Chapter 51 Chapter 51 Accompanying your boyfriend to commit suicide for love, and you still need a reason...

Gu Chen choked and shook his head quickly.

Lu Xun curled his lips and looked at the panicked person opposite him calmly: "Then why do you care so much about those things in the forum?"

This question successfully stumped Gu Chen. Why do you care... Shouldn't you care?

A trace of confusion emerged from Gu Chen's clear eyes. He sat there blankly, his soft black hair neatly attached to the side of his face. The white school uniform shirt matched his clean temperament, making people feel that he was like an innocent and naive little deer.

Lu Xun suddenly felt a little itchy, and he glanced at the seat next to Gu Chen. He really wanted to sit over and touch his head. Originally, this was a very common thing for them, but now it has become a luxury.

"I will really forget you", "Do you not care about that?"

Gu Chen's voice questioning him in the ward that day suddenly appeared in his mind.

Lu Xun suddenly felt as if his heart was bitten by a poisonous snake, and the acid spread along his limbs.

He secretly clenched his fists, and after seeing the more confused and uneasy look on the other side, he slowly loosened them: "Someone wrote a fanfiction about Qi Xiang and Yu Fan on the forum before."

Gu Chen almost choked again, and the blush gradually spread from his neck to his cheeks.

"This...is not appropriate."

After the voice fell, Gu Chen suddenly felt a little strange.

He usually didn't pay attention to these things, and he didn't know what fanfiction was, but for some reason, when he heard Lu Xun say that, he magically understood it. It was as if someone had implanted this concept in his mind.

"It's not appropriate." Lu Xun didn't notice Gu Chen's momentary hesitation, "Then that person was banned. But now they often joke about that incident."

Gu Chen suddenly understood what Lu Xun meant.

A normal straight man might feel disgusted when facing such a thing, or he might just treat it as a joke, but he would never hide and hide.

In this comparison, his behavior just now was indeed a bit suspicious.

Gu Chen raised his hand and pinched his ear, which was a little hot, unconsciously: "Don't get me wrong."

After pinching his ear, he seemed to be fine and went to pick up the chopsticks on the plate: "This is the first time I've encountered such a thing. I'm a little uncomfortable. In fact, I don't care much."

Lu Xun watched Gu Chen pick up a vegetable and put it into his mouth. Strictly speaking, this was the first time he saw Gu Chen eat.

Gu Chen ate very slowly, almost without chewing sound. At first glance, he was the kind of child who was well-educated.

The dishes in the cafeteria were fried with oil, which left some smooth and oily water stains on his lips.

In an instant, Lu Xun suddenly thought of the scene in KTV that day, and his eyes dimmed slightly.

"Do you care about the game that day?"

Gu Chen's heart skipped a beat and he shook his head quickly.

"Then let's play it again if we have a chance?"

Gu Chen was stunned. Lu

Xun looked at him with a half-smile on his face, making it hard to tell whether he was joking or not.

The air was quiet for a while.

The heat above the plates gradually dissipated, and in the end, Lu Xun was the first to relax: "I was just kidding."

He curled his lips, picked up a large piece of plump, white and tender fish from his plate and put it on Gu Chen's plate.

Gu Chen hurriedly said: "Eat it yourself..."

"Eat more." Lu Xun glanced at his half-filled plate. In addition to a grid of rice, there was only a fist of green vegetables and four pieces of hairtail. "You are too thin."

"...Thank you." Gu Chen lowered his head under Lu Xun's gaze.

His heartbeat was strangely a little faster. No wonder they all said that Lu Xun's voice was nice. He sounded so gentle when he was just showing concern for his classmates. I can't imagine what it would be like if he fell in love.
On Saturday morning, Gu Chen and Luo Xingyuan got up early. I thought that I had been in a coma for three months and the trip to Universal Studios must have failed. I didn't expect that there would be such an opportunity. 

Gu Chen sat in the back seat of the co-pilot and secretly looked at Xu Lian who was driving in the driver's seat. It is very common for most people to have a mother drive her child out to play. Even at Gu Chen's age, many boys are unwilling to join this kind of activity. 

But for him, this is the first time in his short 17 years of life that he has had such an experience. 

Xu Lian in front seemed to sense something and suddenly looked up in the rearview mirror. His eyes met Gu Chen's unexpectedly. 

