To My Dear Mr. Huo

Shi Mengwan was wearing the new clothes that Qiao Ze had bought for her and carrying the new school bag that Qiao Ze had bought for her.

The books inside were also bought by Qiao Ze. The very heavy school bag was not only for this semester, but also for the previous semester.

Fortunately, Shi Mengwan’s grades had always been good. Although she didn’t study last semester, she believed that she could try her best to catch up.

She thought about how the teacher had specially called her today and didn’t give her any homework. Instead, he had asked her to read the previous books.

If she didn’t understand anything, she could look for the teacher.

She was in a good mood and quickened her pace. After living in this bungalow for more than half a year, she was no longer as careless as when she first came here and lost her way.

Turn right, turn left. After another three alleys, she reached home.

But before she reached there, she heard the sound of fighting. This area was really chaotic.

Shi Mengwan couldn’t help but quicken her footsteps. She wanted to avoid it, but she heard a familiar voice.

“What? Haven’t you learned the lesson from last time?”

The youth’s voice had already passed the stage of voice change. The voice that had started to become clear was something she heard every day.

Her eyes widened, and her footsteps couldn’t help but stop.

She quietly walked over and hid behind a corner, then silently poked her head out.

Beside the youth stood several boys that she didn’t know. They were all around his age. At this moment, there were a few people lying on the ground.

The person in the lead looked like he was covered in blood. The young man’s foot was stepping on that person’s chest.

“What if you haven’t learned it? I’ll say it again. This place and the east pier from before are all my territory. The next time you cross the border, I won’t be polite.”

The young man was already over 1.8 meters tall. He was thin. Most of the time, although he was quiet in front of her, he was gentle.

Shi Mengwan had never seen the youth like this before. Her heart was beating a little fast.

The person he stepped on wanted to get up. “Brat, I’m telling you, don’t be arrogant. Brother Liang won’t let you off.”

“Heh.” The youth laughed. That laugh was very arrogant, and his feet began to exert force. “Brother Liang won’t let me off, right? Then let him try. Even if he has the ability to call Brother Hui over, I’m not afraid of him, not to mention Brother Liang. Understand?”

As he spoke, his foot pressed against the man’s chin. When the man’s neck was stepped on, his face had a painful expression. His face had already been beaten severely. This would look even scarier.

“You, you…”

The man began to feel suffocated, but the youth had no intention of loosening his foot. Not only did he not loosen his foot, but he also even stepped harder. That person’s eyeballs seemed as if it was about to pop out. It looked like he was about to die.

Shi Mengwan was frightened and couldn’t help but gasp.

That voice was very soft, but it reached Qiao Ze’s ears. The youth’s gaze suddenly turned towards this direction.

Shi Mengwan quickly hid, but she was still a step too late and was seen by the youth.

The youth’s expression was rather unsightly. He retracted his foot, then the person caught his breath and started coughing desperately. He turned around to look at the few people who were following him and gave them a look.

Those people started to clean up the mess and the people who were lying on the ground were quickly dragged away by them.

The young man’s expression was solemn as his hands that were hanging by his side were tightly clenched into fists. He was only stunned for a few seconds before he quickly reacted.

His slender legs took one step after another towards Shi Mengwan’s direction.

Shi Mengwan’s body was trembling. In the past half a year that she had been together with the youth, other than occasionally coming back with some injuries, the youth had rarely been injured in the following days.

She knew that he fought outside, but she had never seen the youth treat others like this.

So it wasn’t that the youth wasn’t injured, but was it that he had changed from a victim to a perpetrator?

As her body trembled, Shi Mengwan didn’t dare to think about it. She didn’t know what she was afraid of either, but the ruthlessness on the youth’s face just now really scared her.

A pair of long legs suddenly appeared in front of her eyes. She looked up along those legs and when she met the youth’s expressionless face, her body actually went slack and she sat down on the ground.

The youth wasn’t in a hurry to reach out to help her up. The sixteen-year-old youth was tall, thin, and his body already started to look like an adult’s.

His lips opening and closing, he stared at her face from above.

