During the evening self-study session, Ye Kai called Chen Youhan.

Chen Youhan had been in a meeting for the whole afternoon and night, arguing with several relatives on the board of directors, and didn't even have time to eat a bite of food. When he received Ye Kai's call, he was driving to Huangtian - he didn't have any intention of hunting for beauties, he just wanted to drink a little and take a breath.

"What's the matter?" He cut off the meaningless small talk and went straight to the point.

"Are you and Wu Sijiu done?"

Chen Youhan frowned: "Why are you asking this?" Then he reacted and said sternly: "Did he come to see you?"

Ye Kai's mind vaguely passed through Wu Sijiu's eyebrows and eyes, which were a mixture of stubbornness and loss. He paused and denied it lightly: "No, I ran into him on the road and saw that he was not in a good state, so I asked one more question."

"Okay, I don't need you this time, it's over."

Ye Kaixin thought, that may not be the case. After carefully choosing his words, he conveyed Wu Sijiu's meaning: "He said he has something else to say to you. Why don't you meet him?"

"The breakup fee was deposited into his card." Chen Youhan said concisely.

"..." Ye Kai said tactfully: "He probably doesn't mean that."

Chen Youhan turned the steering wheel and cut into the right-turning traffic: "You care about him a lot." He didn't forget that Ye Kai fell in love with someone when he was 17 years old, and asked half suspiciously and half jokingly: "The person you like can't be him, right?"

"..." Ye Kai suddenly felt absurd and said speechlessly: "It's you I like, okay."

Chen Youhan slammed the brakes, and a series of sharp horns and classic Chinese curses rang out from the car behind him. The frightened driver stretched his neck and said, "Is it so great to drive a Panamera? Fuck your mother!"

Ye Kai heard it and asked blankly: "Did you rear-end someone?"

"No," Chen Youhan pressed the flash button with an irritated look on his face, "I almost got reincarnated."

"...Then you better be careful, Wu..." Ye Kai wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by Chen Youhan: "Focus on your studies and don't ask about these things."

Ye Kai was caught off guard by being taught a lesson. His eyes turned cold and he said indifferently, "I am meddling in other people's business."

He hung up the phone decisively.

Silence returned to the headphones. Chen Youhan slammed the steering wheel, and the word "fuck" and a horn sounded at the same time.

Even though it wasn't the weekend, Huangtian was still packed with people. The second-floor terrace was a quiet place to listen to live music. There were some foreigners sitting in groups of three or four on the open-air circular cement steps. Chen Youhan took off his suit and tie, unbuttoned three buttons of his shirt, rolled up his sleeves to his elbows, and drank alone facing the night view, which made Qiao Chu laugh.

"I say," Qiao Chu clinked the bottle with him, "Why do you look like you've been dumped today?"

"Go watch your own place." Chen Youhan cursed lazily.

"Heh." Qiao Chu raised his eyebrows: "You have a bad temper? Come on, tell me who let you down, and make your brother happy."

Chen Youhan ignored him and smoked silently. The white smoke was blown away by the gentle evening breeze and drifted into the intoxicated, starless night sky mixed with the live music of the band. Qiao Chu's teasing thoughts also subsided. He saw Chen Youhan's true emotions, snapped his fingers and ordered a dozen craft beers, and the two sat and drank in tacit understanding.

After a long time, Chen Youhan asked, "Do you still remember Du Tang?"

Qiao Chu tightened his grip on the bottle: "Are you still looking for him?"

Chen Youhan laughed at himself and said, "No more."

"and you……"

"I can't remember what he looks like anymore. Ten years. It turns out that you can forget someone so quickly. It may not even take ten years."

Qiao Chu felt relieved and said in a relaxed tone: "You scared me."

Du Tang was Chen Youhan's high school classmate. They had a good relationship with another man named Shi Wen and were almost inseparable. But for some reason Chen Youhan fell in love with the straight-looking Du Tang. She not only confessed her love to him, but also announced it to the world. Unfortunately, she was rejected for five or six years. After graduating from college, he simply disappeared and completely disappeared from Chen Youhan's world. Qiao Chu was a bystander and saw Chen Youhan go crazy and depressed until those two words became a banned word.

...But then again, the years he liked Du Tang didn't stop him from being a playboy and sleeping around.

"Chen Youhan, have you ever thought about this - I'm just saying this - that you don't actually like Du Tang that much."

Chen Youhan glanced at him and said, "You know it again."

"How dare I." Qiao Chu waved his hands with a strong desire to survive: "But... well, your liking sometimes looks quite cheap."

Chen Youhan drank half a bottle of wine and said sarcastically, "I'd like to hear more about it."

"You slept a lot when you liked Du Tang. If you really like someone, you will still--"

"Keep your chastity like a jade?"

Qiao Chu gritted his teeth: "That's what I mean."

Chen Youhan spread his hands gracefully, with deep tenderness at the corners of his eyes and a slightly indifferent and unrestrained smile at the corners of his lips: "Sorry, I can't do it."

Well, it's like talking to a cow. The view on love is also part of the view on life. From this perspective, Chen Youhan is definitely one of those people with distorted values. Qiao Chu felt that all the sincerity he had expressed tonight was wasted. He patted Chen Youhan on the shoulder and angrily scolded him, "Then why the hell are you acting like a love saint?"

