I cried, I pretended

On the playground outside the warehouse, there should be many more students taking physical education classes. The noise of laughter and noise came one after another, and it seemed a bit abrupt in the quiet warehouse where you could hear a needle drop.

Cheng Wang finally made a move, he slowly moved away from looking at Song Mingwang, avoiding his hand, and tugged at his wrinkled collar.

Song Mingwang waited nervously for his verdict.

Unexpectedly, I didn't get the answer of whether I like him or not, I just waited for the question "Is it fun?"

His mind went blank, and he stared blankly at him.

"Don't make trouble anymore." Cheng Fan's tone seemed a little tired, and could even be described as cold, "Once or twice is enough, I'm not interested in playing with you."

Song Mingwang felt that his eye sockets were sore, and for a moment, he seemed to be short of oxygen, and he couldn't wait to take a big breath.

But in the dark, Cheng Wang didn't pay attention to Song Mingwang's expression, he just turned around and walked forward.

"Put things away quickly."

Song Mingwang grabbed his sleeve and said stubbornly, "I didn't make trouble, I was serious."

"I know all about it." Cheng Huang frowned. He must be angry, but he was more confused and didn't understand the meaning of his playing like this.

"What do you know?"

"Tian Mengmeng said that you made a bet with him."

Song Mingwang was startled: "But that was a long time ago! And I didn't do that."

"Then what are you doing now?" Cheng Wang looked directly at him and twitched the corners of his mouth lukewarmly.

Song Mingwang looked at him without retreating in the slightest: "I want to confess something to you."

Cheng Huang frowned: "...what's the matter?"

"I kissed you secretly after you fell asleep at your house that day."

Cheng Wang looked at him: "And then?"

Song Mingwang said aggrievedly: "Do you think I will kiss someone I don't like just for a bet?"

Cheng Huan's answer was silence.

Song Mingwang didn't go back to the classroom for class all afternoon, he just stayed in the grove behind the south playground, sitting on the stone bench, not knowing what to do next.

Worse than refusing his confession, Cheng Wang didn't believe that he liked him at all.

He thought of the boy who confessed to Cheng Huang at KTV that day but was ruthlessly rejected, and he didn't know whether it was him or himself.

When he returned to the classroom, it was already the last class, he sneaked in through the back door quietly, no one in the class including the teacher noticed him, only Cheng Wang turned his head and glanced at him.

After class, Tian Mengmeng asked him why he came back only now, and did he bring back his ice cream.

Song Mingwang glared at him viciously, then stomped on his instep, and left without looking back.

He had already forgotten about the so-called bet with Tian Mengmeng, it was just talking about it, but he didn't do it at all.

"What's the matter with you recently? You look in a bad mood."

Something was wrong with Song Mingwang, and even Xu Su noticed it. Men and women were separated for running on the playground, and the boys would enjoy the shade under the shade of a tree after running. Xu Su asked him worriedly.

Before Song Mingwang could answer, Tang Tan also came over, "Yes, Song Mingwang, why don't you post on Moments?"

As soon as this remark came out, the people present became interested. It seemed that Song Mingwang really had something in his heart.

You must know that the frequency of his Moments is unshakably maintained at three times a day, morning, noon and night, and there has never been an exception.

Of course, apart from this time, being able to make him stop posting on Moments shows that he has really encountered a big problem.

Song Mingwang glanced at Cheng Juan intentionally or unintentionally, he was drinking water with his head up, the sunlight from the gaps in the leaves shone on his face, and the contours of his facial features softened a lot.

"What's the matter?"

No matter what other people asked, Song Mingwang kept his head sullen and didn't speak. Everyone was used to seeing him talking in an angry way, and it was rare to see him so listless, and they were inexplicably uncomfortable.

Tang Tan didn't notice the movement on his side, because he was talking to Cheng Wang, and saw him twirling the weeds on the ground, and seemingly unintentionally mentioned: "Brother Wang, are you having trouble with porridge?"

Cheng Huang flatly denied: "No."

Tang Tan hesitated to speak, but finally decided to speak out what he kept in his heart: "You should have found out, she likes you."

