How quickly Shao Chengyun's reflex nerves were, Xin Rong had fought with him several times, and naturally knew it.
He slapped it out, thinking that the other party would avoid it.
Until the palm of his hand slapped over his cheek and made a very loud sound, both of them instantly fixed.
Shao Chengyun did not hold him anymore, but instead put one hand on Xin Rong's shoulder, and the other hand lifted up, wiping the blood stains on the corners of Xin Rong's lips with his fingers. It was blood coming from Shao Chengyun's mouth.
Shao Chengyun's voice was a little hoarse, and he said to Xin Rong, "I'm sorry. Then he smiled very faintly, with a tone of self-deprecation, "I was too impulsive." His hand slowly slid down one side of Xin Rong's shoulder, and the handsome face was not too embarrassed.
Perhaps deep down, Shao Chengyun already regarded Xin Rong as a relative and lover, even if he was slapped, it was because he was at fault first. His apologies and self-blame are sincere, and he is no longer the condescending partner he once was.
Xin Rong stood with his back to the window sill, his ravaged lips flushed, but his face was a little pale.
His two hands were holding back against the edge of the windowsill, and his breathing hadn't completely calmed down.
Shao Chengyun finally realized that something was wrong with him, stared at him for a few seconds, and called his name.
Xin Rong didn't speak, and his eyes were a little scattered.
Shao Chengyun sighed, reached out and supported the back of Xin Rong's head, pressed him on his shoulder, and asked him, "What did you think?" So scared.
Shao Chengyun knew the answer, but Xin Rong had to tell him once in person, and the knot between them could be untied.
Xin Rong is not a fragile and flirtatious person, and he himself has been trying to turn over the matter.
Shao Chengyun asked him, and he was not willing to answer positively.
"When I hugged you, were you afraid of me?" This time Shao Chengyun asked more specifically, but his voice was gentler and with a soothing meaning.
Xin Rong still did not answer, he raised his head, pulled away from Shao Chengyun, pursed his lower lip, and suddenly asked, "Is there water?"
Shao Chengyun turned around and went to Xiaoice box to get him a bottle of water, unscrewed the lid and handed it to him.
Xin Rong looked up and took two sips, then put the bottle on the windowsill next to him.
"There's an assumption, but I've always wanted to know." Xin Rong opened his mouth again, his voice was very soft, and the speed of his speech was slow, "If there was no Zhou Zong who was there that day, no one would help me." To the end... Will you let me go?
Maybe in the eyes of others, this is not a good opportunity to chat.
But Xin Rong still asked.
His heart knot was not actually how he had been treated by Shao Chengyun that night. Instead, in the two months before and after the termination of the agreement, Shao Chengyun used various methods to restrict him and force him to stay with him.
Several times Xin Rong had also thought about asking this question. But because of the occasion, or the timing, or his own lack of courage to face the truth, he was unable to ask in the end.
And just now they kissed by mistake. Mistakenly expressing emotions, biting and hitting, although not serious, it was something that happened in just one or two minutes, but it gave Xin Rong a very bad memory association. <
He suddenly had an impulse to hear Shao Chengyun say what he had really thought in those two months.
The silence given by Shao Chengyun was longer than Xin Rong could imagine.
Maybe a minute, maybe two minutes. Xin Rong could see that his cheeks were moving on both sides, as if it were a dark bite.
Finally, Shao Chengyun reached over and took the water that Xin Rong had placed on the windowsill, took a sip, and when he twisted the cap back, he said, "Want to hear the truth?" Xin Rong.
Xin Rong looked at him and nodded slightly.
Shao Chengyun's eyes regained their deep color, and the corners of his lips ticked, smiled, and said, "Don't let go." In fact, the process of silence itself is the answer, Xin Rong has already guessed.
It is precisely because it is "not to let go", so Shao Chengyun is reluctant to say it. Just like Xin Rong was reluctant to ask questions before.
"In the education I received from childhood to adulthood, everything I wanted was available through ways and means." Shao Chengyun said very calmly, "Xin Rong, you are too weak for me, and there are too many places where I can pinch you." I want you as a person, or your feelings, and you don't have to be so heart-to-heart at all.
Everything Shao Chengyun said was the truth.
In the adult world, truth is the most expensive. In a sense, truth means exposing weaknesses and showing hole cards. But Shao Chengyun gave it to Xin Rong. <
Xin Rong's throat seemed to be blocked by something, and he couldn't make a sound.
Although Shao Chengyun was only objectively describing the virtual possibility that he might have done to Xin Rong in the past, but in the end he did not have the heart to do it, it was enough to make Xin Rong realize that he had escaped.
"I know what you're trying to say." Shao Chengyun continued, with a gentle coldness in his voice, "If you really do that, I won't get your feelings."
"Don't think so, Xin Rong." Speaking of this, the man came a little closer, and also supported the window sill with one hand, and the other hand touched the back of Xin Rong's spine, rubbing it little by little along the bone joint, "At that time, what I wanted was not equal love." Less energy to deal with your childish thoughts and persistence.
In retrospect, Shao Chengyun's process of change was actually very long. His true heart also showed up very slowly. Even at the beginning of the redemption, he still did not give up using some of the methods of the past.
Xin Rong rejected him and had no confidence in him, based on correct intuition. At that time, Shao Chengyun was not worth believing.
Xin Rong's mind suddenly passed a vague and unclear thought. He remembered for no reason that he had first met Bai Hui at the cocktail party, and the other party had said that if he was smart, he should not be close to people like Zhou Langye and Shao Chengyun.
