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It was the most perfect Christmas Lyon could imagine.

His goddess Sedlea was sitting next to him, gracefully raising her arms to distribute food to everyone at the table, and his dad had eaten more today than before, refilling the small plates several times.After dinner, Suzanne and Gu Qing cleaned up the kitchen, Leon dragged out the video game, and several of them took turns to play the game.When it was Mingyue's turn to fight Sedlea, the slightly drunk Darcy patted Leon on the shoulder.

"Huh?" Leon's eyes were glued to the screen.

"Is your father and Suzanne together?" Darcy's voice was a little regretful.

"We'll get married after the next year," Leon immediately stared at him seriously, "Did you drink too much, what are you going to do?"

"Hey, I'm so sad that I'm dying. I knew I wouldn't have moved to Celle."

Darcy fell on his back on the sofa, and Sedleia reached out a tentacle and touched his forehead.Leon suddenly remembered that the two of them had mentioned the topic of moving.He immediately leaned over and asked him, "Why did you move?"

"There is no couple in your father's laboratory, so we have to move." Darcy asked him in a low voice, "Didn't you let me mention it?"

Leon's heart was beating very fast, he felt as if he had found the key to the magic box, and he didn't know which one was more curious and frightened.He hesitated for a while, then asked in a low voice but solemnly: "The couple, is the man's name Jack and the woman's name Nona?"

"I don't know what the lady's name is. For a man, people are used to calling him by his nickname 'Owl', and his real name..." Darcy began to think, and Leon suddenly didn't want to hear it that much again. "It seems to be called Jack."

There was a "buzz" in Leon's head, he blinked, and buried himself in the pillow of the sofa: "Day."

"What did you say?" Darcy leaned over.

"Day, day—" Leon covered his head with a pillow.

"It's your turn," Darcy pushed him, "Sedleia lost."

Leon took over the cold metal handle with his flushed face.From that moment until Darcy left with Sedleia, he never lost again; until he let go of the metal handle, the handle was still cold.

【Lyon is awesome ()】

Leon wiped the sweat from his palms on his pants and smiled at him.

As night fell quickly, Gu Qing turned on the Christmas lights at home and sat on the sofa to read a book.Susanna sent Leon and Mingyue to bed, kissed each other goodnight, and then put the Christmas stockings on the carpet at the end of their bed.Mingyue fell asleep quickly, and Leon squeezed his hands tightly, listening carefully to the faint voices in the corridor.He heard someone passing by his door, and then there was the sound of bath water in the bathroom, and a footstep came up the stairs, and they walked in front of his door together, and then the door closed.

He squeezed his hand tighter.He heard the sound of his own teeth chattering together, which was no stranger to him, as if it wasn't the first time.There were many thoughts in his mind that he couldn't figure out, and he didn't want to figure out what he was thinking. He lay there for a while, picked up his pillow, pushed the door and went out.

He hugged the pillow with his bare feet and stomped back and forth on the heads of the snow leopard and lion.He wanted to knock on the door, but he didn't know what reason to use. He hadn't been in the habit of living with Gu Qing since he was a child, so it must be very embarrassing for such a sudden visit at such a time.

He hesitated for a while, and the door opened from the inside. Suzanne came out holding a computer with her head down, looking a little unhappy, as if she had just cried.She was a little shocked when she saw Leon, but she smiled at him softly and reached out to stroke his head.Leon turned his head and avoided it.She didn't insist anymore, and hurried downstairs with the computer in her arms.

"What's wrong? Can't sleep?" Gu Qing asked.

He was wearing a round-neck T-shirt for home use, his beard was clean-shaven, and his half-dry hair was casually loose. He seemed to be many years younger, and his whole person had an untrimmed sharpness.Leon was suddenly a little scared, the father who hunched him on the neck didn't seem to be like this.

"Come in." When Leon was thinking of a reason, Gu Qing said to him.

