He said I was soft and nice

Xu Chen chatted with Qi Ling until his parents came home.

Seeing the familiar license plate, Qi Ling said, "Xu Chen, my parents are back, let's stop talking."

He hung up the phone first.

Xu Chen was dumbfounded for a moment when he heard the beeping sound on the phone. He had such a happy chat just now, so he hung up as soon as he said he wanted to, without any hesitation.

At this time, there was a knock on the door of his office. It was Secretary Sun.

Secretary Sun handed over two reports, "Mr. Xu, this is the minutes of the meeting just now, and the other is the background of Sun Yuyu that you want me to investigate."

"She is a sophomore in D University, Department of Foreign Languages. Her hometown is in Qingshui City. Her parents are in business. She is an only child. Her family owns a small trading company. She is considered an upper-middle-class rich family in the local area."

Xu Chen looked at Liu Yuyu's information, and his eyes fell on the three words [Qingshui City]. He paused, his hands couldn't help tightening, and the flat paper instantly crumpled.

"Is that Qingshui City?"

Secretary Sun naturally knew what he meant, lowered his eyes, and said respectfully: "Yes, your mother is buried there."

Xu Chen's mother's household registration is also in Qingshui City, and she insisted that her ashes be placed in her hometown before she died of illness.

Secretary Sun thought of this, and asked cautiously, "Mr. Xu, are you okay?"

He knew some inside information about the company. Not long after Xu Chen's mother died of illness, Xu Chen was sent abroad, and he had no chance to reunite with his mother in the past few years.

Xu Chen closed the file, showing no emotion on his face, "It's okay, you go out first."

After Secretary Sun left, Xu Chen leaned back in his chair and covered his eyes with his hands, looking a little tired.

He recalled in his mind what his mother had said to him before she died,

"I have transferred all the shares to your name."

"I can't accompany you for the rest of the way, you should be good on your own, remember, never expect others to wait for you, you have to go to the front by yourself."

"Lastly, don't trust your dad."

In fact, he walked the road from childhood to adulthood by himself. His mother has a strong nature and never admits defeat. She works overtime every day and assigns him a lot of homework. Once he really couldn't do it. The topic was too serious. "Can I wait until I'm older to make these?" he begged.

But she didn't even look at it, and just said coldly, "Xu Chen, no one will wait for you forever, including me."

Although his mother is very strict with him, Xu Chen still loves her, adores her, and even wants to rely on her.

But this time she still didn't wait for him, and left so suddenly, and he only had time to send her off before being sent out of the country for five years.

So much so that he, the son, didn't have time to sweep her grave.

But even if she went, in her eyes, she might still be unqualified.

Xu Chen closed his eyes and remembered his current situation. There were wolves before and tigers behind. Everyone wanted to see him make mistakes, and then justifiably squeezed him out of the position of vice president.

Even his closest relatives in blood.

Xu Chen rubbed the center of his brows, calmed down, and prepared to continue working. The project in his hand was at a critical stage, so he had to keep an eye on it.

It's just that he slept too late last night. Now that he has worked so hard for so long, he will inevitably feel tired. He was about to take the phone and ask Secretary Sun to order him a cup of coffee when the phone rang.

"Mr. Xu, the front desk said they received a cup of coffee for you. I want to confirm with you."

Just as Xu Chen was about to say that the delivery was wrong, when he thought of something, he looked at his phone first and found that he had missed Qi Ling's WeChat message before.

[I heard your voice sounding tired, so I ordered coffee for you, the kind that's only slightly sweet, and it's super delicious! 】

Finally, there is also an emoticon pack of cats pressing their paws.

Xu Chen couldn't help but hooked his lips, and replied to Secretary Sun: "It's mine, send it here!"

After the coffee was delivered, Xu Chen took a sip and sent a message back to Qi Ling, 【The coffee is good, quite sweet. 】

Qi Ling on the other end had just finished taking a shower and changed his clothes. He saw Xu Chen's news unexpectedly, and was a little puzzled. He knew that Xu Chen didn't particularly like sweet food, so he specially ordered only a little sweet coffee. How could it become [ Pretty sweet]?

Looks like I won't be able to order coffee from this place in the future.

Qi Ling did not hesitate to blacklist this store.

He wiped his drenched hair, opened his suitcase to pack his things, and there was a knock on the door, "Lingling, are you asleep? I cut some fruit for you."

