Gu Xian had bodyguards assigned by him. If Gu Xian encountered any danger, the bodyguards would immediately send him a message to inform him. Moreover, Gu Xian's itinerary did not match what he said, but the bodyguards did not report it to him in time. It was obvious that Gu Xian had instructed the bodyguards to conceal it.
When every household is busy celebrating the New Year and reuniting with their families, where will Gu Xian go alone?
Xie Yunjing took out his cell phone, and a feeling of bitterness welled up in his heart.
Could it be that Gu Xian would rather stay with Li Yuqiu or Shengyi than spend the New Year with him?
A sore feeling swelled in his chest, and Xie Yunjing, somewhat fearfully, called Gu Xian. He scrolled down his address book, his finger hovering over Li Yuqiu's name, but just as he was about to press it, he suddenly turned off the screen, put away his phone, and strode towards the elevator.
Old Master Xie was surrounded by a bunch of cute little kids dressed up cheerfully. His ears were filled with the sweet words of greeting such as "Happy New Year, Grandpa Xie", "I wish Grandpa Xie good health", "Thank you, Grandpa Xie, good luck and good fortune", etc. He was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling, and there was no trace of the melancholy look he had on his face after losing his lover.
However, when his cell phone rang, he picked up the call without any preparation.
"What did you say!?"
The old man's angry voice frightened the children around him. The timid ones even had tears in their eyes and were about to cry.
The parents nearby quickly covered their children with their hands.
"Gu Xian is missing. I have to go find him. Grandpa, please take charge of the New Year's Eve dinner."
Xie Yunjing hung up the phone after he finished speaking. The old man glared at the phone and it took him a long time before he could curse.
"Little bastard!"
Although everyone could guess who the old man was scolding, the brothers Xie Yiming and Xie Ernian would never offend the old man. Xie Huaihong also chose to protect himself. Only Xie Dongqing couldn't wait to add insult to injury. His father couldn't stop him even though he was blinking so hard that his eyes were about to cramp.
"Grandpa, is something wrong with Yun Jing?"
Mr. Xie looked at him gloomily, then suddenly sneered, "Why, you want to go and accompany him?"
The old man's sarcastic tone was even more terrifying than cursing at people directly. Xie Dongqing suddenly came to his senses, shrank his neck and pretended to be honest.
"Eat when you should, drink when you should, why are you all just standing there in a daze!" Old Master Xie glanced disdainfully at Xie Yiming and the others who were as quiet as chickens, and then waved to a child nearby, "Come here, you, I remember you haven't finished singing the song I just sang, right? Sing it again for me, and I'll give you a big red envelope, okay?"
The child didn't understand much, and when he saw that Mr. Xie became kind again, he happily hugged him.
Xie Yunjing stepped on the accelerator to the speed limit and drove all the way home.
The windows of the house were pitch black, without a single light.
Xie Yunjing took off his scarf during dinner, but put it back on after getting in the car. He touched the scarf and decided to take a gamble.
"Gu Xian?"
Xie Yunjing walked in, and only the sensor light in the entrance hall lit up with his voice.
The room was silent. Xie Yunjing walked through the living room and was about to go upstairs to take a look when a gust of cold wind blew on his face.
The unusual chill made him look towards the source of the wind. The curtains hanging on the French windows in the living room, which opened onto the courtyard, were blown by the night wind, creating ripples that resembled the hem of a dancer's skirt.
The unlit room was darker than the outside, and the light-colored curtains faintly revealed the outline of the terrace outside the window.
Xie Yunjing took a few slow steps towards the floor-to-ceiling window as if to confirm, then suddenly took a step forward and quickly came to the window.
Crash!
The curtains being quickly pulled open made a loud noise as they rubbed against the tracks.
When Xie Yunjing saw clearly on the terrace, Gu Xian on the terrace also turned around.
"Why are you back?"
Gu Xian was sitting on the terrace, his head tilted back when he turned around, one hand on the ground, the other holding a can of beer. He took off his gloves and stuffed them into his jacket pocket without much care, so the edge of the pocket was still half exposed.
Because of drinking, his lips were coated with a layer of water color, and under the light of the lights in the yard, they looked particularly plump and lustrous.
Xie Yunjing walked closer to him and saw the beer cans piled up beside him. Several of them had fallen over and were swaying gently on the ground in the wind. It was obvious that Gu Xian had drunk quite a bit.
