While organizing his words, Shen Yanming recalled the scene of his meeting with He Yue today.
Before Shen Yanming mentioned the name He Changkong, He Yue deliberately made a gesture of looking at the time. He said that he was still free, but the message he actually conveyed was that he didn't have much time for a long conversation.
However, when Shen Yanming asked He Changkong directly, He Yue changed the subject and said, "Come into my office and talk."
He Yue also has a small room in the large office in the courtyard as his personal office. He closes the door and hangs a "Do Not Disturb" sign, so no one will come in for a while.
Shen Yanming looked around the office. Although there were a lot of things in it, they were arranged in an orderly manner. This was consistent with He Changkong's opinion.
He Yue poured tea for Shen Yanming. Shen Yanming took the paper cup of tea. The temperature was just right, not too hot or too cold, and it could warm his hands. Even when facing a student of unknown origin, Professor He was very considerate.
Shen Yanming held the cup and tried to speak several times, but didn't know where to start.
It was He Yue who spoke first: "Where did you come from?"
Shen Yanming: "Haicheng."
He Yue: "That's OK. The train will take more than an hour to get there. But our school is quite remote. It might not be easy to find it, right?"
Shen Yanming shook his head: "It's okay."
He Yue: "It's not easy to come all the way here. I think you must have something important to say. It's okay, just say it... I heard you mention Changkong, is it related to him?"
Shen Yanming didn't expect He Yue to bring it up so directly. What He Yue said was indeed correct. He came all the way here, and he definitely didn't come here to test anything. But in fact, Shen Yanming only came because he had a hunch that something was wrong. If he really asked himself, he didn't know what to say or what to ask.
Asking directly, "Why didn't you visit him in all these years?" or "Do you know how his mother treated him all these years?" is just like looking for trouble.
Besides, he felt that there might be something else he didn't know.
He Yue seemed to notice that Shen Yanming was a little embarrassed, so he took the initiative to ask: "Are you his friend? Did he encounter any problems?"
Shen Yanming felt that He Yue's tone of voice was strange. He always spoke of He Changkong with a sense of unfamiliarity. Was it because they hadn't been in touch for a long time? He didn't understand, and finally he hesitated and asked: "Yes, I am his friend... You are his father, right?"
"Father..." He Yue's eyes were blank for a moment, "Did he tell you that?"
Shen Yanming: “…” Oh, how about that
It always feels weirder.
He Yue asked again: "Did he encounter any problems?"
Shen Yanming pondered for a moment, and after thinking about it, he felt that being so shy was really unmanly, and said, "My next words may be a little offensive to you, I'm sorry."
He Yue: "It doesn't matter."
Shen Yanming made up his mind and roughly recounted what happened when Xu Jun came to the hotel that day. Of course, he was not stupid, and he was a little reserved when he said it: "Actually, we are now teammates playing games together, e-sports, I don't know if you have heard of it, but it doesn't matter... It's just that his mother doesn't want him to stay in this industry, and he came to the place where we played the game to make trouble, and, and..."
Shen Yanming still felt quite pressured to speak about some private matters to a professor who looked gentle, polite and like a gentleman, so he paused for a moment.
"Don't be impatient, take your time," He Yue comforted him, "I know about e-sports, but I don't know much about it. I didn't expect Changkong to go into this field... It's unlikely that his mother would agree to him playing the e-sports you mentioned... Go on."
Shen Yanming ignored the cause and effect and whispered, "Then his mother told him about your... sexual orientation and said that you left that year. When Kong Ge first learned about these things, he seemed to be greatly affected emotionally and his performance in the game was not normal. I just want to verify with you whether what his mother said is true, and have you really never thought of going back to see him in all these years?... After all, he is also your child."
After listening to what Shen Yanming said, He Yue frowned: "Are you questioning me?"
Shen Yanming was also shocked to see that the professor, who was originally very gentle, suddenly became cold. But he was not afraid. Everyone knows how to quarrel. If he was really a scumbag, then he would scold He Changkong to get rid of his resentment and anger for so many years.
Before Shen Yanming could speak, He Yue picked up the water cup, took a sip, and returned to his original state: "Were you scared by me just now?"
Shen Yanming: “…” What is this? The face-changing is faster than the Sichuan Opera mask!
