Chapter 79: "Yu Fan, are you breaking up with me?"

Yu Fan has been living alone for six years, and can be said to be living a life of indifference. He has been living alone for six years, and can be described as a man of few wants. The dull, busy life has pressed him to death, and he has never had such an impulsive time.

He sat still on the couch, taking a long time to press that dryness down. Getting up, he placed another small potted plant on the shoe cabinet and turned to go upstairs to catch up on his sleep.

Rainy weekends are perfect for sleeping. Yu Fan drifted off to sleep for a few hours amidst cold temperatures and the sound of rain, dreaming of high school classrooms, dreaming of eerie lab buildings, dreaming of Chen Jingshen's room ......

Waking up in the darkness of the night, Yu Fan was lying flat on the bed, staring at the dark ceiling and feeling the muggy heat coming back, and she was not feeling well.

People's mental defenses are very low when they first wake up, and he struggled for ten seconds or so before he finally put his arm in front of his eyes, and his other hand went under the covers in self-indulgence.

Wiping his hands clean, Yu Fan flopped down on his pillow like a dead fish, and his cell phone vibrated before coming to life. When I picked it up, it was a photo from Wang Luan of his dinner.

Yu Fan dragged his finger and replied, "If you don't have anything to do, go farming," and was about to put his phone down when he realized there was a new friend request.

[s: I'm Chen Jingshen.]

Yu Fan's nerves jumped, and his ears burned as he remembered what he had just done.

Chen Jingshen's avatar was the same as always, the same Du Binquan, so much so that he was in a trance for a moment and clicked into his circle of friends to see nothing but a familiar green background wall.

The cell phone buzzed in his hand, and Yu Fan quickly came to his senses. Chen Jingshen What do you mean? Looking for death? I didn't react in the daytime and let him get away, and now he dares to come and add me as a friend?

Yu Fan tapped reject straight away, then threw his phone downstairs to take a shower.

The result came up with another friend request: [I'm Chen Jingshen.]

Yu Fan's movements gave a start, suddenly feeling that this routine was a bit familiar.

In hindsight, Chen Jingshen used to bombard him with friend requests in the same way. Yu Fan's face turned cold, and he didn't even click on the rejection button, letting the request hang out to dry, and lowered his head to continue scrubbing his hair.

Even six years ago, now Chen Jingshen has a boyfriend and she's still using this crap to set him up.

A man can't step into the same river twice, and he'll fall for it again he's a dog.

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At work on Monday, Wang Yue realizes that something is not quite right with this young man in his studio.

First up, "What are you wearing a mask for?"

Yu Fan, who was kissed so hard that she had two chipped lips that didn't heal for a weekend and didn't hurt, but was a little hard to see, replied as she tapped away at her client, "It's cool."

"......"

And then, Wang Yue, comparing the original with the retouched one, asked suspiciously, "Why does this high school friend of yours feel so shortened by your retouching?"

Yu Fan: "It's already short."

"Can't be, I saw him that day how also have 185 ah. And this face, how also become fat, even shoes seem to be shorter?"

All of them were repaired according to Chen Jingshen's own requirements. Yu Fan didn't bother to explain and said expressionlessly, "He's ugly on camera."

"......"

"Who is s?" Finally, at lunchtime, Wang Yue asks again.

This time Yu Fan finally reacted as he choked on his rice and looked down and coughed violently.

Wang Yue quickly handed him a bottle of water, Yu Fan took no drink, coughing red ears asked: "How do you know him?"

Wang Yue had known Yu Fan for so long, and it was the first time she had seen him react so strongly. She said in a daze, "I made three trips downstairs today to get my things, and all three times I saw you looking at this person's friend request, not passing or rejecting it."

"......"

Yu Fan held his chopsticks and paused, saying "friend" is a bit strange if you haven't been verified, "enemy" is not so bad, "ex-boyfriend"... ...

Finally Yu Fan ducked his head to take a bite of his meal and threw in a vague, "No one."

Today, Chen Jingshen's newlywed friends came to the store to take photos, the woman was very satisfied with the photos, and the man was even more satisfied to see Chen Jingshen actually shorter than himself in the photos, and before he left, the man handed Yu Fan a packet of happy cigarettes: "It's been a hard two days of overtime work, brother."

"No." Yu Fan hesitated and asked, "Can you do me another favor?"

Not expecting the other man to go along for the ride, the man's smile tightened, "Go ahead."

"This," Yu Fan handed him the bag beside him, "can you return it to Chen Jingshen for me if it's convenient?"

The man was stunned, Chen Jingshen would lend clothes to strangers? When he was in college, he thought that Chen Jingshen was a bit of a clean freak, and even hung out her clothes far away from theirs.

But when I looked down, it was actually the same jacket that Chen Jingshen wore that day: "You guys know each other?"

"High school classmates."

The man unexpectedly raised his eyebrows, a little puzzled, and could not say, "This ...... way I want to help you, but it is not very convenient, I have to go to my wife's hometown tomorrow to organize another game, and do not return to the South City yet. How about you mail it to him?"

Yu Fan's hand on the bag paused and said, "Good. Do you know his address? I was in such a hurry that day that I didn't have time to add my contact information."

