In the bathtub, Ye Kai cried and almost collapsed. There was a faint fishy sound in the air, and the aftereffects were like waves in his body, pushing him to the shore, and then dragging him into the deeper sea. Chen Youhan was bitten on the shoulder again before it healed completely. Hot tears dripped from his boyfriend's cheeks and fell on the wound, and he frowned in pain.
Ye Kai stared at him with red eyes, his toes in the water were neatly trimmed and pink, curling up uncontrollably. Chen Youhan helped him wipe away his tears with a smile, "Why are you crying so miserably?"
The moment he suffocated in the water, he felt like he was almost dead. He said fiercely, "There won't be a next time!"
But he spoke with a nasal tone, and his babyish voice made him look easy to bully. The color in his eyes became darker, and Ye Kai's scalp tightened and he wanted to run. The water in the bathtub was shaken and surged onto the ground again. Chen Youhan quickly grabbed him and said, "Don't run, hold me for a while."
Her palm slid down his shoulder, across his arm covered with water droplets, and then intertwined her fingers with his. Chen Youhan said "hmm" in confusion, and then laughed: "Why didn't you take off your watch?"
Ye Kai couldn't answer, thinking that you are so shameless to ask. He glanced at the dial and replied casually: "It doesn't matter, it's Panerai."
Chen Youhan held his wrist and took a closer look. The dark green dial and transparent sapphire crystal glass had a strong retro style.
"Is it the bronze series?"
Ye Kai was a little surprised. The bronze watch was a classic replica of a professional diving watch. He liked it very much, but it was not expensive, just over 90,000. Normally, a watch of this price was not worth Chen Youhan's extra glance. He looked back at him. His clean face was white under the light, as if it had the texture of some kind of jade. Although his voice was a little hoarse, it was also very nice, "You actually knew."
Chen Youhan kissed him on the corner of his mouth: "Didn't Ye Jin give you a piece of their antique collection on your sixteenth birthday? Remember it."
Ye Kai then smiled and said, "Brother Youhan, I wonder if you are so vindictive."
He kissed Chen Youhan. The water temperature was a little cold. Before getting up, he suddenly asked, "Do you have your passport with you?"
For people like them, it has become a habit to bring their passports when traveling far away. They don't need to remember to pack their luggage, and they just put it in their ID folder. Chen Youhan nodded and asked, "Want to go abroad?"
The thick floor towel was completely soaked by the hot water. Ye Kai brushed his wet hair. His legs were still a little weak after he stood up. He opened the shower door, answered, and then turned on the shower.
Chen Youhan was still soaking in the hot water. Ye Kai left. He stretched out his limbs and lay down. He lit a cigarette for himself. After taking a few deep sips, he asked, "Don't you want to go home?"
The sound of running water was so loud that Ye Kai could not hear it clearly. Chen Youhan did not hear his response for a long time, so he could not help but curl his lips in self-mockery. Ye Kai came out, and the white smoke and water vapor were lingering. Chen Youhan's strong arms were placed on the edge of the bathtub, and his deep eyebrows looked a little tired. While Ye Kai was wiping his body, he took the remaining half of the pipe from his fingers, "What did you ask me just now?"
Afterwards, the cigarettes were really good. He had learned the lesson thoroughly, and then he realized that he had no chance to do bad things to others.
Chen Youhan didn't reply and stood up from the water which had turned lukewarm: "Nothing."
Ye Kai held his arm, amused but speechless: "What's wrong? Suddenly moved from the equator to the South Pole?"
Chen Youhan smiled and raised his hand to stroke his wet hair: "It's really nothing, go blow dry your hair."
Ye Kai thought about it, but he didn't understand his sudden depression. He wiped his hair and went out while saying, "Let's go to Lijiang tomorrow and see which one is more convenient for connecting to Vancouver." He paused and said in a helpless tone, "Maybe we still have to go back to Liuhua Airport."
