Ch19 - Fear Comes After (2/2)
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Yu Hao didn’t know why but he couldn’t help himself from laughing out loud. Zhou Sheng angrily gesticulated, motioning for him to keep his voice down, then told the other person on the line that his bleeding had stopped. Huang Ting was probably asking them to go over as soon as possible.
“Let’s go ba.” Zhou Sheng pulled Yu Hao up, then asked, “Can you walk?”
“I can walk by myself.” Yu Hao said hurriedly.
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Zhou Sheng didn’t pick him up again. He bowed down slightly as he helped him out of the hospital.
Half an hour later at the station, Shi Ni hugged Zhou Sheng as she cried for a while. She tried to hold her tears back in front of Yu Hao and asked in a soft voice, “Are you okay?”
Yu Hao smiled as he looked at Shi Ni, “It’s a minor injury.” Then he saw the middle-aged man and woman behind Shi Ni, “Aren’t you going to introduce us?”
Shi Ni’s crying face broke out into a smile. She introduced her uncle and aunt, and both of them kept thanking Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng profusely for their help. Their expressions were very forced. Evidently, they were still coming to terms with the truth that Huang Ting had just revealed to them and had not calmed down their rage yet.
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Huang Ting personally interrogated Shi Liang. Everyone was worried that Shi Liang would rather die than admit his crime, and thought that he might even counter charge against Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng for breaking into his house to attempt his murder. They could only interrogate Shi Liang for a maximum of 24 hours. Once time was up, if he refused to confess, the police would have to release him.
Shi Ni looked into the interrogation room and said, “I want to see him.”
“Don’t go.” Yu Hao said, “At the very least, you’ll truly be safe from now onwards.”
Shi Ni said, “No, I must go.”
Zhou Sheng, “We’ll accompany you.”
Yet Shi Ni wiped her tears away before she said, “Let me go by myself. Trust me, Yu Laoshi.”
Yu Hao pondered over it for a moment. Shi Ni stood in front of him somewhat stubbornly, still dressed in her pajamas. He looked down and saw Shi Ni’s hands — her fingers were trembling nonstop.
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Yu Hao opened his hand up. Shi Ni placed her hand atop his palm, then Yu Hao closed his hand and earnestly said, “Ok, I trust you.”
In this moment, he felt Shi Ni’s newborn soul. Her gaze made him recall one moment — after he stepped onto General’s jindouyun, the two of them flew past the top of the tower and said farewell to the princess who wore a Western-style dress. In response, she had picked up the ends of her dress to perform a curtsy — her gaze seemed to convey that from that moment on, she no longer feared anything.
Just like how Yu Hao had felt after the sun rose in his dreamscape — it was as if all the haze in his heart had vanished without a trace.
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Shi Ni turned around and went into the interrogation room by herself. She only spent five minutes in there before Huang Ting brought her out.
Everyone started getting anxious.
Huang Ting made an OK gesture as a signal that they had succeeded.
Shi Ni looked extremely worn out. Her aunt took her to one side before the two of them talked to each other softly.
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“She unlocked her father’s phone.” Huang Ting whispered, “There were some…….of Shi Liang’s photos on it. Shi Liang can’t deny it any further.”
Yu Hao almost instantaneously thought of the top floor of the lighthouse, where blurry images had revolved around them in the loft.
Shi Liang abandoned his charges against Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng, then began searching for a lawyer straight away.
Meanwhile, Yu Hao, Zhou Sheng, Shi Ni and Shi Ni’s uncle and aunt sat in a cafe as they chatted for a bit. Shi Ni’s uncle decided to bring her to her grandmother’s house in the neighbouring city first. Her grandmother wanted to see her.
“Nini, you can call me whenever you want if anything comes up.” Yu Hao knew that the next step was to wait for the hearing. They were all involved in this, so they would meet again when the time comes.
