Although the first year of high school didn't have to go to evening self-study, school ended very late, and when Xi Nian arrived at the place in the class monitor's text message, it was already dark.

The colorful and constantly changing lights at the door hurt people's eyes. Standing far outside, one can hear the faint sound of music and vibrations coming from inside...Xi Nian felt a little strange, because this is——

a bar.

...Why would the squad leader ask him to come to this kind of place?

Just when he picked up his mobile phone and was about to call the squad leader to confirm the address, a figure just emerged from the dim bar:

"Xi Nian, here!"

Hearing this, Xi Nian raised his head, and the person standing not far from him was the squad leader whom he hadn't seen for many days. Before he had time to think about it, he walked over quickly: "Why do you..."

He swallowed all the questioning words when he saw the squad leader's appearance at this time——

The squad leader, who has always paid great attention to his personal image, is now wearing a white shirt with several smudges. The three buttons on the top must have been pulled off by external forces, and the threads on the buttons are still hanging down. He seems to want to close the neckline. However, during the movement, Xi Nian saw the bruises on his body... Xi Nian's gaze slowly moved upwards, and the original delicate face was now covered with marks that were the same as his body, on the forehead and the corners of the mouth. There is still some blood oozing, it looks horrible...

"Who, what, what?" Xi Nian stared straight at the person in front of him, and asked word by word.

The squad leader's eyes flickered: "... Forget it, let's go in first and then..."

Xi Nian forcefully interrupted him before he finished speaking: "I ask you, who did it?"

The squad leader was silent.

It took a long time for Xi Nian to hear him say: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to recite..." There was an uncontrollable depression and pain in his voice.

Xi Nian was taken aback, and subconsciously asked, "Is it your family...?"

The squad leader fell into silence again, but this time the silence seemed a little tacit.

Xi Nian pursed his lips, he didn't know what to say for a moment, wanted to comfort, but found that he had never comforted others, and he couldn't even say words of comfort...

The squad leader sighed deeply, raised his head, and showed a forced smile on his face: "...let's go in and talk again."

Xi Nian still had some doubts in his heart, but the entrance of the bar was indeed not a good place to talk. He hesitated for a moment but nodded, and followed the squad leader into the bar.

Eight o'clock in the evening is not early for high school students, but it is too early for people who hang out in bars all year round.

So when Xi Nian really walked into the bar, he realized that except for the booths in a few corners, most of the other seats in the hall were empty. He didn't stop until he got the seat he had taken - it was a private room.

The area of ​​the private room is not small, and the decoration style is a typical dark nightclub style. There are three sets of soft and comfortable sofas in the center, a huge LCD screen in front, and two towering wine cabinets on both sides of the private room. Numerous famous wines from various countries are displayed on it, and you can tell that it is worth a lot of money at a glance.

"what do you want to drink?"

Probably seeing Xi Nian looking at the wine cabinet, the squad leader came over and asked.

Xi Nian shook his head: "...I still have to do my homework when I get home."

The squad leader's smile became more and more forced: "Oh, sorry, I forgot... then can I order you a drink?"

This time, Xi Nian didn't refuse again. He sat down on the sofa, put down the messenger bag he was carrying, and took out an A4-sized notebook from it and handed it to the monitor: "You haven't been here for a while. School, the final exam is coming soon, this is the focus of my planning according to what the teacher said...you can refer to it."

It was the first time for Xi Nian to do such a proactive thing, he felt a little embarrassed, put the notebook into the monitor's hand and turned his head away, pretending to be looking at the private room.It was precisely because of this that he didn't see... After listening to his words, the squad leader could hardly keep the smile on his face.

"...Thank you." The squad leader held the book tightly with both hands as if he couldn't control his strength, and the joints on the back of his hands were frighteningly bluish-white.

After a while, he put the notebook aside and let out a long sigh of relief: "Xi Nian, do you have any plans or goals in the future?"

Xi Nian withdrew his gaze of "studying the decoration of the private room", and looked at him suspiciously: "What's the plan? The final exam? I plan to take the first place in the exam."

"..." This answer made the class monitor choke for three seconds without saying a word. After three seconds, he wiped his face and said dumbfoundedly, "Who asked you about the goal of the final exam...I mean in the future, Do you have any plans for the future? Goals such as what university to go to and what job you want to do in the future."

After the words fell, Xi Nian's eyes became visibly confused.

...What are your plans for the future?

...What university do you want to study in the future?

...what kind of job do you want to do in the future?

……

Xi Nian opened his mouth, and a bunch of words scrambled to block his throat, but the last thing he said was the sentence he didn't want to say: "...it depends on my parents, I don't have the right to choose .”

It's been like this since childhood.

I don't know if it was Xi Nian's illusion, but after hearing what he said, the squad leader seemed relieved, and the smile on his face became deeper:

"I almost forgot, your family is different from our ordinary family, so it's good."

These words fell into Xi Nian's ears really uncomfortable, he frowned and said nothing.

The squad leader seemed to have not noticed his displeasure, and continued to say: "Actually, our school is not the best among public high schools in Xijiang City. If your parents want to transfer you to a better school , the operation should be easy, right?"

"Or studying abroad directly in high school is also a good choice. It is much more convenient to go to a famous foreign school."

"You should inherit the family business in the future, right? The family has arranged everything properly. It's great."

"Although it is said that all roads lead to Rome, Xi Nian, you have been in Rome since you were born..."

His words became more and more harsh, Xi Nian finally couldn't help but opened his mouth: "...Did you ask me out today just to mock me?"

