are you a cat

There was some noise in the box.

Yu Xin and Ye Zeyang were sitting on the left and right sides of Ye Chen respectively, each with their children.

The sound of Yexin calling her father and Yu Ning to play tablet games from time to time, and the voice of Yu Xin and the waiter ordering food are mixed together, making Ye Chen upset.

He sat on the seat with a sullen face, lowered his head and swiped his phone, no one wanted to answer.

In the group, Bai Jingping and Deng Xingdong chattered about last night's basketball game, but Yechen just watched them chat and didn't speak.

From time to time, the topics of the two people's chats were interspersed with questions similar to "When do you think Chen'er's side will end?"

They waited for Yechen to celebrate his birthday after dinner, but Yechen was in no mood now.

If Yu Xin had told him from the beginning that they would bring Yuning and Yexin separately, he would never have come to eat this meal.

If this is the coming-of-age ceremony that Yu Xin prepared for him, it will really make him remember deeply.

"Let's start with these." Yu Xin closed the menu and asked Ye Chen, "Chen Chen, do you have anything to add?"

Yechen looked at the phone and didn't respond to her at all.

Yu Xin handed the menu to Ye Zeyang again, and asked with his eyes.

Although each remarried, they still had occasional contact because of Yechen. After the divorce, they became calm and peaceful, and they didn't quarrel like before when they sat together.

"Dad, I want to drink coconut milk." Yexin said.

"Then what else do you want to eat?" Ye Zeyang took the menu and looked at it with Ye Xin.

Yu Xin asked Ye Chen: "Chen Chen, why don't you see you unwrap presents?"

There are many shopping bags on the table, which are birthday presents from Yu Xin and Ye Zeyang.

You don't even need to look to know what's inside.

It's nothing more than clothes, Yu Xin and Ye Zeyang give these every year, it seems that if you give Ye Chen enough material satisfaction, there is nothing to owe him.

Ye Zeyang grabbed his few shopping bags and put them in front of Ye Chen, with a rare kindness: "Your Aunt Diao picked them for you, let's see if you like them."

Ye Xin added: "My mother and I chose it for my brother."

Yexin looked at Yechen expectantly, and said obediently, "I hope my brother likes it."

Yechen didn't raise his head, and said perfunctorily, "Understood."

Yexin pouted, so disappointed.

She specially asked her father to bring her here today.

Compared with the extroverted and lively Ye Xin, Yu Ning is a little more introverted, and does not like and get close to her brother like Ye Xin.

Yu Xin brought him here because she wanted to take this opportunity to draw in the relationship between Ye Chen and his younger brother, after all, in her opinion, besides her, Yu Ning, Ye Chen is the closest person in this world.

Hearing Ye Xin's words, she hurriedly said, "My brother also has a gift for you."

"Ning Ning, didn't you use your pocket money to buy a gift for your brother?" She took the tablet from Yu Ning's hand, "Take it out quickly."

Yu Ning glanced at Yechen, jumped off the dining chair and ran to the sofa, and took out a somewhat rough-wrapped gift from her small schoolbag.

He was a little hesitant holding the gift, Yu Xin encouraged him and said, "Hurry up and give it to brother."

"Brother," Yu Ning handed the gift to Ye Chen, "Happy birthday."

He stretched out his hand in the air, but he didn't answer it.

The atmosphere in the whole box was a little condensed.

Yu Ning looked at Yu Xin for help.

"Ningning wrapped it for you with her own hands, and I'm not allowed to help." Yu Xin said.

She originally wanted to tell Yechen how much he liked his brother, but she didn't know that it had another meaning in Yechen's ears.

He looked down, took the gift and put it on the table without any desire to open it.

Yu Ning breathed a sigh of relief, quickly slipped away from Ye Chen, and climbed onto the chair next to Yu Xin with both hands and feet.

Yu Xin asked Yechen: "Why don't you take it apart and have a look, my brother has been choosing it for a long time."

Ye Chen roughly tore off the wrapping paper, and what Yu Ning gave him was a music box.

Open the lid, and the little figure sitting in front of the piano in the box will move.

Accompanied by the undulating keys, it seems to be the music played by a villain.

"When will the food be served?" There was no ups and downs on Yechen's face, and he couldn't tell whether he liked it or not. He closed the lid of the box and cut off the music, "I'm going back after eating."

Yu Xin: "Chenchen, this gift was specially chosen by Ningning for you—"

Yechen didn't want to hear that, so she interrupted with an "oh".

Yu Xin asked: "Do you like it?"

There was a bang sound when the music box hit the table, and Yechen's face was full of impatience: "Is it over?"

"Yechen!" Ye Zeyang snapped, "Why are you talking to your mother!"

Ye Zeyang's various dissatisfaction with Yu Xin before the divorce seems to have been transferred to Ye Chen after the two divorced, so that Ye Chen can still see him speak for Yu Xin on this day.

Although he knew that Ye Zeyang just thought that he, a son, could not disobey and disobey his parents with such a tone, which challenged Ye Zeyang's authority.

Ye Chen's personality was also inherited from Ye Zeyang to a certain extent.

The more he was educated, the more rebellious he became, and Ye Zeyang's words completely ignited him.

"Then what do you want me to say?" Ye Chen looked at him indifferently.

