animal lover

Chapter 1

The winter in Xiding was shrouded in endless heavy snow, and Chen Ke received a call to the police in such heavy snow.He picked up the phone, his face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he heard a "snap" and hung up the phone.The colleague next to me asked in wonder, "What's the matter?"

"It's time to call the police. I received a call to surrender. The suspect gave his address and asked us to pick him up."

"Hey, it's strange, this guy is quite airy."

That being said, the Xiding No. [-] team still dispatched the police obediently.The tires of the car rolled over the slippery snow and drove for a while, and finally saw a bloody man at the end of Longtail Alley.

Chen Ke was puzzled, got out of the car, pulled out the gun and raised it, and he walked forward.The other party had long hair and turned his back to them. He couldn't distinguish between men and women. He was wearing a gray wool coat that was obviously too large.

"Don't move, put your hands up."

Chen Ke yelled at him in a low voice, and saw the man's body tremble, Xue was glowing coldly, and the suspect who turned his back to them slowly turned around, revealing a well-known face.

"Muyan?"

Missing for three years, the son of the late rich merchant Mu Zhengyuan.

In the interrogation room, Mu Yan was in a trance, Chen Ke asked someone to give him a pair of shoes, the size of the shoes was relatively large, he stepped on his red feet from the cold, and his toes curled up.Chen Ke pulled the chair in front of his desk and sat down, the chair legs made harsh noises, Mu Yan raised his head abruptly, seemed to be startled, and looked at Chen Ke in horror.

Chen Ke frowned, and asked in a low voice: "Muyan, where have you been these three years? You just said on the phone that you killed someone? Who did you kill?"

There was almost no flesh on Muyan's face, it was pale and thin, leaving only a thin piece of skin.There was panic hidden in his sunken eye sockets. Hearing Chen Ke's voice, Muyan stared blankly. After a long time, he found his own voice and said with difficulty: "Jiang Yenan, I killed you!" he."

A deep furrow appeared between Chen Ke's brows. He gestured with the policewoman who was taking notes. After a long time, the policewoman came over and said a few words to him.Chen Ke looked sideways at Muyan with complicated eyes, and said, "Muyan, we just contacted Jiang Yenan, but the other party has nothing to do, and..."

Muyan's expression was suddenly agitated, he stood up, his body trembling violently, he shouted: "How is it possible, I... I clearly stabbed him with a knife, how could you contact him, this is impossible, this No, he... he should be dead, dead."

Muyan's mental state was indeed not good, and the interrogation was forced to end halfway through.

Chen Ke came out, went to another room, and looked at Muyan sitting on the chair from the one-way mirror.He was stuck in the chair, his thin body seemed to be broken in a second. It didn't look like a person, but a mass of sorrow left in the world. He used his whole body to relieve the pain, and every hair tip was pain.

Chen Ke's eyes were complicated, he had seen Muyan before, Chen Ke was watching a Swan Lake ballet with his girlfriend, and he saw Muyan on that stage.

The son of the owner of the publishing house is not as arrogant and extravagant as ordinary rich second generations.He has his own career plans. He is the principal of the Royal Ballet at a young age. Standing on the stage, he shines brightly and is a very talented young man.

His girlfriend is a fan of Muyan, and she specially waited outside the stage after the end, until Muyan came out.

Chen Ke's girlfriend excitedly told Chen Ke about Muyan, Chen Ke listened with a lack of interest, and didn't pay attention to it at the time, but never thought that Muyan would disappear a year later, and that Muyan would appear three years after the incident.

The first sentence after he appeared was to tell them that he killed Jiang Yenan.

Chen Ke withdrew his gaze, and he said to the colleagues around him, "It seems that he is not mentally normal, so send him to the hospital."

Muyan came out of the police station, and Chen Ke, who was in charge of him, drove him to the hospital.

There was heavy snow on the road, and the car drove slowly. Muyan leaned against the car window, staring blankly at the snow falling from above.

He lowered the glass and stretched out his hand. His palm was cold. He shed tears and asked in a low voice, "Is the snow in Xiding always this cold?"

……

In the spring of 2015, Muyan came back from France, and Mu Zhengyuan picked him up at the airport.The father and son hadn't seen each other for three years, and Muyan hugged him. Mu Zhengyuan was a little uncomfortable with the French's closeness, so he smiled and said to Muyan, "Are you sleepy?"

