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After get off work, Chen Jin often comes to the bookstore to have a cup of coffee and chat with me until the bookstore closes at eight o'clock.He turned a blind eye to Yan Minglang, and occasionally chatted with Zhou Zhou, mostly because I was reading and he was in a daze.

In the past, Chen Jin was rarely in a daze. Since I met him, except for the troubles of love, he has always been a sunny and cheerful boy in my impression. Until now, he has changed from a boy to a man. It's warm but not hard.

He is actually a very assertive person, unlike me.

For such a proud person, the trauma left by such an unspeakable treatment is even more difficult to heal.

I think for him, I may be his only consolation, but if I am a good medicine to make him feel at ease, I can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

Chen Jin's spirit has not been very good, and sometimes he fell asleep while leaning on me.I thought maybe he had the same insomnia as me, maybe even worse than me.Even now, I still have nightmares.However, I am luckier than Chen Jin, Yan Minglang will always comfort me the first time I wake up.Sometimes I didn't even make a sound, and when I woke up, I just trembled slightly, and he woke up instantly, pulling my soul immersed in fear back to reality.

But Chen Jin was alone.

When he was sleeping on my shoulder that day, I put down the book in my hand and looked down at him.

I remember when I first met him, he loved to smile a lot. There was a small dimple on one cheek, showing pointed canine teeth. At that time, he was thin and thin. Even though he was 1.8 meters tall, he looked a bit childish.

But now, his body is well exercised, and the muscle lines of his arms are unbelievably beautiful. Although he hasn't seen it anywhere else, he can imagine it.

In fact, I am very envious of Chen Jin, even slightly jealous.He is one year younger than me, but he is much better than me in every aspect.Regardless of family background, talents, brains, looks or figure, there are very few people our age who can match him.

But it was such a person who encountered something that he shouldn't have encountered.

Sometimes, I even want to avoid his sight, and I dare not even talk to him.When I found out what had happened to him, I could barely hold my head up in his presence.

A strand of jet-black hair slipped from the corner of his forehead, swept over the thick eyelashes, and landed on the white and straight bridge of the nose.

He frowned slightly, and I was afraid that his hard-won sleep would be awakened, so I quickly raised my hand, gently brushed that lock of hair, and carefully helped him pull it behind his ear.

There were a few muffled screams of excitement not far away. I didn't need to look to know that it was those college girls who were bluffing again.I turned my head helplessly, raised my index finger to my lips, and before I could make the "shh" movement, I saw Yan Minglang standing not far from us at some point.

He looked at Chen Jin and me, his black eyes were like a deep pool of water, bottomless.

I didn't tell him about Chen Jin and Yan Minghe, and I think it's absolutely impossible for Yan Minghe to tell him about this stain.

I have been very tender and cherishing to Chen Jin these past few days, Yan Minglang saw it in my eyes, but didn't say anything.

Many things will explode after being suppressed for a long time, even if he knows that my feelings for Chen Jin are more than friendship, but they will never be love.But people will become narrow-minded people when facing love, even if they are as calm and self-reliant as Yan Minglang is no exception.

It's just that the critical point didn't seem to be reached yet, he turned his face away, and said something to Zhou Zhou, and then I saw him go around the bookshelves, probably looking for Vito.

So far the matter between me and him is still a mess, and the temporary balance will eventually be broken, it's just a matter of time.

But I have no time for myself right now.

I just hope that Chen Jin can be well, otherwise, what face do I have to be happy?

I always thought that Chen Jin was the only variable that broke the harmonious atmosphere between us at this stage. Unexpectedly, there were others.

The trajectory of my life is almost constant every day, so when a person wants to find me, it is easy to find.

No one would think that when the lady who was elegant and noble from the bottom of her heart walked into the bookstore, she was here to buy books.Even though she can see the bookishness in her body, but for buying books, someone will take care of it for her, and she doesn't need to do it herself.

The lady walked into the door and turned her eyes slightly in the store, followed by a man in a suit and tie who looked like a bodyguard and pointed in my direction.

She looked at me and walked towards me.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Kent?"

Her English is very good, so good that she is the best-spoken Chinese person I have ever met.I remember she seemed to be a foreign language professor at some university.

We met once, and I vaguely remember her appearance, but at that time, I was just "Chen Jin's friend", so she didn't take me seriously.What's more, six years later, I am very different from what I was then, and it is normal for her not to recognize me.

I stood up and bowed politely.

"Yes, ma'am."

She looked at me, her inquisitive eyes looked up and down without any trace, and the slight smile on her face was just right for a person who was used to it.She nodded to me, and then introduced herself: "I am Yan Minglang's mother, Su Meilan. I teach at H University. You can call me Professor Su."

"Professor Su, hello."

"Hello, Mr. Kent," she shook my hand, "do you have time? I want to chat with you."

