He is his point of origin to this world.

The First Middle School has always been known in the educational world for its rigorous and enlightened school spirit, the two seem contradictory, but in fact, dialectical unity.

For example, during break time, if a grade teacher sees a boy and a girl walking on campus holding hands, he or she will usually smile and pat his or her shoulder, instructing them to focus on their studies and pay attention to their influences, and will not make a big deal out of it as if it were a big enemy, causing a lot of fuss and confusion; another example is that most other high schools will only arrange for the mid-term and final exams, plus the school's self-assessment exams at irregular intervals, whereas the first high school also has weekly, monthly, and quarterly exams on top of that. In short, on principle, students are encouraged to grow freely, but only if they get good grades.

Time into December, soon the first semester of senior high school courses will be over, after half a year of "examination room beatings", the group of proud students in the first high school has basically adapted to adapt, withered withered.

The city's standardized final exams are scheduled for next month.

The winter in the north is still dry and cold, at noon after school, students are marching to the cafeteria, Lin Jian is sitting on the seat to organize the morning extracurricular knowledge, put in the pocket of the cell phone suddenly vibrated.

The classroom was still empty, Lin Jian took out his cell phone and saw that it was a WeChat message from Xu Yang.

[Unchained: Help me review yesterday's weekly math test paper at noon?]

Lin Jian scanned the screen, put away his cell phone with an expressionless face, and turned his head to the person next to him, "Sending messages this close to save your mouth?"

Xu Yang held up one finger and wagged it, replying with conviction, "It's to reflect my worship of the God of Learning and my reverence for the weekly math test papers."

Lin Jian was speechless.

Ever since the two of them had a chance encounter in a small neighborhood park shortly after the start of the school year, their relationship has become inexplicably close. The reason why I say inexplicable, is because Xu Yang's unexpected "head hot" at the beginning, Lin Jian, even if he was well-liked among his classmates before, was only because he didn't look at anyone around him through colored glasses, no matter how good or bad their grades were, they were all ordinary classmates with him, and no matter how much anyone asked him for advice, he would always treat them the same. Ask a question, he will always be treated equally, how to speak on how to speak, did not understand? However, due to his character, he has not had any close classmates from elementary school to high school, and his relationship with anyone has been maintained at a very delicate balance, not particularly familiar with them, and not rejecting them.

But Xu Yang was an accident, and in this classmate, who looked white and elegant with a little bit of evil, Lin Jian actually experienced a kind of stubbornness that "we must be friends for life".

If the other party had other intentions, Lin Jian would have had a million ways to rebuff them, but Xu Yang's gesture was very simple and friendly, purely "looking at you".

Even in order to get closer to Lin, Xu Yang has been coming to school on time for a long time, which Lin Jian finds a bit strange.

After all, someone who can actually grit their teeth and endure a math class in order to become friends with you is more than likely sincere.

And so, the relationship between the two slowly draws a billion points closer through Xu Yang's unilateral efforts.

By the middle of the semester, Xu Yang was dragging Lin Jian back to his rented house for lunch every day, cutting off Lin Jian's relationship with the park bench.

The two of them left the school gates, bought a few green vegetables at a convenience store in the neighborhood, and when they returned to Xu Yang's rental house, the rice in the rice cooker with a timed reservation was already steaming.

Xu Yang carries a bag of vegetables to the kitchen to wash them, and Lin Jian comes over to help, one person washing and the other chopping, cooperating very well.

In the beginning, Lin Jian thought that a young man like Xu Yang, who has the word "expensive" written all over him, would not be able to cook, but after a little time, Xu Yang has turned his perception upside down with his actions.

As Xu Yang puts it, "If I can't do these little things right, then how do you think I've gotten through all these years?"

It was then that Lin Jian realized that despite his father's distinguished background, Xu Yang had been living on his own since middle school.

The reason is also very simple, for his parents, he can't choose or completely cut off, whether he wants to or not, can't change his identity of illegitimate son, put aside the public order and morality, in the meeting, he must even call those two people "Mom and Dad".

Yet just because he didn't have a choice doesn't mean he conceded the vote.

He suspends himself on the borderline between morality and blood, and says "no" to those two men in his own way.

Just like one time shortly after the start of the school year, Lin Jian happened to see Xu Yang's half-brother personally coming to the school side to find trouble for him. In the alley at the back of the school, Xu Yang did not get angry when he saw the visitor, but just threw the shoulder bag in his hand onto his shoulder and lightly scolded, "Idiot."

The other party was obviously enraged, and the words that came out of his mouth were heartbreaking, yet Xu Yang still had the same nonchalant demeanor, and only when his brother was tired of cursing, did he calmly ask, "Are you done cursing? Then I'll pass."

The other party stepped forward instead of retreating, and just when Lin Jian thought they were going to fight, Xu Yang's eyes curved and she suddenly laughed.

