Misalignment

It's late fall, and the leaves and branches of flowers and trees are gradually turning yellow. Qi Xingchen was pulled by Liang Jing and stepped on the fallen leaves piled up by the flower beds, making a "crunching" sound.

-- much like the sound of a nerve being torn, slight, small but hard to ignore.

Qi Xingchen looked at Liang Jing in front of him, his backbone tense. The tiny hairs on his body stood up, and the muscles in his legs were so tense that they almost spasmed.

It wasn't until the cold wind blew, a coolness from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, that he was blown out of his senses for a few moments.

The first thought was: How did Liang Jing know that he was not the original owner?

The second reaction was: Liang Jing didn't talk about it at the dinner table, but asked him alone when he came out, because she didn't find any concrete evidence to test him?

Or are you afraid that if you say it, the Kis won't believe you?

Or even more so, intentionally hiding the fact that he's an outsider for him?

What was his purpose in doing this?

Before dinner, Qi Xingchen had thought about telling his family about his identity as a book-wearer, but at that time he had thought that the danger had all been lifted, and that the Qi family had all been saved from the fate of becoming cannon fodder.

Now it seems that Liang Jing should not be out of the crisis, so he can't reveal his identity for the time being.

If the original owner's family and friends become estranged from him, it will be much harder for him to save anyone.

He had to hide it.

Anyway, whatever Liang Jing's reason for doing so, as long as he wasn't exposed in front of Qi's family, he had room for maneuver and cover up.

Qi Xingchen tried to recall the original owner's tone of voice in □□□ and played Tai Chi, "What are you talking about, who else could I be?"

Liang Jing looked at him quietly, not answering, but his grip on his arm tightened.

"Hiss--" Qi Xingchen couldn't help but moan in pain.

Liang Jing immediately let go of his hand.

The fiery pain in his arm faded, and Qi Xingchen froze as the movement released a signal.

-- Liang Jing is hurting him.

Maybe because Liang Jing is not 100% sure that he is an outsider, he still treats him like a bamboo horse.

Perhaps for some reason, Liang Jing has developed a certain fondness for him.

That would be the reason he didn't tell the Kisners.

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In fact, Qi Xingchen guessed correctly that Liang Jing did have a crush on him.

But the reason for not telling Qi's family was not right, Liang Jing did not say, is that he himself does not want to accept, do not want to believe that "Qi Xingchen" changed.

Go back in time to the night most of a month ago.

That night, a colleague took him to a club for a drink and ran into Tao Tao, the patient's sister. Tao Tao was very kind and offered to take him home when she saw how drunk he was.

The Liang family belongs to a prestigious family in H City, and Liang's father was highly respected for his scientific research when he was young, so he was afraid that his drunken appearance would be seen by other people and discredit his father, so he agreed.

He told Tao Tao the address, and Tao Tao took him home and did not leave immediately, but helped him back to his room and made a cup of hot milk very gently.

"Thank you," Liang Jing took it, her eyes swooning before her, "I'm sorry for your trouble tonight."

"I'm particularly busy at work, I don't have time to take care of Xiao Xuan myself, it's you who's been taking care of it for me, I should be the one to thank you." Tao Tao said while sitting on the edge of the bed.

Liang Jing was drunk, but he knew it was not right to let a girl stay in his room for a long time. It's not a big deal for him to be a man, but if word gets out, it's the girl's reputation that will be ruined.

So he hurriedly drank up the milk, ready to chat some more and send someone to take her to her car.

Tao Tao's voice was gentle: "How is it? Did you feel better after drinking it?"

"Better."

"I heard Xiao Xuan's attending doctor say that you soak in the lab every day, why do you want to get up and drink today," Tao Tao slightly widened his eyes, his eyes rippling and especially nice, "Did you encounter something sad?"

Liang Jing had a splitting headache when he mentioned the reason for his drinking. He wasn't the kind of person who liked to confide in others, but perhaps alcohol made one's willpower weak or Tao Tao's tone was too gentle, he couldn't help but confide, "It's because during the day today, the person I like told me that he has someone he likes."

Drunkards have always been unable to find logic in their speech, Tao Tao seems to have failed to straighten out the relationship in this sentence, and after ten seconds or so, he responded, "So it's like this ...... I'm not going to lie, I actually had a similar experience. The person I like is now very close to another person, I can understand how you feel, it must be very sad and sad to let go ...... Who is the person you like? Is it a friend or a coworker, can you tell me?"

Listening to Tao Tao's words of comfort, Liang Jing was touched for no reason.

However, Little Xingchen is a public figure, and he is afraid that it will be unfavorable to Little Xingchen, so he vaguely says, "What I like is the neighbor's sister."

"A childhood friend who grew up together?"

Liang Jing "hmmm".

"Proximity is the best way to get the moon, and it's easy for girls to be attracted to the big brother next door," Tao Tao wondered, "Why didn't you go after her earlier?"

"Because ......"