Chen Youhan paused while turning the shower head and half-peeked out of the glass partition: "You're going to Vancouver?"
Ye Kai responded, his voice getting closer and farther as he walked: "Grandma hasn't seen you for a long time. She should be very happy to see you."
His heart felt an indescribable tremor for a moment, and Chen Youhan was struck by great joy. The sexual pleasure did not make his fingers tremble, but Ye Kai's short words did. He swallowed uncontrollably, and then asked in a deliberately calm tone: "In what capacity?"
The sound of the hair dryer was heard, but Ye Kai didn't hear it. He was in a good mood and was blowing his hair. Looking at himself in the mirror, the corners of his mouth even curled up naturally.
Chen Youhan rinsed at ease, holding his breath under the scalding water. Although he was thirty-six, the years had left no trace on him. Apart from the halo of money, his handsomeness, demeanor, and even sexual charm had not diminished but increased in the past two years. His three-dimensional, cold face, like a sculpture, looked young and pale under the overhead light, but his lips were raised with a faint arc. He thought to himself, this birthday is not bad.
When they returned to the living room, Ye Kai had already finished blow-drying his hair. He wrapped Chen Youhan in a bathrobe and carefully tied the belt around his waist. He looked at him and said, "I just checked the plane ticket. I still have to fly back to Ning City and transfer. Brother Youhan, are you available?"
Chen Youhan decided not to ask the question again. He took his refreshing head and kissed him on the forehead: "You arrange it."
We slept until about 10 o'clock, had a lazy brunch on the balcony, drove to Lijiang, flew back to Ningshi Liuhua Airport from Lijiang, and then transferred from Ningshi to Tokyo and flew to Vancouver. It was quite a hassle.
The A380 first-class cabin is spacious and low-key. Ye Kai woke up wrapped in a blanket and suddenly remembered that New Year. He tilted his head to look at Chen Youhan and found that he was working on the project information. He took off his headphones and leaned over to poke his arm, whispering, "Brother Youhan."
Chen Youhan said "hmm" indifferently, his eyes fixed on the iPad, "There are still five hours, there is hot water in the thermos."
"You flew here alone at that time. Was it boring?"
Chen Youhan smiled, and finally glanced at him sideways: "Are you touched now?"
It was a long flight, a leisure time that he managed to piece together from his busy schedule, and a time when he was so excited that he lost his mind. After passing through customs, waiting for the flight, and entering the gangway, amid the trembling sound of the plane's engine and the feeling of overweight during takeoff, he asked himself, what was he trying to achieve? The question did not allow him to delve into it, and he told himself that he was trying to achieve nothing. Such a pretentious attitude disappeared invisibly the moment he saw Ye Kai. He was trying to achieve a smile from him, the look in his eyes at dusk, and the surprised "Brother Youhan".
Ye Kai took advantage of the situation and said in a pretentious and subtle way, "It's too early for you to like me."
"I don't like it. You're overthinking it." Chen Youhan retorted indifferently, sliding his finger across the page.
Seeing that Ye Kai didn't move, he glanced at him and found it funny, "You're angry too?" He put down his iPad and coaxed him seriously, "I don't like him, but I have deep feelings for him."
Ye Kai didn't want to hear it, probably because he was in a bad mood after waking up. He snorted coldly, wrapped himself in a thin blanket, and crossed his legs facing the porthole.
Chen Youhan took a deep breath, pulled him into his arms, hugged his shoulders, twisted his nose, kissed his soft cheeks and cold and coquettish eyes, and said without principle: "I like you, of course I like you. Flying for more than ten hours just to see you is like love. Not only did I like you at that time, but I liked you even earlier. Every time I see you, I can't help but like you a little more. Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, I see you at least a hundred times. By the time you are eighteen, I will have a high fever and be terminally ill and unconscious. If you don't respond to me, I will block you at the school gate every day, like a gangster blocking a school beauty. All Tianyi knows that Ye Kai has a shameless pursuer. Fortunately, he is not bad looking and drives a Lamborghini. In a few days, they all clamored for you to agree to me."
