win or lose game

Shao Yigui has never lived such a useless life.I am timid and can't find my own opinion.He has never allowed himself to do this, and he can't let go of what he thinks he should do.Only this time, there was nothing he could do.Tang Lin asked if he was not allowed to meet Xie Xibei. Even though he was sure that the other party's decision was wrong, he never dared to go against the other party's wishes.

Shao Yigui, who couldn't meet Xie Xibei, also couldn't find a reason to meet Xie Xibei's boyfriend Tang Linwen. He unconsciously looked for an encounter outside the arrangement.Tang Hexiao, who was out of danger, was seriously injured and had been hospitalized for recuperation. Shao Yigui visited the hospital frequently, "visiting the hospital" was for Tang Hexiao, and "going frequently" was entirely for Tang Linwen.It's a pity that Tang Hexiao's girlfriend returned to China after hearing the news and stayed in the hospital almost every day, so Tang Linwen drastically reduced the frequency of visiting Tang Hexiao, which caused Shao Yigui to never see each other for a long time.

Shao Yigui, who kept thinking about when he would see Tang Linwen again, never imagined that the first person he would meet would be Yao Lin.

When Shao Yigui saw Yao Lin in the photo, because he was too angry, he was deeply impressed by the man who had intimate interaction with Xie Xibei in the photo.So, he recognized it at a glance that day.The person who came out of the hotel was Yao Lin.

Shao Yigui, who was sitting in the driver's seat waiting for the green light, subconsciously looked at the hotel, and then suddenly realized that this was the hotel in the photo—the hotel where Xie Xibei had a tryst with Yao Lin.

This discovery did not give Shao Yigui much thought.In his opinion, he had questioned Xie Xibei about Yao Lin last time, but if he had a little guilty conscience, it would be impossible for Xie Xibei to maintain a relationship with Yao Lin.Therefore, Yao Lin should just come to a hotel he is familiar with with other people.

In the next second, he saw Xie Xibei who followed him out.

The person who never obeyed the traffic rules almost drove his car onto the sidewalk. He didn't care if it was a place to park, he opened the car door and drove straight towards Xie Xibei.

The artist who had just been beaten noticed the aggressive Shao Yigui, and took two steps back unconsciously in shock.Looking at this man who was not worthy of Tang Linwen in any way, Shao Yigui didn't understand when he became a violent person, and he clamored to shake his fist.However, he tried to restrain himself.

"How much do you want to leave Xie Xibei?" He turned to Yao Lin and asked.There was no point in doing so, but it was the only way he could think of.

Yao Lin, who was completely unaware of the situation, looked at Shao Yigui blankly, maybe he thought he was meeting a lunatic.

Xie Xibei should understand the situation to some extent, but the way he looked at Shao Yigui together seemed to be looking at a lunatic. "Now that things are going on, so what if I'm with Yao Lin?" He came back to his senses and stepped forward to protect Yao Lin.

Shao Yigui thought he was smart, but it took him a long time to digest Xie Xibei's rhetoric. "What does 'it's so far' mean?"

Xie Beibei lowered his face and said, "Lin Wen has already broken up with me as you wished, what else do you want to do?"

Shao Yigui thought for a while, and then asked: "When did he break up with you? Did he bring it up?"

Xie Beibei didn't have enough will to answer these questions, he held Yao Lin's wrist and looked back at Shao Yigui's pressing gaze: "Please get out of the way."

Shao Yigui didn't move away, he relaxed his shoulders, and said sincerely: "Please answer my question first... this is very important to me."

Facing Shao Yigui, who was almost begging, Xie Xibei hesitated for a moment, and finally let go of his answer: "On the night you and I fought, I went to ask Lin, and he asked about Yao Lin, and then proposed to break up."

"Nothing else happened, he decided to break up before meeting you?" Shao Yigui asked for details tirelessly.

Xie Beibei felt puzzled and impatient: "What exactly do you want to know?"

