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Xiao Zhichen smiled, stood up, and glanced at his watch: "It's almost time to set off."
"Xiao Zhichen, I was right, wasn't I?" Xiao Mingyang gritted his teeth and slowed down his speech.
Xiao Zhichen didn't answer, just smiled.
Xiao Mingyang's voice softened: "Uncle, you are just under too much pressure now and have done some extreme things. I believe you are not that kind of person."
"Then tell me," Xiao Zhichen pulled another chair next to him and sat down, "What kind of person am I?"
Xiao Mingyang gritted his teeth, swallowed his tears, and forced a smile: "You are a gentle, filial, tolerant, capable, handsome boss, and a very good uncle."
"But I'm not that kind of person," Xiao Zhichen patted his head gently, "You think too highly of me, Xiao Yangyang."
"I thought so too before, that you were so perfect you didn't even look like a human. You were practically a god-like being," Xiao Mingyang looked at him. "You're only now becoming a human, a human who can feel jealousy and anger. It's normal to have these emotions. If you don't, you're inhuman."
Xiao Zhichen didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly. Seeing cold sweat on Xiao Mingyang's back, he chuckled: "Yangyang, it's right to give you this name."
Seeing that the other party was somewhat touched, Xiao Mingyang continued, "Uncle, it's normal for you to have these extreme thoughts now. You've been on business trips every day these past few months, or working overtime at the company. Grandpa is sick again, and you've received some news. You're under too much mental pressure. If possible, we can talk to a psychologist then, so we don't have to go to that step."
Xiao Zhichen smiled and touched his head: "Xixi has a son like you, I have no regrets in this life."
It seems like there's hope.
Xiao Mingyang showed his signature smile: "I am your nephew too."
Xiao Zhichen looked at him carefully, inch by inch, from top to bottom: "You've really grown into a big boy." He patted Xiao Mingyang's shoulder hard.
"Hey." Xiao Mingyang had a smile on his face.
Xiao Zhichen took out Xiao Mingyang's cell phone from his pocket, turned it on, and messages popped out one after another. He looked at Xiao Mingyang and smiled: "Your boyfriend is really anxious."
Xiao Mingyang swallowed and said, "We have physical education class this morning. I'm the lead dancer in our class. If I don't go back, it will be difficult to rehearse."
"Leading the dance, not bad." He placed the phone on Xiao Mingyang's legs and helped him untie the ropes. "Go back."
Xiao Mingyang put the phone back in his pocket and stood there: "You..."
"Don't worry, he is my second brother, your father, and Xixi's lover. I won't touch him." The uncle smiled and returned to his previous appearance.
Xiao Mingyang's heart tightened: "What about you?"
Xiao Zhichen shrugged: "Let's go back and sort out the company's affairs later."
"Then what?" Xiao Mingyang stared at him.
Xiao Zhichen pretended to be relaxed: "Declare bankruptcy."
"And then?" Xiao Mingyang's voice trembled, as if he wanted to see through the other person's eyes through the glasses.
Xiao Zhichen smiled: "Don't you still have to go back to be the lead dancer? Let's go quickly, or the get out of class will be over."
"Suicide, right?" Xiao Mingyang almost lost his voice.
The smile on Xiao Zhichen's face faded. He looked at him with the corners of his lips raised, which was very creepy: "Why? You want to come with me?"
There was a knock on the door.
Xiao Zhichen suddenly hugged him in his arms, wrapping him so tightly that it was hard to breathe.
But he soon let go and raised his head towards the door: "Go, your boyfriend is here to see you."
"Okay," Xiao Mingyang grabbed his wrist, "I'll go with you."
Xiao Zhichen cursed for the first time: "Fuck." He pushed his glasses up, covered his eyes with his palms, and raised a weird smile at the corners of his mouth, "You are a fucking lunatic."
"Mutual." Xiao Mingyang held his wrist tightly.
Xiao Zhichen grabbed his hair again: "You are sure that I can't bear to let you go, right?"
Xiao Mingyang raised his eyebrows: "Isn't it?"
Xiao Zhichen stared at him intently.
Xiao Mingyang laughed: "As long as you dare to jump, I will follow you down."
"You don't want your boyfriend anymore?"
There was constant knocking on the door outside.
"Come with me to see a psychiatrist, or you'll see if I come to see you when the time comes."
Xiao Zhichen let go of his hair and grabbed his neck: "Xiao Yangyang, have you learned to threaten people?"
Xiao Mingyang's face flushed red from being pinched, but his eyes were still fixed on him, and he even smiled: "Kill me if you dare!"
With a click, the door opened.
The footsteps were hurried, and soon, a familiar figure came into view. He moved quickly and decisively, and with a flick of his leg, he knocked down the hand that was pinching Xiao Mingyang's neck.
"Are you okay?" Li Xiangze held him, looking worried.
The familiar scent of jasmine lingered in the air. Xiao Mingyang smiled and rubbed the other person's back soothingly: "What can happen to me?"
Xiao Zhichen rubbed the place where he had just been hit, and patted Li Xiangze's shoulder with a normal expression: "Take care of your boyfriend."
Then he turned around and prepared to leave, but just as he took the first step, he bumped into two people who were late.
Xiao Zhichen's smile was still gentle: "Xiao Tao, Doctor Tang, why are you here?"
"Hello, Uncle Zhichen!" Bai Tao's originally excited smile immediately froze on his face.
Doctor Tang nodded: "Would you mind talking to me?"
Just as Xiao Zhichen was about to refuse, a voice came from behind him: "Xiao Zhichen!"
He could only smile and said, "Then I'll bother you for a while."
"You guys go back to class first." Doctor Tang said.
