In the golden cage

According to Ji Shaoting's soft temper, in the face of possible conflicts, the first action of conditioned reflex must be to avoid.

So after catching a glimpse of that face, he immediately lowered his head, trying to brush past his shoulder, but he stopped in his tracks and called softly, "Huh?"

The present wife and his husband's former little lover, one was climbing the stairs, the other was coming down from the top, they collided head-on, their eyes met, and the atmosphere suddenly became the atmosphere of a dramatic climax.

There were still noisy human voices outside, but they seemed to be trapped by a certain distance, and when they reached Ji Shaoting's ears, they became muffled and dull, and the "Isn't this Mrs. Li?" became very clear.

Ji Shaoting had no choice but to turn his face away. No matter how he mobilized his facial muscles, he couldn't pretend to be surprised. There was embarrassment in his words: "It's me, hello."

The male student was quite natural: "What are you doing here?"

Ji Shaoting explained the affairs of the foundation in two or three sentences, and the male student had an intriguing smile on his face. "That's it," he raised his eyebrows, "may I be curious, aren't you all Mrs. Li, do you still need to work?"

This sentence sounded very strange to Ji Shaoting, and he replied politely: "Anyway, being idle at home is idle."

"Mrs. Li is a restless person." The male student's tone was unresponsive, but Ji Shaoting still felt sour between the lines.

A shot of highly corrosive sourness, injected into Ji Shaoting's veins, inevitably made him feel uncomfortable, and then became wary of the person who made him feel uncomfortable.So Ji Shaoting thought over and over again, and still asked: "Last time, it was Li——"

Ji Shaoting didn't know why, as soon as the word "Li Chen" came to his lips, it suddenly became "my husband": "My husband was confused for a while, I hope you don't think too much about it."

"What can I think?" The male student shrugged with a smile on his face, "Didn't you say that you are different from me? After all, you are a legitimate Mrs. Li, and I am just a simple past tense? Ah, really. Reconciled, I still haven’t been reconciled until now—but don’t worry, that’s all.”

The male student's eyes were a bit imperceptibly dim, but his words were still domineering: "What? Don't you allow me to be unwilling?"

Of course it won't be allowed, Ji Shaoting seems to have a mirror in his heart.

Very normal, he thought, very normal.Li Chen's hard conditions are quite greedy, from appearance to figure to assets, there are many people who follow him, but it happens that he, the little-known Ji Shaoting, occupies the throne of Mrs. Li. I don't know how many people think that he is extremely dislike; despise.

It's just that other people seem to have a glamorous identity, but only the person involved knows the taste of it. No matter how good or bad it is, you can only swallow it alone. When you complain to others, others will just think you are showing off.

Therefore, Ji Shaoting didn't express anything about this sentence, but just asked: "Would you mind telling me, what do you like about him?"

"Which point? Which point can it be?" The male student stretched out his thumb and forefinger, and rubbed his fingertips against each other, without saying anything.

Ji Shaoting thought: This person really dares to speak.

He didn't know that this male student had experienced much more dangers than he did. He had already turned into a human spirit. Dare to say anything.

Even he and Li Chen's past confessed without any concealment:

"But whether I like money or not, to be honest, I don't know. When I was a freshman, my dad got seriously ill and had to have an operation. It was because of Mr. Li that I could afford the medical expenses. Of course, the money was my own money. I got it in exchange for my ability, but the way he gave me the card, I can’t even forget it now.”

In my teens and 20s, I can't forget the age of a person the most. I saw a person whose status is so much higher than him, descending with light.

It was simply impossible not to bow down for him.

But in the end, the person he leaned over was Li Chen, or the upper class symbolized behind Li Chen.

Ji Shaoting suddenly remembered Li Chen's words "No one wants to love me".

"I'm so jealous," he was still a child, all his emotions were clear, "what is it about you that made him fall in love with? I like you so much that no one is looking for it, and there is no rumor about it. I am the only one, but ..."

He laughed at himself with a short breath, as if he couldn't breathe: "But he drove him away within half an hour."

"I see you as a person, I'm afraid you really think all this is just a show, right? You never satisfy him, right?" His questioning came one after another, "His needs have always been great, don't you know? What kind of virtue do you have?" How can you ask him to endure for you for so long?"

He never asked Li Chen to be patient for him.

He just wanted to take it easy with Li Chen, that night in London for the first time, Li Chen was a living example of a pervert, he didn't give any buffer, he just wanted to make it to the last step.

Although Ji Shaoting now knows that this is Li Chen's way of loving others, his irresistible love always erupts like a volcano, leaving people nowhere to hide and inevitably getting burned, but this is also Ji Shaoting's way of loving. It took half a year to figure it out.That night in London, how did he know about this, maybe it would be too late.

The male student kept talking about how Li Chen had a crush on him, Ji Shaoting, but he could only use sex as evidence, because he only had contact with this aspect of Li Chen.

He only touched his appearance, but never touched Li Chen's inner core.Except for Ji Shaoting, no one has ever seen the real Li Chen.

From the starting point, he was the same as this male student, they both started from a kindness and had a relationship with Li Chen.But in the end, each of them came to the opposite situation today, because Ji Shaoting was able to see the real Li Chen, not his benevolent gesture.

"Don't you know that he likes you?" The male student can only confirm and conclude from a superficial point of view, "Look, he doesn't even look for anyone else."

But isn't this what he should do?Ji Shaoting thought, shouldn't lovers be loyal to each other?

People can only have one destiny, and others are the shadows of this destiny, which have different shapes under the projection of different lights, various and unpredictable, and there is no real face in the eyelids.

Like before Li Chen, Ji Shaoting never loved anyone.

This defense was really foolish, Ji Shaoting didn't care to listen, he just observed the male student, and found that he showed his true face today, and there was no more makeup in the corners of his eyes.

"It's better if you don't wear makeup." Ji Shaoting suddenly said.

The male student frowned, and said impatiently: "Are you listening to me?"

"Yes," Ji Shaoting replied, "but I think we are fundamentally different. What does it mean to be indifferent? Love is equal, and one party cannot look up to the other. This is true love. Not command and obey."

"That's why I can be with Ah Chen, but you can't."