At about eleven that night, Ji Yan got off the plane.
When he got home, the house was dark and quiet.
Ji Yan crouched and turned on the lights, the tea on the dinner table was still steaming, indicating that his father had just gone to sleep.
He put down his backpack and head to his father’s bedroom to take a look inside. When he saw the figure of his sleeping father, he had suddenly the urge to cry.
He hasn’t been home for far too long.
Ji Yan rubbed his sour eyes and walked to his bedroom. He hasn’t lived in this room for a few years now, and yet, the room was still very clean.
Ji Yan took off his clothes and lay in his bed; he felt a sense of familiarity with everything there.
However, unexpectedly, he couldn’t sleep.
Finally he choked into soft sobs and fell asleep shortly after from exhaustion.
At about four o’clock in the morning, Ji Yan was woken up by his mobile phone ringtone.
Still gorgy from sleep, he answered the phone with a hoarse voice: “Hello?”
“Brother Yan.”
Ji Yan suddenly woke up at once.
“What’s the matter?”
“Are you… home?”
“Um.”
“I…” The person on the phone asked hesitantly: “Can I go to see you on vacation?”
Ji Yan immediately refused: “No, don’t come, besides, you would not know where to find me.”
“Yan…” Lu Yichen’s voice was full of grievances: “Brother Yan, I was wrong.”
Ji Yan wanted to ask him what was the thing he did wrong, but in the end he didn’t.
Why bother? Having reached this step in their relationship, there is no more need to know.
“We have broken up, Lu Yichen” After saying this, Ji Yan quickly hung up the phone.
Lu Yichen didn’t call again, which was within Ji Yan’s expectations, because Lu Yichen was too face-saving.
Every time the two quarreled, a day and a half would go by and he would still not soften up.
Being so distracted by Lu Yichen, Ji Yan’s mind was again unable to shut down. Wide awake, he just laid in bed waiting for sleep to come.
It was almost ten o’clock in the morning when he woke up again, after staying so late last night, now he couldn’t get up easily.
Ji Yan stayed comatose in bed for half a minute, but quickly got more energized when he heard a knock on his door.
The woman’s voice came from outside: “Little Yan, come out to have some breakfast?”
Ji Yan put on his clothes and got out of bed.
“Aunty, what about my dad?” Ji Yan pushed open the door and scanned the living room.
“He went out for a walk. Ha had waited for you until very late yesterday.”
“He waited for me?”
Ji Yan remembered the hot tea on the dinner table last night.
“Didn’t you say you were coming back yesterday? He has been waiting for you and finally couldn’t help it and went back to his room to sleep.”
Ji Yan blinked back his tears and took a deep breath: “I’m going out to find my dad.”
Downstairs, in the garden, a man with grey hair sat on a bench watching a group of children play together.
Ji Yan’s nose turned sour at the sight of that man’s back.
He came close to the man and yelled: “Dad.”
The man slowly turned back, his tanned, plain face showing pure joy.
“What’s wrong with you and that child? Did you quarrel with him?” Ji Yan’s father after a while asked.
Ji Yan didn’t expect his father to ask him about this, and he didn’t know what to say.
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After dinner, Ji Yan’s Father and aunt went downstairs for a walk while Ji Yan stayed and cleaned the dishes in the kitchen.
Halfway through his cleaning, his phone rang. Ji Yan wiped his hands and answered.
“Brother Yan… have you eaten?” A familiar voice came through the microphone.
Lu Yichen can call again so soon! Ji Yan was very surprised.
“Is something wrong?
“Brother Yan, don’t do this. I know I am wrong. Please give me a second chance…” Lu Yichen said with a dull voice.
Ji Yan stayed silent.
Lu Yichen’s voice trembled: “Brother Yan, believe in me, I am begging you.”
Ji Yan hung up the phone.
Believe in him? How easy does he think it is to rebuild trust in a person?
A few minutes later the bell rang again, and Ji Yan turned off the phone anxiously.
The next day, Lu Yichen’s call came again.
The third day, the fourth day, a week in a row, every day. He changed to different numbers and sent the same text message.
All begged Ji Yan to forgive him.
…
Lu Yichen hadn’t had a good night of sleep in a long time, and was quite depressed. When he went to this part time job, he broke a few plates.
Every day he can only think of Ji Yan.
Late at night, when he was alone he refused to give up on Ji Yan and just wiped his tears quietly while continuing to call him over and over again.
He felt aggrieved, Ji Yan has never treated him like this, he always followed his way.
So this time he was really scared, afraid that he would never get to touch such a good person in this life time.
But the two are thousands of miles apart. So Lu Yichen had no other choice but to keep calling him.
