secret galaxy

For a while, Liang Qian couldn't feel his own breathing, as if thousands of horses were galloping in his mind, his back was drenched, half from hot sweat, half from cold sweat.

He just stared blankly at the cheap plastic box until the sun continued to slant to the west, and the three letters DXH became indistinguishable again.

Liang Qian lowered his arms, awkwardly installed the record, and placed it next to the potted plant.The office was so quiet that he felt guilty. He looked around, took out a pen from the pen holder, and pretended to mark a few key points on the book.

Although no one was watching, he performed dutifully, hoping to fool himself and calm down the chaotic thoughts swelling in his heart for a while.

After four o'clock, Liang Qian walked to the front desk for the reason of exercising his muscles and making coffee, and had a short greeting with Xiao Liu, who was on duty.

After five o'clock, he wandered to the gate of Xingbang Law Firm again, and was teased by Xiao Liu: "Lawyer Liang, what's wrong with you today, can't you sit still?"

Liang Qian insisted: "I'll wait for the parties to discuss the case."

Xiao Liuxin thought it was true, pouted his lips, and said with emotion: "The appointment is so late, I'm off work right away."

"Yeah," Liang Qian glanced at the clock on the wall, and frowned seriously, "It's almost six o'clock, and I don't know if I can come here today."

Xiao Liu said, "Then why don't you call and ask, or you'll be waiting for nothing."

Liang Qian sat down on the sofa and said, "Let's wait a while. He is a big boss who manages a lot of affairs every day, so don't disturb him too often."

The two chatted for a while, and just talked about the newly opened shopping mall opposite, when the elevator outside the door ding-dong, slowly opened.

"Sister Zhong, you're back," Liang Qian stood up with a "chuckle", and greeted her with a smile on his face, his eyes kept peeking behind her.

He didn't see the expected person, he was a little dazed, blurted out the word "duan", stopped again, and said with concern: "Why are you alone?"

Zhong Lu said: "I came back to pick up something, and Xiao Duan went home directly."

"What about the office supplies you bought, didn't you say you want to move them?"

Zhong Lu joked: "Why, Attorney Liang is waiting here to help."

"Yeah, I also want to lighten the burden for you." Liang Qian said haha, talking and laughing happily on the surface, but he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood behind his back.

He felt that Duan Xinghe was simply a demon sent by the heavens to torture him. Without any preparation, he casually revealed a precious secret, causing him to be distraught and flustered. After finally calming down, he decided to ask the person concerned for clarification. Fortunately, Duan Xinghe went home as if nothing had happened.

What the hell is going on!

"Boss Fang probably won't be coming," Liang Qian glanced at his watch, "Then I'll pack my things and get off work."

He returned to the office, grabbed his car keys and cell phone, and strode out of the law firm.

In the evening rush hour, the road was a bit congested. Liang Qian kicked the accelerator and braked, driving with murderous spirit, but before he could do anything to Duan Xinghe, he felt dizzy.While queuing for a red light at an intersection, he opened the car window to let the humid sea breeze pour in fiercely.

Autumn in Yuzhou is very pleasant, the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold, and it is just right to wear a thin coat.A few groups of middle school students passed by on the sidewalk, with their school uniform jackets tied around their necks like capes, discussing an e-sports competition intensely as they walked.

Liang Qian looked at them with a melancholy look.

He thought of the autumn nine years ago, on a day when the sky was high and the clouds were clear, most of the classmates in the class came to join him in celebrating his birthday. Everyone played cards, ate snacks, watched movies, played games, twittered and sang birthday songs, desperately The sweat of youth was swayed, and the laughter scared away the birds within a radius of 500 meters. Everyone had fun and joy.As the birthday star, Liang Qian was given a few bottles of beer. He was already slightly drunk at the beginning of the party. With a dress covering his head, he was lying on the sofa drowsy.Those are all his memories of his 17th birthday, save for the Desire Valley record.

But now, the three letters DXH are like a key to the past, and the scene in his memory has changed. The sleepy-eyed boy tore off the coat covering his face, walked slowly to the window of the living room on the first floor, and saw Duan Xinghe wandering outside.

Lonely, restless, holding a beautifully wrapped gift, but still unable to take that step.

Liang Qian didn't know how long Duan Xinghe stood there that day, and what kind of mood he was in. He must have heard the laughter in the villa, and the ambiguous booing of his classmates about himself and Gu Lanyu.If he hadn't met Yao Nandong who rushed to work overtime at the unit, would that record have been sent to Liang Qian?

Finally arrived at Jinyi Jiayuan, Liang Qian parked his car, walked briskly into building A03, the elevator came slowly, he couldn't wait, pushed open the fire door in the stairwell, and ran up two steps at a time.

