This morning, the sun was very bright and the clouds were rolling in the sky.
Not long after Ji Yan got up, he received a call from Lu Yichen.
“Brother Yan, I won the machine design award in our school.”
Yes, Lu Yichen is a true engineer through and through. So there are times when his single-minded, emotional intelligence is difficult to turn on.
Listening to the joyful voice over the phone, Ji Yan pulled out a ticket for Hunan at ten o’clock from the drawer and carried his bag on his back heading to the door.
“That’s good, what is the prize?”
“5000 Yuan! Wait until I go back next week to treat you to dinner. Or, Brother Yan, do you have anything you want to buy? I’ll buy it for you.”
“I don’t have anything in mind, I will just wait for you to come and invite me to eat delicious food.”
Ji Yan turned his head, holding the phone between his face and shoulders; he was in the corridor, locking his front door.
“What are you doing now?”
“I am in class, today’s course is alright, not too tiring, but it’s still quite burdensome. I got so tired with the robot design competition that I didn’t want to do anything for a whole day.”
“Huh?” Ji Yan locked the door, and dragged it twice, just to be safe, and then picked up his phone and walked downstairs.
“If you were that tired, why didn’t you tell me.”
Ji Yan really couldn’t tell how exhausted Lu Yichen has been during the competition, because Lu Yichen has never told him.
Every morning and evening, the phone call always came on time. If he didn’t call, Lu Yichen would send him text messages and respond in seconds.
He never let him feel any negative emotion in his tone, so Ji Yan always thought that Lu Yichen was doing fine.
“I’m afraid that you will worry about me. Anyway, that’s already in the past, isn’t that right brother Yan?”
Ji Yan took a taxi and chuckled: “well well! My puppy has grown up! Fortunately I didn’t raise it for nothing.”
“Puppy?”
Ji Yan did not intend to answer this question, and instead asked:” Were you able to understand this on your own? Tell me, did someone teach you about this?”
The voice in the microphone paused for a while, and then said: “Well… a classmate of mine said that it is not good. He and his ex-girlfriend broke up because of a similar situation. He was too busy and ignored his girlfriend and when they talked he only took that time to complain to her.”
Ji Yan smiled and said: “You really are a good puppy”.
“Brother Yan, what do you mean by a puppy?” Lu Yichen asked again with perseverance.
The taxi slowly stopped near the airport, Ji Yan paid, and opened the door to get off:”You say, which one are you, a puppy or a wolf?”
“Well? What is that brother Yan?”
“Are you usually this stupid?” Is that right?” Ji Yan walked to the security checkpoint.
“I’m hanging up first. I’m putting my phone on airplane mode. Let’s talk later.”
After hanging up the phone, Ji Yan followed the crowd through security check.
Tomorrow is Lu Yichen’s birthday. Ji Yan wants to surprise him. He bought the ticket three days ago.
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After reconciling again, he doesn’t need to ask Lu Yichen for anything.
He is slowly learning on his own.
He has learnt how to deal with their relationships and how to avoid and reduce conflicts.
In the past, Ji Yan always thought that Lu Yichen did not have the ability to learn.
With such a low EQ, he has spent those three years together teaching how to be more sensible.
However in these few months, Lu Yichen showed a rapid progress in terms of EQ which made Ji Yan realize that smart people are indeed smart in all respects.
At that time, Lu Yichen did not try to learn because he was used to Ji Yan always giving in.
And since Lu Yichen got accustomed to this, he never tried to understand Ji Yan or see things from his perspective.
The plane took off slowly.
Ji Yan put on an eye mask and fell asleep. When he got off the plane again, he turned on his phone and found that there were two missed calls from Lu Yichen.
He called a taxi and went straight to their old apartment.
The two now lived in different places; Lu Yichen had to pay the rent by himself.
Ji Yan tried to persuade him to go live in the school dormitory since the rent was too expensive for him to pay for it alone.
But Lu Yichen always refused, and when Ji Yan asked him why, he wouldn’t say anything so Ji Yan wondered why he was so adamant to keep living there.
It was already late autumn and the weather was not as hot as it used to be.
Ji Yan looked at the rushing traffic outside the car window and dialed Lu Yichen’s number on his phone.
“Have you eaten lunch yet?” As soon as the call was connected, Ji Yan asked.
“What time has it been brother Yan, of course I have eaten it.”
“What did you eat?”
“Noodles, clear soup with little water, not as delicious as the one you make.” Lu Yichen’s voice suddenly dropped: “Brother Yan… “
“Huh?”
“I miss you.”
Ji Yan froze for a moment, his heart beating very fast, trying to keep calm he asked: “What do you miss about me?”
“I miss everything, I want to eat everything you make and I want to especially eat your fried rice with eggs.”
Ji Yan remembered that the meal he has ever made for him was fried rice with eggs.
“I also want to drink your lemonade. Brother Yan, I miss you.” Lu Yichen repeated it again.
The strong sunlight outside the window was too dazzling, and Ji Yan blinked for a second: “I miss you too.”
In fact, the two haven’t seen each other for almost a month. Lu Yichen was busy designing for his robot competition and Ji Yan was busy with work and his new residence.
So every night, the two will make a video call to see and talk with each other. It’s a luxury, but it doesn’t solve satisfy their need for each other.
