Even after four days had passed, Tao Tao still couldn't help having nightmares whenever he thought about it.
He had thought the legendary Boss Wang was already exaggerated enough, but after following Boss Wang to Jin Meilin for dinner, he discovered that Boss Wang was beyond ridiculous—he was downright terrifying. He had even pulled out a gun, yet remained completely unfazed, chatting and laughing as if nothing had happened. The crucial part was that he had easily taken the gun into his own hands. More crucially, after extorting them, he had actually dared to give the gun back to Du Honggen.
Then, while they ate, he acted as though no one else existed. He ordered the restaurant's signature dishes and drank aged Moutai. He could even smile and chat with Du Honggen and Lu Meilin, who had been forcing smiles the whole time, as if nothing had happened at all.
In the end, amid Du Honggen and Lu Meilin's enthusiastic farewells, he pedaled his tricycle and, with a look of utter disdain, hauled him back to his home on Guling Road.
He had a nightmare that very night, and over the past few days, his appetite had been poor as well. Lu Meilin called him the next day to order seafood, and he had to spend quite some time psyching himself up before he dared go over. The slight politeness beneath Lu Meilin's disdain reassured him somewhat, but he still often recalled the suffocating silence in that private room that night.
The crisp dry click of the pistol seemed to keep echoing in his ears...
"It's almost lunchtime. Where are you going?"
As the person who shared his bed, Fangmei had keenly noticed that something had been off with Tao Tao these past few days. Though she was terribly insecure,