In the golden cage

Ah yes, Li Chen's birthday, I clearly recited it.

Li Chen was really biting hard, he was not good at words in the literal sense, if he loved someone or hated someone, he had to express it with fiery body movements.

Ji Shaoting was bitten hard by him, but he didn't dare to resist, his mind was full of guilt.

He wondered if it was the same feeling when Li Chen went out to find someone?

...Why in this situation, I can still think of that thing.

It turned out that I really cared, Ji Shaoting thought, so the wound on the shoulder was just a small injury, and it was Li Chen's bloody mess in his chest.In fact, he already knew, didn't he, that being liked by Li Chen is definitely not a good thing, the same goes for liking Li Chen, one must suffer trauma.

"How could you forget?" He heard Li Chen scolded viciously.

He also wanted to ask himself why he forgot. He has always done a good job socially, remembering every friend's birthday, and would even stay up late to send blessings at zero o'clock, but why he alone forgot Li Chen's.

It is clear that Li Chen is the most special existence in the plot of his life, not friends, not lovers, not relatives.

The only answer can only be because he doesn't want to have any interaction with Li Chen.

Wanting to sever all forms of contact, even if it is as small as remembering his birthday, Ji Shaoting subconsciously rejects it.He didn't want to let the name Li Chen continue to linger in his mind, domineeringly encroaching on it forever.

But they were bound tightly by a kindness. Ji Shaoting couldn't leave Li Chen even half a step due to moral pressure. Even in this situation, he couldn't help but feel the sharp pain in his shoulder. endure.

Is this domestic violence?

Ji Shaoting didn't know whether there was love between them, but they did have the status of husband and wife, received witnesses and blessings from the past in the sacred hall, and maintained a legitimate marriage in legal documents.

It is also an extremely bad marriage, domestic violence, marital rape, and sexual infidelity.

Ji Shaoting let Li Chen bite a heavy circle of marks on his shoulder, and waited for him to vent his anger enough to let go of his teeth.

It's the coldest time of the year, even the coastal cities close to the equator feel frozen, and the relationship between them is also frozen into a stalemate, with no possibility of recovery, but Li Chen He didn't realize that Ji Shaoting's heart was about to die.

What he realized was that he had indeed bitten hard.

Li Chen stared at the ferocious tooth marks on Ji Shaoting's shoulder, his eyes dazed.

It really bit into Ji Shaoting's flesh, the red ring around the tooth marks would turn purple.Li Chen was extremely remorseful in his heart, but for some reason, this remorse came to his lips, but it only turned into a light sentence: "There was no bloodshed."

Then came a question: "Why don't you cry out the pain?"

This sentence sounds to Ji Shaoting like he is shirking responsibility: it was because he didn't cry out for pain that he was bitten like this by Li Chen.Ji Shaoting smiled miserably and foolishly, and said, "It's okay."

Then he paused and lowered his voice: "It's all my fault anyway."

Li Chen seemed to hear something collapsing and could no longer be held together.He didn't understand why Ji Shaoting looked so disappointed, Li Chen was the one who was really seriously injured: "You forgot my birthday."

"Yes," Ji Shaoting sighed, "So I said, it's my fault, I'm sorry."

When you're with someone and saying sorry becomes the norm, becomes the norm, is that a healthy relationship?

Although his relationship with Li Chen has always been deformed, from the moment they met, they couldn't be interpreted with a normal relationship.

He thought he should appease Li Chen again, and ask him what he can do to make amends and make amends, but he is so tired, he is so tired every second of being in contact with Li Chen, and he doesn't even want to look at him again, but Li Chen called him by first and last name: "Ji Shaoting."

He said, "Look at me."

Li Chen turned on the heater, but the night was still cold into the depths of Ji Shaoting's body.

It's so cold and it doesn't snow.Snow is so good, the whole world is white, withered, blooming, good and bad are all buried under the thick snow layer, covering everything and hiding everything.

Ji Shaoting met Li Chen's eyes again.

The anger between Li Chen's brows has mostly subsided due to guilt, and most of the rest is serious.He heard him read out a date, the words were true and loud, as if it had already been engraved in the depths of his mind: "April 25th."

It's Ji Shaoting's birthday.

There is love, Ji Shaoting knows better than anyone that Li Chen does have some genuine feelings for him, but this kind of feeling is as bad as their marriage, Ji Shaoting doesn't want it.

He looked at Li Chen, starting from the end of his eyebrows, to a light and sharp crease between his brows due to frequent frowning, to his eyes, nose, lips, hair roots, and the dark skin under the hair roots .

He was clearly the right person, but the method was extremely wrong.

Ji Shaoting suddenly had tears in his eyes.He told himself it was just the pain in his shoulder, nothing else, nothing.He also told Li Chen who asked in a panic, "Why are you crying?", because it hurts, there is no other meaning.

Li Chen hurriedly withdrew from the entanglement, got out of bed and searched for the disinfectant, and came back to apply the medicine to Ji Shaoting.

The hot potion irritated Ji Shaoting couldn't help gasping, Li Chen stared at the teardrops in the corner of Ji Shaoting's eyes, he had already forgotten why he was so angry.

He thought that he was really useless, obviously he had been greatly wronged, but as long as Ji Shaoting shed tears, all his mistakes could be forgiven.

He carefully blew on Ji Shaoting's wound, and whispered: "Don't forget again."

"I see," Ji Shaoting replied, "I'm sorry."

The two of them were silent for a while, and the air was quiet for a while, before Ji Shaoting asked again: "Then how do you want to spend February [-]nd?"

This matter seems to be the way out, both sides are injured, and the game is out. It seems that there is a result, but it is nothing.

Li Chen stood up, threw the used cotton swabs into the trash can, turned his back to Ji Shaoting and said, "It's all fine."

What he actually wants to say is that as long as Ji Shaoting can accompany him, the two of them can do anything together.What a lavish celebration he hadn't seen before?He doesn't yearn for it, what he yearns for most is the warmth from Ji Shaoting.

"You want a greeting card, don't you?" Ji Shaoting pulled up his collar and returned to his usual gentle and gentle appearance, "I will write it for you."

He also knew that what Li Chen wanted was always simple, and his feelings were like those of a child, with extreme distinctions between likes and hates, and he even received greeting cards on his birthday.

It was because it was so clear that Li Chen could say every word in his heart: "Let's live normally that day, watch a movie, have a meal, and then go shopping."

When Ji Shaoting saw Li Chen turned around, he put on a smile, his eyebrows were bent, and there was a soft light flowing inside.

In the past, he was acting with Li Chen, but now he is acting in front of Li Chen.

"Okay," Li Chen's voice was hoarse, "Watch a movie, go shopping, pick out some clothes, and cut a cake when I get home."

Then, in the flickering candlelight, make a wish to be together forever.