love me don't hide

Chapter 10 If empathy is a sin, then what should happen to the subsequent love (1)
For Li Hongye, what does Shen Jiyang's important friend's death have to do with her?
It was just a momentary absence, she didn't have any other thoughts.

"Do you think I'm pitying you?" She raised her chin slightly, and her eyes finally formed a straight line with his. "Is it worthy of pity because you miss someone who has died?" She shook her head and couldn't help laughing.

Interrupted by her inexplicable laughter, Shen Jiyang found that he couldn't understand the girl in front of him more and more. Her thoughts were too unbelievable.

If it was any other girl, he would have firmly won her heart with the trick just now, but Li Hongye was completely unmoved.

"Since it is an important relic of your friend, please put it away." She was not interested in playing emotional games with this great love saint. Although his photography skills were really superb, it was not enough to make her fall in love with him.

Love should come naturally, not a trap set by him and waiting for her to fall into it.

"Are you planning to go out like this?" Shen Jiyang obviously couldn't understand.

"It's just an opening, it's not a big deal." While speaking, she pulled hard, and the fabric fell off in a circular shape along the gap in the shoulder. Then, she also took off the sleeve on the other side, and the original long-sleeved school uniform fell off. The trousers became a sleeveless vest, "this way it won't feel awkward."

Shen Jiyang's eyes widened, he couldn't react for a long time, he didn't expect her to do this at all, she was so different.

Still, it made him more and more interested in her.

Looking at the back of her leaving gracefully, Shen Jiyang licked his lips, and a wicked light flashed in his eyes.

He will take her down!

When Li Hongye walked out of the school gate, she was stopped by a black BMW car.The next second, the window of the back seat was rolled down, and she saw clearly that the person sitting in the car was Qu Jingxuan who had left early.Old Xu was not in the car, probably he had already gone back first.I don't know if Qu Jingxuan went back first and then came out, or if he has been waiting here.

Seeing her school uniform without sleeves, Qu Jingxuan frowned: "How did the clothes become like this?"

"Instead of wearing clothes with holes in the shoulders, it's better to just do this." She gave him a faint look, "Isn't this thanks to you?"

Qu Jingxuan frowned, and opened the back seat door: "Get in the car, I'll take you to buy some clothes."

"No need. If you are free now, please take me to the part-time job. I don't want to be late." While speaking, she had already got into Qu Jingxuan's car unceremoniously.

"It's up to you, where is your part-time job?"

"No. 115, Outer Ring Street, East of the City."

Qu Jingxuan's heart trembled suddenly when he heard the sound, and he looked at Li Hongye in surprise. That address was where the "old place" was.

Li Hongye met his gaze puzzledly: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." He calmed down, and then ordered the driver to drive.

The car started and drove to the address she said.

The interior of the carriage was so silent that only the sound of the engine could be heard. Qu Jingxuan looked sideways at Li Hongye who was sitting next to her from time to time. She first stared blankly at a point in front of her with a blank face, then turned her head slightly after noticing his gaze, He asked indifferently, "Do you have something to say?"

She left the activity room early tomorrow, but ran into him at the door again. Based on her understanding of Qu Jingxuan, there must be a reason why he made a special trip to wait for her at the school gate.

Qu Jingxuan withdrew his gaze, paused, and asked, "Is your mother... all right?" He asked circumstantially.

Li Hongye's face suddenly sank, and a deep sadness appeared on his originally calm face.

"She passed away when I was very young." She took a breath and said slowly.

"Then your father..."

Li Hongye turned her head in doubt, when did he care about her so much?A few days ago, he issued an "extracurricular hunting order" against her, but now he actually cares about her family. What is he trying to do?
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Li Hongye's probing eyes made him a little guilty, he turned his head away unnaturally, "I'm just curious why you need to work to earn money by yourself, can't your father afford your living expenses?"

"Both he and his mother have passed away." When she said this, the whole car fell silent instantly.

Arriving at the "old place" after a while, Li Hongye said to him in a low voice: "Thank you." He opened the door and got off.

It wasn't until the sound of closing the door that Qu Jingxuan turned his head slowly.Her petite back looks so straight and firm, just like her character, strong and forbearing, never showing weakness to anyone.

She walked farther and farther, and then disappeared into a shop with simple decoration.

The wooden signboard hung on the metal bracket, swaying slightly in the evening wind, making a "creaking" sound, his eyes gradually focused, and finally fixed on the signboard - the old place.

