Su Bai was not an escapist. He just did not expect to meet Chen Yuan so quickly, and unprepared at that.

“Excuse me.” Even though he knew that he was a different person now, Su Bai still subconsciously lowered his head to avoid Chen Yuan's eyes, that had a cold and indifferent gaze.

Coincidentally, the person who Su Bai had run was Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan narrowed his eyes and glanced at Su Bai, who lowered his head. His sight was quickly attracted by another person. Taking advantage of this, Su Bai left MingXuan without saying anything. Ye Ziwu looked at Chen Yuan for a second before going after Su Bai outside.

Chen Yuan, who was clad in black, stood in place. He was a man of outstanding appearance, yet his natural cold temperament, even in the most gentle suns.h.i.+ne, still projected the icy “strangers do not come near” feeling. Occasionally someone in MingXuan stole a glance at Chen Yuan, yet Chen Yuan's eyes followed the slightly fat figure from the start. A trace of doubt in the bottom of his eyes surfaced before disappearing just as quickly.

When Su Bai and Ye Ziwu disappeared completely from sight, Chen Yuan turned around and went to the dining table that was in MingXuan's darkest corner, as if nothing had happened. He sat upright opposite Tang Xiao. The white gloves on his hands easily reminded people of the restaurant's servers, but if on Chen Yuan, the dazzling white gloves frightened others inexplicably.

Tang Xiao casually spat out a trail of white smoke. “Ye Ziwu must be very disappointed. He chased you all the way to China, yet he didn't expect you to come here to do serious business this time.”

“He didn't come for me.” The voice was still cold, and Chen Yuan's face looked more profound in the shadows.

Tang Xiao smiled and said, “Then he must still be extremely disappointed, but looking at how he still had the mood to eat with someone, he probably isn't all that upset. How unfortunate, I always thought that he and his G.o.dfather were devoted people, it seems that it's only like that.”

His words paused for a moment, and Tang Xiao's eyes fell on Chen Yuan who was absent-minded throughout the start. Gazing through the white smoke of the Havana cigar, he said with a great sigh, “In this indifferent and vain world, how can we expect someone to be sincere? There are too many casual promises, too many deceivers and too many selfish people. Chen-Zong, sometimes I really envy you. How can it not be a lucky thing to love someone wholeheartedly?”

Chen Yuan looked at Tang Xiao with little emotion. He could not deny the subtle meaning in Tang Xiao's words. Chen Yuan never intended to conceal his fanaticism for Master Su, and the suppression of his inner desire only existed before he had seized power. After gaining power, he was extremely careful and cherished opportunities to hold that G.o.d-like man in his hands.

After Su Bai's accident, Chen Yuan did not find Su Bai's body. Chen Yuan stubbornly believed that Master Su was only taken away by the jealous G.o.d, that G.o.d must have been very jealous of the man so he took away Chen Yuan's G.o.d in the skies.

In this world, there is only one Master Su, and Chen Yuan will only allow one Master Su to exist.

The chest felt a little swollen. If the feeling of slight pain in Su Bai's heart after meeting Liu Yunsheng was from Su Mo's physical instinct, then the sourness after meeting Chen Yuan was Su Bai's own emotion. After all, the former Master Su had great expectations for Chen Yuan. The man was also a child he had personally mentored for more than ten years. Their relations.h.i.+p was akin to that of father and son, similar to teacher and apprentice.

Yet perhaps, even more like a master and servant.

Ye Ziwu did not ask many questions after catching up. He drove Su Bai back while Su Bai was just looking out of the window at the scenes of nightfall. Even if he was smart, Ye Ziwu would not have a.s.sociated Su Bai's silence with Chen Yuan. At most, he thought it was related to Liu Yunsheng.

Back at home, Su Bai took a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a gla.s.s in the other, and went to the bathroom. He relaxed his body in hot water, poured out the alcohol and drank it carefully. The dim light of the bathroom hit the gla.s.s full of liquor, s.h.i.+ning with deep and intoxicating colors. The liquid went into the empty stomach, leaving a light spicy taste.

Suddenly, with a wave of his hand, the man knocked the bottle over into the bathtub, and with a crash, he stood up from the bathtub. Master Su stretched out his hand carelessly on the mirror that was covered with a layer of white mist and smeared out a clear face. He looked at himself, who had since thinned down, in the mirror, and slowly showed a gentle smile.

“Why did you want to continue living?” The finger touched the mirror bit by bit, outlining the man's facial features in the mirror. The smile on the man's face in the mirror was also contaminated with a little confusion until finally there was only helpless bitterness. If the former Master Su continued to live because he was the Su Family's leader, what att.i.tude should he take to live as Su Mo now?

Follow the heart, live on.

