Brother Chuan

Li Lai began to recite the speech he had written in advance.

"Thank you for coming to my birthday party today. I invite you to come today. In fact, there is another important thing to announce, which is about my personal art exhibition..."

Brother Chuan turned his head to look at An Tang who was a head taller beside him.

It has been like this since he was a child, An Tang has always been so much taller than himself, as if he has never grown taller.

Brother Chuan thought all this was a signal that An Tang wanted to reconcile with him, and he foolishly said thank you to An Tang.

An Tang turned his head to meet his gaze, didn't answer, just tilted his head slightly, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

Thinking about it now, that smile was mocking his stupidity.

The night before Li Lai's art exhibition opened, Brother Chuan suddenly received a call from Li Lai.

Li Lai asked him, "Did you and your brother quarrel?"

Li Lai on the phone seemed to try his best to hide his panic, but Brother Chuan immediately heard something wrong in his voice.

"What happened?" Brother Chuan asked bluntly.

Li Lai hesitated, but told him the truth.The situation is urgent, tomorrow is the opening of the art exhibition, but An Tang suddenly called to say that he wanted to divest the capital, and Li Lai asked him why.

"What did he say?" Brother Chuan asked.

"He... asked me to ask you." Li Lai was half confused and half anxious, "Is there something wrong between you two?"

Brother Chuan thought of what An Tang said before and his sudden change of attitude towards him in the past few days, and instantly understood everything.

"He and I have a little misunderstanding." He first comforted Li Lai and said, "Don't worry, I'll go and tell him. Your art exhibition will definitely be held as scheduled."

After hanging up the phone, Brother Chuan turned around and went to the door of Andang's room.

He knocked on the door.

"Brother, it's me." Brother Chuan said.

"It's not locked, come in." An Tang seemed to have expected him to come.

"Is there something wrong?" An Tang knew the consultant, the expression on his face was as calm as usual, nothing unusual.

"Brother, don't pretend." Brother Chuan looked straight into Shang'antang's eyes, stared at him, and said, "Li Lai called me just now, and you withdrew your investment. I know, you can't get used to it for a long time. He, all of this was planned by you a long time ago!" Brother Chuan's words slammed straight at An Tang with sharp anger like a knife.

An Tang didn't speak, but raised his eyebrows expressionlessly, as if this matter was not worth mentioning in his eyes.

Brother Chuan saw him acquiescing, and the anger in his eyes was covered with deep disappointment.

"Bro, you're mean," he said.

An Tang's expression finally loosened a bit.

"Have you said enough?" An Tang stood up from the seat, and approached Brother Chuan fiercely, "You actually scolded me for your little boyfriend? You scolded me for an outsider?" An Tang sneered, his expression It became a little hideous, "Do you know that I..."

An Tang's half-spoken words suddenly stopped.

Brother Chuan was sensitively aware of something.

"I don't know." Brother Chuan said, "Tell me, why, why did you destroy his first art exhibition?"

An Tang stopped talking.

Brother Chuan continued: "Do you know how long he has been looking forward to this day? How much preparation has he made for the exhibition? He even invited the guests. Those celebrities in the industry who managed to get in touch, if How would they evaluate him if he was released from this art exhibition? His life has just started, brother, are you trying to ruin his career!" As he spoke, Brother Chuan angrily grabbed An Tang by the collar .

An Tang twisted his neck slightly, and pushed Brother Chuan's hand away from his collar. "I didn't want to ruin his future."

"Don't you want to help him?" An Tang looked down at Brother Chuan condescendingly, the corners of his mouth gradually deepened, "If you break up with him, I can withdraw the withdrawal immediately."

After hearing this, Brother Chuan showed a sudden realization expression.He smiled wryly and said, "You took such a big turn just for this? Let me break up with him?"

"I'm here to protect you." An Tang made that "good brother" appearance again.

"Do you believe this yourself?" Brother Chuan smiled sarcastically.

