midsummer night

Before Lu Chengfeng and senior students entered high school, He Xiyuan saw him for the last time at a ball game before the end of summer.

That evening was the final of the senior football game, the warm yellow street lights under the tree had already been turned on, and there were Beta and Alpha players running on the field.

The auditorium was full of people with excited faces, and the senior students of the participating classes held signs and banners.Although the last class of the lower grades is self-study, many students still ran to the side of the court.

Lu Chengfeng was the striker on the court. He ran with wind, his limbs looked slender and strong among young people.When running with the ball, the whole stadium boiled instantly, and the screams from the audience chased his figure running on the court.

He Xiyuan didn't make a sound, but his eyes followed Lu Chengfeng on the field.When the ball reaches his feet, he can run with it, skipping people, hair blowing in the wind.

There were deafening screams and shouts from the auditorium, and He Xiyuan's heart buzzed, but no sound came out of his throat.

The final score of the game was 2:1, Lu Chengfeng and Yan Xun's class won.

He Xiyuan carried several bottles of iced orange juice and put them into the drinking water carton prepared by Lu Chengfeng's class before the players left the field.

The senior Beta student glanced at him, smiled and said to him, "Thank you."

He Xiyuan shook his head and said, "You're welcome."

As the dusk receded, the white lights on the pitch came on, illuminating the grass like day.

He stood on the sidelines watching the players leave, wiping the sweat off his face with his arm.Lu Chengfeng's ball uniform was soaked through, outlining the outline of his back, broad shoulders and narrow waist, and muscles on his arms.

He Xiyuan looked at Alpha's figure standing still, and he didn't turn back until all the players were about to leave the field and walk to the rest area.

Standing in the second row of the auditorium, his figure was hidden among the cheering and senior students packing up the celebration ribbons. He watched Yan Xun pick up a bottle of iced orange juice, drink it with his head up, and then handed a bottle to Lu Chengfeng. , Said: "Here, ice."

Lu Chengfeng didn't take it.He glanced at the orange juice, picked up the water in the box, unscrewed the cap, and took a sip.Then followed the team to the locker room.

He Xiyuan felt extremely lost amidst the cheers around him, maybe Lu Chengfeng didn't like orange juice, nor did he like the taste of citrus.

Since he went to the hospital for an injection due to estrus, his parents ordered him to take the medicine on time and wear a restraint bracelet.On weekdays, he no longer smells of pheromones, and sometimes he doesn't even wear a bracelet, and he can't feel his pheromones in the summer sun.

From this point of view, even if Lu Chengfeng doesn't like orange flavor, his pheromones are no longer an obstacle.He Xiyuan thought calmly.

In the two years after junior high school, even if there were no signs of estrus, his parents would still urge him to go to the hospital for injections every month.Checked the medical records and his glands after returning from the hospital to make sure there was a pinprick somewhere in the arm.

The moment the needle pierced the skin, there was a cold touch of blood congealing, like drinking a sip of ice water, and the tongue to the chest were all numb.

Before graduating from junior high school, he never went to see Lu Chengfeng again in the senior class.

Their last impression of each other probably stayed in that ward.

Everything after meeting Lu Chengfeng was out of his plan.But he felt that the peaceful life he had finally obtained could no longer withstand unexpected surprises and unplanned accidents.

He Xiyuan stepped on the complicated deep red carpet, the murals in the corridor of the hall and the crystal lamp hanging from the roof swayed in front of his eyes.He politely answered Lu Chengfeng's occasional questions: How did you go abroad after graduating from high school?Why did you choose to go to that state?How did you decide to return to China after graduation?

He Xiyuan replied in a relaxed tone: Going abroad was his idea when he was in high school. It happened that the school gave him a scholarship. After graduation, he wanted to return to China to engage in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, so he came back.

Gao Qingnian was very satisfied with his answer, and narrowed his eyes as he smiled at Lu Chengfeng.

A group of people walked to the banquet hall, He Xiyuan stood at the high table in the corner, ate a hot meal baked with a small piece of potato and bacon and a cold fruit meal, holding a glass of raspberry juice, the color was more gorgeous than red wine, but he Do not drink alcohol in public.

