Chapter 58: He Who Photographs Others Will Be Photographed?
The person being called stood with his back to the light.
With standard nine-head body proportions, he stood among the people trickling out of the hospital gate like a crane among chickens, instantly grabbing everyone’s attention.
Le Can tilted his face slightly, looking into the light, and narrowed his eyes vaguely.
He met a gaze of indifferent scrutiny, plus… a look filled with intense curiosity and prying.
The former belonged to Yin Wuyu, who was exceptionally sensitive to gazes due to his profession.
The moment he saw Le Can’s face, he paused for half a second. Then, he quickly put away the sharpness in his eyes and gave a slight nod to Le Can from a distance.
The latter belonged to a middle-aged woman whose identity was completely unknown.
She lagged behind Yin Wuyu, separated by a distance of about a meter or so, yet her figure was still mostly obscured by the tall silhouette in front.
At first, Le Can thought she was just a curious stranger passing by and didn’t pay much attention.
But it was strange… because the woman’s gaze kept staring at him, or rather, staring in the direction of him and Jian Minglang.
It wasn’t until the two walked out of the hospital gate, one after the other, and Yin Wuyu stopped for a moment to turn back and say something to her, that Le Can realized they actually knew each other.
Only then did he take a rough look at the woman’s appearance from afar.
Long curly hair, a bright-colored long dress, high heels. Even though the location was a hospital, she carried a designer bag, her face plastered with powder and wearing somewhat heavy makeup.
With flying eyeliner and sunken flesh around her eyes, she carried a look of shrewd calculation that wasn’t well concealed…
Honestly speaking, she didn’t look like a patient coming for treatment, nor like a family member visiting a patient.
In fact, when she stood next to the solemn and cold Yin Wuyu, the strong contrast gave off a very heavy sense of disconnect.
For a moment, Le Can couldn’t gauge the relationship between her and Yin Wuyu.
When Yin Wuyu turned and strode over, Jian Minglang stared doubtfully at the woman’s retreating figure and asked in confusion, “Eh? Did Auntie just leave like that?”
Yin Wuyu, having walked up close, nodded blandly.
He didn’t dwell on this question for long, instead looking at Jian Minglang. “Is there something wrong, Little Boss?”
“Haha,” Jian Minglang laughed dryly twice. “Nothing really. Just that my friend bumped into me and thought I was sick. I was just about to explain, and then I happened to see you, so…”
So he called out to greet him.
There was no issue, no motive, just a pure greeting…
Realizing what a stupid thing he had done, Jian Minglang looked back at Le Can. Realizing the other couldn’t help, he looked at the tall man emitting intense pressure in front of him, gesturing helplessly with his hands.
He held it in for a long time but didn’t squeeze out a single word.
Le Can silently held his forehead, stood up, walked forward, and took over the conversation. “He has nothing going on.”
“I haven’t seen you with Xie Jun much recently. I didn’t expect someone in your family to be sick… It’s too late today so we won’t disturb you, but we’ll find another time to visit formally.”
Yin Wuyu listened silently. “Thank you, but with Chenchen’s current condition…”
Combining this with the paragraph Xiong Anguo had sent earlier, Le Can understood Yin Wuyu’s unfinished meaning. He nodded appropriately. “Then, we won’t disturb you for now.”
After speaking, Le Can lowered his eyes in thought for two seconds, then added hesitantly, “If there is anything you need help with…”
This time, without waiting for Le Can to finish, Yin Wuyu slowly shook his head to cut off the rest of the words. He turned to look at Jian Minglang beside him. “Chenchen and I have already met a benefactor.”
Le Can glanced at Jian Minglang, who gave a goofy smile, and nodded to show he understood.
Although Jian Minglang was unreliable in some aspects, he was very steady in the big picture; his previous family had taught him well. Even in a strange world, Jian Minglang had a capable brother who doted on him standing behind him.
With Jian Minglang as Yin Wuyu’s benefactor, there really wasn’t a need for Le Can to intervene further.
Previously speaking slowly was Le Can leaving room for the other party to react. Because of the hesitation… he guessed Yin Wuyu wouldn’t accept his help.
