More Than Friends, Not Enough Lovers

Ten years ago, he followed her every day, calling Sister Dong, Sister Dong. She took care of him, helped him with his homework before exams, covered him up when he made mistakes, and even cooked for him and helped him with housework. Ten years later, the little boy following her grew up, and he still called Sister Dong, Sister Dong every day. But this time it was him who held up the sky for her. In the past ten years, they have been close, but they are more than friends, not lovers. Fragment one: At Jiang Hao's 27th birthday party, it was a rare occasion for friends to get together. During the middle of the drink, Jiang Hao happily raised his glass and started to toast everyone. When it was her turn, Du Mingchuan teased him and insisted on saying a few words. Jiang Hao drank a lot and toasted for a long time. She was already slightly tipsy from the wine. He was holding the table with one hand and shaking the wine glass in the other. She was sitting aside and looked up and met his smiling eyes. That look seemed to return to the scene when the two met for the first time many years ago. His face was particularly beautiful against the hotel lights, and she couldn't move her eyes away. At this moment, his low and charming voice sounded in her ears. "I was hers ten years ago, and I am still hers ten years later. It is not easy to think about myself. It has been a torturous ten years." Suddenly, there was a roar in the box, and everyone laughed and scolded him for being so good at taking advantage. He drank up the wine in his hand amidst everyone's joking, and she only took a symbolic sip and put down the glass. Suddenly she felt a warmth coming from her left hand. It was his hand. She remembered that that winter, he held her hand like this and warmed her all the way. She drew circles in his hand like a prank. Jiang Hao, who was talking to someone else, turned around and saw her looking at him with a smile, their eyes facing each other, holding his hand and growing old together. Fragment two: On the weekend, the sun was shining brightly, and the old men met to go fishing. Mu Yifan rarely had time to get up early, so he drove his old man to the countryside. As soon as the old man got into the car, he looked out of the car with a serious expression and was thinking about something. He had an expression like "Keep strangers away or I'll be disturbed." Mu Yifan knew what was going on and didn't bother him. He drove the car attentively, paying attention to the old man's actions in the rearview mirror from time to time. Finally, when they were nearly halfway through the journey, Mr. Mu suddenly said, "Why did you think that boy from the Jiang family and the girl from the Dong family didn't make it?" Mu Yifan looked at the old man's regretful expression in the rearview mirror, and couldn't help but laugh at the fact that his old man was thinking about this all the way. Later, one day at a private gathering, Mu Yifan taught this to Jiang Hao, the person involved. Jiang Hao just smiled calmly and joked that he didn't expect our old man to be such a gossip. Mu Yifan hesitated to speak, but the wine glass on the table was filled by Jiang Hao. Before Mu Yifan could say anything, he saw Jiang Hao drain the wine in the glass in one gulp, and then looked at him with a smile. But as a friend for many years, Mu Yifan still saw the loneliness in his eyes. I don't know where the love started, but it goes deeper and deeper.