He Kept Me as His First Love's Stand-In, but I Saved Him First novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: The Whistle
Lu Wen found Jiang Yu in a business hotel in Shanghai, on the fourth floor, in a room booked under his mother's name.
He told Zhe this at the shop door on the Saturday, very correctly, and added that Mr. Jiang had agreed to come.
"Agreed?" said Qiu, from behind the counter.
"He did not wish to be carried," Lu Wen said.
They came at three.
Hanjing walked in first, in a work shirt, and stood against the wall by the tuning bench with his hands at his sides.
Yu came in behind him, thin and tired, in the camel coat with the collar turned up.
The shop was full of pianos with their lids off.
The street outside had a small crowd in it, because forty thousand comments had a way of finding an address.
Yu looked at the faces through the glass, then at the floor.
"Xiao Zhe," he said.
"Yu."
Nobody offered him a chair.
He stood in the middle of the felt shavings with a hand on his own throat.
"I've come to give something back," he said. "I should say it first. I should say why."
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