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In July, Zhu Shen's class at Ling Xiao's studio has ended, but he still leaves early and returns late every day.

In fact, it might not be right to say that he left early and returned late, he just left work later than Zhong Heng, and returned home earlier than Zhong Heng.One day's whereabouts were mysterious, and he kept silent when asked.

"Anyway, you will know." The voice was drawn out, as if being coquettish, and the small hand was gently hooked around Zhong Heng's neck. Zhong Heng had nothing to do with him, so he let him go.

This is the hottest time of the year in Yancheng, and the wind blowing on the face is full of heat waves.

If it was the past, Zhu Shen would never go out in such weather, but it is different now.

—— Zhong Heng's birthday is coming soon.

He just hoped that on their first birthday together, Zhong Heng would be happier.

Aunt Fang said that when Zhong Heng was at Zhong's house, no one celebrated his birthday.

It was just an ordinary sentence, but it pierced Zhu Shen's heart solidly.

"There will be in the future." Zhu Shen said.

Every year.

He didn't feel how hot it was, as if his heart was hotter than the floating heat wave, Zhu Shen just left from the mounting shop, and then went to Fengji Dessert Shop non-stop.

The surprise he prepared for Zhong Heng, one is not enough.

When the store door was opened, a gust of air-conditioning rushed towards him, which immediately relieved the heat from Zhu Shen's body.Zhu took a deep breath and bent his eyes, as if he was saved.

The proprietress smiled and said to Zhu Shen: "Today seems to be a little earlier than before."

Zhu Shen washed his hands, quickly tied up his apron, and blinked lightly: "Zhong Heng already knows that I'm going out."

"Then the surprise is gone?"

While cracking two eggs in the bowl, Zhu Shen shook his head and said, "He didn't know I was coming here, and I didn't allow him to ask any further questions, so he had to tell me to go home early at night."

"Then he really didn't ask?"

Zhu Shen nodded, poured various food ingredients into the stainless steel bowl, and stirred carefully and skillfully: "Yes."

He knew Zhong Heng's, that boring gourd, even though he would have a lot of doubts in his heart, as long as he saw that he didn't want to say it, he would never ask again.

I don't know if this is good or not.

"That's it." The proprietress sat in front of him with her head propped up, and couldn't help laughing when she saw the noble young master Zhu washing his hands and making soup.

Who would have thought that the young master Zhu couldn't even crack eggs half a month ago.

The first time I cracked an egg was in her shop. When I knocked hard against the rim of the bowl, the egg shell immediately fell apart, and a pool of egg liquid fell limply on the table. It seemed that I couldn't bear to look directly at it.

Zhu Shen frowned, shook his hands covered with light yellow egg liquid, and whispered, "It's sticky."

The proprietress was out of breath laughing.

But after Zhu Shen baked the cake continuously for more than a week, she finally couldn't sit still, and discussed with him heartbroken: "It's really not possible. On Ah Heng's birthday, I will help you make the cake embryo. You can spread the cream and decorate it. Alright."

"No." Zhu Shen refused resolutely, "Since it's my heart, how can I give it to someone else."

The proprietress was startled, then looked at Zhu Shen's hand that was accidentally burned red by the oven, and sighed.

So God is still fair. If someone is given the talent to draw, his talent for baking will inevitably be confiscated.

But later, the cake embryo that Zhu Shen baked finally looked decent, although the taste was still hard to describe, at least it was a good start.

It’s also good that Zhu Shen didn’t eat the cake that Zhong Heng specially prepared for him during the wedding, but on Zhong Heng’s birthday, he was able to eat the cake that Zhu Shen baked for him by himself.

Seeing Zhu Shen's concentration, she suddenly remembered a lot of past events.

At that time, Zhong Heng would be the first customer of her dessert shop every day.Sometimes just after dawn, before she even opened the shop, Zhong Heng would already be standing outside the store on his bicycle.

Cheesecakes always sell well, and he fears he won't be able to get them.

When she was packing the box, she occasionally noticed that Zhong Heng, who was sitting in the corner, would take out a palm-sized piece of red paper from his school uniform pocket, pursed his lips, and folded it seriously.

That is a red heart.

He is not good at words, as if he poured all his likes into his fingertips, into paper, into that little red heart day after day.

"Zhong Heng..." Put the mold into the oven, and while waiting, Zhu Shen gently opened his mouth: "Has he used to come here often?"

The proprietress glanced at Zhu Shen unexpectedly, but smiled: "Yes."

"Then what was he like before?"

The proprietress thought for a while and said, "Actually, it's not too different from now, but he was much less talkative then than now."

Zhu Shen raised the corners of her lips, wanting to know.

