a man who appears once a year

What Yu Huan took Ruan Qiuping to was a Western-style restaurant with five floors. When the transparent elevator on the first floor slowly went up, Ruan Qiuping clearly felt that the number of guests in this restaurant was getting smaller and the lighting was getting better every floor. It's dark, and the decoration is more delicate than the first floor.

The elevator stopped on the fifth floor.

Ruan Qiuping got out of the elevator only to find that there were no customers on this floor, only the waiter was orderly placing dishes on a window seat.

Ruan Qiuping immediately smelled the fragrance, and ran over with a whoosh.

Although Ruan Qiuping is a god, his family has been poor since he was born. Most of the meals he eats on weekdays are vegetables grown in his own vegetable garden, or fruits picked from the back mountain, hunted pheasants, etc. , Where have I seen so many luxurious and diverse dishes.

So when he saw the table full of delicacies, although he didn't salivate, his throat still rolled twice, and he only felt that the hunger in his stomach was even worse.

Ruan Qiuping opened a chair and sat down, happily waving at Yu Huan: "Yu Huan! Come here!"

Yu Huan smiled softly, leaning on the crutch in his hand, and walked towards him step by step.

The waiters also just finished serving the dishes, and when they saw Yu Huan coming, they bowed their heads and shouted Mr. Yu well before turning around and leaving.

Looking at this scene, Ruan Qiuping picked up a prawn and stuffed it into his mouth, and said, "Yu Huan, are you the owner of this store?"

Yu Huan nodded.

"It's a good drive, it suits my appetite!" Ruan Qiuping gave him a thumbs up without hesitation.

After finishing speaking, he bit the prawn in his mouth with a bang sound.

Yu Huan smiled. He sat across from Ruan Qiuping, put on the disposable gloves beside him, picked up a prawn and peeled it: "Ruan Ruan, eat the other ones first, these prawns haven't been peeled yet."

Ruan Qiuping nodded unceremoniously, and turned to other dishes.

"By the way, Yu Huan, are you married?" Ruan Qiuping said while cutting a piece of steak vigorously.

Although there is no mention of Yu Huan's marriage in the record book, Ruan Qiuping no longer believes in the record book. Who knows if the above marriage and love situation was copied directly from the Internet, what if Yu Huan is secretly married.

The movements in Yu Huan's hands paused, he glanced at Ruan Qiuping, then lowered his head and continued to peel his shrimp: "No."

"Then have you fallen in love?" Ruan Qiuping asked again.

Yu Huan put the peeled shrimp on a plate, then handed it to Ruan Qiuping, and took away the steak that Ruan Qiuping had been cutting for a long time.

Holding the knife and fork, Yu Huan cut the steak slowly and precisely, and said, "No."

Ruan Qiuping sighed: "Then you must have been in love before."

"No."

Ruan Qiuping was shocked: "Yu Huan, you are 32 years old! How come you haven't even talked about love! Other human beings are as old as you, and they have two children!"

Yu Huan lowered his eyes, his expression didn't change much, only the movement of cutting the steak became a little slower again: "Why is Ruan Ruan always so keen on making me fall in love?"

Ruan Qiuping froze for a moment.

He used to be keen on letting Yu Huan fall in love, mainly because he wanted him to find true love in the mortal world so as to break off the engagement with Ruan Dongdong.

But some time ago, he had already thought about it, and decided not to interfere in this matter, and let everything take its course.But why did he still care so much about Yu Huan's marriage situation?

Ruan Qiuping thought about it carefully, then raised his head and said to Yu Huan: "Maybe it's because I always think that finding someone I like and being with him is a very happy thing."

Ruan Qiuping paused for a moment, then continued: "...But I am the god of mold, and this kind of happiness is destined to have nothing to do with me. I hope that at least it can make you happy."

Yu Huan's expression froze for a moment, as if he was a little surprised that Ruan Qiuping would say that.

Ruan Qiuping lowered his head and ate a shrimp, and continued: "Yu Huan, although I have never been in love, I have read many novels. The books say that people will be very sweet when they are in love. This kind of sweetness can give people courage. Soothe all sorrow and pain, even if two mice in a trash can fall in love, they will feel that they are not in a trash can, but a treasure chest."

Ruan Qiuping quickly finished eating the shrimp on the plate. He looked up at the steak that Yu Huan was cutting for him, and said, "Have you finished cutting it?"

Yu Huan handed him the plate: "It's finished."

Ruan Qiuping forked a piece of steak into his mouth, and quickly chewed it off.

He blinked, his expression seemed a bit incomprehensible: "And I read in the book that the moment people fall in love, it's like getting an electric shock. In fact, I've always been curious about the extent of this electric shock. If you get an electric shock from your fingers or your head, will you faint? But the book doesn’t make it so clear. If you ever fell in love with someone else and felt this way, you must remember to tell me.”

Yu Huan's eyes fell on Ruan Qiuping's face, and he slowly said: "Not everything in the book is correct, that kind of love like electric shock may exist, but for me, falling in love with someone is like It is to witness the growth of a tree. I remember when its seeds were planted, but I don’t know when it sprouted quietly under the ground. I know when it broke out of the ground, but I don’t know when it sprouted. Knowing when it grew inch by inch, I never deliberately recorded how much it can grow in a day, but one day I looked back and found that the tree had already towered into the sky, with luxuriant branches and leaves."

"It sounds amazing and complicated..." Ruan Qiuping blinked.

Three seconds later, his eyes suddenly widened, and the fork in his hand fell onto the plate, making a crisp sound.

Ruan Qiuping asked in shock: "Yu Huan, do you have someone you like?!!!"

Yu Huan nodded quietly.

