When Guan Ze slowly approached, Lin Yao subconsciously pressed the slow-motion button in his mind. Guan Ze's eyes, Guan Ze's raised lips, Guan Ze's breath slowly surrounding him... He didn't want to miss anything.
He even hoped that when Guan Ze touched him, no matter where he touched, be it the forehead, the nose, or even better the mouth... at that moment of contact, time would be wise enough to stop and let him experience this heart-stirring ambiguous moment.
Guan Ze's arms were resting on the back of the chair behind his head. He was very close to him, and his breath was already brushing his face.
Lin Yao didn't dare to look up at him. Although he was always good at tormenting the people he liked in his heart, he still felt that his face was not big enough when it came to the real thing.
Guan Ze unbuckled his seatbelt and leaned over, one hand resting on the door on his side. Lin Yao raised a megaphone in his head and shouted: Yes! That's it! Come here! Mouth! My mouth!
"Son, you're back!" The closed room in the house was suddenly opened, and then the lights in the yard came on. My mother rushed out in a nightgown that looked like a cloak, waving her hands, and with a wand she could blend into Hogwarts.
Every time Lin Yao watched porn, he would worry that his mother would break into the house. The embarrassing incident in which Lin Zong's mother broke into the house when he was masturbating once left him with a deep psychological trauma, but he never expected that one day when he was about to kiss a man in the car, his mother would appear out of nowhere.
He felt as if all the blood in his body had solidified, and then instantly boiled, rolling and bubbling as if it was about to break through the skin, trying to turn his face into a shower head.
"Mom!" Lin Yao yelled in response. The car didn't have its lights on and was facing the gate from the side, so his mother probably couldn't see what was going on inside. But if he didn't respond in time, his mother might run to the front of the car to see if her precious son was inside...
Guan Ze's whole body had already leaned over. He was startled when Lin Yao's mother ran out cheering, and hurriedly tried to sit back in his seat. Before he could move, Lin Yao's loud shout scared him so much that his hair almost stood up.
"What are you shouting about!" he said in a low voice.
"Get out of the way!" Lin Yao didn't care about anything else. He growled and slapped him in the face.
"You..." Guan Ze was slapped on the nose by him, and tears were about to fly out of his eyes, "She can't see..."
"She will find a way to see it!" Lin Yao pushed and slapped Guan Ze, his movements as agile as if he had practiced Wing Chun.
"Hurry up and get off," Guan Ze pushed him, "You're going to beat me to death. With all this noise, your mother will think I did something to you."
Lin Yao opened the car door and jumped down. He was so nervous and flustered that his right leg stepped out, while his left leg was still hooked in the car. His body kept sliding out due to inertia.
He gritted his teeth and supported himself with one leg for about a second. Unable to withstand the inertia, he stumbled and knelt in front of his mother, and fell forward again. If he hadn't supported himself on the ground with his hands, he would have knelt down in front of his mother.
"Oh, what's wrong, son!" Mom yelled in surprise, and hesitantly reached out to touch his head, "Why are you so... polite?"
"I miss you so much that I can't even stand..." Lin Yao looked up at his mother's face and breathed a sigh of relief. His mother probably didn't see anything. He stood up and patted his pants, "I'm going to fall to my death..."
"My dear son, you are better than your brother. He stayed at home for a day and just said to me, 'I want to go to bed' and slept for the whole day." The mother patted his face with a smile and looked into the car. "Director Guan? Please send Lin Yao back again."
"No trouble, Auntie," Guan Ze got out of the car and walked around the front of the car, "I'm on my way."
Lin Yao smiled and glared at Guan Ze: "Thank you, Mr. Guan, it's late, you should go back soon."
"Well, I'm leaving," Guan Ze smiled at him, and said to Lin Yao's mother, "Good night, Auntie."
"Good night. It's too late today so I won't treat you to a meal," Lin Yao's mother waved her hand. "Drive safely."
"Goodbye, Mr. Guan." Lin Yao pushed his mother into the yard, twisting his neck to watch Guan Ze's car slowly turn out of the path in front of his house.
Alas... After all the fuss, my mom just said good night to me in the end, and I got nothing in return. I just watched Guan Ze and his kiss disappear before my eyes.
Although he was a little depressed, Lin Yao broke out in a cold sweat when he thought about the previous situation. Fortunately, he didn't get anything. If he had really gotten something, even if it was just a fart, he would probably have a hard night.
As soon as he entered the room, Lin Yao saw Lin Zong's cell phone on the table in the living room: "My brother is back?"
"Didn't I just tell you that he came back this morning? He slept all day and didn't even come downstairs. He must have been busy with the resort." Mom glanced upstairs, very dissatisfied.
