TMISIU- Chapter 28

Wei Ying felt as if Lan Zhan was angry again, seemingly starting from the topic of Wen Qing.

Although Lan Zhan kept a sullen face and did not say anything, his hands were still peeling crabs for him, and he himself only ate some light porridge and side dishes from the beginning to the end.

Wei Ying silently ate the crab meat prepared by Lan Zhan, with sour and sweet bubbles rising in his chest, but he did not dare to try again to puncture those bubbles.

Ambiguous and sweet, but it was also scary.

He wanted to dwell on it for a while with his eyes closed, even if he was making a fool of himself.

After eating, Wei Ying followed Lan Zhan to the outside of the restaurant, he deliberately walked very slowly, because soon he would be sent back to Gusu High School, back to the empty dormitory.

He couldn’t bear to separate from Lan Zhan.

Lan Zhan also seemed to have slowed down his pace.

In the winding corridor, the lake was lit up with starry lotus lights, and there was noisy noise in the pavilion not far away.

The night sky was as clear and soft as the lake water, soaked with a crescent moon.

But the space above the lake was very quiet, with only the creak of feet on the floor of the promenade.

Lowering his head, Wei Ying followed Lan Zhan and quietly stepped on Lan Zhan’s shadow.

If only stepping on the shadow could keep the person.

He thought in a daze, and accidentally ran into the back of Lan Zhan who had stopped abruptly.

“I’m sorry.” Wei Ying touched his nose and said to Lan Zhan angrily, feeling nervous.

Wouldn’t get caught, right?

But it was not illegal to step on the shadow.

Lan Zhan turned slightly and suddenly reached out to hold his left wrist.

Wei Ying’s left hand trembled suddenly. He breathed lightly and tilted his head to look at Lan Zhan.

The light in the promenade was dim.

Lan Zhan looked at him with his long eyelashes down, his dark eyes swaying with the light of the lake and the moonlight.

The swaying was thrilling.

Lan Zhan pulled him to his side and said in a low voice, “Walk beside me.”

Don’t always look at me from behind.

Wei Ying’s eyes quivered, and Lan Zhan quickly let go of his wrist, but the warm touch remained there without dissipating, rushing along his arm to the heart, stirring violently.

He suddenly couldn’t tell if he couldn’t let go of Lan Zhan, or the gentle moonlight tonight.

The two walked silently and tacitly side by side in the night and lake light, crossing the promenade on the lake and when they came to the bright and spacious hall, Wei Ying was still a little uncomfortable and raised his hand to shade his eyes.

This was a very famous crab cuisine restaurant.

Despite it being already late, the lounge area at the edge of the hall still had many customers who were waiting in line for a seat.

Wei Ying suddenly thought that Lan Zhan could take him directly to the private room for dinner, didn’t he need to reserve a seat in advance?

However, Lan Zhan obviously met him by chance at Zhou’s home tonight, and brought him along for dinner.

A guess came out of a branch deep in his heart, and just thinking about it for a moment, it was as if a firework exploded, making him dazzled.

But maybe it was just a false alarm again.

Wei Ying turned his head to look at Lan Zhan on the side again, and his restless heart kept urging him to try again.

He opened his mouth, and when he wanted to ask something, he suddenly heard a familiar voice.

“Zhan ge, why are you here? Huh, Wei Ying’s here?”

Not far across the street, Jiang Cheng was holding a cup of milk tea, followed by Jiang Fengmian in a suit and leather shoes.

In the lounge area of ​​the lobby, Jiang Fengmian was holding a few dolls from the claw machine. Obviously, he had just accompanied Jiang Cheng to catch the dolls.

When the father and son came over, Jiang Fengmian first smiled at Lan Zhan, then looked at Wei Ying on the side.

He was taken aback for a moment, before he smiled politely at him and then asked Lan Zhan:

“Zhan, are you coming to dinner with your classmate?”

Lan Zhan almost instantly felt the mood of the person beside him drop.

