Chapter 71 Rejection
One day at noon, when Xie Liang and Xu He were having lunch, the doorbell suddenly rang.
When Xu He stood up to open the door, Xie Liang said, "I'll do it."
Xie Liang walked over and opened the door. Outside the door was Long Qingye, holding a large bouquet of red roses.
He looked at Long Qingye speechlessly: "Are you here to eat for free?"
Long Qingye curled his lips: "Why? Are you not welcome?"
"I wouldn't say I'm unwelcome, but haven't you seen enough flowers in the last dungeon? Are you going on a date with such a large bouquet?"
Unable to figure out why this person came to see him, he turned slightly and let Long Qingye walk in holding Rose.
Long Qingye walked straight to the living room: "It's for you."
"You must be joking." Xie Liang followed.
Long Qingye put the flowers on the coffee table and sat down on the sofa.
He lazily announced to Xie Liang: "I'm not kidding. Starting today, I will pursue you until you agree to be my partner."
As soon as Long Qingye finished speaking, the sound of a stool being moved suddenly came from the dining room.
Xu He walked towards the sofa with a gloomy expression.
Long Qingye glanced at Xu He and said nonchalantly, "Oh, Xu is here too."
Xu He walked up to him without saying a word, grabbed his shirt collar with one hand and lifted him up, and with the other hand, clenched his fist and punched Long Qingye in the face.
Before Long Qingye could react, Xu He punched him in the face.
After he realized what was happening, he sneered and quickly swung his fist at Xu He: "When two meet on a narrow road, the brave prevails. How come you, Xu, can do it, but I can't?"
Xu He's face was so gloomy that water could drip out of it. He didn't say anything and just hit Long Qingye where it hurt.
The two men exchanged punches in Xie Liang's not very spacious living room, fighting fiercely.
The two men fought more and more vigorously, and both of them had bruises on their faces.
The coffee table, TV cabinet and cupboards were smashed to pieces by them, and the things on them were scattered all over the floor. If they continued to smash them, the house would be demolished.
Xie Liang reacted and quickly stepped forward to pull the two apart: "Stop fighting! Listen to me! Calm down! Calm down!"
It took Xie Liang a while to pull the two apart.
"Take your things and get out!" Xu He said coldly to Long Qingye.
Long Qingye wiped the blood stains from the corner of his mouth: "It's funny, this is your home? Is it your turn to speak?" Suddenly, as if he thought of something happy, he laughed softly.
"Xu, you haven't succeeded yet, right? You're worried I'll get there first, right? Haha... This is really interesting. No wonder you're reacting so strongly."
Even though Xie Liang was slow to react, he understood what Long Qingye meant. This guy really came to pursue him...
He immediately shouted at Long Qingye: "First, I'm a man! Second, I don't like you! Third, if you have nothing to do, take these flowers and go back to where you came from!"
Long Qingye looked at Xie Liang with resentment: "How do you know if you don't like me if you don't try? Didn't you say you loved me passionately?"
"I love you so much! Can't you even let me eat?" Xie Liang picked up the bouquet of red roses from the ground and stuffed them into Long Qingye's arms. He quickly pulled the corner of his clothes and sent him out the door. "Um, sorry... uh, go like someone else."
Long Qingye showed an expression of not giving up: "There is a long way to go, time will tell you that I am serious."
Xie Liang ignored him. His refusal was clear enough. He smiled at Long Qingye, turned around, and slammed the door shut.
Since then, Long Qingye has been like crazy, having someone send a big bouquet of red roses to Xie Liang's door every day.
Xie Liang felt like his front door was a tombstone, and he was the one being honored with flowers, except the white flowers had been replaced with red ones. He called and angrily scolded Long Qingye several times, but since he refused to change his ways, he had no choice but to give up.
Whenever Xu He saw the roses, he would pick them up with a gloomy face and throw them into the trash can downstairs. Eventually, after so many times, Xu He simply hired someone to clean up the roses at Xie Liang's door every day.
As the days passed, autumn turned to winter and the coolness of autumn was replaced by gusts of north wind.
That day, Xie Liang dreamed of Su Yubai again during his nap. It was still the same island and the same person, but the difference was that Su Yubai's face was paler.
Xie Liang was a little worried: "Brother Yubai, what's wrong with you? You look worse than before."
Su Yubai pursed his lips: "I don't know either. It's not easy to see you this time..."
As he spoke, he put his arm around Xie Liang's shoulders and rested his chin on them.
"Brother Yubai, you should reincarnate." Xie Liang helped Su Yubai sit down on the beach nearby.
Memories of his childhood came to his mind again. Su Yubai seemed to have always lived a lonely and difficult life, and Xie Liang felt a little reluctant.
"Reincarnation? I don't want to be unable to see you." Su Yubai said stubbornly like a child.
