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Xia Yu suppressed the discomfort in his heart and returned home.
The house was still quiet. The lights in the living room were still on, casting a goose-yellow light on the steps. No one knew that he had just slipped out of the house for a short while.
The light in his bedroom was on, but there was no one there. Xu Zhan was probably in the bathroom.
Xia Yu closed the door, leaned against it for a few seconds, and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.
He didn't know whether Lu Zhao had left or was still standing outside his house.
Xu Zhan came out of the bathroom after washing his face and saw Xia Yu sitting on the carpet by the floor-to-ceiling window with his knees hugged.
He was stunned, "You're back?"
"Um."
Xu Zhan heard that Xia Yu's voice was muffled. He walked over, bent down, and looked at Xia Yu's face. Xia Yu took off his coat and was only wearing a soft camel sweater.
"What's wrong?" Xu Zhan unconsciously used a coaxing tone, "You just went out in a hurry, why are you unhappy when you come back?"
Xia Yu still didn't want to talk.
He didn't know what to say, because even he couldn't explain why he was unhappy.
It's his birthday.
He should be happier than anyone else.
In the end, he could only slowly take out a slightly wilted rose from his pocket and show it to Xu Zhan.
"Someone just gave me a rose."
This rose was stuffed into the pocket twice, and no matter how carefully it was put, it still looked a little desolate, like a half-dead love.
But it was so beautifully red, and when placed in Xia Yuxue's snow-white hands, it was breathtakingly beautiful.
Xu Zhan didn't understand at first, but he reacted after a while.
"Who is it?" He smiled unconsciously, "Is it the person you've been dating? Did he come to see you just now?"
He thought that a lover who would come quietly in the middle of the night probably loved Xia Yu very much.
After a few seconds, Xia Yu nodded.
"Then why are you still unhappy?" Xu Zhan smiled, "Doesn't this show that he cares about you very much?"
He saw that Xia Yu was distracted.
A few months ago, Xia Yu told him that this was just a simple physical relationship, but looking at Xia Yu's expression now, it was clearly not the case.
Xia Yu's fingers pinched the soft, long hair on the carpet.
In the past few months, he has not told Xu Zhan who the person he is having a tryst with is.
Xu Zhan has always been very sensible. He won’t ask if he doesn’t say it.
As someone who spends every day with him, Xu Zhan has actually seen the kiss marks under his pajamas more times than his brother, but he always just smiled.
But at this moment, he suddenly wanted to tell Xu Zhan.
Xu Zhan knew all his secrets and had seen him at his lowest moments, but Xu Zhan was gentle and calm, like a lake where he could live as long as he wanted.
He whispered, "I'm not unhappy, I just don't know what to do. I've said since I was with him that I won't divorce him, I won't accept him, and we have no relationship except **. But he always does unnecessary things. He clearly knows that I'm with you today, that I want to adopt a child with you, and that I won't divorce him, but he still came to find me and waited for me outside the door for a long time."