The rain in Ning City is endless, sometimes there can be five showers a day. The sun is shining brightly one second, and the next second it is stormy. The central air conditioner is running quietly, and the rain hits the French windows high in the sky, forming circles of ripples. Ye Kai, wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, is at a loss about Chen Youhan's messy house. One-meter-high cardboard boxes are stacked together in twos and threes. The cloakroom is empty, leaving a pile of odds and ends. He carefully walked around the debris on the floor and walked towards the semi-open kitchen. Chen Youhan is cooking for him in the kitchen. He occasionally cooks, but his cooking skills are good. At this moment, he is frying lamb chops for Ye Kai. He is nonchalant, with a cigarette between his fingers, and he looks very comfortable holding the shovel.
Ye Kai had been doing the hard labor of moving things for him for the whole morning, and now he was a little dizzy from hunger. He was being exploited just after recovering from a serious illness, and he felt that Chen Youhan was too much.
"Chen Youhan, why don't you find a few subordinates to help you clean up?" He rubbed his wrist and complained.
"I'm not interested in exhibiting my private life." Glancing at Ye Kai's movements, "Did you hurt your hand? Put down the heavy objects and don't move them. I'll come later."
Hindsight.
Ye Kai leaned against the center island counter with his arms crossed and looked at him for a few seconds, remembering the last time he fried Argentine red shrimp for him, he made a mistake and hurriedly shook all the ash into the cigarette. When he took a sip, he always suspected that there was a taste of nicotine. This man looks very delicate, but in fact, he is sometimes quite rough. He smiled slightly and deliberately asked, "Brother Youhan, is Davidoff's New Zealand lamb chops fried today?"
Chen Youhan obviously remembered this and couldn't help laughing: "Shut up."
"I think the taste of Davidoff is average. How about trying Marlboro this time?" Ye Kai approached him and smelled the aroma of frying butter. He couldn't help but feel greedy for a moment.
Chen Youhan sighed and handed him the cigarette: "Pinch it off."
Ye Kai took the thin white cigarette. The ashtray was beside him. He didn't move. He held it clumsily and brought it to his mouth. He took a sip. The light white smoke came out of his mouth. Chen Youhan was stunned and speechless: "You are in the rebellious period, right?"
Ye Kai looked at him, straight into his eyes, and took the cigarette into his mouth again.
...The moist cigarette holder that Chen Youhan had kissed.
The thought emerged like smoke.
The smile faded in the white mist: "What is there to be addicted to?"
He leaned back, supporting the marble table with his left hand, and held the cigarette close to Chen Youhan's lips with his right hand. Chen Youhan looked at him quietly, with a face as indifferent as if it were transparent, beautiful features, and a faint smile at the corner of his mouth. He took a sip from his hand, squinted his eyes, and said lightly: "I can't quit."
The two of them were eating in a messy restaurant. Fortunately, the table was tidy and had room for two placemats. Ye Kai ate slowly, chewed slowly, and asked between sips of water, "Why did you suddenly think of moving?"
Chen Youhan said casually: "It's too far to go to work."
Ye Kai turned around and looked at the GC building sign shrouded in drizzle across the river and fell into deep thought. ...What kind of peerless young master is this? He can even be wronged when crossing a bridge.
Chen Youhan forked up a fried egg and said, "During the morning and evening rush hours, the Xijiang Bridge is jammed like a sausage. Wouldn't it be good for me to sleep a few more minutes?"
Ye Kaifang put down his cup with a tapping sound. He wiped his mouth and said, "I just came downstairs and the security guard asked me to register."
There were two forms, one for the date and one for the floor. Both forms had to be signed by the person concerned and their phone numbers. Turning to the page for the 39th floor, there were only a few visitors, but the two words "Ye Kai" appeared so frequently that it made people confused. From the signature, he seemed to be able to see how he and he played games and watched movies in the audio-visual room. However, Ye Kai's handwriting was vigorous and beautiful, with a sense of upright nobility. If something was mixed in, it could be identified at a glance.
"I haven't been here since 10:30 one evening in early May."
Chen Youhan paused.
"Who is impersonating me?" he joked, supporting his chin with one hand and waiting for Chen Youhan's answer.
The knife and fork were put down, and Chen Youhan wiped his hands slowly with a wet towel: "It's Xiaojiu."
"I took it home." Ye Kai remained calm.
Chen Youhan threw down the towel and stood up, saying in a very resistant tone: "I was drunk and only found out the next day."
"Is this the reason you want to move?" Ye Kai felt it was possible, but it was unbelievable.
Chen Youhan admitted: "Not really, but it is there."
"...You are so hypocritical."
Chen Youhan sat down on the sofa, crossed his legs and put one hand on the backrest, and said bluntly: "How many houses are there? What's it to you?" Then he waved to him without question: "Come here."
When the others walked over and sat down, he ordered again: "Show me your hand."
