In the Same Boat

Yao Zhan is going to launch a "moisturizing everything silently" offensive against his mother, first to test his mother's acceptance of homosexuality, and then reveal his sexual orientation little by little.

Qu Yiheng was right, he had to take his time, go straight up and tell his mother that he was gay, probably the two of them would have to go to the hospital together.

His mother was angry at him, and he was beaten by his mother.

On the weekend, Yao Zhan returned home, and under the love of his mother, he ate a big meal, and was forced to describe how beautiful, temperamental, and knowledgeable his blind date was.

It's really knowledgeable and sensible, the two of them hit it off immediately when they met, made friends with each other, and went back to talk about their own love affairs.

Yao Zhan's mother was in a good mood and asked him, "When are you going to bring it back for me to see?"

"There is no sign of horoscope." Yao Zhan said, "I met a friend of mine the day before yesterday."

"Huh? Who is it?" Yao's mother successfully took the bait.

"You don't know him. He and his boyfriend are preparing to immigrate."

"Hey, where is this going to be moved? Isn't our country very good?"

Yao Zhan said, "In the Netherlands, same-sex marriage is legal there."

Mother Yao stopped talking, and after a while, brought a glass of water over and put it on the table vigorously: "Don't associate with that kind of people."

After she said this, Yao Zhan knew that the road to coming out was long and difficult.

When he came out of the house, he was in a heavy mood, and he had given Qu Yiheng his rhetoric, but in practice, it was really difficult.

Yao Zhan called Shao Wei for a drink, Shao Wei said: "You should drink with me, I have news for you."

After Qu Yiheng returned home, he really plunged into the work. He turned off his phone as usual, and only sent Yao Zhan a message every day before going to bed.

The editor asked him for help, but Qu Yiheng actually said "no". He suddenly found that it is not that difficult to reject others. Although he lost the manuscript fee, he didn't feel sorry.

Dou Yucong didn't dare to disturb him these days. When the two lived together before, he didn't catch up with his brother's creative desire/orgasm/climax. At that time, Qu Yiheng didn't even want to take a paintbrush.

He found that his brother was really handsome when he was immersed in that world. He was so handsome that many times he looked at the door with coffee, and when he remembered to drink coffee, the coffee in the cup was cold.

He occasionally secretly took a few photos and wanted to find someone to share, but he couldn't find a suitable person. He didn't have Yao Zhan's contact information.

Dou Yucong felt that it was a pity that Dr. Yao couldn't see such a good-looking Mr. Qu.

On the second Tuesday morning after Qu Yiheng came back, Dou Yucong went to work. He still went to bed in the morning, but was woken up by knocking on the door before ten o'clock.

He went over to open the door in a daze, and asked casually, "Who is there?"

The people outside didn't speak, and Qu Yiheng, who was still not clear-headed, opened the door directly, and then he regretted it.

Qu Yiheng hurriedly closed the door, but the other party had already squeezed in.

"Aheng."

"I'll call the police."

"Aheng, I'm divorced."

"Aren't you leaving?" Qu Yiheng turned around and entered the room, picking up his phone.

The man who followed him smiled helplessly: "No way, even if you call the police, the police won't care."

Without further ado, Qu Yiheng called 110.

The man didn't expect that he would call the police, so he quickly stepped forward and snatched his mobile phone.

"Aheng, I just want to say something today." The man hung up the phone, holding Qu Yiheng's cell phone in his hand, "I'm divorced, and I divorced because of you. I can't do without you, really."

"go out."

"Okay, don't be angry, I'll go now." He took two steps back, "I'll come see you tomorrow."

The man put his mobile phone on the table, and when he turned to leave, he saw the easel.

"Are you drawing again?"

"It has nothing to do with you." Qu Yiheng stood in front of his painting, "Go out."

The man smiled: "Okay, okay, don't be angry, I'm leaving, you can continue, but don't force yourself, I know, you have always resisted this."

"You know what a fart." Qu Yiheng seldom swears. He has no expression on his face, and he doesn't want to touch this man. He didn't push him, but said, "Get out."

The man wanted to hug him, but Qu Yiheng avoided him.

"Okay, I have something to do later, I happened to pass by just now, I know you live here, so I came up to say hello."

The man left, and said to him at the door: "Aheng, I miss you very much, especially when you painted pictures on me."

"Get lost." Qu Yiheng gritted his teeth, he really didn't have the slightest nostalgia for the person in front of him.

The man nodded with a smile, left, and closed the door for Qu Yiheng thoughtfully.

From the moment he left until noon, Qu Yiheng stood there motionless for over an hour.

The last time he received a call from this person, he was disgusted enough, but unexpectedly, this person found his home.

In order to avoid him, Qu Yiheng moved twice. This person is like a dog's skin plaster, and he can't get rid of it no matter what.

There were good times, as that person said, when they fell in love, what Qu Yiheng liked most was to paint on each other's body. At that time, the other party was in good shape, and only then did he have the desire/desire to create.

But looking back now, I just feel disgusted.

