compulsory possession

Li Beiyan recalled that day three years ago, when He Cong took him into the tattoo parlor, pressed him on the workbench, and refused to let go no matter how much he cried.

He Cong had his name tattooed on the tip of his heart, imprinting him forever.Today, three years later, He Cong forgot everything. When he knocked on Li Beiyan, he seemed to be knocking on his soul, and asked why Li Beiyan came to this point with him.

Through the faint morning light, Li Beiyan saw the scars on the corners of He Cong's eyes, and thought of the many, long and hideous scars on his body.Standing in front of him, He Cong smiled at Li Beiyan with his eyes bent. The 33-year-old man had some signs of aging on his face. He Cong still looked handsome.

It's just that he didn't match up with the high-spirited person back then who stubbornly refused to allow Li Beiyan to leave, and would keep him by his side even if he broke his hand.

Li Beiyan couldn't tell whether it was better to be the 20-year-old He Cong, or the 30-year-old He Cong who had forgotten everything and started over.His ruthlessness, his strength, and his desire for dominance were all erased by time.He is now a gentle, polite, and not impulsive person.

Li Beiyan shouldn't have anything to do with him anymore, and wake up the memory of him being cruelly washed away, let He Cong remember that he left without hesitation, and remember the person who once took out his heart to love so deeply and left him behind , so many years without audio.

He pushed He Cong's hand away, and said, "Tattoos are just young and ignorant."

"It looks... like my name." He Cong tentatively and gently.

"Mr. He." Li Beiyan laughed exaggeratedly as if hearing some joke, "Why should I engrave your name."

The question was sharp and hit the nail on the head.He didn't use any weapons, but instantly crushed the uncertainty piled up in He Cong's heart.But when his gaze fell on Li Beiyan's face, he couldn't take it back.

"yes……"

"Mr. He's eyesight has declined again, I'm afraid he needs to get another pair of glasses." Li Beiyan looked up and saw He Cong's clear eyes, and the memories of that year swept away like a flood.

The smile froze on his face, and he knew he was going to cry.So he grabbed his hair with his hands, and the broken hair fell down to cover his forehead, his eyes were hidden in the shadows, and he blinked hard a few times. "Mr. He...Is there anything else?"

"Gone."

"Then goodbye." Li Beiyan raised his hand, raised it to a high position, and waved vigorously at him, "Goodbye, Mr. He."

The weak connection between him and He Cong was severed by himself.Stop here, between the two of them, stop here.

He Cong left, looking over there, he could still see the entanglement of black exhaust, and the dim yellow light of the setting sun reflected on the car window, with furry halos in circles.

Tears kept coming up, Li Beiyan wiped the corners of his eyes with his fingers, covered his trembling lips with his palms, and bit his teeth to swallow the huge soreness in his throat.

He warned himself not to cry, so he really didn't shed tears.The corner of one eye was red and covered with wet eyelashes.After that, He Cong never came to look for him again, as if the reunion was just a fantasy of Li Beiyan's over-longing, and it was his own spiritual carnival.

Sometimes Li Beiyan couldn't help but wonder what He Cong was doing at the same time.When he eats with Zhexi, will he pick up a lot of dishes for him and wait for him to finish eating like before.Will you frown during the meeting, and get angry at your subordinates in a suit and leather shoes?During the solar terms, did you bring new people home and receive red envelopes from congratulatory parents and elders?

Often Li Beiyan had just imagined the beginning of these scenes, but was interrupted by himself, and did not dare to continue.

These pains drilled from the cracks of time can only be healed by time.

But anyway, it will pass.

One night, Li Beiyan came out of the school gate after finishing the summary meeting.It was already dark, the traffic was stuck in the evening rush hour, and the red lights were on all the way.

Li Beiyan put the car keys in his messenger bag and decided to walk back.Cheng Xia pinched the phone to call, and Li Beiyan, wearing a white bluetooth headset, walked slowly into the crowd to talk to him.

"where is it?"

"On the way home."

"I see that your side is as crowded as the big stage of the Spring Festival Gala. Can you move?"

"I didn't drive, I walked back."

Cheng Xia chuckled and praised him, "Nice."

"Just relax."

"Don't be sentimental, drink with me tonight, I'll pick you up." The wind has been blowing on the road, and there is no sign of stopping after walking for a long time. Li Beiyan is holding the phone, and the surrounding air is slightly cold. , looks like winter is coming.

Li Beiyan stopped at the entrance of a hot pot restaurant, his feet were caught by the spicy smell in the air, he took the menu handed over by the waiter at the door, and said to Cheng Xia: "No, drinking and messing things up, I'm going to eat hot pot."

After speaking, the phone hung up.Cheng Xia turned her head in disbelief, and complained to Fu Yi, "He actually hung up on me! I finally found time to care if he is still alive, and he dared to hang up on me!"

Fu Yi, who was sitting on the sofa answering the email, looked over, reluctantly hugged the notebook away, stretched out his hand and pulled Cheng Xia into his arms.