It was Yao Peilan.

Qi Ling pursed his lips, remembering what happened downstairs just now, a dark look flashed in his eyes.

He was thoroughly drenched at the door of the house, while Qi Changyong and Yao Peilan coaxed their youngest son to the sky. The three of them were in harmony, while he was like an outsider, watching with cold eyes.

At that moment, the familiar feeling of nausea surged up, making him feel nauseous uncontrollably.

So after entering the door, he didn't eat any food and went back upstairs.

Before closing the door, I heard Qi Changyong muttering impatiently, "How old are you and you still lose your temper with us?"

But Yao Peilan slapped her in the next moment, and the complaints stopped abruptly.

At that moment, he couldn't help asking himself why he wanted to go home. Obviously, he rented a house so that he could have a place to live during the winter and summer vacations, and he was not short of money, but he still came back.

At this time, a familiar Wechat reminder came from the mobile phone, and their dormitory group was particularly noisy after they went home.

After Chang Yongyi and Xie Kaiyu returned home, they shared some daily life in the group from time to time. Various photos were swiped across the screen, sometimes it was a big dinner, and sometimes it was a fun story about the family going out for an outing. Showing strong family affection, even Xu Zhou would complain that his father insisted on making him stay at home more and be with him.

Qi Ling said in his heart that he was not envious, that was a lie.

In fact, before high school, he was also very much loved. Those times have become his only consolation now, so much so that Yao Peilan softly coaxed him home, saying that all the children from other families have returned. When not coming back.

He was shaken.

If he hadn't tasted that warmth, he wouldn't be so weak.

The knock on the door sounded again, Qi Ling suppressed the complicated emotions in his eyes, got up and opened the door.

"I saw that you didn't want to come down to eat at night. I was afraid that you would be hungry, so I cut some cantaloupe and watermelon for you. You can eat some as a cushion. If you are hungry, tell mom and I will cook noodles for you."

Yao Peilan's voice was gentle, and she looked at him with caring eyes.

Since entering university, Yao Peilan has been extra careful with him every year when she returns home, without the slightest feeling of oppression and surveillance on the phone, as if she is sincerely happy for him to come home, every time Qi Ling is immersed in the tenderness of this arrangement inside.

This time if it hadn't been moved before.

"I'm not hungry." Qi Ling didn't answer, but looked straight at Yao Peilan, "Mom, I've always wanted to ask you a question."

"Why did you give birth to Qi Yue?"

The smile on Yao Peilan's face froze, and she put the fruit on the table aside before replying, "I just want him to be your company."

"Really?" Qi Ling's expression was very light, and his voice was calm, "But when you were pregnant with him, I was in the second year of high school, and I will be in the third year of high school soon."

At this critical juncture, no normal family would make such a choice.

Of course Yao Peilan knew what he meant, her expression was a little unnatural, "It was just an accident, we will let it take its course."

This is obviously a paradox to what she said earlier that she wanted Qi Yue to be his company.

Qi Ling's stomach suddenly churned, and the nausea reached its peak, causing him to rush into the toilet and vomit.

After the energy subsided, he rinsed his mouth, and couldn't help but think that the breakfast he had been coaxed by Xu Chen to eat was for nothing.

He wiped the water from his face, looked up, the young man in the mirror was horribly pale, with a few drops of physiological tears streaming from the corners of his eyes due to the discomfort of vomiting, he looked embarrassed and pitiful, with a sense of morbid brokenness.

Yao Peilan was surprised, "Qi Ling, are you anorexic again?"

Qi Ling didn't answer, but asked another question, "Mom, have you given up on me a long time ago?"

Qi Yue appeared less than half a year after he revealed his sexuality to his parents.

It is estimated that they feel that they are really unable to break through, so they give up!

A look of panic appeared on Yao Peilan's face, and she forced herself to be calm and said, "Why do you say that? If we give up on you, why are we still so worried about your marriage because we keep calling you? Don't think about it."

"It's getting late, I won't disturb your rest, Yueyue still needs my care!"

After she finished speaking, she quickly turned and left.

Qi Ling looked at her back coldly, but didn't stop her.

For so many years, he had had enough of his parents' two-faced behavior, and this time when he returned home, he realized more clearly that, compared to Qi Yue's crying, after he took a long-distance flight, he was still standing in the rain for nothing. Many hours are totally worthless.

