He is taken from behind by Shen Ke and held gently in his arms.

Lin Jian stayed at Shen Ke's place for a while.

During the day, he and his family doctor or assistant regularly accompany Shen Ke in his rehabilitation training. Shen Ke still doesn't like to be assisted or helped by others in his rehabilitation, but Lin Jian is always by his side with a cold face, following him every step of the way, and whenever he tilts a little bit or loses the strength in his legs, he will reach out to stabilize him in the first place.

Once or twice, Shen Ke let him go.

Though Lin Jian never said it, it was true that he had been spoiled by Shen Ke's warm and helpless indulgence since he was a child. Seeing that Shen Ke was no longer refusing people, he simply asked his family doctor to bring over a fully automatic folding wheelchair the next day, and ignoring the stagnant look on Shen Ke's face, he put him into the wheelchair without saying a word at the end of the rehab session.

"It's a sunny day with sunshine, so I'll take you out for some fresh air."

It's as if a villa full of new air systems is a showpiece.

As a result, in addition to the daily rehab, Lin Jian would forcefully push Shen Ke to go outdoors for a couple of laps. If it's a nice day, he walks slowly along the sycamore tree paths of the villa, and if the sun doesn't shine today, he simply watches PiDan play and teases the dog in the yard.

During the day, there are people coming and going in the lake villa, either assistants or secretaries, and occasionally a few vice presidents will come to the door in turn, one is to visit the sick, and the other is to bring those official business that must be decided by Shen Ke for face-to-face reporting.

That's why Chairman Shen is not idle even though he's at home recovering from an injury.

And after nightfall, it was like time had abruptly quieted down.

With Lin Jian by his side, the maids and assistants return to their own sub-floor very early in the morning, not to be disturbed by non-summoning.

At this time, the two of them would stay in Shen Ke's study, busy with their own work. Sometimes Shen Ke would hold impromptu online meetings, and Lin Jian would accompany him where the video camera couldn't, either to draw pictures or change designs.

In terms of landscape design, only Lin Jian knows exactly how advanced Shen Ke's artistic attainments are. Therefore, whenever there was a gap in his thinking, he would naturally seek Shen Ke's advice. No matter how many years have passed, Shen Ke has always been fond of the spontaneous vitality exposed in the forests and gardens and the clear streams in the halls, so whenever he gives Lin Jian advice, he will rarely show a little bit of excitement.

Step willow garden flowers, Langyuan Yao Tai, are two people's reverie remote love.

And more often than not, the two of them were quietly reading their books.

Lin Jian's habit of reading books was raised by Shen Ke since he was a child, belonging to the omnivorous school, reading everything and loving everything. Shen Ke is slightly different from him, although he also reads a lot of books, but most of them do not want to know much about the subject, and they are not a bit of ink, but a lot of smoke and clouds on the paper.

Whenever the two of them read together at night, which is also the quietest time of the day, Shen Ke still likes to nestle in the sofa on the floor, except that one of his legs has to rest on a low stool. Every time, Lin Jian would wait for him to nestle down, and then casually sit next to him with a book, making the long night very peaceful.

It's like returning to the "comfort zone" that used to belong to the two of them in the old days.

Most nights in early winter are gloomy, but tonight is a rare clear night with a clear moon and stars.

Since the weather was nice, the two of them had dinner and then spent some time spreading out in the yard with Pee Wee as a way to kill some food.

Shen Ke was in a wheelchair and took the indoor elevator downstairs before being pushed into the courtyard by Lin Jian.

In fact, the wheelchair is fully automated and Shen Ke has no problem controlling it by himself, but Lin Jian seems to be deeply obsessed with taking care of him, and as long as he is around Shen Ke, he basically won't give Shen Ke a chance to do anything on his own.

Pee-wee clearly loved having two daddies having fun at the same time. So much so that within the next hour or so, the dog first played fetch and nibbled a mouthful of mud, and then unceremoniously rubbed it all on Shen Ke, who was having trouble avoiding it at the moment. And then from the greenhouse flower room after a hoho, stained full of petals and leaves, was Lin Jian see through the heart of the light side to avoid, and then head into the wheelchair Shen Ke arms, ferrying the other side of the body full of elegant fragrance.

"......" Shen Ke frowned slightly, holding Pi Egg's long beak with a false power grip, sighed rather helplessly, and asked Lin Jian, who was standing not too far away, "Is it considered bullying the handicapped? "

Lin Jian did not say anything, just stood in the moonlight, slightly pursed up the corners of his lips, eyes with a smile, looking at the person and dog in front of him.

The moonlit night is gentle and earthly worthy.

