Will you return the money?

According to the usual practice, it will rain heavily on the day when the protagonist breaks up in love.

The rain that night went from drips, torrents, to torrential.

Yin Shuye came here by taxi, but walked back, holding an umbrella in his hand, like a mushroom about to mold in the rain.

After Xin Taofu hung up the phone, she paced around the room for a while, then sat down in the study, opened the mailbox and got ready for work.

At this time, the phone from Li Duyun rang.

It was really a night when the phone kept ringing—Xin Taofu thought so, connected the call, and said in a cheerful tone, "Senior Brother Li?"

Li Duyun replied, "It's me."

"What's the matter?" Xin Taofu asked.

Li Duyun only said: "I heard that you brought a male companion from Chang'an Prefecture abroad, and it's good to be by your side now."

Xin Taofu smiled, and said, "Senior Brother Li's conversation is as straightforward as before, so direct that people don't know what to say."

"Then tell me if it's true or not." Li Duyun was straightforward as always.

Xin Taofu sighed, and said, "Yes, I brought a male companion, and I have a good relationship with him."

Li Duyun was silent for a while, and then said: "So, are you in love?"

Xin Taofu was stunned for a while, and then said: "Why do you use the word 'love'?"

"Why not?" Li Duyun said, "Although it is said that this is a male companion, I don't think you are keeping him."

"Why?" Xin Taofu asked.

Li Duyun said: "Because according to your experience and personality, I don't think you would choose to treat someone you have a crush on in this way."

Xin Taofu was dumbfounded for a moment, and after a while he smiled deeply, and said, "The person I'm in love with? Senior brother is the first to say that. Everyone thinks that I don't like a male companion and only regards him as a plaything."

"You are not such a person." Li Duyun said simply and directly, "You must have taken a fancy to some of his characteristics and have a different feeling for him, so you developed a relationship with him."

Xin Taofu was speechless.

This silence should be regarded as tacit consent.

Li Duyun was still the first one to break the silence, he said steadily: "Then does he really like you? Or is it just for money?"

Xin Taofu said: "He doesn't want money."

"Ah, you don't want money but do this business, is it for fun?"

Xin Taofu: ...it seems okay to say so.

Li Duyun said quietly: "It seems that you firmly believe that he really likes you."

Xin Taofu rubbed his nose in embarrassment: He knew that in Li Duyun's eyes, he might be the one who clamored, "She/he is not out for my money, she/he really likes me, she/he is so Kind, pure, unfortunate, fallen angel with broken wings. "Kaizi.

Xin Taofu sighed in her heart, Li Duyun still understood herself quite well, but somehow misunderstood herself in some places.

Xin Taofu could only shrug her shoulders and said, "Why don't you believe it? I'm tall, rich and handsome, and it's not unusual for anyone to like me."

"That's true." Li Duyun changed the subject, "Just as long as you are happy."

Xin Taofu was stunned for a moment.

"Actually, my worry may be superfluous. You have always been sober and smart." Li Duyun said slowly, "Or maybe it's not 'worry', but 'unreconciled'."

Xin Taofu's mind was buzzing, and she didn't know what to say anymore.

Li Duyun then filled in the blanks: "Since you are satisfied, there is nothing wrong with it. Speaking of it, even a male companion is better than Yin Shuye."

Xin Taofu coughed and asked, "Why do you say that?"

Li Duyun said: "Since you separated from him back then, it proves that he is not good and not suitable for you."

Xin Taofu smiled: "Why can't it be me who is not good, I am not suitable for him?"

Li Duyun said: "You are naturally good in everything."

Xin Taofu smiled and said: "Your words are too biased. I think you have a problem with him."

"Indeed," Li Duyun said, "I never liked him."

Xin Taofu didn't have a deep talk with Li Duyun, so she said that she had something to do at work, so she hung up the phone first.

He didn't expect that the news of his finding a male partner would reach Li Duyun's ears.

"Alas." Xin Taofu stretched her waist, looked at her watch, and sighed: I am really a beautiful man with a lot of sins.

It's still raining.

Yin Shuye returned to the apartment alone, and found that the room seemed quieter than before.He turned on the Internet radio station, clicked on a Chinese song channel at random, let the singing flow, and pushed the depressive silence out of the glass window on a rainy night.

After taking off his clothes, he went to the bathroom and took a hot shower.