His hair was messed up, his neckline was loose, his breathing was hot and heavy, and he looked a bit unseemly, but Liang Qian couldn't care about anything else, he ran in a hurry, like an unlucky guy with an expired winning lottery ticket, he just wanted to go faster , Hurry up, maybe the person who redeems the prize is still waiting where he is, willing to give him another chance.

On the eleventh floor, Liang Qian was out of breath. He supported the wall and knocked on the door, like a violent little lion.It was Duan Xiaoyou who answered the door, frightened by his state, shrugged his shoulders warily, and called out "Brother Liang Qian" in a low voice.

Liang Qian squeezed out a smile: "Where's your brother?"

"I'm making dinner," Duan Xiaoyou seemed unwilling to let him in, but Liang Qian broke in without any explanation, and walked to the kitchen door in a few steps.

He looked at the back and suddenly found himself speechless.

Duan Xinghe turned around slowly, showing a nervous smile: "You are here."

He was holding a stainless steel vegetable basket in his hand, which contained several freshly rinsed tomatoes, and the remaining drops of water were dripping from the mesh at the bottom of the basket.

Liang Qian nodded.

Duan Xinghe tried to put the vegetable basket back on the cooking table, but failed to stabilize it, the basket fell down, and the tomatoes rolled to three different places.He bent down to pick it up, and Liang Qian also stepped forward to help. During the handover, the two people's fingers touched, and Liang Qian said, "Come and have a look."

He suddenly calmed down, and the anxiety, remorse, and anger that had been fermenting on the way here all miraculously disappeared the moment he saw Duan Xinghe.

"Oh," Duan Xinghe's voice was soft, after a pause, he said, "Then stay for dinner."

"Okay," Liang Qian's ears were hot, and he was inexplicably embarrassed, "I forgot to buy something and came empty-handed. Do you need help?"

"No, you can go to the living room to rest for a while."

Liang Qian knew before that Duan Xinghe's eyes were beautiful, with a clear energy of spring water, but today he found out that his eyes are actually very gentle.

He didn't insist: "Okay, then call me if you have anything to do."

Back in the living room, Liang Qian found Duan Xiaoyou standing on the edge of the living balcony, far away from him, his flickering eyes weaving into a net, capturing his movements all the time.He secretly thought that something was wrong, and he showed a friendly smile as a last resort, and walked up to chat with Duan Xiaoyou: "Listen to my aunt, you went to the playground a few days ago, was it fun?"

Duan Xiaoyou leaned against a folding table, subconsciously took a small step to the left, to avoid confronting Liang Qian, and whispered, "It's fun."

With her movements, the messy stones and tools on the table were revealed. Liang Qian bent down curiously to check, gently stroked the carving knives of different sizes, and asked, "Is this your brother's?"

"Ah."

Liang Qian thought of Yao Xuyun's teaching of "follow what he likes", and thought: "What hobbies does your brother usually have?"

Duan Xiaoyou hesitated to speak, his glamorous face was covered with a layer of melancholy, Liang Qian tried his best to express his sincerity: "I want to know him better."

"I don't have any hobbies." Duan Xiaoyou is like a child who clings to a toy and refuses to let go, and he doesn't want adults to see his carefulness, so he deliberately put on a flat tone.

"No? Impossible." Liang Qian fully understood Duan Xiaoyou's resistance, so he was not angry. He pointed to the stone on the table and said, "I think he likes seal carving."

"I liked it when I was young, but I haven't engraved it for many years. This was only taken out some time ago."

"Really?" Liang Qian pretended to be surprised, and happily gestured with a childish vengeance: "The other day he gave me a beckoning cat. It was so big and chubby, and it had words engraved on it."

Duan Xiaoyou was stunned, his eyes turned from confusion to shock, and finally lowered his eyes in frustration, biting his lips with his teeth.

Liang Qian won the victory by relying on cunning. He kept a kind smile and continued to say: "What else does your brother like to do?"

Duan Xiaoyou seemed to be disheartened, and said a few words abruptly: "Drawing, sketching."

Duan Xinghe moved swiftly, and within half an hour the dinner was ready. He took off his apron and called Duan Xiaoyou to the kitchen to get the dishes.

Relying on his height and long legs, Liang Qian arrived one step ahead and said, "I'll come."

The size of the kitchen was not wide, and the two of them stood side by side, as if they had squeezed out a lot of air, making Liang Qian feel difficult to breathe and his chest was hot.While twisting the lid of the rice cooker, he was looking for something to say: "Is it rice?"

Duan Xinghe was also a little flustered: "Pork rib porridge, our family is used to cooking porridge at night, you..."

"It's okay, I'm not picky eaters."