That being the case, why not let him go?

He didn't understand it before, but now he seems to know why, when they arranged that blind date for themselves.

He wanted to be sure, but Yao Peilan didn't answer his question directly, so he didn't mind putting the question directly in front of her.

Only by tearing the wound open can he fully heal.

The next day, Qi Ling went downstairs with his schoolbag on his back. Yao Peilan happened to make breakfast and wanted to invite him to eat, but saw him with his bag on his back, "Where are you going so early in the morning? I just made dinner."

"No, I have something to go to the library in the city, so I can eat outside by the way."

He received a notice from Professor Jiang yesterday to prepare a project report during the summer vacation. It is related to the reform of the current financial system. He needs to consult a lot of information, and Qi Yue is too noisy at home. He could do it in his room last night. Faintly heard the other party's yelling.

That being the case, he might as well go out and study.

But obviously his rhetoric couldn't convince Yao Peilan, "Shouldn't you have a good rest after summer vacation? Don't push yourself too hard, we don't need you to earn a lot of money."

Yao Peilan wiped the water from her hands on her apron, and wanted to take off Qi Ling's schoolbag, "What are you going to do! Stay at home for dinner, and I'll make you your favorite braised pork ribs at noon!"

But as soon as she stretched out her hand, Qi Ling dodged it.

"Mom, a very authoritative professor in our school wants to accept the last closed student. I won the candidate spot. If I am selected, it will be very beneficial to my future. If I am lucky, I can stay under him to study for a master's degree. I will stay with him like a teacher. teaching at the school.”

Qi Ling explained very carefully this time, as if he was afraid that Yao Peilan would not understand his thoughts.

Sure enough, Yao Peilan understood immediately, what she wanted to say, but Qi Ling didn't give her a chance to speak, and changed her shoes at the entrance, saying, "Mom, I'm short on time, so I won't talk to you much." said."

Before he went out, he also answered a phone call, "I'm going out now, right away."

Yao Peilan looked at Qi Ling in a hurry, and left before she could say anything.

At this time, Qi Changyong came down from the upstairs, and he only had time to see the afterimage of Qi Ling closing the door and leaving, "Where is he going?"

"Speaking of going to the library to study, I also want to study for a master's degree at University A and stay in school." Yao Peilan said in a low tone, as if she wasn't happy about it at all.

Qi Changyong even lowered his face, "Does this kid not understand what we said to him? Can't he settle down in Qingshui City? It's just that you are too used to him, so I don't believe this brat is really so disobedient !"

Angrily, he was about to go out and bring him back, but Yao Peilan slapped the table hard, "Calm down! Do you still think he is still that teenager!"

"It's still a while before he graduates, what's the rush! Another thing I'm worried about now."

Qi Changyong stopped walking immediately, his face was cloudy, and finally decided to listen to Yao Peilan, "What are you talking about?"

"Qi Ling may be in a relationship."

When Qi Ling called just now, Yao Peilan could hear clearly, her tone was full of joy, and there was a cheerful smile in her eyes that she had never seen in recent years. More importantly, when he lowered his body to change his shoes, his collar Spreading out, she immediately saw the hickey on the collarbone——

Red dazzling.

On the other side, after going out, Qi Ling only felt that the air was much fresher.

Listening to the laughter on the phone, Xu Chen asked, "Why are you so happy? Why do you want me to call you at this hour."

He thought Qi Ling was specifically asking him to wake up, but the voice was quite sober, obviously he had been up for a long time.

Qi Ling stuffed a piece of bread into his mouth, then took a sip of water and poured it down, suppressing the discomfort before replying: "I'm just happy to hear your voice, I'm going to the library to study now, give me any time Report your progress!"

After he told Xu Chen about Professor Jiang's subject yesterday, Xu Chen quickly sent him a bunch of documents, saying that they would be helpful to him.

"But Mr. Xu, you are so strict! Don't you give me a key point? You have the heart to let me start from the beginning?"

Before Xu Zhou could reply, Qi Ling said to himself again: "Why don't Teacher Xu have time to video with me one day and guide me? After all, it's hard to explain clearly without face-to-face."

Xu Chen couldn't help but smile, so they were waiting for him here?

"Then which time do you think is more suitable? Let me check the itinerary."

