The phone on the desktop was buzzing, reminding me that a to-do item had reached the deadline. There were four words in the notification bar: Make an appointment with Chen Youhan.
Swipe right on the screen, the world quiets down, and Ye Kaifu tidies his desk again. Except for senior high school students, all boarding students at Tianyi leave school after two evening self-study sessions on Friday, so students like to go back to the dormitory to pack up their things after dinner. Lu Fu is about to hold a class meeting, and is one step faster than Ye Kaifu. She greets him before leaving, but is stopped.
"Lu Fu."
Lu Fu turned around and found that Ye Kai looked very bad and absent-minded.
He has been in this absent-minded state for the past few days, and Lu Fu has been secretly observing him for a week. Once when he got up at three in the morning, he found Ye Kai in a daze on the balcony. Hearing Lu Fu getting out of bed, he shuddered as if startled. The two of them were not in the same class, but their sleeping condition was so poor, so you can imagine how bad it was during class. On Thursday, Lu Fu went to the second grade office to pick up the test papers, and saw the head of the first grade coming to complain: "I don't know what happened, the physics test was so bad... It was like sleepwalking."
"What's wrong?" Lu Fu stopped holding the door handle.
Ye Kai was unusually uneasy, even a bit anxious. He asked, "Am I childish?"
What kind of a question is this? Lu Fu was puzzled: "No, why do you think so?"
"The question you asked last time," Ye Kai lowered his head and unconsciously folded a corner of the paper, "is there still a chance?"
Lu Fu took a moment to react, then he remembered the question at the comic convention. He thought Ye Kai had figured it out, so he agreed, "Nonsense! Of course, there is a wall between the world of students and the world of adults, my friend." He always spoke with experience, and concluded, "In their eyes, we are probably just like little kids."
He didn't know which word he had said wrong. In a trance, he seemed to see Ye Kai's eyes were pricked by needles.
Lu Fu glanced at her phone, she was almost late for the class meeting, "I'm leaving now, have fun on your holiday! I'll help you play King of Glory later."
"No more fighting." Ye Kai said, gathering the papers and stuffing them into his schoolbag.
"Ah? Why?"
Ye Kai's expression was calm, and he had returned to normal: "Don't you think playing games is childish?"
When Uncle Lu picked up Ye Kai, he saw that the young master was wearing a baseball cap with the brim pulled down low. He didn't say a word after getting in the car and curled up in the back seat.
In the past, Ye Kai was always very happy when he went home on Fridays. Although he was just the driver of the Ye family, Ye Kai would share things about school with him as if he were an elder. Ye Tong was very busy at work, and it was rare for the grandparents and grandchildren to have a good chat. Ye Kai shared with him, and he would tell Ye Tong these interesting things when picking up and dropping off the chairman, which often made the old man very happy.
Uncle Lu loves the young master very much. Although he is still in high school, he is actually a very careful and mature child.
"Are you unhappy today, Xiaokai?" Uncle Lu observed Ye Kai through the rearview mirror and found that he was not asleep, but just huddled in a corner in a daze.
"No, I just didn't do well in the physics test."
He only scored 86 out of 120. The score shocked the whole class.
"Even a horse can stumble sometimes." Uncle Lu was not good at speaking and tried to comfort him clumsily.
"Uncle Lu," Ye Kai said in a weak voice, "In your eyes, is seventeen years old still a child?"
Uncle Lu thought he was afraid of being scolded by Qu Jia, so he comforted him: "In the eyes of the elders, the young master is still a child even if he is 27 years old."
The car drove into No. 28 Siyuan Road, the main residence of the Ye family. Uncle Lu dropped him off at the gate of the villa and drove into the sunken basement. Ye Jin wrapped in a silk nightgown hummed a tune in the moonlight. The Juliet flowers in the garden were in bloom, and she wanted to cut a few branches and put them in the vase in the cloakroom.
"Wow, whose child is this pretty?" She walked across the flowerbed, took Ye Kai's schoolbag, and shouted, "Ms. Qu! Your baby son is back!"
Qu Jiazheng was cutting a fruit plate for Ye Kai in the kitchen. When he heard the sound, he handed the rest of the task to Aunt Jia, wiped his hands and went out. He could tell at a glance that something was wrong with Ye Kai.
"What's wrong? Why do you look so bad?" She took off Ye Kai's hat, smoothed his hair, and put the back of her hand against his forehead. "Are you sick? Aunt Jia, bring me a thermometer!"
