Chapter 22 In the end, he couldn't compare to Xie Li.
The image of Shen Jin that appeared in Yan Yu's mind was like a fleeting moment, vanishing in the blink of an eye.
Although he didn't deny that Shen Jin was quite to his liking, and that he was indeed quite happy spending time with him and teasing him...
Ultimately, however, he could never compare to Xie Li, who had been in his heart for so many years.
His relationship with Shen Jin was more about lust...
Is that really all there is to it?
When this thought surfaced in his mind, Yan Yu felt a little lost again. Instinctively, he remembered the way Shen Jin smiled at him—so innocent, a smile that came from the bottom of his heart…
He's a bit introverted; when he teases you, your ears turn red and you start to stutter...
Xie Li narrowed his eyes, wondering why Yan Yu, who had just been flirting with him, had suddenly become distracted. In his memory, Yan Yu's attention was always on him whenever he was with him.
But I don't know when it started, he began to drift off into thought more often, why...?
An alarm bell rang in Xie Li's mind, but he then smiled nonchalantly and said, "A-Yu?"
After he called out, Yan Yu came back to his senses, forced a faint smile, put his arm around his waist, and said softly with a smile, "Let's go back. What would you like to eat today? I'll have the chef make it for you."
"Let's talk about it tonight." Xie Li smiled. "You just bought me breakfast and ate with me, so I'm not hungry now."
The word "breakfast" made Yan Yu's smile freeze, and he vaguely remembered something... something he had forgotten because of Xie Li's excessive joy.
A voice, soft yet gentle and filled with barely concealed joy, echoed in his mind: "Ayu, I bought a lot of groceries today, including many of your favorites. Shall I make you breakfast tomorrow?"
He chuckled softly, "Okay, thank you for your hard work, I'm looking forward to it."
"It's not hard work, it's not hard work at all," the person said with a silly laugh on the phone. "It's very interesting, I feel very happy."
Yan Yu chatted with him for a few more minutes with a smile before hanging up. After that, Xie Li called him and chatted with him in a soft, gentle voice, with a faint smile and a touch of playfulness, stirring a chord in his heart...
And so, he forgot everything...
The next day, she came to the hospital. Knowing that Xie Li was not in good health, she bought him a nutritious breakfast and brought it to his room while it was still hot so they could eat together. Afterward, she wanted to take him back to her villa...
These things happened one after another, causing him to forget about Shen Jin.
"What time is it now?" Yan Yuqing blurted out the question without thinking, feeling a strange emotion in his heart that he couldn't quite put his finger on.
"Hmm?" Xie Li didn't know why he suddenly asked about the time, but she still smiled and replied, "It's almost ten o'clock."
It's almost 10 o'clock, that's almost two hours late...
Shen Jin is quite busy. If he sees that I'm not coming, he won't be foolish enough to wait for me. He's probably already gone back.
Thinking about it this way, Yan Yu's guilt about breaking his promise and forgetting about it dissipated, and he felt that this was actually quite good.
If he's unhappy because I stood him up tomorrow, then I'll just apologize and make him laugh. Shen Jin isn't the kind of person who would hold a grudge or get angry over such a small thing.
After thinking it through, Yan Yu felt relieved and said to Xie Li without any distraction, "Let's go back. We just moved in, and there are still many things we need to prepare."
The two walked side by side, smiling as they left the hospital.
Behind their smiles, Shen Jin, still holding a breakfast lunchbox, emerged from the corner and silently watched them leave, observing Yan Yudou, that handsome boy, so gentle and attentive…
Only after they turned the corner and disappeared from sight did Shen Jin look down at the breakfast in his hand, a bitter smile appearing on his thin lips. In a voice only he could hear, he said, "It's cold...it's been too long, the breakfast is cold..."
It's cold, inedible, and can't be given away...
After all, Ayu had already eaten breakfast with someone else; he had specially bought breakfast for that person and eaten it together...
This cold breakfast of mine doesn't need to be delivered anymore...
Shen Jin felt that breathing had become difficult and his heart was burning with pain, a feeling he had never experienced before. After meeting Yan Yu, all sorts of emotions came one after another.
He walked back to the less crowded corridor, the one where he and Yan Yu usually joked around or had breakfast together. Now that there was no one around, he sat down alone on a chair and opened the breakfast that he had specially prepared for Yan Yu.
Although it was cold... and the item wasn't worth much money, Yan Yu probably wouldn't care about it, but he couldn't bear to throw it away...
He picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of lotus root that Yan Yu liked, put it in his mouth and chewed it, savoring the taste that Yan Yu would like, but that person was not by his side...
He kept his head down, eating bite after bite, very attentively, but his head drooped lower and lower as he muttered to himself, "I wonder if the taste suits your palate, I quite like it..."
Suddenly, a tear fell from his eye, landing with a "plop" on the breakfast he had carefully prepared, which the other person hadn't paid any attention to...
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