1.
The busiest time for the bank is from January to April, and the opening time of each year is basically so busy that the sky is dark and you can't extricate yourself.
When Xia Yiyang finally raised his head from the pile of contracts, he didn't know what time it was. He subconsciously checked the news on his mobile phone, only to remember that Shen Luo was still inspecting at the Wujiang branch recently, and he was probably not much better than him.
Cai Cai came in with a look of lovelessness and took the contract as a label. Xia Yiyang asked her how many people were still outside.
Cai Cai said weakly: "We're halfway there, do you want to go?"
Xia Yiyang didn't think much about it, and said: "Then let's go together, don't mess with it, and sweep it tomorrow."
Cai Cai nodded, and when they were about to go downstairs together, they saw Chen Hui who had just got off the elevator.
All three of them have mournful faces...
President Chen didn't have the strength to yell loudly: "Get off work?"
Xia Yiyang nodded: "Why are you so late?"
Chen Hui gave him a lifeless look: "The gang of dogs in the branch have launched a new project, and they have been arguing for a long time."
Xia Yiyang sighed: "What is this time, what is the indicator?"
Chen Hui: "Micro-credit loans, within 30W."
"..." Xia Yiyang had a headache, "This kind of credit guarantee is low, and the amount is not painful, who is it?"
Chen Hui said with a dark face: "Who else can cheat, cheat us."
Xia Yiyang rolled his eyes, and really felt that money was too hard to earn these days.
It was already past 11 o'clock after returning home and taking a shower. Before going to bed, Xia Yiyang sent a message to Shen Luo, and the other side replied quickly: "Are you home?"
The biggest advantage of working colleagues is that they know what to do and when to be busy when they are busy with each other.
Xia Yiyang wanted to laugh when he heard Shen Luo's voice, and with a sticky energy from his heart, he said "um" and typed and asked, "Have you arrived at the hotel?"
Shen Luo quickly took a few photos.
Xia Yiyang was embarrassed: "You guys live well."
Shen Luo: "After all, the bank supervisor's father."
Xia Yiyang laughed, and the two chatted about work for a while, Shen Luo suddenly said, send me a photo.
Xia Yiyang couldn't take it anymore: "I'm at home, what's there to shoot."
Shen Luo: "Then let's make a video."
Xia Yiyang thought for a while, and thought that the video would be fine, he even went to the bathroom to get a haircut, and then dialed the video invitation.
It was only after Shen Luo picked it up that Xia Yiyang realized that he had just finished taking a shower.
Shen Luo hadn't cut his hair for two years after returning to China, and now it looks a lot longer. Only then did Xia Yiyang realize that he has some natural curls, which are especially obvious when he doesn't use hairspray to comb his back.
Shen Luo didn't blow his hair, his slightly curly bangs were parted and pressed against his forehead. He sat cross-legged on the bed and smiled at Xia Yiyang.
"Have you changed your pajamas?" He asked Xia Yiyang.
Xia Yiyang looked down, his previous champagne-colored pajamas were old, so Shen Luo bought him a pure white one last month, it was still silk, but it was much thinner, and it was a bit see-through on the body.
Shen Luo commented: "It's pretty nice."
Xia Yiyang responded with a pun: "You're pretty good-looking too."
Shen Luo laughed again, the eyes he looked at Xia Yiyang seemed to be filled with tides, wrapped in silky sweetness.
Even if he didn't speak, Xia Yiyang was reluctant to turn off the video, and finally Shen Luo said, it's too late, go to sleep.
Only then did Xia Yiyang reluctantly say, "Good night."
He couldn't help logging on to INS while lying under the covers, and saw Shen Luo posting a screenshot of the video of the two of them.
Of course, the face is still covered by the mosaic.
Xia Yiyang couldn't help laughing while holding the phone, then clicked on the love heart under the photo and gave it a like.
Since a year ago, he started to like Shen Luo's photos when he was bold enough. Of course, because Shen Luo's INS became more and more popular, more and more people liked him. He was completely inconspicuous in it, and he could directly can be ignored.
So when Xia Yiyang clicked likes and was about to go to sleep, the system suddenly sent a message, which scared him so much that he almost threw his phone away.
Xia Yiyang set up a private account for himself on INS, so once someone wants to follow him, the system will send a message asking him to confirm whether he agrees to the other party's following.
