Jigsaw puzzle

Li Ran immediately forgot about his birthday or not, and fell into the dilemma of moral choice.He stopped Han Yicheng's hand that was about to start the car, and held it tightly.

"Are you crazy?" Li Ran stared at him and asked, "If you turn on the lights now, they will be able to see us at once!"

Han Yicheng raised his eyebrows, he didn't understand Li Ran's behavior: "We didn't do anything wrong."

The implication is: he is the one who cheated, why do you want to cover such a person?

"Wait, wait! Don't do this!" Seeing Han Yicheng break free and put his hand on the button to start the engine again, Li Ran was so frightened that his heart almost jumped out, "You wait for them to leave first, and I will explain to you later. Ok?"

Han Yicheng stared at Li Ran for a while, finally compromised, took his hand off the engine switch, and sat in the car, looking out the window at the two people who were flirting with each other.

Li Ran was afraid that Han Yicheng would do something else if he got excited, so he quietly pressed his hand and sat quietly in the car.

The two held hands and held each other for a while, Li Ran suddenly wanted to laugh, and he remembered that the first time Han Yicheng sent him and Zhang Lingyu off was also in this car, and it was also such a ridiculous scene.

Li Ran doesn't know if it's the same with others when they are in a relationship, they do stupid things when they are with each other, and then laugh silly, anyway, he himself has never experienced such an experience before, this is the first time.

But Li Ran felt from the bottom of his heart that this feeling was unique to him. Others had never experienced it, and he couldn't explain it to them.

The girl got on the back seat of Xie Feiyang's motorcycle, and after the two rode together, Han Yicheng crossed his arms and looked at Li Ran with an expression of "you can explain now".

"First," Li Ran stretched out a finger, tilted his head and said, "An Qiqi and Xie Feiyang are both adults, and I have no right to interfere with their relationship. It didn't help my employees in any real way other than embarrassing my relationship with them."

Han Yicheng was not persuaded, he said stubbornly: "Qiqi was betrayed by him."

Li Ran shook his head: "Secondly, we outsiders don't know what the truth is like, and we have no way to simply judge right from wrong. What if Qi Qi did something wrong first, or they have broken up now?"

"..."

Han Yicheng didn't seem very convinced yet, he turned his face away to avoid looking at Li Ran.Seeing his childish behavior, Li Ran found it ridiculous, so he forcibly grabbed Han Yicheng's hair and twisted his head.

"Let them worry about their affairs, okay? The two of us just need to take care of our own affairs."

Han Yicheng didn't speak, as if he was considering his position.

"Are you okay?" Li Ran rubbed his face, with a hint of coquettishness in his tone.

Han Yicheng nodded: "Okay."

It's so cute, Li Ran thought, such a person, even if he forgot about his birthday, he probably wouldn't be able to get angry at all.

However, Li Ran's worries were really unnecessary. Not only did Han Yicheng not forget his birthday, but he was always worrying about it.

He has never been in a relationship before, and he has no friends around him to discuss what gifts to give. For Han Yicheng, thinking about this matter is simply more difficult than adjusting the procedure.

When it was almost time for lunch break, Han Yicheng thought over and over again, and sent Cheng Yi a WeChat message.

- Do you have time to have dinner together?I have something to ask.

Soon, he received a reply from Cheng Yi.

- ok , shall we go now

-Um.I will look for you.

-Ah, no, no, see you at the entrance of the cafeteria, shall we?

-it is good.

Han Yicheng put the phone back in his pocket, glanced at Tian Lei who was checking the data and drawing pictures, stood up and prepared to leave.

"Junior brother, are you eating alone?" Tian Lei stopped him, put his hands behind his head, lay down on the leather chair, and asked lazily, "Do you want to go to the cafeteria together?"

"No, I have an appointment." Han Yicheng didn't want to talk to him too much, and wanted to leave after speaking, but was stopped by Tian Lei again.

"With Cheng Yi?"

"Ah."

Tian Lei stretched his waist, clicked his lips, and put on a serious expression.

