hAxYG: It's okay, Xiaoyu-ge. It's so hot during the dog days of summer. I'll just play for a little while, and I'll come back if it gets too hot.
Second floor.
The young man's lips were practically curled up to the sky.
I curled up on the sofa, pulled the thin blanket over myself, and my tense and unhappy emotions immediately eased.
Pei Jizhen went out to play ball, but not with her classmates, but with Pei Qing.
They played ball inside the stadium, which was air-conditioned and not too hot. Pei Qing, the playboy, was exhausted recently and stopped playing after only two games. Pei Ji tossed him a bottle of mineral water.
Pei Qing unscrewed the bottle and took two big gulps, saying, "Playing golf is so much better, it's exhausting."
Pei Ji glanced at him and said sarcastically, "Old man."
Pei Qing immediately exploded, "You're talking nonsense! I'm only 23!"
Pei Ji: "Kidney deficiency."
Pei Qing wanted to hit someone: "You really are my good brother!"
Pei Ji: "Mm."
Pei Qing drank a couple more sips of water to calm himself down. The air conditioning cooled him down quickly, and his anger subsided. He had known Pei Ji's character since he was a child.
"Does your sweetheart know how foul-mouthed you are?"
Pei Ji: "Brother Xiaoyu is different from you."
Pei Qing felt she needed an ambulance and couldn't talk to him anymore. What a hypocrite!
Pei Ji: "Want to eat?"
Pei Qing: "What time is it? Haven't you eaten yet?"
Pei Ji: "No."
Pei Qing tossed the ball to someone inside the venue, put his arm around Pei Ji's shoulder, and led him outside, saying, "Let's go eat."
Pei Ji moved his arm to block Pei Qing and said, "I have something to ask you."
Pei Qing pursed her lips. She used to be able to put her arm around someone's shoulder without saying anything, but now that she has someone she likes, she can't even touch him. How chaste she is (sarcastic version).
"Don't ask, I don't know." He retorted in the same tone.
Pei Ji glanced at him, took his phone from the exit, turned it on, saw there were no messages, put it in his pocket, and strode forward, showing no intention of waiting for Pei Qing.
Pei Qing didn't know how many times he had made her laugh in exasperation; what a dog.
He quickly caught up.
"Okay, okay, you're awesome. What's up?"
Pei Ji stopped and turned to look at Pei Qing. "Brother Xiaoyu has always lived on the second floor, and I can't go up there. It seems like our relationship has hit a bottleneck. How can we take it to the next level?"
Pei Qing: "Hmm?"
"You're still awake?"
No, how many people are still that innocent these days?
Pei Ji glanced at him: "Is it strange?"
Pei Qing: "Strange." Without any hesitation, she said, "My brother and his first girlfriend went to a hotel room as soon as they met. Your progress is too slow." Then, curious and gossipy, she leaned closer and asked, "Is it because men aren't good for you?"
"No, you should change your sexual orientation. No man smells as good as a girl. Slim waist and curvy hips. Try it, you might fall in love."
Pei Ji pushed his brother's face away, then took several steps back in disgust, saying, "Indecent."
Pei Qing scoffed, "You brat, don't be so shameless. It was all consensual. What do you mean by 'indecent'? Do you think everyone is as sexually frigid as you?"
Pei Ji corrected him with a serious face: "I am not frigid."
Pei Qing chuckled: "You're not frigid yet? You don't want girls, and you don't seem to like guys that much either, but you've set your sights on the 'older man' next door. You have quite the unique taste."
Upon hearing the phrase "old man," Pei Ji's gaze sharpened instantly as he looked at Pei Qing, and his voice turned colder, "He's only 25!"
To call him a hypocrite is an understatement.
"Oh, your sweetheart is 25 and still young, while I'm 23. Are you calling me an old man?"
Pei Ji glanced at Pei Qing: "Aren't you annoying?"
Pei Qing: "You provoked me first."
Pei Ji: "What did I do to offend you?"
Pei Qing: "You're calling me an old man."