Gu Chen was slightly stunned and had no time to react. 

"Brother!" Luo Xingyuan came over from the side and hugged Gu Chen's arm, "Shall we play Minions or Harry Potter first?" 

They bought an annual ticket for Universal Studios. Although they did not stay at the Universal Hotel, they still had the privilege of entering the park in advance. But because it was too early, only two projects could be played first. 

"All right." Gu Chen looked at Luo Xingyuan who was looking at him eagerly, hooked his lips, and secretly moved his eyes back to the rearview mirror. Xu Lian was no longer looking at him. 

The temperature in Haicheng in June has exceeded 30°. After playing two projects, the two brothers were sweating. When passing by the ice cream cart, Gu Chen asked Luo Xingyuan: "Want to eat..." 

"Here!" Not far away was the tourist rest area. Xu Lian sat under a round table with a parasol. She was wearing a casual OL outfit. There was a laptop and two drinks on the table. 

Gu Chen led Luo Xingyuan over. 

"Look, it's all sweat." Xu Lian smiled and wiped Luo Xingyuan's sweat with a napkin, and handed Luo Xingyuan a cup of chocolate smoothie. 

Gu Chen looked at it casually, and was thinking about buying a bottle of ice water to cool down, when he saw Xu Lian suddenly picked up another drink on the table. 

"Mint flavor." Xu Lian handed the drink to Gu Chen, and her voice was no different from usual, but if you tasted it carefully, you could detect that there was something slightly unnatural in her voice. "Do you want to drink it?" 

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment, staring at Xu Lian blankly, and for a moment he suspected that he was dreaming. 

Xu Lian felt a little uncomfortable when he was looked at by him, and turned her head: "If you don't want to drink it..." 

"Drink it!" Gu Chen quickly took the drink, and the outer wall of the cup was dripping with cold water, sliding through his fingers intermittently. He held the cup and took a deep sip. The mint-flavored smoothie was refreshing and cool. Just one sip instantly swept away the sticky heat in the body. 

Gu Chen took two more deep sips before letting go of the straw: "It tastes good." 

His wet fingers slightly bent: "Thank you, Mom." 

Xu Lian pursed her lips slightly, and at this moment, the mobile phone on the table suddenly vibrated twice. 

She secretly breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to pretend to answer the phone naturally. 

Gu Chen took another sip of the mint smoothie and turned around to find that Luo Xingyuan was gone. His heart skipped a beat, and the next second he saw the child hiding in the shadow not far away, typing on his old phone that could only send text messages, with a suspicious smile on his lips. 

? ? 

Gu Chen was confused, and was wondering who Luo Xingyuan was sending a message to, when he suddenly heard the sound of keyboard tapping. 

Xu Lian held the phone between her shoulders and head, and her fingers tapped quickly on the keyboard: "I'll take a look, but I may not be able to help you. I have forgotten some of the financial things."
Gu Chen took two steps forward. Seeing Xu Lian open an all-English webpage showing the U.S. Treasury bond yield curve, Xu Lian's finger on the mouse gradually stopped rolling: "It is indeed inverted. Well, the market price should not rise..."

Gu Chen listened for a while, took out his mobile phone and clicked twice.

Xu Lian: "Wait a minute, let me check the letter..."

Halfway through the words, a mobile phone suddenly appeared in front of him. The screen showed the latest credit spreads and LIBOR-OIS spreads.

Xu Lian was stunned, and looked up to see Gu Chen looking at her with a smile.

"Well, the price is not normal now, there may be danger later..." Xu Lian looked at the screen of Gu Chen's mobile phone, reported the data to her friend over there, and analyzed the problem by the way. The other end thanked him repeatedly.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Lian looked at Gu Chen who took his phone back, with a complicated expression: "Do you usually read books on finance?"

Gu Chen nodded, with a well-behaved smile on his face: "I heard that you studied finance in college, and I was a little curious, so I went to study it."

Xu Lian's eyes moved slightly, and in an instant, various emotions flashed through her eyes, including surprise, helplessness, and entanglement... Finally, they converged into an extremely complex and slightly soft feeling that neither Gu Chen nor she noticed: "How much have you learned?"

Gu Chen felt that he had never said so many words in one breath, and he wanted to show all the financial knowledge he had learned. He even thought in his heart that he should have learned more and learned more in depth earlier.

