under the filth

Tang Cen dragged his suitcase and quickly found his room. He swiped his room card to enter the room, then pushed the suitcase to the corner, and threw himself into the soft big bed without even changing his clothes.

The exhaustion from the long-distance flight hadn't subsided yet. Tang Cen pulled off the quilt and curled up on the bed. The soft touch made his tense body slowly relax, and he fell asleep after a while.

Tang Cen slept for a long time that night. He didn't have a good rest when he was at home, but he slept more peacefully in the hotel. So when he woke up from his sleep, it was already the morning of the third day in London.

After moving around under the blanket, Tang Cen turned over to look for his phone, but the light that had been on for two days made him unable to open his eyes.Tang Cen blocked the light with his hands, but the discomfort in his eyes didn't ease, and he couldn't find the phone after touching the bedside table for a long time. In desperation, Tang Cen could only reluctantly sit up from the quilt.

After sleeping for two days, Tang Cen was still sluggish, his shirt and hair were messed up, and he looked sloppy.Sitting on the bed with squinted eyes, Tang Cen shook back and forth twice, and reluctantly brushed his hair twice before dragging his tired body to turn off all the lights in the room.

Sitting back on the bed again, Tang Cen took a deep breath, leaned his body back, and fell on the bed.He had been in London for two days, and he hadn't done anything. It took two days just to get out of jet lag, and his mind was still in a mess.

The lights in the room were not turned on, but it was not dim, and the sunlight came in through the gap in the curtains, falling on Tang Cen's hand.Tang Cen raised his hand, holding the ray of sunshine in his palm, feeling the heat that once terrified him.

Counting from the day he left, Tang Cen hadn't set foot on British soil for five years.Five years may not be long or short, but it is enough to change many things.

Tang Cen threw the phone in the corner of the bed for two whole days. He didn't turn off the airplane mode, and didn't replace it with a new card. The phone, which couldn't receive any signal, was still half charged when he remembered to check it.

Tang Cen reached out and touched the pocket of his jacket. There was nothing in it, even the air ticket was thrown on the ground by him.

He landed very late the day before yesterday, and he didn't make preparations in advance, so there are a lot of things that need to be bought again, but England is destined to be only a short-term landing for Tang Cen, and he plans to buy a new phone card after he has figured out where to go.

The weather outside was fine, but Tang Cen had no intention of going out yet. After all, no matter how decadent he was, he had to clean up before going out.

Tang Cen twisted twice in the quilt, and instinctively leaned towards a warm place.The soft quilt was very comfortable, and Tang Cen began to feel drowsy after lying down for a while.

It is said that "you stand at thirty", Tang Cen is only 30 years old, but at this age, he has lost all his energy, drifting along decadently, muddling along.

Tang Cen thought, if he hadn't paid attention to Jiang Yan and accepted Lu Sheng at that time, would his life have developed as Tang Songyuan planned and would have gone smoothly?But the matter had come to this point, no matter how much he regretted it, what had happened was irreversible.

After another two or three hours of sleep, Tang Cen finally woke up.He kicked off the quilt wrapped around his body and went into the bathroom barefoot.

Taking off the crumpled clothes on his body, Tang Cen turned on the shower, and the warm water hit his body, flowing down along the lines of his body.Tang Cen raised his head and combed his wet black hair back with his hands, the water droplets falling on his face blurred his vision.

In the dense heat, Tang Cen's right hand touched the wrist of his left hand, where there was a long and uneven scar.He couldn't help rubbing it several times, and to this day his brain still clearly remembers the pain of the glass shards piercing into his flesh, and the mottled bloodstains that were dragged on the bottom of the bathtub when the splashed blood slid down.

The feeling of hot water rinsing your body is very comfortable. After rinsing under the shower for a long time, Tang Cen didn't come out of the bathroom until the decadence on his body was completely washed away, and all the fatigue was washed down the sewer along the water flow.

The bathroom was steaming, Tang Cen put on a bathrobe, and carefully wiped the water from his hair in front of the mirror that was so blurred that he couldn't see anything clearly.The water in the hair flowed to the back with the towel rubbing, and the wet bathrobe rubbed against the skin.

After wiping his hair, Tang Cen shook the water off his feet and left the bathroom.He pulled the suitcase standing alone in the corner to the bed and opened it, took a set of clean clothes from it and changed into it, and there was still a watery, intermittent and transparent footprint on the ground behind him.

"Gu——" Tang Cen's stomach immediately protested after taking a shower, but he hadn't eaten for two whole days.Tang Cen tidied up a bit, took his wallet and room card and went out.

