It's like it's going to the end of the earth.

When Lin Jian officially left the design institute in Hong Kong, the Forest Park project was completed.

He actually calculated the time, three months in advance to the headquarters to play the application for leaving, for this reason, two design institute vice president and the personnel department director also specially from Hong Kong to the mainland, and he had a long more than three hours of face-to-face interviews, in an attempt to be able to retain people for the company to retain talent.

However, Lin Jian's attitude was gentle and firm, and he offered to leave all the design drawings he had made during his three years of service in the design institute to the company for the transfer of ownership, and he would not take up a second job in any other design institute in Hong Kong City.

With such great sincerity and concessions, even the top management of the company had nothing to say, so on the third day after the completion of the forest park, Lin Jian successfully got the approval of his application for leaving the company.

Shen Ke once asked Lin Jian with a smile when he realized that he had left the company, "Why did you leave those manuscripts behind, after all, they were your work."

When Shen Ke came to pick up Lin Jian, he was packing up his personal belongings in the park apartment. Due to the Forest Park project, he had been living in this small apartment for more than two years, and when he came here, he only carried a black suitcase with him, but when it came to the time to leave, he realized that even for a person like him, who had a very low desire to buy and to live in materialistic life, he actually purchased so many things in these two years. I'm not going to be able to do that.

Well, some of them are Shen Ke's.

When Lin Jian heard him ask this question, he put the shirts in his hand into the storage bag and put them in the suitcase before looking up at Shen Ke, moving his lips, half a second apart, but said, "Didn't you teach me that?"

Shen Ke was sitting on the sofa, organizing his laptop and some professional books for him, and the corners of his eyebrows raised slightly at his words, before he let out a low laugh.

"Really remember it so well."

I think it was when Lin Jian was still in junior high school.

At that time, the teenager had just entered junior high school, symbolically ending his childhood and moving slightly from a simple and carefree circle to a small society of sensitive and complex adolescent boys and girls.

At that time, Lin Jian was too cold and detached, except for Shen Ke, almost seldom take care of others, but at the same time, the child is too good and dazzling, such a boy into the junior high school at first glance in that small group, will inevitably become a treasure of all the teachers, but at the same time, it is also bound to let a lot of the newly born "homosexual repulsion" and "sense of territory" brats uncomfortable. But at the same time, it is also bound to make many brats who have just developed a sense of "homophobia" and "territoriality" uncomfortable.

Lin Jian may not care about this, but Shen Ke, as a parent, feels that he should give some advice.

So soon after the first semester of his first year, Shen Ke took the opportunity to "talk" to him.

At that time, Lin Jian had not yet developed the deviant ideas that he would later develop, and was still in a period of purely blind personal admiration for Shen Ke, so he simply did whatever he was told.

And Shen Ke didn't say much, he just told him, "Be a man of honor, if you can, try to avoid any direct conflict or clash with anyone, you have to know how to show your edge while at the same time, you have to know how to hide your edge."

Twelve or thirteen year old Lin Jian was sitting on the sofa, with a little bit of the childishness of his early childhood still vaguely present between his eyebrows and eyes, and his pair of black grape-like eyes stared at Shen Ke for a split second, asking, "...... What does it mean?"

"Give me an example." Shen Ke never likes to teach children like other parents, but used to let Lin Jian experience himself in real-life examples, which is better than force-feeding indirect experiences of adults to children.

Shen Ke says, "For example, there are three kinds of people around you right now, whether they're teachers or classmates can be categorized in."

"One kind of people are those who like you very much, one kind of people hate you very much, and the other kind of people are those who don't like or hate you and have no feelings for you, and if you've clashed with these people before because you were too sharp or didn't know how to make concessions, then now, as you prepare to run for the president of the class, what will these people do to you?"

Lin Jian thought about it and said, "Teachers who like me won't have anything, but the ones who don't like me will dislike me even more, but then there's the group that has no feelings for me, and it's the same for whoever is chosen, so ...... odds are that it'll be chosen?"

