After leaving the Shabu Shabu shop, Qin Miao walked to the side of the road and stood there for a while, then a black commercial vehicle stopped in front of him.

The car door unlocked with a "click", Qin Miao opened the door of the back seat, and sat sideways in the car.

Zhao Kai was in the driver's seat, turned around and greeted Qin Miao: "Brother, did you see sister-in-law?"

"En." Qin Miao responded briefly.

"That's good." Zhao Kai looked straight ahead again, started the car, and began to talk about things, "I picked some gifts from other companies today and gave them to the secretary team. Put it away, and save it in another package to give away.”

"By the way, my aunt and elder brother also gave gifts. Auntie's gift is a set of emeralds. I don't think it's for you but for my sister-in-law. The elder brother's gift is still the same. It looks like it was chosen by his special assistant. Put it in the back of the car."

"Okay." Qin Miao had no objection to what Zhao Kai did.

While driving, Zhao Kai asked, "Auntie also asked if she would like to take some time to call eldest brother back to celebrate your birthday together."

"No need, it's all over." Qin Miao said flatly, "It's not an integer birthday, there is no need, I will go back to have dinner with her on weekends."

"That's fine, brother, you can arrange it yourself."

Qin Miao didn't reply anymore, took out her phone, pressed the screen to turn on, and unlocked the screen saver with a bony hand wearing a ring.

The time displayed on the mobile phone: 21:23 on November 20.

The days went by peacefully, until one day Chu Muyu received a call from the police station.

The police uncle on the phone said that Li Cen's case had made some progress, and asked Chu Muyu to go to the police station to explain the situation face to face.

Chu Muyu told Chu Suiyun when he got home, and Chu Suiyun took his younger brother to the police station the next day.

The two of them were lucky. When they arrived, the police uncle had just returned from his field work. He drank two sips of water, sweating and asked the brothers to sit down.

Then the police found another colleague who was in charge of the investigation of Li Cen's case, and the two of them explained the results of the investigation to Chu Muyu together.

"We checked Li Cen's mobile phone." The policeman went straight to the point, "We also tried our best to repair the contents of his two mobile phones and found some deleted things, but..."

Chu Muyu swallowed unconsciously, telling him intuitively that the next thing might be beyond his imagination.

Sure enough, the policeman continued: "But there aren't any text messages from before June."

Chu Muyu opened his eyes wide.

After Chu Suiyun arrested Li Cen that day, he heard his younger brother tell the whole story, and now he also knew the meaning of what the police said.

He was much calmer than his younger brother, and immediately asked: "Does this mean that someone else sent text messages before June?"

The policeman nodded: "Very likely. And according to Li Cen's own statement, he only came into contact with Chu Muyu after May 10th this year. Although he was working in the studio before, the two rarely met each other. , I don't know at all."

"Student Chu Muyu, do you still remember the first official contact between you and the suspect in May this year? At that time, the suspect was a substitute teacher for your class, and you helped him speak in class."

Chu Muyu lowered her eyes, and her memory gradually came to life amidst the police's reminder.

It was the last intensive training before the exam. All the time, they were taught by an experienced old teacher. Occasionally, Qin Miao would come to substitute for the class. No matter which of these two, they have their own strengths.

The old teacher has rich experience in exams and can teach them how to get high marks in the exam; Qin Miao draws without sticking to the frame and can cultivate their inspiration. Both of them are powerful. But at the end of May, the old teacher was not in good health and couldn't come to class. Qin Miao was a random person, so he wouldn't come if he couldn't say it.

The other teachers in the studio were also unable to spare, so they had to arrange for Li Cen, who had been employed for less than a year, to come to the emergency. The students in this class were spoiled by the good teacher. After they came into contact with Li Cen and the other two teachers' paintings and the pedantic and backward teaching ideas, they felt too far behind, which aroused their dissatisfaction.

If he was dissatisfied, he refused to accept Li Cen. Coupled with the pressure of the imminent exam, in the second half of the class that day, Li Cen basically said something, and the students responded. The teaching could not be carried out smoothly at all.

Li Cen is cowardly and cowardly, the students hate him, he can't put on airs like a teacher, and he can't be a boy of seventeen or eighteen.

"You, you are not allowed to talk anymore!" Li Cen tried to raise his voice.

"Ah? Teacher, what are you talking about? You can't draw well and your voice is so low? Hahaha!"

The students below mocked Li Cen wantonly.

Li Cen's face was flushed with anger, but he had no choice but to hold his pen in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, "Bump!", a loud sound of a chair falling to the ground stunned the entire classroom, and everyone fell silent for a while.

It turned out that Chu Muyu pushed the chair down on purpose. He stood there, looking directly at the classmate who started, his voice was not loud but firm.

"If you don't want to learn, you can leave, don't affect other people."

Then Chu Muyu took a look at Li Cen and said, "Teacher, please continue, you are the teacher."

The memory was interrupted here, and there was no fragment about Li Cen in Chu Muyu's mind after that. After that class, the parents complained to Li Cen one after another, and Li Cen no longer had the opportunity to teach Chu Muyu's class. Chu Muyu had no direct contact with Li Cen until the incident happened.

Chu Muyu lowered his head, his voice trembling: "Is he following me just because of this..."

Chu Suiyun quickly put his younger brother on his shoulder, and patted him comfortingly.

"It would have been great if I hadn't been in the early years. I just wanted to draw, and I didn't want to speak for him..." Chu Muyu murmured.

