Deer in the forest

Li Jibai did not come back alone.

Lin Shen found out later that the boy he brought back went to the west with him, and now he followed him back home, and he was also the owner of the voice he heard on the phone that day.

At the age of 20, Lin Shen was not stable enough at that time, nor could he keep everything in his heart.He was almost angry, and on the second day after that boy moved in grandly, Lin Shen knocked on the door of Li Jibai's room.

"Brother Bai, I have something to tell you." His cheeks were flushed with anger, his lips were pursed, and the stubbornness in his eyes was too obvious.Li Jibai stared at his face for a few seconds, then waved the boy to go downstairs.

The 22-year-old Li Jibai is already very rich in the city, and his emotions and anger are invisible. Some things don't need to be shared, and others will do as he wants.He took a deep breath, he still couldn't be cruel to Lin Shen.Besides, after all, it was my own fault in the first place.

"Just say what you have to say." Li Jibai sat on the sofa and motioned Lin Shen to sit across from him.

Lin Shen probably just took a shower, wearing a black pullover sweater, with wet hair scattered on his forehead, looking fragile and aggrieved.

"We..." He gritted his teeth and hit a straight ball, "Can we be together?"

Li Jibai's complexion changed slightly. He probably didn't expect Lin Shen to have the courage to say that directly, so he stood there for a while.After a while, he tried to call him in a calm tone: "Ah Shen, that night was an accident." Then he took the initiative into his own hands, "I have always regarded you as my younger brother, and I don't want to develop any other relationship."

Lin Shen raised his head, his eyes were piercing, and his face showed a rare persistence and seriousness: "Don't you like it?"

Li Jibai looked at him, his eyes were deep and bottomless.For this question, he could not give an answer.

Lin Shen couldn't wait for an answer, his eyes gradually darkened, and he asked again: "I don't like it, why do you want to go to bed?"

He lost his temper and spoke to Li Jibai in a questioning tone for the first time.

"Ah Shen, I thought I'm not here this week, so you can calm down and think about something." Li Jibai spoke with a bit of sternness when he spoke again. He couldn't be swayed by Lin Shen's emotions, and he didn't even want to refuse at that moment. He also didn't want to see his sad eyes.So he spoke very fast, as if he could change his original intention if he spoke more slowly, "You have to remember your identity, and don't say such things in the future."

"So far, it's as if it never happened."

He finally said this sentence, and after finishing speaking, he got up and walked out without staying any longer.

Lin Shen sat in his room without turning on the light, and the night fell like thick ink.He looked at the sky without a single star, and for the first time wanted to hide himself in the darkness, without seeing the light, he would not be able to discover the current embarrassment and pain.

Self-deception.

Li Jibai also had a hard time unexpectedly.

He went to the hotel and opened a room, but there was nowhere to vent his resentment and irritability. He didn't like seeing anyone or doing anything well, so he drank until he was dead drunk in the room by himself, drank when he woke up, and fell asleep after drinking.

A few days later, Li Jibai was dragged out by his friends for a drink.A lot of people came, and everyone was so excited when they got together.Li Jibai was a little absent-minded, only drinking one cup after another.

When he heard someone asking him, let your younger brother pick you up, he nodded.In the past, when I drank too much, my friends would call Lin Shen to pick me up, which is not surprising.

He said, I'll go sleep in it for a while, and let him come in when someone comes.The boy who had been with him for more than a week was also there, and when he saw this, he hurried forward to support him, pouring water and rubbing his shoulders to serve him.

The suite is very quiet, separated by Chinese-style screens, the space is open but not empty.He squinted his eyes and lay down for a while, the pain in his head was relieved, and he sat up with his body propped up.That boy was very obedient, and he looked cute. Probably Li Jibai had never spoken harshly to him, so he always thought that Li Jibai was a gentle person, so he spoke more casually.

He liked Li Jibai quite a bit, but he had no delusions about him, this kind of person was not something he could have delusions about.During the two days he lived in the villa, he witnessed Li Jibai and Lin Shen's awkwardness and embarrassment. Although he didn't know the reason, he felt that although Li Jibai looked cold, he actually cared about his younger brother very much.

