Obsession’s Edge

Chapter 5

Jian Yi took a taxi.

The car was speeding through the late autumn night. The buildings and trees outside the car window receded rapidly, and the street lights shone on his face, flickering brightly and dimly.

Forty minutes later, the taxi took him to the back door of the villa.

Jian Yi paid the fare when she got off the bus, and used her fingerprint to open a small door in the back garden.

He didn't want to alarm others, so he planned to come back quietly and leave quietly tomorrow.

The back garden of his house is very large, divided into north and south gardens.

The back door is connected to the south garden. At this time of night, it is quiet, and only the rustling of leaves in the night wind can be heard, as well as the faint fragrance of flowers drifting in the wind. There are night lights in the grass in the courtyard, shining brightly, illuminating the path underfoot.

Jian Yi walked quickly towards the villa along the path paved with smooth stones, when suddenly he stopped.

There is an old pear tree planted next to the courtyard wall. In late autumn, the leaves have fallen off, leaving only bare branches.

There was a man standing under the tree, looking up at the bare tree.

The girl wore a long white skirt and a long light brown windbreaker. She put her hands in the pockets of the windbreaker, and the wind blew her clothes, like a fairy with fluttering clothes and an independent fairy.

She raised her head slightly, not knowing whether she was looking at the trees or the scattered stars in the sky that shone faintly.

For some reason, Jian Yishi looked at her back and thought of an idiom: solitary.

Jian Yishi stood in the darkness not far behind her and looked at her quietly for a while.

Until a gust of cold wind blew, Lin Jinse lowered her head and covered her mouth and nose and sneezed. She couldn't help but tighten the belt of her windbreaker, which even outlined her waist, which was as slender as a hand.

She turned around and seemed ready to go back, but after taking two steps, she suddenly screamed and her weak body trembled slightly.

Jian Yishi knew that she was scared by him and immediately walked out of the darkness.

Only then did Lin Jinse see Jian Yishi's face clearly, and she patted her chest in shock, but she was so frightened just now that it made her throat itch slightly, and she couldn't help but bend over and cough violently.

Jian Yishi strode over and saw her thin shoulders shaking as she bent over and coughed, as weak as a gardenia after being beaten by the wind and rain, and he was at a loss for a moment.

Lin Jinse coughed for a while and finally stopped. When she raised her head and looked at Jian Yi, she asked, "Ah Shi, why are you here? Aren't you going to stay in school for training?"

Her fair face turned slightly red due to the violent cough just now, which made her delicate and beautiful face even more gorgeous, like the peach blossoms blooming in March, with a faint scent of cold fragrance in the fresh beauty.

Jian Yishi was stunned for a moment before she came back to her senses, but instead of answering her words, she mocked coldly: "You came out to blow off the wind in the middle of the night. Do you want to be sick longer so that you can stay at my house longer?"

Lin Jinse looked at him so closely for the first time and found that his facial features were really impeccable, with handsome eyebrows, tall nose, thin lips and pink lips. He even had a feminine look, but he had clear outlines, so he did not look effeminate, but extremely handsome.

Lin Jinse smiled at him: "Don't worry, I won't stay long. I also want to go home early."

After Jian Yishi heard this, she was not happy at all. She snorted coldly, "I hope you will do what you say."

Lin Jinse couldn't help but think of today's noon, when she caught up on her sleep until 11 or 12 o'clock, Zhang Qianhua came to call her. When she got up, squeezing toothpaste in the bathroom, she asked her aunt: "Auntie, why did Jian Yi give me the meal this morning?"

Zhang Qianhua smiled helplessly: "This is not just a game between father and son. Your uncle told him the whole story about you coming to recuperate. He scolded him and told him not to bully you. He also said that if he treats you badly, he will never be allowed to join the team to learn fencing again..."

Lin Jinse thought at that time that this would make Jian Yishi hate her even more. Everyone has a rebellious mentality, especially the more your parents force you to do something, the more you will hate doing it.

"Thank you this morning." Lin Jinse said again.

When Jian Yi was speaking, he couldn't help but see the girl's red eyes, straight collarbone, and dazzlingly white skin. His steady heartbeat suddenly became a little chaotic, and the tips of his ears were burning.

He didn't like this feeling of being out of control. He straightened his back, exuding a coldness that could repel people thousands of miles away, and walked away without saying a word.

Lin Jinse was helpless. He really hated himself. After he walked a certain distance, she followed him back to the villa.

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In the next two weeks, Jian Yi would go out early and come home late every day, but he still had to go home after all.

Zhang Qianhua felt strange in her heart. She knew very well that with Jian Yishi's personality, he would never be at home if he was not at home. How could he change his gender during this period of time? She observed silently, but found nothing unusual. The only thing that was a little unusual was that she found that Jian Yi almost always came home through the back door, and Lin Jinse often stayed in Nanyuan.

