strayed into the world

"Let's talk."

……

Quan Ce silently walked to Xu Chi and sat down.It had been a long time since the two talked at night by candlelight, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward. The puppy rescued by Qing Che curled up on the blanket and snuggled comfortably.

Quan Ce was the first to break the silence, "What do you want to say."

Xu Chi also picked up the coffee on the coffee table and took a sip unhurriedly, "Qing Che fell asleep?"

"kindness."

"Why did Quan Qing come back? It can't be your fault."... Thinking of the woman next to Quan Ce during the day, Xu Chi's affection rose.

"The old man of the whole family wants us to be together on purpose, and she yells to come back with me, so I will take it for granted." It is quite helpless, but Quan Ce is clear. If he rejects the old man from the beginning, the whole family will not say anything.With his current strength, he is no longer the stupid kid who let me take advantage of him seven years ago.So, it was premeditated from the beginning.

"She's your cousin."

"You and I both understand that we are not related by blood."

Xu Chi was noncommittal, "That's true."

Thinking of Qing Che, he smiled.Quan Ce looked at him blankly, "What are you laughing at?"

"I was thinking, it's too easy to tell who is related to you."

"Why?" Quan Ce continued to be at a loss.

"Isn't it? The person you treat the worst with is the closest to you. Do you think so?" The words were very playful, but the ingredients were unusually heavy.His heart rate accelerated.dumbfounded.

Xu Chi continued talking, ignoring Quan Ce's frustrated silence,

"Ce, if you think that Quan Qing's appearance will affect Qing Che, then you have succeeded." Straightforwardly cut to the point.Xu Chi didn't want to be around anymore.It exposes Quan Ce's thoughts straight to the nail.In fact, this thought is not difficult to see, but it is absurd, very absurd.

The heart rate was not only accelerated but also disordered. Quan Ce felt that it was a pity for Xu Chi to be a doctor. He should be Sherlock Holmes.But verbally you have to quibble,

"I don't understand what you're talking about. I didn't do anything."

"I say what you know best in your own heart. It's not difficult to guess your mind."

"Heh...Xu Chi, when did you become a detective?" Quan Ce was still trying his best to hide his panic.

"Actually, I didn't plan to say it at first. It's just that it might be too late if I don't say it at this time." Whirling the cup in his hand, Xu Chi's pale and haggard face appeared repeatedly in his mind.He filled his tone with a bit of seriousness, "It's possible...you also found out, so you will do this."

"……"silence.Quan Ce stared at the TV screen but couldn't see anything clearly.

Quan Ce's silence made Xu Chi more certain of the doubts in his heart, and it really... it was so.

"Although I am also very annoyed, in the past three years, not only did your ruthless and even unreasonable cynicism not make him hate you, but your occasional charity made him the only motivation to live in these three years... ...It's really ironic..." A little helpless, a little sad.More distressed that scarred person.

"Are you joking? It's not funny at all." The pale perfunctory could no longer conceal his messy thoughts.He was deeply shocked by Xu Chi's words.One after another.

"You think this looks like a joke. Unfortunately, he is not.  …"

"..." After a pause for a few seconds, Quan Ce said, "You... how do you know?"

"Don't forget, I treated him for three years." Watching him change little by little, watching him endure again and again, watching every tear he shed for him...and every smile.Xu Chi didn't know if he could change anything at this moment, he said it because he could no longer stand by and watch.Just because he saw him smile once, he will never forget it.

***

There was another silence.The two have a rare tacit understanding.

After a long time, Xu Chi sighed and broke the silence first,

"I don't know when you found out,... I'm just curious, what kind of mood you were in at that time." Turning to look at Quan Ce.But he was as silent as a sculpture at the moment.

"..."

"Ridiculation? Disdain?... Or contempt?..."

"I don't know." Quan Ce suddenly interrupted Xu Chi's words.His gaze fell on a certain place in the room as if out of focus, and his lips curled up, "I don't want to know at all."

"But you know, and you used him to achieve your goal of revenge." Xu Chi's words became more forceful.He didn't even suppress the excitement and anger in his tone anymore, "You know better than anyone else, you know too well. While you accept his unconditional obedience to you, you stimulate him with his feelings for you, and let him follow you Mother's way!"

The hands were clenched unconsciously, and the nails sank into the flesh with a dull pain.Xu Chi's words pierced his heart like a needle, and the frustration that was pierced turned out to be so painful.

"You acquiesced."

"..."

Quan Ce's silence made Xu Chi's previous anger completely dissipate, and the ensuing sadness crept into his eyes.In fact, he wished Quan Ce could immediately deny him like before.Actually... At that second just now, he was just guessing.

