Extra world one
Luan Ye's parents are very typical parents who want their children to be successful, so they always like to arrange various tutoring classes for him regardless of his wishes.
Children don't necessarily know less than adults. At least they have the ability to read people's expressions. Luan Ye cried for a long time and saw that no one responded, so he knew that this trick didn't work. In the end, he patted his butt and stood up, and successfully received praise from the child for his precocity.
——So he rarely does things like running away from home, which is something only children would do.
Luan Ye, who had just turned seven, sat on a rusty green iron chair and looked at the group of pigeons that were not afraid of people at the entrance of the park. When he came here with his parents, he really wanted to see these white pigeons flapping their wings and flying upwards, but he always pulled his parents away on the grounds that they were "too dirty."
He actually knew that these pigeons were dirty, after all, birds are straightforward.
Luan Ye turned his gaze to the child wrapped tightly in clothes in the center of the pigeons. The child, accompanied by his parents, stretched out his hand and threw the bird food out.
He lowered his head, not wanting to admit that he was actually a little envious of this in his heart.
Maybe I envy the other parents for not being afraid of getting dirty, or maybe I envy the other parents for being able to accompany their children on this day.
On the day when he was supposed to blow out his birthday candles, he found out that his parents, who had agreed to celebrate his birthday, had to work overtime again.
The chair suddenly made a creaking sound. Luan Ye took his face out from under his arm and subconsciously looked to the side. He saw a man sitting next to him who looked very difficult to deal with. There was even a scar between his right eyebrows.
He doesn't look like a good person at first glance.
Luan Ye, who was holding onto one side of the chair and preparing to jump down, glanced down and saw the small black ball of fur hanging around the other person's waist.
The fear that had just arisen disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Thinking that this man was carrying such an ugly little gadget and was definitely not a bad person, Luan Ye kept holding the chair and was about to jump down, then sat back on the chair.
Gao Yuan, 27 years old, has his career on track and his love life looking bright, but now he has encountered the second biggest obstacle after coming out to his parents with his boyfriend. While busy thinking about where to hide his boyfriend's birthday present, he ended up in an inexplicable place and inexplicably ran into a child who looked very similar to his boyfriend.
Gao Yuan shifted his gaze from the pigeon farm that had been demolished not long ago, and then carefully turned his head to look at the child next to him.
The child, who was probably not even ten years old, had a stern face and was staring at the pigeons over there with an expressionless face. He looked very focused.
"You..." Gao Yuan opened his mouth, and then he saw the child who had been expressionless just now immediately looked at him with a wary look in his eyes, "You... why are you here alone, kid? Where are your parents?"
"Them? They went to buy me a drink nearby," the child said, pointing in a direction smoothly. "Brother, look, aren't they back?"
Gao Yuan's heart was moved by the crisp call of "brother" and he subconsciously looked in the direction of the other person's fingertips: "I'm glad you're back. Wait... where are they?" Why didn't he see the two people who looked like a couple?
When Gao Yuan came to his senses, he saw that the child who looked like his boyfriend had already run towards the park entrance in the opposite direction at an incredible speed.
--Hold!
He slapped his thigh and immediately followed: This reaction was definitely his boyfriend’s when he was a child!
The kid ran fast, but no matter how fast he ran, he could not be faster than Gao Yuan, who continued to exercise after graduation. So after a while, he was caught by the hood by Gao Yuan, who had just left him behind.
Gao Yuan, who didn't even use one tenth of his own speed, remained calm and unperturbed: "Didn't your parents go out to buy some drinks? You just ran away like that, aren't you afraid that they'll worry?"
"It's their fault that they didn't come for such a long time, so I came in to look for them." The child said righteously.
"Okay, you can do it." Gao Yuan was almost giving a thumbs-up to the other person for lying so naturally. He smoothed his hair back and said, "Then I'll take you in to play for a while. We can play while we wait for them. How about that?"
The child he was holding glared at Gao Yuan without any threat, but he obviously didn't want to give in so easily: "Okay, then let me go first."
Gao Yuan squatted down and looked at him: "Do I look like some idiot who could be fooled twice in a row?"