He pinched Cheng Xia's face. Whenever this man met Li Beiyan, he would throw his head and blood, making him jealous and upset.Also reluctant to lose his temper at him with a cold face, Fu Yi could only pretend that he didn't hear it, and pinched his face and stroked his hair like teasing a child.

"No, I still have to go and see for myself what the hell Li Beiyan is doing."

Just about to stand up, Fu Yi grabbed the corner of his clothes, and the man hugged Cheng Xia, not giving him any chance to slip out. "Xia Xia, I'm jealous."

"..." Not daring to confront the Great Demon King, Cheng Xia could only sit down obediently, and decided to find another time to visit Li Beiyan quietly.

The hot pot restaurant is located in the most prosperous part of the business district. It has a large area and the decoration is no worse than the hot pot restaurant opened by He Cong three years ago.

Li Beiyan chose a seat by the window, and saw the congested traffic moving gradually. A couple walked by the window arm in arm, and a middle-aged man walked by not far away, holding a handful of candied haws.Li Beiyan stood up from his seat almost as soon as he saw it, but was still overtaken by a few children.

He stood on the outermost side, asked the boss how much it was, then went to find the payment code, and used his mobile phone to pay for several people together.The parent on the side took the child to thank him, and Li Beiyan squatted down to talk to them. A girl who liked him very much stuffed a chocolate into his palm.

"Brother, I will exchange candy for your unhappiness, so that you will become happy."

"Where did the little devil come from, you want to call me uncle."

"No. You are much more handsome than uncle, so you should call me brother."

Li Beiyan raised his head and talked to the girl's mother, "She's so smart, it made me blush."

He didn't notice a car stopped on the road not far away, and the window was half opened, revealing He Cong's side face.

He watched Li Beiyan squat down to talk to the woman, and after saying goodbye to the child with a smile, he stood alone under the street lamp and slowly tore off the film on the surface of the candied haws.

The hawthorn wrapped in white sugar looks like a very cheap snack, but in Li Beiyan's hands it looks like a treasure.Stretching out his fingers and counting one by one from top to bottom, there were six hawthorn fruits. He opened his mouth and bit the top hawthorn, chewing with his mouth full like a hamster, and then carefully spit the core on the napkin.

He Cong said to the assistant who was driving; "Go and buy a bunch of candied haws."

"You want candy...Okay, I'll be right back." The assistant opened the car door and went out, a little confused by the boss's sudden order, since there were no children in the car, what kind of candied haws did he want.

On the lap, he walked quickly, and met Li Beiyan who was eating the last one halfway. He asked, "Brother, is this delicious?"

Li Beiyan smacked his lips, it wasn't the taste of the past, but the person who made the candied haws was not to blame, the person who bought it was gone, so the taste was not right.

"Not bad, you can buy two more strings for your children to take home."

"...Okay." The assistant handed He Cong the candied haws he bought, "Boss, would you like to try it?"

He Cong took it, tore open and bit down the first hawthorn, the fruit was very sour, the core was big and hard, and his teeth were particularly gritty.He still ate the whole bunch of hawthorns with no expression on his face.

Assistant: "Boss, can I go back to the company now?"

The hot pot restaurant was buzzing with people, and the fireworks were released to the maximum here. Li Beiyan sat on a chair by himself, and a Pikachu was placed opposite him to eat with him.

He Cong took off his gold-rimmed glasses, rubbed between his brows, and said, "I want to eat the hot pot across the street, you go and pack it."

hot pot?Pack?Mr. He is not in a bad mood and playing tricks on him!The assistant closed the car door resignedly and walked towards the hotpot restaurant.

Fortunately, the shop owner has a wide range of businesses, not only packing services, but also delivering pots.While waiting for the meal, the assistant saw Li Beiyan again. The two were very close, and they both remembered meeting each other just now, and they nodded and greeted each other.

"You eat hot pot alone."

Li Beiyan raised his chin, indicating that there was a Pikachu on the opposite side, "He's with him."

"You're quite... able to live."

Li Beiyan poured the dishes into the bottom of the red soup pot, and while the dishes were cooking, he talked to his assistant, "Are you going to the shop to pack?"

"No way, the boss wants to eat on a whim."

"Your boss is quite... capricious."

"Yeah, I was asked to buy candied haws just now, and I ate the whole bunch with a black face, which made me terrified, afraid that he would throw the core in my face."

The two chatted for a while, the waiter came out with the packed box, the assistant said goodbye to Li Beiyan, and left with the dishes.

He was about to put the things in the trunk, but he heard He Cong speak and asked him to take them. "

Mr. He, don't you want to eat hot pot in the car? "

He Cong glanced at the box, "What did you say to him just now?"

"......Who?"

He Cong: "Do you want to eat fried squid?"

Back at the company, the assistant followed He Cong with the packed hot pot. On the way, he met Zhe Xi, who asked why he came back so late.

The assistant whispered: "Mr. He is very strange today."

It was the first time he saw President He Da parked his car on the side of the road just to eat a bunch of candied haws.It was also the first time to pack hot pot back to the company. I obviously don't eat spicy food, but I ate it hot in the office.

All this is very different from He Cong's usual style.

Very strange.