Chapter 57 Introducing Wen Ran
Chapter 57
As night fell, the plane landed at the airport.
Wen Xi and the other two came out of the private terminal, and the assistant who had been waiting for a long time came to greet them, took their luggage, and led them to the familiar low-key luxury Rolls-Royce.
The three of them didn't speak along the way, and a faint awkwardness filled the underground parking lot.
Yan Jue spoke first. He lowered his head and looked at Wen Xi, his voice as calm as ever: "Should I send you back to school? Or to the rental house?"
"Go back to school." Wen Xi glanced at Yan and Su, who had already sat in the passenger seat.
He turned around and quietly touched the back of Yan Jue's hand, and whispered, "Do you have time tomorrow?"
Yan Jue took the initiative to hook the boy's fingers when Wen Xi touched his back of the hand. At this moment, he rubbed his fingertips calmly and said in a soft voice: "Go see Ran Ran?"
There were not many people in the underground garage, and the light was neither bright nor dark, just a little dim.
"Yes." Wen Xi nodded heavily and said, "So do you have time? You must have time. Introducing you to my family is the first priority for me to do when I return to China."
Yan Jue circled Wen Xi's ring finger with his index finger and lowered his head slightly: "Are we the only two?"
Wen Xi blinked, not understanding why, but still hooked her finger and explained seriously: "Yes, there are only two of us."
Yan Jue smiled and said, "There's time."
Wenxi: "Then see you at eight o'clock tomorrow morning?"
"Okay," Yan Jue lowered his voice, his face a little cold, "I'll take you to see Master's wife at noon to hand over the case."
Talking about Wen Guoqing, Wen Xi's mood suddenly turned bad.
Yan Jue bent down and nuzzled his nose, stroking the back of Wen Xi's hand to comfort him, and said, "Don't worry, I'm here. Go back to school now and go to bed early."
"good."
*
Forty minutes later, the car arrived at the gate of Yunjia University.
Wen Xi subconsciously looked at Yan and Su in the front row. When their eyes turned to the rearview mirror, they were both stunned and felt awkward.
Before going to Country M, they were roommates of the older brother and younger brother, but after coming back, they became relatives of the younger aunt and older nephew.
Wen Xi looked at Yan and Su, opened his mouth but didn't know how to address them. He used to call them brother, but it wasn't appropriate to call them brother now. If he called them by the last two characters of their names, it would also feel weird.
He was conflicted, and so were Yan and Su.
Yan Jue's presence was so strong in the back row, and there was an assistant next to him who didn't understand what was going on. If they called her "little aunt", Yan and Su would never do so, but calling Wen Xi by her name didn't seem very polite.
So annoying.
It’s all Yan Jue’s fault. Compared to both of them, Wen Xi was so much younger than them that he could do that.
Yan and Su glared at Yan Jue unhappily, got out of the car and took out both suitcases, then raised their chins towards Wen Xi, not knowing what to call her, and said, "Let's go."
Fortunately, no one called her anything strange, and Wen Xi breathed a sigh of relief. It was awkward and strange to be called "little aunt" by Yan and Su, who were older than her.
"Um."
Wen Xi got off the car, waved goodbye to Yan Jue, and followed Yan and Su back to school one after another.
The two of them, each pulling a suitcase, walked in silence towards the dormitory.
We didn't talk the whole time, it was so awkward.
Wen Xi wanted to say something to ease the awkwardness, and glanced at the cold-faced cool guy. Her little thoughts were suppressed by Yan and Su's dejected looks. She felt that Yan and Su would get angry again if she opened her mouth.
Yan and Su walked in silence until they reached the dormitory building. Suddenly, they stopped and turned to look at Wen Xi. "What are you going to do?"
Wen Xi was stunned: "What should I do?"
Yan Hesu pointed upstairs and said, "I think you shouldn't tell them who your... um... boyfriend is for now. This matter is not easy to explain."
Wen Xi nodded and said, "I think so too."
The two of them stared at each other, and Wen Xi said, "You're not angry anymore? Do you think you're going to accept that Yan Jue is my boyfriend?"
Yan and Su became angry when they thought about the dinner party the day before yesterday.
He always thought that his uncle was a bachelor and kept himself clean, and even if he had a girlfriend, it would be a casual one. Who would have thought that when he really fell in love, he was no different from a bandit.
