Sorry, it's a different price to be a stand-in

Lu Yunqi worked overtime in the evening, and when he arrived at the restaurant, there were no parking spaces on the side of the road, so he had to park his car across the street.

When walking towards the western restaurant, through the window, he saw Lin Zhinan sitting by the window at a glance.

As dusk fell, Lin Zhinan's face was softened by the warm lights in the western restaurant. He sank into the sofa chair relaxedly, scrolling the screen of his mobile phone boredly.

Lu Yunqi opened the door and walked in, immediately wrapped in warmth and the aroma of food,

When he entered, Lin Zhinan was still looking at his phone without looking up.

Lu Yunqi thought, Lin Zhinan was the same as before, he was concentrating on everything, even when playing with his mobile phone, he was so attentive that people couldn't bear to disturb him.

A waiter in a black vest and white shirt came over and asked Lu Yunqi if he had an appointment.

Lu Yunqi gestured towards Lin Zhinan, the waiter understood, stopped disturbing him, and silently retreated behind him.

The waiter helped to open the sofa chair, Lu Yunqi thanked him in a low voice, Lin Zhinan only then raised his head and sat up slightly.

Putting the phone upside down on the table, Lin Zhinan leaned forward, raised his chin, but did not look at Lu Yunqi, "What do you want to eat?"

Lu Yunqi glanced at the menu, and answered half-jokingly and half-seriously, "I thought you knew."

"People's tastes will always change..." Lin Zhinan didn't look like he was joking, he always reminded the time gap between the two that cannot be ignored.

Lu Yunqi hated hearing such words, he stared straight into Lin Zhinan's eyes, "I'm the same as before."

"Really?" Lin Zhinan raised his eyes, with a smile on his face, but his eyes were cold.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Zhinan ordered the combination he was most used to, "Please order a medium-rare filet, a creamy mushroom soup and a vegetable salad."

Then he turned his gaze to Lu Yunqi, "Have you thought about it?"

Lu Yunqi originally thought that Lin Zhinan would help him out, but he was still a little dazed when asked.

"...Well, it's the same as him." Lu Yunqi nodded to the waiter.

The waiter looked around the two of them and asked again, "Do you want dessert and coffee? Or... red wine?",

Lin Zhinan was fond of sweets, and used to buy some cakes and desserts for every date. Lu Yunqi remembered that he loved to eat Italian tiramisu and various hazelnut chocolate cakes, but Lin Zhinan interrupted his memory.

He smiled politely, "No, thank you."

An originally leisurely and comfortable dinner was eaten like a fast food, Lin Zhinan didn't speak, and Lu Yunqi was also silent, just bowed his head to eat, and kept stuffing it into his mouth.

So much so that when Lin Zhinan talked to him, he almost choked.

Lu Yunqi swallowed hard a few times, blushed and looked at Lin Zhinan thickly.

Lin Zhinan's words that had been brewing for a long time couldn't be serious again after Lu Yunqi's tossing, and there was a rare warmth in his eyes.

"...cough, what's the matter?" Lu Yun straightened his body and asked with a little embarrassment.

"I'm leaving." Lin Zhinan restrained his smile, and his tone was as calm as ever.

Lu Yunqi tilted his head with a dazed expression, as if he didn't hear Lin Zhinan's words clearly.

Lin Zhinan knew that it wasn't that he didn't hear clearly, but that he couldn't believe it.

He didn't mind repeating it again, so that Lu Yunqi could understand.

"Work adjustments, I was transferred to other districts, and I won't be able to come back in a short time."

After the words were settled, Lin Zhinan unconsciously held the knife and fork with his fingers, and his eyes stopped briefly on the steak. He looked up, but saw Lu Yunqi looking at him without saying a word.

The two were silent for a while, and Lin Zhinan asked again, "How is he doing?"

The two of them knew who "he" was.

He is Lin Zhinan's darling, Lu Yunqi's Bai Yueguang, and the knot that neither of them can avoid.

Lin Zhinan didn't say that he went to a nursing home in the afternoon, and Lu Yunqi didn't ask, but said flatly, "It's okay."

These two words contained a lot of content, Lin Zhinan wanted to continue asking, and heard Lu Yunqi say: "He needs you very much."

Lin Zhinan is not stupid, he can hear the partiality and favoritism in it.

He couldn't help but laugh, "But I need money, I can get a higher position by transferring to another company."

This sentence is extremely cruel and true.

"Before I was still thinking about who would take care of him after I left, but now I think I have found the right person." Lin Zhinan pinched the corner of his clothes with the hand placed underneath, looked into Lu Yunqi's eyes and continued, "Will you help me take care of him?"

Lin Zhinan said it very euphemistically, "taking care" is equivalent to divorcing Lu Yunqi, leaving this city, and living a completely different life.

Lu Yunqi suddenly clenched his fingers and then released them. Countless excuses for Lin Zhinan's stay flashed through his mind, but after considering countless times, he finally chose the safest one.

"Although your account book is ruined, you should know how much you still owe me," Lu Yunqi lowered his voice, "I still have your nude photos in my hand."

As if expecting that he would threaten himself with such a thing, Lin Zhinan calmly drank the lemonade in front of him, and crossed his legs.

