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A person's life is so long, hardship alone is the majority, and occasionally there will be some unexpected kindness falling from the sky.Out of concern for a drunk, Tao Ran took Chang Zheng back and placed him in his guest room.

At first Chang Zheng wanted to thank him, but gradually he felt that thanking him was too light and cheap, so it was better not to say it.

An unfamiliar bed coupled with intermittent stomach pains, the whole body was clamoring for discomfort, but the power of alcohol was too strong, after struggling for a long time, Chang Zheng still fell asleep.When Tao Ran came to see how he was doing, he seemed to wake up for a minute or two, answered a few words that he couldn't remember clearly, and then sank into the overly soft pillow in the blink of an eye

When he finally woke up, Chang Zheng turned his head and found a set of half-worn sweater and trousers beside the pillow, and the toiletries were also placed in the bathroom.When the warm water hit his back, he suddenly read an indescribable strangeness belatedly.

"……morning."

The two hungover men met again in the living room, and the atmosphere was very awkward.

After all, he was at his own home, so Tao Ran calmed down faster than him: "Morning? It's getting late now."

"Oh, well, thanks for taking me in."

Turning around after hearing the sound, Tao Ran saw Chang Zheng's uncomfortable expression, and suddenly felt that this matter was really funny.

"I'm really..." In the middle of speaking, Tao Ran felt that it was not right to tell half of his superiors, so he stopped laughing.

Chang Zheng was worried that he couldn't continue, so he quickly grasped: "What is it?"

"I have never experienced such a situation where nothing happened when I woke up early in the morning."

It took Chang Zheng several seconds to realize the meaning of this sentence due to the dullness caused by the headache, and then he and Tao Ran laughed tacitly, and both of them finally found an opportunity to relax.

Caesar, who had been secretly observing the stranger since he entered the door yesterday, seemed to be subtly soothed by the laughter, and actually walked over slowly, arched his round body, and lazily rubbed against Chang Zheng's calf.

"He rubs against you, so you can touch him."

Chang Zheng rubbed the flat face at his feet obediently: "What's his name?"

Tao Ran handed him a plate with toast and fried eggs: "Gaius Julius Caesar."

Flat Face used Chang Zheng's knees as a springboard, and got on the table quite briskly, glanced at the ugly fried egg with distaste, and Shi Shiran walked away.

"Do you like Caesar the most? The one that impressed me the most in that play was Octavian."

Tao Ran answered casually: "Yes, Octavian is the real national beauty. But look at him, I'm afraid there is no hope for him to grow into Octavian. I hope he will be a little thinner and have a Caesar face. I am already thankful." .”

Chang Zheng picked up the moderately hard bread, picked up the fried egg and started stuffing it into his mouth: "He still pays Caesar like this? I think he looks like the fat man who read the advertisement."

Tao Ran smiled with nostalgia on his face: "Well, the Roman bread of the Romans, I find it funny every time I see it here. Speaking of it, it was a drama more than ten years ago, and it will always only hit half of people's faces."

"Ten years..." The remnants of staying at home with someone more than ten years ago, taking advantage of a little time when their parents were away to watch dramas flashed by, and Chang Zheng's heart trembled: "What do you say? , I almost can’t eat anymore.”

"Come on, the coffee is almost ready, I can't drink a pot by myself."

The two ate relative to each other, and the bacon and sausage fried with the eggs in the middle of the public plate were quickly swept away.The intoxicating aroma of hot oil mixed with several meats is an excellent appeasement to hunger.When the coffee machine beeped, Tao Ran got up and went back to the kitchen, and Chang Zheng thought inexplicably.

Too late to think, and too lazy to think, Chang Zheng stood up and followed.

It was hard for anyone to tell exactly what happened in those few seconds. Chang Zheng leaned against the door and stood behind Tao Ran, quietly appreciating the rapid changes in his feelings at that moment, as if they were about to evolve into an impulse.

In fact, he didn't know what he wanted to do and what he could do, especially when Tao Ran turned around holding the coffee pot and suddenly looked into his eyes.

In just a short moment, there is no need to say anything, and everything has been said.

Tao Ran brushed past him.Amidst the sound of cloth rubbing against each other, Chang Zheng heard him say a word.

"Boss Chang, read hell."

……

After erasing that bit of charm, the next thing is lackluster.While drinking coffee, Chang Zheng discussed with Tao Ran for a while whether to enter the office building to get the key, whether to deposit the ID card or cash to the front desk on the first floor, and then the screen of the mobile phone on the dining table lit up.

Du Liangheng sent three words, I'm here.

Tao Ran glanced at his stunned expression, and asked with a smile, "Why, you made an appointment and forgot the time?"

Chang Zheng stood up: "Before you know it, it's time. I do have something else to do, so I'm leaving first."

"Don't forget to take your clothes with you. Ah, by the way, you are in this outfit...can I lend you a pair of shoes?"

Chang Zheng looked at his pair of leather shoes at the door, so he had no choice but to say, "Okay, thank you, I'll go out and buy a pair of sneakers later, and I'll bring them back to you?"

As soon as the words fell, the doorbell rang.

Tao Ran showed the expression that Chang Zheng had just a few minutes ago: "Oh, I also have an appointment..."

And make an appointment at your own home.Chang Zheng couldn't help laughing, and motioned him to open the door quickly.

Ye Qi's face appeared outside the door.He quickly spotted Chang Zheng and smiled playfully.