His father's bedroom was very simple.There are no curtains, books as high as the ceiling are piled on a long table, and a simple single bed is on the side.Lu Qing's pillow was next to the side of the bed, there was a big piece of space inside, the space was very flat, it didn't look like something happened that Gu Qing didn't allow him to understand.Leon breathed a sigh of relief inexplicably, climbed up by himself, put the pillow with the picture of a sleeping lion on the open space, and lay down on it.

Gu Qing closed the door and the light, and lay back on the bed.

The light outside was very bright, as if it was turned on at night, Leon saw that Gu Qing closed his eyes towards him, ready to fall asleep.

"These books will hit you if there's an earthquake," he told him.

"The tall ones will fall onto the bed next to me and won't hit me." Lu Qing closed his eyes and smiled.

"Oh." Leon squeezed hard towards him.

Gu Qing grabbed his head and held him in his arms.Leon took a few deep breaths. It was the same, but with a little more shampoo smell, and it didn't feel any different from before.Or someone he can trust.

"Are you and Suzanne together?" Leon asked him.

"Have you watched "Jane Eyre" recently?" Gu Qing asked him.

"No," Leon rubbed his arm, "I just think Suzanne is pretty good."

"Then what are you wandering around in the corridor?" Gu Qing asked him.

"I didn't hang around, I just came out."

"I heard it," Gu Qing said, "the sound of a pillow rustling."

"I just..." Leon's voice became smaller and smaller.

A thoughtful child would think for a long time, so Lu Qing waited patiently.When he first helped in the kitchen, he told Susannah not to tell Leon about his life, and she agreed.When he came out of the shower, the girl waited for him outside with a computer and asked Noona if she was not dead.She asked him why her senior sister was dead but she could still receive support from Nona in recent years.Gu Qing found Nona's bank statement from the stack of books beside his bed. At the end of 1999, Nona had already deposited enough money in that card and set up a timed transfer.

At the last moment, she asked Gu Qing why.How could Gu Qing know why, just like he didn't know why a diligent couple would imprison their son indoors to become a gentleman.

"What were you talking to Suzanne just now?"

"She has a work question she wants to ask me."

"Why does it feel like she's unhappy?"

"Maybe...you don't have as many ideas as I do?"

It was even scarier for Gu Qing to tell jokes with this face, Leon respected his efforts, and pretended to be an ostrich in his arms for a while.

"Good night." Gu Qing said to him.

"Dad, my mother's name is Nona."

"Yes."

"Then my, what is my biological father's name?"

No matter how science develops, what should come will always come. This is an irresistible cause and effect, and this kind of cause and effect is what science most wants to predict.The child leaned against his arms and shivered, but did not cry, like a knife waiting to be severed.He had already forgotten that when he was three years old, he had experienced this kind of confession, and Lu Qing did not do better than the last time, even if he did not forget any details.

"Jack." Lu Qing gently stroked the child's back.

"Darcy said that a couple in your laboratory died. Is it the two of them?"

"Yes."

"Susanna said that her senior sister and his wife passed away. Are they also the two of them?"

"Yes."

"I hate Christmas," Leon choked out.

"Then let's not celebrate Christmas in the future." Lu Qing still hugged him with the same strength.

"I hate this world." Leon burst into tears.

"And I'm here with you." Gu Qing said to him: "I am also your father, and your surname is Gu, and you have a magnolia tree like me. Close family."

"I hate, hate me..." Leon gripped his T-shirt tightly.

"I love you."

"I don't believe it!" Leon shook his head and cried, "You will love your own child, and Susanna will give you a child who is more innocent and cuter than mine."

"You are my child," Gu Qing kissed his forehead, "You are very simple and cute. I have loved you since the first time I saw you. important."

Lu Qing said more and more sweet words, the child still cried for a long, long time, even longer than when he lived with him last time.Lu Qing didn't think about other things all the time, but simply comforted him.The child seemed to have really grown up, and he didn't cry to sleep anymore. When he stopped crying, he asked Gu Qing while drinking water: "What's on the ground?"