Cheng Juan frowned impatiently, and answered him: "Just because she likes me doesn't necessarily mean that I want to like him."

But after finishing speaking, he was startled suddenly, as if thinking of something, he looked towards Song Ming.

Song Mingwang's face turned pale, he stood up and said in a muffled voice, "I feel sick to my stomach, I'm going to ask the teacher for leave." After speaking, he walked away without looking back.

"what happened to you?"

Cheng Juan gave him a cold look, squeezed the mineral water bottle to empty it, and the bottle crumpled into a ball when he pinched it.

"You talk a lot."

Tang Tan: "???"

Song Mingwang was immersed in the sadness of losing his love alone. He had never tasted this kind of feeling before. It turned out that this was the consequence of liking someone.

He used to think that the so-called infatuation is a product of so-called infatuation confusion. When a person is excited, adrenaline soars, and a large amount of dopamine is secreted in the brain, which promotes the release of the stress hormone hormone, which causes the opposite sex to be confused and infatuated.

But now he finds that liking doesn't seem to be such a simple thing.

After finally waiting for the weekend without going to school, he planned to shut himself up at home to read and do research, not to think about those messy things, but he was told to go to Tang Tan's birthday party.

"I haven't heard you say that." Song Mingwang denied, and was about to hang up Tian Mengmeng's phone after speaking.

"Whether you're going or not, I'll tell you that something big will happen." Tian Mengmeng tried very hard to restrain himself from keeping it a secret, but finally couldn't help but say it out.

"Zhou Yao from Class [-] will also be there at that time. I heard that she will confess to Cheng Huang in public then."

Song Mingwang was startled, and immediately sat up straight, "What?"

Knowing this, he left half of the experiments he had done and went out without saying a word.

The place where Tang Qin held the party was in the garden of his villa. His family was in good condition, and he had an older sister. He was a carefree rich second generation. Apart from changing girlfriends, he didn't have any other bad habits.

When he arrived, he first looked around and saw that Cheng Wang had arrived, standing in the corner by the swimming pool, smoking a cigarette with his head bowed, standing in front of Tang Tan, and the two seemed to be talking.

Song Mingwang thought that only the students in the school were here to participate, but when he saw Tang Tan coming cheerfully and passing by a character girl in a bikini, he stretched out his hand to pat her, and then whistled.

"I hate it, Young Master Tang is groping people."

Song Mingwang's face turned green.

"Yo, Xiao Mingming is here." Tang Tan saw him again, and called him carelessly.

Song Mingwang turned his head away, not wanting to see him.

Seeing him so dumb, Tang Tan deliberately wanted to tease him to see what he would do.

"Is that why you came here empty-handed? Anyway, I live today, so I won't give you any face."

Song Mingwang was startled when he heard the words, and then bit his lips in confusion. He was notified temporarily, and he was all focused on Zhou Yao and Cheng Huan's affairs. He came here almost non-stop. How could he remember to bring him a birthday? Gift.

Tang Tan held out his hands and raised his eyebrows: "What? It's not like I wasn't prepared at all."

Standing behind Cheng Wan frowned slightly, and glanced at Tang Tan.

"Forget it, I've always been magnanimous, so please sing me a happy birthday song."

Cheng Wang saw that Song Mingwang's face was really not good-looking, he dropped the cigarette in his hand, crushed the end of the cigarette, and was about to pull him away when he heard a weak and timid voice.

"…Happy birthday to you…"

Song Mingwang's face turned red, he didn't know whether it was from shame or anger, he didn't even dare to open his eyes, his voice was trembling, he sang the happy birthday song quickly,

Tang Tan waved his hand generously, without pointing out that he hadn't finished singing the English part, "Okay, I've received your gift."

He still understands the principle of enough is enough, he was just teasing him, who made Song Mingwang have a face that anyone would want to bully if he saw it, and a mouth that would be hard if anyone heard it.

Besides, he had already said in the group that he would not accept birthday gifts from classmates, just remember to say happy birthday to him, but Song Mingwang didn't read the group news.

