Wang Yincheng and Liu Heng did not speak in the living room. They entered the study, closed the door, and sat on the sofa together.
Water was boiling on the tea table, Liu Heng cooked a pot of green tea, and Wang Yincheng sat on the sofa wearing pajamas and slippers, with water dripping from his hair.
Liu Heng poured a cup of tea and placed it in front of Wang Yincheng. Wang Yincheng said thank you.
Liu Heng suddenly felt a little nervous. He didn't know where the source of the nervousness came from. Was it because he was about to get close to the truth? Or is it because Wang Yincheng is too frank and straightforward
Wang Yincheng had just finished taking a shower, and his cheeks were still a little flushed. He lowered his eyes and stared at the cup of green tea in front of him, with a natural expression, as if what he was going to talk about later was someone else's business.
Liu Heng looked sideways at him and felt that he had never understood what kind of person Wang Yincheng was. Businessmen like to attack people's minds and always try to figure out a person's psychology from other people's eyes, demeanor, actions, words, but Wang Yincheng seemed to do what he said and do. They are all light. Only when looking at the bean paste, there will be obvious emotions in the eyes, and the expression will be much more vivid.
Wang Yincheng's cell phone was on the coffee table. It suddenly flashed and vibrated twice. He picked it up and took a look and found that it was an unfamiliar number.
He didn't open the text message and put the phone back on the coffee table with the screen facing down.
Wang Yincheng looked up at Liu Heng and said, "Before talking about the past, can I ask you a question?"
Liu Heng nodded: "You say."
"What's your relationship with Zhou Yian?" Wang Yincheng looked directly at Liu Heng, his eyes motionless.
Liu Heng looked back at him, his eyes did not move, but there seemed to be a rope in his heart. He knew why Wang Yincheng asked this question, as if he always wanted to dig out more of Wang Yincheng's past after knowing about it. .
"I met him when we were studying abroad." Liu Heng didn't lie, he only told the truth.
Wang Yincheng looked at him and asked directly: "Ordinary friends?"
Liu Heng nodded, his face still as usual: "Yes, ordinary friends!"
Wang Yincheng nodded, "Okay, no more questions."
As soon as Wang Yincheng said this, Liu Heng immediately breathed a sigh of relief. When Wang Yincheng looked at him just now, he could clearly feel that his palms were sweating. He was so nervous that he had to lie and pretend to be calm at the same time. Wang Yincheng didn't see any clues about him.
Liu Heng could hardly remember the last time he was so nervous.
Wang Yincheng leaned back in his chair, "What do you want to know?"
Liu Heng looked at him and breathed a sigh of relief. His face was calm and composed, and he said quietly: "Everything."
Wang Yincheng nodded and said frankly: "Okay, let's start with Zhou Yi'an going abroad."
Liu Heng was confused. Before he could think of this sentence, he blurted out: "Before." After a pause, his mind turned around and he realized that he had overstepped.
Wang Yincheng didn't pay much attention: "Okay."
"Zhou Yian and I have been together since we were in college. I majored in journalism and he majored in biopharmaceuticals. It may be because our family backgrounds are very similar. It was natural for us to get together since we met. Because we were afraid of inconvenience, we just We all moved out of the dormitory and lived together. When I was a sophomore, Zhou Yi'an was a senior. His grades had always been very good. In the first semester of his senior year, he applied for a place to study abroad, and it was fully funded. However, He went abroad."
Zhou Yian applied for a place to study abroad, all at public expense. That winter, Wang Yincheng stood on the large playground in front of the school administration building and said goodbye to Zhou Yian. There were no sweet words or emotional promises of "wait for me and I will wait for you."
I don’t know how much snow had fallen that winter, and the playground walkway and the teaching building were completely white. Zhou Yi’an stood alone in front of Wang Yincheng and said goodbye to Wang Yincheng with all his belongings, carrying only a few salutes. His eyes were a little nostalgic, but even more so. Most of them are expectations for a new life and full of great ambitions.
Wang Yincheng understood, holding a few books in his hand, and was about to go to the second class in the morning. He looked at Zhou Yian and said goodbye to him.
The conversation between the two was simple and clear, and they didn't deliberately say anything to bring an end to their relationship, but Wang Yincheng knew that that was almost it, but no one said they broke up.