The temperature on the electronic thermometer was 37.8, indicating a fever. Qu Jia hugged him distressedly, "What kind of hardship did you suffer in school? You have lost so much weight in just one week. Did a classmate bully you?" She had intended to talk to Ye Kai about his physics grades, but now she was reluctant to ask anything. She hurriedly asked Aunt Jia to contact the family doctor and arranged to make porridge, change the bed sheets, and disinfect the room.
Ye Kai lay down on the bed as if in a cloud. He lost consciousness of the weight of his head and feet, and his bones ached all over. This week he slept only three or four hours a day. Sometimes he fell asleep vaguely in the early morning, and was awakened in an instant by the loud morning running bell. He had no appetite for meals, and after class he just lay on the table to catch up on sleep, sleeping so hard that he couldn't even hear the bell.
It’s good that he’s sick. When he’s sick, he won’t have the image of Wu Sijiu in Chen Youhan’s apartment in his mind.
The entrance hall, the living room, the bedroom... Wu Sijiu's casual description became Ye Kai's recurring nightmare.
Chen Youhan didn't receive Ye Kai's call on Friday, nor on Saturday. She counted the seconds: six o'clock, seven o'clock, eight o'clock... Why is life so hard?
He was very busy, twice as busy as before, immersing himself in work for fifteen hours a day, seven days a week. How could a subordinate like him slack off when his boss worked so hard? Gu Xiu cursed him as a psychopath a thousand and eight hundred times in his heart and opened a new can of coffee beans. Chen Youhan used to have very regular working hours. After nine o'clock in the evening, no one would disturb him to go out and fool around. But now, let alone eight o'clock in the evening, the lights in the office are still on at twelve o'clock, and it's Saturday!
"Handsome Mr. Chen, I specially asked Xiao Ren to look at the project management table today. We have completed each node ahead of schedule. The second quarter has started very well. Look at the revival of all things, the grass is growing and the birds are singing..."
Chen Youhan gave him a cold look.
Gu Xiu: "...The weather is so nice, it's a great time to work overtime!"
Chen Youhan said calmly: "You don't have a girlfriend, so why don't you work overtime?"
No, don’t single people have human rights?
Gu Xiu suppressed his desire to kill someone and run away with the money, and said timidly: "I'm single, but you're not, you——"
"I am."
Oh, that's all right—
etc? !
Gu Xiu was so shocked that she spilled her coffee. She said cautiously, "... Did you break up with that skiing boyfriend?"
Chen Youhan said "hmm" without changing his expression.
"This is too fast! Your birthday was in mid-March and it's only early May and you're already tired of me? You scumbag." Gu Xiu sobbed.
Chen Youhan said slowly: "I was dumped."
Gu Xiu took a step back in horror, and then another step back - damn, such a secret and shocking scandal has been discovered by him, should he silence the witness next?
"Where are you going?" Chen Youhan stopped him and said, "Bring the computer in and check the progress of the investment promotion."
Gu Xiu looked like he was dying, holding a notebook and sitting next to Chen Youhan. He opened a spreadsheet, but couldn't help gossiping, "So you've been working so hard lately because you've been heartbroken?"
Chen Youhan did not comment.
"Boss, running away won't solve the problem." Gu Xiu risked his life to advise - although he was single, it didn't stop him from offering advice and suggestions to help his boss solve problems. After all, this was the value of a gold medal assistant with an annual salary of one million -
"I think for a handsome, wealthy, gentle and gentlemanly overbearing CEO like you, getting an ex-boyfriend back should be a piece of cake!"
Chen Youhan glanced at him calmly: "I came to the company to work overtime just to make myself forget him. Now are you sure you want to continue to be my relationship consultant?"
Is the air conditioner in the office broken? A drop of cold sweat dripped down Gu Xiu's forehead, and he secretly looked at his boss while sliding the mouse.
He was told on his first day at the company that his boss had a bad reputation and that he could get more than a dozen business cards stuffed into his pocket while taking the elevator. Even those who hand out small business cards in the hotel don't have as prosperous a business as him. Everyone in the GC business department can tell ten pieces of gossip about Chen Youhan in one minute, but he was dumped - this kind of thing is unheard of. As for Mr. Chen's passionate embrace of work because of his broken heart? If this information appeared in the tea room, the person who broke the news would be spitted on his head - "What newbie is making up this black material?"
But Chen Youhan exposed himself today, and Gu Xiu had to carefully ruminate on his recent abnormal behavior - working frantically, accepting things harshly, treating subordinates coldly, and really looking like a living devil.
"I heard that you have a younger brother?" After finishing the form, Chen Youhan took out a cigarette from the cigarette box and let out a long sigh.