It's not too late, but it's too late for lunch and too early for dinner.Tang Cen strolled around the city center and bought a few desserts to fill his stomach.

When Tang Cen first arrived in the UK, Tang Cen was still confused, but after two days of rest, Tang Cen no longer felt overwhelmed when looking at the street again, and even used his past memories to find the restaurants and bars he had visited when he was studying abroad .

After eating a bunch of desserts in the afternoon, Tang Cen was still too full to eat when it was dinner time.Looking around, Tang Cen saw that there was nowhere to go other than the bar, so he pushed open the door of the bar.

This bar is opened by an Italian. The tavern opened by an Italian who carves romance into his bones is not as loud and noisy as other bars, and it is still early for young people's nightlife. There are not many people in the bar, which is very suitable for him to spend time. time.

There are no memories of him and Lu Sheng here, he only came here once with Lily and Andy when school just started.After school started, because of various problems, they never came here again, and only mentioned it once or twice during occasional gatherings.

After entering the bar, Tang Cen randomly found a corner and sat down.In the past ten years, there have been many new products on the bar's menu, but the wine that Tang Cen ordered is still there.

After ordering, Tang Cen nestled into the soft sofa chair. He originally planned to sit down for a while before going back, but he didn't expect to meet "acquaintances" in this small bar.

There were not many people in the bar, and the wine Tang Cen ordered was delivered quickly.Tang Cen picked up the cup and took a sip, the cool liquid slid down his throat, and it still tasted familiar.

While drinking, Tang Cen was thinking about where he would go next.

Lily and Andy settled in Italy, and most of the other friends stayed in the UK or returned to their motherland. He didn't know many people in other European countries.Tang Cen considered living in a country where he had no acquaintances for a while, but since he was unfamiliar with the place, it would be difficult if he did not speak the language.

Or go to France?The French he taught himself at university is not a problem for daily communication, but what should he do there?Just spending time in a foreign country erosively?

Tang Cen was so engrossed in his thoughts that he didn't notice the few people who pushed the door and entered afterwards.

Eisen and his colleagues just finished a big project today and will return to Birmingham tomorrow, so they plan to find a small bar to relax tonight.

As soon as he entered the door, Eisen saw Tang Cen.Tang Cen's soft black hair and oriental face were very eye-catching in the crowd, and immediately attracted his attention.

In fact, Eisen was also a little surprised to see Tang Cen at the bar, but this place was not too far from the hotel, and Tang Cen could always find it when he wandered around.Eisen saw that he seemed to be thinking about something seriously, so he didn't go up to say hello, and pulled his colleague to sit down not far away.

Eisen didn't want to disturb Tang Cen, but his colleagues didn't think so.

The black colleague also noticed Tang Cen from the moment he entered the door, and also noticed Aisen's unusual gaze. He smiled and hooked Aisen's shoulder and asked, "Aisen, do you know that person over there?"

Eisen looked in the direction he indicated, and replied vaguely: "It is."

His black colleague's private life was notoriously chaotic, and Eisen didn't want Tang Cen to provoke such a person because of himself.

When the colleague heard it, he really showed an ambiguous smile: "Is there a master?"

"I heard that there is, but I don't know now." Eisen didn't hide it. After all, he didn't know much about Tang Cen and Lu Sheng, but he graduated from the same school, so he still warned, "Don't mess around, that's me. Senior."

"Your senior? From the University of Bath?" The colleague asked in surprise, "It's been a long time since I graduated. I don't seem to have heard of such a person in London."

Hearing that he was still asking the bottom line, Eisen was also a little impatient, but he didn't show it on his face: "He returned to China later."

"Really?" The colleague said this with a bit of a smile, and Eisen always felt a little weird when he heard it.By the time Eisen reacted, he had already stood up and walked towards Tang Cen's seat.

Eisen didn't have time to stop him. When he turned around, he saw that man patted Tang Cen's shoulder with the hand that had hugged countless lovers. He wished he could chop off that hand.

I don't know what the colleague said to Tang Cen, Tang Cen raised his head and looked towards them, Eisen had no choice but to raise his hand to say hello.

Tang Cen didn't expect to meet the person he met at the hotel last night in the bar, but by coincidence, his companion came to invite him again.Thinking of what happened last night, Tang Cen thought that since he met him, he would go say hello. Although the man's eyes in front of him made him uncomfortable, he agreed to his invitation.

"What a coincidence." Tang Cen said hello to Aisen and sat down in the empty seat beside him. When he lowered his head and pulled the chair, he didn't see the complicated look of those people exchanging each other.

The moment Tang Cen sat down, Eisen seemed to smell the faint creamy smell on his body, which was sweet and soft, but not greasy.