"Of course." What should come will always come. In fact, from the story I heard from Yan Minghe, I can probably guess why she came to me.

She nodded: "Then please come with me."

Zhou Zhou looked at us, his lips moved. Vito was reading at the desk inside, so engrossed in reading that he didn't know anything.I walked behind Professor Su and pointed in his direction.Zhou Zhou nodded, glanced at Professor Su, and I waved my hand to show that I was fine.

We didn't go too far, and came to a restaurant with a good environment 5 minutes' drive from the bookstore, where afternoon tea was served, so there were very few people who came here at such a busy time.

We sat down in the corner, and the man who looked like a bodyguard went to order the meal himself, and then stood by, not allowing anyone to approach.

Professor Su folded his hands on the table and looked at me indifferently.

She didn't mention me and Yan Minglang as soon as she came up, but asked me some questions similar to my work, family situation and so on.In fact, she is not ignorant of this kind of thing, we all know it well.

She asked a question, and I answered a question. My answer was very short, and there was no need for a long speech. After all, she didn't really care about it, it was just a means to ease the atmosphere.

When the meal was ready, she finally got to the point.

"Are you with Minglang now?"

I don't know if we are together now, but living together is for sure.I smiled noncommittally.

She already had an idea in her mind, and my answer didn't matter.

She said: "Mr. Kent, Minglang is the only male in our Yan family, I don't think it's suitable for you to be with him."

I nodded: "What you said makes sense."

She probably didn't expect that I would agree with her statement, there was a flash of surprise in her eyes, she paused slightly, and struck while the iron was hot: "So are you willing to leave Minglang?"

I said: "Professor Su, I'm sorry, you may have made a mistake about one thing."

She frowned slightly.

"It's not that I don't want to leave Yan, but that he doesn't want to leave me. I don't think you are clear about our affairs. I came back for business, not to trace back the relationship six years ago."

She seemed to have caught something suddenly, and her expression softened a little: "So you mean, you don't plan to get back together with Minglang at all?"

"No," I smiled and shook my head, "I'm still thinking about it."

She finally couldn't maintain her elegance and composure, and her face sank: "Mr. Kent, are you kidding me?"

I'm innocent: "No, I'm just stating the facts."

She took a slow breath, turned her face away, and tapped her fingers on the table.

I took a sip of coffee calmly.

Just when I was wondering why she hadn't used the tactics she used to treat Zhuang Yu back then, she really said: "As long as you leave Minglang, no matter what you need, the Yan family will satisfy you."

"really?"

"of course."

I'm thinking.

She found me thinking and seemed relieved.

Time passed by every minute and every second. I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't think of what I needed.

In fact, I have a lot of things that I need, but I can get those things through my own efforts.And what I can't get, why should I force it?No one can have everything they want in life, can they?

Professor Su was already very anxious during my long silence, so that when I turned my head to look at her, I found that her body was leaning forward slightly, and both her body movements and the expression on her face revealed a kind of longing.

I shook my head in her anticipation: "Unfortunately, I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't think of what I want."

Her self-cultivation almost completely fell apart because of my words.

"Mr. Kent, are you kidding me?"

"Professor Su, you are an elder, I respect you, but I'm sorry, I really can't satisfy your unreasonable demands. Yan Minglang is indeed your son and the heir of the Yan family, but if you even like someone, you will be swayed." , so what is the difference between him and a puppet? Besides," I paused, "you have no right to interfere, and you can't interfere with him, right?"

Otherwise, how could you find me?

I said the last sentence too directly, and her face was ugly.

People like the elders of the Yan family probably have never met a few outsiders who dared to talk to them like this in their entire life.

But I'm just telling the truth.

No matter what Yan Minglang and I will become in the future, it is my business and his business. What right do others have to interfere?I am also a parent, but for Vito, I only want him to be happy for the rest of his life, and I will not interfere with anything except to guide him not to go astray.

The Yan family is probably determined to separate me and Yan Minglang, even though I don't know whether we will be together for a long time, but I can't agree with them wanting to use money or other things to lure me to let us separate.

Zhuang Yu has Zhuang Yu's pain, and I, except Vito, I can have nothing.

But the appearance of Professor Su made me a little uneasy.

They haven't noticed Vito yet, and it would be bad if they put their minds on Vito one day.

Also, I'm still not sure about one thing.That time, I asked Yan Minghe to help me get a photo of Yan Minglang when he was a child, but too many things happened one after another, and this matter was delayed.

I still don't know if Vito and Yan Minglang look alike.

The matter between me and Yan Minglang is still unresolved, and I still have no way to tell Vito's life experience.In fact, judging from the current situation, even if Yan Minglang knew that Vito was his child, he would probably not rob me.But the world is unpredictable. If we can't get together in the end, since there is no benefit in exposing the truth in advance, it is the best choice to keep this secret for the time being.