He squatted down and covered Gu Xian's hand that was supporting the ground, and as expected, he felt something cold.
"I met your dad."
Xie Yunjing picked up Gu Xian's hand, put it together with his other hand, and then held them together in his palm.
"What about you? Why are you at home?"
Gu Xian lowered his eyes to look at his wrapped hands, his eyelashes casting a shadow. After a moment, he suddenly muttered, "Xie Yunjing, my hands are so cold."
Xie Yunjing lowered his head and blew on his hands, rubbing them slowly and vigorously: "Are you feeling better?"
Gu Xian bumped into his forehead, rubbed it like a little animal, and then laughed: "So warm."
There seemed to be countless stars in his slightly curved eyes, and Gu Xian was obviously a little drunk.
I don’t know how long he stayed outside. When he got closer, Xie Yunjing could feel the coldness on the tip of his nose.
He blew a breath on Gu Xian's nose, and Gu Xian immediately shrank back, yelling "Why are you so annoying", but his eyes were still curved, and then he came up and rubbed Xie Yunjing's face again.
Xie Yunjing felt as if a piece of ice had been pressed against his face, and even Gu Xian's breath was slightly chilled. Gu Xian had practically fallen into his arms by this point, and he patted Gu Xian's lower back, "Is your butt cold?"
He had only been kneeling on the ground for a while when his knees felt freezing from the cold air coming up from the ground. Gu Xian didn't know how long he had been sitting on the ground.
"cold……"
Gu Xian's tone was a little aggrieved, and Xie Yunjing coaxed him: "Then let's get up, okay?"
"Okay." Gu Xian said, but he pulled his hands out of his palms, hung them around his neck and didn't move.
Xie Yunjing held his waist and picked him up. Just as he was about to grab his hand and cover it again, Gu Xian had already taken it back. He snuggled into his arms and took a sip of the beer.
“…”
There wasn't much beer left in Gu Xian's can, so Xie Yunjing didn't intend to stop him and held the beer with him.
"Didn't you say you were going to the Gu family to celebrate the New Year?" Xie Yunjing took advantage of Gu Xian's drinking and lifted his raised chin, forcing him to look at him.
"You lied to me."
Gu Xian curled his lips: "What's wrong with lying to you?"
"Since you don't want to go to the Gu family for the New Year, why don't you come with me?" Xie Yunjing lowered his head, "I thought you didn't hate me so much."
Gu Xian blinked his eyes. Knowing that the person in front of him was just pretending, he still followed his intention and explained, "...I'm just used to it."
Xie Yunjing frowned slightly: "Get used to what?"
Gu Xian pursed his lips, looked away, and replied with a sigh: "I didn't mean to not go with you..."
His eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings.
"I'm just... used to spending the New Year alone."
“…”
Xie Yunjing's eyes were filled with confusion. Gu Xian raised the beer can to drink, but found that there was only a little left in it.
He wanted to take another new bottle, but Xie Yunjing stopped him: "You are drunk, you can't drink anymore."
Gu Xian looked at him, and after a moment he burst out laughing: "No way, Xie Yunjing, who are you looking down on?"
He gestured at the beer cans on the ground: "It's just beer, just a few bottles. Do you think I'll get drunk?"
Xie Yunjing frowned. Although he didn't say anything, Gu Xian knew what he was thinking.
He stepped over Xie Yunjing's block, picked up two new cans of beer, opened them, and handed one to Xie Yunjing: "Do you want to drink?"
The seal has been opened, so it is obvious that there is no intention to let anyone refuse.
After Xie Yunjing took it, Gu Xian was still staring at him, so he could only take a sip first.
"I'm cold, can't I ask you to warm me up?"
The sound was so soft that it would be missed if one was not careful. Xie Yunjing paused, put down the beer can and looked at Gu Xian, but the latter had already leaned on the terrace fence, looking straight ahead and drinking.
I thought Gu Xian was drunk and that was why she acted so softly and coquettishly to him, but he was sober.
Xie Yunjing heard an uncontrollable thumping sound in his chest, and it was as if a feather had fallen into his heart, tickling him lightly and softly, causing a tingling sensation in his heart.
"Gu Xian..." He walked closer to Gu Xian, wanting to get closer to him, but he saw Gu Xian put down the beer that was against his lips and lowered his head slightly.