There was innocence and seriousness in the child's eyes, and his ignorance made his heart soften.

Shen Ke smiled and rubbed the top of his hair, and said softly, "Then is there another scenario - the people who originally liked you will be disappointed because of your bullying or arrogance, and the people who don't like you will dislike you even more because they have had a conflict with you, and as for the originally neutral that A faction, you a big move to make out, simply directly pushed them to the opposite side, and became a member of the disliked camp again, so ...... the probability is that you can not choose?"

At that time, the young Lin Jian was straightforward and proud, so it can be said that he had not thought about the possibility of this development at all, and for a while he stared at Shen Ke with wide eyes.

The young uncle, who was only in his early twenties then, couldn't help himself and reached out to pinch the child's snow-white cheeks, teasing him, "Is this scared silly?"

The young man with a smile of the eyebrows warm and soft, the voice is as clear and nice as a mountain stream of fresh water, small Lin Jian froze for a long time, bulging face reluctantly do not open his hand, whispered: "Then you teach me."

"There's nothing to teach, just a reminder." Shen Ke laughed, "Still, no matter what, it's best to be a man with a silver lining, not only for the sake of meeting each other in the future, but also as a way of self-protection."

"Children, this is just more than you have walked more than ten years of life, slightly summarized a little experience, but more, but also need you to practice, to feel." Shen Ke said, "And what I can do is just to walk the road that you have not traveled before, touch the wall that you have not had the time to touch, and then turn around and tell you the life experience that I have gained before you, not for any other reason, just for you to be able to take a little less detour, and to have a little bit more smoothness and openness in your life in the future."

Since he was a child, Shen Ke has not said much to Lin Jian, and never as long-winded as other parents, but most of the time, he has taught him some very useful truths, and every time, Lin Jian has been enlightened.

It is also from that time Shen Ke said, Lin Jian again with the classmates, and slowly less "not grounded", although the cold personality can not be changed from the root, but whether it is in junior high school or to high school, around the teachers and classmates in the conversation Lin Jian, will praise a sentence! He is a young man who is as warm as jade and outstanding.

In a flash, so many years have passed.

*

During the period after Lin Jian's departure, he quickly received many offers from mainland design companies, all of which were generous and well-paid.

In particular, the company Lin Jian had previously contacted promised to give Lin Jian absolute autonomy in terms of technology development, in addition to a high salary.

However, Lin Jian was not eager to rejoin the workforce after she had just finished her career, but rather, she checked her bank card balance and spent some time in a very relaxed manner.

After all, from the beginning of his studies abroad, he has been too tense all these years, like a restless gyroscope, no one to raise the whip from the hoof, and even to his own requirements to the degree of harshness. Until now, he can finally loosen the strings a little bit and let himself have a free time.

And since he found Shen Ke in his former home a year ago, the two have moved back in.

Although they don't say it, he and Shen Ke are both extremely nostalgic for the past, so after they moved back, the decoration of the house didn't move, they just tacitly started to use new trivial life silhouettes to re-cover the traces of the past that Shen Ke had deliberately left behind, and engraved the imprints of the accompanying time again in this gentle home of peace and quiet.

Like they'll have a long, better rest of their lives.

It was rare for Lin Jian to take such a long vacation, so one night before his twenty-fifth birthday, Shen Ke suddenly suggested, "Want to go on a trip?"

The temperature and humidity in the study were constant all year round, and Lin Jian was nestled in a soft cotton nightgown on the large loveseat, flipping through a page of the book in her hand before she glanced up at him and said in an idle tone, "Traveling? Where to?"

"Anywhere will do." Shen Ke closed the copy of Design Psychology in his hand and asked, "Is there anywhere in particular you'd like to go?"

"No." Lin Jian was very serious when reading the book, but instead appeared to be a bit perfunctory to someone's question, and replied in a light tone, "I've been running outside for so many years, and now that I've finally settled down, I don't want to go anywhere."

He grew up like this, with his mouth saying only half of what was on his mind, and smothering back, inevitably, the part that couldn't be said anyway.