Shao Yigui sighed weakly to himself, and laughed at himself: "I want to know if he lied to me on purpose. At that time he told me that he didn't want to break up with you and told me not to trouble you again. I want to know if he did it on purpose Lied to me so that I thought you didn't break up, and I thought I had no chance, so that he could avoid my entanglement."

Hearing Shao Yigui's unreserved confession, Xie Beibei showed a trace of sympathy in his eyes. "Lin Wen always does things efficiently and neatly, and his decisions cannot be questioned by anyone."

Shao Yigui agreed with Xie Xibei's point of view, but he couldn't control his instinct to defend Tang Linwen: "He is too assertive, but this is what makes him most different."

The corners of Xie Beibei's tense mouth subconsciously relaxed a little. "Yeah, he's special."

Shao Yigui didn't expect to blame Xie Xibei at such a time, but he couldn't hold back because he was convinced that Tang Linwen shouldn't be treated like this. "Why don't you cherish it?"

Xie Xibei smiled wryly, instead of confronting each other, he nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, I have asked myself this question as well."

Shao Yigui didn't intend to have a heart-to-heart day with his rival in love, but when he thought that he hadn't cherished it well, he couldn't help feeling more sympathetic to the man in front of him.He held out his hand. "Sorry for hitting you earlier."

Xie Xibei chuckled, "Even if you say that, I know you still think I deserve it—to be honest, I feel the same way." He shook hands with Shao Yigui to make peace.

After separating from Xie Beibei, Shao Yigui drove directly to the downstairs of Tang Linwen's residence.He got out of the car and stood where he stood half a month ago.

This time he waited longer.However, Tang Linwen showed up just like last time, and asked him calmly if he wanted to go upstairs and sit for a while.Shao Yigui nodded, and then went upstairs with the other party.

After taking his seat, Tang Linwen took the initiative to ask, "Do you want a beer? I have it in my refrigerator."

It's not that he must have prepared beer for Shao Yigui, but just this one sentence completely changed Shao Yigui's mood. "I drink beer," he said, unable to hold back the joke. "I like beer, not alcohol."

Tang Lin asked proudly to bring a dozen beers.He handed it to Shao Yigui first, then opened a can for himself, and then clinked glasses with Shao Yigui lightly, "Let me drink with you today." Then, he started to drink beer, From the beginning to the end, he didn't ask Shao Yigui why he came here.

Shao Yigui was glad that Tang Lin didn't ask. Two minutes ago, he did have a clear intention to come. He wanted to confront Tang Linwen and tell him that he, who had been deceived, finally knew the truth—he was familiar with this matter—but now, he changed his mind.

There have been too many confrontations between him and Tang Linwen.He always thought that he had to force the other party in order to make the other party allow him to approach half a step, but now, his thinking is no longer like this.

"Speaking of it," Shao Yigui sighed, "From the very beginning, there was a game between us about winning and losing. After that, one after another. I always wanted to win, but every time I lost. At first I thought that winning was the meaning of spending time and energy playing games, and then I thought that only winning can win you, but until today, I suddenly realized that winning or losing is not the point at all, the entertainment of the game is the real meaning.”

Tang Linwen drank beer very quickly, and finished a can in a short while. He opened another beer and looked up at Shao Yigui when he took the time: "I thought you came to ask questions?"

Shao Yigui shook his head: "I've changed my mind. I can't blame you for your reluctance to accept my decision. Maybe you won't be moved by me for the rest of your life, but I can enter your house and sit in your On the couch, drinking your beer, which is fine now if I don't ask too much."

Tang Linwen took another sip of beer, and said, "If you came to expose me, I would not tell you the following things, but if you don't ask, I decided to answer you for real."

Shao Yigui noticed that Tang Linwen's cheeks and ears were flushed with drunkenness. It was only less than two cans of beer, and this man was actually so bad at drinking.However, relying on beer to relax and open the mouth should indeed be the original intention of Tang Lin's question, Shao Yigui focused: "What are you going to answer me?"