Strictly speaking, Le Can and Yin Wuyu didn’t have much interaction. For someone not very familiar to offer help would indeed cause alertness and suspicion, leading to a polite refusal.
The expected outcome didn’t surprise Le Can much.
But besides this, there was another matter hanging in his mind that puzzled him…
A sudden breeze blew, scattering the hair on the young man’s forehead.
Behind the strands of hair, a pair of eyes, clear as amber under the sunlight, gazed from a distance at the hem of a bright dress disappearing around the corner ahead.
“How was it? Did you not expect Auntie to have a son as big as Yin Wuyu?”
Le Can felt his shoulder being lightly bumped. He turned his head to see Jian Minglang with an ‘I understand you’ expression.
Le Can furrowed his brows, looking the person in front of him up and down with a rather novel gaze.
He discovered that Jian Minglang was always obtuse when his brain should be sharp, and incredibly sensitive when he should be obtuse.
In short: weird focus, misses the point.
At this moment, Le Can was very glad. Back when he passed the note, he had urgently listed an outline for the questioning of Shan Man.
Jian Minglang calmly accepted Le Can’s admiring (pitying) gaze, curling his lips in a reserved smile. “Hehehehe, because I didn’t see it at first either.”
“But although Auntie’s taste is a bit… hard to describe, she’s super caring and nice!”
Le Can glanced at Yin Wuyu, who was two steps away, and cast a look of admiration at the brave warrior who gossiped right in front of the son and tried to smooth it over.
“For example?”
Jian Minglang probably didn’t expect Le Can to ask in such detail. He stalled for a second, then said hesitantly, “For example, she asked a lot of questions? She cared about us so much!”
Le Can raised the tail of his eye. “…Us?”
Jian Minglang scratched behind his ear, confused. “Yeah, me and my brother.”
Le Can instantly pursed his lips to manage his expression, suppressing the speechlessness in his heart, and nodded silently. I’m afraid she’s fished out information about your ancestors going back eighteen generations with that ‘super caring’ attitude…
Yin Wuyu obviously knew his mother’s nature as well. A crease formed between his brows. “Next time she asks you anything, you don’t need to answer those questions.”
Le Can keenly detected the flash of disgust in Yin Wuyu’s eyes, and the faint suspicion in his heart couldn’t help but deepen a layer.
In his opinion, Yin Wuyu looked like a cold and decisive person. He didn’t expect him to tolerate walking alongside someone he loathed.
But considering this person’s special identity, everything seemed excusable.
Every family has a skeleton in the closet.
In the naive and romantic stage, Le Can only thought this saying was an exaggeration. Only after passing the age of simply daydreaming did he understand how classic this saying was.
However, Le Can didn’t have the heart to investigate further.
Now clear that Yin Wuyu’s appearance in the paparazzi photos was just a coincidence, he temporarily put down his suspicion of the cool-guy bodyguard and turned to ask him instead.
“Jian Minglang and I are meeting at Zuitinglang for dinner tonight. Will Mr. Yin join us?”
Jian Minglang’s eyes widened instantly: ?
Why is it like a chunk of my memory was dug out… When did the two of us agree to this?!
Yin Wuyu looked down at the watch on his wrist. When he looked up again, his face bore a clear apology.
“In another hour, it will be the scheduled time for a temporary employer.”
Le Can waved his hand. “I also decided on a whim and didn’t consider if Mr. Yin had other plans. Work should come first…”
After all, the hospitalization and treatment costs at Suihe’an International Hospital were not low. The fact that Yin Wuyu took a part-time job during his leave showed his burden wasn’t light.
Right… if not for this, when Xiong Anguo and the others were struggling, Yin Wuyu wouldn’t have just stood up to ask Le Can to help them keep a salary.
Later, after Le Can spent two hundred thousand to hire Xiong Anguo, he had also received thanks from Yin Wuyu.
The look Le Can gave Yin Wuyu hid a trace of complexity.
Such a person who valued affection and righteousness shouldn’t be the same person who destroyed one of Yuan Cheng’s eyes and one of his arms…
“There’s only an hour left, and Mr. Yin still has to rush to the employer’s location. Go quickly, don’t mind us two.”