"Someone gave us two Christmas sweaters." Gu Qing asked him, "Do you want to wear it?"

He nodded.Gu Qing took two pullover sweaters, handed one to Leon, and then put on one himself.There was a button made of a green Christmas leaf on the red sweater. Leon struggled in it for a long time, but couldn’t get his head out, and then gave up, only a black head was exposed. After wearing it, Gu Qing helped him unbutton it, let him out.

"Can we pretend to take a photo together?" Leon asked him.

"can."

Lu Qing opened the computer camera, Leon leaned over and leaned his head on Gu Qing's shoulder.The two are sitting together wearing Christmas red sweaters. They are not of the same race, but they also have similar feelings.

"Dad, can I still call you Dad?" Leon threw himself on him again and cried.

"I was your father."

"What happened to them?" Leon asked bravely.

"May I tell you about it when you're older? They deserve a deeper memory."

"I'm a child, I will forget." Leon said with his head down.

"Go out for a stroll together?" Gu Qing asked him.

"it is good."

Gu Qing put a hat on Leon and took him out.The community is very quiet at night, and the wind is not strong. Every house is lit, and there are smoke rings made of string lights floating on the chimneys.

"The tree is beautiful." Gu Qing said to Leon.

Leon was already tired of looking at the look, because this sentence got his attention again.The flowers lined up by string lamps are bright yellow, with a hazy outline, much more childish than real magnolia flowers, like a simple and pious imitator, but lacking in ability.

He is not a child of the Gu family.Leon thought sadly.A rough and narrow-minded person like him is not worthy of being Gu's child.

"I'll push you on the swing, is that okay?" Gu Qing asked him.

"Okay." Leon sat on the swing obediently.

"You are already so big. When you were young, you sat on this swing. Because it was too small, you fell out. Willis almost pulled the tree up by the roots." Gu Qing said to him.

"Where are the others? Where did they go?"

"Berlin, he has someone to accompany him." Gu Qing thought about Juan, and then said to him, "Just like me, the secret work is very busy, but I promised you to come back for Christmas, and I must come back .”

"Have you gone out yet?"

"Yes, I went to London."

"Then you came back suddenly, did Professor Green complain?"

"No, but none of the presents have been given to you."

"She's so fierce."

"Ah."

"It's snowing." Leon suddenly raised his head.

Snowflakes come with the wind.Maybe it’s the gift king’s sleigh passing through the wind and waves in the myth, or maybe it’s because nature finds it too awkward for the two of them to get along carefully, adding a little natural and fresh topic to them.

"The new year is coming soon."

"Can you stay with me all the time?" Leon turned to look at Gu Qing.

Gu Qing looked down at him and gently covered his eyes.The child's eyes still had the burning sensation after crying, and he pursed his lips, waiting for the answer.Gu Qing seldom felt sad, but at this time, he was very sad, and he was even worried that he would see this moment when he fell asleep.In the light snow, his cherished child sat on a swing covered with magnolia lanterns, and once again the child who learned of his life experience raised his head in pleading and asked patiently.

Lu Qing gently stroked his eyelashes, ready to lie to him.He often treats him as an adult in thought, this time, he wants to treat him as a child with all his heart.

"I have too many demands." Before he could speak, Gu Qing blinked his eyes under the palm of his hand, "It's okay when I grow up?"

"Of course." Lu Qing was so sad that his heart was about to break, he nodded and tried to control his voice: "I will always be with you."

"I'm going to grow up soon, and I'm going to be a gentleman, and I'll always protect you."

With tears streaming down Gu Qing's palm, he immediately picked up the crying child from the swing, wrapped him in a down jacket, and walked out of the yard.He thought the idea of ​​a governess and Christmas was a terrible idea, and the house behind him was a terrible idea, and there was no need to miss it.

The author has something to say:

It feels bad at the end. (Is it strange that I am abusive?)