My first meeting with Haoyang was very unpleasant. Back then, I always liked to laugh heartlessly until I cried and cried until my heart broke. But now, there is no limit to my crying and laughing, and I always laugh and laugh and leave tears. Actually, I'm only a year older, but when I look back, I feel like I've been a hundred years old.

This time, I laughed out loud again. However, in the next second, I was saddened to realize that I was dreaming...... I've been sleeping for many days, and the reason is that Xie Chen has issued a "grounding order", so I have to stay in my room honestly. Luckily, it's winter vacation, and my sudden isolation doesn't seem so abrupt. Li Shuangshuang is very easy to deal with there, just need to say that I have no problem at my brother's house. But the trouble is that my brother has already complained about my delay in returning home. Every time I say it's at a friend's house, but seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, this excuse is naturally full of loopholes.

This is not a solution, and we must find an opportunity to have a showdown with Xie Chen. But they don't seem to be there these days, except for Aunt Liu, who will bring food at dinner time, no one will bother them. Until this afternoon, when I was eating melon seeds and watching the boring "Huanzhu Gege", Aunt Liu suddenly knocked on the door in a panic and came in and said, "Classmate Lin, Mr. Xie has called, let you turn on the phone!" ”

My hand that was sipping melon seeds paused for a moment, and then it suddenly occurred to me that I had turned off my phone since the argument. I was annoyed for a while, even if he was the emperor, I was not his concubine! Come and go as you want? Reluctantly, I opened my phone and saw that there were 12 missed calls! Almost all of them are Shuangshuang and Haoyang, as well as text messages and voice messages sent by Shuangshuang, the content is all:

What are you doing, how do you turn off the phone, and call back quickly after seeing it!

Are you looking for death, are you missing???

There was only one missed call from Xie Chen just now! But come to think of it, if he had called before, he wouldn't have asked the housekeeper to notify me today. I first called Shuangshuang back and lied to her that I had a cold for the past two days, and the guy answered the phone and yelled at me like crazy, but then asked me to rest and said that he wanted to visit me, and I quickly refused. I thought about calling Haoyang again, and since I hung up on him that day, I haven't contacted him again. But when the call was about to be connected, I thought about it and pressed it and sent a simple text message.

As soon as I finished sending a text message, the phone rang, and I thought it was Haoyang calling, but what was beating on the screen was "Thank you×".

I cleared my throat, hurriedly turned off the TV, pretended to have just woken up, and said in a long voice, "Hey-" I don't know when I learned to act.

There was no sound on the other end of the phone, only a faint cold snort.

"I'm taking a nap, so it's off, where are you?" Since he hadn't called before, I simply acted in the full set.

"Beep-" There was a busy tone on the phone.

I cursed, "I'm sick!" Crazy! Then he threw away his phone and continued to eat melon seeds. But then I heard a creak at the door downstairs, "Mr. Xie, you're back—"

Aunt Liu's voice.

I was suddenly shocked, why did he come back all of a sudden? Then how did you call just now? I didn't have time to think about it so much, so I quickly turned off the TV, threw the melon seed skin under the bed, and hid it in the quilt.

I listened quietly to the movement outside with my ears sideways, and the rhythm of his walking was already engraved in my heart. The clatter of going upstairs was followed by the familiar sound of leather shoes falling to the ground, but the footsteps seemed to be approaching my room, and before I could think about it, the door was twisted open.

I pretended to sit up and yawn and stretch, "Oh, you're back......"

Next to the door of this room was a large floor-to-ceiling window, and he stopped in front of the window. When I looked back, I was startled: standing at the window, he was so shaken by the light behind him that I couldn't see his features, but I could clearly feel that he was much haggard, and he had not even shaved his beard, as if he had not rested for a long time.

"What's wrong with you?" I was startled and quickly sat up straight. How could the well-dressed Xie Chen in the past fall into such a field today?

He struggled to move and sat down slowly beside my bed with his back to me. For the first time, I noticed that his back was so thin, and when I looked at him, there was a sense of desolation, and he buried his head deep in his knees, and I was completely driven crazy by this strange series of reactions. After a while, he spoke in a hoarse voice, "I thought you weren't here, it's good that you're here......"

