Chapter 34

He was talking about the period after He Songgao resigned from the Ministry of International Trade and went to the headquarters for study. After that, He Songgao seemed to have changed into a different person and ignored Roger. He sent this guy three messages a day, good morning, good afternoon and good night, and he didn't reply for a week. Roger didn't understand what he did wrong at first, but later he thought that maybe it was just that with the passage of time, He Songgao had more worthy friends and left him, the old man, in the long river of time. He

had guessed this before. He knew Alvis in the past. He was not a mean person who despised the poor and loved the rich and treated them differently.

Even when He Song made a big announcement about him being his secretary, he was so excited that he forgot himself. He felt that Alvis was still the same Alvis, his good friend, and a good man who would not forget to help his old friend even after he became successful.

But who would have thought that Alvis would become the cold, arrogant, and domineering president who only looked down on others.

Sometimes he wanted to talk to Alvis, but he didn't know how to start the conversation. He and Alvis were standing very close, just separated by a desk, but it seemed like there was a wide river between them. Alvis seemed to intentionally treat him only as a secretary, not as anything else, such as a friend with whom he could talk about private topics, even if he was just an ordinary friend. But Alvis didn't. Without his permission, Roger didn't dare to do it either. After all, he was not Alvis now, but the president. As a mere secretary, how could he dare to disobey his superiors?

Roger did have complaints about He Songgao. He hated that He Songgao had made his favorite friend disappear. Now this president was really annoying to look at sometimes.

In the dark night, Roger's tears gleamed under his eyelashes. He blinked desperately, holding back the tears that represented his fragility.

After a long time, he heard He Songgao say, "Because I'm busy."

Oh, he realized that this was an answer to his previous question.

This sentence was like the standard and unified words of a scumbag to answer a spare tire, and it seemed so perfunctory.

"No matter how busy you are, you can't possibly not spare time to reply to my series of messages, right? Are you so busy that you don't even have a minute?"

"..." He Songgao exuded a strong sense of irritation, "It's been so long, do you have to dwell on this matter? I am indeed very busy, so busy that I don't even have time to sleep. If you don't believe me, forget it."

Luo Jie looked at him dimly: "Why don't you just admit that you forgot your loyalty for the sake of beauty?"

He Songgao: "What nonsense are you talking about again?"

"Didn't you say you had a girlfriend?" Roger said, and then corrected Kasutaka Takashi's mistake, "It should be a boyfriend. You said you had a boyfriend and forgot about your best friend, and I can accept this reason. It's not that you think I'm a bad person and you don't want to date me at all. Why did you let me have such a misunderstanding?" It's something that can be explained in one sentence.

"..."

"So it's your problem." Roger concluded.

He Songgao seemed to be defeated by him. He took a short deep breath: "It's my problem."

"Then just say you're sorry."

"..." He Songgao said, seemingly a little reluctant, "I'm sorry."

Luo Jie hesitated and said, "Then I forgive you...right."

"Then what?"

"What then?" This inexplicable sentence confused Luo Jie, "Then why don't we get along well in the future. Don't always use your status as the president to pressure me. You forced me to work overtime in the afternoon and on weekends. Have you forgotten?"

"You just said it, as if you care about me a lot." He Songgao tilted his head slightly, looking thoughtful, "It's just that I ignore you, and you're like an abandoned woman. Do you like me that much?"

This, this, why is this a bit strange. Roger suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and said, "I do like you... but don't get me wrong, it's just a friendship." He tried his best to explain, "Don't you have a friend who makes you happy when you are together? If so, you should know that you like him for no reason, just like liking a girl. You just want to play with him, and play all the time. Even when you two become old men, you still want to go fishing in the river together with crutches..." He accidentally saw He Songgao's eyes and was stunned. Why, why is it so strange? Oh my God, he won't make things worse, will he? "You, what are you looking at? I'm very innocent, okay? I'm a straight man! I just treat you as a friend!"

He Songgao said, "Oh, you are a straight man. I'm just a little confused, why do you have to explain so much?"

"Me!" Roger was so anxious that he was about to jump up and down, "That's why you are like this that I doubt... doubt, that," you like me. But having been humiliated once, Roger didn't dare say such words again, "I am always straight, please stay away from me as a homosexual, and don't keep saying things that will cause misunderstandings."

"You are too sensitive." He Songgao snorted coldly and spread his hands, "We homosexuals don't like a man just because we see him. We also have our own aesthetics."

"Then what kind do you like?"

"What, do you want to introduce me to someone?"

"Well... if there is a chance." Roger was almost unable to continue and really wanted to end the topic, "It's snowing, it's so cold."

He Songgao raised his hand and made a move that confused Roger very much -

he held his face with one hand, and Roger got goose bumps all over his body. Because he was too shocked, he forgot to move for a moment. He only felt He Songgao's thumb wiping the corner of his eye, and then said: "What's the use of crying. Next time you encounter something like this, don't cry anymore."

