The car was galloping on the road, faster than other cars around.
The phone quickly received a reply. Chen Jingshen glanced down at the "Oh" on the screen, threw the phone back into his schoolbag, and turned to look at the woman in the driver's seat.
Ji Lianyi stared at the front, her hair was disheveled, and several strands of hair were scattered behind her ears. She had lipstick on her lips to enhance her complexion, but she still looked tired.
During this period of time, Ji Lianyi has been in this state, and it has even gotten worse. Chen Jingshen asked several times, and the other party always gave him a deep look, then shook his head and said it was okay.
Today, before school was over, he received a message from Ji Lianyi, saying that he would come to pick him up after school.
The car was blocked before getting on the viaduct, Chen Jingshen looked at the headlights ahead and asked, "What happened?"
"No." The same answer as always.
"You look very tired."
"...Maybe it's because I had too many things to deal with a while ago, and I feel uncomfortable when I'm free." Ji Lianyi couldn't help but tighten her grip on the steering wheel, she turned her head to look at Chen Jingshen, "From now on, mom will come to pick you up and drop you off from school every day."
Chen Jingshen curled his fingers: "No need."
"Have breakfast together in the morning before going out, and come out on time after school in the afternoon. Mom will be waiting for you at the school gate." Ji Lianyi ignored his refusal, "Same as today."
Chen Jingshen originally wanted to say something, but turned his head to look at Lianyi last season. She seemed to have not slept well for several nights, and her beautiful Danfeng eyes were gloomy.
When the car behind pressed the horn to urge him, Chen Jingshen retracted his gaze.
"Understood." He said, "There are many cars, drive slowly."
After returning home and taking a shower, Chen Jingshen sat down on the desk and turned on the light. Just as he took out the wrong book, there were a few muffled crackling sounds outside.
The living room was dark with no lights on. Chen Jingshen walked quickly to Ji Lianyi's door, knocked on the door twice and walked in without any response.
Ji Lianyi sat half-bent in front of the desk, leaning on the desk with her elbows, her fingers stuck in her hair. She messed up her long hair, shattered the glass, and her cell phone.
Ji Lianyi was breathing heavily, and suddenly raised her head when she heard the movement, and opened her mouth after a while: "... why are you here?"
Standing at the door of the room, Chen Jingshen suddenly understood why he felt such Ji Lianyi was very familiar.
When she knew that her husband had a child who was one year older than her son, she was in this state for a long time.
"I heard the sound." Chen Jingshen walked over, knelt down and picked up the broken glass.
"Don't." Ji Lianyi stood up abruptly, she pushed her hair back, "Don't scratch your hands, mom will do it herself..."
Chen Jingshen has already picked up the things and threw them into the trash can. He picked up the phone that fell on the ground, and was about to hand it over when the screen suddenly lit up.
In the next second, his hands were empty, and Ji Lianyi had already taken the phone.
"Accidentally knocked over the water glass." Ji Lianyi put the phone upside down on the table, "Scared you?"
"No." Chen Jingshen thought for a while and asked, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Ji Lianyi paused and shook her head, "No, how come. Go back to your room, finish your homework and go to bed early, and you have to get up early for breakfast tomorrow."
Chen Jingshen frowned, and wanted to ask something more, Ji Lianyi's hand had already reached his back: "Okay, Mom has work to do..."
"Didn't you say there was no work during this time?"
"The project is over." Ji Lianyi looked up at her precious son and smiled, "It will be fine after a while, it's okay, it's okay."
Chen Jingshen returned to the room, still thinking about Ji Lianyi's reaction just now.
Is that family still in touch with her? Or is the divorce lawsuit still unresolved
He sat silently on the desk, turning his pen over and over again, his mind was a little hard to gather. Until the phone on the table rang.
He glanced at the "What are you doing?" sent by his boyfriend, but didn't reply, so he put down his pen and dialed back the video.
Yu Fan was sitting on the balcony blowing the wind, and was taken aback when he saw the video. Recently, he and Chen Jingshen have finished their homework in the classroom every afternoon before leaving. In addition, Chen Jingshen's mother always enters Chen Jingshen's room, so they haven't made any videos since school started.
Yu Fan connected immediately. The wind blew all the messy hair on his face, and he moved back impatiently, revealing his fair face: "Are you home?"
Chen Jingshen: "Yes. My mother came to pick me up and came back after school."
Yu Fan groaned, and leaned back on the anti-theft net in a relaxed manner: "I thought you had something to do..."
"She will come all this time."
Yu Fan paused for a moment.
They will all come, which means that Chen Jingshen will leave after school, and he has no time to go to another class to do papers.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Chen Jingshen said: "She's not in a good mood recently, something may have happened. In a few days..."
"It's just right, I have to be detained after school every day, I'm so annoyed." Yu Fan raised his eyebrows indifferently, and added in a strange way, "Then you spend more time with her."
"Hmm. Do you know how to do your homework?"
Yu Fan just wanted to say yes, but the words changed again: "hang up and write, in case your mother comes in suddenly."
