On the night when Jian Yao and Huo Yan were honest, Huo Yan didn't go into the bedroom, but slept on the sofa in the living room.

Only Jian Yao lay in bed with insomnia until midnight, the red wine did not make him fall asleep faster, but made his brain ache.

He didn't know what time he fell asleep. The last time he looked at his phone, it was already 03:30 in the morning.

In the early morning of the next day, Jian Yao got up and looked in the mirror, and found that his eyes were swollen and his face was fatter than usual. The edema made him lose energy no matter how he looked. He took care of himself in the bathroom of the master bedroom and stood at the door of the room. He took a deep breath before pushing the door open.

The house is very quiet, Jian Yao is standing in the corridor leading to the living room, there is no familiar person on the sofa.

Instead, the smell of breakfast came from the dining room.

Jian Yao's cell phone rang a text message notification tone, and he looked at the cell phone.

[Huo Yan: I went to the company. I have two meetings to attend today. I have prepared breakfast for you. See you in the evening. ]

Jian Yao looked at the dining table. On the dining table were hot milk, sandwiches, and a hard-boiled egg, which was just enough for him alone.

He sat at the table, suddenly felt something strange on his face, Jian Yao reached out to touch it, only to find that the corner of his mouth was hooked up.

He was laughing, but he didn't realize it.

Jian Yao immediately froze, and finished the breakfast Huo Yan prepared for him expressionlessly.

Today is the day when the military training officially starts, so Jian Yao is completely free now. He didn't go to the freshman party last night, neither attended the dinner nor sang K with his classmates.

Because he didn't talk much in the group, no one in the class group asked him where he was going.

Jian Yao didn't know what to do after breakfast.

Movies can't be picked out, and books can't be read. No matter novels or masterpieces, the eyes can't focus as soon as they fixate on the words.

He was holding the mobile phone, but the mobile phone became an ornament at this moment.

At ten o'clock in the morning, his cell phone finally rang.

Jian Yao quickly picked up the phone, and when he saw the caller ID, Jian Yao was inexplicably disappointed.

He looked at the name on the caller ID, and after thinking for a few seconds, he finally remembered who the caller was——Dong Xiang, his close friend in junior high school and his former neighbor, they had known each other since they were wearing crotch pants.

It's just that the two have no similarities. Jian Yao has been obedient and sensible since childhood, while Dong Xiang is like a child with ADHD. When he never stops, Jian Yao gets good grades, while Dong Xiang always hovers in the bottom ten.

But Dong Xiang's family conditions are better. His family runs a chain hotel. After Jian Yao moved to a small county, Dong Xiang's family also moved to the villa area.

Dong Xiang also called when Jian Yao was hospitalized, but the two of them had nothing to talk about, and even recalled the past without emotional fluctuations.

Jian Yao has no hope for these early friends.

When he picked up the phone, he was ready for the other party to ask him to borrow money.

He said he was asking him to borrow money, but everyone who borrowed money aimed at Huo Yan.

"Hello." Jian Yao lay on the sofa, looking at the chandelier above his head.

Dong Xiang's voice changed a lot, deep and full of magnetism, with a smile in his voice: "I heard that you moved to the community next to X University? You didn't inform us. I asked my aunt. You didn't go to the military training. Let's go upstairs."

Jian Yao sat up: "You came to see me?"

Dong Xiang: "It just so happens that I have nothing to do these two days. I am at the gate of your community. Come down quickly and take you to a good place."

Jian Yao asked strangely: "What good place?"

Dong Xiang's tone was very familiar, as if they hadn't seen each other for many years, but just separated yesterday, he said with a smile: "You will know when you come down."

Maybe it was because he was too idle, or maybe he realized that he had no friends anymore, but Jian Yao finally decided to go downstairs.

Even if you don't follow Dong Xiang to the "good place", at least you can chat and connect with each other.

Jian Yao felt that his current state was not good, not because of his physical state, but because of his friendship state. Apart from Huo Yan, he no longer had any friends who could tell the truth—not even superficial friends who would blow rainbow farts to each other.

Sometimes Jian Yao wonders that he is not a shy and introverted person. In reality, although he is alienated from his friends because he has to work to earn money, it does not mean that he is not popular. He is actually very good at dealing with strangers. , no social phobia at all.

When he was working in the summer vacation, he stood in the square wearing a doll suit, and he could pose for photos with people in various poses.

He has a good relationship with the team leader, and he will be missed by any part-time job with a high salary.

Even flattering, he is proficient.

No matter what time, he can mingle with the people around him. Even if he is wearing a book, he had a good relationship with the classmates in the class in the first year of high school. No matter what activities, the classmates are willing to call him.

But after waking up, he found himself isolated from the world, he had no way to make new friends, old friends had their own thoughts, it seemed that there was a wall trapped him in a small world.

