City A, at the end of September.

After entering autumn, the city that has been steamed by the heat for a whole summer has gradually cooled down.

The leaves are falling down, covering both sides of the road, and the cool wind sweeps every corner, carrying a faint fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Song Sheng and Jiang Cheng's two families planned to have a meal together. The in-laws got to know each other well, and they discussed how to hold the wedding together.

It was also a happy event for Wen Liang's parents to come to City A and be invited to Yan Huainan's home.

Wuyang was brought back to Fu's house by Fu Yunming.

I don't know what kind of people Fu Yunming's parents are, and how they will react when they find out that their son has found a boyfriend who is so much younger. However, Wuyang and Fu Yunming are not normal people, and it seems that there is no need to worry The two of them won't be able to handle it.

Several people chatted in the "Let's start from scratch" WeChat group while meeting their parents. Xie Zhu sat in the dusk, looked at the chat records, and chuckled from time to time.

Sheep bleating: "Gene mutations are amazing, uncle's parents are quite normal, how did he give birth to such a crazy uncle [狗头]"

WenL: "Aren't you afraid that this chat record will be seen by your uncle [laughing and crying]"

Sheep bleating: "To tell you the truth, he is watching from the side, still smiling [white eyes]"

Bamboo: "[cover mouth and laugh]"

Sheep bleating: "Hey, bamboo, how about I come to play with you later, you should be in the dusk now, right?"

Sheep baa: "We don't plan to sleep at uncle's parents' house today, I will ask uncle to put me down when we pass by Nan'an Road!"

WenL: "Today my parents are sleeping at their house in Huainan, we may not be able to come out [sigh]"

Sheng: "Ah Cheng and I will go to Mumu later. When will @竹子 plan to go home? We'll drive there and I can drop you off."

Xie Zhu looked at the group chat, feeling warm in his heart.

He bent his eyebrows and replied: "It's okay, you don't have to rush over here, I will go home after sitting down for a while."

After replying this line, someone sat down beside Xie Zhu.

Xiao Fangfang was dressed quite coquettishly today. She was wearing a black silk dress with suspenders to make her figure slender. She stepped on a pair of sky-high feet, which made her whole body taller.

He wasn't short himself, and his pair of sky-hate heights directly lifted him into a giant.

With delicate makeup on her face and a long black wig on her head, Xiao Fangfang patted Xie Zhu and asked delicately, "Hey, why are you alone today, where are Wuyang and the others?"

Unlike Xiao Fangfang, Xie Zhu didn't wear women's clothes today, but just plainly wore a white T-shirt and jeans, with black broken hair on his fair face, looking obedient and tender.

People who don't know him may think that he is still a high school student. In fact, he is 24 this year and has been out of social work for two years.

Xie Zhu is also good-looking, his eyes are very bright, his fan-shaped double eyelids are elegant and delicate, when he smiles, the end of his eyes will be slightly blush, which looks like a small flower.

The bridge of the nose is high, and the lips are naturally ruddy, like jelly.

Compared with Song Sheng, Wen Liang, and Wu Yang, Xie Zhu's beauty is very quiet, so quiet that if you don't pay attention, it is easy for people to ignore him.

But if you take a closer look, no one will secretly marvel - this is an out-and-out little beauty.

At this moment.

Hearing Xiao Fangfang's question, Xie Zhu couldn't help laughing: "The three of them have to go home for dinner."

Xiao Fangfang immediately raised her eyebrows: "What? In the past, except for the store manager who had to go home, didn't Wen Liang and Wu Yang come here to spend time with us every year? So what's the matter, we all went to have dinner with Lao Gong today? Damn it Charge now!"

Xiao Fangfang is an interesting person, Xie Zhu likes him very much, and can't help laughing every time he hears him speak.

After being ridiculous, Xie Zhu frowned slightly.

He rubbed his stomach, his face was a little pale.

Seeing Xie Zhu's appearance, Xiao Fangfang quickly asked: "Why, is your stomach uncomfortable again?"

Xie Zhu is an old patient.

I haven't had any serious illnesses, but minor illnesses keep going, and I have to go to the hospital every three days.

At this moment, I don't know if I drank a glass of iced drink, and my stomach throbbed again.

Xiao Fangfang immediately turned her head to look for the waiter: "Hey, man, I'll ask someone to pour you a cup of hot water."

Xie Zhu's body was a little stiff.

The stomach seemed to be twisted tightly by one hand, and the pain spread in all directions, and even the heart seemed to throb.

He didn't dare to breathe, so he could only feel his heartbeat stiffly, once, twice, three times.

At the fifth beat, the cramping pain finally subsided.

