Nirvana(BL)

Yu Yue deliberately searches for the municipal party secretaries with surname Yu. And there're at least three for only five provinces. Therefore he has to give it up. As for surname Ye, there're even more. However, judging by the observation, Yu Yue feels that Ye Lin looks like a popular secretary nowadays. But that person is not surnamed Ye. Perhaps it's his mother's relatives.

Yu Yue has to give it up since he can not figure it out, while he's eager to see their patron falling down from the power.

Yu Yue parks his car in the garage, balling up to the third floor while it's blowing and snowing outside.

It is an ordinary BYD car which Ye Lin gave him during the summer vacation. Not too conspicuous for a student to drive. But Yu Yue doesn't drive it often and usually parks it in the school's garage.

There are three days off as New Year's holiday. On the January 1st, Ye Lin called him to go to the apartment in Haidian. As it was snowing and blowing outside that he felt very cold as soon as he walked out, he chose to drive that car.

Yu Yue takes out the key to open the door. He hears some noises in the kitchen—looks like Ye Lin has been arrived early and is cooking right now.

Yu Yue can not cook. Either they will go to a restaurant or Ye Lin will cook whenever they're together. To be fair, Ye Lin is a good cook, his homemade dishes are pretty delicious.

Ye Lin seems to like cooking, and he loves to hear Yu Yue's comments on his craft. Of course Yu Yue doesn't dare to say something bad, which makes Ye Lin feel that he's only playing at him. Thus, Yu Yue is always in a dilemma. Yu Yue has to rack his brain to think of some words, from when Ye Lin starts cooking. In addition to this, Ye Lin is capricious about what he wants to cook. When he's in a good mood, he's willing to choose something complicated and dainty. But if not, he would cook two of them randomly, like the cabbage fried with potatoes. When his face is green, so is the food he cooks.

Yu Yue prepares the bowls and chopsticks, sitting down and waiting for the food.

Ye Lin brings up a plate of vinegar fried green peppers and a dish of fried lettuce. Seeing such pieces of green color, Yu Yue sneaks a glance at Ye Lin. The latter has no expression on his face. But Yu Yue feels that there's a green light. Is he cuckolded by someone?—Not really, he should have at least a dozen cuckolds with that kind of wife. Would he be so serious about such things?

Yu Yue eats his food in silent, trying to be well-behaved. But his brain is running at a high speed to think why Ye Lin is so serious. He must not provoke him today.

The silence is between them. Yu Yue buries his head down and down, about to into the bowl. Out of the corner of his eye, he sees that Ye Lin is almost finished, standing up and walking to him.

Yu Yue feels the hair rise on his body. He can't help looking up, seeing Ye Lin is waving a chair towards him.

The bowl in front him is smashed to pieces with a crash.

Yu Yue falls to the ground, wondering if his arm is broken. He instinctively covered his head with arms, and the wooden legs of the chair hit against his arms, that feeling was really bad.

The chair is strong enough to not fall apart. Ye Lin picks it up and tries to smash again.

Yu Yue is still sober. He scrambles under the table: "Ye Lin! What are you doing, Ye Lin!"

The chair hit down by Ye Lin is collided with the table, making a sound that is scary to Yu Yue.

"Ye Lin! Why you hit me? Tell me if you have anything dissatisfied!" The heart is about to jump out from Yu Yue's mouth. What's wrong with Ye Lin? Haunted? There's no way to beat up someone without saying a word!

Yu Yue desperately kicks his hands, but Ye Lin seems to feel nothing and doesn't let him go.

"Ye Lin! Ye Lin!" Yu Yue is panic. He begins to admit his fault although there's nothing to admit: "I was wrong! Don't beat me please!"

Ye Lin kicks on his rib ruthlessly.

In a flash, Yu Yue feels he is too pain to make a sound. He clutches on his stomach, curling up himself into a ball. The cold sweat begins to ooze from his forehead.

Ye Lin grabs his back collar and drags him all the way to the bathroom. He takes out a handcuff somewhere and clicks it on Yu Yue's one wrist, then gets it through the heating radiator to lock the other end on the other wrist.

Yu Yue can not escape in such situation—in fact, he can not move even Ye Lin doesn't lock him. He feels a sharp painful in his ribs with the slight movement, even gets sweaty when he tries to talk. He begs to Ye Lin in incomplete sentences, with his pale face and trembled lips: "Ye Lin…Ye Lin…stop…it hurts…please stop…"

Ye Lin pulls a towel from the side, rolls it up, pinches to open Yu Yue's mouth and stuffs it in.

Then Ye Lin kicks his legs as hard as to break them off while Yu Yue is crying with a whine. His hands have been locked and he has nowhere to hide. The only thing he can do is to clasp the radiator in his arms and puts his face on it.

