TCOR CH62

Chapter 62： Pain Healed Only by Love

The robins hiding in the treetops were still hissing and chirping, and this moment also stopped, making the scene even quieter and stranger.

After that, Peng Dai went up first: “Outside, the mosquitoes are more dead, let’s go inside. Xiao Shen, where did we just talk about? Pissarro’s Fish Market, which I also like, and Wyeth’s Olsen’s End ……”

Xiao Shen?

Shen Wunian continued, “One is a neo-impressionist painter and the other is a realist painter, and I think they each have their own characteristics. Maybe you know Sergei Bongart? His brush strokes are very vivid and bold, and his use of color is strong and jumpy ……”

“I know, I know, I like him a lot too.”

The two men spoke in a friendly manner, and there was no shadow of the saber-rattling that had taken place two minutes earlier.

“Are you here for us, little Ai?” Ponda smiled and stepped forward to grab my arm and lead me toward the house, “Go inside, it’s hot as hell out here.”

I let her pull me forward, and halfway there I glanced back uncomfortably.

Shen Wunian pushed the cigarette butt out on the side of the garden fence, raised his eyes and found me looking at him, his eyebrows slowly raised, showing me a smile full of tenderness.

For a moment, my ears burned even hotter, and I was busy pulling my eyes back, no longer looking at him.

“You ah ……,” Pang Dai looked ahead and said to me in a very low voice, “harden up ah little Ai harden up!”

Just like an elementary school student being criticized, I lowered my head and replied with not very much in my middle voice, “Well, I, I’m hard.

The barbecue ended, a group of people finished cleaning up the yard and went back inside to start the nightly entertainment, rubbing mahjong for rubbing, singing karaoke for singing karaoke, Shen Wunian couldn’t do either, and was grabbed to continue playing pool.

His technique is unexpectedly good, collapsed waist and shoulders, bent down to aim at the posture is also very pleasing to the eye, so I always can not help but look over there.

He doesn’t seem to have eaten much barbecue in the evening, just some fruit, does he still have a sore tongue?

“Cough hum!” Pang Dai coughed loudly and knocked on the table, “Little Ai, it’s your turn.”

I immediately snapped back to my senses, “Ohhhh, eighty thousand!”

“Ugh? It’s messed up! I bombed!” The girl sitting opposite me spread out her cards and smiled brightly, “Thank you, Little Ai, for pointing the cannon~”

After that, I kept pointing the cannon and lost three in a row, so much so that I no longer dared to quit. At eleven twenty-five in the night, Pang Dai stood up and clapped her hands twice to attract everyone’s attention, and said, “The web page is about to be updated, all you buddies sound off and get ready!

The computer was turned on, the URL was entered, the paper cups on the table were re-filled with drinks and the bottled beer was taken out of the fridge, most of the people gathered around the computer, and a small part of the people sat on the sofa holding their mobile phones and coincidentally started to refresh the web page.

Even though it was about the outcome of my award, I wasn’t personally very nervous.

Being a finalist was already a pleasant surprise for me. If I don’t win this time, I’ll try again next time, I just have to keep shooting and shooting and stick to what I love without giving up, and one day I’ll be rewarded accordingly.

“Would you like to order something else to eat? I see you didn’t eat much last night.” Seeing Shen Wunian sipping water at the table, I walk over and ask, “Do you want the vegetable congee?”

Actually, I’m the main character today, the host family. It always feels a bit like a dereliction of duty for the host to call the guests over and not let them eat their fill.

He put down his glass of water, “No, I’m not hungry. Have you thought about what gift you want?”

“What?”

“An award gift.”

I lost my smile, “It’s not like I’m going to win an award.”

“No, you will definitely win an award.” Shen Wunian said firmly, “Anyone with eyes can see your talent. So you can think of the gift you want now.” With a flash of his eyes, he suddenly approached me, brought his lips close to my ear, and said in a low voice, “Or, one more time?”

