Kaleidoscope of Death

Tan Zao Zao, who had come to visit, launched into a cordial condolence to Ruan Nam Candle, though Ruan Nam Candle ignored her the entire time.

"How's your fourth door?" Lin Qiushi, who was sitting next to her with nothing to do, casually asked her a question.

"The fourth door, huh?" Tan Zao Zao scratched her head, "It's okay..." she didn't seem to want to talk much about the world within the door and quickly skirted around the topic.

Lin Qiushi didn't ask any further questions when he saw this.

The television hanging on the wall of the hospital would occasionally interrupt a perfume advertisement of Zao Zao Tan's performance, and the big screen showed her as a noble and cold woman. The company has been in the process of developing the new product for the past few years, and has been in the process of developing the new product for a long time.

Tan Zao Zao apparently guessed what Lin Qiushi was thinking from his expression, and said angrily, "Don't look, it's all fake!"

Lin Qiushi: "Well..."

Tan Zao Zao looked at Lin Qiushi and asked with malice, "Do you have a special favorite star?"

Lin Qiushi is straightforward and says, "No." He's not starstruck.

Tan Zao Zao regretted, "That's a pity, maybe I can even get you an autograph." What's more, maybe I'll be able to spill a few ruinous gossips....

While they chatted, the TV broadcasted a breaking news story about a certain star who had suddenly met with a car accident on his way to a concert and died on the spot, and then aired a grisly scene of the accident.

Originally still nibbling on mangoes, Tan Zao Zao's expression appeared dazed for a moment, and she said, "He..."

Ruan Nan Candle, who was lying on the bed, whispered, "You know each other?"

Tan Zao Zao nodded her head.

She put down the mango in her hand and whispered, "This person seems to be the one who came in, we did commercials together, but we don't have a deep friendship..."

Lin Qiushi looked at Tan Zao Zao, her mood visibly lowered.

"Then he had some accidents." Tan Zao Zao said, "The light above his head smashed straight down during the concert, but he was only slightly injured, and then there were some accidents after that." She said slowly, "I was a little suspicious then..."

"Could it just be an accident?" Lin Qiushi frowned, "Not necessarily a door..."

"Should be the door." Tan Zao Zao sighed, her mood visibly lowered, "I'll leave first, you guys take care of yourselves."

Lin Qiushi didn't know how to persuade her as he looked at her appearance, and in the end, he could only let her leave hurriedly.

When Tan Zao Zao left, Ruan Nan Candle's appearance had been calm, Lin Qiushi said, "Is she alright?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "It's fine, it'll probably be fine in two days."

Lin Qiushi felt that Tan Zao Zao had always been quite optimistic, but he didn't expect a sudden emotional breakdown... although he hurriedly left the place before it happened.

Faced with Lin Qiushi's bewilderment, Ruan Nan Candle showed some helplessness as he said, "Don't you ever like anyone in particular?"

Lin Qiushi thought carefully and slowly but surely shook his head, "No." He said, "My family ties are thin, and I do have the impression... that I don't particularly like anyone."

Since he was a child, he had been surrounded by a handful of friends, and it was for that reason that he was able to leave his original city without any attachment and come here to work.

"There will always be girls who like you, right." Ruan Nan Candle's tone was certain, "Could it be that you've never been confessed?" He didn't believe that a personality and looks like Lin Qiushi's wouldn't be popular with girls.

"Confessions have been confessed, but I've refused them all." Lin Qiushi replied.

Ruan Nan Candle: "Why did you refuse?"

Lin Qiushi: "Because I can't give them what they want."

In the meantime, Ruan Nan Candle: "How do you know you can't?"

Lin Qiushi was quiet for a while, his voice soft: "I don't like them ah."

Ruan Nanzhu was dumbfounded, he said, "You're sober."

Lin Qiushi smiled: "Can't delay them, they are all good girls."

Lin Qiushi was indeed a warm person, and whenever he met someone in need, he would always try his best to lend a helping hand. However, his kindness was not limitless, and to put it bluntly, he was never generous at the expense of others, had full knowledge of his own strength, and would never ask others to do anything beyond his ability.

