Chapter 1991： love is shackles

Chapter 1991 Love is a Shackle

Everyone spends their whole life working hard and paying for a perfect result.

But after she got it and owned it, she realized that the most difficult thing was how to keep the goal that was achieved in advance.

Because there were too many changes in the middle, which she never expected.

She hoped again and again that he would love her, not that she was greedy for more.

Because she suddenly discovered that love is a yoke.

She needs this shackle to keep Li Tingshen by her side.

She loves him and doesn't necessarily keep him.

And if he loves her as she does to him, he will not leave her easily.

But the yoke only locked her.

The key is in his hand, and he can leave at any time.

Worries about gains and losses, like a neuropathy.

The car was quiet for a while, the coldness in the night wind was like a dense needle prick, and the whole body was biting with cold.

"Ye Qingqiu." After a long time, Li Tingshen spoke slowly, and his voice seemed to have been forced by the cold wind to form a thin layer of ice, making it slightly stiff.

"Don't be too greedy. Why do you have to be obsessed with that word, except for being hypocritical, it has no meaning. When we put that kind of thing together... we are insulting each other."

Hypocritical?

Insulting each other?

Yes, did they insult such a thing as love?

It seemed like a big hole had been torn open in his chest, and the cold wind rushed in one after another, and even the blood in his cardiovascular system seemed to freeze.

Her expression was a little dazed, and her eyes stared blankly at his face.

"Do you have to use such straightforward words to pull me into reality? A man's mouth, as expected, is best used to deceive people."

Even if he lied to her and weave a dream world full of lies for her, it would be much better than if he pulled her into reality and stabbed her again and again with a knife.

"I lied to you, you won't believe it, so why should I humiliate myself."

Ye Qingqiu pulled his lips, his legs were stiff and numb from the wind.

"It seems that it is, it seems that what you do, with me, you are wrong."

Li Tingshen squeezed her wrist again suddenly, "We have too many reasons for being together, and there are many reasons why I won't leave you. It's not only that kind of thing that can bind two people together."

He leaned over and grabbed the seat belt by her side, "Sit down, I'll take you home first."

Ye Qingqiu suddenly held his hand holding the seat belt, a pair of beautiful eyes were a little confused, and there was a lot of mockery.

"It's really not just that kind of thing that can bind two people together, such as guilt, responsibility, and... life-saving grace."

Li Ting's long, dark eyes settled down suddenly, and it was as cold as a silent blizzard brewing.

Even the brow bones under the long eyebrows are like swords with frost, cold and sharp.

"Do you have to be so aggressive? Ye Qingqiu, no matter what I say or do, you have already sentenced me to death here?"

Ye Qingqiu clutched the pillow tightly, and the high-grade velvet quilt inside was pinched into a ball.

"It sounds like I'm more of a stupid judge, I don't know anything, and it's easy to sentence people to death out of context."

"But Li Tingshen." Ye Qingqiu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "Maybe it's because I'm stupid, so even if you deceive me once, I may choose to forgive you."

"Do you think such a hypocritical life is interesting?"

Ye Qingqiu pursed his lips and smiled lightly, shaking his head, "I also think it's boring, maybe it's just being hypocritical for a while."

"I have to rush back to eat, so you can go to work if you have something to do. Looking for Liang Xu'er? I'll treat you as a drink and dinner with Yin Ruijue and the others."

She finally fully opened the door that had just closed slightly, and the cold wind rushed in in a large area.

One of her toes landed on the ground first, but the other injured foot never dared to land because of the pain from the sudden braking just now.

She held on to the door hard, not letting her actions have any flaws.

Once he sees something, he probably just thinks it's ridiculous, and it's hypocritical, it's really hypocritical.

Li Ting looked at her actions coldly, her airtight eyes as if the storm had passed, silent and desolate, no grass grows.

"You have involved me with Liang Xu'er several times, no matter what you say or do, you can't change the cognition that seems to have been ingrained in your heart... Now I think, since I already have such a bad impression in your heart, why don't I It's time to calm down and think about whether I really like Liang Xu'er, or... really try her."

Ye Qingqiu's body suddenly shuddered, and he suddenly raised his head to look at the man who was looking at her with a sneer.

"Since you insist on getting off the bus here, it seems that it is useless for me to say more."

He leaned over, stretched out his long arms and closed the door, his eyes flicked from her hand clutching the edge of the door, to her pretty face so white that she couldn't see her neon sign.

