On the morning of late summer, the wind began to curl the heat, blowing the leaves in the garden rustling, crushing the orange-yellow sunshine.

A ray of sunlight penetrated through the gap and projected on Xie Yan. He snuggled in Gu Yuchen's arms and reached out to grab it.

As soon as his palm closed, the sunlight slipped away from his fingers.

As before, he seemed to never be able to grasp the light in his life.

Xie Yan thought with a little discouraged look.

He was about to withdraw his hand when a wide palm suddenly raised the wrapped hand that wrapped around him, tightly holding his cold hand in his hand.

The warm touch is like a pot of boiling water, which starts from the cold hands and slowly passes into the heart.

Xie Yan couldn't help but look up at Gu Yuchen.

"I'll catch you." Gu Yuchen said, lowering his head and printing a kiss on the corner of Xie Yan's wet eyes. His movements were very light, as if he were treasured.

——You never have to take the initiative to grasp anything, let me take the initiative to hold you.

Xie Yan glanced at Gu Yuchen deeply, then turned to look at his hand.

Xie Yan moved his palm and inserted his fingers into Gu Yuchen's fingers, clasped his fingers tightly.

The sun shines on your hands, crossing them with a shallow halo.

At that moment, Xie Yan knew that he had captured Guang.

"Brother," Xie Yan called Gu Yuchen gently.

Gu Yuchen replied: "I'm here."

Xie Yan calmed down again, and his eyes fell directly on the hands where he and Gu Yuchen were shaking each other.

After a long time, he said, "You kiss me."

"Okay." As soon as Gu Yuchen finished speaking, he lowered his head and kissed Xie Yan's lips.

He gently sucked Xie Yan's lips, pushed his soft tongue open, licked Xie Yan's mouth gently, and finally hooked Xie Yan's tongue and tangled it.

Xie Yan raised his head and endured Gu Yuchen's gentle kiss. His neck was white and slender, like a swan with a neck.

The salty and wet smell spread through the two of them's intertwined lips and tongues.

Gu Yuchen paused for a moment in kissing, and suddenly hugged Xie Yan tightly, as if he was about to rub him into his flesh and blood.

The gentle kiss quietly became strong and passionate, and Xie Yan felt Gu Yuchen's strong emotions in his stirring lips and tongue.

He held Gu Yuchen tightly with one hand, raised his hand and placed it on the back of Gu Yuchen's head, and kept pressing it towards him.

They kissed for a long time, and until Xie Yan felt breathless, they separated from Gu Yuchen.

Xie Yan wanted to say something, but his mouth opened but whimpered.

Gu Yuchen pressed the back of Xie Yan's head, let Xie Yan bury it in his chest, lowered his head and kissed Xie Yan's head gently, "I'm here, just cry if I want to."

Xie Yan was about to say that he didn't want to cry, but before his mouth was opened, tears kept coming out of his eyes like a disrepaired faucet.

At first, he felt a little embarrassed, but he couldn't help but thrust. Finally, he simply let go completely and buried his head in Gu Yuchen's chest, crying so hard that he couldn't help but feel angry.

Gu Yuchen's palm was gently caressing Xie Yan's back, without saying anything to comfort Xie Yan, and let Xie Yan cry in his arms.

***

Not far away, Xie Jin looked at the scene in the garden pavilion from afar, and it seemed that he could faintly hear Xie Yan's sob in his ears.

He sighed and turned around and was about to go back to the room when he saw the doctor coming out.

"How about auntie?" Xie Jin asked.

After he found the doctor, he did not choose to stay in the room. He originally wanted to come out to talk to Xie Yan, but when he saw that Gu Yuchen was with Xie Yan, he didn't go over and just watched from a distance.

Just like when I was a kid.

Xie Jin has always remembered that Ms. Hao was not her biological mother. This was what Ms. Hao told him personally, and Ms. Hao didn't let him call her a mother.

Ms. Hao always says, "Your mother is not me, she is a very gentle and elegant woman. She loves you very much, and you must always remember her."

It was precisely because I knew from the beginning that Ms. Hao was not her biological mother that Xie Jin accepted this well, but at first she was a little confused about why Ms. Hao didn't let him call her mother, but later she gradually got used to it.

In Xie Jin's memory, Xie Hengdong was always very busy, and Ms. Hao was very strict with him. At that time, Xie Jin would feel very lonely until his younger brother Xie Yan was born.

Xie Jin likes this younger brother very much, soft, white and chubby, and he smiles happily when he sees him.

My younger brother also became Xie Jin's only playmate in his childhood.

After Xie Yan can walk and run, she is Xie Jin's follower. Xie Yan likes to follow wherever Xie Jin goes. The two brothers are inseparable, and anyone can tell that they have a good relationship.

But I don’t know when it started, but Xie Yan stopped following Xie Jin anymore. Sometimes the look of Xie Jin was still filled with disgust and resistance.

At first, Xie Jin didn't know why, but after school, he always liked to go to Xie Yan to finish his life, but Xie Yan always avoided him. Later, he accidentally saw Ms. Hao hitting Xie Yan's palm. The sound of a slap was very heavy, and it hurts very much when he heard it.