After a group of people finally took their seats, they looked at the exquisite dishes on the long table and were amazed in their hearts. From the moment they stepped into this place, they realized the gap between themselves and Tang Tan, which they couldn't feel in school.

Liu Xiaosi rolled his eyes, and said enthusiastically: "It must cost a lot, you see you are the birthday star and you spend the most money, and you asked us not to give gifts, how can you feel bad about it."

"Not much money." Tang Qin grinned, and blocked his words as soon as he opened his mouth. Since he found out that he reported it last time, he hasn't given him a good face. He didn't invite him this time. , and in the end he was cheeky enough to follow along.

Liu Xiaosi groaned a few times, took a sip of his drink and didn't speak.

The birthday cake was ordered by Tang Qin's sister, and there were six layers carefully pushed up.

Everyone was busy wishing Tang Tan, Song Mingwang ate a mouthful of the cake in silence, and after taking a bite, he thought it tasted delicious, so he couldn't help but took another bite with a fork.

This opening couldn't stop.

When he put down the plate, he inadvertently met Cheng Wang's gaze.

Zhou Yao sat across from Cheng Huan, clenched her fingers nervously, pursed her lips and kept silent.

She didn't listen to Shen Nian who was beside her whispering to her.

I don’t know who proposed to play the game in the middle. The game is very simple. Everyone has a small biscuit in their mouth. lost.

During the grouping, Song Mingwang drew two and took the second one.

"Then who is one?"

No one speaks.

Just when everyone felt puzzled and had to ask again, they heard a lukewarm voice.

"I."

Everyone looked at Cheng Wang, stunned for a long time before reacting, and reported their numbers one after another.

Only Song Mingwang was still immersed in his "I" just now, thinking that this meant that he and Cheng Wang were going to play lip-to-mouth.

If it was before, he must have been blushing and heartbeating, but now he only feels bitter.

Cheng Wang didn't like him, he just regarded him as a friend, since Cheng Wang told him that he was awake that night, Song Mingwang realized the reason for the inexplicable indifference and alienation afterwards.

He must have resented this kind of contact with himself.

"Squad leader, what's your number." Song Mingwang planned to go to Xu Su to change.

Xu Su showed an apologetic smile, and explained in a warm voice: "Sorry, I like my account very much, I'm afraid I can't change it."

Song Mingwang had no choice but to give up.

Seeing that the game was about to start, he could only bite the bullet and sit on the second chair.

Cheng Wang was right next to him, absently playing with the knife and fork on the table with his eyelids half down,

"Here." Meng Keran came over and gave him the biscuit.

Song Mingwang swallowed, he felt a little nervous.

Cheng Wang threw the opened biscuit packaging bag on the table, and then moved closer to Song Mingwang.

There was no unnecessary expression on his face, as if he just wanted to finish the task quickly.

Song Mingwang forced his eyes to fall on the biscuits, and he didn't pray in his heart that the embarrassing incident of biscuits falling on the ground would never happen.

Fortunately, there was no such bloody plot, and the contact time between the two did not exceed three seconds, during which he did not raise his eyes to look at Cheng Wang's.

But at the moment of biting back, because he didn't control the strength well, he bit off a long piece of biscuit with too much force, and brushed the thin lips of the person in front of him for a moment, the cool touch made his lips numb, and his whole body seemed to have been shocked by an electric shock. like.

Is this a kiss too?

Song Mingwang was stunned for a moment, but he quickly came back to his senses, put away those random thoughts, sat up straight quickly, and wiped his mouth very deliberately, he did not forget that Cheng Wang didn't like to be in contact with him.

Cheng Wan watched his movements without saying a word, with no expression on his face.

"Hurry up, it's my turn."

Tian Mengmeng was gearing up, ready to take Song Mingwang's biscuits, and urged him repeatedly.

He had no choice but to stabilize his mind, and gave out the biscuit again. This time, he gained experience and controlled the force, and the biscuit was delivered very smoothly without any mistakes.

The people behind started to shout excitedly again, and they couldn't wait for the other party to make a fool of themselves. The last one who dropped the biscuit was Xu Su.

He chose truth or dare according to the rules and was forced to accept the punishment.

