imaginary rival

The next day, the sun lit up every corner of the city from seven o'clock, but Yan An and Jiang Shiyu still stubbornly slept until after nine o'clock before getting up.

I don't know if it was because of guilty conscience or something else, Jiang Shiyu didn't look at Yan An very much all morning until he asked, "Do you want to take Xie Lanlan with you?"

Only then did Jiang Shiyu look up at Yan An, thought for a while, and said, "If you want to call her, you can call her."

Yan An also thought about it, but still shook his head: "Forget it, it's really bad."

Jiang Shiyu didn't say much.

The two of them ate lunch and rested for a while before heading to the Fifth Hospital. They didn't bring anything. Yan An said that the hospital's diet control for Ran Hang was very strict, and they didn't allow them to eat more snacks. He guessed that even if they brought them In the past, Ran Hang couldn't eat much.

Yan An didn't do any psychological construction along the way. It is estimated that any construction was useless, but he was nervous. Ran Hang was the source of his fear, and it was impossible for him not to be nervous.

Jiang Shiyu didn't remember what Ran Hang looked like. He only remembered playing together when he was a child. He played with Yan An, Xie Lanlan, and the big brother Ran Hang. He had a very vague impression.

It wasn't until he entered the ward that the vague impression was cleared away. Jiang Shiyu saw Ran Hang on the hospital bed, and he couldn't connect him with the person in his childhood memory, but his face was the same, but he was too thin. Protruding cheekbones, large but dull eyes.

"Xiao An," Ran Hang asked with a chuckle, "Is this your classmate?"

"Ah, no, no," Yan An walked to the bed with a frown and said, "This is... Jiang Shiyu."

"Brother," Jiang Shiyu also walked to the bed, pulled a stool and sat down with Yan An, "Do you remember me? You took me to play when I was young."

Ran Hang was a little dazed, looking at Jiang Shiyu without saying a word.

Yan An grabbed the edge of his trousers, his palms were sweating layer after layer, all rubbed onto his trousers, and his back also started to sweat.

It may be because the incident was fully recalled yesterday, some memories became extremely clear.

Loud noise.

blood.

A person falling from a height.

Family members who are broken in the blink of an eye, family members who are hurt.

Homosexuality is like a double-edged sword, causing irreversible pain to both him and his family, but Yan An still can't understand what Aunt Wang and the others are doing.

"Xiao An," Ran Hang blinked his eyes, and seemed to have no longer struggled with the question of whether he had met Jiang Shiyu, and simply ignored him, "Do you know? I'm leaving here."

Jiang Shiyu paused, then turned to look at Yan An.

Yan An didn't have any expression on his face. It could be seen that he was so nervous that his breath was intermittent, and he laughed after a while: "Really?"

"He said I'm fine and can leave," Ran Hang said with a smile, "I'm not sick anymore."

"That...that's great," Yan An glanced down, "When you come out, we can play together."

Ran Hang stared at him for a while, pursing his lips and smiling happily.

From such a conversation, it is actually impossible to see what is wrong with Ran Hang.

Jiang Shiyu has been sitting beside him, inserting a few words from time to time to keep Yan An from getting too nervous, while looking at Ran Hang's state.

Very normal.

It would be better to say that he sat on the hospital bed chatting and laughing as if he had never been sick, occasionally staring at the sunshine outside the window in a daze, and occasionally not answering Yan An's words, it would take him a long time to react. It can be seen that his condition is not very good.

But he kept repeating one sentence.

I'm getting out of here.

Jiang Shiyu thought about this sentence for a long time.

According to what Yan An said, Ran Hang could not escape here so easily.

He is going out... Where does he mean to go?

The movement on the bed brought Jiang Shiyu back to his senses. Ran Hang was putting on his shoes. After getting up, he looked at Jiang Shiyu and smiled, explaining, "I'm going to the bathroom."

"Huh? Okay," Jiang Shiyu nodded, and immediately looked at Yan An after Ran Hang entered the toilet, "Are you okay?"

"Fortunately..." Yan An lowered his head and rubbed his stomach, "I'm not as nervous as I thought."

Jiang Shiyu stared at him carefully, with the previous experience, he could no longer believe the emotions Yan An expressed.

"It's fine," Yan An sighed, "but he... is still like this."

"Huh?" Jiang Shiyu raised his hand and rubbed his head.

Yan An sat obediently, and said: "He has always wanted to leave here, and sometimes he keeps asking me when I can go out. This is a serious time."

