the knife of love

Chapter 43 Drug introduction, tool for venting anger

Looking at the door, Guan Lue saw a wet Tang Jingcheng standing in front of him, barefoot, with water dripping from his calves and hair.

"You..." He wanted to say, "Why can't you open the door with your clothes on every time", but in the end he swallowed the words and said another sentence.

"Are you home alone?"

Tang Jingcheng opened the door a little, and wrapped one arm around his waist to prevent the bathrobe on his body from being opened.

"There's no man around!" She replied, feeling a little choked up.

"Come in, I'm taking a shower!" She said as she walked into the room, without saying hello to Guan Lue, she went directly into the bathroom and closed the door.

Soon I heard the sound of water inside...

Guan slightly licked his cold teeth with his tongue, it's alright, a mentally disturbed woman, whatever she does is worthy of forgiveness.

Fortunately, Tang Jingcheng came out of the bathroom half an hour later. He still only had the nightgown on his body, but he tied up the belt anyway, and washed his body with a towel, but his white and tender skin was steamed pink by the hot water.

Guan Lue took a deep breath, and just about to speak, Tang Jingcheng snatched it up: "Thank you for being willing to testify for me in court!"

"..." Her preemptive attack was too fierce, making Guan slightly at a loss.

"You're welcome, but I'm very surprised why you didn't mention anything about us that night in your statement!"

"It's not necessary!" Tang Jingcheng raised his head and stared at Guan Lue for a while, "Do you still remember that night when I went to take a shower after the two of us finished, you sat on the balcony and answered the phone."

Of course Guan Lue remembered that it was Lou Qingxiao who called and asked where he was.

At that time, Guan slightly lied, saying that he was doing accounts in the store.

"I heard all your conversations that day. Your lying expression is very natural. At that moment, I wondered if Qiu Qiguan was with Yang Xi behind my back. When I called him, did he look like you? appearance!"

Guan Lue suddenly felt a little creepy.

"Tang Jingcheng, what do you mean by that?"

"I just can't get over this hurdle in my heart. He betrayed our relationship. God didn't even give me a chance to explain to me face to face. He died. I have to live the rest of my life, you know Well, I have to find a reason to convince myself."

"So you do everything possible to let me sleep with you, just to satisfy your own revenge?"

Guan Lue's anger immediately rushed to his head and heart. Before, he thought she was pestering him to use him as a drug to attract him, but now he realizes that he doesn't even count as a drug to attract her, but is her tool to vent her anger!
"Okay, count me as blind!" Guan Lue brushed Tang Jingcheng's body and walked over, knocking on the door and leaving.

Tang Jingcheng was hit by him and knocked her arm against the edge of the table. She frowned in pain, and opened the sleeve of the bathrobe. The whole arm was covered with blood marks from her own bite in the detention center, which was shocking.

"Do you love her?"

"Love!"

"Love?"

"Yes, I love it very much!"

She felt that Guan Lue's expression was the most affectionate when he said this, but it's a pity that his affectionate appearance was not directed at her.

So what if they slept?He entered her body, but how could she ever enter his heart!
Ye Tan was sitting on the steps outside Tang Jingcheng's apartment, and when he heard footsteps, he got up and stood up.

Guan Lue glanced at her coldly, and walked towards his car as if he didn't see her.

Ye Tan chased him a few steps and called him, "Ninth Brother, you're looking for her again? You can't do this!"

Guan slightly paused his back, and asked, "Who gave you the guts to follow me?"

"You have a ghost in your heart, otherwise you wouldn't have been unaware that I followed you all the way!" Ye Qin snatched the white, and his voice was a little lower, "Ninth Brother, you have changed, you wouldn't have acted so hastily before. Decide, let alone get so close to a woman!"

Guan slightly ignored and continued to move forward.

Ye Tan was not reconciled, and shouted at his back: "Do you know what it means for you to testify in court? What will happen if Miss Qingxiao finds out about the relationship between you two?"

"..." Guan Lue pretended not to hear, got into the car, closed the door, put the gear on and started the car.

The car quickly passed by Ye Tan, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Ye Tan ran after his headlights for a few steps, and shouted: "Didn't you say that there will only be one woman, Sister Qing Xiao, in this life? Are you lying to me, or are you simply deceiving yourself?"

