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That was when Xu Yihan was 11 years old. Old Xu and Deng Xiuli——Xu Yihan's biological mother—divorced and had a hard time, so Xu Yihan was sent back to his hometown by Deng Xiuli to live temporarily.

Jingzhou is very close to Wuhan, and it only takes an hour or ten minutes to take the high-speed rail. There was no high-speed rail in those days. Deng Xiuli took Xu Yihan to the bus. Xu Yihan fell asleep in the car, and when he woke up, he was already in Jingzhou up.

Then they took a taxi again, and finally arrived at Deng Xiuli's natal family, Deng Village.

The night before, Deng Xiuli had quarreled with Lao Xu for a long time. Xu Yihan huddled in his room and listened with his ears, the sound of cursing, smashing, crackling.And at dusk of the next day, he and Deng Xiuli got out of the taxi, and in front of him was a village covered in twilight. Several gray magpies flew over his head, and the sound of flapping their wings was clearly audible.

Deng Xiuli's natal relatives were already waiting at the entrance of the village. There was a huge crowd, some of them even carried hoes and poles.They flocked to Deng Xiuli and Xu Yihan's wife, speaking a dialect that Xu Yihan half understood.It was among this group of people that Xu Yihan met Deng Yuan for the first time.Unlike the villagers who were dressed as farmers, Deng Yuan was wearing a dark green school uniform with a cropped cut and a fair face that looked a bit shy.Deng Xiuli took Xu Yihan to say hello to relatives and elders, telling him one by one, this is the third aunt, this is the cousin... When they arrived at Deng Yuan, Deng Xiuli said, "Han Han, brother, this is your Aunt Ning's son, Xu Yihan then Say obediently, hello brother.Deng Yuan patted Xu Yihan's head and said, hello.Xu Yihan looked down at Deng Yuan's shoes. They were a pair of black sneakers. There was a white checkmark on the outside of the shoe, and four capital letters above the checkmark: NLKE.

Thinking of this, Xu Yihan grinned.

He replied to Deng Yuan: You don't need to pay it back, why are you being polite to me.

Immediately afterwards, he typed two words freely with his fingers: elder sister. Hit the Enter key with a "snap", and "sister" was sent by him.

Xu Yihan felt comfortable all over, every pore was refreshed, he couldn't explain why.

But Deng Yuan did not reply.

Xu Yihan dealt with a pile of official business, but he didn't care whether Deng Yuan replied or not.He was surprisingly productive this afternoon, and even got his work done before he left.Everything went very smoothly. The entry lists of the two companies have all been finalized. The six authors have different styles, both powerful and popular, and there are many hot spots.Xu Yihan could imagine the grand occasion of various gods appearing during the competition.

Instead of driving after get off work, he chose to take the subway to a bar he had heard of before.Today he wants to drink two glasses.

This is a gay bar.

Xu Yihan is bisexual, and he talked with both boyfriend and girlfriend when he was in England.After returning to China, he was very honest. He didn't go to the bar once, let alone find someone to spend the night.One is that he is busy with work, and the other is that he is afraid of being caught by others.

But today he wants to relax and relax.

Xu Yihan is 1.8 meters tall, with a broad frame, broad shoulders and long legs.He was wearing a slim-fit suit, with a button unbuttoned at the neckline of his shirt, and his tie was directly rolled up on the bar counter.

Soon a boy with makeup on his face approached, looking closely like a student.He blinked at Xu Yihan: "Come to play alone?"

Xu Yihan nodded with a smile: "Are you too?"

"I came with my classmates," the boy said frankly, "and he went on a date."

"Still in college?"

"Well, I learned to dance."

Xu Yihan thought of a boy of Chinese origin whom he dated when he was traveling in Paris last year. He also learned to dance, and there were many tricks.

His body was about to move, and Xu Yihan asked the boy, "What would you like to drink? I invite you." Just as he finished speaking, the phone rang.Xu Yihan patted the boy's arm lightly: "Wait a minute." At this moment he didn't want to answer the phone at all, but the call was from Zhao Xin, so he still had to answer it.

The boy nodded with a smile.