Along with his meaningful question, the auricle of the ear had more wet and hot traces, and it was actually licked by him.

I covered my ears and felt dizzy, as if the small beer I drank in the evening was going to my head again.

“Little Ai, get over here, one minute to go!” At that moment, Ponda waved me over.

I was busy making a hasty escape, diving headfirst into the crowd.

A few people put their arms around my shoulders and started counting down the ten seconds left.

“10……9……8……”

I wasn’t nervous, but in that atmosphere, I couldn’t help but wait with bated breath.

“……3……2……1!”

The countdown was over, and the page refreshed for the last time, going from blank to a new page every two seconds, and the winning entry was revealed.

The large room fell silent as everyone watched the page scroll down a bit until the winning entry in the Youth category finally appeared – Zhong Ai’s “City Mirage”.

“In today’s highly urbanized world, wastelands are often neglected or rapidly developed, and Zhong Ai’s work rediscovers and re-examines these forgotten corners through the lens, giving viewers a whole new dimension to think about. He makes us see that behind the rapid development of cities there are forgotten corners, places that also have their unique value and beauty.

After Pang Dai quickly read the judges’ comments, the crowd erupted in a roar that seemed to shake the ceiling.

“It’s Little Ai! Little Ai made it!!!”

“I knew you kid was good! Fuck ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, power to you!!!”

“Hurry, hurry, send the good news to the President, Xie and the others!”

“It’s not our turn to send it, the group has already exploded! Little Ai is so awesome! Little Ai is awesome!”

With the sound of “Little Ai” I was rubbed on my head and face by different hands, and the crowd surrounded me as if I was going to be crowned king in the next moment. Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of Shen Wunian, who was far away from the crowd, leaning on the edge of the table, looking at me from a distance, with a faint smile on his face, no surprise, all expected, a look of “See, I told you you could do it”.

This carnival has lasted until three o’clock in the morning before everyone one after another exhausted paralyzed, the villa only four rooms, four girls two rooms, the remaining two to the nine men.

Nine men obviously can’t sleep in two beds, some simply sleep in the living room, one even slept on the pool table, see my jaw dropped.

After washing up, the living room is already in a state of disarray, snoring a bit. Shen Wunian could not be found in the villa, thinking that he did not go out to smoke again, I ran outside to take a look, far from his car’s engine is open.

The front of the car did not see anyone, I knocked on the rear window, “Ta” sound, the door opened directly.

Pull open the door at the same time, my mouth said: “You want to sleep in the car ah?” Although Shen Wunian is spacious enough in the back of the car, but to accommodate his size, it really is a bit cramped, “Otherwise you go home? I’ll join you tomorrow.” After saying that, I bent down slightly.

What answered me was a big hand sticking out of the carriage.

Shen Wunian grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the carriage without a second thought.

“Aigoo……” I lost my balance and fell into his arms.

“You don’t want to see me at all?” He buried his head in the crook of my neck, holding me in a hug that made it a little hard to catch my breath.

With one foot down and one kneeling on the seat, my entire body was pretty much straddling Shen Wunian.

“No ah, I’m not thinking about you.” This position is too uncomfortable, I braced myself against the back of the chair and wanted to back away, but he pressed his spine and wrapped his arms around me tighter instead.

“I thought about what Ponda said.”

I didn’t move for a second, a little surprised that he would bring it up on his own.

“I know everything I say now seems like an excuse for my past self, but I still want to tell you everything.” His lips brushed over my skin, his breath damp and hot.

“When I was seven, after my parents died, I was alone in an orphanage for over a year before I was adopted by Ashmakine. As a young boy, I thought he was a good man and easily gave him my trust ……,” he said.

Ashmakine was talkative and funny, and although he was a bit hard on the child, he could be considered a very good new home in the mind of Shen Wunian, who had experienced bereavement and spent more than a year in the orphanage.

The change happened on an ordinary afternoon. Shen Wunian played hide-and-seek with the family servants and hid in Ashmakine’s study.

