One of the Twelve Kingdoms

The thick gray fog made the morning in London gloomy, the pedestrians on the road cursed the slippery road and the wheels of the car drove through the splashed water, the damp and sticky air faintly carried the musty smell in the streets and alleys, People can't help speeding up their pace to avoid the damn weather.

But suddenly, the sky darkened completely, as if another planet was rapidly approaching and cast a huge black shadow. People stopped and looked up at the cramped sky and began to exclaim.

"Is there a solar eclipse today?"

Someone asked confusedly, and another replied: "The news didn't say anything, I don't even know where the sun is now."

They looked at the weird sky, and the pictures in their field of vision flickered like an old TV with poor signal, but this phenomenon disappeared soon, and the bright light broke through the dark clouds in an instant, and the sky suddenly became clear.

So people started to move again as if they had been lifted from the freeze frame, but the neon signboards that were brand new and bright a few seconds ago on the street were now covered with a layer of dust, and a few small light bulbs were not on, looking dilapidated and gray.

Joshua, Jason and Baihu landed on a beach where a carnival was taking place.

The weightless space travel made the two of them a little top-heavy when they tried it for the first time, and they almost fell to the ground when they stepped into the soft white gravel.Joshua looked left and right, and the coast was covered with colorful flags everywhere, and there were all men wearing more dazzling swimming trunks. The huge signboard with explicit shapes standing in the most conspicuous position told them the answer.

"This is the White Carnival, oh my god, I've always wanted to participate in this." Joshya whispered excitedly, but he did not forget his purpose, trying to drive those alluring bodybuilders out of his brain and focus on finding the exit , but his eyes still drifted unconsciously to the group of handsome guys who were playing beach volleyball—or, more appropriately, flirting.Suddenly Joshua opened his eyes wide and couldn't believe who he saw, then he rubbed vigorously and cried out, "Jonathan..."

"Hey, Josh!"

Joshua turned his head and saw his parents, who were also wearing fancy sunglasses and wearing funny sunglasses, walking towards him, "When did you come back? You didn't go home but came to the party first?"

"I didn't know the location was random this time," Joshya explained, and then wondered, "Why are you here... I mean, three straight guys on this Gay Day?"

"Oh, we wanted to take some pictures to send to you, you always said you have to come to this kind of occasion when you grow up, so we did it for you, honestly it's a lot of fun, full of enthusiastic young people."

Joshua rolled his eyes silently, "Okay, mom, what happened to that letter you gave me?"

"What letter?"

"Father wrote it, don't you remember?" Joshua looked at the two people with puzzled faces, and Mr. Fiennes denied it with a smile: "My pen stopped flowing six years ago."

"I'm also surprised you can still spell those awkward words, but you did write that letter and you said... oh my god..."

Joshua suddenly opened his eyes wide, and he saw that his brother, who was as straight as a British flagpole, was kissing passionately with a blond sunny boy, and stammered, "Ah, where is Anisha? She is here where?"

The sudden change of expression on his parents' faces made him realize immediately that he had asked the wrong question, and he frowned, feeling that the question seemed to be pointing to something that everyone kept secret. "Brother shouldn't treat her like this? They broke up?"

"She passed away. The place collapsed while attending the party, and several people died." The tone of Fiennes' mother was calm and sad,

"Oh... sorry." Joshua said in a daze, his impression of Anisa was still that mature and sexy girl, and now she had lost her life like a faded photo.He couldn't help lamenting the impermanence of the world: "I didn't expect such a thing to happen in just a few months."

"It was an accident, but since then Jonathan has been a little...not fond of girls, and always goes to bars to find boys."

"You should talk to him, this must have hit him hard." Joshya looked at his mother, who said helplessly, "We did it, but you know his temper, all I can do is tell him be safe."

The boy who was hugging Jonathan had a healthy, slightly reddish wheat-colored skin, beautiful muscles with youthful tension, and his extremely light hair shone like platinum.

I hate his hair color.Joshua secretly commented angrily as he walked over.

The remaining two watched him leave. Jason grinned and said to the Fiennes couple, "Hi, I'm Jason, and I'm a researcher."

"researcher?"

"Study paleontology." Jason explained.

"Probably something like a dinosaur." Jon whispered to his wife, and then asked, "Are you from there too?"

Jason waved his hand: "No, I passed by accidentally. Thanks to Josh's help, I was able to come back."