After the commotion, melodious piano music was suddenly played in the yard, and Tang Tan suddenly clapped his hands to signal everyone to quiet down.

Song Mingwang already had a premonition of something at this time, and he pulled the petals of the fake flowers on the table a little annoyed.

Sure enough, Zhou Yao stood up. It can be seen that she has been well-dressed today. She is wearing a denim dress with a narrow waist, her black hair is carefully curled, and her fair skin seems to be shining under the warm light.

"Cheng Wang." She picked up the phone and called out.

Everyone first looked at each other in blank dismay, and then fell silent tacitly at the same time.

Cheng Huan, who was called by name, had a calm expression on his face, with an attitude of nothing to do with himself, without any awareness of the central figure in the incident.

"I came here today to tell you one thing."

"I like you!"

Song Mingwang clenched his fingers subconsciously, and looked at Cheng Huang almost in a panic.

This sentence is too familiar, after all, I only told Cheng Wang a few days ago.

The people present almost held their breath, and all turned their eyes to Cheng Wang, waiting for his response with hanging hearts.

There was no unnecessary expression on Cheng Wang's face, and he played with the lighter carelessly in his hand.

After a long while, he seemed a little impatient, looked at Zhou Yao and frowned, and said coldly, "I remember that I made it very clear before."

He paused, then glanced at her again, with a half-smile, "Or do you think my answer will be different when there are so many people present?"

Zhou Yao's face turned pale, and her fingers sank deeply into her palm, causing bursts of tingling pain.

Shen Nian looked at Cheng Juan in embarrassment, then pulled Zhou Yao again, signaling her to stop talking.

"Sister Yaoyao...don't be like this."

Zhou Yao shook off her hand, with a sneer on her face, she felt ashamed and annoyed to be so humiliated by everyone, she thought that she had been with Cheng Huang for so long anyway, so she should save some face for her.

She thought... She thought that it might not be easy for Cheng Wang to refuse, and she would give herself a chance.

Just once is fine.

Thinking of this, the last string in her heart completely collapsed, she lost the shackles of reason, her voice raised unconsciously, and her tone was sharp: "Why? Because you are gay?"

"..."

Such a blockbuster made everyone dumbfounded, especially Shen Nian, who could almost be described as pale with shock, she quickly covered Zhou Yao's mouth, "What nonsense are you talking about?!"

In fact, Zhou Yao regretted it as soon as she said it. She thought that as long as she stayed by his side, she would at least have a chance.

But since the transfer student came, the so-called thought of her has changed. For the first time, Cheng Wang became interested in a person, but it was the same sex.

She is not blind or stupid, especially when it comes to things like people she likes, as a girl, she can be said to be surprisingly sensitive.

Song Mingwang held back his worries and looked at Cheng Wang, and found that there was no trace of anger on his face, and he even curled his lips, as if smiling.

I saw him walking calmly with his hands in his pockets, walking step by step in front of the pale and remorseful Zhou Yao.

Then slightly bent down to his ear, and said softly: "Whether I am or not, it is impossible for me to like a person like you."

When he said this, the corners of his mouth were even slightly raised, but even though he was smiling, there was no trace of a smile in his eyes, and there was a chill in his dark eyes.

Zhou Yao was in a trance, "...what do you mean?"

Cheng Wang straightened up, and said casually, "Tang Qin is very kind to you, you shouldn't use him, and Nian Nian also treats you as her sister sincerely, what about you? Do you have such a trace of sincerity?"

Zhou Yao's face was earthy.

The farce of the birthday party was finally ended by birthday star Tang Qin. Zhou Yao's words at the party undoubtedly threw a stone into the calm lake, and everyone expressed their disbelief with eye contact.

But most people still don't believe it, because Cheng Huang's expression is not at all flustered, on the contrary Zhou Yao looks very embarrassed, it seems that after the confession failed, the anger turned into anger, and turned into indiscriminate words.

"It's terrible for a woman to turn her face. After being rejected, love turns into hatred. The reason for wanting to destroy a person is as simple as that."

