Ye Kai slept for two days.
He resisted falling asleep while at school, and his dreams contained images he could not control.
Return to that moment over and over again.
"You don't like Chen Youhan too, do you?"
"He looks at you like a child."
"You like him? He treats you as a brother, and he might find it disgusting if you do this."
"Do you know what love is? Love means kissing, hugging and going to bed. Can you imagine Chen Youhan kissing me at the entrance?"
Wu Sijiu leaned over to his ear, speaking in a light and seductive tone. At the end, he patted Ye Kai's shoulder frivolously, as if brushing off a piece of dust: "Don't dream."
Ye Kai struggled and sweated profusely. He dreamed that he and Chen Youhan were walking on the beach of Xiwan. He also dreamed that the python that had eaten the wild boar was lying on the wet rocks with a bloated belly.
In the blink of an eye, he was lying on the ground, entangled by a gorgeous poisonous snake.
Chen Youhan walked into Ye Kai's bedroom.
The bed was wide and thick, and the duvet looked very soft. Ye Kai was sunk into it, his face pale and his cheeks rosy, his brows tightly closed, and his forehead covered with fine beads of sweat.
The room was air-conditioned, so he shouldn't have been this hot.
"He said he had a fever, but he looked like he was too frightened." Qu Jia tucked the quilt for him, "If he doesn't wake up today, we'll go to the hospital."
Chen Youhan walked lightly and said to Qu Jia, "I'll sit with him for a while."
Qu Jia looked at him and nodded without refusing.
The door closed silently. Chen Youhan leaned down and gently stroked Ye Kai's forehead, his trembling eye sockets and eyelashes, down his straight nose, and stopped at his tightly pursed lips. His fingertips gently twisted, and the hot and soft touch had not yet disappeared. Chen Youhan was startled, as if awakened from some kind of enchanted state, and pulled his hand back in embarrassment. But at this time, he heard Ye Kai murmur vaguely in his dream.
My heart skipped a beat.
...It vaguely sounds like my own name.
"Ye Kai?" He pushed aside Ye Kai's hair and traced his brow bone with his fingertips over and over again.
Ye Kai was trapped in a nightmare, unconscious and unaware.
Chen Youhan's fingertips trembled slightly, and he leaned down deeper, gazing at him more tenderly. There were two forces in his heart fighting fiercely, and in the end, one side surrendered. He lowered his head and gently touched Ye Kai's forehead with his lips.
I couldn't help but laugh at myself, Chen Youhan, when did you become capable of doing something as thieving as a secret kiss?
He turned to leave, but his hand was grabbed.
That grab made his heart beat fast. He turned his head almost in panic and saw Ye Kai's pupils open empty and blank, like washed obsidian.
"…Are you awake?"
Ye Kai felt weak all over, but he still tried hard to grab him with all his strength.
His brows were furrowed in pain, his palms were burning terribly, and his fingers were so hard that his knuckles turned white: "Don't go."
Chen Youhan calmed down, shook his hand, and looked at him carefully: "Xiao Kai?"
Ye Kai began to cry, the kind of silent cry, with no change in expression, and the tears just rolled down from the corners of his eyes and into his temples.
"Am I your brother?" he asked, his voice hoarse as if it were burned.
Chen Youhan had a hunch that something was wrong with him. He should have called the doctor, the nurse, Qu Jia, the nanny, and everyone else immediately, but he seemed to be possessed and didn't say a word.
Ye Kai asked again: "Do you treat me as your younger brother, Chen Youhan?" The corners of his lips drooped, he began to tremble, and then he really started to cry.
Chen Youhan was in a panic, leaning over him and wiping his wet eyes: "No, no, Ye Kai, I don't think of you as my brother." He didn't know why Ye Kai asked this, and he didn't dare to think about why this answer came out so suddenly. He just kept stroking Ye Kai's thin cheeks with his thumbs, repeating: "I'm sorry, Xiao Kai, I'm sorry, I don't think of you as my brother, never."
Ye Kai sobbed and collapsed, alarming the nurse who was guarding the door. She pushed the door open and rushed over. Chen Youhan let go of his hand and took a step back without leaving a trace. The nurse touched Ye Kai's forehead and said, "He's having a nightmare. You can go out."
Qu Jia rushed over upon hearing the news. Seeing Ye Kai crying again, his face darkened and he looked at Chen Youhan unceremoniously: "What happened to you?"
Chen Youhan thought, does it count if it’s just a secret kiss?
