Chapter 11 The Self-Deceiving Liar

"Why do you always wear this school uniform at home?"

One night, after the shy and impatient exercise, Gu Xi hugged the youth whose forehead was soaked in sweat, bit his ear lightly and asked, "Do you like being a student so much?"

"Actually... it's not." Lin Xiaodong tried his best to calm his breathing.

He blushed slightly, stretched out his hand, held the man's cheek, deliberately lowered his voice and asked, "Then do you like it?"

"like."

Gu Xi stared at him, his eyes gradually darkened, and his voice was slightly hoarse.

"As long as you like it, I..."

Lin Xiaodong wanted to say something, but Gu Xi didn't give him the chance.

The next morning, Lin Xiaodong, who had been tired all night, was still in a deep sleep when he heard a loud knock on the door outside.

"Who is it? Early in the morning..."

Lin Xiaodong muttered impatiently, rubbed his eyes and got out of bed.

Because he was so sleepy, he didn't even bother to put on his shoes, so he walked downstairs with bare feet.

Looking up, the person knocking on the door was actually Lin Xiamian.

Lin Xiaodong stood at the door, twitched the corner of his mouth, and showed a very perfunctory smile to his younger brother: "Xia Mian, when did you come back? Why didn't you give me a call."

Lin Xiamian looked at him fixedly, his eyes slowly turning red.

Lin Xiaodong: Ah, this is the trick again.

"Brother," as expected, the boy began to question him in a crying voice, "Why don't you go home?"

"I remember that I seem to have left a note for you," Lin Xiaodong yawned expressionlessly. He slept too late last night, and he still wanted to go back and get some sleep, "You came here just for this? It's nothing. I'll go upstairs and sleep first."

"elder brother!"

Seeing this, Lin Xiamian became anxious and took a step forward to grab his wrist: "Okay, what are you doing here? Do you dislike me?"

"yes."

"..." Lin Xiamian looked at him with a blank face. After a while, he asked softly, "Brother, what did you just say?"

The young man who was still wearing SpongeBob's pajamas in front of him blinked and gave him a gentle smile.

"Just kidding." He stretched out his hand and helped Lin Xiamian trim the broken hair in front of his forehead.

Only then did Lin Xiamian slowly relax.

He looked past Lin Xiaodong, glanced at the display in the living room, and looked at the precious sculptures and art paintings on the walls behind the young man. He suddenly had an ominous premonition.

And this hunch turned into reality when he saw the SpongeBob SquarePants Cup on the table.

"...You don't live alone?"

Seeing Lin Xiaodong nod, Lin Xiamian's eyes were really red this time. He suppressed the monstrous jealousy and anger in his heart, and tried to squeeze out a stiff smile: "Who is it? Brother, why didn't you tell me."

"Gu Xi."

"...Who?" Lin Xiamian thought he had heard it wrong.

Lin Xiaodong licked his ear with his little finger: "Gu Xi, haven't you eaten with him before?"

Lin Xiamian was stunned for ten seconds before realizing that Lin Xiaodong was really not joking with him.

"Brother," he took a deep breath, his voice trembling, "you told me to stay away from such people!"

"Did he really say that?"

Gu Xi, who was carrying breakfast, heard this sentence as soon as he got out of the elevator. He smiled inexplicably, glanced at the young man with erratic eyes, and said to them, "What are you doing standing at the door? Come into the living room and sit."

As if he didn't feel the weird atmosphere between the two brothers, he put down the breakfast in his hand, handed a copy to Lin Xiaodong, and went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water for Lin Xiamian: "I'm sorry, I didn't expect you To come."

Lin Xiamian took the water glass with a stiff face, and reluctantly said "thank you".

The three fell silent for a while.

The atmosphere was very awkward.

Lin Xiamian took a sip and couldn't wait to put down the cup. He looked at Lin Xiaodong and Gu Xi sitting side by side opposite him, close and natural, as if they were the real family.

As soon as this thought came to him, he clenched his fingers unbearably.

Seemingly noticing Lin Xiamian's low mood, Gu Xi began to ask him some questions about his studies. Although he was madly wanting to rip the man in front of him to the bone, but because of Lin Xiaodong's face, Lin Xiamian lowered his head and reluctantly answered.

At first glance, the two seemed to be talking happily.

System: "Is it okay to look at it like this?"

"It doesn't matter," Lin Xiaodong said indifferently. "Anyway, he is the white moonlight of the boss. Even if I stop him, they will be together sooner or later. I just need to keep my duty as a substitute."

Seeing that Lin Xiamian was like this, he didn't lift his head when he spoke, and only answered two sentences in three sentences. Gu Xi could still have the patience to find a topic to chat with him.