This request for attention was sent by Shen Luo.
When Xia Yiyang’s INS account was first built, it can be said that he didn’t care at all. He used a head of a sheep with its tongue sticking out, and the name was mie... So why did Shen Luo apply for a friend on this account? understandable.
Logically speaking, he was just giving a covert thumbs-up, and the other party shouldn't be too powerful, and after a little love, he could still find out who he is.
Or in other words, Shen Luo's previous aesthetics, most of his attention was on people in literature and art, and some were friends from the United States. As for the ex-girlfriends and ex-girlfriends that Xia Yiyang suspected, Shen Luo was just Just paid attention, the interaction is completely 0.
So when Xia Yiyang received the request for attention, Xia Yiyang clicked "Refuse" without hesitation.
But after he clicked to reject, he got tangled up again, feeling that he was a little bit without three hundred taels of silver here.
A request for attention caused him to not sleep well all night, and he woke up the next day to go to work with dark circles under his eyes.
Cai Cai was startled when she saw him: "Did you stay up all night?"
Xia Yiyang sighed: "Almost."
Cai Cai: "You are two years away from turning 40. You are in a mid-life crisis. Take care of your body."
"..." Xia Yiyang, "Can you say something good?"
The whole morning was another round of loan approvals, sweeping contracts, and urging risk control. After finally taking a break at noon, Xia Yiyang took advantage of sitting in the tea room drinking tea, hung up the VPN, logged on to Instagram, and checked the news.
Although Shen Luo didn't send any follow-up application, Xia Yiyang still felt a little uncomfortable.
It is similar to a sense of tacit understanding that one does not want to be deliberately discovered, but hopes that the other party will recognize oneself in the middle of the vast crowd.
— But turning around and thinking that I have been spying silently for so many years, if Shen Luo knew...it would be quite perverted...
And sneaking around to check on those ex-girlfriends every day...
Xia Yiyang covered his mouth, his expression became more and more difficult to look.
Just as he was thinking about logging out of INS without seeing anything, the phone rang suddenly.
Xia Yiyang frantically clicked on the speakerphone, and then Shen Luo's voice came over so clearly.
"Have you eaten yet?" he asked.
Xia Yiyang coughed: "I just ate."
Shen Luo: "What are you doing?"
Xia Yiyang: "Sit down and drink tea."
Shen Luo laughed: "Is it delicious?"
"..." Xia Yiyang felt that this conversation was a little bit unnutritious.
After turning off the speakerphone, Xia Yiyang felt more at ease. The two chatted about their work in the morning. Shen Luo seemed to remember something and said, "I bought a Herman Miller chair."
Xia Yiyang was a little surprised: "Why did you suddenly think of buying a chair?"
"Didn't you get off to a good start and take the form home to do it?" Shen Luo said, "You need a good chair to keep facing the computer, or you won't be able to afford it."
Xia Yiyang said awkwardly: "How can I be so delicate."
Shen Luo didn't speak, and after a while, he said calmly: "The last time you had sex, you complained about your back being sore and died before you ejaculated."
Xia Yiyang: "..."
Shen Luo: "Are you reminiscing?"
Xia Yiyang became angry from embarrassment: "Of course not!"
Shen Luo smiled lightly: "I'll be back on Friday, and I'll come pick you up when the time comes, and I'll drive."
Xia Yiyang breathed a sigh of relief, and was a little happy to know that his lover would be back soon: "It's quite early this time."
"Yeah." Shen Luo suddenly asked, "Do you miss me?"
Xia Yiyang glanced outside, and after confirming that there was no one there, he put his mouth together and whispered into the microphone: "I think."
Shen Luo laughed out loud.
"Why are you so cute." Shen Luo smiled and said, "The older you get, the cuter you become."
2.
The chair Shen Luo bought was delivered by FedEx, and the outer packaging was a big wooden box. Although there was an elevator, Xia Yiyang almost broke his waist when he carried the box in and out.
It was not easy to unpack the box, Xia Yiyang was fiddling with it and received a video invitation from Shen Luo.
Shen Luo showed his face over there, and saw Xia Yiyang holding a hammer.
"Taken apart?" Shen Luo asked.
Xia Yiyang said while tearing it apart: "Still working hard."