Chen Jingshen was silent for two seconds before saying, "Okay."
Just as Chen Jingshen moved his finger, the person on the other side of the video suddenly shouted: "Wait!!"
Chen Jingshen: "Huh?"
This video came out of nowhere, and Yu Fan didn't think about the business until he was about to hang up. He plucked his hair: "Are you after school this Friday... are you free?"
Chen Jingshen glanced at the calendar subconsciously. Friday, August 11th, every year on this day, Ji Lianyi would order a gift for her home, and as time passed, Chen Jingshen also remembered her birthday.
"Yes. What's the matter?" Chen Jingshen asked.
"What else? Of course I let you out," Yu Fan said, "Go online."
"..."
After school on Friday, Yu Fan left the school as soon as the bell rang.
He went to the shopping mall that he didn't usually go to, asked the staff, walked up the escalator, and went straight into the pen shop on the left corner of the third floor.
There was no one in the store, and the boss who was playing with his mobile phone immediately stood up straight when he saw him.
This store was chosen by Yu Fan after reading reviews online for a few days. He looked at all kinds of pens in the glass cabinet and squinted dazedly.
"Welcome." The boss immediately walked up to him and asked, "What style do you want? Is it for your own use or someone else's? Do you want me to recommend some for you?"
"Give it away." Yu Fan said.
The boss immediately bent down to look through some popular models, and asked while taking them, "Is it for a friend or an elder?"
Yu Fan's inspecting eyes paused for a moment, and then he said quickly, "Subject."
The boss immediately picked out a few light-colored and delicate ones and put them in front of him: "Then you are really a coincidence, these are new styles, and only our store in Nancheng has them. The girls who came here recently bought these few..."
"For boys."
"… ah?"
"This one," Yu Fan tapped a dark blue pen in the display case, "How much is it?"
"999." The boss replied dully.
Yu Fan copied his pockets with both hands, stared coldly at the pen for a long time, and gritted his teeth: "...wrap it up."
Coming out with presents, Yu Fan counted his living expenses as he walked. In fact, he used to spend money quite casually. He didn't plan to go to college, and he felt that life was boring. Spending always seemed a bit self-defeating, and he spent a lot of money just smoking and surfing the Internet.
From now on, keep it under 30 a day, don't smoke or surf the Internet, and you should be able to handle the third year of high school...
Yu Fan was walking absent-mindedly, caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of her eye, paused, and then slowly backed away.
He stared at the little cake in the window, and the two villains were fighting in their hearts.
-save money.
-Isn't it good to have no cake for your birthday
- How old is Chen Jingshen, still eating cake
- No matter how old you are, you are the target.
- The two men eating cake together are childish and not childish.
Three minutes later, Yu Fan stood in front of the cake shop clerk expressionlessly: "Order a small-sized egg..."
The phone rang, and Yu Fan picked it up to look at it.
[S: Sorry, I can't see you anymore. The impromptu dinner at home will be busy until evening.]
When Chen Jingshen changed his clothes and was about to go out, he opened the door and saw Ji Lianyi who was already dressed.
Seeing that he had packed up, Ji Lianyi was a little surprised, she put on earrings and asked him to get in the car first, saying that she would go back to grandma's house for her birthday today.
Chen Jingshen said that he had an appointment, at that moment, Ji Lianyi's complexion became extremely pale. She refused him to go with a cold face, and asked her grandmother to call him. The mother and son confronted each other for half an hour, until Chen Jingshen found out that there were several boxes of medicine in Ji Lianyi's unclosed handbag, and then reluctantly agreed.
Chen Jingshen is actually not familiar with the relatives of the two families. He sat with a few of his peers who couldn't be named, and listened to them play games indifferently. In the eyes of these people, he was "other people's child". One of them asked him if he played games, and the other immediately said how could Chen Jingshen play games
He was pushed by Ji Lianyi to chat with the elders. He sat on the sofa for a long time, chatting about his grades and future. Everyone was very lively, but he himself didn't say a few words.
Halfway through, I received a message from his boyfriend: [Is the dinner good?]
Chen Jingshen replied: [It's not as delicious as Oden.]
After staying up late at night, I finally got in the car and went home. Both the mother and the son still remembered what happened before they left the house, and neither of them spoke a word along the way.
After entering the house, just as Chen Jingshen was about to go upstairs and return to his room, Ji Lianyi suddenly called him to stop.
"Did you have the school that grandma mentioned today?" Ji Lianyi said, "The New York—"
"I'm not going abroad." Chen Jingshen replied quietly.
"You can first understand the ring over there..."
"No." Chen Jingshen said, "Don't mention it."
Ji Lianyi looked at him for a few seconds, then turned her face to indicate that the topic was over.
Back in the room, Chen Jingshen only felt tired. He threw all the gift boxes on the table, and was just about to take a shower when a message came in on his phone.
[-:Got home?]
[S: Just arrived.]
