On How To Defeat Dr. Qing Leng Chapter 48

Chapter 48 Chapter 48 Pei Yan, I have no family anymore

Pei Yan walked towards him, not fast, but every step seemed to step on Wen Yelan’s heart.He stopped in front of Wen Yelan and looked down at him, with deep eyes and emotions that Wen Yelan couldn’t understand.

“Did you hear everything?” Wen Yelan asked, hearing his dry voice.

Pei Yan nodded: “Yes.”

“Since when?”

“When you go out.” Pei Yan lowered his voice, “It’s in your coat.”

Wen Yelan remembered that before going out, Pei Yan did help him tidy up his coat and gave him a hug.At that time, he thought it was a farewell and a consolation.

It turns out not to be.

That is to install the listener.

A sharp pain spread from the heart and quickly swept through the whole body.He couldn’t explain what he felt, but it was so painful that he thought he was going to die now.

He could understand Pei Yan’s worry. He even thought that Pei Yan might find something and follow him or wait for him outside.He could accept Pei Yan’s uneasiness because Bai Yu was indeed a threat.

But he didn’t expect that Pei Yan would choose this method.

Monitor.

Without his knowledge, he monitored his conversation with another person and listened to his most inner struggles and most private confessions.

It feels like being stripped naked and thrown into the spotlight, with even the last bit of fig leaf ripped off.

Wen Yelan took a small step back.

This small movement made Pei Yan’s eyes change instantly.He stretched out his hand as if to pull him: “Ye Lan…”

At this moment, the door of Meiyuan was pushed open violently.

Bai Yu chased him out, with anxiety and anger still on his face.When he saw Wen Yelan, his eyes lit up, but the moment he saw Pei Yan, his face darkened.

“Pei Yan?” Bai Yu’s voice turned cold, “Why are you here?”

Pei Yan ignored him, his eyes still locked on Wen Yelan’s face.

But at this moment, Wen Yelan did something that even he didn’t expect.He turned around and faced Bai Yu, using all his strength to make his voice sound steady and clear:

“Brother Yu, please go back first. We will handle the matter between Pei Yan and me ourselves.”

Bai Yu was stunned: “Xiaolan, he…”

“He is my boyfriend.” Wen Yelan interrupted him and said word by word, “We will solve the problems between us ourselves. You go.”

After he finished speaking, he no longer looked at Bai Yu, but turned to Pei Yan and stretched out his hand: “Give me the car keys and I will drive.”

Pei Yan looked at him with complicated eyes, but he still took out the car keys from his pocket and placed them in his palm.

Wen Yelan held the key, turned and walked to the driver’s seat, opened the door and got in. Pei Yan followed and got into the passenger seat.

The car started and drove away from Meiyuan.

In the rearview mirror, Bai Yu was still standing there, her figure getting smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared from sight.

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On the way back, the car was completely silent.

Wen Yelan drove steadily, but her fingers held the steering wheel tightly, and her knuckles turned white.He stared straight ahead, with no expression on his face, except for his lips pursed into a straight line.

Pei Yan sat next to him and wanted to speak several times, but looked at Wen Yelan’s profile and swallowed his words.

He could feel Wen Yelan’s emotions.

That kind of depressing, cold, and repulsive emotion.

In the past, when Wen Yelan was angry, she would glare at him, scold him, and push him away.But at this moment, Wen Yelan just drove quietly, as quiet as a sculpture.

This kind of silence made Pei Yan more panicked than any violent reaction.

The car drove into the villa garage and turned off the engine.

Wen Yelan unbuckled his seat belt, pushed the door open and got out of the car, and walked straight into the house.Pei Yan followed and held his wrist at the entrance: “Ye Lan, let’s talk.”

Wen Yelan stopped but did not look back: “What are you talking about?”

“About monitoring.” Pei Yan’s voice was a little hoarse, “I…”

“You were afraid that Bai Yu and I would rekindle our old relationship, that I would be deceived by him, and that I would do something stupid.” Wen Yelan interrupted him, his tone as calm as if he was describing someone else’s affairs, “So you put a monitor on me without my knowledge, to monitor my conversation with him.”

He turned around and looked at Pei Yan: “Right?”

Pei Yan’s Adam’s apple moved and nodded: “Yes.”

“Do you think this is the right thing to do?” Wen Yelan asked.

“I don’t think it’s right.” Pei Yan said, his voice lowered, “But I must know what he is going to do to you. Bai Yu is too dangerous, I can’t take risks.”

“So you choose to invade my privacy?” Wen Yelan’s voice finally wavered, “Pei Yan, who am I to you? Am I your property? Do you need to protect me in this way?”

“You are not.” Pei Yan held his wrist tightly, “You are the most important person to me. Because of this, I cannot let you be in any danger.”

“Then have you ever thought,” Wen Yelan looked at him, his eyes a little red, “what you do is a kind of harm to me in itself?”

Pei Yan was stunned.

Wen Yelan broke away from his hand, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, unlocked it, and opened the recording software.

An audio clip starts playing.

It was Bai Yu’s voice.

“…You were only ten years old at the time. You were so thin that your ribs were one by one, and your back was covered with bruises and blood marks….”

Pei Yan’s expression changed.