Xin Rong furrowed his brows, looked at the one in front of him, and asked Shao Chengyun, "Have Bai Hui and Zhou Zong ever been separated?" How to divide.
Shao Chengyun was stunned at first, then laughed and said, "Oh, this, this is their privacy, I said it is inappropriate." After a pause, he gave Xin Rong a short but enough answer to explain everything, "He's worse than you."
The life Xin Rong experienced gave him a sharper judgment. Ever since that night when they signaled to Luo Vicky and Bai Hui for help, Xin Rong had been making the right choice.
He was actively saving himself and did not hesitate to seize the opportunity. At the same time, it also saved Shao Chengyun.
Even in the process of shao chengyun's unsuccessful compounding, there were still a few times when he thought about not giving Xin Rong freedom, so he used the method he had always been good at to force him to come back. But in the end, Shao Chengyun did not do that.
Flights to the UK lasted more than ten hours. After experiencing planes, cars, and traveling, until I saw Xin Rong walk out of the campus. Although Shao Chengyun was reluctant to admit it, he had to admit that his love for Xin Rong grew day by day in the process.
He admired Xin Rong for growing up in such a stubborn way, and gradually agreed with everything he advocated.
It was Xin Rong who taught him what true love is.
Finally, Shao Chengyun put one of his hands on Xin Rong's hand, his head was a little low, and said, "I know that when I say these words, you may be angry." But I don't want to lie to you. With Shao Chengyun's identity and age, his low posture is probably only seen by Xin Rong.
However, Xin Rong pushed Shao Chengyun away with his other hand and instead picked up Sugar Candy's picture book and put it in his backpack.
When he walked past Shao Chengyun without saying a word, carrying his bag, Shao Chengyun reached out and grabbed him. The force was very restrained, but he grabbed his wrist vainly.
"Xin Rong." Shao Chengyun called his name, then took a deep breath and spoke in a somewhat difficult way, "Don't like other people."
"None of them love you as much as I do."
Not only did Xin Rong not think about it, but even Shao Chengyun himself would not have thought that one day he was the one who said he loved first.
However, Xin Rong only paused, and then looked up at Shao Chengyun, almost expressionlessly, and shook his head slightly. Finally did not give any reply, straight out of the hotel room.
Xin Rong's shaking head can be interpreted in many ways. Shao Chengyun thus had an extremely difficult day.
He knew that Xin Rong needed time to digest and waited until the evening to try to contact him. But Xin Rong did not answer the phone, and only replied with a brief message on the grounds that he was in the library.
Shao Chengyun asked him again if he could pick him up at the bar after tomorrow's class reunion.
Xin Rong's side was completely unresponsive. Since then, he has not given Shao Chengyun any more news.
At nine o'clock the next night, Shao Chengyun still drove to the door of the bar. He didn't enter the venue, nor did he call Xin Rong, he just waited outside.
Almost an hour later, several young people came out of the bar one after another. Although separated by a street, one of them looked somewhat familiar.
At the same time that Shao Chengyun recognized that the other party was Louis, Louis also recognized him. <
Two people looked at each other across the street.
Louis was supposed to come out with his friends to smoke, because half of the party was girls, and they were not very polite to smoke in public, so they came outside the bar.
The tall man standing on the opposite side of the street caught his attention at once. Louis spoke with his friend, crossed the street alone, and walked to Shao Chengyun.
"Xin Rong didn't say you were going to pick him up tonight." Louis slipped his hands in his jeans pockets, and when he was finished, he turned his head and looked at the door of the bar.
"I'll wait for him." Shao Chengyun said quietly.
"Mr. Shao." Louis laughed suddenly, "My friend in China once taught me a sentence, and I think you must have heard it." Good exes should act like dead. "Is that what you say?" He asked again.
Shao Chengyun would not react to such childish provocations. He just leaned against the side of the car and looked at the youth faintly.
The smile on Louis's face didn't change, and he said, "I know, you don't care to talk to me, you probably didn't take me seriously."
"I checked your background." Speaking of this, Louis paused and gave Shao Chengyun a thumbs up, "It's a big head." And after Xin Rong entered the school, you donated a lot of money to the college. I guess Xin Rong didn't know yet.
"Have you ever thought about it, Mr. Shao?" Xin Rong may also be tired of the posture of a rich person like you. He just wants to have a simple relationship?
After Louis finished speaking, Chong Shao Chengyun raised his chin, as if satisfied with the few words he had picked up, and then turned across the street and walked back to the bar.
Shao Chengyun looked at Louis's back, and in just a few seconds, he even had an illusion that he shouldn't have.
Yes, the other party is two very different kinds of people from themselves. Xin Rong probably couldn't like a boy like Louis who was too young.
But who knows? Maybe Louis wasn't stupid, and everything he said hit the nail on the head. What Xin Rong wants is nothing more than simple love.
Perhaps there was really such a slim possibility that Xin Rong finally did not choose to return to Shao Chengyun's side, but fell in love with someone else.
Shao Chengyun suddenly felt that the June wind was a little cold on his body.
After about ten minutes, the door of the bar opened again, this time it was Xin Rong who came out alone.
He should have known that Shao Chengyun was waiting on the opposite street, so his gaze calmly fell on Shao Chengyun.
But Shao Chengyun did not wait for him to cross the street, did not wait for him to walk towards him. Xin Rong stood a few meters away, until the door behind him opened again, and Louis and his party also laughed and poured out.
Xin Rong retracted his gaze and no longer faced Shao Chengyun's direction. He turned and walked a few steps down the sidewalk, and Louis caught up with him from behind, then put his hand on Xin Rong's shoulder.