Half a catty

"Any time?" John asked.

He Yue was a little curious about what John would say to him. Even though it was nothing more than an old drama of jealousy, he was still willing to listen for the purpose of relaxing.

He found a table to sit down on the spot, and He Yue gave John the cup of coffee that belonged to Wang Chengyi.But John didn't seem to be in the mood to taste it, he just looked at He Yue with a little shyness, as if he didn't dare to put all his eyes on him, like a cute and pitiful little house sparrow, with his mouth tightly shut, saying no throat.

He Yue held the straw in his mouth, not understanding what the situation was now: "Don't tell me you want my time just to sit here and look at each other affectionately?" There are people coming and going in the coffee shop, but it is a pity that the weather is not beautiful. If it is sunny, it will be more like a scene in a movie.

John struggled, knowing he had been silent for too long.He followed all the way from the teaching building, the distance was not enough for him to prepare a complete manuscript, and for him to pull out a thread of his emotions like a mess.So, he said something meaningless: "Actually, I don't know what to say."

He Yue raised his eyebrows. He realized that he had overestimated John's courage. He was so arrogant when they met last time, and he was a different person from now: "Let me be clear, I'm not very interested in the things between you and Wang Chengyi. And if you want to save him, it's best not to start with me."

"I don't want to get it back, I've given up." John blurted out, "I just—"

He gritted his teeth and said, "I just want to take a closer look at you."

"...Forgive me for not understanding it very well." He Yue was puzzled, his brain, which was sluggish due to the long and boring lessons, began to lose track of the rhythm, he rubbed the center of his brows, and he couldn't help thinking about John's words: "You just want to see me?"

Maybe what Wang Chengyi said is right, John has some brain problems.He Yue has no doubts about his own charm, but who would like his rival in love? It's simply incredible.He smiled awkwardly, trying to express his inexplicability, but John's next words made him feel a little strange.

"I always knew that I was just a substitute, but I didn't expect it to be yours. I mean, from the first time I saw you until now, I haven't found anything like you in me."

"What?" He Yue was confused, he could hear every word of this passage clearly, but together, it was more obscure than classical Chinese: "Substitute? Did you misunderstand something?"

John looked at He Yue inquisitively, so as to distinguish whether he was really ignorant or just pretending, then John lifted a breath and opened a scar of his own: "I met him at a friend's drinking party, and that was our first time. We met once. That day when he was drunk, he started talking nonsense, standing on the table, holding a wine bottle and pointing out people one by one. When he ordered one, he said 'not like' once. No one understood what he was doing. Finally, he ordered When it came to me, I got it because he said to me 'you are like him'."

He Yue didn't say a word when John narrated, stopped biting the straw, and didn't relax his brows. Then he asked, "But why do you think that you are my substitute?"

John smiled bitterly: "Just take it as my intuition. I can always see you together these days. He treats you very differently...compared to when we were together. I even realized that he is not like that A kind of inseparable person." John clenched his fingers, the pain of tearing made him masochistically say: "And he has met it more than once, it would be great if he could be born ten years earlier, are you ten years older than him?"

Yes, he happened to be ten years older than Wang Chengyi, but he couldn't admit it, couldn't bring himself to say something.Because He Yue knew that the person John mentioned was not him, it couldn't be him.

"I know he is not sincere to me, I knew it from the very beginning." John took He Yue's silence as a default, looked at He Yue deeply, with envy and unwillingness in his eyes: "I give up now, goodbye."

John got up to leave, the bell hanging on the store door swayed as he left, the biting wind was attracted by the crisp sound, sneaked into the room through the opening and closing door, and climbed onto He Yue's body along the leg of He Yue's trousers.He Yue was a little cold, he put down the coffee filled with ice cubes in his hand, and rubbed his cold fingers.

He never intended to explore Wang Chengyi's love history. He neither cared nor thought that the past would have any impact on the present. Power, let He Yue, who should have laughed it off, brood.

The city has entered the rainy season, so it should be raining today, but otherwise, everything is so unusual.

He Yue had an unsourced and unimaginable guess in his heart that wanted to break through the shackles, but he still didn't know what that guess was. He lacked a key piece of the puzzle to fill in the gaps and connect everything together.

"What is it..." He Yue wiped his hair, the hair passed through his fingers a little, and then was clamped, He Yue tugged at the root of the hair, the dull pain didn't remind him of more.

The lightning pierced the gray-white rain cloud, and the pale light hit the iris, making Wang Chengyi's pupils constrict involuntarily.He looked anxiously at the intensifying rain outside. He Yue was gone forever. Twenty minutes into the second half of the class, there was still no one, and no one answered his phone. Wang Chengyi searched and found him He Yue's mobile phone was found in his bag.

As time passed by, Wang Chengyi had no choice but to find an excuse to leave the classroom to look for He Yue.

When I came to the front hall, before I reached the door, I could hear the raindrops hitting the glass wall of the front hall one after another, crackling and deafening.Wang Chengyi trotted and pushed open the door which was extremely heavy due to wind resistance.There is something like a porch outside the main entrance, a protruding edge extending from the left side of the building to the far right. Although it is narrow, it can temporarily shelter from the wind and rain.

Wang Chengyi, who was empty-handed, hesitated in the face of the pouring rain. Just as he was about to take a step out, he heard the sound of a lighter. The subtle sound was hidden in the rain, and it was difficult to distinguish. Wang Chengyi looked over, and his heart suddenly fell to the ground.

With his back facing him, He Yue squatted in the far left corner, puffing out the clouds, and the milky white smoke rose from in front of his face and drifted away quickly.When Wang Chengyi walked over, the cigarette had just burned less than a quarter. He Yue clamped the cigarette holder with his thumb and middle finger, and tapped it with his index finger. The ash fell down and fell into the rainwater that formed a small stream on the ground. , disappeared without a trace.

"Brother Yue." Wang Chengyi supported He Yue's shoulder and squeezed it: "You make me worry to death."

He Yue coughed, as if his throat was stuck, he raised his head and smiled: "I'm addicted to cigarettes, sorry, I didn't say hello to you."

"It's simply a cigarette addiction? There's no other reason?" Wang Chengyi asked.

He Yue patted the hand on the shoulder and said, "It's just a matter of the company."

Wang Chengyi didn't expose it, and He Yue didn't bring a mobile phone at all, so how could he suddenly come here to smoke because of the company's problems.He glanced at the considerable number of cigarette butts in front of He Yue, they were directly pressed on the cigarette case, the one with warning words and a piece of rotten lung already printed on it, made He Yue poke even more horrible, scorched.

Wang Chengyi thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you go home early, I have prepared a gift for you."

"And gifts?"

"Well, you're going back to China soon, of course I'm going to give you something special."

"Okay, let me see what I have prepared."

He Yue stood up on his knees, his calf felt sore and swollen, which made him walk a bit slower, and he fell behind Wang Chengyi slightly.From this angle, one can see part of Wang Chengyi's side face, as well as his well-shaped ears. He Yue thought that he had never seen a cold expression on this face, let alone aloofness, which was quite different from the Wang Chengyi described by John.

why?