Wen Yelan turned off the recording and turned the phone screen to him: “I have turned on the recording since I left the house. I originally planned to speak clearly to Bai Yu when I met him, and then give you this recording to let you know that I have completely broken up with him, so that you can feel at ease.”

His voice was trembling: “I could imagine that you would be worried. I could even imagine that you might come and wait for me outside. I recorded the voice and wanted to tell you, Pei Yan, that I chose you. From the moment I decided to see him, I was prepared to be the only one in the future. I don’t want Baiyu or my home anymore. I only have you.”

He looked at Pei Yan, tears finally rolling down uncontrollably.

“But what about you?” His voice was choked. “You put a monitor on me. You don’t believe me.”

“It’s not that I don’t believe you…” Pei Yan hurriedly explained.

“I just don’t believe it!” Wen Yelan raised his voice and shed more tears, “If you don’t believe me, you can stop me! But you can’t do it this way! Pei Yan, you make me feel… I feel like a fool. I was still thinking about you, afraid that you would be worried and uneasy, but you have already regarded me as someone who needs to be monitored.”

After he finished speaking, as if he had exhausted all his strength, the phone in his hand slipped and fell to the ground with a “pop”.

The screen is broken.

It was like there was a newfound trust between them.

Pei Yan looked at the broken cell phone on the ground, and then at the tears on Wen Yelan’s face. His heart seemed to be grasped by a big hand, and the pain was so painful that he could hardly breathe.

He took a step forward and wanted to hug him: “Yelan, I’m sorry, I…”

“Don’t touch me.” Wen Yelan stepped back, avoiding his touch.

His hands froze in mid-air.

Wen Yelan knelt down and picked up the phone.The screen is completely black and the phone cannot be turned on.He held the cold machine and stood up slowly.

“Pei Yan,” he sniffed, “do you know that from the moment you held my hand and said ‘we are in love’ in front of everyone, I was prepared.”

He took a deep breath and felt a sharp pain in his chest.

“I’m ready to be alone with you in the future. My parents, my brother, they have never been my family. Bai Yu is not now either. I kicked him out of my world, completely. From today on, I no longer have the brother Yu who is always behind me and will catch me no matter what happens.”

His eyes were red, and he tried to hold it back, but still let a tear fall.

“I no longer have a family who will support me unconditionally behind me, but I am not afraid, because I still have you. You said that when we are together, we are a family, but Pei Yan, this shouldn’t be like this between family members.”

Pei Yan’s heart tightened: “What do you mean?”

“There was a scientific research project in the college that went to the grasslands of Inner Mongolia for three months to study the relationship between grassland degradation and climate change. I didn’t sign up because of the project on Shishapangma Peak. There is still a vacancy in the project team, and the person in charge is my senior brother.”

Pei Yan’s expression changed: “You want to go?”

“Yes.” Wen Yelan nodded, “I need some time to think alone. You need it too.”

“I don’t need it!” Pei Yan raised his voice and walked up to him, “What I need is that you are here, somewhere I can see and touch! What we need is to have a good talk, not to be separated for three months!”

“Pei Yan,” Wen Yelan looked at him with tired eyes, “do you think we can have a good talk in this current state? As soon as you get close to me, I will think of the monitor. As soon as you touch me, I will feel… are you still suspicious of something. There is something between us, and it needs time for it to slowly digest and pass.”

“Then let it go! I promise I won’t do it again! I will listen to you in everything from now on. You can handle it how you want. I will never interfere!” Pei Yan grabbed his shoulder with a bit of force, “But don’t leave, okay? Don’t leave me for three months, I can’t stand it.”

Wen Yelan’s shoulder hurt from his grip, but he didn’t pull away.

“Pei Yan,” he said softly, “love is not like this. Love is not one party unconditionally accommodating the other, nor is one party always in control. Love is equality, mutuality, trust and respect. It seems that we haven’t found that balance point yet.”

He gently pushed Pei Yan’s hand away.

“Give me some time, and give yourself some time. Let’s think about how to proceed. If…if you still want to see me and I still want to see you after three months, then we can start over. Okay?”

Pei Yan stared at him, his eyes were frighteningly red.

“What if I don’t want to wait?” His voice was low and fierce, “What if I lock you up now and don’t let you go?”

Wen Yelan was startled for a moment, then smiled.

“You won’t,” he said. “You’re not like that.”

Pei Yan was silent for a long time, so long that Wen Yelan thought he would explode, quarrel, and keep him in a forceful way like before.

But in the end, Pei Yan just let go of his hand and took a step back.

“When are you leaving?” he asked, his voice regaining its calmness, but underneath that calmness were extremely suppressed emotions.

“Next week.” Wen Yelan said, “The project team will leave next Wednesday.”

“Okay.” Pei Yan nodded, “I’ll give it to you.”

“No need,” Wen Yelan said, “The institute has a uniform car to take us to the airport. I’m staying in the institute’s dormitory these days so that I can keep up with their project progress. You… take good care of yourself.”

Pei Yan didn’t speak, just looked at him.

Wen Yelan looked away, walked to the bed, and started packing things.In fact, there was nothing to pack. Most of his things were here, but he only took a few changes of clothes, some necessary daily necessities, and the big brown bear – he hesitated for a moment, but put the bear down.

That was what Pei Yan bought for him, so keep it here.

After packing, he carried the small suitcase and walked to the door.

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