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Shao Yin didn't know why, after Ning He went upstairs, she seemed a little lost, sitting alone on the sofa and lost in thought, probably because she thought the news station was too noisy, and then turned off the TV.

It was inconvenient for Ai Xing to follow Ning He upstairs at this time, so he could only continue to lean on the side of the stairs and pretend to look at his phone.

Shao Yin couldn't help but said to him, "Xing Xing, is Auntie being too strict with Aning?"

Ai Xing's own position is very delicate, he can only say ambiguously, "Ning He is just playing a little crazy, and the fans will not take it seriously."

Shao Yin sighed, Ai Xing felt that it was not good to leave her alone, so he walked over and sat on the single sofa that Ning He sat on just now.

"A-Ning suffered from a serious illness when he was a child. You may not know it." Seeing him sitting down, Shao Yin chatted with him immediately, "I brought him to the United States to treat his illness."

"Ning He and I mentioned a little bit." Ai Xing nodded.

"He has been ill for nearly six years, and he has already reached the age of junior high school by the time he is cured." Shao Yin said, rubbing her hands, as if to ease her emotions, "I think he suffered a lot in the hospital, Later, I always wanted to make up for him..."

Ai Xing actually wanted to know about Ning He's past, and since Shao Yin was willing to share it with him, he patiently listened to those old stories.In the end, it was Shao Yin who felt embarrassed, and felt like a nagging woman in menopause.

Ai Xing said to him, "It's okay, Aunt Shao, Ning He and I also need to get to know each other better."

Shao Yin had a strange feeling in her heart, like the unprovoked and accurate intuition that any mother who loves her children in the world would have, but she couldn't describe it.She probably would never have imagined that the stepson sitting in front of her had proposed to her favorite son the night before.

Shao Yin chatted with Ai Xing for over an hour, and they didn't stop until Ai Chengjin came home.

And Ning He has been staying upstairs quietly, at first he answered a few emails and phone calls, then probably because he was too tired from being tossed by Ai Xing the night before, he felt out of energy, so he leaned on the bed and took a nap for a while .

He heard someone knocking on the door while he was half asleep, and he suddenly woke up.

It rained heavily outside from time to time, and Ai Xing stood outside the bedroom door, holding a plate full of various foods in his hand.

Ning He sat up from the bed, his hair was a little disheveled, he looked blurred and delicate in the dimly lit room, like a character who came out of a movie.

Ai Xing came to him with dinner, and Ning He felt that this scene seemed familiar in a trance.

"The night I first entered the villa, we seemed to be like this." He said to Ai Xing, looking up at his lover who had become a spouse, "It's just that the identities were switched, and it became you delivering food to me."

Ai Xing knelt down, handed him the plate, and said gently, "Do you want me to feed you?"

Ning He laughed when he heard the words, with a childlike innocence on the corner of his mouth, "As for Ai Xing, I'm not only three years old."

After finishing speaking, he took the plate and put it on the bedside table, "I'll eat it later, I just woke up and I'm not hungry." He said, leaning down, wanting to kiss the half-squatting Ai Xing, and accidentally caught a glimpse of the bedroom The door was wide open, then paused again, and turned into a normal conversation, "Is my mother allowed me to go out?"

Ai Xing pursed her lips and shook her head at him, "Auntie hasn't calmed down yet. She was supposed to ask sister Zhou to bring you food, but I stopped her halfway. Do you want to ask me? I'll help you speak well."

Because their personal relationship was not discovered by their elders, they didn't feel that the situation was serious, so the conversation was still relaxed with a fluke.

Every time Ning He wakes up, the perverse and flirtatious side hidden in his personality will emerge unconsciously, he stretches out his finger to hook Ai Xing's chin, and says with a smile, "Do you want to make a promise with your body? "

At this moment, Ai Xing's cell phone rang suddenly, a ringtone that he had never heard before.