Or is he going to turn evil
He Yue added: "You are a good kid. You came all the way here knowing that your friend is in trouble. You may want to know the truth and seek an explanation. But you are too impulsive. If you meet an unreasonable person or someone who is slightly impatient, what consequences you may face? Have you considered it?"
Shen Yanming: “…” I thought about it a little, but not too much. I really thought that what Kong Ge did was not a solution, so I hurried over to try it out.
He was indeed thinking too simply. It would be best if he could get something out of it. If not, he would just confront the person on the spot. It was always better than sitting in the base and waiting to die.
"Okay, I know you're anxious, come here," He Yue turned on his personal computer, motioned Shen Yanming to sit over and look, and then said, "My words may be a bit impolite, but you are indeed an outsider to me. I could have completely ignored the questions you asked... But you said that Changkong's condition was greatly affected, so I think it is necessary to solve it."
Shen Yanming sat over and saw He Yue searching in a hidden folder for a long time, and finally clicked on a scanned copy.
He Yue: "It's okay. I have a little... what you young people call obsessive-compulsive disorder. I have archived all the important documents and I back them up every few months. Otherwise, if you come to me, you won't believe me even if I say nothing."
Shen Yanming saw a DNA identification report issued by a medical identification center on the screen. It was quite old, more than ten years ago. Shen Yanming calculated and it seemed to be the time when He Changkong said his parents divorced.
The final conclusion states that it does not support the view that He Yue is He Changkong's biological father.
In other words, there is no blood relationship between the two.
Shen Yanming was so frightened that he didn't even care about being polite. He went over and took the mouse himself, enlarging the picture over and over again.
"Is this... true or false..." Shen Yanming murmured.
He Yue smiled bitterly: "Want to hear a story?"
Shen Yanming looked at He Yue in confusion.
He Yue: "I don't really like to say bad things about women, nor do I want to bring up those messy things in the past."
Having said that, Shen Yanming still listened to He Yue talking about some old stories.
He Yue and Xu Yun met through a blind date. It is not accurate to say that it was a blind date. He Yue did not want to be arranged to go on a blind date, but he went to socialize in order not to offend the lady. He thought that it would stop there, but who knew that Xu Yun began to pursue him passionately. He clearly refused and said that he already had a lover, but Xu Yun was stubborn. Even if he said so, she still persisted, saying that the man was unmarried and the woman was unmarried, so what if they had lovers
At that time, He Yue felt that he couldn't tell Xu Yun the truth, so he had to decline again and again. Until one day, he was caught by Xu Yun when he was with his lover.
Although he was shocked, He Yue thought that the other party would give up eventually.
However, no, Xu Yun later used this incident to threaten her, saying that if she didn't date him, he would tell everyone that he was gay.
He Yue did not agree either.
However, the parents of the two families later interacted more and more frequently. He Yue avoided them once or twice, but he could not avoid meeting Xu Yun. During a family dinner, after drinking some wine, the family members were happy to see good things, so they locked the two young people in a room.
In fact, He Yue could drink quite well, but he was so drunk that night that he passed out and lost consciousness when he woke up. Later, Xu Yun said that they had had sex, but He Yue didn't believe it at all because he had no reaction to women at all.
But later Xu Jun said that she was pregnant, and he really couldn't remember what happened that night. With Xu Jun crying and making a fuss repeatedly and her family fanning the flames, He Yue began to doubt whether he had done something wrong.
Later, he broke up with his lover and married Xu Yun in order to be responsible.
Xu Yun later raised He Changkong like He Yue, but He Yue was actually just a quiet boy at home. The most painful thing for him every day was going back to "home". He couldn't show any emotion to the innocent child, and just numbly performed his duties as a father.
Such days tortured him for several years, and there were countless nights when he thought it would be better to just die.
As He Changkong grew older, he looked less and less like him. Finally, one day, he secretly went for a paternity test.
After the results came out, he was furious and divorced almost immediately. He left everything in Yuncheng and ran away.
Facing a child that was not his own, he knew rationally that He Changkong was innocent, but at that time, he could not accept it emotionally.
It was not until some time later that he wanted to come back and see the child.
However, he failed to see the child that time, but was pestered by Xu Yun again. Xu Yun kept saying different things. At first, she begged him to come back, and when he didn't agree, she started to threaten him. When He Yue ignored her, she got angry and said that she had already told the child that the child didn't want to see a gay father like him.