It's a pity that Guan Lue lost his hearing a long time ago, the headlights disappeared, and he left in the dust.

Ye Tan stood where he was, looked up at the light on the top floor of the apartment, the woman in the room, what is she capable of?
Guan Lue drove back to his apartment in the park, opened the bottom drawer of the low cabinet in the bedroom, and found an old mobile phone from the bottom.

The battery of the mobile phone had long been exhausted. He found a universal charger to charge the mobile phone for a while, turned it on, and the first thing that came out on the screen was a screensaver of a photo of a couple.

The man's face is handsome, and the woman's smile is fresh and indifferent.

There was still a text message lying in the draft box that hadn't been sent in time. The content of the text message was only half edited, and the word "Cheng Cheng" was displayed in the recipient column.

Guan Lue sneered and turned off the phone, thinking of Tang Jingcheng's expression of gnashing his teeth every time he said that Qiu Qiguan was so in love with only hatred left, he couldn't help thinking, if one day she saw this unedited text message, how would she feel? ?
It's a pity that Qiu Qiguan didn't have time to send this text message until he died, and Tang Jingcheng would never see this text message.

Tang Jingcheng recuperated at home for a while, and the flesh wounds on his body were almost healed. As for the wounds in his heart, no one else could see them anyway.

Tang Ji called every day to urge her to go home and live, but she didn't want to.

Yu Huanxi also went to see her in the apartment every now and then. Even if she didn't go, two calls a day would be indispensable, just because she was afraid that something would happen if she stayed at home alone.

But Tang Jingcheng was very peaceful during that time, without any abnormal behavior, Yu Huanxi thought it was due to her insistence on taking medicine.

Soon Yunling entered December, and Yang Xi's case was finally closed.

Tang Jingcheng specially asked Yu Huanxi to ask Lawyer Fang out for a meeting.

"Has the real culprit been found out?" Tang Jingcheng asked Lawyer Fang face to face.

Lawyer Fang shook his head: "No."

"Then why is the case closed?"

"Actually, it's not a closed case, but the police haven't been able to find any new clues for a long time, the case has not progressed, and the victim's body must be buried in the ground, so it can only be closed as a "non-existent case". "

"Can it still be like this?" Tang Jingcheng felt that it was heinously sloppy.

Lawyer Fang smiled wryly with his glasses on: "I've seen this kind of thing too much. There are countless large and small criminal cases happening every day, and the police force is limited. It took a while to find out the truth, and in the end, I had to let it go. What's more, your case is not a shocking case."

Yu Huanxi couldn't help but sigh.

Tang Jingcheng sneered and said nothing.

After seeing Lawyer Fang, Yu Huanxi sent Tang Jingcheng back.

In the car.

"Jing Cheng, you have been resting at home for a long time, and there is a small reception tomorrow, why don't you come and have fun with me?"

"Huh? What?" Tang Jingcheng, who was leaning against the car window, seemed to be awakened from sleepwalking.

Yu Huanxi sighed: "Jing Cheng, why are you so absent-minded recently? How about I take you to see a psychiatrist in the afternoon?"

She always felt that Tang Jingcheng was a little weird during this time, and although she didn't notice any abnormal behaviors in her, she was too peaceful, as if she was wandering all the time.

Tang Jingcheng shook his head: "I'm fine, I don't need to see a doctor, what did you just say?"

"I said that there will be a reception tomorrow, and I think you'll go to have fun too, so just go out and meet people to get some air, okay?" Yu Huanxi asked patiently.

Tang Jingcheng's eyes drooped: "Okay!"

it is good?
"You promised?"

"Well, yes!"

It was so straightforward, so refreshing that Yu Huanxi was flattered!

You must know that she has received countless invitations for industry events in the past two years, but there are very few of them that she actually attended, especially after Qiu Qiguan passed away, she has almost been isolated from the world.

"Okay, then get ready, I will pick you up at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon!"

At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Tang Jingcheng had changed his clothes, put on makeup, took his medicine, and was sitting in the living room waiting for Yu Huanxi.