Lin Yao kissed his mother on the cheek and said, "Let him go shopping with you tomorrow."
"Go take a shower. You smell like burnt paper. How can you smell like this after a business trip?" Mom fanned me with her hand. "After you take a shower, go to bed. No one will give you a day off tomorrow."
"Got it." Lin Yao responded and jumped upstairs.
When he passed by Lin Zong's room, he hesitated for a moment, guessing that Lin Zong was still asleep, so he didn't knock on the door and went straight into his room.
Just after taking two steps, the door of Lin Zong's room opened: "Why didn't you come to pay your respects?"
"I thought you were sleeping. Mom said you slept all day." Lin Yao walked two steps backwards and came in front of Lin Zong. He found that Lin Zong had dark circles under his eyes.
"Didn't you sleep for a whole day? Why are you still dark?" Lin Yao was a little puzzled and reached out to touch Lin Zong's eyes.
"It was a sleepy day. I just lay in the room with my eyes wide open all day." Lin Zong smiled. "How was your business trip? It seems that you are in a good mood."
How was the business trip? Of course it was wonderful, perfect, and he was in a very good mood. In the future, if there were more such business trips, he would be willing to pay for them without any compensation.
"It's okay. I just went along for fun. There's no real work to do." Lin Yao laughed for a while, then felt that something was wrong with his brother today. "Are you okay? How come you have the leisure to come home and stare at the ceiling all day?"
"I'm heartbroken. I'm going home to eat some of my mom's cooking to regain my sanity." Lin Zong said casually.
"Eating my mother's food doesn't mean I'm not in my right mind..." Lin Yao added, then realized he had missed the point. He looked up at Lin Zong and asked, "Are you heartbroken?"
"Yeah." Lin Zong nodded.
"When did you start dating?" Lin Yao was quite surprised. Lin Zong broke up with his last girlfriend a year and a half ago, and he has been single since then. How come he is heartbroken now
"It was just a casual romance, not to the point of being infatuated, but it's over," Lin Zong smiled, leaning against the door frame and looking at him, "Why do I feel like you're traveling instead of going on a business trip? You look very... Who is the man who just brought you back?"
Lin Zong went off topic three times in this short sentence. Lin Yao was stunned for a long time and didn't know what he wanted to say. But the last question made him a little nervous, so he chose this answer: "The director who is on a business trip with us."
"I saw his car parked there for a long time but no one got out," Lin Zong glanced at him, "I thought it was some girl who sent you back."
"You..." Lin Yao broke out in a cold sweat. The window of Lin Zong's room was just across from the front of the car. If the lights were on, he could see the situation in the car clearly. Lin Yao felt that he must have been out of his mind to make such a request to Guan Ze at the door of his own house. "Are you my biological brother? Can't you think normally?"
"How can that be accurate? And the car you've always dreamed of is the Grand Cherokee," Lin Zong smiled and flicked his forehead with his hand, "Hurry up and take a shower and go to bed."
"Is your broken heart true or false?" Lin Yao turned around and walked two steps towards his room before stopping. In fact, Lin Zong was not the kind of person who would stay at home all day after a breakup. That should be him.
"Really? But I don't stay at home for this all day. I have a lot of things to think about. Who has time to think about these things?" Lin Zong waved at him, went back to the house and closed the door again.
Lin Yao stood under the shower and poured water on his head for nearly five minutes before he turned off the water and breathed a long sigh of relief. He felt so lucky that he hadn't been caught as a thief.
He stared at the mirror for a while, then pointed at himself in the mirror and said, "You are just an idiot."
After saying that, he filed his teeth again and looked at the mirror fiercely: "Who are you calling stupid?"
After struggling for a while, he turned on the water and took his time to finish the bath.
When he returned to the house while wiping his head, he saw a text message on his mobile phone. He picked it up and took a look. It was from Guan Ze.
Are you okay
He smiled and replied: It's okay, what could happen? It's just that my brother is at home. If the lights are on, he can see everything. I was scared to death.
Don’t be stupid next time. I was just scared.
Lin Yao fell on the bed and laughed at his phone, wanting to say, "How could you be scared if you don't act stupid with me?" But after thinking about it, he replied to Guan Ze: What if my mom really sees it
What else can I do? I have to get out of the car and explain. If I can’t explain clearly, I’ll get beaten.
Lin Yao stared at Guan Ze's text message for a while, then called Guan Ze: "Aren't you going to run away?"
"What?" Guan Ze was stunned by his question.
"If my mom saw you, wouldn't you run away?"
"Run away, my ass," Guan Ze laughed. "How can you run away? With your mother's personality, if I want to run, she will probably lie down in front of my car. I might as well say that I was drunk and acted like a hooligan and I won't dare to do it next time."