The child said nothing. He glanced at the black fur ball hanging around Gao Yuan's waist, then looked back at Gao Yuan's face: "—Aren't you?"
A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated!
Even Gao Yuan was a little angry!
He stared at the child's face, which looked so similar to his boyfriend's, for a while, then stood up and took his boyfriend's hand: "Come with me, let's go in and play."
The child struggled for a long time but to no avail, so he gave up. However, he kept saying, "Then I want to play with that."
Gao Yuan followed the direction the man's gaze was taking and saw the incredibly childish, childish bumper cars. He glanced at the child he'd caught and swallowed his humiliating words, "Do you think I'm cut out for this?" He took the child's hand and bought two tickets. He chuckled dryly at the ticket seller's question, "Are you bringing your little brother along?" and led the child into the arena.
Fortunately, there were many parents with children in the children's bumper cars, so the combination of Gao Yuan and his partner was not out of place.
Just as he was sitting in the bumper car with his child and starting it, Gao Yuan felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
He originally just wanted to hide the gift before his boyfriend woke up!
"Are you serious?" A child's voice rang out from beside Gao Yuan. "Are all human traffickers working this hard these days?"
If I had known, I would have hidden the things yesterday!
That way he could wake up in bed with his boyfriend instead of being mistaken for a human trafficker by a kid who looked just like him.
"Don't call me a human trafficker," Gao Yuan, feeling heartbroken, turned to the child and said, "Don't you know how to use a gun? Don't you know how to aim?"
Didn’t you see that the kids in the same position in other bumper cars started to raise their guns and go bang bang bang?
Didn’t you hear the synchronized sound of their bumper cars almost being smashed to pieces?
"You are so childish." The child commented, but he still honestly held the movable gun and pointed it at the naughty kid who had been aiming at their car.
Before Gao Yuan could feel the sadness of being called childish by a kid who was almost a quarter or a fifth of his age, he saw the kid who had just called him childish took the gun in his hand and pointed it directly at the forehead of another naughty kid they had bumped into.
"——Bang, you're dead." The child who said this seemed particularly cold and heartless.
The naughty kid who had been ordering his dad to ram their bumper cars was stunned for a moment, then slowly looked at the gun pointing at his forehead, pouted, and burst into tears.
The bumper cars stopped after a while and everyone unbuckled their seat belts and got out.
Luan Ye stared at the pair of hands that had been holding his for a while, then looked up at Gao Yuan who was busy apologizing to the parents of the naughty child who was smiling happily. He didn't quite understand why the other party treated him like this.
"It's okay," the parent said, smiling happily even though his own child was crying. He then whispered to Gao Yuan, "Your brother is much more sensible than my child! He doesn't make any noise at all."
Gao Yuan smiled and touched the child's head: "Really? I wish he could be more naive."
The child shook his head vigorously and shook the hand away.
Gao Yuan's expression remained unchanged as he said goodbye to the pair of laughing adults and crying children. He said to the child, "What else do you want to play?"
The child looked at him, thought for three seconds, and this time pointed at the pirate ship next to him.
Gao Yuan stared at the pirate ship for a while, which brought about countless screams every time it swayed. Although this project was very consistent with his own temperament, could this child who was not even as tall as his waist really play such an exciting project?
The sign on the pirate ship listed several diseases that would prevent people from boarding. Gao Yuan glanced at the diseases and then relaxed after seeing the height requirement.
"You can't go up if you're less than 1.4 meters tall," he said to the child. "Go measure your height first. If you're taller than that, I'll take you up."
However, what surprised Gao Yuan was that the child not only reached 1.4 meters, but also exceeded it by a lot, and was now 1.5 meters tall.
Gao Yuan had no choice but to bring his child to buy a ticket. As he went up, he kept asking, "Can children really do this?" The guardrail was pulled down by the staff member who answered his question for the third time and then fastened tightly.
Then the pirate ship began to sway forward. Gao Yuan was actually immune to this kind of project, but he still held the hand of the child next to him at the moment the pirate ship took off.
The other person's hand was so small that he could cover it with one hand.
The child looked at him and didn't struggle this time.