"Asking means I really don't understand, if you really hate it so much, why don't you solve the problem directly from the source?" Xu Yang slanted a pair of phoenix eyes to look at people, her eyes sneer and sarcastic, "Who made me out of you to find who to retaliate to go, every day like endless looking for my trouble what is the use?"

"You ......"

He did not give the other side the opportunity to open his mouth, straight to: "And whether you have me so a brother, or that I have you so a brother, are two boxes of bad luck, my mother as a mistress gave birth to me, that is my bad luck, your father can not control their own lower body in the outside messing around and get out of the son, that is your bad luck, the two of us fall into the bad luck of each, can not anyone do not next to who? "

Coincidentally, it was this "chance encounter" that really loosened Lin Jian's "favor" towards Xu Yang.

In a way, they are actually one of a kind.

With a sense of morality that is different from the norm, that acts on its own logic, that fluctuates from high to low.

Lin Jian poured Xu Yang's chopped vegetables into the frying pan and stir-fried them in the small hum of the smoker. Xu Yang shook off the water droplets on her hands and stood to the side to watch him skillfully waving the spatula and stir-frying, and then smiled and lamented in the middle of the day and said, "Who would have believed it if I had said, "The flower of the first middle school, God Lin, is actually stir-frying in my small kitchen of less than 8 square meters. Who would believe that God Lin, who sits atop the altar as the flower of a high school, would actually stir-fry in my small kitchen of less than 8 square meters?

Lin Jian has always laughed off this kind of tricky talk, Xu Yang got an inch, to his side, whimsical: "Hey, I have an immature suggestion, why don't we make up for it, look at it, now every now and then there are girls who are wrongly paying for you to hand you a love letter, the key is that you don't have that kind of worldly desires, so why don't we just get together with me? I'm not sure if you're a good person, but I'd like you to join me, because we know each other well, and I'm a ...... person."

Lin Jian served the dishes in the frying pan and glanced at him in between, Xu Yang got the message and immediately closed his mouth, indicating that he could be a mute person who only coveted God Lin's cooking skills but not his beauty from now on.

In fact, after they got to know each other well, Xu Yang never asked Lin Jian about his sexual orientation, and Lin Jian never brought it up, maintaining a subtle sense of tacit understanding between the two of them, except, of course, when Xu Yang couldn't help but talk dirty.

Northern winter days hazy, the two simply ate lunch soon, the original gloomy outdoor all of a sudden blew the old north wind, downstairs, the old-fashioned unit door was blown banging.

Xu Yang bashful sitting at the end of the coffee table, Lin Jian fingers between a pencil, is pointing to yesterday's math weekly test paper on the last big question on him to carry out indiscriminate attacks: "This first question two days ago on the paper to do it, white points do not want to be quite generous, cheap people do not suffer from contumely food?"

Xu Yang covered his face and wailed in pain, "Lecture on the topic, you do not bring humiliation ah."

Lin Jian hatefully speechless for a moment, and then once again wrote the solution to the test paper next to a step, "Set this formula, study it yourself, can you figure it out?"

Xu Yang took the pen with a mask of pain, and after trying it out, he realized that he really came up with the correct answer, and was so overjoyed that he felt he could do it again that he pointed to the last question, and said with a grandiose air, "Quickly, quickly, strike while the iron is hot, the last question, and tell me about it as well!"

"Not even close." Lin Jian rummaged out two sheets of knowledge point summaries from his book bag, flung them onto the coffee table, and said in a faint voice, "If you want to beg the last question, at least you can understand the logical relationship of the evolution of each formula on these two sheets of paper."

Xu Yang looked on in fear, despairing, "...... isn't it, so complicated? What if? What if I'm just gifted with a blessed heart? Why don't you try to talk about it first? If it doesn't work, we'll start with the formula again."

Lin Jian put down his pen, leaned on the back of the sofa, and calmly advised him, "bother with that, don't lay eggs with a small rooster."

"......" Xu Yang then asked him innocently and sincerely, "What does it mean, brother?"

"It's not your job, don't do it the hard way."

"......"

Just then, Lin Jian's cell phone on the coffee table suddenly vibrated, Xu Yang only saw Lin Jian scanning the screen, the original light eyes suddenly changed.

Fingertips hovering over the screen for a second, Lin Jian picks up the phone, "Hello?"

Shen Ke was very quiet over there and just said, "In the classroom? Come out, I'm in front of your school."

Lin Jian froze and replied subconsciously, "No, I'm not at school, why are you here?"

This answer was obviously unexpected by Shen Ke, his voice paused before he asked with a little smile, "Why aren't you at school, where have you been with such a short lunch break?"

"I'm on lunch break at my classmate's house." Lin Jian said and stood up, picking up his school bag and going out, "My classmate's house is near the school, wait for me, I'll be right over."