Jiang Shiyu's hands changed from rubbing to rubbing.

"Sometimes he will be better and clearer, probably to comfort himself in his mind...just like now," Yan An said softly, "He keeps saying that he is going to leave."

"... Isn't it even more sad when he realizes that he can't leave?" Jiang Shiyu asked.

Yan An glanced at him, raised his head and scratched his face: "He may not react."

Jiang Shiyu was stunned.

"Oh, I remember you," Ran Hang came out of the toilet and looked at Jiang Shiyu, "Xiaoyu, right? You were very lively when you were young."

Lively?who?Jiang Shiyu?

Yan An glanced at Jiang Shiyu.

"Brother," Jiang Shiyu nodded and smiled, "Long time no see."

"Long time no see," Ran Hang said with a smile, "I'm leaving here soon, wait for me, I'll go out and treat you to dinner."

Jiang Shiyu nodded.

After chatting in the ward for a while, Yan An and Jiang Shiyu got up and left. Ran Hang didn't have any obvious mood swings, and they even heard him humming a song when they left.

I am in a very good mood.

Jiang Shiyu and Yan An hadn't spoken to each other all this time. After the two walked out of the hospital gate, Yan An jumped on his feet twice and let out a long sigh of relief: "Hey."

"Do you want to tell Aunt Wang?" Jiang Shiyu looked at him, "Hint that you have already been here."

"Yes," Yan An took out his phone and wanted to call Aunt Wang, "I'll just tell her that brother Ran Hang is fine."

Jiang Shiyu nodded, watching Yan An dial the phone.

Yan An obviously still worried about Ran Hang, otherwise he wouldn't have come to face his fear like this, but... the feeling that something was wrong came back again last night.

What is wrong?

They stood under a tree, the sun fell on the ground, and the leaves were cut into mottled spots, and the occasional gust of wind was also warm.

Yan An was on the phone, and the voice came over from time to time, reporting Ran Hang's status, but Jiang Shiyu remained silent, staring at the things around him in a daze.

A man suddenly walked towards this side, Jiang Shiyu looked over and felt that this man looked familiar.

It was a hot day, the man was dressed casually, but he was all in black, with a nervous smile on his lips...

Jiang Shiyu froze for a moment, then remembered that this was the man he had seen at the airport, the one who came to strike up a conversation with a box of biscuits when he heard him and Jiang Xing quarreling.

At this moment the man was walking towards them.

After Yan An finished talking on the phone, he put the phone in his pocket, turned his head and was about to say something to Jiang Shiyu when he caught a glimpse of the man from the corner of his eye, and then he froze.

Jiang Shiyu looked at Yan An in a daze.

"Xiao An," the man came over and waved his hands cheerfully, "Long time no see!"

"Lian Zhou," Yan An read out his name in a low voice, "Why are you here?"

"I'm back." Lian Zhou said with a smile.

"You..." Yan An's hand was hanging by his side, Jiang Shiyu subconsciously looked for something to hold his hand when he saw his hand, and passed his hand over without thinking, Yan An seemed to have a conditioned reflex Hold it.

Yan An paused, looked at Lian Zhou: "What are you, when did you come back?"

Lian Zhou looked at the two of them, and the smile on the corner of his mouth grew bigger and bigger: "That's the day your boyfriend came back."

Who?

What friend?

male what?

Yan An was stunned for a while, looked back at Jiang Shiyu, shook his hand vigorously, and then threw Jiang Shiyu's hand away suddenly, "No, no, he is not my boyfriend..."

"Oh," Lian Zhou seemed to have a semi-permanent smile tattooed on his face, "I thought you were, after all, you two have had a good relationship since childhood."

When I was young.

Here's another guy who's known us since we were kids.

Jiang Shiyu looked down at his hands and said nothing.

No wonder he came up to strike up a conversation that day.

"Okay, I won't quarrel with you guys anymore, I'll go in and see you Brother Hang," Lian Zhou waved his hand, "Don't tell your mother that I'm back."

"...I know." Yan An said.

After finishing speaking, he seemed to be still in strong shock, watching Lian Zhou's leaving back without saying a word.

"Who is that?" Jiang Shiyu asked.

"...is Ran Hang's boyfriend," Yan An paused after saying this, and took a deep breath, "He was also sent to the treatment center after the accident, and we never saw each other again. Said he was taken to another city."

