old enemy riding a bamboo horse

I really chatted with him till dawn

I really agree with him the most

really remember all his quirks

All the happiness was only maintained until before going to bed, when Lu Henglin received a call from his father.

His father asked rigidly about his studies, about his recent performance, and calmly expressed his displeasure with his grades.

Always dissatisfied.

He wants a good enough heir, so Lu Henglin has been working hard all the time, even if his family is rich, he never relaxes, but his father doesn't care about the process, he only needs the result.

Lu Henglin sneered. In his father's eyes, everything can be digitized, and data that does not meet expectations is not good enough.

"Why don't you answer a few questions for me?" Lu Henglin sneered a little, and even forgot to use the honorifics, "How tall am I now? How much do I weigh? What size shoes do I wear? The last time you attended my parent meeting was a few years ago."

Lu Chengnian was silent for a moment, "I hope you won't be so naive."

Lu Henglin smiled bitterly, "Then let's talk about maturity. When will Secretary Xie become your second wife? I have the right to know. I don't want me to be the last fool to know about it."

When he said it, he felt pain and relief.

"If this troubles you, I can tell you that you are my only son and heir, and I have reached a consensus with her on this." Lu Chengnian replied calmly and objectively, without even a hint of comfort.

"You will never understand the point, and you will never know what I want." Lu Henglin took a deep breath, "We don't need to talk anymore."

After speaking, he took the initiative to hang up the phone.

After the unhappy phone call, he lay on the bed so restlessly that he couldn't fall asleep, he quietly took out a cigarette and prepared to go to the living room to smoke it by himself.

He didn't want Xia Chengqi to see his bad habits, but after indulging in them for a while, he has already become addicted to cigarettes.The two have been inseparable since Xia Chengqi came to this house, so he endured it very hard.

At first he just thought it was cool to smoke, and he deliberately wanted to put on such a posture, but over time, when he was irritable, he began to rely on nicotine, and the bitter taste could temporarily numb his anger and pain.

He lay half back on the sofa, looking at the smoke quietly rising in the darkness, thinking about how little communication he had with his father in the past year, every time it ended badly, since he started to expand the market, they even met each other They are all pitiful.

His father loves him, but his love is strict and calm. What he wants is an excellent son, not a warm parent-child relationship that needs to be bothered to manage.

So even if he tried to degenerate for so long, his father didn't have the energy to notice it.

"Can't sleep?" The gentle young voice sounded softly in the empty night.

"Cough cough." Lu Henglin panicked for a moment, trying to extinguish the cigarette in his hand, but then realized that Xia Chengqi had seen it a long time ago, and instantly felt a little self-defeating and didn't want to hide it.

Xia Chengqi, who was still sleepy in his pajamas, came over, reached out and took half of the cigarette in his hand, pressed it out, and asked in a low voice, "Are you unhappy?"

Boys of this age are always ostentatious and rude, probably because of the experience of growing up in an orphanage, Xia Chengqi has a maturity and gentleness beyond his age.

"No." Lu Henglin didn't want to mention those things that hurt him at all.

Xia Chengqi patted him on the shoulder, got up quietly, went to warm him a glass of milk, came back, and stuffed it into his hand.

"I'm not a child anymore." Lu Henglin muttered.

"In Baba's eyes, you will always be a child." Xia Chengqi sat cross-legged next to him and yawned, deliberately teasing him.

Lu Henglin wanted to put on an indifferent smile, but for a moment he was so uncomfortable that he couldn't even control his expression.

"Hey, don't be angry." Xia Chengqi noticed it, and hugged Lu Henglin without thinking, "I'm teasing you."

"Not angry." Lu Henglin said sullenly, and hugged Xia Chengqi with his backhand, not letting him back away.

A young boy always deliberately wants to create an indestructible appearance, so he hates showing weakness, but this hug is too soft and warm, and he can't help but want to grab it.

For the first time, he realized that it was so rare and warm to have someone by his side when he was in pain.

"What's wrong?" Xia Chengqi asked him softly.

Lu Henglin shook his head wearily, not only where to start, but he hugged Xia Chengqi for a while, feeling a little embarrassed himself, let go of Xia Chengqi, lowered his head, "Go to sleep if you are sleepy."

"I'll watch you finish the milk." Xia Chengqi picked up the milk from the table and handed it to him.

Lu Henglin took a sip of milk and said awkwardly, "I don't need to be coaxed, and you don't need to accompany me."

Xia Chengqi yawned, completely read his mind, leaned on the back of the sofa and said lazily, "There is no part of my life that I need to be coaxed more than you. Young master, besides, you are not a little man, why should I coax you. "

"Then what are you doing here even if you can't open your eyes?" Lu Henglin became even more awkward after being told that it was awkward.

"I want to accompany you for a while."

Xia Chengqi's voice was very low because of sleepiness, especially in such a quiet night, it had the power to soothe people's emotions.

The two of them just lay on the sofa like this, chatting in low voices, and it was a meaningless conversation at first, and then they gradually talked about those unspeakable thoughts.

"The first time I knew about him and his secretary was when I accidentally heard other people's comments. At that time, my mother passed away not long ago, but according to others, when my mother was sick, they..." Lu Henglin's voice became more and more serious. Low, the bone-chilling cold at that time, and the feeling of being betrayed by the most respected person made him breathless.

When he was talking, that beating feeling started to surge up again, so that he didn't notice at all that Xia Chengqi had a gloomy and hesitant expression.

Lu Henglin looked at the ceiling and took a deep breath. After a long pause, he said awkwardly, "Since then, my life seems... never to go back to the past."

He didn't talk about the indulgence and self-destruction for a long time, because talking about it in front of Xia Chengqi would make him look so childish.

"There is always an outlet for human emotions, and I know it all." Xia Chengqi said softly, "Whenever you need to confide or vent your emotions, feel free to come to me. I can stay silent or stay with you All night, but—”

He paused slightly, Lu Henglin thought he was going to tell himself some advice for the future.

In the end, he just said, "Don't hurt yourself, don't let you remember that in the most precious youthful time in your life, there was only sadness and anger. When you are unhappy, think about it, there are still people who care about you."

"Him? It won't be okay at all." Lu Henglin thought of his father and smiled mockingly.

"No, it's me." Xia Chengqi suddenly stretched out his hand to ruffle the hair on his forehead, "I've been with you for so long, of course it's because I care about you."