four year itch

[Security, harmony and happiness, once these things are added together, it may seem like love, and it is almost equal to love.But they are not love after all. 】[1]

The days are getting hotter day by day. On this day, Ye Jia received a message from Bai Xiaoyu, saying that he has formed a game in Smooth, and wants to celebrate the annual good day - Summer Solstice. For a moment, Ye Jia didn't know it was Should I complain about why the summer solstice is celebrated first, or should I be surprised that Bai Xiaoyu can still do things like 24 solar terms.

Having said that, Ye Jia still went to the appointment on time.

By that time, Shen Qingchuan and Bai Xiaoyu were already talking and laughing happily in the bar.As soon as Bai Xiaoyu saw him, she was so excited that she caught up with clockwork and waved at him, "Xiaojia! Here!"

Ye Jia nodded and walked in his direction. Before she could sit still, she saw Shen Qingchuan winking at Bai Xiaoyu, and Bai Xiaoyu stood up abruptly.

"Xiao Jia, I want to solemnly apologize to you!" After speaking, she made a standard 90-degree bow.

Ye Jia was taken aback, "What are you apologizing for?"

Bai Xiaoyu glanced at Shen Qingchuan timidly, stomped her feet cruelly, as if she had made a great determination, "Actually, that day... my name was Xu Ruibai, and I told you about it in front of Brother Shen." Bad words."

After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes and bowed, "I'm sorry!"

Hearing the familiar name, Ye Jia was stunned for a moment, then turned to ask Shen Qingchuan, "What did he say bad things about me?"

"I forgot." Shen Qingchuan smiled, as if it had nothing to do with him.

Ye Jia didn't say it's okay, and didn't ask the bottom line, just looked at Bai Xiaoyu expressionlessly.

Bai Xiaoyu was frightened by the stares, and argued, "I can't blame me for this! At that time, you, Xu Ruibai, Chen Lang, and Brother Shen couldn't be clearly involved, and you drank that wine, of course I would have misunderstood."

Ye Jia was confused, "What wine?"

"SlowfortableScrewAginstTheWall!" Bai Xiaoyu proficiently reported a series of English words.

Ye Jia had no memory of it at all, "I don't remember, it was recommended by the boss, what's wrong with that wine?"

"Damn it! Andy is too immoral to recommend this wine to you?" Bai Xiaoyu said angrily.

"?" Ye Jia looked at Shen Qingchuan in confusion.

"[Look at the words]" Shen Qingchuan on the side spoke three words lightly, but Ye Jia was stunned.

Bai Xiaoyu still didn't think it was enough and added, "People who come out to make an appointment usually order this. It looks like orange juice, but an insider can tell it at a glance. Andy must have misunderstood you! He did something bad with good intentions."

Recalling Shen Qingchuan's strange eyes that day and Xu Ruibai's series of unreasonable rudeness afterwards, Ye Jia suddenly understood everything.

Bai Xiaoyu seized the opportunity to hug his arm, and smiled slyly, "You see, I am not the only one who misunderstood you, so I can be forgiven, right?"

Ye Jia smiled helplessly. He wasn't angry at all. Time has passed, so it's meaningless to worry about it. "I'll forgive you if you treat me today."

Bai Xiaoyu breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had solved a major event, put on a victory posture, and cheered, "It's all right!"

Suddenly, Bai Xiaoyu seemed to remember something, poked his head and asked, "By the way, Brother Shen, you haven't told me yet, why did you believe that Xiao Jia was not the kind of person I said at that time?"

"Because..." Shen Qingchuan glanced at Ye Jia, raised his head and smiled at Bai Xiaoyu, "Xiao Jia has always been brave."

Ye Jia looked at Shen Qingchuan in surprise.For so long, Xu Ruibai misunderstood him, the editors misunderstood him, and Bai Xiaoyu misunderstood him.The world is full of misunderstandings, and people always want to see the part they want to see. He tried to clarify, but found that his mouth was dry, but he couldn't express the meaning.

So he began to get used to getting along with this misunderstanding, he protected himself tightly, even if he received Bai Xiaoyu's apology, he just smiled lightly.

But Shen Qingchuan didn't. Even after witnessing all his stupidity, the other party still firmly told him that you did nothing wrong and you were brave.

An indescribable emotion rose in Ye Jia's heart, mixed with gratitude, trust and a sense of steadfastness, which he had never obtained from Xu Ruibai.

Sensing his gaze, Shen Qingchuan turned his head to look at him, and as if he understood the emotion in his eyes, he blinked his left eye.Obviously a very calm person, making such a playful expression is not against harmony, Ye Jia couldn't help laughing.