Liang Qian could feel that something had changed. Before today, he could only rely on some uncertain clues to deduce the answer to Duan Xinghe's riddle. Deciphered and cleared the level, and even discovered a shocking secret. Duan Xinghe, who is cold and aloof in the eyes of his classmates, is actually just like him, a fool who stumbles and doesn't know how to love.

Liang Qian took out three white ceramic bowls from the sterilizer, a little bit to defend Duan Xinghe: "Why do you cook every time I come here, and you can't always spoil Xiaoyou."

Duan Xinghe took care of his younger sister for many years, and was used to doing housework, so he didn't think there was anything wrong with it, so he explained: "She washes the dishes and also takes out the trash." Fearing that Liang Qian would feel that he didn't appreciate it, he turned his head and smiled at him.

Duan Xinghe's smile is always shallow, dignified, not seductive, but captivating.Liang Qian's heart became hot, and he forgot to say the phrase "she should also find a formal job".

They sat down to eat, and there were four dishes and one soup on the table. Among them was a cola chicken wing, which Liang Qian saw for the first time here.He immediately understood whose taste it was, took a chopstick and said, "Xiaoyou likes this?"

Duan Xiaoyou was embarrassed and wanted to hide, so he glanced at Duan Xinghe, held back again, and accepted Liang Qian's kindness.

"Well, she has liked it since she was a child." Duan Xinghe said.

Liang Qian changed the subject: "What about you? What do you like to eat?"

Duan Xinghe hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "There is nothing I particularly like to eat."

"Brother loves to eat fish." Duan Xiaoyou was captured by delicious food, so he let down his vigilance, and inadvertently leaked the secret to Liang Qian.

Liang Qian was surprised, he had eaten many meals here, and he had never seen Duan Xinghe cook fish.

Duan Xinghe understated: "It's too troublesome."

Isn't it troublesome to make Coca-Cola Chicken Wings?How could he satisfy Duan Xiaoyou's preferences?Liang Qian took the initiative to ask Ying: "I will kill the fish in the future, and I will handle it."

"No." Duan Xiaoyou threw down the bone, the corner of his mouth was still stained with sauce. Although he was not happy, he explained to Liang Qian: "He is afraid of fishbone, and he got stuck in his throat when he was a child."

"How can I?" Duan Xinghe blushed suddenly, like a hedgehog shrinking into a ball, "Xiaoyou, don't talk nonsense!"

"Originally, it was your parents who picked on you before you ate."

Brother and sister bickered, Duan Xinghe regretted losing.He probably felt ashamed, lowered his head and pretended nothing had happened, the chopsticks were scratching in the bowl without picking up anything.Liang Qian kept laughing, but couldn't hold back anymore, covered his lips with his fist, let go of his throat and laughed heartily.

Duan Xinghe became a little annoyed, and emphasized loudly to Liang Qian: "I'm not afraid of fish bones, it's because I don't taste good when cooking fish, and I don't have my mother's skills."

The tip of his nose was red, like a bright cherry under the light.

"I know," Liang Qian supported the table, quietly approached Duan Xinghe, and promised softly, "I will pick you up in the future."

Just after dinner, Liang Qian received a call from Liang Yanjie, urging him to go home.

Liang Qian didn't want to, he still had something to ask Duan Xinghe, he didn't want to leave so early, but Liang Yanjie said, "Didn't you want to find your godmother?"

"Today is Friday?" Liang Qian raised the phone to his eyes, glanced at the time, "Oh, I forgot."

He Anmei was busy with work, it was not easy to see her once, and she was an elder, so it was hard to make her wait too long, Liang Qian hung up the phone, and said helplessly to Duan Xinghe, "I have to go."

Duan Xinghe guessed that something was going on at his family, so he didn't stop him, with some reluctance in his eyes: "Then I'll see you off."

Duan Xiaoyou was washing dishes in the kitchen, when he heard the sound of messy footsteps, he hurriedly chased him out, looking panicked: "Brother, where are you going?"

"I'll send Liang Qian downstairs," Duan Xinghe comforted Duan Xiaoyou, "I'll be back in a while, is that okay?"

Duan Xiaoyou remained silent, trying to grab Duan Xinghe's clothes with wet hands, noticed Liang Qian's gaze, retracted inch by inch, nodded with difficulty and unwillingly.

After all, Duan Xinghe couldn't bear it, because of the lessons learned from the past, he was also afraid that something might happen to Duan Xiaoyou, so he thought for a while and said, "You can watch from the balcony, and we will come back after a few words."

They were waiting for the elevator in the corridor, Duan Xinghe looked back from time to time, Liang Qian advised him: "It's okay, there must be a first time."

