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The strong cold air is heading south, and tonight should be the coldest night since the beginning of winter.As soon as you leave the well-heated room, your hands and feet will be numb from the cold.

Yu Duo was sitting in the taxi, staring at the bleak street scene outside the window, the white air he exhaled condensed into a white mist on the glass.

Across a traffic light, he saw Jiang Chiyu standing in front of the steps of the hotel entrance.

The few times Yu Duo saw Jiang Chiyu recently, there was always a group of people hugging him, and now he suddenly saw him standing there alone, and he was not used to it.

Yu Duo asked the driver to pull over the car, opened the door and got out of the car.

Not long ago, Yu Duo suddenly received a call from Yang Youyun at home.Yang Youyun said on the phone that there were too many guests at the annual meeting tonight, and Jiang Chiyu was busy with socializing and accidentally drank too much.The colleagues are all entertaining guests now, and no one is taking care of Jiang Chiyu, and Yang Youyun is worried about letting him go home alone, so I trouble Yu Duo to go.

Yang Youyun's words are untenable to Yu Duo, Jiang Chiyu is the general manager of Guihu anyway, no matter what, it is impossible for someone to take care of him after drinking.Besides, Yu Duo didn't drive back tonight, it's freezing outside, it's inconvenient for a person without a car to go out, and he can't help much.

Yang Youyun didn't intend to give Yu Duo a chance to refuse, and hung up the phone hastily before he could say anything.

Sitting on the bed, Yu Duo thought about the authenticity of Yang Youyun's words for a while, and finally came to the conclusion that Yang Youyun was talking nonsense.

Nevertheless, he got up, got dressed, took a taxi and went out.

The guests dispersed one after another, and Jiang Chiyu, as the host, was naturally the last one. Standing on the steps, he watched Yu Duo get off the car and walk towards him.

The neon lights on the hotel signboard flashed, and the jumping colored light and shadow extended along the bridge of his nose to the corners of his lips, clearly outlining the lines of his face.

It was really Yu Duo who came.

Jiang Chiyu stared at Yu Duo intently, and said two words lightly: "What a coincidence."

"It's not a coincidence at all." Yu Duo came to the steps and stood still, raised his head to look at Jiang Chiyu, and said, "Yang Youjun asked me to pick you up, did you drink too much tonight?"

"It's okay." Jiang Chiyu lowered his eyes and staggered his gaze: "Xiao Zhao will come over later, I will wait for him here."

Yu Duo has an impression of Xiao Zhao, because his voice is somewhat similar to Jiang Chiyu, Yu Duo noticed him early in the morning.

He remembered what Yang Youyun said on the phone, and said to Jiang Chiyu: "Zhao Zhu sent off other guests, and will not come back."

Jiang Chiyu didn't say anything, but "I don't believe it" was clearly written on his face.

Looking at Jiang Chiyu in front of him, Yu Duo slandered Yang Youyun in his heart.Jiang Chiyu looks very sober now, and he can still give him a cold face, not at all like he is drunk and needs someone to send him home.

"Why did you come? The lottery draw is over." Jiang Chiyu should have been standing here for a while, and he sat down on the steps as if tired: "Unfortunately, you are late, the prize has already been spent Fall into someone else's house."

Jiang Chiyu's two words made Yu Duo confused, and then he remembered that Yang Youjun said that there would be several rounds of lucky draws at the annual meeting tonight, and the special prize was an electric car worth hundreds of thousands.

Jiang Chiyu blamed him for not coming to the end of the conference today, and deliberately provoked him with words.

Seeing Jiang Chiyu's naive behavior, Yu Duo finally figured out a little drunkenness from his overly calm face.

"Do you still know who I am?" Yu Duo stepped up the steps, squatted down in front of Jiang Chiyu, raised his head and looked at him.

"Yu Duo." Jiang Chiyu looked up into Yu Duo's eyes, paused, and then popped out three words like a machine stuck: "I hate you."

At this point, Yu Duo can finally confirm that Jiang Chiyu was really drunk by his subordinates tonight.

"If you hate it, you hate it, and I don't like you either." Yu Duo was amused by his angry words, and Jiang Chiyu, who was drunk, made him feel a little novel.Speaking of which, Jiang Chiyu didn't drink at all in the past, but after he came back, his drinking capacity was bottomless, and it was the first time Yu Duo saw him like this.

Yu Duo stretched out his finger and pointed Jiang Chiyu's forehead, and poked him back: "What kind of stinking virtue, it's not as cute as when I was a child."