After Zhou Yian left, Wang Yincheng stood on the playground with a book in his hand for twenty minutes. His legs were numb and he was walking towards the teaching building when the bell was about to ring. His eyes were a little red.
Zhou Yian wanted to start a new life to realize his ideal revenge. When he turned around and left, he didn't miss Wang Yincheng at all, and he didn't even look back at Wang Yincheng. He walked away in a cool and unrestrained way, with a self-satisfied figure behind him.
However, Wang Yincheng's life has not changed at all. It is still the same place in the original circle. There is no new ambition or new ideal. It is just that there is one less person in his life.
It's hard to say who liked whom more in that relationship and in the past. People in the circle who knew about their relationship said that Zhou Yian liked them more, while others said that Wang Yincheng liked them more. Only Lao Liu cursed coldly - Damn it, does this make sense? It’s not just walking away, it’s just spreading out.
After Zhou Yi'an left, Wang Yincheng continued to live as usual, but he still lived in the house they originally rented and did not move out. Li Juan persuaded him several times, "Are you reluctant to let go of Chengzi?" That scumbag left for the sake of his future. Is it interesting for you to stick around
Wang Yincheng looked at her and said, "I'm not guarding. I'm just used to it and don't want to move or am too lazy to move."
Zhou Yi'an left. Although he didn't break up, he never took the initiative to contact Wang Yincheng after going abroad. He didn't have a QQ mobile phone. Wang Yincheng waited for three days, and the remaining expectations in his heart were shattered. Finally, he knew that it was completely It's over.
He packed up all the messy things left by Zhou Yian in the house and threw them out, leaving nothing behind. Then he went to class every day to study for the final exam, and his life remained the same. He has always been a cold-faced person, and he is still the same now, almost no different from before.
Wang Yincheng originally thought that he would finish college peacefully, and maybe meet the right person later, fall in love and live together or break up, but at least he was still trying to move forward in life.
But the quiet life he originally expected was suddenly disrupted.
That person is Zhou Yian's adoptive father, Zhou Tian.
Wang Yincheng knew before that Zhou Yian had an adoptive father.
Zhou Yian was an orphan, and was later adopted by Zhou Tian's family. The Zhou family originally did a small business, and their days were prosperous. Zhou Tian liked to play cards and drink. However, Zhou Yian's adoptive mother was still alive at the time, and Zhou Tian was afraid of his wife, so there were still A convergence. However, after the death of Zhou Yian's adoptive mother, the Zhou family almost plummeted.
Zhou Tian lost a lot of money in business, and he also liked gambling and drinking. He owed a lot of debt, and his relatives shunned him. Zhou Yian's originally passable life completely changed.
Zhou Tian had a bad temper originally. After he lost his beloved wife due to debt and compensation, he became even more irritable and beat and scolded Zhou Yi'an every day. The relationship between father and son gradually broke down. After Zhou Yi'an was admitted to college, he stopped going home. He went to school and worked to support himself until he finally went abroad.
Zhou Tian had almost forgotten that he had an adopted son. He only remembered Zhou Yian when he owed a huge amount of loan sharks due to gambling and was about to be killed.
No one knows how he knew the existence of Wang Yincheng and how he found him. In short, after Zhou Yi'an went abroad and couldn't find his son in Zhoutian, he pestered Wang Yincheng.
Wang Yincheng's life was completely disrupted. Zhou Tian initially pestered him and begged for Zhou Yian's contact information. Wang Yincheng told him that he did not have it and that the two of them had broken up.
Zhou Tian didn't believe it, Wang Yincheng deliberately didn't tell him when he bit him to death.
Later, for some reason, his attitude became harder and harder. He followed Wang Yincheng every day and even blocked people. He also made trouble in the school and revealed his relationship with Zhou Yian to the school teacher. During that time, Wang Yincheng's life could be said to be chaotic. .
There was an uproar in the school. Wang Yincheng was criticized every time he went to class or the library. His teachers, deans, deans, and deans invited him to tea one after another to talk about personal style issues, and even made his sexual orientation obvious. Talk face to face.
