cross me with love

He Tangxi was not surprised when he received Lin Jingyu's call, he calmly looked at the contacts flashing on the screen, and calmly pressed the answer button.

"Tangtang," Lin Jingyu said on the other end of the phone, "How are you doing recently?"

The moment He Tangxi heard Lin Jingyu's voice, his nose was sour. He was full of grievances, and he waited for Lin Jingyu to ask him "how are you doing".

He sniffed and swallowed the lump in his throat: "It's good. How about you? Are you busy recently? You haven't been back for two weeks."

Lin Jingyu didn't answer his question, there was silence in the receiver, and after a while, Lin Jingyu called him slowly.

"Tangtang, are you?" He spoke very slowly, but He Tangxi understood what he meant, and he asked Lin Jingyu straightforwardly: "It was my father who asked you to call me, right?"

Lin Jingyu did not speak, and acquiesced.

He asked again: "Brother, what about you, do you want me to study finance or art?"

Lin Jingyu didn't know how to answer, this was He Tangxi's life, it was his choice, he was not qualified to dictate.This call was indeed made because of Uncle He, but the purpose was purely caring, nothing else mixed in.

"Actually, it should be better—" He Tangxi cut off his words before he finished speaking.

"Forget it, I know what to do, brother, you don't need to say more." He Tangxi didn't want to hear Lin Jingyu's next words.

There was another unbearable silence, He Tangxi felt that he should say goodbye and hang up the phone, but he didn't.

Keeping holding the phone, He Tangxi's wrist felt a little sore, but he didn't want to let it go, and he didn't want to change hands. He didn't want to miss every breath of Lin Jingyu on the other end of the phone.

"Have you eaten yet?" Lin Jingyu was the first to break the unbearable silence.

He Tangxi shook his head, and then realized in an instant that he was on the phone. Shaking his head would not be known by the other party. He cleared his throat and whispered, "I'm not hungry."

"I'm hungry." It may be that Lin Jingyu's voice was too low, which gave He Tangxi an illusion of tenderness. The voice was transmitted from the receiver to the ear canal, too close and too low, as if Lin Jingyu leaned close to his ear and said it.

"Will you go out to eat with me?"

Gentle, seductive, coaxing tone of a child.

He Tangxi blushed, and said yes blankly: "Then I'll go to your school to find you?"

"No need," Lin Jingyu said, "Go downstairs, I'm at your door."

He Tangxi stood up abruptly, stuttering so much that he couldn't speak clearly: "What, what? Are you downstairs at my house?"

Just as he was talking, his eyes suddenly went dark, he staggered a few steps and threw himself on the wall, his head hit the wall with a "bang", but he still held the phone firmly.

Lin Jingyu also heard the noise here, and he asked anxiously, "What's the matter Tangtang? What happened?"

He Tangxi closed his eyes for a minute before his vision gradually became clear: "It's okay, I got up too fast, I'll go downstairs right away, 1 minutes!" After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone in a hurry.

In fact, there was nothing to clean up. After He Tangxi changed his clothes, he went to the bathroom to wash his face.He looked at himself in the mirror, his face was pale, and his lips were bloodless. He Tangxi suddenly didn't want to go out, he didn't look good now, he was too ugly.

He bit his lower lip hard, and there was a white line around the place where he was bitten, and when he loosened it again, the white line instantly turned into a rich pink, which made his face even bloody.He smiled in the mirror, then turned and went out.

Lin Jingyu was waiting for him at the door. He was wearing a pullover sweater today, clean and fresh, and he was the boy he liked.

When Lin Jingyu first saw He Tangxi, a little smile appeared in Lin Jingyu's eyes, but the smile disappeared in an instant, and he frowned slightly.

Lin Jingyu's face was full of worry: "Why have you lost so much weight?"

He stared at He Tangxi carefully, his cheeks were a little sunken, the clothes on him were empty, and his condition looked worse than when he was sick before.

"Didn't eat well again?" Lin Jingyu asked him.

He Peizhuo just told Lin Jingyu that He Tangxi had some conflicts with him, and didn't say that He Tangxi used a hunger strike to protest. He Tangxi knew from Lin Jingyu's words that he didn't know the whole story, so naturally he didn't dare to say that he hadn't eaten on a hunger strike recently.

"I don't have a good appetite recently, and I can't eat." He Tangxi smiled reluctantly, "Brother, what do you want to eat, let's go."

Lin Jingyu frowned all the way, and when he ate, he saw that He Tangxi only poked with chopsticks and didn't put the food into his mouth, so he frowned even tighter.

He Tangxi sensed Lin Jingyu's displeasure, and he explained pitifully: "I'm not hungry, brother, I really can't eat."

After being too hungry, it seems that food has no appeal to the stomach, no matter how exquisite things look, there is no appetite, only boredom.

He didn't eat, and Lin Jingyu didn't have much appetite. After paying the bill in a hurry, Lin Jingyu took He Tangxi directly to the hospital for an examination.

He Tangxi didn't want to go to the hospital, he begged for mercy and justified all the way.

"Brother, why are you going to the hospital? I'm not sick."

"Is anorexia not a disease? Why do you get black eyes when you're fine?" Lin Jingyu didn't care about He Tangxi's moaning, "I'd better go check it out, I'll be relieved after checking it up."

