The night was quiet, and a few rays of light shone into the room through the gaps in the curtains.
The young man's back was bent, and his hands were pressed against the man's sturdy chest. In the darkness, his curly, pitch-black eyelashes that were like crow's feathers blinked rapidly. He nervously swallowed a mouthful of saliva and stammered, "I'm sorry, big brother, you are a …" very good person.
He stuffed the latter half of his sentence back into his mouth.
Wei Zhe didn't know that he had almost been labeled as a good person. Wei Jing's answer was reasonable and unexpected. However, it was impossible to say that he wasn't disappointed.
"Why don't you agree? Don't you like me? " The man's bony fingers stroked the young man's sensitive and delicate collarbone like a feather. Every time they brushed past, it made him feel numb and itchy.
Wei Jing wanted to hide, but the man's other hand was firmly around his waist, making it impossible for him to retreat.
"I-I-I like Big Brother as a family member, not as a couple!" He finally said after holding it in for a long time.
"After the passion between couples, don't they slowly turn into family members?" Wei Zhe said slowly. "Isn't it better for us to reach the goal in one go?"
Wei Jing was speechless. He was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
"Do you want me to marry another woman? Start a family with someone else in the future? " Wei Zhe pressed him, then said, "You don't have to answer me in a hurry. We still have time. You can think about it slowly. "
Wei Jing's "I don't want to" was suddenly blocked in his mouth.
Since Big Brother wasn't in a hurry, he would take it slow. Wei Xiaojing, who was acting like a coward, silently despised himself. He already had an answer in his heart, but compared to being a couple, he felt that being a brother was more stable.
Once there was a gap in the relationship between couples, the gap would be enlarged and they would fall apart as if they were enemies.
Wei Jing felt like his heart was being stabbed and he couldn't breathe when he thought about that possibility between him and Wei Zhe.
"Alright, let's sleep!"
The man held him in his arms, and the familiar scent wafted over. Wei Jing bit his lips, clenched and unclenched his fists repeatedly, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not push the person on top of him away.
Forget it … forget it! Just this once would do it.
As he thought of this, he fell asleep in a daze.
***
Li Fei was busy in the police station for the whole day. The next morning, he found a car and took Li Qiang's body to the funeral home for cremation.
The nightmare of his life had now become a handful of ashes in his hand. The ordinary brownish-red urn was taken home by Li Fei. His house was on the top floor. It was a very common house with three bedrooms and one living room. When he got home, his mother was sitting in the living room sweeping the floor.
She was a woman in her forties or fifties with age spots on her face. Her skin was yellow and wrinkled, her hair was white, and there was a thick layer of calluses on her fingers. When she saw Li Fei, she revealed a loving smile. "Xiao Fei, you're back so early? Didn't you say three months? "
"Work ended early." Li Fei's hand that was putting down his shoes paused for a moment. He put the urn aside, and his faint eyes were covered by a layer of golden light under the warm evening sun. "Mom, I want to tell you something. Be mentally prepared. Don't be scared."
"Is your father in debt again?" The woman raised her voice when she heard that, and tears welled up in her eyes. "Son! No matter what, he's still your father. You can't just watch him die like that! If you don't have money on hand, let's go borrow it, okay? "
Familiar words, familiar tone, and familiar tears.
Li Fei wore slippers and stood quietly beside the shoe rack. There were thick dark circles under his eyes, and his face was pale because of the fatigue of the past two days. He smiled meaninglessly. "He's dead."
"What?" The woman was stunned.
The man said casually, "The day before yesterday, he was killed by a mental patient outside. I've been dealing with his matter for the past two days." As he spoke, he pointed at the brownish-red urn on the floor. "These are the ashes after the cremation."
"Dead … Dead." The woman stood there in a daze for a few seconds until Li Fei walked to her side. As if she had a nightmare, she bent down to pick up the urn and wailed. "I told you not to gamble, but you didn't listen. Now, he's gone. There's nothing left …"
Her sobs were hoarse, as if she was going to cry until she fainted in the next second.