Falling into silence, he couldn't help but think of what she said just now. She said that her parents had passed away. Is it true or not?Should he believe it?
As if by destiny, she walked into his life and disrupted his peaceful and orderly pace of life.He originally thought that her influence was limited to Tianxing Academy.But he didn't expect that even the "old place", a paradise he treasured in his heart, was also occupied by her.Is it intentional or unintentional?
All this happened by such a coincidence that he had to fall into the conspiracy theory created by himself.

The plots that often come to mind in the novel, the abandoned illegitimate daughter, in order to avenge the ruthlessness of her biological father, deliberately gets close to her father's family, and finally destroys the happiness they have little by little with her own hands...

Will Li Hongye's existence be like the protagonists in those novels?
Maybe it was a conspiracy from the moment she refused to join the Imperial City.

No, he can't let things go on like this, he wants her to leave, to leave his life completely...

Time flies, and several days have passed in a blink of an eye.

On the morning of this weekend, the streets of the old district in the west of the city were still lively.

The clear blue sky is like a beautiful oil painting, and several wild geese flying south fly past in neat herringbone formation.

Shen Jiyang quickly raised his camera and captured this beautiful picture.

He strolled the streets with his camera, everything here is strange to him, mottled dilapidated buildings in the old district, bumpy gravel roads, and groups of bicycles coming and going.

He has a wealthy family and has never set foot in this area, so when his mother found a photo of the background of the old area while sorting out old things, he couldn't help being tempted and asked Li Hongye for a second photo shoot.

Before Li Hongye arrived, he felt that he should take a stroll first to feel the quaint atmosphere here.

Walking in the narrow alleys covered with moss, the breath is full of sunshine.

"Senior Ji Yang!" Hearing a familiar voice from a distance, he subconsciously turned his head to look at the alley, only to see Jin Yasha waving her arms at him with a bright smile on her face.Beside her, Li Hongye stood quietly with a calm expression.

Just as he was walking towards them, suddenly, a figure jumped up from behind very quickly, and he instinctively turned sideways to avoid it.At the same time that the figure passed by him, his neck felt loose, and the camera that was originally hanging around his neck disappeared.Before he had time to make the next move, the man had already ran out of the alley at a fast speed.

Seeing this, Li Hongye immediately chased him out.

Jin Yasha also followed Li Hongye's footsteps immediately.When Shen Jiyang, who was some distance away from them, ran out of the alley, they had long been out of sight, and he had no choice but to wait where he was.

The moment the camera was snatched away just now, he was a little dazed, because he never expected to encounter such a thing, so he missed the best time to pursue him.

But more importantly, for Shen Jiyang, since childhood, only when he helped others, he never thought that one day, he would need to ask others for help.Moreover, he believes that everyone has a purpose in everything they do, but Li Hongye's actions just now broke his perception.She chased him out almost reflexively, without saying a word, not even giving him a look, which made him fall into deep thought.

Ten minutes later, Li Hongye and Jin Yasha appeared in front of him side by side under the sunshine all over the ground. In Li Hongye's hand, he was holding the camera he had just lost.

"Remember not to go into the alley next time. People dressed in famous brands like you are easy to be targeted." Li Hongye said with a smile when handing over the camera. Like kind advice between friends.

"Thank you." He hung the camera back around his neck, and the three walked side by side on the street.

"I didn't help you for nothing. You owe me a favor, and I will get it back." Li Hongye stopped walking, raised her eyebrows with a smile.

Shen Jiyang was a little dazed, looking at her face quietly, her expression told him that this was not a joke.

She really had a purpose, and it seemed that his consistent belief was not wrong.

"Okay, I'll wait for you to ask for this favor."

"Senior Ji Yang, you have to repay your idol well. You didn't see just now that when the robber had nowhere to escape, he threatened the idol with a camera. Normally, the idol could settle the opponent with two or three hits, but in order to keep Your camera, she got kicked by the robber." Jin Yasha said with lingering fear, "If I wasn't so useless, that guy would definitely not be able to escape."

"You..." Only then did Shen Jiyang notice that Li Hongye's clothes were stained, as if they had been rolled on the ground a lot.

"It's not that exaggerated. I worked so hard just because I didn't want to break my promise."

I would rather get hurt than fight to get back the camera for him.

