"Teacher Chen asked me to ask you if you are going to the competition this time." Chao Ci looked up from his book and asked him casually.

When it comes to competitions, the main players are generally sophomores in high school. Chao Ci and Zhao Yi have been participating in competitions since their first year in high school. Chao Ci's results are already excellent. Although Zhao Yi's overall performance is not as good as him, in science and Chao Ci

They are almost the same. In their freshman year of high school, they also had very good results, but neither of them made it to the national team. In their sophomore year of high school, they made it to the national team, won several gold medals, and were promoted to the top two.

Therefore, they do not need to go to the competition this time in their senior year, but the two of them did bring rare good results to the school last year, so the teacher and the school still hope that they can go again.

"I won't go." Zhao Yi refused without any hesitation, "The provincial competition coincides with Xiaojin's birthday."

"Okay, then I'll tell Teacher Chen that you won't go." Chao Ci nodded, not surprised.

It's early March now, the provincial competition is at the end of April, and it's Nan Xiaojin's birthday as well.

April 28th.

Speaking of this, Zhao Yi raised his eyes from the mathematics teaching aid book and suddenly asked: "You said it's her birthday, what should I give her?"

"Well……"

Although Chao Ci knew girls better than Zhao Yi in the past, after all, he has never had a girlfriend, and he is not even a heterosexual, so he is also a bit numb in this kind of thing.

"Bags? Jewelry? Perfume?... She should be an adult after this birthday, how about giving her a car?" Chao Ci gave examples of everything that came to his mind.

"It seems all right." Zhao Yi thought carefully, "It doesn't seem right either."

"Then you think about it yourself, she will like whatever you give her anyway," Chao Ci said.

However, none of them expected that Nan Xiaojin didn't even wait for this birthday.

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If you were to ask when Chao Ci fell in love with Zhao Yi, it would probably be in junior high school.

In the past, he was just a dirty and lowly person among this group of glamorous people. It was Zhao Yi who gave him a new life, keeping his body from being hungry and cold, and keeping his soul from being weak.

Most people, no matter how unhappy their lives are, still have one or two people who care about them.

But there were no previous court words. His father regarded him as a burden and avoided him, and his mother used him as a tool to gain power, and she died when he was born. The two people had a bounden duty to love him.

This is true for many people, let alone others.

The impact of the first seven years of life may be far greater than any subsequent seven years.

So even if Chaoci later had no worries about food and clothing and was popular among people, and even now he is shining brightly with fine clothes and fine food, he is still the rootless duckweed in his heart.

Chao Ci has no sense of security, no sense of belonging, and is separated from the world.

And Zhao Yi is the only link. The lock of life is locked on this young man of the same age as him, giving Chao Ci something to rely on.

When he was in elementary school, Chao Ci regarded Zhao Yi as the most important person in his life. But when he was twelve or thirteen years old and his love affair began, he realized that this kind of attention was not simple.

The first time he had a wet dream when he was fourteen, he was thinking about Zhao Yi.

Such excessive thoughts made Chao Ci uneasy and even ashamed. He said nothing to anyone and buried this feeling in his heart.

Later, he gradually learned about the gay community and gradually understood this circle.

The discovery of this group first gave Chao Ci stability. Let him know that he is not sick or shocking, he just likes the same sex. There are thousands of people like him in the world, and he is not too special.

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But gradually, as he got to know this group more deeply, panic and despair arose in him.

Everyone told him how sad it was to fall in love with a straight man.

And breaking up a straight man is even more immoral.

Morality has nothing to do with court speech.

In the eyes of others, Chao Ci is humble, courteous, excellent and upright... But this is just a disguise Chao Ci makes to adapt to the environment. For him, his sense of morality is just a coat he puts on for survival. The real Chao Ci,

There is no so-called morality in his bones.

But Zhao Yi is Chao Ci's fate.

It is impossible to break up a straight man. It will only make Chao Ci and Zhao Yi not even friends.

His love is nothing but disgusting to Zhao Yi.

But Chao Ci has illusions after all. Maybe Zhao Yi has a slight possibility that he also likes the same sex, or he is bisexual...

The appearance of Nan Xiaojin completely broke his last illusion.

It also allowed him to right his position.

Perhaps his shadow is indispensable in this relationship.

He told Zhao Yi that one should not always be the one to take the initiative in love. He planned several proactive dates for him and provided several cover-ups. He helped Zhao Yi choose gifts, planned surprises, and enlightened him when they quarreled...

...In this relationship, Nan Xiaojin pulled Zhao Yi from the front, while Chao Ci also pushed him from behind.

He had seen them hold hands for the first time, hug each other, and kiss for the first time.

At least he didn't miss this stage of life like Zhao Yi.

In the future, he will also see them get married, get married and have children, and when they are finally gray-haired, he can still visit them as a good friend.

Everything that Chao Ci desires in his dream will be realized by Nan Xiaojin.

With Nan Xiaojin, he realized that this is how this person fell in love with someone else. He could be gentle, coaxing, humble, and kiss eagerly.

Pain? Jealousy?—How could it not be?

