Chapter 43 Now(1/2)
Zhou Luoyang signaled Du Jing to reach out and saw the bruises on the back of Du Jing's right hand, and suddenly understood.
Zhou Luoyang slowly developed another habit, that is, trying to understand Du Jing's logic. When a mixture of mania and depression occurs, their behavior is difficult for outsiders to understand, and it will only seem terrible in the eyes of outsiders.
But no matter what they do, they have their subconscious inner motivations, such as Du Jing's move to fuck her hands.
Perhaps even Du Jing himself did not realize it, but Zhou Luoyang immediately figured it out - why did he use his left hand to hold the stapler and smash the back of his right hand? Instead of other places?
Because when Sun Xiangchen was driving Du Jing, he held the back of Du Jing's right hand. When Du Jing was unable to vent his emotions, he achieved self-psychological protection by hitting the back of his hand violently.
"Left hand." Zhou Luoyang thought it through and said to Du Jing.
Du Jing: "?"
Zhou Luoyang put a rubber band on Du Jing's wrist.
Du Jing understood and said, "It's not very useful, I've tried it."
It is a self-punishment mechanism that indicates punishment for emotions. When your self-emotion is uncontrollable, you can use a rubber band to bounce your hand, and use slight pain to make patients with mental disorders wake up briefly.
Zhou Luoyang saw someone sharing it on a forum. Although he also found it useless, what he wanted was not to punish Du Jing or let him punish himself.
"You can't start it yourself," said Zhou Luoyang, "I can only start it."
As he said that, Zhou Luoyang pulled up the rubber band and blew it on Du Jing's wrist with a light sound.
"I understand." Du Jing drank tea and looked out of the cafe in a daze. The rain was getting lighter, but the wind was still very strong.
The trees on the banks of West Lake are swaying in the wind, and the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows block the sound of the wind, like a silent movie.
"What kind of song is that?" Du Jing suddenly asked again.
"The wind in July, the rain in August..." Zhou Luoyang took out his cell phone from Du Jing's pocket, sang for him, and said, "Do you run back?"
"Eat supper first and take a taxi back," Du Jing said, "Beware of a cold."
After returning to the dormitory that day, Zhou Luoyang took a shower and caught a cold without any accident.
He hadn't had a serious illness for several years. This time he caught a fierce cold and had a fever in the middle of the night, making his whole body hot. Du Jing immediately went to find a thermometer.
"Forty-one degrees," Zhou Luoyang said weakly, "It's broken the record, it's so awesome."
Du Jing: “…………………”
Du Jing said: "You must go to the hospital right away."
Zhou Luoyang: "Don't worry about me, I will take a fever-reducing medicine, and I'll sleep for a while..."
"Go to the hospital!" Du Jing roared.
"Okay, okay..." Zhou Luoyang reluctantly got up and said, "Do you have any conscience to the patient so fiercely..."
Du Jing did not go to the school hospital, so he picked up Zhou Luoyang and went downstairs, asked him to get in the car, fastened his seat belt, and his face was full of irritability, and rushed out with a throttle.
When he was turning the steering wheel, Zhou Luoyang reached out to his wrist and flicked him with a rubber band.
Du Jing suddenly calmed down, and the dangerous aura emitted from her body gradually calmed down, just like a lion put away its mane.
"Slowly open," Zhou Luoyang closed his eyes and ordered weakly, "Be careful to hit the tree."
That night, Zhou Luoyang was given a bottle drip all night, while Du Jing sat quietly beside the bed in a daze.
There was only the slight sound of rubber bands in the ward. Zhou Luoyang was really bored and couldn't sleep. Du Jing didn't let him play with his mobile phone, so he could only use the rubber band on Du Jing's wrist to bounce him.
"It hurts." Du Jing said.
Zhou Luoyang looked at the ceiling and said casually: "Oh." But he didn't stop, but just made a little lighter.
After playing for a while, Zhou Luoyang fell asleep. Du Jing's eyes turned red. He lowered his head and touched the small piece that was bounced red.
Many years later, the place where the rubber band was worn was replaced with the watch given to him by Zhou Luoyang.
The plane was buzzing, and Du Jing was still asleep. Zhou Luoyang pulled out of his memories and went to the bathroom to wash. When he came out, he saw Huang Ting finishing a movie and was staring out of the window in a daze.
A bright moon was rising into the night sky, shining on the sea of clouds, and silver light was shining, and it was still an hour before the plane landed.
When Huang Ting saw Zhou Luoyang come back, he hurriedly gestured to him and pointed to the empty space beside him.
Zhou Luoyang: "?"
Zhou Luoyang glanced at Du Jing with a blanket on his side, looked at Huang Ting again, and then sat next to Huang Ting.
"What?" Zhou Luoyang asked.
"Do you know Lindi?" Huang Ting said in a low voice, "that beautiful consultant."