The warm water seems to be able to wash away the cold and damp brought by the rain along the way.

After washing up, he looked refreshed again.

Uncle Yin walked all the way to the kitchen with his slippers on, accompanied by Chinese singing from the Internet radio station, opened the refrigerator, and took out a cake from it.

Yin Shuye never liked cakes.

Except for some occasions when everyone gets to him, the only time they eat it is on birthdays.

In the past, when Mrs. Xiang was still alive, she would make him a handmade birthday cake every year.

He still remembers the taste, too sweet and too fragrant, but he has no way to dislike it.

The cake was placed on the table, while Yin Shuye picked up the cigarette lighter and inserted a candle.To say that 30 candles are inserted, this cream cake should become a dripping wax cake.

So, he simply bought a candle, just as a scene.

After all, he didn't know what the cake and candles meant.

Even he will question the meaning of the act of "birthday".

If it was not his birthday, he might not have said that sentence on Xin Taofu's birthday.

——Through this thought in his mind, Yin Shuye suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly.

This is a really unreasonable, completely boring idea.

Even if there was no such thing as a birthday, Yin Shuye would definitely make the same mistakes back then.

In the past many years, Mrs. Xiang has been a lamp in Yin Shuye's memory, but also a knife.

It's hard for him not to miss this warmth, but it's also hard not to be afraid of the illusion behind it.

During the many years he lived, no one except Mrs. Xiang really loved him, cared about him, and made him feel warm.If Mrs. Xiang is lying to him, then he is a poor person who is not loved.

However, his feelings for Mrs. Xiang are real and warm, even unique and unique.

If everything is a scam, then what he paid is the biggest joke.

Yin Shuye thinks he is very strong. He has been ridiculed, suppressed, plotted against and oppressed countless times since he was a child, and he was able to keep his signature smirk and deal with it one by one.

It wasn't until Mrs. Xiang passed away that he realized that his biggest weakness was his feelings.

On the surface, he inherited his father's ruthlessness and toughness, but inside he inherited his mother's soft heart.If he puts someone in his heart, he can't take it out again.

Even if the other party stabbed him with a knife and dug out his heart and stepped on the ground, he still couldn't bear it and let it go.

However, at that time, Yin Shuye hadn't started to worry about anyone.

At that time, an important person in the family died tragically overnight, and Yin Shuye was ordered in danger. He had worked hard for several years in the wind and rain, how could he think about this?At that time, he was waiting day by day, burning ointment and burning ointment until the situation stabilized and his position was stabilized. Only then did Yin Shuye encounter the first wind blowing after the dark clouds cleared, the first flower blooming, and the first rain falling. Snow, the first rising moon—that is, Xin Taofu.

At first, he didn't regard Xin Taofu as a "threat".In terms of "threat", Xin Taofu seems a little too cute.

Every time Yin Shuye saw him, he was in a good mood.

He seems to understand why so many people like to have a little lover by their side.

——Yes, at that time he defined Xin Taofu as "little lover".

As Yin Shuye, who has experienced life and death, he is still very wary of those around him.He and Xin Taofu met purely by chance, but he didn't fully believe in such things as "chance encounters", so he ordered his special team to investigate Xin Taofu's details.

After the investigation, Yin Shuye was calm on the surface, but actually secretly heaved a sigh of relief: Fortunately, he was not sent by others.

The team secretary said: "His family is poor, if the husband wants to help him, he will be very happy."

The team letter uses the word "help", but the implied meaning is self-evident.

Yin Shuye's thinking is roughly the same.

He'd never considered a romantic relationship - it was too dangerous.In other words, he has become a coward in this respect and dare not at all.

If it is a transaction relationship of money and goods, it will give Yin Shuye a great sense of security.

This sense of security made Yin Shuye approach Xin Taofu with confidence.

Until Xin Taofu's birthday, when Xin Taofu revealed that he wanted to fall in love, Yin Shuye's heart was immediately shocked.

He didn't seem to have thought about this possibility—maybe he deliberately refused to think about it.

However, as a "superior", he can always pack himself with arrogance with ease, and say that sentence: "Children, don't be too greedy, you can only choose one."

This is really hurtful.

After Yin Shuye said it, he knew that he might have hurt Xin Taofu severely.