But this is the best result.

There is no possibility for him and Zhao Yi, so he also wishes from the bottom of his heart that Nan Xiaojin and Zhao Yi can reach the end.

Such a good girl should not be let down.

And Zhao Yi, whom he loved deeply, also deserved happiness.

But neither he nor Zhao Yi expected that this relationship would come to an unexpected and harsh end before they graduated from high school.

This is not due to a crisis in their emotions, but another dilemma that is more difficult to reconcile.

This is said to be a legacy issue from Zhao Yi's previous generation.

Although Zhao Yi was a serious young master of the imperial family, at first, his father was not.

The old man of the Zhao family whom Zhao Yi calls "grandpa" is not his grandfather, but his uncle. In other words, the old man of the Zhao family's sister is Zhao Yi's grandmother.

Zhao Yi's grandmother died very early, leaving only Zhao Yi's father as an heir. Mr. Zhao had a very good relationship with his sister. After her death, he was deeply saddened. He also raised Zhao Yi's father as his own child.

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At that time, Zhao Yi's father was seven years old, and Mr. Zhao already had an eldest son, Zhao Sheng, who was eight years older than Zhao Yi's father.

Until Zhao Yi's father came of age, Mr. Zhao had no other sons. Therefore, Zhao Sheng was almost the sure choice to succeed the Zhao family, even if he was not outstanding.

But later, when Mr. Zhao was too embarrassed to hand over part of his power to him, he caused the Zhao family to lose tens of billions. He was lustful, promiscuous, addicted to gambling, and even later contracted drug abuse. Once such news was revealed to outsiders,

You know, it's unimaginable.

Mr. Zhao couldn't bear it anymore, but at the same time, Zhao Yi's father performed extremely well.

In the end, Mr. Zhao sent Zhao Sheng to a drug rehabilitation center and completely adopted Zhao Yi's father into his lap. From then on, Zhao Yi's father changed his original surname from Shen to Zhao and became the heir of the Zhao family.

When Zhao Sheng came out of the drug rehabilitation center four years later, Zhao Yi's father had already firmly grasped the power of the Zhao family, and Zhao Sheng had nothing to do with him.

After all, Mr. Zhao was nostalgic for his old friendship and handed him 10% of the shares in some core industries. Although Zhao Sheng lost the Zhao empire, with these, he could still stand at the top of the pyramid.

But he was not willing to give in. This was too ridiculous for him. His father only had one son, and in the end the property fell to an outsider.

He had been planning for several years. Not long ago, he colluded with other companies and disclosed extremely important internal information to them. After Zhao suffered huge losses, he launched a fierce attack on Zhao in the stock market and attempted to short-sell Zhao. family, swallowed up this huge business empire.

But for a person like Zhao Sheng who takes drugs and gambles, others don't know what he is like, but Zhao's father knows that he is a complete idiot.

This attack ultimately ended with Zhao Sheng and several of his cooperating forces being discredited and completely bankrupt.

It even involved an old incident.

The reason why Zhao Yi suddenly transferred to Chaoci's school when he was in second grade was not without reason. It was because Zhao Yi was kidnapped in his original school and was detained for two days before he was narrowly rescued. Zhao's parents and Zhao's parents were worried that he would leave a shadow. , so I transferred him to another school and wanted him to change his environment.

The person who kidnapped Zhao Yi originally bit him to death just to get money, but now he realized that this incident was actually planned by Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng completely angered the old man, and was eventually sent to prison by his own hands and sentenced to thirty years.

Among the several forces that cooperated with Zhao Sheng, there was Nan Xiaojin's family.

And none of the three of them knew about all this.

It was not until that day that Zhao Yi and Chao Ci knew what had happened when they saw Zhao's stock market being attacked, almost falling to the limit and then rising sharply, accompanied by the bankruptcy of several groups, including Nan Xiaojin's company.

Nan Xiaojin's father jumped off a building that day, and his death was wiped out.

Zhao Yi and Chao Ci were anxious all night. No matter how Zhao Yi sent a message to Nan Xiaojin, she didn't reply. When they went to class the next day, the seat belonging to Nan Xiaojin in the next class was also vacant.

There was only a letter left, which was handed to Zhao Yi by Nan Xiaojin's good friend with red eyes.

Zhao Yi opened it and read:

Zhao Yi, my mother and I are going abroad. I can’t tell you the specific country we are going to, and you don’t have to ask, because no one will know.

I'm sorry for what happened in your family this time. I know you want to believe me. I believe I didn't know anything about it before, and you are willing to look at me as you did before, knowing that I am not the same as my father. But...you You know, this is the first time I have discovered that life is so helpless. I used to think that if I could make you fall in love with me, everything would be solved. But now I know that even if two people like each other, there are always too many reasons to stop them.

I really like you, and maybe I will never meet anyone I like more in my life. But I can’t stay for you, and I can’t stay. I’m sorry.

I still feel a little sad when I think about it. I managed to make you so good, but I have to give up to another girl. But I still wish you can meet a better person.

Don't think about it.
Chapter completed!