He doesn't care about the age difference or other people's wishes. As long as Wen Xi is willing, he will indiscriminately attack anything that hinders the development of his feelings.
Yan Hesu glared at him angrily: "Will it be of any use if I don't accept it? Are you discussing it with me? Is it just a notification, or is it a hard and fast rule that you have to accept whether you accept it or not?"
There is some truth in what you said.
Wen Xi took the initiative to pull Yan Hesu's suitcases, blinked innocently, and said, "I am deeply touched that Teacher Yan can understand. I will pull your suitcase for you."
Yan and Su Yi dodged: "I don't deserve it. You are my elder now. I have to call you Wen Ran..."
What should I call the five-year-old sister of my father's younger brother's eighteen-year-old wife?
Yan and Suka Keer.
Wen Xi reminded quietly: "Auntie."
"Wow." Yan and Su were indifferent: "You calculate very quickly, little aunt."
Wen Xi was choked by the sudden sarcasm of the young aunt, coughed, and glared at Yan Hesu: "Please don't be sarcastic, let's just talk about our own things, isn't it?"
"Why are you talking about your own opinions?"
Wen Xi said sincerely: "Although our identities have changed, our brotherhood remains the same. Privately, you are still my brother, and Ran Ran can just be my sister."
"Will my uncle agree?"
"Why can't I agree to this? I met you before I met him, and your uncle is very easy to talk to."
Yan and Su carefully looked at Wen Xi's expression and found that he was actually saying from the bottom of his heart, "Yan Jue is an easy-to-talk-to person."
Not to mention that Yan Jue's behavior is cold and inhuman, but his uncle's expressionless face that can freeze people to death can be directly classified as a controlled knife.
Wen Xi actually thought that Yan Jue was an easy person to talk to.
"...Okay." Yan and Su were convinced.
"Okay, now the conflict is perfectly resolved!" Wen Xi confirmed again, raised his hand and gave a pinky finger, "Real men are not allowed to bring up old issues in the future."
"Is it childish? Do you think I will bring up the past?" Yan Hesu raised his eyebrows.
Wen Xi said confidently: "I just feel that it is necessary to perform a ceremony."
Yan Hesu's mouth twitched, and he stretched out his hand to hook Wen Xi's finger: "I don't want to bother with you."
After he said that, he put his hands in his pockets and walked upstairs.
Wen Xi looked at Yan and Su's noble and cold backs, and was silent for a moment. He lowered his voice and whispered in imitation: "I don't want to bother with you~"
After Wen Xi finished learning, he felt that it was a bit funny that he secretly imitated others. He snorted and laughed, then pulled his suitcase and caught up with Yan Hesu as if nothing had happened.
Yan and Su heard everything clearly: "..."
*
Back in the room, the four people who had reunited after a long separation chatted for half the night until two o'clock in the morning, when they stopped talking as they were still not satisfied.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock woke Wenxi up.
He got out of bed in a daze and went to the bathroom to wash up. When he passed by Ning Haoyu's bed, his eyes caught a glimpse of two arms of different colors and thicknesses.
Wen Xi: “?”
Something is wrong.
He paused, took a step back, tiptoed, and took an immoral look through the gap between the guardrail and the bed curtain. What he saw was Chen Qiao's white arms, and Ning Haoyu was hugging him with his bare shoulders.
Wen Xi took a breath and his sleepy eyes suddenly widened.
Wait, when we were talking in the dormitory last night, Chen Qiao was still in his own bed. How come he has now crawled into Ning Haoyu’s bed and is sleeping in his arms?
It's still light!
Oh my god!
Isn't this kind of intimate gesture something that only brothers can have? These two actually upgraded their relationship from close brothers to a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship that allows them to have close contact while they were away!
For so many years, Wen Xi only thought that the two of them were close friends who had a good relationship and were fun to have, so how come they slept together?
Could it be that "best friend" is actually short for "beloved boyfriend"?
Wen Xi was in a trance. He looked back at Yan and Su's beds, and felt the mental impact of him and Yan Jue being together on Yan and Su.
Wen Xi spent a long time in the bathroom sorting out his past memories. In his limited free time, he dug out some intimate interactions between Chen Qiao and Ning Haoyu. At that time, he was not smart enough and was only focused on studying and working, so he didn't even notice that his two roommates were dating under his nose.