Liang Jing paused and smiled bitterly, "When he liked me, I didn't like him. By the time I found his sparkle and liked him, he had ......"

"Just like someone else already?"

"Uh-huh." Liang Jing nodded.

At those words, Tao Tao seemed to realize that something was wrong and blinked. The fluttering big eyes matched with the puzzled expression looked unusually cute, serious, and trustworthy.

She sighed, "The thing that scares me most about relationships is hindsight, if only you could have caught her flashes of brilliance ahead of time."

"In advance ......" Liang Jing thought back to Xingchen in his student days and shook his head, "He didn't turn out to be like this."

"What do you mean it wasn't?"

"How can I say it ......?" Liang Jing said, "Before and after I went abroad, he was like a new person, the change is especially big. He used to love me to touch his hair, but now he resists my touch; he used to hate to send me messages all the time, but now he can't receive his messages for a month. ...... The most important thing is that I have experienced how much he relies on me, know how much he likes me, how can he, how can he be so quick ...... Let go of me ......"

Here, Liang Jing's voice turned low, and the emotions that he usually suppressed exploded at the moment he said it, and his eyes instantly reddened.

"I know how you feel," Tao Tao softly reassured him for a moment, "but after hearing you out, I think there's something strange about this neighboring sister. The rivers and mountains are easy to change, and no matter what has happened to her, the transformation needs a certain process, it can't be done all of a sudden."

"Why is it like this ......" Tao Tao muttered, "It can't be like the TV shows I've done, soul swapping or traveling through ......"

Liang Jing was stunned.

"Aiya don't listen to my nonsense haha, I'm also a bit drunk today," Tao Tao felt that those words were ridiculous, smiled to himself and waved his hand, "I haven't figured out my own feelings yet, so I'm just talking nonsense here to analyze for you. Well, you rest, I'm going back to the clubhouse."

"You're not going home?"

"Not back, drunk to sleep," Tao Tao turned his head, "or do you have wine in your house? We are all sad people, we can drink to the moon and not get drunk."

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Liang Jing agreed to her proposal by magic.

As a result, after the "not drunk, not return", and then open your eyes, the bed Tao Tao clothes messy, you can even call it ...... I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it.

He didn't know how to react for a while, and Tao Tao was also flustered and hurriedly ran away after putting on his clothes.

After locking himself in his room for two days without eating or drinking, Liang Jing finally accepted the fact that he had spoiled someone else's girl. Liang's father has always taught him to be careful about sexual relations, and if it happens accidentally, he has to be a real man and be responsible for the girl.

That's why, after receiving Qi Xingchen's confession, he chose to go far away from home.

Because he did not dare to promise easily, do not want to casually break the hearts of people close to him. He wanted to give himself the time to see clearly the heart, but also want to give the other side of the space to think carefully.

Only all of this was annihilated in a drunken mess 丨 sex.

He had to contact Tao Tao and tell her that if she felt aggrieved, she could be given the status of a young granny of the Leung family.

Even if he doesn't like her, even if he knows Tao Tao doesn't like him either.

Tao Tao's response was rather vague, to the effect that she was not familiar with him and did not know how to choose, and her heart was in turmoil. So he has been trying to get in touch with Tao Tao and help her make a choice. In his spare time, he would ask Tao Tao to come to the hospital, and he would accompany her for chatting and eating.

Luckily, the Liang family had a restaurant industry, and their frequent meetings were not discovered by the media. Only the housekeeper, through the manager of the restaurant side, learned that the young master had recently gotten close to a girl, and after reporting it to Liang's mother, it was passed on to Qi Yuji's ears.

That night, after Tao Tao's careless words, Liang Jing feels more and more that the person he knows now is not the same Xingchen, and Tao Tao's presence makes him feel exhausted.

He hadn't had a good meal or a good night's sleep in a long time, and he was depressed and looked as bad as he could possibly look.

The saddest thing is that Liang Jing is staring straight at Qi Xingchen in front of him.

Even if the person on the other side of the room did change his soul, he still couldn't be indifferent.

He had become hopelessly fond of him.

Qi Xingchen didn't know what kind of transformation Liang Jing's state of mind had gone through in just a minute or two. Seeing that he didn't say anything, he explained to himself, "You may not know, but I was in danger once in the spring, and it was almost over. After that, I decided to live a good life, take every day seriously, and don't want to be a mess anymore."

Liang Jing made a faint "hmm" sound.

Before asking the question, he had decided that he would respect the other man's opinion, whether he admitted it or not.

"That ......" Qi Xingchen said, "Is there anything else you don't understand?"

"No, sorry for offending you."

Qi Xingchen breathed a sigh of relief, listening to Liang Jing's apology his heart felt a bit bad, turning around and continuing to walk out, "There is no need to say sorry, it's normal for you to suspect me. But you mustn't question my purpose of caring about you, and don't not tell me your movements because of that, please believe me, I will never, ever do anything to hurt you."

After a long silence, Liang Jing responded, "Good."