"Junior Brother, let me remind you kindly, be careful, the little girl nowadays has a lot of eyes, some people, you think she admires you and likes you, but in fact she just wants to use you to publish more articles. "The expression on Tian Lei's face was very playful, and he said it with his nose and eyes.

"You are new to the world, and the senior brother said that because he was afraid that you would suffer a disadvantage. Look at the old man who was deceived by her. Going to the forum in Switzerland, some bosses brought masters there—"

Han Yicheng got angry, and interrupted Tian Lei before he finished speaking: "You don't need to remind me, I'm not a fool."

After finishing speaking, Han Yicheng ignored Tian Lei's reaction, walked out on his own, and walked all the way to the cafeteria door, his face still darkened.

"Senior brother," Cheng Yi saw Han Yicheng coming, waved to him, and waited for Han Yicheng to walk in, only to find that his face was full of unhappiness, "You...what's the matter?"

"It's okay." Han Yicheng shook his head while cooking, "It's not important."

Cheng Yi made a good guess in his heart, and waited until the two of them found an empty space to sit down together with their plates, and then asked cautiously, "Is it Senior Brother Tian Lei... What did you say to me?"

Han Yicheng doesn't know how to lie, he glanced at Cheng Yi with a complicated expression, but didn't speak.

"Actually... Brother, you don't have to speak for me over there," Cheng Yi smiled, and the smile couldn't tell whether it was sad or open-minded, "It's fine that Teacher Wei can see my progress. If you make him anxious, it's easy for him I really think I'm plotting something wrong."

Han Yicheng also smiled: "Can you still plot against me?"

Cheng Yi also had fun with him for a while, concentrating on eating without talking.

"I can't figure out what he's thinking." Han Yicheng was silent for a while, and then took the initiative to say, "He threatened me with the matter of his orientation before, but now he seems to be ignorant and says some strange things."

Cheng Yi bit his chopsticks as if he was thinking about this problem, and suddenly a flash of light flashed in his mind: "Could he be trying to win you over?"

"It's not necessary." Han Yicheng shook his head.

"I went to copy the materials for the boss that day, and I heard something from them," Cheng Yi said with a slightly mysterious expression, and lowered his voice, "They said that Teacher Wei wanted to give you this year's quota to be an associate research fellow!"

"Ah?" Han Yicheng was taken aback, slightly surprised, "I just graduated with a Ph.D. the year before last, so it's not my turn."

Cheng Yi blinked: "But Teacher Wei has few students, and you have published many articles. You have also done national-level projects before?"

Han Yicheng didn't speak, and began to think about this possibility.

"If you make it up, you'll be on the same level as him. He probably doesn't want you to take revenge for what happened before, right?"

Han Yicheng really doesn't know anything about interpersonal relationships in the workplace. He vaguely thinks Cheng Yi's words are reasonable, but feels that Tian Lei doesn't need to do this.

But he didn't think about it clearly in the end, so he simply gave up on this matter and entered the topic.

"Cheng Yi," Han Yicheng said seriously, "Have you ever been in love before?"

"Huh?" Cheng Yi didn't expect the topic to change so suddenly, and was a little caught off guard. "We've talked twice, but... both failed. Maybe I see something wrong with the person."

"Do you know what to give as a birthday present at a time like this?"

"For... Teacher Aran?" Cheng Yi asked Han Yicheng a little gossip.

"…Um."

Cheng Yi was stumped all of a sudden, she was always a good girl, not an expert in love, not to mention that the recipient of the gift was a boy, which made her even more helpless.

But she also understood that if Han Yicheng hadn't really had no one to ask, he wouldn't have come looking for her, which made her feel that she had a heavy responsibility on her shoulders.

"Uh, should I give something commemorative? It doesn't have to be too expensive, but it needs to be ingenious? It's best to do it yourself!" Cheng Yi tried hard to recall the plots in Korean dramas, and offered his limited suggestions.

"Can I give you a ring?"

"Ah?" Cheng Yi's eyes widened, "How long have you been together?"

"More than half a year."

"Then... don't give the ring away? It's too grand, will it scare him?" Cheng Yi reminded tactfully.