"I also bought a few textbooks, but I haven't read them yet." Gu Chen stared at Xu Lian intently, "Can I ask you if I have any questions later?"

Xu Lian knew that Gu Chen had a strong learning ability, but she didn't expect that this child had learned almost everything he should learn in undergraduate finance, and it was not the kind of theory that was just talk, but it was really applicable to actual cases, with real knowledge.

She has always been very confident in her learning ability, and even if she doesn't want to, she has to admit that she sees herself in this child.

"......Okay." The door in her heart that had been closed for many years seemed to open a crack inadvertently at that moment. Xu Lian opened her mouth and was thinking about saying something else.

"Brother, brother!" Luo Xingyuan came back from playing with the old phone secretly and grabbed Gu Chen's hand, "The store over there is open! Let's go shopping!"

Gu Chen said yes, turned around and smiled at Xu Lian: "Then I'll go shopping with Xingyuan first."

After watching the two children leave, Xu Lian turned around and was about to continue working on the computer when a shadow suddenly passed in front of her eyes.

"Xu Lian." A man's voice sounded from the side. Xu Lian

froze, paused for several seconds, slowly raised his head, and then his face became extremely ugly.

"I thought I was seeing things." The man curled his lips. He had a thin and handsome face, a scar on his forehead, sharp eyebrows, and an eagle-like eye with an unfathomable smile. At first glance, he was the kind of person who had been in a high position for a long time.

"...Gu Yun." Xu Lian felt that she almost squeezed out four words from her teeth.

But the man seemed not to care at all, and sat down in the seat opposite Xu Lian very naturally. Unlike Xu Lian's tense body, the man seemed very relaxed: "Why are you so formal? After all, you are my sister-in-law..."

"Gu Haoran and I divorced a long time ago!"

The man was slightly stunned, then smiled and nodded: "Sorry, I forgot that you were so nice to my elder brother..."

He deliberately paused, and when Xu Lian's face became more and more pale, he seemed to glance at the tablet in front of her casually: "I heard everything you said to Xiaochen just now."

Xu Lian looked at him alertly.

"In the blink of an eye, the child has grown so big." Gu Yun's eyes passed through Xu Lian and fell on the store behind her, "So smart, compared to my uneducated brother..."

"What do you want to do?" Xu Lian's voice gradually became harsher.

Gu Yun smiled slightly and waved to the waiter not far away. The waiter came over and bowed to him. Because he was too nervous, Xu Lian didn't notice that the waiter was much more polite to Gu Yun than to other customers.

"Look at what you said, what can I do." After Gu Yun finished ordering, he looked back at Xu Lian, crossed his hands on his crossed legs, and said in a relaxed tone, "I happened to meet an acquaintance, so I came to catch up."

*

The general store is very large, filled with all kinds of peripheral souvenirs. Luo Xingyuan was frantically trying on Harry Potter's cloak in front of a mirror.

Gu Chen was not very keen on these things at first, but because he was in a good mood today, he took a wizard hat from the side. He found a mirror and was about to put on the hat when his movements suddenly stopped.

He stared at the person walking by in the mirror in a daze and slowly turned around.

There were several couples and families behind him, laughing and talking together.

... Was it his illusion?

Gu Chen turned back and slowly put on the hat. His mind kept thinking about the figure he had just glimpsed in the mirror.

The one just now seemed to be Lu Xun...?

As soon as this thought came up, Gu Chen used his consciousness to manually extinguish it.

How is it possible? At this time on Saturday, Lu Xun must still be sleeping at home...

Wait. Gu Chen paused while putting on his hat.

Why did he feel that Lu Xun was sleeping at this time? They clearly hadn't talked about this topic.

In an instant, Gu Chen remembered that day in the corridor, Lu Xun looked at him meaningfully and told him about his amnesia.

The hat was put on his head for a while and then put back. Gu Chen didn't even see what he looked like wearing it. His mind was occupied by Lu Xun, from the corridor to the classroom, to the KTV, and finally gathered to the cafeteria that day.

"Do you like boys?"

The low voice was still in his ears.

Gu Chen stroked his forehead in the mirror and felt that he was a little abnormal. It must be because he had been in contact with Lu Xun at school during the day recently, and heard his brother talking non-stop at home at night. That's why the other person's face and voice appeared frequently.