Ye Kai stretched out his hand as he was told, and Chen Youhan grabbed it. He checked his wrist and found no signs of sprain, but he still used his thumb to rub it gently: "Does it hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt." Ye Kai let him hold his hand, "Why did he come to your house to sign my name?"
"Because—" Chen Youhan had no choice but to say, "I mistook him for you."
Ye was caught off guard at first, and then inevitably thought of Wu Sijiu's words, about how she couldn't wait to kiss him at the entrance, and then walked from the living room to the bedroom... Her face turned red without any warning, without even a little buffer time.
Chen Youhan didn't understand at all, and at this moment he acted like a straight man like never before: "Why are you blushing? It's a misunderstanding!"
But the louder he spoke, the more he seemed to be hiding something in Ye Kai's eyes. His face became redder and he began to sweat all over. The hand he held seemed to be on fire. He desperately asked, "Is it okay for me to be hot?"
"Hot?" Chen Youhan looked at him as if he was a fool. "The temperature is always 27 degrees. Are you having a functional disorder?"
"I worked, exercised, and sweated. Isn't that okay?" Ye Kai didn't know how the topic had turned to this, and angrily said, "You brought her home to sleep with you, and then you just moved away. Does Wu Sijiu know that you are such a scumbag?"
Chen Youhan's temper completely exploded: "What does it have to do with him? Why do you care about him so much?"
"You brought him home," Ye Kai was also a little out of control. He suppressed his surging emotions and said as calmly as possible: "I thought you were dating."
Chen Youhan reacted immediately, his tone cold and dangerous: "You knew this a long time ago?"
"I don't want to hear..."
"Did you hear it from others again?" Chen Youhan sneered, "Your school has nothing to do but keep an eye on Wu Sijiu's private life all day, right? How come I didn't know that Wu Sijiu is so famous in Tianyi? Once, twice, three times, he can accurately let you know any slight movement." Chen Youhan approached, gently but firmly: "Ye Kai, I'll give you another chance, who is telling you this?"
Ye Kai lowered his eyelashes and remained silent.
A rainstorm stopped without anyone noticing, and a faint ray of light pierced through the thick clouds, projecting onto the white Mediterranean window screen, leaving behind intriguing light and shadow.
"...Did Wu Sijiu tell you that himself?" Chen Youhan let go and held his shoulders. Ye Kai didn't look up, he leaned over and looked down to find his expression.
"Yes," Ye Kai felt relieved and indulged his own willfulness, "That's what he said."
"Why is he telling you this?" Chen Youhan didn't care, but then he thought of something and his back instantly tensed up.
"Yeah, why would he tell me this? I'm not his lover—"
enemy.
The voice stopped abruptly. Ye Kai's cheeks felt numb and he stood up hastily. "I, I'll go pack my things."
As a result, he tripped over the box.
The conch fossil and the half-faced Buddha painting were each wrapped in bubble wrap and carefully put into a cardboard box. Chen Youhan looked at Ye Kai's back as he knelt on the shag carpet, wearing a white T-shirt and looking thinner. The urge to hug him surged from his palms again. He held the glass tightly and drank water, drinking water in an attempt to cover up his mistake. He walked to the window to look at the river view that was beginning to clear up, and asked in a sadistic way, "Ye Kai, you were sick last week. Was it because of a broken heart?"
Ye Kai paused and said, "I guess so."
The fingers holding the wall of the cup unconsciously exerted force, and the knuckles turned white.
"...But it seems to be another misunderstanding." Ye Kai was vague, "Maybe I misunderstood him."
Chen Youhan couldn't listen any more and turned around and left in embarrassment. A 300-square-meter house was still too damn small. He felt that he had nowhere to go. What a bullshit big flat. Go to hell, will you die of poverty if you add a few more rooms? The water cup was placed heavily on the coffee table. Leo got angry and said for no reason: "I told you a hundred times not to fall in love too early! I get sick every time I break up. Isn't Qu Jia sad to see this?"
Ye Kai: “……?”
When the rainy season ends, the college entrance examination arrives.
Tianyi was one of the test areas. The whole school was cleared for two and a half days of the college entrance examination. The last day happened to be Tianyi's social visit day. Ye Kai and Lu Fu were on duty as volunteers and waited outside the school gate early. When the bell rang for the end of the exam, the two teaching buildings were silent for two seconds, and then there were roars and screams one after another. The candidates who handed in their papers went crazy and rushed out like animals out of the pen. The parents who were waiting outside also began to make a commotion, and they rushed in as soon as the security guards removed the cordon.
Ye Kai and Lu Fu walked through the temporary teaching building of the senior high school. Everywhere there were people venting their excess energy and test papers falling like snowflakes. Although the school had clearly prohibited tearing and throwing books, they had been oppressed for more than ten years. Why couldn't they have a little revelry after being liberated? The so-called visiting day was in name only. After all, no one wanted to be hit on the head by Ben Wusan while walking.
