After the rebirth, my paintings became popular all over the world

The beginning of the story is a clichéd "hero saves the beauty".

Xia Wenqiu has been shy since he was a child. After his father ran away, he felt even more inferior.

Although he and Lu Bin lived in the same village and knew each other, they rarely interacted with each other.

Xia Xihe's voice change came relatively late. When most children of the same age had already changed their voices, he still had the clear and crisp voice of his childhood.

It was the early autumn of freshman year.

He was blocked in the toilet by male classmates in the class, who said they wanted to take off his pants to see if he was a boy.

Temperament like a woman.

Lu Bin, who just came to the bathroom, saw this scene, and helped him drive the boys away, warning them not to bully their classmates.

He is a sophomore in high school, one grade higher, and taller, so he is very intimidating among this group of freshmen.

The boys ran away quickly, leaving only Xia Wenqiu facing Lu Bin alone.

Lu Bin smiled at him and asked him, "Are you all right?"

Ticada was singing non-stop on the sweet-scented osmanthus tree outside the teaching building, very noisy.

The weather in early autumn was still a bit hot, and the tall boy was only wearing short sleeves. He probably just came back from playing ball, and the back of his white school uniform T-shirt was wet with sweat.

Xia Wenqiu stood at the toilet door waiting for Lu Bin, looking at the bright sunlight coming in from the corridor from time to time.

His mother was a gentle and tough woman, and he was just like his mother.

When Lu Bin came out, the other party was a little surprised when he saw him, and asked him why he was still here.

He lowered his head and whispered, "I haven't thanked you yet."

He took the crumpled ten-yuan note to buy Lu Bin a can of Coke, a bag of potato chips, and a bag of hot sticks.

After losing his father, only his mother took care of him and his elderly grandmother in the family. Life was very difficult.

The ten yuan is Xia Wenqiu's pocket money for a week.

In this way, the two became acquainted.

Lu Bin takes good care of him, doesn't allow others to bully him, tells him questions he doesn't know, and will accompany him to comfort him when he fails in the exam.

Xia Wenqiu has always wanted an older brother.

In this way, after losing his father, his brother can help him take care of his mother and protect him.

Lu Bin fulfilled his wish.

He called Lu Bin his elder brother.

In the eyes of the two parents, they didn't think there was any problem with the two boys getting close.

Lu Bin's parents also told Lu Bin to take care of Xia Wenqiu more.

It is impossible to trace back the moment when the heartbeat happened.

Even after breaking up, Xia Wenqiu can clearly recall every detail of the two people's relationship back then.

Lu Bin is like a soft light in his dark high school life, illuminating him.

He recalled that after failing the first monthly exam in the third year of high school, he hid in the grove next to the teaching building and cried.

Lu Bin sat next to him, holding his shoulders.

He didn't say anything, just stared at him with those gentle eyes.

After Xia Wenqiu finished crying, he would wipe away his tears and ask Lu Bin to give him pointers with the messy test paper.

In his eyes, Lu Bin seems to know everything.

He also recalled that when he was under the most pressure in the second semester of the third year of high school, he would not go back to the dormitory to sleep at noon, but would review in the classroom, and sleep on the table for a while when he was sleepy.

When he woke up, he opened his eyes and saw Lu Bin sitting beside him, holding his favorite vanilla ice cream in his hand.

The coolness and sweetness of ice cream are still on the tip of Xia Wenqiu's tongue.

He shared the same box of ice cream with Lu Bin, and Lu Bin said he didn't want the one in the box, and then kissed him.

At that time, there were not many classmates in the class, and the only classmates were either sleeping or reviewing. No one found them kissing intimately in the corner by the window, under the cover of piles of test papers and books.

That was their first kiss.

Xia Wenqiu's world is very simple, but he is not stupid, he knows that Lu Bin likes him.

But he doesn't want to delay the college entrance examination because of falling in love, and he doesn't want to be discovered by his mother and teacher that he has a puppy love.

So after the kiss was over, he blushed and buried himself in the paper, ignoring Lu Bin's confession.

"I want to take the college entrance examination first." He said.

So he waited until the end of the college entrance examination, when Lu Bin officially confessed his love to him, and the two dated naturally.

First love is both sweet and sour. Lu Bin brought Xia Wenqiu a lot of happiness that others could not give him, and also brought him a lot of sorrow that others could not give him.

This feeling is more clear after the long-distance relationship.

Xia Wenqiu misses Lu Bin every day, wants to talk to him, wants to meet him, wants to hear his voice.

But they can only chat for comfort through the small screen of their mobile phones separated by thousands of kilometers.

Xia Wenqiu regretted it many times. Shouldn't he travel so far to go to the United States to go to school? Isn't it okay to go to an art academy in his hometown?

Although the oil painting department is not as good as Gome's, he doesn't have any big ambitions. He never thought of becoming a big painter like Lin Luo who sells a painting for tens of millions.

Especially when seeing Lin Luo and Jing Yu Tiantian getting together, whispering sweetly, talking and laughing.

Especially when he felt that his brother didn't like him that much anymore.

But Lin Luo told him not to think so.

If that person changes his mind, it doesn't matter where he is.

Xia Wenqiu thought that he would drift away from his elder brother because of the long-distance relationship, and would exhaust all his love in mutual suspicion and quarrel, and finally broke up embarrassingly.