It's okay.

Just divert your attention.

30 seconds later, Gu Chen walked to the corner, took out his mobile phone and started to browse the forum.

His classes are not only on the app of Uncle Qin Che's company, but also on the school forum. I haven't paid attention to it recently, and I don't know what everyone's feedback is like...

His thumb hovered over the "Learning Area" button of the forum for a while, and then he lightly clicked it and went directly to the gossip area below.

...

The interface design is a bit unreasonable, and the two buttons are too close.

Gu Chen thought, and his thumb slid down uncontrollably. Less than a moment later, a red hot post suddenly caught his eye.

"Fan selection: You are the rose blooming in my heart on a snowy day in December, and you are my only salvation in this life - click to see the beautiful love between the school bully and the academic bully"

Gu Chen: ? ? ?

The post was posted last night, and it has reached the thousandth floor. The first floor is a video clip of him and Lu Xun in KTV that day, and the next floor is a long paragraph of text.

"Chapter 1:

...

On Christmas, Lu Xun booked the entire amusement park. The two got off the carousel, and Gu Chen was a little hungry.

"Want to eat?" Lu Xun handed the strawberry crepe he had just bought to Gu Chen.

"Thank you." Gu Chen stretched out his hand and was about to take it, but Lu Xun suddenly let go of his hand.

He leaned over slightly, approached Gu Chen, and under the boy's blank gaze, he manually pressed the strawberry on the top of the crepe to his lips.

"Open your mouth." Lu Xun lowered his voice, with temptation in his voice.

Gu Chen was stunned for a moment, opened his pink mouth, and slowly took the strawberry into his mouth with Lu Xun's hand. The strawberry was very full. After biting it, the juice slowly flowed down the corner of Gu Chen's mouth.

The crystal clear and moist liquid slid over the snow-white skin.

Lu Xun's eyes suddenly darkened: "There is something I want to ask you for a long time."

Gu Chen had no idea how attractive he was at this moment. He bit the strawberry and looked up blankly: "What?"

Lu Xun raised his hand, his slender knuckles passed through the boy's soft and smooth hair, touched it for a long time, tilted his head slightly, put his lips to Gu Chen's ear, and whispered: "Will you be my boyfriend..." >>

Click -

Gu Chen pressed the button on the side of the phone hard, and the screen instantly went black. The cold and fierce air-conditioning wind blew from the side, but Gu Chen felt hot

all over and had difficulty breathing. "Brother, brother!" Luo Xingyuan, wearing a lion courtyard cape, trotted to Gu Chen. Seeing that Gu Chen did not respond, he raised his little hand and grabbed his fingers.

For a moment, Gu Chen seemed to be electrocuted and pulled his hand back.

"...Brother?"

Gu Chen came back to his senses and saw the little one at his waist looking at him blankly. He breathed a sigh of relief and pulled his mind back.

"Have you chosen?" Gu Chen bent down and helped Luo Xingyuan smooth the folds of the cape on his shoulders. "Let's go and pay the bill."

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Luo Xingyuan looked at Gu Chen with a confused look, "Your face is so red, are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"...No." Gu Chen touched his face with his sweaty palm, "The air conditioning here is a little high, it's hot."

Luo Xingyuan glanced at the vertical air conditioner next to him that was set to 17° in confusion.

When checking out, Gu Chen picked two popular and exquisite peripherals from the cashier.

After leaving the store, Gu Chen took Luo Xingyuan back to Xu Lian. Xu Lian was still sitting in the same seat, and the notebook on the table was closed. There was a glass cup that had not been there before on the opposite side. It was unknown what kind of drink was inside. The color was blood red. Although there was only a little left, it was still very eye-catching.

"Mom." Gu Chen stopped behind Xu Lian.

Xu Lian turned her head with a tense expression on her face.

Gu Chen paused slightly and took out the peripherals he had just bought in the store: it was a fountain pen, the outer shell of the pen body was silky and smooth, and it was plated with low-key and luxurious gold. The Lion Academy logo was printed in the middle and upper part of the pen. Although it was a peripheral, it did not look childish at all, but instead had a unique sense of luxury.

"This is for you."

Xu Lian glanced at the pen and then looked at Gu Chen, who smiled obediently with an imperceptible expectation in his eyes.