After spending most of the day with Pee-wee, when he returned to his room, Shen Ke's housecoat and the long trench coat draped over it had long since been rubbed with color by the dog's son, and was still covered in floral scents.

Lin Jian walks Shen Ke back to his bedroom, and when he enters, Shen Ke laughs, "Another shower."

"Well, I'll help you."

In the past few days, every time Shen Ke finished his rehabilitation or before resting at night, he would take a bath with Lin Jian's help. Although the polymer splints on Shen Ke's legs are waterproof, Lin Jian would carefully wrap a waterproof membrane around them every time, as if to put his mind at ease.

The bathroom in Shen Ke's master bedroom is very large, but there are not many items placed on the sink. Under the bright mirror light, Lin Jian helped Shen Ke sit on the non-slip bath stool, and checked his injured leg once again before hanging the bathrobe where he could reach it, saying, "Don't take too long, simply rinse it off and then call me, to help you blow-dry your hair. "

"Got it." Shen Ke agrees with a soft smile, and then can't help but silently sigh - indeed, it's so sweet.

Lin Jian commanded the good man, walked out of the bathroom but did not leave until not long after, the sound of water flowing from the shower room, he sighed, carrying the heart hanging in half, returned to his room, took a quick fighting shower.

In fact, Shen Ke's mobility is not easy now, so it takes a little longer to take a bath each time, but Lin Jian still rushes back to the master bedroom as soon as he puts on his bathrobe and waits quietly against the wall in front of the bathroom door.

About another ten minutes or so, a door between the sound of water stopped. Lin Jian hanging heart finally slowly landed, but not after a moment, only to hear the door came "clang" sound, Lin Jian has not fallen to the original position of the heart all of a sudden was seized to the mouth of the throat!

He didn't even have time to think, subconsciously unscrewing the bathroom door and rushing in with an arrow!

"What?!"

Lin Jian rushed through the door, his heart heaving, all eyes focused on Shen Ke, who was not far away.

Shen Ke was bowing slightly, a snow-white bath towel resting on her knees, the upper half of her body just half-dried from the water droplets, and was holding the position with one hand pressed against the towel on her lap and the other reaching for the floor.

Seeing Lin Jian suddenly rushing in, Shen Ke was also stunned.

Lin Jian shifted his gaze in the direction of his hand before seeing the bottle of body wash that had fallen on the floor.

"Nothing." Shen Ke, still looking calm and dignified, pulled the large towel on her lap slightly upward without making a sound, before pointing to the bottle of body wash and saying, "I accidentally dropped it with the towel just now."

"If you dropped it, you have to pick it up again by yourself?" Lin Jian's face was not good, striding over, picking up the bottle on the ground and putting it back on the shelf, turning around and squatting beside Shen Ke's legs, his brows almost wrinkled into a Chuan character: "Are you alright, did you touch anything?"

"No, didn't touch." Shen Ke paused for some reason after saying that, coughing lightly before saying, "Pass me the robe."

Lin Jian was keenly aware of the unnaturalness of the pauses in his voice, and froze for a few seconds before suddenly realizing how awkward the situation was for both of them.

The heat rushed up, and Lin Jian was suddenly covered with a hot color of blood from the side of his neck to the back of his ear.

Under the bright bath light, Shen Ke's shoulders and back contained a broad and solid force, and the water stains on his body rolled down along his fair and lean muscle lines, and the moist water mist that had not dissipated was still spreading around them. Lin Jian looked up suddenly in the hot and humid white air, and met Shen Ke's pair of unperturbed but deep black eyes. He looked up suddenly in the hot and humid white air and met Shen Ke's pair of unperturbed but deep black eyes.

It was so close that their breaths almost mingled.

"I ......" Lin Jian opened his mouth, but realized that his voice was muffled, and in the next second he hastily and quickly averted his eyes, dropping his eyelashes and saying in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry."

"...... Don't move to apologize." Halfway through a very soft sigh came from overhead, and Shen Ke said, "I'll get dressed while you ......"

Shen Ke couldn't say the words "go out for a while" because he realized that Lin Jian's thin shoulders were trembling silently.

"...... Lin Jian?"

The hand gripping the armrests of the non-slip stool is so hard that the knuckles of the bones are white, Lin Jian did not respond, nor did he move.

Don't dare move, can't move.

After a long time, Lin Jian pressed his drooping forehead against the edge of the armrest, his knees almost touching the cold ground, the invisible and enormous shame obliterating him like a tidal wave, and like a man drowning in the water, he suppressed his trembling and burning breath, and in a self-scornful tone of voice, he said again, very softly and very quickly, " . . sorry."