Shen Luo: "Remember to read the manual for the chair."
Xia Yiyang smiled: "What a complicated chair you bought?"
"It's quite complicated anyway." Shen Luo commanded at the other end of the video, "Take a panoramic view for me to see."
"..." Xia Yiyang thought that I don't know what a panorama is, but he turned his phone around and showed Shen Luo the whole box.
Shen Luo probably got used to being a leader in the past two years, and after watching it, he expressed condolences: "It's pretty good, keep going."
Xia Yiyang couldn't take it anymore: "Thank you, Shen Chu."
After hanging up the video call, Xia Yiyang continued to unpack the box, and when he finally saw the chair, Xia Yiyang understood why Shen Luo said he needed to read the manual.
Xia Yiyang looked at it for a while, and decided to move the chair to the study first, but he didn't grasp the distance when he entered the door, and the stool leg directly hit the cabinet by the wall, mainly because Xia Yiyang's sight was blocked by the back of the chair It was too late when the voice was heard.
"..." Xia Yiyang looked at the cabinet that fell on the ground, and sighed up to the sky, his expression was so unlovable, he put down the chair, and when he helped the cabinet, he found that the lock on the cabinet was actually broken.
It was only then that Xia Yiyang remembered that this cabinet was used by Shen Luo to store photos.
The lock was broken, and a lot of photos in the cabinet naturally fell out. Xia Yiyang was not in a hurry to move the chair, so he packed up the photos first. After all, there were still a lot of nude photos inside. It's really hot.
In the past two years, Shen Luo has never restrained his enthusiasm for taking Xia Yiyang's nude photos. At first, Xia Yiyang thought that the other party might be just a passing interest. After a long time and taking too many photos, he could always cool down. It turned out that it has been so long. Shen Luo still showed no signs of getting tired.
Xia Yiyang has a set of nude photos, which were taken together with the flowers Shen Luo bought.
It was a weekend evening at that time, Shen Luo changed the curtains into tulle styles, which would not block the light, but also prevented the danger of exposure, Shen Luo gave Xia Yi all kinds of flowers he bought. Yang held it and guided the other party to pose in the shape he wanted.
A total of only a dozen photos were taken, each of which was washed out by Shen Luo and displayed in a photo frame.
One of them was magnified and hung on the wall of the study. It was the most eye-catching one in the set.
But Xia Yiyang still feels very embarrassed when he sees it every day.
In the photo, he is squatting sideways on the sofa, holding a rose in his hand, turning his face, biting the petals and staring at the camera.
Shen Luo washed it into black and white.
In the process of tidying up the other nude photos, Xia Yiyang's face became hotter every time he looked at one of them. In fact, he didn't feel much shy about the naked self in the photo, the key was the person who took the photo.
Shen Luo is actually reserved most of the time, he doesn't talk much, and when he encounters problems, he takes actions far more than communicates, not to mention that they are both at this age, and the two of them usually don't have so many vigorous tricks when talking, eating and going to bed.
Only in the matter of taking pictures.
No matter how layman he is, Xia Yiyang can understand what Shen Luo didn't say in those shots.
Heavy, soulful.
Every sentence burned in Xia Yiyang's heart.
The photos were almost sorted out, Xia Yiyang reopened the cabinet and put it in, but his eyes drifted, and he fell to the bottom floor, and the things wrapped in a few kraft paper bags were also scattered, Xia Yiyang found out that they were also photos.
He took out a few photos and looked at them. He felt that the shots were a bit strange. It seemed that Shen Luo had shot them badly, and some of them were even blurry...
"!" Xia Yiyang grabbed a photo suddenly, and almost stuck it to his face.
He looked at it for a long time before he was sure that the woman walking beside him was his blind date partner for 13 or 14 years...
Xia Yiyang: "..."
He took out all the brown paper packets and counted them. There were nine packets in total.
08 to 16 years.
Xia Yiyang always felt as if a Pacific vortex appeared in his mind, with fish schools and white waves rolling, and then green islands rose up in the sea, with golden sunlight shining on them, the kind full of flowers.
He covered his mouth and thought about it for a long time. The picture he thought of was so vivid that it had been passed down for thousands of years, so he couldn't help but stop, took a photo and sent it to Shen Luo.
The other side didn't reply right away.
