Asahi

The sound of Xu Yingying's running footsteps made Chen Zhidong, who had been silent all along, show shame on his face.

But deep down in my heart, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, the scene of three people is too embarrassing, if there are only two people...

Chen Zhidong raised his eyes, and couldn't help but look at He Lianci with moist and longing eyes - He Lianci smiled amused by this look.

Because his gaze was exactly the same as that of Xu Yingying's before.

This pair of male and female friends, one "bends and becomes straight" for the other, and the other looks for help from the "ex" for the other with righteousness. It seems that the relationship is deep and righteous, but in fact the relationship is as thin as a piece of white paper.

Not interesting.

He Lianci clasped Chen Zhidong's arm and pushed back hard, and Chen Zhidong who was already leaning on him was lifted a few steps away.The other party looked over in surprise, as if puzzled.

"What's the matter..." Chen Zhidong tugged on the hem of his jacket, and he realized something in the middle of speaking: "I just now, I have already chosen you. You want me to say it?"

He looked into the eyes of He Lianci, his face was mixed with shame, and there was actually a look of dedication.

"I can break up with Yingying, then we..."

"Wait a minute." He Lianci looked at him with a strange expression: "You don't think it's true, do you?"

Chen Zhidong was taken aback for a moment, and even let go of the hand that had been holding the hem of his clothes, revealing his inappropriate parts.

"I didn't speak clearly enough when we met last time? After hearing those words, you thought I would talk to you?" He Lianci said.

"What do you mean?" Chen Zhidong's face turned blue: "Are you kidding me?"

He Lianci looked at him calmly.

Chen Zhidong subconsciously wanted to go up and grab his collar, but after walking two steps, he felt discomfort in his lower body, and stopped embarrassingly.His body trembled slightly, as if he was looking at Helianci sadly.

"So what? Playing me for fun? Are you taking revenge on me?"

He Lianci frowned, whether to retaliate or not, he remembered that they had talked about it last time.

"I know, it's my fault. So I can bear whatever you say. I still want to be with you after you said those words. It's my fault."

Chen Zhidong was still saying: "I'm the one who committed the crime! How else do you want to take revenge on me? Come all of them! Until you calm down, is that all right?"

"I said, we're done, it doesn't matter."

He Lianci opened his mouth, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out: "This time it's your girlfriend who came to provoke me, annoying."

"Oh." After He Lianci finished speaking, he changed his words with a half-smile: "Ex-girlfriend."

After hearing this, Chen Zhidong paused for two seconds, his expression worse than before: "You said that because you found Yingying annoying and wanted her to go?"

"No."

He Lianci denied it, Chen Zhidong's eyes lit up a little, and he heard him say: "It's not just her. I think you are as annoying as her, and I want you to go."

"Do you understand now?" He Lianci asked.

Chen Zhidong's mood suddenly fluctuated, and emotions such as rage, sadness, and irritability intertwined in his eyes.His body's reaction had cooled down in He Lianci's merciless words, but his whole body was still completely embarrassed in front of others.

He Lianci rejected him like this, as if there was nothing attractive about him, and this man had no nostalgia for him.

"You were not like this before." After a long while, Chen Zhidong said in a hoarse voice, "It's because of my vanity that I did something wrong, that's why you...you were very kind to me."

He Lianci smiled: "Chen Zhidong, even if there is no such thing. We are just friends with benefits. I treat you no differently than I treat others."

"I've said it many times." He said, "You are nothing to me."

It was nine o'clock, and it was getting darker.The street lights became ignorant, and the night wind was very cold.

It was so cold that Chen Zhidong shivered.

"...you are so cruel." Chen Zhidong said, his eyes were red, and his nasal voice was thick: "From the beginning to the end, I was the only one who was troubled. I was recalling the past, and I was apologizing."

"You are so cruel, Helian Temple."

He Lianci looked at him indifferently and said, "Don't bother me any more."

Chen Zhidong finally left, his not-so-sturdy body dragged a thin and long shadow under the streetlight.

He Lianci leaned over to pick up the cigarette butts on the ground, stepped forward and threw them into the trash can at the door of the dormitory building.

While he was throwing out the trash, footsteps came from behind him and stopped behind him.

Thinking that it was Chen Zhidong who had left and returned, the exhausted patience of Helian Temple became a negative number, and the displeasure clearly appeared on his face.He turned his head, with a fierce look on his eyelids, and his gaze was as cold as a knife.

The visitor was slightly startled by this stare, and quickly raised a hand: "It's not someone else, it's me."

It was Xu Chen, the senior in the same dormitory who never saw his head or tail.

He Lianci looked away and pinched the corners of his eyes.I asked a sentence senior.

Xu Chen didn't seem to take it seriously either, they greeted each other and walked into the dormitory side by side.

The school divides four-person dormitories into double dormitories and single-person dorms. The normal allocation is four-person dorms, and double and single dorms require additional fees.Due to the small number of applicants, the double dormitory and single dormitory are directly sandwiched in the dormitory building with four dormitories, and there is no separate building.

When Crane Temple applied for it, the single bedroom with the fewest number was already full, so he chose the double bedroom.