“You saw it.”

Shi Mengwan instinctively wanted to shake her head, but her body was cold and she couldn’t say a word. However, there was a hint of fear in her eyes when she looked at him.

The youth looked at her and extended his hand towards her. Shi Mengwan’s body trembled. Thinking about the scene just now, trying to avoid the youth’s hand, she instinctively stepped back.

Qiao Ze narrowed his eyes. There was a hint of threatening in his eyes.

He had people think of ways to get Shi Mengwan a place to go to school because he didn’t want her to stay at home every day, and he didn’t want her to see him like this today.

But he didn’t expect that she would still see him.

Seeing Shi Mengwan’s evasive gaze, he reached out his hand forcefully. Shi Mengwan’s school bag was taken away by him, and he carried it on his shoulder.

Before she could react to what he was about to do, he bent down and carried her up.

Shi Mengwan’s body trembled even more, but the youth’s embrace was something she was familiar with.

She looked at the youth’s handsome side profile and swallowed her saliva. The youth didn’t seem to notice that something was wrong with her, and just carried her back to the bungalow where they lived.

After Shi Mengwan entered the door, her legs were still a little weak. The youth placed her on the sofa. Almost as soon as she was placed down by him, she retreated to the other side of the sofa.

The youth quickly moved his face closer to her. His large hands supported her body as he stared at her face.

“Are you afraid of me?”

Shi Mengwan looked at the familiar face of the youth. These days, they slept together every night. Sometimes when she was cold, she would wake up to find herself in the youth’s arms.

The environment of the bungalow was bad, but she had never been frozen, and she had never been hungry.

She suddenly shook her head. Her movements were very light, but firm.

The youth’s hand had yet to move away when Shi Mengwan bit her lip and said timidly, “You… did you want to kill him just now?”

He didn’t expect her to ask such a question. The young man was stunned for a moment before shaking his head. “No.”

Shi Mengwan seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. “You… you don’t have to kill anyone, alright?”

The young man looked into her eyes. His slender and well-defined hand caressed her face.

“Alright. I won’t kill anyone.”

Shi Mengwan breathed a sigh of relief. The young man’s hand was a little cold. The weather hadn’t warmed up yet in this season. She looked at him with anticipation in her eyes.

“Killing is against the law.”

She said this in an extremely low voice. The young man seemed like he wanted to laugh, but he held it in. “Yes. Killing is against the law. Wanwan really knows a lot.”

He was treating her like a child. Shi Mengwan gritted her teeth and suddenly raised her voice.

“Don’t ignore it. If you kill someone, you’ll go to jail. When that time comes, I won’t visit you.”

She said it with determination, but the expression in her eyes was completely different.

The youth raised his eyebrows when he saw that she was not saying what she meant.

“Oh? If I go to jail, you won’t come to see me?”

“Of course.” Shi Mengwan nodded and said in a more serious tone, “If you go to jail, I’ll go home and leave you alone from now on.”

Her face was young and immature. The youth suddenly reached out and hugged her. “Okay, I’ll listen to you.”

His embrace made Shi Mengwan relax. She was no longer as scared as before, and she was no longer trembling.

“Dear Brother. Don’t do anything dangerous, alright?”

The youth didn’t answer her question. He only tightened his arms. Shi Mengwan had some difficulty breathing, but she still said, “If you do something dangerous, what will I do?”

She reached out to push him away from his embrace. “Dear Brother, if you are really locked up or something else happens, what will I do?”

She had run away from home for such a long time, but she had never felt lonely because of him. His care and love for her made her forget the loneliness of being alone.

More importantly, she realized that her Dear Brother was different in her heart.

“Dear Brother, I don’t want anything to happen to you, and I don’t want to be separated from you, so you have to take care of yourself, okay?”

The youth looked into her eyes, and her lips opened and closed as she expressed worry for him. She had seen his dark side today, but she wasn’t afraid, nor did she run away.

He couldn’t tell what he was feeling in his heart. There was something surging in his heart.

He hugged her tightly again and pressed his face against her neck. He smelled the faint fragrance characteristic of a young girl on her body, and his voice was very soft.