Li Fei turned his head. His gaze was light and thin like a gust of wind. He took out a bottle of mineral water from the fridge and took a few sips. His stomach, which had been empty for most of the day, was aching faintly. "What do you want to eat tonight? There seems to be corn in the fridge. I'll make corn ribs and stir-fried cabbage. We have to go to the supermarket tomorrow to buy something! Otherwise, the fridge will be empty … "
"What are you thinking about?" The woman raised her head and looked at him in disbelief with her red and swollen eyes. "This is your father. Your father is dead. Aren't you sad? This is the father who gave you life! "
"Why should I be sad?" Li Fei looked back. There was no light reflected in his dark eyes. He was puzzled. "He abused you and was in debt outside. He messed up our good days. Now that he's dead, you should be happy."
"You, you, you …" The woman seemed to have realized what kind of person her son was for the first time. She screamed crazily. "How could I have such a selfish son like you? The dead should be respected. No matter what wrong he did when he was alive, he's already dead now. Why can't I forgive him?"
Why should I forgive him? Li Fei thought.
"Good, good, good!" She said the word "good" three times in a row. "When I die in the future, will you treat me like this? I don't have a son like you. Get out of here. "
"Mom, you …" Li Fei took two steps forward. He wanted to say, "How can it be the same? He's him, and you're you? You're completely different. " However, the woman's eyes, which were filled with disgust and fear, froze him on the spot.
"Get out!"
He pursed his lips and didn't even have time to change his shoes. He walked out numbly.
Li Fei looked at the ordinary security door in front of him in confusion. His heart seemed to hurt a little, but after sensing it carefully, the pain disappeared. He had pretended to be good outside, so why did he continue to pretend in his own home?
Shouldn't they be happy that the pest-like man who had hurt both of them had completely disappeared?
Li Fei had watched the man beat his mother under his body since he was very young. He punched her again and again until he had no strength left. Day after day, year after year. The family's income came from the woman's handwork outside. Occasionally, the man would generously give her a hundred or two yuan when he won money.
However, that was very rare. Most of the time, he would ransack the woman's savings. If she didn't give it to him, he would beat her.
Li Fei would ask, "Mom, why don't you divorce Dad?"
The woman would smile bitterly and say, "If we divorce, what will you do? I'm a woman. How can I live with you? "
He didn't understand. Wouldn't they live better without that man? Why couldn't they live?
Later, as he grew older and learned painting from Xu Jiaming, he slowly understood that some people didn't lack money, but the heart that wanted to stand up for themselves. They were used to relying on others for their future, even if that person was rotten to the point of stinking.
Many years ago, he spent a lot of effort to get his mother to agree to go to court to file for divorce. On the way back, she even cried loudly. Then, she hugged him and said, "I only have you in the future. You have to work hard. Don't be like your father …"
Because of this, he changed himself. He became tactful and would chat and laugh with people he didn't like.
His connections gradually grew, and his fame slowly rose.
He got into a good university and saved up money. Just as he was about to surprise his mother and tell her that they could have their own house …
That man … he came back.
With a butt full of debt, he knelt in front of them and cried. He said that he would change and begged them to save him. Li Fei looked indifferent. In his heart, this person was undoubtedly a dead person.
At that time, the woman still had a cold face and refused to forgive the man.
However … in less than half a month, her heart was attached to that man again. She cried and said, "The group of people outside is too scary. No matter what, he's your father, and he knows that he's wrong. Let's give him a chance. In the future, the family will be happy together. "
Li Fei was annoyed. He didn't want to agree, but he couldn't bear his mother's tears.
With a debt of more than 800,000 yuan, he lost more than half of the money in his hands. And this was just the beginning of the nightmare. When the man came home, he was obedient for a while, but then his face changed. First, he owed a few hundred yuan, then a thousand yuan, and finally ten thousand, twenty thousand yuan …
This was a bottomless pit.
And now … this bottomless pit was gone.
Li Fei's delicate face curved into a small smile. He glanced at the slippers on his feet, then glanced at the security door, and walked in the direction of the elevator. Fortunately, he always had his wallet on him. He went to buy a pair of shoes and find a hotel to stay for a few days.
Li Fei chose a hotel far away from home. He didn't know what was wrong with him. Perhaps he wanted to stay far away from that man?