"Tao Ran, you have guests, why don't you change the time with me?"

"He's not a guest." It seemed even more wrong to say it this way, Tao Ran felt that it was hard to explain, so he had to send one away as soon as possible: "Sorry, then..."

Chang Zheng thought he understood something, looked around with a smile, and hurriedly said goodbye and left.

Ye Qi has always been a well-mannered person, and he was invited to be a guest with a bottle of red wine in his hand.Tao Ran's expression was a little strange, he opened the bottle right away without mentioning it.

"You are really messed up."

Tao Ran moved the few clothes thrown on the sofa, and asked him to sit down: "Sorry, it's a bit messy."

It's a pun, and it's fine to deal with it, but Ye Qi, for the first time, didn't intend to give him this face: "I'm not saying that your house is chaotic, I mean that every time I enter your house, I meet different people."

In front of old friends, Tao Ran felt self-defeating: "Recently... I've been a little..."

It's a pity that he has been silent for too long, and it is rare that he wants to talk, but he can't speak.

Ye Qi was too lazy to wait, so he stood up and looked around, and took a cup: "You can say it or not, I can ask, you don't have to, it's only fair. I'll go find some water first... All right, just sit down, I'm not being polite to you."

Speaking of being impolite, Tao Ran, who had just finished eating, was embarrassed to make the guest hungry, so he got him something casually in the kitchen, and then muttered something in a very low voice while Ye Qi was eating.

"The one last time was my ex-boyfriend. The one just now was my colleague."

Ye Qi paused after chewing, and then looked at him with great interest: "The ex-boyfriend can still enter the house, and the colleagues also get along strangely. Tao Ran, you were not such a person before."

Before, how long ago?

Tao Ran and Ye Qi have been friends for four years, which is a very special period for everyone.Life before the college entrance examination is the same, and after entering the university, everyone has the right to start a real life overnight—at least in name.The "before" that Ye Qi could think of was probably that time.

At that time...myself.

This thought burned Tao Ran, only silence can cover up this moment.

Ye Qi didn't know what happened today, but he still refused to retreat politely: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

"You are." Tao Ran raised his head, the light in his eyes was cold, but there was a trace of calm in the depths: "You are not the one who would mention these things to me for no reason. If you have anything to say, just say it, I'll listen."

Ye Qi sighed: "That's because I was wrong. You are still the same you before. At least, you are still so straightforward. I don't mean anything else. It's better for you to live comfortably than to be stretched. This is not something I should interrupt. I I just want to let you know that Zhou Zhe is back and is looking for someone to inquire about your recent situation."

For a moment, Tao Ran didn't know what to say.

After a long time, when Ye Qi finished eating all the food in front of him, he found his voice: "Who did you look for? Did you find your place?"

Ye Qi glanced at him, and didn't mind him knowingly asking: "Yes, he called me on purpose. If he wrote me an email or left a message on the Internet, I could pretend that I didn't see it, but he called and used my phone number." I can’t hide from numbers that haven’t been saved.”

"They're all old classmates. There's no need to hide."

Ye Qi smiled wryly: "You forgot what you said when you graduated?"

How can I forget.On the day of the breakup meal, Tao Ran couldn't bear it any longer, and pointed at Zhou Zhe's nose at the dinner table and told him to get fucked, and the other party really got fucked.Then he said that any of his friends, if they send messages back and forth, and make random connections between him and Zhou Zhe, they will go as far as they can.

Except for this little personal matter with Tao Ran, Zhou Zhe has always been a very good person, so good that most of the people at the table at that time felt that this matter was too rare to die.Obviously, Ye Qi and others who were closer to Tao Ran simply cut off contact with Zhou Zhe gradually, so as not to be in a dilemma.

Later, Zhou Zhe also went abroad, and this small group of friends who worried about them were separated from each other.Ye Qi didn't expect that Zhou Zhe came to him directly at this moment, and the first substantive question after the pleasantries was whether you still have contact with Tao Ran.

"Oh, so what did you say?"

Ye Qi was a little guilty, but he didn't look away: "I'm not very good at lying, so I hesitated for a while, and he figured it out by himself."

Now that the matter has come to this point, Tao Ran can only nod his head to show that he understands.

"You..." Ye Qi knew all about their past, so he didn't know what to say: "You guys have dragged on for so many years, what the hell is it?"

Standing by the French window, Tao Ran looked at the two rows of bare sycamore trees downstairs, and replied flatly, "It doesn't count. He and I have never been clean and have nothing to do with each other."

This answer sounded so bleak that Ye Qi felt cold for him for a while, and after thinking about it, he couldn't answer.

Tao Ran seemed to be immersed in the memory, but he didn't care whether the other party responded or not.After a while, he remembered to come back to the coffee table, took a sip from his cup and said, "Actually, I think you should have something to do with him. It's always been you guys. Look at this time, when you answer the call, you Why tell me."

"I won't tell you, maybe one day he will come to you directly."

Ye Qi raised his eyes and happened to meet Tao Ran with a very strange smile.There is too much content in that smile, and everyone who has ever been young can't see this look: Years of nostalgia and melancholy have been completely cold, sinking in the slight upward movement of the corners of the mouth, it seems the most embarrassing irony.

Tao Ran said softly: "Zhou Zhe always uses you to remind me that he hasn't given up yet. One day he can stand directly in front of me and say this to me, then he won't be him."