Deer in the forest

Lin Shen walked home with a large bag of food. Lu Qingchen was probably afraid that he would starve to death, so he packed several bags of fresh vegetables, pork chops, fruits and snacks, and stuffed them all for him.

Cross a road and walk a few hundred meters to his apartment.

This apartment is very new, and the security is very good. Lin Shen took out the keys while going up the stairs, and stopped in place when he saw the figure in front of the door.

Li Jibai, dressed in black, sat at the door with his legs bent, his back against the door, his arms resting on his knees, his face buried in his arms, and there was an overturned suitcase beside him.The strong smell of alcohol came to the face and permeated the corridor.Hearing the movement, he slowly raised his head, his eyes fixed on Lin Shen's face.

Li Jibai drank a lot of alcohol and easily stayed drunk, and the more he drank, the paler his complexion became, and his eyes remained steadfast.So many people don't know what his amount is.

But Lin Shen knew with just one glance that he was really drunk this time.

Li Jibai squinted his eyes and stared at Lin Shen in a daze, with emotions gradually rising in his eyes.He shook his head, his forehead twitching even more violently.He wanted to stand up, but his body couldn't control his body. He wanted to say something, but he was afraid that Lin Shen wouldn't like to hear it if he said too much.

"I'm sorry," he instinctively said three words, with a heavy nasal and hoarse voice, "I came to see you without your consent..."

Apart from sending messages on their mobile phones, they haven't looked at each other face to face for several months—even on the mobile phones, Li Jibai unilaterally "exported" them, and they didn't get any response from Lin Shen.

"Don't be afraid...don't worry, I just, just miss you so much..."

The corridor was silent, with the evening spring breeze blowing, Lin Shen could clearly hear his own heartbeat, which was entangled in Li Jibai's breath and drunkenness.

The bridge of the nose under the shadow is very straight, which sets off Li Jibai's entire face in a perfectly divided proportion, and the usually cold facial features are colored, dyed with touching sadness: "You have loved me for so long, and you have waited for so long , How did you get here? Why can't I survive after only a few months?"

"Ah Shen, you..."

Can you get closer to me, can you forgive me.

The watery light on his face revealed his embarrassment at the moment, the complete sentence, the last few words were swallowed by his breath and he couldn't speak, so he stopped trying to suppress it.Li Jibai scratched his constricted throat with his hands, tears streaming down his face silently.

Lin Shen felt that the food in his hands became heavy, and the belt hurt his palms and his whole body.

He walked over step by step, put the bag on the ground, and opened the door through Li Jibai.

There is a moving figure in front of him, a familiar smell, the hem of Lin Shen's beige sweater reveals a little with the movement, even the dark pattern on the sweater has a gentle and seductive smell, only an inch away from Li Jibai's fingers .

Actions preceded thinking, Li Jibai put his arms around his waist.

Then he folded his arms together and buried his head in the soft belly that he had been thinking about day and night.

Click, the door opened.Lin Shen's raised hand paused for a long time, and finally landed on the top of the man's head. He gently stroked his hair and said, "Get up first, let's talk in the room."

He dragged and hugged him into the house. Li Jibai was actually very drunk, and he could still maintain a little sobriety in the cold outdoors. When he entered the room, he was completely unconscious when the warm wind blew.

Lin Shen laid him down on the sofa, took off his coat and shoes, took another hot towel, and wiped his face carefully.Li Jibai looked at him with half-closed eyes, and muttered something with the corners of his lips slightly parted, but he couldn't hear clearly, so there was a bit of grievance in his dull eyes.

After being drunk, he breathed heavily on the thin skin of Lin Shen's wrist, creating a fine layer of coolness.The hand holding the towel trembled slightly, he stood up abruptly, and walked quickly to the bathroom.After washing the towel and drying it, he stood in front of the small sink in the bathroom and washed his face in cold water.

Raising his head, he saw his dodging and hesitant face in the mirror, water drops dripped from the corner of his forehead, and slid down his chin drop by drop, his face gradually overlapped with Li Jibai's tear-filled face just now.

He gave up his dignity a long time ago, and cried several times in front of Li Jibai, sad, wronged, angry, and fearful. Once the crying under various emotions opened, it would be difficult to end, as if he didn't cry every time. It was difficult to express it vividly in the last scene, and there is no other way to express it.

But he never saw Li Jibai cry.

Like a rope, his heart was tightly tightened in an instant, and bloody pieces of flesh were drawn out.Even at this moment, he was unwilling to see Li Jibai suffer what he had suffered, and he couldn't let a drunken man have nowhere to go outside.He is always soft-hearted, compromising, and step by step to leave a way out for others.

Lin Shen stayed in the bathroom for a long time, and Li Jibai had completely fallen asleep when he came out.After thinking for a while, he went to the kitchen to make another cup of honey grapefruit water, helped the man up, and fed more than half of the cup with effort, but he couldn't feed it anymore.

After tossing around for a long time, Lin Shen was also tired. He packed up the scattered bags in the living room, covered the person on the sofa with a thick blanket, and then turned off the lights and entered the bedroom.

Li Jibai woke up in the bright sky.He was tall and had long legs, and he felt uncomfortable after sleeping curled up on the sofa all night, coupled with a hangover headache, when he woke up he almost thought he had been beaten by someone.

The mind is gradually cleared up, and the memory is brought back.

Covered with a blanket, he looked around the simple and tidy living room. His coat and shoes were left by the door.He is at Lin Shen's house?He drank too much yesterday and ran over?What did he do and say?Still crying?

