Chapter 131

  Zi Yichen's performance went exceptionally smoothly.

  Mainland artist coming to Hong Kong, it's inevitable to receive boos, let alone Qi Yichen who rose to fame from a talent show and has limited influence in the mainland. Unexpectedly, the response on the day of the performance was surprisingly good, not only were there no hecklers, but also local bands and fans came out to support him spontaneously. Qi Yichen had brought his band to Hong Kong for a short performance some years ago, and had made friends with many local bands. Although most of these bands have disbanded now, their influence still remains. They rallied together, calling on half of the fans in Hong Kong to take action. As soon as Qi Yichen appeared on stage, thousands of people in the audience raised their right hands, with their index and pinky fingers raised, paying tribute to him. The scene was so exciting that it cannot be described in words.

  Li Jin stood backstage, quietly watching as Zhai Yichen ran and shouted with his guitar in the center of the spotlight, singing along with the numerous fans below. In a daze, he suddenly thought back to that quiet and silent deep night, when he had ridden a bicycle with someone through half the city to a seaside warehouse, to hold a rock concert that belonged only to the two of them.

  It's been only a few months, but everything feels like it happened in a past life, unbearable to look back on.

  The performance ended at night, and Qi Yichen met with friends for a long time to drink together, and Li Jin went along. A group of rock youths who had not seen each other for many years gathered together to get drunk, until they couldn't even go back to the hotel, and lay scattered in the wine bar suite. Li Jin originally wanted to see if there were any good seedlings worth cultivating, but at first he didn't drink a drop, and ended up lying down gloriously, showing how fierce Hong Kong youths are.

  The next day, he woke up at 8 o'clock in the morning. Li Jin's chest was pressed against a fluffy head, and it was hard to breathe. He pushed twice but couldn't move, so he simply pulled the person away by their hair. This brother was quite stubborn, and even after being pulled like that, he didn't wake up, instead making snoring sounds and continuing to sleep on another person's body. Li Jin finally managed to sit up, looking around at the messy room with a long sigh. At this moment, someone beside him suddenly laughed.

  He turned his head, saw who it was, and muttered in a low voice: "Your friend is really generous."

  Zi Yichen took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it up and smiled: "Thanks for the compliment. They said there's a small performance at a bar near HKU this afternoon, they asked me to go watch, want to come together?"

  Li Jin was also uncertain and said: "I'll check the schedule, if there's nothing urgent then..."

  Come to an abrupt end.

  He lowered his head, with five missed calls and a message on his phone.

  The phone number belongs to Li Yiheng, and so does the text message, which is very short, just one sentence.

  "Do you have plans for tomorrow?"

  The text message was sent at 2 o'clock last night, after five unreturned calls.

  Neither too fast nor too slow, Li Jin could even recall the tone and voice of Li Yi Heng when he said this sentence.

  But this time is not right.

  Unless something big happened, Li Yiheng's sleep time had always been stable, and he was usually asleep by 12 o'clock. Not sleeping at two could only prove -

  He has been waiting for his own echo, and doesn't even know what he has become in his haste.

  "Also Chen, I'm not going." Li Jin grabbed her coat and headed out, "You have fun with your friends, take care of your throat."

  "Don't worry." Zhai Yichen snapped his fingers and watched him hurry away. Until Li Jin walked very far, he turned his body sideways and slapped the person who had just lain on Li Jin's body with a loud slap on the back of the head.

  "You're out of luck!" Qi Yichen said, "Someone else has already claimed her, she won't be yours to chase after!"

  The bar was half underground, open at night, and empty in the morning. Li Jin walked while calling Li Yi Heng, who answered quickly, as if he had been waiting for this call all along.

  "Li Yi Heng, I had a gathering last night and didn't hear your call, sorry." Li Jin apologized before the other party could speak.

  "It's okay." Li Yiheng smiled and said, "I didn't look for you for anything in particular, I just wanted to ask if you have any plans today. If not, would it be alright if we spend a day together?"

  Li Jin opened his mouth wide, hesitated for a long time, and swallowed it back.

  Li Yiheng rarely made any demands, and even if he did, as long as Li Jin said no, he would let it go. But this time, behind his consultative tone, Li Jin sensed a flavor that was completely different from usual.

  It's as if he was clearly expecting himself to agree, but deliberately pretended to be very respectful of the other person's opinion.

  Li Jin walked out of the bar, outside the sun was shining brightly, a gentle breeze brought sweet fragrance. In fact, he still had many things to attend to today, but at this moment, he felt that nothing was more important than Li Yi Heng's small unspoken request.

  "It's okay." Li Jin said with a smile, "I'm free today, where are you? I'll go find you."

  "No, you wait there, I'll come pick you up."

  Half an hour later, a silver-gray Cadillac stopped in front of Li Jin, and Li Yi Heng rolled down the window and smiled: "Get in."