Yu Huanxi arrived on time and called her: "Jing Cheng, I'm downstairs at your house, come down."

"it is good."

Tang Jingcheng took the bag, took out a pair of high-heeled shoes from the shoe cabinet, and put them on. He touched his chest habitually, and the warm jade just hit the position of his heart.

She lowered her head and untied the jade, and threw it into the drawer of the porch cabinet, only to accidentally see the small jade plaque at the bottom of the drawer.

The jade token was given to her by him when she accompanied Guan Lue to the Tengchong Jade Market that day. At that time, he also bought an ice jade bracelet.

I hate it, why did she forget to ask later, did he come back and give that jade bracelet to that woman named Qingxiao?
probably!

Tang Jingcheng leaned against the door of the porch cabinet, and suddenly felt nausea in his chest!
Yu Huanxi didn't see Tang Jingcheng coming down after waiting for a long time, and was about to call her again when Tang Jingcheng came out of the building.

"Why so long?"

"I put on makeup again!"

"It's so beautiful!" Yu Huanxi couldn't help pinching her cheek, Tang Jingcheng turned around to open the door in disgust, "Don't touch me, the nail polish on your hands smells so bad!"

"..." Yu Huanxi was dumbfounded, "What dog's nose, can you smell it?"

The location of the reception is set in a gallery, and all the people who go there are people who are engaged in art work.

Tang Jingcheng hardly knew any of them, but Yu Huanxi seemed to know them all very well, so she dragged Tang Jingcheng to introduce her one by one.

Every time the other party heard the words "Tang Jingcheng", a short "weird and hard to find" expression first appeared on his face, and then he pretended to greet each other, but the greetings seemed too alienated.

It's no wonder, Tang Jingcheng just came out of the detention center, and he was involved in the murder case, and he was also mentally ill, huh—it's a little creepy to think about it, who would want to talk to her more.

But that's good too, Tang Jingcheng didn't like to talk in the first place, so as not to socialize.

"Sister Huanxi, go and play, I can just go shopping by myself!"

Tang Jingcheng took a glass of cocktail and walked deep into the gallery, stopping and going to look at the paintings on the wall.

But she didn't have much research on paintings, and what's hanging on the wall is still abstract, dotted with dots and lines, completely incomprehensible.

Tang Jingcheng took a quick look at the flowers and didn't see anything why, but unexpectedly felt that the cocktails made at this reception were very suitable for her appetite.

"ah……"

When Tang Jingcheng was changing the glass, she heard someone shouting in front of her. She looked for the sound and saw a young girl standing about two or three meters away. She had big eyes, curly hair, wearing a lake blue lace dress, tsk tsk ...like a bobby doll.

Bobby Doll was staring at a painting on the wall in a daze.

Tang Jingcheng was curious, so he walked over and took a look. The painting was called "Untitled". Just looking at the name, he couldn't complain. There are many black dots scattered around, and the black dots are not very particular. At first glance, it looks like ink has been poured on it.

"Can you understand this painting?" Tang Jingcheng asked Bobby Doll.

The doll turned around: "I don't understand, but I really like it!"

"You still like it if you don't understand it?" Tang Jingcheng rolled her eyes and was about to leave, but the baby grabbed her arm: "Sister, why do I have to understand it to like it? Like it is like it, Even if I don’t understand, I have the right to like him!”

"..." Tang Jingcheng shuddered suddenly, because she found that she couldn't refute the girl's reasoning, and this girl had a pair of extremely pure eyes, Tang Jingcheng seemed to be infected by her.

"You seem to be right." She actually smiled, and the girl suddenly shook her arm, and rushed to say, "Sister, you look so pretty when you smile, just like this painting!"

"..."

"Tangtang, why did you come here alone?"

The girl ran over when she heard the voice: "I don't want to keep disturbing you to talk about things!"

"Then you have to say hello to me, let me worry about you!" Tang Jingcheng felt that this voice was quite familiar with an angry and gentle voice.

She turned her head abruptly, and the man that the girl was holding was... Su Jue?

Su Jue also saw Tang Jingcheng, he was taken aback for a moment, and quickly brought Yao Xiaotang over.