"Although he doesn't like to talk, it can be seen that he is actually holding back his energy." The proprietress said: "Some people don't know until they get closer. It turns out that their hearts are so hot."

Zhu Shen looked at the proprietress and smiled softly, "Yes."

"Aheng has given my son extra lessons, and my son has always taken Ah Heng as a role model. I also use this to encourage him to be admitted to Y University like Ah Heng."

"Did he get into Y University later?"

"Where can it be?" The proprietress got a headache when she mentioned this: "That bastard, he is good all the time and doesn't learn from bad ones. Ah Heng took the first place in the grade every time and didn't see him learn. He is good, but he just learned from Ah Heng and others. During the fight, one front tooth was knocked out, and the air leaked out when speaking."

The speaker had no intention, but the listener had intentions, Zhu Shen was suddenly taken aback.

That's right, Zhong Heng and Bo Liang had a fierce fight in the third year of high school, for which Zhong Heng was fined by Zhong Yun and banned for a month, and Bo Liang also had serious injuries on his face.

When we met that day, Song Shan asked him: "Who do you think he is fighting for?"

Zhu Shen suddenly fell into a long silence.

It's ridiculous to say it, he doesn't even know why he wants to meet Song Shan, it's just because she said that she knows all about Zhong Heng's past, and he is so jealous.

"Master Zhu must have the answer in his heart." Song Shan said to him, "After all, Jiang Yi and Senior Bo Liang had just been together at that time."

Zhu Shen raised his head instantly, as if there was something in his mind.

"At that time in school, everyone's small groups were clearly divided. Oh, you naturally don't care about this, because as long as you stretch out your hand, everyone will surround you, but Senior Zhong Heng is different." Coffee, Song Shan raised her eyes and smiled slightly at Zhu Shen: "Jiang Yi is also different."

"They have similar backgrounds, so I often see the two of them talking together. It's not an exaggeration to say that they keep each other warm." Song Shan looked at Zhu Shen with a smile: "You seem surprised? Could it be that the senior didn't Did he tell you? But he must have his reasons for hiding it from you."

Zhu Shen asked her expressionlessly: "Why did you tell me this?"

Song Shan shook her head and said to him: "I don't do anything. It's just that maybe you should know that when you thought he was inconspicuous, there were people who took him to heart. Not everyone is what you call Come and go."

Zhu Shen's pupils suddenly enlarged, but Song Shan put down the cup, smiled, then leaned away and left.

Pearl-like clues are strung together one by one...

Zhu Shen couldn't help thinking of the email he accidentally saw that night. The congenital heart expert in country A said that he had failed Zhong Heng's trust for so many years, and suddenly he felt a little flustered.

Something seemed to be approaching him overwhelmingly, and those clueless things automatically lined up into his mind.

No wonder.Every time Zhong Heng saw Bao Liang, his expression was always unnatural, as if he was nervous, and as if he was trying his best to endure something.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help shivering, his joints creaked, and the blood flowing in his body seemed to be frozen into ice.

but……

Why Jiang Yi?

Zhu Shen squatted down slowly.

"Young Master Zhu, Young Master Zhu, what's wrong with you?" Seeing this, the proprietress turned pale with shock.

"I'm fine." Zhu Shen leaned against the cabinet, waved his hands, and smiled abruptly.

How much coldness and bitterness is mixed in the smile, only he knows.

He seemed to be nailed to this corner, and the icy water poured down his head for nine days, but he couldn't dodge it in time, so he could only bear it dumbfounded.

It's ridiculous, I didn't expect that after so many years, he still couldn't avoid Jiang Yi's circle.

So how does Zhong Heng see him?

Perhaps in his eyes, he is just a man who somewhat resembles Jiang Yi.

So when Zhong Heng said his name in a low voice at night, who would he be thinking about?

Zhu Shen rubbed his head in pain, not daring to think any further.

The phone rang untimely, and Zhu Shen thought it was noisy, so he hung up.

On the other side, he continued typing non-stop. Zhu Shen couldn't bear it any longer. He raised his finger and swiped without looking at it. He said in a hoarse voice, "Hello?"

"Zhu Shen?" Li Jingxia on the other end was taken aback: "Why is your voice so?"

Zhu Shen was powerless to answer him, and reluctantly stood up on the edge of the table, avoiding the worried eyes of the proprietress, and went to the corner to listen to the phone.

Li Jingxia didn't know what kind of mood Zhu Shen was going through on the other side of the phone, so he laughed and said to him: "What are you doing? Our classmates said that they saw you appearing on Zall's side, wouldn't you still think about it?" Are you going to sneak into the school to show your affection to the younger students?"

