We spent three days in Fiji, island hopping, paragliding, helicopter rides, sunset cruises, sea fishing, shark diving, and everything in between. But most of the time it was Ye Kai who was playing, and Chen Youhan was just accompanying him on the yacht. He was constantly on the phone, and later he started to bring his computer on board. When they came across yachts from other hotels, where handsome men and beautiful women were sunbathing in bikinis, Chen Youhan got angry with Gu Xiu in the video.
On the fourth day, Ye Kai woke up very early. He sat on the bed, holding the quilt, and his eyes looked through the palm trees and green coconut trees to the emerald blue sea. He was dazed and obviously unfocused. Before he could sort out his emotions, he heard Chen Youhan calling again: "Well, why are you in such a hurry? Two or three days - is he in jail?" The voice was stern: "Let Ren Jia - no, you go in person. Who will take over? Forget it, why should I ask you - hang up, the old man called me."
Pick up.
"Hello, Dad. Um, in Fiji." And then he didn't say anything else.
Ye Kai got out of bed quietly and pushed open the glass door. He saw Chen Youhan, dressed in linen, standing by the pool, smoking and talking on the phone. His expression gradually became serious. After a while, he took a long breath, raised his hand to twist the cigarette butt, and there was a fierce and impatient look in his eyes. He smiled slightly mockingly, "You didn't offend him lightly back then."
I don't know what Chen Fei said again. Chen Youhan put one hand on his waist and lowered his head and walked around. The more he listened, the more annoyed he became: "Chen Nanzhu should have packed up and sent it to Hawaii a long time ago. Don't say that I'm too lazy to argue with her. If we really fight, will she be able to stand up? If I wasn't afraid of pissing you off to death - okay, okay, I'll take care of it and play the bad guy. I can't go back now!" He suppressed his anger and laughed: "I'm not on vacation in Fiji, so I'm here as a laborer? What little star? Okay, okay -"
When he looked up and saw Ye Kai, he stopped talking immediately and even his tone became much more obedient: "I'm going to hang up first. That's it for now, okay."
Ye Kai was wearing a T-shirt and shorts, leaning against the glass door, his eyes unfocused, as if he was still sleepwalking. His soft black hair fluttered slightly in the bright sea breeze of the South Pacific. Beside the swimming pool, hibiscus flowers were in full bloom.
Chen Youhan stood there and looked at him one more time before he was willing to walk towards him.
"Did you sleep well last night?"
Ye Kai covered his mouth with the back of his hand and yawned slightly, saying listlessly, "It's so late to fall asleep."
How could Chen Youhan not know? He could only hear him turning over, sitting up, lying down, lying down, sitting up, turning over, just like he had been doing sit-ups all night. He raised his hand to pinch his neck. Ye Kai shuddered and instinctively raised his neck. His eyes narrowed slightly in the sunlight, and his face was almost as transparent as jade. Chen Youhan looked away, staring intently and with an intention to hide his true colors at a red flower trembling in the sea breeze.
"Brother Youhan..."
"Um?"
“Are the flowers pretty?”
Chen Youhan said subconsciously: "It looks good."
All I could think about was Ye Kai.
When he reacted, he saw Ye Kai smiling lazily at him: "Ning City is full of them, why haven't I seen you look so carefully?"
He withdrew his hand and punched Ye Kaitou on the head.
The two went to the restaurant for dinner. The breakfast room was completely transparent, facing the vast grassland, where several clean sheep and alpacas were raised, as well as giraffes. Ye Kai had been busy feeding them these two days, causing them to stick their necks out of the window at mealtime. Ye Kai had no time today, and just after eating a few bites, he received a video call, and was shocked to death - it was Qu Jia.
"Mom." He picked up the phone and sat up straight, obediently.
"Where is it?" Qu Jia asked patiently.
Ye Kai glanced at Chen Youhan: "Fiji."
"Who took you there?"
Chen Youhan held his forehead with his hand, and Ye Kai said, "I asked Brother Youhan to bring me here."
Qu Jia's voice was filled with anger: "Chen Youhan, I know you are listening. Send my son back within three days, otherwise--"
"Okay, okay, Auntie, there's no other way. Don't be angry." Chen Youhan begged for mercy, but there was a smile in his voice, which didn't sound very serious.
Ye Kai acted cute and coaxed, "Mom, I'm just too tired and want to go out and play for a while. Brother Youhan used the card, so let's treat him to a meal together when we get back."
Qu Jia was so angry that he kidnapped his own son and still wanted to treat him to a meal?
"Eat, and then put me in solitary confinement after you finish eating!"
Bang, hang up.
Ye Kai bit the small silver spoon and laughed while lying on the table. Chen Youhan was speechless: "I lost points with your mother, didn't I?"
"Mariana Trench," he said pertinently, and then consoled her, "It's okay. Ms. Lan likes you. Based on experience, Ms. Qu can't do anything to Ms. Lan."
Seeing Chen Youhan lowering his head to reply to WeChat again, Ye Kai took the initiative to say, "Go back tomorrow, Brother Youhan, isn't it time for you to go to work?"