"Xiao Yu, you don't have to blame yourself. It's Li Cen's fault. You didn't do anything wrong. He is a pervert himself, and it has nothing to do with what you did." Chu Suiyun comforted his younger brother.

Seeing Chu Muyu's agitation, the policeman waited for a while, and waited until Omega's mood eased a little, before continuing: "We also checked the mobile phone number that sent you text messages before June, but because the number has been canceled, No useful information was found."

"Now we have confirmed that this person is not the same person as Li Cen. Student Chu Muyu, do you have any other suspects in your mind? Who else might send this kind of text message?"

Chu Muyu shook his head blankly, he searched all over his memory and the people around him, but no one would do such a thing.

The police seemed to have expected this answer: "Since this person has not done anything to you except text messages, and he has not contacted you for a long time, we do not think it is necessary to continue to pursue this person. In the end, the only suspect is Li Cen one."

"What if that person does something to me again?" Chu Muyu asked in a panic.

The policeman shook his head: "There is no evidence that he will appear again, and we can't take measures against him now. You don't have to worry too much. It may be a prank by a classmate who had a bad relationship with him before. If he appears again, please seek help immediately police."

Chu Muyu also knew that the person hadn't done anything, and the police could only find out here, so she nodded to express her understanding.

"Don't worry, tell me immediately." Chu Suiyun rubbed his younger brother's head, "I will be by your side."

Chu Muyu nodded obediently.

"There is one more thing I have to tell you." The policeman said, and clicked on the phone's photo album, "This is the photo album of one of Li Cen's phones, and all the photos in it are Chu Muyu's classmates, all of which were secretly taken without exception. , the number is as high as a thousand."

After finishing speaking, the policeman put the mobile phone on the table and pushed it to Chu Suiyun and his brothers.

Chu Muyu, who put her head on her brother's shoulder, froze all over. Chu Suiyun was also shocked, and picked up the phone with shaking hands.

The photo album is full of Chu Muyu taken from various angles and scenes, from the summer vacation after the exam until recently. Chu Muyu was playing with friends, staying with Chu Suiyun, walking on the road with her schoolbag on the first day of university...

In the end, Chu Suiyun saw the photo, the photo of the scene where Omega was changing clothes by peeking through Chu Muyu's bedroom with a telescope from across from their house.

Behind each of these photos is a pair of dark eyes that cannot see the light, hiding in the dark, chasing Chu Muyu with staring eyes, and wantonly desecrating an unaware person with their sight in a corner that no one knows.

The more you scroll down, the more anger burns in Chu Suiyun's heart. When he saw the end, Chu Suiyun's eyes were already scarlet, his back molars were almost gnawed, and his hand holding the phone trembled so hard, as if he was about to crush the phone.

The Alpha pheromone emitted by the rage flooded the entire police station in an instant.

Chu Muyu was the closest to her brother and was most affected. Different pheromones of Alpha have different effects on Omega, like the pheromone that Chu Suiyun lost control due to anger, to Omega, it is an irresistible command—surrender and fear.

"elder brother…?"

Chu Muyu trembled uncontrollably, laying down on the table exhaustedly, trying to stay away from her brother.

The two policemen on the opposite side were both Betas, so they reacted a bit slower. They didn't realize that Chu Suiyun was out of control until another group of Alpha policemen came to inquire about the situation.

"Calm down! This family member, please calm down!"

A Beta policewoman ran over and took Chu Muyu to another room for a while.

Two Alpha police officers rushed to Chu Suiyun's side, snatched the phone from his hand, and took out the handcuffs...

This was the last scene Chu Muyu saw before leaving the police station lobby.

That night, in the inpatient department of the hospital in the dead of night.

Li Cen was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, seemingly asleep.

During the day, due to Chu Suiyun's sudden loss of control, the police did not have time to tell them that Li Cen was in the hospital waiting for diagnosis and intervention treatment because he showed a mental disorder during his detention.

Suddenly, a figure was projected on the surface of the snow-white quilt of the hospital bed. The person's footsteps were slow, but Li Cen was still awakened.

Li Cen opened his eyes and finally saw the person standing beside his bed clearly.

Shen Qingdeng was wearing a white coat that he found somewhere, or maybe it wasn't a white coat at all, but just a white overcoat with a mask on, sneaking in during the night.

The moment he opened his eyes, Li Cen panicked for a moment, but when he saw Shen Qingdeng clearly, he slowly pulled out a weird smile.

"It is you…"

Shen Qingdeng was unmoved.

Li Cen didn't pretend anymore, he didn't look mentally abnormal at this time, and he spoke clearly and fluently: "I knew that I was not the only one following Xiao Yu, that time when Xiao Yu was on the way home, I saw you gone."

Li Cen twitched his lips: "You always sit in the back row of Xiaoyu just to watch him well. You are the same as me, and I understand your thoughts. In fact, I also want to be Xiaoyu's classmate, Sit at his back table so...you can stare at him with impunity."

Beta spoke slowly in an extremely uncomfortable tone, his swollen eyes behind the glasses shot out, as if he wanted to see through Shen Qingdeng.

And Shen Qingdeng just stood upright, without any emotional fluctuations due to Li Cen's words. Like a patient listener, he waited until Li Cen had finished speaking before speaking slowly.

"I'm not like you."

Shen Qingdeng finally said the first sentence of the night.

A sharp metallic luster flashed across his hand, and the sound of breaking wind was very loud in the quiet ward.

It was a sharpened dagger.