There are only him, Huo Yan, and his family in this world.

It made him feel safe, but at the same time it made him a little flustered.

There is even a sense of powerlessness.

Jian Yao can't say exactly what it feels like, but he really needs to go out and get in touch with new people and things.

He tidied himself up and changed a set of clothes before going downstairs.

As soon as he walked to the entrance of the community, he saw a black car with double flashing lights. Before he could get close, the person sitting in the driver's seat rolled down the window. One of them was wearing sunglasses, which made Jian Yao A face that felt strange but somewhat familiar appeared in his sight.

Dong Xiang took off his sunglasses and shouted at him: "Here! Get in the car!"

When Jian Yao crossed the street, he glanced behind him, his eyes fell on the people who were waiting for the green light with him, they were all young and strong men, they were talking and laughing, as if something good had happened.

He looked away and walked across the sidewalk.

He had seen these people. When Luo Shi had a showdown with him in the car, these people were beside him. One of them was vomiting with a hooked nose, and the others were taking care of him.

Thinking of Luo Shi's showdown with him, Huo Yan received the news.

No matter how stupid Jian Yao is, he now knows what they are doing.

Jian Yao pursed his lips.

He didn't feel displeased at being watched - he hadn't thought of this level yet, what he could think of was how dangerous Huo Yan was sitting in his current seat, the assassination and poisoning that had happened in the shopping malls, Will he go after Huo Yan?

But soon Jian Yao began to comfort himself, Huo Yan even arranged bodyguards for him, he should be safer, right?

When Jian Yao was about to get into the car, those people had already walked to the side road, and they seemed to be waiting for him to leave, and they would also drive to keep up.

"I haven't seen you for so long, I feel like you haven't changed much." Dong Xiang turned around and looked at Jian Yao's face, "The last time I saw you was in the hospital, when you were skinny and out of shape, I didn't expect to recover In the future, I will still look like a high school student."

Dong Xiang is not ugly, but he can’t be considered handsome either. He has a popular face, a letter A face, a nose that is neither slumped nor high, and a pair of small eyes with single eyelids. It’s just because there is a mole under the eye and he is very fashionable, so he can barely do it. Called a handsome guy.

He has changed a lot.

Jian Yao smiled: "I remember you used to have a round face."

Dong Xiang: "I was fat back then. I only got a stroke when I was in high school. When I was in college, I joined the school swimming team. I won't brag to you. The girls who chased me lined up from the school gate to the football field."

He started the car after bragging: "Where do you think I'm going to take you?"

Jian Yao guessed out of face: "Our alma mater?"

Dong Xiang asked in surprise: "Why do you go there? Our teachers are retired and we have no acquaintances. Should we take pictures?"

Jian Yao: "Then where are you going?"

Dong Xiang said whizzingly: "Secret, you will know when the time comes."

Jian Yao relaxed on the back of the chair, and he regained the feeling of getting along with Dong Xiang in his memory. The strangeness at first meeting disappeared without a trace, and he guessed again: "What secret? Could it be Do you want to have a party and gather all the people you used to relate to?"

Dong Xiang glanced at Jian Yao through the rearview mirror, and asked in surprise, "How do you know?!"

Jian Yao: "...I guess, so nothing new?"

Dong Xiang: "...Is this not innovative enough? You don't know how long I contacted them in advance, so that they can spare time today."

Jian Yao smiled, and suddenly asked: "The last time they called me was two weeks ago."

He didn't tell Dong Xiang the content of the phone call. The former good friend Yiyi called to borrow money. Telling such things would only increase embarrassment.

Jian Yao didn't know why this group of people didn't ask Dong Xiang to borrow money, after all, Dong Xiang was the serious second generation rich man.

"Is your family okay now?" Jian Yao asked.

Dong Xiang's tone was natural: "You don't know? A few years ago, the hotel was not profitable. My dad sold almost all of the family property. Although he is not as rich as before, he still can't starve to death. It's okay."

Jian Yao let out a "huh" and didn't know whether he should comfort him or not, but Dong Xiang comforted him: "You don't have to worry about me, I have a house anyway, don't underestimate it, the location is good, how many people pay for it?" The money of the elders in the empty family can't afford it, so I have it without paying anything, and now I still have a car, and my life is pretty good."

"By the way, you have a good relationship with Huo Yan?" Dong Xiang's voice suddenly became quieter, and became a little cautious.

Jian Yao's originally excited mood weakened in an instant, and he looked out of the window as if discouraged, feeling very complicated in his heart.

It turned out that Dong Xiang also came for Huo Yan.

He might not have been a friend to them long ago.

It's the ladder close to Huo Yan.

Dong Xiang was looking at the car, he couldn't see Jian Yao's face, and he didn't notice that Jian Yao's voice suddenly disappeared, but continued: "I don't have anything to do now, my father means to let me find someone by myself. Work, work for a while, accumulate some experience and connections, and raise some money to open a studio for me."