Chen Youhan took back his phone: "No, didn't you make an appointment for skydiving? It doesn't matter if you go for these two days."
"It's okay, we can come again next time. Brother Youhan, I may not be able to come out on my birthday." Chen Youhan's birthday is August 7th. According to Qu Jia's conduct, Ye Kai can't go out before mid-August.
Chen Youhan said, "It's okay."
"Then I don't have time to prepare a gift. I wanted to find something with a special meaning for you in an antique shop in Vancouver."
Chen Youhan smiled: "It doesn't matter, Fiji will just treat these few days as his birthday."
Ye Kai was stunned: "Really?"
Chen Youhan asked, "What kind of antique do you want to give me?"
Ye Kai bit the spoon and thought for a moment: "It symbolizes eternity, good luck and happiness forever."
"Forever and good luck - I got it." Chen Youhan smiled: "I like it very much."
One of the gifts I gave before was hanging in the living room, and the other was placed at the bedside. Ye Kai deliberately asked, "Where are you going to put such a good gift this time?"
Chen Youhan said calmly, "Keep it in mind."
Having said that, I still can't help but look forward to my birthday.
After Ye Kai returned, Qu Jia completely controlled his personal freedom. He had to attend cram schools from morning till night, and in order to prevent him from getting bored, he had to beg and plead for two extra tennis classes. His cell phone was not confiscated, and he was only allowed to play for one hour a day like visiting in prison. Qu Jia didn't care so much in the past, but it was because Ye Kai played too much this time. He ran back to China from Vancouver without telling anyone, and went to Fiji with Chen Youhan. If he were a girl, she would suspect that he had fallen in love with Chen Youhan and eloped with someone! Besides, Ye Kai had just entered the rebellious period that made parents most anxious and guarded against. If he was really left alone, she might get even bigger trouble next time.
At around 6pm on the 6th, I received a WeChat message from Ye Kai, which sounded like a secret code: Brother Youhan, are you there?
:exist.
：Happy birthday. Sorry I can only tell you in advance, otherwise you won’t be able to queue tomorrow.
Q: Do we have to be the first to do something like this?
: You must be very busy tomorrow
: There may be thousands of people blessing you
I will be drowned
Chen Youhan posted a screenshot.
Ye Kai clicked it and took a look, the corners of his mouth curled up.
My heart is like the grasslands of Yili in June, full of small white flowers.
: Did you set it to top?
:Um.
:Why?
: I’m afraid you’ll get drowned because you’re small.
: Tsk, I’m 1.78 meters tall, I just measured myself!
: When will I, who is 1.80 meters tall, open some champagne for you?
: Is it that serious? This is something that is destined in our genes.
：I don’t think so.
：Then I won’t wish you a happy birthday.
: You still better wish it. I have been waiting for this day all year, and I have been waiting for you on this day.
Ye Kai didn't know whether what he said was true or false, so he made a phone call.
"Why are you calling?" Chen Youhan was eating instant noodles and went into a meeting right after finishing his meal.
"Hearing what you said, I think it would be more ceremonial to make a phone call."
It's been a long time since I heard Ye Kai's voice, but if I counted, it seemed to be only half a month. Chen Youhan smiled on the other end of the phone: "Then go ahead and talk, I'm waiting."
"Brother Youhan, happy birthday. I wish you... I wish you can get whatever you want, the hardest to get, the most precious, the rarest, and the most desired."
Chen Youhan urged softly, coaxing: "Say more."
He actually just wanted to hear Ye Kai's voice more.
Ye Kai said "ah" awkwardly, and was silent for a while, perhaps thinking about the words, and continued: "I wish you... It's so difficult, what do you want?"
"I hope my lover will finally get married." said Chen Youhan.
"You don't have any."
"Can I keep it first?"
"Well, then I wish you and your lover will finally get married, and that the person you like also happens to like you very much." Ye Kai said, and thought this blessing was good. "I also want this on my birthday." He joked.
Chen Youhan lowered his voice: "Maybe you already have it."
Ye Kai felt that he was comforting himself, and felt a little sad: "I don't think it's likely."
Chen Youhan said: "I am the birthday star, all the wishes I send on my birthday will come true."
Qu Jia counted down from behind: "Count down to five minutes." Then he sighed, "Baby, why don't you chat with your female classmates? Why are you looking for Chen Youhan all day long?"
Ye Kai blushed and said hastily to the phone: "Bye!"
At midnight, I was still wishing Chen Youhan a happy birthday. Then I went to sleep. When I looked at the watch again, it was one in the morning. I was still awake, and my mind was full of what Chen Youhan was doing. Maybe he was at a cocktail party or in a bar. Groups of people toasted him, wished him a happy birthday, sang for him, and gave him gifts. Some people threw themselves into his arms, some people took advantage of drunkenness to flirt with him, and he added hundreds of WeChat accounts on his phone. It would be fine if he wasn't drunk, but would he be unable to control himself when he was drunk? Ye Kai sat up from the bed in a flash. The phone, he wanted the phone. Qu Jia had already fallen asleep, so he ran up to the fourth floor to find Ye Jin.