Without waiting for his answer, Qu Jia coldly ordered him to leave and quickly arranged for Ye Kai to be sent to the hospital. In line with the pragmatic economic thinking of taking two approaches at the same time and not hindering anyone, she called a certain master -
"Yes, that's right. I always cry in my dreams. Is it because of something? ... Offering eternal lights, right? Good. ... What? Which bodhisattva's birthday? No problem..." She arranged everything in one phone call, as neatly as if she was negotiating a business deal. Chen Youhan stood aside and watched Ye Zheng carry Ye Kai into the car.
Whether it was the hospital's help or the blessing of some bodhisattva, or both, Ye Kai finally woke up on Monday morning. This time he was truly awake, not a false awakening like sleepwalking. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Chen Youhan, who was leaning against the windowsill peeling an apple, very patiently, with his side face lowered, as if struggling with the peel that was about to break.
Ye Kai looked at it quietly for two seconds, then made a slight noise, startling Chen Youhan.
"Awake?" Chen Youhan threw down the half-peeled apple, turned on the tap to wash his hands, and after drying them, he walked towards Ye Kai, helped him raise the hospital bed, and placed two soft and thick pillows behind his waist.
Ye Kai glanced at the coffee table and teased weakly, "Are you giving them military training?"
Dozens of apples were lined up in a row. The ones at the front had turned yellow and were so oxidized that they were unsightly.
"I'm bored." Chen Youhan thought, if you don't wake up, I'll start carving rabbits.
Ye Kai laughed: "You squander them because you're bored? It's not easy to grow them so big and sweet."
He was now certain that Ye Kai was indeed very sober, so he poured him a cup of warm water, watched him drink it, and then asked, "Why are you so ill for no reason?"
"I had a nightmare." Ye Kai said lightly.
He was wearing a hospital gown with light blue vertical stripes. It was loose and shapeless, making his entire figure look very thin and fragile, as if he was about to fall apart.
"Then your mother was right to invite a master for you."
"……master?"
Qu Jia happened to push the door open. She first glared at Chen Youhan in reproach, meaning, my son woke up and you didn't ring the bell immediately? Then she sat down on the edge of the bed, stroked Ye Kai's hair, and held his face: "Baby, you scared me to death. If you don't wake up, I'm going to donate money to build a temple."
This was a big deal, so Ye Kai could only go with the flow: "I... I might have bumped into something dirty."
"I told you!" Qu Jia slapped his thigh, regretting that he had not arranged the eternal lamp earlier.
Before choosing the site, Tianyi had consulted a Feng Shui master. It was a famous normal school in the Republic of China, and the ruins are still preserved on campus. After the Feng Shui was calculated, the building was built according to the instructions, and every tile and every piece of wood was very particular. However, every campus is bound to have some supernatural legends, and Qu Jia had long been thinking about whether to go to Hong Kong to invite a master to do another on-site geomancy.
Family members came in one after another, and Chen Youhan stood closer and closer to the side. Seeing that Ye Kai was being cared for by everyone, he smiled, turned around and went out.
When closing the door, he raised his eyes to take another look at him, but Ye Kai was also looking at him and smiling at him, as if to say that he would accompany him later.
Who is accompanying whom? Chen Youhan closed the door and leaned against the snow-white wall in the corridor in a daze.
Whoever needs company can go with him. What a mess of commands.
Chen Youhan loosened his tie in self-mockery and accepted his fate. He was the one who needed company.
Ye Zheng was the first to come out and greeted him: "You haven't left yet."
Chen Youhan stood up straight and nodded.
Ye Jin was the second one to come out. Seeing Chen Youhan sitting on a bench, she glanced at him and said, "You are free today."
Chen Youhan replied: "I just finished a regular meeting on my phone."
Ye Tong was the third to come out, and Chen Youhan was lying on the window in the corridor thinking about something. The young man had an upright posture and a cool demeanor, and Ye Tong liked him very much.
Chen Youhan caught a glimpse of him from the corner of his eye and greeted him respectfully: "Hello, Grandpa."
"Try to comfort Jie Xiaokai more. He is worried about something." Patted his shoulder.
Only Qu Jia is left. Really good at chatting.
Chen Youhan glanced at his phone, then glanced again a minute later. Gu Xiu sent him a document, and he opened it desperately. It turned out to be a simple personnel change notice. He was so angry that he cursed, "You're coming to me for something like this?"
Gu Xiu was at a loss as he looked at the approval process on the OA.