"If you have a good relationship with Huo Yan, can you ask me if their group is still recruiting this year? If so, I will apply for it."

"Don't worry, I won't let you go through the back door for me."

Jian Yao opened the car window to let the wind from outside the car blow in, and he said softly, "You didn't talk like you used to do now."

Dong Xiang didn't hear clearly: "What?!"

Jian Yao smiled self-deprecatingly, he was being passionate again, but he couldn't control his anger: "I'm going to say hello to Huo Yan? Will the group notify the external recruitment official website, there is no need to ask."

"You asked me to say hello, didn't you just want Huo Yan to know that there is someone like you?"

Jian Yao didn't save him face: "Put me down at the intersection ahead, I'll take a taxi back by myself."

Dong Xiang was silent for a few seconds, and then explained anxiously: "That's not what I meant! Oh, don't think of me so badly, you still don't understand me?"

Jian Yao: "I don't understand, even if I knew it before, I don't understand it now."

"Excuse me, stop at the intersection ahead."

Dong Xiang took a deep breath: "Jian Yao, why do you have such a temper now? Can you stop being so conspiratorial? And even if I want to follow your path to join the Zhou Group, is there a problem? Aren't we friends?"

Jian Yao looked at Dong Xiang's side face with a completely unfamiliar gaze, and he pursed his lips: "Before you tested me, I regarded you as a friend, but now I don't."

Dong Xiang: "Jian Yao! Did you take gunpowder? If I say it casually, you won't let me go?"

Jian Yao suppressed his anger and said calmly, "Stop."

The car just reached the intersection, Dong Xiang gritted his teeth, and finally stopped the car.

He came to connect with Jian Yao, not to offend anyone.

But he didn't unlock the car. Instead, after the car stopped, he turned his head to look into Jian Yao's eyes, and said sincerely: "I really just asked casually. I know that after you and Huo Yan have a good relationship, many People want to have a relationship with you, but don't look at me like that, how many years have we been in love?"

But Jian Yao asked: "Have you discussed it with them? If I go with you today, will you pressure me together and kidnap me with your previous feelings, so that I have to talk to Huo Yan about this matter?" thing?"

"Why do you insist on staring at Huo Yan? There are so many companies, so many enterprises, where can't you go if you have the ability?"

Dong Xiang bit his lower lip, he asked: "Let me just ask you, do you still regard us as friends?"

Jian Yao: "What should I do to treat you as friends?"

"What did you do to treat me as a friend? How many times did you visit me during the seven years I was in a coma? After I was discharged from the hospital, each of you called me at most once, either asking me to borrow money, or Let me introduce the work."

Jian Yao: "Open the car door."

Dong Xiang laughed back angrily: "Is that how you see us?"

Jian Yao also laughed: "You're playing tricks when the villain sues first."

Dong Xiang: "Jian Yao, do you understand what position you are in now? There are so many people around Huo Yan, but his attitude towards you is completely different from that of others. It is normal for others to flatter you. This is your position." H."

"In the future, more people will show their loyalty to you, but if you mention one thing, one position, it is impossible for you to disagree with Huo Yan."

"When we join the Zhou Group, you will graduate in the future..."

Jian Yao looked at Dong Xiang, the Dong Xiang in his memory couldn't say such philistine words, and didn't have such shrewd eyes.

"What's more, you and Huo Yan are both men." Dong Xiang moved with emotion and reason, "You won't last long, a person of his status can't be gay all the time, and one day he will get married and have children. What do you have when you lose time? A breakup fee? Youth compensation?"

"But as long as you put people in the Zhou Group, it will be different." Dong Xiang, "The more people you have, the more executives you will become. Huo Yan has to weigh it if he wants to break up with you."

"Now you see that he treats you well, everyone is a man, who doesn't know who, the gods will get tired of watching one day."

Jian Yao: "Stop it, what do you mean being gay?"

Dong Xiang smiled: "It's this age, we don't discriminate, and you don't have to hide it from me. If it's just an ordinary friend, he will stay with you for seven years? Find you a school? Buy you a house?"

Jian Yao laughed angrily: "You mean he is keeping|raising me?"

Dong Xiang didn't say a word, but Jian Yao knew that the other party thought and treated him that way.

In their eyes, he is like the little secretary next to a rich man. The relationship is short-lived, but the benefits can be easily reaped.

For the first time, Jian Yao knew that he had become so unbearable in the eyes of his former friends.

Jian Yao's anger finally couldn't be suppressed: "Do you think everyone is as dirty as you think? Just because he is the president and I am a student? Even if I am really in a relationship with him, it is not because of his money!"

Dong Xiang: "Yes, you are not taking his money."

