Chapter 16 In the evening, Su Bai returned to his apartment.
Coming out of the bathroom wearing a bathrobe, he went to his room barefooted. The door was locked and the curtains were drawn. The biggest advantage of the floor in the middle of the building was that there was no need to worry about someone jumping in from the window in the middle of the night.
Su Bai turned on the computer and a message popped on the screen.
The man who becomes Sea King: Master, Tang Xiao"s information has been sent to you by email.
Su Bai thought for a moment before returning a message: What has Chen Yuan been doing recently – from Your Grandfather.
Fingers were flying fast on the keyboard, and Master Su opened his inbox. There was a new email. He took a quick glance and deleted it completely afterwards.
It was information that was not known before. Tang Xiao has another ident.i.ty behind him. The eldest son of an Asian Mafia organization was engaged to the only daughter of a family clan in the United States. Unfortunately, the woman was a.s.sa.s.sinated before the wedding. Later, it was found that she was a.s.sa.s.sinated by a secret agent sent by the mercenary organization T, by an opposing family clan.
Afterward, Tang Xiao and his fiancee"s family jointly took down the enemy family clan. It was unfortunate that the mercenary organization T was too big. They did not know the ident.i.ty of T, or even where the headquarters of the mercenary organization was.
Although Tang Xiao and his fiancee were not officially married, the fiancee"s family has regarded Tang Xiao as their own. It is presumed that they are also an important source for Tang Xiao"s arms smuggling in the United States.
There was no difference between everything here and what Tang Xiao said. It fit perfectly, but it fit so perfectly that it confused Su Bai.
“Much like a script shown step by step by the director. If it"s all arranged by Tang Xiao beforehand…” Su unplugged the computer.
If so, Tang Xiao was really too smart, too terrible, and too charming.
How could he have not known such a person before? If it had not been for the unexpected reincarnation into Su Mo, with the relationship between Su Mo and Su Yiyang, as well as the subsequent appearance of Ye Ziwu, he and Tang Xiao would have never met before.
Su Bai stepped down from the ** to the wine cabinet in the room and poured half a gla.s.s of whiskey before swallowing into his mouth. The hot alcohol only made him more excited.
Chen Yuan, is this why you chose to cooperate with Tang Xiao?
Something was not right. Su Bai took a deep breath and kept pacing around the room barefoot.
Simon .D, T; the head of the mercenary organization, the chip, Tang Xiao, Chen Yuan, cooperation.
The cooperation between Tang Xiao and Chen Yuan must not only have been about setting up entertainment companies. In this was Chen Yuan, who Master Su was most familiar with. Chen Yuan was not a person who would move the Su"s headquarters from Europe to City casually. There must be some other reasons, which may be related to Master Su himself.
Tang Xiao wants a chip. What about Chen Yuan?
“The man Chen Yuan is looking for is Simon.”
Once he understood, Su Bai could not help but laugh. He was already a very smart man. When he was plotted against by Chen Yuan, he thought that he had made a mistake due to emotions. Otherwise, it would be impossible to plot against him, even if you were reborn one hundred times.
Tang Xiao, oh Tang Xiao, you only know that Chen Yuan is looking for me, but you don"t know why Chen Yuan is looking for me.
Well, since you want to do business with me, I hope you can afford it.
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One time, Tang Xiao finally could not resist and asked Chen Yuan why he always liked wearing white gloves. People of the black path had various explanations about it. Some said it was because Chen Yuan had too many people"s blood on his hands, some said it was because Chen Yuan was deliberately playing tricks, and some said it was because it represented Chen Yuan"s awe for Su Bai.
“Master Su had such a petty cleanliness habit. He always said it"s hard to wash a person"s hands when they are stained with blood.” Chen Yuan didn"t tell Tang Xiao in the second half of his sentence that Su Bai was his G.o.d. He couldn"t tolerate touching other people"s hands before touching Master Su, so he always liked to wear a pair of white gloves.
Later, Chen Yuan added a strange sentence, “Master Su is only suitable for people to love, as a matter of fact, he does not know how to love a person.”
Love and like are totally different.
“It will only be a tragedy to fall in love with that kind of man.” With a sigh from within the heart, and hands in trouser pockets, Tang Xiao stood in front of the window of the villa. A snow-white Rolls-Royce slowly drove in through the villa gate and the car stopped at the gate of the castle-like villa.