[-: Oh, corridor]
Chen Jingshen looked at the news and was stunned for two seconds before moving. He turned and opened the window, stood on the balcony and looked down—
The street lights in the neighborhood were dim, and the branches swayed with the summer night wind. Under the dense branches, a boy sitting on a long stone chair could be seen vaguely. He rested impatiently on the armrest of the stone chair with his elbows, crossed his legs, and there was something in the empty space next to him.
When Chen Jingshen called, Yu Fan had just chased away a mosquito.
"Chen Jingshen." Yu Fan raised his head and poured out his anger towards the mosquitoes on the people standing on the balcony, "Why do you plant so many tree trunks in your community?"
Chen Jingshen was tense for a day, then suddenly laughed. He said, "Wait for me to come down."
"Don't," Yu Fan hurriedly called to stop him, "You just stand on the balcony. The curtains in your living room are not drawn tightly, and your mother is on the sofa on the phone."
After Yu Fan finished speaking, he felt that he was a bit perverted, actually peeping into other people's homes.
Chen Jingshen was quiet for a while, as if hesitating. After a while, he asked, "How did you get in?"
"The security saw me, and I said I'm here to help you walk your dog."
"When did you come? Why didn't you tell me."
"Not long." Yu Fan said vaguely, "Chen Jingshen, you talk a lot of nonsense."
Yu Fan stood up and looked at him from the dark tree shadow: "Can you see me clearly?"
Chen Jingshen said yes.
Then he watched Yu Fan turn around to pick up the things on the chair. After fiddling for a while, Chen Jingshen's eyes flashed, and a spark suddenly appeared in the dark night.
Yu Fan held the candle-lit cake and turned around. Holding the cake in one hand and the mobile phone in the other, he raised his head and said, "Chen Jingshen, happy 18th birthday."
Chen Jingshen was forced to play the birthday star for a day today, and his lines were only "yes", "no" and "no".
This boring script had already come to an end. Yu Fan held up a palm-sized cake and said happy birthday to him from a distance, and the day seemed to be lively again.
Chen Jingshen stood on the balcony in silence for a long time before asking, "Where did you get the lighter? Didn't you quit smoking?"
"..."
His boyfriend immediately turned cold: "It's a gift from the cake shop. If you say quit, you quit. How can I lie to you?"
Yu Fan's eyes shone brightly from the firelight, he frowned, and urged impatiently, "Hurry up and blow out the candles, it's very tiring to hold them."
Chen Jingshen blew briefly, and a gust of wind blew by, and the candle was extinguished instantly.
Both of them were startled. Yu Fan stared at the cake for a few seconds, and then looked up again to inform him: "It's all right. You can't eat this cake, I ate it myself."
"Can it still be like this?" Chen Jingshen asked.
"Otherwise? I'll climb the wall and send it up for you?"
"You can try."
Yu Fan endured the urge to throw the cake at Chen Jingshen's face, sat back on the bench, took out a fork and stuffed a bite of the cake into his mouth.
"How is it?" Chen Jingshen asked.
Yu Fan didn't know how many years he hadn't eaten cake, so he simply commented: "It's so sweet."
The two ate one, watched the other, and looked at each other for a while like idiots.
Chen Jingshen: "How about I jump off."
"Then I'll call you 120?"
"..."
Chen Jingshen held back his smile and watched him eat the cake bit by bit: "Why did you come to me all of a sudden?"
Because reading the message you sent, you don't seem very happy.
Yu Fan said: "I have nothing to do when I have nothing to do, so I turned around and turned around."
"You still have the cake?"
"I picked it up on the road." Yu Fan said blankly, "It happened to be your name."
He really couldn't eat anymore, so he put the cake back into the box and prepared to put it in the refrigerator to eat tomorrow: "Chen Jingshen, I'm going back."
Chen Jingshen hummed: "Don't hang up the phone."
"… oh."
Yu Fan picked up the cake box, and suddenly remembered something, and took out a black gift box from his pocket: "By the way, Chen Jingshen, a gift. I'll hide it under this tree, and you can come down and get it after I leave."
"I'm going down now." Chen Jingshen said.
"No, your mother will see later." Yu Fan lifted his cake box and said, "I'm leaving."
Yu Fan walked out for a while and looked back. Chen Jingshen was still standing there, the balcony was not turned on, and he could only see the tall and thin figure of the boy.
He remembered that when Chen Jingshen got off the car with his mother just now, the two of them didn't say a word, Chen Jingshen was carrying a lot of gifts, but there was no expression on his face.
He obviously went out to celebrate his birthday, but he still looked lonely when he came back.
Chen Jingshen watched him stop, and just about to ask, the other party suddenly turned back and walked to the stone chair just now.
"Chen Jingshen, I didn't tell you." Yu Fan looked up at him.
"What?"
"I like you too."
A cool evening wind blew, rustling the branches. His boyfriend's hair was blown all over the sky, and the eyes looking at him shone slightly in the dark night.
"Happy birthday, Chen Jingshen." On the phone, he said again.