five years later

When Liu Youxia returned home, An Yuan was already lying on the bed, not asleep yet, just reading with a book.

"Why aren't you asleep?" He walked over and took the book out of An Yuan's hand, put the bookmark in it, closed it and put it aside.

An Yuan didn't speak, he smiled and looked at Liu Youxia, for the first time he didn't think he was troublesome.

"You're back." An Yuan said in this way, his tone was light, and he sighed a little, as if the other party hadn't come home for a long time.

Liu Youxia frowned and held his face, "Why are your eyes so red, have you ever cried?"

An Yuan didn't answer this question, he threw himself into Liu Youxia's arms and put his arms around his neck.

"Do you remember how the two of us got together in college?"

Liu Youxia laughed at him, thinking that An Yuan was sentimental about the past. "Why don't you remember? I just had a quarrel with my family at that time,

You went out to drink with me, and you confessed when I got drunk. "

"So you remember." An Yuan pinched his neck, "But at that time you lied to me and I don't remember anything."

Talking about the past in detail, Liu Youxia's calm heart started to ripple again. "I'm sorry, I was too nervous, that's why I lied to you."

"Then you like me, otherwise you wouldn't kiss me in the gym, right?"

Liu Youxia felt something was wrong.He let go of An Yuan's arm around him, looked into his eyes and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why do you say such things suddenly?"

An Yuan lowered his eyes and showed a forced smile, "It's okay, maybe I'm too sleepy and can't figure it out. Go take a shower, I want to sleep."

Liu Youxia didn't want to ask any more questions. Seeing that An Yuan was lying down, she reached out to help him cover the quilt, then picked up her pajamas and went to the bathroom to wash up.

He extinguished the big lights in the room, leaving only two bedside lamps.The dim light quietly gathered on An Yuan's face, blurring his hazy expression.

The phone call at night was not from someone else, but from Liu Youxia's sensitive and neurotic mother.The other party's voice was no longer young, but domineering, and gradually overlapped with the woman in An Yuan's memory back then.

An Yuan only met Liu Youxia's parents once.His father is a university professor, unsmiling. Compared with his father, he has no gentleness but indifference; his mother is very beautiful, and has a delicate demeanor like a flower when he is silent, but when he is angry, he will look ferocious like a grieving woman.

The reason for the quarrel between Liu Youxia and his mother in college was that he had not been home for two weeks.At that time An Yuan was waiting for him in Liu Youxia's bedroom, and the two made an appointment to play golf together in the afternoon.

When his mother knocked on the door, Liu Youxia happened to be washing clothes on the balcony, and An Yuan went over to open the door.At that time, Mother Liu was still smiling, not angry, standing at the door in a graceful cheongsam, her hair tied up with an old plum blossom hairpin.She is like a beauty in the south of the Yangtze River who has stepped out of poetry and painting, and she can dazzle that floor by standing still.

He quickly ushered people in.Without it, Liu Youxia inherited the beauty from her mother, and the eyes of the two seemed to be carved out of the same mold.

She nodded to An Yuan to thank her, and then called out "You Xia" in a low voice.Water was running on the balcony, but Liu Youxia didn't hear it, so he didn't make a sound.

An Yuan wanted to go up to her and tell her that the other party was washing clothes outside, but was immediately startled by Liu's mother's raised voice.

"You Xia!" She said as she walked towards the balcony, her whole body became tense.

"Youxia! Why do you wash your own clothes? Why don't you go home?!"

Liu Youxia was also surprised to see his mother, but he was just indifferent. He seemed to sneer and said, "Is it weird that I wash my clothes by myself? Also, I'm an adult, why do I have to go home if you let me go home?" .”

An Yuan was a little embarrassed standing in front of Liu Youxia's desk, he moved a step to go out, but was spotted by sharp-eyed Liu Youxia.

"An Yuan." He shouted, and then threw the clothes into the washbasin, splashing a burst of water.

"We're going to play ball now."

After speaking, he bypassed his mother and entered the bedroom, took off the racket next to the bedside table and wanted to leave with An Yuan.

The accident seemed to happen in an instant.

An Yuan watched Liu Youxia's mother change her face, grabbed the racket from Liu Youxia's hand and threw it on the ground.She no longer has such a poetic beauty, but has become the villain in the storybook.

"Where are you going? Why don't you go home?"

Liu Youxia did not respond.He bent down to pick up the racket, his eyes were indifferent. "Why did he let you out?" This was an understatement, but it hit Mother Liu's weakness.

She froze for a moment, then yelled, and squatted down with her head in her arms.

Liu Youxia still wanted to leave, but An Yuan held back his sleeves. "Would you like to play ball now?"

I don't know if it was because of this farce that Liu Youxia lost his protective color in front of An Yuan. When he turned to look at the other party, besides suppressed anger, there was also a little sadness on his face.

So An Yuan stopped talking.He let go, and when he was about to go out with Liu Youxia, he was grabbed by Liu's mother who was squatting on the ground.

"Pa—" Maybe this is the accident.

The angry woman pointed her finger at An Yuan, she stretched out her hand and slapped him, leaving bright red finger marks on the other's face.