I felt very strange and replied to him, "Where can I go if you cover the sky with one hand?" At home, of course. ”

He didn't speak, but lay down lazily at my feet, "I'm so tired...... Let me sleep for a while......" and curled up like a wounded child.

I sat beside him and listened to his even breathing, and for the first time I had looked at him so calmly up close: his eyelashes were long and thick, and his tired eyebrows were crumbling together, as if it were painful to even dream. I was so motherly that I couldn't help but caress his forehead, which was crumpled into the shape of "Chuan".

What is it that makes him so sad even to sleep?

He suddenly opened his eyes, and I instinctively withdrew my hand, but he held it tightly. His gaze fell straight on the scar on my right hand. Sister Xu's medicine is really effective, and after a few days, there is only a small crescent-shaped scar there, which can't be seen at all if you don't look carefully.

I thought he had done it again, but he just looked at it carefully for a while, and then gently let go of my hand and fell asleep. The whole process was so weird, as if it was all done in a dream.

At this time, I vaguely saw a tear flowing from the corner of his eye, so quiet but fleeting...... I was in a trance for a while, as if he were a child who longed for warmth, sleeping peacefully like a baby, and his even breathing was not at all reminiscent of his usual anger.

I really wanted to get close to him at the moment. Really, I can't believe it for the rest of my life.

I gently covered him with the quilt and went downstairs. Uncle Zhao took Aunt Liu out to buy something, and Dadee was not there, and the huge living room was deserted. I walked around and heard the sound of water in Sister Xu's room, and when I went in, I found that Sister Xu was washing her face, and I greeted her in a friendly manner, first apologizing to her, and then thanking her for the medicine.

She didn't pay much attention to my words, and asked while wiping her face, "What about Xie Chen?" ”

I wanted to ask Sister Xu what was going on, but I knew she wasn't a talkative person, so I had to give up, "He's sleeping, he looks very tired." ”

Sister Xu's expression froze slightly, "I'm very tired, it's good to let him rest." ”

Sister Xu went out after cleaning up, leaving me alone and panicking. Watching the boring TV, Aunt Liu came back with a large bag of things, she bought a lot of vegetables and daily necessities, and said that she would make something good tonight. I became interested all of a sudden, anyway, I had nothing to do, just enough to cook with Aunt Liu.

I didn't have much contact with Aunt Liu, the only time was when I had a high fever last month, when Xie Chen and they were not there, it was Aunt Liu who had been taking care of me in the room. I remember that I was always in a daze for the past few days, and my head was full of fragments of memories of the past...... Aunt Liu said that I always had nightmares all night, and then I woke up sweating profusely.

She is actually a very talkative person, but she looks more wooden on weekdays. From her babbling words, I vaguely knew that she was from Xiangtan, Hunan, a few years ago and her husband came here to do business, and after making some money, her husband ran away with a young woman, she was alone here without relatives, and she didn't have any skills, if it wasn't for Xie Chen to save her, I'm afraid she would have been deceived by traffickers. I also finally knew why Aunt Liu kept thinking of Xie Chen's goodness and treated him like Ultraman who saved the world. As soon as Aunt Liu reminded me, I suddenly thought that in fact, in this family, Xie Chen was very polite to anyone except me. But where did I provoke him, and why did he hate me so much?

We were busy for more than an hour, and Aunt Liu's skills were very good, and the dishes she cooked were all good. I followed her and learned a lot of skills. I remember when I was a child, my father would magically cook different dishes every day, I had never seen it on the side, and I didn't have a chance to learn when I was so big, I could only cook instant noodles, boil porridge, and the best thing was just tomato scrambled eggs.

The meal was almost ready, and seeing that it was still early, we sat down and continued chatting. When talking about me, Aunt Liu suddenly asked, "Classmate Lin, I haven't heard of your family affairs, what do your parents do?" ”

She mentioned it very casually, but it instantly made my good mood fall to the bottom.

My home is actually very simple, it can be summed up in one sentence: without a father or mother, I depend on my brother for my life.