Chapter 1991 Love Is a Shackle

Everyone has spent their whole lives working hard and paying for a perfect result.

But after she got it and owned it, she realized that the most difficult thing is how to keep this goal that was achieved ahead of time.

Because there were too many changes in the middle, which she did not expect at all.

She expected him to love her again and again, not because she was greedy for more.

It was because she suddenly discovered that love is a bondage.

She needs this shackle to lock Li Tingshen firmly by her side.

She loves him, but doesn't necessarily keep him.

And if he loves her, just like she loves him, he will not leave her easily.

But the shackles only held her.

With the key in his hand, he could withdraw and leave at any time.

Worry about gain and loss, like a neuropathy.

There was a moment of silence in the carriage, the coldness in the night wind seemed to be pierced with dense needles, and the whole body was bitingly cold.

"Ye Qingqiu." After a long time, Li Tingshen spoke slowly, his voice seemed to be frozen with a thin layer of ice by the cold wind, slightly stiff.

"Don't be too greedy. Why do you have to be obsessed with that word? It has no meaning other than hypocrisy. We put together with that kind of thing... It's an insult to each other."

Hypocritical?

insult each other?

Did they, insult such a thing as love?

It was as if a big hole had been torn open in his chest, and the cold wind gushed in gusts, even the blood in his heart seemed to freeze.

She looked a little dazed, staring blankly at his face.

"Do you have to use such blunt words to pull me into reality? A man's mouth is really the best way to deceive people."

Even if he lied to her and weaved her a dream world full of lies, it would be better than pulling her into reality and stabbing her body with a knife again and again.

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

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

"It seems to be true. It seems that whatever you do, in my case, you are wrong."

Li Tingshen suddenly squeezed her wrist again, "We have too many reasons to be together, and there are many reasons why I will not leave you. It is not only that kind of thing that can bind two people together."

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

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

"It's true that it's not the only thing that can bind two people together, such as guilt, responsibility, and... the grace of saving lives."

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

Even the brow bone under the long eyebrows is like a sword covered 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?"

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

"It sounds like I'm a fatuous judge who doesn't know anything, and who takes the meaning out of context and easily sentences people to death."

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

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

Ye Qingqiu pulled his lips and smiled faintly, then shook his head, "I don't think that's interesting either, it's probably just a temporary act of hypocrisy."

"I still have to rush back to eat. If you have something to do, go get busy. Go find Liang Xu'er? I'll just pretend that you're going to have a drink and dinner with Yin Ruijue and the others."

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

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

She held on to the car door vigorously, not allowing any flaws in her actions.

Once he sees something, he probably just thinks it's ridiculous, and if he talks about hypocrisy, it's not a bit hypocritical.

Li Ting looked at her actions coldly, his impenetrable eyes seemed like the storm had passed, silent and desolate, not a single blade of grass grew.

"You have brought me and Liang Xu'er together 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 that I think about it, since I already have such a bad impression in your heart, why don't I I really should calm down and think about whether I really like Liang Xuer, or... really try with her."

Ye Qingqiu's body that had just stood still suddenly trembled, 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 here, it seems that it is useless for me to say more."

He leaned over and stretched out his long arms to hold the car door, his eyes flicked from her hand that was holding the edge of the car door tightly, to her beautiful pale face that was printed with neon lights so that he couldn't see her.

A calm and indifferent voice sounded without any waves, "Call Ye Ze and ask him to pick you up."

As he spoke, he exerted a little force, and Ye Qingqiu's hand on the door loosened and fell to his side.

Li Ting's deep eyes darkened, and finally he closed the car door forcefully, 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 mechanically called Ye Ze.

He has to seriously consider whether he likes Liang Xu'er or not?

So now, is he going to the hospital to have a real try with Liang Xuer?

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

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

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

When Ye Ze saw Ye Qingqiu standing alone by 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, immediately took off his coat and put it on the woman whose mind seemed to be drifting elsewhere.

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

Such a young girl's complex expression at this moment surprised him.

The clothes on her body are not very warm.

