Cappuccino Rhapsody

Qi Xu answered the call from Li Lang, who asked him about signing a contract with Yuntu the next day.

It was already ten o'clock in the evening, the room was pitch black, there was no sound at all, Qi Xu sat on the cold ground with his back against the wall, and closed his eyes to listen to that Li Lang.

He wanted to ask something, but realized that Li Lang might be worse than him and didn't know anything.

He didn't even know who to ask.

In the past eight years, Qi Xu's understanding of what happened to Ling Jiangyuan was almost blank.

Even some major events, he put together through other people's words.Ling Jiangyuan never seemed to take the initiative to tell him about the difficulties in his life.

Li Lang's voice came through the phone: "Are you listening?"

"En." Qi Xu opened his eyes, and responded softly, "What did their boss say."

"I'm still not satisfied with the conditions given," Li Lang paused, and said, "But... this time I met their boss, and found a very... very strange thing."

"what?"

"Do you know who Yuntu's boss is?" Li Lang asked.

"Xie Zheng." Qi Xu already knew something about Yuntu when he planned to cooperate with Yuntu.

Li Lang said: "That was on the surface. This time I met the behind-the-scenes boss who doesn't show much."

Qi Xu sat up straight and became interested: "Who?"

"White baby."

Qi Xu's hand holding the phone tightened immediately, his brows twitched, and he said suddenly: "Did you say anything?"

"I didn't say anything, just reminiscing about the old days. By the way, I asked a few of us to have dinner together. I agreed." Li Lang said.

"Oh." Qi Xu didn't have time to take care of the matter at the other end, he just nodded and said, "Then you set a time."

Li Lang said: "Then about signing the contract?"

"I've been a little busy recently, maybe in the next year." Qi Xu said, "Thanks for your hard work."

Li Lang let out a "hmm", and hung up the phone before giving Qi Xu time to say goodbye.

Qi Xu threw the phone away, and leaned against the wall in a daze for a while before standing up. At the same time, there was a "tick" sound from the door opening.

Qi Xu quickly stood up and walked towards the door, and immediately hugged Ling Jiangyuan into his arms.

Ling Jiangyuan's stiff body instantly went limp, and he leaned against Qi Xu weakly, calling his name softly: "Qi Xu..."

"What's wrong?" Qi Xu touched his face and asked, "Are you all right?"

"..." Ling Jiangyuan was silent for a long time before he said, "I want to take a bath, please help me wash it. I have no strength."

Qi Xu carried Ling Jiangyuan horizontally and walked to the bathroom.

Ling Jiangyuan's face was pale, and his face was even more sickly under the strong incandescent light. Qi Xu rubbed his face distressedly and asked, "Where did you go?"

"No." Ling Jiangyuan lowered his head and answered him briefly.

"Have you found your aunt?"

Ling Jiangyuan trembled slightly, then quickly turned his head away, and said again in a very soft voice: "...She is fine."

Qi Xu breathed a sigh of relief, but subconsciously felt that the situation was not that simple.He went on to ask: "What the hell is going on? You have to tell me so I can help."

Ling Jiangyuan lowered his head helplessly: "Xiaoxu, can you stop asking. I don't want to answer, and you don't want to know."

Qi Xu pursed his lips, and looked at Ling Jiangyuan angrily for a long time.

Ling Jiangyuan couldn't bear Qi Xu's gaze, turned his head away and said, "I'll wash it myself. I'm a little stronger now."

"Ling Jiangyuan," Qi Xu rubbed his chest with one hand, and said, "You bastard."

Qi Xu helped Ling Jiangyuan take a shower, and Ling Jiangyuan had already fallen asleep.He carefully picked up Ling Jiangyuan, wrapped the other party's wet body in a towel, wiped it dry and put it under the quilt.

Qi Xu also took a bath before lying down, he stretched out his hand and hooked Ling Jiangyuan into his arms, hugging him tightly, a kind of surprise that was lost and found made Qi Xu lose sleep.

He closed his eyes, but many thoughts flashed through his mind.

He knew that Ling Jiangyuan tonight was very strange.But Ling Jiangyuan refused to say anything, so Qi Xu comforted himself that maybe the matter had been resolved.Although his subconscious told him that it was not that easy.

At two or three o'clock in the morning, Qi Xu noticed that the person in his arms moved suddenly, and then carefully pushed aside his tightly bound hands, and sat up.

Qi Xu didn't know what he was thinking at that moment, he subconsciously didn't open his eyes.

He heard the sound of Ling Jiangyuan rubbing the fabric, and then Qi Xu's lips warmed, and Ling Jiangyuan kissed him.

He lightly touched Qi Xu's forehead with his hand, pressed his forehead against his, and said softly: "I'm sorry."

Qi Xu almost opened his eyes.

But his strong restraint made him continue to pretend to be asleep.

Then came the sound of footsteps, Ling Jiangyuan's footsteps resounded chaotically in the room, Qi Xu finally sat up, his eyes shone like obsidian in the darkness.

With a bang, the door was suddenly closed.

Qi Xu copied a piece of clothing and put it on, and when it was almost time, he also followed.

Ling Jiangyuan took a taxi, and Qi Xu followed closely behind in the car, probably because the driver was tired from driving late at night, so he didn't even notice that there was a small tail behind him.

The longer the driving time, the more frightened Qi Xu became - this direction was clearly heading towards the train station.

