“A slight conflict? And…a phone for that? I have conflicts with people on the subway every day, how come no one’s ever given me a phone?”
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Five minutes later, Luo Wenzhou parked the car. Tao Ran was about to get out when Luo Wenzhou, suddenly turning to him, said, “I want to ask you something rather serious.”
Tao Ran was bewildered. “What?”
“Supposing—I say just supposing you were a woman,” said Luo Wenzhou, “would you want to marry me or Fei Du?”
Tao Ran: “…”
“Supposing.”
Tao Ran considered it for a long time and then issued a conclusion: “If I were a woman, I doubt I’d have any attention to spare for the two of you. I’d be spending all day worrying about how to come out to my mom.”
“No coming out. All the women have died off.”
“Then the other…”
“All the other men have died off, too.” Saying this, Luo Wenzhou didn’t manage to keep a straight face. Laughing, he said, “It’s just the two of us.”
With over six billion people annihilated by Luo Wenzhou’s brief words, the corners of Tao Ran’s mouth twitched. At last he unfeelingly said, “Then I guess it has to be you.”
Despite all he could do to hold it back, Luo Wenzhou didn’t manage to restrain the wily smile of someone who had just pilfered a chicken. “You’d choose me? You’re sure?”
Tao Ran counted on his fingers. “I can only choose you. I think Fei Du won’t be of legal age to marry for another two months24… What are you doing?”
Luo Wenzhou was leaning back in his seat and laughing as if he’d just scored a signal victory.
Tao Ran entirely failed to understand what he had to be pleased about. He thought back a bit, then he was struck by something that made him break out in gooseflesh. Shaking his head, he got out of the car.
…He didn’t see that Luo Wenzhou was so despicable that he recorded this conversation.
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“Among us, the one most concerned with the case, the most implicated, must be me. Am I under a lot of suspicion?”
“Not much,” Luo Wenzhou answered without pausing to think. “Earlier you couldn’t find north in the West District’s heap of little alleys. The degree of difficulty involved in tossing a corpse there would be a little high for you.”
Fei Du: “…”
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Luo Wenzhou looked at him and suddenly asked, “Are you all right?”
Fei Du expressionlessly asked in turn, “What could be wrong with me?”
Luo Wenzhou thought about it, then bluntly pointed out, “Then how come you’re suddenly being so kindly and gentle to me?”
For a moment Fei Du was speechless. “I’m sorry, Captain Luo. I didn’t know you liked it rough.”
Then both of them turned silent, feeling that there had been something a little off about these words.
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Luo Wenzhou lay facedown on his hospital bed, bored to death. Owing to his record of jailbreaking, he was being watched especially closely. He faintly heard Tao Ran talking to the doctor; after a while, the doctor left, the door of the hospital room creaked open, and he heard the steps of soft-soled leather shoes.
Without turning his head, Luo Wenzhou began to recite his lines. “I can’t go on. You have to…hurry a marry a good man, and when you’re married to another, don’t mistreat Yiguo. Yiguo’s fate has been cruel, a motherless child…”
Tao Ran coughed several times as if he’d eaten chicken feathers.
Luo Wenzhou heard that there was something wrong and quickly twisted his head around to look. He saw their Director Lu standing next to him with his hands behind his back.
Director Lu answered affably, “I’d like that, but I’m so old, no one would have me!”
Luo Wenzhou: “…”
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Looking on from outside, Fei Du narrowed his eyes and assessed, “Your handcuffs are very aesthetically pleasing. Could I get a set to take back as a souvenir?”
Tao Ran didn’t catch up at once. “What do you want handcuffs for?”
Fei Du turned to look at him, then, seeming to realize he’d been indiscreet, only meaningfully curved his peach blossom eyes.
Tao Ran belatedly groped his way to the meaning of this. As a conventional man whose life contained only overtime and home loans, Deputy-Captain Tao really couldn’t appreciate this bourgeois-style lakes of wine and forests of meat. Seeing Fei Du’s disgraceful behavior, he strongly felt his field of vision had been polluted. He then justly reprimanded, “Talk nonsense again and you can get out.”
Fei Du gave a dry cough, properly suppressed his magic powers, which were unsuited to the venue, and didn’t say a word.
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danmei lines
RandomThis is basically lines that I copied, and is currently chilling in my clipboard lol The lines here isn't in order, since I would reread some parts of the novel based on my mood, and when I would read that line again, I would copy it and not caring...