Ye Zeyang was about to lose his temper when he heard it, Yu Xin reminded him first: "Ye Zeyang, today is Chen Chen's birthday!"

"It's your birthday today, I don't want to disturb you." Ye Zeyang suppressed his anger and said to Ye Chen, "Think about your attitude for yourself."

Yechen sneered: "You also know that today is my birthday?"

As he spoke, he opened the shopping bag on the table, and took out the clothes one by one. I don't know if it's because Ye Xin also participated. The prints and styles of the clothes that Diao Mu chose for Ye Chen were a bit childish.

But that's not the point.

Yechen pointed to the size on the clothes tag: "Do you know that I am 1.8 meters tall, and this pile of clothes of size 175 is your birthday present to me?"

He asked Ye Zeyang: "Do you think I can wear it?"

Ye Zeyang was momentarily at a loss for words.

He really didn't realize that Ye Chen had grown to 1.8 meters. He always thought that Ye Chen was about the same height as him, so when Diao Mu bought clothes, he also chose Ye Chen according to his size.

But Yechen's questioning tone still made him uncomfortable: "What's your tone, is it my fault that I bought you clothes?"

Parents never admit their mistakes.

You may even feel that the juniors don't know what to do.

"Ye Zeyang!" Compared to him, Yu Xin was still looking at Ye Chen, she frowned, "You have to quarrel today, don't you think it's reasonable for you to buy a bunch of clothes that he can't wear on Chen Chen's birthday ?”

"The hang tag is not removed, so if you can't wear it, you can change it!" Ye Zeyang reminded her, "Yu Xin, we agreed not to quarrel today, so don't provoke me."

"Who exactly wants to quarrel?" Yu Xin refused to give an inch, "If you are half as patient with Chen Chen as you are with Ye Xin, you can't do this kind of thing!"

"Just talk if you talk, can you not bring children, first ask if your son is half-obedient and not make me angry!"

"What is my son? Isn't Yechen your son?!"

So talking about living in peace is just an illusion of three chapters.

Such unscrupulous and unscrupulous quarrels that thrust their swords at Ye Chen are the truth that they are covering up.

It was also the first time for Yexin and Yuning to see such a scene, and they were both taken aback.

The small box was filled with a pungent smell.

Yexin was the first to be scared and cry.

First, with tears in his eyes, he carefully called out to Dad, but Zeyang, who was burning with anger, didn't hear it, and still quarreled with Yu Xin.

Then the little girl pursed her mouth and cried directly.

Children's emotions are contagious. When she cried, Yu Ning couldn't help it. The two bewildered children called one mother and the other father, and they regained their reason with tears.

The two turned off the fire for a while, and each started to coax the children.

Originally, when Yu Ning and Ye Xin were crying, Ye Chen still felt a little pleasure of revenge.

He was no longer the only witness to the hysteria about both of them.

And when they coaxed the child softly, said something wrong, and stopped arguing, it was like someone poured cold water on him head-on.

It was bitingly cool.

He sat quietly for a while, staring at Yu Xin, thinking that if he silently counted three times, if Yu Xin turned to look at him, he would...

He didn't think about it anyway, but he counted three times in his heart very slowly.

一

two

……

three

Yu Xin didn't look back, she was still wiping Yuning's tears.

Ye Chen suddenly felt very meaningless.

He laughed to himself and stood up from his seat.

Yu Xin turned around when she heard the movement: "Chen Chen?"

"Oh, I'm going to the toilet." Yechen left the box empty-handed.

Once I left, I never went back.

Xu Yuxing's right eye started to twitch not long after he met Ye Chen in the restaurant.

He didn't know how Yechen's relationship with his stepmother and this half-sister was, but seeing Yechen's instantly collapsed face at that time, it shouldn't be too good.

He felt vaguely uneasy.

"When does the audition start?" Shao Fan asked Fang Wan in the backstage of the livehouse.

The one who had dinner with them today was a program producer who was preparing a variety show for band selection, which was their first announcement after signing with Planet.

Fang Wan said, "November."

"That's half a year away," Shao Fan said to Xu Yuxing, "Brother, your phone is ringing."

Xu Yuxing was thinking about Yechen and didn't pay attention to it just now. After being reminded, he took out his phone, and the caller made him frown slightly.

The band members were all guessing which domestic bands had been invited to the band selection variety show that invited them. The backstage was a bit noisy, and Xu Yuxing's uneasiness in his heart became more and more intense.

Why did Yu Xin call him at this time?

"I'll take a call." He greeted the members, walked out of the lounge, found a quiet place and pressed the connect button, "Sister Xin, what's the matter?"

"Ah Xing, is Chenchen with you?"

Yu Xin's words directly made Xu Yuxing's heart sink to the bottom, he didn't even notice the coldness in his words: "Shouldn't he be with you?"

Yu Xin discovered something was wrong when the waiters were serving the dishes one after another. Ye Chen went to the bathroom for nearly 10 minutes and still hasn't come back.

She asked Ye Zeyang to take a look, but the result was that there was no one in the bathroom.

Both the bag and the mobile phone are there, but Yechen is missing.

"Second aunt."

This is the first time that Xu Yuxing has called her so formally since Yu Xin and Xu Yingbo got married.

In the hot and dry weather of July, his voice was so cold that it seemed to carry the biting cold wind of February: "Today is Xiaochen's birthday."

"This is the only time in his life."