The boat swung higher and higher, and the arc also swayed halfway from the normal value at the beginning, almost hitting the big tree in front of the facility. The leaves also made a rustling sound because of the wind when the pirate ship swayed.
Gao Yuan turned to look at the child next to him. Unlike the others who were screaming non-stop, the child didn't scream. Instead, he reached out toward the tree in front of him, as if trying to catch the ray of light seeping through the branches.
In Gao Yuan's sight, the figure of the child who looked so much like his boyfriend overlapped with his boyfriend's. He remembered what Luan Ye said to him when he saw the pigeon nest being demolished.
"When I was a kid, I loved coming here to watch the pigeons." Luan Ye pointed to an empty corner and said, "By the way, there used to be a green bench under that tree. It would creak if more than one person sat on it. I loved sitting there."
'I can stay here all afternoon.'
"Do you like... pigeons?" Gao Yuan asked.
"I don't like it." Unexpectedly, Luan Ye laughed when he said this, "...What's so good about pigeons? They're dirty, and they always like to fly around."
'I just like sitting here and watching them.'
Gao Yuan thought to himself at the time: Even if I don’t like it but can sit there and watch it for an afternoon, then I’m not really watching pigeons.
——What are you looking at?
When the pirate ship swung to the same height again, Gao Yuan also tried to reach out. He caught the light and then saw the place in that direction - a couple with a child were chatting in front of the cotton candy stall, laughing from time to time.
Gao Yuan pursed his lips and finally understood what the child he was sitting with was looking at.
The pirate ship took much longer than the bumper car. After shaking for a few more rounds, it gradually slowed down and finally stopped.
Gao Yuan took Luan Ye's hand and asked him what he wanted to play next.
"My family didn't come at all," Xiao Luanye didn't say where he was going to have fun this time, "I don't have any money on me, so I can't pay you back."
"How about a carousel?" Gao Yuan acted as if he hadn't heard anything. "I think a roller coaster and a Ferris wheel would be nice too."
"Look! There's a spinning teacup over there!" Gao Yuan pointed at the teacup spinning non-stop not far away, his voice exaggerated and artificial. "Look, do you want to play with it?"
The child still didn't answer him.
Gao Yuan sighed and squatted down in front of the other person: "Today is your birthday, right? Can't I be a birthday elf who came all the way for you?"
Can't he just be childish for a day? His mindset has clearly changed from "Children are so hard to raise" to "How come my childhood boyfriend was so awkward, yet so cute?"
The child looked at Gao Yuan, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "...Are you □□?"
Well, he was a human trafficker just now, and now he has become a □□.
But unexpectedly, Gao Yuan was not as angry this time as he had been when he was mistaken for a human trafficker. This was because he suddenly realized that whether the child called him a human trafficker or a bitch, it was only after he had taken him to play those entertainment activities.
The other party clearly didn't believe anything was free; he had to pay a price. Even on his birthday, even though the child wasn't even as tall as his waist.
"I'm really not a traitor, nor am I a human trafficker." Gao Yuan took out a photo of himself and Luan Ye from his wallet and handed it to him. "Look, my future self and I are good friends."
The child stared at the photo for a long time before returning it to him: "I understand."
Gao Yuan carefully put the photo back to its original place: "Now you should believe me, right?"
"I want to ride the Ferris wheel," the child didn't answer, but whispered, "I want to ride the teacups, and I want to ride the carousel, too."
"I also want to go see the pigeons," he added in a low voice.
It was a photo of only the man in front of me, but his movements were as if he was putting his arm around someone's shoulders, very intimately, and the happiness in his eyes was almost overflowing.
Luan Ye knew very well that this was not an expression he would have when taking photos with friends.
Although his parents didn't pay much attention to him, they did not neglect his education in this area.
But he wasn't going to say it.
"Okay!" The man with a scar between his eyebrows obviously didn't know that he was the only one in the photo. He just slapped his thigh, looking very excited, "--We'll go and play with them one by one!"
"Yeah." Luan Ye nodded.
…Just be willful for one day, he thought. Just be impulsive just this once.
This was the only time he believed the birthday elf's nonsense to coax children.
Because he will definitely never meet someone who can make him happy on this day again.
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