Shi Ni nodded and made a gesture that meant that they should keep in contact through QQ, before she got into her uncle’s car.
Zhou Sheng let Yu Hao hold onto his shoulder as the two of them stood in front of the station entrance. Ying city ushered in the day with the best weather in this wintry period.
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The winds blew and gathered all the dead leaves on the treetops away from the branches, which then whirled away in all directions. The sky was painted an azure blue, and heavy traffic packed the streets. Rear view mirrors, car windows and the glass walls of high-rise buildings all reflected the white clouds in the horizon, as if someone had poured down a bucket of a blue and white paint mixture from the sky, which turned into a soft graffiti that drifted through the city.
The sun shone brightly and warmly down on everyone in the city.
“Do you want a cup of coffee?” Huang Ting said, “I’ve notified your form teacher, he’s coming over now. We still need to wrap up some matters.”
Huang Ting went to buy coffee for them in the cafe across the street from the station. Chen Yekai wore a weird expression on his face as he sat opposite Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng.
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“Laoshi, your hair……..” Yu Hao said.
“It doesn’t look good?” Chen Yekai said.
“No.” Yu Hao smiled, “It looks really good, I just didn’t expect you to be so trendy!”
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When Chen Yekai received the news that “something bad is happening” he was getting a haircut in a luxurious styling salon. The barber had pushed up the hair at both sides of his head and was prepared to level off the top of his head like he was cutting grass, but Chen Yekai turned pale with fright after he saw his phone and kept urging Mr. Tony to hurry up because he had something urgent to attend to. Mr. Tony could only leave his hair be. After he combed it through and briefly blow-dried it, Chen Yekai flew over. But in the end, when he saw Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng eating cakes and drinking coffee, he was almost scared to death.
“Where’s Shi Ni?” Chen Yekai asked.
“She’s been picked up.” Zhou Sheng answered, “Let her have a good rest ba.”
“He admitted it?” Chen Yekai asked.
Yu hao and Zhou Sheng didn’t know how to reply to that for a moment. Huang Ting returned and placed the cups of coffee down, “He admitted it.”
Huang Ting and Chen Yekai looked at each other. Yu Hao could vaguely sense that Chen Yekai had already guessed the gist of what had happened — from how Yu Hao spent the night at the Shi residence, from how much Yu Hao was protecting Shi Ni, as well as the looks that he had observed on their faces. After Chen Yekai sat down, he hardly asked any questions.
“Laoshi, I’ll treat you to this.” Yu Hao fished out the box of chocolates that Shi Ni gave him yesterday. There was still one more piece left inside. Chen Yekai scrutinised Yu Hao before his slender fingers took the chocolate out of the box.
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Zhou Sheng said, “Let’s make a deal, Kaikai, let us off for the dormitory inspection bei.”
Chen Yekai, “……”
Yu Hao, “I really……..”
Huang Ting, “The two of them were afraid of getting punished, so they specially asked me to act as their witness.”
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Chen Yekai waved his hand to motion that it didn’t matter, then said to Huang Ting, “He admitted it so easily?”
Huang Ting nodded. The four of them remained silent for a long time. Chen Yekai put the chocolate in his mouth; his eyes narrowed as he chewed it a few times, “That’s good, everything has ended then. Let’s go, I’ll bring the two of you to go get a haircut.”
“I won’t go!” Zhou Sheng immediately said.
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Yu Hao, “My feet aren’t okay yet!”
Their protests were invalid. Chen Yekai filled in the form before bringing the two of them out for their haircuts. He looked at his new hairstyle in the mirror, then asked Yu Hao, “Do you think that Laoshi would look better with this hairstyle or a buzz cut?”
“Of course you look better like this.” It was the first time for Yu Hao to enter such an upscale salon, so he felt uneasy from head to toe.
Zhou Sheng said, “Don’t be so narcissistic anymore, you won’t look as good as Laozi even with a buzz cut.”
Chen Yekai, “……”