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Hao Ai stared straight at him, as if afraid that the person in front of him would run away.After a while, Zhong Xiu looked away first, and the two looked at each other for a short time.

Two months ago, Hao Ai had just passed his 24th birthday, but when he was 18 years old, he still remembers clearly the way Zhong Xiu looked at him.

It was not like this before.

Hao Ai lowered his eyes and looked down at the bear slippers on his feet.On the other hand, Zhong Xiu was wearing leather shoes, a white shirt and black suit pants. His shoulders were broad and his legs were long, showing an elite air. He was very different from him, like a person from two worlds.

Seeing Hao Ai standing still at the elevator entrance, Zhong Xiu said flatly, "Please let me go, thank you."

Hearing the familiar voice, Hao Ai seemed to have a real feeling. He stepped out of the elevator and made way for Zhong Xiu.

When the two passed by, Hao Ai smelled a very faint scent of perfume on his body. Hao Ai usually doesn't wear perfume, so he can't describe its fragrance. Temperament does not match.

Zhong Xiu didn't look at him any more, and pressed the door close button of the elevator.

It wasn't until the moment the elevator door closed that Hao Ai realized as if waking up from a dream that it was really Zhong Xiu, and he was also the one he saw in the small auditorium just now.Why didn't you go in when you were in the auditorium just now?Why didn't he stop him when he entered the elevator?

The red number on the right side of the elevator began to decrease, Hao Ai turned around and patted the elevator door, and frantically pressed the elevator down button with his fingers.

Tang Ziyang was taken aback by his knock on the door, wondering, "Brother, what are you doing pressing the elevator?"

What are you doing?He wants to go down to chase Zhong Xiu, catch up and ask him why he pretends not to know me and why he ignores me?And, I miss you very much, I still like you.

But in the end it didn't.

"It's okay, let's go, I'll open the door." Hao Ai took out a bunch of keys from his pants pocket, weighed them in his hand, and walked forward.

In the past six years, he seems to have been slowly moving forward amidst constant regret and regret.

The elevator door closed, Zhong Xiu stared at the blinking number "9" in a daze, it was the floor just now.

Zhong Xiu just returned to China last week, and was invited by an old professor to give a lecture at H University.Since he had been abroad before, he was worried that the content and method of his lectures were different from those of domestic college students, so he came to the professor's home to ask him to see if there was anything wrong with the content and method of his lectures.

In his junior year, Zhong Xiu and his team won one of the most influential awards in the field of international chemistry for a research. Because of this, most domestic experts and scholars in the field of chemistry know this young Chinese student studying abroad.The old professor praised him even more, and after learning that he planned to do scientific research in China, he tried to lure him to the Chemical Research Institute of University H.

Zhong Xiu came out of the professor's house, but unexpectedly ran into Hao Ai at the elevator entrance.

Zhong Xiu had known for a long time that Hao Ai lived near H University, but he didn't know that he lived in the teacher's apartment inside H University.

He was looking at houses recently and hadn't wanted to live on campus, but has changed his mind now.He was going to go back and ask if there were any houses for rent in this building. If there was no house in this building, the one next to him was fine too.

From what Hao Ai said just now, the topic he talked with that person was quite personal, and the two went home together. That person should be his close friend, or...boyfriend.

By the way, there are more than a dozen of his former partners.

He knew that Hao Ai liked to play tricks, but he still felt very angry when he heard him say that, both angry and helpless.

Zhong Xiu got out of the elevator and didn't leave immediately, but quietly stared at the red numbers on the elevator.The bright red was beating, the elevator slowly ascended and stopped at the ninth floor, but after a few minutes passed, it showed no sign of going down.

Zhong Xiu laughed at himself, and then walked out of the apartment building.

He is really good at doing some self-moving things, he was like this before, and he is still like this now.

Six years ago, he said that he didn't like Hao Ai much, but now that he thinks about it, what kind of nonsense was he talking about back then, that he didn't like him much?Obviously, I like it so much that I'm going crazy.

Three years ago, he heard that Hao Ai's grandmother had passed away, and he was almost expelled from school.While frantically contacting his classmates at Z University to inquire about Hao Ai's specific situation, Zhong Xiu finished the task at hand regardless of day and night.The supervisor he followed in the laboratory was a very well-known scholar in the international field. He was rigid and strict but had a high academic level, and the research they were conducting at that time was about to enter a critical stage.

He asked for a leave of absence from his mentor and said, I'm sorry, I have important things to deal with and I must go back to China.The instructor asked him what was the matter, and he said that something happened to his boyfriend and he needed someone to accompany him.

The instructor scolded him severely, scolded him for doing things without beginning and end, and couldn't tell the priority, but finally gave him a week's vacation.

Before booking the plane ticket, he stayed up for three nights, doing experiments to measure the data, and finally finished his part of the work, and asked the senior in the same laboratory to help him finish.

On the night after booking the air ticket, he was packing his luggage and preparing to fly back to China in the early morning of the next day, when he suddenly received a message from Lu Fayan.

Lu Fayan is also at Z University, but he is studying at an international school, and Hao Ai is not on the same campus.

