not in love

Loki stayed on his seat anxiously waiting for Yu Zhijuan to come back, the butter carving on his pumpkin porridge had been completely stirred into a paste.

Judging from Yu's reaction just now, isn't what he said a bit too straightforward?

Although he has stayed in Glencoe for many years, Yu is still an authentic Chinese after all. Maybe he would prefer to take steps step by step rather than directly expressing his heart?

Loki pinched the tablecloth hanging down the table in distress, reorganizing the words in his head.

After a long time, Yu Zhijuan returned to his seat with a cold face, followed by the waiter who looked exactly like Lin Xie.

"I'm really sorry, I didn't expect your buttons to be so weak."

Lin Xie apologized insincerely, Loki raised his eyes to Yu Zhijuan upon hearing this,

"As an apology, this basil cream tart is given to the two of you for free."

Lin Xie helped them put all the dishes on the table while talking, and blocked Loki's sight with his arms. It wasn't until all the dishes were served that Loki finally saw Yu Zhijuan's open neckline. The place where the buttons should have been sewn became Empty, just a little bit of thread.

"Sorry to keep you waiting,"

Yu Zhijuan gave Lin Xie a cold look, and explained to Loki,

"The waiter accidentally tore my button when he was helping me wipe off the water stain."

Improper attire when eating French food is a disrespect to the other party. There are many French restaurants that directly stipulate that people who do not wear formal clothes are not allowed to enter. Yu Zhijuan was dressed casually today, but now Lin Xie ripped off a few buttons. It seems to have added a bit of frivolity.

"It's okay, if you don't mind, why don't you put on my coat first... Um,"

Loki was about to take off his coat to Yu Zhiran, when he looked up and saw the bite mark on his collarbone, he couldn't help but froze the movements of his hands.

"Yu, you... already have a lover?"

Loki's eyelashes fluttered twice, and the shimmering light in his eyes was gradually covered with confusion.

"Have,"

Yu Zhijuan held his neckline apologetically, nodded,

"Recently getting engaged."

He doesn't have any extra feelings for Loki, not even a "brother", but just treats him as a "patient" or a student who has been enlightened.Instead of letting Loki have fantasies obsessed with him, it's better to just minimize hope.

Lin Xie, who pretended to be cleaning but was actually eavesdropping, also paused when he heard the words.

Yu Zhijuan...was she hinting at him?

"This, that's it..."

Loki bit his lips in embarrassment, wanted to smile heartily but couldn't, the forced smile mixed with the disappointment in his eyes, like a sour and astringent bitter orange stuck in his throat.

Yu must love his Omega very much.

Loki lowered his eyes.

Yu Zhiyi said that Yu arrived at the airport yesterday and came back to meet his appointment after a day off, presumably he went to meet his beloved lover as soon as he got off the plane.

"Yu's lover... No, the fiancée must be the happiest Omega in the world,"

Loki blinked, blinking back the embarrassment and frustration that was about to tilt out.

He doesn't blame anyone, if he wants to blame, he can only blame himself. He obviously met Yu so early, and he obviously could get the moon first, but the dream that made his heart beat was crushed in the snow with his own hands.

"I envy him,"

Loki sniffed, raised his head again after sorting out his emotions, the azure blue in his eyes was like a lake that had melted ice, and when the wind blew, there were waves, and tears flowed layer by layer,

"I really want to be him too. Although it's too late, I still want Yu to know that I have always...always liked Yu."

"Thank you for your love,"

Yu Zhijuan slowed down his voice,

"You are excellent, and there is no need to be depressed because of it. You deserve good people, but I don't accept interracial love, and I already have my heart."

"If only Yu wasn't so gentle with me,"

Loki smiled self-deprecatingly,

"I don't want to make it difficult for Yu, but I just think that you should at least let you know my heart for so many years, you don't have to... take my heart as a burden."

Afterwards, Loki's voice gradually trailed off.

The boy just now was at the time when he was high-spirited and arrogant. No matter how open-minded he was, no one could easily accept that the love he had carefully cherished for many years might cause trouble to the other party like garbage.

"Loki, being liked is never a burden. In the future you will receive many sincere and warm likes, and you will also have times when you need to reject others. You don't have to feel guilty about it, just like today you don't have to reflect on It’s not that you are not good enough. Because being rejected is only the beginning of a relationship, not denying that the other person deserves to be liked.”

Loki's psychological endurance is not strong, and he is far from being so cheerful and sunny on the outside. He was gloomy at home because of an accident, and he hardly wanted to have any contact with the outside world, which shows that his heart is actually more sensitive and inferior than ordinary people .

So Yu Zhijuan was very cautious when responding to him.

"I understand... I have returned to the ski field in the past few years, and every time I slide on the vast snow field, I will think a lot in my mind... Yu can rest assured that I am not as fragile as before."

Loki curled his lips, but the unwilling smile was overwhelmed by the heavy sadness in his eyes after all.