After Lin Jinse rested at Jian Yishi's home for more than ten days, her cough symptoms were basically gone. She went to the hospital for a CT scan, which showed that the pneumonia had been absorbed.

Lin Jinse studied dance with her mother Zhang Huanian since she was a child. Later, she was admitted to the dance performance major of Nanjing Dance and studied classical dance.

She has not practiced dancing since her parents' accident. She has been feeling uncomfortable for a long time. Now that her physical condition allows it, she naturally wants to start practicing as soon as possible.

Zhang Qianhua originally wanted her to take care of her for a while, but seeing that she was not interested in anything she did and only wanted to dance, she agreed and helped her renovate a dance practice room on the third floor.

After dinner that day, Lin Jinse and Zhang Qianhua walked in the yard to eat, rested for a while, then went back to the room to change into dance clothes and went to the practice room to practice dancing.

When she and Jinnian were young, their parents were very busy with work. Her father, Lin Sizhe, was a pianist and performed outside all year round. Her mother, Zhang Nianhua, was a university dance teacher and devoted most of her time to her students.

So she and Jinnian almost grew up in their grandfather's house, and her grandmother passed away early, so she spent most of her childhood with her grandfather.

Grandpa loved Jinnian very much and could not bear to look away from Jinnian for even a moment.

Lin Jinse had a sensitive temperament since she was a child, so you can imagine the disappointment in her heart. She didn't know why her grandfather could never see her in his eyes.

So she has to do her best in everything, hoping to get more care and attention from her grandfather.

But no matter how well she did, as long as Jinnian called out, grandpa would immediately abandon her and only have eyes for Jinnian.

Grandpa loves traditional Chinese painting. In order to please his grandfather, Lin Jinse started to learn painting from his grandfather at a young age.

When she independently painted an ink painting of plum blossoms for the first time, she happily took the painting to the yard and found her grandfather, "Grandpa, look at the winter plum I painted, does it look good?"

Grandpa took the painting, nodded repeatedly, and showed an appreciative smile: "Not bad!"

Before Lin Jinse had time to be happy, she heard Jinnian crying and calling for grandpa in the house.

Grandpa stood up in a hurry, put her painting on the stone table, got up and left.

A strong gust of wind happened to blow, and her painting was picked up by the wind and flew in the air. She hurriedly chased and grabbed the painting, but unfortunately she failed to catch it, and the painting floated into a large water tank.

When she picked it up and took a look, the picture of winter plum blossoms had been blurred and blurred.

She remembered that at that time, she held the wet painting and cried for a long time, but her grandfather only comforted the fallen Jinnian and did not even come out to see her.

Lin Jinse started learning dancing from her mother at the age of six. She found that as long as she learned to dance, she would have more opportunities to be with her mother.

In order to get her mother's attention, she studied dance more diligently.

Her body is soft, her sense of rhythm is strong, and her hands and feet are coordinated. She is a good candidate for learning dance. Zhang Huanian was naturally very happy to see that his daughter also liked dancing, so he often took her with him. While teaching students, she also taught her some basic dance skills.

The love and attention that Lin Jinse did not get from her grandfather, she got from her mother. The sensitivity and uneasiness in her heart were compensated, and her personality gradually became cheerful.

At 10:30 in the night, Jian Yishi came in from the back door of the South Garden and walked straight towards the old pear tree, but did not see Lin Jinse's figure, and felt a little disappointed for no reason.

Did she go to bed so early tonight? Jian Yi walked to the ground of the pear tree and sat on the bench where Lin Jinse usually sat. She looked up at the bare branches of the old pear tree. There was nothing interesting at all, but she could still look at it for half an hour.

Jian Yishi couldn't sit still for a minute, so she got up and walked to the villa.

When Aunt Chen came back when she saw Jian Yi, she immediately went to happily help him cook midnight snacks.

Jianyi said: "Aunt Chen, you don't have to wait for me so late every day. You can save some dry food for me. I can just heat it up and eat it when I get back. Anyway, I like to eat whatever you cook, and I don't choose."

Aunt Chen smiled and said: "Okay, then I will make Xiao Long Bao for you tomorrow."

Jian Yi said as she walked towards the stairs: "I'll go up and take a shower first."

Aunt Chen: "When you come down, ask Miss Lin if she wants something to eat. I see she has been practicing dancing for more than three hours, so she must be hungry too."

Jian Yi paused for a moment, then held on to the railing and ran up the stairs three steps at a time.

The room at the end of the corridor on the third floor was lit with lights, the door was open, a soft light poured out, and soft music flowed faintly from the room.

Jian Yishi walked through the door of her room, her footsteps kept moving but became gentler, and she walked towards the room at the end of the corridor.

He stood at the door for a while, then moved, tilted his head and looked into the room.

Lin Jinse wore a crimson tight dance suit, black dance pants, and flesh-colored dance shoes. Her long hair was tied up, revealing her slender neck, which was as white and attractive as a newly budded jasmine flower.