"Miss Tang is here today too? It seems that this reception is not a small one, and it's really not easy to invite Miss Tang!"

This sounded like a compliment, but Tang Jingcheng always felt that he was mocking her.

"Mr. Su is serious. Look, you are here too. How can a reception where you show your face be simple?"

Tsk tsk... slick teeth.

Su Jue found this woman more and more interesting, but suddenly turned to look at Yao Xiaotang.

"Tangtang, I just wanted to introduce you. This is Miss Tang Jingcheng, a well-known jade carver. The bottle of watery lotus you saw last time was made by Miss Tang's fiancé."

"Really, sister, really?"

Facing Yao Xiaotang's innocent smile, Tang Jingcheng could only nod stiffly.

"Then sister, can you sell it to me? I really like it so much."

"But that piece has a special meaning to me."

"That's not easy? Just ask your fiancé to carve another one for you!" Yao Xiaotang was straightforward, but Tang Jingcheng's eyes froze.

Su Jue immediately explained hypocritically: "I'm sorry, Miss Tang, Tangtang didn't know that Teacher Qiu had passed away, so don't take it to heart."

Tang Jingcheng's face was already ugly: "It's okay, I won't bother you, goodbye!" After she finished speaking, she turned around to leave, but someone grabbed her sleeve from behind.

"Sister, good sister, I really like that water lotus, can you sell it to me? You can open it for as much as you want, Brother Su will definitely agree!"

The "brother Su" she mentioned should refer to Su Jue.

Tang Jingcheng was a little embarrassed. She remembered that Yu Huanxi had said that this Yao Daqian was a little mentally handicapped. From today's perspective, it was indeed the case.

"Miss Yao, don't be like this, I really don't want to sell!" Tang Jingcheng stretched out his hand to get rid of Yao Xiaotang, but she dragged her and refused to let go.

Soon there were some people around, which made Tang Jingcheng very embarrassed.

"Is it okay to let go of your hand first? We'll talk about it afterward."

"So you agree?"

"..."

"Sister, you agree, right? Brother Su, sister agrees!" Yao Xiaotang ran back to wrap Su Jue's arm in a "dud-dud-dud" manner, with an excited expression on his face.

Su Jue stepped up to the pole, nodded slightly: "Thank you, Miss Tang, for letting go!"

Nima... When did she say she wanted to give up her love!But due to the large number of people around, it was inconvenient for her to argue, so she could only bite the bullet and laugh without saying anything more.

After this incident, Tang Jingcheng felt uncomfortable, and she didn't want to stay at the reception anymore, so she left the gallery alone.

Originally, he wanted to talk to Yu Huanxi, but seeing that she was chatting enthusiastically, Tang Jingcheng gave up and planned to take a taxi back by himself.

It was already December at that time, and the temperature dropped sharply at night. Tang Jingcheng was only wearing a silk skirt, and the cashmere jacket outside was not cold at all.

There were few taxis at the entrance of the gallery, and she waited for a long time without catching one.

"Miss Tang, if you don't mind, I'll give you a drive!" A black Porsche stopped in front of Tang Jingcheng, and Su Jue poked his head out of the window.

Tang Jingcheng snorted: "No, how dare you let Mr. Su be the driver!"

"Thank you for your willingness to sell me the lotus that emerges from the water!"

"No, I didn't agree to sell it to you!"

"But you said we can talk about it afterwards, why don't we get in the car and have a good talk?"

Maybe it was because the man always spoke provocatively, or maybe it was because there were too many dark fluctuations hidden in Su Jue's eyes in the night, anyway, Tang Jingcheng agreed in a strange way, and opened the passenger's door sat on it.

"Do you know how Qiu Qiguan died in that car accident?"

Tang Jingcheng, who was still sitting still, suddenly said something next to him. Before he could react, Su Jue had already wrapped his arms around Tang Jingcheng's waist, and his thin lips curled into a smile: "I heard it's because The brakes failed, and he happened not to be wearing a seat belt at the time of the incident! After such an experience, why hasn't Ms. Tang learned her lesson?"

Then with a "snap", Su Jue deftly buckled Tang Jingcheng's seat belt.

Tang Jingcheng felt his heart tremble, and sat on the chair trembling with anger.