A guess gradually took shape in his mind, Qi Xu felt a chill run down his spine, tinnitus began to appear, Qi Xu gripped the steering wheel tightly, and all the past suddenly appeared in his mind at this moment.

Ling Jiangyuan stood under the shade of a tree and said to him indifferently, "I'm getting married".

Ling Jiangyuan looked like he was holding him in his arms and weeping bitterly.

Ling Jiangyuan told him "I'm so happy".

……

Qi Xu slammed the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator.There was a huge roar from the car, and Qi Xuyue overtook with a solid line and stopped directly in front of Ling Jiangyuan's taxi.

The driver was startled awake from his drowsiness, slammed on the brakes, and Ling Jiangyuan slammed forward.

The driver yelled: "Fuck, where did the lunatic come from in the middle of the night!"

Ling Jiangyuan rubbed his sore arm, raised his eyes, and across two windshields, unexpectedly met Qi Xu's red-rimmed eyes that were extremely angry.

A gust of cold air rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, Ling Jiangyuan sat stiffly, not even daring to move.

Qi Xu kicked the car door violently, and pulled the door of Ling Jiangyuan's taxi again. The driver was too frightened to speak, and quickly unlocked the door.

Ling Jiangyuan was dragged down by Qi Xu arbitrarily, and before he had time to stand still, the driver had already slammed the accelerator and ran away.

"Ling Jiangyuan." Qi Xu let go of his hand, and Ling Jiangyuan staggered and almost lost his footing. He controlled his hand and didn't pull Ling Jiangyuan, but asked word by word, "You're going to the train station."

He used affirmative sentences.

But Qi Xu was actually expecting Ling Jiangyuan's denial.

But Ling Jiangyuan just avoided his sight, and said in a different way: "Sorry."

"Sorry?" Qi Xu laughed angrily, "Are you apologizing to me? Who taught you to apologize like this? Don't you even dare to look into my eyes?!" Qi Xu roughly pinched the other party's chin and moved upwards As soon as he lifted it, he looked at him viciously, and said word by word, "Ling Jiangyuan, this time you are even more ruthless, are you planning to leave without saying goodbye?"

Ling Jiangyuan didn't struggle. Although he raised his chin, his eyes still drooped, and he didn't dare to have any eye contact with Qi Xu.

He didn't speak, just stood quietly.

Qi Xu pushed Ling Jiangyuan hard, pointed at his nose and cursed: "You fucking talk, are you dumb!"

Ling Jiangyuan finally took a look at Qi Xu, but only one look.He saw that Qi Xu's eyes were terribly red, which contained too many unspeakable complex emotions, disappointment, anger, sadness, injury... everything that Ling Jiangyuan didn't want to see in Qi Xu's eyes was fully revealed at this moment .

Ling Jiangyuan's hands trembled slightly, but he could only say the same three words over and over again: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"Enough." Qi Xu interrupted the other party, covered his eyes with his hands, and smiled softly, "Eight years have passed, and you are worse than before. You could still stand in front of me and tell me you want Getting married made me breathless. Now I don't even have a reason to give up."

"Xiaoxu..." Ling Jiangyuan closed his eyes tightly, as if organizing words in his mind, but in the end his words were still fragmented, "I really... I can't help it. I'm too greedy, I I want everything...but I can't get anything. We are people from two worlds. I am too greedy to think that if I work hard, I can go to the same world as you. I have no choice, really..."

He opened his eyes, and looked at Qi Xu steadfastly, as if he wanted to seize the last moment to look at him a few more times: "We are not suitable, really."

Qi Xu stood there without moving.

Ling Jiangyuan gathered himself together and said, "Xiao Xu, just pretend that... I have never been back."

Qi Xu pulled up the corner of his mouth and smiled softly, he raised his hand and wiped his eyes fiercely, and looked at him calmly: "You think it over."

"I..." Ling Jiangyuan gritted his teeth, "I've made up my mind."

"If you make up your mind, then leave this time and don't come back." Qi Xu looked at him firmly, and said word by word, "I will find someone to marry. We will be separated from now on, See you no more."

Ling Jiangyuan's hanging hands trembled uncontrollably, and he said over and over again: "I've made up my mind... I won't regret it. I wish you happiness."

"Okay." Qi Xu turned around and walked towards the car, he pressed the lock switch, and his voice sounded calmly, "Come on, I'll take you to the train station."

Ling Jiangyuan stood there for a long time.

Until Qi Xu sat in the driver's seat, poked his head out of the car window, and said, "If you don't leave, it will be dawn."

Ling Jiangyuan woke up suddenly.

He walked over step by step, condensing his last chance into these few short steps.

Ling Jiangyuan finally sat in the co-pilot's seat and buckled up the seat belt himself.

Qi Xu drove very slowly, but no matter how slow he was, he would eventually reach his destination. Qi Xu stopped the car, and Ling Jiangyuan still sat there without moving.Qi Xu unbuckled his seat belt for him, leaned over and kissed his lips lightly, even smiled lightly, and teased, "Farewell kiss?"

Ling Jiangyuan turned his head and said, "Goodbye."

"Goodbye." Qi Xu said.

Ling Jiangyuan got out of the car, pushed the suitcase and walked into the crowd, and quickly disappeared from sight.

Really can no longer find Ling Jiangyuan's figure in the crowd.

Qi Xu lay on the steering wheel, staring at the crowd who couldn't find Ling Jiangyuan for a long time, and clasped the steering wheel tightly with his palms, but didn't make any sound.