The Utopia of the Wastewood Prince

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On Christmas Eve, intentionally or unintentionally, Li Jiaoyang drank too much again, as if he could really forget the anxiety and pain in real life by coming here once in a while, and immerse himself in a ethereal and happy world.

Only this time it was no longer Shen Yi who brought him home, but his colleagues.After returning home and finally settling down, he didn't know what others told him, so he would just lie on the bed and agree to everything.Facing a drunk, there was really nothing to say, and the colleagues could only put him down and send the next wave.

The room was pitch black, Li Jiaoyang lay down with his clothes closed, his body was soft and light, and he felt hot.He struggled twice, pulled off his clothes with great difficulty, then turned over and wrapped himself in the quilt.His eyelids were so heavy that he was dizzy and felt uncomfortable, so he opened his mouth and called, "Little bird."

No one answered.

"Little bird!" he called again, but it would be strange if anyone in the empty house paid any attention to him.This is his own home, and he can't tell the difference, just relying on the memory of his body every time he was drunk before, to find the person who always takes care of him.Li Jiaoyang took out the phone from his body, his eyes were too dazzled to see the screen clearly, he finally found a phone that looked like Shen Yi and dialed it, and he really made the right call.

Shen Yi's cell phone buckled on the table vibrated. He opened it and saw the huge characters "Li Jiaoyang" on the screen.I don't know what could happen if the old man called him in the middle of the night. He hesitated whether to answer the phone, but Tan Minghui said with a smile: "Why don't you answer it? What if something happens at such a late hour?"

"What's the matter so late?" Shen Yi put the phone back again.

A series of cramped vibrations stopped for a few seconds, and a new round of vibrations began again.Shen Yi was very irritable. He felt that Li Jiaoyang's ghost was still haunting him, so he picked up his cell phone to answer the call, and said viciously, "What are you doing?"

"Little bird..." Li Jiaoyang asked in a muffled voice, "Where are you?"

"Did you drink too much again?" Shen Yi could imagine Li Jiaoyang's current situation when he heard that voice, he said helplessly, "Go to bed if you drink too much, don't call me."

Li Jiaoyang acted as if he didn't hear him at all: "Why don't you go home?"

Shen Yi held up the phone and didn't want to speak, his face was full of resentment.Suddenly, he let go of his hand, and the phone left his palm, slipped by his ear, and lifted a few hairs.

"You..." Shen Yi looked at Tan Minghui incredulously, "Give it back to me!"

Tan Minghui put up a finger and shook it around his mouth, realizing that Shen Yi should not speak, then he smiled and said to the person on the phone: "Yangyang, what's wrong?"

Just listening to the voice, Li Jiaoyang felt a little familiar, but he couldn't tell who it was.I only heard the other party say again: "It's so late and sleep well at home, your little bird is playing with me outside, don't worry too much. Good night, be good." He said this politely, but it sounded like "your The little bird is pinching on my hand now, hahaha." This kind of meaning.The most exasperating thing was that he hung up the phone immediately after speaking, and turned Shen Yi's cell phone to silent, Li Jiaoyang would not be able to hear even if his throat was broken.Like a dragon, he kidnapped the little bird princess, and the stupid knight didn't know what happened.

"Are you annoying?" Shen Yi rested his forehead with one hand, took a sip of wine from the glass.

"Did you know that I was a scumbag the first day?" Tan Minghui asked.

"No, maybe I knew it on the first day." Shen Yi said, "It's boring."

"Hey, don't think so, life needs to be adjusted, otherwise it will be boring." Tan Minghui patted Shen Yi's shoulder, "What do people want to live for a lifetime?"

Shen Yi glanced at Tan Minghui, and it was also the first time that he felt as if he had never known this person before.

Tan Minghui is not a good person, this is the consensus of everyone.According to Shen Yi's criteria, Tan Minghui is a scum whose morals are corrupt and should be dragged out and killed, otherwise he would not have fought Tan Minghui in the first place.Now, from a rational point of view, he and Tan Minghui are in an ordinary business relationship, and personal ethics are not discussed in business, so Shen Yi can talk to Tan Minghui normally - that's how he understands it.

It was just at this moment that Shen Yi suddenly felt a little confused.When you see a black sheep in Scotland, you can only define that the side of the sheep you see at this moment is black.How many faces does a person like Tan Minghui have?Shouldn't every side be lost forever?