The snowball he threw at Yu Zhijuan a few years ago finally passed through the long winter and hit himself hard.

"Guest, in order to thank you for your reservation today, our restaurant specially prepared a small gift for you——"

I saw a waiter with dyed blond hair standing in front of Loki with his fists crossed,

"The gift is in the palm of my hand. Guess where it is? If you guess right, you can take it away."

Loki froze for a moment, although it was a bit embarrassing to be interrupted when he failed to express his confession, but out of politeness and self-cultivation, he still cooperated with the waiter in choosing a hand.

"Okay, you can't change it if you choose."

The blond waiter snapped his fingers and opened his palm, only to see that there was nothing inside.

"It seems that everything is not going well for me today."

Loki smiled helplessly.

"Well, that's not quite the case."

The waiter suddenly clenched his hands again. He didn't know what mechanism was hidden in his sleeves. With a light blow, a rose rose appeared in his hand.

"For you, beautiful guest."

Although it is a simple and old-fashioned little magic trick, it is difficult for people not to be in a good mood when they feel the friendliness and kindness of others. Loki took the rose and was about to give it to Yu Zhijuan, but the blond waiter stopped him. off him,

"Guest, this is your flower, everyone has their own rose."

As the waiter spoke, he conjured a flower with a lighter color from the other hand and handed it to Yu Zhijuan.

When Yu Zhijuan took the flowers, he glanced unintentionally at Lin Xie who was standing not far away.

"thanks……"

Loki smiled, relieved but still bitter.

The snowball that hit him back was slightly different from the one that Yu Zhijuan received.

At least in the warm spring months.

This lunch wasn't as embarrassing as Loki expected it to be.

The reason was probably because the blue cheese that was served with the plate of boiled mussels was so unbelievably smelly that even Yu Zhijuan couldn't help pinching his nose.

Loki's attention was temporarily diverted from the frustration of being rejected by the stinky smell until it was time to say goodbye to Yu Zhijuan after dinner.

"Is there any arrangement after Yu? Where is your hotel? Shall I drop you off?"

"I'm going straight to the airport, and Zhiyi sent someone to pick me up."

"Then... the next time we meet will probably be in Gran Sur,"

Loki bit his lip,

"Although the confession failed, I will continue to regard Yu as a brother worthy of admiration and admiration... If I don't have a competition when you get engaged, can you invite me to participate?"

"We probably won't have a ceremony..."

Yu Zhijuan paused, and finally nodded under Loki's hopeful eyes,

"If there is, I will definitely invite you."

"Thank you, Yu."

Loki originally proposed to accompany Yu Zhijuan until the car sent by Yu Zhiyi to pick him up, but Yu Zhijuan found an excuse to refuse, he couldn't resist Zhijuan, and finally had to leave first.

But he didn't say goodbye or cherish, probably because he was afraid that if he said goodbye, it would turn this into the last time they met.

Not long after Loki left, Lin Xie changed out of the waiter's clothes and naturally sat opposite Yu Zhijuan, knocking on the table in front of him,

"Teacher Yu, the person who picked you up is here."

"Why did it take so long to change clothes?"

"And went downstairs to buy something,"

Lin Xie smiled, and handed Yu Zhijuan a paper bag.

Yu Zhijuan opened it and found a beige scarf inside.

"The weather hasn't fully warmed up yet, so I'm afraid you'll catch a cold with your neck open."

Lin Xie explained.

"The sign has already been removed, and you can wear it directly."

It is convenient for Yu Zhijuan to wear it directly on the one hand, and on the other hand, I don’t want Yu Zhijuan to be unwilling to accept it after seeing the price.

Yu Zhijuan put on the scarf obediently, after all the neckline was completely torn by Lin Xie, he couldn't just go out on the street like this.

"You arranged that yellow-haired waiter?"

Yu Zhijuan clicked on the roses on the table, the outermost petals had already started to curl up and wither, it looked like they were found temporarily.

"I see Loki's momentum, if you don't find someone to make him happy, he will probably crawl into your arms and cry in the next second."

Lin Xie said indifferently.

"Now the waiters in the restaurant have to be able to do magic tricks?"

"You have to know how to sing and dance, and the catering industry is becoming more and more introverted. If Chen Hao's Mr. Chen didn't rely on gray income, he would have closed down long ago."

While talking, the two took the elevator to the underground parking lot, and Lin Xie's car was parked at the door of the elevator.

Early in the morning, Lin Xie received a call from the research institute, saying that the test results of the betel nut case came out.

Now the two of them are going to the institute to get the results.

Looking at the increasingly unfamiliar scenery on both sides of the road, Yu Zhijuan finally couldn't hold back and asked,

"I remember going to the research institute is not this direction?"

"There is still a place to go before getting the results."

"where?"

"You will know when you go."

Lin Xie blinked.

Yu Zhijuan hinted that he wanted to get engaged, so at least he had to arrange the engagement ring first, he had been unhappy with the big ugly diamond ring at home for a long time.