atypical dependency

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The heating inside the car was well-heated, but Xiao Yi's expression was still as if he had been immersed in an ice cave.

The fine mist that alternates between hot and cold is like a classical picture scroll, and it is hazy on the window.

The snow outside the window did not seem to diminish at all, and the road in the early morning was even more deserted. The dim street lamps flashed in the field of vision like a glimpse of light, and diffused into the snowy sky behind.

Xiao Yi glanced sideways, his eyes drifted outside without focus, passing buildings squatting in the shadows like ghosts.

After staring blankly for a while, he lowered his eyes and took out his phone.

The missed call on the screen displayed the word "Xiao Heng". Xiao Yi swiped open the lock screen and mused to himself.

After clicking on the other party's name, his thumb hung on the "Dial" button and did not move for a long time.

After a while, he finally stuffed the phone back into his pocket, leaned back on the back seat, and pinched his eyebrows wearily.

His younger brother has been causing him trouble since he was an adult.

After Xiao Heng failed the college entrance examination, many people introduced him to jobs through his parents' connections.

Some jobs are really good, but this ambitious guy will quit every job for no reason after less than 3 months, which makes the person who recommended him out in the first place lose face.

After coming and going, no one dared to introduce jobs to Xiao Heng. The other party was like a wild horse, elusive in the streets and alleys, and his dress began to go to extremes.

It's still hard to say, the other party is as stubborn as a bull, and will not go back on his word even if the matter he decides is bruised.

Since coming to this house, Xiao Yi has not been unaware of the other party's prejudice and hostility towards him.

In order to live in harmony with this younger brother, he always considers the other party in everything he does, forbears, tolerates, and even secretly helps the other party at all costs.

But the other party didn't appreciate it at all. Instead, he took all this as a drama for him to try his best to win attention in front of his parents.

It's not that Xiao Yi doesn't understand the other person's psychology. From another perspective, if his biological parents suddenly bring back a stranger and share their love with him, he will inevitably be slandered.

Xiao Yi tolerated the other party's anger and willfulness like a big brother.

When Xiao Heng got into trouble when he was a child, he would take the responsibility for the other party without saying a word, but the wild horse-like kid not only didn't understand his intentions, but also often became more and more noisy, until it got out of control.

After becoming an adult, the only change in the other party is that the trouble he caused is no longer as simple as throwing a plate and fighting.

The other party secretly gambled, went to nightclubs to hang out, and even a few times, Yan Tian, ​​Xiao Yi's driver, bumped into the kid and a few cronies hanging out from the most chaotic west area of ​​V city at night, side by side.

Not to mention the poor security at night in the West District, especially the underground black shops that deal with flesh and blood everywhere.

When he first found out, Xiao Yi warned the other party very seriously, but the boy accused him of "who do you think you are" in a disdainful tone.

However, even so, every time something goes wrong, this kid's little follower can still call Xiao Yi and ask him to help clean up the mess.

After going back and forth, Xiao Yi finally broke through the limit of his tolerance.

A few times he made up his mind to ignore that brat, and after a few weeks, the servants around Xiao Heng would come to him as if they were asking for help from the king of heaven.

Usually when this happens, the stubborn boy will either die with bruises all over his body, or he will be in debt and hit the south wall with nowhere to go.

However, after all, Xiao Yi regards Xiao Heng as his own younger brother from the bottom of his heart, and while he hates iron, he can't completely leave Xiao Heng alone.

Even if every reprimand and warning didn't work, Xiao Yi never thought of letting go of this kid like his adoptive parents did.

It's just that there was such a major event in the company tonight, he really didn't have the spare energy to deal with the new problems the other party posed for him.

Closing his eyes, letting the exhausting heat envelop his whole body, Xiao Yi reclined on the seat and quickly lost consciousness.

When he recharges his energy tomorrow, he will deal with these messy things together.

In the final analysis, he is the president of the company, if he is the first to mess up his position, the rest will be nothing but chaos.

The next day, Xiao Yi rushed to the company and saw that the fire department had sealed off the scene, focusing on investigating the cause of the fire and the responsibility for the accident. The compensation work of the relevant insurance company could only be carried out after the fire department issued a certificate of accident responsibility.

During this period, the employees of the company were temporarily transferred to work in the newly built Xingyuan Building, a twin building opposite Yongjie Building.

Throughout the morning, the endless discussions about the fire in several temporary rented houses continued.

The thing about the president's office being the source of the fire was also chewed out.

Xiao Yi understood that most people believed that the old-fashioned air conditioner in his room was the cause of the disaster, and some even said that it was because he neglected to turn off the air conditioner when he left the company that day that caused the tragedy.

Regarding these, Xiao Yi still had his usual calm and calm face.

His work efficiency is still very high, as if he was not affected by the fire the night before.

At noon that day, Yan Tian drove to pick him up at the main entrance of Xingyuan Building and was about to go to the hospital to visit the wounded.

When the sun pierced his eyes, he looked towards the Yongjie Building opposite, and noticed that the staff of the fire station were coming in and out, and they were busy conducting post-disaster investigation work.

He walked over and talked to the staff on the opposite side, and after roughly confirming the progress of the work, he stopped to look outside the building.

There were a few familiar faces in sight.

However, subconsciously scanning his eyes, Xiao Yi didn't see the savior who was confessed by Ji Yi like a treasure the night before.

He vaguely remembered that the big and tall fire chief was surnamed "Wei".

There were many people in his field of vision, but he felt an inexplicable sense of trance again. His sight was like a huge net covering the sky, lazily and casually covering the front of the tall building, and he let the turbulent memories like an undercurrent flood his heart again.

