THE GRAVITY

'If just talk with the witness, let the lower officers who do it...' Chu ShuZhi sounds objected, 'Why should you, Chief?'

Shen Wei looks at his right-hand man, sighs before he explains. 'If he is just a witness, I will not bother. But this man, Zhao YunLan is not only a witness but a survivor...' He leans his body to the desk, 'Chu ShuZhi...How many HaiXing people can keep calm when they face a snake...Even the little one is already making most of them panic...This Zhao YunLan faces a gigantic snake without any weapon with him, yet he is cool enough to observe the situation and find the best way to respond to the circumstance...Save himself and his younger brother...Not to mention, he did it perfectly...'

Listen to the words, Chu ShuZhi lowering his gaze as he thinking.

Shen Wei leans on his seat, 'That is why I have to talk to him personally...I want every information about him on my desk for the first thing tomorrow morning...'

'Yes...'

'And contact the head of the snake tribe! I want to hear their explanation about this incident...' Shen Wei said as he stands up.

'Yes...' Chu ShuZhi lowers his head when Shen Wei walks away.

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That morning, Zhao YunLan opens his eyes. Glances at his surroundings then find the two most annoying face in his present life.

'Boss...' Guo ChangCheng can't even be happier as he sees Zhao YunLan open his eyes.

'Ge...' Zhao MingAn smiles happily.

'What happens? You both look at me as if I'm about to die...' Zhao YunLan smiled.

'Boss...You are still alive...Please, don't jinx it!' Guo ChangCheng pouted.

'YunLan...' Zhao XinChi who appeared along with his wife, calls out his son.

'Pa...Ma...' Zhao YunLan tried to wake up.

'It's okay, son...You don't have to get up...' Shen Xi said, she looks so worried.

'I'm alright, Ma...It's just a little bruise...' Zhao YunLan pulls his body up.

'Even just a little bruises but you need some rest...' Shen MeiHua's voice who appears out of nowhere together with his second son sounds so crisps.

'Madame Shen...Professor Shen...' Zhao YunLan lowers his head in respect to them.

'Zhao YunLan...Are you alright?' Shen YeZun asked in deep concern.

'I'm fine Professor Shen...Just a little scratches...I will be fine after some time of rest...'

'Good to hear that...' The man smiled.

God! That smile...He looks like Shen Wei in the past...

Zhao YunLan just can keep the memory of the old-time Shen Wei in his mind. Sighs a little, asking in his heart. Is this what Shen Wei feels a long time ago? When the keep-quiet man always walks beside him, glance at him, act like a good friend while keeping the memory and the feeling hopelessly.

'Zhao YunLan!' Sang Zan's voice is heard from the door, waking Zhao YunLan from his deep thought but soon, the cheerful voice halted as Sang Zan sees many people inside, nods awkwardly at those people.

'Sang Zan...' Shen YeZun calls the man, 'Come in! It's alright...'

'Excuse me...' Sang Zan strides inside with a bag in his hands. 'Zhao YunLan...Here...I brought some fruit for you...' He said after greeting everyone.

'Thank you...' Zhao YunLan let Zhao MingAn accept the fruit.

'I heard from the television what happened to you last night...I'm so shocked that you encountered the creature...' Sang Zan said, 'But I more shocked when I heard that you alive...' He looks so amazed, 'Don't get me wrong! I don't mean to say that you should die or coma but how many people can survive after meeting the creature face to face?' Sang Zan proceeds.

'True...' Zhao MingAn added, 'Not only survive...My brother has also protected me...' He said in pride.

'Really!?' Shen MeiHua can't hold her surprise, 'But how?'

'True...How was the story?'

Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard from the door as Shen Wei's figure emerged elegantly from behind the crowd. Chu ShuZhi takes a chair and lets Shen Wei sit in front of the lay-down man, while Zhao YunLan can only hold every turmoil of his heart inside.

'Wei-er...' Shen MeiHua was stunned as she saw her eldest son, 'You here?'

'Yes, Mother...Listen to a heroic story is one of my favorites, I don't want to miss any...' He smiled at Zhao YunLan.

