wait, i'm chasing you

After dinner, Wei Yun rejected Wei Yun's offer to send them home. Hao Chen and Chen Yiran wandered around the street. It was just getting dark, and more people came and went on the road.

The two chatted from the college entrance examination questions in the past few days to their university life in the future, and some topics that were not there were mixed in the middle.

Passing by a drink shop, Hao Chen cleared his throat, turned his head and asked, "I want to buy something to drink, what do you want?"

"Anything is fine." Chen Yiran said without any objection, "I want to be the same as you."

Hao Chen thought for a while: "Then let's have lemonade, I don't want something too sweet, I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep if you drink tea at night."

Seeing that Chen Yiran nodded in response, Hao Chen went to order food.

When he took out his mobile phone to check out, he took out a small piece of red string from Hao Chen's pocket. When Chen Yiran saw the piece of red string, he stretched out his hand and pulled it curiously.

"What is this?"

"Ok?"

Hao Chen looked down, said "Oh," and handed it to him.

"You gave me that peace talisman earlier."

Chen Yiran looked at the amulet in his hand with a little amusement.

A large part of the reason why I bought this thing back then was that I was bored waiting. When I first gave it to Hao Chen, I thought he would not accept it. After all, the kid at that time was still a master who liked to mock himself whenever he had nothing to do.

Didn't expect him to still carry it with him.

"I've been carrying it for the past two days."

Hao Chen turned sideways and said half-jokingly.

"After all, I have studied in that earth temple, maybe this time the college entrance examination was blessed by it."

"That's pretty good, and it's not in vain."

Chen Yiran smiled and pinched the flower knot on it.

"I thought it was all lost."

Hao Chen glanced at him and smiled lightly.

"How is it possible? This is the only thing you gave me. How could it be lost?"

Chen Yiran was startled when he heard that, rubbed his fingers against the words embroidered on the safety talisman, looked up at Hao Chen who was receiving the lemonade, and said with a smile.

"Let's go to the mall."

"Ok?"

Hao Chen handed over the water and looked at him inexplicably.

"Now? What are you going to do?"

"Buy something."

Chen Yiran said with a serious face.

The nearby shopping malls are not very far away, and Chen Yiran seemed to be very happy along the way, so Hao Chen didn't continue to question him, just go shopping, even if it's just a stroll, it's not a big deal, anyway, I have plenty of free time now.

But Chen Yiran's shopping is obviously not just for fun. When he entered the shopping mall, he ran to a shoe store with a purpose.

"Are you buying shoes again?" Hao Chen glanced at the pair of newly bought shoes on his feet and was a little puzzled. He never thought he had such a hobby before.

"Well, I'm going to buy the pair that I struggled with for a long time last time, and wear them instead." Chen Yiran walked to the shelf, picked up the shoes in front of him and turned his head to ask, "What do you think of this pair?"

Hao Chen walked over to have a look: "It's pretty good, try it on."

Chen Yiran hummed, and was not in a hurry to ask the shopping guide to help him: "What about the color? Which color do you like?"

"For me... I like the black ones." Hao Chen took off the other black shoe for comparison, "But I think you look better in white."

"You're used to it." Chen Yiran looked at him with a smile, "My shoes are basically white."

"Maybe." Hao Chen also laughed.

"If you have a lot of white shoes, you can also try black ones occasionally. You can change the style if you change the color."

The shopping guide on the side spoke in a timely manner.

"Why don't you take a pair like me and try them all."

"Row."

Chen Yiran nodded in agreement.

While waiting for the shopping guide to pick up the shoes, the two walked around the shelves again.

"Do you like anything?" Chen Yiran asked.

Hao Chen looked at it carefully for a while: "I think the pair you chose is pretty good, and there is nothing special about the others."

Chen Yiran raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

When the shopping guide brought the shoes over, Chen Yiran still tried on the white pair first.

Standing up and taking a few steps, he looked at Hao Chen and asked, "Does it look good?"

"It's pretty good." Hao Chen said, "How do you feel wearing it?"

Chen Yiran walked a few steps on the spot, and even jumped a bit: "I think it's okay."

"Then you don't want to try this black pair again?" The shopping guide put the black pair forward.

Chen Yiran patted Hao Chen's shoulder: "You try it for me, our shoes are the same size."

"Me?" Hao Chen hesitated for a moment, "I must feel different from what you wear."

"It's okay, I'll do a comparison." Chen Yiran waved his hand indifferently.

Seeing that he didn't intend to change his shoes at all, Hao Chen nodded without saying anything. After changing his shoes, he took a few steps and stepped on them again.

"It's quite comfortable to wear."

