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Today is Chinese New Year, light snow outside, low temperature.

The roads to and from the city are crowded with bustling pedestrians, the kind of bright light bulbs are hung on the trees in the park, and every window of the high-rise buildings emits festive and soft light, and the windows are full of faces. Every household warmed by the festive atmosphere.

However, a deep courtyard in the north of City A is in a corner. Although the decoration here is no different from the cheerful houses in the city center, the distance between every two buildings is too large, which makes people feel no trace of human touch.

This is the main residence of the Jiang family, a manor villa covering a very large area.

It was already very late, the black sky gradually closed, white snowflakes fell on the ground one after another, under the glare of the nearby street lamps, the strong black and white produced a strange contrast.

Duan Ruxu got out of the car under the suspicious eyes of the taxi driver. He looked at his slightly shabby clothes in comparison, and couldn't help but smile.

It's no wonder that the driver's eyes were suspicious. His clothes were barely eye-catching in other places, but compared with the magnificent Jiang family villa not far away, he looked like a beggar who came to beg.

There was a cold wind blowing in from his skirt, Duan Ruxu tightened the neckline of the sweater, and at the same time took a breath, finally feeling warmer.

After doing this, Duan Ruxu heaved a sigh of relief as if he had finally made up his mind. He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, searched for Jiang Yu's number with his stiff fingers, and dialed it.

The phone was picked up not long after it rang. Jiang Yu probably drank some wine because of the festival, and his voice was a little drunk: "Hello, Xiao Xu."

Duan Ruxu was silent for a while, and when he was brewing his emotions, he heard Jiang Yu's hasty cry from the other side who thought his signal was not good, so he felt more and more guilty.

But guilt alone is not enough, and the current situation of the winter solstice does not allow him to hesitate at all.Duan Ruxu teased Jiang Yu on the other side of the phone with a very lonely voice: "Brother Jiang, can you come and have a drink with me, I'm feeling a little bit uncomfortable today."

In order to achieve a realistic effect, Duan Ruxu squeezed his nose hard when he said this, so his voice sounded like weeping, and at the same time his nose was a little red. If Jiang Yu came down, he would see a " I just cried" Duan Xu.

Feeling the obviously tight breathing on the opposite side, Duan Ruxu added to Jiang Yu's anger: "I'm downstairs at your house now."

Things went smoothly. Duan Ruxu didn't hear Jiang Yu's answer, but he heard the voice of Jiang's family scolding Jiang Yu in a hurry on the other end of the phone. If he heard correctly, he also heard Dong Zhi's nervous sentence "Is it Brother Xu?"

Duan Ruxu hugged his shoulders and waited outside for a while. The winter in the south is the most humid time of the year. No matter how many clothes you wear, the tormenting cold wind will permeate your skin through layers of fabric.

What's more, in order to perform this play today, Duan Ruxu didn't wear a down jacket outside, but a sweater that doesn't look very thick but has fleece inside.

But how can clothes with fleece be warmer than a down jacket?

Fortunately, Jiang Yu didn't keep him waiting for long. Within a few minutes, Duan Ruxu heard the sound of footsteps running towards him from the front. He puts on.

His eyes were red, he didn't know whether it was worry or distress: "It's such a cold day, why do you wear so little?"

Duan Ruxu didn't answer him, he just stood quietly, looking at Jiang Yu whose hair was messed up by the wind because of running, his eyes gradually turned red.

Without saying a word, he threw himself into Jiang Yu's arms so unexpectedly, and began to cry silently.

I have to say that in winter, when two people hug each other, the skin next to each other will always be extra warm.

This move scared Jiang Yu quite a bit, because Duan Ruxu had never opened his heart to him before, and he had never comforted others before, so at this moment he could only pat the person in his arms helplessly. back.

He didn't ask anything, just comforted: "Okay...it's okay, everything is over, I'm here."

Duan Ruxu only felt a twinge in his heart, and when he thought about what he would do to Jiang Yu who trusted him so much and helped and supported him unconditionally, he felt that he could never forgive himself again.

One side is the trust of the benefactor, and the other is the safety of the friend. Duan Ruxu didn't struggle in his heart for long, but the eyes buried on Jiang Yu's shoulders were full of apology.

He told about what happened after he met Lin Zhiyue at the dinner party on the day of his departure. In fact, there was nothing to say. He only met Lin Zhiyue alone once during the period. Before today, Wen Yueze never told him Stayed alone in the villa.

But this does not prevent him from adding oil and vinegar to this story and deliberately intensifying conflicts.

Even the fact that Lin Zhiyue took pictures of Wen's family banquet and sent them this afternoon was used by him again. It was originally the source of his bad mood on the New Year's day, but now it became his delusion to use Jiang Yu's stereotypes. Excuse.

Only this time.Duan Ruxu thought with guilt, no matter what Brother Jiang wants in the future, he will try his best to make it up.

After Jiang Yu heard what he said, he was really angry. While scolding Wen Yueze, he really didn't have any good intentions, and at the same time scolding Lin Zhiyue for not making much progress after so many years. When the scolding was over, he changed his tone and asked cautiously Does Duan Ruxu have any thoughts of leaving Wen Yueze?