He turned his face to look at Wei Ying, whose eyelashes were drooping, blocking him slightly behind him, and nodded to Jiang Fengmian and greeted: “Uncle Jiang”.

Then he looked at Jiang Cheng, who was looking at himself and Wei Ying, and said with a frown, “Why did you go out just after being discharged from the hospital?”

The minimally invasive surgery performed on Jiang Cheng was not serious, so he was discharged in less than a week.

However, according to Gu Yihan and his grandparents’ careful and caring attitude, Jiang Cheng would never be allowed to leave the house without recuperation.

Jiang Cheng glanced at Wei Ying again, and complained to Lan Zhan: “I can’t eat anything in the hospital, I’m almost suffocated. After finally returning home, I still had to eat light food. After holding back for a long time, I found the opportunity to escape to eat crabs today.”

Jiang Fengmian smiled helplessly when he heard the words, and said: “He usually ignores me when I look for him. This is the only time he thinks of his dad, I’m not not used to it.”

Although he was talking about his son, his tone was a bit spoiled.

Jiang Cheng glared at Jiang Fengmian and cursed: “Who can be as heartless as you!”

He and Jiang Fengmian were estranged since he was a kid. In the past few years, Jiang Fengmian suddenly wanted to ease the relationship with him, so the two came into contact more.

Jiang Fengmian still had a smile on his lips, not angry at his son’s lack of respect.

Lan Zhan was distracted, he vaguely felt that he had to take Wei Ying to leave here as soon as possible.

When he was about to say goodbye to the father and son in front of him, Jiang Fengmian suddenly said to Wei Ying who had been silent for a long time:

“Wei Ying, thank you for bringing the gift for A-Cheng last time.”

Wei Ying raised his eyelashes, and he glanced at the various dolls in Jiang Fengmian’s arms that were incompatible with his suits.

Those dolls were beautiful and exquisite, the toys that every child would love and want from their parents.

He looked at Jiang Fengmian with a polite smile. Raising the corner of his mouth and smiling, he said politely: “You’re welcome, Uncle Jiang.”

Jiang Cheng looked at Wei Ying and then at Jiang Fengmian. The faint discomfort became stronger and stronger.

He pursed his lower lip and asked Lan Zhan: “Zhan ge, aren’t you allergic to crabs? Why are you here?”

There was confusion in his tone, and more of a complaint.

He had always loved crabs and had pestered Lan Zhan to take him to the crab house whenever the season came since he was young, and although it was meaningless to eat with Lan Zhan because the Lan family all ate without saying anything, he knew that Lan Zhan was very good at peeling crabs.

However, Lan Zhan would not agree no matter how coquettish he acted.

But why did Lan Zhan appear here? And with Wei Ying too?

Lan Zhan said flatly: “I just wanted to invite Wei Ying to dinner, so I brought him here.”

Jiang Cheng frowned, showing an unhappy look.

Jiang Fengmian smiled and asked Lan Zhan: “The private room here is not easy to grab. You booked it in advance, when did you book it?”

Lan Zhan replied: “Last Sunday.”

Wei Ying’s eyelashes trembled, and he looked at Lan Zhan quickly, looked at his indifferent profile, and listened to him indifferently saying to Jiang Cheng and Jiang Fengmian:

“It’s getting late, I have to send Wei Ying back, so I’ll leave first.”

Knowing that this young master of the Lan family disliked him as much as his mother did, Jiang Fengmian nodded and said, “Our movie is also about to start, so I’ll invite you and your mother to dinner next time I have the chance.”

Lan Zhan responded perfunctorily.

Before Wei Ying had time to say goodbye to the two politely, Lan Zhan held his arm and he was led to walk quickly towards the main door.

He thought Lan Zhan was going back, just as he was eager to get away from here quickly, so he followed Lan Zhan in silence all the way to the outdoors.

The moonlight was deep, but Wei Ying found that Lan Zhan was not walking towards the parking lot where they came before.