"I'm not very familiar," Zhou Luoyang asked, "What do you want to ask?"
Huang Ting was silent for a moment, thought for a while, and said, "Is she married?"
"No, it's very familiar." Zhou Luoyang reiterated, and then realized a question: "Do you want to pursue her?"
Huang Ting's expression was a little strange and said, "No, I just want to ask."
Zhou Luoyang didn't know much about Huang Ting. Since they officially realized that they had not met many times, they had to say, "I can't help."
"I don't mean to ask you for help." Huang Ting said unnaturally.
Zhou Luoyang remembered the conversation between Huang Ting and Lin Di in a twenty-four hours, and said curiously: "Are you not married yet?"
"I don't even have a girlfriend," Huang Ting said, "what is getting married?"
"No," Zhou Luoyang looked at Huang Ting and said, "As a member of the Appearance Association, I don't think you look like someone who can't have a girlfriend at all."
Huang Ting smiled helplessly and said, "I didn't think about it seriously before. I got a serious illness and changed many ideas."
Zhou Luoyang said: "After returning to Wan City, will I try to ask her out?"
Zhou Luoyang has seen Lin Di’s circle of friends. He doesn’t look like he has a boyfriend. He often flies around the world, and no one has ever taken photos of her.
"That's great," Huang Ting said sincerely, "Please accept my most sincere thanks."
"The premise is that you have no other intentions." Zhou Luoyang said.
"Absolutely not." Huang Ting replied immediately, "I... I'm going to hide it from it. Boss Zhou."
"Just call me Luoyang." Zhou Luoyang replied casually.
"Do you believe in love at first sight?" Huang Ting asked seriously.
Zhou Luoyang: “…”
Zhou Luoyang turned his head and looked at Du Jing. Du Jing woke up. In fact, when Zhou Luoyang left his seat, Du Jing had already woken up. At this moment, he did not take off his blindfold, listened to the music on the plane, and did not look for Zhou Luoyang, as if he was thinking about things.
"Believe," Zhou Luoyang said to Huang Ting, "Love at first sight is the only way to love."
Huang Ting never expected that Zhou Luoyang's answer to this was so direct.
"Is that true?" Huang Ting laughed and said, "I have asked many people that you are the first to say that."
Zhou Luoyang replied: "But everyone has their own views on feelings, which vary from person to person. How does Lin Di feel about you?"
"I don't hate me." Huang Ting said, then he thought about it, grabbed the dense hair on his head with his fingers, and said, "But I don't know if she likes me, I think I still like girls."
Zhou Luoyang: "???"
Zhou Luoyang didn't quite understand why he suddenly mentioned the issue of sexual orientation, but Huang Ting seemed to be in a conversation with himself, saying: "Of course, like my brother and couple, it's very good, what about you two..."
"Stop," Zhou Luoyang said to Huang Ting, "We are not the relationship you think."
Huang Ting said: "I know."
The two of them were tacitly informed, and Huang Ting naturally understood that there was no need for Zhou Luoyang to deny anything. If he said it was not, he would be really not.
Huang Ting said: "I can see that I am a detective after all, and my lover is not like you."
Zhou Luoyang nodded, and was a little confused. Huang Ting added: "You are friends who are better than lovers."
It was Zhou Luoyang's turn now and it was a bit surprising.
"Because I have such a brother," Huang Ting smiled and said, "I am a scholar."
Zhou Luoyang suddenly asked, "Does he like you?"
"I don't like it," said Huang Ting, "I don't like him either, but this does not affect our relationship. Sometimes it is really difficult to distinguish... Some very complicated things happened between us before, which are related to the case I took over."
Zhou Luoyang suddenly became interested. Is there a boy like him and Du Jing beside Huang Ting?
"If you go the wrong way, he will chase you behind you," Huang Ting said in a daze. "Take you home. If he goes the wrong way, I will find him no matter how rough it is. Except for sex, we can do anything for each other."
"Is he married?" Zhou Luoyang said.
"No," Huang Ting came to his senses and said, "but I feel like he is about to fall in love. We have known each other for more than ten years, and we have been separated for a while..."
Zhou Luoyang said: "I have been separated from Du Jing for a while."
Huang Ting murmured seriously and said, "When you meet again, you will understand that he is still him."
"Yes." Zhou Luoyang didn't care about Huang Tingxi's dislike Lin Di, but developed unexpected interest in his "friend".
"How do you know that your feelings for each other are not love?" Zhou Luoyang said.
Huang Ting thought about it and replied, "I can't explain it clearly, but I remember that we did talk about sexual orientation... He is perfect, a top student, and he thinks things in a well-organized manner and very good way. At that time, when he returned to China and talked about a relationship, I joked that either we can live together. What he said was, 'We don't need to be lovers. Now, it's not better than lovers'."
Zhou Luoyang suddenly noticed a key message that Huang Ting did not say.
To be continued...