Silent Volcano
Fang Huai grabbed Kong Lingyu's sleeve. The wound was torn due to the violent movement and blood oozed out. The light brown cuffs were wet and the sticky blood was spread by Fang Huai's fingertips.
Tick-tock.
Bright red blood slid down his fingertips to the base of his finger. Fang Huai looked at the blood droplets falling on his palm, "You..."
"Come with me." Li Xuan rubbed the corner of his cracked mouth with his fingertips, and held Fang Huai's wrist with a stern face.
"Li Xuan."
Fang Huai was sandwiched between the two men, and his other hand was also held by Kong Lingyu. The blood on Kong Lingyu's wrist flowed down the clasped hands and dyed his hand red.
"To the hospital."
Li Xuan's cheeks were red and swollen, and the corners of his mouth were cracked, which could not be ignored. They were both injured, and they had the energy to maintain a stalemate here.
Fang Huai frowned and exerted force with both hands at the same time, but only Kong Lingyu loosened his grip. Li Xuan grabbed Fang Huai and locked him in his arms. Fang Huai wanted to struggle, so Li Xuan tightened his grip.
He leaned over to Fang Huai and whispered:
"Xiao Huai, you're so embarrassed."
He ordered without hesitation: "Now, follow me."
He put his arm around Fang Huai's waist and walked towards the door. Fang Huai wanted to turn back, but Li Xuan pressed his head down and said in a cold voice: "Fang Huai, don't force me."
Fang Huai looked up at Li Xuan in disbelief. As soon as he stepped out of the restaurant, he saw Fang Henan who had arrived late.
Fang Henian stood at the door of the restaurant, looking at the tense scene in the restaurant. He raised and put his foot down as if he was about to step into the restaurant, and walked into the restaurant as if he was ready to die.
"elder brother?"
Fang Henian's eyes fell on the two of them, and he raised his voice in disbelief: "You, you are together?!"
Li Xuan ignored Fang Henian and glanced at him unkindly. Fang Huai quickly grabbed Fang Henian and said, "Take Kong Lingyu to the hospital."
"Li Xuan!"
There was an extra force on his waist, and his body was suddenly suspended in the air. Fang Huai felt dizzy and was held in Li Xuan's arms. He became angry and looked up at Li Xuan angrily.
Li Xuan looked down at him, covered Fang Huai's face with his coat, and walked towards the car.
Fang Henian, who was standing there in a daze, wanted to chase after him, but was stopped by Fang Henian.
"Senior."
There was a hint of cruelty between Kong Lingyu's brows. Fang Henian was really afraid that Kong Lingyu would punch him. He said cautiously: "My brother asked me to take you to the hospital."
The car door was smashed and Fang Huai was thrown into the back seat. Fang Huai stood up in panic, but Li Xuan clamped his hands. His tall figure cast a shadow that completely enveloped him.
Li Xuan's hand pinched Fang Huai's chin, forcing him to look up and meet his gaze. "Is there anything you want to tell me?"
Fang Huai raised his hands to support Li Xuan's chest, his brows furrowed, his lower back hurting, anger and shame intertwined. Li Xuan had just held him all the way, attracting a lot of people's attention. The embarrassment of having his secret exposed in the sunlight made him feel helpless.
"say what?"
Fang Huai now understood what Li Xuan meant.
He raised his chin stubbornly, his eyes gleaming. "What do you want to hear? Let me explain: Kong Lingyu and I are just friends. I didn't know he would show up. Do you believe me?"
Li Xuan obviously didn't believe it. Fang Huai turned his head to the side and stopped talking.
The hand that was pinching the chin gradually lost its strength. Li Xuan moved his fingers and saw the red mark on Fang Huai's chin. He subconsciously wanted to touch it but retracted his hand.
He sat back in the driver's seat and breathed steadily. Fang Huai slowly sat up and looked into the eyes in the rearview mirror.
"I'll take you home."
Li Xuan's eyes cleared up again. He quickly glanced at Fang Huai's wrist and said, "I'm sorry."
Fang Huai sat down by the window, looked out and said, "He Nian will be going on a business trip soon. He asked me out for dinner last night and I agreed."
"Yeah." Li Xuan was driving in front. "What about him?"
Fang Huai said, "I didn't know he would come."
Li Xuan continued to ask: "How are you going to handle this? Or should I do it?"
In the past, whenever someone pursued Fang Huai, Li Xuan would persuade them to retreat before Fang Huai noticed. Kong Lingyu was the only man who made Li Xuan feel a sense of crisis.
He has advantages over Fang Huai's previous suitors. There is too much past between them that Li Xuan has never been involved in, and it is these things that make Li Xuan feel uneasy.
Fang Huai wiped the blood off his palm, lowered his eyes and said, "He and I will only be friends."
Li Xuan nodded after being rejected, "Okay."
The car became quiet again. Fang Huai kept looking out the window. The night wind messed up his hair and his thoughts.
"Just like that?"
"It's over."
He and Li Xuan were both too calm, as if the argument and conflict just now had never happened. They were both trying hard to hide the peaceful
It's like a silent volcano, trying hard to hide the boiling magma inside, and no one knows when it will erupt.
After returning home, Fang Henian called Fang Huai several times and kept apologizing.
"Brother, I'm so sorry. I didn't expect things to develop to this point."
"fine."
A medicine box was placed on the coffee table, with opened cotton swabs and iodine placed on the table. A torn but unused Band-Aid was stuck to the glass surface. Li Xuan was reluctant to put it on, but in the end it ended up making the coffee table a waste of money.
"Brother, you and Brother Li Xuan...he and you, you two..." Fang Henian stammered and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Fang Huai picked up the Band-Aid stuck on the table and threw it into the trash can. The burning pain on his wrist made him frown.
He rolled up his sleeves, revealing a grip mark on his fair wrist, with a few bruises on the wrist bone.
"He Nian."
Fang Huai said, "Do you have anything else to say?"
Fang Huai didn't listen carefully to what Fang Henan said. He wanted to deal with the wound on his wrist.
"It's okay, it's okay. Well...brother, go to bed early."
After Fang Henian hung up the phone, Fang Huai took out ice cubes from the refrigerator. Unable to find a suitable ice pack, he wrapped the ice cubes in a towel and applied it to his red and swollen wrist. He estimated that the swelling would go away in a few days.
The clock on the wall has already pointed to twelve o'clock.
Fang Huai tried to wrap his wrist, and when he felt no pain, he went to wash up and go to bed.
Lying on the bed, thinking about everything that happened today, Li Xuan who lost control of his emotions, Kong Lingyu who fought, their angry faces appeared repeatedly in Fang Huai's mind, and finally all disappeared, replaced by Fang Henian's shocked expression.
"He knows."
Fang Huai suddenly remembered what Li Xuan said before he left: "Fang Huai, he knows."
Fang Huai turned over irritably and wrapped the quilt around himself and covered his head, until he felt difficulty breathing and then he poked his head out from under the quilt.
He sat up straight away, turned on his computer and began studying the case.
In the empty corridor, a few rays of light leaked from the crack of the door, and the sound of typing on the keyboard came from the bedroom.
It was not until the early morning that the sound of typing on the keyboard disappeared, and then "ding", the lights went out and the corridor became dark again.
The sound of bedding rubbing against each other could be faintly heard, and the bedroom was completely quiet.
Sweet dreams.
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