Ruan Qiuping regained his energy immediately, and asked excitedly: "Who do you like? When did you like it? Is she beautiful? Is she good-natured? Is she cheerful? Is she gentle? Have you confessed? Why are you still not together now?" !!"

Ruan Qiuping seemed to think of something again, he leaned closer to Yu Huan, blinked, tapped his lips with his index finger, and asked maliciously, "Have you ever kissed?"

Yu Huan's eyes stayed on Ruan Qiuping's lips, and he took a long time to look away.

He lowered his eyes and took a sip from the cup in his hand.

The liquid ran down his throat, and he realized that he had taken the wrong red wine, not water.

He paused for a moment, but he didn't put the wine glass back. Instead, he closed his eyes, raised his head, and drank all the red wine in the glass.

"It seems that there is not."

Ruan Qiuping muttered softly.

He is still quite good at observing words and expressions, and seeing Yu Huan's expression, he guessed that things were not going well between Yu Huan and that girl.

He immediately regretted that he brought up this topic, which actually brought up Yu Huan's sadness.

In the second half of the meal, Ruan Qiuping ate without taste.

Perhaps the psychological effect was too strong, the expression on Yu Huan's face was obviously the same as it was at the beginning, but Ruan Qiuping just felt that there was a deep depression hidden between Yu Huan's brows.

Looking at it, Ruan Qiuping felt that his heart was also dull.

With the fork in his hand, he stabbed the salmon in front of him vigorously. He really didn't understand why some girls refused Yu Huan.

Yu Huan is such a good person, with education, appearance, personality and financial resources, no matter who he picks out, he is at the top level.

...Except...except for some leg problems, he is the only perfect talent in the world.

That girl must be blind!

Ruan Qiuping thought angrily.

Because he was really uncomfortable, Ruan Qiuping even lost his appetite to eat, so he ate casually for a while, then wiped his mouth and said, "Yu Huan, I'm full."

Yu Huan picked up the crutches beside him, stood up, and said softly, "Then let's go."

Ruan Qiuping nodded.

He stood up, and just took two steps when he was suddenly attracted by the scene outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.

Not far away, there should be a marathon being held. Dozens of contestants in uniform sportswear with number plates on their backs are running past this area in a hurry or slowly.

Ruan Qiuping was on the fifth floor. He couldn't see the expressions of the runners below clearly, but he could clearly see the tense muscles on their calves when they were running.

They ran enthusiastically, brilliantly, and vigorously, stepping on the ground one after another.

Ruan Qiuping felt that those steps seemed to be stepping on his heart.

When Yu Huan was 16 years old, he said that he liked running and often ran marathons.Yu Huan said that running makes him calm down, and he likes the moment when he sees the finish line.

Yu Huan also said that Ruan Qiuping, who appears once a year, is his finish line.

available over the past 15 years.

He neither waited until Ruan Qiuping, nor rushed to the finish line.

Ruan Qiuping suddenly felt so tight in his chest that he couldn't speak, and even the tip of his nose began to feel sore.

"Ruan Ruan, what are you looking at?" Yu Huan's voice sounded from behind.

Ruan Qiuping hurriedly turned around, and tightly blocked the floor-to-ceiling window with his back: "No...it's nothing, Yu Huan, let's...let's stay for a while, I still want...I want to eat something more."

Can't go out now.

If you go out, you will meet the group of running people.

Ruan Qiuping was so flustered that he didn't realize how wrong his expression was.

Yu Huan walked towards Ruan Qiuping step by step.

The floor-to-ceiling windows are too big, and Yu Huan is taller than Ruan Qiuping himself, so nothing can stop Ruan Qiuping.

Yu Huan saw the group of marathon runners downstairs at a glance.

Ruan Qiuping also noticed Yu Huan's gaze looking outside.

Ruan Qiuping raised his hand, covered his eyes through the air, and said hoarsely: "Don't look."

Yu Huan tilted his head slightly, and Ruan Qiuping's covering with his hands no longer worked.

"Don't look!" Ruan Qiuping shouted in a panic.

"I'm not watching." Yu Huan shifted his gaze to Ruan Qiuping's face, and said softly, "I'm not watching."

Ruan Qiuping just put down his hand, but tears fell down instantly, the tip of his nose was red, and crystal clear teardrops ran across his pale cheeks, dripping down, leaving a trail of tears.

Yu Huan suddenly realized that this seemed to be the first time Ruan Qiuping cried in front of him.

Obviously when he talked about his bad luck, he always smiled, and when he said that he never touched others, he was always casual.

But now he is crying.

Obviously the one who broke his leg was Yu Huan, and obviously the one who liked to run marathons was also Yu Huan.

But he cried as if he had been greatly wronged.

Yu Huan stretched out his hand to wipe Ruan Qiuping's tears.

But before the hand touched it, Ruan Qiuping turned his head and avoided it.

Ruan Qiuping wiped away the tears on his face and said, "Let's go."

"Ruan Ruan." Yu Huan called out in a low voice.

Ruan Qiuping looked up at him.

Yu Huan suddenly stretched out his hand, touched Ruan Qiuping's cheek, and gently stroked the place where tears had been drawn just now.

Ruan Qiuping was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized that he was going to push Yu Huan away subconsciously—but Yu Huan held his wrist tightly again.

Yu Huan took a step forward, forcing Ruan Qiuping to press his entire back against the French window.

"Yu Huan, you..."

Ruan Qiuping didn't say anything again.

Because Yu Huan closed his eyes, leaned over, and gently kissed his lips.

It was a very tender kiss.

Ruan Qiuping hadn't even touched a drop of wine, but at this moment, the mellow aroma of red wine filled his lips and teeth.

Slowly, in shock, he opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

Yu Huan let go of him, and softly answered the question he asked himself at the dinner table.

"Ruan Ruan, I've kissed you before."

"With someone I like."