Ye Kai retracted his gaze from the sea and smiled mockingly: "Why, you admire her more?"
This was a life-threatening question, so Chen Youhan certainly couldn't fall into it. He said implicitly, "I dare not."
Then he waved to Ye Kai: "Don't stand so far away, come here."
When the person came, he hugged her and whispered in her ear: "How about we wait until you don't have the energy to be angry before we talk?"
Having said that, he didn't do anything rash. He just held the person in his arms and sat him down on the sofa.
"It's not easy to confront Grandpa. I don't want you to face it alone one day. I know that we had already broken up at that time. I didn't have any luck when I said those words to you. I was ready for you and me to break up in this life. When I admitted our relationship to Grandpa again, not only you, but also Grandpa felt strange. He asked me, since you are over, why are you telling him all this? Do you still expect him to persuade you to reconcile with me?"
Ye Kai was silent for a moment.
"..." Chen Youhan hugged him, "What's wrong?"
"Do you still remember those two words?"
"I remember. How——" Chen Youhan suddenly realized and laughed, "I remember you said that it was Grandpa who insisted that you come to send him off in person?"
Ye Kai held his forehead with his hand in a miserable manner: "... Damn it."
He pretended for so long in front of Ye Tong!
No wonder Lucas showed dislike, dissatisfaction, and a rather cold and distant attitude on the first day he came to visit. At that time, I thought that my grandfather didn't like dealing with foreign Chinese. Now think about it, it's clear that he was comparing him with Chen Youhan. ... If you have to choose a same-sex partner, Lucas is naturally not as good as Chen Youhan, who has watched him grow up and has a good reputation in the circle for his ability and personality. Thinking about it, he asked Chen Youhan in a roundabout way when he would get married, what kind of girl he liked, and why he and Chen Youhan suddenly became estranged in the past few years... Ye Kai said expressionlessly: "He is bringing us together." After a pause, he repeated it again with disillusionment, "He is actually bringing us together."
Chen Youhan hugged Ye Kai tightly, her face buried in the crook of his neck, laughing so hard that she almost couldn't breathe.
"You are so scary." Ye Kai felt for the first time that the man next to him was unfathomable. "You can even bribe the chairman of Ningtong Bank..."
Although it didn't sound like a compliment, Chen Youhan still accepted it gracefully: "Thank you for the compliment."
"He didn't hit you?"
"No."
"Not angry?"
“Neither do I.”
"...You are his grandson, right?"
"It's precisely because we're not related that he didn't bother with me."
"Then he didn't bother with me."
Not only did he not care, he also pretended that he didn't know anything and watched his grandson act so pretentiously in front of him.
Ye Kai thought about it and felt that he could understand Ye Tong's approach. He and Chen Youhan were over, and maybe he could return to a normal life. It would be better to pretend that he didn't know anything. Besides, although Qu Jia kept it a secret, Ye Tong was not a person who closed his eyes and ears. He could still sense that something was wrong with Ye Kai during that period. After all this, how could he bear to bring up the past again after everything was settled?
After many twists and turns, they came back to the original question. Ye Kaixin felt unhappy: "Brother Youhan, what are you trying to do?"
After the breakup, I learned Go and tea ceremony to cheer him up, carefully accompanied him to relax, and hinted and tested him bit by bit. It was a year and a half of slow and steady plan and action, which took the risk of sending an elderly man with hypertension to the hospital - what was it all for?
Chen Youhan put away his joke and stared into Ye Kai's eyes: "For the chance to stand in front of you again and pursue you openly."
The body that was tightly pressed stiffened, and Ye Kai looked at Chen Youhan in confusion: "What do you mean?"
"Can I be dishonest for once? Be a person without business credit." Chen Youhan pushed aside Ye Kai's hair, his eyes were very gentle, and he smiled and answered himself: "For you, I am willing to have an affair, this should be okay."
"We didn't—"
"Shh." Chen Youhan didn't let him finish, and put his hand on Ye Kai's soft lips, "Ye Jin and I signed a contract."
Ye Kai's eyes sternly flashed, then he narrowed his eyes and asked, "Contract? What contract?"
"Go ask Ye Jin. Have you and her been unhappy over the past two years?"
Ye Jin abandoned the brokerage company she invested in and put all her energy into Ningtong's business. She played an indispensable role in Ningtong's expansion into northern China and its efforts to sink into the fourth-tier cities and towns. Ye Kaihan had few opportunities to meet her when he went home during the summer vacation. She would no longer turn down all social engagements and wait for her at home on Friday nights like before. The two of them no longer had the time to watch art films together in the audio-visual hall on the fourth floor and discuss the plot and camera movements.
Floating clouds are easy to disperse, glass is easy to break, but good times cannot be kept.
Sometimes they had a rare meal together at home and chatted for a while, but it was all irrelevant. Ye Jin would ask him about his college life in a roundabout way, but Ye Kai's response was always perfunctory and closed. Over time, there was really nothing to talk about.
But Ye Kai still often received her express delivery: sneakers, clothes, miscellaneous gifts, new electronic products, and a good book that he used to like.
Ye Kai came back to his senses from his brief distraction and said coldly, "It's OK, just like that."