But what he didn't expect was that the breakup came much faster and more tragic than he imagined.

It was the winter vacation of freshman year.

During the Spring Festival, two young men who had been in a long-distance relationship for half a year reunited and huddled together on a small bed to talk about love.

Blame them for not being cautious enough, knowing that the sound insulation at home is not good, they still keep their voices down.

When Lu Bin's mother knocked on the door of Lu Bin's bedroom, the two young boys hugging each other in the room were dumbfounded.

They were both under 20 years old, and hugged each other tightly with love, facing the dark faces of their elders, they were reluctant to be hurt by each other.

That was the first time Xia Wenqiu saw Lu Bin's mother showing such a terrifying expression to him.

Filled with loathing and fury, wishing he would disappear immediately.

Xia Wenqiu is actually not afraid.

He was always hated.

When he was young, adults often joked with him, saying that his father would not want him and his mother because he was naughty and ignorant.

When he grew up, his male classmates always made fun of him, saying that he looked like a big girl.

He also knew that in the days when gay marriage was just legalized, discrimination still existed and was deeply rooted.

He is not afraid of being insulted and ridiculed, but he does not want his brother to be hurt.

After being discovered, Lu Bin's mother called his mother and accused him of being a pervert.

The mother's bewildered eyes hurt Xia Wenqiu. The mother didn't blame him. She hugged him and said that she blamed herself for not being able to give her son a complete family, which would lead people astray.

What Xia Wenqiu couldn't accept the most was that the furious father Lu picked up a chair and threw it at Lu Bin.

He never knew that a man who is usually so gentle and gentle would become so scary when faced with his son being gay.

Seeing Lu Bin lying on the ground with a bruised nose and swollen face, his clothes stained with nosebleeds, Xia Wenqiu gave in almost immediately.

"We broke up," he said.

Lu Bin lay on the ground, looking at him with astonished and regretful eyes.

Xia Wenqiu emphasized again: "Brother, let's break up."

Xia Wenqiu saw Lu Bin crying, and the tears melted into the blood.

He had never seen Lu Bin cry.

Xia Wenqiu hardened his heart not to look at him, held his mother's hand and said, "Mom, let's go back."

When he got home, he blocked all of Lu Bin's contact information, bought train tickets overnight, came to school early, and became the first person in the dormitory to go back to school.

On the sleeper train for more than [-] hours, Xia Wenqiu looked at the rapidly receding scenery outside the window, and thought of the way Lu Bin looked at him before he left, he couldn't help crying.

He cried all the way, and after returning to the dormitory, he painted in the cold dormitory alone day and night.

He suddenly understood Lin Luo, that world-renowned painter.

For people like them, in distress, only painting can save them.

Xia Wenqiu did not tell his roommates about these things.

On the one hand, he felt that it was unnecessary, so let it be between him and his brother, even if he told them, it would be meaningless.

On the other hand, he dared not. He knew that he was cowardly. Seeing Lin Luo socialize with Jing Yu so generously, he would definitely encounter all kinds of resistance, and he was fearless.

And compared to Lin Luo, he was like a shrinking turtle.

He said it was for the good of his brother, but in fact his brother broke up with him, so he must be sad.

The life of going to school is uneventful day after day.

Xia Wenqiu was immersed in painting, and rarely thought about the things with Lu Bin, but that person would still penetrate into his mind through every detail of life.

Xia Wenqiu did not expect that Lu Bin would come to see him.

In the early summer of this year, during a small long vacation, on a rainy Saturday morning, his roommates woke him up early, saying they were going out to sketch and paint together.

When they came to the school gate, they saw Lu Bin holding a black umbrella.

Xia Wenqiu was stunned, and turned to look at Lin Luo.

Lin Luo smiled and whispered to him, "You guys have a good talk, Mao Jun and I are going to paint first."

Saying that, he left him and ran away.

Xia Wenqiu didn't have the courage to face Lu Bin directly, and wanted to go with them, but couldn't move.

Lu Bin's family is not very rich either, and he must have spent a lot of money to come here from the southwest. It would be too much if he just left.

Xia Wenqiu stood where he was, staring blankly at Lu Bin.

He probably came on a red-eye flight, his face was full of fatigue, and he didn't look like he had much rest recently.

"Xiaoqiu." With a hoarse voice, Lu Bin walked up to Xia Wenqiu.

The drizzle hit the umbrella surface, and the water droplets merged into a thin stream of water along the umbrella ribs.

Lu Bin raised his hand and stroked Xia Wenqiu's hair.

Then he tilted the umbrella handle and hugged Xia Wenqiu.

"You are so cruel." Lu Bin rubbed the short hair on the back of his head, "Don't give up on me so easily, okay?"

"If I can be with you, I'm not afraid of being beaten."

"In the future, I will never neglect you again. If I do something wrong, if you scold me, I will apologize to you."

"Don't want me."

Lu Bin felt the cool liquid dripping onto his neck.

He knew that his Xiaoqiu still liked him, and it was not in vain for him to save money for so long, so he secretly came to the capital to find Xia Wenqiu.

"Brother..." Xia Wenqiu choked up.

He suddenly felt that if he could be with the other party, he could bear some pressure for it.

He will also carefully protect Lu Bin and prevent others from hurting him.

"I want vanilla ice cream."

Just like what he ate in the classroom that afternoon in the third year of high school.

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