Yu Duo has wronged Jiang Chiyu. Although Jiang Chiyu is different now than he was five years ago, he has not changed.Before meeting Yu Duo, he had always been like this, otherwise he would not have been able to grow up with Jiang Xiaoqing in a place like a nightclub where fish and dragons are mixed together.

It's just that when he was with Yu Duo in the past, Jiang Chiyu always showed his softest side in front of him, and gave all his tenderness and patience to Yu Duo.It made him forget what he looked like when he first met Jiang Chiyu.

Suspicious, sensitive and paranoid, with black hands and a cruel heart, he bites people unambiguously, like a little wild dog who doesn't want to trust anyone.

"You hate me even more, and I don't like you even more." Hearing what Yu Duo said, Jiang Chiyu refuted a few words one after another, like a vindictive little boy, insisting on competing with Yu Duo.

This is not the first time that Jiang Chiyu has expressed to Yu Duo that he doesn't like him. This is a conditioned reflex that is deeply rooted in his bones. Even if he is drunk, Jiang Chiyu will always remain vigilant. No matter how much he asks, he can no longer easily express his love .

Jiang Chiyu, who was in his early twenties, never thought of being afraid, nor did he know that it would hurt, so he dared to show his love to that person without fear.But now, he already knew what it would be like to break through the south wall, so he would not try again easily.

He is like a person who has been shipwrecked and lost the courage to embrace the sea.Even if you can only stay on the shore for the rest of your life, watching the sun rise and the moon set from a distance, it is better than accidentally being photographed into the dark seabed again.

"Hey, Jiang Chiyu, let me ask you." Yu Duo seemed to be teasing Jiang Chiyu, but the truth was often accompanied by temptation and jokes: "Do you really not like me anymore?"

Without hesitation, Jiang Chiyu said firmly, "I don't like you anymore."

This was the answer Yu Duo wanted to hear the most. After hearing Jiang Chiyu say it himself after many years, it seemed that a piece of his body had been ripped out, as if a part that had been deeply implanted in the blood and bone marrow had just left him.

But Yu Duo quickly cleared up his mind, smiled and said to Jiang Chiyu: "That's right, there's nothing good about liking me."

"I do not like you…"

Drunk people like to talk about cars, Jiang Chiyu didn't hear what Yu Duo said, seemed to be immersed in his own thoughts, and repeated the words in a low voice for himself five years ago.

If he could hide this feeling well back then, kill the delusions he shouldn't have in time, and force himself to return to his original position, would he have been able to stay by his side in the name of his family?

Then there wouldn't be these five years of separation, and there wouldn't be so much suffering.

As he talked, he felt a little wronged: "For so long, you didn't come to me. It used to be like this, and it's still like this now."

"Be reasonable, you are the one who ignored me first." The smile on Yu Duo's face faded, he stopped joking, held Jiang Chiyu's face, and let him look at him: "I ask you, these few days God, why are you angry? Did I make you unhappy? "

"If I don't tell you, you won't ask. If I don't contact you, can't you take the initiative to come to me?" Even if Jiang Chiyu was drunk, it was not so easy for him to talk. He couldn't answer Yu Duo's question, so he started to dig old accounts : "If you pick up a puppy and raise it for so many years, you will have feelings for it. You drove me out of the house and ignored me. For five years, didn't you even think about coming to me once?"

Yu Duo was taken aback by Jiang Chiyu's drunken words, and the heavy snow that he encountered when he went to America for the first time suddenly flashed in his mind.

That was the first time Yu Duo saw snow. At that time, he had just made a little money and wanted to catch up with the trend of traveling abroad, so he went to the city where Jiang Chiyu was with the tour group.

Jiang Chiyu's overseas mobile phone number Yu Duo knew by heart, he was alone in the hotel that night, and dialed the number with his landline.

It was a girl who answered the phone. The girl who claimed to be Jiang Chiyu's girlfriend said that Jiang Chiyu was taking a bath, and enthusiastically asked him to leave his name and contact information, and call him back later.

Before the girl could finish speaking, Yu Duo hung up the phone in a hurry. Later, the hotel's landline rang several times, but he didn't answer it again.

"Actually, I went to look for you..." Yu Duo shook his head self-deprecatingly when he said this, it is meaningless to say these things now.Whether it is the girl or the heavy snow, they are already passing by in memory.

After all, if people want to live well, they have to look forward.

"Okay, I'll know later, I won't do this again." The sadness was fleeting, and a smile appeared on Yu Duo's face immediately: "Are you going? If you don't go, I will go."