Young, hot desires are green and raging, raw and uncontrollable, like love, like the waves of the sea.

Shen Ke realized it in an instant.

Deadly silence.

Lin Jian never dared to raise his head or get up, and after a long time, he heard the person sitting beside him seem to move, and in a few seconds, another white bathrobe belonging to a person who still carries the usual scent of Shen Ke's body, gently fell onto his body.

It was like a sheltering barrier, carefully enveloping all the shameful lusts he thought he was full of, properly hiding them for him.

Immediately afterward, a warm palm landed on the top of his hair and gently rubbed his bowed head.

"That's okay."

Shen Ke's voice was soft, like a gentle soothing and a tacit indulgence.

*

Lin Jian returned to the project team at the end of his vacation. Due to the late winter, most of the outdoor construction sites in the north have reduced their operating hours due to the weather, and all work will be halted by the time of frost next month. So compared with the previous, Lin Jian work seems to be a lot easier, and even a few colleagues in the project team who have family in Hong Kong City have already taken their annual leave, and directly return to prepare for the New Year.

When he was free from work, Lin Jian had more time to go to Shen Ke's place. In fact, such frequent visits to Shen Ke's place only accounted for a small portion of his unspeakable selfishness, but more of it was really because he was worried about Shen Ke's leg, and Lin Jian always had a kind of intuition - although Shen Ke promised nicely, he didn't look like a person who would listen to the doctor properly and cooperate with the rehab. Moreover, Lin Jian always had a hunch that although Shen Ke promised nicely, he did not look like a person who would listen to the doctor and cooperate with the rehabilitation program.

It's just as well to act like that in front of him.

During this time, Lin Jian basically spent weekends at Shen Ke's place, but that night's embarrassment and relief was like a dream in a mirror, waking up with no trace of the dream, and they tacitly agreed that neither one of them ever mentioned it again.

No matter what, Shen Ke will always catch him, along with his sensitive and fragile ego, and his pretense of reserved decency.

On Friday night, Lin Jian was temporarily caught up in a small matter at work, and drove out of the park nearly two hours later than expected, and when he arrived at Shen Ke's home in Nan Shi, it was already almost nine o'clock.

The large villa in the deep winter more and more quiet, Lin Jian will drive the car directly into the yard, get off the car first in the thermostat flower room to find Shen Ke is ravaging those delicate exotic flowers Pi Dan, bare hands to save two pots of large flowers to be Pi Dan scratching out the roots of the rhino horns, and so on the body of the cold dispersal of the almost, and only then led by the dog was trained to be bashful and wary eyes into the house.

The center hall was brightly lit. Lin Jian pushed the door in and was stunned for a moment when he saw Shen Ke sitting on the sofa, flipping through today's evening paper in his hand.

"You haven't rested yet?" Lin Jian asked.

Seeing him enter, Shen Ke put down the newspaper, glanced up at the floor clock, and laughed, "What time is it?"

The housemaid came out of the dining room at this time, saw Lin Jian still holding Pi Dan, and immediately took the sterilized wet wipes and went forward, "Give it to me Mr. Lin, I'll wipe him off."

"No, I'll do it." Lin Jian from nodded towards Auntie and took the wet wipes to clean PiYan's four paws, the whole process the dog cooperated very well.

"Did you get a lecture?" Shen Ke couldn't help but laugh, "Why are you so honest with you today?"

"...... You reflect on it." Lin Jian threw away the wet wipes, then handed the leather eggs to the aunt and came to Shen Ke's side, "You just spoil it? There are so many delicate varieties in the flower room, along with it Huo Huo?"

"I thought it was something." Shen Ke gave a low laugh and casually said, "Then you can't be so strict with your children at home, right? I'm responsible for spoiling and you're responsible for disciplining, isn't that good?"

At this, Lin Jian's hand suddenly paused as he took off his coat, and the words "loving mother and strict father" somehow came to his mind.

"Sir, is it ready for dinner?" Another aunty returned from the kitchen to the front room and said in a warm voice, "The kitchen is all set."

Lin Jian looked at Shen Ke with surprise, "You haven't had dinner yet?"

"Just now not hungry, by the way waiting for you to eat together." Shen Ke muzzle natural and casual, looked up to see Lin Jian staring straight at himself, could not help but smile and patted his little arm, "Quickly go wash your hands, now really hungry."

Standing in front of the sink on the first floor, the warm water rushes on the backs of his hands and Lin Jian somehow thinks of the words "to raise one's eyebrows together".

It's bewitching. Going crazy.

Lin Jian stretched out a paper towel and wiped the water droplets on his hands, shook his head vigorously, and temporarily emptied his mind of all the adjectives about "husband and wife".