The two of them stayed until five o'clock dutifully, but in fact they spent the whole afternoon doing nothing but drinking soda. Classes would start as normal tomorrow, and taking advantage of the last free time tonight, Lu Fu persuaded Ye Kai to go out for a barbecue.
The summer dusk is often the most beautiful moment of the day. The wind blows up the leaves of his loose shirt, and his clean eyebrows are painted by the sunset like a watercolor. The parking lot is much emptier, and the cleaning lady is picking up papers and water bottles. Under the ambiguous orange-yellow light, the two stopped chatting and caught a glimpse of Chen Youhan. He was leaning against the car and casually swiping his phone. He was tall, long-legged, and wearing a high-heeled suit. He stood there like a peacock spreading its tail, causing the lonely female high school students to turn their heads and be obsessed with him.
“Oh my god, your brother is really——” Lu Fu gave a thumbs up: “Awesome, if God had given me half of my handsomeness, I wouldn’t be single until now.”
Ye Kai smiled, guessing in his mind the reason why Chen Youhan came here, and naturally walked over there. He stopped halfway and saw Wu Sijiu running towards him.
"Isn't that the guy from senior year?" Lu Fu squinted and looked at him. "I heard he came out. Does he know your brother? It feels like their world lines are subtly overlapping—" He stopped talking belatedly, but still couldn't help but utter a "fuck"—"Your brother is gay too?"
Ye Kai said objectively: "Both men and women are fine."
Lu Fu was so shocked that his three perspectives were shattered: "You rich people are so fucking corrupt."
The sunset is so beautiful, like a full and fragrant sweet orange——
Wu Sijiu ran towards Chen Youhan with this thought flashing through his mind.
He inevitably recalled the first time he met Chen Youhan.
In the Huangtian Bar, the lights outlined his profile in an ambiguous way. His fingers holding the crystal whiskey glass were slender and powerful, and the square ice cubes collided in the light brown liquid. When he tilted his neck to drink, his Adam's apple rolled, which was a charming curve that made people want to kiss him. Someone greeted him and called him "Mr. Chen". He glanced at him casually, and his eyes touched Wu Sijiu for a fraction of a second. Then he smiled softly, stood up, and neatly hugged and greeted the man. It turned out to be the bar owner Qiao Chu. They chatted, and Wu Sijiu watched with fascination.
No matter how the light and shadow change, it only adds color to him.
"Brother Youhan!"
Compared to Wu Sijiu's sweetness, Chen Youhan was too cold. He said "hmm", put away his phone, and got into the car first. Wu Sijiu was ready for Chen Youhan to ask him how he did in the exam. He wrote the Chinese composition a little hastily, and the math was difficult, but he felt okay. He might lose points if he missed two sentences in the English listening test. The number of questions in the comprehensive liberal arts test was really fucking huge, and he forgot to memorize the political science questions... Chen Youhan said nothing.
Wu Sijiu brought up the topic himself: "Brother Youhan, thank you for hiring a tutor for me, otherwise my grades would not be good enough to get into Gmei."
Chen Youhan smiled without any warmth: "That's good."
The car stopped at the nearest Hilton. He had booked it while waiting for someone for two minutes. He had to deal with some things today. If they got into an argument, it would be a bad scene.
Wu Sijiu was quite surprised. They had not met since the last time he went to his house. During the more than one month of preparation for the exam, he thought Chen Youhan would definitely find someone else, but it seemed... It was particularly difficult to wait for the elevator. The magnificent elevator reflected the figures of the two. Wu Sijiu did not intend to carry his schoolbag up, but Chen Youhan asked him to carry it. He held it in his arms, very well behaved. After swiping the card to enter the door, the schoolbag fell to the ground with a loud sound. He couldn't wait to hug it, and before the door closed, he tiptoed to send his kiss.
"Hmm..." I missed him so much, my body was craving him and I was going crazy.
Chen Youhan was pushed against the door by him. She turned her head to avoid his kiss and pushed him away coldly, not roughly.
Wu Sijiu was caught off guard and a little dazed, with lustful eyes.
"Tell me something."
This was a suite. Chen Youhan did not go to the bedroom, but pulled open the white curtains in the living room. The room suddenly became very bright, so bright that it was blinding, so bright that it could not contain any charm or desire. He lit a cigarette and threw the lighter on the coffee table. The friction between metal and glass made an unpleasant sound. Chen Youhan flicked off the ash and said, "Tell me, what happened that night when I mistook you for Ye Kai."
Wu Sijiu was silent for two seconds, guessed something from Chen Youhan's cold and stern tone, smiled unconsciously, and said self-deprecatingly: "...You remembered it."
"You think I'm Ye Kai——"
"Fucked me all night long, over and over again."
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