The lighting in the banquet hall was warm, but it was shrouded in air-conditioning. He held the goblet with some ice in his palm, followed Gao Qingnian, and occasionally looked at Lu Chengfeng in the crowd.

The opponent looked young and handsome among a group of elderly Alphas, just like he was among a group of senior Alphas back then.Omega in evening gown came over to hold Lu Chengfeng's arm, and kissed him face to face. The fabric of the gown and Omega's long curly hair were rippling with soft light under the lamp.

He Xiyuan saw a small piece of restraining bracelet exposed from his cuff button, and wondered if he had not been dragged to the hospital to have a suppressor implanted when he was 15 years old, and if his family was closer to the classmates around him, would he be able to be with others? Like Omega, wearing nice clothes, he calmly walked to Lu Chengfeng's side.

Could he also step forward, tiptoe, lightly touch the shoulder of Lu Chengfeng's coat, touch his arm, and put the corner of his mouth against his cheek.

Then he would smell the turquoise and ice springs on Lu Chengfeng's body. At first, he smelled it indifferently, but later he felt strong and aphrodisiac. It was his favorite pheromone he had ever felt in his life.

From boyhood to adulthood, He Xiyuan followed Lu Chengfeng in almost every step, quietly. He was not only the Alpha he admired but also his role model in life.

Until the early 20s grade, all possibilities to follow come to an abrupt end.

He Xiyuan didn't say that after graduation, he thought he could be a colleague with Lu Chengfeng. He would send an email, in the name of an alumni, to ask Lu Chengfeng to come out for a cup of coffee when the weather is good.

But he learned that Lu Chengfeng left the investment bank two years after graduation and returned to the family group to become the heir-to-be. No one knew about his despair and regret.

The emotion of regret and love began in his youth, like a grass that withers in winter and grows wildly in spring.

Due to the almost vague memories of the years, He Xiyuan's last impression of Lu Chengfeng in high school is almost hopeless.

Lu Chengfeng's high school graduation ceremony was in February, and the spring was cold.He Xiyuan supported his heavy body, dazed and trembling, looking for Lu Chengfeng in the crowd with his mobile phone, wanting to take a photo with him.

After finding Lu Chengfeng, before he could say anything, he was surrounded by a group of senior Omegas.He Xiyuan stood more than one meter away from Lu Chengfeng with the three of them, and shared a group photo with the others.

He still kept that photo for many years, but now he no longer looks at it.

In the photo, he huddled in a corner, his eyes dodging. Lu Chengfeng stood in the center of the camera, with deep facial features. Some of the surrounding Omegas had long hair, and some wore short uniform skirts. They leaned close to Lu Chengfeng in the camera, with expressions It is heartfelt joy.

He Xiyuan was always nervous and flustered in front of Lu Chengfeng. Although he was happy in his heart, he never showed any joyful expression.That expression seems to have been taken away early on.

There wasn't much joy in his life. For so many years after graduating from high school, he was silently following in Lu Chengfeng's footsteps.If Lu Chengfeng turned his head, he would find He Xiyuan following behind him like a silent shadow, sneaky and gloomy.

When He Xiyuan became an adult, when he recalled those years, he definitely wouldn't like himself back then.What's more, I still released pheromones in front of the other party, took advantage of his kindness, and then ran away.

But in the past ten years, he has grown up, the more he grows up, the more he looks like Lu Chengfeng back then, calm, calm, serious, never caring about his colleagues' private affairs, not even Lu Chengfeng's whereabouts in the past two years .

He thought that he was doomed not to catch up with Lu Chengfeng, but he tried his best to catch up with him for ten years. When he turned around, he had already left behind his peers.

There is no Lu Chengfeng in the front, no companions in the back, he is just alone, returning to what he realized early on that his life will be spent alone like his lonely student days.

In the past two years, the only thing he knew about Lu Chengfeng was his occasional footprints in China and abroad. Before he even had time to ask him out for a cup of coffee, he had no chance.

For a long time, He Xiyuan would stand in front of the glass wall of the company in the morning and look at the city outside the window.He sleeps late at night, and feels dry eyes after waking up in the morning, with a cup of hot coffee in his hand, it seems that only caffeine can make him face the projects piled up in the mailbox every day, and face the uncertain future of the rest of his life.

Except for working hours, he is always lethargic at home.