He needs to go on a business trip recently, and the time is not so tight after the business trip.

"Really!" Qi Ling's eyes lit up immediately, "I can do it in three days!"

It will take him a while to set a direction, and then roughly digest the information Xu Chen gave him, so that he won't be confused when he listens to the other party.

So this week Qi Ling went to the library every day, didn't eat a meal at home, and talked with Xu Chen on the phone in front of Yao Peilan and Qi Changyong in the morning.

Just when he thought this summer vacation would pass like this, on Saturday morning, as soon as he opened the door, Qi Changyong forcibly pulled off his schoolbag and threw him back to the room, and then dragged him downstairs.

"Qi Ling, let's talk."

Qi Ling looked at the angry face in front of him and his pinched arm, and frowned, "Let go, I'll go by myself."

But Qi Changyong acted as if he didn't hear him, and dragged him to the living room downstairs before giving up.

Qi Changyong looked at the person in front of him whose arm was red in a circle, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, "Qi Ling, you are a boy, can you be a little manly, I have never been as delicate and rebellious as you before."

"Squeamish? Rebellious?" Qi Ling repeated with some amusement, "In your eyes, it's squeamish for me to be red-handed by you, and it's rebellious to go to the library to study?"

"Dad, don't you think it's ridiculous?"

Qi Changyong didn't expect him to be so eloquent, and pointed at him angrily, "You still dare to talk to me, don't you? Do you think any other son is like you?"

Qi Ling nodded perfunctorily, "Yes, you are right."

At this time, Qi Yue, who was playing not far away, seemed to sense the smell of gunpowder between the two of them, and ran over angrily and pushed Qi Ling, "You are not allowed to bully my father!"

In Qi Yue's eyes, this is just a stranger.

Qi Ling stood upright like this, watching coldly as Qi Yue hit him with all his strength, and the last one accidentally lost his balance and fell down, knocking his head on the leg of the coffee table beside him.

Qi Ling wanted to help, but just as he stretched out his hand, he was slammed away by the hurried Qi Changyong. He was caught off guard and knocked his waist against the edge of the coffee table, causing his face to turn pale in an instant.

He was pushed by Ye Yun before, and the injury was also here, and it was not healed yet, but now he was pushed again, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Qi Changyong hugged the weeping Qi Yue and coaxed him non-stop, "It's okay, don't cry, don't cry, the small bag will disappear soon, and it won't hurt at all! Dad promises!"

He didn't have the aggressive aura when he confronted Qi Ling just now.

Qi Ling stood up with his waist supported, looking at the round-legged table and stool, and the sharp edge of the coffee table, the two contrasted with indescribable irony.

He tilted his head to look at Qi Changyong and the crying Qi Yue in his arms, and felt that it was annoying and ridiculous, "Dad, who is more delicate? Who is more rebellious?"

"I think I didn't cause any trouble to my family when I was a child, and my grades have always been among the best. I was even the top student in the province in the college entrance examination. The government gave me a bonus of at least 30 yuan, right? I never asked you for this money."

"Aren't you satisfied with such a good boy?"

Qi Changyong didn't know why he suddenly mentioned this, and said impatiently: "Do you think your tuition and living expenses for college are not money? These money are blown by the wind?"

"But I have paid the tuition and living expenses by myself since my sophomore year." Qi Ling's voice also cooled down, "I haven't touched the money in your bank card."

He has been in contact with tutoring since he was a freshman, which is enough for his own living expenses. After saving for a year, he also pays for the tuition by himself.

Qi Changyong didn't know about these things. He heard Yao Peilan mention it, but he didn't expect Qi Ling to really remain unmoved.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Qi Ling turned his eyes to Qi Yue in his arms, "Compared, I am better than Qi Yue, but why do you still treat me like this?"

He seemed to be talking to himself, "He said that he gave birth to Qi Yue so that he could be with me in the future, but since he was born, you haven't let me hug Qi Yue once. He doesn't even know who I am now, right?"

"Why? Afraid of being infected by me? Am I some terrible virus?"

Qi Ling's tone became lighter and lighter, and finally, as if whispering, "If you care, why don't you say it?"

Even if he made himself look like an ordinary person during the third year of high school, they would no longer believe him, and even watched him, followed him, and almost drove him crazy.