Yesterday's gaffe and loss of control surged up in an instant, and his head exploded with a bang.

Before he could think about how to react, the bedroom door opened.

Lin Shen obviously just woke up, wearing a light gray pajamas, with an undefended ignorance on his face.A strand of hair was sticking up, and the whole person looked blank. When he saw the person sitting in the living room, he even squinted his eyes and thought for a while.

Then, both of them froze in place awkwardly.

Lin Shen was tossed about for half the night, and he was obviously sleepy. As soon as he got out of the bedroom, he saw Li Jibai sitting there in a daze, and his brain immediately shut down.

Li Jibai had nowhere to put his hands and feet, so he said dryly, "Are you awake?"

Lin Shen looked away and replied dryly, "Oh."

Then the two went to the bathroom separately, tacitly not speaking.

"Ah Shen, can I use the bathroom?" Li Jibai looked embarrassed, seeing Lin Shen looking over in doubt, he quickly said, "I came here in a hurry yesterday, and I drank too much, I don't know where to throw the key gone."

That's what it means to be unable to go downstairs and go home.

Lin Shen nodded in acquiescence. He knew that Li Jibai had to take a bath after drinking. He slept like this because he was really drunk yesterday, but if he was not allowed to take a bath again in the morning, he would die on the spot.

Lin Shen went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast, and Lu Qingchen brought him quick-frozen dumplings last night, which can be eaten as soon as they are warmed up in the morning.The kitchen was too small, and the refrigerator was in the living room. He boiled hot water, and when he came out to get the dumplings, he found Li Jibai still hesitating at the bathroom door.

"That... I don't have a change of clothes." Li Jibai looked at Lin Shen innocently.

Lin Shen cursed inwardly, he shouldn't have let him in temporarily.But without showing it on the face, he calmly went into the bedroom to get his own set of home clothes, and a new towel by the way.

Li Jibai took it, he didn't want to show the happiness on his face too obviously, but his facial muscles were out of control, which made his complexion a bit distorted.He didn't dare to look at Lin Shen, and hurried into the bathroom.

When Lin Shen finished cooking the dumplings, Li Jibai just came out of the shower.Lin Shen's clothes were a bit small on him, but they were loose fit, so it didn't look strange.While wiping his hair with a towel, he consciously sat on the other side of the dining table.

Lin Shen endured it, the visitor was a guest, even if the two were just ordinary neighbors, he had already sat at the dining table, it would be unreasonable not to serve him some dumplings.So he put down his chopsticks, got up and went to the kitchen to fish out the remaining dumplings.

Li Jibai hurriedly got up to pick it up, but was too hasty, one finger caught on the dumpling, which made him hiss and almost dropped the plate.Lin Shen ignored him and sat down to continue eating without expression.

Li Jibai was resentful, took the chopsticks silently, and buried his head in eating.

The two finished their breakfast in silence. Lin Shen put the bowls and chopsticks into the kitchen, and after coming out, he calmly gave the eviction order to the people who were still sitting at the dining table: "Let's go after eating."

Li Jibai's eyes flashed, but he didn't get up.He was very tired, the kind of exhaustion that could not be rested. After flying over for more than ten hours, he went to the next city to participate in an event, and rushed back here overnight, just to catch a glimpse of Lin Shen.Although he was drunk to pieces, Wai Da went into someone's house right away, slept all night, took a bath and ate breakfast brazenly.

Lin Shen was willing to take him in because he was pitiful, and because of his previous face and affection, which didn't mean he could be easily forgiven.He understood all of this, but he still had unrealistic fantasies and expectations in his heart.

"I'm sorry, I drank too much yesterday, so I came up somehow and disturbed you." Li Jibai said.

"Can you..." He hesitated, his words were cautious, "Let me stay a little longer? I lost my key, and the plane back to country T at noon." There are still 3 hours until noon, and there is nowhere to go mean.

Lin Shen remained silent.

Li Jibai gritted his teeth and stood up, he knew not to rush.Seeing the obvious resistance in Lin Shen's eyes, he felt as if a piece of his heart had been taken away.

"It's okay, I'm leaving now... It's the same if I stay at the airport." He said as he walked towards the door, "Can I wear your clothes first?" He couldn't wear his dirty shirt, so he had to be cheeky Made a request.

Lin Shen lowered his eyes and said "OK".

Li Jibai immediately put on a smiling face, he knew that his Ah Shen was the softest.

He stood at the door, wearing Lin Shen's home trousers, and directly put on his own trousers. The moment he bent down, a silver chain around his neck was thrown out from the neckline, drawing a silver light.

——It was the fawn necklace that Lin Shen abandoned in the room when he fled.

Lin Shen was in a trance for a moment. He had worn this necklace for many years, and finally threw it away in that way to show his determination to completely break with the past.Unexpectedly, it is actually worn around Li Jibai's neck now.

Li Jibai obviously realized it, he straightened his waist, and tucked the necklace back into his neckline, "I've been wearing it all the time, and I hope I can give it to you again one day. If, if you are willing."

Some things can be done as soon as they are mentioned, and some things can't be rushed.

He finally got dressed, pulled the suitcase from the side, took a deep look at Lin Shen, said "goodbye" with a smile, and said, "I'll come back after I've been busy for a while."

It was not until the door was closed for a long time, and the footsteps in the corridor could no longer hear the slightest echo, that Lin Shen recovered from the posture he had been maintaining just now.