What he sang is all fake

There is a tall iron gate at the entrance of the villa area. The exquisite retro pattern lines seem to be specially designed, and there is no obvious rust on it, but it still reminds Qi Chen of the door at the gate of Qingye.They are clearly standing at both ends of the class line, but they still have something in common that people can think of. They are all things in cool colors, no matter noble or cheap: quiet, indifferent, and depressing, just like this evening canopy.

Although the sun is bright during the day, there is no trace of blue. Naturally, there is no beautiful rainbow at dusk. The change of day and night is just a process from white to black.Although the mansion in front of me was luxurious, it looked very deserted when it was empty. Only the lights lit by the mother and son were not enough to support this lonely night.Qi Chen was standing in the front hall where only half of the ceiling light was turned on, Qi Mei's voice on the receiver was next to his ears, and at the same time he could vaguely hear Bei He's joyful words not far away, but he still felt very empty.

Empty—a strange feeling, like a hole that had always been there in his heart had been materialized and projected onto where he was now.

There was a family portrait of three people hanging on the wall, Qi Chen's gaze swept across the golden photo frame, and then landed on the face similar to him.Zhou Nanyu in the photo is still in his youth, his facial features are not as cold and handsome as they are now, but they are not as bright as many teenage boys.Father Zhou is obviously his ultimate evolutionary version. From the outline and temperament, it is the appearance of Zhou Nanyu 30 years later. This kind of similarity that can be seen at a glance is really the most straightforward expression of blood relationship.And Mother Zhou... The woman was wearing a dark blue dress, with a slight smile on her face, but her eyes were also cold.

Whether it's introversion, calmness, or indifference brought about by heart disease, they are "cold" in different places, and they really look like the three of a family.

Qi Chen looked at it for a few seconds, then looked away.

There are thousands of lucky or unfortunate families in this world, and this is not the one he needs to care about.

"Hang up, I will definitely be back before 10:30." He said to Zimei.Behind the bluffing voice of the other party, there is an unspoken concern, and he knows it. "...It will be nothing, don't worry."

After finishing the call, Qi Chen raised his foot and walked towards the place where Beihe was.Of course, it wasn't just Qi Mei, Bei He also had that kind of concern and caution in his eyes, but their concerns were all in the wrong direction.Qi Chen had never doubted Bei He's feelings for him, nor did he believe that he no longer admired Zhou Nanyu. It wasn't Bei He who worried him.

What he was worried about was Zhou Nanyu.

"We must seize this opportunity to have a good time, let's go more places, say..."

Bei He raised his face slightly to talk to Zhou Nanyu, Zhou Nanyu looked at him seriously, with a relaxed expression, and a rare softness and smile between his brows and eyes.It turned out that Qi Chen had also seen the way other people talked to Bei He, Chu Xiaofei, Song Yixiang, etc. Everyone would have similar expressions, but they were different.Those points that Qi Mei used to say about him as "sluggish" were all cleared up after interacting with Bei He. It was actually not difficult to notice the details of some eyes and facial expressions, let alone that the other party was in the same mood or mind as him.

The way Zhou Nanyu looked at Beihe was different from other friends.

Qi Chen raised his hand to gently wrap around Bei He's waist. A month ago, he would never have believed that he would have such a thing as "possessive".Wanting to pull him to my side, wanting to imprint on him, wanting him to only look at me...

I want to give a warning to anyone who covets him.

Qi Chen glanced at Zhou Nanyu in a targeted manner.He felt in his heart that he was naive, and it would be impolite to do this while visiting, but he did it anyway.

Beside his ear was Bei He's brisk voice muttering about the holiday balance, Qi Chen turned his gaze back to those eyes full of intimacy, while Zhou Nanyu took two steps back calmly.

But in fact, it would be nice if it was just like this.

——If he and Zhou Nanyu only have this level of confrontation, if Bei He only has such simple troubles as a lack of vacations, if he and Bei He still don't feel that there is any factor that can shake their relationship, then they are lucky enough.

The premise is that this "if" holds true.

"Children are eating!"

Mother Zhou's voice sounded from the direction of the kitchen.The four dishes and one soup are fragrant on the table, the shrimps are arranged in a crescent shape, and the salad dressing is also squeezed into a neat row of florets.The combination of Chinese and Western dishes can be seen to be prepared with great care.Qi Chen walked to the table, silently thinking about how to greet people, and thinking about what questions he might be asked during the routine at the dinner table.

At this moment, someone patted his arm from behind.

"Nannan serve me some soup."