"Sorry, sorry, I'm late." Chen Lang hurried over and interrupted their conversation.

"If an apology is useful, why do you need the police! Punish yourself with three cups!" Bai Xiaoyu caught Chen Lang's handle and raised her eyebrows in a huff.

"Bai Xiaoyu, don't get cheap and act good. You insisted on me coming..." Halfway through the conversation, Chen Lang suddenly stroked his chin and looked at Bai Xiaoyu, "Why are you dressed so strangely today?"

"Strange?!" Bai Xiaoyu jumped up angrily, "My name is youth! Do you understand!"

It was only then that Ye Jia realized that Bai Xiaoyu's attire today was indeed different from usual. Although he couldn't tell what was different, it was just the simplest white shirt and black trousers, but it gave people a full of vigor.Bai Xiaoyu originally had a somewhat delicate appearance, with a hint of charm in her eyebrows and eyes, but today she was much more refreshed, as youthful as a freshman who had just stepped into a university.

"Xiaojia, do you think I'm particularly tender today!" Bai Xiaoyu couldn't wait to be praised by her friends.

Ye Jia couldn't help teasing him, and asked Shen Qingchuan on the side, "Are underage children allowed to drink here?"

Shen Qingchuan pointed to the sign on the bar that said "Under the age of 18 is not allowed to drink alcohol", with a troubled expression on his face, "This is troublesome, Xiao Yu won't be able to drink this glass of wine today."

After speaking, the three of them laughed, and Bai Xiaoyu stuck out her tongue in embarrassment, then said in a sneaky and low voice, "I have my eye on an Alpha, and I am going to strike."

Ye Jia frowned and didn't say anything. What he said at his house that day was useless.Bai Xiaoyu also saw that Ye Jia was not very happy, so she hurriedly argued, "This time it's different!"

"What's different?" Ye Jia asked.

Bai Xiaoyu hesitated for a long time without saying one, two, three, four, five, but Chen Lang on the other side saw the clue, "Bai Xiaoyu, don't you fall in love with him?"

Bai Xiaoyu glared at him but did not deny it.

"Is he also smooth?" Shen Qingchuan seemed to be interested.

"I haven't come today, but it should be soon. He usually arrives at nine o'clock."

"It seems that Xiao Yu has been secretly observing him for a long time." Shen Qingchuan said.

"No, he only comes here on Sundays, and I've only seen him four times." Bai Xiaoyu was a little frustrated, but then she couldn't wait to boast to the three of them, "But he's really handsome, and his pheromones are also special." It smells good! Do you know orange blossom? It smells cold at first, but after aftertaste, it feels pink and a little damp, like an early spring morning."

The three of them were silent. With such an abstract description, it is really hard to imagine how pleasant the pheromone of Mr. Orange Blossom is.

"Your comics must not look good." Chen Lang said with certainty.

Bai Xiaoyu was immersed in the dream of love, and she didn't intend to argue with Chen Lang at all, "And he is so gentle, it was the first time I met a man who would hand me water in a bar, he thought I was a college student, and asked me if I was It's not the first time I've been to a bar."

"So you are really going to pretend to be a minor to cheat money and sex?" Chen Lang teased.

"I didn't!" Bai Xiaoyu looked upright, "I'm just a liar at best, hehe."

"Xiao Yu." Ye Jia interrupted his fantasy, "If it's serious, then don't lie from the beginning, otherwise it will only cause more and more troubles later."

Bai Xiaoyu was discouraged, "I don't want to lie, but he looks like the kind of honest person who would like innocent little Omega! Otherwise, why do you think I haven't dared to do it for so long?!"

"An honest person who often comes to bars? Bai Xiaoyu, you lied to me?" Chen Lang laughed.

"What's wrong with coming to the bar? Can't you come to the bar to relax? Can't you come to the bar every Sunday to release the pressure of the week?" Bai Xiaoyu said confidently.

"All right, all right." Chen Lang, "Bai Xiaoyu, you're usually very liberal. Why are you so cowardly at the critical moment?"

"It's also my first time chasing someone, so of course I'm not very proficient." Bai Xiaoyu really doesn't have a hard time seducing the other party to bed/sex, but Bai Xiaoyu doesn't know what to do if he wants the other party to simply have a good impression of him .

"Do you think I should pretend to be drunk and pour myself on him, let him take me home." This is the classic Bai Xiaoyu's way of thinking.

"Then there is a high probability that you will be thrown on the road." Chen Lang said coldly.