He was not allowed to go in there, but he felt that he would only be there for a while and his adoptive father would not know, so he dared to go under the desk.

He did not wait for the servant to catch him, but waited for Ashmakine and his guest.

Unaware of Shen Wunian’s presence, they were in the study talking about money laundering, drug trafficking, and how to manipulate those stupid artists.

“That idiot actually believed my words about wanting to be second to Van Gogh and couldn’t even hear that I was mocking him.”

The strong smell of cigars filled the entire study, Shen Wunian covered his mouth and nose tightly, shocked to keep himself from making a sound.

“Hahaha, Asians sometimes don’t understand what we really mean, but I don’t understand Mr. Ashmakine, why did you adopt this child?”

“Shen Yao may be an idiot, but there are still some uses for his paintings, plus …… I needed some good names for cover.” Ashmakine laughed, and the words he spat out were the cold cruelty that was the opposite of a warm laugh, “And I’m getting older, it’s time to raise two loyal dogs to do my work for me.”

“I see, it’s better for you to be pensive.” Another voice complimented.

Shen Wunian heard these conversations word for word under his desk, and his initial horror and sadness slowly turned into hatred and disgust.

From that day on, revenge became the only goal in his life.

He tried to please Ashmakine, everything to do can not pick fault, just to be able to win the trust of the other party, and then deeper into the core of more crime. He hides, looking for the perfect moment to strike a blow that will crush him.

Cautious planning, not daring to let up a bit, a life that continues only for the sake of revenge, such a life, but suddenly there is a variable in it.

“Redvein Syndrome?” I guessed.

“Yes, Red Line Syndrome.” Shen Wunian confirmed my guess, “I can’t let anyone find out that I have the disease, if someone controls my healing, it’s the same as controlling my life and death. At first, I was just curious, curious about what kind of existence let me suffer from this fire burning, but it turned out to be a small child ……” said here, he snorted coldly and scolded, “Perverted bugs.

In general, Red Line Syndrome patients, regardless of Cure or Redvein, are mostly adults over twenty years old, and it is indeed rare to see a minor like me.

“Originally, I wanted to endure it, endure it until the end of my revenge, and die. But the Red Line Worm seems to know my mind, the beginning of the fourth year, it attacked even more ……”

If he didn’t do anything, his life would end soon. Looking in the mirror at the red lines covering almost the entire upper half of his body, Shen Wunian had no way out. He formulated a plan called “Assault and Seizure” to get close to Bai Qixuan and use him as an entry point into my life.

“My purpose is only to cure the disease, cure, let you go. Cure not well, tie you up, wait for me to finish my revenge, and then let you go.”

“In my life, you and your love were an accident. I know I should cut off this accident, but how can I not open my mouth and refuse?”

“At the charity dinner, I saw you with another man, I was so angry and jealous, my mind was full of garbled voices screaming and shouting, wanting to tear this man apart and snatch you away. I snatched you once so I could snatch you a second time ……”

“I’m out of control, I’m out of control ……” he said twice in a row, the first time in a declarative tone. to the second, bringing on a small sigh.

“I thought for sure you wouldn’t pay any attention to me this time, but I can’t believe you knew about Red Line Syndrome and admitted to Ashmakine yourself that it was my cure. He saw you, he saw what you looked like, he knew your name, and he made a point of talking to you.” His ten fingers tightened and tugged at the back of my shirt, “He did it on purpose, I was mad as hell and all I could think about was getting rid of you.”

“You’re right, I was so bad. Your life wouldn’t have had so much pain in the first place, all because of me ……” He paused and asked in an unusually serious tone, “If I had been more painful, would the pain you used to feel have been a little less?”

Was this some kind of quid pro quo? How could that be possible?

My heart stifles and my arm lifts, hesitates in the air for a moment, but wraps around him and I close my eyes and hug him tightly, “No, the pain won’t be less because of the pain. I said, “Pain is only healed by love, don’t you know that best?”