Do not lie to me

Unfounded happiness is easy to make people uneasy, like a house with an unstable infrastructure that cannot withstand a little wind and rain.Shang Xuechen looked at Ji Shuping in front of him. He used to think that he was an optimistic and free person who knew how to live with the situation, but now he realized that he was a pessimistic person. Happiness comes too easily and too much, but he was intimidated by it, because Ji Shuping He became cautious.

Ji Shuping handed him the cut steak, "What's the matter? You look bad."

Shang Xuechen forced a smile, "It's nothing. It's just strange. When I first met you, I was serving you a plate, and now we're sitting face to face."

"First time?" Ji Shuping lowered his head and smiled, "When I saw you, you were wearing a vest and looking serious."

Is he laughing at his pretense when he was a waiter?Shang Xuechen didn't understand the meaning of Ji Shuping's words, and wanted to ask him if he didn't like him at the time, or why he asked the manager to fire him at that time.He couldn't ask because the waiter who was ushering in the new guests passed them.

Shang Xuechen has good eyesight and alert body. From the corner of his eye, he saw Xu Xueshi coming in with the waiter. He lowered his head in fright, grabbed Ji Shuping's hand, and urged him in a low voice, "Quickly lower your head!"

Ji Shuping was confused by him, he just saw the person opposite was anxious, and he was nervous when he grasped his hand, so he lowered his head in cooperation with him, and then asked him, "What's wrong?"

"Hush." ​​Shang Xuechen lowered his head, glanced around, reached out and placed the flower plate used for decoration in the middle of the dining table to the side to cover his face, and then said to Ji Shuping, "Be quiet first."

He watched Xu Xueshi pass by, fortunately he didn't care about their table, but what did Xu Xueshi do here?Shang Xuechen didn't have time to think about it, and when he couldn't see Xu Xueshi's back, he pulled Ji Shuping up, "Let's go to the toilet to hide first."

Ji Shuping couldn't figure out what was going on right now that made Shang Xuechen nervous for no reason, so he followed the others and quickly dodged and hid in the toilet.

Xu Xueshi was led by the waiter, only felt that someone flashed behind him, and when he looked back, he vaguely saw the hem of his clothes flying up.He wanted to turn around and walk back to take a closer look, but the waiter leading the way reminded him, "Sir, it's here. The room is reserved for the party tonight." Xu Xueshi turned his head, and he still I have business to do, and I don't have any other thoughts to distinguish the figure that just flashed behind me. I stood in front of the door and straightened my tie. I nodded to the waiter standing by the door, and the waiter lowered his head and opened the door. .

Shang Xuechen dragged Ji Shuping into the toilet, and pushed open the doors of the toilet cubicles one by one. He was relieved to find that no one was there, and Xu Xueshi couldn't give Xu Xueshi another chance to grab their pigtails.Ji Shuping watched behind him, without saying a word, waiting for the right time for him to speak to him about the reason for the sudden change in the atmosphere.

He saw that Shang Xuechen relaxed his stiff back, as if the situation was no longer tense, and was about to open his mouth to ask, when the toilet door rang, Shang Xuechen pulled Ji Shuping into the toilet cubicle.

Shang Xuechen entered the cubicle, pushed Ji Shuping to sit on the toilet, and leaned against the door to listen to the movement outside.

"A lot of unfamiliar faces came to today's celebration party."

"We can't see through the contacts of high-class people. Old-school people don't engage in such fashionable things. Those who want to squeeze up will naturally rush over when they hear the wind, send flowers and say a few beautiful words, and circle around in the crowd Maybe there will be a chance to climb up around.”

Shang Xuechen leaned against the door and listened, heaving a sigh of relief, he wasn't from Xu Xueshi, but seemed to be a waiter in a restaurant.

"Even so, we can always recognize one or two new local tyrants. The one just now doesn't look like an ordinary person, but he doesn't look like someone who is mixed in the business world. He doesn't have that greasy energy, aura It looks a bit unapproachable to strangers, why do I feel like someone from the wrong way. You say..."

There was the sound of water behind him, and Shang Xuechen turned his head to see that it was Ji Shuping who accidentally touched the flush button of the toilet. Shang Xuechen quickly turned his head and leaned against the door to listen again.

"Why do you invite this kind of person?"

"Shh, stop talking, there are people in the toilet, let's go!"

The people outside the door were startled by Ji Shuping's carelessness, they lowered their voices and hurried out of the bathroom, Shang Xuechen overheard other people's gossip and didn't listen to the whole thing.

"If you pull me in, you'd better have a reasonable explanation. Don't tell me you just want to hear gossip."