Chen Youhan wiped his face and said with a smile: "Fuck, someone like me shouldn't deserve to be liked by others."

Qiao Chu was speechless. Thinking that he had given up on himself to such an extent, as a brother he had to say something nice to comfort him even if it meant risking being struck by lightning. However, before the words came to his lips, he saw an acquaintance out of the corner of his eye.

How could he not deserve to be liked? Did the person he didn't like come to him? He didn't realize that he was courting death, and waved to Wu Sijiu: "Here!"

Chen Youhan looked over and glared at Qiao Chu expressionlessly and coldly: "I have paid the breakup fee."

Qiao Chu: “…”

Is it too late to run now? It should be too late. So Kiki, who had just brought a dozen bottles of wine, saw his boss running away like a coward, as if he was in a hurry to be reborn.

Wu Sijiu sat down next to Chen Youhan without any concern and opened a bottle of wine: "Brother Youhan."

Chen Youhan ignored him, so he reached out and clinked glasses with him, tilted his head back and drank the whole bottle, then wiped his mouth and looked at Chen Youhan with clear eyes.

22 days, that meeting at the flower market was the last one, and he had not seen Chen Youhan since then. Wu Sijiu restrained his gaze and heard himself say clearly: "Brother Youhan, I was kicked out of my home, can you support me?"

Chen Youhan's eyebrows moved slightly, and he finally paid some attention to him.

"What's going on?"

"My mother found out about the expensive gift you gave me. I came out and she thought I was embarrassing and didn't want me anymore." Wu Sijiu half-knelt in front of him, his expression calm. "I don't want to pester you, but I need to go to school and take the college entrance examination. Can you support me until I go to college?"

Chen Youhan put down the bottle, put his hand on the back of the chair, and looked distant and calm. He smiled slightly: "I put 500,000 yuan into your card. Even if you sell the previous gifts at a low price, it will be at least 200,000 or 300,000 yuan. Why, not enough?"

Wu Sijiu accepted his scrutiny generously: "Not enough. Art students are really expensive. My mother has a mental illness and needs medication. She has no financial resources and relies entirely on my father for support, but I don't want to ask him for help anymore."

What he said was all true, and he was not afraid of Chen Youhan's investigation at all. And there was a voice in his heart that said in a dreamy voice, Brother Youhan is so good, he will never investigate me.

Chen Youhan rubbed his temples with the hand holding the cigarette: "I can give you another million. Study hard in the future and don't come up with such ideas again."

Wu Sijiu's heart sank, and his hands unconsciously rested on Chen Youhan's knees, like a kneeling lover: "Brother Youhan, I am very good and won't bother you. If you miss me, come to me. If you don't miss me, I will definitely not disturb you. I will never be jealous or make trouble for anyone who appears around you. I, I..." Wu Sijiu was incoherent, and a tear fell from his eyes. He said in vain and hopeless: "...I like you."

Chen Youhan's eyes were like a sharp, cold knife, slowly looking at Wu Sijiu. Wu Sijiu had a thin face, delicate features, innocent drooping eyes, but a sharp lip peak, giving people a cold and arrogant feeling. Such a sharp beauty is not so easy to control. Some people are noble, and some people are paranoid. Wu Sijiu is the latter.

Chen Youhan reached out his hand and touched the familiar eyebrows and cheeks without emotion, twisted his lips, and then held his chin, forcing him to lift it up. Warm tears wet Chen Youhan's fingertips, and he asked indifferently: "Why do you like it?"

Wu Sijiu looked up at him with tearful eyes, clear and stubborn, as if confessing himself under the operating light: "I can't breathe when I think about losing you. Rather than losing you, I would rather share your humiliation with others and stay by your side."

Chen Youhan blew a puff of smoke at him, squinted his eyes and said not very gently: "Money and love, you choose."

"I like it." Wu Sijiu said without hesitation.

"If you like me, then we won't be together as before." Chen Youhan's tone was objectively cruel: "I won't buy you gifts to make you happy all day, I won't give you money, and I won't have time to eat and chat with you. I have a bad temper and I will curse at people. At the same time, I will still sleep with different people. Are you sure?"

Wu Sijiu's tears kept falling, he nodded desperately, sobbing and unable to utter a word. Finally, he half-knelt on Chen Youhan's lap and cried silently. Chen Youhan put out the cigarette and smiled self-deprecatingly.

Two days later, Ye Kai ran into Wu Sijiu again at school. He looked much better this time, with a painting tube on his back, and he was probably preparing to go out of school to attend professional courses. Ye Kai nodded at him generously, thinking that he had adjusted quite quickly, and he breathed a sigh of relief for him. Unexpectedly, Wu Sijiu called him, trotted towards him, and smiled with a shallow dimple: "Thank you."

Ye Kai thought Chen Youhan must have met him after answering the phone, so he said politely and distantly: "No need."

However, Wu Sijiu's smile widened and he said, "Thanks to you, Brother Youhan and I are back together. He and I—"

He stared at Ye Kai, seeing the defenseless ignorance in his clear eyes, and spoke clearly: "We are dating."