The calm and indifferent voice sounded without wavering, "Call Ye Ze and let him pick you up."

said, he exerted a little force, and Ye Qingqiu's hand on the door loosened and fell beside him.

Li Tingshen's eyes darkened, and finally he closed the door hard, stepped on the accelerator, and the car flew out quickly.

*

Ye Qingqiu stood there numbly, watching his car quickly disappear from her sight, and then called Ye Ze mechanically.

He has to seriously consider whether he likes Liang Xuer or not?

So now, is he going to the hospital to really try it with Liang Xuer?

Maybe the weather was too cold, the blood all over the body was frozen, and the pain on the ankle seemed to be relieved.

She was still holding the doll pillow in her hand, standing by the desolate road where the cold air was raging, lonely and helpless like an abandoned child.

She didn't know how Ye Ze got here in less than ten minutes.

When Ye Ze saw Ye Qingqiu standing alone on the side of the empty road, his shocked and anxious voice sounded like the sky was about to fall.

"Miss!"

He got out of the car and immediately took off his coat and put it on the woman whose sanity seemed to be floating elsewhere.

Her face was helpless and confused, mixed with anxiety and disappointment.

The complex expression on such a young girl surprised him at the moment.

The clothes on her body are not very warm.

Girls have a car when they go out and warm when they enter the door. They don’t go out for a walk, and they won’t make themselves look bulky and cumbersome by wearing so much.

"Brother Ye Ze, I just touched my foot... it hurts."

The girl's voice was cool, without the slightest turbulence, her nose was frozen red, and so were her eyes.

Ye Ze opened the co-pilot's door, bent over and picked her up, carefully placed her on the co-pilot, and fastened her seat belt.

Breathing a little too fast because of the urgency.

"I'll take you to the hospital."

The word    hospital finally made Ye Qingqiu react a little bit.

After thinking about it for a while, she blinked and hugged the pillow in her arms tightly, "I'm not going to the hospital, I'm going home for dinner now, and my grandfather and dad are still waiting for me."

"But……"

"Brother Ye Ze, I'm very hungry."

Ye Qingqiu's appearance clearly did not allow him to continue to persevere.

Ye Ze had no choice but to nod.

*

The car was speeding at high speed, the window next to it was lowered to the bottom, and the cold wind poured into the car with force and smashed Li Tingshen's tensed cold-faced handsome face.

The anger in his chest almost burned his whole body to ashes from the inside out.

The leather cover of the steering wheel was completely deformed by him, and Ye Qingqiu's face, with different emotions, appeared in his mind without interruption.

sarcasm, mockery, indifference, blandness…

All the expressions seemed to tell him how ridiculous he was.

Greed is ridiculous.

What she wants, she will ask for it without any scruples.

If you like it, you must pay and you must get it, and let everyone know that she likes it frankly.

If you dislike it, stay away from it. If you despise it, you will hate it without concealing it.

Simple, flamboyant, self-confessed with a clear conscience.

Then it felt like everyone had to be like her.

If you like it, you like it, and if you hate it, it will not pretend.

Ah.

He sneered.

A strong cold wind poured into his lungs, and a piercing cold covered more than half of the fire that had accumulated in his chest.

The last thing that flashed in my mind was the panic and helpless look she had when she stood outside the door and looked at him at last.

My heart shrank suddenly, and the sharp braking sound suddenly resounded throughout the empty city.

The car slowed down suddenly, and the steering wheel twisted at the same time.

A burst of whistles sounded one after another, and several vehicles behind them braked one after another and honked their horns in shock. They opened the windows and yelled at the high-end car that was going backwards on the viaduct.

Li Ting was deaf to him. With a tense face, he passed through the gaps in every car, the windows were raised, he turned on the warm air to the maximum, and the co-pilot's seat was also heated.

It took ten minutes to go back and forth, but by the time he threw Ye Qingqiu down, the person was no longer there.

He opened the car door and got out of the car, but did not find the slightest trace of her staying here.

He suddenly got a little annoyed at himself, what the **** was he thinking, and he actually left her on the road alone with her feet hurt.

The car with its siren blaring stopped beside his.

He couldn't restrain his irritability and closed his eyes.

*

The car drove into Ye's house, Ye Qingqiu said lightly: "Don't tell grandpa and dad where you picked me up today."

Ye Ze's face was a little stiff, but he still said the word "yes".

Being carried into the living room by Ye Ze, the old man and Ye Jianyun immediately smiled.

"you're back."

The servant immediately pushed the wheelchair and asked Ye Ze to put Ye Qingqiu on it.