Even Shen Jiyang, who claims to understand women's hearts very well, can't see through that she is doing this purely to keep her promise, or is it a premeditated play hard to get...

"I took pictures of those just now, and when the time comes, I will post them on the Internet. With the help of the masses, I will definitely be able to find that bad guy!" While speaking, Jin Yasha naturally held Shen Jiyang's arms.

He was slightly taken aback, and looked at Li Hongye with a little embarrassment.

And she avoided her eyes wisely, pretending she didn't see anything.

The three of them walked side by side along the street, the sycamore trees on both sides blocked the sunlight into mottled spots of light, and their ears were filled with the proper noise of the street.

It wasn't until the end of the street that Li Hongye thought of anything: "Why did you choose this place? Is there any special meaning?"

"My mother lived in this place for a while. She once said that the time she spent here was the most memorable in her life."

The dilapidated old district is full of the taste of history, but what really attracted him was the story about the past that his mother said.She didn't say in detail why she lived in this place during those days, but she could feel from her smile that this place left her with a very good memory.

"Looking for mother's footprints?" Li Hongye's words made Shen Jiyang feel very appropriate, yes, that was his purpose today.

"It's here." Shen Jiyang took out the remake of the photo he found from his mother's pile of old things from the camera, and pointed to the dilapidated five-story building in front of him, "My mother lived in this apartment back then."

In the photo displayed on the camera screen, there is only the back view of a young girl.From her posture, it can be seen that this photo was taken secretly. At that time, she was probably about to walk up the stairs of the apartment. The photographer followed her and took this beautiful back view of her.

"It was my father who took the photo." Shen Jiyang explained that from the perspective of the photo, it is easy for people to misunderstand the photographer as the kind of voyeur who follows people behind. He doesn't want Li Hongye to misunderstand.

Li Hongye and Jin Yasha nodded thoughtfully, and Li Hongye's eyes quickly focused on the pink dress worn by the girl in the photo.

"This dress must have been very popular back then." Li Hongye said with a smile, "My mother also has the same dress."

"Really?" Shen Jiyang broke away from Jin Yasha's arm calmly, came to her, stared at her deeply, with a shallow and slightly charming smile on the corner of his mouth, "Is this a kind of fate?" Woolen cloth?"

Li Hongye was unmoved, and said indifferently: "I never believe in fate."

What a girl who doesn't know how to be interested...

"I believe in fate!" Jin Yasha said excitedly, "It's like the first time I met senior Ji Yang on the streets of Washington, the encounter that afternoon was as beautiful as a fairy tale. Okay, I didn’t expect him to be my senior.” When Jin Yasha was talking about her fate with Shen Jiyang, Shen Jiyang had already led Li Hongye to start shooting in front of the old apartment.

The shutter sounded crisply and neatly. With Shen Jiyang's proficient technique, Li Hongye didn't need to deliberately pose at all. He could find the best angle by himself and capture the picture he wanted in one go.

Jin Yasha watched quietly, but her eyes never left Shen Jiyang from the beginning to the end.

There are actually two purposes for the trip to the old district, one is to find the footprints of his mother as Shen Jiyang said, and the other is that he wants to take advantage of the atmosphere here to spend a good time with Li Hongye alone.I don't know if she noticed something, but in the end the couple turned into a threesome, and the light bulb was still the overly enthusiastic Jin Yasha.

However, Shen Jiyang didn't hate Jin Yasha, but he never classified her as a girlfriend, but the other party didn't seem to think so. She was full of vitality and had confessed to him no less than ten times, even if she was rejected. Now, still so energetic.Over time, Shen Jiyang got used to having such a noisy little follower.

As for Li Hongye, bringing Jin Yasha over was purely because of Zhong Xiaoyu's unreasonable troubles. When he got up early in the morning, he counted how Shen Jiyang tricked one girl after another in front of her like chanting scriptures. It makes people feel that he has also experienced the process of being pursued by Shen Jiyang, falling in love and being dumped.

In the end, his persuasion did not change her decision to come to the old district, so he summoned Jin Yasha.Jin Yasha, who had nothing to do at home on weekends, was planning to go out with a camera to collect pictures. When she heard that she could see Shen Jiyang, she was as happy as a child who had received a reward, and followed happily.

The shooting went quite smoothly this time, the intensity of the sun was moderate, and there were not many people around.

When Shen Jiyang was immersed in the pleasure of shooting, the phone rang, breaking the harmonious atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)