Wang Yincheng's life was in a mess during that period, and he had several mental breakdowns. Friends in the circle did everything they could to help him. They helped him negotiate with the school, helped him smoothen the relationship with the teachers, and even helped him get a single dormitory for graduate students in the school for him to live in. In the end, Wang Yincheng was not allowed to live in. The punishment on his back did not even allow him to be persuaded to quit in the end.
Many people in the circle knew that Zhou Tian was pestering Wang Yincheng, but no one contacted Zhou Yi'an. Since going abroad, Zhou Yian seemed to have cut off all contact and communication with the country, and no one knew how he communicated abroad. Wang Yincheng finally couldn't bear it anymore and looked for Zhou Yian, but there was nothing he could do.
Zhou Tian didn't appear again for a while, and Wang Yincheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The school was not on holiday in mid-June, but their majors ended early, and they had nothing to do after taking the last exam. Wang Yincheng packed his things and went back to his hometown. He found a summer part-time job in his hometown. He worked as a salesperson in a coffee shop during the day and at night. Give tutoring lessons to a boy who is about to enter the third grade of junior high school.
He thought that Zhou Tian's matter was finally over and his life had returned to normal. Little did he know that the juice and coffee he drank every day in the coffee shop had been tampered with and a certain amount of hormone drugs had been added to it, and his body's hormone levels were slowing down. Change slowly.
In fact, Wang Yincheng felt that something was not right at first. He had no morning erection for a week in a row, and he had no desire. But no matter how deeply he thought about it at that time, he could not imagine that his drink had been tampered with. I just thought it was because I was too tired from working. I had a part-time job during the day and had to review homework for students at night.
Until one night, on his way back from teaching his students, he was suddenly knocked unconscious.
Wang Yincheng slept for a whole day and night. When he woke up, it was already night. His mouth was dry and his stomach was very hungry. When he woke up in the small room he rented, he found that he was covered in cold sweat while lying on his bed. .
He suddenly remembered Zhou Tian and knew that things were not that simple. He resigned from the coffee shop, greeted the parents of the substitute students, settled the money, quickly quit the rent and ran away to find Lao Liu. He felt that he couldn't stay alone. Zhou Tian hadn't left yet and was still following him.
Lao Liu was still in school at the time, and Wang Yincheng found him. The two of them lived in Lao Liu's dormitory. Lao Liu knew that Zhou Tian was a pervert, and told Wang Yincheng not to go out and run around. If he was not there, he would go down and chat with the security guard.
There was nothing much to do in the second half of the summer vacation. Wang Yincheng didn't go out and wander around. He read novels every day when he was bored, and sometimes wrote something by himself for fun. When school was about to start, he finally felt that something was obviously wrong with his body.
He began to be unable to eat and could only drink water. He also liked to eat sour and spicy foods. He vomited severely when brushing his teeth in the morning. He had not done anything all day, but he always lay down without energy. Sometimes he would sleep all day long. Even after sleeping at night, I was still able to sleep.
Lao Liu was puzzled and even joked with Wang Yincheng, saying that your symptoms are really similar to those of other women's pregnancy... who knew it was a prophecy.
After school started, Wang Yincheng moved back to his single dormitory and began a normal life of attending classes and reading. However, he vomited more and more often, his appetite dropped sharply, and he still had no energy.
The classmates in the class advised him to find time to go to the hospital for a checkup. It might be gastritis or something. Wang Yincheng thought it made sense. It might be because he had eaten something bad. When he had no classes on Wednesday afternoon, he took the bus to the municipal hospital, but was robbed on the way. This time, no one knocked him unconscious. He covered his mouth directly at the entrance of the hospital and dragged him into a private car. Within a few seconds, there was almost no one around. noticed.
Wang Yincheng was imprisoned, and Zhou Tian finally appeared again. Different from the previous one, Zhou Tian was cleanly dressed, and there was no look of depression or decline in his face.
He looked at Wang Yincheng through the iron gate and smiled obscenely: "Just take good care of the baby. If you are obedient and the baby is born, I can give you some money."
Wang Yincheng looked at him coldly, holding his stomach, and finally understood why his body had been so abnormal in the past half month.