Ye Qingqiu frowned and looked unhappy, "Today's food is not to my taste, but I deliberately had an empty stomach for a day, and I thought I would eat something amazing."

"That is, you are used to it. Your taste is like this."

"Yeah, I don't know who is used to it."

As soon as Ye Qingqiu came back, the atmosphere suddenly picked up.

Ye Bo quickly greeted a few people to the restaurant.

"Miss, I heard that you came back for dinner, the old man and the gentleman didn't eat much dinner."

Ye Qingqiu suppressed the soreness in his throat, "Okay, then just eat more with me."

Ye Bo laughed again and again: "Isn't that what it means, there are so many people, so let's have dinner."

After several people were seated, the old man looked outside the restaurant door, "Where's Tingshen? Why didn't you come back with you? "

"Oh, Yin Ruijue asked him to go to the wine party in the middle, and I let him go. He has been busy these days, and he finally took a year off and has to take care of me every step of the way... He doesn't go to play, I'm always in my heart. Feeling uncomfortable...it took a lot of effort to drive him away..."

Hearing this, Ye Jianyun nodded, "That's true. Well, we'll eat ours."

Ye Qingqiu took a bite of the vegetable and put it in his mouth, and gave a soft "um".

Ye Qingqiu ate a lot for dinner, more than she used to eat.

The stomach feels a little uncomfortable.

The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren were eating tea in the living room and watching the party. Ye Qingqiu rubbed his stomach and watched the synchronous hot search with his mobile phone.

is almost always a hot search for party programs.

As soon as I turned on my phone, I received a message.

was sent by Ye Ze.

"I bought medicine."

Ye Qingqiu looked at the two elderly people who were watching the sketches next to him, and replied - "You can put them in my room."

"Okay."

Just less than two minutes later, Ye Ze suddenly appeared in the living room and walked to her side.

Ye Qingqiu looked up at him.

The old man and Ye Jianyun also looked at him.

Ye Ze was expressionless, "You just sent a message that you are going to wash up."

Ye Qingqiu: "..."

She couldn't deny it in front of the two old people, so she could only let Ye Ze bend over and carry her upstairs.

Ye Ze directly hugged Ye Qingqiu and went to the bathroom.

Ye Qingqiu found that the bathtub was already full of water.

She looked at Ye Ze, "I didn't tell you."

Ye Ze nodded and admitted, "Your feet, you'd better deal with them earlier."

After he finished speaking, he turned around, "You wash first, I'll be waiting for you outside."

Ye Ze just went out when a servant walked in.

"Miss, I'll help you."

Ye Qingqiu really can't take a bath by himself now, getting in and out of the bathtub is a problem.

It turned out that Li Tingshen had always stripped her off and carried her into the bathtub.

Now, Ye Ze is obviously impossible to do so.

She didn't wash for a long time, and came out after half an hour.

When    came out, she was wearing a clean and dry nightgown. The servant helped her to the door of the bathroom. Ye Qingqiu held on to the door frame, frowning and feeling tired.

Ye Ze stood at the door of the bedroom and heard the movement, "Miss, I'm in."

After taking a bath, her body returned to heat, and the pain on her feet became more obvious. She was too lazy to go by herself, so she responded and Ye Ze's figure appeared beside her within a few seconds.

Then he bent over and picked her up, walked over to the bed and put her down.

The suspender nightdress on the body is quite satisfactory, and wearing small suspenders and hot pants in summer is much more than it is now.

But in winter, when the skin is rarely exposed, her dress looks somewhat visually striking.

Ye Ze didn't look sideways, half kneeled on the ground, and put Ye Qingqiu's injured foot on his knee.

Remove the water-wet bandages layer by layer.

The place where    was twisted was really more red and swollen than before.

Ye Qingqiu looked at the foot, bit his lip and turned his gaze elsewhere.

From childhood to adulthood, she never suffered a single injury. Even if she fell naughty as a child, the entire Ye family would be in chaos.

This kind of injury, I never dared to think about it before.

Ye Ze's face was tense, he looked up at her, his hand was hanging in the air and he couldn't start.

"I have studied medical nursing, I try to be careful, you... be patient."

Ye Qingqiu kept biting his lip and gave a soft "um".

"You can relax a little." Ye Ze lifted her feet up, her slender calf was stretched very close, took a close look at her sprain, then picked up the ice pack prepared in advance, wrapped it in a towel and put it lightly on it above.

Ye Qingqiu's body trembled suddenly, his teeth clenched even tighter.

