Chapter 17: 217. A Guest

Qi Le’an went home alone. The lights at home were filled with warmth. Wei Changfeng had cooked dinner and was waiting for him at home.

Even if they had been together for many years, Wei Sama wouldn’t ask him about anything. They gave each other some personal space and respected each other’s privacy.

Therefore, when Qi Le’an came back with his eyes bright with tears, Wei Changfeng didn’t ask him at all.

“Are you hungry? Since it’s too hot, I have made some iced mung bean soup. Go and have some soup first, and I’ll ladle rice into the bowls.”

Qi Le’an loved to drink iced mung bean soup, and the sweet mung bean ice was even a particular favorite of his.

Wei Changfeng took out the dessert from the fridge. There was crushed ice and sugar water in the soup, so it was extremely flavorsome to drink!

Qi Le’an was drinking the soup bit by bit with the spoon while Wei Changfeng put the dishes on the table. It was hot in summer, and what Wei Sama cooked was some food that was not heavy or greasy.

As they ate, Qi Le’an suddenly said, “Wei Sama, let’s go see my parents tomorrow, okay?”

Wei Changfeng didn’t stop eating and said, “Okay.”

At night, Qi Le’an was lying on the bed and couldn’t sleep. He managed to have a regular routine, but now it was becoming disordered again. Qi Le’an was tossing and turning on the bed, and Wei Changfeng naturally couldn’t sleep either.

The moon was bright and the stars were few, and Qi Le’an whispered, “Wei Sama.”

“What?”

“Wei Sama.”

“Yes…”

“When I went back home today… I found a letter.” Once Qi Le’an opened his mouth, the desire to confiding in someone was very strong. Qi Le’an said, “Do you still remember? It was the one lost in the law firm that my dad and mom wrote to me.”

“You found it at home?” Wei Changfeng was a little surprised, “Wasn’t it stolen?”

“Yes,” Qi Le’an did not explain, “I found it at home… and I know that my parents love me very much.”

He whispered to Wei Changfeng in a very low voice.

Wei Changfeng was silent for a moment before saying softly, “Anyone who sees you, Le’an, will love you. I also love you very much. Since your parents were gone, I’ll love you for them too.”

Qi Le’an revealed his first smile after a few days.

“I just want to tell you about it. You won’t think that it’s disgraceful, right?”

Wei Changfeng smiled and said, “You can tell me anything you want.”

Qi Le’an couldn’t help but think that he was clearly a man in his twenties. This, coupled with the time of his last life, made him be roughly the same age as Wei Changfeng, but he always acted like a child beside Wei Sama.

That night, Qi Le’an told Wei Changfeng a lot about his childhood. He clearly couldn’t remember it, but it became so distinct when he told it to him.

He told him that his grandfather had taken him back home to catch tadpoles, that his father had brought him a particularly delicious toffee, and that his mother had been coaxing him to sleep in the hot summer night. Everything was a just trivial matter.

But these trivialities formed his unique childhood.

Wei Changfeng listened quietly by his side and made some “emm” from time to time. In the end, Qi Le’an felt dopey and drowsy when he was speaking and he became distantly aware that it was dawn.

After experiencing the joy and sorrow, he finally fell asleep.

Wei Changfeng didn’t hear the child’s voice beside him for long, so he fell asleep with his eyes closed.

The next day, when they woke up, it was already noon. Wei Changfeng didn’t forget their plan yesterday. But the noon sun was fierce, and the two of them didn’t go out until 5 p.m.

After driving to the cemetery, Qi Le’an bought some incenses at the door, while Wei Changfeng was carrying the fruit and dessert he had taken from home.

According to the direction in his memory, Qi Le’an found his parents’ tomb. The two people in the wedding photo smiled sweetly. Looking at it, Qi Le’an’s first reaction was also a smile.

Wei Changfeng took out a clean cloth and wiped the tombstone, placing the fruit and dessert in front of it. Qi Le’an lit the incenses and quietly looked at his parents.

He knew that the corpses of his parents were not buried here, but what did it matter?

‘Mom and Dad, you must be looking at us in the kingdom of heaven, right?’

‘Mom and Dad, don’t worry. I will always be with the one I love. We will be healthy and carefree and live together till old and grey.’

‘I will let go of those things that have passed. I won’t be sad about them anymore.’

Qi Le’an stood there thinking silently while Wei Changfeng opened his mouth directly.

He said, “Mr. Qi and Mrs. Qi, I should have come to see you earlier.”

“My name is Wei Changfeng, Le’an’s boyfriend.”

“Don’t worry, please leave him with me. I will take care of him forever.”

Qi Le’an turned around and looked at Wei Changfeng.

Wei Changfeng held Qi Le’an’s hand and looked at him gently.

Qi Le’an couldn’t help but smile again.

After coming out of the cemetery, he seemed to really be given a new lease of life. All the burden in his heart was gone. He knew that he would not be disturbed by it in the future.

After they came back that night, Wei Changfeng showed Qi Le’an his script.

The script was called “Abduction of Children”.

“Abduction of Children” was different from the films with the subject of abduction that Qi Le’an had thought of. The protagonist of the story was a victim, but he was also an indirect perpetrator. He was kidnapped and sold since childhood and he was later adopted by a human trafficker because he was cute and smart. In his heart, he vaguely knew his background and the identity of his “father”, but he didn’t want to admit that.