Gu Xian smiled and said, "When I was sixteen, I started celebrating the New Year alone."
The tingling feeling in Xie Yunjing's heart subsided.
Sixteen years old was exactly the age when Gu Xian was in his second year of high school.
Gu Xian spun around with the beer can in his hand. "When I was sixteen, I heard Gu Leyu's mother arguing with my father. She cried and complained that my father had let her down by marrying my mother, that my father had made her child illegitimate, and that my father should have only had Gu Leyu, her son, and that the Gu family should only have had Gu Leyu as its heir."
"She told my dad that if he didn't kick me out of the house and completely cut off my inheritance rights, then he would be completely sorry for her. Rather than continue to stay in the Gu family and endure humiliation, she would rather divorce my dad and live a peaceful life with Gu Leyu, an orphan and a widow."
"Then what?"
Gu Xian raised the corner of his mouth, but did not directly answer Xie Yunjing's question. He continued, "Although she pretends to be gentle and generous, like a good stepmother, I know that she has never liked me since I was a child. She has repeatedly mentioned to my father about driving me away."
"I originally thought my father wouldn't agree. After all, I'm his biological son, and I've always had good grades, which really brings him honor. Whether it's out of blood or face, he wouldn't give up on me. And until I heard that tearful complaint when I was sixteen, he had always been perfunctory about this issue with my dear stepmother."
"But..." Gu Xian raised his beer and took a sip.
Although Gu Xian hadn't finished speaking, Xie Yunjing had already guessed the result. He looked at Gu Xian with a complicated expression, his eyes full of heartache. However, at this moment, Gu Xian exuded an aura that showed he was not fragile and did not need to rely on others.
Xie Yunjing chose to respect Gu Xian and continue to be a quiet listener.
Gu Xian put down his beer, and there was a layer of emptiness in his eyes.
"But, I don't know if it's because my dear stepmother's long-term efforts have paid off, or if her crying this time was too heartbreaking, but my father is really starting to consider kicking me out of the house, or even severing ties with me and pretending I don't exist."
Xie Yunjing's long-held doubts finally had an answer: "So, you started to study poorly in your second year of high school so that you wouldn't be kicked out by your dad?"
"Yes." Gu Xian's tone was still indifferent, as if he was just a bystander, talking about other people's stories. "The reason why Gu Leyu's mother couldn't tolerate me and my father was persuaded was because I was too threatening. If I want to fight for the Gu family's property in a few years, Gu Leyu will definitely not be able to win."
Excellent grades and outstanding abilities should be the capital that makes parents proud of themselves, but in Gu Xian's case, these have become the root cause of his displacement.
Xie Yunjing had been at loggerheads with him for so many years, and of course he knew that he was also proud. He could not imagine what kind of mood the little peacock, who never bowed his head in front of him, was in when he finally made such a decision.
"Gu Xian..." He could no longer just listen and reached out to hold the person in his arms.
But then he heard Gu Xian calling him, "Xie Yunjing."
The person who had been looking ahead finally turned around and said, "Do you know why I hate you?"
Xie Yunjing corrected his wind-blown bangs and asked, "Why?"
Gu Xian looked at him and smiled. He propped up his chin with the back of the hand holding the beer can and tilted his head and said, "Because you took away my mother's only chance to smile at me and my father's only chance to be nice to me."
Xie Yunjing's hand froze on Gu Xian's forehead.
Gu Xian was still smiling, but even the upturned corners of his mouth could not hide his loneliness.
"My parents, neither of them loves me. Only when I get first place, because this honor can highlight their excellence, do they feel a little bit of happiness from me."
"Gu Rongcai had his 'true love,' but my mother, when she was dying, didn't even want to look at me."
He thought that when his grandmother passed away, Gu Xian said to him "Your grandmother is so good to you" because he was thinking of his own mother. However, at this moment, Xie Yunjing finally understood what kind of mood Gu Xian was in when he said this.
When Gu Xian's mother passed away, only the young Gu Xian was by her side. She was unwilling to even look at her child before she died. It showed that she had no attachment or love for her child at all.
Gu Xian raised the beer to his head and shook it, sighing helplessly: "They are obviously the two people in the world who should love me the most, but neither of them loves me. I don't understand why they gave birth to me if they didn't love me."