Luo Jie opened his mouth and felt that his expression at the moment must be very stupid: "Just talk, why did you touch my face?"

He Songgao's eyes flashed with an unobvious smile: "Why, I can't touch it?"

Luo Jie didn't dare to move at all, and was in panic as if he was being grabbed by the throat by a prey: "You, you remember that you are gay, you treat us straight men like this, aren't you afraid that I will misunderstand you?"

"Hmph." He Songgao snorted lightly, looking a little disdainful. "You said you wanted me to be nice to you, so I did. You also said that I had bad feelings for you, so what should I do?"

Luo Jie: "Take your hand away first."

He Songgao put his hand down as he said: "If there is mud in your heart, everything will be dirty." He shrugged and said, "I have nothing to say."

"..." What's going on? Why do I feel a little guilty? Luo Jie shook his head and looked at him suspiciously, "You really didn't do it on purpose, on purpose." He didn't dare to say the word "disgusting" anymore. He suppressed the shame in his heart and replaced it with a more accurate word, "You teased me on purpose. I'm a straight man and I feel uncomfortable."

"..." He Songgao was speechless. He simply stepped forward, held Luo Jie's face with both hands, and rubbed it, "Don't worry, I'm absolutely innocent. Don't put a label on me casually."

"I, I know!" Luo Jie was almost scared to death. He pulled He Songgao's hands with both hands, pulled them apart, and said in horror, "Please be normal!"

"Haha." He Songgao chuckled and said jokingly, "Has your homophobia not been cured yet?"

"I'm not homophobic!"

"Then don't resist my 'goodness' to you." He Songgao said, "Or do you think there can't be a simple friendship between us?"

Luo Jie said, looking a little anxious: "I don't think so!"

"That's good. You said it, we hate each other," He Songgao said in an emphatic tone, "it's safe."

"...Oh." Strange, this is obviously the truth, why does he feel weird.

"Yeah."

A gust of cold wind blew, and Luo Jie shrank his neck, "It's really cold, aren't you cold?"

"If you're cold, let's go." He Songgao said.

"I wonder if Master Chen has come back yet." Luo Jie said, and was about to take out his phone to call Master Chen.

"No need." He Songgao said, "Just stay here tonight. It's late, so we don't have to bother."

"Really? Then I'll stay here too?"

"Really." He Songgao smiled, "You can go back if you want."

"No, no, no, I'll stay here too!" Luo Jie said quickly. If there's a free benefit, why wouldn't he take it! He took out his cell phone and called the resort hotel, "A lake view room or a mountain view room? Or the invincible supreme VIP suite?"

"Lake view room."

Luo Jie looked at him eagerly, "What about me?"

"You what?"

"What room should I stay in?"

"You also stay in a lake view room."

"Can you book a suite for me?" Luo Jie took the opportunity to make a request, "I'm almost dead tired today, and I recently broke up with my lover. I need a big surprise to dilute the pain in my heart."

He Songgao said very coldly, "No."

"Stingy!" Luo Jie muttered and called the hotel to book a room.

After booking the room, he looked at He Songgao and stomped his feet. His feet were numb from standing for too long. "Let's go. It's so cold."

He Songgao turned around and said, "Let's go."

The two of them went back along the way they came. The snow was still falling, and it was getting heavier and heavier. The flying snowflakes dyed the dark ground a little white. Roger brushed off the snowflakes on his shoulders and patted He Songgao. "If you had done this earlier, I wouldn't have been frightened for so many years."

"You make it sound like I'm abusing you."

"Didn't you abuse me? Psychological abuse is also a kind of abuse." Roger said, and then he thought of something bad. "If you were as warm to me as spring, would I be so scared of you? In that case, I would definitely introduce Youyou to you - the lesbian who deceived me. With your eyes, you can definitely see that she is a bad person with evil intentions. Would I have been deceived so badly?"

He Songgao paused and said in disbelief, "What does it have to do with me?"

"How does it have nothing to do with you? You can advise me and help me investigate when necessary. Anyway, you rich people all know each other. If you find out clearly, I won't suffer like this - even if it's not entirely your responsibility, you are also partly responsible, and you can't shirk it."

"...Sometimes I really admire you."

"What do you admire me for? What I said makes perfect sense."

"Yeah, it makes sense." He Songgao said, "Then tell me everything in the future, I can advise you."

Roger was a little surprised: "Really? Don't you hate it the most when I chat with you?" In the past, I wished he would only look for him for work.

"Really."

"Don't go back on your word. Don't ignore me tomorrow morning and give me a nasty look."

"...be careful with your words."

"Okay, okay. Don't worry, I will save face for you in front of outsiders..."