The hand holding his stomach loosened, Xie Zhu's body was also relaxed, and he let out a trembling breath.

At that time, there was already a thin layer of sweat on his back.

Xiao Fangfang didn't see the waiter and wanted to get up to look for it, but Xie Zhu held him back and said in a hoarse voice: "It's all right, it doesn't hurt now."

"Is the pain gone so soon?" Xiao Fangfang asked suspiciously, "Do you want to take some stomach medicine?"

Xie Zhu pursed his lips and smiled: "Well, I will eat when I go back. I just went to the hospital two days ago and came back with a prescription."

Xiao Fangfang was speechless: "You, how did you become a medicine jar at such a young age? Do you usually not exercise at all? Do you usually stay up late before going to bed? Let me tell you..."

Xiao Fangfang started the philosophy of health preservation, Xie Zhu smiled helplessly, nodded obediently while listening, and replied "yes", "I know", "yes, I remember".

Half an hour later, Xiao Fangfang received a text message from a friend, finally stopped his health care class, stood up and brushed his long hair, and said happily: "Hey, someone asked me out, I have to go."

Xie Zhu couldn't help laughing—Xiao Fangfang's unhappiness came quickly, and so did her happiness. She is really an escaped person, no wonder he and Wuyang get along so well.

Xie Zhu looked at the time, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.

It's almost time for him to go back.

Xiao Fangfang and her friend made an appointment to meet at the entrance of the shopping mall ahead.

At this time, the traffic on Nan'an Road is busy, Xie Zhu plans to walk there with Xiao Fangfang, and take a taxi at the next intersection.

On the way, Xiao Fangfang tightened her coat.

In autumn in City A, the temperature difference between day and night is huge. It may reach [-] degrees during the day, but it can drop below [-] degrees in an instant at night.

If you go out at night without a coat, you will be caught if you are not careful.

There were quite a few pedestrians on the road today, and when the two walked together, Xiao Fangfang attracted most of the attention—after wearing Hentian Gao, he really exceeded 1.9 meters.

Xie Zhu is not short, he is 1.7 meters eight anyway, but he looks like a dwarf against him.

It can only be said that fortunately, Xiao Fangfang's masculine characteristics are not obvious, and she can be considered a beauty in women's clothing after putting on makeup. Most people will only marvel at the combination of him and Xie Zhu, "what a couple with a height difference", not " What a height difference...shemale gay couple".

Otherwise, what fell on them would not only be amazed gazes, but also crackling and flickering shots.

Of course, either way, neither of them would care.

Xiao Fangfang chatted while walking: "Little Zhuzi, the three of them have found boyfriends, how about you? Have no plans to fall in love? Or do you have no one you like?"

Xie Zhu lowered his head, looked at the fallen leaves under his feet, and said with a light smile, "...Well, both can be counted?"

Xiao Fangfang just asked casually, but she didn't expect Xie Zhu to give such an answer, she couldn't help being shocked: "Huh? Don't you plan to fall in love? Are you not alone now? Your parents... keep going on like this alone, you won't feel Very, are you bored?"

The words Xiao Fangfang wants to say are actually "loneliness" and "loneliness", but these two words seem a little hypocritical.

The point is that he can't understand it.

To be honest, he has never met a gay who came out of the closet and did not intend to fall in love.

Why come out if you don't want to be with someone of the same sex?

This society is not so tolerant. Since there is no such demand, there is no need to cause trouble for yourself.

As for his question, Xie Zhu fell silent, probably unable to answer.

He stepped on the fallen leaves step by step, as if he was thinking. When he raised his head and looked ahead, the eyes that fell in the void seemed to be recalling something.

For a moment, Xiao Fangfang caught an idea.

Having seen many gays, he is no stranger to this expression.

He joked: "Could it be that you fell in love with a straight man and fell on him, planning to end your love?"

As soon as the words fell to the ground, a gust of autumn evening wind blew.

This gust of wind traversed the entire road, blowing head-on, messing up Xie Zhu's hair, revealing his beautiful face completely.

He laughed quietly, turned those bright and beautiful eyes, looked at Xiao Fangfang, and asked softly:

"If you never thought about being with the other party at all, can it still be considered a dead end?"

Xiao Fangfang was startled.

After saying this, Xie Zhu turned his eyes back and stared at his feet again.

He murmured: "Brother Wen and I are in a different situation. When Brother Wen was not with Brother Yan, both of them were working in the same company. No matter what, they got along day and night and had the opportunity to test each other. .And brother Wen is much bolder than me, even if he is afraid, he still dares to take that step, but I—”

Having said this, Xie Zhu stopped.

