The Rationalist's Marriage

When Qiu Yuening returned home, the living room was lit, but the atmosphere was not quite right.A book fell on the floor at the corner of the coffee table, as if it was deliberately thrown here.Ding Ye sat on the carpet with his knees hugged, and didn't react much. Qiu Yuening walked over and he turned his head slowly.

Qiu Yuening put the book he picked up back on the corner table. He remembered that Ding Ye had put it here before, but for some reason he threw it on the ground.

Ding Ye looked at the novel expressionlessly, and suddenly said a few words: "I can't do it..."

"What did you say?" Qiu Yuening realized his strangeness, and sat down on the carpet, "Ding Ye, what's wrong with you?"

"I read this novel just now. The protagonist was abandoned by her parents when she was born. She has never met them, but she still wants to write a letter to her mother. I can't understand..." This is what he liked before Book (*), I didn’t pay attention to this detail at the time. Today, I turned to the last two pages and felt nauseated, “Why does she still miss that kind of person? I can’t…”

Are you thinking of alpha father?Qiu Yuening didn't think that Ding Ye would be stimulated simply by a book, maybe there were other things.

"Okay, if you can't do it, you can't do it," he rubbed Ding Ye's shoulders, "you can tell me anything else you want to say."

"Yuening," he suddenly rushed forward, his chin resting on Qiu Yuening's shoulder, "I hate him, and I will never forgive him." He didn't want Qiu Yuening to see his face, and maintained such a Posture, slowly tell about the experience of the evening.

Qiu Yuening was also shocked, "You... saw Mr. Shen again? And he—"

"I'm not his brother, I don't know that man at all," Ding Ye repeated, "I hate him."

He didn't shout, didn't cry, he just stated mechanically, but every word was chilling.Seeing that Qiu Yuening had no special reaction, he slightly distanced himself, looked directly at the other party and asked, "Did I scare you?"

Qiu Yuening pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Why did you scare me?"

"You haven't seen me like this, have you?"

"What kind of thing?" Anger, throwing books, expressing hatred...these appearing in Ding Ye's body are indeed a bit contrary, but it also shows that he is not perfect enough to be invulnerable.Qiu Yuening's hands fell on his shoulders again.

"Of course you can hate someone, there's nothing you can't say."

Qiu Yuening didn't have a similar experience, but he experienced it himself, and it was difficult for him to guarantee that he could face everything with ease.What's more, this is a part of Ding Ye, who has the most real emotions, usually without obvious expressions, but he is used to hiding them.

"I thought I was more open-minded than my dad." Before going to bed, Ding Ye leaned against Qiu Yuening, "I heard him say that those who didn't say anything were so concerned, and I was fine without that person, but really Move him out one day, thinking that he may appear in front of me at any time, I can't stand it..."

"Well," Qiu Yuening stroked his back, "then don't deal with the Shen family. If you are jealous of Mr. Shen, I can explain it to Lu Yang."

"It has nothing to do with Shen Wei," he said today, venting his anger in a way that was not very graceful, "I only hate Shen Shuyan."

That night Ding Ye said "hate" many times, and repeated a sentence over and over again, Qiu Yuening never interrupted, sometimes echoing a few sentences along the way.Until he got sleepy.Although the cloud accumulated in his heart hadn't completely dissipated, it seemed less unbearable, and he gradually lost consciousness.

The next day, Qiu Yuening was on vacation and woke up at eight o'clock. He wanted to make breakfast, but Ding Ye woke up a few minutes later.

"How about we go downstairs to eat?" Qiu Yuening suggested.

"Okay." Ding Ye's expression returned to normal, and he couldn't quite tell what unpleasant things happened yesterday.

Qiu Yuening took him to the alley where he ate suo snails last time, but this time he went to a breakfast shop and ordered a bowl of three fresh wontons and a drawer of steamed buns filled with shiitake mushrooms and meat.

The wontons burned his mouth, and Ding Ye blew patiently.

"Want to go cycling for a while?" Qiu Yuening said, "Airport Avenue is very suitable for cycling."

Ding Ye hasn't ridden a bicycle for almost ten years, and Qiu Yuening has never ridden one.He saw Qiu Yuening lowered his head to ladle the soup, looking a little ashamed to raise his head, he guessed it was to relax himself.

Sure enough, Qiu Yuening added: "I wasn't very happy before... I just went there to ride a bike, and then I felt much more comfortable."

Ding Ye turned his attention elsewhere: "Why are you unhappy?"

"Ah? It was the first two years..."

Ding Ye came to his senses because he broke up with Qi Ran more than two years ago, so he didn't force him to continue talking.

"Then we'll go after eating."

They don't have bicycles, so they look for shared bicycles along the road. There are several parking spots nearby, and it is easy to find them.

It's been a long time since I've ridden a shared bicycle, and the handlebar of the shared bicycle is very loose, and it's wobbly to ride. Ding Ye felt that he was not used to it, so he swayed left and right; Qiu Yuening was amused.

"You don't know how to ride a bicycle?" He rode to the outside of Ding Ye, the side next to the road.

"Who said that?" Ding Ye didn't dare to speed up after riding for more than ten meters, "I just haven't gotten used to it yet."

They rode two lanes and turned onto Broad Airport Drive.There is a dedicated bicycle lane on Airport Avenue, so you don’t have to worry about colliding with cars. Ding Ye gradually got used to it, and the two of them rode more smoothly.

In fact, there is still some distance between the apartment they live in and the airport, and it feels very close by car; naturally, it takes a little longer to ride a bicycle.

There are neat green belts on both sides of the avenue, and there are children flying kites in the park at the intersection.It was windy today, but it was not very strong. Generally, kites could not fly high, and an "eagle" fell to the ground before it even got up.

Then ride forward, getting closer and closer to the airport, watching the plane pass overhead, the low roar is not disturbing.Occasionally, professional riders in full armor pass by them, naturally at a much faster speed.Qiu Yuening said that these people may ride to the hill behind the airport.

They didn't ride too far, walked around the periphery of the airport, and then returned the same way.After gradually approaching the residential area, there are more shops on both sides of the road.When crossing the road, in order to avoid two large cars, the two got out of the car one after another and pushed forward.

"You're not too tired, are you?" Qiu Yuening asked.

"Of course not." After a little exercise, Ding Ye felt more at ease.

There is no bicycle lane ahead, and there are more people, so they continue to push their carts and walk.Ding Ye noticed a small shop that he hadn't seen before, selling snacks like preserved fruit.It is said to be a small shop, but in fact there is only one window, and three or five people are queuing outside.

"Huh?" Qiu Yuening followed his gaze, "Is this a new store? I haven't seen you since last week."

Ding Ye just thought of Ding Yunqian who was eating preserved fruit and talking on the phone with him, but Qiu Yuening thought he wanted to eat it, so he stopped first and said to buy some.They simply returned the car at the parking spot next to the store and planned to walk back later.

The candied fruit sold at the window was very ordinary. Even though Ding Ye didn't look like a snack lover, Qiu Yuening bought some of all kinds and shared them with him while walking.

The outer skin is a bit hard and sour to bite, Ding Ye thought, how could Ding Yunqian like to eat these.But he couldn't help but picked up another one, put it in his mouth, and slowly chewed out some other taste, sweet and bitter.

He felt itchy at the corners of his eyes, but he still smiled when Qiu Yuening glanced over.

"It's delicious," he said.

The author says:

*Ogawa Ito "Camellia Stationery Shop"