first love is a substitute

In short, the real Cheng Cong will be returning home in three days.

From her aunt's hysterical screams, Tang Yue finally caught some cruel truths.

Cheng Cong, who was studying in middle school abroad, had a conflict with a classmate, injured the other party and caused the other party to be hospitalized. The boy’s family has some influence in the local area. They not only demanded Cheng Cong to pay for all his medical expenses, but also threatened him to get out immediately. Country A.

Cheng Cong was the only child in the Cheng family, and his aunt Yang Hui spent all her hard work and family savings on him. Cheng Cong's incident in a foreign country frightened Yang Hui even more. , for fear that Cheng Cong would be bullied in a foreign country.

So, after thinking about it, she decided to sell the family house and let Cheng Cong return to China.

The occurrence of this accident also caused Tang Yue to become a redundant burden once again.

When Yang Hui thought of her son still suffering abroad, and seeing her husband's indecisive appearance, she couldn't help venting all her anger on Tang Yue.

She hysterically pushed Tang Yue and yelled at him to get out, but Tang Yue seemed to be completely out of his body, allowing her to push herself on the floor.

Tang Yue returned to his room like a walking corpse. He looked at the textbooks and study materials on the desk and listened to the noise outside the door, feeling desperate.

The next day, Tang Yue didn't go to school, and stayed quietly in her room. At noon, the noise outside the door gradually became smaller. After a while, someone gently opened the door.

"Xiao Yue..." The middle-aged man's face was full of exhaustion. Tang Yue raised his head when he heard the sound, and when he saw his uncle's embarrassed expression, he understood everything. He smiled and said for a long time, "I understand." Uncle, I don't blame you."

The middle-aged man's eyes were filled with tears instantly because of Tang Yue's words. He couldn't even look directly into the child's eyes, but remembering the cry of Cheng Cong on the overseas phone call, he still said slowly, "I have given You have found the best adoption agency, and when... the right time comes, there will definitely be a suitable person to adopt you..."

"Hmm..." Tang Yue nodded.

"Xiao Yue... Uncle is sorry for you."

Tang Yue didn't speak anymore. After a long while, he heard the door being gently closed, and then the room fell into silence again.

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Cheng Cong has not come to class for two consecutive days.

Gao Jun looked at the empty space in front of him, and tried hard to tell himself, don't be impatient, give him more time.

It wasn't until the fifth day of Cheng Cong's absenteeism that Gao Jun couldn't bear it any longer. He went to ask the head teacher, but was told that Cheng Cong's parents had asked him for a week off.

"Ask for leave?"

Gao Jun frowned and couldn't help clenching his hands into fists.

The simple two words were like a loud slap on Gao Jun's face. He suppressed his emotions and asked the head teacher for Cheng Cong's phone number, and then called.

The phone rang for a long time before it was finally connected, and a middle-aged woman's voice came out from the phone.

"Hello, is Cheng Cong at home?"

The other end of the phone was silent immediately, and after a while, he asked cautiously, "Who are you?"

Gao Jun took a deep breath, and then replied, "I am his classmate."

"you've got the wrong number."

After such a simple and indifferent answer, the phone was hung up.

Gao Jun's heart was full of despair for no reason, he took a deep breath, turned back, and asked the head teacher for the address of Cheng Cong's home.

Gao Jun wasn't even in the mood for the next class, so he picked up his schoolbag and went to the address.

Looking at this address, Gao Jun felt inexplicably uneasy. He only found out now that Cheng Cong never mentioned his family situation to him, and he didn't even know his family address.

When Gao Jun found the community where Cheng Cong's house was located, it was already dark.

Gao Jun stood downstairs in his overcoat, looked at one of the lit rooms, and then called Cheng Cong's house again.

It was the middle-aged woman who picked it up.

"Hi, I'm Cheng Cong's classmate, could you please let him answer the phone?"

"Why are you again, I said you made the wrong number!"