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Qi Xingchen knew very well that Liang Jing was not an easy person to fool. He didn't know for what purpose Liang Jing finally chose to trust him, but seeing that the other party didn't look like he was making false pretenses, he felt a little more at ease.

When Qi Xingchen got under the covers at night, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, his mind and soul never settled down.

Firstly, he felt that Liang Jing's discovery was too sudden and without warning - it's true that his disguise was full of loopholes, but it's not reasonable for Liang Jing not to have suspected it before, but suddenly jumped to conclusions when he had just arrived at home and had done nothing.

It's possible that during the time he was away from home, Liang Jing found clues that he was a strange spirit through something or someone.

Secondly, Liang Jing's close relationship with Tao Tao is definitely not a good sign, as well as Liang Jing's state is a big problem, he must find out the reason, or he will be wasted even if he doesn't die if he stays up all the time.

It was no use just searching blindly, and after spending the night with his eyes open, he poured two cups of coffee to refresh himself and prepared to go to the hospital to feel his way around.

The first step is to go to Tao Xuan's hospital room.

It happened to be the weekend, and Qi Jiaze was already there when he arrived. The two young teenagers were holding burgers in their hands, you and I, not sure what they were working on.

Qi Xingchen was dumbfounded for a moment at the sight of this image. After being in "Peach of the Night" for half a year, he had gradually gotten used to his status as an entertainer, almost forgetting that he was also a college student in real life who needed to study hard and get scholarships to pay for his tuition.

Unwilling to break the harmonious atmosphere between the two younger brothers, Qi Xingchen took a deep breath, knocked on the door and laughed, "Jiaze, I told you to take good care of Tao Xuan, and this is how you do it? Take him to eat junk food."

"No!"

Tao Xuan answered him, and Tao Xuan quickly explained, "I wanted a burger, so I asked Jiaze to bring it for me."

"Brother, you're back!" Qi Jiaze jumped over in surprise, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"I could have come to you myself."

"That's not the same thing," Qi Jiaze disgruntled, "If you'd told me earlier, could I have seen you a couple hours earlier, I'd have missed you so much!"

What's the difference in a few hours? Qi Xingchen cried and laughed, "Okay, next time I'll tell you in advance."

"It's a deal!"

Promised, Qi Jiaze happily pulled Qi Xingchen and sat on the stool in front of the hospital bed.

Seeing that his brother is not fat or thin, he reacted with a sense of relief: "No, brother, the first thing you did when you came in was not to care about me, but to lecture me. Your elbow actually turned outward, say, am I important or Tao Xuan important?"

Little cubs can eat any type of vinegar, is also enough unexpected, Qi Xingchen helpless, "too greasy on the kidney burden, for Tao Xuan for your own body is not good. Moreover, Tao Xuan has kindly explained for you, why are you arguing?"

"You are right ...... Then I won't argue with Tao Xuan, I'll argue with someone else. Brother, come here, let me ask you something."

Qi Jiaze hooked her finger, so Qi Xingchen leaned forward and listened to her brother's whisper.

Tao Xuan, sitting by the hospital bed, saw the two amicable brothers, and a strong sense of loss appeared in his eyes, but in a moment it was converted.

After waiting for almost half a minute or so, I only saw Qi Xingchen straighten up with a lifeless look on his face, the tips of his ears flushed a suspicious red color, "I'll tell you when I get back."

"Then remember, no disappearing!" Qi Jiaze said.

"...... I try."

Tao Xuan was not a person who liked to pry into other people's secrets, and he lowered his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes, pretending not to hear the riddles between the two of them. It was Qi Xingchen who spoke to him first after dealing with Qi Jiaze, "Xiao Xuan, you look good, it seems that you have been recuperating quite well lately."

"It's fine, thanks for asking."

"Tao Xuan," said Qi Jiaze, poking Tao Xuan on the shoulder, "he's my brother, you have to call him brother too, come on."

Qi Xingchen: "......"

Oh, my God! You're still playing schoolyard bully now?

Qi Xingchen was afraid that Tao Xuan had been made autistic by Qi Jiaze, so he opened his mouth to refuse, but before he could say anything, he heard Tao Xuan call out in a small voice, "Xingchen."

Qi Xingchen : "...... Hey. It's okay, it's okay, you don't have to listen to Jiaze, I'm about the same age as you guys, you can call me whatever you want, whatever."

Qi Jiaze hummed proudly, "That's not good enough, you have to call me brother."

Qi Xingchen didn't want to pay attention to him, picking up an apple from the bedside table and chatting idly as he peeled it, "By the way Xiao Xuan, you're in such a good mood lately, it's because your sister comes to see you a lot, right?"

Liang Jing and Tao Tao are close friends, so it's normal for Tao Tao to come to the hospital to look for Liang Jing and visit her brother on the way.

"My sister?"

Tao Xuan doesn't know how the topic suddenly turned here and looks puzzled, "She hasn't visited me lately."