"...No need." Xu Lian looked away, put the notebook back into the bag, and said in a cold tone, "I don't usually use pens."

Gu Chen's fingers froze, but the smile on his lips did not diminish. He quickly put the things away as if nothing had happened.

For the whole day, Xu Lian did not take the initiative to talk to Gu Chen. For a moment, Gu Chen even felt that everything in the morning was just his illusion. He tried several times in the middle, starting with the mint drink and all the way to the finance stuff. He tried to open the gap in communication, but he was repeatedly hit by a wall.

The lights came on and the night enveloped the paradise. Gu Chen followed behind, looking at Xu Lian holding Luo Xingyuan's hand in front.

Thinking about it carefully, this kind of capriciousness is not the first time. But maybe it was because the feeling of getting along this morning was too good, and the expectations in his heart were raised for a while, making him a little complacent.

Laughter and joy passed by his ears from time to time, and Gu Chen lowered his head and stared at his shadow being stepped on by Xu Lian.

Luo Xingyuan turned his head to look at Gu Chen, and suddenly broke away from Xu Lian, ran to him and hugged his arm: "Brother! Is the haunted house open? Let's go line up!"

Before Gu Chen could speak, Luo Xingyuan said again: "Mom, let's go too!"

The mother and son looked at each other and left at once: "You go, Mom still has some work."

After that, she carried her bag and walked directly to the bench next to her.

Gu Chen suddenly felt a tightness in his chest.

After a moment, he took Luo Xingyuan's hand: "Let's go."

The haunted house is a night project that has only been opened recently and is very popular. In order to ensure the experience of tourists, the park strictly controls the flow of people, and only 15 people can enter at a time.

Gu Chen and his group were the last two in a group to enter. There was no one around, and it was very dark inside, making it difficult to see how big the space they were in was. The dark green light flashed from time to time, accompanied by the occasional sound of the mechanism. The deeper you go, the stronger the sound.

Suddenly, there was a strange scream from above, and then an upside-down artificial female ghost suddenly appeared above Gu Chen and Luo Xingyuan's heads.

"Ah!!!"

Luo Xingyuan hugged Gu Chen tightly and closed his eyes.

Gu Chen looked at his little brother curled up in his arms and laughed: "It's okay, she's gone."

Luo Xingyuan hummed twice: "I... I'll close my eyes first."

Gu Chen smiled and shook his head. He subconsciously wanted to touch his head. His fingertips touched his hair and suddenly stopped. After a moment, Gu Chen slowly put down his hand.

"Let's go." Gu Chen whispered.

Luo Xingyuan kept his eyes closed for a long distance. Gu Chen has never been afraid of these things, not to mention that there is not even a living person in this haunted house to play a ghost. It all depends on BGM, sound effects, and artificial cold wind

from front, back, left, and right to create an atmosphere. "Ah!!" There was a scream in front.

Gu Chen estimated the distance and felt that this haunted house was bigger than he thought. Just as he was thinking, a strong cold wind suddenly blew from the right.

The wind was stronger than before. Gu Chen couldn't help but turn his head and recognize a faint thing that looked like a sign in the dim light. Before he could see what it was.

"Ah!!!"

The screams in front were more intense than before.

"Brother!" Luo Xingyuan grabbed Gu Chen's sleeves tightly, "I... let's go out quickly!"

Gu Chen saw that he was so scared that sweat broke out on his forehead, and took out a tissue from his pocket to wipe it for him: "Why did you come in if you were so scared?"

He had never come to such a place with Luo Xingyuan before, and thought he was brave and curious, but he didn't expect that he would hold his arm from beginning to end and not let go, and the whole person was almost hanging on him.

"...Because I want to be close to my brother."

"?" Gu Chen looked down, "What did you say?"

Luo Xingyuan realized that he seemed to have let the cat out of the bag for a moment, and quickly pursed his lips. But Gu Chen's reflex arc came back to his senses at this time.

This is not what Luo Xingyuan would say. In an instant, Gu Chen remembered the way Luo Xingyuan secretly looked at his phone and grinned in the corner during the day. His first reaction was that it was a joke he saw on the Internet, and then he thought that his phone didn't seem to be able to access the Internet.

"...Who were you messaging during the day?"