"Xu Yihan." Zhao Xin's voice seemed particularly dignified.

"……What's wrong?"

"I need your help with something."

"So solemn?" Xu Yihan said casually, "It can't be that you want to participate in the competition."

Zhao Xin: "Yes, I want to participate."

Xu Yihan: "..."

"I want to compete, can you give me a place?"

Xu Yihan: "..."

Zhao Xin sighed: "This matter is very important to me, and I won't be able to explain it clearly for a while. If you absolutely need me to explain, I can also—"

"Master, I'm calling you Master," Xu Yihan broke down, ignoring the little handsome man beside him, "I persuaded you for so long and you refused to participate, but now that the list has just been finalized and you want to participate, what do you want me to do? Who do you say I replaced and let you take the top? How can I explain it to others?"

"Aren't you engaged in serious literature? Don't you look down on those authors? I'm so stupid," Xu Yihan said violently, "I'm convinced."

Zhao Xin said in a low voice, "I also just read his article."

Xu Yihan was not at all interested in asking who "he" was, he grabbed his tie, left the little handsome boy, and walked straight out of the bar.

"Okay, if you really want to participate, I can help you find a way, but I have conditions."

Zhao Xin: "What conditions?"

"Your contract with Haosheng is about to expire, right?" Xu Yihan said as he walked forward.

"...is due in October this year."

"After the expiration, sign a contract with Weilan, at least five years," Xu Yihan grinned, "On this condition."

Zhao Xin said helplessly: "Is there such a big difference? Isn't Haosheng also bought by your family?"

Xu Yihan knew that he had caught Zhao Xin's hand, and asked aggressively: "What do you think? Am I the same as Xu Yize? Oh yes, why don't you go to Xu Yize to get you a spot? Now he is your boss ah."

Zhao Xin was silent for a few seconds, and said, "Because I need to keep it secret, I don't want Xu Yize to participate in this matter."

Xu Yihan reminded against his conscience: "It was originally written anonymously."

"Come on, what do you guys think?" Zhao Xin said, "Anonymity is just a gimmick. As long as the authors write articles, they will be recognized by readers sooner or later. If they can really remain anonymous from beginning to end, the popularity of this competition will be at least It will be reduced by half. And what you want is the effect of fans fighting? And, I guess, the participating authors should all know who each other is."

Xu Yihan smiled: "It's pretty clever. What do you mean, you want everyone to never know who you are? But your readers will recognize you through words."

"I'll change my style, and most importantly, if other authors ask... don't say it's me."

Xu Yihan became interested: "Why do you act like a thief? Why, you want a bonus, and you don't want to ruin your reputation as a serious literary author?"

Zhao Xin sighed: "Don't laugh at me, I'm serious... I can't explain this matter in a few words. When will you return to Wuhan, we can talk about it face to face."

"Okay, then you remember, my conditions."

"Okay, we will do what we say."

After hanging up the phone, Xu Yihan stopped, recalling Zhao Xin's words carefully.

Haosheng really belongs to Xu's family - the elder brother Xu bought Haosheng before and handed it over to Xu Yize for management.Xu Yi is Xu Yihan's elder brother, likewise, half-brother.Thinking of this, Xu Yihan couldn't help but feel that Old Xu was quite funny. He had been married and divorced all his life, with four children and four mothers.Of course, maybe Old Xu didn't care about the relationship between his children, but Xu Yihan didn't know what he cared about.

This time Zhao Xin is also really interesting. Xu Yihan has known Zhao Xin since he was a child. Zhao Xin has always been a decisive and uncompromising person. Before he said he would not participate in the competition, Xu Yihan persuaded him for a long time, but he still did not participate.

Why did you suddenly change your mind and ask for anonymity from other contestants?Other contestants—by the way, canned octopus.This afternoon, an editor came to ask how to deal with this matter. After all, canned octopus is their default contestant. It is not very good to have a "plagiarism" at this juncture.Xu Yihan didn't care, and was even a little happy: Are you tearing up?OK, just in time to heat up their game.These days, only when there is popularity can it attract attention and make money—as for how the popularity comes from, with all due respect, whoever cares is a fool.

