From the time he came home with Shen Ye when he was five years old until now, the words Shen Ye has said to him most often are, "Do whatever you want, I'll take care of everything!"
Shen Ye was indeed infinitely tolerant of Jiang Lin'an. Back in high school, a female classmate gave Shen Ye a love letter, and Jiang Lin'an bit that female classmate. At that time, Jiang Lin'an was only eight years old, an age when he didn't understand anything.
When Jiang Lin'an was in college, a girl expressed her love to him, so Jiang Lin'an intercepted them on the way to warn them. At that time, Jiang Lin'an was only fourteen years old.
When Shen Ye learned of what Jiang Lin'an had done, he did not blame him at all, but instead spoke to him.
"Only you in the whole world can take advantage of my tolerance towards you."
Recalling this, his eyes stung, and he felt an urge to cry. He sniffed and said through heavy nasal passages, "Dad... let's not fight anymore, okay?"
"I'm not arguing with you." Shen Ye pushed Jiang Lin'an away and sat up. "There's no way there's anything between us, Lin'an. If you don't kill anyone again, I'll still treat you well."
When he heard the words, "There's absolutely no possibility between us," his breathing seemed to stop.
"Lin'an, if you still call me Dad, please put away your feelings for me."
As the same faint voice, unchanged for centuries, accompanied him, Jiang Lin'an felt as if his heart had been splashed with sulfuric acid, the corrosive pain almost killing him.
"Why can't it be possible? You can marry a woman you don't like, and your heart can hold everything in the world, so why can't you leave even a little bit behind...?"
She lowered her head, tears falling, her eyes as if devoid of life's color, staring blankly into the night. "Leave just a little bit of space for me? Even just a tiny bit would be enough."
All along, Shen Ye has only been good to Jiang Lin'an. All his smiles and happiness come from Shen Ye. He can give Jiang Lin'an everything, but can't he give him even a little bit of space in his heart?
"I have feelings for you, but not the kind you want. To put it bluntly, I'm your father!"
He suddenly raised his head and stared intently at Shen Ye, at his unfathomable eyes, as if he could see through them the day he first met Shen Ye when he was a child.
The day fate changed.
The first time I met Shen Ye was fifteen years ago. I was five years old that year, and Shen Ye was thirteen.
That day, he was so hungry that he fought with a dog for a bone and was beaten by the dog's owner. Shen Ye happened to pass by and saved him, saying that he would protect him from being bullied by others in the future.
Jiang Lin'an looked up at Shen Ye, who was much taller than him, in disbelief, without saying a word. His long eyelashes fluttered gently like small fans from time to time.
"Come on, I'll take you home. From now on, my home is your home." Shen Ye took Jiang Lin'an's hand, then suddenly remembered something, turned his head and said, "My name is Shen Ye. Needless to say, I'm older than you, so I'm an adult. From now on, I'm your father, understand?"
Jiang Lin'an remained silent.
...
The man in his memory was slowly drifting further and further away from him. He was no longer the father he knew from his childhood. Instead, he was replaced by a stranger so unfamiliar that he almost didn't recognize him anymore.
This handsome man had told him more than once: "Ask me anything you want to do, and I'll take care of everything."
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