Jian Yao took a deep breath, his voice was so cold for the first time: "Open the car door, don't make me say it again."

Seeing that Jian Yao was really angry, Dong Xiang said in a panic, "Are you really angry? Isn't it? You're so stingy? Even if I'm wrong, you don't need to be so angry."

"We didn't look down on you. Huo Yan is handsome, rich and powerful. Even if he takes care of you, it's no big deal. The goal of so many female stars is to marry into a wealthy family. They are also rich, isn't it just for the sake of being strong?" A strong alliance?" Dong Xiang started talking incoherently.

He took the initiative to find Jian Yao after discussing with his friends, just to bring Jian Yao to the party, let everyone recall the past together, talk about what they have experienced, and wait until the emotional connection is almost the same, then talk to Jane Yao made a request.

They all know Jian Yao's temper. Jian Yao is a person who attaches great importance to emotions. It is difficult for him to say no to the eager expectations of everyone.

In the end, he slipped his mouth and messed up the arrangement for this period of time.

Jian Yao looked at Dong Xiang even more strangely.

Dong Xiang knew that he had offended Jian Yao, so he didn't dare not to unlock it, so he could only eagerly say after unlocking it: "Think about what I said makes sense? You are young and good-looking now, and it's okay to follow him." , how many more years will it take?"

"The money will run out one day, but if you arrange us in, you will get more benefits in the future."

"You are no longer a child, you should grow up and think about your future."

Jian Yao opened the car door, and he stepped out of the car with one leg. Before leaving, he turned his head and gave Dong Xiang a last look, with strong disgust in his tone: "Enough, I will call all your numbers when I go back. Hei, don't contact me in the future."

"You guys make me sick."

He didn't look at Dong Xiang's face, and closed the car door with his backhand.

Dong Xiang chased him out of the car, he grabbed Jian Yao's wrist, his facial features were distorted by tension, and his face was grim: "We are really thinking about you! Do you think we are doing it for our own benefit? Just like you said , I have the ability, why can't I enter a good company?"

Jian Yao shook off Dong Xiang's hand vigorously, rejection was written on every inch of his body.

Before Dong Xiang could make another move, several bodyguards who were waiting at the side had already greeted them. Dong Xiang thought they were passers-by, but when they were walking, they were stopped by these men who were a head taller than him down.

The leading man smiled and said, "Mr. Dong, Mr. Jian doesn't want to talk to you right now."

"If you have anything, why don't I call Mr. Huo now, and you tell him in person?"

Dong Xiang swallowed his saliva, rubbed his hands, subconsciously showed a flattering smile, and stepped back, he said cautiously: "It's nothing, I just have some conflicts with Xiaoyao, you talk to you, I I'm leaving."

He got back into the car, and as if someone was chasing him, he quickly started the car and drove away from the intersection.

Jian Yao was standing by the side of the road, he felt that he was now an exploding | fruit, if any sparks were given to him, he would immediately explode | exploding.

That's how other people saw him.

All the old friends saw him that way, but what about the others?

Jian Yao smiled, but the most ridiculous thing was that he couldn't find anyone to complain if he wanted to complain. It was impossible for him to tell Jian Anzhi about this kind of thing, and he didn't have the face to tell Zhou Mei and the others. After much deliberation, only Huo Yan could be his confidant.

"You guys came here by car?" Jian Yao said to the headed bodyguard, "Can you give me a ride?"

The bodyguard seemed to have a natural smiling face. He was smiling when talking to Dong Xiang, and also smiling when talking to Jian Yao: "Of course, where does Mr. Jian want to go?"

Jian Yao: "Is Huo Yan in a meeting now?"

Bodyguard: "The meeting should be over at this point, and there is another meeting in the afternoon. Mr. Huo should be free now."

Jian Yao nodded slightly: "Then take me to the company, thank you."

The bodyguard smiled and opened the car door.

Jian Yao leaned against the car window, no matter how the scenery outside changed, he just found it boring.

In the world Huo Yan built for him, he has a family who loves him, and new college classmates who don't know him well, and he can live in a clean environment.

He wanted to go out by himself, but he met Dong Xiang at the first stop.

The other party showed him all the dirty rumors and assumptions.

In their eyes, he is unequal to Huo Yan, so their feelings cannot be equal.

They are certainly not the only ones who think so.

At this moment, Jian Yao suddenly realized how well Huo Yan had protected him all along.

He has never seen a paparazzi, and there are no rumors about himself and Huo Yan on the Internet - there may be, but he hasn't found any.

Huo Yan built an ivory tower for him.

Outside the ivory tower is a modern jungle constructed of reinforced concrete.

In this ivory tower, Huo Yan is Jian Yao's only friend.

The only person who can listen to his thoughts and care about him.

He always thought that Huo Yan had no friends.

So did he.

Unconsciously, only each other is left in their world.

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