Muyan had been sleeping on the plane, he shook his head, Muzhengyuan pulled the luggage for him, and said to him, "I've prepared a welcome banquet for you."

Muyan walked beside Muzheng Yuan, nodded and agreed.

Mu Zhengyuan looked sideways, his son whom he had not seen for three years had grown a lot, he sighed in his heart.

The black Lincoln was parked outside the airport, and the Muyan cat got in.The driver called out "Master Mu", and Muyan lazily responded.

As the car drove slowly, Mu Zhengyuan asked hesitantly, "Yanyan, how long have you been back this time?"

Mu Yan opened his eyes, he thought for a while and said, "The dance troupe will perform here for about a week."

Mu Zhengyuan nodded, and said again, "I wish I could stay for a few more days. I'm relieved when I see you at home."

Muyan laughed when she heard this, and said, "Dad, I'm not a child anymore."

All the friends of Mu Zhengyuan came to the welcome banquet, and Mu Yan was biting cauliflower in the noisy box.

He doesn't eat much, and basically doesn't eat dinner, and he's done with a few mouthfuls.

Several friends of Muzhengyuan praised Muyan for his good looks, talked about what Muyan was doing now, and asked him when he would officially return to China to inherit the family business.Before Muyan could speak, Muzhengyuan smoothed things over for him and said, "Yanyan is still young, now he has something he wants to do, let him play for a few more years."

"Old Mu, 21 years old is not young, and it's time to help the family."

Muyan put down her chopsticks, Muzhengyuan waved his hands and said with a smile, "I can do it for a few more years so I won't make my children suffer."

Muyan's mother was also a ballet dancer, but she gave up her dance career because she married Muzheng Yuan. After giving birth to Muyan, her health was not very good. It was later found that she had stomach cancer and died of illness within two years.Muyan was only five years old at the time, as young as he could remember. Before she died, her mother held his hand and said that she hoped that he would become a ballet dancer and live on a stage where she would never be able to stand again.

When I was young, learning ballet was really hard. I cried while pressing my legs. After a day of practice, I lay on the bed and felt that my legs were going to disappear.But he is not willing to admit defeat, since he feels that he has learned everything, he must learn well, so for more than ten years, his life has been school and dance practice room.

Whether she really likes ballet or not, Muyan herself is not quite sure.But after all, all he really has now is ballet.

Muyan withdrew from the welcome banquet early, Muzheng Yuan seemed to want to drink a little longer, Muyan said to him: "Dad, I'm going home first."

Mu Zhengyuan nodded, and wanted to give some advice, but Mu Yan had already opened the door and went out.The relationship between him and Mu Zhengyuan is not close, sometimes it is not like a father and son, but more like strangers who met by chance.

On April 20th, Mu Yan was rehearsing in the theater. The stage design was relatively unfamiliar. He fell off the stage and injured his left Achilles tendon. Continue to rehearse.Until the performance on the night of the 23rd, my left foot was so painful that I could hardly stand up, but the first thing I learned when I was learning ballet was to be cruel to myself.

Mu Yan gritted her teeth and persisted throughout the performance, and even interacted with the fans backstage for ten minutes after the end.

After coming out of the theater, Mu Yan went directly to the hospital, where the X-ray showed that the Achilles tendon of her left foot was ruptured.It was originally just a strain, but due to lack of timely medical treatment, the wound healed poorly, which led to the rupture.

He underwent surgery immediately, and the wound would take time to heal, but the performance of the dance troupe could not be delayed because of him.The regiment gave him a two-month vacation and asked him to stay in Xiding to recuperate from his injuries. Mu Yan had no way to refuse, so he could only agree.

He can't practice dancing now, he stays at home every day, and occasionally goes out on crutches.Xiding in spring is as beautiful as a painting. There are old arcades in the ancient town and new buildings and mansions. History and modernity are intertwined, and his time passes very slowly.

He felt a rare leisure in the spring in Xiding. After a few days of recuperation, most of his foot injury was healed, and he no longer needed to go out with crutches, but he could not do strenuous exercise yet.Muyan also visited almost the whole of Xiding, just at this time, Mu Zhengyuan came over and asked him if he would like to work in the publishing house when he was free.