A kind, intelligent person who knew how to judge the situation was always very attractive.

Ruan Nan Candle slowly closed his eyes, but there was more than that about Lin Qiushi that attracted him.

When Lin Qiushi saw Ruan Nan Candle's eyes closed, he thought he was tired. He stood up from beside Ruan Nan Candle and gently left the ward, going out just in time to see Cheng Qianli return with the washed lychees.

"Why did you come out?" Cheng Qianli asked.

"Don't go in." Lin Qiushi said, "He's resting, and Zao Zao has left."

Cheng Qianli: "Oh, what about the lychee?"

Lin Qiushi looked at it: "Leave it there, wait until he wakes up and then bring it in, or you can eat it."

Cheng Qianli: "I'd rather not eat it, Brother Ruan seems to like lychees quite a bit."

Lin Qiushi was suddenly a bit curious at the news: "What else does he like besides lychees?" He and Ruan Nan Candle had also lived together for some time, but he didn't know much about his preferences.

Cheng Qianli said, "Favorite things? There's quite a lot to like." He looked at the lychee and then at Lin Qiushi, "He seems to like you quite a bit too."

Lin Qiushi, "Doesn't he like you?"

Cheng Qianli smiled foolishly, "Hehehehe also right oh, I'm so cute."

Lin Qiushi thought to himself that you're really shameless.

During the time that Ruan Nan Candle was recuperating, many people from other organizations had come over to visit. It was said to be a visit, but it was actually more of an inquiry, after all, it was rare to see a big man like Ruan Nan Candle who had already passed the ten doors.

Le Dongyuan from White Deer also shamelessly came, and although Ruan Nan Candle agreed to let him into the ward, he didn't give him a good look the entire time.

Lin Qiushi was sitting next to Ruan Nanzhu peeling lychee to eat, Ruan Nanzhu opened his mouth slightly, and the milky white soft flesh was put into his pale lips, after chewing, his mouth opened, Lin Qiushi handed over the fruit plate, and his tongue pushed out the black kernels.

The whole process of eating is actually very elegant, looking at Ruan Nanzhu's appearance, Lin Qiushi suddenly understood Tan Zaozao's saying that beauty should eat lychee.

Le Dong Yuan sat beside him, that doll face with a friendly smile, he was simply different from the one inside the door, he said, "Ah Nan Candle..."

Ruan Nan Candle gave him a squinty stare.

Le Dong Yuan had to change his words, "Brother Ruan, Brother Ruan, are you okay?"

Ruan Nan Candle: "OK you didn't see that? Say it straight if you have something to say."

Le Dong Yuan turned his head to look at Lin Qiushi.

Ruan Nan Candle knew what he meant and restrained his eyes: "There's no need to avoid him."

Lai Dong Yuan said, "I'm about to go through the ninth door, that's the one..."

Ruan Nan Candle: "No, get out."

Le Dong Yuan: "........"

Lin Qiushi heard that he wanted to laugh, but he didn't think it was appropriate to laugh, so he hung his eyes and pretended that he was seriously peeling the lychee.

"Don't be so fierce." But Li Dongyuan was aggravated, "I haven't even bothered with you pretending to wish Meng and I were in love." His big eyes were watery, and Lin Qiushi looking at him somehow reminded him of the corgi dog that Cheng Qianli had raised....

However, Ruan Nan Candle's heart was as hard as iron, and he didn't move at all, not even showing any surprise at the fact that Li Dong Yuan had told him about his identity: "Cut the crap and get to the point."

Li Dongyuan said, "Didn't I hear that you still have a clue to the ninth door..."

Ruan Nan Candle seemed to smile: "Heard?"

Lai Dong Yuan: "Fuck, I really heard about it, they're all passing it on."

They chatted here, but Lin Qiushi suddenly remembered that Ruan Nanzhu had already passed through the tenth door, so wouldn't it be possible that he had already gotten a clue to the eleventh door? I don't know what the eleventh door's clues are like, or if there's anything special about it compared to the others.