Ye Jia thought to himself, throwing them on the main road would not be a problem, but the direction of development would most likely be to go to hotel 419 together.

"That's you, not him!" Bai Xiaoyu said angrily.

"Just go over there and confess to him, he can't do anything to you in public." Chen Lang came up with a bad idea.

"Then I was rejected, and I never get in touch with each other. Just like you did before." Bai Xiaoyu countered mercilessly.

"Bai Xiaoyu!" Being reminded of unpleasant memories, Chen Lang raised his voice to hide his embarrassment.

"How?" Bai Xiaoyu hid behind Ye Jia, making faces at Chen Lang without any fear.

Ye Jia didn't speak, just smiled and watched them slapstick, it was obviously the same place, but the situation was completely different from half a year ago, when he came here last time, Xu Ruibai was the only one in his world.But now, with so many friends around him, there was a warm current in Ye Jia's heart.

He should slowly return to this normal world.

Suddenly, Bai Xiaoyu straightened her back and sat up straight.

"He's coming, he's coming."

With the light of the bar, Ye Jia didn't see the man very clearly, and he was too far away, and he didn't have the chance to feel how good the pheromone smelled from this Mr. Orange Blossom.I could only vaguely see a tall, thin man with a very straight back, wearing a simple shirt, and he had a calm and unhurried aura in a chaotic bar.

"What to do, what to do?" Bai Xiaoyu was so anxious that she almost turned around in circles.

Shen Qingchuan, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly greeted the boss and said, "Andy, give that gentleman a glass of Saratoga Cooler."

Bai Xiaoyu looked at him in surprise, "Brother, what are you doing?"

Shen Qingchuan smiled, "I remember you liked drinking this wine very much before."

"How long ago was that?" Bai Xiaoyu touched his nose, as if thinking of some good memories.

"Has it been a long time?" Shen Qingchuan thought for a few seconds, then said, "Not too long."

"Whoever asks someone to order Saratoga Cooler, doesn't it make people feel that they have never seen the world at a glance."

Saratoga Coor is a classic non-alcoholic cocktail, the first cocktail he drank in his life, and Shen Qingchuan ordered it for him.

He was only 16 years old that year, it was the first time he entered smooth, and it was also the first time he met 25-year-old Shen Qingchuan.

"Xiao Yu, it's not that complicated." Shen Qingchuan's voice has the power to calm people, "Just go over and tell him, this is my favorite wine, and I would like you to try it too. If you can I want to get to know you. He'll like you, after all, you're so likable."

Ye Jia also patted him on the back and pushed him forward, "Go, be brave."

Bai Xiaoyu, who was pushed out violently, turned around, clenched his hands into fists on his chest, and said, "Come on!"

Then, with a look of death on his face, he bravely walked over to that Mr. Orange Blossom.

"Xiaojia, what would you like to drink?" Shen Qingchuan asked.

"Slow fortable Screw Aginst The Wall." Ye Jia said without avoiding looking into Shen Qingchuan's eyes.

Shen Qingchuan didn't speak, and it took a long time before he answered "Yes" in a hoarse voice.

Bai Xiaoyu seemed to be progressing smoothly, winking at them from time to time, he was in a good mood visible to the naked eye, and Ye Jia was also sincerely happy for him.

I don't know how long it took, but Ye Jia only knew that the wine in front of him was about to bottom out, and his mind started to feel dizzy. He vaguely saw Bai Xiaoyu standing up with the man not far away, and walked out of the bar. .

"Bai Xiaoyu sent a message saying that the orange flower is going to send him home, so we can disband on our own." Chen Lang closed his phone and muttered, "Forget friends when you see sex."

"Xiao Jia, are you okay, do you want to go back?" Shen Qingchuan asked with concern while stroking his back.

Ye Jia nodded.

"Then I'll take you back. I didn't drink." Chen Lang stuffed his phone into his trouser pocket.

Seeing that Ye Jia was about to vomit, Chen Lang put the two of them at the gate of the community and went to the underground garage by himself.

Shen Qingchuan half-embraced him into the elevator, and he leaned on Shen Qingchuan's shoulder, smelling the faint smell of green grass on his body, as if he was in a lush forest, with a steaming moist atmosphere, quiet but not bleak, comforting the wine After the restless heart, he is really a person who can make people feel at ease even with pheromones.

Ye Jia had to admit that Shen Qingchuan would be a very perfect lover. He is restrained and calm, but not rigid, and knows how to show tenderness in details; he is always rational, so there is no need to worry about friction when getting along with him. He will definitely find the best A gentle solution; he is strong enough on his own to give his partner enough security and belonging.He is an almighty lover who is also a teacher and a friend.