But as someone who's been in Shen Wei's position once, Zhao YunLan knows that all that the man does is just for the sake of the present case. 'Too bad, I don't have any heroic story...All I did is just like what anyone commonly will do...Surviving...' Zhao YunLan said.

Listen to that, Shen Wei lifts his smile even more. 'If simply surviving then everyone will do it randomly...Including leaving anyone behind as they keep their life...But Mr. Zhao YunLan is not merely survived but also keep your younger brother safe...' Shen Wei's words are friendly but his eyes can't hide his curiosity.

'Zhao MingAn and me...We are brothers...' Zhao YunLan answered, 'We should keep together even in the tempest...That is not something heroic at all...' He proceeds.

'From your point of view, indeed...But for others, you are wade through scolding water and burning flame...' Shen Wei replied, 'And that is very courageous...If you don't mind, I'd like to hear the story...'

Zhao YunLan clicking his tongue silently, this man is cunning. Using the crowd to force him to tell the real situation, Shen Wei blocked all his path to escape.

Sees how the situation is kind of heated up, Shen YeZun looks at Zhao MingAn. 'MingAn...Do you mind if I ask you about what happened last night?'

'Of course, not...' Zhao MingAn's eyes are glistening makes Zhao YunLan has an urge to punch his younger brother. And just like that, Zhao MingAn tells the story about everything that happened last night. Everyone who is listening admires Zhao YunLan's reaction during the crisis but Shen Wei can't help but be even warier.

'You know that the snake chasing you...Why were you bothered to get inside the classroom and turn off the lamp?' Shen Wei asked with a probing stare.

Zhao YunLan takes a deep breath, avoiding this man's question is impossible. 'The creature seems like has a sense of hearing and sight...I just want to see whether it has a sense of sight in the dark...' Zhao YunLan said.

'You still have a chance to test your hypothesis in that such of precarious situation?' Shen Wei lifts his most charming yet scary smile, 'Mr. Zhao is indeed a very audacious person...'

Zhao YunLan just can lift his painful smile, he knows that Shen Wei has now started to suspect him but he also knows that it can't be helped. If it's him, he also will doubt every heroic story just like he did in the past.

'You know that the creature can see you in the dark but you run to the cafeteria?' Shen YeZun asked Zhao YunLan confusedly.

'If an animal wants to hunt in the dark...All they need is an infrared sensor to find the body heat of their prey...' Zhao YunLan replied. He gave up the idea to keep it, Shen Wei will keep doubts him no matter what he said whether he like it or not. 'Especially a snake...They all are nocturnal nonetheless...'

'Is that why you turn on every heater?' Zhao MingAn asked, 'But why do you bother to put many cookable things inside?' He proceeds with the question.

Zhao YunLan can't help but click his tongue, 'You...How many years have been you studied bioengineering?' He shook his head, 'If I didn't put anything inside, those heaters will blow up...Do you want to escape the danger of want to suicide?' He returns the question. Shen YeZun dying to hold his laughter, so do the others but Zhao MingAn flusters crazily in embarrassment.

'Mr. Zhao's perspective is so wide...You know many things...' Shen Wei said, seems arbitrary.

'I date the head of the snake tribe's niece once...' Zhao YunLan refuses to lose, he uses every resource that he knows. 'And I'm a repairman...I know what to do with electronic appliances...' He proceeds.

'So you both discuss her kind's strength and weakness during the date? Are you date her because you like her or to make research about snakes?' Shen Wei returns Zhao YunLan's statement.

Zhao YunLan sighs. No matter what he said, this man will never believe him makes him remember how Shen Wei was in the past. Was this what Shen Wei felt when someone he cares about a lot, suspects him even used the connection with the DiJun Palace to check on him? It's so painful indeed but not likely Zhao YunLan can do something about it.

'Wei-er...' Shen MeiHua warned her son, she knows that Shen Wei sometimes too much. 'I don't know that Zhao YunLan is so brave...All I hear is just that Zhao YunLan is a bad-tempered and ill-mannered person...' She proceeds as she glances at her friend.

'Everything is in the past...' Shen Xi replied, 'Now my son is reborn...' She smiled happily.

'Reborn?' Shen Wei frowned as he heard the terms used by Shen Xi.