You are like a warm room, I am like an orchid, and I am at peace with you here.

"This way ah ......" Shen Ke does not force, just suddenly a low laugh, reminded, "Then stay at home for your birthday is also fine, by then mom and dad should be back from abroad again, to give you a grand birthday celebration, well ...... kinda looking forward to it."

The words just fell, between the youth who just now was as calm as this "brush" closed the book, instantly from the soft cushions to sit up straight body, gaze coldly staring at Shen Ke for a good half day, but hidden in the tresses of the ear silhouette but quietly red, after a long time, finally popped out a word from the lips: "...... go!"

After all, traveling with Shen Ke is much more quiet compared to the birthday party that Master Shen and Cong Wan personally organized.

And Lin Jian is not too annoyed, mainly because ...... every time he remembers the luxurious and grand birthday party that shook the entire Shen family in his twenty-fourth year of life, he will feel both happy and ...... socially dead at the same time.

On the eve of his twenty-fourth birthday, Shen Zhangqian and his wife flew back from abroad, personally screened proposals from a number of planning companies, and even participated in the design themselves, ultimately leaving Lin Jian with a magnificent birthday dinner.

At the birthday party, all the members of the Shen family were invited, and on the main stage, it was not only to announce to all the members of the Shen family that Lin Jian had come back, but also to make it clear to the whole family that from now on, Lin Jian would be a member of the Shen family.

The Shen family will always give him a base to stand on, and the Shen family will be his solid support.

At that time, when Shen Ke held his hand and walked to Shen Zhangqian and Cong Wan, Lin Jian's emotions swirled, and unable to withstand the loving and warm smiles and eyes of the old couple, he called out in a muffled voice, "Dad, Mom."

Shen Zhangqian and Cong Wan were so moved that they were filled with tears and nodded their heads in agreement.

Also will Shen's relatives shocked to the world of people in a trance, can not stop congratulations congratulations.

Not to mention the Shen crowd, even Shen Ke was secretly amazed all night--

Designer Lin's courage is truly commendable.

And it is only when Lin Jian, who has just entered the first day of his current year, wakes up in Shen Ke's arms in the early morning of the next day, recalling everything that happened at the birthday party last night, that he finally begins to plan his escape from the Earth as an afterthought.

How can you shout it out in front of so many people?

-Too reckless.

But when I think of Shen Zhangqian and Cong Wan's happy and excited looks at that time, and think of the gentle and smiling eyes of Shen Ke beside me, it seems ...... that there is nothing to regret except shame.

It was just one more time that Lin Jian realized he might not be able to make it.

So there was one more travel pact between them about their birthdays.

They left two days before Lin Jian's birthday, took a connecting flight to Greece, and then a day-long ocean cruise, eventually arriving at the southernmost island of Santorin in the Cyclades archipelago in the southern Aegean Sea.

The remains of an active volcano eruption and ancient ruins related to the mystery of the disappearance of Atlantis can be seen everywhere on this small island known for its red wine.

Lin Jian has been reading Plato's books about Atlantis, including Critias and Timaeus, but the more he reads, the more curious he becomes about this mysterious land named after Atlas, the eldest son of Poseidon, the Emperor of the Sea.

So they went there gladly.

During the day, they wore simple shorts and T-shirts as they drove to view the frescoes at the Akrotiri ruins that symbolize the ancient and mysterious Minoan civilization.

In the evening, they stood in their pristine white oceanfront villa on the edge of the cliff, watching the afterglow of the deep sea level light up Santorini's sunset inch by inch.

At night, when countless stars appear in the dark sky, Lin Jian and Shen Ke take a walk along the long blue coastline, occasionally carrying a bottle of the local red, sweet and strong San Santo wine, without a glass.

Zero hour has arrived.

Under the clear moonlight of a starry sky and deep blue sea, Lin Jian received a long, drunken kiss from Shen Ke in the first second of his twenty-fifth year.

He kissed him for a long, long time, as if this love was endless.

It's like it's going to the end of the earth.