The hotel's decoration is elegant, and the people coming and going are in suits and leather shoes. Li Fei's eyebrows are very good. When he looks at you, it's like a spring pool, soft and beautiful. When he smiles, there will be a small dimple on his right cheek, making people want to poke it twice.
"Senior Li?" Wei Jing saw him and was in disbelief. "Why are you here?"
Li Fei happened to put the room card in his pocket at this time. He said, "I've taken care of it, but I have something to do. I'll be staying in the hotel for a few days."
After all, the person who died was Li Fei's biological father. Wei Jing couldn't ask too much. He glanced at the elevator and panicked when he saw that it was about to reach the first floor. The young man's soft fingers grabbed Li Fei, who was still in a daze. "Senior Li, let's go eat! It's my treat. "
"Huh?"
"What do you want to eat? Western food or Chinese food? Forget it, let's eat Chinese food! "He pulled Li Fei and ran to a slightly remote Chinese restaurant with a guilty conscience.
Li Fei suddenly felt like laughing. It wasn't a hypocritical smile, but a smile that came from the depths of his heart. His eyes curved into crescents as he smiled. His eyes, which were originally like a pool of stagnant water, suddenly shone with a ray of sunlight, shining brightly. "Did you quarrel with Mr. Wei?"
Wei Jing, who was drinking water to calm himself down, was so shocked that he almost choked. He said in disbelief, "How did you know?" He hadn't even said anything yet.
"Otherwise, why are you hiding?" Li Fei looked as if he had seen through everything. He said with a little confusion, "That's not right! Based on my understanding of the two of you, you shouldn't be fighting, right? Or rather, the two of you shouldn't be fighting at all. "
Wei Jing put down the cup with a mysterious look on his face. "… That's because you don't know us at all." Could this person read minds?
He and Wei Zhe didn't fight, just like Li Fei said. It was just that he was unilaterally avoiding people at the moment.
In Wei Jing's mind, since Wei Zhe gave him time to think about it, it meant that he had the right to reject him. But early in the morning, he started to get touchy with him. He kissed him from time to time and said a few mushy words of love …
It was as if they had entered the mode of an old married couple!!!
Wei Jing was so scared that he felt unwell. He sneaked out of the room when the man was on the phone just now to calm down. He didn't expect to bump into Li Fei downstairs. In a panic … he took Li Fei with him.
"Okay! Then what are you fighting about? "Li Fei rested his chin on his hands and looked at the young man with a faint smile on his face.
"Um … Let me tell you something. Don't be surprised." A trace of awkwardness flashed across the young man's delicate face. His long and curly eyelashes fluttered uneasily, and his voice was as soft as a pitiful cub's. "Someone confessed to me, he … oh! It was a guy. "
Li Fei instinctively reminded him when he heard this. "… You're still underage. Don't be fooled."
When he looked at Wei Jing's magnificent and beautiful face, a wave of uneasiness surged in his heart. Why didn't he notice it before? This child had grown up. He was no longer the childish face that didn't attract people's imagination.
Instead, it was a face that both men and women would want to own.
The innocence that flashed through his eyes made people want to take the book and teach him, so that he would burn with different colors because of her.
The man's gaze subconsciously scanned his surroundings. As expected, many people were sneaking glances in their direction. Perhaps it was because people had been sneaking glances at him since he was young, Li Fei didn't feel anything. His gaze landed on the young man who was still trying to organize his words …
This person probably didn't feel anything either.
"So? Your older brother doesn't agree? " Li Fei spoke first. "If it were me, I wouldn't agree either. You're still so young. What do you know? Go to school well. When you grow up, you'll meet someone better. "
"No, my older brother agrees. But I think … I don't agree?" Wei Jing smashed the pot to pieces. He said vaguely, "That person grew up with me. Although we're not family, we're closer than family. I didn't expect him to have such feelings for me."
Li Fei said, "Then it's fine to refuse. Feelings, this kind of thing, can't be forced."
"But then he'll marry another woman. We'll be separated in the future. I … I don't want to be separated from him," Wei Jing said aggrievedly.
Li Fei, "…" Do you have to ask me this??
"Senior Li, what kind of lover do you want to find in the future? What's your ideal type? " Wei Jing still remembered that Nie Ningle said that Li Fei liked men. He couldn't find another gay man at the moment, so he decided to ask Li Fei for advice.
