know the enemy

Three years is really a long time. On the first New Year's Eve, Lu Jia heard that Mu Wenran had come back, but at that time he was busy with his aunt for the New Year's Eve dinner, and Mu Wenran was in his hometown.The two didn't meet each other, and Lu Jia didn't know that Mu Wenran had returned to China until after the seventh day of the lunar new year.

The connection between him and Mu Wenran has not been broken. Although their social circles are completely staggered, Lu Jia will still share some daily life, and Mu Wenran will respond to him.Lu Jia chattered, worried here and there, and felt that Mu Wenran would be bullied for his taciturnity abroad.The two of them will occasionally video, Lu Jia always likes to block his own camera first, and then smiles and moves away after seeing Mu Wenran on the opposite side.

That day Lu Jia was emphasizing that he had grown taller in the video, when a stranger suddenly appeared on Mu Wenran's side, the man came over to ask in English, "Who are you videoing with?" He bowed his head over his shoulder and greeted the camera, "Hi."

Mu Wenran closed the notebook directly, avoiding the man's hand: "Is the thing finished?"

"Don't be so stingy." The man changed into Chinese, "This is the one in your phone..."

"Go out when you're done." Mu Wenran interrupted.

Lu Jia heard the sound of closing the door, and the black screen lit up again. Knowing that Mu Wenran was in the dormitory, he asked, "Is your roommate? Chinese?"

"Ah."

Lu Jia carefully explored and asked, "Then... are you friends?"

Mu Wenran thought for half a second and replied, "It's sort of."

Lu Jia was a little surprised. He knew Mu Wenran so well that it was already very powerful to make Mu Wenran say "Yes".He raised his hands and applauded: "I am so moved, brother, I am so pleased that you have made friends."

Mu Wenran was quite helpless, knocked on the computer screen and asked, "Have you finished your homework?"

Lu Jia said "hey": "You still think I am in high school, we don't have homework, so we don't need to write." As he said that, he shook his head at the camera, chattering.

Mu Wenran smiled slightly.

At the end of the video, Lu Jia's smile remained on his face for a long time.After a while, he rubbed his cheeks with his palms, and muttered to himself: "I've really grown taller." Although he was always worried that Mu Wenran wouldn't be able to make friends, but at this moment he found that he was still a little, a little jealous ...just a little bit, really.

He was the one who was by Mu Wenran's side in the past, but not now.

Lu Jia sighed, a little at a loss as to what the bitterness in his heart was.

In the past, I always wanted to grow up urgently, but now I want to go back to my childhood. People's greed seems to be a little more than their own.But growing up is only a matter of time, we can never go back and forth.

The city Lu Jia lives in is a second-tier city, the city is bustling and crowded with people, but you can always meet acquaintances.

In the long summer night, Lu Jia met Fang Ren who was shopping with his girlfriend at the night stand.

"Are you with your classmates?" Fang Ren greeted Lu Jia with a smile. Lu Jia looked between the two and nodded. Fang Ren said again, "Why didn't you stay with Mu Wenran?" This question was completely unconscious. Exit, because Fang Ren only knows Mu Wenran, so the polite words can only be related to Mu Wenran.

Lu Jia shook his hand subconsciously: "He has gone abroad."

Fang Ren was obviously taken aback, wanted to say something but felt that he had nothing to say, did he say "sorry"?It's not like Mu Wenran is dead... But for some reason, the boy under the night light looks very distressing.

Lu Jia is by no means alone, even now he has a bunch of classmates by his side.He is very popular and everyone likes to get along with him.He himself was not unhappy, but when others mentioned Mu Wenran, his eyes would still twinkle.

At the beginning of the night, in the crowded crowd, no one would look back at any time to see if he was following or not, and he had no hand to hold.

Everyone is moving forward, no one stands still.

Feng Yucen went to school in another city, Bai Yi suddenly became interested in guitar, Fang Ren started working and got a girlfriend.

The classmate was calling Lu Jia to go over. The lights were extremely bright at that moment, blurring everyone's figures, but Lu Jia finally walked forward.

No one will stand still and wait, we are all pushed forward by time.

There was a little movement in the night, and Mu Wenran opened his eyes immediately.

The light at the head of the bed split the bedroom into two halves, one half was dark yellow and the other was pure black.

He opened the door and saw Mu Wencheng who was walking out of the door. Mu Wencheng was startled, and said in a low voice, "I thought it was my mother."

