Perhaps knowing each other is also a kind of bondage

  He doesn't want to lose.

  Bai Qing Song had known Fu Tian Yao since he was a child. Others said they were childhood sweethearts, but... two grown men having this kind of relationship, no matter how you thought about it, it just felt disgusting.

  Fu Tianyao is also a rich second-generation, spoiled and pampered since childhood, growing up to be a beautiful young man. They were in the same school, same class, and had a desk mate relationship that was forced apart due to fighting.

  He had an idea in his mind since he was a child, he didn't want to lose to Fu Tianyao.

  In terms of studies, sports, special skills, height, appetite... he always habitually compares himself with Fu Tianyao.

  However, Fu Tianyao had one more thing than him since childhood, a gentle and lovely fiancée.

  So he always had a habit of teasing Fu Tian Yao: "Hey! Are you staring at that wooden puppet again? Aren't you ashamed? Would you die if you lost her?"

  Exposed Pei Tianyao always awkwardly retorted: "Don't...don't joke around, I don't like her at all!"

  "How come it seems like you're following her around everywhere?"

  "Hmph, it's clear she likes me more!"

  At this time, Fu Tianyao would often go to bully Xiao Xiao, and then see Xiao Xiao looking at him pitifully or following him. Fu Tianyao would look at Bai QingSong with a sense of pride.

  Bai Qing Song felt a little strange in his heart, and he just wondered why Xiao Xiao could still endure it.

  Later on, Fu Tianyao got into the habit of not taking Xiaoxiao seriously and thought that no matter how overboard he was, Xiaoxiao would forgive him and come back to his side.

  Bai Qing Song later gradually felt a sense of guilt, but Fu Tian Yao was nonchalant and didn't take it to heart.

  So Bai Qing Song would wickedly think that if one day Xiao Xiao couldn't stand Fu Tian Yao and came out to resist, letting the engagement be cancelled, wouldn't he not lose to him then?

  Later, his wish came true.

  When a former popular and influential school grass falls to become a hated and despised playboy, and then step by step develops into an otaku, and further becomes a miserly big man, this is absolutely a tragic process.

  Fu Tianyao abandoned his game account, deleted all his Weibo messages, and after the incident, he deleted all the people who were kicking him while he was down from his QQ friends. He locked himself in his room for two months, isolated from the world, but still didn't feel better.

  During this time, only Bai Qing Song occasionally came over to check if he had gone moldy.

  "If you're really not resigned to it, go see the needle and thread, and mend the broken mirror!" Bai Qing Song sat beside him, picked up his hand to look at it, saw those fingernails that hadn't been trimmed for a long time, and couldn't help but click his tongue twice.

  He then very naturally looked for nail clippers in his room and returned to his side, helping him clip his fingernails one by one.

  Fu Tianyao was like a wooden puppet, leaning on the sofa and letting Bai Qingtian manipulate him at will.

  "I don't have the face to go. Even if I had a good laugh and parted ways with that fool, it's not like I'd be the one to succeed him anyway. Why bother making a fool of myself?" Fu Tianyao shrugged his shoulders, looking nonchalant, but his smile was tinged with a hint of desolation.

  "Isn't it that you've grown fond of staying at home?"

  "At least you don't have to wash socks every day."

  Bai Qing Song's smile was not genuine, he raised the corner of his mouth and shook his head lightly, then went back inside to find a razor, opened it, and directly pressed it against Fu Tianyao's face.

  It started off very smoothly. Who knew the razor would suddenly get stuck. Fu Tianyao winced in pain, and Bai QingSong carefully turned off the razor and pulled it out with force, immediately pulling out a few strands of hair.

  "Is it that your beard is too long and the razor can't recognize it, or does this razor have a part-time job as a nose hair remover?" asked Bai Qing Song.

  Fu Tianyao covered his face and glared at Bai QingSong with a scowl. His eyes darkened, and he fell directly onto the sofa without getting up.

  "One of these days I'll be dead meat."

  "How is that possible?!" Bai Qingtong exclaimed exaggeratedly, but it didn't rouse Fu Tianyao's spirit, instead making him even more despondent and unwilling to move.

  Bai Qing Song looked at him, felt helpless, and directly walked out of the room. Before long, he actually brought in a whole box of ice cream. He opened the box and ate one stick after another.

  He didn't stop until he had eaten his tenth one. He was already shaking all over by then.

  Fu Tianyao lay on the sofa, lazily looking at him with a puzzled expression and asked: "When did you start liking to eat this?"

  Bai Qing Song just smiled and handed the popsicle sticks to Fu Tian Yao one by one: "Look, I ate ten of them, four of which were 'come again', isn't that very lucky?" Just after asking, he couldn't help but shiver.

  "It's your luck, but not mine."

  "I'm giving it to you, isn't it yours now?"

  Fu Tianyao stared at the popsicle stick for a while, then finally let out a sigh and turned over.

  "Put it in the fridge, it's all melted."

  Bai Qing Song looked at Fu Tian Yao for a moment, then resignedly cleaned up the remaining mess and told him to come again another day.

  There were still popsicles on the coffee table, but Fu Tianyao didn't even want to care.

  How long can heartbreak make a person decadent?

  It depends on how deeply you love each other.

  How long does it take to forget someone?

  This... probably no one can say clearly, because when they recall that they have already forgotten the person, it is already a long time after.

  If it's already forgotten, how can one remember when it was forgotten?

  This is too contradictory.

  Later, Fu Tianyao chose to go abroad, to a place where Xiao had never appeared before, perhaps it would be better.