Ye Jin was watching TV in the small living room. When she saw Ye Kai running over with disheveled clothes and messy hair, she thought he had something important to tell her. Unexpectedly, he opened his mouth and said, "Sister, lend me your phone."
"Get it from the table yourself - what do you want the phone for?" Ye Jin asked.
"I can't remember my summer homework. I'll ask my classmates."
"So late?" Ye Jin checked the time. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, yes. He goes to bed very late." Ye Kai picked up his phone and ran away, closing the door quietly, reminding: "—Don't tell mom!"
He remembered the phone number very well, and his heart was beating with nervousness when he dialed it. He curled up in bed, leaned against the headboard, and turned on a gentle night light.
"Hello." Look, he's not asleep after all.
Chen Youhan sat on the balcony smoking. On the small round table was a bottle of Macallan, half empty. The ice in the ice bucket had melted a lot, condensing into a piece of cold water droplets. He put on his AirPods and added a piece of ice to the wine glass, his tone indifferent and casual.
Ye Kai didn't say anything. Chen Youhan laughed and said, "Miss, you called me in the middle of the night and didn't say anything. Did you break up with your lover or are you pretending to be a ghost to scare people?"
Ye Kai then said, "Brother Youhan, it's me."
Chen Youhan's actions were honest. His hand stopped, and the cigarette ash he was holding fell, burning him and making him shudder. He had just had a dream, but he also felt that his imagination was out of control.
He couldn’t even remember how he spent his birthday last year, who came, how much he drank, he only remembered the conch fossil that Ye Kai had. It was delivered in advance, on the weekend, he was impatient and handed it to him in the car. It was wrapped in a small gift box, and he said as if to take credit, “I wrapped it myself!” Chen Youhan asked him what it was, and he said he picked it up. He didn’t even remember to open it after the party that night, and he had forgotten which bed he slept in. The next day he went home to catch up on his sleep, took a big cardboard box and put all the gifts in it. No one was willing to give the cheap ones, and Chen Youhan had better ones for the expensive ones, so he was so bored with opening them that he fell asleep halfway through. A few days later he opened the remaining half, as if he was doing a task, and suddenly saw the navy blue box, opened it, and it was a fossil. It was really picked up, with frozen soil that couldn’t be washed off.
A soft feeling slowly arose in my heart.
A card fell out of the box, with the following handwritten on it:
"Brother Youhan, I come from the base camp of Mount Everest at an altitude of 5,200 meters. For billions of years, I have only belonged to you."
The signature is "super lucky"
Ye Kai never knew that he also kept the handwritten card, right under the custom-made base for the fossil.
This was all he was thinking about on his thirty-third birthday.
Fireworks, banquets, yachts, champagne, all disappeared into the night.
That day, Ye Kai was wearing the Tianyi school uniform, a polo shirt with a lapel and a blue school badge on the chest.
These images passed through his mind vaguely, and the images were vaguely filled with the smell of sage and sea salt. Chen Youhan thought, that was the smell of Ye Kai that day.
Chen Youhan slowed down his breathing, smiled softly and asked, "Did you steal your sister's phone?"
"What's the point of stealing? I borrowed it openly. Are you busy?"
So reserved. But Chen Youhan knew it clearly: "Not busy, alone."
A stone fell from his heart, and Ye Kai grabbed the quilt unconsciously: "Then what are you doing?"
"Look at the moon."
The moon? Ye Kai turned his head and looked out the window, but couldn't see it, it was a blind spot. He asked, "Is it beautiful?"
Chen Youhan said, "It's beautiful. The moonlight is beautiful tonight." He took a sip of whiskey and suppressed his pounding heart.
"Natsume Soseki said——"
"I know." Chen Youhan raised the corner of his lips.
Ye Kai grabbed the quilt: "What do you know?"
"The moonlight is beautiful tonight. I love you."
He spoke fluently, without any worries.
Ye Kai began to stutter: "Yes, he told his students in class, he said, the Japanese confession -"
"Xiao Kai, I just looked at the calendar. There are still 219 days from today to March 15th next year."
"Two hundred and nineteen days." He repeated to himself, not knowing why.
"Can you try to like me?"
Bang!
Ye Kai felt like his heart was hit.
"I like you...?"
Chen Youhan put out his cigarette, put down his wine glass, took his AirPods out of his ears, stood up, and put his arms on the railing. The moon was in the middle of the sky. People in the Eastern Hemisphere must have different answers to whether it was beautiful or not, but he took a gamble and whispered while holding the phone: "Don't like my sister anymore. Try to like me."
Ye Kai opened his eyes wide - he didn't dare to blink at all.
"It's so hard to like my sister, and he won't respond to you. Just like me, have a relationship with me, but stop when it's time, and we can part ways amicably."
Ye Kai pursed his lips tightly and dared not speak.
"If you still don't like me by next birthday, I will continue to pursue you."
His eyes were sore and he couldn't help but blink. He raised his hand and wiped his face, which was wet and slippery.
"If you really don't like me, then you can still call me Brother Youhan." Chen Youhan asked gently, "Okay?"
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