"So?" Ruanan Candle looked at him.

"So, can you sell me the clue?" Le Dong Yuan finally stated the purpose of his visit today.

Ruan Nan Candle refused without hesitation: "Impossible."

Lai Dong Yuan: "You can bid as much as you want, as long as I can afford it-"The clues of the ninth door are too rare, even he didn't get them.

Only Ruan Nan Candle, a madman, could get two of them.

Ruan Nan Candle ate a lychee that was fed to his mouth and did not respond.

Seeing that Ruan Nan Candle was like this, Le Dong Yuan looked a little agitated and said, "Thirteen days from now is the deadline for me to enter the door, I don't have that much time."

Ruan Nanzhu: "I thought you were happy to pry me out of my business," he said. And that I serve people with sex." He laughed, but his eyes were cold, "Now you know to beg me?"

Li Dongyuan laughed awkwardly, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, or else I'll sleep with you for a night and you'll be an adult and forget about it?"

Ruan Nan Candle pointed at the door: "Get out."

Le Dong Yuan showed an aggrieved expression.

Lin Qiushi thought to himself that you're a bit too much, wanting to take the clue is fine, but also wanting to take advantage of our boss, being told to roll is really not unfair at all.

"It's not impossible to give you the clue of the ninth door." Ruan Nanzhu Dao, "But I have a condition."

Le Dong Yuan: "What condition?"

Ruan Nanzhu: "You have to accompany him into the tenth door."

Lai Dongyuan was stunned at the words and looked at Lin Qiushi: "You shouldn't be..."

Ruan Nan Candle: "Right."

Lai Dongyuan's expression changed greatly: "Are you crazy?!"

Ruan Nan Candle was already impatient: "Either agree or get out, don't waste my time here."

Li Dongyuan's face was cloudy and uncertain, but finally he bit his tongue and agreed to follow Lin Qiushi into the tenth door. But by the look of it, it seemed like there was something else he wanted to say, but didn't say it due to Lin Qiushi's presence.

Lin Qiushi stood up at the right time, indicating that he wanted to go wash his hands.

Ruan Nanzhu didn't stop him this time.

As soon as Lin Qiushi returned from washing his hands in the toilet, he heard Ruan Nanzhu arguing with Le Dung Yuan.

Lin Qiushi was baffled by his stare, and Le Dong Yuan came to say: "Be careful yourself, Zhumeng pulled out definitely bigger than you!"

Lin Qiushi: "... I already know he's older than me, no need for you to remind me thanks.

He entered the house and saw Ruan Nam Candle sitting on the bed with an expressionless face, so he said, "Why are you arguing?"

Ruan Nan Candle said, "Someone had to tell me what to do." He disdained, "He's worthy too?"

Lin Qiushi: "You're still sick, so don't be angry." He asked gently, "What do you want to eat tonight?"

Ruan Nan Candle leaned against the bed: "Drink the porridge, you made it."

Li Dongyuan left in a negative mood, Lin Qiushi did not take it to heart, he thought that there would be many more stories between Li Dongyuan and them, good or bad, but Lin Qiushi did not expect that that day was the last time he and Li Dongyuan saw each other.

In the morning thirteen days later, Ruan Nan Candle, who had been discharged from the hospital, received a phone call when the people in the villa were having breakfast together, after he hung up the phone, his expression was frozen for a moment, then he spoke in a low voice, "Le Dong Yuan is dead."

The crowd that was still talking suddenly quieted down and everyone heard Ruan Nam Candle's words.

Cheng Qianli's gnawing on the bun stopped, and he ahhh asked what everyone wanted to ask: "Brother Ruan, what are you talking about... Lai Dongyuan, is that Lai Dongyuan from White Deer?"

Ruan Nanzhu hmmmed and stood up, "I'm going over there."

Lin Qiushi said, "I'll accompany you." Although Ruan Nan Candle had been discharged from the hospital, her body hadn't fully recovered, and now she looked a little pale. He was worried that if Ruan Nan Candle met something outside, his body wouldn't be able to support it.

