you may never have loved me

In Liangcheng, electronic navigation is not very useful.Relying on it to find a way can only take Qu Lingxi to the ditch.

When you ask people for directions, most of them don't understand the language.

It took Qu Lingxi nearly half an hour to find the homestay he booked online.

This is a homestay full of local characteristics. The foundation is relatively high, and tourists need to walk up the stone steps.There is a large yard outside, with low tables and stools placed in twos and threes outside the yard, and a swing entangled by vines is also interestingly set up.

The B&B is a bit far from the downtown area, and the quiet and comfortable atmosphere made Qulingxi feel much more comfortable.

After entering the inner room, he realized belatedly... Although the temperature outside was not high, his back was sweating a lot just after groping all the way.

The coolness of the room calmed his agitated heart.

The proprietress was sitting at the table embroidering, holding the embroidered cloth in her hand, and only slightly raised her head when she heard the movement.

She was stunned at Qu Lingxi, and after a while, she stood up excitedly, "Rob!"

Because of the sudden enthusiasm, Qu Lingxi subconsciously took two steps back. He frowned, thinking that the other party might have recognized the wrong person.

The woman obviously spoke the name of a minority, and this was his first time in Liangcheng.

Sensing Qu Lingxi's resistance and retreat, the proprietress showed a little disappointment, then cheered up, took two steps closer, pointed at herself, held her hands expectantly and said, "Rob, I'm Nathan, do you remember me?" ?”

The man in the suit looked at Qu Lingxi in surprise, "Have you been here before?"

Qu Lingxi was also confused, shook her head, and said with certainty: "I'm not Rob, you may have misunderstood. This is my first time here, and I haven't seen you before."

The woman was much older than him, Qu Lingxi pondered for a while, and chose to use an honorific, but her attitude was very cold and distant, and her words concealed a sense of repulsion.

Naisan watched Qu Lingxi for a while, and finally admitted that she had identified the wrong person.

Her gaze dimmed, and she murmured to herself: "I made a mistake, you're not him, he wouldn't treat me like this..."

Like real strangers.

Qu Lingxi was already a little impatient, but he didn't show it. Instead, the man in suit next to him pulled Qu Lingxi aside and complained softly, "I told you to live with us. The proprietress looked a little crazy. I came to Liangcheng for tourism, and my friends advised me that it was not safe here, so I didn't quite believe it..."

Qu Lingxi did not choose to check out in the end.

Compared with the hotel-style homestay where the tour group lives, he still prefers the current bedroom full of regional characteristics.This is an old house, the B&B has no elevator, only old-fashioned steps.The room Qu Lingxi booked was on the fourth floor. Even though he repeatedly emphasized that he didn't need Yan Li's help with luggage, Yan Li insisted on squeezing him in a narrow aisle and helping him with his luggage.

The man in the suit is called Yan Li, and compared to his eyes, this name seems very ordinary.

Back in the bedroom, Qu Lingxi found a marker pen, lowered her head and bit off the cap, wrote a series of numbers on a clean white napkin, and handed it to the attentive man opposite.

Here is his contact information.

Unexpectedly, it was offered by Qu Lingxi.

Yan Li was overjoyed, as if what he got was not a tissue that could be thrown away, but a Shangfang sword that everyone envied.

He knew that distance creates beauty, and after getting the contact number that Qu Lingxi had handed over to him, he stopped entanglement, told Qu Lingxi to pay attention to safety, and then went back.

After a day of running around, Qu Lingxi was indeed a little tired. Instead of tidying up the daily necessities in the suitcase one by one, he kicked off the sneakers he was wearing on his feet, and lay down on the bed in a large size, hugging the soft pillow Rubbed back and forth twice with his head like a baby.

A quarter of an hour later, he returned to normal, picked up the mobile phone that was left on the bed, and dialed a number.

The owner of this number has been waiting for a call from Qu Lingxi, and the vibration alert has not finished ringing before being picked up by the other party.

The moment the electricity was switched on, Qu Lingxi, who was fearless, flinched visibly to the naked eye.

He softly shouted: "...Sister."

Qu Ling snorted coldly, "Do you still remember that I am your sister?"

"Stop." Qu Lingxi joked, "Please don't imitate the classic quotations of the vicious sister in the TV series after the younger brother ran away from home, okay?"

Qu Ling choked on his younger brother's words for three seconds, and counterattacked: "Then don't act like my younger brother and beg for mercy?"

Qu Lingxi said solemnly: "I didn't act like a baby."

Qu Ling rolled her eyes, "Then who called the 'sister' who yelled so much that I spit out my food just now? Rhubarb?"

Rhubarb is their family's watchdog. He is 12 years old. He is so old that he can't catch a thief recently. He thinks that the strange shadow climbing the wall in the middle of the night is his amiable and lovely master.

Qu Lingxi retorted unwillingly: "You talk nonsense! If I can act like a baby, can I only be bark now?"

He is not willing to admit that he is a single mother and fetus, only willing to hint with barking.

Qu Ling was having dinner with her boyfriend in a high-end restaurant at this time.Her boyfriend is an elite of an Internet company. He has been in love with Qu Ling for two years and has proposed several times but failed. At the moment, he is cutting steak for her with his hands wearing a Patek Philippe.

