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At night, Jiang Mingyun was working alone in the study, the door was pushed open from the outside, and Luo Xuan quietly poked half of his head in.

Jiang Mingyun looked up and saw his sneaky look, pretended to be angry and said, "You still not sleeping at this late?"

"You didn't sleep either." Luo Xuan pawed at the door, murmured softly, his drooping eyes had an innocent effect.

"Luo, I'm working. Be good, go back to the bedroom and sleep."

Luo Xuan shook his head, and slipped in through the crack of the door, pulling a pair of fluffy white slippers, wearing loose cotton pajamas, with fluffy hair.He sat on the sofa beside the desk with his legs curled up, his chin on his knees, and he yawned lazily.

"Can't sleep." Luo Xuan was sullen, his toes curled up and relaxed, looking down at his clean toenails.

"Take a piece of melatonin?" Jiang Mingyun turned his gaze back to the computer screen.

"I've eaten it. I took two tablets, but I still can't sleep. I don't want to sleep."

Melatonin couldn't soothe his restless mood, Luo Xuan buried his head in the quilt and closed his eyes, dense figures at the airport were swarming in the darkness, the sound was like a torrential rain, the bean-sized raindrops hit his eardrums, disturbing the original heart A steady beating rhythm.

Darkness wrapped him tightly, but refused to let him rest.He was afraid that he would fall asleep, open his eyes and inexplicably appear in a strange place, unable to find Jiang Mingyun, and didn't know how to get home.

Doubt grows wantonly in the sleepless night, connecting incomplete memory fragments.How did I get taken to the airport in my sleep?Why did Jiang Mingyun agree to be taken away by others?

Luo Xuan thought, Deng Luoyi must have threatened Jiang Mingyun.

Does he still need to ask Deng Luoyi's consent to fall in love?

Luo Xuan recalled Deng Luoyi's oppression from childhood to adulthood, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

Deng Luoyi is too lenient, and he is not his father, so why should he interfere with his life!Although there is a saying that an elder brother is like a father, what right does Deng Luoyi, who is only ten minutes older than him, have the right to control him?

Regarding love, Luo Xuan made up his mind not to listen to Deng Luoyi, not a single word.

After comprehending these, Luo Xuan completely lost sleepiness, tossing and turning but couldn't fall asleep, that's why he came to the study to disturb Jiang Mingyun who was working.

"Honey, turn off the light. I'll turn on the desk lamp. You lie on the sofa under a blanket and close your eyes. You might fall asleep after a while." Jiang Mingyun said, reaching out to turn on the ceramic desk lamp on the table.He glanced at the documents sent to him by his assistant, thinking about the value in them.

Luo Xuan stepped on the carpet with bare feet, his movements were as light as a deer jumping in the forest.He turned off the light above his head, fell back to the sofa, pulled the blanket over himself, lay down on his side with his head resting on his arms, and quietly looked at Jiang Mingyun's face in the dim light.

Men who work hard are always the most attractive.Jiang Mingyun sat upright on the chair, staring at the computer screen, his fan-like eyelashes were dyed golden by the side light, and the bridge of his nose separated light and dark shadows on one side of his cheek.The lines of his face are smooth and beautiful, and Luo Xuan's fingers have stroked along these lines countless times.

He wanted to kiss his lips, but he was still working.

"Mingyun, what did my brother tell you?" Luo Xuan cared about Jiang Mingyun, he didn't want Deng Luoyi to become an obstacle between them, so he should make this issue clear.

Jiang Mingyun turned his face and was caught off guard by Luo Xuan's question. He was surprised at first, and responded with silence, then he took a deep breath and stopped looking away, "Luo, since you can't sleep, let's chat."

"Do you remember how we met?" Jiang Mingyun asked.

Luo Xuan sat up from the sofa and nodded.

At the beginning, he couldn't stand Deng Luoyi's control, so he sneaked out of the house.However, he was severely socially phobic, cowardly when he saw people, and an idiot, so he could only hide in the corner to pretend to be an ostrich, and was picked up by Jiang Mingyun and returned home.

Jiang Mingyun smiled softly, "Tell me the story."

"In the summer, on the side of the road, you came up to me and said, 'Come with me'."

"I told you to come with me, and you just follow me? What if I'm a bad guy?"

Luo Xuan pursed his lips and said, "You don't look like a bad guy."

At the first glance following the voice, the other party gradually stopped, and asked him from a polite distance if he was not feeling well.The evening wind blows the humid heat wave, the large sunset glow is thick and colorful, the sky is pink and purple, and the beautiful lavender scent of summer spreads out.

Sweat slid down Luo Xuan's cheeks, he lowered his head, mostly shy, less afraid.He felt that the other party was like a cloud smudged by the sunset glow floating in the sky, gentle and beautiful, with a pleasant voice, which made people's hearts calm down.

"What if you are a bad person?" Jiang Mingyun joked and returned to the topic, "I will not bring a stranger home."

Luo Xuan couldn't keep up with Jiang Mingyun's brain circuit, resting his chin with one hand, looking confused, waiting for Jiang Mingyun to continue.

"That day was actually not the first time we met. In fact, I appeared in front of you not because of a coincidence, but because you invited me to dinner. When I saw you, I thought, since you arrived first, why didn't you enter the restaurant? I I don’t know what you are doing standing by the wall, and when I talk to you, you just lower your head and don’t make a sound.”

Jiang Mingyun closed the laptop and sat next to Luo Xuan's shoulder.