“Okay, I promise you. I will take care of myself and won’t be separated from you.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

Shi Mengwan raised her head to look at the young man’s eyes, and her heart had already recovered its calm. She bit her lip. “Dear Brother, we will always be together, right?”

“Yes.” The young man nodded. He looked into Shi Mengwan’s eyes with a focused expression. “We will always be together.”

He would be with her, protect her, and not let anyone hurt her.

“Dear Brother.” Shi Mengwan reached out and hugged the young man’s waist. No matter how Dear Brother treated others, as long as they could be like this forever, it would be fine.

She hugged him tightly until she saw the trace of blood on the young man’s sleeve.

She was shocked and forced herself not to look, not to care. She retreated. She gestured for him to take a shower.

She washed his clothes, so the blood stain was naturally washed away.

But just because Shi Mengwan could wash away the blood stain didn’t mean that she could forget the young man’s ruthless expression. That night, she inevitably had a nightmare.

She dreamed that the youth was holding a knife in his hand and was continuously slashing at a person whose face could not be seen clearly. Trying to make the youth stop, she screamed with all her might.

When the youth saw that she was coming, he finally stopped. The youth walked towards her and told her not to be afraid. Shi Mengwan kept shaking her head as she looked at the police who had rushed over. She wanted to tell the youth to leave quickly, but she couldn’t say anything.

She could only watch helplessly as the police took the young man away. No matter how much she cried, it was useless.

At this moment, the scene in the dream changed. The young man’s face became that of Zhan Haoze. When she saw Zhan Haoze again, it was actually through the iron window.

Shi Mengwan was frightened. She wanted to pull Zhan Haoze’s hand, but Zhan Haoze’s figure was getting further and further away. She woke up from the dream screaming, “Dear Brother, Dear Brother…”

The scene in the dream began to magnify, and that feeling made her sink into a deep despair.

She opened her eyes, but was shocked by the figure at the bedside. When she saw clearly, she realized that the person sitting there was Zhan Haoze.

“Zhan Haoze?” She still wasn’t fully awake, nor had she recovered from the dream. When she saw him unexpectedly, she had the feeling that she was in a dream.

“En.”

The next second, Shi Mengwan suddenly sat up and wrapped her arms around Zhan Haoze’s neck. She hugged him tightly.

“Dear Brother, Dear Brother.” When she thought of the figure in the iron window in her dream, she felt a strong sense of insecurity.

She hugged him tightly and pressed her face against his chest to listen to his heartbeat.

Zhan Haoze let her hug him but didn’t move. Shi Mengwan suddenly raised her head and kissed his lips.

Her kiss was a little urgent, a little flustered, and a little scared.

She didn’t know what her Dear Brother had been through all these years. What made a street punk like him suddenly become a business elite?

She also didn’t know how he started his company and what kind of hardships he had experienced.

But she thought that he should be safe now, right? It shouldn’t be like what she thought in her dream, right?

She couldn’t help but think of the last time they met. He seemed to be fighting with someone again. The feeling of insecurity was even greater.

“Dear Brother.”

She kissed his lips indiscriminately. All her experience came from him.

In this aspect, she was undoubtedly clumsy, but this clumsiness made Zhan Haoze lose control.

Her hands pulled on his clothes. She was a little anxious. She tried several times but couldn’t undo her belt buckle.

Her face was red, but at this time, Zhan Haoze turned the tables and pushed her onto the bed.

It was a dark night, and the weather outside was a little gloomy. Spring was coming, and there was a lot of rain.

Occasionally, there would be one or two sounds of spring thunder.

Soon, it started to rain outside. The sound of thunder and rain drowned out the sounds of collisions in the room. Those emotions that had gone out of control also existed in such a stormy night.

..

When Shi Mengwan woke up in the morning, she thought she had a dream.

She dreamed that Zhan Haoze had returned and that he was fine. She dreamed that they were the same as before. They were enjoying the pleasure of s*x.

When she opened her eyes, the fatigue and soreness in her body woke her up.