'I used to hopeless every time I looked at him, I don't see any hope that he will change...I don't know what happened but everything starts to change...As if he was dead and reborn in a single night...' Shen Xi answered.

Shen Wei lowers his gaze as he heard that, 'People said need three years to become a man of virtue yet just need three days to degrade...' He lifts his eyes and looks at Zhao YunLan, 'But it seems that what happened to you is the reverse...However, I believe that three layers of ice will never be created in a single night...Then...Mr. Zhao...Do you mind to share us...What happened to you?' Shen Wei asked.

Zhao YunLan takes a deep breath, it's impossible to tell everyone the truth that he used to live as the wick of the guardian lantern and one day makes a wish to the shooting star which were brought into reality nor that he can evade the question. Slowly lifts his eyes, Zhao YunLan replied as he looks at Shen Wei.

'Someone that very special to me said to suppress the heart of evil, spread the virtue of kind...' Zhao YunLan says, 'And you right...Took me long enough to understand...' He proceeds as he does his best to hold back his tears that are ready to burst anytime.

Shen Wei's smile disappeared for a moment but then he lifts it once more, 'Then...Where is this special person?'

Zhao YunLan leans his head to his medical bed before he replies, 'That person went so far away...And I don't think that I could see them again...'

'YunLan...' Shen Xi caressed her son's hand, for the first time in her life she lost her words. She never thought that her son keeping something that heavy alone.

'"Every life will die out...At least our choice is meaningful..." That was their last sentence...' Zhao YunLan lowers his gaze. Takes a deep breath, he lifts his face. 'But...We made a bet...' Zhao YunLan proceeds as he lifts his mischievous smile, 'That no matter how long it will take...No matter where we go...There will be a day that we will meet again...That bet what make me survived...'

This time, Shen Wei's smile is gone as he sees the tears almost fall from the eyes corners of the man that sits before him. Somehow, it's hurt him in the same way that makes him lose his will to proceed with the interrogation.

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'That was too much!' Shen MeiHua's voice thundered in the Shen Mansion, 'Go to visit Zhao YunLan in the hospital, instead of giving him your support...You interrogated him...Shen Wei! Do you have no conscience!?' She looks straight at her son.

'Mother...Da Ge has his reason...He is the head of XingDu Bureau...Please understand...' Shen YeZun tried to calm his mother down. He knows precisely that if the lady starts to call someone with their full name, it's mean that Shen MeiHua is beyond upset.

'Even though he is the head of XingDu Bureau it doesn't mean that he can treat someone that way!' Shen MeiHua did not even lower her voice.

'Mother...I understand you are upset because he is your good friend's son...But I could feel that he is hiding something...'

'Even though he hides something, can you let it slide? He is not a criminal!'

'That...We don't know for sure...'

'How dare you!?'

'Mother...Justice is just like the Northstar...It's fixed and absolute while the others revolve around it...I can't be biased just because his mother is close to you...' Shen Wei replied in a soft tone but firmly.

'You!'

'Wife...' This time, Shen YongZheng decides to intervene. 'Ah Wei is right in this case...However, justice is for all in the world...'

'He is right!?' When MeiHua can't believe her ears, 'Zhao YunLan is a courageous young man who does whatever it takes to save his younger brother...And you said that Shen Wei is right!?'

'Wife...If nobles have courage but neglect justice they become insurgents, if common people have courage but neglect justice they become thieves...More courageous more suspicious...' Shen YongZheng replied, 'No matter who they are...Whether they nobles or commons...Whether they are heroes or cowards...They can't escape from the eyes of the law...'

'You, father and son are just is the same!' Shen MeiHua threw her sleeve and climbs the stairs in upset.

'Mother!'

'YeZun...Don't chase her! Just let her be...She is always like that if she is angry...' Shen YongZheng holds his second son who was ready to rush upstairs then turns to his first son, 'Ah Wei...If you feel that this Zhao YunLan is suspicious then investigate him! You have my full support...But remember! We have an ethical code...Don't violate them...'

'Yes, Sir...'

Gravity, the force that attracts a body into the center of the gravitation source or another body with mass. No matter how long it will take, no matter where you go, gravity will certainly pull you back to the place you belong to...

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