"Xiao Kai, not every brother and sister will be separated during the process of growing up. Don't think that it is normal to drift apart like this."
Ye Kai was like an ostrich that was suddenly stripped of the sand it relied on to hide. He was alone in facing the sudden and cruel truth. He pushed Chen Youhan away coldly and stood up: "You are her accomplice, you are not qualified to persuade me."
Suddenly being pushed from being a victim to being an accomplice, Chen Youhan took a deep breath and decided to treat this villain to the end: "You and her have had a good relationship since childhood and your feelings are deep. You know better than me. In the future, grandpa, grandma, father, and mother are destined to die first. You and I are together, and we have no children. Ye Jin is your only relative. She doesn't want to get married, and you are her only blood relative. You two are more dependent on each other than we are. Xiaokai, don't torture yourself like this-"
"Are you afraid that I will torture myself or her?" Ye Kai interrupted him angrily and coldly, "She liked you, do you think I can't see it? What about you? Have you ever-" His heart choked and he couldn't continue. He waved his hand to stop Chen Youhan from saying anything, closed his eyes, pursed his lips, took two deep breaths, and finally forced himself to calm down: "I'm sorry, that's not what I meant."
He also felt ridiculous.
Chen Youhan answered him directly: "I don't know if Ye Jin has ever liked me. Maybe she has, but she never told me. As for me, I haven't liked her for even a second. Are you satisfied?"
"I know, I'm sorry, I know you didn't." Ye Kai leaned against the screen tiredly, took out a cigarette from his trouser pocket and flicked it out.
"I tried." He took a deep sip of the cigarette, "I tried not to blame her. I thought a lot during the time of stress aphasia, and I almost forgave her, but I really couldn't do it. I don't know how you forgave her. Without her, we wouldn't have taken so many detours. Chen Youhan," Ye Kai raised his eyes and looked at Chen Youhan deeply, "how important you are to me is how much I hate her."
He smiled subtly, "It's strange, the more innocent you are, the more I can't forgive her. I was about to make peace with her, and then you showed up again, telling me that you have always loved me, and everything was forced by her. I thought you simply thought we had no future and wanted to give up, but you told me that you didn't even want to give up, just because you signed a contract with Ye Jin." His fingers holding the cigarette twitched slightly, "Tell me, what should I do?"
Chen Youhan wiped his face and put his five fingers into his hair.
When they really started quarreling, I found that there was no way to appease them.
He might have really thought about keeping the contract a secret forever. Ninety percent of the truth had already been revealed to Ye Kai, leaving only ten percent of the hidden editing and collage. He was greedy. When he heard Ye Kai say that he wanted to postpone the matter and then make it public, he couldn't help but reveal Ye Tong's trump card. There were clues everywhere, and Ye Kai was so smart, how could he not ask to the end.
Ye Kai looked at him mockingly: "You are regretting it. Brother Youhan, you really want to hide it from me after all."
Chen Youhan took a deep breath and said, "My regret has nothing to do with Ye Jin."
"The two people who hurt me the most were you and her. You know I told her everything. I naively thought she would support us. I even told her that I was gay during the college entrance exam! What did she give me in return? She pretended to obey me but secretly betrayed me. She teased me! Do you know how I felt when I found out that she was forcing you with 20 billion? Your knife didn't come down, but her knife had already stabbed into my body."
"Xiao Kai, you can even forgive me--" Chen Youhan gently but forcefully pulled Ye Kai into his arms and hugged him tightly: "You can even forgive me, why are you so hard on her? I don't want to see you getting more and more lonely, baby," he paused, his voice tired, "I just want to put your perfect life back together."
Ye Kai closed his eyes: "How to fight? Two years is not too long, but what if we just miss each other?" He grabbed Chen Youhan's collar: "I dare not think about it. Sometimes I wake up from dreams at night. I dreamed that you left that letter to say goodbye to me. I couldn't find you no matter how hard I looked. Gu Xiu, Uncle Chen, Ye Jin, Grandpa, no one knew where you were. I went to Qiao Chu's bar to find you. They said, doesn't Chen Youhan have a beloved person named Ye Kai? Go ask Ye Kai, go ask Ye Kai where he is... I dreamed that you came back many years later, on Uncle Chen's birthday, you came back with a very beautiful foreign woman, I ran over to grab you, you shook my hand, smiled politely, and said, Xiao Kai, long time no see. You said this is my lover, and you called her sister-in-law. I dreamed that you and her were watching fireworks in front of the window, which was more beautiful than the one we watched at the annual meeting that day."
"Stop talking," Chen Youhan couldn't bear to listen any more, "...Baby, stop talking."
"...I asked you, Brother Youhan, am I too late? Am I too late to forgive? Have you let it go? You said yes, Xiaokai, I have let go of everything, I am very happy now, and I will get married soon. You held someone else's hand to show me the diamond ring you ordered for her. I wanted to say something, but I found that I couldn't speak again. I could only hold your arm and shake my head. You looked at me gently and said, Xiaokai, don't be like this."
Ye Kai hugged Chen Youhan, trying his best to hide the fear that his heart was about to collapse again, and said tiredly: "Don't persuade me to forgive her. The mistake she made was very small, and her original intention was good, but I can't bear it... I really can't bear it."
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