This man actually used her wounds to mock her, beast!

"Don't look at me like that!" Su Jue's body was still half pressed against Tang Jingcheng's chest, the two of them were too close, she seemed to be able to smell the dark hostility and coldness on this man's body, but his eyes Obviously smiling.

What a dangerous species.

"Stay away from me!" Tang Jingcheng pushed Su Jue away.

He retracted his body, straightened his somewhat messy shirt, and said like a dog, "Okay, let's get down to business, Miss Tang, let's make a price."

"Said not to sell!"

"But you are already in my car!" Su Jue answered very quickly, Tang Jingcheng only heard a "pop" in his ear, and he turned off the central control.

"What do you want to do?"

"I never miss what I want. If Ms. Tang is smart, let's have a good talk. If you have to tear your face apart, then I will definitely accompany you to the end!" Su Jue looked at her with dazed eyes.

The inside of the car was dark, and Tang Jingcheng had never seen such cold eyes.

"Are you threatening me?"

"No, it was you who promised my girlfriend just now, you can't break your word to a mentally handicapped!"

"You!" Tang Jingcheng was horrified. This man could easily use Yao Xiaotang's flaws as a negotiation condition, let alone his girlfriend.

"Simply a beast!"

"Praise, many people say that I am not even as good as a beast!" This man always spoke calmly.

Tang Jingcheng felt a little flustered, she grabbed the handle of the car door with one hand: "Open the door, let me get out of the car!"

"So you don't dare to talk anymore?" Su Jue's face forced her to come over.

Tang Jingcheng's eyelashes began to tremble, and she raised her chin with great effort, and looked at him: "Do you hear me, open the door, I want to get out of the car!"

"Haha..." Su Jue suddenly laughed, retracted his body, and leaned back on the chair.

"I was just joking with Ms. Tang just now, I didn't expect Ms. Tang to be so timid!" Su Jue seemed to have lost a bit of the viciousness in his eyes, and he took out a piece of paper from the storage box under the instrument panel.

"Look, this is the contract signed by Qiu Yueyi and me. In essence, the bottle of watery lotus has already belonged to me!"

Tang Jingcheng took the paper in a daze. On it was the sale contract of the bottle of green and white jade, and at the bottom was Qiu Yueyi's autograph.

"I know you are not reconciled, but don't forget, Qiu Yueyi is Qiu Qiguan's mother. If you really want to go to court, you may not have the right to control the bottle of green and white jade." Su Jue took the contract over, eyes wide open. He looked straight at Tang Jingcheng.

He seemed to enjoy the panic and despair in the woman's eyes.

"However, Ms. Tang has been involved in lawsuits recently, and she just escaped from a murder case a while ago, so she shouldn't be so stupid as to fall into another trap in a hurry."

Tang Jingcheng's heart trembled suddenly, this man was really scary, he was playing psychological warfare with her.

But he won.

He was right, so many things had happened recently, it was really impossible for her to get muddy all over her body for a bottle of blue and white jade.

"Okay, Mr. Su is very clever, I have learned the lesson today. The lotus bottle is in my studio, tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, you have someone to pick it up!"

Su Jue smiled, "Thank you."

"No, open the door!"

With a "snap", the central control was turned on, and Tang Jingcheng rolled out of his car as if he was running away, and ran all the way to the road. When he waved to stop the car, he saw Su Jue's car backing up again.

"Miss Tang, it's late at night, remember to add an extra dress when you come out!" As soon as he finished speaking, a man's coat was thrown on Tang Jingcheng from the car window, and Su Jue closed the window and left in the dust!

Tang Jingcheng stood on the side of the road for a long time before stopping a car. The driver asked her where she was going. She thought about it and reported the address of her studio.

There is a basement below the studio, where the vault is located.

Since Qiu Qiguan passed away, she has not taken any jobs, so there are not many things in the vault, most of which are works used in the last exhibition.

She placed the bottle of lotus that came out of water in a glass cabinet, and she turned on the light in the cabinet, and the white light illuminated the jade face clearly.

"Cheng Cheng, have you thought about it yet?"

"Um…"

"Really... no regrets?"

"No regrets!"