Could it be that Zhao Xin participated in the competition because of the canned octopus?Is there something tricky between these two people?

The more Xu Yihan thought about it, the more excited he became, and he said that he would go back to Wuhan the day after tomorrow to celebrate Lao Xu's birthday, so he must catch Zhao Xin and ask him about it.It would be even better if they could use the two of them to hype it up.

Thinking of this, Xu Yihan's anger that his flirting was interrupted disappeared, and he looked around, only to realize that he was walking while talking on the phone, and he had reached an unknown place.There is a narrow road at the foot, and there are alleys on both sides of the road. Not far in front, there are small stalls and carts, selling soup dumplings, oranges, roast meat... It is a small vegetable market.

Xu Yihan suddenly felt a little hungry, walked to the stall selling soup dumplings, and asked, "Auntie, how do you sell the dumplings?"

"Bao'er is a sticky piece of love, and you can break it with a cage. (Baozi costs [-] yuan a cage, and there are eight in a cage.)"

"what?"

"Break it with a cage!"

"..."

Xu Yihan really couldn't understand what she said, just about to give up asking and go directly to the two cages, but someone patted his shoulder from behind.

"Yihan?"

Xu Yihan turned his head, was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled: "Sister—why are you here?"

Deng Yuan's eyes flickered, as if a little embarrassed: "I live here." Just like in WeChat, he did not deny that Xu Yihan called him "sister".

After buying the soup dumplings, Xu Yihan and Deng Yuan walked side by side on the sidewalk.

The soup dumpling tastes good, but the skin is slightly thicker than Wuhan soup dumpling.Xu Yihan took a bite of the small bun, and the soup poured into his mouth instantly, full of delicious fragrance.

"Not bad?" Deng Yuan asked.

"It's delicious, but that auntie speaks Shanghai dialect, which I really don't understand."

"It's not Shanghai dialect, she's from Taizhou, Jiangsu Taizhou."

"Oh……"

Xu Yihan looked at Deng Yuan sideways. Deng Yuan had short, slightly long hair and his ears were covered, revealing only a white, round earlobe.Today he didn't wear a takeaway suit, but a brown corduroy jacket with horn buttons and a narrow round neckline, which made his face a bit childish.He was wearing a pair of white cotton sweatpants with wide legs, and a pair of white canvas shoes were half hidden when he walked.

Xu Yihan asked: "How long have you lived here?"

"Two years."

"Then... when did you come to Shanghai?"

"13 years," Deng Yuan smiled, "I lived in a more remote place before."

Xu Yihan secretly calculated that Deng Yuan was five years older than him, and he should be 2013 years old in 26.He came to Shanghai at the age of 26, what about before the age of 26?

Xu Yihan lived in Dengcun for one year, from the age of 11 to 12.Later, Lao Xu and Deng Xiuli divorced, and he was sentenced to Lao Xu.At that time, Lao Xu's career focus shifted from Wuhan to Shenzhen. He studied in a private junior high school in Shenzhen for three years, and then went to England to study high school at the age of 16.He spent two years in high school, three years in college, and graduated at the age of 21. He traveled around the world in gapyear for two years, returned to the UK to study for a master's degree for two years, and then returned to China.

From the age of 12 to 25, during the 13 years, Xu Yihan never went back to Jingzhou, and even returned to Hubei very few times.

Xu Yihan suddenly became curious, what has Deng Yuan been doing for the past 13 years?

Why does he look like he hasn't changed, he's still so girly, so shy, soft, and docile.

Xu Yihan was curious, but didn't ask. 13 years is too long.

Xu Yihan stopped in his tracks: "Let's go here, I'll take a taxi and go back."

Deng Yuan nodded: "The road here is narrow, it's not easy to take a taxi, just go straight to the intersection."

"Well, okay, you can go home," Xu Yihan smiled, "It's still quite cold today."

"Okay, then I'll go back first..." Deng Yuan turned around and was about to leave.

Xu Yihan's mind flashed, but he stretched out his hand to stop him: "Leave a phone number, sister."