When there was another abducting incident, the parents who lost the child cried sadly and wanted to look for their son. Seeing that, the protagonist couldn’t be against his conscience and confided the clues to them, but it broke his peaceful life lasting for many years.

There were two threads in the story. One was the protagonist of “Abduction of Children”, and the other was the family who were looking for their son.

Qi Le’an was a little confused after he finished reading it. He asked Wei Changfeng, “I… I’m afraid it’s not a movie that can be a tearjerker.”

The double identities of the protagonist of “Abduction of Children” would let him take a lot of criticism, so that the whole film couldn’t be a simple public-spirited movie.

If this movie was just a story about a father looking for his child, then Qi Le’an believed it would be easier for the audience to accept it.

Wei Changfeng shook his head, “What I want more is the audience’s thinking.”

Qi Le’an silently thought about Wei Changfeng’s words.

Wei Changfeng asked, “Le’an, what do you think movies like “Hope” (a South Korean movie about a raped girl) and “Silenced” (a South Korean movie about deaf students who suffered sexual assaults) rely on to change the laws?”

What Wei Changfeng had mentioned were two well-known foreign movies about sexual assaults on children. After the two movies were released, the public had responded magnificently to them. And the film “Silenced” was once called “a movie that had changed the country”.

Qi Le’an thought about it and asked, “The real events and strong public opinion?”

Wei Changfeng shook his head and said, “It’s thinking. In these days of technological change when it’s a breeze to get information, what we lack the most is thinking. Movies are not used to tell people what to do, but to provide a springboard for thinking and let everyone realize what they should do.”

Qi Le’an was shocked by what Wei Changfeng said.

“For any easy information, people might forget it the next second. However, a thoughtful conclusion would be remembered forever. Therefore, the effect that I wanted in “Abduction of Children” is not to tell everyone what to do, but to let the audience realize what to do by themselves.”

Qi Le’an couldn’t help but look up at Wei Changfeng who was hugging him while Wei Changfeng was speaking with an intensity and a seriousness.

At this moment, Qi Le’an felt that Elder Ge was really a clairvoyant. Perhaps Wei Changfeng was the best choice for such a movie.

Wei Changfeng closed the document on the computer and smiled, “Of course, this is only the first draft of my script. It will probably have to be discussed by many people. I also have to accept many suggestions and think it over many times before I can confirm the final script.”

Qi Le’an couldn’t help but raise his head and kissed Wei Changfeng on his lips, “This is the best script.”

Wei Changfeng also kissed him gently.

Since Qi Le’an was was emotionally stable, Wei Changfeng could also rest assured and go out to work. The next day, Wei Changfeng met the film producer Brother Zhi again, while Qi Le’an was cleaning and tidying as well as taking exercise at home, preparing for the public service advertising half a month later.

However, he still couldn’t fend some troubles off. As soon as Qi Le’an got off the treadmill, he heard the doorbell rang.

There was a door monitor in the villa. When he turned it on and have a look, he found the person on the screen was no stranger.

It was Gu Ying.

He was the one who took Qi Le’an to meet Mr. Xu.

Gu Ying smiled at the camera, as if he knew that Qi Le’an was looking at him, “Haven’t seen you for a long time.”

Whatever would be, would be. Qi Le’an opened the door and asked, “Gu Ying?”

Gu Ying asked again, “Yes. Can we have a talk?”

Qi Le’an knew why he came, but he didn’t intend to “understand” it, so he pretended to be surprised and said, “Ah? What happened? Is something related to Mr.Xu?”

Gu Ying started to give him a searching look.

Qi Le’an continued to play the fool and said, “Come in and take a seat. I said to myself before that I’m going to visit Mr. Xu sometime soon! Thanks to Mr. Xu’s sponsorship back then.”

Gu Ying said with a smile, “Mr. Xu is in good health. He saw you on TV a few days ago and therefore asked me about your situation.”

Qi Le’an smiled and poured a glass of water for Gu Ying, “I should have visited Mr. Xu long before.”

Gu Ying drank the water and ventured still with a searching look in his eyes, “Le’an… someone saw you in the cemetery yesterday.”

Qi Le’an was stunned. After a few seconds, he said, “Yes, I have dreamed of my parents… Perhaps their souls were blaming me for not visiting them for too long.”

“Did you just dreamed of them?” asked Gu Ying.

Qi Le’an was not nervous at all and smiled, “What’s wrong? If I wasn’t dreaming, would they have emerged out of the void and stood in front of me? By the way, I hope it could be ture… ”

Qi Le’an sighed after finishing his words.

Gu Ying was silent.

“So… you just came to me for this matter?” Qi Le’an looked surprised.

Gu Ying smiled and said awkwardly, “Did you go home the day before yesterday?”

Qi Le’an was stunned again, then he frowned and looked at Gu Ying unhappily, “Are you monitoring me?”

Seeing that Qi Le’an was angry, Gu Ying said, “How can it be?! Don’t get paranoid about it!”

Qi Le’an pursed his lips without saying a word, but his face were already filled with displeasure.

Gu Ying said in a hurry, “How can it be?! It was the media reporters who had photographed it! I knew it from the entertainment magazines… I found the place looked familiar, so I ask if it’s your home.”

Qi Le’an pretended not to believe it and said, “I’m very grateful that Mr. Xu have subsidized me with one million, but this is not the excuse for monitoring me. I will return one million to you soon. Please don’t disturb my life.”

Gu Ying’s expression suddenly darkened.