“Tang Zhong?” Ah Feng showed an expression of surprise. What did Tang Zhong mean when he said about falling in love with that kind of man? Did their Tang Zhong finally fall in love with a man?
“What"s wrong?” Tang Xiao did not notice that his self-talk had been misunderstood by his subordinate.
“Mr. Su is here.” Every man has his own secrets and concerns. Ah Feng decided not to expose Tang Xiao"s worries. He turned to open the door to meet Su Mo. He had just opened the door when Su Bai, dressed in a white hunting suit, had just went towards them. Ah Feng stood at the side, looking at Su Bai from far to near.
When they first saw this man, he was still a big white steamed bun, then a flexible fat man on the beach, and then a white glutinous rice dumpling. Now?
Looking at Su Bai"s picturesque eyebrows secretly, Ah Feng could not help exasperating that obesity was indeed the ultimate killer of all handsome men and beautiful women. Who could have known that Su Mo, if thin, was a good-looking man. However, when Mr. Su did not laugh, it made him feel too fierce… Wait! Did Tang Zhong fall in love with a man?
In the blink of an eye, and Master Su had already pa.s.sed him.
Whether or not the “man” in Tang"s mouth was Master Su or not, it was no Ah Feng"s affair. Ah Feng closed the door silently, thinking back that Tang Xiao had asked him a lot about Su Mo before, and even sent Su Mo an apartment. Every time he talked with Su Mo, no one was allowed to come near. Ah Feng stood silently in front of the closed door with a serious look.
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About an hour later, Master Su came out of the room with a blank face. As soon as he opened the door, he saw a figure standing like a door G.o.d in front of him. Su Bai knew the man, he was Ah Feng, the bodyguard beside Tang Xiao.
“Mr. Su, you are going back now?” Ah Feng, who was serious a moment ago, changed into a “smiling and kind” face, even though it seemed more like a facial cramp to Su Bai.
Su Bai closed the door backhandedly and smiled at Ah Feng. He liked this expression very much recently. Especially after laughing several times in the bathroom in front of the mirror, Master Su found that Su Mo"s face was very gentle and friendly when he smiled, and it was very easy to bring down his opponent"s psychological defenses.
“Can you show me around the villa?”
“Certainly.” Ah Feng promised, he looked at Su Bai twice more. Although this Mr. Su was not a woman, Su Mo was clean and a university teacher, the man also looked gentle and gentle. If he really stayed with Tang Xiao, he would be much better than those guys who wanted money.
Su Bai just looked at Ah Feng. Loyalty has potential, intelligence not so much; not Tang Xiao"s trusted subordinate.
Two people with occupied minds viewed the villa together. Ah Feng occasionally asked why Master Su moved out of the villa in the sunset mountains. Su Bai answered truthfully that he had given the villa to Chun Yan while praising Tang Xiao"s villa as big as a labyrinth. Ah Feng sighed secretly, although the apartment that Tang Zhong gave to Mr. Su was not cheap, it was no better than the villa in the sunset mountains. Mr. Su really was a good man.
With his residences everywhere, Tang Xao was delicate and good at concealing himself. Su Bai silently remembered the villa"s route. Most of the time, Tang Xiao still preferred to work and live here as the security system was more stringent. If it was in the past, Master Su would never need to remember routes.
Su Bai recalled Chen Yuan again. In fact, among the three children he adopted, he liked Chen Yuan best. Chen Yuan was obedient, less talkative and more proactive. Chen Yuan did whatever he wanted him to do. In all ways, Chen Yuan was the best of the three children, even at pretense. Suddenly launching a coup-coup without saying a word, killing him.
It made people love and hate.
Speaking of the devil, Su Bai strolled around the villa and remembered the route. When Ah Feng brought Master Su out, a black car happened to stop at the door. The car door opened, and a man in black came out. The pair of white gloves on the man"s hand was very conspicuous.
“Brother Chen, Tang Zhong is always upstairs. Please come in.” Ah Feng strode past and shouted to a grunt, “You guys send Mr. Su back.” It was fortunate that Ah Feng had gone to Chen Yuan right when he saw the man, else he would have noticed the stiffness of Su Bai"s body at that moment.