Ye Lin looks around, and grabs a mop. The rod of that mop is a hollow iron pipe which can be removed. Ye Lin takes it off, then beats Yu Yue with it recklessly.

Yu Yue's scream is gagged in his mouth, his face is full of tears mixed with sweat, and soon, there is a wisp of red color joining in.

Ye Lin doesn't say a word, as if he is crazy and just want to beat him to death. Yu Yue's body is shaking and his sight becomes blurred, he's going to collapse gradually.

Yu Yue has no idea what's going on today—he also has no energy to think about it now, his only wish is that Ye Lin can spare his life—he's not twenty yet and he doesn't want to die here, with such great pain.

Help! Somebody help me! Help me!

Yu Yue wails as hard as he can, like a wounded and dying beast.

He looks at Ye Lin with tears, looking forward to that he's not completely excluded from humanity.

Ye Lin raises his weapon high, then, hits him on the head.

In the dull pains coming from the cranial cavity vibration, Yu Yue falls into complete darkness and loses his consciousness.

"Yu Yue! Yu Yue!"

Is this mom's voice…Yu Yue feels a headache. The sounds in his ears is unreal like the echo.

He tries hard for a while, finally opens his eyes slowly. And in a long time, he's able to slowly focus on the face of the people in front of him.

It's really his father and mother!

Yu Yue smiles without any thinking, but he feels pain all over his body immediately. It sobers him up a bit and makes him remember what has happened—he was nearly beaten to death by Ye Lin and now he's in the hospital.

Yu's mother, with her eyes red, hugs Yu Yue and begins to cry again.

Yu Yue is pressed for a second and the pain makes him bare his teeth: "Mom…It hurts…mom…"

His mom lets him go quickly: "I forgot I forgot…Yu Yue…my son…you've suffered so much…why didn't you tell us?"

Yu's father also sits down on the bed's edge, looking at Yu Yue with a grave face. He touches Yu Yue's face and sighs sadly.

Yu Yue is a little confused—not to mention why his parents are here in front of him, just what his mom said, to tell them, what is that mean? What do they know? Do they know all about Ye Lin?—And, where the hell is Ye Lin?

Before Yu Yue asks the questions in his mind, he sees a suit man, who wears glasses on the small but round face and is a little bit fat, stepping forward to him: "don't be afraid. No one will hurt you now. Ye Lin has been detained by the public security bureau. You are safe now."

What? Yu Yue now really suspects that he's dreaming. Was Ye Lin arrested by the police? What's going on? It can only be in his imagination!

"Och, I forget to introduce myself," the round face adds, "my family name is Wang and I'm your lawyer. I have the power of attorney to represent you in this case."

Yu Yue blinks—when did his parents become so efficient that they hired a lawyer already?

Yu Yue feels the reality is too dreamy. After combing the thoughts for a long time, he still feels incredible. Then he starts with a question: "How did I get to the hospital?"

"110 got you out," mom Yu answers, "your dad and I got a phone call said you were beaten up, so we flew here soon. I thought you were robbed by a gang member, but…alas…that bastard, he has no conscience! He'll be struck down!"

His father also shakes the head with sighs, he pats mom Yu's shoulder: "Don't say, our son is grieved…"

"Yu Yue," his mother cries again, "you've been suffered in this year. I didn't know that! If I know, I would fight with him desperately! He son of a bitch! Yu Yue…"

Yu Yue feels that his heart is throbbing and his nose is twitching. He has not seen his parents for one and a half years. And every time he was beaten or raped by Ye Lin, he always thought about them. Today, he finally saw them in front of him.

"Mom…I'm fine now, don't cry…" Yu Yue smiles, "It's nothing…over is over…I'm really fine now…"

"Don't worry, we'll find the justice for you even it will cost all our money! He's only a section chief, and has been detained and interrogated now. It's not that hard to bring him down!" His mom is still crying.

Wow, Ye Lin is under investigation! Yu Yue would laugh out loudly if he's not in such pain.

Yu Yue wants to chat with his parents for more time to figure out the whole story, but the doctor said he needs more rest because he just woke up.

So after eating some food, he has to fall into sleep again. And he couldn't know all things until the next morning.

Ye Lin was detained and interrogated because he was involved in bribery and fraud. He was arrested from his house in Chaoyang district on January 1st, and has been investigated till now. Yu Yue was not found until the afternoon of January 2nd. The police searched all Ye Lin's properties, including the one in Haidian district, and then they found Yu Yue handcuffed to the radiator, bruised and unconscious. With one rib fractured, severe concussion and innumerable bruises, Yu Yue had been in a coma for the whole night in hospital. When he woke up, it was January 3rd already.