Dialing these familiar numbers over and over again is not only a pain for Lu Yichen, but also for Ji Yan.
Finally, one night, Ji Yan had enough, he was so worn out that he sent back a text message that says: “Let’s start as friends”.
Lu Yichen almost returned his text in seconds: “OK, Brother Yan. Are you still angry with me?”
Ji Yan did not respond.
How could he be so frustrating?
As long as Lu Yichen and Xia Jinian had a friend relationship, he would always feel uncomfortable. But Ji Yan didn’t want to force Lu Yichen. He wanted to wait until Lu Yichen figured it out and took the initiative to cut off his friendship with Xia Jinian.
He couldn’t always guide him. In fact, he didn’t want to teach him anymore, he was tired of it all.
In the following days, Lu Yichen would often call Ji Yan. Sometimes when Ji Yan had already fallen asleep and could not receive the call, Lu Yichen would send a text message and talk about some trivial things about his daily life, and always acted cleverly.
In this way, the two talked about homely.
It’s not about falling in love, but it’s doing something you never did when you were in love.
As far as Lu Yichen is concerned, when they were together, he never took the initiative to tell
Ji Yan about his family or his daily concerns, he also never greeted Ji Yan with good morning or good night.
…
A week later, Ji Yan was hired to work as a chef in a five-star hotel.
Doing his favorite dishes, listening to the guests’ praise of his food, going back to dinner with his father at night, and receiving a phone call from Lu Yichen on time before going to bed, this is a life Ji Yan has never experienced in the past three years.
This kind of full and happy life is what he wants the most.
It gradually reached the end of summer, not only the cicada started becoming noisy, but Ji Yan also got busy.
He bought a suite in the city center and got a decoration team to renovate it.
Still, Ji Yan could not be easily satisfied so he had to oversee everything himself.
He was so busy that he did not have time to receive Lu Yichen’s calls several times, and he was too tired to call him back.
One day, late at night, Ji Yan received a call from a crying Lu Yichen; he did not know why the puppy was so sad. Was it because he hadn’t been able to talk with him as much lately?
“Brother Yan… do you…have a boyfriend?”
Ji Yan felt that Lu Yichen was acting odd. He wanted to explain, but also felt upset and so he just responded casually in a busy tone.
The next day, Ji Yan did not receive the usual call from Lu Yichen.
At night, Ji Yan sat by the window and stared at the view outside for a while; he then took off his mobile phone card and threw it out of the window.
Goodbye, Lu Yichen.
That night, Ji Yan once again couldn’t sleep.
The next day he took a day off from work.
With dark circles under his eyes, he went to see the progress of the new house. The designer in charge had bought and installed the decoration materials.
As he was approaching the building, he saw a very familiar person sitting by the door.
Ji Yan hadn’t had time to respond to what was going on when he was suddenly embraced by that man.
Ji Yan froze in an instant.
“Brother Yan, don’t you be with him, okay, just be with me?” The person holding him begged.
Ji Yan never knew that Lu Yichen could cry this much.
The designer on the side paused for a moment and then walked away to give them some privacy.
“How did you find me?” Ji Yan tried to push away Lu Yichen.
Lu Yichen just hugged even tighter: “Forgive me, please? I… I bought the shoes.”
Ji Yan noticed that Lu Yichen was holding a bag in his hand, and the bag was a little dirty.
“This time, they are real, I have been working to buy it for you” Lu Yichen choked and wiped his tears on Ji Yan’s shoulders.
“How did you come here?”
” I took the train, a day and a half ago. I wanted to call you but my phone ran out of battery.”
As if remembering something, Lu Yichen’s arms tightened even more around Ji Yan and he told him in a softer voice: “After getting out of the train, I found a phone booth and tried to call you but you didn’t answer your phone…”
Ji Yan felt a sudden headache.
Silly boy, of course the call wouldn’t go through. I have thrown out my mobile phone card.
“How did you find me then?” Ji Yan asked softly.
“I asked your cousin about your address…”
Ji Yan frowned.
“He’s not so kind as to help you freely. Did you give him money?”
Lu Yichen nodded.
“How much?”
“One thousand…” Lu Yichen’s voice was lower.
In the end, Ji Yan was soft-hearted, so he didn’t blame him and just sighed: “Okay, help me put the shoes on.”
Lu Yichen froze for a moment but quickly squatted down to take out the new shoes.
He slowly took off the white and gray canvas shoes on Ji Yan’s feet and put the new shoes on the men’s feet, and tied them with a beautiful knot.
“Does is it fit you, Brother Yan?” Lu Yichen asked expectantly.