The other person tore up a Post-it note to write the address, Yu Fan stared at the pen, clenched and unclenched his hand, and after a few repetitions heard himself ask, "I heard him say the other day that he's seeing someone, also from your university?"

"No ah, out of town." Only that day was criticized by his own wife, the man did not dare to say more, perfunctorily stated, "I don't know the rest, he talked to his object when he enrolled in the first year of college, it's not likely that you still know better than I do."

The address was given and the newlyweds left with the photos.

Yu Fan sat in front of the computer, his right hand fixing pictures, his left hand holding the note with Chen Jingshen's address, clenched into a ball for a while, then unfolded again.

Talking about it right after you start freshman year? When was that? Senior year, or after graduation?

Who could it be, the first class? Miao Chen?Or is it just another look at some mean, delinquent student who doesn't like to study ......

Yu Fan clicked on Wang Luan's avatar, wanting to ask him how Chen Jingshen's senior year was going and who he was close to. Every time I typed out the words, I deleted them.

What's the point of him asking, Chen Jingshen? As long as he's not talking to someone else while he's talking to himself, it's none of his fucking business.

When Wang Yue came downstairs, he saw Yu Fan propping his elbows on the table and pulling out his hair one by one.

"What's up? It's eight o'clock and you're still sitting there." Wang Yue said, "Packing up and leaving."

Yu Fan said, "The photo wasn't retouched."

"Tomorrow Xiu, you and I will go to dinner together, and then we will go to the bar." Wang Yue took out the perfume in her bag and sprayed it on her wrist, "I've got a date with my sisters, so you'll go and sit in for us again."

-

This is not the first time Yu Fan has done this. A few years ago, Wang Yue and her friends got into trouble in front of a bar. She was a little drunk and called Yu Fan on the wrong number, and Yu Fan heard the commotion and came with a steel rod, scaring the shit out of those creepy guys.

Since then, Wang Yue has always called Yu Fan when he goes to a drinking party without a male friend, firstly, to calm down the scene, and secondly, to look at the bag.

Yu Fan although full of reluctance, but generally will go, every time expressionless chest hugging sitting on the card seat, who want to talk to him will be he stared back, like sitting a bit of Hades, the effect of pull full.

Today's Yu Fan is different.

When Wang Yue came down from the dance floor for the first time, she actually saw Yu Fan drinking, and as she watched Yu Fan pouring wine into his mouth, she said, "Baby Fan, it's not that Sis won't let you drink, I'm just afraid that no one will be able to carry you back if you get drunk."

Yu Fan said, "Don't worry, you won't get drunk."

The second time she comes back, Yu Fan has just puked on a man who came to talk to him.

For the third time, Yu Fan raises his hand, orders another dozen drinks, and then coldly tells her that he's paying for this hit.

In the end, Wang Yue stopped him from drinking, although Yu Fan seemed to be a good drinker, he had stomach problems and she was afraid of accidents.

At one in the morning, the group left the bar. Yu Fan watched as Wang Yue and the girls got into their cars one by one, casually writing down the license plate numbers before taking a taxi back.

Ning Cheng had recently been affected by a typhoon, and the rain had been coming down thick and fast, and the wind was strong. The driver dutifully took the person to the entrance of the apartment.

Yu Fan paid to get out of the car, pressed the elevator to go upstairs, and then leaned into the elevator wall to slow down a bit. It had been too long since he'd had this much to drink, and while he wasn't drunk enough to do so, he was inevitably a little dizzy in the head.

With a ding, the elevator doors swung open and Yu Fan looked up to see a man standing in the dimly lit, narrow corridor.

The man was right in front of his house, not holding a cell phone, just standing with his back against the wall, the sound-activated light was not on, the corridor was damp from the slanting wind and rain, and the darkness closed in on him, making it impossible to see his features. But Yu Fan blinked, and the silhouette was automatically completed in his mind.

What a shitty problem.

Yu Fan swallowed, his mouth full of alcohol and dry.

He walks over and swipes through the combination lock interface, and the voice-activated light comes on, illuminating Chen Jingshen's wet gray sweater.

After waiting a long time for someone to finally arrive, Chen Jingshen watched him open the door, smelling the alcohol and perfume on his body, his hand hanging down at his side moved, and he inclined his head to ask, "Been drinking?"

Yu Fan did not respond, opened the door and entered the house. Chen Jingshen just stood up straight, "pop" sound, the door was closed hard.

"......"

Chen Jingshen stared at the closed door for a moment, leaned back against the wall in silence, patted the water droplets on his body, looked up at the sky and continued to wait.

The cell phone rings, Chen Jingshen looks at it and picks it up.

The old man on the other end rambled a lot: "Your mother's character you are not unaware of, you have to mention that boy at this time why? Your mom has accepted this matter of yours, just want you to find a better ......."

"Nothing more." Chen Jingshen said, "It doesn't matter to me whether she agrees or not in that regard, Grandma."

The old man was exhausted and hung up the phone. Chen Jingshen The cell phone was thrown in the pocket and continued to wait.