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Everything that happened in MingXuan that night felt like a dream. When he woke up, Su Bai was able to forget almost everything. Su Bai continued his devil-like self-training every day, and as usual, Ye Ziwu followed Su Bai on his training. If Master Su was happy to have someone to exercise with him at the beginning, then at the end he really wished for Ye Ziwu to scram further away.

Su Mo's body had gradually adapted to the high-intensity exercise, but Su Bai still adhered to the principle of “I am an ordinary person” in front of Ye Ziwu, reluctantly maintaining the initial training intensity. Unfortunately, Ye Ziwu did not know what Su was thinking inside and still ran happily every day to accompany him. Su Bai sometimes really did not understand why a young man such as Ye Ziwu did not go outside to play, and instead stayed with him every day.

Since there is no way to increase the intensity of training, our Master Su was not content with the current situation. Thinking of Ye Ziwu's special ident.i.ty, Su Bai “coincidentally” chatted with Ye Ziwu about several recent robberies in City, sighed at the chaos of the world, and then “inadvertently” revealed that he wanted to learn how to defend himself. As a result, the next day, Ye Ziwu was happily teaching Su Bai the fastest and most powerful defense skills.

In fact, Master Su's defensive skills are not any weaker than Ye Ziwu's. But everyone has their own set of tricks and although Su Bai did not intend to steal Ye Ziwu's methods, he was still very interested in watching what tricks an international criminal police officer, who had a complicated background, had.

Who knows what will happen in the future?

Maybe one day, as Su Mo, Su Bai and Ziwu will have to fight against each other. If everyone happened to have no guns and weapons on each other, then what Su Bai saw now, everything he learns, will greatly increase his chances of winning.

Su Bai did not wish for the day when he would have to go up against Ye Ziwu, but he also did not forget that when he was the master of the Su Family, the one thing Ye Ziwu seemed to like doing was to go against him. In a way, they were enemies. To be so close to the enemy, to be so close to observe the unknown side of the enemy, Su Bai found himself enjoying this thrill of peeping while finding himself to be terribly funny.

If the old grudges were put aside, they could actually be friends.

After half a month of mediocrity, Ye Ziwu's paid vacation came to an end, just as Su Bai was about to re-enter the platform to become a university teacher.

On this day, Ye Ziwu came to say goodbye to Su Bai. Chun Yan made a table of dishes as a farewell. The three people talked very happily at the table, and Master Su who had always worked hard to lose weight, also surprisingly ate two more dishes. In the evening, Chun Yan and Su Bai stood on the mountain path of the sunset mountain to bid farewell to Ye Ziwu.

For almost a month, he saw Ye Ziwu almost every day. He could not understand why the young man always came to him every day. He just thought of Ye Ziwu's relaxed expression in front of him, and suddenly he understood why. His former high position was bound by a chain called “ident.i.ty and status”. How was Ye Ziwu not the same?

Su Bai also once exposed his heart to a person, it is a kind of wholehearted liberation, a kind of freedom, a kind of self-redemption. Ye Ziwu has wealth and power, and all these have also become his cage. They can never live as freely as ordinary people and their hearts can never truly open to others. They are lonely at the top of the golden pyramid, and are destined to live on the bones of others.

Most people will feel fatigued with this lifestyle. Su once thought so too. Then, some things happened and he thought it over again carefully. In fact, he was actually not tired nor did he hate of that kind of lonely life.

You can occasionally chat with someone, throw away your usual mask to show a little fragility, a little sadness, even a little grievance. But when you look back, you will still remember who you are.

“Su Mo.” When leaving, Ye Ziwu suddenly loosened his traveling bag and took a step forward to hug Su Bai tightly. For the first time, he did not call Su Bai “Mr. Su”.

Master Su embraced the man and patted the back of Ziwu gently, with feelings just like love from the elders for the younger generation. (T/N: our leaf boy eliminated from the ML list (*ﾟﾛﾟ)?! )

Finally, Ye Ziwu separated from the embrace. He seemed to be reluctant, but this delicate emotion was well-concealed by him in the bottom of his eyes. Ye Ziwu still smiled as brilliantly as ever.

“Mr. Su, I'll come back to look for you.”

“Of course, you still owe me a meal.” Master Su said with a smile.

Lingering separation was never really suitable between two men, rather than grinding chatter, why not be straightforward. Ye Ziwu left, but leaving never meant they would not see each other again.

Chun Yan also timely reminded Su Bai that his month's long vacation had ended, and in two days he would have to go to the university to report on teaching. Su Bai thought for a while and concluded that it would be a good experience to be a public teacher. Two days later, on a Monday morning, Master Su arrived at B University with a car of a local brand – which was he felt was a very frustrating car – and officially began his teaching career.

T/N: Hu hu hu… Most of you know who the real ML is now right (✿´ ꒳ ` )

Don't worry, our leaf boy has a story of his own~

there's actually a number of pairings and Fish is excited to let you all see who they all

Thank you to everyone for liking the story so far (๑❛ꆚ❛๑)