Zhou Tian asked Wang Yincheng to be obedient. Can Wang Yincheng really be obedient? A grown man was involved in surrogacy without knowing it. That man was also the adoptive father of his ex-boyfriend. Not to mention that he and Zhou Yian had broken up. Even if he and Zhou Yian had not broken up, it was absolutely impossible for him. promise! !
His life was suddenly disrupted. It wasn't just a disruption, it was a complete mess! !
Wang Yincheng looked at Zhou Tian with a sneer, never letting himself show fear or panic, but he was indeed very timid in his heart. Zhou Tian had thought carefully. There were no extra things in the room, only a soft mattress and quilt. The corners of the walls were covered with soft foam, and the balcony was sealed. Even if he wanted to make a death blow, he seemed to have no chance.
He walked to the door, looked at Zhou Tian through the iron bars, and said coldly: "You can try to lock me up!!" Wang Yincheng's eyes were cold, not as simple as cold. He looked at Zhou Tian with a look in his eyes. Determined, Zhou Tian was stunned for a while. He had never seen a person with such a tough character. Even after being locked up, he didn't show any fear or panic, let alone begging or anything.
Zhou Tian knew that Wang Yincheng was difficult to deal with, so he didn't say anything more, closed the door and locked Wang Yincheng in the room alone.
Wang Yincheng suddenly disappeared that day, and someone went through the formalities for suspension of school the next day. Zhou Tian was not ruthless enough. He thought that since Wang Yincheng had helped him pay off his debt through surrogacy, he shouldn't have done anything, so he helped Wang Yincheng retain his student status. .
The classmates and friends around Wang Yincheng were all confused. Li Juan cried several times. A woman's intuition felt that the matter was definitely not that simple, and it must have something to do with that Zhou Tian.
However, they were all students and had no choice. The news coming out from the school was that Wang Yincheng was ill and had to temporarily suspend school for a year.
In order to pay off the huge debt, Zhou Tian colluded with a person inside the surrogacy agency. The man helped him think of all the ways, and Zhou Tian promised to share the man's money afterwards. That man was very capable and had a way around Wang Yincheng's school. After settling things in the school, he and Zhou Tian waited for Wang Yincheng to make money after giving birth to the child.
But the man did two things wrong at that time. One was to tell a woman in the agency about Wang Yincheng after getting drunk, and that woman was Rose; the other was to pretend to negotiate terms and prices with Lu Hengda. The man was very Greedy, not only asking for money, but also asking Lu Hengda for real estate and a car behind Zhou Tian and the surrogacy agency's back.
The price negotiated between the agency and Lu Hengda was 5.5 million. In addition to the 3 million paid by Zhou Tian to repay the debt, and the 1.5 million taken by the agency, the man and Zhou Tian could each share 500,000. It had already been negotiated, and Lu Hengda Hengda had also given him a deposit of hundreds of thousands, but the man bypassed the agency and went to Lu Hengda privately to ask for other things, even in a threatening manner.
Lu Hengda smiled so hard that he narrowed his eyes and twisted his waist, "Oh, that's it. Okay, I will call your agency to tell you that I breached the contract. I am willing to pay a million yuan in liquidated damages, and I don't want the child." I wonder if your organization will give you a commission, what do you think?"
The man felt stupid and angry at the time, but he pretended not to show any emotion and went back with a pretentious attitude. He felt that since Lu Hengda had spent more than one million and was probably bluffing him just now, there was no way he would not want a child.
After Lu Hengda returned, he made a phone call to the agency. He didn't say anything about the man's threat to him, and said directly: "Breach of contract!" Lose money! I don’t want the child anymore! Just keep it and support yourselves! I will give you money to buy diapers!
The girl who answered the phone was dumbfounded. What they were doing was a high-risk sideline business. They had always made money by relying on reputation and service. This was the first time they had said so directly that they would pay for breach of contract and not have children!
The girl quickly called the man in charge of Wang Yincheng's case, but was silenced by Rose.
Rose is a very smart woman who has long experience in this industry. She is very skillful and decisive in doing things. She used some tricks to kick the man out of Wang Yincheng's case, and then took the case directly into her own hands. He also made an appointment with Lu Hengda once and treated him to an afternoon tea, which made Lu Hengda willingly shell out another 1.5 million.