Xie Jin heard Ms. Hao say, "I told you not to play with my brother, why don't you listen? My brother will inherit everything from the Xie family in the future. He wants to become a very excellent person. If you don't have time to play with you, do you know?"

It was only then that Xie Jin realized why Xie Yan hated him and resisted him, because every time he looked for Xie Yan, Xie Yan would be beaten by Ms. Hao.

At that time, Xie Jin was in the second grade of elementary school. Even if he was precocious, he would not realize other problems. He only knew that it was because of his own reasons that his younger brother was scolded and beaten. So although he liked his younger brother, he never dared to play with him again.

Sometimes when I really think about my brother, I look at him from afar. The little brother squatted on the ground alone, talking to himself, playing with his left and right hands.

Later, when Xie Jin realized the problem, Xie Yan grew up, always smiling in front of him, as if nothing had happened.

But Xie Jin always unconsciously put on a perfect look in front of Xie Yan, because he knew that everything he got was sacrificed by Xie Yan.

At that time, Xie Jintian really thought Ms. Hao was fine and Xie Yan was fine, because they were happy in front of him, and he never heard Ms. Hao say that Xie Yan would give him all the good things.

But after all, he was naive.

On the summer when Xie Yan finished the college entrance examination, after celebrating Xie Yan's 18th birthday, he returned to school to prepare for an internship. After a while of busyness, Xie Jin remembered to call his home.

Xie Jin didn't contact Xie Yan for several consecutive days. He was so worried that he rushed home in a hurry. Only then did he realize that Ms. Hao actually locked Xie Yan into the attic because of a few words from her relatives.

Xie Jin opened the door of the attic and saw only his brother who was unconscious on the ground, and eight-word notes with the words "Am I really not worthy of living?"

That day, the whole Xie family was in chaos.

The bloody wound buried deep in Xie Yan was finally exposed to the sun, but it had rotted and maggots.

But Xie Jin didn't even have the qualifications to blame Ms. Hao, because he was a beneficiary from beginning to end.

***

Xie Jin wiped his face and pulled himself out of his past memory. He heard the doctor say, "I gave my wife a sedative, and now I'm asleep, just..."

Seeing that the doctor wanted to speak, Xie Jin said, "Speak straight, I'll listen."

The doctor thought about the language before slowly saying: "The advice I gave here is not to let Young Master Yan meet his wife for the time being, or to let his wife stay away from the Xie family and find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to receive treatment."

This suggestion is actually not different from before.

After that day, Ms. Hao and Xie Yan were diagnosed with serious mental illness. This is what the doctor suggested. Xie Yan took the initiative to stand up and chose.

He chose a university in the south, completely stayed away from home, and only came back once or twice a year.

After Xie Yan left, Ms. Hao did not want to go to the sanatorium, so she received treatment at home.

Perhaps because Xie Yan was not around, Ms. Hao's condition gradually stabilized, but who knew that it would break out again today.

After seven years of going around, everything still returned to the beginning.

Xie Jin's eyes dimmed, and he said nothing, and turned around and entered the room.

When Xie Jin entered, Xie Hengdong had just come down from the upper floor. His face was a little haggard and his spirit was a little listless.

"How is Xiao Yan?" Xie Hengdong asked with concern.

"There is Gu Yuchen here," Xie Jin had to admit the importance of Gu Yuchen at this time, "It should be nothing."

The father and son sat down on the sofa. Xie Jin hesitated for a while and said to Xie Hengdong: "Dad, although these words are not appropriate, I have to say them today."

He looked at Xie Hengdong with a firm tone, "Auntie needs a more professional environment for treatment, and she will only get worse at home."

Why didn’t Xie Hengdong know?

His back was hunched down, and his heart was filled with endless regret.

Hao Xiya is wrong, but he, Xie Hengdong is wrong? If he can give up his work and care more about his family, nothing will happen next.

There are traces of Hao Xiya’s illness, but he didn’t notice it at all. He was a big mistake!

Xie Jin probably knew what Xie Hengdong was thinking, so he reached out to pat Xie Hengdong on the back, "Dad..."

"I'm fine," Xie Hengdong waved his hand at him, "I'll contact a foreign nursing home later."

Xie Hengdong sighed deeply, his eyes a little red, "I will take your aunt over."

"Dad, you..." Xie Jin looked at Xie Hengdong in surprise. He didn't expect that Xie Hengdong would choose a foreign sanatorium. Is he going to send Ms. Hao to a foreign sanatorium?

Xie Hengdong: "The doctor just said that Xiya's desire to control Xiaoyan has not disappeared. It is not that convenient abroad. Even if she wants to control Xiaoyan, it will not be so easy. Besides..."

He wiped his face and continued, "Xiao Yan may not necessarily want to see her."

Otherwise, I won't just come back once or twice a year.

Xie Yan didn't say it, but they could see that there was a hurdle in his heart that he couldn't get over it.
Chapter completed!