please love me again

"Just find a place to sit." Fu Yiping let Li Yao into the room.

"Thank you." Li Yao sat down and looked around cautiously.

Fu Yiping looked at him with his arms crossed, he really didn't know how to deal with the scene in front of him: a high school friend whom he hadn't known for many years suddenly came looking for him.

"Why did you come to me?" Fu Yiping asked, and then realized that Li Yao's face was a little pale.

"Well, this matter... that..." Li Yao hesitated, and tapped his pants with his index finger, looking anxious.

Fu Yiping had never seen Li Yao like this before, but he could feel that Li Yao definitely wanted something from him.

"That..." Li Yao looked up at him and moved his fingers, "Do you have any cigarettes?"

Fu Yiping was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head, "Smoking is prohibited in my house, and my partner won't let me smoke..."

"Ah, you're married," Li Yao smiled awkwardly, "This is the first time I've heard of it, congratulations."

"No, I haven't received the certificate yet...forget it..." Fu Yiping scratched his head, then went to look through the drawer again, "I remember someone gave a pack of cigarettes and put it here..."

Fu Yiping found the cigarette and lighter, and threw them to Li Yao. Li Yao thanked him, and smoked them skillfully.

"How did you learn to smoke?" Fu Yiping looked at him from the side. In his mind, Li Yao was still the boy he was back then, as if he had turned into a man overnight.

Li Yao paused his hand holding the cigarette, and asked back, "Don't you know how to smoke?"

"No..." Fu Yiping suddenly became more serious, "Didn't you frown when you saw people smoking before? I thought you hated..."

"Yeah..." Li Yao's eyes flickered, as if thinking of something, "But life is too hard, I have no other choice..."

"Life is hard?" Fu Yiping looked at him incredulously, "Aren't you the young master? I remember that your father still runs a big company, so why is life so hard?"

"It's gone, it's gone..." Li Yao whispered, and suddenly raised his head to look at Fu Yiping, "Yiping, I'm desperate, I don't even have a place to live now..."

"What do you mean?" Fu Yiping was a little surprised, "What happened?"

"Please..." Li Yao begged with difficulty, "Let me live in your house, except for money... I am willing to do anything!"

"You, what are you talking about..." Fu Yiping looked at Li Yao almost dumbfounded.

The young man who was so arrogant that he couldn't bear a little ridicule now bowed his head and begged in front of him.

"You, just help me, I just need a place to live now..." Li Yao explained, "When I have enough money, I will move out immediately, it won't affect you and your wife..."

"No, I didn't live with her," Fu Yiping shook his head, "No, no, what's the matter with you? Why do you suddenly have no place to live? Did you borrow money to take drugs?"

"No, I didn't take drugs..." Li Yao smiled bitterly, "But it's about the same... I'm being chased for debts... The previous house has been sold to pay back the money, but it's still a drop in the bucket..."

"Why are you being chased suddenly? What have you done?"

"I didn't do anything..." Li Yao said, "Please don't ask, anyway...I'm very, very, very short of money now..."

"I won't lend you money," Fu Yiping said decisively, "My savings is for marriage!"

"I know..." Li Yao said, "I won't borrow money from you, I just want a place to stay."

"Why do you think I will help someone who has not seen me for ten years and who beat me?" Fu Yiping asked.

"Because you are me..." Li Yao looked at him, the sadness in his eyes was undisguised, "The only person I can count on."

Fu Yiping was convinced, he was so easily moved by him, and then he remembered that Li Yao had been a person who did his own way from the past, as if it was normal that people all over the world should pamper him.

The strangest thing was that Fu Yiping didn't dislike this personality.

Because what Li Yao gave himself in other aspects is irreplaceable, and for this reason, his other shortcomings can be ignored.

"Okay." Fu Yiping finally nodded and agreed to let Li Yao stay.

"That..." Li Yao hesitated to speak, "Actually, there is a small request..."

"What? It would be nice to let you live. Do you have any more requests?"

"Can I bring another person to live here?" Li Yao hurriedly explained, "He doesn't usually live here, and only occasionally comes back on weekends..."

"Who?" Fu Yiping frowned, unconsciously showing disgust, "A man?"

"No...it's not a man, it's a boy..." Li Yao waved his hand, "It's my brother, I remember you met him before...he is going to prepare for the college entrance examination this year, I want to provide him with a comfortable environment..."

"Brother... Li Yuan? I remember..." Fu Yiping's doubts deepened, "What the hell did you do to bring your brother with you when you escaped from debt collection?"

"Well, it's a long story..." Li Yao's eyes wandered away, "Anyway, I want to work hard to make money..."

Fu Yiping and Li Yao started living together.

Fu Yiping originally thought it would be awkward for the two of them to get along, but unexpectedly, the two got along very smoothly.

What surprised Fu Yiping was that Li Yao knew how to cook and clean, and he did both well.

"Well," Fu Yiping took a sip of Li Yao's cooking, and couldn't help but praise, "It's delicious!"

Li Yao smiled, as if coping, the smile disappeared immediately, "It's nothing, it will be fine after a long time."

Fu Yiping was taken aback for a moment, if the former Li Yao was praised, he would definitely show a complacent expression, but the Li Yao in front of him no longer had the spirit of his youth.

Fu Yiping even suspected that the person in front of him was not the real Li Yao.

Suddenly, Li Yao's cell phone rang. Li Yao motioned and walked aside to answer the call.

Fu Yiping was very unaccustomed to it, and didn't like Li Yao who was so polite and blunt.

In the past, Li Yao would show himself carelessly even the love letters written to him by girls.

Fu Yiping shook his head, realizing that he was nostalgic for the past.

That's right, we are adults after all, so how can we trust others as schemingly and unreservedly as we did when we were young?Thinking about it carefully, maybe I failed Li Yao, who trusted me 100% back then...

Fu Yiping was feeling sad, and when the sadness could never return to the past, Li Yao's excited expression suddenly broke into his sight.

After Li Yao finished making the phone call, his eyes sparkled, and his pale face seemed to regain blood.

Fu Yiping could tell that something good should have happened, Li Yao was indeed still Li Yao, and his happy expression was still the same as before.

"What good thing happened?" Fu Yiping asked.

"Ah..." Li Yao restrained his expression, "No, it's nothing... I, I'm going out today, and I'll pick up my brother tonight, please."

"Understood." Fu Yiping nodded, still not used to such a polite Li Yao.

Li Yao hurried out the door. The person who called just now was the HR manager of a large company. He wanted him to consider changing jobs. The salary was three times that of the original company.

Li Yao couldn't wait to meet the other party. After all, he was very short of money now, even if there was a dime on the ground, he would bend down to pick it up.