“Next time,” the young man under the sunlight laughed lightly, joking, “we won’t happen to bump into a new job again, right?”
Yin Wuyu nodded slightly, then asked Le Can an unrelated question: “How did Mr. Le get here?”
Le Can guessed Yin Wuyu’s thought. He lifted the bunch of keys in his hand, shaking them in mid-air to make a crisp sound.
He jutted his chin towards the roadside not far away. “No need for you to drive us, I drove here. Jian Minglang probably drove too…”
Rich kids definitely drove here.
Who expected that before his voice fell, a head suddenly popped up beside him. “Didn’t drive. I took a taxi here today!”
Le Can was silent for two seconds, reviewing the frequency of traffic police he encountered on the way here.
Because it was a newly bought vehicle, Le Can’s little e-scooter was only equipped with one safety helmet. Meaning, if he drove a passenger, he would likely be fined 50+ for carrying a passenger plus the passenger not wearing a helmet.
Hiss…
Le Can instantly raised a relaxed smile. “It’s fine, let Jian Minglang continue to take a taxi.”
As long as the money didn’t come out of his pocket, taxi it was.
Jian Minglang, whose wallet had recently suffered a “robbery”: “…”
In the end, it was Yin Wuyu driving the truck, carrying two people and one e-scooter, who delivered them to the dining location…
Two people, one meal.
It cost Le Can nearly five figures!
When his left foot stepped into the villa gate, even after the wind cooled him down along the way, his heart still twitched with pain.
[Discussing feelings hurts the wallet; the netizens didn’t lie to me…]
“Dammit, Jian Minglang can eat way too much!”
Inside the villa, it was as silent as always. The quiet complaint, which wasn’t actually that loud, quickly traveled from one end to the other.
The young man, walking carelessly while counting the balance on his phone screen, didn’t notice that a broad, upright figure was sitting on the sofa a few meters away.
And not far from that figure stood Yuan Cheng, legs stiff from standing for who knows how long, his face full of apocalyptic despair.
Le Can navigated around the curio shelf in the hall and looked up to see Yuan Cheng’s twisted expression.
Startled, he stopped in his tracks for a few seconds, then looked up in surprise at a certain man who dared to appear in front of him just like that after running away.
“Xi Yun, you…”
The person with lowered eyes slowly raised his head. “Someone mailed some photos to Weiyuanjing today.”
Le Can instantly forgot what he wanted to say.
He involuntarily followed Xi Yun’s words. Speaking of mailing photos, the only connection was Gao Dan. Was that guy’s action that fast?
[As expected, is the power of money really that effective?]
However, Le Can was certain that Xi Yun’s name wasn’t on the list of people he asked the paparazzo Gao Dan to send photos to…
Le Can walked closer and looked down: “…”
He widened his eyes in disbelief. “What the hell? Where did all these photos come from?!”
On the black marble tabletop, scenes of him and Jian Minglang eating, him sitting in Yin Wuyu’s passenger seat, and even him sitting side-by-side with Gao Dan, were frozen in photograph after photograph.
Besides these, there were many scenes Le Can didn’t remember clearly, brushing past or talking with some strange but young men.
Le Can only just realized—he had been followed!
Having endured Xi Yun’s low pressure all night, Yuan Cheng jumped out hurriedly, wearing an expression of heroic self-sacrifice.
“Brother Yun, Brother-in-law definitely wouldn’t cheat. You have to believe him!”
A shocking sentence that made Le Can see stars.
“Wait,” Le Can held his throbbing head with one hand and raised the other in a ‘pause’ gesture. “What cheating? Someone stared at me and took photos of me… cheating?”
He hired someone to track Le Wenxin?
Then, someone hired someone to track him?
What was this?
He who photographs others will be photographed?
Xi Yun, who hadn’t spoken, raised his eyes to look at the tall, jade-like young man in front of him.
“Next time you go out, don’t refuse the bodyguards following you, Le Can.”
Realizing he was the only one who misunderstood, Yuan Cheng: “…”
Suddenly feeling his nose itch and turn red, what should he do? Woof!
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