Girls have a car when they go out, and they have warmth when they come in. They don't go out on purpose, and they don't make themselves look bloated and cumbersome if they wear so many clothes.

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

The girl's voice was cool, without any waves, her nose was red from the cold, and so were her eyes.

Ye Ze opened the door of the co-pilot, bent over and picked her up, put her on the co-pilot carefully, and fastened the seat belt again.

Breathing became a little short due to urgency.

"I'll take you to the hospital."

Ye Qingqiu finally reacted to the word hospital.

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

"But……"

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

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

Ye Ze could only nod his head in response.

*

The car was speeding at a high speed, the window next to it was lowered to the bottom, and the cold wind poured into the car with force, hitting Li Tingshen's tense cold face.

The anger in his chest seemed to burn his whole body to ashes from the inside out.

The leather cover of the steering wheel was completely deformed by him, Ye Qingqiu's face, with different emotions constantly appearing in his mind.

Irony, ridicule, indifference, plainness...

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

Ridiculously greedy.

What she wanted, she had to ask for it openly and without any scruples.

If you like it, you have to give and get it, and let everyone know that she likes it frankly.

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

Simple, flamboyant, self-confessed.

Then I feel like everyone has to be like her.

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

Ah.

He sneered.

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

The last thing that flashed in her mind was the panicked and helpless look she had when she stood outside the door and looked at him for the last time.

His heart suddenly shrank, and the sharp sound of brakes suddenly resounded throughout the empty city.

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

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

Li Ting turned a deaf ear to it, and with a tense face, he passed through the gaps of each car. The windows were raised, and he turned on the heater 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 dropped Ye Qingqiu, the person was no longer there.

He opened the car door and got out of the car, but he didn't find any trace of her staying here.

He was suddenly a little annoyed with himself, what was he thinking at the time, and he actually threw her on the road alone, her foot was still injured.

A car with its siren blaring pulls up next to his car.

He couldn't help closing his eyes in agitation.

*

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

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

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

"I'm home."

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

Ye Qingqiu frowned with an unhappy look on his face, "Today's food didn't suit my taste, it's a pity that I deliberately emptied my stomach all day, and thought I would eat something amazing."

"It's just you who are used to it, and your taste is so tricky."

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

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

Ye Bo hurriedly greeted several people to the restaurant.

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

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

Ye Bo laughed again and again: "Isn't that what it means? There are so many people, and there is a meal."

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

"Oh, Yin Ruijue asked him to go to the wine bureau on the way, and I let him go. He has been busy these days, and he finally took his annual vacation and took care of me every step of the way... He doesn't go to play to get some fresh air, I always I feel uncomfortable... It took a lot of effort to drive him away..."

Hearing this, Ye Jianyun nodded, "It's true. That's fine, let's eat ours."

Ye Qingqiu took a mouthful of vegetables and put them in his mouth, and gave a soft "hmm".

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

Stomach feels a little uncomfortable.

The three generations of grandparents were drinking tea and watching the party in the living room, while Ye Qingqiu was rubbing his stomach and watching simultaneous trending searches on his mobile phone.

Almost all of them are hot searches for evening shows.

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

It was sent by Ye Ze.

"I bought medicine."

Ye Qingqiu looked at the two elderly people next to him who were reading a sketch, and replied—"You can let someone put it in my room."

"good."

But within two minutes, 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 had no expression on his face, "You just sent a message saying that you are going to take a shower."

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 carried Ye Qingqiu directly to the bathroom.

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

She looked at Ye Ze, "I never told you."

Ye Ze nodded and admitted, "Your foot, you'd better deal with it as soon as possible."

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

Just as Ye Ze went out, a servant walked in.

"Miss, let me 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 it was Li Tingshen who stripped her naked and carried her directly into the bathtub.

Now, it is obviously impossible for Ye Ze to do so.

She didn't wash it for long, and it was half an hour after she came out.

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

Ye Ze was standing at the door of the bedroom when he heard something, "Miss, I'm coming in."