The more they talked, the more ridiculous it became, and Ye Kai couldn't help but laugh. Chen Youhan spoke softly and lowly in his ear, and no one else could hear it, but they just felt that the two of them were hopelessly sick of each other.
"Are you happy? If not, write a few more sentences and make it a full five hours."
Ye Kai was speechless and looked at him coldly: "You can write it in five hours until you are eighty years old."
Chen Youhan was very good at coaxing, but there was a careless sincerity in his words. He moved the corners of his lips: "What's so good about being eighty years old? Just be like grandpa and grandma. Drink tea, grow flowers, go to see snow-capped mountains in summer, and sunbathe at the beach in winter. What else?" He pondered and lowered his voice: "When you are eighty years old, I have to live to ninety-six. I have quit drinking, and I will quit smoking from tomorrow." He kissed Ye Kai on the top of his head. How could he make himself sad while coaxing? He didn't finish his words. When he passed ninety-six and passed away, what would Ye Kai do? He still had more than ten years to live. ... How would he live alone?
Ye Kai hugged him under the thin blanket, calmly and without any effort. Then he said naturally, "Eighty years old is enough for me." He raised his head, his clean face calm and innocent, "Eighty years old is also a long life, right, Brother Youhan?"
Chen Youhan couldn't listen any longer. His heart ached so much that he had to smile and brush it off lightly: "Can you stop talking?"
Ye Kai snuggled up to him and stopped talking.
After a while, Chen Youhan heard him whisper, "I won't be able to find you. Please don't let me not be able to find you."
The flight attendant was doing cabin service, and when she passed by them, she took a few extra glances, which violated her professional ethics. She just felt that they were a perfect match. A perfect match from the bottom of their hearts. She saw love at first sight, and when she returned to the crew, she gave up the idea of giving Chen Youhan her phone number.
The plane landed in Vancouver at dusk. After picking up their luggage, they walked through the chaotic crowd towards the exit. Lan Man and Qu Zhongli greeted them with a sign. On the white glossy cardboard, written in black marker, were the names of Ye Kai and Chen Youhan, written side by side, with a heart in the middle.
Lan Man hugged Chen Youhan first.
As people age, their height tends to decrease.
Chen Youhan felt that Lan Man seemed to be much shorter, so he leaned down and hugged her in a considerate and gentlemanly manner. Lan Man's thin body was held in his arms, and his old but well-maintained hands patted Chen Youhan's back gently: "Youhan, we have been waiting for you for two years."
Chen Youhan choked up at her faint sigh. The Chen family didn't have such an old elder. His mother, Ning Shu, was an orphan whose background was unknown, his grandmother died young, and his grandfather was very exhausted when he was young and didn't live very long. He treated the elders of the Ye family as his own elders. Lan Man's body temperature, perfume, soft hair, kind but still clear and intelligent eyes made Chen Youhan feel like a junior as never before.
Qu Zhongli then hugged her too. Lan Man lost her composure a little, and her eyes were red. Qu Zhongli held her in his arms and coaxed her like a little girl, "Don't cry, don't cry, Man Man. Look, isn't You Han almost as handsome as I was when I was young?"
Lan Man burst into laughter and said, "You are far worse than him!"
All four of them laughed.
Ye Kai said: "Brother Youhan, you haven't said hello yet."
Chen Youhan called them "Grandpa" and "Grandma" respectively.
Lan Man looked at him with eyes so gentle that tears were about to flow out. She took out a thick red envelope from her bag and handed it to Chen Youhan: "This is the courtesy of the older generation in Ning City. I know you are not short of money, but you must accept this."
Chen Youhan hadn't received a red envelope for many years. He took it with both hands and found a velvet "囍" character embossed on the cover of the red envelope.
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