Ye Ze held the ice pack and looked up at her again, "...It's estimated that it will take another ten days and a half before I can barely walk."

Ye Qingqiu blinked and turned to look at him with a trace of grievance on his face.

There were still three or five days before she could get out of bed and walk completely by herself.

Ye Ze did not speak.

Ye Qingqiu could sense his somewhat restrained emotions.

Just don't know if it's because of her.

She doesn't mention it.

maintained a posture for more than ten minutes before Ye Ze took off the ice pack, brought the medicine he bought, and bandaged Ye Qingqiu skillfully and carefully.

Compared to just now, the pain seems to have eased a lot, and Ye Qingqiu's tense nerves relaxed a little.

"You have always been very busy in my memory, how could you think of studying nursing."

Ye Ze's bandaged hand paused for a moment, then continued. He never raised his head, and looked carefully and carefully bandaging.

"When you were ten years old, you were flying a kite in the yard, fell into the flowerbed, your arm was cut by a branch, and you were crying in pain. It looked like I fell off a tree and broke my arm. It looks painful."

Ye Qingqiu blinked, as if thinking that such a thing really happened in the past.

"Ah, I remember, you climbed the tree to get me a kite... In the end, Ye Bo gave me a lesson and shut you down for a week."

Ye Ze gave a "um", "It's true that I didn't do well enough to be with you and hurt you."

The smile that just appeared on Ye Qingqiu's face gradually disappeared.

"But I think that in the days to come, I must still be negligent, and it is impossible to stay by your side all the time. If I get hurt, I can make amends."

Ye Ze still didn't look up, and still carefully applied the anti-swelling and pain-relieving medicine to her.

"Now it seems that what I thought was right, and now it doesn't work anymore."

Ye Qingqiu looked down at Ye Ze's serious and focused look, and she had always taken it for granted that she had accompanied her silently for so many years.

"Brother Ye Ze, if it wasn't for you, maybe I wouldn't be where I am now. I can be unbridled and willful because I know that you will never leave me, and you will definitely solve any problems for me, so that I won't have any worries. ,Really thank you very much……"

Ye Ze's voice was flat, "You are not willful. It is my responsibility to be able to solve things for you, and I am willing to do it. If you do nothing, what's the point of my existence?"

He seemed to be saying a common thing, but the meaning he expressed was shocking enough—

Ye Ze lived for Ye Qingqiu.

Ye Qingqiu had never thought about it this way, but thinking about it carefully, it seems that since she was ignorant of the governor, Ye Bo brought him to her side, and he seems to have been doing this all the time.

Li Tingshen's driver's license was temporarily invalid, and he couldn't even find a chauffeur. The traffic police on duty was grabbed and drove Li Tingshen back to Ye's house in a police car.

Watching Li Tingshen get out of a police car, the servant outside looked strange.

When he entered the room, he saw the old man and Ye Jianyun sitting on the sofa watching the show.

The old man saw him and asked suspiciously, "Why did you come back so early? It's rare to go out to play once..."

Li Tingshen's eyes flashed slightly, and the hand hanging by his side clenched tightly.

His body and voice tensed, "Where's Qingqiu?"

"I'm washing upstairs. You came back just in time. Go pick her up and prepare for New Year's Eve together."

"Okay."

The bedroom door was not closed. Li Tingshen just walked to the door when he heard voices coming from inside.

Ye Ze's words were heard by him without omission.

Ye Qingqiu does nothing, what's the point of his existence?

Li Ting's deep eyes sank suddenly, it turned out that the man who had been by Ye Qingqiu's side had always had unusual thoughts about Ye Qingqiu.

He lifted his foot and walked in, just a few steps, standing at the blind corner of the cabinet, watching Ye Qingqiu sitting beside the bed, his eyes drooping, his eyes staring at Ye Ze for a moment.

The expression on her face softened as she moved.

is a world of difference from the expression on his face tonight.

Ye Ze wrapped her last bandage and then fixed it.

But such a pure act was imprinted in Li Tingshen's eyes, and it was no longer pure.

's slender legs were held in his hands.

The legs under the nightgown were exposed too much because of the movement of her feet, and Ye Ze's kneeling posture, just raised his head a little, and he would see more.

"All right."

Ye Ze suddenly made a noise at this time, and put his bandaged feet aside.

then looked up at her, "Are you going to sleep or go down?"

Ye Qingqiu didn't even think about it, "Go down to accompany grandpa and dad for New Year's Eve."

"Okay."

Ye Ze kept his words concise, picked up the cotton slippers and gently put them on Ye Qingqiu.

