Family and Lovers
In the middle of the night, the cell phone kept vibrating in the dark room, waking Fang Huai up from his sleep.
The woman on the phone cried softly and begged, "Excuse me, is this Fang Huai?"
Fang Huai suddenly had a bad feeling. He quickly sat up, all sleepiness gone. "It's me? Excuse me, who are you?"
When the woman heard Fang Huai's reply, she immediately regarded him as her savior. Her voice was weak as she whispered to Fang Huai, "Can you come and see my child?"
Fang Huai had a serious look on his face when he heard the woman on the phone say that familiar name.
"My child is Li Xuan. He's not doing well right now. He always smiles and tells me he's fine, but I know my child. He's not doing well right now."
"Li Xuan is not feeling well."
......
The woman's sobs and her words kept lingering in Fang Huai's ears, and Fang Huai's heart immediately began to lift.
He quickly changed his clothes and stumbled out of the bedroom. Fang Henian, with his messy hair, heard the noise and asked sleepily, "Brother, where are you going in the middle of the night?"
Seeing Fang Huai dressed neatly, he immediately came to his senses. He took the car keys and followed Fang Huai out without saying a word.
"Go to his house. I want to find..." Fang Huai was talking about him. Fang Henian also guessed who Fang Huai was talking about. A woman's anxious voice came from the phone: "In the xx community."
Fang Huai sat in the back seat with a pale face. Fang Henian saw that he was in a bad mood, so he didn't ask any more questions and directly navigated towards Li Xuan's house.
The phone was still on, and Fang Huai's voice couldn't stop trembling: "Is he... is he okay now?"
Ms. Qiao choked up and said, "Not good."
Suddenly, a scream accompanied by the crisp sound of porcelain breaking came from the phone, followed by the sound of banging on the door. Fang Huai's light brown pupils suddenly shrank in the dim light, and he felt a chill running from the soles of his feet to his whole body.
"what happened?"
Fang Huai bit his tongue and tried to calm himself down. It was very noisy on the other end of the phone and he could faintly hear the sound of quarreling.
"Sorry, something went wrong." Ms. Qiao stood in the corridor, one hand on her lover and the other holding the phone. "My child is so sensible, so sensible that I, as his mother, didn't even notice anything was wrong with him."
The husband looked at the closed door helplessly and held his wife in his arms: "Li Xuan knows what's going on."
Ms. Qiao calmed herself down and told Fang Huai what had happened: In the middle of the night, she suddenly heard the sound of something breaking coming from Li Xuan's room, and Ms. Qiao immediately woke up her husband to check.
As soon as she reached Li Xuan's bedroom door, she heard the sound of debris being picked up piece by piece. Blood oozed from the crack in the door, and she almost called the police. Li Xuan told them from inside, "I'm fine."
But no matter how they persuaded her, the always sensible and polite Li Xuan did not respond. They stood at the door for as long as Li Xuan had been picking up the trash.
At this point, Ms. Qiao could no longer hold back and started crying with her hands covering her mouth.
She cried and said, "Li Xuan said: 'I'm fine.' If he was really fine, why has he changed so much recently? He would even lock mom and dad out. If my child is fine, how could he... He hasn't wanted to come out. We really have no choice but to call you."
"What happened during your time traveling?"
"Xiao Huai, can you help your uncle and aunt?"
Fang Huai clutched his phone tightly, his nails turning purple from the strain. His face was pale. He murmured, "Why is this happening? Li Xuan was fine the day we separated."
He also didn't understand why things had turned out like this?
"Xiao Xuan!"
There was the sound of a door opening. Fang Huai only heard the worried voices of Li's father and mother, and Li Xuan's low voice. Then the world seemed to be silent. The wind was howling outside the car window, and there was dead silence on the phone.
After a long time, he heard a friction sound and Ms. Qiao's hesitant voice, and her staggering footsteps seemed to be on his heart, tap tap tap.
The sound of bare feet on the ground and Su Zihe's weak breathing, his hoarse and gentle voice rang in his ears, as patient and gentle as when they first met.
Fang Huai covered his chest, leaned weakly against the car door, and looked out the window. The street lights split the night into two halves. It was bright under the street lights, but it was pitch black outside the lights.
"Xiao Huai."
Li Xuan smiled and called out again, "Xiao Huai."
The tears that filled his eyes fell like beads from a broken string, one by one, splashing onto the back of his tense hand. Fang Huai raised his hand to wipe away the tears, sniffed, and responded: "Li Xuan."
"Go back, I'm fine."
Li Xuan's voice was very low, "It's not appropriate for us to meet now."
"Why? Li Xuan, why?" Fang Huai couldn't hold it in any longer. He almost questioned, "Why are you doing this? Why are you hurting yourself?"
Facing the calm and gentle Li Xuan, Fang Huai, who was emotionally broken, really wanted to act like a child, acting unreasonable and fussy. He wanted to ask Li Xuan: Why? Weren't we all fine when we broke up?
Why hurt yourself? Why do things that make people worry and anxious?