"If you say you're a hooligan, then all the blame will fall on you." Lin Yao sniffed and suddenly felt a little touched.
"What else can I do? Should I blame you?" Guan Ze stretched lazily. "Stop thinking about it and go to sleep."
"Why don't you put the blame on me? I'm the one pursuing you in the first place." Lin Yao felt that if this was really the case, he couldn't let Guan Ze bear it alone, it would be so unfair.
Guan Ze was silent for a while before speaking: "I am alone, and you are a family, do you understand? Go to sleep, good night, little friend."
Before Lin Yao could say anything else, Guan Ze hung up the phone.
Lin Yao lay on the bed holding his phone for a long time before closing his eyes.
He understood what Guan Ze meant. That's right, he didn't dare let his family know about his affairs because he was afraid of making his parents sad. His mother had been imagining what her future daughter-in-law would look like since he was in junior high school. He didn't dare to imagine how his parents would react after knowing this fact.
Pondering these things in a daze, Lin Yao realized for the first time that having a good relationship was not as easy as he had imagined.
Not wanting to think about it anymore, Lin Yao turned over, but then he thought of Guan Ze’s sister. What was her name? Yes, Ning Juan.
Guan Ze's attitude was quite obvious and straightforward, and Lin Yao felt that this was the attitude of a mature man. But he still felt awkward, or to be more precise, jealous, for no other reason, but simply because Ning Juan and Guan Ze had been like family for more than a decade.
Very important sister.
"Ah..." Lin Yao kicked his legs twice on the bed, "I'm so annoyed!"
The next day was the weekend, and everyone in the company was filled with a good atmosphere as if they finally saw hope.
Lin Yao did not meet Guan Ze on the road. After arriving at the company parking lot, he took a detour around the parking lot and saw Guan Ze's Cherokee. Then he squeezed his own small Xiali next to the Cherokee before another car.
When they returned to the office, Jiang Yifei threw him an orange: "How was your business trip?"
"It feels great." Lin Yao held the orange and peeled it with a smile on his face.
"…Are you on a business trip?" Jiang Yifei looked at him, suddenly put his arms around his neck, and whispered in his ear, "Tell me quickly, did you take advantage of this business trip to pick up that girl in the marketing department?"
"Get lost," Lin Yao put a slice of orange in his mouth and continued to smile, "Do you think everyone is like you and takes it as their duty to pick up girls from the marketing department?"
"Dishonest and boring." Jiang Yifei clicked his tongue and returned to his seat.
Lin Yao also sat down at the table. He was quite depressed last night, but after waking up from a good sleep, he felt that he was full of the strength of an ostrich again. Never mind, he could deal with the future later.
He didn't leave his computer all morning, busy with the toy advertisement. It was only around noon that he leaned back in his chair and stretched his neck.
When he saw Friday on the calendar next to him, he couldn't help but feel happy again. Tomorrow was the weekend and the amusement park was waiting for him tomorrow.
He held his chin with one hand, thinking about how to play tomorrow, and with the other hand he casually drew three Q-version figures on the computer.
The older one was wearing a shirt and had a serious look on his face. He was Guan Ze. The younger one was wearing a T-shirt and had a silly smile on his face. He was himself. Then there was a tiny guy. He was Lu Teng.
After finishing the drawing, he grinned at the screen for a long time, thinking it was quite funny, and added a few words next to it - I haven't been to the amusement park for a long time.
I opened the email again and planned to send the painting to Guan Ze's email address.
"Lin Yao," Jiang Yifei suddenly leaned over with his legs on the chair and slapped him on the back, "Go have some coffee."
Lin Yao was startled and quickly clicked send, closing the email page: "Don't be so scared, I'm just a bit timid, if I get scared, I won't be able to mend it."
There was no one else in the tea room, and Jiang Yifei insisted on making oatmeal with coffee. Lin Yao leaned against the door and watched him do it. He was enjoying it when his cell phone rang. He took it out and took a look at it, then he was stunned.
Guan Ze actually called his cell phone during working hours
"Hello?" Lin Yao answered the phone and stepped back, afraid that Jiang Yifei would hear it.
"Did you sleep last night?" Guan Ze asked him.
Lin Yao was confused by this. He hesitated for a moment before answering, "Yes, he is asleep. He smells pretty good. Maybe he is even drooling."
"Really?" Guan Ze sighed, "Is that painting for me to see?"
"Yeah," Lin Yao didn't expect Guan Ze to see the painting so soon. He squinted his eyes with joy and nodded at the door frame. "I drew it. Is it fun?"
"That's cute," Guan Ze smiled, "but I want to interview you. What made you send your painting to the public mailbox of the marketing department?"