Xu Zhan received a call from Xia Yu when the get out of class was over.
Xia Yu asked him if he was free to meet.
"What's up?" Xu Zhan glanced at his watch and thought about it. "I should be free. There's no meeting tomorrow."
"That's good," Xia Yu seemed to be driving and could hear the noisy sounds outside, "It's nothing, I just have something I want to discuss with you."
"Can't you talk on the phone?" Xu Zhan asked.
Xia Yu held the steering wheel and looked ahead. "Not really. I want to tell you in person."
Xu Zhan felt a little strange, but he didn't ask any more questions. "Okay," he glanced at his calendar, "Then let's do it tomorrow. I'll get out of school early."
The next evening, Xu Zhan rushed to Xia Yu after leaving school. On the way, he also received a call from Ruan Sen.
The day before yesterday, Ruan Sen suddenly said that he had something to do and would be away for a few days.
It's not that he didn't care about what Ruan Sen was going to do, but Ruan Sen didn't want to say, so he didn't ask any more questions.
"Are you back home again? Didn't you say you were going to meet some friends?" he whispered.
"That was originally the case, but when I was about to leave, my family detained me and asked me to stay for two days," Ruan Sen complained lazily, "My dad is so annoying, he's a feudal patriarch, he gives orders like an emperor, saying I'm not ambitious enough. My sister and brother are the same, they change partners like a horse and carriage, but they come to teach me not to mess around, how can they have the nerve to do that."
Xu Zhan wanted to laugh when he heard this. He really liked Ruan Sen complaining and acting like a spoiled child to him, just like a leopard that always showed off its wildness but lay down with its belly exposed.
"Then you'd better come back earlier." He said. Deep down, he didn't want Ruan Sen to stay at home for too long.
It's not that he wanted to monopolize Ruan Sen, but from Ruan Sen's words, he felt that Ruan Sen's family was too inhumane, otherwise Ruan Sen would not have moved out to live alone at such a young age.
Ruan Sen smiled and said, "Teacher Xu, do you miss me so much?"
He asked casually, his voice a little hoarse, as tempting as a little hook, very much like the voice of a woman after having sex.
Xu Zhan didn't know how to respond.
But after a moment, he still said "hmm" honestly.
He thought of the "surprise" he had secretly planned recently, and of Ruan Sen lying beside him, looking at him with a smile, and saying, "Teacher Xu, please take care of me for the rest of my life." His heart slowly warmed up again.
"In fact, I'm fine without you by my side," Xu Zhan said, "but why am I so uncomfortable with you now that you're gone?"
He seemed to be talking to himself.
But the person on the other end of the phone was stunned.
Ruan Sen was silent. He was standing in the airport terminal. Not far away, there were blond-haired and blue-eyed children running around. There was a sweet smell of coffee in the air.
He has actually returned to China, but he hasn't told Xu Zhan yet.
He never promised Xu Zhan anything.
This relationship was frivolous and casual from the beginning. It was agreed that they would just accompany each other for a few months and no one would be responsible.
He just wanted to find a place to rest temporarily during his journey.
But Xu Zhan is really gentle. Beneath his handsome and ascetic appearance, he is docile to the point of being almost pious.