As soon as Song Mingwang turned on his phone, he saw the WeChat message Tian Mengmeng sent to him. He seemed to be talking to him about this matter, so he didn't reply to him. He hadn't settled with him for his big mouth. care about him.

It has been several days since the party, and there are no strange rumors about Cheng Wang in the school.It seems that everyone does not believe it.

As soon as he turned off his phone and put it in his pocket, he saw that Didi called Didi had arrived, so he opened the door and got in the car.

Today is a rare Sunday, and the reason why it is said to be rare is that for Song Mingwang, such a day only comes once a year.

Yes, today is his birthday.

Song Yulan still couldn't rush back home, so she called him early in the morning to say happy birthday, and said that the birthday gift had already been sent to China.

It would be a lie to say that he is not sad, after all, this is the first birthday he has celebrated by himself in more than ten years.

He is going to the cake shop to pick up the cake now. The cake he ordered for himself is a SpongeBob SquarePants seven-inch cake, which is a very cute cartoon picture.

He chose a good angle to take a photo, and then added a sentence. After thinking for a while, he typed a few more words, emphasizing that he was not alone.

Then set it to be visible to only one person.

It was already five or six o'clock in the afternoon after taking out the cake. It was the rush hour for get off work. Song Mingwang didn't plan to go home. He planned to find a park nearby. Maybe he could meet a child and eat cake with him. He really didn't want to eat it alone. cake.

He doesn't have many friends, not as popular as Tang Tan, once it's a birthday, he just needs to say something in the group and everyone will be there.

Tian Mengmeng, the only one who can be counted as a friend, is still in the cold war.

He led the cake to the Wetland Park along the Liuhe River. Along the way, there were many empty wooden chairs. He sat down at random, and then began to unwrap the cake, looking left and right to see if there were any children.

As a result, during the dismantling process, due to the knotted rope, he became more and more confused, and his hands lost weight. Then he became unstable and the whole cake fell to the ground.

Looking at the mess on the ground, Song Mingwang finally couldn't help venting the grievances that had accumulated all day.

He bent over and buried himself into a small ball, his body twitched slightly, and he gritted his teeth and let out a suppressed choking sound.

...

At this moment, Cheng Wang on the other side was answering the phone.

After that incident, Shen Nian and Zhou Yao completely cut off contact, Tang Qin didn't say anything, but still deleted her WeChat, and occasionally mentioned her and stopped calling her Congee Congee, and directly called her by her real name.

Cheng Wang didn't pay much attention to this matter, or he didn't care about Zhou Yao at all.

So when Shen Nian made a special call to test his mood, he just thought it was funny.

After hanging up the phone, he went to the yard to look at the two little animals he raised. He randomly picked some vegetables to feed the little yellow duck, and watched it quack and try to stretch its mouth.

"You feed it less vegetables with such a high water content, and be careful of diarrhea."

Cheng Wang let go of his hands and stood up, patted his hands clean, and said indifferently, "How can you be so delicate."

"You child..." Grandma Cheng rolled his eyes at him, hating iron for being weak, "I see you will try to say that about your girlfriend in the future, and I will die without seeing you get married and have children."

Cheng Huang smiled and said nothing.

"By the way, what's the matter with you and that little baby?" Grandma Cheng felt a little troubled. His grandson had few friends in the first place, and if they went down, there would be very few friends left.

The smile on Cheng Lu's face faded slightly: "It's nothing."

"in argument?"

"Hey, didn't I see that you liked that little doll? Why don't you know how to let others." Grandma Cheng sighed.

Cheng Wang finally raised his eyes, "I like him?"

Grandma Cheng was puzzled. "Yes, when he came to my house for the first time, it was rare for me to see you so happy."

Cheng Wang stopped talking, and flicked his phone, not knowing what he was thinking.

He clicked on Song Mingwang's circle of friends by accident, and saw that he had posted a circle of friends with the latest time.

"Yeah, I got the cake, it's good for my friends to eat."

Below is a picture of a cartoon cake.

He looked up at the calendar, and it turned out that today was his birthday.

He went back to the room and lay on the bed. Because the curtains were not open, the room was a bit dark, and he didn't care. He tossed the lighter up and down with one hand, and kept turning on and off the screen of the phone with the other hand.

