When Gu Peilang opened his eyes, it was still pitch-dark night outside the window, the room was dimly lit, only the wall lamp on the bedside table was turned on to illuminate a small square of the world.
He blinked his eyes, and the dream stopped at the moment when the car accident happened. There was a harsh braking sound in his ears. He was tightly guarded in his arms, and his face was constantly dripping with warm liquid, sticky and viscous. , with a fishy sweet taste.
Something moved in his arms, and then a warm hand gently patted his back with tenderness and reassurance.
"I'm not afraid, I'm having a nightmare, I'm not afraid..." The inarticulate voice sounded indistinctly in his ears with hazy drowsiness, pulling Gu Peilang out of his nightmare.
Only then did Gu Peilang realize that there was a person lying in his arms.
Su Jinyu was wearing sky blue pure cotton pajamas, curled up slightly in his arms, put one hand on his chest, grabbed his clothes, and put the other hand on his back. Pat lightly.
The orange light hit him softly, illuminating his delicate profile. The long eyelashes cast a light shadow on the bottom of his eyes, the bridge of the nose is high, the tip of the nose is small, and the lips are round and plump...
Gu Peilang has never observed him so closely and carefully. Every part of the man's body is like a masterpiece carved by God, and he can always easily take away all his mind.
The memories before the consciousness dissipated rushed into his mind: he learned some truths about his parents' car accident at the dinner negotiated with his partner, and he couldn't help drinking more under the turmoil, and came back with a drunken madness.
It was Su Jinyu who pulled him out of the bathroom, helped him dry his hair and changed his clothes, then put him on the bed and coaxed him to sleep in a low voice with a gentle tone he had never heard before.
The person in his arms frowned with beautiful brows even in deep sleep, as if he had endless worries. Gu Peilang stared at him without blinking, those dark and deep eyes were bigger than those outside the window. The night was still dark, and no one knew what he was thinking.
The sleeping person seemed to be disturbed by his gaze. First, his brows furrowed deeper, then his long eyelashes began to tremble, and finally, he slowly opened his eyes.
The four eyes were facing each other, and the man's misty eyes still had the drowsiness that had not faded away.
"Pei Lang?" Su Jinyu opened his mouth, his voice dry and hoarse.
Gu Peilang looked away and hummed, Su Jinyu propped himself up and sat up, turning on the light in the room.
The bright light instantly illuminated every corner of the room. He tilted his head to look at the person on the bed, and saw the pale face and the sweat on his forehead.
With unstoppable distress in his eyes, Su Jinyu took the tissue on the bedside table and wiped it for others.
"Have you had a nightmare again?"
The movement on his forehead was extremely gentle, Gu Peilang closed his eyes, hiding the fragility of his eyes.
Su Jinyu didn't care when he saw that he didn't speak. He knew that the other party was in a bad mood, so he got up and poured a cup of hot water for him. He looked at the person on the bed and said softly, "Do you want to drink water? ?"
The man propped himself up against the head of the bed and took the water glass in his hand: "Thank you."
Su Jinyu bent the corners of her lips, her eyes sparkling. His eyes were a little red and swollen, Gu Peilang remembered how he was crying while hugging him before, and the tips of his fingers while holding the water glass trembled slightly.
"Pei Lang, are you hungry? Butler Zhang cooked the porridge, and I'll bring it to you, or do you want soup? Today's pork ribs soup is delicious, I… "
"I'm not hungry, you don't have to do this." Gu Peilang interrupted Su Jinyu's words before he finished speaking. He leaned on the head of the bed, looked down at the water glass in his hand, and his slightly dry voice was moistened by the water. He returned to a low and cold voice, "Thank you for taking care of me at night, I'm fine now, you can go back and rest."
Su Jinyu looked at his bloody face that had not recovered for a long time and the depression that covered his whole body, hesitating and did not move.
The man raised his eyes, and his dark eyes looked at him quietly.
Su Jinyu: "Can I stay?"
Gu Peilang: "..."
Seeing that he didn't speak, Su Jinyu thought that the other party disagreed, and hurriedly said, "I had a nightmare... The master bedroom is too big and I'm scared by myself... Pei Lang, can you just let me stay? Just tonight, if you don't want to. I slept with you, I could lay the floor..."
The man just stood beside the bed, frowning, looking at himself pitifully, with a request in his tone, which made Gu Peilang suspect that if he refused, the other party would cry directly in the next second.
"Come up." Gu Peilang put down the water glass and lay back again, with his back to Su Jinyu, not seeing the smile on his face after hearing his words.
Su Jinyu stepped forward quickly, then lifted the quilt and carefully lay down beside the man.
There was a soft click, and the room returned to darkness again. In the quiet space, there was only the shallow breathing of the two of them, staggered and ups and downs.
Gu Peilang is still awake now, Su Jinyu can no longer lie in the other's arms and hug someone to sleep as recklessly as before. He was a little disappointed in his heart, so he could only quietly retract his head into the quilt and take a deep breath with restraint and restraint. For a moment, the smell belonged to the other party on the quilt, like an addict.
"You don't really need to do that."
Gu Peilang's voice suddenly sounded, with a hint of inexplicable emotion.
Su Jinyu was not surprised when the lie was broken. He turned around and looked in the direction of the man in the dark. His voice was inaudible: "I just thought, at this time, I should be with you."
Gu’s father and Gu’s mother had an accident early. The family of three had a car accident on their way back from vacation. The cars rear-ended and pushed their car directly over the national highway guardrail. Gu's father died on the spot, Gu's mother protected Gu Peilang, who was only seven years old at the time, and waited until the arrival of the rescue team before taking his last breath on the way to the hospital. A child without a parent remains.
These things were all heard by Su Jinyu after being brought back to the Su family. When his father and mother died, he was only four years old. He was still living with his grandparents in a village to be developed, and he didn't know anything. But even when he found out later, he didn't feel anything. Instead, when he found out that Gu Peilang forced the Su family to marry him, he thought fiercely in his heart why he couldn't be taken away directly in the car accident.
Nearly 20 years have passed since the incident. Everyone who knew about it thought it was just a traffic accident.
How sad should his Pei Lang be