Wang Yincheng was quietly locked up in the house for three months. During these three months, he lived an honest life with food and water. Although he didn't talk to Zhou Tian, he lived an orderly life. Sometimes he even asked Zhou Tian. Tian took a radio to listen to, and occasionally read some novels.
In mid-December, Wang Yincheng's belly was already not small, and it had been five months. But Zhou Tian never imagined that just as the man he was working with was kicked out, Wang Yincheng suddenly went on a hunger strike and refused to drink water.
Zhou Tian was frightened to death. Wang Yincheng's belly was already so big. He was expecting to give birth in a few more months, but he went on a hunger strike.
Wang Yincheng didn't speak or make any noise, he just lay there quietly.
Zhou Tian had no choice but to call the man. The man knew that he could no longer get any profit, so he said sarcastically: "Then let him out, open the window, and tell him that as long as he dares to jump, he will Let him go. See if he dares. If not, just stay there!" After that, he hung up the phone.
After Zhou Tian hung up the phone, he thought about it, and with a cruel heart, he repeated the man's words to Wang Yincheng. He also opened the floor-to-ceiling window of the balcony and stood aside to watch him.
It was midnight at that time. Wang Yincheng had not eaten or drank for two days, and walked out of the iron gate with a cold face. He walked to the window sill, glanced at Zhou Tian, raised his lips and smiled sarcastically, and slowly sat on the window sill while listening. .
Zhou Tian was shocked, resisting the urge to rush forward and pull him away, and pretended to say: "Jump! If you have the ability, just jump! If you jump, I will let you go!"
Wang Yincheng turned his head to look at Zhou Tian, his eyes were cold, his lips curled up in mockery, his face was pale as hell, but his expression was arrogant. Immediately afterwards, he retracted his other leg, stretched his waist with his wrist, and jumped off the balcony on the second floor.
Zhou Tian was stunned. He had never seen anyone so unafraid of death. If Wang Yincheng jumped like this, not only would the child not be saved, but his life would probably be lost!
He shouted and rushed over in shock and horror, remembering in his mind what Wang Yincheng said to him at the beginning - Just lock me up and try! !
He lay on the balcony with a layer of cold sweat on his back, not daring to look down. He finally understood why Wang Yincheng was so honest in carrying the child during this period - he had a pregnant belly, so that he could see hope, and finally strangled the hope to death with his own hands. .
Wang Yincheng is really ruthless, giving people hope that novices can break him, even if he loses two lives in the end!
But Wang Yincheng's life is really tough, and his child's life is even tougher. No one has anything to worry about! !
When Wang Yincheng woke up, Zhou Tian was no longer there. He was in a strange suite. Rose appeared at that time.
The woman wears a red skirt and black shirt, has chestnut curly hair, and has a sweet appearance. She looks like an ordinary college student.
Wang Yincheng is still very glad that he met Rose at that time, otherwise the rest of his life would have been ruined.
"That's almost it. Rose later persuaded me to give birth to the child and helped me settle Zhou Tian. I never even saw Zhou Tian or that man again." Wang Yincheng's voice sounded loud and clear in the quiet study room. It was extremely light, and Liu Heng listened very attentively. When Wang Yincheng stopped, he was almost still immersed in it.
It was as if all those scenes were restored, and he stood watching like a bystander, and the scenes kept changing.
First, Wang Yincheng and Liu Heng stood face to face on the snowy lawn to say goodbye, then Wang Yincheng sat alone in the house they rented to pack their things, then Zhou Tian appeared, and finally Wang Yincheng sat astride the balcony and turned his head. He turned sideways and smiled coldly at Zhou Tian, then jumped down...
Liu Heng seemed to be completely immersed in it, watching Wang Yincheng's past, feeling Wang Yincheng's emotions, and even seeing every subtle expression on Wang Yincheng's face. His helplessness could not be tolerated until the end.
After Wang Yincheng finished speaking, it took several minutes for Liu Heng to raise his eyes and take a deep breath, as if he had just emerged from a dream.
The two were silent, and Wang Yincheng felt that he had said everything he needed to say.
Liu Heng looked at him with more complicated emotions: "Did Zhou Yian find out later?"
Wang Yincheng thought for a while and said calmly: "I probably don't know. I'm not very clear."
Liu Heng's eyes flashed with distress, "Do you hate him?"