Duan Ruxu's eyelashes twitched. Of course he knew what Jiang Yu meant. In fact, when he was about to use Jiang Yu, he had already planned to involve himself in it.

Duan Ruxu lowered his eyes and smiled wryly: "Brother Jiang, you should know that until I met Wen Yueze again, I kept avoiding him."

Jiang Yu also thought of the five years he spent with Duan Ruxu day and night, and couldn't help showing a smile on his face.

The two stood side by side on the edge of the flower bed for a while, when another gust of cold wind blew, Jiang Yu suggested: "It's too cold here, why don't you go to my house to rest?"

These words just touched Duan Ruxu's heart. He came to Jiang Yu to enter Jiang's house to investigate the situation, but he was afraid of being suspected, so he hesitated and glanced in the direction of Jiang's main house: "Wen Yueze is not Let me spend the night outside."

Just now, Duan Xu dismissed Wen Yueze, but now Jiang Yu gets angry when he hears these three words.He poked Duan Ruxu's shoulder resentfully: "Did you forget what you told me just now? He treated you like that, and you still plan to listen to him?"

Duan Ruxu turned pale: "But..."

"It's nothing to worry about, I'll take care of it for you if something goes wrong." Speaking of this, Jiang Yu couldn't help laughing at himself again, "I know how people outside compare me and Wen Yueze, that's all To be honest, I am indeed inferior to him in business. But correspondingly, he may not be inferior to me in life."

This is also the truth, Duan Ruxu endured to agree with Jiang Yu in his heart, but there was still some worry on his face.

Jiang Yu said: "Don't worry, my elder brother will always help me. With him around, I don't have to worry about accidents."

He seemed to have an innate confidence in Jiang Luanzhang. Duan Ruxu didn't know Jiang Luanzhang very well, but judging from his methods of dealing with Dongzhi, he shouldn't be so easy to deal with, so he nodded.

After entering Jiang's house, Duan Ruxu didn't deliberately inquire about the winter solstice, but quietly huddled in a corner of the sofa - it seemed that he was really just a man who had a relationship problem and came to talk to a friend.

However, he didn't ask, but Dongzhi came to him by himself.

To be precise, it can't be regarded as coming to him, but when he came down to drink water from upstairs, he happened to see Duan Ruxu sitting on the sofa chatting with Jiang Yu.

Dong Zhi visibly tensed up, he opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but when he looked up and saw Jiang Yu next to him, he was still a little scared, and swallowed what he wanted to say back into his stomach along with his saliva.

He just quickened his pace, trotting to Duan Ruxu's side: "Brother Xu, why are you here?"

"Something happened." Duan Ruxu forced a smile at him, "Why do you still live here during Chinese New Year? Don't you worry at home?"

Winter Solstice was a little sad in his heart, he was even thinking about whether Duan Ruxu had read the text message he sent him.But soon he realized that Duan Ruxu's trip was just for him.

After all, the message he sent to Duan Ruxu only had one address and a word of help, and after that, Duan Ruxu, who Jiang Yu mentioned before, "I don't want to come to the house after several invitations", immediately came to Jiang's house. Not strange?

After reacting, Dong Zhi finally felt safe in his heart.

He was leaning on the edge of the sofa at Duan Ruxu's side, and the smile on his face looked the same as usual: "They came to see me today, didn't I tell you before, my parents and Uncle Jiang Auntie has had a very good relationship since she was young, so good that sometimes she forgets that she still has such a lovely son as me—they should throw me away to play again now."

Duan Ruxu didn't seem too surprised at this point, because when Jiang Yu invited him to visit Jiang's house in previous years, Duan Ruxu refused because he didn't know how to please the elders. It was his parents who usually left him to live in a world of two.

At that time, Duan Ruxu thought it was a joke that Jiang Yu said to comfort him, but now it seems that it is true.

The winter solstice only stayed below for a short while, and Jiang Luanzhang had already walked out of the room and into the corridor.He looked down at the three people in the living room, and when he saw Duan Ruxu, his eyes flashed with surprise.

But he didn't pay attention to anyone, as if he could only see Dong Zhi alone as far as he could see, he didn't even say hello to Jiang Yu, just stared at Dong Zhi from the air, with no expression on his face: "How can you drink water?" How long will it take?"

When Dong Zhi heard the sound, his body trembled slightly.He turned around and saw Jiang Luanzhang, and wrinkled his nose pretending to be disgusted: "I saw Brother Xu, I was a little surprised, and I want to say hello to him."

Jiang Luanzhang pursed his lips, frowned slightly, and his stern face was full of impatience.

"Okay, okay, I see, I'll come up now." Dong Zhi sighed helplessly, he said something to Duan Ruxu for the next chat, then turned around and walked to the kitchen, whispering, "I'll just drink Just some water, let’s drink some water.”

Jiang Luanzhang still didn't speak, his eyes skipped over Duan Ruxu without even stopping there, but his back was soaked in sweat in the cold winter of the twelfth lunar month.

After Dongzhi drank the water, he went up, and Jiang Luanzhang followed him back to the room, without the slightest remembrance in his actions or expressions.

That night, Duan Ruxu suffered from insomnia.He was so tormented by the winter solstice that he couldn't sleep when there was a small knock on the door.