The indifferent tone mixed with the sound of the wine swaying lightly, sounded like there was no resentment but only confusion.
But the more Gu Xian acted like this, the more Xie Yunjing felt as if his heart was being torn apart.
"Why don't you leave the Gu family..." Xie Yunjing's voice was a little difficult. "You can obviously live well on your own. Besides, the parents of your friends like you very much. They should be happy to live with you."
Gu Xian stopped shaking the beer can and raised his eyebrows: "But they are not my parents after all."
With someone else's biological son right in front of him, how could Gu Xian forget his real situation? The more harmonious someone else's family is and the better their parents treat him, the more he will understand how much his own parents don't love him.
Xie Yunjing had no way to refute.
Gu Xian lowered his arms, leaned over the fence, and stared at the snow outside the terrace.
"Besides, if even the two people who should love me the most don't love me, how can I believe that anyone else will truly love me? No matter what Gu Rongcai is like, he is still my father, the person closest to me by blood..."
Bang!
Suddenly there was a loud explosion in the sky, and a firework bloomed in the night sky.
The first firework was the signal, and in a blink of an eye, countless fireworks followed, crackling and creating a brilliant scene of fire trees and silver flowers in the night sky.
Gu Xian looked up and murmured in surprise: "It's already past midnight?"
The answer he got was a kiss.
Because it was too sudden, he subconsciously stepped back when the kiss came, but was grabbed on the back of his head as expected, leaving him nowhere to escape.
But this kiss was not passionate, just gentle rubbing, licking and biting, and it ended after a while.
The extremely gorgeous fireworks seemed to have no attraction at all. Xie Yunjing looked into Gu Xian's eyes gently and attentively: "Now you have me loving you."
His hand was still clasped behind Gu Xian's head. He stroked Gu Xian's ear with his thumb: "The person who hates you the most has fallen in love with you and loves you to death. Don't think that no one will love you anymore."
Gu Xian opened his mouth but said nothing, only the blush on his face became more obvious.
Of course he knew Xie Yunjing... It was because he knew him that he had the courage to reveal his most vulnerable part in front of his former mortal enemy.
He looked up to avoid Xie Yunjing's sight, staring at the fireworks in the night sky, muttering softly, "Let's watch the fireworks... It's rare to see such beautiful fireworks."
Xie Yunjing rubbed his hair again before lying back on the fence and looking up at the sky.
Although they didn't hug, their shoulders were pressed tightly together. After watching quietly for a while, Gu Xian raised his beer and said, "Happy New Year! Let's have a toast."
The fireworks on the first day of the new year will last for a long time. Gu Xian and Xie Yunjing finished the can of beer in their hands, but it was not over yet.
Gu Xian was holding an empty beer can, his eyes a little blurry due to the fireworks in the sky.
No matter how gorgeous the fireworks are, you will inevitably get tired of watching them after a long time.
Gu Xian threw the beer can into the pile of cans behind him, then turned to look at Xie Yunjing, resting his chin on his hand, breaking the silence between them. "Although the saying 'building happiness on the suffering of others' is wrong, bullying you and causing trouble for you does make me happy."
"But," he tilted his head, "why do you have to fight with me?"
The sound of firecrackers was endless, and the fireworks in the night sky seemed to never stop. It was so lively that even the night wind seemed to become warm.
Xie Yunjing watched Gu Xian's hair being gently blown by the wind, and watched Gu Xian's eyes filled with colorful fireworks.
"Maybe it's because..." He stroked the corners of Gu Xian's eyes, gently touching those exceptionally beautiful eyes, "Even if you hate me, you can only look at me."
Gu Xian blinked, and blinked again.
After a moment, he laughed out loud: "Xie Yunjing, you are so perverted!"
All the tit-for-tat confrontations stem from the twisted possessiveness of the beautiful little peacock.
Xie Yunjing confessed: "Yes."
Gu Xian was laughing so hard that he could hardly catch his breath. Xie Yunjing hugged him in his arms and patted his back to help him breathe more.
"Xie Yunjing, let's make love."
Just as he was about to pat Gu Xian on the back, Xie Yunjing paused, thinking he had misheard: "What did you say?"
Gu Xian laughed again.
He raised his hands and hooked them around Xie Yunjing's neck, looked into his eyes, and repeated it openly.
"I said, I want to make love with you."
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