So Xia Yiyang asked again: "What is this?"
Shen Luo still didn't send a message back.
Xia Yiyang continued to press the Jiugong grid on his own: "Why didn't you tell me you secretly photographed me for so long?"
The state above his head changed to that the other party was typing, but Xia Yiyang waited for a long time and still didn't get a word.
In this short period of time, Xia Yiyang flipped through all those photos, and felt that his heart was about to melt away. It was both sad and sweet. In the end, he couldn't hold back and sent a message to Shen Luo.
"You're so cute." Xia Yiyang said.
Not long after, Shen Luo also replied: "You are cuter."
Shen Luo sent the video again, and he asked, "Is the chair installed?"
Xia Yiyang looked carefully for a while, and felt that the other party's ears were a little red, but he kindly didn't take it apart: "It's installed, and it bumped into your cabinet when I moved into the house."
"Yeah." Shen Luo didn't mention the photo, "Just change the lock."
Xia Yiyang laughed for a long time, but Shen Luo didn't speak.
After laughing enough, Xia Yiyang asked, "Is it expensive to find someone to take pictures with?"
Shen Luo: "It's okay, they are very nice people, and the price hasn't been raised much for eight years."
"..." Xia Yiyang, "You are quite righteous."
Shen Luo smiled childishly: "I have always been like this about you."
Before going to bed at night, Xia Yiyang logged on to INS again. Not long after, the system sent a request for Shen Luo's attention.
Xia Yiyang nestled under the quilt, bit his finger for a while, and finally agreed.
His homepage was clean, without any photos or information revealing his identity. Xia Yiyang thought for a while and took a photo of "Bi Xin" in his hand, which was regarded as an update of the first post.
After a while, Shen Luo gave a thumbs up.
There is also a comment below.
"Love you, lick lick."
So Xia Yiyang hugged the quilt, and after rolling around, he didn't fall asleep again all night.
3.
When Xia Yiyang went to work the next day, he still thought about being followed for so many years. He took advantage of his lunch break to send Shen Luo a message: "Do you still have people following me?"
Shen Luo replied: "I'm already back, do you still need others?"
Xia Yiyang thought about it too, and felt that he had asked a stupid question.
After a while, Shen Luo asked him, "When did you follow my INS?"
Xia Yiyang typed back to him proudly: "I won't tell you."
After thinking about it, he added another sentence: "When did you find out it was mine?"
Shen Luo replied: "We have lived together for two years, sharing a computer for so long, of course I know if you bought a VPN or not."
Xia Yiyang returned a string of dots.
Shen Luo: "But you are so timid, you don't take your likes seriously."
Xia Yiyang was a little embarrassed: "It's too narcissistic to like my own photos."
Shen Luo didn't type, he sent a picture of Pikachu lying on the ground laughing.
Shen Luo came to the business on Friday evening, but it was too early, Xia Yiyang couldn't care about him when he approved the contract, so Shen Luo sat in the rest area, and after a while, Cai Cai came in to soak him cup of tea.
"Thank you." Shen Luo said.
Cai Cai found out that Shen Chu is still handsome at the age of 38, especially with long hair. At first glance, he doesn't look like a financial dog at all, but looks like a sexy, melancholy wandering poet.
"You and Mr. Xia have such a good relationship." Cai Cai couldn't help but start talking, "Do you still live in the same community now?"
Shen Luo smiled and nodded: "Yes."
Cai Cai: "Didn't Xia always buy a house in Dongshan at the end of last year?"
"Yeah." Shen Luo took a sip of tea, "It's for the elderly."
Cai Cai couldn't take it anymore and said, "You are still young men, why do you want to go so far away?"
Shen Luo raised his eyebrows, as if he thought the term "young man" was good, so he laughed happily.
Xia Yiyang was busy until 10 o'clock in the evening before leaving get off work. Although Shen Luo dragged him into dinner and forced him to eat dinner, the two of them still had an extra supper when they got home.
Xia Yiyang, who had just finished eating, was not sleepy, he would occasionally sit in the living room and read the newspaper, and as he watched, his eyes would unconsciously fall on Shen Luo.
I don't know how long he watched it, Shen Luo asked him with a smile without raising his head: "How long do you want to watch?"