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

Then bent over to pick her up, went to the bed and put her down.

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

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

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

Remove the wet bandage layer by layer.

The twisted place is really more red and swollen than before.

Ye Qingqiu looked at that foot, bit his lip and turned his head to look elsewhere.

Since she was a child, she has never been injured at all. Even if she fell mischievously when she was a child, the whole Ye family would be in chaos.

This kind of injury, I didn't even dare to think about it before.

Ye Ze's face was tense, he raised his head and glanced at her, his hands were hanging in the air and he couldn't make a move.

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

Ye Qingqiu bit his lip all the time, and gave a soft "hmm".

"You can relax a little." Ye Ze lifted her feet up, her slender legs stretched very close, carefully looked at her sprain, then picked up the ice pack prepared in advance, wrapped it in a towel and gently pasted it on above.

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

Ye Ze supported the ice pack and looked up at her again, "...I guess it will take another ten and a half months before I can barely walk."

Ye Qingqiu blinked his eyes, then turned to look at him, with a hint of grievance on his face.

In three or five days, she would be able to get out of bed and walk by herself.

Ye Ze didn't speak.

Ye Qingqiu could feel his forbearance to some extent.

I just don't know if it's because of her.

She doesn't mention it.

After maintaining this position for more than ten minutes, Ye Ze took off the ice pack, took the bought medicine, and skillfully and carefully bandaged Ye Qingqiu.

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

"As far as I can remember, you've always been busy. How could you think of studying nursing?"

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

"When you were ten years old, you were flying a kite in the yard and fell into the flowerbed. Your arm was cut by a branch, and you cried in pain. It looked like I fell from a tree and broke my arm. It looks like it hurts."

Ye Qingqiu blinked his eyes, as if he remembered that such a thing happened in the past.

"Ah, I remember, back then you climbed the tree to get me a kite... In the end, you were scolded by Ye Bo and locked you up for a week."

Ye Ze said "hmm", "It's true that I didn't do well enough to hurt you when I was with you."

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

"But I think that in the days to come, I will still be negligent, and I will not be able to stay by your side all the time. If I get hurt, I can still make up for it."

Ye Ze still didn't raise his head, but seriously applied her the anti-swelling and pain-relieving potion.

"Now it seems that what I thought was right at the beginning, now it will come in handy."

Ye Qingqiu looked down at Ye Ze's earnest and focused appearance, and she always took it for granted that she had been silently by her side for so many years.

"Brother Ye Ze, if it weren't for you, maybe I wouldn't be where I am now. I can be unscrupulous and self-willed 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 solve things for you, and I am willing to do it. If you don't do anything, what's the point of my existence?"

He seemed to be talking about a very ordinary thing, but the meaning he expressed was shocking enough——

Ye Ze lives for Ye Qingqiu.

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

Li Tingshen's driver's license was invalid for the time being, and he couldn't find a substitute driver in Dalian. The traffic policeman on duty was dragged and drove Li Tingshen back to Ye's house in a police car.

Seeing Li Tingshen get off a police car, the servant outside looked weird.

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

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

Li Ting's deep eyes flickered slightly, and the hand hanging by his side clenched tightly.

His body and voice were tense, "Where's Qingqiu?"

"I'm washing up upstairs. It's just in time for you to come back. Go up and pick her up and come down to prepare for the New Year's Eve together."

"good."

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

He listened to Ye Ze's words without missing a single word.

Ye Qingqiu doesn't do anything, what's the point of his existence?

Li Ting's deep eyes suddenly sank. It turned out that the man who had been by Ye Qingqiu's side had always had unusual feelings for Ye Qingqiu.

He lifted his foot and walked in, just a few steps, standing at the corner of the cabinet, watching Ye Qingqiu sitting by the bed, eyes downcast, staring at Ye Ze without blinking.

The expression on her face became soft because of the emotion.

It's very different from the expression on his face tonight.

Ye Ze wrapped the last bandage around her and fixed it.

But in Li Tingshen's eyes, such a pure act is no longer pure.

The slender legs were held in his hands.