It's an unfamiliar name.The soft voice resounded through the restaurant, and everyone froze for a moment.Qi Chen reacted for two seconds, and realized what kind of misunderstanding this was, so he turned his face and nodded politely to the person.

"……Hello."

The apron slid down the back of the chair and fell to the ground, Qi Chen bent down to pick it up.Bei He's joke of "Auntie, do they look alike" was already on his lips, and he swallowed it back when he saw Zhou's mother's expression clearly.

Mother Zhou's reaction was very strange.Her eyes widened slowly, her lips were slightly parted but she couldn't make any sound, and the hand resting on the back of the chair began to visibly tremble slightly.After turning from stunned to amazed, her expression turned into panic again, and she staggered back a little dizzily, as if she would really faint in the next moment.

This is an overreaction for someone who just saw someone who looked a lot like his own son.

"you……"

Qi Chen frowned subconsciously, the eyes that were firmly locked on him were full of things he couldn't understand, he wanted to ask if there was something wrong with you, but as soon as he opened his mouth, another figure stood in front of him.

But even the lines of frowning between their brows are the same.

"mom--!"

Zhou Nanyu stepped forward and held her shoulder with a worried tone.Although his mother has improved a lot recently, any sign of something wrong will make him nervous.Ordinary people can't imagine what can be called stimulation in her sensitive senses, intentional, unintentional, or simply her own imaginary enemy.

Qi Chen stepped back a little, looking at her silhouette with some doubts.Bei He also walked up to him with a helpless face, and tugged at the corner of his clothes.The corner of the chair squeaked and dragged half a meter on the floor, and Zhou's mother sat down stiffly supporting the table.

"No, it's okay." She held Zhou Nanyu's hand and squeezed it, and let out a long breath, "I was a little dizzy just now... It's okay, everyone sit down."

The other three breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words, only a half breath.For those who more or less know her medical history, their every word and even every action will be double-considered.The originally warm atmosphere suddenly tightened, and no one moved their chopsticks for a while, only the sound of the spoon in her hand hitting the porcelain bowl.

Logically speaking, Qi Chen should have introduced himself, but Bei He winked at him and told him not to speak yet.This kind of silence carried an element of involuntary panic, Bei He glanced around from the corner of his eye, racked his brains to come up with a few relatively easy topics, and when he was about to speak, Mother Zhou spoke up first.

"What's your name?"

On the main seat on one side of the long table, the woman's eyes passed Bei He and Zhou Nan on her left and right, and fell on Qi Chen's face again.Looking at her again was not as panicked as it was at the previous moment, but there was still something tense behind that soft and generous demeanor.

"Qi Chen." Qi Chen responded.

"It's neat and tidy, and it's a beautiful day." Beihe immediately followed, "We may not be here for too long and we will be returning to the Yidu, so I came to bother you a few years ago, and I trouble you to make this table yourself... "

"Yidu?" She murmured without waiting for Beihe to finish speaking, "Are you from Yidu?"

Bei He immediately shut his mouth.Qi Chen's search in Zhou's mother's eyes exceeded his expectations, he stuffed half a fish fillet into his mouth, and waited nervously for the answer from the people around him.

"I'm from Weicheng, and I'm studying in Yidu." Qi Chen said simply, "I'm Beihe's roommate in Yidu."

"Is that so..."

"Mom, the food is getting cold."

Zhou Nanyu mentioned something softly, and put some shrimps in her bowl.Listening to his mother talking to Qi Chen gave him a very... indescribable feeling.

It's like a person who really exists in the mirror. You clearly know in your heart that you are not the same at all, but everyone around you will compare you intentionally or unintentionally. "Comparison" itself is an unpleasant thing, and standing between Qi Chen and him, there is Bei He.He didn't know if Bei He came into contact because Qi Chen looked like him, and then got together by accident.No matter what, it was Zhou Nanyu who failed others first, but the feeling of pushing Bei He to such a person was really annoying.

Then came the moment when he felt that they were all somewhat similar, the preferred sweater style, the coincidence of color contrast, the already similar body shape, these contour-level things piled up together, became the last straw, became Even my mother would be mistaken at first glance.It's not that she couldn't even recognize her own son, but she didn't expect such a mirror image to exist.If I had to find a word to describe it, it would be evil fate.

That's right, evil fate.Bei He raised his eyes to look at Zhou Nan on the opposite side, and then turned his face to look at Qi Chen. The two of them happened to pick up a small ball of rice with the tip of their chopsticks at the same time, and even the angles of their arms were so similar.The crystal chandelier in the dining room was silently emitting golden light, and the ends of the metal tableware shone with dazzling light spots, which made people dizzy for a moment, and at the same time felt strange and absurd.