"Don't toss and turn, it's windy outside." Shen Ke's speech was calm and unhurried, "It may snow and cool down at night, I'm coming over to send you a thick jacket, is it convenient to tell me the address of your classmate's house?"

"Don't you come over." Lin Jian glanced at the person next to him whose body was burning with the fire of gossip, and said in a faint voice, "It's better to wait for me ......"

"I'll go over to pick you up." Shen Ke warmly said, "Lunch break time is also going to be over, if it's convenient, you can ask your classmates to go downstairs with you, it's cold, I'll send you back to school."

Shen Ke was always gentle, but Lin Jian just couldn't say no anymore.

He moved the phone away a bit and said his family was coming to deliver clothes, asking Xu Yang if she wanted to go to school with him, and Xu Yang nodded her head at once with a jerk.

Lin Jian sighed and helplessly gave his address.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Jian silently packed up his things and came downstairs early to wait.

The school is really close to the residential area, and within a few moments, Shen Ke's car appeared on the corner in front of the building.

Before Xu Yang could react, Lin Jian had already walked over.

When Shen Ke got out of the car, he took a paper handbag from the passenger seat, which contained a long down jacket that Lin Jian often wore, and an umbrella.

Lin Jian took it, carried the tote bag around, and asked again, "What brings you here?"

Shen Ke smiled and said, "Didn't I say, come to give you a dress."

Lin Jian did not squeak, just quietly look at him, after two seconds, Shen Ke first can not hold back, did not hold back a laugh, said: "Well, I traveled at night, just went home to get a piece of information, saw the weather is not good, so I will send you a piece of clothing, satisfied?"

This makes sense, Lin Jian pursed the corners of his lips and didn't say anything, Xu Yang came over and greeted Shen Ke with a smile, "Hello, my name is Xu Yang, I'm Lin Jian's classmate."

Shen Ke The smile on his lips is still there, just a little bit lighter, nodding in response, "Hello, windy, get in the car, I'll take you back to school." After saying that, he opened the car door again and sat back in the driver's seat.

Lin Jian subconsciously went around to the passenger side with a paper bag in his hand, and only after a few steps did he realize that he had lost his footing, and turned to pull open the rear door, sitting in the back seat with Xu Yang.

Shen Ke's eyes flickered in the rearview mirror, then he shifted gears and drove the car out of the neighborhood.

The three people in the car didn't speak until they reached the entrance of the first middle school.

When Lin Jian got out of the car, he only said, "Be safe," and then added, "Take care of your health on your business trips.

Shen Ke didn't get out of the car, just smiled yes through the window and said goodbye to them.

Only when the rear of Shen Ke's car disappeared into the traffic light at the intersection did Lin Jian turn around and walk towards the school gate.

Suddenly, his shoulder was lightly tapped, and Lin Jian inclined his head to see Xu Yang staring at him with an inscrutable expression, asking, "No introduction, ah, who is this person just now?"

Lin Jian put it succinctly, "Family."

Xu Yang had a "don't come this way" look on her face: "Family, this is too general a term, isn't it? And generally family members to send things met students, not always will take the initiative to introduce it, this is my what what people and so on? But this person are gone, did not see you say a word, not only you did not say, this family member from the beginning to the end also did not have a self-introduction, this all the way I am very embarrassed ah."

Lin Jian smiled allegorically, but did not argue.

His relationship with Shen Ke is not impossible to talk about, but the origin of this is so deep that it is impossible to explain in one or two simple sentences, and Xu Yang is a heartless person who loves to get to the bottom of things, so it is better not to talk about it.

Unexpectedly Xu Yang saw that he did not take a position, after a long time, stone broke through and asked softly, "...... Holy shit, it can't be him, right?"

Lin Jian paused slightly in his steps and inclined his head to ask, "What?"

Xu Yang narrowed her eyes slightly, scrutinized Lin Jian from head to toe, and then came to a conclusion: "Family? What kind of family? Not the kind of family that's going to go abroad to get a license, right?"

At these words, Lin Jian's face visibly blanked for a split second, but it was only a blink of an eye before he quickly regained his usual cold calm, "Don't talk nonsense." After a pause, he added with a frown, "This is my little uncle."

Xu Yang froze for a moment, realizing that he had slipped up, and hastily raised his hand in apology, "I'm sorry for making a fuss."

That said, Xu Yang has always felt that, for a long time, although Lin Jian has never directly or indirectly indicated his sexual orientation, his vision of the same kind of people is usually not wrong. Xu Yang once thought that even if Lin Jian really likes the same sex as himself, he would probably be the kind of model who would end up alone because of his lack of worldly desires, and nothing else. Perhaps because Lin Jian is too cold, his character, life and habits seem to be destined to live alone for a long time, and he doesn't need any extra company.