I don’t know if Yan and Su know that their two roommates are in a relationship.
However, Wenxi felt that heterosexuals should not be sensitive to these ambiguous things between men. After all, the only straight men, Yan and Su, were not often in the dormitory. Every day they were either dating beautiful girls or on their way to dating.
The early bird catches the worm. Wen Xi, who got to taste the melon first, was a little excited. When he went out, he ran into Yan Hesu, who climbed out of bed with sleepy eyes.
Yan and Su saw that Wen Xi was neatly dressed. As they were used to him going out early, they greeted him and went to the bathroom. But before they stepped into the bathroom, Wen Xi grabbed their arm and pointed at Ning Haoyu's bed with uncontrollable excitement.
"What did you see?" Wen Xi spoke in a low voice, afraid of waking up the protagonist.
"Uh..." Yan and Su looked over confused and saw Chen Qiao sleeping in Ning Haoyu's arms. They couldn't see the details clearly, so they just described it as follows: "Are they sleeping together?"
"I was scared this morning," Wen Xi exclaimed in a low voice, "Oh my God, Chen Qiao and Ning Haoyu are in love!"
The boy's tone was full of genuine excitement. Yan and Su's confused expressions gradually became weird. He asked in disbelief, "No, don't you know they are gay?"
"Ah?" Wen Xi was stunned and blinked blankly: "You knew it a long time ago?"
"Yeah, they're like a plaster that can't be torn apart, aren't they just gay? Doesn't that mean you think they're good friends? When Ning Haoyu came back last night, his neck was covered with red marks. You don't think they were mosquito bites, do you?"
Wen Xi's excitement about sharing the melon slowly died down. "Isn't it? I used to think of them as good brothers with the same interests."
"You and I were good brothers before, how can we be like this?" Yan Hesu thought it was ridiculous: "Aren't you gay? I can see it, but you can't?"
Wen Xi rolled his eyes slowly, but he was born gay.
This looks like the type where straight guys fall in love with each other over time and turn each other gay. How can you tell?
"I can't tell," Wen Xi answered honestly, "Maybe I'm not as good as you."
Yan Hesu was silent for a moment, then he folded his arms and looked at Wen Xi, then he said, "...Are you praising me or scolding me?"
Wen Xi was surprised and didn't understand why Yan and Su reacted so strongly. He explained, "Of course I'm complimenting you. You're heterosexual, so you're quicker and more sensitive than me."
Wenxi spoke in a whisper, with a hint of stealth, and raised her hand to give Yan and Su a thumbs-up, saying "You're great": "She's meticulous!"
Okay, confirmed, it was an unconscious sarcasm.
Yan and Su expressionlessly pressed down the thumb that Wen Xi had extended in front of them, then raised their middle fingers to the sky.
If 90% of a person's friends from childhood to adulthood are gay, then congratulations to this person, he can also develop the same good ability of "discerning gays" as him, that is, Wenxi was underage before, and there was a novice protection period, so he hid for three years. He was just 18 and one month old, but he was still able to see his true nature.
Speaking of "identifying homosexuality with a discerning eye", Yan and Su were very curious about how Wenxi could tell that the single Yan Jue was gay.
Wen Xi was stunned. Thinking back to the past, he hadn't thought much about the time when he was trying to capture Yan Jue. He sat directly on Yan Jue's thigh, and since he wasn't pushed away, he naturally assumed that Yan Jue was gay.
Sitting on your lap and calling me brother, showing you little photos, is this okay to say?
Wen Xi pondered for a moment, then faced Yan and Su's curious gazes and spoke slowly, "Maybe it's the attraction of souls? You have a lot of experience in love, so you should understand what I mean, right?"
Yan Hesu sneered: "I don't understand."
"Ah," Wen Xi was choked and thought, no wonder Yan and Su are always on the road to breaking up, how can he understand if he has never encountered true love.
Yan Hesu looked at Wen Xi's eyes rolling around with a regretful expression, and said meaningfully: "You don't understand, I understand. But you still have to keep working hard."
What's up with this tone that's a little bit cocky and a bit like a child pretending to be an adult?
"You know nothing," Yan Hesu rolled his eyes and changed the subject, asking, "What are you doing up so early?"
The topic changed quickly. Wen Xi was reminded that he had to eat later and then meet Yan Jue at the school gate at 8 o'clock.