Since Mu Zheng and Yuan Du had already spoken, and Mu Yan was also idle, she agreed.

He came to the publishing house the next day, and was assigned to the editorial department under the name of Prince Mu.

Basically, there is nothing to do. Mu Yan arrives at the company at nine o'clock and often leaves at three o'clock.After three days in it, he couldn't bear his temper, limped to the editor-in-chief's office, cut straight to the point, and asked, "Is there anything I can do?"

The editor-in-chief has climbed up step by step, and the rich second generation who rely on connections is the one he despises the most. He thought Muyan was like this, so he threw a book piled on the table without looking up. To him, "Yes, you go to contact the author of this book and say that our publishing house wants to be his exclusive."

Mu Yan took the black-covered book, a thick one, and he responded, then opened the door and went out.

Mu Yan returned to her seat and put the book on the table.The colleague who was paying attention to him came over, glanced at the book, and said in a low voice: "The editor-in-chief is like this, don't worry about it."

Mu Yan shook her head, the colleague sighed, and said, "I've looked for the author of this book a long time ago, and I couldn't find it at all."

Muyan showed a look of surprise, looked down at the author's name "ZY", he smiled, and said to his colleagues: "It's okay, I'll try it first."

There is so little information on the author ZY on the Internet, Mu Yan gave up looking for it by herself, but entrusted someone to look it up, and she finished ZY's book in the spare time.It's a horror-themed novel, the layered plots and the weird and morbid killing methods made Muyan's goosebumps rise.He took it home to watch, and when it was late at night, he got up and turned on the lights in several other rooms in the house.

The next day, ZY's information was delivered to Muyan's mailbox. He opened the file, looked at the name on it, and read it softly, "Jiang Yenan."

……

Mu Yan withdrew his frozen red hand, and Chen Ke glanced at him from the corner of his eye.

When the car arrived at the hospital, Muyan got out of the car, paused for a moment on the ground, and then limped towards the hospital.

After some examinations, the test report will not be available until tomorrow, Chen Ke glanced at Mu Yan who was sitting on the chair in the hospital, and said to him: "Go back first, I will see you off."

Mu Yan raised her head and asked him, "I want to go see my dad."

Chen Ke was stunned for a moment, then agreed, and the car drove to the cemetery.Muyan got out of the car and tightened her clothes. He knelt in front of Mu Zhengyuan's tombstone for a long time, while Chen Ke stood behind him, feeling a sense of desolation in his heart.He felt that Muyan was very pitiful, and he couldn't even attend his father's funeral.

Chen Ke asked again, "Where have you been these three years?"

Muyan lowered her head deeply, and he showed a sarcastic smile, "I've said it all."

Chen Ke showed a puzzled look, and he said: "We have also checked about Jiang Yenan. He left the country three years ago. We have his departure information. He has not been in the country for three years. Do you remember?" wrong?"

Muyan laughed and stopped talking.

He may have been kneeling for too long, his body shook when he got up, he didn't stand firmly, and fell down again.

Chen Ke held his hand, Muyan raised her head, cold sweat covered her face, he said it hurt.Chen Ke was taken aback for a moment, and then carried him into the car.

Mu Yan huddled in the back seat, screaming for pain all the time, Chen Ke asked him where it hurt, he said it was stomach.

When he arrived at the hospital, Muyan was carried away on a stretcher. He closed his eyes, and there were sporadic lights in his vision. Those lights were like shards of glass, piercing into his eyeballs and stabbing him.

His heart hurts, his whole body hurts, he fell into a drowsy sleep, and was pulled back by the nightmare, his consciousness wandering.Until someone came by, he heard someone say to him, "Muyan, your body...you...you are pregnant."

Muyan became a fossil, or a corpse dried up by the wind.

The wind and snow in Xiding was still so heavy, and the cloudy blue sky seemed to never see light. When he was in that attic, he just... just looked at... the weeping wind.

Jiang Yenan walked up to him, pinched his chin, like a lover's gaze, and said to Muyan: "I love you, don't leave me, don't go."

In the end, Muyan still left, and he fled far away, piercing Jiang Yenan's heart.

He hated the devil who ruined his life so much, he thought it was over.

But... Destiny does make fun of people. He clutched his stomach, curled up slowly, covered his mouth, and suppressed the hatred in his heart.