Dinner is warm boiled for a long time of green vegetables and seafood porridge with small cage soup dumplings, Shen Ke family aunts are really good, pickled small pickles are crisp and refreshing, Lin Jian drove more than three hours, was sickly appetite, but a bowl of porridge and a dish of small dishes to comfort the taste buds.

It was almost ten o'clock after dinner, but Lin Jian still pushed Shen Ke around the yard twice before going upstairs to wash up and rest.

In the bathroom of the guest bedroom, Lin Jian stood under the shower and watched the water falling down like constipation, then turned the hot and cold water regulator valves again, and after realizing that the effect was still the same, she had no choice but to give up.

He put on his bathrobe and went back next to the nightstand to grab his cell phone before walking to the next room and knocking on the hidden door of Shen Ke's bedroom.

"Come in."

Lin Jian pushed the door and found that Shen Ke had already showered and was sitting on the edge of the bed, rubbing his hair in a bathrobe of the same style and different color as his own. Seeing Lin Jian come in, he looked him up and down a few times and asked with a smile, "What's wrong?"

"There seems to be something wrong with the bathroom shower." Lin Jian frowned as she stood beside the bed and whispered, "No hot water coming out."

"That's right." Shen Ke also did not expect such an accident, thought for a moment and said, "Then just use the bathroom in my room, I've just finished washing, the heat hasn't dissipated yet, so it won't freeze you."

"Do you think the underfloor heating in your house is just for show?" Lin Jian is actually a little embarrassed, after all, borrowing the bathroom such a statement in any situation shows a few subtle charming, especially on him and Shen Ke, he was afraid that Shen Ke mistakenly think that he has ulterior motives, but do not know how to explain frankly, can only say, "Do you want to let the workers to fix it, I can wait. I can wait."

"What time is it, don't toss them, let's talk about it tomorrow." Shen Ke was natural, pointing to the bathroom door, "Go on, wash up and rest early."

"...... Oh." When he said that, Lin Jian couldn't afford to dawdle any longer and casually placed the cell phone on the small desk in Shen Ke's room, turning around and hanging his head in the direction of the bathroom.

"Lin Jian," Shen Ke suddenly called out softly to him just as he reached the bathroom door.

"What's wrong?" Lin Jian asked, turning around.

Shen Ke looked at the youth under the shadow of the lamp not far away and mused for a moment before saying, "Not the underfloor heating in my house, or anything in my house."

"...... huh?" Lin Jian didn't understand for a moment, "What?"

Shen Ke sighed softly and said bluntly, "This is your home too."

These words were not light or heavy, but they instantly knocked Lin Jian on the tip of his heart.

"Not only here." Shen Ke added calmly, "That garden house before, or the Shen mansion, or any of those places, are not just my home, they're all your home too."

It never is, it never changes.

Lin Jian's hand on the doorknob was clenched tightly, and after a long time, the inexplicable tugging sensation that had been hanging around him since he entered seemed to have disappeared all of a sudden, and he nodded his head and said easily, "I didn't say it wasn't ah," and turned to go into the bathroom.

Shen Ke watched as the bathroom door was closed and the sound of water running came out a few moments later, before dropping his eyes and smiling a little.

Little brat, what a twist.

Shen Ke's bedroom had no main light on, only the bedside sleep light and the reading light on the side of the desk, and just as Lin Jian went into the bathroom to take a shower, his cell phone, which was sitting on the desk, vibrated noiselessly.

Shen Ke raised his eyes to look at it, and wanted to wait for Lin Jian to come out before answering it, but the frequency of the vibration persisted, so Shen Ke thought about it and stood up, holding the edge of the bed, and moved very slowly to the desk.

The cell phone screen was on, it was an offshore phone number, probably Lin Jian s classmate abroad or ...... his mom s side calling.

Abruptly, the vibrations stopped, and a text message came quickly on the unlocked screen.

[Jane, it's mom, pick up the phone, it's an emergency!]

Then before the screen went off, the same number from earlier called once more.

Shen Ke glanced at the bathroom door that was still closed not far away, fearing that he had really delayed something important, and had to answer.

Before Shen Ke uttered a word, Wen Ning on the other side of the phone seemed to be taken aback, "Xiao Jian? You're finally willing to answer my call!"

"...... Hi, I'm Shen Ke."

There was silence on the other side of the phone for a few seconds, and then Shen Ke heard a long sigh, and Wen Ning said in an unsteady voice, "Did he ...... still go back to you?"

Shen Ke didn't correct or explain the statement, but simply asked, "Is there anything urgent that I can pass on?"