Time was running out, so Wen Xi said, "I have something to do outside. I won't chat with you for now. Go to the bathroom."
Wen Xi didn't elaborate, so Yan and Su didn't ask any more questions. They let go of her hand and went to the bathroom.
Back in bed, Yan and Su couldn't sleep when they thought about the fact that there were four men in the dormitory, three of whom were gay. Now one of them was gone, leaving only three men, while the other two were sleeping in one quilt.
After lying down and browsing the phone for a while, Yan and Su thought about changing their WeChat status. After changing it to [cracked], they flipped through it and saw Wen Xi's status as [happy].
Yan and Su clicked on it and saw that Wen Xi's homepage only had a photo of him holding a rocket model high up. It was a commemorative model that Wen Xi had specially bought at the H University History Museum.
However, the focus of Yan and Su's attention was that the rocket was lifted up by two hands that obviously did not belong to the same person. The hands were overlapped and raised towards the sun.
It is now 8:23, and this status was modified 33 minutes ago.
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Wen Xi first went to the cake shop to get a small cake, and then took Yan Jue to Xiu Lun Full-time Kindergarten.
It was exactly half past nine when I met the head teacher. The children were just having their second English early education class.
This nursery offers bilingual teaching. Wen Ran has a great talent for languages and she performed the play "Romeo and Juliet" in English with other children in class.
Wen Xi and Yan Jue did not call Wen Ran out. They stood outside the window and watched quietly for a while, then tiptoed to the parents' waiting area.
The monitoring screen shows the progress of the big class's drama performance, and Wen Ran, who plays Juliet, is giving the main monologue.
Yan Jue looked at the confident and generous Wen Ran on the screen. The little girl had a high nose bridge and the same fox eyes as Wen Xi. Just by looking at Wen Ran, one could imagine how lovable Wen Xi was when she was a child.
"RanRan looks a lot like you." He said, "Why did you think of coming to this kindergarten?"
"We came to City A in a hurry. Public kindergartens require various procedures, and it was impossible to get one at that time. I couldn't take care of Ranran while going to school, so I found out about this nursery. It has a good reputation and is expensive, but it is very cost-effective in comparison."
"At that time, I was thinking of hiding Wen Ran from the debt collectors. It was pretty much what I expected, and we lived a peaceful life for three years. The kindergarten had very high security. Even if I was an adult and the debt collectors found me and threatened me with Wen Ran's safety and asked me to pay off all my gambling debts within a year, they would only take photos outside. Wen Guoqing's harsh words also showed that he didn't find Wen Ran."
Wen Xi lowered her head and said with some fear: "I am very glad that I didn't try to save money and just put Wen Ran in an ordinary kindergarten."
"The house was sold for over 400,000 yuan, and I used all the money to pay for the tuition. In fact, many people may not understand why they would send someone to such an expensive nursery when they are so poor. This nursery has very good educational resources, and they teach handicrafts, and they can go to various planetariums and botanical gardens for study. It is also bilingual. I didn't really think about anything. Instead of using the money to pay off my gambling debts, I might as well leave it to Wen Ran to receive good care and let her grow up healthy and worry-free."
The little girl's innocent voice echoed in the waiting room, as if responding to Wen Xi's confession.
Although it was a proactive confession, Wenxi's tears flowed like a river bursting its banks.
It's strange, after encountering Yan Jue, my tears became uncontrollable.
"Do you think what I did was wrong? I was so poor, but I still pretended to be rich and went to a high-end full-time care center."
Tears flowed down his knuckles and dripped onto the ground.
“Nothing is difficult to understand.”
Yan Jue held Wen Xi's face in his hands, asking him to look up and meet his red eyes. He spoke in a very soft but calm and rational voice, "Has anyone ever questioned you, Wen Wen?"
"But when they were judging from their high position, did they ever consider that you were only fifteen years old when you made the decision?"
"A child who has been suddenly and helplessly faced with a huge change has to plan the future of two people at the same time in a strange city thousands of miles away from home and without any relatives. You spend all your money on your sister and give her the best education and the best childhood. As a brother, this is the limit of what you can do for Ranran."
"You just want to keep your only relative by your side."
Yan Jue gently wiped away the tears that were about to fall from Wen Xi's eyes, pressed his forehead against his, and said -
"Wenxi, you are just too scared."
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