In the golden cage

Ji Shaoting's smile froze: "Mom, what do you mean...?"

"Tingting, you are a good boy. When you left, you specially called me and left a voice message." Chen Pei sighed, "I told you not to leave, and then what did you say, do you remember? "

——Auntie, maybe you should ask Li Chen what he did to me.

"I didn't ask, but I know you can't bear it and choose to leave. It must be because Li Chen did something extremely excessive." Chen Pei paused, "Leaving a bloody wound."

The key words have been thrown out, so far the context and the reasoning have been connected.Ji Shao understood what Chen Pei meant: the wound on his body left by Li Chen can only be healed by Li Chen, otherwise he will never heal for the rest of his life.

Ji Shaoting looked at Chen Pei, like looking at a mask.He wondered what kind of reality lay beneath this gentle and kind face.

To untie the bell, one must tie the bell, of course he understands this truth, it is precisely because he understood that he returned to Li Chen's side, didn't he?He himself wanted to be saved.

There is a world of difference between letting yourself figure it out and being told what to do.Chen Pei's words sound high-sounding, but is it for his Ji Shaoting's good, or for her own good.

Ji Shaoting thought of Li Chen hugging him tightly and burying his face in his neck.

At that time, he asked Ah Chen if he was afraid of recalling the feeling of being abandoned by his mother.Li Chen trembled, and replied, "Mmm..."

Ji Shaoting's two pupils stared at Chen Pei motionlessly, making Chen Pei feel naked, avoiding his gaze and shouting: "Tingting?"

Ji Shaoting came back to his senses, the familiar sense of drama suddenly awakened, his brows and eyes immediately curved, and he smiled happily.

"I see." He waved to Chen Pei and turned around, saying goodbye hastily, as if he didn't want to stay for a long time, "Let's go first, I will come to you tomorrow morning, and have a good rest."

As soon as the car door was closed, Li Chen hugged him and called out to Tingting, asking him what's wrong.Ji Shaoting was thinking what was wrong, and the moment he raised his eyes, he saw a strange face in the rearview mirror—his own face, with indifference and subtle hostility.

Ji Shaoting was also surprised, and turned to look at Li Chen.

"What did Mom tell you?" Li Chen's worry almost overflowed from his eyes.

Ji Shaoting opened his mouth, and finally understood what it means to have unspeakable suffering, his heart was full of bitterness, and he didn't know how to speak.He just hugged Li Chen, gently stroked a dent on the back of his head, and said in a gentle but firm voice, "I promise you, I will never leave again."

He felt Li Chen's muscles tense up, and then he heard Li Chen ask: "Did my mother tell you this?"

Ji Shaoting paused for two seconds, then said softly: "Yes, she told me that she cares about you very much."

Li Chen raised a smiling face from his arms and said, "Yes."

The street scene went backwards non-stop, Ji Shaoting took Li Chen's hand and sat in the back seat, thinking that he might love Li Chen more than he thought.

For the first time in his life, he was aggressive towards another person for the sake of one person.

Li Chen said that no one is willing to love him.

It was a heart-piercing cry, every word was real pain, not exaggeration.

What should be the purest maternal love in the world is full of impurities to him.

Ji Shaoting sensed early in the morning that Chen Pei was using him to fill the hole in Li Chen's heart. He thought he could understand her difficulties. After all, everyone has their own difficulties, but it wasn't until Fang Xian that he realized that I couldn't understand myself anymore.

Some wounds can only be healed by the person who left them.This sentence is blatantly threatening and blatantly kidnapping.

But it's not that Ji Shaoting hates this kind of bondage, after all, he had willingly returned to Li Chen's side before that.He is the motive of loathing the bondage, his benevolent face, when cut open, is full of hypocrisy, it is an evasion of responsibility, and he does not want to take the slightest bit of it.

It's not that she is incapable of plugging the hole in Li Chen's heart.She is his mother, how could she be incapable, how many children from single-parent families still grow up happily.

She just doesn't want to.

No wonder Li Chen is so dependent on him, even his mother can't provide him with pure love, who else can.

Ji Shaoting tightened his fingers and shook hands with Li Chen.

Then he will provide it, Ji Shaoting secretly made up his mind to give Li Chen the tender love that goes deep into his muscles and bones, and heals all his wounds.

Ji Linzhang called at around nine o'clock. At that time, Li Chen was making out with Ji Shaoting, kissing cheeks and eyes, and his brother's call was like a thunder on the ground, scaring both of them into the illusion of being raped.

Ji Shaoting turned over and lay down on the pillow to reach the mobile phone on the bedside table.Xia Tian's short T-shirt was very thin, and when he wanted to stretch his arms, he pulled up the clothes on his side, revealing a section of his white waist, which caught Li Chen's sight.

Rationality told Li Chen to move his eyes away quickly, but he fought against it [-] times, and lost in the desperate fight. Instead, he threw himself on Ji Shaoting's back, and pressed the palm of one hand tightly against it. the skin on his waist.

