Curse Back to Five Summers: Best Friends Are an Excuse for Couples

But ah...

Xia Yujie sneered and said, "Xia Yujie has his own value. I'm not sure how I gave you the illusion that I could accept your charity."

"You mean alms?"

"Isn't it? The tone of Wu's voice just now gave me the feeling that this job is a charity."

"No, did you misunderstand something?"

"You're the young master of some wealthy family, right? That's why you don't have any idea of salary. Do you know how much I earn working in the office for a month? Do you know that the salary I get for cooking dinner every day is equal to, or even higher than, the salary I get for working hard in the office for a month? What does that mean?"

Gojo Satoru looked at Geto Suguru blankly. It was the first time he saw such an expression on Geto Suguru's face in the one month since they met.

There was a confused and unwilling light in his eyes behind the round glasses. He knew that Geto Suguru had misunderstood.

Gojo Satoru stood there in a daze. He didn't say anything else. His explanation suddenly became pale and powerless. He realized that he had messed up.

It's clearly an employment relationship, and Suguru Geto is clearly being compensated for his labor. Is this a bad thing? Why does he mind so much?

His eyes widened in anger. Gojo Satoru didn't want Geto to have any wild thoughts. "If it's really charity, shouldn't they just throw the money in your face?"

Geto Suguru was very emotional, but he was able to suppress it. Apart from his chest heaving due to the double torture of dissatisfaction and anger, he did not make any other movements or make any extreme words.

After all, I am already an adult, and adults are best at controlling their emotions.

Looking at the person in front of him who was looking at him with fear and trepidation but also with hidden anger, the anger that was aroused when Geto Suguru realized that the other party wanted to give him gifts and charity was gradually extinguished.

He sadly discovered that even after being reborn, he still felt a little inferior when facing Gojo Satoru.

Back then, he felt inferior more than once because he was unable to stand shoulder to shoulder with Gojo Satoru, who had mastered the reversal technique and became the true strongest sorcerer.

He was not jealous. While he was genuinely happy for his best friend's progress, he was also anxious and felt inferior because he could not catch up with the other person's speed.

He once wanted to be someone like Gojo Satoru, who possessed top-notch abilities and became the ceiling of the world of sorcery, who could easily overturn the old world and create the new world he wanted to see.

However, in the end, even though he was wearing a five-ribbon robe, he did not become a person like Gojo Satoru.

The only thing is that there is only one Gojo Satoru in this world, and there is only one Geto Suguru, and Geto Suguru cannot become Gojo Satoru.

I am not convinced and unwilling to accept it, but there is nothing I can do.

Now, ten years later, he has always maintained a gentle and kind persona in front of Gojo Satoru, but once the other party sees through this disguise, his inner inferiority will quickly spread.

He couldn't allow his relationship with Gojo Satoru to become that of employee and employer. Once their relationship became like that, it would be completely distorted.

Everyone deceives themselves by saying that an employment relationship is also an equal relationship. Just listen to this lie and don't let it really deceive yourself.

Whether in life, death, or rebirth, Geto Suguru could not willingly be in a lower position.

He had never thought of surpassing Gojo Satoru. All he had always wanted was equality, to be able to stand side by side with him like they did in their school days.

Not being left behind, being able to catch up, working together for each other's dreams, changing the world, and providing a paradise for the truly weak to survive.

This is what he always wanted.

People always have a strange sense of self-esteem, and they are always torn between maintaining their self-esteem and abandoning it.

All along, he hoped to stand on the same equal footing with Gojo Satoru, just like the two ends of a scale, with the weights on both sides being equally heavy, and there being no situation of one higher and one lower.

The friendship he wanted, the friendship he had always wanted with Gojo Satoru was this.

However, Gojo Satoru just now was standing in the position of superiority. Even though it was indeed well-intentioned, Geto Suguru still felt that his fragile self-esteem was trampled on and crushed.

"I'm sorry," Xia Yujie raised his hand and pinched his brow, "Maybe my words were too harsh."

Gojo Satoru was stunned for a moment, then quickly shook his head, "No, that's not the case. I didn't think it through."

"We can't be an employer-employee relationship, at least not with you."

Gojo Satoru finally understood something, and his expression turned ugly in an instant. He knew that he had done something wrong.

If when I am helpless, Geto Suguru says lightly that he will save me from the dire situation and acts indifferently, I am afraid I will feel uncomfortable.

"Satoru," Geto Suguru stretched out his hand and placed it weakly on Gojo Satoru's shoulder. "Because I care about you as a friend, please don't say that to me again. There are many things Geto Suguru can do. It's not time for me to work under you for a living. It's not time yet."

Geto Suguru knew that this was entirely due to his fragile self-esteem.

If you want to maintain a long-term friendship with someone, then you must not involve money or work, otherwise, the friendship will soon become sour.

Geto Suguru didn't want this to happen. He had nothing left to lose, not even his only friend.

Geto Suguru turned and walked into the yard. Gojo Satoru stared at his back for a long time before taking a few quick steps to catch up with him.

He was wrong, extremely wrong. His intentions were good, but his actions were wrong.

If it were someone else, he would not bother to explain at all, and might even think in his heart that the dog bites Lu Dongbin because he doesn't know the kindness of the good man.

But this was not someone else, it was Geto Suguru, the person who treated him the best besides his parents, the handsome brother who always smiled at him gently and would treat him to dinner, the older man who was seven years younger than him but there was no generation gap between them.

If there is a concrete representative of the beauty of this world in his life, it must be Geto Suguru.

"That..." Gojo Satoru couldn't help but chase after him.

"Hmm?" Geto Xia Yu walked up the stairs without looking back.

"Please forgive me. Although I never said those words out of kindness or charity, I did hurt Mr. Geto, so please forgive me."

It's really new that Gojo Satoru takes the initiative to apologize to others.

Xia Yujie took a deep breath, his tone devoid of any extra emotion, "I already told you not to talk about that anymore."

"Will you forgive me? What if you don't?"

Geto Suguru had already reached the door of his room, but Gojo Satoru had just come up to the second-floor corridor.

Seeing that Geto Suguru had been refusing to give him any attention, Gojo Satoru suddenly became anxious and panicked.

"Jie!" The moment Geto Suguru's hand opened the door, Gojo Satoru called out his name loudly.

The hand holding the door handle paused. Although Xia Yujie didn't turn around to look at him, he didn't move anymore. He just stood there motionless.

"Just like what you said, Jay, I care about you as a friend too. Even though we've only known each other for a short time, you're the friend I've gotten along with the most. I like you very much, Jay, and because I like you so much, I don't want to see you lamenting over a job you don't like."

Geto Suguru's expression was like a melting iceberg, which was slowly peeling off from the iceberg body, bit by bit, and slowly sinking into the water.

"I don't have many friends, and even my family members are rather distant. Ah~" Gojo Satoru roared in frustration, feeling impatient because he didn't know how to clearly express what he was thinking.

He had never felt so clumsy with his words. After saying so much, he still couldn't express clearly what he really wanted to say.

"I don't know how to be nice to someone, what to say, or what to do, so it seems like I always make mistakes. But I don't want to lose my friend Jay."

Geto Suguru slowly turned his body and listened in surprise to Gojo Satoru's confession at the stairs.

"I'm afraid of losing because I don't want to lose. I admit that for this reason, I unconsciously reveal some possessiveness. Possessiveness doesn't necessarily exist in love."