"You tell him to be careful!" Wen Ning's emotions suddenly flared up, and then he lowered his voice to say dolefully, "That who ...... imprisonment period is over ...... And, he, he said he wants to go to China to look for Xiao Jian ...... I can't stop him ......"

Shen Ke's eyebrows jumped, "Who are you talking about?"

"...... my stepson." Wen Ning's hoarse emphasis was a note of desperation, "He was just released from prison a while ago after being sentenced to four and a half years of effective imprisonment by the county court in the first place, but ......"

Shen Ke's hand on the cell phone tightened unconsciously, interrupting her, "What does it have to do with Lin Jian?"

"...... You don't know, he didn't tell you?"

"You tell me." Shen Ke The tone of his voice sank steeply, "What does your stepson being sentenced to prison have to do with Lin Jian in the first place ......" Shen Ke paused for a moment, his throat unconsciously hoarse as his mind quickly strung together a guess, "Why did Lin Jian transfer from Cambridge to Penn? "And why did Lin Jian transfer from Cambridge to Penn?"

"......"

Lin Jian took a shower and then tidied up the bathroom briefly before rubbing his hair and going out the door.

Out of the bathroom, the whole room was quiet as if no one was there.

Lin Jian inclined his head towards the inner room and saw Shen Ke sitting on the small sofa under the window, looking sideways at the window, not knowing what he was thinking.

When he heard footsteps, he slowed down in general and looked over in Lin Jian's direction, "Finished washing."

"Uh-huh." Lin Jian nodded and walked over to him, glancing out the window as well, and casually asked, "What are you looking at?"

"It's nothing." Shen Ke smiled, his gaze falling on Lin Jian's half-dried hair, "You haven't liked blow-drying your hair since you were a child, and now that it's the dead of winter, aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

"Your home ......" Lin Jian paused for a moment, then naturally switched to say, "How can you catch a cold when your home is so well heated."

And you don't blow-dry your hair.

"Get the hair dryer." Shen Ke pulled at the towel he was holding and laughed, "Bring it this way."

Lin Jian was alert: "What?"

Shen Ke says, "Blow-dry your hair."

"......" Lin Jian stood still and gave Shen Ke a deep look with a probing plus skeptical plus scrutinizing look.

"Hurry up." Shen Ke urged with a smile.

"You ......" Lin Jian originally wanted to say "you are not sick," but thought of his leg injury and consciously stopped, the exit became, "how do you want to What do you think?"

"It's not always like that when you're older." Shen Ke looked at him and laughed as if he were teasing him, "Old kids, they just think one thing and do another."

"......" Lin Jian glared at him breathlessly, turned and walked towards the bathroom, muttering as she walked, "You just allow the officials to set fire to the people, not allowing the people to light the lamps, and you don't even blow-dry your hair properly yourself, and this crappy habit of mine isn't something I grew up learning from I've learned this habit from you since I was a kid. ......"

Having said that, the pace on the feet didn't slow down at all; after all, it was really late, and Shen Ke hadn't fully recovered and was long overdue for a rest.

When the hair dryer came back, Shen Ke pointed to the side of the bed and said, "Sit over there?"

"Don't bother." Lin Jian sat down on the short pile carpet with his back directly to him, "Feel free to play as you wish and make it quick."

A very soft laugh came from behind her, and after two seconds, the tiny buzzing of a hair dryer came close to her ears, and then the warm air fell into Lin Jian's hair along with Shen Ke's fingers.

The time was still and quiet as the dim bedside lamp shadowed the room.

The two of them are very close, from Shen Ke angle eyes, can see in front of the person slightly hanging hair, and a cut into the neckline of the line of long elegant skin color snow white neck.

I wonder if it was the warm air from the hair dryer that made Lin Jian feel hot.

He is using the same scent as Shen Ke's shower gel, and at this time exudes the same low mellow woody end note. Obviously, it is a calm, soft and elegant scent, but after being tainted with Shen Ke's scent, it inexplicably gives rise to an inexplicable ambiguous and hypnotic feeling.

Lin Jian gently closed his eyes.

While caught up in such obscure entanglements, his heart was at peace and quiet.

With Shen Ke, he's always quiet.

"Okay?" After a long time the hair dryer was turned off, Lin Jian woke up in a cloudy atmosphere, and just when he wanted to turn around, he felt a gentle hold on his shoulder from behind him.

Lin Jian didn't know what was going on, but he cooperated and didn't move.

And the next second, his eyes abruptly widened.

The warm body slowly approached, the two hearts beat at the same frequency, Lin Jian held his breath and could not move a bit.

In a fully protected position--

He was taken from behind by Shen Ke and gently held in his arms.