Finally Qu Jia came out, and seeing Chen Youhan still there, he was surprised and asked, "Boss Chen, is there nothing going on at the company today?"
"The entire group is on holiday for a day." Chen Youhan replied nonchalantly.
Qu Jia was choked with speechlessness. He heard Ye Kai laugh in the ward, glare at Chen Youhan, and leave in a hurry.
Chen Youhan pushed open the door of the ward. Ye Kai was tired of dealing with it. He half leaned and half lay down, and couldn't help laughing: "Who are you giving the day off?"
"Can't I take a day off?" Chen Youhan sat down on the edge of the bed, put his hands in his trouser pockets and crossed his legs. He didn't look like someone who was there to keep the bed company, but rather someone who was paid to chat with the patient, and would leave as soon as the bill was paid.
"How does it feel?" he asked.
"Much better."
His hair had grown longer and he should have had it cut this week, but he was delayed by illness. His overly long bangs hung down, slightly covering his eyebrows and eyes.
Getting in the way.
Chen Youhan reached out and used her fingertips to brush his hair, her heart softening. Ye Kai's senses were sluggish, but he could still smell his scent, coming from the strong wrist that took off the watch. He remembered the only good part in his dream, when Chen Youhan bent down and kissed him. Not on the lips, but on his forehead in a gentlemanly way, with a subtlety that was more than friends but less than lovers. Although subtle, in that gorgeous and terrifying dream, this scene still made Ye Kai hold on tightly and not want to let go.
Ye Kai blinked: "Brother Youhan, I had a dream."
"Well, what did you dream about?"
Ye Kai said in a hoarse voice: "I dreamed that you kissed me secretly."
In his 33 years of life, Chen Youhan had never been so embarrassed. He was stunned, suppressed his instinctive reaction of guilt and embarrassment, and replied nonchalantly: "Why would I kiss you if I have nothing to do?"
"Who knows?" Ye Kai lowered his head, "Maybe you mistook me for Wu Si for a long time."
"Am I blind to have confused you two?" Chen Youhan was speechless. He bent his finger to flick his forehead, but halfway through, he felt guilty and rubbed his hair instead. "If you dreamed that I kissed you, then I was kissing you."
Ye Kaixin skipped a beat, then began to move frantically, even his breathing became short: "...Why did you kiss me?"
Chen Youhan looked at him, and his voice softened softly.
"Maybe, I like you in my dream."
He resumed his dandy attitude and said, "You are a trap for law enforcement. You dreamed that I kissed you and you came to ask me why? Then why did you dream that I kissed you?"
Ye Kai was speechless and retorted: "Did I say it was a good dream? It was all a nightmare."
Chen Youhan opened his mouth to curse, but then he thought he couldn't argue with a sick child: "Nightmare? Nightmare, you held on to me and wouldn't let go, crying all the time."
Ye Kai was stunned, with no impression at all. He stared at Chen Youhan suspiciously: "Don't slander me. I never cry."
"You go ask Qu Jia." Chen Youhan easily turned the tables, grabbed Ye Kai's hand and interlocked their fingers, and said, "Like this, your hand is dislocated. You cried and asked me not to leave, as if I had failed you."
shameless.
Fingers intertwined in the dream.
Chen Youhan despised himself in his heart, but he didn't let go. Both of their fingers were slender and thin, with distinct finger bones, intertwined together, like a promise in the palm of their hands.
Chen Youhan often held his hand when he was a child. When he was very young, he would stretch out a finger, and Ye Kai would pull him, running three steps to keep up with him. When he grew up a little, he would occasionally hold his hand and take him to eat ice cream. He had a mouthful of cavities, and Qu Jia was so angry that he sent someone to watch Ye Kai 24 hours a day. It was not appropriate after he entered junior high school. It had been many years since she held his hand in Xiwan. But why did the feeling change? When he held his hand at that time, he wanted to hug him, like a boyfriend, hug him tightly.
Ye Kai struggled for a moment, trying to pull his hand back, but Chen Youhan let go first. However, he felt confused and took advantage of the situation to gently hold half of his hand, saying lazily, "You don't recognize me after crying, right? And you asked me if I consider you my brother."
Ye Kai was caught off guard, forgetting to breathe for a moment, and asked: "...then...how did you answer?"
"Want to know?" Chen Youhan leaned closer to him, his breath brushing against his ear, and said softly and gently, "That depends on whether you think of me as your brother."
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