"But I'm so much older than you, aren't you afraid of other people's gossip?"

"Then are you afraid? If you are not afraid, I am not afraid either!...Qiu Qiguan, let's not be afraid, okay?...I have secretly liked you since I was a teenager, do you know how long I have been waiting for this day? ? You looked into my eyes, did you see? Qiu Qiguan, I love you..."

He didn't allow her to finish the following words, sealed them with kisses, and penetrated into them. She gave her most complete feelings to this man, youth, love, body, faith... After that, she thought that there would be marriage, and there would be more love. If you have children, you will live forever and grow old together, but in the end it becomes betrayal and abandonment.

He left, leaving her alone in this world, and now even the last thought left by him will be taken away.

"Qiguan..." Tang Jingcheng leaned against the glass cabinet, his voice choked up, and he collapsed on the ground.

At 10 o'clock the next morning, the sound of a car engine sounded at the door of the studio on time.

Tang Jingcheng went to open the door, but it was Su Jue who came.

"Mr. Su actually came to pick it up in person. It seems that this bottle of lotus is really in Mr. Su's eyes!" Tang Jingcheng sarcastically, but Su Jue did not fight back this time, because he noticed that Tang Jingcheng's complexion was very bad, and his make-up was depressed. , she was still wearing the long dress from last night's reception.

"Miss Tang stayed in the studio last night?"

"Is it strange?" She didn't answer directly, standing in a small yard connecting the front hall and back hall of the studio. There were several ginkgo trees planted in the yard, which seemed to be quite old.

Now in December, ginkgo leaves are falling all over the ground.

"Mr. Su, just wait for me here, I'll go and get the things." Tang Jingcheng turned and walked towards the backyard, the long skirt brushed the fallen leaves on the ground, and the ground was golden.

Su Jue always kept that back view in his heart. Tang Jingcheng wore a fiery red dress and walked into the backyard stepping on golden broken leaves all over the ground. He was thin, compromised, and did not struggle.

He used this method to take away her most precious thing. He broke into her life as a "beast" from the very beginning, so no matter what he did in the future, Tang Jingcheng would only hate him and have no love for him.

Guan Lue spends all his spare time in the suburban villa accompanying Lou Qingxiao in the past few days. It is rare for him to take a little spare time to visit Nine Commanders.

As soon as the car drove into the alley, I saw a thin figure standing at the door of Commander Nine.

Tang Jingcheng?
He stopped immediately and walked over.

"Hey!"

Tang Jingcheng turned around in fright when he shouted, and ran away when she saw that it was Guan Lue, but she couldn't run past Guan Lue.

"Why are you running?" Guan Lue was puzzled and grabbed her arm.

Tang Jingcheng retracted his hand in a daze, and Guan Lue realized that she was abnormal.

First of all, his complexion is waxy, with terrible makeup, and there are blue dark circles under his eyelids.

Then there was dressing, a grand red silk dress inside, and a big and long black cashmere coat outside, damn it was a man's coat.

Where did she come from?
"Why are you dressed like this?" Guan Lue's mind was running fast, and he asked tentatively, "Did you find a man again last night?"

"..." Tang Jingcheng frowned, staring at him for a while, neither denying nor admitting.

Guan Lue was flustered by her empty eyes.

Damn it, he lost to her virtue of being a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

Huh—he took a breath in his heart: "You came to find me?"

This time Tang Jingcheng reacted, shaking his head like a rattle: "No, I didn't come to see you."

"Then what are you doing here?"

"Passing by!"

"..."

Wearing overnight makeup and wearing a man's coat passing by?What's more, this is still a remote small alley.

Who believes it!
"Follow you, go in and sit down?" Guan Lue didn't expose it.

Tang Jingcheng thought for a while: "No." He turned around and left.

Guan slightly looked at her back and felt terrified, why couldn't mom get around this woman?
"Hey, Tang Jingcheng!" Guan Lue ran over, "Did something happen?"

Tang Jingcheng trembled, turned around suddenly, and said to him, "Guan Lue, the last thing he left me was taken away by others."

At that time, Guan Lue only felt a severe pain, as if a piece of his heart had been cut off by her.

(End of this chapter)