He was taken to a lamp post not far away, and the bright yellow light shone through the frosted glass with a halo.

Wei Ying looked at Lan Zhan in confusion, who stood in front of him and lowered his head to look into his eyes, his eyes were focused and serious.

It seemed he wanted to see his mood through his eyes.

Wei Ying’s heart tightened. He obediently raised his chin slightly, raised the corners of his mouth, and curled his eyes.

The bright yellow light casted two shadows under the eyelashes, revealing a smile.

He naturally asked Lan Zhan: “What’s wrong?”

Lan Zhan only looked at his eyes in silence.

They were very close, surrounded by warm lights, so close that Wei Ying had to breathe lightly, so close that it was hard for him to maintain the smile on his face.

Wei Ying blinked. Reaching his hand out to touch his face, he asked jokingly: “Is there something on my face?”

Lan Zhan asked in a low voice: “Why are you so sad after seeing Jiang Cheng?”

His voice was softer than the moonlight, as if to coax the person in front of him to say something.

He found that Wei Ying’s several inexplicable low moods seemed to be related to Jiang Cheng.

Wei Ying’s hand touching his face paused. His eyelashes trembled fiercely, and his chest was sour with water bubbling out.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that he could not be as strong and optimistic as he promised. He wanted to hug Lan Zhan again, cry on his shoulder, and tell him everything regardless.

But Wei Ying was silent for a while and calmly said: “I just suddenly thought of my sister. She is also sick. I miss her very much.”

He smiled at Lan Zhan again and said in a relaxed tone: “Fortunately, the school has sent me a lot of money, and I send the money back, so she can buy medicine to cure her illness.”

He didn’t know that his eyelashes had been trembling slightly, as if trying to restrain what overflowed from his eyes.

Lan Zhan frowned, knowing that Wei Ying was not telling the truth.

He looked at the smile of the person in front of him, and felt that his heart was pierced by an invisible needle.

This kind of subtle pain was strange to him, but he knew it was distressed.

Just because of an insincere smile.

He did not know at that time how much pain and resentment lurked behind this smile, and how much his heart would hurt after knowing it.

Wei Ying couldn’t bear Lan Zhan’s gaze. He turned his face slightly and urged, pretending to be anxious:

“Didn’t you say you want to go back? Time is running out, I still have a lot of homework to write.”

Obviously he wanted to stay with Lan Zhan, but he couldn’t do it now.

“Copy mine after going back.” Lan Zhan said confidently, suddenly holding his wrist again and leading him into a room.

Wei Ying didn’t understand what Lan Zhan was going to do again, but he obediently did not resist and was taken all the way back to the hall.

Until he was taken to a row of claw machines, he couldn’t hold back his surprise anymore. He opened his eyes and looked at Lan Zhan, not knowing what to say.

Lan Zhan seemed a little embarrassed by the row of pink and blue claw machines and dropped a sentence, “You wait for me here.”

He immediately turned around and walked towards the opposite front desk, seemed to be to exchange game coins.

Wei Ying stared at Lan Zhan’s back motionlessly, and clenched his fingers.

Lan Zhan quickly came back with a pile of game coins in his hand. He looked extremely uncomfortable with a cold face because the cashier at the front desk had made a joke to him.

Wei Ying looked at the silver metal game coins in Lan Zhan’s hand.

The silver coins were shining like stars under the bright light. He asked Lan Zhan, “Why do you suddenly want to play this? It’s a kid’s play.”

The claw machine was too inconsistent with Lan Zhan’s persona.

Lan Zhan was stunned, and after a moment of silence, he whispered, “I just saw you keep looking at the doll Uncle Jiang was holding, and thought you liked it.”

Wei Ying was also stunned. He looked at the game coins that Lan Zhan was holding carefully in his hand, and looked at Lan Zhan’s uncomfortable face.

Nearby, there were many doll-catching couples and parents with children were gawking at Lan Zhan, laughing and whispering about how such a tall, handsome man could also catch dolls.

