The fragrance of osmanthus lingered in the dream. In the little courtyard, green trees spread their shade, and the children were all playing in the sunlight. The young Lu Guang Ming squatted alone in the corner by the wall, a bloody bruise from a collision on his forehead, his gaze cold as he watched those carefree, happy children of the same age.
A hand reached toward him, the palm warm, leading him into the gentle radiance. The person shrouded in white light, whose face could not be seen clearly, said to him, “Little Ming, don’t be afraid. The bad person has already been taken away. Go play with everyone.”
He heard his small self say, “I hate them. I only want to be with you.”
“I can’t stay here. I have to leave.”
Tears flowed from his eyes. “Don’t go. I like you. Don’t go.”
“Xiao Ming, you have to take good care of yourself, cherish yourself, and learn to like other people, and to like this world that has both shadows and light. In the days when I’m not here, you have to illuminate yourself. You will meet someone who treats you even better.”
The person in the dream shattered into countless fragments of light and shadow. Lu Guang Ming opened his eyes beneath the fierce sunlight of midday.
The hotel room was a complete mess. Torn, ruined clothes and several used condoms were scattered across the floor, while the quilt and sheets were sticky with suggestive wet marks.
Lu Guang Ming sat there blankly for a while, smacked himself across the face several times, and only then remembered—last night, Xie Jia Hua had gotten drunk at the bar and mistaken him, after he rushed over, for Tang Jia Qi. After he brought Xie Jia Hua to the hotel, Xie Jia Hua had clung to him tightly and refused to let him leave. This Inspector Xie was usually dressed properly, solemn and serious, but once drunk, he was simply a tyrannical hooligan! Lu Guang Ming coaxed Xie Jia Hua by saying he was Tang Jia Qi, and Xie Jia Hua wanted to get on top of him; when he changed his words and said he was actually Lu Guang Ming, Xie Jia Hua wanted to beat him up again. There had simply been no way out!
He had taken two punches to the face from Xie Jia Hua and had gathered all his strength, determined to beat Xie Jia Hua back, but in the end, he had not managed to return even a single slap before being pinned to the bed by Inspector Xie, whose combat power was off the charts, and fiercely spanked. In the end, helplessly accepting his fate, bruised and swollen, he went back to being “Jia Qi.” Xie Jia Hua held his pig-headed face, gazing at him foolishly as he kissed him with deep feeling and tenderness.
After that, they had stripped naked together and rolled across the sheets. Xie Jia Hua’s figure was astonishingly good, enough to make one blush and the heart race, but his technique was astonishingly awful, enough to make the person beneath him cry for their father and mother. Lu Guang Ming knelt on the bed on all fours, biting the pillow and whimpering nonstop, while in his heart he cursed so wildly the heavens nearly overturned. If Brother Jia Qi were still alive, he would absolutely never give Brother Jia Qi to this bastard who was well-endowed but terrible in bed.
Xie Jia Hua suddenly called “Jia Qi” behind him, and a scalding tear fell onto his bare back.
He froze for a moment and turned his head back. He touched the tears on Xie Jia Hua’s cheek. The tears were real, and the longing and pain lingering in the other man’s heart were truly the same as his own. He held Xie Jia Hua, and somehow, he also began to cry. Clearly, he was being embraced as someone else, yet the surge of feeling from two souls connecting was so fervent and overwhelming.
After that chaotic, unbearable night passed, he woke alone on the hotel bed—Xie Jia Hua, that irresponsible bastard, had actually snuck away without a word!
Lu Guang Ming bit the pillow hatefully. His whole body ached so badly he could die, and his head was heavy and dizzy, so he simply pulled the quilt over himself and fell asleep again.
…
Xie Jia Hua led a team of police officers and kept watch from the building opposite the suspect’s home. In the afternoon, the blazing sun was fierce, and the window where they were stationed faced west, so the glaring sunlight scorched everyone until they were nearly burnt out. Xie Jia Hua had a pair of sunglasses perched on the bridge of his nose as he stood beside the curtain, frowning while he looked toward the opposite side. Suddenly, one of his subordinates asked behind him, “Boss, are you injured?!”
“What injury?” Before Xie Jia Hua could react, his subordinate had already casually pulled open the collar at the back of his neck. The subordinate looked inside and went, “Pfft!” “Whoa! Come look, everyone! Boss had a very intense nightlife last night!”
The other officers swarmed over at once and collectively gathered around to observe the bloody scratch marks across Xie Jia Hua’s shoulders and back. Xie Jia Hua pulled his collar tight and cursed loudly, “Whoever doesn’t get lost is writing the report this time!”