He Yue found it ridiculous because he was not He Changkong's father at all.
It was really useless to pester him, and He Yue never went back after he left again. But he still had contact with He Changkong. After He Changkong went to elementary school, He Yue had a friend who taught at that elementary school. He heard that the school organized an activity to make pen pals, so He Yue took the initiative to become He Changkong's pen pal.
Of course, he didn't use the usual font, and he pretended to be a strange uncle and kept in touch with He Changkong through letters until He Changkong graduated from elementary school. At that time, He Changkong, who was still very young, wrote letters like a little adult, mostly talking about academic matters, only occasionally saying that his mother had high hopes for him and was very strict, and that he would work harder. He Yue never saw from the letters that He Changkong was not doing well.
Later on, I don’t know if it was because he changed his job and address and we couldn’t get in touch, or because the child reached puberty and didn’t want to write this kind of thing anymore, but it just stopped.
It has been like this since I stopped.
After listening to this, Shen Yanming's mood went from "WTF" to "Sigh". In the end, he didn't know what to say, so he just said something without any context: "The professor said I was too impulsive, but he told me all these things so directly..."
He Yue took a sip of water and smiled, "Did I ever say what I said was true? It's just a story."
Shen Yanming: “…” At least the paternity test should be real. He Yue didn’t know that I would come, so he couldn’t have forged it in advance.
He Yue asked again: "Can what I said help you?"
Shen Yanming shook his head: "I don't know, but I think his mentality collapsed because he knew his father was a gay man who cheated on his wife. How should I put it? I don't know about others, but even if I say I dislike my father, I still think he is the first hero in my life... Maybe Kong Ge's father is also very tall in his heart. He is so broken that he can't bear it."
He Yue was silent for a long time: "You are a good kid. To be honest, I haven't had contact with Changkong for many years. I don't know what kind of person he has grown into now, so I can't give you any advice. But according to what you said, if you go back and tell him this, he may have a new knot in his heart, you can understand."
Shen Yanming thought for a moment and said, "I understand." The father he thought he was was not actually his real father, and he didn't even know who his father was... It was too tragic to think about it.
There was a knock on the door. "Maybe a student is looking for me," He Yue shouted to the door, "Wait a moment."
Shen Yanming stood up: "Thank you Professor He, I should still tell Brother Kong. Even if he may be sad, he shouldn't be kept in the dark about this kind of thing." It is no exaggeration to say that Shen Yanming now feels annoyed when he thinks of He Changkong's cheap mother. He used to have some sympathy for her, but now he has none at all. He just wants He Changkong to get out of these garbage as soon as possible.
He Yue nodded.
Shen Yanming added: "Then I will leave first. Thank you very much today."
He Yue: "Aren't you staying for dinner?"
Shen Yanming: "No, I'm in a hurry to go back for training."
He Yue: "You are such a motivated kid. I hope you get good results in the competition."
Shen Yanming scratched his head: "Definitely."
After Shen Yanming finished speaking, he was about to leave. He Yue remembered something and stopped him: "Leave me your contact information."
Shen Yanming was quite sure at the time that he would definitely tell Kong Ge, but when it came time to speak, he was a little timid. There was another competition in two days, so it would be a bad time to say it now. How about waiting for two days
It would be bad if He Changkong's mentality broke down even more. It wasn't that he was considering the game completely. If he lost the game again, it would be another heavy blow to He Changkong.
Shen Yanming was worried and didn't know how long he had been in the bathroom. It was so long that He Changkong thought something was wrong and came to knock on the bathroom door.
Shen Yanming was startled when he heard a knock on the door: "Okay, okay!"
Shen Yanming turned off the shower, wiped himself quickly, put on his clothes and ran out. He Changkong looked at him worriedly: "Why did you stay in there for so long?"
Shen Yanming had already decided to talk about this after the game. Just as he was about to change the subject, he suddenly had an idea. He hung on He Changkong with his body dripping with moisture and gently bit He Changkong's Adam's apple: "He did something bad in there."
After saying this, Shen Yanming felt his ears a little hot, so he lowered his head and pinched his earlobes.
In fact, I didn’t know what was going on. When He Changkong was staring at me, I suddenly wanted to do something bad.