third party

After Lu Beiyao half-lifted and half-carried Qi Xi and forced him to return to his seat, he got off the station by himself and extinguished the fire on his body in the cold wind at one o'clock in the morning.

When returning to the car, Qi Xi had already fallen asleep.

Lu Beiyao drove home, and Qi Xi woke up just after parking the car. He stared blankly at Lu Beiyao for a while, and said, "Lu Beiyao, do you remember anything?"

Lu Beiyao thought of his heart beating violently when the two of them overlapped in the car just now, but he didn't say anything, just shook his head.

Qi Xi seemed to have expected it a long time ago, so he didn't respond, he opened the car door and walked out.He acted chicly as if he wasn't the one who rubbed against Lu Beiyao just now.

After returning home, the two went to bed separately, without any verbal communication, as if nothing had happened.

Same thing the next day.

Qi Xi's mood didn't break down anymore, and Lu Beiyao abnormally didn't send him away again. The two of them seemed to have completely returned to the mode that roommates should have.

When Lu Beiyao came back at noon, Qi Xi would still seriously cook a table of food for him. The two of them sat and ate facing each other without saying a word. It was a little strange but not as embarrassing as imagined.

It's just that sometimes, when Lu Beiyao was sitting alone on the bedside, holding the box of letters over and over again to read, Qi Xi would sit on the sofa with his knees hugged and said nothing. In fact, Lu Beiyao wanted Qi Xi to say something, even if it was like the last time he was drunk. It's okay to scold him for that.

He knew that his memory had begun to slowly clear.

But he was very scared, he couldn't tell whether he had misremembered and his original lover was Qi Xie, or if he fell in love with Qi Xie now and forgot about his former lover.

Qi Xi refused to say anything, and Lu Beiyao didn't know what to say.

Time passed quickly, and the day Qi Ke said in his letter to return to China arrived. After lunch that day, Lu Beiyao stood at the door of the kitchen, watching Qi Xi wash the dishes.

"I'll pick him up this afternoon."

"Okay." Qi Xi didn't stop washing the dishes, and answered him directly with one word.

After Lu Beiyao finished speaking, he didn't know how to speak. He looked at Qi Xi's back and felt very uncomfortable. He knew that Qi Xi was also very uncomfortable.

Qi Xi's tears fell while washing, and fell into the sink with a patter, and Lu Beiyao couldn't hear it with the sound of the water.

He really wanted to rush over and hug Lu Beiyao, and scold him, you big fool, why don't you pick up a ghost?You already picked up the man who came back from England three years ago, it's me, I'm right here, where are you going, you hug me Lu Beiyao.

But he didn't dare, since the time Zhou Li said the wrong thing, Lu Beiyao's head never hurt again, but Qi Xi still didn't dare to take the risk.

At two o'clock, Lu Beiyao couldn't sit still anymore. He put on his coat, took the keys and went out.

Sitting at home, Qi Xi stared at the clock in the living room, watching the minute hand slide to four one by one, and it was thirty thirty.

I don't know if Lu Beiyao picked up Qi Ke.

Qi Xi took out a stack of photos from the drawer of the coffee table. These photos were originally placed on the coffee table, on the TV cabinet, on the porch, anyway, Lu Beiyao would put them wherever he could, and he had to show off whenever someone came stop.

Qi Xi put the photos away but didn't hide them. He put them in the drawer of the coffee table. He hoped that Lu Beiyao would accidentally open the drawer to see the photos, the pictures of the two of them who were very intimate together, and then the past would reappear. Memory homing.

Unfortunately, no, Lu Beiyao never opened this drawer once.

Qi Xi looked at one by one, and the story behind each one was as clear as yesterday.

While recalling, Lu Beiyao came back.

It seemed cold outside, and Lu Beiyao's face was pale.

"There are no flights from the UK this afternoon." Lu Beiyao stood at the door, wondering if he was talking to Qi Xi.

Qi Xi nodded, indicating that he knew.

"Is there such a person? Is the person I love named Qi Ke? Can you tell me?" Lu Beiyao hoarsely shouted, he couldn't help it anymore.

Qi Xi's eyes were still on the pile of photos, he picked the best one and held it in front of him.

That was Lu Beiyao hugging Qi Xi from behind and kissing his side face. Qi Xi was a little shy but still looked at the camera openly.

