After we broke up, I still asked about your situation

Tong Shen rolled his eyes at him angrily, walked to the other side away from him, lay down in a chair and took a sip of wine.

Du Zijie snapped off the remaining half of the cigarette, leaned over slowly with his hands in his pockets, and bumped him on the shoulder.

"Don't touch me." Tong Shen said impatiently, "You can touch gods too?"

"Oh, I haven't seen you for many years. Why are you still so violent? I just complained a few words." Du Zijie said with emotion, "I think back then when you ran away quietly, your little brat ran to me. Come on, it caused my company to die several times, and I didn’t dare to go out to meet people for more than half a year, now I can’t even complain a few words?”

"..." Tong Shen bit the wine glass guiltily, and mumbled "Hmm".

"You too." Du Zijie said, "You're such an adult, can't you explain clearly what's going on? Why are you running?"

"I can't explain it clearly." Annoyed by the question, Tong Shen raised his head and drank the wine, got up and planned to go indoors for another drink, "Leave me alone."

"Hey—" Du Zijie wanted to remind him something, but he disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The atmosphere in the lobby was even more lively than before. Tong Shen tried his best to make himself invisible, changed a glass of wine very low-key, and was about to go out through the small side door when he caught something out of the corner of his eye.

He turned his head subconsciously, and saw not far away, a man standing out from the crowd holding a wine glass, talking with others with ease.

Because of his height advantage, Tu Jiazhi stands out in the lobby, and many people around him are looking there intentionally or unintentionally.

Compared with the TV, he looks more mature and steady, with a well-tailored suit, and he will never wear an ill-fitting suit like he did back then.

Relying on himself to stand in the dark, Tong Shen didn't leave for a long time, just stuck in place, staring at the people in the distance with ecstasy.

Tu Jiazhi wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, which neutralized the coldness in his bones and added a bit of elegance.

It may be because Shenan Technology has really become famous recently. In just a few minutes, two or three groups of people around him have taken the initiative to approach him.But it didn't take long for the two new speakers of the Tong family to approach at the same time, and the others vacated the site with insight.

I don't know if it's because of me or because of business connection, Tu Jiazhi seems to be very familiar with her elder brother and second sister.

Tong Shen was idly guessing what they were talking about, when he suddenly saw the second sister beckoning towards him.

He looked around reflexively, but before he could react, the second sister smiled helplessly and said, "Xiao Shen, come here."

After hesitating for a moment, Tong Shen put down his wine glass and walked over slowly.

"Why have you been looking at us all this time?" The second sister patted him on the back, then nodded to Tu Jiazhi, pulled Tong Shen aside, and asked softly, "Where did you just run off to? That little daughter of Uncle Zhang's family this year When I just returned to China, my father wanted to introduce you to each other..."

"Sister." Tong Shen interrupted her, "I'm not getting married."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" The second sister patted him again, "Before you were young and playful, we let you go, now you are thirty, and you are in your twelfth year, you don't care about starting a career, the family always has to be successful ?Dad was still telling me last night that I hope you will stop running around when you come back this time, and spend more time with them at home. My parents are getting old, and my eldest brother and I have too much time to do things, so we still expect you to do our filial piety for us .”

Tong Shen opened his mouth and said in a low voice, "Okay, I will stay at home to fulfill my filial piety, but I will not get married."

The second sister frowned: "You..."

"You don't know my sexual orientation, do you?" Tong Shen said, "When I was in college in Yangning, I didn't hide from you when I talked about my boyfriend. Every time I took him home, you should have Know."

"...Are you serious?!" The second sister yelled in surprise, suppressing her voice, "We all thought you were just playing around!"

"Talking about boyfriends may be just for fun." Tong Shen said, "But sexual orientation is not."

"...Daddy will kill you..."

"Then hit me, it's okay." Tong Shen said in a dazed manner, "He has never hit me since I was a child, and now it is my filial piety to let him beat me up."

"You're still such a jerk at how old you are!" The second sister said worriedly after beating him, "Okay, I'll help you find out about this first... You only dare to act like this because you know that you have my elder brother and I standing in your way." ..."

Tong Shen smiled and hugged her shoulders for a while, but his mind was behind him.

After a while, he tentatively asked: "Sister, these years... have you been getting close to Tu Jiazhi?"

"Ah? It's only because of business cooperation recently." The second sister was stunned for a while, "What do you mean these years? I knew him before?"

Tong Shen was startled: "You don't remember?"

"Remember what?"

"...Then do you remember Shu Bai?"

"Of course I remember Shu Bai. Didn't you tell me that? He did a good job under Xiao Qi a few years ago, but recently he moved to Shen'an to help Tu Jiazhi. I heard that they are cousins... ..." The second sister suddenly thought of something when she said this, "Ah, could it be that Tu Jiazhi is the cousin you mentioned back then?"

Tong Shen's expression darkened: "So you don't even remember."

"Hey, I see so many people every day, how can I remember?" The second sister glared at him, "And you were mainly talking about Shu Bai at that time, and you didn't mention him much. In the past so many years, how can I still remember?" impression?"

"..."