"Answer why I have to reject you." Tang Lin asked, obviously not completely drunk, he still couldn't make up his mind, and took another big gulp of beer before telling.

Shao Yigui couldn't help but look suspiciously at the extremely rare Tang Linwen who lacked enough courage.

Tang Linwen unbuttoned the first button of his forever buttoned shirt, and began to narrate from the beginning, from the very beginning——

"As you can see by now, when He Xiao and I were very young, we were very different. He Xiao was the likable one, and I was the opposite. At that time, apart from our parents, everyone else People also like He Xiao more, everyone is like this, without exception."

"Maybe you are not likable, but you are much more attractive than that." Shao Yigui didn't want to interrupt Tang Lin's question, but he had no choice but to refute the other party's ridiculous point of view immediately.

Tang Linwen just smiled casually at this. Due to drinking too much beer, his smile unexpectedly had a "cute" shape. However, he obviously didn't take Shao Yigui's words seriously, and just continued his story: "A The formation of a habit is very simple, 21 days of repetition is a habit. I have been repeated for more than ten years, and the countless times of the same experience made me realize that everyone will only like He Xiao instead of me. Therefore, this has long been a long-standing habit Back. I can't believe that someone doesn't like He Xiao but wants to be with me. Especially, that person is you."

Shao Yigui considers himself a sympathetic person. He has sympathized with many people who are stubborn but lost to fate. But until this moment, he did not know that sympathy is a kind of superior indifference. When you really care about someone People, you will feel the same way, and you will be powerless to find words that can comfort the other person.

"You said you have been repeated for more than ten years," Shao Yigui asked suddenly, "how long exactly?"

Either Tang Lin asked only an imaginary number, or he really drank too much. He blinked his eyes when he was asked such a question, then frowned and thought: "From the time I was five years old, until I grew up and became sensible, I don't want to drink too much." Mind? When was that? Why are you asking?"

Shao Yigui didn't answer, he focused on his own calculations: "From the time you were five years old until you no longer mind, then I count as today, that is to say, a total of 26 years."

Tang Linwen frowned suspiciously: "Do you think I still mind?"

Shao Yigui raised his eyes and looked at the person whose thinking was clearly unclear, and he whispered to the other person: "Yes."

Tang Linwen thought for a while, then nodded in agreement and said, "At that time, you helped He Xiaolai design me...you sent me to the hospital, and then my mobile phone disappeared...I really still mind."

"I'm sorry..." Shao Yigui knew how weak his words were.If he knew the other person's experience and feelings at the beginning, he would never have done that.Even if this was Tang Linwen's plan, Shao Yigui would not cooperate, he would not cooperate with this plan that actually cruelly hurt the other party.

"You want to know what this number is for?" Tang Lin asked curiously while drinking his fifth can of beer.

Shao Yigui pulled himself together: "If this is a habit you have spent 26 years developing, then I will spend the next 26 years changing your habit."

Tang Linwen immediately shook his head and pointed out: "That's useless. It takes 21 days to develop a habit, but it takes 90 days to change a habit."

Shao Yigui cooperated and changed his words: "So, I need to use 111 years to change your habit? It's not a big problem. People's life expectancy is getting longer and longer. I will pay attention to healthier diet and work and rest from today. As long as I work hard to live to At the age of 142, you can change your habit."

Tang Lin asked Shao Yigui sideways, and told him seriously: "I can't live that long."

"Starting tomorrow, I will come to you to exercise together."

"I don't like sports, I don't have any athletic cells."

"It doesn't matter if you don't have any motor cells. This is not to say that making a piece of equipment or a set of movements will form a painting. Everyone has the difference between a good painting and a bad painting."

Tang Linwen suddenly laughed out loud: "Where did you learn this metaphor?"