Of course, his love will never be as crazy and hot as Xu Ruibai's. He can even imagine that even if one day he proposes to break up, Shen Qingchuan will definitely say to himself in a gentlemanly manner, "Respect your choice."

The elevator was very quiet, only the sound of mechanical belts rubbing against each other as they went up from floor to floor.Watching the numbers keep beating, it was almost the fifteenth floor.He has hesitated for too long, should he continue like this?He should be back to normal life.

"Qing Chuan, do you still like me?" Ye Jia's voice was hoarse after drinking.

—Yes, this is the most correct.

"Mark me."

As the elevator door opened, Ye Jia's kiss fell on Shen Qingchuan's side cheek. Shen Qingchuan raised his head in surprise, and met a scorching gaze. It was Chen Lang who had already reached the 15th floor one step earlier.

Ye Jia doesn't remember the details anymore. People tend to overlook many things when they are afraid. Although he seems to be fully prepared mentally, his body still honestly reflects his truest emotions.

He was so terrified of what was about to come that he could hardly restrain his trembling.

Shen Qingchuan's kiss was very light, he rubbed his lips lightly, and then licked his lips with the tip of his tongue, it was not like a kiss, but more like comfort.Shen Qingchuan ran his hands through his hair and supported the back of his head, but he was as green as if he had never kissed before. It wasn't until Shen Qingchuan pressed his tongue against his teeth that he opened his eyes like he had just woken up from a dream. Opened his mouth.

From the lips, the warm kiss slowly reached his chin, and then licked his Adam's apple. Ye Jia tightly closed his eyes, and then suppressed the strangeness in his heart. Toy.

Shen Qingchuan reached down and kissed his glands carefully, as if telling him not to be afraid.

The body pressing on him froze for a moment, and even he froze himself.

Nothing happened.

Before long, the temperature and body weight are gone.

Ye Jia held Shen Qingchuan anxiously, 【I won't let the details be described, readers are asked to imagine for themselves. 】

Shen Qingchuan grabbed his flustered hand and forced a smile.

"It's okay, Xiaojia, it's okay."

——Okay, let’s stop here.

Ye Jia raised his head, his face was already mottled with tears.Why is it still not working, why is he still working so hard?

After these days of getting along, the more Ye Jia realized that Shen Qingchuan was impeccable, the more anxious he was, anxious to convince himself.He almost thought that he had already been persuaded, as long as he worked a little harder, he seemed to be able to accept Shen Qingchuan.

However, there is no love that needs to be obtained by "hard work".

Love is never normal, love is supposed to be out of control.

It was at this moment that he realized that he had no love for Shen Qingchuan, he didn't have it before, and he won't have it in the future.

Ye Jia covered her eyes, her voice choked up, "I'm sorry."

Shen Qingchuan stroked his hair, pulled the quilt to cover him, and then gently closed the door for him.

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When you find that the other person doesn't need you to share his pain and happiness at all, and you don't care whether you need him to comfort your sadness and loss.No matter how harmonious the relationship may seem, it is just meaningless.

Shen Qingchuan sat in the living room all night, then washed, had breakfast, and went to work.

Opening the door, I saw Chen Lang sitting against the wall. Hearing the sound of the door opening, Chen Lang raised his head to look at him. His eyes were dark with dark circles, but his eyes were very sharp. There was still a new stubble on his chin, which was the evidence that he hadn't slept all night. .

"Why are you here?" Shen Qingchuan asked.

Chen Lang's voice was extremely hoarse, with a different gloomy voice, "How is Xiao Jia?"

"Still sleeping."

They looked at each other quietly across the aisle. After a long time, Chen Lang finally said, "Did you mark him?"

Before Shen Qingchuan could answer, Chen Lang asked again and again, "Permanent or temporary?"

"No." Shen Qingchuan said with a wry smile.

"What do you mean?" There was a gleam on Chen Lang's face.

"No means, no." The irritability of being up all night and the impatience of being questioned, together with the unpleasant memory of yesterday, he is not a saint, he will have emotions.

Fortunately, Chen Lang didn't seem to care about this, he put his hands on the ground, jumped up easily, and even his tone became vivid, "No mark?"

Shen Qingchuan frowned, not wanting to continue the topic, "I'm going to work."

Chen Lang became visibly happy, "Brother Shen, be careful at work, and I'm going back to bed too, I'm so sleepy haha, good night~"

"boom"

The sound of closing the door sounded, and Shen Qingchuan looked at the door with aftershocks, his eyes were blank.

[1] Excerpt from "Gone with the Wind"