"Me??" Li Fei was stunned by the question. He lowered his head and held the teacup with both hands. His eyes were cold. "I don't have anyone I like, and I can't imagine living with another woman or man in the future. Maybe … I'm frigid?"
He said the last sentence with some uncertainty.
When he was young, he also thought about what kind of wife he would marry in the future. He wouldn't be like his father and be rough with his wife. He would work hard and earn money to support the family.
But now … he thought about his father, mother, and that painful marriage.
He couldn't imagine what kind of person he would spend the rest of his life with in the future. If he ended up like his parents, he might as well end it from the beginning.
"Let's not talk about me. Let's continue talking about you!" He took a sip of the milk in the cup. The sweet liquid slid down his throat and into his stomach, making him feel much better. "So now you don't want him to get married, but you also don't want to be with him??"
Wei Jing bit his lip like a deflated balloon. "Okay! I know it's impossible. Let me think about it. "
"Is he good to you? How's his family background? "Li Fei asked the practical question.
Wei Jing thought for a while and gave an example. "Very good! Just like how my eldest brother treats me. As for his family background … it's not bad. "He didn't dare to say too much for fear of making a mistake.
Li Fei had never liked anyone before, so he didn't know anything about relationships. "If you like him too, then you can just be together. As for children? Why don't you look for a surrogate? But your relationship can't be made public, right? Also, there's no legal guarantee. It's very risky. As far as I'm concerned, I don't agree with it. "
But … if he gave up just like that? What if he regretted it one day?
Life was like countless forks in the road. A different choice would lead to a different outcome. He still remembered a short story he saw many years ago.
There was a very fat girl. Once, when she went to the library to read, she squeezed with a boy. The boy couldn't cross that path because of her.
The girl was very shy. She panicked and apologized.
The boy politely said that it was okay.
The two of them became friends and then lovers. In the end, they got married and had children. They lived happily ever after.
After the girl died and was reborn, she lost weight, put on makeup, and wore beautiful clothes to become an outstanding woman worthy of her husband in her previous life. On the day she met the man, she smiled and wanted to greet him.
But the man only said coldly to her, "Sorry, please make way."
The two of them became strangers from then on. [Remark 1]
"You're right. I'll think about it." As soon as the young man finished speaking, his phone kept ringing. He took out his phone and glanced at it. He thought it was his eldest brother, but who knew that it was his manager.
Wei Jing picked up the phone and asked curiously, "What's wrong? What's the matter? "After all … he didn't have any new works recently! It was still the serialized one.
"My little ancestor! How can you reply so casually on Flying Pigeon? " His manager was also worried sick for him. "Look, what the hell is the style of Flying Pigeon now?"
"What do you mean?" Wei Jing was puzzled.
The manager, who was on vacation with his wife, rubbed his forehead and said, "Is it that Xiao Yiyuan from before? Do you still remember? Did you chat with her on Flying Pigeon yesterday? Now, there's an argument on Flying Pigeon. They're saying that you're bullying a newbie. Their tone is arrogant and condescending. It makes people uncomfortable. "
Wei Jing spoke with difficulty. "… I only replied 'Okay, it's fine!' How can they argue over that? To show that I'm considerate, I even added a smiley face. "It was the famous fake smile emoji.
"You'll know when you see it, but don't say anything else. Leave this to me. Okay? "People who had to work overtime on National Day couldn't afford to be hurt!
"Okay," Wei Jing answered a little guiltily.
After hanging up, he secretly logged into Weibo and saw that there was a lot of scolding below. Occasionally, there would be people who spoke up for him, but they were immediately scolded down. There were Xiao Yiyuan's fans, Internet trolls, and netizens who followed the trend.
Blanket: You don't mind? Haha! Why don't you mind? Who gave you the courage to be so arrogant? Liang Jingru?
I'm Yiyuan's Wife: It's all because Yiyuan has a good temper. She only said a few words on your Weibo. What's wrong? Flying Pigeon is a public platform. Can't other people comment on it? If you're so capable, don't draw it. Rubbish.
Pink: Rubbish! Rubbish!
…
Wei Jing, who was being scolded by the entire Internet, was speechless.
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