Pei Ji: "You're not old?"
Pei Qing: "Am I only a few years older than you?"
Pei Ji: "Being a year older is still being older."
Pei Qing: "Is one year old considered old? Rounding up, it's the same age."
Pei Ji: "You are four years older than me."
Pei Qing: "A generation gap is only three years, so it's just a tiny gap. You might even die before me."
Pei Ji ignored him: "Boring."
The two went to eat steak.
Sitting by the floor-to-ceiling window, Pei Qing was extremely eye-catching. He had a wolf-dog look, with three-dimensional features and a bit of a roguish charm. He was handsome and pleasing to the eye.
Pei Ji is a handsome guy who is considered the most popular guy on campus. His appearance is more in line with girls' aesthetics. He looks very youthful. However, his indifferent eyes have a kind of aloofness that makes people only dare to admire him and not dare to go up and ask for his WeChat.
Pei Qing ordered a medium-rare dish, slicing it up as she ate, listening to soothing music, feeling her soul soar.
Pei Ji frowned, looking deep in thought.
Halfway through the meal, he suddenly said, "Should I break my leg?"
Pei Qing was still chewing on her steak when she was suddenly stunned. "Huh?"
Pei Ji: "If I break my leg, will Brother Xiaoyu feel sorry for me?"
Pei Qing put her fork down beside her plate, stared at Pei Ji, thinking she had misheard, and asked, "What did you say? I didn't hear you clearly."
Pei Ji: "I was hit by a car."
Pei Qing: ?
She looked him up and down, then slightly lifted her hips and stretched out her arm, pressing the back of her hand against his forehead to test his temperature. Before he could slap her hand away, she quickly withdrew her hand, exclaiming in shock, "You're really crazy! Getting hit by a car? How could you even think of that?"
Pei Ji: "He has autism and cannot interact with people."
Pei Qing was shocked. Autism? Damn it, why didn't this kid say so earlier? No wonder he got scolded last time for trying to be kind. Pei Ji was so angry about his mess last time that he forgot to mention it.
Pei Qing sat back down and remained silent for a long time before picking up his knife and fork to cut his steak. The two remained silent for a while until they finished eating, at which point Pei Ji picked up his phone and prepared to leave.
Pei Qing said, "I advise you not to provoke them."
Pei Ji paused, glancing at Pei Qing.
There was little conversation in the Western restaurant, and the piano music in the background told them that it wasn't a place for loud talking.
Pei Qing took the person away and reminded Pei Ji in an elder brother's tone.
"Since there's an illness, why did you intervene? Didn't you think about the consequences? What if you get tired of it one day, and the other person becomes dependent on you because of your previous actions and starts clinging to you?"
Pei Qing has always been one to flit among countless beauties without ever getting a single petal on him.
I'm most afraid of being pestered.
"anxious."
He won't get tired of it, not at nineteen, not at ninety-nine. If, at some stage of his life, love transforms into familial affection with age, he will choose to accept it.
Now that I've made this choice, I'll take care of Xiaoyu for the rest of my life.
He also believed that he would love the other person very, very much.
No one could make him give so much.
Yes, we've found each other, and we'll definitely spend our lives together.
He will not let the future Pei Ji kill the nineteen-year-old Pei Ji, ever!
"Teenagers are supposed to be having fun, why are you acting all sentimental? It's one thing if you're a guy, but to call yourself withdrawn is just too much, you know?"
Why are you so long-winded? My mom doesn't care.
"Did your aunt know he had depression?"
"I don't know yet."
"Then what are you talking about? It's a good thing you're not Pei Lin. If you were born into my family as the eldest son, I'd change my surname to yours if you could even touch a man."
Pei Lin, Pei Qing's older brother, is 32 years old. He owns a technology company, which went public two years ago and earns hundreds of millions annually. He is considered a young and successful man.
The Pei family has very strict family rules, especially for their heirs. They have strict boundaries regarding what one should and should not do.
The Pei family should be like the Pei family.
She has only one son.
It's bent.
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