Since Xu Chen doesn't come back often, the two of them living in the same dormitory are actually not very familiar with each other, they just know each other.

They walked back to the dormitory from the entrance of the building, and they didn't speak much all the way.

Xu Chen was the first to take out the key and enter the door, and put the things in his hand on the table. He had been carrying a black plastic bag, but now that the bag was loose, it was only then that He Lianci realized that it contained wine.

Compared with the few times he got along with each other in the past, Xu Chen is indeed too quiet today.

He Lianci glanced at him and said nothing.He just took out his pajamas and gestured: "Who will wash first?"

Xu Chen sat on the chair with a calm expression, but his eyes were not focused.Hearing what He Lianci said, he asked "what?", and when He Lianci pointed to the bathroom again, he answered slowly.

"I'm not in a hurry, you wash first."

Crane Temple went to take a bath.

He didn't do much today, but it's probably because he was a little tired when he stood under the shower.

Helian Temple used to have a short cut, but now it has grown a bit longer, but that's it.When I take a shower, I flush my head, and after washing, I snort a few times with a towel and I'm done.

After he finished cleaning himself, the bathroom had been empty for a while, Xu Chen was sitting at the table drinking and didn't intend to take a shower.

He was always very quiet, and when He Lianci raised his hand to turn off the light on his side and lay down on the bed, it took a while before he spoke for the first time after returning to the dormitory.

The sound is soft and not very firm.

"Xiaohe, are you asleep?"

10:30.Not surprisingly, He Lianci turned sideways, facing Xu Chen and leaning on the raised pillow.

Xu Chen sat under the light, the light on the other side of the bedroom had been turned off, and the light was dim.The sharp facial lines of Helian Temple were softened by the dark light, and the tiredness in the corners of his eyes and brows made him look a lot closer.

He Lianci himself is not a talkative person. When he doesn't make an expression, he looks very cold and has a strong aura.They are not familiar with Xu Chen, apart from the fact that Xu Chen came back less often, one of the reasons is that Helian Temple seems not to be close.

Seeing the Helian Temple like this, Xu Chen himself relaxed a little, leaning back involuntarily.

The back of his neck touched the edge of the chair back, his head was slightly tilted back, and his eyes were vacantly looking at the monotonous fluorescent lamp on top.explain.

"I want to talk to you."

Crane Lianci half closed his eyes and hummed.

"I actually saw you very early today. When I was in the flower bed, first a girl came to you, and then a boy."

Xu Chen apologized: "I'm sorry, I just stayed by and didn't leave, I eavesdropped."

It's not considered eavesdropping, the flower bed is originally a public place.He Lianci was not angry, but he was too lazy to speak, so he didn't respond.

But in the silence, because the atmosphere was really gentle, Xu Chen also seemed to realize that he was not angry.

So he continued: "I also think that you are very cruel."

He Lianci raised his eyes.

I heard him go on to say: "...I am very envious."

"I envy you very much." Xu Chen emphasized his voice: "This is really good."

From the perspective of the Crane Temple, only Xu Chen's chin and a graceful neck can be seen.The Adam's apple rolled along with the movement of speaking, until the other party's tears dripped down the end of his eyes and reflected a glint of light under the lamp, He Lianci judged that Xu Chen was crying.

Love hurt.

"I can't do it. I can't not like it, and I can't not pursue it. In the end, I can't even part with breaking up. I'm also guilty."

He Lianci raised his hand and pressed his forehead, his voice was hoarse due to sleepiness: "That person doesn't like you? Or can't you be together?"

Xu Chen paused for a while when he heard the words, he did not expect the sensitivity of Helianci.He covered his eyes, lowered his head slowly, and said after a few seconds, "We can't be together."

"...Probably, he doesn't like me either."

His voice was also hoarse.He let go of his hand to grab the open can of wine on the table, his eyes, which were always gentle, were already red and oozing blood.

Crane Temple didn't speak.

Emotions have already been spoken, and the person who confides does not need much response.

Xu Chen drank another half bottle of wine, with pain in his eyes: "I didn't believe in love at first sight... But I fell in love with him, and it only took a few times to meet him. After that, I kept chasing him, and I was where he was. Whatever you ask me to do, I'll do my best."

"I didn't know what was wrong with me at first, but later I figured out why. But, it's useless to figure it out. He already has a family. Even if I can pass my test, the conditions are not allowed."

"I didn't plan to do anything—I don't know what I thought. Normally, I should stay away from him after I figured it out. But I am still the same as before. Then, his family had conflicts, and he Want to divorce, we..."

When Xu Chen said this, his tone became difficult, as if something was pressing him: "We are together."

"I thought they would get divorced, but now." Xu Chen said, "They reconciled, and I was the extra one from beginning to end."

What oppressed him were feelings of hopelessness and the sense of social morality that a normal person should have.

"Male?" He Lianci asked.

Xu Chen nodded silently and slowly.

"Your mentor?" He Lianci continued.

Xu Chen's body froze suddenly, and his messy brain was thinking for a few moments which sentence He Lianci guessed from, and whether it didn't matter if he guessed it, but the next moment, he just let out a sob from his throat , lying on the table.

The empty beer can was touched by his arm, jingled and fell, rolling from the table to the ground.

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