What's going on here?

Something is about to happen, and people's biological instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is desperately warning.In just a few minutes, Bei He's palms were sweaty. He moved his chopsticks a few times for a table of delicious dishes, and soon lost his appetite.

"Zhou Nan," Bei He forced out a smile.He needs to say something quickly, something daily, work, anything, "Have you listened to Qi Anfa's demo?"

"Listen." Zhou Nanyu obviously wanted to change the subject, he continued following Beihe's words, "Xiaofei also has two people coming out, Uncle Xiang suggested that everyone go back to the company to meet after the year, when will you leave?"

"Ah, we..." Beihe paused, then leaned aside and asked Qi Chen, "What time do we leave?"

"It's up to you." Qi Chen's answer was as short as ever, "Work comes first."

This is another troublesome thing, when Bei He thought that he would have to face Qi Chen's parents again tomorrow, Bei He felt pain in his heart.It's not good to leave early, and it's too annoying to leave late...

"Then let's talk about it at that time." Zhou Nanyu stepped down the steps, but his next question made Beihe agitated. "How much is the song you wrote, do you want to put it in the new album?"

"Ah..." Bei He choked for a moment, "No way, my level..."

"I'll say it if I want to."

In the early years, Li Qi'an took the first song he had worked on for a long time and excitedly applied for it to be included in the group special, but Zhou Nanyu was not so easy to talk about.Bei He vaguely remembered that Li Qi'an had been begging for half a year before he succeeded, and it was because he and Chu Xiaofei had been talking together for a long time.For an album with less than ten songs, there are dozens of candidate tracks. The selection has always been very strict and must be strict.

But at this moment, Beihe didn't have time to taste the depth of Zhou Nanyu's kindness, and the most serious thing was that he couldn't answer.He subconsciously glanced at Zhou's mother, just in time to meet her gaze towards him.

And what she looked at was not him, but Qi Chen.

"Then, let's talk about it..." Bei He tightened his grip on the chopsticks, "That's right, auntie."

Bei He showed her a sweet smile.In the idol professional code, regardless of mood or pressure, the course of always managing facial expressions is effective at this time. Congratulations?

"I heard from Zhou Nan that you are going to travel abroad, have you decided where to go?"

Mother Zhou paused for two seconds, looked away and smiled slightly, "Not yet, let Nannan do her homework."

"Let's go to the beach." Zhou Nan picked up some cauliflower that was far away from her and put it in her bowl, "The Maldives is ready."

"Alright. It's been a long time since I've been to the beach. The last time I was on my honeymoon with your dad..." Mother Zhou sighed, "It's been so many years."

Zhou Nanyu's heart skipped a beat.

These words came at a very inopportune time.He was sure that it had been a long, long time since she had voluntarily spoken about his estranged father, let alone their past, which for some reason had become secretive.No matter what prompted her to mention it at this moment, if there were no other people in the situation, he would definitely try to find a way to ask forward. He has peeped at the part of his mother's heart for too long.

For 24 years, the feeling of only peeping is too uncomfortable.It is beside him, even in his shadow, in every crevice of his life, filling his every breath.It avoided him, mocked him in secret, turned into a boulder and weighed on his heart, making him restless for countless days and nights.

"24 years." Mother Zhou spit out the number abruptly, "Time flies so fast."

Why is this the time.

Zhou Nan put down his chopsticks when she said the last sentence. In the shadow under the table, the veins in his arms were bulging, his hands were tightly clenched, and the red string bracelet on his left wrist trembled slightly with him.Bei He was also so oppressed by the atmosphere that he didn't dare to speak. Combined with what he had learned about the Zhou family's past, he quickly realized that this was no longer an easy topic.It's really evil, no matter how they try to save the situation, this night will go in the direction that people least expect to see and never return.

Minimizing his sense of existence, eating something quickly and simply without making any noise, Qi Chen seemed to be the most relaxed person relatively speaking at the moment.

— Do you want to think so?

It has been said that the gaze has a substance, even if he keeps his eyes down, as long as the peripheral vision is still there, as long as he hears the sound and looks at Bei He, he will always be aware of that gaze.It was strange, silent, and contained too many expectations and disappointments that he couldn't understand.

This made him feel flustered for no reason.

If it was just someone else staring at him all of a sudden for no reason, he would definitely not feel this flustered feeling, but would feel unreasonable.She is different.The thing in her eyes was too heavy, so heavy that she just watched it a few times, and it was like being strangled by the throat.

Then, while everyone was silenced, Mother Zhou took out a tissue and pressed it to her lips.

"Qi Chen." She called softly.