Since the Spring Festival, Shane has been more attentive in the library. He always comes to borrow books and return them, so even if he has other purposes, Moxie can’t tell.
Shane will bring Moxie little things, like a cup of coffee on a weekend morning, or a fun gadget or two, on purpose or not. If you are young enough to refuse it, it will seem too outlandish, and if you refuse, you will have a sense of Taoism.
He made an appointment with Moxie many times, but Moxie politely declined on the grounds that he was too busy. But Shane has no intention of giving up at all, and still goes his own way, borrowing books and books, and sending things if he wants to.
Even Moxie’s colleagues could vaguely see something, and occasionally joked that if he would consider Shane and enrich his study abroad life, he would not suffer from a date.
Moxie always smiled and diverted the topic. He didn’t have that in mind. He may have been chased out of the shadows by Pei Hao before, and he has long been immune to this trick of appearing at every turn and giving gifts along the way.
All he cares about now is how to save up and pay the tuition for the next year. The road you choose, you have to walk on your knees and climb.
On Friday, Shane texted him to go out to dinner on the weekend. Moxie flipped through the chat records casually and found that this was the fifth time he had rejected someone.
Moxie always feels terrified about the inexplicable preference of others, especially those who have no feelings. He doesn’t have the habit of keeping a spare tire, and he doesn’t think it’s worth wasting other people’s time and energy. If he refuses unjustly, I don’t know how long Shane will hold on without thinking.
After thinking about it, he still deleted the text message he just edited and changed it to “Okay.”
He wanted to take this opportunity to make it clear in person.
The weather was not bad that day. Moxie got off work at four o’clock in the afternoon. After arranging the handover work, he wrapped his coat and went out.
Shane waited there early, and greeted Moxie cheerfully when he saw Moxie come out.
It was clear that Shane had groomed himself today, clean-shaven, hair-waxed, and the faint scent of perfume on him as soon as he walked into Moxie.
“Happy birthday!” Shane’s first sentence when he saw Moxie was a somewhat illegible blessing in Chinese. Since he met Moxie, he has often taught himself Chinese at home.
Moxie was surprised at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he remembered that today was really his birthday. He completely forgot about it himself, and it was someone else who reminded him.
He bowed his head and smiled embarrassedly, saying that it was a lie not to be moved, and he thought it was a little funny. The first birthday in a foreign country was to be spent with Shane.
Shane looked at Moxie’s confused eyes and couldn’t help rubbing his hair. Did this kid forget his birthday? It’s really confusing, but the more confused it is, the more cute it is.
Moxie turned his head away uncomfortably, and asked, “Where are we going?”
“I ordered a restaurant.” Shane stared at him closely, the love in his eyes couldn’t hide at all.
“Okay.” Moxie nodded and followed Shane towards the parking lot.
In less than a few minutes, the deep winter sun consciously restrained its rays, making room for the sudden sleet. Snowflakes fell without hesitation, the wind picked up, and many pedestrians on the side of the road accelerated their pace.
In a blink of an eye, there was another figure on the road ahead, stopping in the bustling crowd and watching them quietly.
Moxie couldn’t help but stop and looked up.
The visitor was wearing a black windbreaker, standing upright in the wind and snow, and a pair of bottomless eyes stared at Mo Xi coldly. The man pursed his thin white lips tightly, his lower jaw became more and more sharp, and a wounded arc was twisted between his eyebrows.
When he saw the familiar outline of the person coming, Mo Xi’s heartbeat suddenly missed half a beat.
He never thought that he would meet Pei Hao in such a place and such a scene.
Snowflakes fell all over the sky, as if mixed with thousands of thoughts, and the world was chaotic in an instant. Just like that person’s eyes, there are too many emotions hidden, making people afraid to look directly.
The two stared at each other without saying a word.
After a while, Shane pushed Moxie’s elbow and asked curiously, “Your friend?”
Mo Xi was stunned for a short-circuit, and then he pulled his eyes back from Pei Hao, shook his head slightly, replied softly no, then strode forward without looking at the man again.
The wind was blowing violently, and the snow was getting heavier and heavier, and it had the potential to overturn everything. Pei Hao felt that every snow falling on his face was like a sharp knife, silent, but it stabbed his skin to pieces.
And Moxie’s sentence was light, or the sharpest one, with a fiery temperature, scorched him to the core.
He originally wanted to keep silently guarding Mo Xi, but when he saw the sudden number of people around him, he finally couldn’t hold back.
He had a lot of things to say, wanted to ask Moxie if he was doing okay, wanted to ask him if he had any plans to go back to China, a thousand words came to his lips, but he couldn’t say no to him.
Pei Hao froze in place, his face was pale, and he didn’t know how long it was until the snow stopped, and he suddenly woke up. There is no way.