Finally he stopped tossing and playing, sat up slightly, and pressed a certain number in the address book.

The phone rang once and was not answered.

He frowned slightly, but remained patient and tried again.

This time it took a long time to pick up the ring, and I didn't know what the other party was doing.

Cheng Wang sat up straight and leaned against the back of the bed, freed one hand to get the cigarette on the bedside table, turned his head slightly and lit it with the lighter with one hand, and then exhaled.

"what are you doing?"

There was no sound immediately, Cheng Wang was very patient and did not speak, listening to the sound of breathing coming from his ear.

Finally, he spoke over there, but his tone was a little blunt, "Nothing."

Cheng Lu was keenly aware of the strangeness in his tone, he flicked the cigarette in his hand, and frowned slightly, "Are you crying?"

"..."

"No." Song Mingwang insisted,

Cheng Wang ran out of patience, and finally asked directly, "Where are you?"

At first Song Mingwang hesitated to speak, but when he heard his tone turn cold, he told the truth.

Cheng Juan immediately put on his coat and got up to go out, while his grandma was still asking questions behind.

"What are you doing out in such a cold day?"

"Something." He didn't look back.

It only takes about 15 minutes to get to the place Song Mingwang mentioned. Once there, he saw Song Mingwang bent over, twitching and hugging his arms, staring at the cake that fell to the ground.

"..."

Song Mingwang actually didn't want Cheng Wang to come at such a bad time, as if he tore off his forced disguise, and unceremoniously revealed his embarrassed side.

As I said before, he is a character that he doesn't want anyone to see when he really cries.

And it would be too embarrassing to have no one to accompany me on my birthday.

Cheng Wang walked up to him slowly and looked down at him.

Song Mingwang noticed a pair of black sneakers in front of him, raised his head and saw that it was indeed Cheng Wang.

He looked at the cake on the ground and frowned subconsciously, but there was no accusation in his tone.

"Why are you so stupid."

Originally Song Mingwang didn't want to pay attention to him, but this sentence touched his anger point.

"My high IQ is a report given by a scientific authority. When it was tested, it was even on the news. If you insult my IQ, you are insulting science."

Cheng Wang saw that he was back to life in an instant, and did not answer his words, but changed the subject and said, "Are you still crying?"

Song Mingwang blinked his eyes, now he had no tears.

In the end, he was led by Cheng Wang to buy the cake again. Under his repeated request, the cake was still the same SpongeBob cake as before, with a one and an eight inserted by himself on it.

The two ate cake together on the lawn under the big tree. Cheng Wang didn't like sweets, so he didn't eat much, and the birthday ceremony was very simple.

But after he blew out the candles, Cheng Wang said "Happy Birthday" to him, which made him feel more precious than any gift he received on his previous birthday.

"What wish did you make?" Cheng Juan propped his hands on the lawn and looked up at the sky. At this time, night had fallen.

"Secret." Song Mingwang shook his head and rejected him.

Cheng Wang didn't care either.He was just asking casually.

Song Mingwang was a little awkward: "I thought it was the worst birthday I ever had, but I didn't expect you to come." It changed from the worst to the best all of a sudden.

He was embarrassed to say what was said later, and felt that it was weird.

Cheng Lu's expression moved slightly, and he pursed his lips calmly.

Song Mingwang took a bite of the cake, and the tip of his tongue suddenly felt sweet and greasy. He took the rest and gave it to the person next to him. Cheng Wang glanced at it, but didn't take it.

"Need not."

Song Mingwang sat on the lawn, Cheng Wang stood up straight, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and asked him, "What is your birthday wish?"

"Can you say it? What if it doesn't work if you say it?"

Cheng Wan turned his head to look at him and raised his eyebrows, Song Mingwang knew what he meant by "you still believe this".

Song Mingwang seemed a little embarrassed, glanced at Cheng Huang quickly, and replied in a low voice: "Actually, my wish is that you believe that I like you."

Cheng Wang didn't speak, but watched him quietly, and after two or three seconds, he patted his head and smiled lightly.

"Then now your wish has come true."