There was no reason to talk to the drunk, and he didn't know whether Jiang Chiyu had heard Yu Duo's words, so he turned his head to the side and said, "You don't need to worry about it."

"That's fine, I'll go first." Yu Duo was too lazy to get used to his stink, no longer forced, got up and walked down the steps.

Seeing that Yu Duo was really about to leave, Jiang Chiyu hurriedly stood up and shouted, "Yu Duo!"

Yu Duo stopped in his tracks, as if he had been waiting here a long time ago, he turned around and looked at Jiang Chiyu, and said with a smile, "I'm so cold, hurry up and follow."

***

The temperature tonight hit a new low this year, and it was approaching the end of the year, so there were not many taxis on the road.The car that Yu Duo called was picked up by someone else when the two of them were arguing.

Standing on the side of the road, Yu Duo couldn't stop the car, so he and Jiang Chiyu walked one after the other to the next intersection where he could get a taxi.

Jiang Chiyu was so drunk that he didn't distinguish between east, west, and north. As he walked, his pace slowed down, and he fell far behind Yu Duo.After Yu Duo stopped and waited several times, he simply grabbed his hand and led him forward.

In the past, Jiang Chiyu was like a small stove, but today his palms are even hotter, warm in his pockets, walking hand in hand on the winter night street like this, Yu Duo suddenly doesn't feel cold anymore.

After walking through two traffic lights in the cold wind, the two finally got into the car.After getting into the car, Jiang Chiyu acted very well-behaved, even though Yu Duo held his hand in his hand and did not take it out.

Jiang Chiyu had just returned to City H, and had no plans to buy a house, so he rented a house for the time being.The taxi quickly drove to the gate of Jiang Chiyu's house and stopped. It wasn't until then that Yu Duo knew that the apartment Jiang Chiyu rented was only one street away from his home.

Perhaps inadvertently, they have been to the same breakfast stand, been in and out of the same convenience store, walked on the same sidewalk, and seen the same street scene.

Where Yu Duo couldn't see, Jiang Chiyu used this clumsy method to fill up the five years they missed between them as much as possible.

"You live here too?" Yu Duo couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.

"I'm home." Jiang Chiyu didn't answer Yu Duo, he turned his head and looked out the window in a daze, and said to him from left and right: "Let's go first, goodbye."

At tonight's annual meeting, the company's colleagues and customers took turns to toast, drinking white wine and red wine together, foreign and local people all joined the battle. After returning all the way, Jiang Chiyu's alcohol was completely up. Instead of waking up, he looked drunk Even more powerful.

Yu Duo was worried about letting him go up alone, so they got out of the car and took him to the door together. It can be said that the service was very attentive.

"Here we are, let's go in." Yu Duo took out the key from Jiang Chiyu's pocket and opened the door of his house: "Take a shower and go to bed early, don't bother."

Jiang Chiyu nodded obediently, but did not enter the door immediately, but turned to face Yu Duo, staring at him without saying a word.

"What's wrong?" Yu Duo asked.

The two stayed at the door for too long, and the sensor lights in the corridor went out. At the same time, there was the sound of fine cloth rubbing against their ears.When Yu Duo turned on the corridor light again, he happened to see Jiang Chiyu took out a small thing from the inside pocket of his suit and handed it to him.

"This is today's special award." Jiang Chiyu looked at Yu Duo, and explained solemnly: "I'll give you the inside story, please don't tell others."

In the palm of Jiang Chiyu's hand lies a golden commemorative ring, the front of the ring is the logo of Guihu Lake, and the code on the inner circle is exactly Yu Duo's birthday.

This commemorative ring was rustic in style and cheap in material, not pure gold, not even silver.I took out dozens of small ones tonight, and all of them are worth less than a pack of tissues.

Yu Duo stared down at the ring in Jiang Chiyu's hand for a moment, put it in his arms with great care, raised his head and smiled and said to Jiang Chiyu: "Okay, I got it, thank you."

After speaking, he spread his arms and said to Jiang Chiyu, "I'm going back, come here and give me a hug."

Jiang Chiyu took a slow step towards Yu Duo, as if walking into his dream.

"Yuduo."

Jiang Chiyu bent down slightly, and wrapped Yu Duo's whole body into his arms.

The moment he was hugged by Jiang Chiyu, Yu Duo's heart also rose to his throat. He realized that Jiang Chiyu had something to say, but he waited for a long time, and he still didn't wait for the next sentence.

Just as Yu Duo was about to take the initiative to say something, Jiang Chiyu trembled violently as if someone had been hit in the abdomen, and put his hands on the door frame in pain.