Shang Xuechen didn't dare to look back at Ji Shuping, and touched the door in front of him back and forth, "I think the restaurant's star level should take the gossip level of the waiters into the judging reference."

Ji Shuping pulled the person onto his lap and sat down, "It's okay if there is no reasonable explanation. Give me an explanation that will make me happy."

"Happy explanation?" Shang Xuechen swallowed, he didn't even want to explain the explanation, what else could he talk about to give a happy explanation, he just made up nonsense, "I heard that this restaurant sells toilet seat cushions for customer experience. They are all replaced by massage cushions, do you feel happy while sitting?"

Ji Shuping pinched his lower back, and Shang Xuechen straightened his back, "If you said you wanted to play a different and exciting game with me on a whim, I might let you get away with it. Now you Obviously didn't scare me off."

Shang Xuechen forced himself to grin, hooked Ji Shuping's neck flatteringly, "Is it too late to fix it now?"

Ji Shuping sighed, "I'll let you go this time, can I go out and finish the tacky candlelight dinner we interrupted?"

Shang Xuechen pursed his lips, "Why don't we go back, and I can play as you please."

Ji Shuping frowned, "Can't we have a perfect date that ends well?"

The good recuperation plan arranged at the beach not long ago failed to end well, and Ji Shuping was not very satisfied with the ending of the date at the playground. Now it was their first date after they finally got together, but it still ended hastily.

Shang Xuechen had no choice but to tell him honestly, "I saw Xu Xueshi come to this restaurant just now. I just disobeyed his arrangement. How embarrassing to meet him now."

Ji Shuping saw the embarrassment on Shang Xuechen's face, and let go of him, "Forget it, let's go back."

Shang Xuechen was sitting in the car, touching the seat belt on his chest uneasily, if Ji Shuping was as angry as before, he would be so restless, if he was like now, just say to himself expressionlessly , he always felt uneasy.

Forget it, it is not considered as a considerate compromise for him, it is clearly mixed with helplessness and disappointment.Shang Xuechen was most afraid of such a cold remark, the tone of his speech was like the spilled dry ice, and the atmosphere became cold, and the feelings that had just started to heat up suddenly dropped back to freezing point.

"Ji Shuping?" He called cautiously, sorry for interrupting Ji Shuping's careful arrangement, "If you feel wronged, you can get angry with me, and I will vent your anger on you, just don't be so cold and silent."

Ji Shuping sighed, started the car, and drove out of the parking lot, "I'm not angry."

"Really?" Shang Xuechen didn't seem to believe it, and asked a few more questions to confirm, "Is it really not angry?"

Ji Shuping, who was driving the car, felt that no matter how many times he said the truth, Shang Xuechen might still not believe it, so he let out a loud breath, changed the subject and pretended to be relaxed, "I seem to like it more among those desserts." blueberry."

Shang Xuechen asked him with a smile, "It turns out that you like blueberries, and this kind of jam tastes sweet and sour. It really tastes like a child's."

Ji Shuping pulled his mind away, and opened his mouth to beg him for favors, "What about those desserts just now, the cake that gave me a bite of blueberries."

Shang Xuechen smiled, lowered his head and tightened his seat belt, "I forgot it in the restaurant."

When they came out of the toilet, he took Ji Shuping to settle the bill, regardless of the half-eaten steak, Shang Xuechen was still regretting the last dessert that was not served, his favorite chocolate cake.At this moment, Ji Shuping asked him for cakes, and he realized that he had forgotten the cakes from the cafe that he packed at the beginning in the restaurant.After ending the dinner in such a hurry, Shang Xuechen felt guilty for Ji Shuping again.

The signal light at the intersection just turned into a red light. Ji Shu stepped on the brakes and stopped at the intersection. Taking advantage of this time, he reached out and touched Shang Xuechen's cheek, "I'm not angry with you, you don't have to blame yourself all the time. .”

Shang Xuechen lowered his head, "But tell me it's okay. As soon as I heard these two words, I felt chills all over my body, as if our relationship would be knocked down so lightly, you know, we The connection between the two is so special, every time I think about it, I have no confidence."

Ji Shuping touched his face, making him raise his head to look at himself, "I know, I won't say these two words anymore. I said forget it, but I was actually trying to persuade myself not to use my own way like before. Forcing you, persuading myself to leave you room. I'm not angry with you, I'm just reflecting on myself. "

Shang Xuechen looked at him and saw Ji Shuping's slightly sad expression. It turned out that he had different considerations from his own but the same panic.Shang Xuechen raised his hand and was about to touch Ji Shuping's hand caressing his cheek, but the red light turned into a green light, and the cars behind them kept honking their horns to remind them, not giving them a gentle break.