He looked at his brother in name who had been with him day and night for many years, took two steps back, and slowly opened the distance between them, but in fact the distance between them was so far: "Brother, you have changed. Although you are always fierce, I know you won't harm me. But now, brother, I can't understand you more and more. Even if you are smiling, who knows what is going on in your heart? ? Brother, you have become scary."

"Maybe. Haven't you changed too? The old you didn't have the guts to talk to me like that." An Tang avoided his eyes and looked towards the window, the mask on his face was so flawless.

"You—" Brother Chuan wanted to say something, An Tang raised his wrist, interrupted him, motioned him to look at his watch, and said in a somewhat impatient tone: "Hurry up and decide, he doesn't have much time."

Looking back from the complicated past, Brother Chuan sighed softly.It has been six years, and it has been six full years since he left that home.

Because of Li Lai's death, he couldn't stay in school anymore, so he dropped out.

Then, without saying goodbye to uncle and aunt, he left that house.

So far six years.

If An Tang hadn't found him and told him that Uncle An was hospitalized, they might have gone on like this forever and never saw each other again.

Brother Chuan had just arrived at the hospital. When Daqiang called, he had already found the ward where Uncle An was, and was about to open the door to enter.

He was talking to Daqiang, but he was suddenly grabbed by his arm from behind.

Brother Chuan, who was forcibly turned around, saw the face of An Tang who had been away for many years, and the phone fell to the ground with a thud.

He came back to his senses, squatted down, picked up the phone silently, and tried to sort out his emotions at the same time.

The phone is still on.

"Your boyfriend?" An Tang asked him.

"No." Brother Chuan denied it indifferently.

He even instinctively didn't want An Tang to know about Daqiang's existence, so he hung up the phone in a hurry without saying a few words.

"What happened to Uncle An?"

"He is old and has a heart problem. This time he suddenly fainted at home. Fortunately, my mother and I discovered it in time."

"Then he is now?"

"He has woken up, but the doctor gave him a comprehensive examination and said that his blood vessels were severely stenotic, and he needed an operation to implant a stent. Dad has already agreed, and the operation is scheduled for tomorrow morning."

"Are there any risks with stent implantation...?"

"The risk is quite low. The doctor said it was less than 1%, so there shouldn't be any problem."

"Okay, then I'll go in and see him."

The conversation between the two was calm and polite, but after six years, they have become so unfamiliar with each other.

Brother Chuan turned and opened the door.He didn't see An Tang behind him trying to suppress his clenched fists as he stepped forward without excitement, and the bottomless eyes staring at him.

He will never know how much time and effort he has spent trying to find him.

On the other hand, Daqiang learned from Huang Mao that Brother Chuan's hometown is in City B. While he was depressed that Brother Chuan never told him, he asked a classmate who happened to work in the Municipal Bureau of City B to find out Brother Chuan's previous address.

After waiting all night, a classmate called him early the next morning and gave him an address.

Daqiang said, thank you brother.

The classmate used to play very well with him, knew his sexuality, and joked about whether he was chasing his wife.

Daqiang smiled and didn't answer, just said to invite him to dinner when he came back.

The classmate said, okay, then let me meet with your family and see who has the ability to make you pursue so hard.

Da Qiang gritted his teeth, but said fuck you.

Here I hung up the phone with my classmates playfully, and over there Daqiang had already booked the train ticket online.

After getting on the train and wandering all the way, after nearly twelve hours, he finally arrived in City B.

He got out of the car, it was around [-]:[-] pm, it was almost dark at this time, he first found a nearby hotel to put down his luggage, and then went straight to the address given by his classmates.

While sitting in the taxi, Daqiang suddenly realized that his actions were a little abrupt.Seeing Brother Chuan, what should he say?How was he going to explain his inexplicable raid to him?

In fact, he didn't need to rush over here at all, after all, after a few more days, Brother Chuan would be back.

How many days do you have to wait?Daqiang couldn't wait for a second.He wants to see Brother Chuan, he wants to tell Brother Chuan, he has thought it through, and he knows what to do.

The thought was so strong that it burned all his sanity.