"As for Ye Lin, polices will come this afternoon to get your witness testimony. Just tell them what you know, don't be afraid." Lawyer Wang pushes his glasses and tells Yu Yue.

"Tell them what?" Yu Yue doesn't understand.

"about Ye Lin's intentional injury and illegal detention to you," lawyer Wang pauses, "and other illegal violations…anything that happened to you."

"...I see."

"In addition, about his own case about bribery and fraud, the security department will also seek the testimony from you." Wang adds that.

"But I don't know about that…I don't even know what his job is…" Yu Yue is frowning.

"Say you don't know then. You are a victim too, they won't do anything to you."

Yu Yue raises his eyebrow—if I was not the victim, what would they do to me?

"Oh, I mean," Wang says, probably realizing that he said something wrong, "you are a victim, although you have been in contact with him for the past one year, but you were compelled, so they won't suspect that you were collaborating with him."

Collaboration? Yu Yue doesn't know he should laugh or cry. Does he have the ability to collaborate with Ye Lin?

Yu Yue thinks that is too ridiculous. However, he knows that the polices incredibly are serious when he faces to the two who come to collect evidence.

Because he's injured, they allow him to stay on bed for questioning. After the curtain was drawn, the two policemen politely asks Yu Yue's parents to leave the room. Only lawyer Wang can stay there to listen, as Yu Yue's attorney.

The first question makes Yu Yue feel bad: "In the past year and a half, did you maintain a relationship with Ye Lin as a lover?"

Yu Yue chokes for a while before answering: "No, I was forced to do so."

"How? Please tell us details."

Yu Yue opens his mouth—was raped, was taken naked photos—how could he say that out?

"Please answer the question." Repeats the policeman.

Yu Yue takes a deep breath, recalling something, and then he starts talking without emotions. He can only tell an approximate time, state an accomplished fact, summarizing the unmentionable experience in one sentence.

While the policeman is taking the records, Yu Yue looks at lines and suddenly feels as if it has nothing to do with him. He's only telling a story, a hearsay, that has nothing related to him. The memory is just popping into his mind, but it didn't really happen to him.

Because he knows that he's going to leave that part of his life behind him. It will be wiped out completely, no longer exist, no long in his mind.

How wonderful it is.

He's a free and normal person again. All of a sudden, he wants to laugh out loudly.

"So, in the time you spent with him, did you find any his behavior of bribery, fraud or any other criminal

activity?"

Yu Yue shakes his head.

"Please think about it carefully. Ye Lin's case is very important. I hope you can understand it clearly and cooperate with us."

Yu Yue still shakes his head: "I don't even know what his job is."

"Really? Think it over before you answer."

Before Yu Yue has a chance to say something, lawyer Wang chimes in: "my client is a victim. How could he know what crime Ye Lin has committed? Don't just grab a person and start asking as he knew something. It is illegal to get confession by inducement."

"I didn't induce the confession, I just told him to think it carefully before answering." The policemen looks down at the records, and then turns to Yu Yue: "are you sure that you don't have anything to add?"

Yu Yue thinks carefully: "No."

"Did you ever see or hear of Ye Lin taking the bribes?"

Yu Yue continues to shake his head.

"And did you ever see that Ye Lin has the money and properties with dubious background?"

Yu Yue thinks to himself, since Ye Lin is only a section chief, his so many houses should be dubious. Why need to ask?

Yu Yue is about to say it while lawyer Wang interrupts again: "Sir, my clients has repeatedly said that he doesn't know, he is still in a bad situation, please don't bother him with meaningless questions. The medical evaluation will be available soon and I'll send it to you. Please do not forget the harm Ye Lin caused to my client when you measure his penalty. Otherwise, we will file a lawsuit according to the law."

Those two policemen looks at the lawyer, and the small round face stares back unflinchingly, with an unrelenting expression.

The polices then look at each other, collate the record and hand it to Yu Yue: "since you don't know anything else, so that's it. Please go through the record and sign your name."

Yu Yue can't help thinking of that time to help Ding Yichao, now it is a sign on the real testimony.

The polices are leaving. Yu Yue is lying in bed, and suddenly, he receives a call from Ding Yichao.

Ah, it's true that talk of the devil and he will appear.

"Hello? Yu Yue? Have you finish your exams? When is your vacation?"

"No exam yet."

"So when? Let's hang out together. I went out last month and we didn't see each other. I though you would go home for winter vacation and I have to wait for anther month. Let's meet before you go home."

