Wei Yang, a doctor of linguistics, was hijacked by an online ride-hailing driver on the first day he returned to China.
In the dark back seat, with the blade of the knife touching her artery, she heard herself say: "Master, I'm motion sick, can you stop for a moment?"
The next second, the car window burst.
The police baton that broke through the window hit the gangster's wrist, and she was carried out of the car by a pair of strong arms. The moment the cold air filled her lungs, she looked up and saw a pair of scarlet eyes under the riot helmet.
——It's Wang Jingtong.
Her ex-boyfriend, whom she pushed away seven years ago, is now the youngest captain of the Binjiang Criminal Investigation Detachment.
He stared at the bleeding wound on her arm, and his voice was as hoarse as sandpaper: "It's twenty-seven degrees below zero, and you only wear these clothes?"
The first time they met again, he saved her life.
The second time they met again, he scolded her.
Just a few days after their reunion, she moved into his house.
He said, "You stay in the master bedroom," and he went to the second bedroom holding the pillow. He said, "Don't think too much, I'm just protecting witnesses," but that night he squatted down, pressed his forehead against her shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "I've been waiting for this sentence for a long time."
A conversation she recorded in an endangered language revealed the cryptographic system of a transnational criminal organization. She was monitored, coerced, and hunted, but he would always appear in her most embarrassing moments, standing silently in front of her.
But how was she going to tell him——
I left seven years ago because I had accumulated enough disappointment. When I came back seven years later, it seemed like I was about to fall into it again.
How was she going to tell him——
The second he knelt down and kissed her, she closed her eyes.
Concept: Some languages are disappearing, and so are some emotions. But there are always people who are willing to understand its last voice before everything falls silent.