Jiang Shiyu nodded, looked up at Yan An's expression - Yan An's expression was not so frightened at this time, or nervous, his expression was very natural - he was suddenly taken aback, the sense of disobedience yesterday The source seems a lot clearer.

Yan An said that he was afraid of homosexuals because of Ran Hang, but in fact he was not afraid of all homosexuals.

Jiang Shiyu has been observing that Yan An's speechless tension and fatal fear when facing Ran Hang are not there when he is facing Ruan Yu, who is also gay, and even when he is facing Lian Zhou. None have been revealed.

Yan An wasn't afraid of them at all, he was just repelling them.

What is he repelling?

Jiang Shiyu looked at Yan An's side face, and a very miraculous idea suddenly flooded into his head, lingering.

But doesn't Yan An like Xie Lanlan?

"Go back," Yan An came back to his senses, took out his phone and looked at it, "Eat at my house this afternoon?"

"Well," Jiang Shiyu frowned and nodded, "I have to go back tonight, school starts tomorrow, I'll clean up."

"Okay." Yan An quickly responded.

On the way back, Jiang Shiyu was struggling with the questions in his heart all the time. He was restless, and Yan An called him several times without answering.

When entering the community, Yan An simply put his arm on his shoulder, leaned over and asked, "Are you scared?"

"Huh?" Jiang Shiyu didn't understand.

"Just... those things," Yan An said, "Don't think about it."

"I didn't think so." Jiang Shiyu glanced at him.

Somewhat unable to tell Yan An what he was thinking.

If he was wrong, Yan An would think he was sick.

But if he's not mistaken, then...

Jiang Shiyu frowned, took a deep breath, and walked in with Yan An.

When he walked in to the part of the small garden, Xie Zhu suddenly jumped out from the side, opened his arms and hugged Jiang Shiyu: "Brother Xiaoyu!"

"Ouch," Jiang Shiyu embraced her with one hand, turned his head and whispered to Yan An, "It made me tremble."

Yan An was happy for a while: "Are you playing here alone?"

"And my sister." Xie Zhu took Jiang Shiyu's hand and walked into the small garden, "She said that I will scare you."

"How wicked." Yan An sighed and walked inside.

Xie Lanlan sat in the gazebo, propped her face, and held bubble water in the other hand: "Oh, rare visitor."

"Don't be weird," Yan An pointed at her, "We both have business to go out, so we didn't mean not to take you with us."

"I'm not angry," Xie Lanlan stood up and handed the bubble water to Xie Zhu, "It's just that there is a delicious ice powder at the gate of the community."

"Let's go," Jiang Shiyu said with a smile, "I'm treating you."

Xie Lanlan smiled at him.

The three of them walked out for a while, Yan An went to ask Xie Zhu for bubble water to play with, Jiang Shiyu and Xie Lanlan walked slowly behind.

"Xiao'an is so annoying!" Xie Zhu hugged Bubbleshui and did not let go, "You! You can't be so childish!"

"Who told me!" Yan An yelled, "I only turned seventeen in winter! I can still be childish!"

"Ah—" Xie Zhu yelled with a smile.

"God," Xie Lanlan clicked her tongue twice, "these two must be at most ten years old together."

"Nine years old." Jiang Shiyu laughed for a while, "Isn't Xiaozhu six years old this year?"

Xie Lanlan also had fun for a while, and when she was about to chase after Xie Zhu and tell Xie Zhu to be careful, Jiang Shiyu grabbed her arm.

"Hey?" Xie Lanlan looked back at him, "What's wrong?"

"Then what," Jiang Shiyu frowned, and said, "I'm asking a question, don't be angry."

Xie Lanlan stood firm and looked at Jiang Shiyu: "If you don't ask some questions, don't ask them. Jiang Shiyu, I really regard you as a friend, and I really think you are very funny."

Jiang Shiyu opened his mouth, but was unable to speak.

"So I won't take care of some things," Xie Lanlan said softly, "Don't ask me about anyone you like."

"...It's not about me." Jiang Shiyu looked into her eyes and said seriously.

"Ah." Xie Lanlan also looked at him.

"I'll just ask you." Jiang Shiyu always felt that Xie Lanlan had a high EQ, higher than Yan An anyway. Ask her about this kind of thing... what should she know, "It's just..."

"If you don't want a treat, you can just say so." Xie Lanlan smiled.

"No, then what, Xie Lanlan," Jiang Shiyu just raised the corner of his mouth and then licked it back, asking in a low voice, "Does Yan An like you?"