Leaning weakly on the sofa, I suddenly felt my body sink heavily.

"I really lost to you."

"..."

"...I have lost to myself." Every moment he is sober, knowing what the result of his every step will be, and he knows when his obedience to him is no longer pure fear, until he That day he begged him to stay, until he prayed like a fool every morning, until he dreamed of having one more minute... He knew, too well. ...So, he lost to himself.Lost to his own calmness and cruelty.

As Xu Chi said.That was all he had in mind.He may not hate him, but he must never stop hating him.

It's just that there are still places in his plan that he didn't expect.For example, a dog is beyond his imagination.Another example is that he will save him, that terrible instinct...

****

this night.Quan Ce and Xu Chi didn't know how long they sat silently on the sofa.

It should be a long time, so long that both of them forgot the time.

There are a bunch of beer cans on the coffee table.The ashtray was full and emptied, empty and full again... the puppy curled up on the blanket changed its position and then changed its position...

Repeated mechanically, until the two of them went back to their respective rooms... The first light of dawn appeared on the sky outside the window...

When Qing Che woke up, for the first time, one of them didn't go to the company, and the other didn't go to the hospital.Leaving behind a mess of soda cans in the living room, and a poor little boy who obviously lacks sleep.When he came out, he wagged his tail.He limped over and carried it to an open space.Then roll up your sleeves and start packing up...

Not long after.One of the doors opens.The walk of the person who walked out was a little shaken, revealing his tiredness.

Then he walked to the living room, with his eyes half open and half closed, he didn't know that he stepped on the soda can with a slap, and he was so shocked that he lost sleep all at once.Immediately afterwards, a childish and slightly nasal voice woke him up completely,

"Master, did I wake you up?"

Looking down at the man kneeling on the ground, he was looking at him with an apologetic face.Quan Ce's mind was blank for a second, but he still did not forget to answer him,

"No."

Looking at the garbage belt in his hand, he asked him,

"What are you doing?"

"Oh... I think the house is messy, so I'll clean it up." When he was speaking, he had already retracted his eyes, and looked down at the floor.The sudden lack of vision made Quan Ce a little flustered.Then he remembered that his knee was still injured and was wrapped in thick gauze at the moment, he frowned and snatched the garbage belt from him,

"Don't clean up."

The hands that lost the trash belt seemed so hollow that they could be filled with wind, Qing Che was a little bit astonished, and was speechless for a long time.The hand stopped in mid-air and trembled in embarrassment, not knowing where to put it.After struggling for a long time, he reached out to pick up the soda can that fell at Quan Ce's feet.

"I told you not to clean up, you didn't hear me!" A stern reprimand sounded from above.Got used to him getting mad at him for these things.Anyway, no matter what he did, it was wrong.Dejected, feeling the can is as heavy as lead in the palm of his hand, he pursed his lips tightly and did not say a word.

Realizing that his words seemed to have accidentally hurt the child again, Quan Ce squatted down, took the soda can that was crushed by him from his hand and threw it into the garbage belt.He obviously paid attention to his tone when he spoke.

"Xu Chi said that it's best not to move your injury, so that it will heal quickly."

"En." Qing Che replied softly, tilting his head, only showing the corners of his tightly closed lips.Quan Ce couldn't see his expression clearly at the moment.But he knew that he must not have come out of the emotion just now.After thinking about it, he glanced at the puppy beside him who was staring blankly.Simply change the subject,

"By the way, that dog... Xiaoguai," thank God he still remembered its name, "Xiaoguai hasn't eaten yet."

The child nodded, "En."

"I'm going to get him something to eat."

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, the child raised his head to look at him, staring at him in disbelief with his dark eyes, "Does the young master want to cook for the little boy?"

"Otherwise, you can make it for it with a limp."

"I, I can't do it well." He frowned in embarrassment, Quan Ce felt that he was as transparent as a piece of white paper.You can see through it at a glance.

"So, stay here and accompany it obediently." Quan Ce said, dragged him up and lifted him up, led him to sit down on the sofa like a puppy, and then hugged the puppy on the blanket to his side Let him not be so bored during this time that he starts to clean up the house again.

"Don't move around, you know?" The completely unexpected patience made Quan Ce a little strange to himself.The child nodded before turning and leaving.When I walked to the kitchen, I found that it was too late to regret it. I went to bed at five o'clock and woke up to go to the toilet in less than two hours, but I went to the kitchen to make breakfast for the dog... What a different morning.That guy Xu Chi slept like a pig. If he saw this scene, he would think that his conscience had discovered it, but in fact, he himself was at a loss.