Ai Xing stood up quickly, rubbed Ning He's head, said "Good boy" hastily, and immediately retreated outside the bedroom, closing the door behind him.

Only then did Ning He realize that this strange beep was actually the alarm sound set by Ai Xing through monitoring.Someone should have gone upstairs, so the alarm was triggered.

Almost as soon as Ai Xing returned to the corridor, he saw Daniel coming up from the stairs.

He frowned, and he didn't seem to approve of the servant directly putting his friend into the house.

Daniel suddenly looked up and saw him, and immediately explained to him, "Your father asked me to come in. I told him to wait for you downstairs."

Ai Xing sighed, put his hands in his trouser pockets, looked at his friend, "Don't chat here, go outside."

Daniel looked around, but there were walls on all sides, and his subconscious idea of ​​wanting Ai Xing to see how heavy the rain was outside was not established.

"It's raining heavily outside." He could only describe the weather in words.

Ai Xing said, "It's raining so hard, why don't you come over?"

Later, at noon, he replied to Daniel's message and simply typed in "I'll talk to you when I'm free", but the other party didn't reply.Ai Xing thought Daniel had turned the page last night, but he didn't expect him to come to the door in person.

Daniel was a bit out of control and could only say, "Okay, let's go outside."

Of course, Ai Xing's so-called outside didn't mean taking him to the open air to soak in the rain, but going with him to the sun room in the corner of the villa downstairs.This is a room made of tempered glass. It’s a good place to go when the sun is shining, but it’s scary to stand here when it’s raining—although the actual rain doesn’t fall on you, it always feels like you’re going from inside to outside. It was drenched outside.

Daniel only stayed here for half a minute before he understood Ai Xing's intention to bring him here.

Because the sound of rain hitting the glass is very noisy, the conversation between them can only be heard face to face, even if they are separated by one or two meters, it is difficult to hear clearly.

In fact, he and Ai Xing didn't start talking about anything, but Daniel suddenly had a strong feeling—Ai Xing was very protective of Ning He, as if he was afraid of making a mistake.

Ai Xing sat down in the rocking chair, looking very calm, "Why don't you ask first, and I'll answer after you ask."

Daniel also sat down in another chair, looking down at the shadow of rainwater flowing on the ground.The anger that he had accumulated for a day had been mostly extinguished by now, and he asked in a low voice, "The reason why you haven't had a girlfriend is...?"

Ai Xing didn't evade, "Because I don't like girls."

After all, they have been friends for many years. Although this came out suddenly, Daniel nodded restrainedly.

"Is that you last night?"

"It's me." Ai Xing was very frank.

"So...so what's going on with you and Ning?" Daniel had an expression of wanting to know but also afraid to know.

Ai Xing remained silent, as if he was considering the extent to which he should confess the whole matter so as not to end his friendship. In the end, he chose to tell the truth, "After the concert last night, I proposed to him."

After speaking, he pulled down the zipper of the casual clothes, and Daniel immediately saw an extra black leather rope around his neck, with a platinum ring hanging on it.

Daniel raised his hand to cover his chest, unable to digest the explosive news for a while.

Aixing pulled the zipper back again.Two young people sat opposite each other, one with a calm expression and one with a panicked expression.

After a while, Daniel asked him with a bit of a breakdown, "Where's your dad? And Ning's family?"

"Except for you, no one else knows now." Ai Xing said to him, and looked up at the top of the glass cover after speaking.

On the oblique side of this sunshine room is the bedroom where Ning He lives. If Ning He stands by the bedroom window and looks down, he can see Ai Xing and Daniel sitting in this small room.

Daniel also looked up and saw that Ning He was really standing by the window.The rain outside hadn't abated, but he pushed open the window and leaned against the edge of the window to watch them.Ai Xing immediately took out his mobile phone and sent a voice message, asking him to close the window to keep warm and go to eat immediately.