Qu Yiheng suddenly misses Yao Zhan very much, and indeed, when he is wronged, he especially wants to have someone to rely on.

When Dou Yucong came home, he found that something was wrong with his brother, he was not drawing, curled up on the sofa and smoked.

"It's really promising." Dou Yucong went over to take a look at the ashtray on his lap, and the ash inside had piled up into a hill.

He reached out to cut off Qu Yiheng's cigarette, stared at him for a while, and asked, "What's wrong? Brother Yao cheated?"

Qu Yiheng looked at him, "Here comes Woody."

Dou Yucong tilted his head and asked doubtfully, "Who is Woody?"

Qu Yiheng's face was ugly, he frowned, closed his eyes, and shook his head.

"Brother, are you okay?"

Dou Yucong was very afraid of his brother showing such an expression, he didn't know how to coax him.

"It's okay." Qu Yiheng buried his face in his arms, and after a while, he said, "It's okay."

People always have a little bit of fear. Qu Yiheng pretended to be calm all day long, but in fact he was never at ease.

At the beginning of the breakup, he walked very freely, because he had already prepared for it, but the other party completely exposed the ugly side of human nature after that.

When they were in love, they were always not on guard against each other, and it wasn't until they broke up that Qu Yiheng didn't know that his luo photo had already been shared in their circle of friends.

Those photos were all taken by the other party while he was asleep, and he didn't know until he saw the photos that he was like this when he was sleeping.

Qu Yiheng is a very face-saving person. After that, he cut off all the people he knew before, and always felt that he was a joke in the eyes of those people.

He didn't want to sue Woody in the past, he just hoped that this matter would pass quickly.

In the past two years, he didn't get in touch with anyone, and lived alone quietly. He thought he had escaped, but unexpectedly, the nightmare came back to find him.

In Dou Yucong's memory, his brother will always be the one who told him "it's okay" and "it's okay". When his parents died unexpectedly, he almost collapsed. It was his brother who single-handedly pulled him back and led him to live a good life.

However, the elder brother who always comforted him is now weakly saying "something".

Dou Yucong went over to hug him, and patted him on the back like his mother coaxed him when he was a child: "Brother, I'm here."

Qu Yiheng clutched his clothes tightly, and said, "I hate it so much."

Yao Zhan heard from Shao Wei that Qu Yiheng's ex-boyfriend had gone back, and it was said that he was fired because of a problem at work.

"Then your project is not affected?"

"No." Shao Wei said, "It's just that the person in charge has changed, and many things have to be re-connected."

Shao Wei drank with him and told him: "There is something I think I should tell you."

"Tell me." Yao Zhan asked, "About Yiheng?"

Shao Wei raised his hand to drink up the wine in the glass, hesitated for a while, and finally became ruthless and said.

"That man's name is Hu Di, he's not a good guy." Shao Wei said, "I didn't say that because he was Qu Yiheng's ex-boyfriend. I only knew about it from people around him. I'm not sure if it's true or not. You judge for yourself."

"Don't talk nonsense, speak quickly."

Shao Wei rubbed his face and looked at Yao Zhan: "There are a lot of bad things about Hu Di. When he divorced his wife, his wife went to his company to make a fuss, saying that he was gay and cheated on the marriage, and then divorced. He didn't avoid people anymore, and even recruited a man with an unclear relationship, and the two of them had sex in the company once, and they were bumped into by colleagues."

"Fuck, didn't you fire him? His boss is so interesting." Yao Zhan couldn't figure out how Qu Yiheng could fall in love with this kind of person.

"I don't know what's going on with his boss. Anyway, he restrained himself a little later on the surface, but he still didn't do good things in private." Shao Wei said, "What I'm going to talk about next, listen Hold on for me, calm down, you know?"

"...What do you want to say?" Yao Zhan had a bad feeling, he felt that Woody must be the scourge of Qu Yiheng.

"He has a bunch of Luo photos of Qu Yiheng in his hand, which were taken several years ago, and they are still kept." Shao Wei said, "I also showed them to my colleagues."

Yao Zhan listened and was silent for 5 minutes.

During these 5 minutes, he didn't think about anything, his mind went blank.

"Yao Zhan, the person who told me about this had a good relationship with Woody before, and Woody told him that he has been thinking about the person in the photo for so many years, and he has to go back to sleep sooner or later." Shao Wei said, "He went back, I will definitely look for Qu Yiheng, originally I shouldn't have told you about this, but I think something might happen."

Yao Zhan picked up the wine bottle at hand and drank most of the beer in one breath.

A golden transparent liquid flowed down the corner of his mouth, soaking his shirt.

Shao Wei looked at him and pushed the tissue in front of him.

"I believe that Qu Yiheng has done nothing wrong. Even though I haven't seen each other in these years and don't know each other well, I still believe him." Shao Wei said, "What about you? What are your plans?"

Yao Zhan put down the wine bottle, took out his mobile phone, and directly booked a plane ticket.

He said: "I'll go out and call my colleague, change shifts, and I'll go find him tomorrow."