vision of dawn

Chapter 21

The top of the refrigerator has been neglected for many years, and a thin layer of dust has accumulated. After staring at the photos for a long time, the eyebrows and eyes of the portraits have become strange. Liao Liming remembered someone saying that you are not you in the photos or in the mirror. The true face of a person depends on the appearance of the person you love.

He pictured Xi Wenbai's appearance again in his mind, with a face carved out of ice, broad shoulders and a warm and soft heart.

They rarely quarreled, and the few occasional quarrels ended with Xi Wenbai lying on his lap with a face thicker than a city wall and asking, "Is the little doctor still angry?"

At that time, Xi Wenbo was like a big lion showing off its furry belly, retracting its sharp claws, and willingly let him ride on his head to show off.

Big Lion, Big Boss, Liao Liming smiled awkwardly, walked away from the refrigerator, dangled in the hallway, and waited for the metal-to-metal collision that he might never be able to wait for.

Liao Liming has been trapped in this place where he has lived for 16 years. The familiar things around him make people feel tormented. The acacia tree overtook the window three years ago. There are piles of leaves sticking to the window, as if they want to squeeze but can't squeeze in.Whenever the annual typhoon comes, Liao Liming hugs his knees and looks at the swaying branches and leaves outside the window, and he will have a wonderful feeling that he is still alive.

In my impression, Xi Wenbai never lost his temper, except that time when he called to inform the two elders about their marriage.

It was so fierce, Liao Liming sighed helplessly. At that time, he couldn't tell which end of the phone was louder, Xi Wenbai or old Mr. Xi.Obviously, the power of marriage to his future husband is no less than that of a nuclear bomb. Even if the hands-free is not turned on, Liao Liming can clearly hear the roar of Mr. Xi.

"If you have the guts, go get married! If you want to play with a man, you play outside with me. I turn a blind eye and close my eyes. I still think that your sex will pass, and you will definitely marry a girl in the future. It's good now, why not People who are not four and four dare to take it home!"

"Liao Liming is not a dubious person, he is the one I love, I have mentioned this to you countless times." Xi Wenbo took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.

"Bah! The person you love? I still love our dog. Can I marry a dog?"

"Father! Enough is enough! Who I want to marry is not something you can decide!"

"I can't decide? Who am I doing my whole life for? Let me tell you, little boy, if you dare to marry a man...whom his mother can't even count as a man, you won't even be able to get a piece of the Xi family property!"

Xi Wenbai smiled angrily, "Do you think I care about those broken money?"

"I, Xi Chengliang, don't have you—"

"Old Xi...well, please keep your voice down, let Wen Bo think about it again, call me...give me." Xi Wenbo listened to his mother's voice silently.There was thunder outside the window, he subconsciously embraced Liao Liming, kissed him on the forehead, and mouthed his apology.

Liao Liming lowered his eyes, feeling his nose sour.

"Wen Bai, do you want to think about it again? It would be nice to choose a girl to marry, she is gentle and virtuous, and can take care of the family. Now that this kind of thing happens, others will say something behind their backs, saying they are gay! Disgusting ! Your father will not be able to hold his head up in front of his friends, he is looking through his bank card now, saying that he will use all the gift money left for your wedding—"

After a long sigh, harsh curses rushed over, "I want to get married... I want to get married, right? You bring someone home, bring me here!"

"What do you want to do?" Xi Wenbai suddenly raised his voice, "What kind of mental illness are you having? How can you be satisfied with me? Bring Xiao Liao here, and then what? Then watch you attack him?"

"I figured it out, it's not me but you who is mentally ill! If you want to get married, okay, you bring that dead rabbit back first, and I'll call your second aunt, uncle, aunt, grandparents, and take pictures with your mobile phone! After posting it on the Internet! Let everyone take a look! The reputation of our Xi family will be ruined, you want to lose my people? You have to lose face first! If you dare to run to get married by yourself, I will jump from upstairs Go down and show it to you!"

"Xi Chengliang!"

Xi Wenbo and Mrs. Xi roared at the same time, Xi Wenbo cut off the phone decisively, turned it off, threw it out, and buried his face deeply in his palm.

"Why is this..."

Liao Liming was also frightened and dared not move, "Xi...Wen Bo, are you okay?"

A sob came from next to his ear, and Xi Wenbai's Adam's apple rolled up and down. He raised his head and touched his face vigorously, "I'm fine... Don't worry, I will protect you when I go back."

"When you go back?" Liao Liming felt dizzy for a while.

"I want to take you home..." Xi Wenbo said, "I want you to go in openly."

"Go in openly and be humiliated by your father and your family?" Liao Liming looked at him incredulously, "Xi Wenbo, do you think so?"

Xi Wenbai opened his mouth, not knowing how to explain his feelings to Liao Liming, "No, letting them hurt you is the last thing I want to see, but things have to be resolved, since I have already proposed to you , it will definitely be done.”

