In the golden cage

What Ji Shaoting cooks tonight are side dishes, custard, shredded radish, and stir-fried beef with green peppers.

After the meal, Li Chen took the initiative to ask Ying to wash the dishes, but Ji Shaoting rejected him, saying that he would do it by himself.Ji Shaoting didn't mean to be polite when he said this, he really thought it was all right for him to come.

Li Chen's clumsy appearance when washing dishes in England is still vivid, Ji Shaoting always finds it cute and funny when he thinks about it.Li Chen was like a child when he was doing things he was not good at, such as housework and love.

"I use the dishwasher anyway," Ji Shaoting said, "You leave it alone, and I'll do it. If you really want to do something, why not just peel an orange for me."

The fresh Tangerine he just bought today was also a gift from him when he first met Chen Pei.

Ji Shaoting put the dishes neatly into the dishwasher, lowered his eyes, thinking about when to tell Aunt Chen that he and Li Chen are back together.

How should I explain to my parents?Although his brother has accidentally found out, and will act as a buffer in the middle to help reconcile the left and right, but in the eyes of adults, these separations and reunions between him and Li Chen are inevitably like an irresponsible child's play, and they will definitely be called out. Parents worry.

Li Chen peeled a piece of orange and fed it to the corner of Ji Shaoting's mouth.While thinking about something, Ji Shaoting put the orange into his mouth.The orange petals overflow with sweet juice between the lips and teeth, which is very greasy.

After Ji Shaoting swallowed it, he praised the sweetness, and Li Chen's second petal followed, followed by the third petal and the fourth petal, like presenting treasures one after another.

When Ji Shaoting closed the dishwasher, a whole orange went into his stomach.Li Chen put his hand to Ji Shaoting's chin and asked, "Is there a nucleus?"

This movement was very natural, causing a trickle of warmth to flow from Ji Shaoting's heart.He straightened up, smiled at Li Chen and said no: "This kind of small orange usually doesn't have any pits."

Ji Shaoting's eyes were clear without distracting thoughts, and when he smiled, he was full of smiles.But now he was smiling happily, and Li Chen was also happy seeing him, so the two of them smiled at each other.

After laughing for a while, I realized that the laughter was really inexplicable, and it was silly, and I didn't know why.

After a while, they both understood that they were laughing for the same thing: it was the first time that they hadn't fed each other for so long.

In fact, we can't say "being together for so long", if we really want to start counting the days of being in love, it should start from today.

"Mr. Li," Ji Shaoting joked, and specially used his honorific title, "Did I tell you that you never smiled at me before, and I didn't mind."

Li Chen choked, with a regretful look on his face: "I wasn't used to it before, and I found it very awkward. I don't know that you mind, you never tell me."

He paused for a while, and then said: "If you tell me if you don't like it, even if I will be very resistant at first, but I will always change it, just like now. It's just a laugh, just asking if you like it, after you get used to it I feel nothing."

Ji Shaoting pressed the button of the dishwasher, and said frankly: "This is indeed my problem, and I will tell you everything in the future—well, not later, but now, and I have something to tell you right now."

After two beeps, the dishwasher started to run, and water spouted from the dark box.Ji Shaoting turned his face away: "I met that male student today."

"Male student?" Li Chen couldn't understand this pronoun at first.

Ji Shaoting added something to him: "The night I brought you supper, I ran into that college student downstairs from your company."

Li Chen's nerves immediately tensed up, and Ji Shaoting blocked his incoherent speech just as soon as it came to his mouth: "Don't panic! I have no other intentions, just explain to you."

"What did he tell you?" How can we not panic, the good relationship that night was caused by this male student, causing them to go round and round and waste a lot of time on detours, and they didn't set foot on it until today. on track.

Although Li Chen also knows that nothing is perfect in this world, people have to make mistakes, and only when they know the pain will they learn to behave.

But he still can't help fantasizing and hoping for many hypothetical possibilities: if he and Ji Shaoting can meet earlier, if everything can start over.Their relationship is no longer full of cracks, and all the misses, misunderstandings, conflicts and mutual harm in the middle are avoided. From the first meeting to the end of life, they love each other.

"Is there anything difficult for you?" Li Chen asked again.

"No, there is no embarrassment, since you asked him what he said..." Ji Shaoting thought about it for a few seconds, and said, "I said a lot, but the most impressive sentence is that he told me that your needs have always been very important. big."

Li Chen's anger came up immediately: Why did you say this.

Sex is the most untouchable topic between them, why should they talk about it with Ji Shaoting.

"Don't listen to his nonsense." Li Chen's tone was three points more serious, "This kind of thing——"

"I told you, don't panic," Ji Shaoting said helplessly, and once again cut off Li Chen's words, "What other people say now has no effect on me, let alone what he said...is indeed Fact, isn't it? There's a great need, there's a need for relief, and I get it."

Ji Shaoting turned his face sideways, and said in a low voice: "It's the 21st century now, and you're already in your thirties, so it's impossible for you to have no sexual experience. I understand all these things, but..."

He raised his head again and looked into Li Chen's eyes: "Just don't go out to look for it in the future, is that okay?"

Lovers should always be faithful to each other.

"Yes, I promise." Li Chen nodded vigorously, and moved his arms together, as if he wanted to hug Ji Shaoting.Ji Shaoting expressed his permission by taking the initiative to take a step forward.

So Li Chen folded his hands behind Ji Shaoting's waist, pressed him gently on his body, and whispered: "You are irreplaceable."

Li Chen's needs are great, this is an objective fact, and he himself knows it well.But at the moment he put his arms around Ji Shaoting, he really thought that if Ji Shaoting didn't want to, then it's okay for them not to do it for the rest of their lives.

He can't scare Tingting anymore, hugging and kissing are enough.

Often, the more anxious you are, the less you can get it, the more you can't get it, the more you want to get it, and the harm comes from this.

But he heard Ji Shaoting say: "Give me time."

"Time?" Li Chen couldn't react in time.

Ji Shaoting's voice immediately weakened, almost inaudible: "Give me time, let's take it step by step..."

If Li Chen didn't understand what Ji Shaoting was talking about, he wouldn't be a man anymore.

He was stunned for a few seconds, and when he came back to his senses, there was a picture in front of him.His heart tightened, and he immediately pushed Ji Shaoting away.

This time it was Ji Shaoting's turn to be confused: "What's the matter, Ah Chen?"

"No, nothing." Li Chen hesitated.

How could you tell Ji Shaoting that just his sentence "step by step" made him respond below.