Seemingly feeling the atmosphere becoming ambiguous and melancholic, Lu Yichen immediately changed the subject and said: “Brother Yan, I checked the meaning of puppy versus wolf online. I think I am a puppy. What do you think?”
Ji Yan did not expect Lu Yichen also went to do homework online, laughing out loud he said: “I think you are just stupid.”
“You are stupid.”
Ji Yan raised an eyebrow and said: “Really? Who is stupid?”
“…”
“Who is stupid?” Ji Yan asked again, but you could still hear the teasing in his voice.
“I’m stupid, I’m stupid” Lu Yichen’s voice was wronged.
“That’s right.” Ji Yan laughed again.
When passing by the vegetable market, Ji Yan got out of the car ahead of time, he wanted to pick some vegetables from the market and go back to make Lu Yichen some delicious food. The walk from the market to their residence only takes ten minutes anyway.
After a full twenty minutes in the vegetable market, Ji Yan carried two large bags of vegetables.
The vendor who quite familiar with him, smiled and asked:” Are you picking up food for your shop again?”
Ji Yan waved his hand and said: “No, they are for me.”
“Then why are you buying so much, can you eat it all alone?”
“I am a northerner so I am used to this much. “
Ji Yan’s explanation is reasonable, so the vendor didn’t ask again. After all, there’s a big contrast between north and south when it comes to grocery shopping.
Over at Ji Yan’s house, he is used to his family buying enough groceries to last them a few days, and it’s hard to tell if it’s because it is a habit of stocking up that’s been around since ancient times or because they are just lazy.
Before leaving the vegetable market, Ji Yan run into the lady that bought his old fast food restaurant.
When the old aunt saw Ji Yan, she was surprised: “When did you come back? Did come to see your brother?”
This aunt was also their neighbor and always thought of him and Lu Yichen as brothers. They had a good relationship with her, so Ji Yan only charged her half the price of his shop.
“Yes, I came back to visit him. Auntie Li, how is your business doing lately?”
“It’s doing very good. By the way, Little Yan, did you tell your brother when you left? Because he came to the store that afternoon looking for you, I told him that you gave me the store. He was sad to hear this and barely held back his tears.”
Ji Yan was a little stunned. Lu Yichen never told him that he went to his old store to look for him.
“Little Yan, you should have told your brother that you were leaving. I think he was panicked at the time.”
Ji Yan came back from his daze and nodded: “You are right, Aunt Li. Excuse me but I have something to do so I am going back first.”
“Ah! “
” You go then!” the old lady smiled and ushered him to go with her hands.
Twenty minutes later, Ji Yan arrived at their old house.
Everything in the room was still the same, nothing has changed.
Ji Yan put the recently bought groceries in the kitchen, took off his coat and started washing them.
After a moment, he suddenly noticed a photo frame on the table; Ji Yan picked it up and found that it was a photo of himself and Lu Yichen.
This photo hasn’t been there before, and Ji Yan couldn’t even tell when it was taken.
In the photo, Lu Yichen was wearing his high school uniform and playing basketball on the playground with his friends. Ji Yan was standing not far away, holding three glasses of lemonade in his hand.
Ji Yan stared at the young face of Lu Yichen in the photo. He was wearing his high school uniform which was marked with the blue school logo.
He figured it was when Lu Yichen was still in his third year of high school. He was Playing Basketball with his friends.
That game was very popular among youngsters back then.
Zhou Ke, his friend, had ordered three glasses of lemonade for take away, and Ji Yan was the one delivering them.
Lu Yichen, who kept scoring goals on the basketball court, attracted his attention so he stopped to watch for a while.
It should be around this time that this photo was taken by someone.
It was such a long time ago. At that time, Ji Yan was still very young, holding a trail of lemonades and staring stupidly at the Lu Yichen.
Ji Yan didn’t know from where did Lu Yichen get this photo?! And to think that he even framed it!
Ji Yan smiled and put down the photo, he then walked into the kitchen to resume washing the vegetables.
When he was about to finish, he felt a bit tired so after watching the time, he decided to take a little nap and wait until Lu Yichen came back to start cooking.
Entering the bedroom, Ji Yan took a deep breath.
He fell on the bed, hugging Lu Yichen’s quilt and closed his eyes. Within a quarter of an hour, he drifted to sleep.
Ji Yan slept for a long time and didn’t know when Lu Yichen came back.
Today is Tuesday; Lu Yichen missed his last two sessions. He instead went to a nearby residential building to give a fifth-grader boy a math class and then came back.
He still hadn’t had dinner yet and was planning to cook some noodles.
As soon as he entered the room, Lu Yichen realized something was different.
The photo frame on the table was put down, and a coat that didn’t belong to him was hanging with his clothes. They were also washed vegetables in the kitchen basin.
Lu Yichen shivered slightly and he couldn’t believe his guess.
He took a deep breath and pushed open the bedroom door.
When he saw someone sleeping in his bed, his fingertips shook with excitement.
He crept into the bed, leaned over and kissed Ji Yan’s face. He kept kissing his whole face, going from the top to his lips and then his earlobes.
Soon, he found himself unable to stop.
I keep thinking that a bomb is going to explode…hope not for JY’s sake
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Just like a criminal won’t confess to their crime, I don’t believe in LYC saying he’s a puppy. 😂