Not only Liu Youxia was stunned, but even An Yuan looked out of the situation.This was the first time he was beaten since he was a child.No reason, inexplicable.

"You're crazy!" Liu Youxia pulled An Yuan into her arms, and yelled at the woman who had lost her mind.Then he touched An Yuan's red face with self-blame, and asked softly, "How are you, are you okay?"

An Yuan saw the concern in his eyes, even though it was painful, he still smiled to reassure the other party. "Fortunately, it doesn't hurt very much."

Mother Liu began to cry.I have to say that a beautiful woman is very beautiful even if she cries. She stood there crying silently, her eyes were red, and the tears couldn't stop flowing down.

When Liu Youxia went to fetch hot water, An Yuan sat on the stool and thought a lot.An uncontrollable curiosity surged in his heart, as if he wanted to eat Liu Youxia.

When he came back to his senses, he realized that the eyes beside him had become vicious since he didn't know when.

"Who are you? Why didn't you let Youxia go home? Why didn't he go home?" She was no longer young, her voice was full of sharp hostility, as if the person sitting in front of her was an enemy from her previous life.

An Yuan originally wanted to shake his head and say he didn't know, but he held back the words.He remained silent, as if caught in a world of his own.

Liu Youxia went to the lobby on the first floor to pick up a kettle of hot water.He was sorry, but he didn't know what to say to An Yuan, so he had to cover his face with a hot handkerchief in a muffled voice.

This silence didn't last long, when Liu Youxia's father came over.It was a person whose hair was mostly gray, but his face still showed a youthful look.It's just that the corners of the mouth that doesn't smile often droop, which makes people feel depressed when they look at it.

"Is your mother okay." It wasn't a tone of concern.What An Yuan heard was a routine inquiry, without the slightest human touch.

"Take her back." Liu Youxia didn't mention An Yuan's injury, he replied impatiently, even irritably.

So the other party dragged Mother Liu back, and nodded to An Yuan before leaving.

There was a momentary silence in the bedroom.

Liu Youxia's hands were still covering An Yuan's face, but he became quieter, like a silent sculpture.After a while, he looked as if he had been stung by an insect, and quickly withdrew his hand, ready to wash the veil.

An Yuan pulled him back and sighed very lightly.Then he raised his eyes to look at Liu Youxia, and said in a warm voice, "Let's go to the bar." A long time passed, and recalling that time, An Yuan couldn't remember what the other party answered, he only remembered Liu Youxia's broken face and eyes, deeply Looking deeply, it seems to be a boundless hell.

Liu Youxia got under the quilt, and then reached out to hug Anyuan from behind.With the same sigh as at that time, he asked softly, "Xiao Yuan, what's wrong with you?"

An Yuan put his hand on his, not knowing how to answer.

"You just posted the photo of the ring in the morning, why can't you be honest with me now." Liu Youxia spoke very seriously, he knew that An Yuan was also a serious person, so he didn't want to be perfunctory on this matter.

An Yuan turned over and looked at him, then kissed Liu Youxia from eyebrows to lips.His movements were gentle, but a little flustered, and Liu Youxia could feel his trembling when he kissed her.

Xu Shi was so intimacy that An Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. He lay on the other person's chest and opened his mouth listening to the sound of the heartbeat.

"Your mother called me."

Liu Youxia also became nervous all of a sudden, and her heart beat much faster. "How did she know your mobile phone number? What did she tell you?" As he spoke, he stood up and looked at An Yuan with a cold expression.

An Yuan put his arms around his neck and pulled him back. "Don't do this, your mother didn't say anything, she just wanted you to go home and see her."

Liu Youxia didn't believe An Yuan's words, and didn't say a word. After a stalemate for a while, he hugged him back and said firmly, "What are you hiding from me? I know better than you what kind of people they are. Don't believe what you say, and don't believe they just want me to go home and see."

An Yuan didn't know if there was an eternal war between parents and children.But he didn't dare to make such a bet, thinking that Liu Youxia could give up everything to be with him.

"Your mother said," after a long pause, An Yuan finally spoke out. "If you don't come home, she will kill herself."

"Is it because I won't go home, or because I won't be separated from you." Liu Youxia stroked An Yuan's hair, "Did she say that if you continue to pester me, she will die in front of you."

An Yuan acquiesced, and it didn't take long to hear Liu Youxia's voice above his head.

"What did you say? Did you agree or hung up on her?"

An Yuan replied sullenly: "I told her that I made the wrong number, and then I hung up the phone."

Liu Youxia hummed softly, "It's a good thing you said that, otherwise I'd be really angry."

"Then do you want to go home?" As soon as the words fell, An Yuan regretted it, and he quickly added: "No, no, you should go back and have a look, I will wait for you at home."

Liu Youxia lifted An Yuan's chin, lowered her head and bit his lip, and didn't stop until the blood oozes out.

"You go back with me on weekends." He said firmly, there was no room for anyone to refuse.

An Yuan bit his lower lip and licked off the blood oozing from it.It was obviously very painful, but it was mixed with a bit of bitter pleasure.Hearing Liu Youxia's heartbeat, he slowly replied "Yes".