He Cheng only felt that his passing years were unfavorable.
The originally scheduled meeting with the client was unilaterally canceled, but when he stopped by the side of the road to answer the phone, he saw Xu Ran walking out of the coffee shop with a man intimately. On the phone was the customer's insincere apology, but he just watched the two leave in the car and didn't even listen to the reason the other party made up.
So Xu Ran lives near here
After a brief moment of stupefaction, anger filled his heart, rushing straight from his depressed chest to his head.
Didn't you say you want to take a break? Why did you hook up with another man as soon as you got home!
That handsome man has a crush on Xu Ran, which can be felt just from the way he looks at Xu Ran. He Cheng didn't know how he could see the tenderness in the man's eyes through the filmed car window, but he just felt his heart was torn apart by something, and he fell into the abyss fiercely.
Just like before, he didn't like to see Xu Ran getting too close to other men. I don't like it at all.
First, there was that young man in Xu Ran's work unit, what was his name? He Cheng couldn't even remember the other person's name, but he clearly remembered the gesture of that person holding Xu Ran's hand in the photo.
The second one is that Liu Ming, He Cheng can't figure it out, he's just an old classmate, why should he devote himself to Xu Ran
The third one is this man.
Looking like an elite, He Cheng snorted coldly, he knew how many scumbags dressed up like dogs and went out to cause trouble, Mai Xing was like this. Although this man looks like a gentleman and polite on the outside, who knows if he is the same guy as Mai Xing on the inside.
Sitting in the car, He Cheng used the worst possibility to assume that man, the more he thought about the scene just now, the clearer he was. He Cheng clearly saw that Xu Ran was smiling at that man.
In the past, Xu Ran would smile at everyone, which was a kind of defense against alienation. On the bed he would laugh when he was scared, and reluctantly curled up the corners of his mouth, trying not to let He Cheng lose his temper. He Cheng knew this habit of his, so he intensified it, just to see when he would be unable to hold on and collapse.
Until the end, he didn't test Xu Ran's bottom line.
But now, Xu Ran's smile has changed.
It became brighter, and the corners of the eyes were bent with hazy light, looking really happy. This made He Cheng very unhappy.
Didn't you keep saying you loved me before? Why do you give me a completely different smile from others!
Only the smile she gave him was bitter, and there was no light in her eyes. He Cheng could tell the difference.
He slammed on the steering wheel as if venting his anger, and the car horn sounded sharply, startling the passers-by.
After meeting the Lin family's mother and son, Xu's mother has been very happy. Xu Ran knew what she was thinking, and said dumbfoundedly, "Mom, don't worry about it, okay?"
"What is tossing?" Mother Xu said dissatisfiedly, "How many friends, you can't just stay in the room by yourself for the rest of your life."
Xu Ran shook his head, that's not what he wanted to say.
The mother may just think that the two children like men, and there may be common topics, but Xu Ran can smell the breath of a predator from Lin Shen. The two of them had different attributes, Xu Ran thought helplessly that he could only be "bullied" in front of Lin Shen.
This is absolutely not something that can be said to her mother, and Xu Ran feels that she does not have any characteristics that can attract Lin Shen.
An almost crippled man, and foreign doctoral elites, it would be a big joke if the two of them could have anything.
From the very beginning, Xu Ran never had anything to happen between Xiao Xiang and Lin Shen. He just came out of a heart-piercing relationship, and he didn't have the strength to start another relationship.
It's a good thing to like others, but he doesn't know when he needs to slow down, it may be next year, it may be the next life.
But Lin Shen added Xu Ran's number from Xu's mother as if he had received an order, and he had to chat every few days.
Sometimes Xu Ran couldn't go out, so he went to Xu's house as a guest.
Xu Ran looked at this uninvited and leisurely man, and said helplessly, "My parents are at work, if you want to drink tea, you can boil water yourself. The kettle is on the shelf on the balcony."
What he said was angry, but Lin Shen really got up to burn it, and poured a glass for Xu Ran.
Xu Ran lost his temper by him, sighed and said, "What do you want to do?"
"I can't come to you if I have nothing to do?" Lin Shen said, "We are friends after all, and you are too cold."
"Have you no other friends here?"
Xu Ran came to him in a wheelchair, and said very seriously, "What the hell did my mother ask you to do, tell me, don't waste time like this."
Lin Shen looked at him amusedly, "What I said is true. It's all right, nothing."
Xu Ran was almost taken aback by his good-looking eyebrows, and quickly looked away, "I don't have much fun here."
Lin Shen took a sip of tea, "I think you are very funny."
"..."
Xu Ran was sure that this guy came here to find trouble.
Lin Shen was leisurely for a while, and when he saw that the person was really angry, he said, "I didn't lie to you, Auntie didn't ask me to do anything, I wanted to come here myself."
Xu Ran was puzzled.
"You see, we are the same kind. You must know that even in a foreign country, it is very difficult to meet someone of the same kind, especially after growing up, everyone has learned to disguise themselves."
Lin Shen suddenly leaned forward, stopped at an unembarrassing distance, looked into Xu Ran's eyes and said, "So, it's even more difficult to meet someone of the same kind who suits you."
Xu Ran moved the wheelchair back a certain distance, and said flatly, "It's not bad to be single."
Lin Shen laughed, and said for a while, "Yes."