Wei Ying was quiet for a few seconds and suddenly raised the corners of his mouth to reveal a smile, a smile that was genuinely happy.

In fact, what did he like about those dolls?

But he was really happy.

He took out a silver coin from Lan Zhan’s palm.

The silver coin at his fingertips was shining like a sixpence under the moon, and his eyes were shining with stars as he smiled at Lan Zhan and said:

“No, I like it very much, but I have never played it. Can you teach me?”

Lan Zhan looked at Wei Ying’s eyes, his cold brows softened a bit. He put the game currency on the small table aside, took out one of them and threw it into the claw machine, showing Wei Ying how to catch the doll.

The claw machine took the height of the children and girls into consideration so the console was set very low.

Lan Zhan had to bend down. Wei Ying also bent down while standing next to Lan Zhan.

He glanced at Lan Zhan’s profile, then looked at the glass window full of dolls, and the corners of the mouth could not help but turn up.

It was as if it was not a doll, but his favorite candy, exuding a sweet smell.

Lan Zhan held the joystick and asked him, “Which one do you want?”

Wei Ying asked in a low voice, “Anything is fine?”

Lan Zhan nodded.

Wei Ying pointed his finger at a Pikachu doll that was most likely to be caught at the top, and said, “I want this.”

Lan Zhan began to concentrate on manipulating the clip, adjusting it for a while to make sure that it would be successful.

But in fact, he had never been to an amusement park since a long time ago, much less playing with claw machines.

The first Pikachu clip fell off when he was close to the exit.

Lan Zhan frowned, his fingers curled up and he looked a little embarrassed.

There were very few things in this world that he wanted to do but couldn’t do well.

Unfortunately, he encountered it today.

Wei Ying tried his best to hold back his laughter. At the age of sixteen or seventeen, he was aroused to be competitive and eager to try: “I’ll do it!”

Lan Zhan stepped aside.

Wei Ying threw the silver coin in and followed Lan Zhan’s example, carefully manipulating the clip, looking left and right, looking up and down, making sure for a long time before dropping the clip.

The clip that successfully caught the Pikachu slowly rose, the two people couldn’t help but hold their breath nervously, eyes following the clip that slowly moved to the exit.

Wei Ying thought this should be no problem, but the Pikachu fell inexplicably near the exit.

“…”

“…”

The two were quiet for a few seconds.

Wei Ying said: “There should be a problem with this clip.”

Lan Zhan said: “It must be.”

The two people bent over in front of the low crane machine, spent all the game coins, and finally only caught two dolls, a white bear and a pink bear.

Wei Ying thought that Lan Zhan didn’t like pink, so he handed the white bear to Lan Zhan and said, “This is yours, and the pink one is mine. Do you have any opinion?”

Lan Zhan took the little white bear and nodded, “No opinion.”

The two had finished dividing the spoils.

They looked up and saw that there were almost no figures in the hall, and then looked at the time to realize it was already 10:30.

Wei Ying pinched the pink bear’s ears. Thinking of the pile of papers he hadn’t done yet, he was anxious and asked Lan Zhan:

“You said you’ll let me copy the homework, you didn’t lie to me, right?”

Lan Zhan held the white bear in his hand. He looked at him and said, “I won’t lie to you.”

Wei Ying felt that Lan Zhan’s gaze and tone of voice when he looked at himself were a little too serious.

It was so serious that it was like saying some kind of vow.

Then he finally heard the heartbeat in his chest that he tried to ignore all night, so restless and impenetrable.

He looked at Lan Zhan, and suddenly wanted to ask the question regardless, but the words fluttered back and forth on the tip of his tongue, and he just couldn’t say it.

Maybe he should find a better time and make more adequate preparations.

He thought.

Wei Ying tried his best to return his heartbeat to calm, smiled and said, “Hurry back, I have to go back and copy homework.”

But Lan Zhan asked him: “Then are you happy now?”

Wei Ying’s hand squeezing the bear’s ear twitched.

Thump!

He heard his heartbeat again.