Fu Yunxi froze, then chuckled, looking a little disappointed too.
"That's all you wanted to ask?"
"Yes. Did you go there?"
"No."
Fu Yunxi shook his head.
"Why did you suddenly think to ask that?"
Xie Lin's heart stopped at that moment.
His eyes widened involuntarily, his pupils contracted sharply, and even his voice trembled.
"What... what did you say?"
"My mom did mention enrolling me at Qingyuan back when I was in high school."
Fu Yunxi kept talking, his tone casual.
"But then she worried I'd pick up bad habits, so she sent me to a public high school instead. What's wrong?"
Fu Yunxi's mouth opened and closed, but Xie Lin couldn't hear a thing.
All that remained in his mind was that one phrase, "Never went there," making his eardrums ring.
Never went there?
He wasn't Pretty Older Brother?
Then what had these ten years meant?
He had remembered him for ten whole years like a fool.
What had it meant?
For that ridiculous obsession, he had followed him around like a pathetic lapdog, only to discover-
He'd had the wrong person?
Xie Lin's face turned paper-white. Fine beads of cold sweat appeared at his temples, and his whole body shook.
Fu Yunxi finally noticed something was wrong.
"What's wrong? You..."
Before he could finish, a tall figure loomed over Xie Lin from behind.
Lu Ye had appeared at some point, his expression frighteningly dark.
Without so much as a glance at Fu Yunxi, he bent down and swept Xie Lin into his arms.
"Lu..."
"Shut up!"
Lu Ye shot Fu Yunxi a cold look, his gaze murderous.
Holding the person in his arms tight, he turned and strode upstairs.
Xie Lin buried his face in the crook of Lu Ye's neck, his fingers clutching his collar in