Su Bai knew that sooner or later he and Chen Yuan would meet again, but he was still caught off guard when he suddenly met Chen Yuan without any preparation. His heart ached slightly, a psychological reaction left behind by nearly a year-long of house arrest. He thought that he could easily forget that humiliating period of time. He also thought that after death it was to be part of the past. He could generously let the things Chen Yuan did to him fall into the sea with the plane.
But at this moment, even if he changed his body, the real reaction made him see clearly. All the reasons were just excuses to cover up the fact that he was unwilling to face that humiliating time.
“Your surname is Su? Who are you from the Su family?” The last person he wanted to see was standing in front of him. The familiar voice had a strange intonation. Without the humility of bowing knee-down that Master Su was familiar with, there is only the cold interior of Chen Yuan"s loyalty. If we talked about essence, was there a difference between Su Bai and the children he had taught?
Is this considered a newspaper headline for the world? Avoiding Chen Yuan"s cold gaze of inquiry, Su Bai answered in Su Mo"s tone, “I… My surname is Su.”
“Brother Chen, this is Mr. Su, Tang Zhong"s friend.” Ah Feng came forward to break the siege.
“Name?” Chen Yuan did not look at Ah Feng.
“Su Mo.” Master Su"s heart was somewhat disturbed. Should Chen Yuan perceive something, or be as psychologically different as Tang Xiao in easily accepting something such as “borrowing the corpse with a soul”, would Tang Xiao protect him as per the agreement, or simply do a favor and throw him to Chen Yuan?
In any way, the latter seemed more likely.
“Oh…” Chen Yuan remembered that there was a man named Su Mo in the Su family. Ten years ago, Master also said that Su Mo looked a little like him when he was young. Chen Yuan saw Su Mo at that time and felt that Su Mo and Master Su were not at all alike. How could such a submissive person possibly have half of Master Su"s demeanor?
Chen Yuan looked at Su Mo twice more. Now looking again, he really was similar to Master Su. This man was not like the man who was just about to bury his head in the floor ten years ago. The man who b.u.mped into him in Mingxuan was this man in front of him, right? He lost a lot of weight, which made him more like Master Su.
As he looked, Chen Yuan thought of Master Su again.
Su Bai saw Chen Yuan drifting off and was preparing to leave when Chen Yuan suddenly took his arm by surprise.
Through the thin clothing material, Chen Yuan felt the temperature of the man in front of him between his fingers. Warm like Master Su, the arm he grasped shook slightly. Chen Yuan only thought that the man was afraid of him. Probably because he thought that this man was very similar to Master Su, Chen Yuan unconsciously softened and his voice was gentle.
“Don"t be afraid, I won"t hurt you.”
Su Bai heard this sentence many times. Chen Yuan used to say it to him when he was on the lonely island. As he said it gently, he also forcing injections of muscle relaxant. The medicine Chen Yuan used for him was very precise in dosage control, relieving most of his strength without losing movement completely. A series of side effects brought about by the nature of drugs, such as sleepiness, corroded his vigilance like acid.
“Chen Zhong.” Tang Xiao strode out of the villa, glanced at Su Bai who was caught by Chen Yuan, and stretched out his hand to Chen Yuan in a natural and generous manner. Chen Yuan could only let go of Su Bai to shake hands with him.
“Mr. Su, if you don"t get back soon, you"ll be late for cla.s.s later.” Tang Xiao looked to Su Bai.
“Tang Zhong, Chen Zhong, I will be leaving first.” Su Bai lowered his head and turned around to sit in the car. Only when the door closed did he feel relieved. Chen Yuan did not recognize him.
Slowly closing his eyes, Su Bai took a deep breath and leaned back on the back of the seat. His right hand grabbed the pulse of his left hand and gradually he calmed down.
Back in the apartment, the first thing Su Bai did was rush into the bathroom and turn on the tap. He scrubbed the place Chen Yuan had touched with water vigorously until the skin on his arm was rubbed red and swollen.
Looking at the redness on his arm, he was silent for a moment. Master Su, with a cold face, grabbed a cup and smashed it on the ground. The gla.s.s shards shattered all over the floor.
Was he angry that Chen Yuan touched him, or upset that he can no longer have absolute strength in front of Chen Yuan?