like love

Chapter 25

The glass curtain wall on the left sees through a large piece of warm sunlight, reflecting on the wall, pulling out the long figures of the two.Ye Xingzhi still held his arm, making the silhouette look like lovers reunited and embracing each other.

In the blink of an eye, Zhou Weixia remembered something else.

When he first started working, Mr. Yan praised him for his talent.Zhou Weixia didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking that the teacher was just being polite.

It's not that he didn't live with his father. For a very short time, he spent every day in the studio, but he couldn't arouse his enthusiasm for painting like his father.

How can this be considered talented?

But then Teacher Yan said, "Your talent lies in empathy."

"Artists are so selfish, they are only willing to use their own rules to talk to the world. Curators, more people read a dictionary of the soul, making the secret of expressing an emotion clear and transparent."

Ye Xingzhi said that just now, as if he was saying that he is his best commentary.

But how can he understand what Ye Xingzhi thinks, Ye Xingzhi's self, no matter five years ago or now, he has not understood it.

Zhou Weixia raised his hand to cover the sun, as if he didn't want to look into Ye Xingzhi's eyes anymore, and repeated what he said just now, "I don't understand."

"I never knew you," he said.

Ye Xingzhi held his arm with more strength, "Did you give me a chance to let you understand?" He heard the girl's footsteps from the other side of the corridor, and he turned to the other side forcefully with a half-embraced girl in the corner.

Zhou Weixia struggled a few times, but the people behind him were very tight, they forced his face, and asked in a low voice, "You have been hiding from me for five years, how can I let you know?"

Ye Xingzhi smelled like a mixture of paint and tobacco, which was really not pleasant.Zhou Weixia's respiratory tract was sensitive, and he was easily stimulated to cough a few times, and tears welled up in his eyes.

No matter what the reason was, once he shed tears, Ye Xingzhi had nothing to do.He could only let go of his hand a little bit, and explained, "Is it because of my relationship with Shen Zhang that you hide from me?"

"I never thought about keeping it from you, but I just don't know... how to tell you."

He seemed to want to pour out all the words he hadn't said a few years ago in one breath, for fear that if he missed this opportunity, he would disappear again, "In the beginning, I didn't know your relationship with the Shen family at all."

"By the time I know it, we're already together."

After five years of explaining, Zhou Weixia couldn't tell what it was like to hear it suddenly.He forced himself to take two steps back, raised his head slightly and looked at the person in front of him.

"Ye Xingzhi." He called him by name for the first time after the reunion.

Zhou Weixia was silent for a long time, probably still not very used to saying hurtful words, so he went around in his mind and changed to a calmer wording, "Every time..."

I tried to believe him, and tried to comfort myself that it doesn't matter if I feel uneasy.

The once red delete key and the back figure that disappeared in the circle of cold white street lights flashed in my mind again, as well as the neat phrase 'disgusting'.

Zhou Weixia admits that he is a snail, as long as he encounters a little obstacle, he will immediately retract the tentacles he has stretched out with great difficulty.

The name Ye Xingzhi had become his conditioned reflex for five years, and the only conditioned reaction he brought was pain and resistance.

He closed his eyes and said as if giving up struggling, "I don't know if what you said is true or not."

"Is it all or with reservations."

Zhou Weixia raised his palm and pressed his eye sockets, "It's like your explanation every time before."

What he said made Ye Xingzhi's breath stuck in his throat, but when he opened his lips, he found that what Zhou Weixia said was the truth.

For a long time, he had mistakenly thought that what happened to the Shen family was the landmine that made them bloody and bloody, but today he found out that this was not the case.

No matter how difficult it is to rebuild people's trust, it was his own escape that pushed Zhou Weixia into the countdown to love him wholeheartedly.

The time was up, and he had no more credit lines to draw on five years ago.

Ye Xingzhi still stretched out his hand unwillingly.But his action made Zhou Weixia suddenly take a step back, and his back bumped into the cold wall.It can't be called pain, but there is a cool feeling in my heart, which makes me sober again.Zhou Weixia looked away, and said in a low voice, "In short... it's all over. From now on... just treat it as normal..."

"—It's all over?" Ye Xingzhi looked at him and squeezed out these words from between his teeth.

But Zhou Weixia didn't answer again.

Day by day, he was silently confronting the person he had been looking for for five years.

"It's only been a few days, why did you come back suddenly?" Ye Hui took away a few takeaway lunch boxes on the table, picked up the shower to water the green plants on the balcony, and leaned on the sofa with her back facing asked the person.

"Shove me out of the house in such a hurry?" Ye Xingzhi had just helped her carry a few boxes of goods from the grocery store, unscrewed a bottle of water and took a few sips.

"No one of your age will be kicked out." Ye Hui put the shower on, turned around and said to him, "Only those who ran away from home."

Ye Xingzhi laughed, "Aunt Hui, I'm 26 this year, not sixteen."

"It doesn't matter whether you are 26 or 16 during the rebellious youth period." Ye Hui said with nostalgia, "You didn't learn to smoke when you were [-] years old. The older you are, the more you live back."

"Okay, okay." Seeing that he was about to mutter again, Ye Xingzhi decisively raised his hand in surrender.

Ye Hui knocked him on the head, turned around and planned to go downstairs with the garbage bag in hand.But when she was about to close the door, Ye Xingzhi suddenly called her, "Aunt Hui."

Ye Hui looked back at him, Ye Xingzhi stood up, went to the refrigerator to find two cans of beer, and asked her, "Have a drink?"

It is said to be two bottles, but sitting on the cool chair on the balcony and opening a can is a bit out of control.Ye Hui was actually quite good at drinking, and went downstairs to buy two dishes of stewed vegetables on the way.

She could see that Ye Xingzhi had something on his mind, and knew that he had something to say, but she never asked.

Seeing that she was drinking happily, Ye Xingzhi took the initiative to touch her, "Is your drinking capacity inherited from your grandfather?"

"Our family can drink quite well." Ye Hui said, "Xiaojing is the same."

She rarely called Ye Jing "your mother" in front of Ye Xingzhi, and it didn't make people feel sentimental when talking about it.When Ye Xingzhi heard her talking about his mother, he looked up at the silent night sky and said casually, "I forgot to ask, why did you and grandpa hide my mother from me?"

Ye Hui glanced at him, then turned to look out the window, "Dad said that what happened in the previous generation has nothing to do with the child."

Ye Xingzhi took a sip of his wine, and asked a little sharper, "Do you and grandpa... hate the Shen family?"

"You kid." Ye Hui squeezed the empty aluminum can in his hand, and patted him on the back of the head lightly, "I don't see you bringing someone back when you're so old."

"I haven't learned how to love, so what about hating or not?"

Ye Xingzhi paused for a moment with his hand holding the beer, and turned to look at her as if he had been hit.

Ye Hui leaned back on the cool chair again, shook her head twice and said, "Your grandfather and I's attitude towards them is just our attitude." She reached for a new can of beer, "You're so old, you should be careful about things. Use your own judgment."

The beer foam rolled up in his stomach a few times, Ye Xingzhi put down the wine can, lay on his back and said, "Aunt Hui, I came back this time to tell you... I may have to stay in City B for a little longer."

"is it?"

"Hmm." He said firmly.