This posture seems to be a professional business negotiation.

Lin Zhinan leaned back, tapped his fingers on the table, and smiled lightly, "I don't care about those photos. As for the liquidated damages, I will pay them back as soon as possible."

Up to now, he has less and less to lose. Now he only hopes that his brother can live well, and if there is a way to make him happy, he will spare no effort to fight for it.

Now, Lu Yunqi is probably the only one who can make his younger brother think about living.

"I don't have a habit of robbing my younger brother's lover, nor do I have the idea of ​​serving a husband together, and I don't want to be used as a substitute." Lin Zhinan expressed his thoughts frankly to Lu Yunqi for the first time. He said After finishing, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that the confrontation with Lu Yunqi was not as scary as he had imagined.

Seeing that Lin Zhinan was not playing petty temper but really wanted to leave, Lu Yunqi became nervous. In fact, he could easily defeat Lin Zhinan's disguised identity as long as he asked Lin Zhinan how to collect the liquidated damages, but he didn't.

He suppressed his frantically beating heart and approached Lin Zhinan, "What if I add more money?"

Rewinding the time to a few months ago, Lin Zhinan might be moved, but now his heart is covered with cobwebs and dust, and nothing can touch him anymore.

Lin Zhinan smiled calmly, "No need Mr. Lu, I'm tired."

Lin Zhinan's wish is actually very small. He hopes to have a home that can accommodate him and his brother. Later, he hopes that his brother can live well. Now, he feels that it is time for him to let go.

Now that the protagonist is on the stage, there is no need for the extras to exist.

"Xiao Ning is very satisfied. As long as you are with him, he will be happy. He is not as difficult to satisfy as I am." Lin Zhinan seemed to have planned this for a long time, then took out a document from his briefcase, and clicked Desktop, "Here are several hospitals that treat albinism better. I have researched them one by one and contacted the doctors. You can help me choose one. If possible, I will go to help you with the procedures as soon as possible."

Lu Yunqi took a deep breath, the food in front of him became no appetite, he clenched his back molars, and the hand that picked up the document trembled.

"Listen, Lin Zhinan," Lu Yunqi glanced at Lin Zhinan with his eyes flicking over the edge of the document, "I don't know what you misunderstood, but I will never let you go, you are mine, Lin Ning is my younger brother, I The line was drawn very clearly from the beginning, and I never crossed the line when I asked myself..."

Lu Yunqi's chest heaved up and down, his eyes were almost burning red with anger, and he even said "you are my man" out of nowhere.

Lin Zhinan's eyelashes trembled, and he quickly looked away, "You and I...have no trust at all from the beginning, isn't it a bit too ridiculous to talk about boundaries now?"

The past cannot be traced, but once it is brought up, it is as dazzling as ink stains thrown on a white wall.

Relationships that start with lies are never trustworthy.

Lin Zhinan was arranged by Lin Wei to be next to Lu Mingcheng. Even if he had no other choice, Lin Zhinan still felt that he had killed Lu Mingcheng. Self-blame and inferiority tortured him in turn, making him sleepless all night.

When Lu Mingcheng just passed away, Lin Zhinan always dreamed that he was standing at the door of the office looking at him with a kind smile, but he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

He didn't tell anyone about it, he just kept it in his heart as a thought in his life.

Many times, when awakened from nightmares in the middle of the night, Lin Zhinan subconsciously touches the bedside. When he finds nothing around him, he will give up on himself and think that Lu Yunqi's abandonment is punishment for lying to himself, and a hypocritical person is not worthy of being loved.

When he was studying abroad, he was distracted while flipping through the books, often thinking that it would be great if he could publish a textbook on how to love someone confidently, and he must study hard.

It's a pity that he didn't, he could only grope for it by himself, and then he was bruised all over his body, and he was in a mess.

"Actually, it's good for us to be friends." Lin Zhinan rolled his eyes, pretending to be relaxed, "Being friends doesn't necessarily mean who should be by someone's side. We can make regular phone calls, send emails, and do things that friends should do. , have independent lives from each other.”,

But Lu Yunqi thought that once Lin Zhinan was let go, he might never come back again.

Lin Zhinan has always been a cruel person to himself.

"So, you're not going to give me time to think about it, right?" Lu Yunqi regained his calm tone. He thought a lot, but the most important thing right now is not to stop Lin Zhinan, but to change his thinking about himself and the past.

Lin Zhinan sighed, "No, it will be a while before the transfer document will be issued."

But it was useless, the company wished that someone who was taken advantage of would take the initiative to go to such a place, and they would definitely agree immediately.

The two fell silent again, out of tune with the warm and harmonious environment around them.

Now that the matter has come to this point, Lin Zhinan wants to clarify all the misunderstandings, so he first mentioned the matter of the notebook.

"...During the time of the divorce just now, I really gave up on myself. I wrote down the contact information of many people after hearing Lin Wei's words, but I didn't contact them again. Later, I recorded the accounts between you and me, just to give myself a thought. .”

Speaking of "Nianxiang", Lin Zhinan himself felt that he was ridiculous, and there was a mocking smile in his words.

"Looking at those numbers every day, I feel that paying them off is motivation. Of course it's hard to understand that you haven't lived in poverty."