Ji Yan didn’t answer and instead asked him: “Do you know what you did wrong?”
Lu Yichen lowered his eyes and nodded cleverly: “I know.”
“Tell me then.”
” I should not have bought those fake shoes for you and should not have lied to you about it.”
“What else?
” I won’t contact Xia Jinian anymore, Brother Yan, rest assured, I love you, I really love you, I only love you.”
Ji Yan rubbed Lu Yichen’s head.
This was not how he had imagined Lu Yichen would tell him “I love you” for the first time.
“How much money do you have on you right now?” Ji Yan thought and asked.
“Less than one hundred…” Said Lu Yichen and took all his money from his pocket to show him.
“Please, take me to eat hot pot.”
Lu Yichen looked at the money in his hand; feeling embarrassed, but didn’t refuse.
The young man had only this much of change left after traveling all the way there and was afraid that the money would not be enough for them to eat out.
If you ask Lu Yichen what he wants to do with his money in the future? He will definitely answer: to spoil Ji Yan.
In the past three years, he knew that Ji Yan had compromised too much for his sake and also suffered a lot of grievances because of him.
Even if Ji Yan was not up for their bedroom activities, once Lu Yichen asked him, he would never refuse him.
Lu Yichen wanted to take care of this person, to give him money to spend every day, he wanted to keep him for life.
In the hot pot restaurant, Ji Yan ordered a meal worth three hundred in one breath, without thinking about whether he could finish it or not.
Lu Yichen sat across from him and watched him eat, without moving his chopsticks.
“Why aren’t you eating?”
“Brother Yan, you eat first. I’ll go to the bathroom.”
Ji Yan saw Lu Yichen take the phone away, thought about it and decided to secretly follow him.
In the bathroom, Lu Yichen was talking to someone on the phone: “Zhou Ke, do you have five hundred, please lend it to me, I… I will return it to you next week.”
In fact, Ji Yan had deliberately asked Lu Yichen to invite himself to eat hot pot.
He wanted to see how he was going to invite him with that much money left on him. Would he finally accept his help?
However, when he heard Lu Yichen calling to borrow money from others, Ji Yan felt distressed.
The always proud Lu Yichen had lowered his head, Ji Yan didn’t like this. His puppy should not be like this.
Ji Yan sighed, let’s just forgive him.
” You can’t? Then… that’s fine, it’s all right” Lu Yichen scratched his head and walked out of the bathroom lost.
Ji Yan returned first to their table. He kept eating his hot pot leisurely, and from time to time, he peeked at Lu Yichen who kept a strong smile on his face.
After he had finished his meal, Ji Yan called the waiter to pay for the meal.
“A total of three hundred and fifty dollars. Who is paying?”
Ji Yan raised his eyebrows and looked at Lu Yichen.
The latter lowered his eyes, blushed a bit and said: “Well, can I clean the dishes here to pay for the meal?”
Ji Yan laughed a bit at this but his heart was a little sour.
He took out his credit card and handed it to the waiter; he then looked at Lu Yichen and said: “Forget it, just borrow it from me and remember to have the money to pay me back later.”
“Sorry, Brother Yan… I was supposed to invite you” Lu Yichen softly hold Ji Yan’s hand and asked: “Will you…forgive me?”
Ji Yan discovered for the first time that Lu Yichen’s low EQ is not always a bad thing. His awkwardness, cluelessness, and cautiousness could also be a little cute.
“Well, I forgive you” Ji Yan smiled, but then showed a fierce look and hit the back of Lu Yichen’s head and said:” But let me tell you, there better not be a next time!”
Lu Yichen just cried again.
Hugging Ji Yan, he just kept on crying.
Ji Yan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry!
He hadn’t seen him for half a month.
How could he have become such a crying ghost?
i really hope LY won’t change to his old ways after getting JY back
oh fr.. bc i love face slapping the most too 🙂
(ofc if my babies really are happy together i support, but loving should not always be a giving relationship from either end. its not wrong to teach them and guide them, but forcing yourself when tired isnt how a healthy relationship goes. in the end judge by your own heart, and your therapist lol)
These two. Yikes.
As long as they are happy😀
Hm… still feeling probatory…. doesn’t sounded like he really knew what he did wrong….
No wonder Lu Yichen didn’t cherish Ji Yan.. He is really too easy to coax..
hmmmmm… smth feels not right. 😭🫠🤔
Red Flaaaaag 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
tch..
😒 still don’t like him. He can do so much better. Bro should move on and get over Lu low EQ. He probably doesn’t even really realize what he did wrong he just feels bad he doesn’t have someone doting on him all the time. Irl they’d def break up again. This relationship will not last