"How many times can you see me with a body like this?"
Su Yubai smiled: "Even if I want to reincarnate, I have to know where to reincarnate. My fate seems to have been imprisoned in these illusory worlds."
"There will be a way."
Looking at Su Yubai's haggard face, Xie Liang's hidden guilt surfaced again, "I didn't run away that time, I just wanted to find the adults..."
Su Yubai smiled and said, "I know Xiaoliang won't abandon me."
"I'm sorry." Xie Liang finally said those three words in a serious tone.
Su Yubai covered his mouth with his hand, which was as cold as a dead person.
"Meeting Xiaoliang is the happiest thing for me. I didn't know what parents were, nor did I know what loneliness was. After meeting Xiaoliang, I finally understood what these were."
"If...if I were still alive, would Xiaoliang be with me?"
Xie Liang now understood what Su Yubai meant by "together".
But he always regarded Su Yubai as a relative. Although he had never been in love, he knew that in the secular world, men should be with women.
But...Xu He is different to him. Although he and Xu He have not developed further, he does not hate men.
Xie Liang couldn't use the words "I am a man, I don't like men" to coax Su Yubai.
He couldn't bear it and muttered, "I'm sorry..."
Su Yubai said nothing and hugged Xie Liang so hard that it hurt. He kissed Xie Liang's neck, put one arm around Xie Liang's waist, and unbuttoned Xie Liang's white shirt with the other hand.
After two buttons of his shirt were unbuttoned, Xie Liang finally couldn't help but push him away.
"Su Yubai, I have always regarded you as family." Xie Liang's voice was firm and resolute.
Su Yubai knew he was rejected, but he still didn't give up: "Xiaoliang, do you have someone you like?"
Xie Liang didn't know if his feelings for Xu He were the kind between men and women, so he hesitated: "I..."
Seeing that Xie Liang was hesitant to speak, Su Yubai raised the corner of his lips and said, "Since there is no such thing, why don't we give it a try..." As he said that, he climbed onto Xie Liang's shoulders, turned around, and pressed Xie Liang under him.
After a dizzy spell, Xie Liang fell to the ground on the sand, and then he felt a cold touch on his neck and collarbone - Su Yubai was kissing him.
Xie Liang could sense Su Yubai's obsession and excitement. Although the breath Su Yubai sprayed on his skin was cold, he could clearly feel that Su Yubai was pressing down on his body and gradually...
He disliked, hated, and even felt disgusted by Su Yubai's behavior.
Just as Su Yubai reached out to unbutton the third button of his shirt, he could no longer bear it and pushed Su Yubai aside.
Su Yubai was caught off guard and was pushed to the side on the sand by Xie Liang.
Su Yubai slowly raised his head, his expression looking hurt: "Xiaoliang..."
"I...I..." Xie Liang didn't know what to say and stared at Su Yubai blankly.
They looked at each other in silence, and no one spoke again.
Xie Liang slept until six o'clock in the evening. He walked out of the bedroom yawning. Xu He had not left yet and was fiddling with his laptop on the sofa in the living room.
Seeing him come out, Xu He asked him what he wanted to eat and took him out to eat.
Xie Liang was surprised: "I thought you didn't like eating out?"
"Today is an exception, let's just celebrate." Xu He said.
"Well... Bubu and the others happen to be in the city. They've mentioned several times before that they want to get together. Should we invite them?"
"Um."
Xie Liang felt his throat was dry, so he picked up the bottle of mineral water on the coffee table and gulped down a few gulps.
After drinking it, he realized that the water was Xu He's. His face flushed, and he quickly put the water down and said awkwardly, "Then... where are we meeting?"
"Qinhe Hotel?" Xu He looked at him and smiled, then added, "You can go anywhere else you want."
Qinhe Hotel is the most famous hotel in Linjing. I heard that it specializes in high-end quality.
Xie Liang felt that it was time to go and see it: "Then let's go to the Qinhe Hotel. I haven't been there yet."
"You change first, I'll wait for you in the garage."
Xu He tidied up the documents on the coffee table and turned to walk towards the door.
Xie Liang just realized what was going on, but he didn't know what Xu He was celebrating. "What are you celebrating?"
Xu He stopped, turned around and said with a smile: "Nothing, I just thought I should take you out for some fresh air."
It was rare for Xie Liang to see him smile, and when he smiled he looked really... really handsome.
Xie Liang just stared blankly as Xu He left the door, and it took him a while to come back to his senses.
"Could it be that I've been playing mobile games too hard these days, so he took me out to get some fresh air?" Xie Liang muttered to himself as he looked in the direction where Xu He disappeared.
After muttering, he walked to the closet to find clothes to change.
After changing his clothes, he picked up his phone and sent a message in the group, asking Lu Bubu and the others to gather at the Qinhe Hotel in the city.
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