Ji Shaoting couldn't help but exclaimed, thinking that it's a good thing he didn't answer his brother's phone, otherwise the "ah" would be heard by his brother, and the situation would get out of hand.

"What are you doing?" Ji Shaoting twisted his waist vigorously, "Get up!"

Didn't he know that the more twisted he was, the stronger his waist would be, and the better his hand feeling would be, the more it would make it difficult for Li Chen to get up.

Li Chen buried his head and sniffed the fragrance of Ji Shaoting's hair after bathing.He was spoiled by Ji Shaoting who swore to "never leave again" in the back seat of the car today. He was so complacent and aggressive that he couldn't even listen to Ji Shaoting's own orders—until Ji Shaoting lowered his volume: "I'll count to three." , or I'd be angry."

Li Chen didn't dare to move anymore.

She arched her back and distanced herself from Ji Shaoting, but she was not reconciled, and leaned into Ji Shaoting's ear, calling out in a low voice, "Tingting..."

"I'm calling my brother," Ji Shaoting said coldly and ruthlessly, "Don't make trouble."

Pressed the call button.

"Tingting," Ji Linzhang said succinctly, "I'm downstairs in your hotel."

"When will you be back?" Li Chen watched Ji Shaoting put on his shoes.Before he even left the door, his heart began to feel empty.

"Come back after shopping with him," Ji Shaoting tied his shoelaces and straightened up, "It's just a ride, it won't take long."

But Li Chen's complexion was not good, and he even felt a little wronged. Ji Shaoting leaned against the entrance cabinet, smiled and made a "come here" gesture to him.

Li Chen came over procrastinatingly, thinking that it would be good to ask Ji Shaoting to stay by his side for a second.Ji Shaoting waited for him to approach slowly, then tiptoed, and took the initiative to kiss Li Chen's lips.

"Wait for me to come back." Ji Shaoting said.

Except for the catastrophe at the age of 26, Ji Shaoting lived his life smoothly and peacefully, without any period of particularly low mood.

Of course, when individuals are depressed, Ji Shaoting never hides it. When he is unhappy, he will directly ask his brother if he can take him out for a drive, and his brother will never refuse.

Usually at night, because people's perception is sharper in the dark, and it is easier to tell the truth.

Ji Linzhang came to work suddenly today, and he dealt with it all afternoon. He couldn't help but hide his fatigue when he came to see Ji Shaoting.Ji Shaoting asked him to get out of the driver's seat in a joking tone, and he asked back, "How long have you not driven? Has your driver's license expired?"

Ji Shaoting choked on this sentence.It's true that he hasn't held the steering wheel for a long time, and Li Chen is always the driver when he goes out.

"My life matters," Ji Linzhang turned his head towards the passenger seat, "sit in your seat."

They still wandered around aimlessly as before, and when they found a barbecue stand selling supper, they stopped and sat in.

The bright red plastic stool had broken legs and was bound several times with transparent glue. It looked like a tumor from a distance.

Ji Shaoting said that he was treating guests, but Ji Linzhang was not polite, and all the dishes were meat.

He was very rude to start the topic, and he didn't say a word of indirect politeness to his biological brother: "I told you, he came to our house the day you left. When I saw him, I just I feel that his whole person is wrong, if I want to describe it in two words, I would be a lunatic, and my parents saw him like that."

Ji Shaoting didn't say a word, waiting for his brother to continue.

He was taken aback by the words that continued: "Mom cried in fright."

"I think it's hard for them to accept that you and Li Chen are together again." Ji Linzhang's face became serious, "You know we never want you to take on anything, we just want you to live this life safely and happily, and Li Chen... we There is no way to see the protection of our wishes from him."

Ji Shaoting lowered his eyes, and after a while, he said, "But it's because you never let me take care of anything that I feel useless."

Ji Linzhang frowned, and immediately retorted: "Nonsense! What's useless?!"

"There is nothing perfect in this world," Ji Shaoting said, "I thought our family was perfect, with loving parents and respectful brothers and sisters, but it's not, no bro, otherwise I wouldn't have wanted to study abroad. It was too protective, too good, and it made me feel incompetent."

"You see, our mother is quite conservative, isn't she? But her idea all along is to ask me to find a male partner who can protect and pamper me, instead of finding a girl who will protect and pamper me. You Also, when you hear me deny yourself, your reaction—”

Ji Shaoting put his fingertips on his brother's frowning brows, and said with a smile: "Your reaction is like this, even I can't say that I am not good."

Ji Linzhang's smiling face towards him has been like this for thousands of years, and it will never change.But at the same time, he is deeply, deeply aware that this smiling face has undergone fundamental changes, and a new quality is growing in Ji Shaoting's body, which is called maturity.

"Brother, I have never been in a relationship since I grew up. I'm afraid it's part of it," Ji Shaoting withdrew his hand, "and part of it is because the suitors in the past all wanted to take care of me. They...they all have your shadow , so I only feel awkward and at a loss when facing them, but Li Chen is different."

He looked into Ji Linzhang's eyes: "Only Li Chen is the one who really fits my soul."