"The first time I saw you was in the second week of the fall semester."

Jiang Mingyun's first impression of Deng Luoyi was not good.

He sat in the first row by the window, lowered his head and focused on drawing on the paper, with the barrel of the pen pressed under the palm of his hand, and the tip of the pen brushing back and forth.The other students all looked towards the podium, making Deng Luoyi stand out from others.His soft black hair is drawn back casually, his skin is pale, and occasionally he squints at Jiang Mingyun's face, with a kind of indulgent elegance in his demeanor, and the corners of his mouth are slightly hooked, as if he is in a happy mood, but it's not because of him acquired knowledge.

No matter how good-tempered Jiang Mingyun was, he still felt a little dissatisfied with the students who didn't attend classes at all.Since you don't listen to the class, why take this class, why waste time sitting in the classroom.The wasted time can be used to do something that really interests me.

After class, several students gathered around Jiang Mingyun to discuss issues, and the student who deserted in class did not leave. He sat in his seat and watched Jiang Mingyun talking with others.

"Professor Jiang."

When there were only two people left in the classroom, he rolled up the paper carrying his paintings, held them in his hand, and walked slowly towards Jiang Mingyun.

Jiang Mingyun thought about his name, but to no avail, and asked, "Who are you?"

"Roy Deng."

There is no such name in the student list.

"Is there a problem?" Jiang Mingyun's attitude is kind, and if there is a problem, it can be discussed.

Deng Luoyi raised his eyebrows, his eyes were innocent, "There are too many questions, I can't understand at all."

"But the good news is that I'm not here to attend lectures, I'm here specially to see you." He squinted his eyes and smiled slyly, locking his prey like a vigorous and sensitive predator, "Informally invite you to join Anli The company serves as CTO, if you promise me to think about it, I will give you a formal invitation."

Adding Deng's surname to Anli Company, Jiang Mingyun easily guessed his identity, "Your father is Deng An."

"My father is Deng An, and I am me."

Young people always have too much self-esteem, Jiang Mingyun couldn't help but want to sing against him, "Your father built Anli, an Internet giant, and you can't even understand the basic courses of computer science."

Deng Luoyi did not lose the wind when he argued, "Why should I understand? Tell my CTO what to do? The only thing I need to do is give money."

"Why terminate the contract with the original CTO?"

They are all in the same circle, and Jiang Mingyun has heard about the turmoil in the top management of Anli Company.

The two walked out of the classroom one after another and walked side by side.The sunlight is like flowing golden water, the well-trimmed grass stretches into the distance, and there are several old low buildings at the end.People sat scattered on the grass to enjoy the sun, and the sycamore trees had dense branches and leaves, and the shadows shaded the straight path.

Deng Luoyi is a capitalist, and he does not deliberately conceal the cruelty and greed of capital, "He failed to let me see the value of an annual salary of tens of millions."

"Why do you think I am qualified for the position of CTO in your company?" Jiang Mingyun turned his face towards Deng Luoyi, the shadow of trees and the broken sunlight fell on the young university professor's face, his eyes were calm, and he spoke to Anli's thousand words. The annual salary of ten thousand dollars is not interested.

"You are a world-class technical authority in the field of artificial intelligence. Apart from you, I can't think of anyone who would be more in line with Anli's future development strategy."

Jiang Mingyun didn't give Deng Luoyi any answer, and Deng Luoyi walked away leisurely with a roll of drawing paper under his arm.After he left, the school received the largest donation in the past ten years from Anli Company.

Jiang Mingyun didn't know what Deng Luoyi drew on the paper until half a year later by chance.

"I'm your boss, so don't work, I'll take care of you!" He pecked and kissed Jiang Mingyun's lips, his eyes curved into crescent moons.

"If you still think so when you wake up, I will gladly accept it." Jiang Mingyun's calm and serious expression was not joking.

Luo Xuan leaned against him, and it took him a long time to recover.He pinched his own finger, it hurt, and then pinched Jiang Mingyun's hand, asking him if it hurt.

"It's not a dream, you are him, Roy—Roy."

Darkness is a natural protective color, Luo Xuan closed his eyes helplessly.He felt that he was trapped on an ice floe in the vast sea, surrounded by thick and terrifying night and thick fog.The ice layer under his feet cracked, and he also cracked, blood flowed out, and dark red ice slag condensed.

"Where is my brother?" He couldn't believe reality, and to believe reality was to deny himself.

Jiang Mingyun held his face with both hands and pressed it against his forehead, "You are Deng Luoyi."

"Where is my brother?" What is he himself?Could it be that the memories are all false, and the reality is also the result of his imagination?He wanted to struggle and shout, but he was sealed in a cold body and couldn't make a sound.

Jiang Mingyun stroked his soft hair, "Stop thinking about him, Luo."

"I'm not thinking about him, I'm thinking about me!" He grabbed Jiang Mingyun tightly, slowly curled up his body like a rusty machine, buried his face in his neck, and said in a dull and pitiful tone, "You are real, right? ? Not in my imagination."

Jiang Mingyun held his hand and let him touch it.Breathing, heartbeating, he's by his side and won't leave him.

"Why didn't you tell me before?" He didn't know that he was Deng Luoyi until today, it was like dreaming, the absurd reality could not be digested in his stomach, he was still dubious.

"Because Diana said, you have self-harmed, after she told you the truth."

Luo Xuan said depressedly: "But I don't remember at all."