Luo Xingyuan's eyes drifted: "No one..."

Gu Chen narrowed his eyes suspiciously. At this moment, another series of screams suddenly came from the front. This time the screams were louder than before, and it sounded like more than one person was screaming.

Gu Chen was a little dumbfounded. He has always been a staunch materialist and doesn't believe in ghosts and spirits in this world, but it seems that there are still many people who are afraid of them...

"Run! There's a fire!"

The scream suddenly interrupted Gu Chen's thoughts. In just a few seconds, the scream had turned into a commotion. Gu Chen was stunned for two seconds, and then he pulled Luo Xingyuan and ran forward quickly.

"Hold on to me and don't let go!" Gu Chen said in a hurry, thinking of the internal navigation map of the haunted house he had just seen, and pulled Luo Xingyuan and rushed forward quickly.

The commotion in front was getting more and more intense, and the sound waves seemed to have merged into a turbulent river, rushing towards the nearest escape passage.

"Cough cough cough!"

Thick smoke suddenly came out of the left passage, and Gu Chen kept running, coughing as he ran. Suddenly, he felt that the weight in his hand became heavier. Gu Chen turned around and saw Luo Xingyuan coughing as well. His little face was flushed, and his legs seemed to be weak, moving slower and slower, swinging behind him.

"Xingyuan!" Gu Chen coughed twice again and reached into his pocket. He had no hope at first, but he unexpectedly took out a wet wipe. Gu Chen immediately took it out and covered his mouth and nose, "Cover it!"

Luo Xingyuan grumbled. Just when he was about to say that he and Gu Chen would share half, Gu Chen directly grabbed his knees, picked him up and rushed forward.

The smoke became thicker and thicker. In just a short while, the passage in front was completely engulfed by the sea of ​​fire.

Logically, such a place would be equipped with a strict fire protection system, and the fire should not spread so quickly. Large areas of artificial props and walls gradually collapsed, and overwhelming heat came towards them.

"Brother..." Luo Xingyuan hugged Gu Chen's neck. The child had tried very hard to stay calm, but he still couldn't stop trembling.

"It's okay." Gu Chen leaned over and stroked Luo Xingyuan's face, comforting him, "It's okay."

Without hesitation, he turned around and ran back, all the way to the place where the sign was lit just now. Going deeper, there was actually a door there!

As expected. Gu Chen faced the wind that rushed in through the crack of the door. It was an old-fashioned wooden door. The door panel was already somewhat rotten, the paint on the wooden strips was peeling off, and the iron latch lock was rusty. It

was probably specially reserved by the park for the haunted house.

Gu Chen put Luo Xingyuan on the ground and coughed lightly: "Wait for me a moment."

The ten-year-old boy was already quite heavy. He ran all the way with him in his arms, and the air was not circulating in front and behind. Gu Chen felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He looked around and noticed that there were several iron sticks deep in the corner of the wall next to him. They looked a bit like water pipes that were forcibly removed.

Gu Chen picked up the longest one, walked back to the door, picked it up and slammed it against the iron latch lock!

Bang bang bang -

after a few hits, the iron lock seemed to be motionless.

Gu Chen gasped, and his body under his clothes kept rising and falling.

"Brother!" Luo Xingyuan covered his mouth and nose, looking at Gu Chen with sweat on his temples with worry. Gu Chen was panting so hard that his lungs seemed to be pumping bellows.

"Don't be afraid." Gu Chen's thin and slender hands tightly grasped the iron rod. Gu Chen narrowed his eyes, and a trace of fierceness flashed across his eyes.

Bang, bang, bang, bang -

the impact was even stronger than before. After a brief silence, the iron lock fell to the ground with a clang.

Gu Chen raised a triumphant smile at the corner of his mouth, threw away the iron rod, picked up Luo Xingyuan, opened the door and rushed out.

The outside is not what I imagined.

Gu Chen looked at the tall black wall in front of him. There was a long row of windows more than two meters above his head, most of which were sealed. He didn't expect that this side of the haunted house actually extended into another building. What's more frightening is that he has already glimpsed the flames rising high from the outer edge through the window!

"Brother!" Luo Xingyuan pointed to the side, "There is a window open there!"

Gu Chen turned his head and found that there was a window in the crack in the corner of the wall that was half open. It looked big enough for an adult of normal size to pass through.