After registering at the hospital, the doctor asked He Tangxi to go for a blood test first.He Tangxi was half-dragged again with a tube of blood.

The doctor took a look at the test sheet and said, "There is no major problem, but the hemoglobin is a little low. Did you not eat well?"

The doctor glanced at He Tangxi: "Young man, you can't go on like this, you will become anemic."

He Tangxi lowered his head and said nothing, but Lin Jingyu on the other side replied: "In the future, we must supervise him to eat well."

Lin Jingyu was relieved after checking that there were no problems, but his face was still ugly and angry.

On the way back from the hospital, Lin Jingyu remained sullen. He Tangxi followed him, looking for a chance to talk to him, but he didn't have the chance to speak.

In the end, it was Lin Jingyu who spoke first. He stopped and turned to look at He Tangxi: "Fortunately, nothing happened. What should you do if something goes wrong with your body?"

"Nao Gui Nao, can you stop making fun of your own body?"

"I'm sorry." He Tangxi listened to Lin Jingyu's scolding with lowered eyebrows, and suddenly all the grievances flooded his eyes and nose, and he sniffed, "I'm the one who caused you trouble."

Lin Jingyu looked at He Tangxi. To be honest, he didn't want to hear He Tangxi apologize to him at all, and he didn't want to see such a pitiful expression on He Tangxi's face. Lin Jingyu felt an indescribable sense of powerlessness in his heart, and he sighed, Said: "Tangtang, I am not hurting you, and you don't need to apologize, but the body is yours, can you" "Can you treat yourself?"

After a pause, he said again: "You have never been a trouble to me, I just hope you can take care of yourself when I'm not around, can you?"

He Tangxi nodded and said yes, his heart was mixed with sourness and sweetness, he couldn't tell what it was like, he wanted to cry and laugh at the same time, sad and happy at the same time.

"You and your father, what's going on? He said you want to study art?" After going around and around, I finally got to today's topic.

He Tangxi didn't want to talk about this matter with Lin Jingyu, in fact, he also knew that his protest was invalid, and He Peizhuo would not let him study art.Even if he really went on a hunger strike to the point of starving to death, He Peizhuo would not compromise.

Although he knew the result, he still had to resist.

"There are some conflicts, you know, my dad and I can't see each other, and we can't stay together." He Tangxi pretended not to care.

"It's actually not a big deal."

Lin Jingyu didn't believe that what He Tangxi said was fine, if it wasn't serious, He Peizhuo wouldn't have called him and asked him to do ideological work for He Tangxi.

But he is an outsider after all, and he has no position to comment on some things.

"Tangtang, you..."

"I don't want to talk about it anymore. It's over, so don't you need to mention it again?"

"Okay, let's not talk about it then." Lin Jingyu said, "It's just up to you to decide."

Lin Jingyu sent He Tangxi to the door of his house, and he said to He Tangxi, "Go in, I have something to do at school, I have to go back soon."

"Okay, then I'll go in, brother, be careful on the road."

"Brother." He Tangxi suddenly stopped him the moment he turned around, Lin Jingyu turned his head, He Tangxi hesitated to speak.

He asked, "What's wrong?"

He Tangxi was at a loss for words.He didn't know why he stopped Lin Jingyu suddenly, maybe he wanted to confess at that moment.

At that moment, reason collapsed and emotion took over.

"It's nothing." He Tangxi shook his head, "Thank you for coming to see me today."

Lin Jingyu smiled: "Why are you so polite all of a sudden?"

He Tangxi looked at him, and then asked: "Brother, can I give you a hug?"

"can."

Lin Jingyu opened his arms, and He Tangxi walked down the steps slowly. He approached Lin Jingyu, put his arms around his waist, and buried himself in his arms.

Lin Jingyu hugged him back, patted his back lightly, and waited for He Tangxi to calm down.

"I... I actually..." The voice was buried in his arms, and it was vague and unreal.

"What's wrong?" Lin Jingyu's tone was gentle.

He vaguely felt that He Tangxi was crying.

He Tangxi was indeed crying. He didn't feel very sad, but the tears still flowed out uncontrollably.

A lot of Lin Jingyu's clothes were wet from his crying.

After an unknown amount of time, He Tangxi finally stopped crying, and he raised his head to look at Lin Jingyu.

His eyes were red, his nose was red, and he looked aggrieved, like a red-eyed rabbit.

Lin Jingyu took out a tissue from his pocket and wiped his tears: "Are you feeling better now?"

He Tangxi twitched the corners of his mouth. He wanted to thank him, but he felt that it was very natural to say thank you, and he didn't know what to say for a while.

"Okay, you go in, I'm leaving too." Lin Jingyu stroked the side of He Tangxi's face with the back of his hand, "Can we eat well in the future?"

"Well," He Tangxi nodded, "I will eat obediently."

"Study hard, too. I will be in my third year of high school soon, and it won't be long."

"Brother," He Tangxi said, "How about I go to the same university as you?"

Lin Jingyu smiled: "Okay, of course, I wish you could go to the same school as me and be my direct student."

He Tangxi also smiled.

He said, "It's fine if you want."