Ji Shuping wanted to drive, so he had no choice but to withdraw his hand and step on the accelerator to drive back.Shang Xuechen sat in the co-pilot seat dully. It was his first time to manage a relationship, and it was a relationship with complicated relationships. It was much more difficult than solving math problems, because solving problems followed logic, while feelings had no logic. It all depended on them. Stubbornly identify with each other.

Back at Ji Shuping's villa, Shang Xuechen sat on the sofa in the living room and stared at the fish tank in a daze. Ji Shuping went into the kitchen silently, and after a while brought out a glass of milk and put it in Shang Xuechen's palm, "Are you tired? Go to bed early Bar."

Shang Xuechen looked down at the milk in his hand, "You still have to go to the company tomorrow, so go to bed first. I want to sit down for a while."

Ji Shuping didn't persuade him too much, he just said "don't sit for too long", and went upstairs by himself.

After Shang Xuechen and the others left, he put the milk on the coffee table and hugged the fish tank on his lap, "Little fish, I have encountered a problem."

The two goldfish wagging their tails habitually, in Shang Xuechen's view, it was a signal for him to start talking.

"I don't know what to say. I just feel that there is still a distance between me and Ji Shuping. It's not a big distance like before, but a small step that can't be explained. I have my own thoughts, and Ji Shuping has his own. , we have different thoughts, but we are all thinking of each other, so there is still a small step between us." Shang Xuechen looked down at the two fish in the fish tank, "What do you think should be done?"

The goldfish didn't answer. Goldfish live freely because they have great forgetfulness and don't have those long-term troubles, but humans are different. Humans are creatures that love to find their own troubles.

Shang Xuechen sighed, put the fish tank back on the table, and saw the glass of milk Ji Shuping poured for him.In fact, it is very difficult to communicate with each other. Shang Xuechen understands that there is no one in the world who can see through each other's abilities at a glance for no reason. The only trick is to ask directly.He and Ji Shuping had wasted a lot of time because they didn't confess to each other.

Shang Xuechen made up his mind, took a gulp of the milk on the table, wiped his mouth, got up and walked upstairs.

It's still the innermost door, it's not closed, it's the door Ji Shuping left for him.Shang Xuechen pushed open the door, took a careful look into the room, and saw a bulging bag on one side of the bed, Ji Shu was lying on his side and his back was facing the door.

Shang Xuechen wasn't sure if Ji Shuping was asleep or not, so he entered the room lightly and closed the door, walked to the bed in the dark, took off his shoes and got on the bed, and lay flat on the other side of the bed.He was afraid that Ji Shuping would fall asleep, so he pursed his lips and dared not make a sound.

While lying down and looking at the bed curtain above his head, he suddenly remembered the first time he met Ji Shuping, when he was lying on his back hooking Ji Shuping's neck, his legs wrapped around Ji Shuping's waist, all he could see when he was shaking was the bed above his head There are pieces of waves rising from the curtain.

Shang Xuechen took a deep breath, and softly called the people beside him, "Ji Shuping, are you asleep?"

No one answered, but Shang Xuechen knew that Ji Shuping was not asleep because he heard Ji Shuping's deep sigh.He turned over and hugged him tightly from behind, and asked him, "Ji Shuping, why are you introspecting? You are not wrong."

With his eyes closed, Ji Shuping touched the hand wrapped around his waist, "I have thought about what I will do if you still do not change your mind to stay in the end. After much deliberation, it seems that I can only keep you by my side That’s why I pretended to be weak, told you to let your guard down, tricked you into accompanying me to the playground, tried to soften you with sweet words, brought you back, and locked you in the attic. Since then, no one Only I know where you are. I can't think of any other way except to put you under house arrest."

Ji Shuping confessed honestly, as if he was afraid that the people behind him would regret it after hearing it, so he tightened his arms around his waist.

Shang Xuechen raised his body and rested his chin on his shoulder, "It seems like something you can do. When I saw you for the first time, I wasn't surprised that you would do these things. You pretended that I didn't Have you experienced these fringe methods of yours? I have experienced it. Do you think that I really went to the playground with you with a vacation mentality, and then came back with you unprepared? I have imagined the house arrest you mentioned. It’s just that I think there’s nothing wrong with it. In order to stay, I even imagined that I was terminally ill.”

Ji Shuping opened his eyes, "But then you decided to stay. There was no coercion or temptation, but you simply decided to stay. The reason for staying was only because of me, which made me feel affirmed. Do you know what kind of family education I have received since I was a child? They believe in the dogma that fear is more secure than love. They believe that only majesty and fear can make people fear and submit, and love is not worth mentioning. You take the initiative to leave Next, I am both grateful and touched. You made me understand the equality and respect in love. At the same time, I am moved and thankful, but I can’t help but reflect on the things I did to you before. Angry, I wanted to punish you, force you, you were in pain at that time, and later, I didn't think about you, but just forced you to defect to me secretly according to my wishes, in fact, these It's enough to be a reason for you to abandon me."