"Good." Ruan Nan Candle agreed to follow Lin Qiushi.

Lin Qiushi quickly changed his clothes and got into the car with Ruan Nan Candle.

After Ruan Nan Candle said a location, he sat on the passenger side with his eyes closed, his face pale, more so against the long eyelashes black as raven feathers, now gently trembling, adding a few points of vulnerability. This kind of vulnerability, but also seems to be Lin Qiushi's illusion.

Is Ruan Nan Candle sad? No, Lin Qiushi felt that there was more of a rabbit's-death sadness coming out of him. Ruan Nan Candle hated Li Dongyuan, but didn't want him to die like this, because seeing Li Dongyuan's end, he would inevitably think of themselves.

Lin Qiushi remembered the last time he had met with Le Dong Yuan more than ten days ago, and he exhaled a long breath as if he wanted to exhale the mass of breath that was pressing on his chest.

After forty minutes of driving, they arrived at an apartment located in the city.

Lin Qiushi thought that Bai Deer was living in one of the apartments, but when he arrived, he realized that Bai Deer had bought all of the apartments.

At this time, there were many people under the apartment, so Lin Qiushi had a bad feeling about it. As expected, after he parked his car, he made his way towards the crowded crowd and saw something surrounded in the middle of the crowd.

It was a shattered corpse, its face could no longer be seen, but from the clothes and shape of the body, the person in front of him could be identified as Li Dongyuan.

It wasn't the first time Lin Qiushi had seen a dead person in reality, but it was the first time he had seen someone he was familiar with die like this. He turned his head sideways and looked at Ruan Nan Candle and saw that he still had a flat expression, only his black eyes were rippling, as if he was disturbed by a deep lake.

A woman's cries rang out, and a teenage girl pounced out of the crowd, kneeling beside Le Dongyuan's corpse and wailing, and trying to reach out and take Le Dongyuan's already shattered body into her arms.

The people around her stopped the young girl from doing so and forcibly pulled her away from Li Dongyuan's corpse.

Lin Qiushi looked around and noticed that some people were whispering while others had sad expressions and numb eyes, thinking that they should belong to the members of the White Deer.

A beautiful woman walked up to Ruan Nam Candle and whispered to him, "Hello, Mr. Ruan."

"Hello, Miss Jin." Ruan Nam Candle said.

"You can call me by my first name, Kim Yu Rui." The woman seemed to want to smile at Ruan Nan Candle, but was extraordinarily stiff and just curled her mouth in a hard, forced-looking manner, "After that, it will be me who will take over the internal affairs of White Deer."

The implication of the words was that she was the next leader of the White Deer.

"Mm." Ruan Nan Candle nodded his head to show that he knew, he was silent for a moment and then suddenly said, "Don't laugh if you don't want to."

Jin Yu Rui's smile instantly faded, she took a deep breath, as if she was controlling her emotions, then said in a mute voice, "Inside please, Mr. Ruan."

Ruan Nan Candle nodded and walked towards the house, with Lin Qiushi following him.

There were a total of six people sitting or standing in the apartment's lobby, and with those outside, the entire organization of White Deer should be around twenty people.

Jin Yu Rui began to announce what Le Dong Yuan had prepared before his death, and the whole process was very quiet.

But amidst the silence, Lin Qiushi felt an undercurrent stirring. Some people in the crowd seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Jin Yu Rui as a successor, but their eyes fell on Ruan Nan Candle - they were actually jealous of Ruan Nan Candle as an outsider.

Lin Qiushi finally understood the meaning of Ruan Nam Candle's coming here, he had actually come here to make one last appearance for Le Dongyuan Town.

Jin Yu Rui had become the next leader of the White Stag, she had just passed the eighth gate and was still some time away from the ninth.

But apparently, she wasn't able to convince the White Deer crowd the way Lai Dong Yuan could.

Ruan Nanzhu must have seen it too, but he had no intention of interfering in White Deer's affairs and just sat silently beside her.