He smiled again, and said, "Anyway, let's just take it as what you said, but I never thought of hitting on that person."

As for not planning to fall in love, not having someone I like...

Maybe one day, the imprint of that person in his mind will completely disappear, and all this will change.

Xie Zhu could only wait for that day to come.

Xiao Fangfang's expression became complicated.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something—but at this moment, the accident happened.

Xie Zhu stopped suddenly and looked forward, with a dazed and stunned expression on his face.

The next second, a voice came from the front: "Huh, Xie Zhu?"

"Grass, is it Xie Zhu?!"

Xiao Fangfang turned her head.

In front of it was an online celebrity barbecue restaurant, and there were crowds of people at the door, among them was a young man standing there in a daze.

The young man was wearing a white shirt and suit pants, like a social animal who had to work overtime during holidays.

He probably drank the wine, his cheeks were flushed, his eyes were dazed, and when he pointed at Xie Zhu, his face was full of surprise.

The man turned his gaze again, looked up at Xiao Fangfang, and said in shock, "Damn it, is this your girlfriend?"

"..." Xiao Fangfang gathered her coat and asked Xie Zhu in a low voice, "Who is this?"

Xie Zhu came back to his senses, his fingertips trembled.

His voice dropped.

"...My high school classmate."

The encounter came quite suddenly.

The man who stopped Xie Zhu was named He Jiawei, and he was the monitor of their high school class.

He Jiawei got drunk and was so surprised by Xiao Fangfang's height that he kept hiccupping.

Fortunately, he was indeed so drunk that he didn't realize that the "tall beauty" standing in front of him was actually a "tall gay guy" when he got close. He just kept patting Xie Zhu's shoulder and teased: "Okay You are capable, your girlfriend is actually a model!"

The two haven't seen each other since graduating from high school, or in other words, no one in the high school class has seen Xie Zhu after graduation.

After He Jiawei teased Xiao Fangfang, he asked Xie Zhu why he had disappeared for so many years and hadn't notified anyone of his mobile phone number change.

Seeing Xie Zhu's silence, Xiao Fangfang thought for a while and said, "How should I say, go or stay?"

He Jiawei was taken aback again.

He raised his head and said in a daze, "Why do I seem to hear a man's voice coming out of your mouth, beauty?"

Xiao Fangfang smiled half-heartedly: "Oh, maybe you're hallucinating when you're drunk?"

He Jiawei: "Yes, is that so? Hiccup, this auditory hallucination is so awesome, it turned out to be real-time simultaneous interpretation of male and female voices?!"

Xie Zhu couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Seeing him smile, Xiao Fangfang relaxed a little, and asked in a low voice, "Are you okay?"

Xie Zhu lowered his eyes: "...Well, it's okay."

He Jiawei said to Xie Zhu again: "That's right, the class is planning to have a class reunion in a while, Xie Zhu, you come too! Come on, come on, let's add a Wechat first, I set up a class Wechat group some time ago , I’ll pull you into the group later! Let me tell you, you are the only one in our class who hasn’t joined the group yet, but today I finally caught you..."

He Jiawei talked non-stop, with enthusiasm, just like in high school.

Xie Zhu pursed his lips.

He closed his eyes and let out a light breath.

Finally exchanged WeChat.

After paying the money, He Jiawei's colleagues walked out of the store one after another. When they found He Jiawei, they laughed at him for his drunkenness.

Xie Zhu handed over the person to them, but He Jiawei said that the high school classmates finally met, and he wanted to drag Xie Zhu to the next stall together.

Xie Zhu talked all kinds of things, which made He Jiawei give up.

When a group of people left, the bleak coolness returned to him.

Xiao Fangfang stood beside Xie Zhu and said, "So, 'that person' is also a classmate of yours in high school?"

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why Xie Zhu would be in such an emotional state when he reunited with his old classmate after many years.

Xie Zhu looked at the direction in which He Jiawei left, but didn't answer, as if he was in a daze.

Xiao Fangfang followed his gaze: "Don't you dare to take that step like Wen Liang?"

Xie Zhu twitched the corners of his lips: "Is that step so easy to take?"

After a long while, Xiao Fangfang finally answered.

"It's really not easy."

When I got home, it was already nine o'clock.

Xie Zhu didn't turn on the light in the living room, took off his shoes, went barefoot to the sofa and lay down.

The house was very quiet, and it was dark all around.

360 five days, every day, every year.

After Xie Zhu lay down, he put the back of his hand against his forehead, closed his eyes and was quiet for a while.

From a certain moment, the phone kept buzzing and vibrating, as if countless messages were pouring in continuously.