Then stood up and approached Ye Qingqiu, he naturally bent over, and Ye Qingqiu naturally reached out and put his arm around his shoulder.

Maybe he has seen Ye Ze hug her before, but it has never been so disgusting as it is now.

He lifted his foot and walked in, his long arm first grabbed Ye Ze's shoulder, and then pushed him aside.

Ye Qingqiu raised his hands in the air.

reacted, his face sank immediately.

"What's your nerve?"

Li Tingshen turned around and looked down at the woman who was sitting on the bed with a gloomy face, staring at him with brows.

The hair on her temples was damp, and so was behind her ears.

The scent of shower gel is clearer than before in the car, and the light makeup on my face is now washed clean.

"Have you taken a shower?"

He raised his hand and tried to pull the wet hair from her ear, but the woman turned her head away.

"It's true that I just took a shower, and I don't want to take a second time, so don't touch me."

She spoke coldly with a cold expression.

is saying he is dirty.

Li Ting had anger circling in his heart.

"Did you take a bath today?" He insisted.

Ye Qingqiu smiled softly: "Can't I take a shower without you? It's not just you who can accompany me."

Li Ting's deep eyes looked at her fair and beautiful face. There was no delicate and light makeup, and her hair was not tidied at all. The slightly damp hair was scattered around, curling and curling, a casual and simple life. The breath comes out naturally.

This should be a side that can only be presented in front of it, but now it is even possible to face Ye Ze.

Even, he didn't see more than Ye Ze.

There was too much space between them, and Ye Ze was always there.

He did not continue to investigate who helped Ye Qingqiu take a bath. He convinced himself that no matter how close she and Ye Ze were, they would not allow such a thing to happen.

"Grandpa and Dad are waiting for you to come downstairs for New Year's Eve, I will carry you down."

"I plan to go down even if you don't tell me." After Ye Qingqiu finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Ye Ze who was beside him, "Brother Ye Ze, hold me down."

Li Tingshen stood still, with a cool smile on his face.

Ye Ze walked around him and planned to pick Ye Qingqiu up from the other side.

As a result, his shoulders were suddenly buckled, and then a fist with strong wind suddenly smashed directly at the door. Even though Ye Ze reacted quickly and hid in time, he was still punched in the face.

He staggered and propped up the edge of the bed with his hands, stabilizing his body.

Ye Qingqiu was in a trance for a while, and after being stunned for a while, he turned pale in shock.

"Brother Ye Ze..."

Ye Qingqiu turned sideways to help him, but was stopped by Ye Ze, then stood up slowly and wiped the liquid from the corner of his lips.

"Miss, since you called me brother, then I have to suffer as well."

He said lightly, and then his accustomed face suddenly turned fierce, raised his hand and waved towards Li Tingshen.

Li Tingshen didn't expect that, staying by Ye Qingqiu's side all the time, he would act like a follower of an emotionless robot.

He took two steps back.

Ye Qingqiu's mind swelled, staring blankly at the sudden scene in front of him.

Ye Ze took two more steps towards Li Tingshen. The man who was placed next to Ye Qingqiu must be very skilled.

He was very fast, but when he approached him, he didn't make another move. Instead, a pair of bloodshot eyes stared at him, a voice that was almost squeezed out of his teeth.

"I don't know why you chose to injure her foot again on New Year's Eve and then leave her alone on the side of the road to fend for itself. But no matter you have hundreds or thousands of reasons, even if it is Your mother died suddenly, and it is not worthy of forgiveness!"

Li Ting's long brows, which were as sharp as an iron sword that had been polished countless times, paused slightly after hearing Ye Ze's cruel and extremely angry words.

He looked over Ye Ze's shoulder and looked at the woman sitting on the bed.

The woman's eyes were red, and after meeting his gaze, she changed into frost-like indifference and stubbornness, and turned her head to one side.

His heart sank, and his eyes subconsciously fell on her feet that had been bandaged again.

Thinking back a little, his face changed instantly.

"What's the urgency that makes you do this kind of shit? The company went bankrupt or the mother died? You don't even have a word to explain and comfort you, so who else is going to settle the bill?"

Ye Ze's words lost his taciturn demeanor for so many years, and he was sharp and merciless.

However, Li Tingshen couldn't refute a sentence, no matter how his words stepped on his bottom line, he couldn't speak.

He left her alone in the cold, empty street on New Year's Eve, enough to make him realize it was serious.

Now, it turns out that he injured her foot again.

(end of this chapter)