When Lin Qiushi saw his face pale, thinking that he was probably feeling a bit uncomfortable, he was slightly worried and thought about it, feeling a candy from his pocket and quietly slipped it to Ruan Nan Candle.

Ruan Nan Candle looked back at him, nodded gently, peeled the candy paper away and slowly put it into his mouth.

The candy tasted sweet, diluting a certain uncomfortable feeling, and Ruan Nam Candle sat in the hall for a long time until Jin Yu Rui had finished ordering things.

The people in the hall began to disperse, and in the end, only the three of them were left.

Jin Yu Rui looked up and smiled bitterly, "Thank you Mr. Ruan, I wouldn't know what to do if you weren't here."

Ruan Nan Candle stood up and said, "I can only help you here, you'll have to walk the rest of the way."

Jin Yu Rui nodded, she wasn't some fragile dodder, although she had a momentary wavering in the face of the storm, she had to stand on her own in the end.

"Then we'll take our leave," Ruan Nan Candle said.

"Won't Mr. Ruan stay for dinner?" Kim Yu-Ri asked politely.

"No need." Ruan Nam Candle declined Jin Yu Rui's kindness and said, "I'll come back when it's time for his burial."

Jin Yu Rui didn't force the matter and nodded, sending Ruan Nam Candle and Lin Qiushi to the door.

Le Dong Yuan's corpse had been packed up, leaving only a stained puddle of blood on the ground to tell the world what had happened here.

In a few days, this stain will also disappear, and people will come and go inside the White Deer, perhaps soon they will forget that there was a leader named Le Dongyuan.

All this way, Ruan Nan Candle's face was not too good.

Only when he was on his way back and got into the cab did Lin Qiushi realize that something was wrong, he said, "Nan Candle, is the wound on your body alright?" He could smell a faint scent of blood. At first, Lin Qiushi thought that the blood smell was because of Li Dong Yuan, but now Lin Qiushi could still smell it.

"Nothing." Ruan Nan Candle slumped against the car door.

Lin Qiushi didn't believe he was fine at all, he frowned and said, "You show me."

Ruan Nan Candle said, "No give."

Lin Qiushi was stunned, he didn't expect Ruan Nan Candle to refuse so neatly.

"Go back and talk." Ruan Nan Candle said, and after he said that, he slowly closed his eyes, seemingly a little tired.

Lin Qiushi was worried and drove the car a little faster.

A few minutes later, when they returned to the villa, Ruan Nan Candle opened his eyes tiredly, Lin Qiushi hurriedly helped him into the house, and after seeing him lying on the bed, he sat on the edge of the bed very naturally, his hand grabbing the corner of Ruan Nan Candle's coat.

Ruan Nan Candle looked up at him with his eyes, "What are you doing?"

Lin Qiushi said, "I want to take a look at your back..." the wounds on Ruan Nan Candle's back were the most serious.

Ruan Nan Candle tilted her head and looked at Lin Qiushi: "Is it okay if I don't look."

Lin Qiushi knitted his brows: "No." He felt that Ruan Nan Candle's wounds must have split open.

Ruan Nan Candle thought, "Then you give me a candy."

Lin Qiushi pulled out the candy from his pocket, peeled it off and stuffed it into Ruan Nan Candle's mouth.

"See." With the candy wrapped in her mouth, Ruan Nan Candle said vaguely, "There's actually nothing to see..."

Lin Qiushi lifted the clothes Ruan Nan Candle was wearing, and sure enough, he saw that the wound was cracked and blood was running down his back, and finally absorbed by the clothes.

In the meantime, he said, "This won't work, we need to go to the hospital."

Ruan Nan Candle didn't move, her breathing became even.

Lin Qiushi looked up and sighed, "Why are you starting to pretend to sleep."

Ruan Nan Candle still didn't speak.

Lin Qiushi looked helpless, so he could only get up and go to the side to get gauze and help Ruan Nam Candle simply treat the cracked area, and mouth, "You must go to the hospital tomorrow morning ah."

Ruan Nan Candle closed his eyes again after a vague snort, he was indeed a bit tired and wanted to rest well.