Lu Fayan told him falteringly that he was not too clear about the specifics, but Hao Ai refused to tell him, because he had heard other people's stories.I heard that Hao Ai fought with others because of a boy, and beat him to the hospital. Because Hao Ai had good grades, and it was true that the other party was at fault first, so the school defended him more, but the other party’s parents were unwilling to live or die, saying they disagreed. I want to sue Hao Ai and send Hao Ai to jail.It was quite a big deal, but in the end I don't know why it was still private.

anything else?

Also, I heard that Hao Ai came out publicly because of that boy in school.

Lu Fayan finally said that this incident was indeed a big one in that campus, but it was suppressed in the end. I also heard it from others. There may be exaggeration in it. You'd better ask him yourself.

Zhong Xiu didn't ask, he took out the things in the suitcase one by one, and decided not to go back.He thought maybe Hao Ai didn't need his company.

Later, he happened to see Hao Ai's video from Fang Cheng, followed his social accounts by chance, and got clues from his updates to understand his recent situation.Zhong Xiu knew that Hao Ai came to Nanchuan after graduating from university, lived near H University, and often recorded videos near H University.He developed his hobby into a career, and founded a self-media studio with his friends. He is still skateboarding, recording skateboarding videos, and occasionally broadcasting live broadcasts. He has met many new friends and has a good life.

These are all things that have nothing to do with Zhong Xiu, and it is meaningless to recall the past now.

Zhong Xiu drove to Fang Cheng's house. He was full of worries and had to find a trash can to talk about.

He hasn't found a house in Nanchuan yet, and now he is temporarily staying at Fang Cheng's house.

After Fang Cheng graduated from H University, he stayed in Nanchuan and opened a bar here, vowing to develop his family's bar business to the whole country.

The contact between the two has not been very frequent in the past few years. They are both very busy and have no time to chat.Ever since Fang Cheng discovered Hao Ai's video on the Internet and forwarded it to Zhong Xiu, the contact between the two has increased.

"I saw Hao Ai at school today." Zhong Xiu said.

"Fuck!" Fang Cheng jumped up from the sofa excitedly: "You met him on the first day you went to H University, what is this called? God's arrangement, destiny, I announce that you can continue the relationship Already!"

"Don't be funny, he might have a boyfriend." Zhong Xiu sat down and said.

Fang Cheng said, "I don't think he should."

"how do you know?"

"I don't know," Fang Cheng said, "I'll ask now."

Zhong Xiu went to the doctor in a hurry when he was ill, and even had the idea of ​​asking Fang Cheng, who was far away at H University, to go to Z University to inquire about news, but in the end he just asked Fang Orange to help pay attention to Hao Ai's news.

"Look, am I right?" Fang Cheng handed over the phone.

Fang Cheng: Do you have a boyfriend?

Hao Ai: Did Zhong Xiu ask you to ask?No.

"Not now, doesn't mean there wasn't before." Zhong Xiu looked at the phone screen for a while, and said lightly.

"Tsk, that's why you're hypocritical. If there's any misunderstanding, just clarify it. Even if he had a boyfriend before, it's the past tense. You are the present tense and the future tense. If you still like it, seize the opportunity." , understand?" Fang Cheng gave him an expression that you can understand yourself.

"..." Zhong Xiu was silent.

"What did you two talk about when you met today?" Fang Cheng asked.

"Nothing to talk about."

Fang Cheng felt strange: "No way, didn't you talk about the past?"

"No." Zhong Xiu shook his head.

Fang Cheng asked again: "Have you talked about the current situation? What research did you do abroad, and what will you do after you return to China? Is that what you said?"

"No." Zhong Xiu felt a little regretful.

The only thing he said to Hao Ai today was: Please let me go, thank you.

If he told Fang Cheng the truth, Fang Cheng might be pissed off on the spot.

"Okay, it seems that you didn't say anything useful, but it's not important, you must seize the opportunity, while you still have affection and he still has intentions."

"What if he doesn't care?" Zhong Xiu asked.

"Then don't worry about it anymore," Fang Cheng rolled his eyes and said, "It's been six years."

Fang Cheng looked down at the phone again: "I will push his WeChat to you, and you can add it yourself."

After Zhong Xiu went abroad, he changed his mobile phone card. He didn't intend to lose the original mobile phone number, but when the part-time worker was cleaning the house, he mistakenly threw the small box containing the mobile phone card as trash.

He didn't have many contacts. After adding it again, there was no need to reissue the previous domestic mobile phone number, and he deliberately left out one person and didn't add it. It was unnecessary.

Received a new friend verification.

Hao Ai is cutting video material on the desk in the bedroom, and the mobile phone is placed next to the computer where it can be seen at a glance.

Usually, almost every day, Hao Ai would receive a lot of verifications from friends, fans, peers, partners, and people who asked him to advertise.

But from the moment Fang Cheng sent him a message, he had been waiting.

Click Agree.

Hao Ai put down the work in his hands, clutched the phone to his chest, and collapsed on the bed behind him.

My face is a little hot.

Hao Ai began to roll around on the bed, thinking while rolling, it had been many years since I saw her, and I added WeChat this morning when I saw her in the afternoon, so the progress seemed to be a bit fast.

The author says:

Not necessarily.