Throughout the “date”, Moxie was in a thoughtful and free state. Sometimes Shane has to ask a question several times before Moxie understands what he’s asking.
Although Moxie has never shown much interest in him, it was the first time Shane saw Moxie in such a dazed state. With his intuition as a gay for more than 30 years, he knew the person and Moxie he met on the road today. West’s relationship is not easy.
He couldn’t help but want to ask clearly.
“That man on the road just now,” Shane said cautiously, “he looked at you strangely.”
“Oh?” Moxie didn’t want to escape the question, but took the initiative to pick up, “Ex-boyfriend, but We broke up long ago.”
Since he wanted to make it clear to Shane today, there was nothing to hide.
“Then he’s a very lucky guy,” Shane exclaimed, staring at Moxie as if trying to catch every nuance of his face.
“I used to like him very much, but he didn’t like me at that time. After breaking up with him, I felt that I lost the ability to be a lover.” Moxie smiled bitterly, bowed his head, the restaurant was dimly lit, and Shane could not see clearly His eyes, however, were able to capture a touch of sadness in his pretentious understatement.
“It’s all in the past, people always have to learn to look forward,” Shane couldn’t help comforting when he saw Moxie looking so lonely for the first time, “You can still have a lot of love.”
Moxie was tired. Shaking his head, this kind of unforgettable love, this kind of love that still hurts when I think about it after more than a year, once in a lifetime is enough.
“Maybe, but not now,” Moxie looked up at Shane, cleared his throat, and his eyes were sincere, “Actually, I came out with you today to tell you in person, don’t take care of me in the future, let alone for the sake of What do I do. Thank you very much for your concern for me, but I am always busy with school and making money, and have no other plans.”
Shane knows that Moxie doesn’t have any special thoughts about him at the moment, but he always feels that there is not enough time together. He originally thought that today was a chance given to him by Moxie, but he didn’t expect that the other party just wanted to make his rejection clearer.
After eating a closed door unexpectedly, Shane first sat in the chair for a while, then nodded bitterly, realizing that he really had nothing to do with the bright boy in front of him.
After a while, Shane picked up the wine glass, looked at Moxie with inquiring eyes, and said, “I just broke up. As a friend, can you have a few drinks with me?”
Moxie tilted his head and smiled: “Okay.”
When I got home, it was already evening. Moxie received a call from Uncle Li and his dad. First, Uncle Li wished him a happy birthday, and then his dad asked him why he had transferred the tuition back to their account. Moxie hangs up after a few words of nonsense, and he doesn’t answer the phone again.
After a while, his sister also called him and asked him if he needed anything. Moxie and her chatted with her for a while, and it ended quickly because his sister said that he was obviously absent-minded today.
After hanging up the phone, Mo Xi was sitting on the chair at home, and the picture of meeting Pei Hao during the day was playing back in his mind. How could that person appear at the door of their school library at this time? I happened to meet him when he was off work again, and it happened to be his birthday today.
With so many coincidences, if Shane hadn’t said that he had seen that person later, Moxie would have suspected that everything was just his hallucination.
Mo Xi faintly had a thought in his heart: Did Pei Hao deliberately choose to appear on his birthday, and Pei Hao still thinks about him? But soon another voice took over the absolute territory of IQ: everything was just a coincidence, and Pei Hao had long forgotten about them.
After turning around on the swivel chair for dozens of times, Mo Xi suddenly laughed at himself, why he still cared about Pei Hao so much. His random appearance, meeting in less than two minutes, made him uneasy for the whole day.
Did that person do something to him that made him remember thinking about it for so many years.
Moxie lay on the bed listlessly like a deflated ball.
Life still needs to be busy and tiring, and those ideas that should not be there will not be pervasive.
After Pei Hao returned to China, he developed a high fever, and his forehead was terribly hot for several days. Several times, Song Wanqin heard him call a name in a daze by the bed.
“Do you think your son is in love?” Song Wanqin looked at Pei Hao, who was weak on the bed, and asked Pei Yixin, “I always hear him calling Xiaoxi Xiaoxi.”
“How do I know.” Annoyed, he left the company without saying hello every time, and he didn’t look mature at all. If it weren’t for this illness on his return, he would have planned to be a family scout.  Â
“No wonder he didn’t want to introduce him before. It seems that there is someone he likes.” Song Wanqin touched Pei Hao’s forehead, and she was relieved to see that the temperature had subsided, “I will ask him carefully when he is better.”
After Pei Hao got better, Pei Hao didn’t know what to say, and never mentioned the matter of love. But what makes Pei Yixin feel at ease is that this time, after his son came back, he seemed to be a different person. He was completely devoted to his work and often worked overtime until late at night. In less than three months, he led his team to win two major clients.
The whole company highly praised Pei Hao, and Pei Yixin also had a face in front of the company’s executives. He didn’t want to worry about Pei Hao sneaking to the United States privately.
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