After the college entrance exams, his son came home in a huff and shut himself in his room for the whole night. Meng Qinian didn’t dare ask too much, so he called his son’s best friend instead.
“Uncle Meng, it’s nothing.”
“It's just... we had a little disagreement on the way back.”
Lin Huan replied casually over the phone.
The man on the other end of the line had a gentle, even voice, like a cool breeze on a midsummer night. “I see... Xiao Huan, come over to my place for dinner tonight. Friends can get through anything. Just talk it out and you’ll be fine.”
They couldn’t get through it, and it wouldn’t be fine.
Lin Huan couldn’t bring himself to say that on the way home, Meng Zhi had suddenly asked if he liked anyone, and Lin Huan had been out of his mind to blurt out what he did.
Luckily, the man on the other end didn’t press him for details.
He couldn’t exactly say,
“Uncle Meng, I’ve been in love with you for years.”
Could he?
[Reader's Guide]
1. The gong is the pursuer / younger man / twenty-year age gap
2. The shou is divorced and has a son (the gong's childhood friend)
3. The gong's longtime crush comes true; the shou is basically turned straight
Theme: Companionship is the longest-lasting declaration of love.