After a few minutes, Xie Zhu opened his eyes and picked up his phone.

He Jiawei pulled him into the class WeChat group. In just a short moment, there were dozens of messages in the group, and several of them welcomed him into the group, or asked him why he had been missing for so many years.

As if everyone had never been separated for so many years, these old classmates chatted with a very familiar tone.

Xie Zhu recalled what Xiao Fangfang said before he and Xiao Fangfang separated.

"But little bamboo, sometimes even if there is a distance of 1000 meters between you and a person, as long as you are willing to take a step—even just stepping out of that line! The remaining 99 meters, the other person Maybe I would be willing to cross over alone.”

"But if you don't even dare to step out of that line, then even if the other party stands in front of you one day, the two of you still won't be able to touch each other."

Xiao Fangfang patted him on the head and said: "We are all ordinary people, we don't know if we can live to be dozens of years old, life is too short, are you sure you don't even try such a small possibility? "

Xie Zhu stared at those message bullet boxes for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.

Until a certain moment, he saw a message appear in the bullet box.

"So @兰you, are you still coming to the school reunion?"

Xie Zhu's pupils trembled.

He didn't know the nickname that sent out this group message.

This news was instantly covered by other new news.

"He must come back to City A now, right?"

"That's right, it's not justified to have a meal with us after we're all back, bro @兰!"

"What about people?"

"He's busy right now hahaha!"

"What is he doing now, so busy?"

……

The person who has been called for thousands of times has never appeared in the group chat.

Xie Zhu's sculpture was usually fixed there, and he couldn't recover for a long time.

The whole person seemed to be bewitched by the word "Lan", and there seemed to be a short-term dislocation of body and mind, the soul burst into flames, but the body could not move.

As time passed by, Xie Zhu moved suddenly, raised his hand stiffly, rubbed his forehead, and let out a breath slowly.

My heart was pounding, and my stomach was cramping again.

It hurts.

He turned over and looked at his lock screen page. After posting for a while, he moved his finger, unlocked it slowly, and clicked into WeChat.

……never mind.

The group has been added, no matter what I say, I still have to say hello to everyone.

Thinking of this, Xie Zhu moved his finger to the chat box of the group chat.

Before clicking on it, he suddenly noticed a small red dot popping up in the "Contacts".

Someone added him as a friend?

Xie Zhu was stunned.

who is it?

...Should it be a classmate in the class?

The speed is so fast.

He clicked on "New Friend" instead, thinking absently, maybe it was the deskmate he had been sitting with for two years?That guy is familiar, and his movements have always been very fast.

Or maybe it was the English class representative who often asked him to help hand out papers?That girl was also one of the few people who knew him well in the three years of high school.

still is……

And the moment he saw the latest friend information clearly, Xie Zhu suddenly opened his eyes wide and sat up with a bang.

The room was silent all the time, except for the sound of breathing that increased in frequency for no reason.

Xie Zhu stared at the friend authentication message sent by "Lan".

"I'm Qi Lan."

Just four words.

A layer of blood appeared on Xie Zhu's face, the faster his heart beat, the worse the cramping in his stomach.

He clutched his stomach, and his Adam's apple rolled.

In class 12, everyone was still chatting about the alumni reunion in full swing, and many students were asking if Qi Lan would be there.

This is not surprising. In the first three years of high school, Qi Lan was the most frequently mentioned person no matter in the class, the entire grade, or the entire school.

Popular among classmates and loved among teachers, that dazzling boy is a well-deserved focal point no matter where he is.

However, no matter what the classmates in the group said, Qi Lan never showed up.

Xie Zhu stared at the words "I am Qi Lan", and his throat became dry.

Xiao Fangfang's words resurfaced in her mind.

"Life is short, are you sure you don't even try such a small possibility?"

Xie Zhu breathed heavily back and forth several times.

Gritting his teeth, he moved his fingers and clicked "Pass".

In the next second, he fell back on the sofa and curled up.

There was a mess in my mind.

He suddenly began to regret exchanging WeChat with He Jiawei, regret not staying in the evening for a little longer, regret...

Xie Zhu opened his eyes.

...No, calm down, calm down, there is no need to be like this.

Although he has deliberately stayed away from the high school class for so many years, there are still many students in his class who have stayed in city A to work and live. One day, he will meet one or two of them.

No matter whether the lucky thing that Xiao Fangfang said is really possible to happen to him... some things cannot be escaped for a lifetime.

After thinking this through, Xie Zhu seemed to have calmed down completely.

He sighed and picked up his phone again.

Qi Lan sent a message.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

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