Zhu Shen had no intention of joking with him, but just smiled.

It was very hoarse and deep: "I don't have any kindness to show off."

Li Jingxia didn't know why, and laughed and scolded: "You don't come here."

Zhu Shen raised his head and stared at the wall next to him, on which several large cartoon characters were collaged with colorful cardboard: Wish Wall.

The entire wall is densely covered with post-it notes, most of which are boys and girls' thoughts of cherishing spring, knowing that there is no god to help them realize it, knowing that the stickiness of post-it notes is not reliable, knowing that even if they are posted, people will not see it, but Still one by two, they wrote down their usual unspeakable wishes and posted them.

Don't need God's blessing, but please feel at ease.

Then Zhong Heng from the past will also appear in the corner here like them, and write down his wishes?

Zhu Shen almost masochistically imagined the silent and introverted Zhong Heng in the past, seeing the person he liked walking through the streets and alleys with others, what would it be like?

Just thinking about it made his heart ache.For a moment, I didn't know whether it was for myself or for him.

"You didn't go to Mrs. Zhong's birthday party that day. You didn't see that Bo Liang made a big fuss. That's Bo Liang, such a gentle person!" Li Jingxia exaggerated: "It's the first time I saw him like that. He was furious, the banquet was not over yet, he left early in front of everyone. Mrs. Zhong was also angry, she didn't care about any manners and etiquette, and chased her after her, saying that if Bao Liang went out, she would not recognize her son Bo Liang didn't even stop in his footsteps."

Zhu Shen paused, frowning deeply.

Li Jingxia said again: "Bo Liang's cell phone has not been connected for several days. It seems that the world has really evaporated. If you see him, write me back. Mrs. Zhong came to my house today and asked me if I saw Bo Liang. , I am really, seeing her has a psychological shadow now."

"That's when I found out that Mrs. Zhong held a birthday party that day, in fact, to give Bo Liang a blind date in disguise. Mrs. Zhong was too impatient. How long did it take for Bo Liang to come back after breaking up, so she forced him to dance with others—"

"They didn't break up." Zhu Shen's voice was dull for no reason.

"It can't be? According to Bo Liang who was so fascinated at the beginning, how can he come back without breaking up?" Li Jingxia analyzed in a straightforward way: "Bo Liang's heart is hanging on Jiang. On the body, unless Jiang died—”

Li Jingxia paused and fell silent for an instant.

After a long while, he thought of all the past, and murmured in disbelief: "Impossible...Jiang Yizhen...that thin beam... how sad is the thin beam? He didn't even show it, it's impossible, absolutely not possible……"

Zhu Shen didn't speak, but Ke Xin was lifted up in an instant.

yes.How sad would he be?

He cared about it without saying a word for so many years, and never saw each other until his death.

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Shen leaned against the wall in a daze.

After a long time, he tore off a post-it note from the side, raised his pen, and hesitated.

He had never written this, looked at the whole wall of "Bless XXX like me", and shook his head slightly.

He has known for a long time that the gods will never bless whoever likes whom.There is only destiny in love.

Unknowingly, he had written Zhong Heng's name stroke by stroke, piercing through the back of the paper, and he didn't know what kind of emotion he was holding. Dots of ink.

Zhong Heng.

What should I write next?

Bless Zhong Heng like me?

Bless Zhong Heng to forget him?

Zhu Shen laughed at himself, and slapped the post-it note on the wish wall.

He has no wish to make, Zhong Heng is his only wish.

No matter what, he was determined to plant it, and it has nothing to do with anyone else.

The contract has been torn up, and he still doesn't believe it, Zhong Heng can't even forget a single person in such a long decades?

In an instant, Zhu Shen straightened his back, propped up his remaining pride, walked towards the oven step by step, and raised his chin.

In this way, he is still the star-studded little peacock from before.

Anyway, Zhong Heng already belonged to him.

It's still a long time, and they have plenty of time.

Happy birthday.Like me a little more.he thinks.

Just thinking about it, the phone rang again.

Zhu Shen frowned in resistance, took a deep breath, and finally got through.

The fifth sister's anxious voice came from inside: "Shen Shen, hurry home, Bo Liang has come to Zhu Zhai!"

Zhu Shen's mind went blank, he opened the door and ran out: "I'll be right there!"

It's really hot outside, the bone-chilling cold is instantly shrouded in heat, and the straight back is instantly ached by the heat wave.

The author has something to say: refrain from replying to the comments, as soon as you reply, you will reveal your secrets qwq

(My self-control is so weak, a mouth is definitely a spoiler...

Give me a reassurance pill, no matter what happens in the future Shen Shen and Heng Heng will be together well

don't worry~