"Properly communicate with your family and let them agree to the wedding is your business. My intervention will not have any effect. If you naively think that if you take me in, your parents will agree to our marriage. I have nothing to do." That's it."

"Little doctor, don't be so pessimistic—"

"I've never been so objective." Liao Liming sat across from him, "I won't go home with you until they eliminate their hostility toward me."

Xi Wenbai wanted to shake his hand, but it was empty, "Don't do this, I brought you home in the hope that they would accept you sooner. I also said that I will protect you."

"Protect me?" Liao Liming's heart was beating extremely fast, "Why do I need to be protected? Did I do something to offend your Xi family? Am I something shameful?

"Liao Liming." Xi Wenbo's voice sank, "I just finished arguing with my father, can we save it?"

"I will always be following you. I will go wherever you say. I have no choice but to accept the decision you make, including buying that house privately, and even moving. If you say you want me to move here, I have to Move here, Xi Wenbo, can you consider my feelings first?"

"Then who will consider my feelings? Haven't I done enough for you?" Xi Wenbai clenched his hands, "In the end, is your evaluation of me such a selfish and arrogant person?"

"It's not what you wanted... Ha, without me, you wouldn't be able to graduate until now!"

"Graduation?" Liao Liming choked for a moment, "What are you talking about? Xi Wenbo? Why can't I graduate?"

"Do you want to listen? I'll tell you! Do you know how disgusting your dear supervisor is? None of the doctoral students under him can graduate normally, and they are all squeezed by him! Until the end For a drop of value, he will throw them out like trash. What do you think will be a big achievement in society after graduating with a Ph. How could he let you graduate? Liao Liming, think about it carefully! Because of this, I used all my connections to buy equipment, inject funds, and toss about for two months! "

Liao Liming listened quietly, the brilliance in his eyes was fading little by little, he looked seriously at Xi Wenbai who was furious, his tone was a little tranced, "Why didn't you tell me...why didn't you tell me?"

"...I really think you'll never know." Xi Wenbai coughed, "I just want to protect you, you don't deserve to be troubled by these things."

"Then please tell me, Xi Wenbai, how much you paid for my parents' house. If you don't tell me, I can always find out if I want to."

"Three times the market price..." Xi Wenbo didn't dare to look him in the eyes, "There is also a flat in the city center."

"Do I have to pay it off?" Liao Liming stared at Xi Wenbo lonely, "I thought I paid it off."

"You've already paid it off." Xi Wenbo said in a low voice, "It's just that our calculation method is different. We will be a family from now on, so we don't need to count these things anymore."

Liao Liming suddenly felt suffocated. He thought that he had achieved it himself, to graduate with a Ph. I have never escaped the fate of being "taken care of", living under Xi Wenbai's wings, and I am so complacent that I don't realize it.

Now it seems that the joy of passing the defense day is simply a naked joke.

"I want to marry you, Xi Wenbai." He got up and walked slowly to the door, his eyes were red..."I always wanted to, but definitely not in this way."

There were two more thunderclaps outside the window.

"What's wrong with you? Where are you going?" Xi Wenbai chased after him and took his wrist.

"I'm going out to get some air, please think again about my suggestion and communicate with your uncles and aunts."

"Okay, okay, I promise you, I'll call them again, if it still doesn't work, I'll fly there by myself, is that okay?" Xi Wenbo's hand clenched so painfully.

"Okay, but I still want to get out, this house is suffocating me."

"It's raining outside, I'm going to get an umbrella, let's go out together." Xi Wenbo turned around and walked a few steps, then turned around worriedly, "You wait for me."

"Okay..." Liao Liming smiled gently.

When Xi Wenbai came out with his umbrella, Liao Liming, who was standing in the porch, disappeared.Seeing the empty gate, Xi Wenbo was startled, the umbrella slipped from his hand, trembling, he opened the gate like crazy and rushed into the rain.

The little doctor didn't bring an umbrella when he went out. He might go to a convenience store or something to hide from the rain. Xi Wenbo quickly searched in his mind for the convenience stores around him that were open until midnight, looking for them one by one.

Half an hour later, the rain eased a little, and Xi Wenbai desperately searched for any possible places where Liao Liming might go.

The rain in the summer night was not very cold, but he was trembling all over.

Phone, yes, Liao Liming's mobile phone is always on his body, he can make calls, Xi Wenbo ran home again, found the mobile phone on the sofa, held his hands steady, and dialed Liao Liming's number.

The beep sounded, the phone was connected, but no one answered.Just when Xi Wenbo was about to dial No.13, Liao Liming's call came in suddenly.

"Where are you!" Tears ran across Xi Wenbai's face, "Liao Liming, where are you!"

Apart from the noisy sound of rain, there was no other sound from Liao Liming's end, and then the call was hung up, and when Xi Wenbai called back, the call was still not picked up.

Xi Wenbo felt like he was going crazy.

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