Xia Yiyang was stunned for a moment, but before he could be embarrassed, he could only pretend to turn over another page of the newspaper.
This kind of thing happened so many times that Shen Luo didn't bother to expose him anymore. Xia Yiyang's eyes were sticky and hadn't changed much over the years.
Eyes are such a thing, if you look at them for a long time, you will feel warm, like and love are all in it, needless to say, anyone can feel it.
Shen Luo raised his head for the last time, and finally couldn't take it anymore, Chaoxia Yiyang stretched out his hand, showing a slightly helpless and funny expression: "Come here, Xiaohua."
He said, "Give me a hug."
4.
A working day with a good start must not be the last. Shen Luo hugged Xia Yiyang and kissed him for a long time but did not make another move. He stretched out his hand, combed Xia Yiyang's temples with his fingertips, and muttered: "Are you doing it again?" Go cut it."
Xia Yiyang pulled his hair: "It's time for you to cut it too."
Shen Luo: "Go tomorrow."
Xia Yiyang looked at it for a while, then sighed: "It's pretty good, I'm a bit reluctant."
Shen Luo said again: "Then I won't cut it."
Xia Yiyang couldn't help laughing: "Do you want to cut it yourself?"
Shen Luo said: "The unit doesn't allow it to stay too long, so I'll cut it tomorrow."
Xia Yiyang agreed, and the two hugged and talked for a while, because they knew each other well before, so Xia Yiyang didn't hide it when he swiped his INS at night.
He brushed for a while, and when he saw Shen Luo looking at him, he was a little curious: "How did you find me?"
Shen Luo said: "You sleep next to me every night to swipe, you can take a sneak peek, it's just that you spent a little time looking for it."
Xia Yiyang asked, how did you find it
Shen Luo: "I clicked in and read every unfamiliar ID, and those who set it private will send follow requests."
Shen Luo's expression was a little unhappy: "For a celebrity like me, it's the first time you didn't agree."
Xia Yiyang: "..."
Before going to sleep, Shen Luo still persisted in chasing Xia Yiyang and asking when he paid attention to him.
Xia Yiyang always laughed: "It's early anyway, I don't remember, why do you care about this?"
Shen Luo: "Who else are you following?"
Speaking of this, Xia Yiyang felt a little jealous: "Your ex-girlfriend's ex-girlfriend's ex-girlfriends."
Shen Luo smiled: "I don't have so many girlfriends, where did you know?"
Xia Yiyang didn't believe it very much: "You have paid attention to each other with them."
Shen Luo thought about it for a long time, and then he realized that he felt a little dumbfounded. Xia Yiyang's jealous temperament, which was hidden in his heart, really made people happy and distressed.
"You won't ask me?" Shen Luo said.
Xia Yiyang thought for a while, and said seriously: "I'm still a little embarrassed, men should be more generous."
Shen Luo lay face to face with him, and after hearing this answer, he was speechless for a while. He looked at Xia Yiyang's face, and finally just raised his hand to touch it lightly, and said in a low voice: "I don't have anything Messy ex-girlfriends."
Xia Yiyang blinked.
Shen Luo: "At that time in the United States, everyone thought I was suffering from depression, so in order to look healthy, I followed some people on social media that everyone would follow."
Xia Yiyang's eyes turned red when he heard the word "depression".
Shen Luo sighed, and said helplessly, "Oh, little Hua'er is going to cry again."
So Xia Yiyang smiled again with red eyes, Shen Luo looked at him, and leaned forward to rub Xia Yiyang's nose.
"Those days were really difficult. When I look back now, I still think about how I got through it." Shen Luo showed a very shallow smile, and Xia Yiyang was in his eyes, "Then wait until When I come back and see you, I will know how I survived."
To Shen Luo, those fifteen years seemed very long and short. Does the other party dream of him when he sleeps and dreams? Xia Yiyang should get up after dinner, what clothes he wears during the day, what class does he work, what job does he do, has he been scolded by the leader.
Shen Luo often thinks about these in circles.
They were separated across the ocean, thinking so much, it seemed that they were only separated by less than 12 hours.
The secret is not how many photos were secretly taken in 8 years.
How many accounts have been peeped on INS.
It's not a confession that I didn't say when I was young.
But in those long years, always, always, always, those countless misses hidden in my heart.
—————— Extra Story "Secret" END