The questioning words came to his lips, but they were like piercing steel balls. When he swallowed them, his throat was sore and his mouth was full of blood.
Fang Huai leaned weakly against the back of the chair. Fang Henan quietly observed his emotions with the corner of his eyes and slowed down the car a lot.
Silence, dead silence. None of the three spoke. Li Xuan and Fang Huai both held their phones. They were very close yet very far away.
They are so close that they can hear each other's breathing, but so far away that no matter how hard they try, they cannot touch each other's heart.
Li Xuan and Fang Huai are brothers, relatives, lovers, and finally friends.
The distance between them became very far, and in the end, even the surface of friendship could not bring them together.
Fang Henian was isolated. He drove in the front, occasionally paying attention to the movements in the back seat and paying attention to Fang Huai's mood. He had no idea what was going on between Li Xuan and his brother, and he couldn't help solve the problem.
Although it was clearly a matter between the two of them, Fang Henan felt uncomfortable. His brother had never cared about him so much.
I care about him as much as I care about Li Xuan.
"Li Xuan, I'm sorry."
Fang Huai said softly, "I'm sorry."
"Xiao Huai, you're not wrong." Li Xuan's voice was gentle, his emotions steady and unruffled, like a clear spring trying to soothe Fang Huai's heart, which was filled with endless self-blame and anxiety. "We've known each other for so long, and we've been together for so long. You know I don't want you to see me in such a state. Go back."
"Don't worry about my affairs from now on, Xiao Huai. I'm your brother. I can handle everything."
Li Xuan leaned close to the phone and said with a smile, "I'm not as fragile as you think. I just don't understand."
"I was just dwelling on something and didn't think clearly. I didn't hurt myself. I just accidentally knocked over a vase."
He spoke in a relaxed tone, and used his eyes to reassure his parents, and emphasized again: "It was just an accident."
"Sorry to disturb your rest so late at night. Go back."
Fang Huai wanted to say something, but Li Xuan seemed to have guessed what he was about to say. He raised his voice and called out Fang Huai's name: "Fang Huai."
"You know me, and I know you, so please don't embarrass me, okay?"
After Li Xuan said his last sentence, he hung up the phone.
Fang Henian parked the car on the side of the road and looked worriedly at the distraught Fang Huai beside him, "Brother?"
The cell phone beeped, Fang Huai blinked his dry eyes, and his aching eye sockets immediately became moist. Fang Huai raised his hand to cover his face.
He—seems to have messed everything up.
Li Xuan didn't want to see him and couldn't let Fang Huai see his current appearance. This was the first time Fang Huai hated himself for knowing someone so well.
Li Xuan is proud and always shows a bright and beautiful face. Showing his vulnerable side in front of others may always be insulting to him, even if that person is Fang Huai.
If he didn't understand Li Xuan, would he have rushed to his house without caring about anything, stood in front of Li Xuan, and asked him in front of him: "Why?"
But it's impossible, nothing is possible.
The phone fell onto the seat. Fang Huai picked it up dejectedly, looked out the window and said, "He Nian, go home."
Fang Huai sat up and tried hard to suppress his emotions, but his hoarse and low voice still betrayed his current mood.
The eyes in the rearview mirror were red. After Fang Henian met them, he hurriedly looked away and drove in a panic: "Okay, let's go home."
He didn't dare to speak now, not even to breathe loudly, and he didn't dare to glance at Fang Huai out of the corner of his eyes.
Those eyes are his dream. The red eye sockets, and the tears that he tried hard to hold back rolling in the red eye sockets, remind him of that rainy night.
His brother, who had a high fever, also had the same look in his eyes at the time. He leaned over and looked at him in despair, with the black garbage bag in his hand bulging like his brother's eyes.
Inside are unclear emotions and incomprehensible despair.
His brother, wearing thin clothes, stood at the door and told him firmly, "I won't be coming back."
"At home, listen to your mother."
What about this time?
Will my brother return to Brother Li Xuan?
Fang Henian felt that no, his brother would never come back to Li Xuan.
Qiao Manning and Li Xiaonian also felt so. At least in their hearts they did not approve of Li Xuan's failed relationship.
They never value family background, but rather temperament and ability. They respect Li Xuan's sexual orientation and hope that their children can find their own happiness and a lover who can always stand behind and silently support Li Xuan.
It is obvious that Fang Huai cannot meet their standards.
Especially after Li Xuan got into trouble and Qiao Manning asked her husband to find out everything that had happened in the country some time ago, they became even more dissatisfied with Fang Huai.
Ms. Qiao, who is always good-tempered, had a gloomy face, and her gentle and elegant husband held the information he had found with a complicated expression.
They never thought that their children had suffered so much injustice and pain.
Li Xiaonian comforted his wife, but his eyes were cold. He looked at these things from a businessman's perspective and was very keen to sense that something was wrong.
Behind the public opinion attacking Li Xuan, there are more than just Cheng Wanting's hands.
Cheng Wanting and Tengfeng Group are newcomers in the gaming industry...
Seeing the headline news about the shipping company president, his eyes darkened, "The shipping company really played a good hand."
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