"You go up first!" Gu Chen ran to the window. He was obviously out of breath, but he didn't know where he got the strength from. He used his shoulders to push Luo Xingyuan up!

Luo Xingyuan was scared to death, but he didn't want to make Gu Chen worry. He gritted his teeth and clung to the window frame and flipped himself up.

"How is it!" Gu Chen looked up and shouted.

Luo Xingyuan lay on the windowsill and looked out: "There are a few cardboard boxes outside!"

Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief and shouted: "You go down first!"

Luo Xingyuan: "What about you, brother!"

At such a height, if Gu Chen jumped, he would never reach the window frame. As for the surroundings, it was empty, without even a stepping stone.

Gu Chen: "You go up first! Then find someone to save me!"

Luo Xingyuan looked like he was about to cry, and froze on the top, looking at Gu Chen motionlessly.

Gu Chen: "Be obedient! Hurry!"

"Woo wow wow wow!" Luo Xingyuan howled and flipped over.

The flames burned half of the window horizontally, and the sirens of fire trucks came from far and near outside. Along with the bustling crowd, there were screams and cries. For a moment, I don't know if it was Gu Chen's illusion, he seemed to hear Xu Lian's voice.

"Xingyuan", "Xingyuan"

panicked sobs and rapid calls.

The care hidden underneath was something he would never get in his life.

Gu Chen slowly closed his eyes. The firelight and voices outside the window faded like a tide, and the silent darkness came from all directions, gradually pulling Gu Chen's memory back to many years ago.

His mother leaned against the head of the hospital bed, holding the newly born Luo Xingyuan, and his stepfather stood by the bed, bending down and touching Luo Xingyuan's head with a loving face. The sun was very bright that day, and their family of three was perfectly happy. Gu Chen stood at a distance and felt like an outsider.

Later, the doctor came to find Xu Lian for an examination. The nurse wanted to take Luo Xingyuan back to the neonatal ward for care.

"Don't bother." The stepfather smiled and waved to him gently, "Chenchen, come."

He walked forward. The stepfather took the little ball from Xu Lian's arms and put it in his hands: "Mom and Dad will be back in ten minutes. Can you help look after your brother?"

He was stunned, and his arms were almost stiff. He rubbed his hands on both sides of his pants for a long time before carefully taking the little ball from his stepfather.

Little Luo Xingyuan was suddenly handed over, and blinked twice in confusion. Gu Chen looked at his eyes like black gems, afraid that he would cry, but he didn't expect that the next second, he suddenly grinned at Gu Chen and giggled in his arms.

Gu Chen was stunned at the time. The stepfather smiled and said, "It seems that Xiaoyuan likes his brother very much."

He was ten years old that year. For the first time, he experienced the real feeling of being needed by his half-brother.

But he didn't know at the time that it was the beginning of all nightmares.

"Hurry up! There is a child inside!!"

The roar came from far away and rushed into Gu Chen's eardrums. He opened his eyes again. There

was a lot of noise outside. The flames were about to reach the only open window.

Gu Chen had just choked on a lot of smoke, and had been running with Luo Xingyuan for so long, and then he had smashed the door. He actually had very little energy left.

If...

if he could end everything here, it would be nice.

Gu Chen didn't know why he had such a thought. He felt as if his heart was being pulled down by something. It was very heavy, but unexpectedly calm.

The flames had already swept to the outer edge of the window frame, and the dancing flames were reflected in Gu Chen's eyes.

A heart-wrenching cry was faintly heard from outside: "Brother!!"

It was Luo Xingyuan's voice.

Gu Chen's eyes swelled slightly, and after a moment, the corners of his lips slightly raised. Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure appearing at the window.

He turned his head, and his pupils trembled.

The flames that shot up into the sky illuminated half of the boy's profile clearly and three-dimensionally. Lu Xun stepped on the bottom edge of the window frame with both feet, and one arm tightly clung to the top of the window frame.

Gu Chen stared blankly at the face in front of him that was covered with ash but still extremely handsome, and murmured: "You... why?"

It seemed that there was only this small space left between heaven and earth. Lu Xun stared at the pale-faced boy below, and after a moment, the corners of his lips gently raised: "Do you need a reason to accompany your boyfriend to commit suicide for love?"