Of course Qi Changyong knew what Qi Ling meant, and the disgust in his eyes couldn't be stopped anymore, "You're so embarrassed! Tell me honestly, do you still have that thought! Who left that disgusting thing on your neck? ?”

Qi Ling twitched the corner of his mouth, "Just this one mark, do you think I'm disgusting? That's right."

He didn't want to argue anymore, it was true anyway.

So much is enough for him to understand one thing, his parents don't love him at all, they just want to trap themselves.

Now that the trouble is like this, it's just a showdown to make it clear.

But he didn't expect that even more outrageous things were yet to come.

Yao Peilan came down from upstairs and threw a shirt in his face, furiously: "Qi Ling, whose clothes are these!"

This dress is particularly conspicuous in a pile of clean and simple T-shirts, and the size is obviously not Qi Ling's size.

The shirt fell on the ground, Qi Ling looked down, it was the one that Xu Chen left at his house.

When he was packing his luggage, he quietly put him at the bottom of the suitcase, but Xu Chen didn't notice.

Unexpectedly, Yao Peilan found out.

Qi Ling picked up the clothes on the ground, patted them, and held them in his arms, with calm eyes, "Are you looking through my things?"

To say that he was still disappointed and sad just now, his current mood can only be described as stagnant water.

No wonder Qi Changyong wanted to drag him downstairs, no wonder he told people that Yao Peilan had disappeared for so long, so he went to look for evidence.

Because he locked the door a few days ago.

He didn't want to bother anymore, "As you can imagine, this shirt belongs to that person, and the hickey is also left by him. How about it?"

But just as he finished speaking, there was a snap——

Yao Peilan slapped him hard.

"Qi Ling, how could you say such a thing!" Yao Peilan's voice trembled with anger.

But Qi Ling remained unresponsive, and touched his painful face expressionlessly, "Why can't I say? In this situation, you still expect us to maintain the superficial harmony like before? Mom, you don't believe it yourself, do you?" ?”

"Don't break me, I'm just gay, it's in my bones, I can't change it."

Qi Ling was holding on to the shirt in his hand tightly, with veins popping out of the back of his hand, but he said clearly and forcefully, "You guys actually gave up on me a long time ago, but why did you change your mind midway? It's because I was admitted to University A, right? So The glorious things make you think that I may have some redeeming value?"

"But I'm getting older and I'm not so easy to control. You just want me to stay under your nose and be under your supervision."

He sneered, "Don't play any affectionate scenes in front of me, I feel sick too."

"I put an extra 30 in Dad's card, plus the previous government's bonus for the provincial champion, I think we can settle the balance."

Yao Peilan refused without thinking, "Qi Ling, I know it's wrong for me to dig through your things, but I just want to care about you. It's normal for you to be angry. Let's have a good chat when you calm down."

"No need." Qi Ling felt the burning pain on his face, and felt that he had never been so calm.

He went upstairs to put all his messed up things into the suitcase, but when he went downstairs with the suitcase, the door was closed and Qi Changyong was stuck there, obviously not ready to let him leave.

Yao Peilan also let go of her gentle appearance in the past, with a serious expression and said: "Qi Ling, you just took a detour for a while, I thought you had improved over the years, I was too optimistic, I decided to let you take a break from school Years, think about it at home."

Qi Ling laughed angrily, "Why do you decide my life?"

Qi Changyong got angry when he saw him like this, and didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so he wanted to come up and grab his suitcase.

Qi Ling had been on guard for a long time, dodged lightly, and unconsciously pushed him when the collision occurred, Qi Changyong took a step back in an instant, and supported the table next to him to stabilize his figure.

Both of them were taken aback.

It was only then that Qi Ling discovered that Qi Changyong had grown gray hair at some point, and he was no longer the father who could force him to fight back.

"Dad, you are old."

Qi Changyong was so angry that he wanted to go forward, but Qi Ling suddenly said, "It must be very difficult for you to bring Qi Yue, right? Why don't you leave him to me and I'll help you."

With a sincere tone, he even waved to Qi Yue, so scared that Qi Changyong stepped forward and hugged Qi Yue tightly, looking at him warily.

The obstacle disappeared, Qi Ling walked towards the door, and when he put his hand on the doorknob, he heard Yao Peilan anxiously say: "Qi Ling, if you go out, don't come back to this house!"

Qi Ling paused, walked out without looking back.

He would never come back to this home.