The legs under the nightdress were exposed too much because of the movement of her raising her feet, and Ye Ze's kneeling posture on the ground, if you just raise your head a little, you will see more.

"alright."

Ye Ze suddenly made a sound at this time, and put the bandaged foot aside.

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

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

"good."

Ye Ze spoke concisely, picked up the cotton slippers and put them on Ye Qingqiu lightly.

Then he stood up and approached Ye Qingqiu, he bent over naturally, Ye Qingqiu naturally reached out to hug his shoulder.

Maybe he had seen Ye Ze hug her before, but he had never seen it so disgusting like now.

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

Ye Qingqiu raised his hands in the air.

After reacting, his face immediately sank.

"What's wrong with you?"

Li Ting turned around deeply and looked down at the woman sitting on the bed with a gloomy expression and staring at him.

Her hair was damp at the temples, as was behind her ears.

The body exudes a clearer aroma of shower gel than before in the car, and the light makeup on his face is now even more clean.

"Have you taken a shower?"

He raised his hand, trying to brush 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 shower, so don't touch me."

She had a cold expression.

Said he was dirty.

Li Ting was deeply angry.

"Did you take a bath by yourself today?" He insisted on asking.

Ye Qingqiu smiled softly: "Can't I take a bath without you? It's not only if you're with me."

Li Ting's deep eyes looked at her fair and beautiful face, no delicate makeup, no messy hair, slightly damp hair scattered around naturally, curly, a casual and simple life The breath unfolds naturally.

This should be a side that can only be shown in front of it, but now it can also face Ye Ze.

Even, he is no more than what Ye Ze has seen.

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

He didn't continue to investigate who helped Ye Qingqiu take a bath, he convinced himself that no matter how close she and Ye Ze were, she would not allow this kind of thing to happen.

"Grandpa and Dad are waiting for you to go downstairs for the New Year's Eve. I'll carry you down."

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

Li Tingshen stood on the spot without moving, with a cold smile showing his patience.

Ye Ze walked around him, planning to hug Ye Qingqiu from the other side.

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

He staggered and supported the edge of the bed with his hands, barely steadying himself.

Ye Qingqiu was in a daze for a while, and after a moment of stunned, his face turned pale with shock.

"Brother Ye Ze..."

Ye Qingqiu turned sideways to help him, but Ye Ze stopped him with his hand, then stood up slowly, wiping the liquid from the corners of his lips.

"Miss, since you call me elder brother, I deserve to suffer."

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

Li Tingshen didn't expect that, staying by Ye Qingqiu's side all the time, like a robot's follower without emotion, would really make a sudden move.

He took two steps back.

Ye Qingqiu's mind swelled for a while, and he stared blankly at the sudden scene in front of him.

Ye Ze took another two steps closer to Li Tingshen, the man who was placed next to Ye Qingqiu must have extraordinary skills.

He was very fast, but when he approached him, he didn't make any more moves. Instead, a pair of bloodshot eyes stared at him more fiercely, and the sound was almost squeezed out from between his teeth.

"I don't know why you chose to leave her on the side of the road to fend for herself after hurting her foot again on New Year's Eve. But no matter if you have hundreds or thousands of reasons, even if it is Your mother's sudden death is not worthy of forgiveness!"

Li Ting's cold and sharp long eyebrows, which looked like iron swords 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 to the woman sitting on the bed.

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

His heart sank, and his eyes subconsciously fell on her newly bandaged feet.

Thinking back for a while, his expression changed instantly.

"What kind of emergency can make you do such a stupid thing? The company went bankrupt or the mother died? When you come back, you don't even have a word of explanation and consolation. In turn, who do you have to settle the score with?"

Ye Ze's words lost the demeanor of so few words for so many years, and were sharp and merciless.

However, Li Tingshen couldn't refute, no matter how much his words stepped on his bottom line, he couldn't open his mouth.

He left her alone on the cold and empty street on New Year's Eve, enough for him to realize the seriousness.

Now, it turned out that he had hurt her foot again.