I looked at the time. It was 1 a.m. I could go back and fall asleep immediately.
"Yes, this year's college entrance examination."
"There's quite a big age difference between you two," Chen Youhan said.
--"also."
Gu Xiu’s heart skipped a beat, wondering if he was being too sensitive.
"Ten years difference," he replied.
Chen Youhan smiled and said, "I guess he has nothing to talk to you about."
"Then I have nothing to talk about with the little brat." Gu Xiu refused to admit defeat.
"Can you understand what I'm talking about?" Chen Youhan's words were full of sarcasm. "Comic exhibitions, animation, the second dimension, games, exams, ball games, NBA, secret crushes, summer camps, how many of them can you understand?"
"I don't understand." Gu Xiu said with conviction: "So he really doesn't care about me. But I am a top student in Tsinghua University and I don't care about the last one, okay?"
"That makes sense." Chen Youhan nodded coldly, "My partner is a dozen years younger than me and is also a top student."
Gu Xiu's heart was broken by the earth——
Shit, this is a bit ridiculous.
"Boss, actually, it's like this," he said carefully, "Those girls you had before... were all quite young, so dating is one thing, and these things... don't interfere."
Chen Youhan put out his cigarette and stood up: "He is different."
On the quiet mountain road, a fiery red Ferrari roared past, then braked and slowly retreated.
The car window rolled down, revealing a heavily made-up face.
"Chen Youhan?"
Two o'clock in the morning, Siyuan Road.
Ye Jin had just come back from racing with his friends. When he first saw this familiar Panamera, he thought he had seen a ghost.
"Why are you here?"
Chen Youhan parked his car on the side of the road, leaning against the car, his long legs crossed, and lighting a cigarette with his hands clasped together. When he heard Ye Jin's voice, he raised his head, squinted his eyes and exhaled.
"What a coincidence."
"What's the coincidence?" Ye Jin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "This is the only way for me to go home! But what are you doing here in the middle of the night?"
Chen Youhan lowered his hand and flicked the ash off his cigarette, smiling nonchalantly: "I miss you, okay?"
Although she knew that this bastard was flirting with her again, Ye Jin still couldn't help but blushing.
"You're welcome." She opened the car door and got out. "I think you want me to introduce you to some more young stars."
"You look down on me." Chen Youhan laughed softly, "Do I need to ask you to help me with a little celebrity?"
Ye Jin thought so too, opened her small bag, took out a mint green cigarette case, flicked out a thin cigarette skillfully, and said, "Borrow a light."
"You smoke?" Chen Youhan was indeed a little surprised and pressed the lighter.
"Can't you tell?" Ye Jin smiled, leaned over and took a deep breath, then flicked it. Her movements were very skillful, with a charming and free-spirited feeling.
"Well hidden."
"Don't tell Xiaokai." Ye Jin said.
When Chen Youhan heard Ye Kai's name from Ye Jin's mouth, his heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
He was hopeless, he was so exhausted from working until 1am, but instead of going back to sleep, he crossed half of the city like a possessed person and went for a drive on Siyuan Road. Fuck the wind, fuck the wind, fuck...
"I see." Chen Youhan replied casually.
It was a bit hot, and Ye Jin shook her hair: "Since we are here, I think you probably can't sleep, come back with me and have a drink." Thinking of Chen Youhan driving, she changed her words and said: "Tea is fine, it depends on you."
Chen Youhan was not so tactless. It was outrageous for him to drive here at will. If he dared to come here in the middle of the night, the Chen and Ye families would jointly announce their marriage in the newspaper tomorrow.
"Not going? It's okay if you don't go," Ye Jin got into the car, her voice seemed ethereal in the night wind: "Xiao Kai is sick, you can come and see him tomorrow."
Chen Youhan stood up straight and took the cigarette out of his mouth: "Is it serious?"
"It's not serious," Ye Jin smiled, "Maybe she was heartbroken and cried in her dreams. Our Ms. Qu was so scared that she wanted to hire someone to perform a shaman ritual."
Chen Youhan seemed to have been hit by a club. She could not stand and leaned back against the car. When she spoke again, her voice was tight: "He is so young, he shouldn't be in a relationship."
Ye Jin smiled and sighed, "How can you be rational when you like someone? If you like someone, you like him/her. The love of a seventeen-year-old will be remembered for a lifetime."
Chen Youhan hurriedly held onto the car door, the cigarette dropped from his fingers, and his heart felt as if it had been stabbed through.
Ye Kai, can you tell me who was the first person you fell in love with when you were seventeen?
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