Thank you, @Gracie, for the Kofi. Four new chapters for you!
After Xie Youzhou answered the phone, he immediately returned to the ward.
“Xiao You, just go and do whatever you want. Don’t worry about me. I don’t have anything to do here.” Lin Zhiyu couldn’t help but say as he watched Xie Youzhou fussing around him.
“Gege, I don’t have anything to do. I have finished my mission and am taking a rest now. I have already resigned, so I plan to look for a job.”
When Xie Youzhou came back, he looked like a young boy with a childish look on his face.
“But I don’t know what to do. I’m a little confused. Can you give me some advice, Gege?”
“Won’t the military arrange for you to be transferred to civilian work?”
Lin Zhiyu remembered that ordinary soldiers who dropped out of school and joined the army in their teens would likely be arranged to transfer to civilian jobs after retirement, let alone a top elite like Xie Youzhou, who had scored extremely high points in entering China’s top military academy and had won several military merits in just a few years.
“It will be arranged, but I don’t want it.”
At present, his application has not been approved at all. Even if it is approved, he will probably be transferred to a command staff position.
There is indeed a bright future ahead, but he will never agree to join a closed military zone.
” I think it would be great if you could find a civilian job in the military…” Lin Zhiyu frowned slightly, “That way it wouldn’t be a waste of your past glory and hard work.”
“Gege, I know you’re thinking about me, but I don’t have that idea now. I don’t want to continue working in the military.” Xie Youzhou smiled, “Besides, our country allows second enlistment. If I want to go back in a few years, I can go back again. If I have a doctorate by then, my military rank will be promoted faster.”
Lin Zhiyu was silent for a few seconds: “What did your parents say?”
“Them?”
His mother, who was always worried that he would die during a dangerous mission, didn’t want him to join the army at all. As for his father…
His dad would never agree.
But this is his life.
“They agreed.” Xie Youzhou said with a smile.
…
Xie Youzhou used the excuse of looking for a job and asking for advice to stay by Lin Zhiyu’s side to protect him. However, after a week, he did not find any job, but instead created the JOT website by himself.
“Just one time (JOT)” was the first step he took in his previous life after leaving the military to disintegrate the Ruan family from a commercial angle. It was also the first cornerstone laid by the Nianzhi Group, which would later become known all over the world.
Lin Zhiyu didn’t know Xie Youzhou’s ambition, but he strongly supported Xie Youzhou in starting his own business. The Internet is the siphon for most of the dividends in modern society and has unlimited prospects.
What’s more, Xie Youzhou has superb hacking skills.
“It’s done so well in just a few days?” After a week of rest, Lin Zhiyu could get out of bed normally, but he could not do large-scale exercises to stop the wound from cracking.
He walked to Xie Youzhou and looked at the website in front of him. He was surprised and proud of Xie Youzhou.
Xie Youzhou raised his head, and in his eyes as deep as only Lin Zhiyu remained. He suddenly said, “Gege, come and register. Can you become the second user of my website?”
Even though he tried his best in his previous life to leave his gege’s mark on everything he created, it was all… fake after all. He couldn’t even really create an account for his gege.
Because that ID number has long turned gray…
When he thought of the past, Xie Youzhou could hardly suppress the pain that was rolling in his body, and the uncontrollable anxiety and fear.
He wanted to record everything about Lin Zhiyu: “Gege, is this, okay?”
“OK?”
“Okay, then you come and help me create an account. Let’s call the user name ‘Lin Zhiyu’s only account’.” Lin Zhiyu said with a smile.
Xie Youzhou opened his eyes slightly.
“The only one?”
“Didn’t you say that your goal is to build JOT into the world’s number one website?” Lin Zhiyu gently patted Xie Youzhou’s head. “Why would I need to set up a social account on another website in the future?”
“I will not let my gege down.” Xie Youzhou was filled with a sudden burst of joy and warmth, and he couldn’t suppress the smile on his lips.
“Gege, you are so nice!”
“Silly boy, was I not before?”
Lin Zhiyu couldn’t help but smile, and a hint of tenderness appeared in his eyes, which seemed to contain a painting of the world’s most outstanding landscape.
He noticed that since he met Xie Youzhou after his rebirth, his painful, dry, nightmare-ridden, cracked soul has gradually begun to feel warm.
However, the nightmare filled with the dark past still lingers every night…
Without letting him rest peacefully.
In the evening, after another detailed examination, Lin Zhiyu was finally allowed to go out, but could not be discharged from the hospital.
Lin Zhiyu could hardly contain his excitement. He grabbed Xie Youzhou’s shoulders and said, “I’m good right? Take me to see my sister and my dad. Take me there.”
Xie Youzhou placed his hand on the back of Lin Zhiyu’s hand, and the warmth spread from the bottom of Xie Youzhou’s eyes to the palm of his hand.