Daniel has never seen Ai Xing like this. He himself has a girlfriend, not only the current one but also the ex.But he feels that he doesn't care about his girlfriend as much as Ai Xing does for Ning He.

When the upstairs window was finally closed, Daniel seemed to have figured out something, and said to Ai Xing, "Congratulations."

Aixing said, "Thank you."

Daniel sighed, "You guys are too fast."

Ai Xing smiled, and mentioned that Ning He was much gentler, "It's pretty fast, but I don't want to wait."

"You like him that much?" Daniel rubbed his face, "I always thought you might marry a computer one day."

Ai Xing didn't answer this question. Even if he knew Daniel well, he wasn't the kind of friend who really entered into his inner world.It is difficult for him to describe his feelings for Ning He.

The two of them sat in the sun room and chatted for a while, until the servant passed by and said in surprise, "William, why are you sitting here with your friends? Don't you pour them a glass of water?"

Daniel got up and said that he was going home.Considering the weather, Ai Xing didn't keep him either. He sent him to the door and said, "In the future, you don't have to worry about not being able to get a ticket for Invisible."

The strange thing is that Daniel didn't joke with him, but patted Ai Xing on the shoulder, "William, I'm not worried about grabbing tickets, but I'm a little worried about you. This decision... Anyway, it's not like The kind you would do."

Daniel looked at this matter from the perspective of a normal person. He felt that the marriage between Ai Xing and Ning He was too outrageous, and he felt that no matter how they arranged it, it was impossible for their family members to accept this relationship most.

It was still raining heavily outside, but the look on Ai Xing's face seemed to be at ease. He also patted his friend on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Ning and I will take care of it."

When Ai Xing returned to the second floor of the villa, Ning He's door was still tightly closed.

Ai Xing was worried that a series of things that happened this afternoon to night would affect Ning He's emotions, so he wanted to coax him, so he took out a stack of note paper from his room and wrote a love poem in English by hand, page by page. Tear it off and stuff it into the bedroom through the crack of the door.

After two or three minutes, the door opened from the inside.Ning He held seven or eight small notes in his hand, stood in front of him, looked at him with a smile, "What are you doing?"

"Aren't you in confinement? Who agreed that you opened the door yourself." Ai Xing stood up and teased him.

Hearing what he said, Ning He made a gesture to close the door, and Ai Xing quickly held the door with his sharp eyes, and lowered his voice, "The favor of the meal just now was promised with my body, and I will honor it."

After finishing speaking, he leaned against Ninghe and forced him back into the house.

The rain outside was much less, and the room was a little quieter.

Although Ai Xing joked about Ning He, he didn't do anything after entering the bedroom.Ning He asked him, "Is there a problem with Daniel?"

Ai Xing shrugged, "Come out with him."

"I'm sorry." Ning He showed guilt, "I was too restrained yesterday."

"If we want to apologize, then we owe each other too much." Ai Xing pulled him into his arms, "Originally you were free to fall in love with anyone, but you met me and made you suffer everywhere. limit."

They found the feeling of peace of mind in the familiar hug, and after a while, Ai Xing said again, "Today I heard your mother tell a lot about your childhood."

He looked at Ning He with deep eyes and an intriguing expression on his face.

"Auntie loves you very much." He concluded.

Ning He didn't speak, he was afraid of Ai Xing's conclusion.This means that a hidden danger has been planted between them, and this originally only existed in Ning He's heart.

Ai Xing asked a question in a tone that knew it was wrong but was somewhat persistent, "I know it's stupid to ask, but if one day she and I fell into the river at the same time, who would you save?"

Ning He was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he could not escape this answer.The moment he opened his mouth, Ai Xing interrupted him with a sudden smile, "Of course I saved your mother. I can swim so well, do I still need you to save me?"

Both Ai Xing and Ning He knew that their marriage was full of obstacles and was destined not to be peaceful.