Han Yicheng frowned, and he realized his strangeness from Cheng Yi's tone: "Yes."

Seeing that Han Yicheng was embarrassed, Cheng Yi hurriedly asked again: "Then... does he have any hobbies? You can combine them with gifts!"

Han Yicheng quickly scanned the things Li Ran likes to do in his mind: dancing, drinking, watching ghost movies.

He fiddled with the leaves of vegetables on the plate irritably, and began to blame himself for the boring and lacking life of more than 30 years, and he couldn't even prepare some surprises for Li Ran.

Han Yicheng returned home with such a lost mood, even feeling annoyed when he saw the TV screen.

If someone else is in love, you can do many things with him, right?Watching movies, watching TV shows, playing games...

But even the suggestion of them playing horror games together was proposed by Li Ran.

As soon as Han Yicheng turned his head, he happened to be facing the green morning glory vines on the window sill, and suddenly remembered Li Ran standing here a few days ago, smiling and looking out the window.

It must be very boring to be with someone like yourself.

That suffocating sense of self-loathing unconsciously wrapped Han Yicheng in the middle.

This palpitation came so fast this time that Han Yicheng couldn't help himself to go to the bathroom. With his trembling right hand, he ran to the kitchen counter a few steps, picked up the fruit knife, and slashed at the back of his hand.

The moment he saw the bright red blood oozing out, he suddenly felt a little relieved, so he made another stab at the side.

Just at this time, the sound of the keyhole turning sounded, Han Yicheng was shocked, and hurriedly tried to hide the knife in a panic.

Reluctantly, Li Ran had already opened the door first, and before he had time to turn on the light, he heard a loud sound of metal falling from the kitchen.

"Han Yicheng!" Li Ran was startled, and rushed in to check what was going on.

The entire knife rack in the kitchen was on its side, and there were several kitchen knives scattered on the ground, as well as a blood-stained fruit knife.

Han Yicheng stood aside in a daze, blood was bubbling on the back of his left hand, and his right hand was pressing on the wound in an attempt to stop the bleeding.

"Go to the hospital!" Li Ran turned pale with fright, took a few tissues from the side to help him press on the wound, and pulled Han Yicheng out, "I...I'll drive!"

Han Yicheng stood firmly on the spot without moving.

"Hurry up!" Li Ran was a little anxious, and gave him a hard pull.

Han Yicheng still didn't move. Only then did Li Ran feel the difference in body shape between the two. Han Yicheng was almost ten centimeters taller than him. Even though he was already working hard, he still couldn't pull him.

"There are gauze and medicine in the cabinet."

Hearing Han Yicheng's words, Li Ran came to his senses, hurried to the bottom of the TV cabinet, dug out all the things that could be used, and forcibly bandaged Han Yicheng calmly to stop the bleeding.

"It's okay," Han Yicheng touched his earlobe, pressed the wound skillfully, sprinkled the powder on the surface, coated the area with iodine, and wrapped his hands with gauze.

"The bleeding has stopped, so there is no need to go to the hospital."

"Are you really okay?" Li Ran relaxed a little now, and carefully checked Han Yicheng's gauze-wrapped hands several times to confirm that the bleeding had really stopped, before hugging Han Yicheng tightly.

"You scared me to death! What are you doing yourself? Why did you scratch yourself again?"

Li Ran's voice trembled a little. He instinctively felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what the problem was, so he could only wrap his arms around Han Yicheng's neck and hug him tightly.

He vaguely had a very bad guess that Han Yicheng didn't accidentally knock down the knife holder just now.

Han Yicheng didn't answer him, but gently kneaded Li Ran's earlobe with his uninjured hand, and after a while, he spoke.

"You scared me by opening the door, and accidentally knocked down the knife holder."

Li Ran didn't know whether to believe him or not, so he put a little distance between the two of them, and stared seriously at Han Yicheng's eyes.

His eyes are very gentle, like an ordinary person who is comforting his lover, very convincing.

The two stalemate for a while, Han Yicheng saw that Li Ran still didn't believe him, so he leaned into his ear and said a word slowly,

"Let's finish what we didn't finish last time, shall we?"