  The car was speeding down the road with two people inside. Li Jin, who was buckling his seatbelt, teased him, "You really do have a luxury car wherever you go."

  "It's borrowed." Li Yiheng gave him a glance, his gaze was like X-ray, seeing through Lei Jin, "Full of wine smell, drank quite a bit last night, didn't you?"

  Li Yiheng listened attentively, nodding his head from time to time. After listening, he summarized and asked: "Are there any good candidates among these people?"

  "What a pity, no." Li Jin shrugged and looked out the window, feeling that the rapidly passing scenery was getting more and more unsettling. "Where are you taking me?"

  "I want to take you to see someone, but before that, I have to clean up this drunkard first." Li Yiheng said, looking straight ahead.

  "What? You want to sell me out while I'm in a foreign land?"

  "Don't worry, no one wants you except me." Li Yiheng tilted his head and glanced at him with a gaze that seemed to be able to appraise Lu Jin's worth just by looking.

  Li Jing let out a cold hum and stopped talking.

  Li Yiheng first took him back to the hotel for a bath, washing away all the wine smell, and then called the men's clothing store to compare sizes and send over a suit. Li Jin was trying on clothes in front of the mirror while muttering to himself, wondering who he was going to meet that required such formality, even changing into new clothes. It seemed like meeting his new parents-in-law wouldn't be any more serious than this.

  The crow's mouth was spoken of by him.

  After changing clothes, Li Yiheng drove him directly to Shek O. There are many celebrity villas on the peninsula, and Li Yiheng introduced them one by one. This is Maggie Cheung's, this is Jackie Chan's, who lives next to whom, whose dog often gets lost. Lei Jinfeng had heard of these before, but not as clearly and in detail as Li Yiheng did. As he listened to him talk along the way, he became more and more interested. When the car turned onto a fork in the road, Li Yiheng's voice suddenly stopped, and only then did he react belatedly.

  Mr. Li Yiheng is not a gossip person, why did he gossip about several villas for so long today?

  It's not easy...

  He turned his head suspiciously and indeed, Mr. Li's fingers were clenched tightly and his eyes were fixed, even his smile was not quite natural.

  Is this... tense?

  After driving for a while, Li Yiheng stopped the car in front of a villa. The gatekeeper saw someone and ran over to greet them with a smile from afar. As he approached, before even seeing Li Yiheng's face, he bowed his head and respectfully asked, "Young Master, how are you?"

  Li Yiheng murmured "uh-huh" and rolled down half of the car window, asking: "Is the garage door open?"

  The gatekeeper laughed so hard that his face was all scrunched up: "Open, open, young master, the old master has been waiting for you, he's been reading for a whole morning."

  Li Yiheng smiled and said: "Call Shishu for a long time. Trouble you to go ahead and help me greet Shishu, just say we've arrived."

  After finishing speaking, he turned a corner and headed towards the garage.

  The garage was dimly lit, and the voice-controlled lights didn't work even when they were turned on. Li Yiheng parked the car and naturally went to unfasten his seatbelt. Just as his hand reached for the buckle at his waist, he was suddenly stopped by Li Jin.

  "Who do you want me to meet?" asked Li Jin.

  He had asked this question many times along the way, and Li Yihe always smiled but didn't answer. Now that he was being called Young Master, it made him more and more uneasy, and now that he had asked, it seemed like Li Yihe wouldn't get off the carriage if he didn't explain clearly. Li Yihe looked at him with this expression, and could only sigh before speaking honestly: "He's a great-uncle of mine. He and my father were lifelong close friends, and when our family encountered difficulties in the past, we relied on Great-Uncle's help to get through it. After my parents passed away, I've always treated him as my only relative. Li Jin, he told me that if I ever met someone I wanted to spend a lifetime with, I had to bring them over for him to meet... so I thought I'd take this opportunity to bring you along to pay your respects..."

  He grasped Lei Jin's hand with his palm facing upwards, his broad palm was sweaty, warm and moist, causing Lei Jin to gradually become dazed.

  "Sorry, nothing. Let's discuss it first." Li Yi Heng tightly grasped his hand, his tone was calm and composed, but every movement of his body revealed how worried he was that Lai Jin would refuse, "If you're not happy, I can send you back now."

  Li Jin's shock and resistance gradually dissipated into nothingness in this act of weakness.

  "Speak up, I'm still empty-handed." Li Jin raised his body and gently bumped against Li Yi Heng's forehead with his head. "First time meeting an elder, not even a gift to show respect, how impolite."

  Li Yiheng smiled slowly.

  He pulled over Li Jin and planted a deep kiss on his forehead: "Thank you."

  "What's there to thank for." Li Jin rubbed his forehead and muttered softly.

  Li Yiheng burst out laughing: "Lai Jin, don't be nervous, Shi Shu is a great person. I've already confessed to him that I like men. He's open-minded and definitely won't oppose us."