After faking his death, he stopped pretending to be a substitute.

The food was very sumptuous, but they were all bought according to Song Yanxi's taste. Looking at the dishes with clear soup and lack of water, he suddenly lost the desire to eat.

Fortunately, there was a portion of pork ribs porridge, so Chu Yanyi had no choice but to pick up the pork ribs porridge and drink it silently.

"Are you feeling better?"

When he heard the man's question, he just felt that the sun was coming out of the west.

The dog man not only left work early today, but also bought food and came back. Now he is also concerned about his body. Are these abnormal behaviors compensation for him last night?

Chu Yanyi didn't think so, but felt like he was going to have his head cut off.

He pondered the answer: "It still hurts a little."

"Does it hurt in the back?"

"...My whole body hurts." Chu Yanyi raised his hand, deliberately exposing his slender wrist.

The dazzling bruises on the fair skin were accusing the instigator of the roughness last night.

Song Yanxi looked embarrassed for a moment, then lowered his voice and said, "I'll ask the family doctor to come over and take a look at you."

Chu Yanyi shook his head: "No need, I don't want others to... suspect you of domestic violence against me."

Song Yanxi coughed lightly to hide the embarrassment on his face. Seeing that Chu Yanyi was wearing the pajamas he put on after giving him a bath last night, he changed the subject: "You didn't go to work today?"

Chu Yanyi's hand holding the vegetables paused: "I'm not feeling well, so I'm asking for leave today."

Song Yanxi knew that he had made someone miserable last night, and completely forgot that he was still weak after the illness.

Last night, it wasn't because Chu Yanyi deliberately made a sound when he was talking to Bai Lian that he was cruelly teased, but because of what Chu Yanyi said in the hospital, which made him feel an unspeakable feeling. Depressed.

He said he was punishing Chu Yanyi for his transgression, but he was actually venting the suppressed anger in his heart.

She got off work early today because she wanted to tell him to leave, but now she saw that he had obvious dark circles under his eyes and his face was pale, so he swallowed the words that came to his mouth.

Seeing that he clearly had something to say, Chu Yanyi couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Song, what do you want to tell me?"

Song Yanxi looked at him deeply and shook his head.

Forget it, let's wait for a day or two before he recovers.

Chu Yanyi and Song Yanxi had never had much communication. Seeing that he was unwilling to talk, he simply looked away indifferently, lowered his head and concentrated on drinking porridge.

Song Yanxi didn't say anything anymore, and the meal was uneventful.

After eating, Chu Yanyi cleared the dining table and returned to the room.

Knowing that Song Yanxi wouldn't do anything else tonight, he went straight to bed after washing.

When I woke up naturally the next day, there was no man in the villa.

Recalling the phone call the night before, I thought that he probably accompanied Bai Lian back to high school to review their youth.

At this moment, Jinghua No. 1 Middle School.

On the leafy green paths on campus, two figures, one deep and one shallow, walked side by side.

Bai Lian wore a white turtleneck sweater, a khaki casual woolen jacket and black pants today, with a clean and gentle temperament.

Song Yanxi also rarely changed into a serious and deep suit. He paired a black turtleneck sweater with a camel mid-length casual woolen windbreaker and black trousers, giving him a calm and restrained temperament.

Both of them have outstanding looks and attracted the attention of many classmates as soon as they appeared on campus.

"Yanxi, many classmates are looking at us. What do you think they are looking at?"

"The famous genius piano prince returns to school. Naturally, they will not miss the opportunity to see his true appearance."

Bai Lian couldn't help but laugh: "They are not looking at me, but at the two of us."

"The two of us? What do I have to see?"

"Don't you think the way we dress today looks like a couple?"

When he said this, Song Yanxi realized that the two of them were dressed like a couple today.

"Although same-sex marriage is already legal, gay people are a very small minority after all. These students probably misunderstood that we were lovers, so they looked at us out of curiosity."

Song Yanxi was noncommittal, and Bai Lian changed the topic: "I haven't been here for a few years, but I didn't expect that this place would be the same as before. The vitality of this century-old camphor tree is still so strong and fresh."

He walked under the tree and said happily: "When summer comes, the tree is full of classmates taking a rest and chatting. Xiuyuan also likes to come here. He likes to drag you along every time he comes, and you every time They don’t look very good.”

There was a faint smile on the handsome and soft face of the young man, just like the ripples on the calm lake surface when the breeze blows.

Song Yanxi's eyes showed a trace of nostalgia because of his words, and then he laughed: "Yes, I remember that Xiuyuan was sad for a week after he confessed to a girl here one day and was rejected."

"Xiu Yuan still liked girls at that time, but when he got to college, he suddenly changed his sexual orientation and liked boys." Bai Lian suddenly looked at him intently, with something obvious and ambiguous in her warm apricot eyes. Love: "When I was a freshman in high school, I saw your strong figure on the basketball court, and my heartbeat would speed up inexplicably every time. That's when I realized my sexual orientation. Yanxi, when did you find out that you like boys?"

Song Yanxi was stunned for a moment, then suppressed the smile on his face and said lightly: "When I was 17 years old."

Bai Lian was stunned and asked tentatively: "Are you like me, and your heartbeat suddenly accelerated when you saw a boy?"

Song Yanxi said nothing, his eyes wandered far away, as if he was recalling something.

Bai Lian suddenly realized that she might not be his first love. He might have liked someone else when he was 17 years old, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

The two of them had their own thoughts in their minds, and no one spoke.

After the atmosphere was silent for a long time, Bai Lian sighed: "Yanxi, are you still blaming me?"

Song Yanxi turned her eyes and met his gaze. There was no emotion in her eyes: "Blame you? Why should I blame you?"

Bai Lian's voice was filled with guilt: "Back then, I accidentally discovered the existence of Dabao and Erbao and asked you, but you had no choice but to say that they were not your biological children. But because I saw that they looked like you, I didn't believe you and felt that You are lying to me, insisting on studying piano abroad."

"In these years abroad, I often wake up in the middle of the night and think of the scene three years ago when I insisted on leaving despite your efforts to stay. In fact, I regretted it not long after I went abroad. I just couldn't let go of my pride and took the initiative to contact you. you."

"Yanxi, I'm sorry! I shouldn't have doubted you back then, nor should I have been angry with you and insisted on going abroad."

"Xiao Lian, I have never blamed you." Song Yanxi said in a calm voice: "After all, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and it's not worth giving up for me. Now that you have become an internationally renowned piano prince, it just proves that your choice back then was correct."

Bai Lian's pupils shrank and her voice was hard: "Yanxi, do you think I went abroad just for that opportunity?"

Song Yanxi didn't answer, just looked at him, his dark brown pupils like brown spar, restrained and deep.

"Although that opportunity is very important to me, it is more important than you in my heart. Over the past three years, I have regretted all the time, regretting why I doubted you and wanted to be angry with you..."

"That's enough, Xiao Lian." There was no emotion in Song Yanxi's words: "Three years have passed now, and bringing up what happened three years ago means nothing to you or me."

Bai Lian's eyes dimmed and he looked lonely: "Yanxi, believe it or not, I came back to China for you. Two years ago, I heard that there was someone else around you. I was so sad that my heart almost suffocated. At first, I thought you were just playing. Wan, I didn’t expect you to keep him by your side for two years. Every time I think of someone else around you, my heart hurts so much that I can’t breathe..."

Listening to his voice that seemed to be broken, Song Yanxi's expression condensed slightly: "You don't need to pay attention to him, I have already decided to let him leave."