It should not be so.Except for the heinous people who will never forgive human life, most of them may be very ordinary people in life, without absolute kindness and malice, or a good person in the eyes of one person, but a bad person in the eyes of another.People are always used to evaluating and defining based on their own standpoint and perspective. In the end, there are only good and bad, black and white, good and evil in this world... When there is no more definable things, do you want to define yourself the other way around? what?

Thinking of this, Shen Yi smiled wryly and shook his head.

"Okay, it's getting late." Tan Minghui stood up, "Let's call a car and go home, I have to go to work tomorrow."

Shen Yi asked: "You still think about this kind of thing?"

Tan Minghui waved his hand: "Don't we all have to live?"

Li Jiaoyang, who was hung up by Tan Minghui, didn't have the motivation to rush out of the house immediately to make a theory. He was so drunk that after rolling around on the bed, he couldn't remember whether he had actually made the call just now, or was it a dream. Played in.

In his dream, there was not only that strange phone call, but also Shen Yi.

Whenever his consciousness is blurred like this, some beautiful pictures will appear in front of his eyes. The more illusory the reality is, the clearer the dream will be.One second he was very close to Shen Yi, and the next second Shen Yi ran away with others, and his previously extremely gentle attitude suddenly became cold, making him unrecognizable.

Li Jiaoyang, who was left aside, felt very sad, he didn't know what happened, he only knew that Shen Yi no longer regarded him as the place where his eyes would gather.The care and love that I thought I deserved at first also dissipated at this time and ceased to exist.His world is gloomy, there is no change of seasons, no wind, rain and snow, only he is alone, shrouded in sadness.

Li Jiaoyang felt that he was going to be out of breath, he tried hard to break free, wanted to get Shen Yi back, when his heart was beating at the limit, he woke up.

Its daybreak.

Li Jiaoyang sat on the bed dazed, got up at lightning speed the next second, put on his clothes, washed his face, brushed his teeth, and went out, rushing to the office at the last second.

When he arrived, he felt a little ridiculous, the company would be demolished in two days, and he was still here to keep time.

Li Jiaoyang mechanically walked to his place, and then looked at everyone, everyone was busy with their own things, and no one paid attention to him.Shen Yi stood beside Hu Yunfang and said something, Hu Yunfang nodded and went upstairs.Li Jiaoyang didn't know, so as soon as his eyes rolled, he met Shen Yi.Shen Yi was very calm, but Li Jiaoyang shrank back like a guilty conscience.

"Xiao Taotao." During lunch, Zhang Chunqiang chatted with Tong Yu, "Before you leave on New Year's Day, remember to organize all your work documents and give them to me."

"Don't worry, Brother Qiang." Tong Yu said, "I will definitely stand on the last post."

"You're almost done." Li Jiaoyang said while grilling the meal, "I've been reviewing for a year in the third year of high school, and it's been half a year for you now. Did you pass the exam?"

Tong Yu said, "Is it okay for me to do well in the first college entrance examination? What are you afraid of if you have passed the exam once?"

"Hey, when you go to college." Li Jiaoyang said, "Your classmates must wonder how many years you have been repeating at your age?"

Tong Yu frowned: "I can't stop you from eating!"

Zhang Chunqiang helplessly knocked on Li Jiaoyang's head, and said to Tong Yu, "Go ahead and work hard, while you are young, do great things." Then she said to Tang Xiaohui, "Tangtang, are you going to take the exam too? "

Tang Xiaohui nodded: "Yes, the exam is coming up in a month. I haven't taken the exam for many years, so I'm still a little nervous."

Zhang Chunqiang said: "If you work so hard, there must be no problem."

Fu Ming also wanted to say something, but when he thought that he didn't know where he was in January, he felt like an old father.

The adult self-examination is different from the college entrance examination. Usually, the exam is arranged on Saturdays and Sundays. The time to choose is relatively loose, and the questions are relatively simple.Its purpose is to enable those who have not been admitted to university for various reasons to continue their studies, and the quality of the test has nothing to do with it.But the college entrance examination is different. This exam may change a lifetime. Many people have experienced a major turning point in their lives because of the college entrance examination.Tong Yu didn't intend to give up this opportunity, he decided to resign and review with peace of mind, time is running out, he has to work harder than others.