But the person who had just appeared for a few minutes inexplicably made Xu Yang feel that her previous thoughts were still pure.

Probably because of his natural aura, Xu Yang's first impression of that man was that if a person like Lin Jian could be tainted by worldly desires, or if he could be tempted by others, then he must be such a gentleman.

But Lin Jian said that the man was his brother-in-law.

That's really "family".

The inexplicable obstruction in Lin Jian's heart was like a problem that he had not been able to solve for a long time, and no matter how hard he thought, he could not find a way to do it, but suddenly someone else had come up with an answer, but because there was no reference, no one could be sure if the answer was correct or not.

This feeling of being out of control without certainty is very annoying.

This topic is so uncomfortable to reveal this, but until the evening study hall, Lin Jian's heart that the stifling feeling has not disappeared.

It did snow during the evening hours.

When Lin Jian changed into the down jacket that Shen Ke had sent him at noon and waited for the bus, he suddenly remembered Shen Ke's words about taking him skiing this winter. Now that the first snow has arrived, I don't know when this trip will be on the agenda.

In fact, Shen Ke has taken Lin Jian to many places over the years, both at home and abroad, from the south to the north.

Lin Jian's love of reading was a habit he developed as a child, but Shen Ke told him, "Talking on paper is not enough, and you have to put it into practice." For a period of time, he was deeply influenced by Shen Ke, like to read books about ancient Chinese architecture and art, Shen Ke often find opportunities to take him out of the mausoleums and tablets, grottoes and statues, ancient temples and shrines ...... wherever he was interested in, Shen Ke almost took him to see and read, and took him to personally understand the autumn winds outside the Seychelles, and now again rise the faraway pallor, but Shen Ke said to him, "Paper is not as good as paper, but to know the matter to be done. Today again rise of the faraway pale, also take him to personally feel the red dust a few times to listen to CiYin's warm and deep compassion.

When Lin Jian was a little older, like all boys at that stage, he became interested in military affairs and weaponry, and Shen Ke began to take him to all the major military exhibitions at home and abroad, in addition to witnessing the displacement of ordinary civilians in the Middle East and West Asia, and the dazzling aurora borealis in the endless Nordic forests of peace and tranquility. He has also seen the dazzling aurora borealis in the endless Nordic forest.

All these years, the world he had experienced and felt was not the world that Shen Ke had brought him through, from a child to a teenager, he had grown up under that person's wings, sheltered while getting acquainted with the world.

That person taught him what the human world was, taught him what good and evil were, and showed him all the beauty of the mundane world, as well as the ugliness and evil of the world.

He was his point of origin to the world.

On snowy days, the bus does not move very fast, Lin Jian in the bus more than half a child in thought, and finally arrived at the station to get off.

It was only during the short walk to his home that Lin Jian slowly calmed down, his mind finally willing to rest for a while after a long day of chaos. However, when he walked into the entrance of the courtyard, Lin Jian remembered that Shen Ke had to go on a business trip again today, and the unexplained annoyance surged up from his heart once again.

Unspeakably, on such a quiet and silent snowy night, he suddenly wanted to meet him.

Forget it, Lin Jian sighed and fingerprinted the door.

The moment the door opened, Lin Jian was hit by the warm yellow light of the first-floor center hall wrapped in warm air temperature, and immediately froze in the doorway.

Lin Jian blinked with hindsight, certain that the man who had said he had to travel at noon was at that moment turning his head from the couch in his navy loungewear to look over.

Lin Jian was speechless for a moment, and only after a long time did he find his voice, a little light, as if he didn't dare to believe it, "...... Why are you here?"

Isn't the flight at noon?

Shen Ke glanced up at him, his voice still not slow, "The weather's bad, the flights are grounded."

This is not a good reason, after all, business is business, and Shen Ke is a person who never changes his plans easily because of these objective factors.

But Lin Jian just gave an "oh", no questions asked, and looked down to change his shoes.

Standing at the entrance, he could feel Shen Ke's line of sight falling lightly on him, invisible but substantial, which suddenly gave Lin Jian an incredible idea--

He didn't leave because of me.

As expected, when Lin Jian went inside to take a hot shower and changed his clothes, Shen Ke was still sitting in his original position with his eyes downcast, unable to tell what he was thinking.

Lin Jian arrived at two cups of lukewarm water and walked over, placing one cup in front of Shen Ke and sitting down next to him with a cup in his own hand, taking the initiative to ask, "Is something the matter?"

Shen Ke raised his eyebrows very lightly, as if in relief after a moment's hesitation, and said, "Do you have a moment, let's talk?"

Talk about--

Over the years, Shen Ke seldom communicated with him in the tone and manner of an adult, as if in Shen Ke's eyes, no matter how old he had grown, he was always the same quiet, frosty, snowy child who didn't talk much.

And this has confirmed Lin Jian's hunch that--

He was really waiting for him.