  Bai Qing Song expressed understanding, saying that domestically it's really unbearable, in school the students will only make fun of Tian Yao by pointing and gesturing, completely because this matter has been blown up too big. Tian Yao can't even lift his head, and maybe his mood won't improve.

  "Go take a look at XiaoXiao before we leave, I'll drive, you just hide in the back row." Bai QingSong suggested, Fu TianYao remained silent.

  Fu Tianyao eventually went, sitting in the back row of the car, looking out through the window. Bai QingSong could sense Fu Tianyao's dilemma, wanting to take a few more glances at Xiao, yet afraid that seeing her extremely happy would make him heartache and suppress his emotions even further.

  Two people sat in the car, the atmosphere was a bit silent.

  Bai Qing Song rested his face on the steering wheel, turned around to look at that haggard and handsome young man, and couldn't help but say: "Heartbreak is actually a kind of illness. If you recover from it, you'll become enlightened immediately; if not, you'll indulge in self-destruction. Maybe many years later, your infatuation with Xiao Xiao will also fade away, then you'll sit on the couch lazily watching the world go by, and mock yourself for being so obsessed back then."

  Tian Yao still turned his head to look outside the car, his white neck and small ears, his profile was so good-looking that he didn't want to speak.

  He curled up the corner of his mouth to smile. He couldn't help but sneer: "Are all people who comfort those who have lost love poets or masters of love? You're still single after so many years, aren't you?"

  Bai Qing Song didn't say a word, he had long predicted this breakup and wanted to avoid flaunting his happiness in front of Fu Tian Yao when the latter was heartbroken.

  He no longer has any complacent thoughts of getting away with a small conspiracy, but instead worries about his own heart.

  What's the purpose of causing trouble again?

  Tian Yao's body was tense, Bai Qing Song followed his gaze and saw Xiao Xiao and Tao Ce holding hands, walking out of the school. Their pace was even, not fast or slow, Tao Ce was talking, and Xiao Xiao was smiling.

  Everything is harmonious beyond words.

  Tian Yao lowered his head in disappointment and stopped looking, but Bai Qing's phone suddenly rang.

  Connect, surprised, then go ask: "Want to give him the phone?"

  "No need, just hands-free is fine."

  Bai Qing Song answered and put the phone on speaker. He placed his hand in front of Fu Tian Yao's face. Soon, a soft and gentle voice came from the receiver: "You're abroad, take good care of yourself."

  It was just one sentence, and then there was the sound of hanging up the phone.

  Tian Yao was stunned, then suddenly burst into tears, his head thrown back, and his sobbing sounded like hiccups. Bai Qing Song turned around to look at him a few times, thinking that this former school heartthrob cried like an idiot.

  No wonder... He didn't have any sense of victory at all.

  Who made this guy hurt so deeply?

  A bosom friend one moment, a mortal enemy the next.

  Bai Qing Song started the car, drove it to a desolate area, then pulled Fu Tian Yao out of the car and beat him up mercilessly. Fu Tian Yao cried until he was exhausted and didn't resist at all, but Bai Qing Song felt his hands ache from hitting him.

  They had a fight. Two of them squatted outside the car, each holding a cigarette and smoking.

  "Why don't you fight back?" Bai Qing Song asked him, hoping that if he fought back, his heart would feel a little better.

  "It's my fault for being too arrogant, what's wrong with you? If picking a fight can lead to a breakup, it just means this relationship can't withstand the test."

  So... these two have known all along.

  Bai Qing Song pulled up the corners of his mouth and smiled, finally stretching out his hand to put it around his shoulder and asking: "Ha, then why don't you just not look for a woman, we can live together."

  The always silent Fu Tianyao finally raised his hand and punched him, then turned around and got into the car.

  Bai Qing Song blinked dryly.

  It's often not that the deceitful person is so profound and mysterious, but rather that the person being deceived doesn't bother to calculate.

  In a daze, Bai Qing Song suddenly recalled the scene of Fu Tian Yao squatting in front of a pile of dolls, deep in thought. He said he really liked Xiao Xiao and felt she was like a doll, making him want to hug her whenever he saw her. He wanted to choose the most adorable one from here to give to Xiao Xiao, but no matter how he looked at them, he felt they weren't worthy of her.

  Bai Qing Song snorted disdainfully at the time, his heart aching with unbearable bitterness.

  That year they were seven years old. Now more than a decade has passed and he still can't tell what kind of emotion this sourness is.

  The day of farewell finally arrived, Bai Qing Song went to the airport to see him off. That day, Fu Tian Yao wore a loose sweater, his two legs were so thin that they didn't seem real, it was really unknown how much weight he had lost recently.

  Tianyao saw Bai Qingong coming over, with a swollen face and a smile, saying: "Goodbye."

  "Uh-huh."

  "Don't keep calling me for no reason, hearing your voice is annoying. You really don't suit hesitant expressions, the more you hesitate, the more pretentious you look."

  "Virtue, when did you ever think of me?"

  "Aren't you about to cry?"

  Bai Qing Song didn't want to talk about this and changed the subject by asking: "Have you brought everything?"

  "Hmm... I've brought some clothes, and will buy other things when I get there. Oh, right, and also four popsicle sticks that are a bit dirty."

  Bai Qing Song's expression was slightly dazed, and he immediately let out a bitter laugh.

  The two people parted ways, and Fu Tianyao didn't look back. Bai QingSong didn't leave the airport until he saw the plane take off.

  Goodbye? Who knows when we can meet again...