— Hold on, boy. ——

If possible, he would also like to face that person face to face and express his gratitude to him personally.

Countless times I imagined the scene of meeting my savior, and the other person's vague appearance, voice, and temperament wandered in my mind over and over again as if they had been engraved in memory——

That kind of vain wish and ardent hope sometimes makes Xiao Yi himself feel ridiculous.

If he is so attached to a person, whether he should call it a dead end or paranoid, he can't figure it out.

Probably people have some established persistence in their life.

Whether it's for people or things.

And this kind of persistence is deep and fierce to a certain extent, and it will become an out-of-control stubbornness.

Some people never experience this kind of "stubbornness" in their whole life, while some people exhaust their energy and stubbornness for a lifetime but end in vain.

Xiao Yi understood that he was probably stubborn.

Ridiculously, through the corners of the earth, we must find the other party.

The benefactor cannot be forgotten, but it does not mean that he cannot let go.

If you are grateful in your heart, you don't need to be obsessed. It is already a reward to extend the spirit of the other party and put yourself in the shoes of others.

But after analyzing and analyzing, Xiao Yi understood that his stubbornness was ultimately selfish.

Of course he can let go with a grateful heart, let the other party disappear into the sea of ​​people, and never have any intersection with him——

After all, I am just insignificant to the other party, one of the thousands of people rescued by the other party.

But in the end—

He didn't want to be the first passer-by among thousands of people who passed each other and said "Thank you for saving me" hastily.

What he wants is to understand the other person, know the other person, contact the other person, and completely embrace this person who pulled him back from the edge of life and death into his own world.

This is his deepest stubbornness and deepest selfishness.

Yan Tian took Xiao Yi to the hospital to visit the injured employees in the fire.

Facing the "people-friendly" leader of the "Tianshan Mountain", the two women with serious leg injuries were overwhelmed by flattery, and dragged Xiao Yi after a long exchange of pleasantries before reluctantly letting each other go.

When we left the hospital, the sun was shining brightly in the sky, and the silver-clad streets were shining brightly in the splashing light, but the coldness seemed to also become gorgeous with the light, and took the opportunity to attack without hesitation.

Xiao Yi subconsciously wrapped her coat tightly, put her hands in her pockets and walked in the gradually melting snow powder.

Yan Tian followed behind Xiao Yi.

The slender figure of the man in front of him seemed more and more lonely in the world outlined by the snow.

The streets are full of people and traffic, but the other party seems to have an innate icy feeling, which is inexplicably clear and cold, which makes people not close but can't help but be attracted.

Yan Tian knew that even though his boss was usually unsmiling, he was still very charming.

Some people seem to be endowed with a certain sense of heaviness by nature, so that people can feel the steady and calm aura as long as they are in the same room with him, and no matter how crazy and restless people are, they will restrain themselves in front of this oppressive force.

With Xiao Yi's side all these years, Yan Tian understands better than anyone else that this indifferent man can be so passionate about certain things that it is shocking.

The almost self-destructive heat made him, an outsider, sometimes feel sad and helpless.

Following the other party's footsteps on the snow, Yan Tian watched Xiao Yi walk into a random restaurant not far from the hospital.

A little surprised that the other party would choose to dine in such a small, homely restaurant on the street, Yan Tian hesitated, and trotted to Xiao Yi's side.

Before he had time to ask the other party if he needed to help him book a table at a high-end restaurant that the other party frequented, Xiao Yi had already entered the front entrance of the small restaurant.

Startled for a moment, Yan Tian had no choice but to follow suit.

What burst into the nostrils head-on was a wave of tempting dishes, mixed with the faint smell of oily smoke and chopped green onion from the direction of the kitchen behind, which made people suddenly feel hungry.

The diners in the restaurant were chatting happily, and the whole space was extremely lively.

Xiao Yi stopped at the door and watched for a while, then walked towards the only empty table for four in the innermost corner.

When the female clerk behind the bar at the entrance saw the well-dressed and elegant Xiao Yi stepping in, she couldn't help following her eyes.

After being stunned for a while, she hurried over after the other party was seated, enthusiastically introducing the store's features and signs to the other party.

Yan Tian sat across from Xiao Yi and stared at him with a complicated expression, without saying a word for a long time.

The other party randomly ordered two home-cooked dishes, but he was still in a daze.

It wasn't until the female clerk recorded Xiaoben left that the expression on Yan Tian's face changed from hesitation to incomprehension.

Finally noticing Yan Tian who was staring at him curiously like a doorman, Xiao Yi frowned, and asked, "Is there something on my face?"

"..." Shaking his head hastily like a rattle, Yan Tian smirked and lowered his eyes, pretending to study the advertisement leaflet in front of him promoting the shop's signature dishes.

After staring at the other party silently for a while, Xiao Yi revealed a faint smile: "I want to come over to eat home-cooked food once in a while, why, is it strange?"

"It's not surprising." As if popping popcorn, Yan Tian raised his head and popped out three words, Yan Tian himself was frightened by his reflex arc.

The smile on Xiao Yi's lips spread like water ripples.

Yan Tian stared blankly at the leader's rare gentle smile, and was in a daze.

However, just as he was organizing his words to cover up his previous stupid performance, he suddenly noticed that his leader's eyes fell from him to the door of the small shop behind him, as if he was identifying something.

Curiously raising his eyebrows, Yan Tian followed Xiao Yi's eyes and looked towards the door——

I saw a slender man at the door opening the curtain and squinting into the restaurant, as if looking for a vacant seat.

I always felt that this person looked familiar, and Yan Tian was stunned for a while before suddenly remembering——

Isn't this person the firefighter that Ji Yi bragged about last night?