He has experienced a lot at a young age, including unrealistic fantasies about ideals, and being ruthlessly hit by reality, but he never gave up.Maybe he doesn't have the talent to become a professional player, but he has the indomitable spirit of a competitor, which will prompt him to stand on a higher and bigger stage to realize his real life.

The day Tong Yu left was the last day of the year. He left from the office of the cute circle. It happened to be the end of the day's work in the evening, and it was time for everyone to get off work.Tong Yu should go, and so should the people from the technical department.It was obviously a parting scene, but everyone acted as if they were leaving get off work normally, saying "see you next year", but they were tacit to each other.

Everyone parted at the gate of the community, Li Jiaoyang called a car for Tong Yu, and the two stood in front of the car, Li Jiaoyang patted Tong Yu's shoulder and wanted to say something, but in the end he could only say "Come on".

Tong Yu nodded.

"The school you want to apply for is still in Beijing." Li Jiaoyang smiled, "In the future, you will often come to play, and come to me as an intern during the summer vacation."

Tong Yu said, "Why don't I travel, watch games and make a girlfriend during the summer vacation?"

Li Jiaoyang punched Tong Yu, "You brat!"

"Okay, I should go." Tong Yu smiled and waved to Li Jiaoyang, "You guys have to work hard too! Goodbye!"

"Well, good." Li Jiaoyang nodded, watching Tong Yu get into the car and drive away, finally turning into a little starlight in the night.

It turns out that parting is sometimes so peaceful.

Li Jiaoyang sighed, took out the car keys from his pocket, and planned to stroll back to the community to drive home, when he saw Shen Yi at the door.The two just had a face-to-face meeting. He didn't know how Shen Yi felt at this moment, but he felt a little overwhelmed, even a little flustered.

"Haven't you left yet?" Li Jiaoyang choked out such a sentence for a long time.He wanted to slap himself when he said it, how could he be so blunt?

"Yeah." Shen Yi nodded.

"Then...then I'll see you off." Li Jiaoyang said.

Shen Yi shook his head: "No need." As he was about to leave, Li Jiaoyang turned around and called him: "Wait a minute!"

"Huh?" Shen Yi turned to look at him.

"I want to ask you something." Li Jiaoyang said hesitantly, "I don't remember clearly, so I want to ask you. Did I call you on Christmas Eve? I only remember your day You didn't go out with us, where did you go? Did you have an appointment with someone else?"

"No." Shen Yi replied after a while of silence, "I'm at home alone and haven't gone anywhere."

"Really?" Li Jiaoyanghu questioned, "But I feel..."

"Did you drink too much?" Shen Yi said, "People who drink too much usually don't remember what they have done, and they can't tell the difference between dream and waking." decision.Unexpectedly, Li Jiaoyang grabbed his hand this time. The sudden distance between the two made Shen Yi a little uncomfortable. Li Jiaoyang said, "I have a call record for you."

"..." Shen Yi almost forgot about it.

"Who are you with?" Li Jiaoyang asked.

"Don't be like this." Shen Yi lowered his eyes slightly, showing fatigue.He no longer yelled at Li Jiaoyang, and said to him very calmly: "Whoever I am with is my personal freedom, and my parents don't care about it. What is your standpoint?" Ask me these?"

Li Jiaoyang replied in a panic: "I just care about you..."

"Go and care for those who need your care." Shen Yi said, "I don't need it." He lightly brushed Li Jiaoyang's hand away, turned around and walked away.Li Jiaoyang stood there in a daze, the cold wind of the winter night was biting, but he only thought about what Shen Yi said just now.

When he was a child, he went to please Shen Yi, even if Shen Yi refused, but his tricks were still very useful to him.The same is true when you grow up.Shen Yi was an awkward person, but he never really refused any of Li Jiaoyang's requests.

Like is unreservedly good to him.In fact, both Shen Yi and Li Jiaoyang can do it, but Shen Yi likes Li Jiaoyang like a lover, while Li Jiaoyang likes Shen Yi like a friend.

Now, Shen Yi no longer needed Li Jiaoyang's care and care, and all Li Jiaoyang's overtures would be like water drops into the sea without any response, and all his emotions were suddenly out of balance at this moment.

He originally thought that he could still be friends with Shen Yi, but he wanted to do it, but he couldn't do it, and there was no way to do it.Feelings are mutual, and there is no such thing as one party blindly giving and the other blindly asking for it.

Li Jiaoyang stood slumped in the cold wind. On the last day of the year, he didn't have a good life at all.