The unscrupulous system forced me to frantically test the small black room

When Tao Zhi came back, several dishes were already on the table. Xu Yanze, wearing an apron, brought up the last bowl of lettuce.

Tao Zhi put on the slippers that Xu Yanze had placed at the door in advance, hung his coat on the hanger, took out an envelope from his pocket and walked to the table.

Tao Zhi handed the envelope to Xu Yanze, then sat down and started eating.

"I just glanced at the mailbox and saw a letter for you. The sender's surname is Gu."

"It's very strange. Nowadays, people have to send letters instead of calling." Tao Zhi said while chewing the braised pork.

Xu Yanze picked up the envelope, opened it and looked at the familiar invitation inside. He was silent for a long time, his expression gloomy, and he pursed his lips without saying a word.

Tao Zhi noticed Xu Yanze's strangeness and looked up.

"What's wrong? Why are you standing there like an idiot?"

"Could this letter be sent to you by your ex-lover?" Tao Zhi teased.

Xu Yanze came back to his senses, lowered his eyes, tore up the invitation letter in his hand and threw it into the trash can.

"Nothing, just an unimportant letter." Xu Yanze replied.

Tao Zhi looked at Xu Yanze's expression and felt inexplicably heavy in his heart.

Xu Yanze's expression clearly meant that it was not unimportant, but since he didn't want to mention it, Tao Zhi didn't ask.

But when he got up in the middle of the night to pee, Tao Zhi still couldn't suppress the discomfort in his heart. He tiptoed to the trash can and picked up the fragments of the invitation letter.

The next day, Tao Zhi had no classes in the morning. As soon as Xu Yanze went out, Tao Zhi, who had been pretending to be asleep, got up quickly. With his messy hair, he spent a lot of time at the table putting together the invitation letter.

There wasn't much in the invitation letter. It basically just invited Xu Yanze to study and gave him an address abroad.

Tao Zhi was a little confused, so he took a photo of the invitation letter and sent it to Tao Li.

"Brother, can you help me find out where this Mr. Gu came from?" Tao Zhi said.

"Did Xu Yanze receive Mr. Gu's invitation letter?" Tao Li asked.

"You know Mr. Gu? No, that's not right. You know Xu Yanze?" Tao Zhi replied to Tao Li's message with some guilt.

Tao Li briefly introduced to Tao Zhi "Mr. Gu", a world-shaking figure in the financial world, and used the easy-to-understand idiom "a step to heaven" to tell Tao Zhi what it meant that Xu Yanze received Mr. Gu's invitation letter.

Tao Zhi gradually became silent from his initial playful smile. He ended his conversation with Tao Li absent-mindedly, and lay on the bed with his arms and legs spread out, looking at the empty ceiling for the whole day.

Xu Yanze was a little flustered when he came back. Seeing Tao Zhi lying on the bed, he walked over worriedly and put his hand on Tao Zhi's forehead.

"You had classes this afternoon, why didn't you go to school? Are you not feeling well?" Xu Yanze asked in a gentle voice.

Tao Zhi thought he had been thinking rationally for a whole day, but when he heard Xu Yanze's gentle voice, his nose felt unbearably sour. By the time he reacted, tears were already pouring from the corners of his eyes. The outline of Xu Yanze in front of him was blurred in the mist.

Tao Zhiben still wanted to hold back and bit his lower lip in an attempt to calm down, but the sobs poured out uncontrollably from his lips and teeth.

Tao Zhi put the back of his hand over his eyes, his fingertips trembling as he cried.

Seeing Tao Zhi suddenly burst into tears, Xu Yanze was at a loss as to what to do to help Tao Zhi wipe his tears. However, Tao Zhi turned sideways and curled up, covering his face with his arms, and his crying became more and more uncontrollable.

"Taozi, what's wrong? What happened? Can you tell me?"

"Are you feeling unwell? Or has someone bullied you?"

Tao Zhi cried for a long time and refused to speak no matter how Xu Yanze asked.

Hearing Tao Zhi's hoarse voice from crying, Xu Yanze stood up to boil some hot water, but Tao Zhi grabbed his wrist.

Xu Yanze stopped, a soft light flowing in his eyes.

Tao Zhi supported himself and sat up, his head drooping, holding Xu Yanze's hand tighter and tighter.

"Xu Yanze, do you regret being with me?"

Xu Yanze's pupils constricted when he heard that, and his heart trembled.

Why do you ask this? Does he regret it? Xu Yanze felt bitter.

"I won't regret it."