He didn't expect Duan Xiaoyou to be so dependent on Duan Xinghe, it would be unbearable to be separated for a while.What kind of life has Duan Xinghe lived in the past five years?Not to mention nightlife, not even private life.He is obviously just a fledgling eaglet, but he tries his best to shield Duan Xiaoyou from the wind and rain, which makes him covered in scars and has nowhere to complain.

When the elevator arrived, the two walked in one after the other, the silver metal door slowly closed, and a sultry tranquility brewed in the enclosed space.

Liang Qian looked at Duan Xinghe under the warm light, sour, bitter, sweet, all kinds of tastes intertwined in his heart, he couldn't help asking: "You gave me a gift back then, why didn't you tell me?"

Duan Xinghe was prepared, and replied softly: "I don't want you to know."

Liang Qian followed closely: "Then why did you engrave three more letters?"

Duan Xinghe hesitated, his clear eyes rippled slightly, because he couldn't make a reasonable explanation, he could only remain silent bluntly and frankly.

Liang Qian could almost imagine how conflicted Duan Xinghe was when he carved his initials on the record box.I want him to know, but I don't want him to know, all the entanglement and apprehension are poured into one stroke.Liang Qian was not lucky enough, he ignored this precious and close heart for many years.

The temperature was a little low at night, and the wind was cool, and the two couldn't help getting closer.The car was parked not far away, just behind Building A03, Liang Qian took out the key to unlock it, and asked Duan Xinghe, "Is it cold?"

Duan Xinghe shook his head, and Liang Qian went ahead and said, "Then let me touch it."

Before Duan Xinghe could react, he took his right hand and held it in his palm.Duan Xinghe didn't resist, and after recovering, he pursed his lips shyly.

Liang Qian said: "Duan Xinghe, I ask you a question, you can only answer yes or no."

"Why?" Duan Xinghe raised the bar in a soft voice, "You are not a judge."

Liang Qian couldn't prevent him from being mischievous at this time, and stared seriously: "Yes or no!"

On the right side of the parking space grew a strangely shaped tree bearing green fruits the size of a fist. Just as Liang Qian finished speaking, a fruit fell to the ground with a "boom".

The two were taken aback, and when they figured out the situation, they laughed at the same time.

Amidst the laughter, Liang Qian asked: "Duan Xinghe, have you liked me for a long time?"

silence.

But the silence was only for a moment, and he soon heard Duan Xinghe's answer, his tone was not high, but he did not hesitate: "Yes."

Liang Qian had never been so happy in his life.

He wanted to cry a little, but he wanted to laugh more, and the frantic sense of happiness swept through his body like an explosion.

"What do you think that is?" He pointed to the depths of the bamboo forest, and also teased Duan Xinghe once.

Duan Xinghe turned his head to look, Liang Qian took the opportunity to step forward and gently hugged him into his arms.

"Liang Qian?" Duan Xinghe was stunned for a moment. After calling out his name, he didn't know what to say, so he let him hold him quietly. After a while, he raised his arm and gently hugged him. Liang Qian's shoulders stopped to rest like a butterfly.

They are very close, their breaths are intertwined, their heartbeats are unified, and the tips of their noses rub against each other from time to time.Duan Xinghe's body was flexible and firm, and a light osmanthus fragrance emanated from his neck. Liang Qian sniffed it fascinatedly, lowered his head, and slowly kissed Duan Xinghe.

Tonight is another round of bright moon, the silver light comes through the branches and leaves, and the stars are sprinkled on the earth.Between light and shadow, Duan Xinghe's eyes suddenly opened, and his eyelashes trembled violently.

He seemed to be undecided, and after a moment of panic, he closed his eyelids first, and after a few seconds, when Liang Qian's tongue was squeezed into his mouth, gently licking his lips and teeth, he opened his eyes again, his eyes were affectionate and moist.

When they parted, both of them broke out in a thin layer of sweat. Liang Qian put his arms around Duan Xinghe's waist, not caring about talking, and each calmed down their rapid breathing.

After resting for a while, Duan Xinghe reminded uncomfortably: "Didn't you have something to do at home, go back quickly, don't delay."

"Don't worry, let me hug you for a while."

Liang Qian touched Duan Xinghe's back, like playing with a toy, and even pinched the flesh on his waist. Duan Xinghe felt itchy, but couldn't dodge if he wanted to hide, his voice of resentment was like coquettishness.

"Don't move," Liang Qian put on a serious expression, "I have something important to say."

Duan Xinghe stopped immediately and raised his eyes suspiciously.

Liang Qian took a deep breath, held back a wry smile, and asked from the bottom of his heart, "Tell me directly if you have anything to say in the future, and stop sending me passwords, okay?"