Chu Yue didn't allow Mu Wencheng to go out to play at night, Mu Wencheng could only go out in the middle of the night, and Mu Wenran could always be woken up by him when he was a light sleeper.

Mu Wenran: "If you want to go out, get out quickly."

Mu Wencheng shrank his neck and said in a low voice: "Slow down! Keep down!"

Mu Wenran folded his arms.

Mu Wencheng snorted: "You don't have a night life..."

Mu Wenran didn't have the patience to listen to him finish: "I'll give you three seconds to get the hell out."

Mu Wencheng hurriedly gestured ok, closed the door quietly and left.

Mu Wenran stood at the door of the bedroom for a while, went to the living room to pour a glass of water before returning.

After being abroad for a while, he suddenly returned to his previous mode, and the night made him restless.When there is no light in my heart, I always subconsciously look for foreign objects to fill the void, and Mu Wenran turned on the bedside lamp again.

There is no one around who can make him feel at ease, and he will spend countless nights like this in the future.

Mu Wenran unlocked the phone device and clicked into the photo album.Ye Yulou once accidentally peeped into Mu Wenran's cell phone, and has always been curious about who the boy on the desktop of his cell phone is.

——That was 16-year-old Luke.

Because Lu Jia's camera angle was so fascinating that he even hated it, so most of the photos were taken with Mu Wenran's help.

Mu Wenran used to take care of Lu Jia as a child, and saved all the photos in a folder with dates. Later, he changed his mind and transferred the files to his mobile phone before going abroad.

He swiped over one by one, and finally stopped on the photo set as the desktop.In the photo, Lu Jia is standing sideways, the sun shines on his brows, eyes and hair, he squints his eyes slightly as if smiling, he doesn't look at the camera, he doesn't look at anyone, he just looks into the distance.

Mu Wenran was used to having nothing, and was too afraid of being deprived of important things. He always thought that Lu Jia belonged to him alone, and only looked at him.

What was he thinking when this photo was taken?At that moment, it had nothing to do with possession, he only saw Luke in his eyes.

Even though she knew that the blank years could not be made up, Chu Yue tried her best to treat her eldest son as well as possible, which included not letting Mu Wenran live outside, and he had to go home during holidays.

Chu Yue seems to have forgotten that Mu Wenran does not belong here, this is not his home, nor is it his home.So Mu Wenran moved out the next year. Mu Wencheng said he was envious, but he was really envious in his heart, but he still chose to stay with his mother.

Time flowed to the end of the second year. This year, Mu Wenran finished his graduate studies but did not return to China immediately.Ye Yulou, who graduated at the same time as him, did not leave either, and stayed with Mu Wenran.

Mu Wenran has indeed changed a lot in the past two years, although it is still difficult to get in touch with, but at least he has some friends who can be contacted, and Ye Yulou is one of them.We are all adults, and our interests come first.Mu Wenran didn't hate this, this kind of relationship was just right for him, it didn't need to be too warm or polite.

In order to get out of Mu Zhangcheng's control and not be forced into the company as soon as he returned to China, Mu Wenran chose to develop abroad for a year before returning to China.

Mu Zhangcheng couldn't understand Mu Wenran's actions, so he made many phone calls to Chu Yue, wanting to ask him what he was thinking.Because in Mu Zhangcheng's plan, Mu Wenran should come to his company early to help and lay the foundation for managing the company in the future. He never thought about whether Mu Wenran would like to.

Ye Yulou didn't understand why he was so obsessed with freedom because he left a good company and didn't inherit it.But when he thought of the person on Mu Wenran's phone wallpaper, he felt that there was a reason for everything.

Even during the year of working, Mu Wenran received a lot of confessions, both men and women, but Mu Wenran didn't agree to anyone.Friends joked that Mu Wenran didn't need feelings, but Ye Yulou felt that Mu Wenran gave all his feelings to one person.

Until the day when Mu Wenran returned to China, Ye Yulou thought they had been together for many years, and this misunderstanding was not resolved until a long time later.

It snowed on Christmas Day, and from the beginning of the sunset to the sunset, the snowflakes fluttered across the city, and the streets and alleys at night were lively.

The moment he met Mu Wenran at the airport, Lu Jia was stuck. He didn't have anything specially prepared to say. He could just say "Long time no see", but he couldn't say anything.

Mu Wenran was also surprised when he saw Lu Jia: "Why are you here?"

Lu Jia was stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he found that Mu Wenran was patiently waiting for him to answer.

"... to pick you up."

Three years is really long, enough for us to grow into different people in different places.