Wang Yincheng: "Actually, this matter has nothing to do with him, but he did something wrong at the time."
"What?"
"I took a break from school for half a year, and only two of my friends knew about the surrogacy. After I returned to school, the school asked for evaluation by the department. There should have been no problem, but Zhou Yian accepted an interview with a foreign media when he was abroad. The content of the interview was Regarding the issue of legalizing same-sex marriage, Zhou Yi'an said a few words, which ended up in the newspaper. I don't know who got it on the school BBS. In fact, everyone in the circle knew that I moved out of the dormitory with him and lived together. But there was still a big fuss, and coupled with Zhou Tian’s previous history of causing trouble in the school, the dean of the department couldn’t stand it anymore, so he fired me.”
"..." Liu Heng looked at Wang Yincheng, and it was hard to imagine how Wang Yincheng survived for more than half a year when he was just in his early twenties.
Zhou Yian worked hard for his future and cut off all contact without even mentioning the breakup; Zhou Tian forced Wang Yincheng to be a surrogate in order to pay off the debt and was imprisoned for several months; after the child was born, he thought he could resume his original life, but he was given a slap on the head and deprived him of schooling. Even the right to stand up.
Liu Heng's throat was blocked and his heart trembled. He suddenly thought, if he hadn't come out as gay and didn't want children, would Wang Yincheng have been able to get rid of his bad luck? But he also thought, if it hadn't been his surrogacy case, would Wang Yincheng have given birth to someone else's child again
Liu Heng's heart was full of mixed feelings. It boiled down to the fact that he couldn't bear to leave Wang Yincheng. He looked at Wang Yincheng with a stern look on his face, but in his heart he wanted to take Wang Yincheng into his arms and hug him.
He clenched his fists secretly and resisted the urge. He knew that if he did this now, it would only make Wang Yincheng stay away from him in the future. There was a thick wall between the two of them. Apart from bean paste, they might not have anything. Half a connection.
Wang Yincheng took a sip of green tea, the fragrance echoed between his lips and teeth, and swallowed the last words he wanted to say but did not say.
In fact, the interview in which Zhou Yian's photo was posted on the school BBS ended up causing such a fuss that Wang Yin Chengdu felt that it was really shameless. It was Zhou Yian's reply to a reporter who was interviewing on the street. .
"Did you have a male lover when you were in school in China?"
"Oh, no, no, but I once had a boyfriend that I dated for more than a year, but I think it was just the hormonal attraction between men, and he shouldn't be considered my lover."
The doors and windows of the study were closed. Liu Heng felt anxious and stuffy, so he got up and opened the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Wang Yincheng lowered his eyes and looked at the mobile phone on the coffee table. He picked it up and saw several text messages and missed calls on the screen. He flipped to his inbox and saw several text messages from unfamiliar numbers—
Article 1:
[Yin Cheng, I know that nothing you say can make up for the mistakes you made back then, and repentance can't make you change your mind. I already know that you were a surrogate for Liu Heng back then, but you really can't get too close to Liu Heng. He is a businessman, and pros and cons are his first consideration. You can't get too close to him for the sake of the child. .]Second post ten minutes later:
[Yin Cheng, Zhou Tian is dead. I don’t know how to compensate you. I just want to ask you to give me a chance to make amends. Can you?]The third article a few minutes later:
[Yin Cheng, please don’t answer my call? Give me a chance, okay?]
[You are with Liu Heng, right?]
[Yin Cheng, you can’t be with him, he is a businessman who tells lies!]
[Yin Cheng, let me tell you the truth. Liu Heng and I have been in a relationship for four years, and we had not broken up yet when we returned to China! We just broke up not long ago!]@
Liu Heng opened the floor-to-ceiling window and stood there for half a minute, exhaling a few breaths. Now he knew everything. Although he didn't think about what he should do, at least he knew everything about Wang Yincheng's past.
He is not good at fighting unprepared battles, so now that he has learned everything from Wang Yincheng, he feels that he at least has some confidence.
He turned around and walked to the sofa. He saw Wang Yincheng looking at his phone with his head down, "Go up, Dou Sha should be asleep by now."
Wang Yincheng finished flipping through the last text message, exited the inbox, stood up and looked back at Liu Heng.