Yu Yue feels helpless about Ding Yichao. Since they met in summer, Ding Yichao chatted with him by QQ, messages and phones, and sometimes invited him for dinner. It made Yu Yue felt embarrassed and tried to invited him back. But he always said that 'you don't need to, you're still a student, you know that money is not a problem for me'. And during the dinner, he would make a personal speech, but it was always a troublesome for Yu Yue. In fact, Yu Yue figured out that Ding Yichao was very simple. He might talk in a strange way but without any bad thoughts. Although he's annoying, he's actually a good boy—and he's a year younger than Yu Yue.

"It's not convenient for me to go out now," Yu Yue considers for a while, feeling that Ding Yichao won't be shocked whatever he tells him, "I was beaten by someone and now I'm in hospital."

As expected, Ding Yichao replies placidly: "Which hospital? I'm going to visit you."

Yu Yue hesitates. It's not good to trouble him, plus that he has no interest in sitting on a bed in hospital and listening to a speech.

"Is it Haidian Hospital?" Before he replying, Ding Yichao asks again.

"Yes, but you don't have to…"

As he's saying, Ding Yichao interrupts him: "OK, I'll go later." Then he hangs up the phone.

Yu Yue has nothing to do with that. Well, Ding is just trying to be kind anyway.

Yu Yue has expected that Ding Yichao would give him a speech, but didn't think of that he would come with PPT this time—Ding Yichao takes a tablet PC to show the photos he took in Australia.

"See, this is the photo I took while diving in the Great Barrier Reef," Ding Yichao flips through a photo of the seabed with a variety of colorful coral, and then a close-up of the shell on the beach under the sea. The next one is a low-angle shot, with the sun shining through the blue water and the fishes silhouetted against the sky.

"It's so beautiful." Yu Yue praises the photos sincerely, "what camera did you use?"

"The Leica M8, with a diving mask, which had a few effects on the pictures." Ding Yichao says and goes through the photos.

"Is that a…DLSR?" Yu Yue only knows cameras like Cannon, Nikon and Olympus, he has heard of Leica before in a talent show called 'Leica My Show', was the show sponsored by that camera company?

"Rangefinder camera. Of course I'm used to the DSLR, but it's too heavy to carry in travel. And Leica is much more convenient to be taken out. Only a little bit hard to develop the film. I just bought a digital camera they released in this year, so I chose this one to go. As for the big guys like Canon 1D, I only use it when I drive around in Beijing with nothing else to do, or take pictures of friends and family."

Yu Yue blinks his eyes to look at Ding Yichao, the latter is scratching his fingers on the tablet, while taking about something Yu Yue can not understand.

"The light sensitivity of the M8 is still not good enough. It was not bright under the water, thus the picture quality was a little poor with high sensitivity. I should try with flash next time. This time, I didn't really shoot any fishes there, only this one with low tangle. You can tell the light was bright enough. All others were underexposed with the maximum aperture. The stutter speed was too slow. I could only use it to take photos of the stills life." Ding Yichao seems to talk with himself, and then he shows another picture to Yu Yue: "look this one on the beach, is the quality much better?"

It's a photo on the beach by the sea—the sea and the sky share the same color while the sun is shining on the sand, with two pairs of footprints extending to the edge of the white surf. The shooting angle is low, so that the grain of the sand can be seen clearly.

"Yes, it's pretty good." Yu Yue says earnestly, "actually, I think all pictures you took are good."

The next one that comes out is of a young girl standing in front of a rock with arms outstretching. The girl has a pair of big eyes, a fair and clear face, smiling brightly. Her long hair highlights with hold and curls in small waves, looks elegant and lively.

Yu Yue guesses that this is Ding Yichao's girlfriend. When he's going of praise her good looking, Ding Yichao gets a word in: "She forced me to take such a souvenir photo for her, so tacky."

Yu Yue pauses for three seconds, then asks him questioningly: "is she your girlfriend?"

"Hmmm, sort of." Ding Yichao nods casually, and turns to another photo. It is mug shot of that girt with big eyes shining and mouth bulged. Seems to be very cute.

"Oh my god…" Ding Yichao mumbles miserably, "She used my Leica to take selfie! Holly shit!"

"What's wrong with you? Your girlfriend is so good-looking and she was only taking one picture. Is it that serious?" Yu Yue can not understand.

"No…I just can't believe she took a selfie with my Leica…and in such way…as a phone! She's hopeless, hopeless…"The more Ding Yichao says, the more distressed he is—even wants to hit the ground with his head.

Yu Yue twists his face, he's unable to understand this young man with artistic temperament—or the way he acts in public.

Ding Yichao continues to flip through the photos. When he finds a good work, he will explain the stutter, aperture and lens he used, and describe the scene and his ideas in that time.

Although Yu Yue is very patient, he's still distracted after listening for a while.

The horizon stretches far away from him, at where out of his sight.

In Yu Yue's imagination, the sky is high and blue, making him feel free and comfortable.