Perhaps, he has a better way and better words to express, so as not to let Xin Taofu be poured cold water on his head when he is the happiest and full of anticipation-but Yin Shuye didn't do it at that time.

Because at that time, he panicked.

——In Xin Taofu's perspective, it was Mr. Yin who rarely showed surprise.

Indeed, this is extremely rare in Yin Shuye.

He couldn't hold back his signature smirk, so it was definitely a major car accident.

You know, Yin Shuye was stabbed eight times from the back and smashed a beer bottle on the head, and his signature smile will not fade.That's it.

At that time, Yin Shuye vaguely thought that although Xin Taofu was cute, she was really dangerous.

However, Yin Shuye did not intend to give up on him.

In other words, he couldn't let go.

Moreover, how harmless Xin Taofu looked!

Yin Shuye has already stood at such a high position, why should he be afraid of Xin Taofu, a "little friend"?

Perhaps such thinking can make Yin Shuye feel safe, so he has been standing on a high position overlooking Xin Taofu, seeing Xin Taofu's joys, anger, sorrows, joys and fears at a glance, so that he can feel at ease.

He had to admit that he was despicable and cowardly at the beginning, and he even had the idea of ​​completely taming Xin Taofu.Hiding Xin Taofu in the golden house, everything is under control.All the resources, wealth and even dignity that Xin Taofu has obtained come from him.And he is indifferent, petting Xin Taofu when he is good, and neglecting Xin Taofu when he is not good, pulling him away one by one, just like taming a small domestic animal.

He thought, could he not be able to surrender such a "little friend" to his dignified Uncle Yin?

It was really unstoppable.

If I want to be a Tathagata, I will be crushed under the Five Fingers Mountain.

Maybe the effect of power is really mutual. When he tries to tame Xin Taofu, Xin Taofu seems to be taming him too.

Xin Taofu's "taming" is much more secretive and cunning.His showing of weakness, his showing of favor, his tears, and his smile can actually be turned into a small leather whip on the opponent.

It became more and more difficult for Yin Shuye to leave him, therefore, when he learned about Xin Taofu's plot against him in Xiaoxiang Xiaozhu, he kept silent and pretended not to know.

He even said that after the anger of being deceived, he felt a little bit more joy in his heart: he was as willing as me to put his heart into it.

Don't care what your heart is.

Yin Shuye himself is also black-hearted.

Yin Shuye even began to think that it would be fine if he and Xin Taofu competed with each other for a long time.

However, the change came quickly.

Mr. Xiang returned with a dusty secret...

Yin Shuye's thoughts were far away, following the music on the radio, but when he heard the sound of the apartment door being unlocked, his memories stopped abruptly.

He stared at the burning candle symbolizing "30th birthday" before he suddenly remembered that he was sitting in the apartment bought by Xin Taofu in a foreign country.

Not long ago, Xin Taofu said to herself in a haughty tone, "Kids can't be greedy", and arrogantly declared the end of the game.

In this exotic role-playing game, Yin Shuye thought that even if he couldn't win, he would get some consolation prize. Who knew, Xin Taofu directly turned the gambling table over and threw the chips on his head, saying that he would not play if he didn't want to play.

Yin Shuye was sitting in front of the cake, but he heard the sound of the apartment door opening—his heart skipped a beat.

Only he and Xin Taofu have the key to the apartment.

So say...

Yin Shuye turned his head to look, and saw Xin Taofu walking in with a cake box in one hand and roses in the other.

Yin Shuye almost thought he was hallucinating.

But Xin Taofu got closer and closer, and there was still the smell of rain on her body, which was very real.

Yin Shuye stood up and said, "Are you here?"

Xin Taofu smiled: "You don't think I will forget your birthday, do you?"

Yin Shuye was stunned for a short while, and immediately came back to his senses, waking up: What is Xin Taofu doing.Yin Shuye understood with just one glance.

In Yin Shuye's eyes, the cake held by Xin Taofu was not like a cake, but rather like a witch's poisoned apple. The bunch of roses were as red as the poisonous poison.

Neither of them spoke, and the silence made the Chinese song on the radio even louder:

"The games are all finished early in the morning, we celebrate when we win, and quit when we lose.

Come on, kill as you want, don't be soft-hearted..."

The author says:

The last paragraph is the lyrics, from "One Thousand and One (Miriam Yeung)"