Because of his guilty conscience about his relationship with Shu Bai, Tong Shen did not mention Tu Jiazhi in detail at the time, thinking that taking care of Shu Bai would be equivalent to taking care of Tu Jiazhi anyway, so he mainly talked about Shu Bai.

but--

"Hasn't he ever gone to your place to find me?" Tong Shen asked unwillingly, "If he has been there, you should be very impressed."

"I don't know about that. You know that your sister is so busy every day that she sleeps on the plane or at the company. How can it be so easy to be found?" said the second sister, "And I was I have contacted Shu Bai according to your instructions, I told them that it is safe for you to travel, so they don't have to worry, so why does he still want you?"

"..." Tong Shen was silent for a long time, then shook his head and said, "Forget it."

He turned around and looked back, only to see that Tu Jiazhi had left at some point, and only his elder brother was still talking with others.

The crowd in the big auditorium was crowded, and even though Tu Jiazhi was tall, it was difficult for Tong Shen to find him for a while, so he had to turn back, pick up the glass of wine he just had, and head to the balcony the same way.

Du Zijie took the chair he was sitting on before, and when he saw him coming, he reached out and handed him a peeled orange: "Do you want to eat it? It's quite sweet."

"Where did you get the oranges?"

Tong Shen took it casually, broke off a piece, stuffed it into his mouth, and immediately spat it out: "Grass! Du Zijie, are you fucking sick?!"

"Hey." Du Zijie snatched the orange back and put it beside him, and said with a smile, "I didn't say it was sweet, but the person who gave the orange said it was sweet."

Tong Shen raised his leg and kicked him, raised his head and drank half a glass of wine to suppress the sour taste, he didn't take Du Zijie's words seriously.

He stood there in a daze for a while, then hooked up a chair and sat down beside Du Zijie, looking at the bright and tender roses in the garden in front of him, hesitated to speak several times.

"Tsk." Du Zijie couldn't see him like this, so he said impatiently, "Just say what you want, I haven't seen you for a few years, are you really being polite to me?"

"Oh." Tong Shen sighed, put the wine glass on the small coffee table beside him, and said melancholy, "I just met Tu Jiazhi."

Du Zijie suddenly became interested: "Did you talk?"

"No." Tong Shen became more and more depressed, "As soon as I passed by, my sister pulled me aside to talk, and he didn't even look at me... as if he didn't know me."

"That's true." Du Zijie agreed, "If I were him, I'd pretend I didn't know you."

"……Ugh."

Tong Shen sighed again, lowered his head and pulled his hair irritably.

"Hey, if you have any questions, just ask." Du Zijie leaned over, "It's not your character to be so hesitant, Brother Shen."

"It's nothing." Tong Shen murmured, "It's just that I wanted my sister and the others to help take care of him, but I just found out that my sister doesn't remember him at all..."

These words are all pretexts, Tong Shen knew why the second sister didn't remember Tu Jiazhi just after the chat, and also knew that the second sister actually occasionally helped to ask about Shu Bai's situation.

He said that he just didn't want his next question to appear too deliberate. Although he knew that he had lost face in front of Johnny Du, but when it came to Tu Jiazhi, he just became shy for some reason.

"I... I remember that I haven't cared about him for so many years..." Tong Shen swallowed his saliva and said softly, "It's nothing else, I just want to ask, how is he doing recently?"

"Ha." Du Zijie laughed inexplicably, but did not answer.

Tong Shen turned his head and glared at him: "What do you mean?"

"It's nothing." Du Zijie said with a smile, "I just think Brother Shen's behavior is quite interesting."

"...a dog can't spit out ivory!" Tong Shen kicked him angrily, picked up his glass and was about to leave, "I don't mind asking!"

Du Zijie looked at his leaving back meaningfully, and said to nowhere: "Did you hear that? People still care about you, it's just awkward."

Behind a door not far away, a tall figure paced out of the darkness, picked up the remaining oranges from Du Zijie's side, nodded slightly and said, "Thank you."

"It's okay." Du Zijie waved his hands nonchalantly, "It's fine if I don't have any money when we get married."

"Yeah." Tu Jiazhi smiled lightly, "Please be a witness and I will give you a red envelope."

"Hey!" Du Zijie said cheerfully, "You boy, it's different when you start business, you're getting more and more slippery!"

Tu Jiazhi nodded, turned around and walked inside.

"Don't eat the oranges! It's me who should be sour!" Du Zijie yelled at him from behind, "How many years have I been forced to stuff dog food, is it easy for me?!"

In the lobby, after Tong Shen came in, he walked around boredly, neither seeing Tu Jiazhi nor finding any other fun.

So he drank the wine in his hand, put down his glass and sneaked to the second floor.

They don't live in the manor where the reception is held, and Tong Shen is here for the first time, so he intends to wander around.

The corridor on the second floor was very long, and there were countless rooms. Tong Shen was so idle that he had to open the door to look inside every time he passed a room.

If you walk too much at night, you will encounter ghosts, and if you enter too many rooms, accidents will easily occur.

When he turned the corner at the end of the corridor, just as he pushed open the small snow-white door, a slender hand suddenly stretched out from inside, dragging him in unexpectedly.