"Naturally. I always thought I had a good eloquence, but it wasn't until I met you that I realized that my mouth was not fully functional."

"Who said that?" Tang Linwen put down his beer and told Shao Yigui solemnly, "You are very eloquent. You persuaded me to go to the gym with you."

Shao Yigui felt the warmth flowing from his chest. Before that, there was a dull pain there.And the person who made him hurt comforted him again.

"I hope you will remember what you promised me when you wake up." He unconsciously relaxed and raised the corner of his mouth.

"I'm awake." Tang Lin asked Yan Zhengzheng.He thought for a moment, then added, "You don't trust us to sign a contract. You believe in something signed, don't you?"

Shao Yigui shook his head: "I only believe in signing when I don't believe in myself and the other party, but now, I believe in myself."

Tang Linwen noticed the omission of this sentence, he looked at Shao Yigui: "But, you don't believe me?"

"I don't believe that what you promise now is what you really want to do. If you don't want to, I'd rather not make this promise, so as not to make you regret it."

"I never regret it. You have to bear the consequences first. How can there be so much free time to regret?"

Shao Yigui listened to this sentence silently, feeling in his heart: "Yes, how can there be so much free time in life to regret?"

Tang Lin's eyes suddenly focused on Shao Yigui with great interest, and he said with a smile: "The same sentence, once you say it, it seems like you are rehearsing a drama."

The person who is not using a drama accent at all does not make excuses, his thoughts unconsciously drift back to the performance more than ten years ago.When he was about to graduate, he didn't need to look for a job like others, so he stayed in the drama club.There are always many girls who come to see his performance, so when the audience was full of audience that day, he didn't pay attention to the pair of brothers.

"The other day you brought He Xiao to our school, and I was on stage, if I could take a closer look at you..."

Tang Lin asked immediately: "Then you saw He Xiao at most."

Shao Yigui didn't think so at all, but he also had no way to refute.Tang Hexiao was naturally radiant, but Tang Linwen was just the opposite. He absorbed all the light in an extremely low-key way, as if he was shy and afraid of being seen.

"You should change your hairstyle and take off your glasses." Shao Yigui said.He remembered the first time he saw the other party, the old-fashioned appearance made him almost think that this big brother Tang was older than himself.

"I should have driven you away just now." Tang Linwen frowned and said, "In that case, I wouldn't have heard what you said. It's fine now, and I will desperately think, should I To change my hair and take off my glasses, but I don't really want to do that at all."

Before speaking again, Shao Yigui choked up.He didn't expect the other party to care so much about his casual words. "I actually don't want you to do that at all." He explained almost eagerly, "It's just that, according to ordinary people's aesthetics, it would probably be that way. To me, buttoning your shirt to the first button and not doing that don't matter. any difference..."

... This sentence is wrong.The difference is huge.

Shao Yigui didn't pay attention at first, but now he just unbuttoned the neckline when he looked at the other party, he unconsciously felt his throat was dry and his abdomen was warm.

This is Tang Linwen, who was drunk, leaning on the sofa drunk, defenseless.

Shao Yigui quickly retracted his gaze.He was secretly annoyed at his youthful reaction like a young boy's first love, but he felt inexplicably sweet. "Do you know? If one day I feel hopeless after being rejected by you, I will get you drunk and come and cook rice for a while."

Tang Lin asked with a laugh: "I'm not a little girl who will get pregnant, how can I cook mature rice?"

"You actually laughed without scolding me. You really drank too much."

"I didn't drink much."

"You count how many times you laughed today. Just laugh a lot when you're not drunk."

"It's not that I don't want to laugh, it's just that there are too few things that can make me laugh."

Shao Yigui suspected that he had drunk too much. Although his drinking capacity was not considered a beer at all, but at this time, he was extremely emotional and wanted to cry. He adjusted his position and sat down next to Tang Linwen, and said without any explanation. He hugged the person into his arms. "From now on, I will do something that makes you laugh every day."