The subordinates scattered like birds and beasts in an instant. Only Xie Jia Hua remained standing furiously by the window, his face dark as he twisted into an awkward posture and groped around behind his back, regretting it until his guts turned green.
When he had woken up that morning, he had truly wanted to strangle himself to death. Of all the people he could have slept with while drunk, he had actually slept with that bastard brat Lu Guang Ming, who spoke nothing but nonsense and stopped at nothing to get things done! He could not remember even the tiniest fragment of what happened after he got drunk last night. He only knew that he one hundred percent did not have that kind of intention toward Lu Guang Ming—could it be that this kid, in order to swindle intelligence out of him, had deliberately drugged and raped him? But if that were the case, why was Lu Guang Ming the one whose face was bruised and swollen, whose whole body was covered in kiss marks, looking far more like the one who had been drugged and raped?
Xie Jia Hua irritably pinched his temples, his stomach full of pent-up fire. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his subordinates curiously peeking in from the doorway. “What are you hiding for? What are you looking at? Come out and work!”
…
Toward evening, the suspect under surveillance by Xie Jia Hua and the others finally appeared downstairs, then entered the building opposite. Xie Jia Hua set up a tight deployment, sent people to guard multiple exits, and personally went to arrest the suspect. Bringing several officers with him, he carefully and cautiously pressed along the wall and went up the stairs. When they were still half a floor away from the suspect’s home, the brick phone on his belt suddenly began buzzing and vibrating!
Everyone was startled. Xie Jia Hua raised his hand to steady the team, then pulled out the brick phone and saw that Lu Guang Ming was calling. Expressionless, he cut off the call and gestured for the team members to keep advancing. They had only taken two steps when the brick phone began buzzing again.
Xie Jia Hua cut it off again. This time, not even three seconds passed before Lu Guang Ming called again.
The subordinate pressed close beside Xie Jia Hua read from his face that irritated emotion of “I spent an unexpectedly thrilling and passionate night with someone I never expected, and now the other person has started pestering me endlessly, but I do not want to take responsibility,” and could not help touching his shoulder as he whispered, “Boss, just try things out with him. Anyway, you’ve been single for so many y—”
Before the word “years” could leave his mouth, he received a knuckle to the head from Xie Jia Hua. Xie Jia Hua covered the brick phone with one hand and glared at the surrounding subordinates, whose faces were full of gossip. Everyone immediately lowered their brows and eyes, putting on obedient expressions. With a dark face, this big shot of the police force signaled for everyone to stay where they were, then grabbed the phone and lightly ran half a floor down, answering the call at the bend of the staircase and impatiently lowering his voice. “What is it?”
Like ostriches, all the subordinates stretched their necks long and looked downward, faintly hearing their superior coldly say again, “What are you still doing at the hotel? I don’t have time to come over.”
The other side said a few more things. Xie Jia Hua’s expression grew somewhat frozen. After a while, he said, “Wait there,” and decisively hung up. He quickly made another call, gave a few instructions, then strode back upstairs.
The subordinates revealed gossiping faces again and were just about to open their mouths.
“Whoever talks is writing the report this time.”
“…” Shaking heads, shaking heads, shaking heads.
…
On this side, Xie Jia Hua led the police officers to kick open the door, working together to pin down the suspect, then climbed through windows and scaled walls to chase the suspect’s accomplice, who had escaped through the bathroom window. On the other side, Lu Guang Ming put down the phone and curled up dizzily under the quilt.
He had slept in a daze until the afternoon, only to discover that he had developed a high fever. His whole body was sore, aching, and heavy, and he could not even get out of bed. Of course, in this kind of situation, he had to find the culprit responsible, so he called Xie Jia Hua and demanded that the other man return to the hotel to “take responsibility,” saying that he had a high fever, but his head was so dizzy that he could barely hear what Xie Jia Hua said, only vaguely seeming to hear him tell him to “wait there.”
“I’ll wait for you to come so I can beat you hard with one punch,” Lu Guang Ming thought groggily, burying his head in the quilt.
His whole body was burning hot and uncomfortable, and he had sweated out a quilt full of cold sweat. After waiting for who knew how long, the room door was finally opened by someone using a room card. With difficulty, he lifted his eyelids and looked outside—only to see a hotel attendant and two paramedics pushing a stretcher trolley.
“…”
That heartless bastard surnamed Xie, who went cold the moment he pulled out, had called him an ambulance.
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