Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 587 Keeping a Canary in Captivity (66)

“You taught me.” Xiao Yun reached out and gently took Yan Zhen’s hand over the center console.

Yan Zhen pushed him aside and slapped his hand across the back of his hand.

"Don't interfere with my driving."

"..."

Xiao Yun only stayed in Hangzhou for one day before taking a night flight back to film.

There wasn't much going on at the company lately, and Yan Zhen had originally planned to visit the film set in a while and see Yan Jing as well.

But just two days later, Yan Heng got into trouble.

Yan's parents rushed to the hospital with Yan Heng's fiancée. No one knows what Yan Heng said to them, but when the two elders returned, Yan's father was obviously much more relaxed, while Yan's mother's reaction was quite subtle.

Yan Zhen only learned of the news when she got home from get off work in the evening, but she didn't plan to visit her adopted younger brother.

We are all mission takers, just passersby in this world. Even if Yan Heng dies outside, Yan Zhen won't be surprised. He'll just think that Yan Heng finished his work and went home.

In the evening, Yan Zhen was tutoring Gao Xinyu with his homework when Yan's mother knocked on the door and came in.

"Zhenzhen, come out here, Mom has something to tell you."

Yan Zhen got up and followed her mother out of the children's room. The mother and daughter went to the second-floor balcony.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

Yan's mother hesitated, then said, "Well, your dad and I went to the hospital to see Xiao Heng today."

"Well, and then?" Yan Zhen said, "I heard from Lao Zhang that his injury wasn't serious."

“The injury isn’t serious, it’s just… it’s just… oh dear, how am I supposed to tell you this?” Yan’s mother’s anxiety and insecurity were written all over her face. “It seems that Xiao Heng has made a friend outside… who isn’t very reliable. I suspect that friend has led him astray.”

"Lead him astray?" Yan Zhen asked, puzzled. "With his brain as small as a walnut, how far could it possibly go astray?"

Yan's mother slapped Yan Zhen's arm: "Don't talk about your brother like that!"

"Alright, alright, your eldest son is the smartest," Yan Zhen said dismissively. "Did his friend cheat him out of money?"

"If only it were just a scam to make money."

Yan Zhen couldn't help but chuckle: "If it's not swindling money, is it swindling sex?"

Yan's mother: "..."

Seeing Yan's mother's strange expression, Yan Zhen's smile faltered: "Xiao Heng was really deceived?"

Although it's not uncommon for mission takers to develop relationships with natives in the small world, and Yan Zhen himself is one of them, Yan Zhen remembers that Zhou Yanqing has a girlfriend.

His girlfriend is also a member of the Quick Transmigration Division.

If Zhou Yanqing really gets kidnapped by someone in the small world, what will happen to his girlfriend?

“I think so.” Yan’s mother then revealed a subtle expression. “Do you remember when we went to the urban village where he lived last time, and saw him walking with two men?”

Yan Zhen nodded: "Mm."

“Today, when your dad, Xingruo, and I went to the hospital to visit Xiaoheng, those two men were there too. The tall one didn’t look very bright, and there was a skinny boy who looked like a high school student. When he saw Xingruo and learned that she was Xiaoheng’s fiancée, he seemed to get jealous.”

Yan Zhen was taken aback: "A man?"

Yan Zhen remembered that his mother had described him as "a thin boy, like a high school student." He was good-looking, but seemed to be hearing-impaired, wearing a hearing aid on his head.

“Yes…” Yan’s mother said hesitantly, “You said Xiao Heng has been single for so many years, and even when he has a girlfriend, he doesn’t see her often and isn’t in a hurry to get married. Could it be that he never truly understood his sexual orientation before? Could he be…”

Yan Zhen frowned.

If this is just a misunderstanding, that's fine. But if it's true, the top performer on the Quick Transmigration Division's performance list, a future God candidate, has actually been turned gay by a man in a small world, even while he already has a girlfriend. If this news gets back to the Quick Transmigration Division, it'll cause an uproar.

Yan Zhen has been in the Quick Transmigration Division for so many years and has seen all kinds of weirdos.

More than ten years ago, there were two mission takers in the Quick Transmigration Division. By chance, they entered the same small world to carry out missions, developed feelings for each other, and confirmed their relationship as a couple after returning to the Quick Transmigration Division.

But not long after, the male mission taker fell in love with another woman in the small world while carrying out his mission. He stayed with her until she died of old age in the small world, and after the mission ended, he spent a lot of points to exchange for a family member status for her and brought her directly back to the Quick Transmigration Division.

The female mission taker found out about this and gave the male mission taker a severe beating in the Quick Transmigration Division.

More than ten years have passed, and when the two meet again in the Quick Transmigration Bureau, they are still completely at odds.

If Zhou Yanqing also makes such a basic mistake, shouldn't I, as the "sister" who kicked him out of the house, also bear some responsibility?

Yan Zhen pondered whether or not to bring Yan Heng back.

"What do we do now?" Yan's mother said. "Should we get involved in this?"

"Don't rush. Let me find some time to meet with Xiao Heng and clarify things before we talk about it."

"Then you need to be careful," Yan's mother instructed. "If you find out that the boy is trying to abduct your brother, we'll bring Xiao Heng back immediately. We can't let him suffer like that."

Yan Zhen: "..."

Yan Zhen remembered that the boy looked to be in his early twenties, while Yan Heng was almost forty. If the two of them really got together, who knows who would suffer more?

A few days later, Yan Zhen sent Yan Heng a WeChat message, asking him with "concern" if his injury had healed.

The message was sent at noon, but Yan Heng didn't reply by evening.

Yan Zhen made a phone call, but a somewhat hoarse male voice answered.

"Looking for Yan Heng? He's live streaming." The man's voice was very low.

Yan Zhen immediately realized that the person who answered the phone was the boy Yan's mother had mentioned who had "led Yan Heng astray".

She asked knowingly, "Who are you?"

"I am Yan Heng's friend."

Yan Zhen, wanting to test the waters, said, "I'm Yan Heng's sister. Could you please tell him that our parents are planning to invite his fiancée's parents over to set the wedding date? Could you ask him to take some time to come home in the next few days?"

The person on the other end of the phone immediately fell silent.

"Hello? Are you listening?"

"...Yes, I will tell him."

"Thank you," Yan Zhen said. "Xiao Heng doesn't have many friends. Since you're his friend, why don't you come home with him for a visit sometime?"

The male voice was silent for a full five or six seconds, then became somewhat hoarse: "Um, no need, I'm not that close to Yan Heng."

"Ok."

After hanging up the phone, Yan Zhen had a better understanding of the situation.

Yan Zhen didn't know what Yan Heng was thinking, but this boy's feelings for Yan Heng were not simple.

-

Yan Zhencun intended to bring Zhou Yanqing back to the right path, so he chose a Friday and drove to the urban village where Yan Heng rented a house after get off work.

Once outside the urban village, Yan Zhen called Yan Heng.

The phone rang for a while before being answered. Yan Heng seemed to have just woken up: "Sister?"

"Come out, I'm at the alley entrance."

Yan Heng's voice immediately became more clear-headed: "What's wrong? Did something happen at home?"

"Yes, someone in the family died."

As soon as she finished speaking, Yan Heng on the other end of the phone seemed quite startled. He knocked something over, and a series of clanging noises came from the phone.