"So that's the case." The couple said clearly.

Joshya was approaching his brother with one foot deep and one shallow foot, and in a short while his unusually delicate boots were full of white sand.So Joshua took off the complicated clothes, the damp sea breeze and the pungent hormones directly stimulated his senses, and the passing boys looked at him suggestively from time to time.Joshua would definitely feel that he was in heaven if it was changed before, but the unfair God always does not leave him a chance to enjoy it.

"I have a jacuzzi in my room, how about going to try it now?" Joshya heard his brother roll his eyes at the flirting with his love interest, but to be honest, if Jonathan wasn't his own brother, he would definitely not He hesitated to go with him, and when he thought about Xiangqi who had no concept of this aspect and had the slightest idea, he couldn't help getting angry.

So Joshua unceremoniously interrupted his brother's good deeds and asked, "Brother, what are you doing?"

His elder brother raised his eyes to look at him, and saw that the younger brother who had rarely returned home did not show any welcome, his aggressive eyes implied a certain kind of impatience, he changed his usual taciturnity, and asked, "Is it the season for the king to go hunting? "

What?Joshua immediately realized that Jonathan was mocking himself, and said with a little confidence: "I'm sorry for taking so long to come back. If there is a regular flight, I will definitely be the first to buy a ticket. I am also very sad about Anisa... "

Jonathan just focused on making out with the boy as if he didn't hear him. Joshya said that watching them stop talking, he felt as if he was no different from the sand on his feet.He stood speechless for a while, then stepped forward to pull the boy away, "My brother and I have something to say, can you leave?"

Jonathan grabbed his hand and pulled the boy back, "Everything is fine, Josh, nothing to worry about." He looked into Josh's eyes convincingly, like every time they had been together as a child. Like disagreements and conflicts, Joshya surrendered first.

Until the night when Joshua talked about this incident with Casey in the bar, he still felt that it was weird, and there was so much inexplicable something wrong hidden under the normal appearance.

But Kathy dismissed his concerns: "Think about when you came out, Josh, your parents didn't make such a fuss."

"No, if it's just that, I'm not worried. I know Jonathan. I always feel that it's just a person who looks like my brother, not him."

"Time can change a lot of things, so everything makes sense when you think about it this way." Seeing his troubled look, Casey took a sip of wine and asked suddenly, "Did you come back alone?"

"There is also Baihu and another new friend, Jason. Jason will take him to find a place to live first."

"Say hello for me." Kathy drank the last sip of wine and was about to pay the bill. Joshah said strangely when she saw that she was about to leave: "You just sat down."

Kathy gave him a farewell kiss: "Not today, dear, the nanny is off today and I have to go back to see the children. I don't want to be complained by the neighbors again because of that little devil."

"What, kid? Hey, wait..." Joshua couldn't figure out what they were doing, and Kathy dodged the dancing crowd and left the bar, his doubts being drowned out by the sound of the music.

Joshua asked for another glass of wine depressed, depressed like an abandoned puppy.He was at a loss for this suddenly familiar and unfamiliar world.It's only been a few months, Joshya thought with some horror, and this place doesn't seem to belong to him anymore.

"Hi." A man filled in next to him, "I'm Alexander."

Joshua turned his head and saw a face that looked like an elite magazine cover. He thought that this person must have Latin blood, otherwise he would not have such deep facial features and jet-black hair.

"Hi, I'm Joshua." He put away the random thoughts in his mind and replied, the other party's voice was as mature and restrained as his appearance: "I don't seem to have seen you before, you are new here."

"...Yes, I just came of age." Joshya's honest look made the other party laugh: "It happens to be the age to steal the forbidden fruit, huh?"

The implication in this couldn't be more obvious, as they got closer and closer, Alexander softly invited: "Want to come home with me, Josh?"

Joshua swallowed with difficulty, then he thought of Yan Qi, shook his head and refused, "Sorry, I have a companion."

"As long as you don't tell him, he won't know." The man said, "If he cares, why does he let you drink alone here."

Does Xun Qi like him?Joshua couldn't help thinking about this question, he was just passively bound to himself and obeyed himself.What about yourself?Or maybe it's just the drawbridge effect or Stockholm, and it has nothing to do with love at all.

He seems to have suddenly understood everything, there is no need for him to restrict his freedom for Qin Qi.

"Where is your Garden of Eden?"

The author has something to say: Thank you for the book panic... mine~