Xu Ran didn't understand what he wanted to do more and more.
After the chat this time, I thought he would restrain himself, but I didn't expect Lin Shen to continue sending messages and chatting like a normal person, and the chats were all about work and life, and he never mentioned feelings.
What does it mean? Xu Ran really couldn't figure it out, Lin Shen got to the point where he was about to pierce the paper on the window, but he stopped and didn't continue at all, instead it aroused Xu Ran's curiosity.
Sometimes Xu Ran wonders if he is a little too stupid. This is the simplest tactic to tantalize people's appetites. Even the little girl won't be fooled, and he still has a lump in his heart as if he took it seriously.
Later, he gradually got used to Lin Shen's way of speaking.
It may be that after staying abroad for a long time, Lin Shen's expression will be very direct, but Xu Ran just ignores it and passes it by. Xu's mother hoped that they could play together, so Xu Ran followed her wish and went out with Lin Shen.
In fact, Lin Shen is not a bad person, he is very considerate, but sometimes Xu Ran can't keep up with him.
He had never gone shopping with He Cheng, but he and Lin Shen had visited all the shopping malls around their home.
"When I leave, I must buy a box of hot pot ingredients and take it with me," Lin Shen said. "My foreign roommate is so hungry that he wants to eat a full banquet every day."
"Where can there be this kind of hot pot in Man Han Quan Feast?"
"Yes, but I told him that this is the Manchu banquet in ancient times. This is what the emperor ate in the palace before. One hundred and eighty dishes were cooked in turn." Lin Shen threw a bag of pickled mustard into the car, " He believed it."
"..."
It was boring for the two big men to go shopping, and there was nothing to see in the park in winter, so they went to the coffee shop and sat around for a day.
Xu Ran draws pictures, and Lin Shen reads documents with the tablet. At this time, they seldom spoke, and occasionally raised their heads to look at each other, but Xu Ran looked away first.
It's a bit strange, Xu Ran thought. He had never sat opposite someone so calmly, took the paper cup from the other person, and watched him adjust the height of the table neatly. The scene he once dreamed of happened so naturally on another man.
Sometimes Xu Ran looked at Lin Shen's profile and thought, how good it would be if it was He Cheng instead.
Then I laughed again. He Cheng should have gone home, enjoying his favorite quiet afternoon, and maybe there is a well-behaved and beautiful man by his side.
The happiness of lovers is a spiral thread, intertwined with each other and stretching forward, if they break up, they will diverge separately. It will be a pity, but at least I have experienced it together, and I have no regrets.
But his and He Cheng's happiness are two parallel lines, one high and one low, without any intersection from beginning to end.
I don't know who He Cheng is entangled with now, and whose heart is moving for him.
Outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the coffee shop, the man who occasionally appeared in Xu Ran's mind was sitting in the black car.
The last time the client lived near here, he almost blew up the deal, but he insisted on asking He Cheng to pull it back. The partners are all old foxes, He Cheng, a novice under 30 years old, will naturally not be looked down upon by them.
He runs this road almost every day. As he runs, he will stop at the entrance of this coffee shop for a while, look at the tables, and leave if he doesn't find what he is looking for. Day after day, repeating mechanically.
Later, he finally saw Xu Ran and that man.
Xu Ran doesn't like coffee shops. He Cheng clearly remembered that he said that he prefers to stay at home.
The default at home is bed.
So when he saw Xu Ran talking to that man, he felt irritable, and wished he could rush in and scold him one time. But he held back. In the past, he was able to find out about the young man without hesitation, but now he is not qualified.
In fact, He Cheng didn't know why he had to wait. Sometimes when he saw Xu Ran, he had to wait until the two left before he drove away.
If he walked in front of them, He Cheng would hesitate, always feeling that something behind him would happen beyond his control. He tried to leave with just one look, but had to come back ten minutes later.
This behavior is a bit like a stalker, although only in this cafe. He Cheng didn't want to know where they would go and what they would do next, and abruptly cut off the idea of following in his mind.
They like to sit in the corner by the window, and Xu Ran sits inside, facing the oblique corner of the window. He Cheng's car was parked on the side of the road diagonally opposite.
He Cheng could clearly see his face, sometimes hidden behind the laptop, but always revealed.
His complexion has improved a lot, and his lips have regained their color. When he spoke, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he was smiling.
He Cheng looked at him quietly, longer and more focused than the past ten years combined.
If he doesn't look at it, he will panic.
It took a total of three weeks to deal with the client, and finally won the contract without any risk. He Cheng is still very satisfied. He was a little excited, and got out of the car at the entrance of the coffee shop, wanting to see what kind of shop would make Xu Ran willing to leave the house.
Before reaching the door, he saw the man holding the door to let Xu Ran come out.
They came early today.
He Cheng paused.
The man helped push the wheelchair with a smile on his lips. Xu Ran turned around and tried to say something to him, but He Cheng couldn't hear the sound of traffic at the intersection.
He watched two people walk past him. Across the car, he stood here, Xu Ran tilted his head to the other side. The man who pushed him occasionally said something and laughed heartily.
They reached the intersection, turned the corner, and disappeared on the other side of the road.
He Cheng stood there, his face ashen.
His car and his people are all here, less than three meters away, Xu Ran didn't even glance over.
It was as if he was just a passer-by, with no value in stopping for him.
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