It wasn’t a dream. Was Zhan Haoze really back? She sat up and ignored the marks on her body and the discomfort on her body.

There was no one in the room. She casually put on her clothes and went out.

Zhan Haoze just closed the door. The breakfast that had just been delivered was on the table next to him.

“You’re awake?”

Shi Mengwan blinked her eyes. Only then did she confirm that she really wasn’t dreaming. She went forward and hugged Zhan Haoze once again.

She rubbed her face against his chest. Smelling the delicious mint scent on his body, she felt her heart slowly relax. She finally wasn’t so nervous anymore.

She raised her head to look at him, and realized that he seemed to have lost a little weight.

She didn’t look at him carefully last night. Now that it was daytime, she realized that Zhan Haoze had lost a lot of weight. Not only did he lose weight, but he also looked a little haggard.

“You –” She had a lot of questions to ask, but in the end, she could only hug him again. Thinking of his appearance, she sniffed and her eyes started to grow warm.

Zhan Haoze allowed her to hug him and didn’t move. After a while, he patted her back,

“Let’s eat.”

Shi Mengwan nodded and walked to the dining table to sit down. Today wasn’t the weekend. She still had to go to work.

She looked up at Zhan Haoze. “You’re back from your business trip? Can you rest for the next few days?”

“Yes.”

Shi Mengwan nodded and looked at him again. “Will you come back for dinner tonight?”

Zhan Haoze looked at her. He still had a lot of things to do. He would have to leave again in a few days, but —

“Okay.”

He wanted to refuse, but his words turned into affirmation. Shi Mengwan smiled, as if she was relieved.

After breakfast, Shi Mengwan went to the company. She spent a few days to draw the works that she wanted to participate in the competition. She named it The Mystery of Blue.

To her, Zhan Haoze was that mystery, but she wasn’t in a hurry. She was patient and would slowly solve the mystery.

..

Zhan Haoze got into the car. Tang Hua looked at him worriedly.

“Boss, are you okay?”

Zhan Haoze shook his head. The car accident had slightly injured Zhan Haoze, but he didn’t want to rest. He came here as soon as he finished dealing with the matters in Qing City.

He roughly knew that the person upstairs was his boss’s favorite. However —

“Boss, I’m afraid that we’ll have a lot of things to do in the future. Moreover, the situation is getting more and more chaotic. It’s not appropriate for you to be like this.”

Tang Hua had been with Zhan Haoze for a long time. In the past ten years, hadn’t they experienced everything?

However, the undercurrents in the past were still calm on the surface, but it was different now. Zhan Haoze’s appearance in Qing City was equivalent to bringing everything over to the surface.

Although the car accident didn’t cause much damage, it was definitely a warning.

Zhan Kun wasn’t dead yet, and the people below weren’t loyal either, not to mention that there were many people who didn’t like Zhan Haoze and wanted to get rid of him.

“Boss, why don’t you stay away from Miss Shi first?” With their current abilities, even if they could protect Shi Mengwan, it wasn’t good to let others know of such a big weakness.

Zhan Haoze leaned against the back of the chair with his eyes half closed. His face was gloomy. No one knew what he was thinking.

Since he didn’t say anything, Tang Hua couldn’t say anything. The car drove towards the Chen building. When it was about to reach the Chen building, Zhan Haoze finally spoke.

“Starting from tomorrow, I will move back to the Chen family.”

“Boss? You’ve been living in the Chen family. Do you think those people don’t know?” The problem now wasn’t where he lived, but..

Zhan Haoze didn’t finish his sentence, but he understood what he meant. His face was gloomy, and his expression looked very serious.

“Boss? Just listen to me.”

Tang Hua had told him about it, but Zhan Haoze had refused. Would he continue hesitating now?

“Stop talking.”

“Boss, what will happen if you get engaged to Miss Chen? It’s not marriage. This is a good time to divert their attention. It’s good for you and sister-in-law Shi.”

Zhan Haoze pursed his lips into a straight line and kept looking out of the window. “Boss!” Tang Hua called out again.

“Boss?”