Before Gao Jun could say the following words, the phone was hung up again.

The long-suppressed anger in Gao Jun's chest finally almost exploded. He tugged at the collar of his school uniform shirt irritably, and yelled directly at the lighted window upstairs, "Cheng Cong! Cheng Cong, come down! I I have something to tell you!"

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Tang Yue is sitting in a small corner of the room at the moment, beside him is the luggage he has already packed. The luggage is small and looks a little pitiful, because he really has nothing to take away. That's it, now I'm leaving, probably the same.

Cheng Cong had already returned home yesterday, because Tang Yue had not been sent away, so he could only squeeze into a room with Tang Yue temporarily.

Cheng Cong had just returned home dejectedly because of the fight, only to find that someone had taken his place, so he was not very friendly to him.

But Tang Yue just endured in silence, after all...he has nothing to worry about, he is leaving.

Tang Yue sat in the corner of the room and flipped through his math notes page by page. His strokes and strokes on it were all written seriously. The past half a year... really was the happiest time in his life. time.

Suddenly, he heard someone calling "Cheng Cong" downstairs.

Tang Yue was startled, and subconsciously straightened her back. Cheng Cong, who was sitting on the bed playing game consoles, suddenly got up and looked towards the window strangely, "Why did I hear someone call my name?"

Tang Yue got up in a panic, feeling sore, with only one thought in her mind: He can't let Gao Jun know about his affairs!

He quickly opened the window and looked downstairs, and the people downstairs finally stopped the moment they saw his figure.

Tang Yue stopped Cheng Cong who wanted to come to the window to find out, and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, "Yes, it's my classmate."

Cheng Cong couldn't help but rolled his eyes at him, then lay down on the bed and continued to play his game console.

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When Gao Jun watched Cheng Cong walking towards him step by step, he finally couldn't help but took a few steps forward, and then pushed the man into his arms.

He no longer cared about whether Cheng Cong had digested the matter of kissing him that day, and he had no intention of thinking about whether he would hate him, he just wanted... simply hug him.

It seemed that just a gentle hug like this could relieve all the pain and anxiety in his heart these days.

As soon as Cheng Cong's head was buried in this warm embrace, he couldn't help crying, but soon, he gently broke away from Gao Jun's embrace, lowered his eyes, and didn't look at him.

"Yueyue..." Gao Jun cupped Cheng Cong's face nervously, rubbing his forehead greedily against his, but before he could speak, Cheng Cong spoke first.

"Gao Jun, let's just pretend that... we didn't, we didn't know each other before."

Gao Jun's hands holding Cheng Cong's face froze, and it took him a while to twitch his lips as if he had realized it, "What did you say?"

Cheng Cong reached out and opened Gao Jun's hand, turned around with his head down, and ran towards the unit building.

"Is it because I kissed you that day!"

Gao Jun stood alone in the cold wind and looked desperately at the distant figure's back. He thought in his heart that at this moment, even if the other party could just turn his head and look at him, it would be fine.

However, that person only stopped slightly, and then completely disappeared into the night.

Tang Yue, who ran into the stairwell, supported the wall and panted lightly. He secretly looked at the man standing downstairs in the cold wind through the dirty glass window, and wept quietly with his mouth covered.

Probably... this person is the only light in his dark life, he... wants to keep the most beautiful Cheng Cong in his heart forever... even though, he will never know, with Everything about Cheng Cong...has never belonged to him.

Tang Yue's tears suddenly seemed to break the embankment, and those tears stayed in this dark night forever with the depression and despair of these days.

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In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Tang Yue and his uncle had already boarded the bus to City H. He curled up in the corner with his little luggage in his arms. Then he looked out of the window, took a last look at the city where he had lived for more than half a year, and silently said "goodbye" in his heart.

He closed his eyes hard, but the tears still flowed down. He thought to himself: Let him be, it must be a sweet dream.