Qu Ling was on the phone while looking at her newly made nails.

Hearing such a tearful accusation from her younger brother, she laughed and said, "You still have the face to say that a fool who can only be coquettish to women and cold to men, even went to Liangcheng to have an affair. You are a bloody beauty!" There are too many, and my mind is ruined."

Qu Lingxi was educated into silence, her elder sister is very powerful, every word pierces her heart with her venomous tongue, like a sharp knife that seals her throat when it sees blood.

The boyfriend stopped the steak knife and looked up at Qu Ling: "Lingxi has gone to Liangcheng? Do uncles and aunts know about it?"

Qu Ling responded indifferently, and didn't want to talk more—of course their parents didn't know.If he had known, he would have flown there overnight and captured this bastard alive.

How can it be his turn to get away with it.

If it hadn't been for Qu Lingxi's conscientious discovery that she had sent her a text message to inform her of the incident one second before the security check, perhaps even her older sister would have been kept in the dark.

When Qu Lingxi was in college, the living conditions were too poor, so she rented a single apartment outside the campus.Now that he has graduated for two months, of course he hasn't moved back home to live with his parents.

As long as he refuses to tell, when Qu Lingxi flies back to China as if nothing happened, Qu's father and Qu's mother may not know that he has taken a graduation trip without telling his family.

It is very dangerous to go alone.

Qu Lingxi knew she was wrong, and cautiously probed: "Sister, are parents okay? Did Dad suffer from back pain? Mom should go for a beauty treatment with her little sister today. And rhubarb...it is already a Grandpa, don't scold it all the time, I don't know if my spirit has improved recently."

Qu Ling's heart softened, and she sighed: "Everything is fine, just take care of yourself."

Qu Lingxi obediently responded.

Qu Ling thought: his younger brother is so scheming and knows how to behave in front of his family in order to survive, why doesn't he know how to fall in love?She intentionally or unintentionally shifted the topic in this direction.

As soon as this topic was mentioned, Qu Lingxi was a little shy. He coughed lightly, and explained to his sister: "I met one in the car today. He took the initiative to sit next to me. I think he is interested in me."

Qu Ling disagreed.She knew that with her brother's good looks, there were many men who were interested in him.But the difficulty lies in whether Qu Lingxi has feelings for others.

Although the domestic atmosphere has become much more liberal in recent years, same-sex love is still a heterogeneity.

Fortunately, their family is quite open-minded, and Qu Lingxi's parents are already old when they gave birth to Qu Lingxi, so the old son must be more pampered than usual, and they have a tacit attitude towards Qu Lingxi.

At the beginning, Qu's father and Qu's mother knew that Qu Lingxi was sexually backward, they also made a big fuss, were angry, and even carried out cold violence against Qu Lingxi for a long time.After a long time, they found that there was still no change in this tug-of-war, and the pity for their youngest son gradually gained the upper hand in their hearts, so they let it go.

They still disapprove of Qu Ling's reluctance to seek out gay people, but they will not strongly oppose it.

All in all, it is the Buddhist mentality that is popular nowadays.

But Qu Ling, as Qu Lingxi's peer, wanted her younger brother to find a lover who would cherish him even more.

There's some shame in the reasons for this.She is closer to her younger brother and understands him better than her parents. She occasionally visits his rented house as a guest, and discovers his hidden personality through daily necessities.

Her younger brother, a young boy in his early 20s, is a very ripe peach, so juicy that it will overflow with just one bite, and the juice will soon fill his mouth.

Qu Lingxi quickly chatted with Qu Ling about Yan Li.

Under Qu Lingxi's description, Qu Ling intuited that this person was an ordinary man who couldn't be more ordinary, not bad but very mediocre.

Qu Ling naturally didn't like it, she snorted, and said confidently: "You said you gave him the number? Don't explain it first, let me guess... Does this number start with [-]?"

[-] is Qu Lingxi's way of rejecting suitors. If the suitor stalks him so hard that he can't refuse, he will give a fake number starting with [-].

If the other party calms down and makes a call, they will be surprised to find that this number is not Qu Lingxi's real number, but directly connected to a well-known dating company.

The implication is—are you going to pick on me?Sorry, the marriage and love company will find out.There are other little brothers waiting for you.

For a young man under the control of pheromones, this is like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing the whimsical thoughts in his mind.

This method hits people's self-esteem too much, Qu Lingxi doesn't use it very much, and the only time it is used has serious consequences.

The other party went to the school angrily, saying that he would make his sexual orientation public.Qu Lingxi couldn't solve this problem alone, so she had to ask Qu Ling for a solution.

So Qu Ling knew about the fake number incident.

Qu Ling already had the answer in her heart, thinking that Qu Lingxi must have left a fake number this time.

Unexpectedly, Qu Lingxi was on the other end of the phone, shaking her head seriously.

He said plainly, "It's true, I left my number."

Before hearing this sentence, Qu Ling gracefully took a sip of iced coffee, and after hearing this sentence, she almost spit out the coffee.