The rain was getting heavier, and the raindrops coming in at an angle were getting denser and denser. Each passing household couldn't help but look at him, and asked him if he wanted an umbrella, but Chen Jingshen shook his head and refused.

About half an hour later, there was a click in his ear and the door beside him opened.

The person inside opened the door and went inside, Chen Jingshen turned around and entered the room, a bath towel was thrown at him.

Chen Jingshen raised his hand to catch it, Yu Fan had just finished his shower, rubbing his hair while sitting on the sofa to play with his cell phone, and coldly threw out a sentence: "After rubbing it, get back."

Yu Fan is going to sleep, and the only lights in the room are the bathroom light and the cell phone light.

Chen Jingshen reached back and unlocked the door, wiped the bath towel over his head casually, and walked over to discuss with him, "Can you stay a little longer? There's nowhere to go."

"All the hotels in Ning Cheng have closed down?"

"Didn't get a hotel reservation." Chen Jingshen said.

"So what are you doing here?"

"Looking for you."

Yu Fan's bored fingers on the cell phone screen suddenly stopped.

When he hadn't been drinking he'd had the energy to maneuver and exchange pleasantries, now his little bit of patience and adult decency had been pushed all the way to alcohol.

The room was quiet for a moment before Yu Fan looked up, his cell phone casting a pale light on his cheeks as he stated with little expression, "Chen Jingshen, you have a boyfriend, don't you?"

Chen Jingshen's movement of rubbing her hair gave a start, and she lowered her eyes to look at him.

Yu Fan saw that he didn't say anything, so she added, "I heard from your friend."

Looking at each other for a long time, Chen Jingshen said, "Uh-huh."

Yu Fan today is like a bomb that is about to explode, Chen Jingshen one syllable is the spark that ignites. Anger and bitterness rose up in his heart, Yu Fan threw down his cell phone and got up, grabbing Chen Jingshen's collar with a hostile face: "Then why the hell are you still looking for me? Chen Jingshen, are you playing with me?"

He can't tell you how he feels right now, wants to curse and hit, can't give up and is sad. Wanted to ask when did we talk, as soon as we broke up? Liked him more than he liked me? But when he left is his own, he did not have the position to ask, round and round can only say a you are not playing me?

Chen Jingshen let him grab him, not uttering a word, just looking at him. Yu Fan was made even more uncomfortable by looking at him, and his grip on him tightened a bit, "You ......"

"What about you." Chen Jingshen suddenly spoke.

Yu Fan paused, "What?"

"Why did you leave in the first place?"

Chen Jingshen's sentence hammered him in place. Yu Fan's fingers stiffened as he listened to Chen Jingshen slowly ask in a muffled voice, "Why didn't you say a word, why did you even delete your friends, why didn't you go back even once. Have you liked anyone else for so many years, have you been with anyone else?"

The whitewashed siding is peeling away, revealing a patchy and decaying past.

Yu Fan was dumbfounded for a long time before finding his voice, "No, and for no reason."

Forget it. Slowly he released the man, averting his eyes and turning around, "Throw the towel on the couch after you wipe it off, and close ...... on your way out."

Before he could finish his sentence, his arm was grabbed by someone, Yu Fan was directly thrown onto the sofa, Chen Jingshen knelt between his legs, his hands pressed on his shoulders and neck, firmly holding him down in the sofa.

Yu Fan was unprepared and startled. He subconsciously went to kick Chen Jingshen, struggling to get up, but did not push the person on him at all: "Chen Jingshen, you ......"

"Is it really going well?" Chen Jingshen asked.

"......"

"Then why is there no one around, why have you lost weight, and why is there so much medicine in the house."

"......"

"People here speak with a pretty heavy accent, a lot of the stores I go to speak in dialect, can I understand them when I come here?"

Yu Fan's struggles became weaker and weaker, and in the end, he grasped Chen Jingshen's collar and didn't move anymore. He gritted his teeth, turned his eyes away from Chen Jingshen, and said in a toneless voice, "It's none of your business."

Chen Jingshen lifted his hand to grab his face back and looked at him askance with downcast eyes.

They stared at each other in silence, the living room was unlit and each other's eyes were the brightest thing they could see.

Chen Jingshen The tips of his hair were still wet, I don't know how long it took, but he suddenly spoke in a low voice, "I do have a boyfriend."

Yu Fan's heart pumped so hard he couldn't even feel the pain.

"Been together for over six years."

Seamless. Yu Fan thought numbly.

"He was cute, hardworking and well behaved. We arranged to go to college in the same city, rent an apartment together, and he said he liked me and would run away with me. Then he went off on his own."

Yu Fan's tightly clenched teeth suddenly loosened, and he tilted his head up, looking blankly at Chen Jingshen.

"He went cold turkey, left without saying goodbye, and traveled far away." Chen Jingshen said, "...... gone for six years."

"We met before he left and he didn't say anything but kissed me. I don't understand what that means."

Yu Fan's eyes burned red. He opened his mouth for a moment, but not a single sound came out; he could only feel Chen Jingshen's cold fingers slowly closing around his neck, his voice like rain mixed in when he was outside the door.

"Now I ask you." Chen Jingshen said, "Yu Fan, are you breaking up with me?"