This is a photo taken by Lu Beiyao when the two of them traveled to Iceland when they graduated.I didn't take it seriously at first, but when it was washed out, I found that the people in the light-framing picture were very harmonious, and the overall look looked like a blockbuster shot by a celebrity. Lu Beiyao liked it so much that he once used this picture as a screen saver for his mobile phone.

"I am the one who accompanied you from high school to college to now, the one you love is me, and the one you risk your life to protect is also me." Qi Xi cried and said, "You just forgot about me."

Qi Xi completely turned on the tear duct switch, "I don't blame you at all, I'm just afraid that you will never remember."

Lu Beiyao took the photo, and it turned out that he and Qi Xi were really close.

He looked at himself in that photo, and the love in his eyes couldn't be stopped, "I haven't forgotten, I remembered a lot in the car the day you were drunk, the first time we met in high school, sitting The person in front of me is you, I have clearly remembered."

Lu Beiyao squatted in front of Qi Xi, and he said, "But I don't know who Qi Ke is? He is like a piece of gray cloth. Once I think of something related to you, he will appear and remind me that there is a person named Qi Ke." Ke, let me not forget, I must know who he is."

Qi Xi stopped crying, sat and thought for a long time, and then said: "Doctor Qi said, I can't force my memory into you, it will conflict with your original memory, and it will irritate you."

Lu Beiyao guessed it would be like this, he smiled and pinched Qi Xi's wrinkled little face, and comforted him: "It's okay, I want to know the truth, if I really love you and forget you, it will be more painful than death .”

Qi Xi stared into Lu Beiyao's eyes, and once again saw his face in his eyes, Qi Xi's nose couldn't stop being sour.

He hesitated for a long time, but still made a decision, "Go and have a look in the closet in the guest room."

Lu Beiyao didn't know why, but he walked straight over.

There were no clothes in the wardrobe in the guest room, and Qi Xi's clothes were still hanging in the master bedroom's wardrobe. Lu Beiyao reminded him several times before, but Qi Xi ignored them all.

As soon as Lu Beiyao opened the closet, he smelled a strange smell, which was not strong but smelled a bit fishy.

Lu Beiyao looked through it, only to find that it was a pile of pet supplies.

A kennel, two dog food bowls, and some shapeless dolls that were bitten here and there.

Where did my dog ​​come from?

Lu Beiyao was puzzled.

"Have we ever had a dog?" He walked to the living room with the obviously outdated kennel and asked Qi Xi.

"You don't remember?"

Lu Beiyao thought hard, "I don't remember, I have no impression."

"Don't remember at all?"

Lu Beiyao still shook his head.

"No wonder..." Qi Xi finally fully understood the reason why Lu Beiyao's memory was misplaced.

"We once had a dog. We found it downstairs. His hind leg was injured. I sent him to the pet hospital with you, treated him and took him home to raise him." Qi Xi made the calculations, " About three years ago, before I went to England."

"It's very obedient and cute. It doesn't make trouble at all. It likes to act like a baby to me. It always follows me, but it doesn't like to talk to you. You often get jealous of it."

"Later you said that I couldn't have children anyway, and it would be good to have a dog son. I said that it should have my surname. You said it's okay, just take my surname."

Lu Beiyao couldn't believe it, he asked hesitantly, "That dog is..."

"It's a Corgi, so you'll call it Qi Ke."

!!!

Lu Beiyao's face instantly became colorful.

Qi Xi followed his train of thought and said, "Qi Ke was already very old when he was picked up. We took good care of him, but within a year he was still sick, and there was no way to cure him. It was even more painful to keep him close. We agreed to give it euthanasia, and then we buried it, and every year we would go to the place where it was buried to see it, the day your car accident happened, we just came back from it, we were very depressed, in the car I If you cry, you will lose your energy, and you will not be able to respond to unexpected situations."

Lu Beiyao looked at the kennel in his hand, and there was only one sentence in his mind - "Qi Ke is a dog?"

"The doctor said that the nerve damage caused by the car accident caused your memory to be misplaced. You remember everything but me, but you need someone to fill this gap, and Qi Ke is a name that frequently appears in your short-term memory before the car accident, so You—" Qi Xi held Lu Beiyao's face in his hands, and said word by word, "You mistook Qi Ke for me."

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