“Gege, since the doctor agreed that you can go out, I will take you, don’t worry.”
“But we have to arrange it first.”
Since the doctor only allows Lin Zhiyu to go out for two hours at most, and the traffic in Beijing is extremely congested, the timing of visiting relatives is very important.
Under Xie Youzhou’s arrangement, Lin Zhiyu, smelling like medicine, got into the car just as the sun was about to rise.
They arrived at the Hua Xia Western Suburbs Prison before six o’clock.
The Lin family was involved in “economic crimes”, so Lin Zhiyu’s father Lin Aiqing, and sister Lin Zhaoqiu were both in Xijiao Prison. As soon as Lin Zhiyu stepped into the prison gate, tears filled his eyes.
He didn’t know how long he had been walking for, but every second felt like a year. The moment the visiting room opened before Lin Zhiyu could compose himself, he heard a heart-wrenching cry of “Ge————”
Lin Zhaoqiu, who was once smart, capable, beautiful, and energetic, had her hair shaved to the roots and her cheeks were sunken like a ghost. She wanted to throw herself into Lin Zhiyu’s arms but was scolded by the prison guard and could only sit down in tears.
“Ge! Save me, ge!”
The anger that Lin Zhiyu tried so hard to suppress finally couldn’t help but engulf his eyes.
Even though he was cut into a human stick and stuffed into a vase in his previous life and couldn’t move, Zou Wenbin told him everything that Qiuqiu and his father had experienced in prison. His sister who had been tortured and died of illness in prison in his previous life seemed to have merged with the present life, making Lin Zhiyu’s heart ache so much that he almost convulsed and couldn’t breathe.
“Qiuqiu…Ge will save you!”
“Trust me.”
“Ge…” Lin Zhaoqiu couldn’t stop crying.
She didn’t understand why this happened. Everything was fine, the Lin family had never done anything illegal. The Lin’s Home Decoration Company was not small in Beijing, but it was not big at all. Ever since her parents started working with a construction team 20 years ago, they have always worked based on their conscience.
Moreover, her parents had no idea how to run a business, and Lin’s business had been mediocre for a long time. It was only after she returned from graduating with an MBA overseas last year and joined the company, that she began to formulate new rules and new marketing methods, that the company saw a significant improvement.
But in less than a year, they all became prisoners!
“Ge… I believe in you, you will save me, and Dad… Dad.” Lin Zhaoqiu covered her face and choked with sobs. She was bullied badly after being imprisoned. Her head was shaved and she was beaten by her roommates. It has gotten better since last week. Her father is so old, how could he bear it?
“I’ll go see Dad in a minute, don’t worry.”
Lin Zhiyu gently held his sister’s hand, and his eyes, which were always as warm as ink, were now filled with a deep red coldness.
But when he looked at Lin Zhaoqiu, he regained his previous gentleness: “It will be fine, everything will be fine, you take care of yourself, take care of yourself, and listen to me…”
“Okay.” Lin Zhaoqiu wanted to hug her ge and cry on his shoulder, but the prison guards didn’t allow it.
Fortunately, the prison guards did not allow it, otherwise Lin Zhiyu’s pretense of being fine would have been exposed. His back was now covered with scars, and he could not accept hugs.
Lin Zhiyu gave his sister instructions, and affirmations and brought her favorite cheesecake. Lin Zhaoqiu ate while sobbing and crying. The sweet cake slid down her numb throat with salty and bitter tears.
The visiting time for one person was only fifteen minutes, so Lin Zhaoqiu was taken away in a short while. Looking at his sister, who kept looking back every few steps, Lin Zhiyu almost broke his fist.
After visiting his father who was once full of energy but now has gray hair and a hunched body… Lin Zhiyu walked out of the prison. He seemed to have lost strength with every step.
“Gege.” Xie Youzhou, who had been waiting outside, hurriedly went to greet him.
“Gege, are you okay?”
“We will be able to overturn the cases of Uncle Lin and Sister Zhaoqiu soon. Gege, believe me, we will be able to take them home soon!”
Lin Zhiyu raised his head and looked at Xie Youzhou. The deep pain and tears in his eyes made Xie Youzhou’s heart tremble violently, and he felt so heartbroken that his internal organs felt painful.
“Gege, gege…”
The dark and sleepless torture before rebirth, the struggle and resistance under the mental pressure after rebirth, the scars all over the body trying to seek a glimmer of life, and the grief and torture after seeing relatives again made everything worse…
From his last life to this life, Lin Zhiyu has been carrying all these things one after another without even a break. At this moment, he could no longer hold on.
He staggered and leaned his head weakly towards Xie Youzhou.
“gege!”
“Don’t look at me…”
Lin Zhiyu lowered his head and leaned it against Xie Youzhou’s shoulder, his tears sinking into the fabric before they could flow out.
