, but took them all away in front of his face.

In an era when bus tickets needed to be purchased with a real name, Shen Guiwan lost his ID card and was struggling as if walking in shackles.

He thought he had seized a slim chance, but what he got was endless despair.

On the first night of Shen Lu's business trip, when Shen Guiwan could have a good rest, he suffered from insomnia.

He stood at the door of the study and stared at the closed door for a long time.

Shen Lu didn't lock the study before going out, Shen Guiwan put his hand on the doorknob, touching the smooth piece of metal back and forth.

He hesitated at the door for a long time, pressed the doorknob with his hand and slowly released it, tried several times, but failed to muster up the courage to push the door open.

There is no hope in that door, the only thing it can give Shen Guiwan is pain and torture.

The study room is facing the door and the wall of the safe is equipped with monitoring and sensors, as long as someone passes by, Shen Lu's mobile phone will receive a reminder.

Shen Guiwan didn't know at first, but after Shen Lu told him that the books in the study could be browsed at will, he went in once, didn't take anything, and was beaten up by Shen Lu that night.

Shen Lu asked him what he was doing in the study, Shen Guiwan answered, and the other party beat him to pieces for lying.

After that, Shen Guiwan never stepped into the study room again.

Now this study has something worthy of his risk, but those things have been taken away by Shen Lu, even if Shen Guiwan knows the password of the safe, there is no need to take the risk to get in.

Shen Guiwan's hand on the doorknob slipped off.

He returned to the room, looked at the dictionary with banknotes on the bookshelf, and suddenly laughed at himself.

Shen Guiwan felt that he was very funny, he had decided to die like this, why did he still want to run away?

It's not that he didn't run before, but the painful lesson made him dare not try again.

He couldn't run away at all.

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