Summer in Hagawa

With the excuse of doing homework, Ye Chuan went back to his room after eating.His bedroom was on the second floor, and downstairs was the living room next to the dining room.The window is open, sitting next to the desk, the voices of talking and laughing downstairs can be heard clearly.

Ye Chuan was somewhat impetuous.

After all, the party downstairs broke up, but Ye Shifei's room next door became lively again, and the two of them rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and they didn't know what they were tossing about.Maybe he was packing things for going out, maybe he was flipping through the souvenirs that Ye Shifei collected from his travels, the voice of talking and laughing made people feel harsh.

Ye Chuan pushed away the paper, took out the cigarette lighter from the back pocket of his backpack, and lit a cigarette.

He only learned to smoke after living with Li Xingxing.For a while, the two of them always quarreled, and Ye Chuan was also annoyed. He didn't like to go home at night, so he stayed in the bar, came and went, and smoked.However, he is not a big smoker, and occasionally he only smokes half a cigarette when he is upset.He didn't like the smell of smoke on him.

He had just taken two puffs of cigarettes when he heard a knock on the door. Ye Shifei called him from the door, "Chuan'er?"

Ye Chuan hastily extinguished the cigarette between his fingers on the window sill, held up the scroll and slapped it back and forth in the room a few times before running over to open the door in fear.Although he doesn't mind what other people think about his smoking problem, but after all, this is Ye's family, so we still have to pay attention to what should be paid attention to.

The door opened, but there was Li Xingxing leaning against the door.Ye Shifei was standing on the stairs not far away, listening to Qiao Min telling him the route into the city. It seemed that the two of them were planning to go out to play.

Li Xingxing leaned against the door frame and glanced lazily at the room behind him, as if he had understood his secret, with a meaningful look in his eyes.

Ye Chuan unconsciously took a step back.

Li Xingxing approached him suddenly, and his warm breath swept over his ears.Ye Chuan was about to hide, when he said with a smile in a low voice that only two people could hear: "Children can't smoke secretly."

After saying this, he stepped back quickly, with a playful look in his eyes, but a smile on his lips.

"None of your business." Ye Chuan felt his ears burning, like being scalded.

"You really don't have that good temper." The smile on Li Xingxing's lips deepened, "You usually pretend, right?"

Ye Chuan's face became ugly.He knew that nothing had happened to Li Xingxing, and he was just a stranger whom he met for the first time.But Ye Chuan couldn't pretend that those past events that he couldn't bear to recall never happened.

"None of your business." Ye Chuan slammed his hands to close the door, but was pushed open by the people outside.Li Xingzong looked at the angry child in front of him, and thought that Ye Shifei's younger brother was really interesting.The eyes are round and round, like a small animal that has been teased.

"Hey, don't hit the smiling face." Li Xingzhang took out a dark green box from his arms, and handed it over with a smile, "I'm here to deliver something to you, brother. Now, a meeting gift."

Ye Chuan glanced at the box in his hand, and felt that the position of his temple was throbbing.

He naturally knew what was in the box.Because he had received the same gift in his previous life.

Year of the Tiger limited edition Swiss Army Knife, beige blade with a simple and domineering tiger head pattern painted on one side.It was the first gift he received from Li Xingxue. He thought it had a profound meaning, and he hung it on the key ring until he died.But in the eyes of Li Xingzong, it was just a trivial gadget, easy to get, easy to get rid of, and Ben didn't bother to take a look.

Ye Chuan felt his fingertips trembling slightly.

This little thing that suddenly appeared seemed to have penetrated time, overlapping the indifferent face deep in memory with the arrogant face in front of him at this moment, as if the passing time suddenly turned back, and a painful memory storm rolled over his face come.Ye Chuan held on to the door frame, his chest was so stuffy that he couldn't breathe.

"What's wrong? Your face is so ugly?" Li Xingzong didn't even think about it, and reached out to test his forehead, "Heatstroke?"

Ye Chuan turned his face sideways, avoiding his hand.

Li Xingxing was slightly displeased.He was a little uncertain what the kid was up to, and if it was aimed at himself...it seemed impossible.

He was in a stalemate when he heard Ye Shifei call him, "Where are you? Are you alright?"

Li Xingzong turned around and responded, "Just give your brother the meeting gift."

As he spoke, he handed over the dark green box again. Ye Chuan had no choice but to reach out to take it, and reluctantly said, "Thank you."

Li Xingxing smiled at him, turned and left.

After closing the door, Ye Chuan casually threw the box aside, and heaved a long sigh.Li Xingzheng's smile before he left kept swaying in front of his eyes, and he hadn't seen him smile like this for a long time.When this man laughed, there was a bit of scorn between his brows and eyes, which was wicked.It seems that the joy in his heart is always expressed so straightforwardly that people can feel it easily.

Ye Chuan knew that he made it on purpose for others to see.Li Xingxing is a standard second-generation official. He has been used to intrigue since he was a child. He is essentially a very suspicious person and doesn't trust anyone.Ye Chuan didn't know what kind of relationship between him and Ye Shifei, but to himself, Li Xingxing never said anything about the company.

This was a question that Ye Chuan always avoided to think deeply about in his last life.But even if he didn't think about it deliberately, he knew it clearly in his heart: Li Xingxing's trust had never been given to him as a bedside person.

In emotional matters, it has never been that you can get back three points after paying three points.That stuff was never a sale.Ye Chuan knew.But the time, energy, care, and...love I have given in the past time can't even be exchanged for the most basic trust.I have to say that my painstaking efforts really failed.

Emotionally failed so completely.The same is true in life, doing a job that I don’t like, my performance is neither good nor bad, my relationship with my colleagues is estranged, and I have no contact with my adoptive parents until death...

Since he met that person, he hasn't done a single thing to satisfy him.

One thought becomes a demon.

Invincible.

Hearing the sound of the car engine coming from downstairs, Ye Chuan felt extremely irritable.He shook his hand and lit a cigarette for himself, taking a deep breath.The pungent taste of tobacco spread in the mouth, and even the cold lungs seemed to be infected with a thin layer of warmth.This is his familiar smell, dry and warm, with a hint of ambiguous melancholy.

Ye Chuan buried his face in his palm, and heaved a long sigh.