Xu Yanze reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of Tao Zhi's eyes. His movements were gentle, as if he was caressing him, but his fingertips were trembling constantly, as if he was afraid that the person in front of him would say something to drive him away.

"But you'll regret it later."

"You stayed with me, gave up the best school, gave up a better future, cut off ties with your parents, and lived with me in this small house that's less than 200 square meters."

"When my dad finds out I'm gay, he will definitely stop paying for my living expenses. By then, the two of us will have no money and our lives will become even more difficult and miserable."

"You are Xu Yanze. You used to be so dazzling on the podium, but now you tolerate a willful and troublesome person like me like a nanny every day."

"I was immature before. I just felt that you could go to the same school with me and agree to live in the same room with me, which really made me very happy."

"But now I think about it, your life shouldn't be like this. You are so outstanding, you should have the best future and be in the highest position, instead of giving up everything for someone like me."

Tao Zhi was already crying uncontrollably, his shoulders shaking violently. He wiped away his tears and took out the carefully taped invitation letter from his pocket and handed it to Xu Yanze.

"You've given up a lot for me. Can you please think about yourself this time?"

Xu Yanze looked at the invitation letter in front of him and his eyes darkened.

"You know." Xu Yanze said.

Tao Zhi grabbed Xu Yanze's hand and stuffed the invitation letter into Xu Yanze's hand.

"I asked my brother, and I know that being Mr. Gu's student is a very, very impressive thing. Everyone who graduates from the apprenticeship will become an incredible person."

"Xu Yanze, go ahead."

"I will no longer selfishly hold you in my hands and only care about my own happiness. I want to see the shining Xu Xueba move up step by step, to the high platform that originally belonged to him."

Tao Zhi tried hard to force a smile, but tears flowed as he smiled and dripped from his chin.

"I will wait for you, no matter how long it takes." Tao Zhi said.

Xu Yanze felt pain in his heart, and sadness gradually welled up in his eyes.

Since arriving at the fourth world line, Xu Yanze asked Fanfan to give him the memories of the first and second world lines.

In the first world line, I went to the United States to bid farewell to my lover. When I came back, my lover was no longer the same as before.

I will never leave him again.

Xu Yanze turned around and went to the study, opened the drawer, and when he came back he stuffed a black card into Tao Zhi's hand.

Tao Zhi's mind was a little stuck.

"Why did you give me your bank card?"

Xu Yanze put his hands on Tao Zhi's shoulders and bent down slightly.

"I have money, a lot of money." Xu Yanze said.

Upon hearing this, Tao Zhi realized that Xu Yanze was answering his previous statement that he had cut off ties with his family and had no money.

"How much money can a college student like you have?"

"And the point I'm telling you now is not money, Xu Yanze. I want you to have a better future."

"I know you love me, and I know you are willing to do this for me now, but I don't want you to regret it in the future, regretting that the love-brained choice you made now has changed your life."

Tao Zhi was about to say something else, but Xu Yanze suddenly hugged Tao Zhi into his arms, and placed his large, slender fingers on Tao Zhi's head.

“I know better than anyone what kind of life I want.”

"Putting you together with any other option to form a choice question in my life is a false proposition in itself."

"When one of the options is you, it doesn't matter what the other option is."

"Because there is only one answer to my question."

"So I never felt that being with you made me give up something important, and I also knew how rational and sober every decision I made was."

"There is nothing worth pursuing. Money, power, status, reputation, these things are dispensable. Gains and losses are irrelevant."

"I will never make the choice to let you wait for me again. I will always stay within your sight and cherish every minute with you."

"So please don't push me away again."

Xu Yanze expressed his love in a gentle voice. Tao Zhi's eyes were dazed and his heartbeat was irregular. When he came to his senses, he was already lying down with Xu Yanze's arms supporting his body on both sides.

Tao Zhi looked at Xu Yanze in front of him and was a little dazed for a moment.

Since when did Xu Yanze's once thin shoulders become the broad and secure ones they are now?

The immature eyebrows and eyes have faded, and the person in front of him is a mature and steady grown man.

Xu Yanze traced the outline of Tao Zhi's ears with his fingertips and gently pushed aside the loose hair on Tao Zhi's temples. While Tao Zhi was still in a daze, he leaned over and kissed him.

Their moist breaths intertwined and lingered, their lips and teeth rolled around, their breathing was disordered and irregular, and their heartbeats were in symphony and out of control.

When their lips parted, Xu Yanze stroked Tao Zhi's moist red lower lip with his fingertips. Ripples appeared in his eyes, and love surged.

"Whether in the past, present, or future, I will always come only for you."

"Tao Zhi."

"love me Please."

"Just like you promised me."