"Um…"

Chen Yiran looked at the shoes on his feet, then at the pair he was wearing, walked over and stood side by side with him in front of the mirror.

"Black really suits you better."

"Then do you still want to try?"

Hao Chen looked at Chen Yiran in the mirror and asked.

"No."

Chen Yiran snapped his fingers and looked at the shopping guide standing aside.

"I want both pairs."

Not to mention Hao Chen, even the shopping guide was taken aback.

"Okay, I'll bill you."

"Why buy so much?"

Hao Chen frowned and looked at him.

"If you want black, buy black, or change the style..."

"I don't want black ones, and they don't suit me."

Chen Yiran had a teasing smile in his eyes.

"I just bought it for you. If I really want to wear it, we can change it when I come back."

Seeing the helplessness on Hao Chen's stunned face, Chen Yiran raised his hand and rubbed his hair in a good mood, and went to the counter to pay the bill.

At Chen Yiran's request, the two carried the replaced shoes and went out wearing new shoes.

"what is this?"

Hao Chen looked at the shoes on his feet with a smile.

"Graduation gift?"

In the shopping mall in the evening, more and more people came out to relax, Chen Yiran put his shoulders on his shoulder with a smile, looking like a good brother.

"I thought about it. Except for birthday gifts and peace charms, I don't seem to have given you anything. It's just these pairs if you like them or not. Anyway, I won't return them to you."

"Did I say I'm leaving?"

Hao Chen glanced at him with a smile on his lips.

"Where are you going next? Continue shopping or go home?"

Chen Yiran paused, remembering Wei Yun's previous words.

"Go home, go back to your house."

Hao Chen paused, a little surprised.

"my home?"

"In the past two days of your exam, your father is also outside the exam room."

Chen Yiran held his shoulder and continued to walk forward.

"Although he didn't meet you, he was not absent. If he really didn't care about you, he wouldn't come to the examination room continuously."

Hao Chen didn't answer.

If possible, he would not want the relationship with his father to become what it is now. Hao Zhifeng didn't have too many demands on him when he was a child. Regarding his academic performance, he prefers to play with Hao Chen, although he will be rejected every time in the end. Wang Lin catches them and trains them together.

But the matter about his own feelings really angered Hao Zhifeng. His father usually seems to be easy to talk to, but when he becomes stubborn, he won’t listen to anything, unless he really breaks off with Chen Yiran, otherwise …

But this kind of problem of choosing one or the other is basically unsolvable for Hao Chen.

"I told you that from the beginning."

Chen Yiran broke his silence and said softly.

"This road may be difficult, I don't really want you to go on this road..."

Hao Chen turned his head and looked at him with a frown, a little uneasy in his eyes.

Chen Yiran smiled and pinched his neck, with a sense of comfort.

"I admit that I may have always been passive. It was the same when I left without saying goodbye, and it was the same when I confessed to you. I have no idea about the future, so I am used to this kind of selfish evasion."

"But you've come over, you've stood by my side, we've come a long way, I don't want you to leave again."

Chen Yiran looked down at the two walking in unison, and said with a light smile.

"This road is not very smooth, you may fall, you may be hurt or injured, I will love you, but I don't want to let you go."

Hao Chen stared at him in a daze, obviously the two of them had broken their hearts a long time ago, but when Chen Yiran turned it up and put it in front of him again, the throbbing in his heart seemed to be even worse than before.

Maybe he was a bit stupid, but Hao Chen didn't say anything, let Chen Yiran pat his forehead and continued talking.

"You only care about reminding Tao Yi, do you still remember that I sent you an answer? Although it doesn't matter whether you have the answer or not, but..."

Chen Yiran looked at him with a smile.

"Boy, come with me from now on, we are together."

There are people coming and going in the mall, surrounded by music and loud chatter, lively and joyful.

Chen Yiran's voice was unhurried, the two walked side by side, like the most ordinary friends in the mall, but they were not talking ordinary love words.

"it is good."

Hao Chen laughed and looked into his eyes with a warm starlight.

Chen Yiran looked at him and laughed too.

"So go home today, son, I'll see you off, these problems have to be solved, and I'll be with you."

"Ah."

Hao Chen responded straightforwardly this time.

Chen Yiran looked at him several times, and finally couldn't help pinching his cheek lightly, and said half-complainingly.

"Okay, don't laugh... It's almost done, like the stupid son of the landlord's family..."

"Oh…"

Hao Chen stopped laughing, and continued walking seriously.

"So, I finally officially became a regular?"

After a while, the corners of Hao Chen's mouth couldn't stop twitching again.

"Well, congratulations."

Chen Yiran looked at him amusedly, and pointed to the shoes on his feet.

"So this is not a graduation gift, but an induction gift."