Black Lotus

The hand that Wen Niannan reached forward to open the door tightened as he tried his best to keep his usual tone, “Wh…at?” ”

“You came here to see me right? Right?”

Tang Shuo’s eyes stared straight at him, there were tears in them, and his tone sounded with a bit of grievance.

“No.”

“I don’t believe you, you’re lying…”

Seeing that Tang Shuo has been pressing on the door and not moving, Tang Lunxuan walked up and said, “Tang Shuo, get out of the way, stop causing trouble for Mr. Wen.”

Tang Shuo removed his hand, stepped back, and his eyes looked even sadder.

“Sorry, Tang Shuo, I…”

Another gust of wind suddenly blew. The sand that flew up made many pedestrians on the road close their eyes.

Wen Niannan raised his arm and placed it over his eyes to prevent sand from getting in. When the wind stopped, he lowered his hand, patted the sand on the scarf, and then subconsciously rubbed his hair.

The second he touched his hair, he was stunned.

The hat… the hat was gone…

And then he just looked dumbfoundedly at Tang Shuo in front of him.

Tang Shuo’s eyes were also squinting. Noticing that Wen Niannan’s hat was blown away, he wanted to go pick it back up for him. But after seeing the eye-catchy bandage on his forehead, he froze.

Wen Niannan’s expression changed. He quickly picked up the hat in a panic and wanted to leave, but Tang Shuo grabbed his hand and asked in a trembling voice, “That wound, how did it get there? What happened?” 

“Let go, Tang Shuo… please….”

Tang Shuo let go of his hand and took a step back, but his face still looked very caring, “Niannan, does it hurt? Why are you hurt again? Why are you always hurt… does it not hurt…”

“I…”

???

Does it hurt? Of course, it hurts. It was because I reached for the thing that didn’t belong to me and ended up like this, who can I blame?

“Is it from Gu Yansheng? Did he hit you again right? That bastard, I’ll go make him pay!”

“That’s enough, Tang Shuo, it’s not worth it for you to go, not worth it…” Hearing that Tang Shuo wanted to go find Gu Yansheng, Wen Niannan quickly stopped him.

He couldn’t let him go, he couldn’t…

What if Gu Yansheng and Tang Shuo really got into a fight? What if Gu Yansheng now has a grudge against Tang Shuo and wants revenge?

Wen Niannan knew what kind of methods Gu Yansheng would use. Back in high school, there was a person who was bothering Shen Luoan. Later, a bag was placed onto him and he was beaten until hospitalized. After that, he dropped out of school.

In addition, mom was home too. The Gu Family and the Lu Family never showed any mercy against enemies. When they just got married, he witnessed clearly how Gu Yansheng and Zhou Yuanfeng treated the companies that opposed the Gu Corporation.

Wen Niannan looked at Tang Lunxuan, who was standing on the side and not speaking. His eyes flashed a sense of guilt.

I must not bring them into this.

Tang Shuo felt wronged in his heart and felt wronged by Wen Niannan too. The person that he thought about during the day and dreamed of during the night was being abused like this by someone else. The person he loved was being hurt over and over again, yet he couldn’t do anything.

“Not worth it? Then is that Gu Yansheng bastard worth all your efforts? Has he ever cared about you? Has he ever cherished you? No! Not even once!”

It sounded like an angry roar, but also as if he was trying to bring out his complaints. Wen Niannan looked at Tang Shuo, whose eyes were red and whose voice was hoarse, the guilt in his heart grew deeper and deeper.

Other pedestrians looked over and occasionally whispered to each other. Tang Lunxuan was afraid the video incident from last time would happen again.

A complex expression could be seen in his eyes as he slightly lifted the frame of his glasses.”Tang Shuo, go talk about it inside. There are too many people here, let’s not give the chance for another misunderstanding like last time and cause trouble for Mr. Wen.”

Tang Shuo slowly looked at the people around and whispered, “Can I?”

Wen Niannan had his head lowered and didn’t speak. After a while, he replied, “Okay…”

Tang Lunxuan’s phone suddenly rang. He took it out and took a look at the caller, and then frowned. He looked up and said to his little brother, “Tang Shuo, I have something to do at the company, you can go with Mr. Wen first.”

Then he turned to Wen Niannan on the side and said softly, “Mr. Wen, sorry that I have to leave so early. I’ll invite you to a cup of coffee next time.”

With that, he slightly nodded and turned to go in the car in front.

Wen Niannan looked at Tang Shuo, who had been looking down the whole time and then walked into the studio. Tang Shuo quickly followed.

“Do you want to drink water? I can go get a glass for you.”

“No thank you, I want to go check out the piano.”

The piano room was very different from what he saw last time. After the remodel, the walls were now decorated with a lot of decorations and paintings, completely unlike the style of Tang Shuo.

Wen Niannan walked around the piano and gently touched the paintings on the wall. His mood didn’t seem to be as down as before anymore, then… he suddenly stopped and stared at the painting directly behind the piano.

In the painting, there was a young man in a white shirt, sitting in front of the classroom windows and playing the piano. The young man’s face had a confident and naive smile, and the golden sunshine shown on his back adding a touch of dazzling light to the background. 

Tang Shuo appeared beside him and also looked up at the painting. He said nostalgically, “Do you still remember when this was? I’ll remember forever, never can I forget something like this.”

Of course, Wen Niannan still remembered too. This was when he and Tang Shuo first met. At that time, he was told by his teacher to go to the music room to get some sheet music. But after seeing that piano in the music room, he couldn’t help but sit down and start playing.

The smooth sound flowed out of the piano. The more he played, the more he was dragged into the music. Even his face unconsciously showed a smile.

“Of course, when I was concentrating on playing, you suddenly opened the door and tripped.”

He remembered back then after Tang Shuo fell, his nose was even bleeding but still insisted on getting- up and greeting him with a smile…

Author’s Notes:

Haha, I suddenly thought of something, when Master Tang heard that Nian Nian wanted to divorce, would he celebrate with fireworks?

Thank you to my dear supporters, I’ll continue to work hard!

What will Gu Scum do after finding out Nian Nian went to the hospital?

Translated by: UnderTheMoon

Edited by: Summit