Unlike him, at the beginning, he had to watch his words all the time, not only risking his life, but also being deducted from the salary by the boss if he was not careful.

"The one who is favored always has nothing to fear," he exclaimed. "It is indeed the truth."

The young man was bored with fritters in his mouth, and after a while he yawned twice, leaning on the sofa and falling asleep.

"It's only what time, why are you sleepy?"

Gu Xi tilted his head and glanced at him with a somewhat helpless expression.

"It's not that you made it too late yesterday..." Lin Xiaodong complained. The implied meaning in the words again irritated Lin Xiamian, who was on the side. He finally stood up uncontrollably and said to Gu Xi, "I'm sorry, but I'm here to pick up my brother and go home today."

The movement of the man's hand stopped.

He looked up at Lin Xiamian, said nothing, just looked at Lin Xiaodong calmly: "Are you going?"

"No," Lin Xiaodong opened his eyes, "I live here well, why should I leave?"

"But brother, I..."

"Xia Mian," the young man hugged the pillow in his arms, leaned crookedly on the sofa, and looked at him with half-squinted eyes, like a cat that just woke up, "you have grown up, I can't accompany you for the rest of my life, I have heard about the results of the summer camp from the teacher, congratulations on your admission to university."

Lin Xiamian opened his mouth, he wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Lin Xiaodong: "I keep the bank card account number and password at home in the old place. There are 200,000 in it, enough for you to go to college."

After speaking, he yawned again and went upstairs to sleep with his pillow in his arms.

In the two-person world of the boss and Bai Yueguang, I have nothing to mess with.

Lin Xiamian stood there, staring blankly at the young man's back disappearing on the second floor, with one sentence in his head:

He doesn't want me anymore.

Gu Xi looked at Lin Xiamian's mourning appearance, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked thoughtful.

*

When Lin Xiaodong woke up, it was already afternoon.

When he went downstairs, Lin Xiamian had already left, but Gu Xi was still sitting in the living room reading a book. Lin Xiaodong thought that he knew how to read books every day, but he didn't know what books were so good-looking.

But then he thought about it, and he had another idea to make fun of people.

Lin Xiaodong crept behind the man, and suddenly reached out his hand to take the book from his hand, but Gu Xi seemed to have an eye on the back of his head, grabbed his wrist firmly with one hand, and made a little effort. Son, he dragged him into his arms.

"Ouch!"

The sudden upside-down vision made Lin Xiaodong so frightened that his heartbeat paused for a beat, and when he reacted, he was already in Gu Xi's arms, and his arms were still around the other's neck. He raised his head subconsciously, just in time to meet Gu Xilai's eyes, there was a faint smile in the man's dark eyes, and it seemed that he was already prepared.

Lin Xiaodong suddenly gritted his teeth: "You did it on purpose?"

"It was you who messed with me first." Gu Xi said lightly, and reached out and scratched the young man's creaking nest. Lin Xiaodong laughed until tears almost came out, and in the end he bit his finger in anger.

Gu Xi pinched him: "Tsk, the kitten has bitten."

"Why a cat?" Lin Xiaodong couldn't care less about his playful expression, and couldn't help asking, "I thought you would say something like a puppy."

"Because I've only ever had cats."

"... Raised?"

"Dead." Gu Xi wrote lightly, "it's a wild cat I brought back from outside. It's too restless and always likes to run away. In the end, when I found it, it was already stiff."

"That's it," Lin Xiaodong sighed, "but feral cats are like this, they're not familiar."

Gu Xiyan moved his lips.

In fact, he still had something to tell Lin Xiaodong.

After the cat died, he never kept any pets.

Because Gu Xi didn't understand why he would rather give up expensive cat food, clean water, and a warm and comfortable cat litter, and he also tried his best to escape to the outside world, and lived a homeless life where he could not eat and sleep.

He had done his best, but it was still reluctant to stay for himself.

Lin Xiaodong didn't know what he was thinking. He hummed a song and leaned into Gu Xi's arms, holding a bag of potato chips and turning on the TV.

Just as he was fascinated, he suddenly heard the man beside him ask:

"Do you want to go home with me and see?"

"what?"

He didn't respond for a while. But under the reminder of the system, Lin Xiaodong finally realized what Gu Xi said to him just now. He stood up in surprise and looked at the other party, thinking that even if "I" sacrificed his life for him in the original world line, Gu Xi would also He never proposed to take him home, why did he suddenly agree now?

"The Gu family's main house is relatively large," Gu Xi explained patiently in order to dispel his concerns, "This way you can also take your brother over to live with."

Lin Xiaodong understood.

After a long time, he thought, the result was still for Bai Yueguang.