Bai Tao looked at Li Xiangze in disbelief, and then his eyes jumped back and forth between the uncle and nephew.
Xiao Mingyang's attention was not on Bai Tao at all, and he had no idea what kind of drama his good brother was imagining.
He skillfully put his arm on his wife's shoulders: "Let's go."
Bai Tao was still in shock until he got in the car.
He hesitated and asked, "Xiao Ming, you and your uncle..."
"Hmm?" Xiao Mingyang raised his eyebrows.
Li Xiangze reacted and couldn't help laughing out loud.
Bai Tao continued to adjust his words: "It's you two, isn't it a clean uncle-nephew relationship?"
The driver's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he looked at the two people in the back seat through the rearview mirror.
Xiao Mingyang: "..."
Li Xiangze turned his head towards the window, covered his mouth with his hands, and laughed so hard that he didn't know what was going on.
Bai Tao was sitting in the passenger seat, with Xiao Mingyang just sitting behind him. He reached out his hand from the gap, grabbed the neck of the person in front of him, and gritted his teeth, "I really don't know what's going on in your head all day long?! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"
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"Tell me," Old Yang said, crossing his legs and sipping his tea slowly. He looked at Xiao Mingyang, "Why didn't you come back on time?" Then he looked at Li Xiangze, "Why did you skip class?"
"Something happened," Xiao Mingyang scratched his head, "I asked Li Xiangze to support me."
Lao Yang looked up at him and asked, "Fighting?"
Xiao Mingyang chuckled: "It's more complicated than this."
"Tell me your version." Old Yang looked at Li Xiangze.
"Save him." Li Xiangze said.
Old Yang smiled: "You two are quite righteous."
Xiao Mingyang smiled: "It's okay."
"Since you're so righteous," Lao Yang put down his teacup, "then both of you should be absent from class for five periods and write a self-criticism."
"Five periods of absence?!" Xiao Mingyang's pupils trembled.
You know, if you skip ten classes, you will be punished. What does it mean to skip five classes? It accounts for half of the class!
"Yeah." Old Yang calmly took another sip of tea.
"No! I may really miss five classes, but my deskmate is innocent!" Xiao Mingyang held his head teacher's hand.
"Isn't that righteousness?" Old Yang looked at Li Xiangze, "Are you willing?"
Li Xiangze said without hesitation: "I do."
Xiao Mingyang looked at Li Xiangze with horror: "You don't want to!"
"Alright," Lao Yang twisted the lid of the teacup, "since you two have such a close relationship, I'll give you a chance to make amends. As long as you agree, any truancy record and disciplinary action can be cancelled."
Xiao Mingyang tutted his words, his mouth twitching: "Old Yang, you're just waiting for us here, right?"
Lao Yang put the cup on the table: "Just tell me if you are willing or not?"
"Okay, okay, okay." Xiao Mingyang said.
"Okay." Li Xiangze said.
Lao Yang adjusted his sitting position and said, "I remember your group is on duty this week, right?"
"Yes." Xiao Mingyang replied.
Old Yang nodded and said, "That's perfect. There's a preliminary round of a physics competition on Sunday morning, right here at our school. You two should give it a try."
"Physics," Xiao Mingyang said with a smug smile, "Do I even need to participate in the preliminary round?"
Lao Yang took out several test papers from the drawer and said, "This is the long-standing rule in our school. Even the most powerful people have to go through the preliminary round."
He handed the test paper to them and said, "I carefully selected the questions. You two must not disappoint me, or your review will increase from 1,000 words to 10,000."
Xiao Mingyang: “???”
Xiao Mingyang: "No, is that reasonable?"
Li Xiangze looked at the test paper in his hand and said, "Thank you, teacher."
Old Yang picked up the lesson plan on the table and slapped Xiao Mingyang on the leg: "You are the only one who talks too much."
Xiao Mingyang rubbed his slapped leg: "Oh, oh, oh!"
Lao Yang: "When you are broke and can enter the entertainment industry, I will be your supporter."
"Wow! You know this!" Xiao Mingyang said.
"Okay, okay, you two should go to the cafeteria quickly, otherwise the dormitory door will be locked later." Lao Yang waved at them.
They didn't go back to the classroom. Instead, they stuffed the papers into their pockets and staggered to the cafeteria.
We arrived quite late, and only the fast food was left.
The two of them ordered something casually and found a place to sit down.
Li Xiangze poked at his food for a long time and asked, "Why did your uncle ask me to keep an eye on you? What did you say to him?"
"Oh, I said some words to scare him. It was just a trick." Xiao Mingyang lowered his head and ate his rice.
"What?" Li Xiangze looked at him without moving his chopsticks.
Xiao Mingyang slowed down his rice-digging movements and waited until he had cleaned his mouth before speaking: "If he leaves, I'll leave too... I was just trying to scare him."
Li Xiangze nodded: "You'd better not say such things in the future...it will affect your luck."
"Wow, you're a science student and you still believe these things?" Xiao Mingyang smiled with his eyes curved.
"The end of physics is metaphysics." Li Xiangze said.
Xiao Mingyang was so amused that he almost choked to death.
Suddenly there was another person beside me.
"You guys just came to eat too?" Bai Tao sat down next to Li Xiangze. "How did your teacher punish you?"
Li Xiangze raised the corner of his mouth, then immediately suppressed it: "How did your teacher punish you?"
"A 3,000-word self-criticism, two missed classes, three laps during P.E. class, and all this week's textbooks must be recited in front of the teacher," Bai Tao said, reaching up. "What about Lao Yang? He should be even more ruthless."
Xiao Mingyang and Li Xiangze smiled at each other.
"There is no punishment." Xiao Mingyang said truthfully.
Bai Tao: "Is it too late for me to turn back now?"
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