"Sarcasm? You actually think it's sarcasm?" The squad leader was taken aback for a moment, and quickly laughed out loud, "... Forget it, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say things you don't like to hear. I've been under too much pressure during this time, so I'm going to laugh. I may not be in a good state of mind, and I actually said these nonsense words..."

Just at this moment, the doorbell of the private room rang, and the waiter who pushed the door and walked in was a uniformed waiter who lowered his head. He put the tray in his hand on the tea table in front of the two of them and said politely, "Please slow down." "Yong" and left the private room.

On the tray are two glasses of orange juice.

The squad leader put one of the glasses in front of Xi Nian: "This glass of orange juice is my apology to you for the nonsense just now."

What he said just now did make Xi Nian very angry, but since he said that... Xi Nian raised his glass of orange juice with a sullen face, intending to take a sip to express his apology, and before his lips touched Upper cup wall——

"Xi Nian!"

Xi Nian's hands trembled in fright at the squad leader's sudden voice, and half of the orange juice spilled out.

"What are you doing?!" Xi Nian hurriedly put the orange juice back on the coffee table, and while wiping his cuffs and trouser legs with a paper towel, he said speechlessly, "What's wrong with you today?"

"...It's nothing," the squad leader smiled and shook his head. The moment Xi Nian bowed his head, his eyes became a little complicated, as if he was a little sad, but also a little guilty, "Xi Nian, what if I do something in the future? Bad things...will you forgive me?"

"No." Xi Nian raised his head and said solemnly.

The squad leader took a breath, and his face instantly turned pale. Fortunately, the light in the private room was dim, so this change was not obvious.

But the next second—

"Unless you apologize." Seeing that the squad leader seemed to be frightened by him, the corners of Xi Nian's lips raised slightly, "If you apologize, I will forgive you."

The squad leader let out a long sigh of relief, his voice was so low that only he could hear: "That, that's good... that's great..."

Xi Nian threw the paper towels he had wiped into the trash can not far away, then took a sip of the glass of orange juice...

……

Even though so many years have passed, Xi Nian can still remember the taste of that glass of orange juice.

——Sweetness mixed with a bit of bitterness.

At that time, he only thought it was the bitter taste of orange peel, but he didn't expect that it was the taste of the little "seasoning" that someone specially added to him.

……

The phone has stopped vibrating, and the name displayed on the missed call area has also slowly disappeared as the screen lights dimmed... Xi Nian casually threw it on the seat next to him, and then buried his face deeply in the sweat Cracking palms.

and after?What happened next?

He actually kind of lost track of it.

I just remember that the next day the school was full of rumors about him——

【Xi Nian from Class [-] is gay】

[The handsome student who transferred to class [-] last semester sent nude photos to their class monitor]

[The disgusting homosexual in class [-] sexually harassed their class monitor]

……

No matter where Xi Nian goes, those eyes with suspicion, curiosity, disgust, and disgust always follow him, but the classmates who used to always surround him are scattered, as if... as if they were close to him One point will be infected with the most vicious virus in the world called "homosexuality".

Xi Nian really wanted to ask them: Do you really believe that I send nude photos to the monitor?Do you really believe that I sexually harassed the monitor?Do you really believe that... I'm gay?Even if I'm gay, what am I doing wrong?Are homosexuals bound to do such unbearable things?

But Xi Nian didn't know who to ask, and later he didn't want to ask any more.

What he thinks is that the clear will be clear, and the turbid will be turbid. Time can prove everything.

But the facts gave him a blow to the head.

Rumors intensified, and even the nude photo rumored to have been sent by Xi Nian to the class monitor appeared on the school’s post bar—it’s not always true if it’s a nude photo. In the photo, Xi Nian just unbuttoned his shirt, revealing a large, clean chest, hands Hanging on the half-open trouser chain, it seems to be pulling down the zipper, and it also seems to be...——For underage high school students, the scale of the photo is already too large.

Although the photo was taken down immediately, it is the information age after all, even if it only appeared for a few minutes, it would be enough to spread throughout the campus... The school finally notified Xi Nian's parents.

The tallest building in the school is the library, which is a branch of Xijiang Municipal Library and is nine stories high.

Xi Nian has only been to the library twice——

Once, the monitor brought him to apply for a library card alone, because he transferred from another school halfway, and the library cards of other students had been issued as early as the beginning of the semester.

One time was the night when the photo appeared on the post bar, Xi Nian sat on the roof of the ninth floor of the library all night.

Maybe it's because the wind is too strong, maybe it's because the starry sky is so beautiful, or maybe it's because...he still has obsessions, but he didn't jump down.

——There must be someone in this world who trusts me unconditionally, no matter what he hears or sees, he only believes in me... I have to find this person, so I can't jump off.

But there were still after-effects of that night-he could no longer look down from a height, which would make him palpitate with fear, and even go into shock in severe cases.

The next morning, after a night of cold wind, Xi Nian came down from the roof of the library and followed his parents back home.

It happened to be the day before the final exam.

The author has something to say: Niannian: There should always be someone in this world who trusts me unconditionally. No matter what he hears or sees, he only believes in me.

Chao Chao: I believe, I believe!I believe everything you say every year!

Niannian: Moved to tears, Mao Maotou.jpg

Chao Chao: You said that Xie Yue is a girl, I believe it!You said you were with the oblique moon, I believe it!You said "There is nothing to explain, it is what you see", I believe it too! [Seek praise.jpg]

Niannian: ...Then do you believe me when I say you are an idiot?

Chao Chao: QAQ

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