"Is Ah Shen here?" Li Jibai asked suddenly.

The boy looked out, but he didn't see anyone, so he said, "I guess he didn't come."

"Do you know why we quarreled?" Li Jibai glanced behind the screen, looked away, and looked at the boy in front of him.

The boy was a little confused, although the time we spent together was very short, he knew that Li Jibai was not a talkative person, let alone talk about his personal affairs.

Although there was a question mark on his head, the boy still put on a posture of listening. Maybe the young master wanted to talk at this moment.

"He wants to be with me, like a lover." Li Jibai sneered, "It's just that he got into bed by accident, and it's starting to be unrealistic."

"Our family has trained him for many years. He can only be an assistant. At best, he is an assistant who occasionally hits a gun. It doesn't mean anything. After training for so long, he is used for work, not for bed."

The boy nodded at a loss, and responded cautiously, not seeing the figure flashing past behind the screen.

Li Jibai took a deep breath, sat there in a daze for a while, and when he looked up again, his eyes were clear and he wasn't drunk at all. "Call him in, I'm going back." He waved at the boy and ordered.

Lin Shen came in soon, and he hadn't seen him for a few days. He seemed to have lost a lot of weight. His face was originally small, but now it was almost the size of a palm.He was the same as usual, except for his pale face, there was nothing wrong with him.He stepped forward to help Li Jibai up, and asked softly, "Are you okay?"

Li Jibai nodded and stood up with his strength.When he got up, his ear brushed against Lin Shen's face, Lin Shen dodged without a trace, then lowered his head, helped Li Jibai out the door.

The two said goodbye to their friends, got in the car, and went home. Lin Shen brought him honey water to hangover, helped him lie down, and then went back to his room to sleep.

as usual.

It seems that the cold war between the two that lasted for more than two weeks did not exist.

It was as if nothing had happened between them, none of the whims of that night, none of those back-and-forth rivalries, no questioning, overstepping and impracticality, no one hiding behind a screen hearing those words with a broken heart that couldn't be picked up again stand up.

Nothing, it's like the time has been completely choked out, and they've all become masterful pretenders.

But they both know that they will never be able to return to the intimacy of the past.

Four years have passed, and Lin Shen has always remembered his identity.

After graduation, he followed Li Jibai back to Country T and officially joined Hongbai. He has outstanding ability, first-class efficiency, and a deep understanding of Li Jibai's mind. He soon became Li Jibai's special assistant, sharing a lot of Hongbai's secrets Work and become the indispensable second person of Hongbai.Li Jibai had absolute trust in him, and his subordinates even asked him about many things before deciding whether to report to Li Jibai according to the situation.

In the past four years, he has not made a single mistake. In terms of identity, work, and personal affairs, he seems to be a robot with a sophisticated brain, accurately executing every order of Li Jibai.

In the past four years, if there is any change between him and before, that is, that is, he has never called Li Jibai brother again.

The title has changed, some things have been pretended for a long time, and even he is about to believe it.

Believe nothing happened between them.

But Jiang Ning appeared again, reappearing in front of him with the unbearable testimony of the past, and mercilessly tore a hole in his impenetrable disguise, and he suddenly discovered that the old man who was shattered all over the place... The heart is still in place.

Lin Shen felt that he was hopeless.

He lay there for a while, finally pulling himself out of the memory.

Putting on his coat, he walked out of the room.The villa in the middle of the night was very quiet, I don't know what Li Jibai and Jiang Ning said after I left, it was probably coaxing people, anyway, Jiang Ning didn't continue to make trouble, and probably didn't dare to make trouble.

He walked out into the garden, where Brooke was in a deep sleep and didn't come out this time smelling him.

He sat down on the doghouse steps and put his hand gently on Brooke's head.Clusters of Fulang flowers in the garden are in full bloom, and there are other things, Lin Shen can't name them, only smell the strong fragrance of flowers.Today's wind is very warm, and the moonlight is just right, but these don't belong to him.

"Brooke, do you know?" He opened his mouth slowly, speaking slowly, "I'm so sad... I'm so jealous."