But God seems to like to joke with them.For the next eight months, everything that happened—at home, or individually—went surprisingly smoothly.

Ai Chengjin and Shao Yin held an engagement banquet in June of early summer. At the wedding banquet, Ai Xing and Ning He wore neat suits and bow ties, and accompanied their parents to complete the ceremony under the watchful eyes of the guests present.

At the same time, with the support of the school, Ai Xing formed a team to participate in the knowledge competition.He is a visionary and decisive person. This four-person team has its own division of labor. For example, one of the girls has excellent reflexes and is mainly responsible for answering questions; while Daniel has a wealth of knowledge about war. He is responsible for part of the military-related question bank. Boys and Ai Xing are responsible for the rest of the question bank memory.

Ai Xing's half year was crazy. Ning He witnessed with his own eyes that if he used a brain with an IQ of 160 to complete as many as 24 question banks. To update the knowledge reserve, the whole person is like a high-performance computer working [-] hours a day, seven days a week.

In the end, Changmu High School continued the brilliance created by the swimming team. Without any preparation experience, it entered the top 3 national competition held at MIT as a dark horse, and finally won No.[-]. Ai Xing alone won a trophy that the judges paid special attention to.

Ning He's reason for persuading him to participate in the competition was also heard.Two well-known MIT professors showed interest in Ai Xing and invited him to join the team for an internship. Two months after Ai Xing entered his senior year, he was admitted by MIT early because of his excellent summer internship resume.

Ninghe's band became famous because it participated in the music production of an American drama.This unit series was not favored by investors before it was broadcast, but it continued to rise in the late-night period of the HBO TV network, and finally got a high score of 9.3, and it was produced and sung by the band Invisible. The opening song and several episodes also became popular overnight, and continued to dominate the major music charts.

Just a week after Ai Xing passed the college's early admission, Ning He learned from the production company that their album had just been nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Album.

Ning He couldn't hold back his excitement, and skipped an afternoon class, wanting to rush back to the villa to celebrate with Ai Xing.

He received a message from Aixing at the last intersection with a red light on, "I'm home, drive slowly."

It was four o'clock in the afternoon, and Los Angeles in November still had an average daytime temperature of 20 degrees. Ning He was driving a convertible sports car, which was a birthday present from Ai Xing half a year ago.He saw that the red light countdown showed that there were still more than 30 seconds left, and he couldn't help but took out his mobile phone to look through the chat history.

Since they got married, although sometimes they get together less and leave more, their relationship has not cooled down at all, but their bond has become deeper and deeper.

Ning He flipped through the text to talk, Ai Xing's seemingly indifferent but affectionate voice seemed to caress his ears.When the traffic light turned green, he put it into gear anxiously and drove out. Turning another street corner ahead, the villa was located.

The streets in the rich area are always clean and empty, and the mansions shaded by green trees are lined up on both sides of the road.In Ning He's sight suddenly appeared two FBI police cars that were incompatible with this peaceful community. Towed all the way to the police car.

Ning He was only more than ten meters away from this scene in a straight line. He quickly stopped the sports car and jumped out of the car.

Ai Xing was wearing a school uniform, his hands were covered with clothes, his shoulders were restrained, and he was about to enter the back seat of the police car.At that moment, he looked back at Ning He.

Ning He's heart was beating fast, and his brain was almost blank. While running, he saw Ai Xing shaking his head at him, and then Ai Xing was forced into the car by the police officer.

The two police cars didn't honk their horns, but started quickly, and the tires rubbed against the road surface making a sharp noise.When Ning He ran to the driveway in front of the villa, the police car had already driven onto the main road.

Sister Zhou ran out of the house in a panic, seeming to be yelling something.Ning He couldn't hear it clearly.

All this was too sudden, as if a ship that had been sailing cautiously for a long time touched a reef without warning in the calmest waters.

Impact, water leakage, tumbling, everything is impossible to guard against.The sinking happened in an instant.