Shang Xuechen hugged him tightly, "Do you still remember when you were tied up in the basement? We pulled the hook and stamped it. I don't mind what you forced me to do. Just treat it as if I didn't do that." It’s time to punish the agreed upon things. I used to be always afraid of vacillating, I just thought you were entertaining me, now I believe that you are sincere to me, and we will treat each other well in the future, okay?”

Ji Shuping turned over and hugged him, "After you decided to stay, I swore to myself that I would treat you well. So now I often reflect on my past behavior. I didn't mean to hurt you with what I said tonight, but I reminded myself to Remember to think about you."

Shang Xuechen held him in his arms, stretched out his hand to stroke Ji Shuping's hair, "Ji Shuping, you really changed, you became gentler than anyone else."

Ji Shuping buried his face in his chest, "I just want to love you well."

It was only then that Shang Xuechen realized that the person who told him that Ji Shuping had a problem with empathy was wrong. Ji Shuping's empathy ability was not a problem at all. He just hadn't been treated well by others, so he didn't know how to treat others well.He remembered that he had ridiculed Ji Shuping with this before, and immediately felt sorry, "I'm sorry, Ji Shuping, I shouldn't have stabbed you with your empathy issue before." Shang Xuechen hugged him tightly, bowed his head and kissed him on the forehead , "You are better than anyone else."

Ji Shuping arched twice in his arms, and squeezed his legs between his legs, "If you really feel sorry, then you can coax me."

"How do you want me to coax you?"

Ji Shuping thought for a while before answering, "Tell stories. I want to hear fairy tales."

This stumped Shang Xuechen, this is not the category of random fabrications that he is good at.

Ji Shuping looked up at him, "Haven't you heard of fairy tales?"

"How is it possible." Shang Xuechen had the cheek to brag about what Ji Shuping didn't know, "I was the champion of the National Storytelling Contest for Elementary and Middle School Students back then."

Ji Shuping didn't care about the name, and buried his face, "Okay, then start talking."

Shang Xuechen swallowed twice, and pieced together the fairy tales in his impression, "A long time ago, there was a princess who was persecuted by her stepmother and saved by seven dwarfs in the forest. The seven dwarves Because she is too short and has no wife, she shared the wife Snow White."

Ji Shuping felt that something was wrong, "What you said is too adult, how can there be such a fairy tale for children?"

Shang Xuechen thought about it for a while, and felt that it was right. His father's younger brother told him this way back then, so he asked Ji Shuping confidently, "Have you ever heard of fairy tales? If you haven't, just listen to me honestly."

Ji Shuping never heard of it when he was a child, and he didn't have the confidence to argue with Monk Xuechen, so he just stayed in his arms honestly.

Shang Xuechen cleared his throat and continued, "Princess feels that although being a wife to seven people is too tiring, she spends every night very happily. Later, the prince will choose a concubine publicly. Snow White sees that the prince is in good shape, with muscular body and strong body." One piece, one person is worth more than seven dwarves, so she secretly prepared a dress for the party behind the back of the dwarf. The dwarf found that she tore her dress, touched her face black, and asked her to work and not let her go out. Princess Crying with anger, the stepmother turned into a witch. The witch cast a spell on her, making her beautiful and rushing to the prince's party. She wanted to come back before twelve o'clock. The princess rushed to the party excitedly, The prince caught her eye, and dragged her to the little black room to have a good time, but the princess got carried away and forgot the time, and left after twelve o'clock, and left a shoe for the prince without getting dressed. The witch said that the princess did not keep the promise, The voice of the princess is gone, so that she can't tell the prince that she is the one who spends the spring/night with him. The princess begs the witch to get her sweet voice back. The witch says that you can get back your voice as long as you kill the prince. .”

Ji Shuping reached into Shang Xuechen's clothes, turned over and pressed against him, "I always think you're wrong."

Shang Xuechen laughed when Ji Shuping touched the itchy spot, "Ahahaha, don't touch it...why is it wrong...hahahaha, you haven't heard of it, hahahaha...that's how it was said...ahhahaha... "

Shang Xuechen laughed until tears came out, Ji Shuping let him go and leaned on his chest, "Is this really the story?"

Shang Xuechen wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, "Really, I won't lie to you, maybe the version is different, but I was listening to this version when I was young."

"Then you continue talking."

Shang Xuechen patted Ji Shuping on the back, "It's all your fault for interrupting, I forgot what to say."

"Then you start from the beginning."

"Well, a long time ago..."