Brody Wan's Shadow in the Game Chapter 5

At ten o'clock in the evening, Felix Qiu changed his clothes and walked out of the back door of the hotel. He stood next to the trash can at the back door and lit a cigarette. He lowered his head and took out his mobile phone.

There was a missed call on his phone from ten minutes ago. It was his father's number, so he called back.

The phone only rang once before it was picked up, and a childish voice sounded over there: "Brother."

"Qiu Yan? Why aren't you asleep yet?" Felix Qiu frowned, "Did you make the call just now?"

"I'm already asleep. I beat you in bed." Qiu Yan whispered.

"I'm going back now, you go to bed right away," Felix Qiu said, "If you're still awake when I get home, you're screwed."

"I'm falling asleep now." Qiu Yan said quickly and hung up the phone.

Felix Qiu took two puffs of cigarette. There were still some nonsense messages sent by Seraphina Zhang on his phone. He deleted them. When he put the phone back in his pocket, he heard the sound of high heels behind him. When he turned around, he smelled the scent of perfume. .

"Sister Man." He greeted the woman who came out of the back door.

Sister Man's name is Xiao Man. She is in her thirties and is one of the two owners of the hotel. She is responsible for the usual operations.

"You've worked hard today," Xiao Man stopped and looked at him, "You're the one Zhang Ting introduced a while ago, right? Your name is Felix Qiu? I haven't talked to you yet."

Xiao Man has no airs and is very close to the employees. She likes to be called sister and likes to chat with employees when she has nothing to do.

"Yeah." Felix Qiu nodded, took a step away and stood downwind of Xiao Man, and stubbed out the cigarette in his hand.

"The smell of cigarette is nothing," Xiao Man smiled and stared at him twice, "Where do you live? I'll take you back on the way."

"No need, I'll come by bicycle..." Felix Qiu said.

"Why are you riding a bicycle in such a strong wind?" Xiao Man interrupted, patting him on the back, "Just throw the bicycle into my car and let's go."

Before Felix Qiu could speak again, Xiao Man had already turned around and walked towards the parking lot.

Felix Qiu frowned and followed her.

Xiaoman's car was a Toyota pickup truck. Felix Qiu couldn't even find an excuse like "the bicycle can't fit in the trunk", so he had to throw his own car into the back truck and get into Xiaoman's car.

"Zhang Ting said you are a sophomore in high school this year, right?" Xiao Man drove the car in the direction of his home.

"Yeah." Felix Qiu responded.

"Is it hard to go to class and work part-time like this?" Xiao Man asked again.

"It's OK," Felix Qiu looked out the window, "I don't feel anything."

"A student is working so hard. Does his family have difficulties?" Xiao Man turned his head and looked at him.

"Yeah." Felix Qiu turned around.

"If you have any difficulties, tell me. Our hotel will help the employees in any way we can," Xiao Man said.

"Thank you, Sister Man." Felix Qiu smiled.

"Young man doesn't like to talk much." Xiao Man continued to look at him with interest.

"It's cold." Felix Qiu turned his face to the window again.

This sentence made Xiao Man laugh for a long time, and finally reached out and patted his leg: "You are quite funny."

Felix Qiu's house is a bit far from the hotel. It is in a good location in an old alley. Dad has been waiting for demolition, but after waiting for more than ten years, nothing happened.

When I got home, the yard was very quiet, and several households had turned off their lights.

He took out the key and opened the door. The lights in the living room at home were also turned off. A small night light was turned on next to the door. A few rays of light were faintly revealed under the crack of the door of his father's bedroom.

He didn't turn on the light, gently pushed open the door of his father's bedroom, and said softly: "I'm back."

"Earlier than usual." Dad said from his wheelchair.

"Qiu Yan must be asleep, keep your voice down," Felix Qiu walked into the bedroom and closed the door, "You should go to sleep too, do you need to go to the bathroom?"

"I've been there." Dad lowered his voice.

"You don't have to wait for me, I might come home at the right time." Felix Qiu pushed the wheelchair to the bedside, and when he hugged his father to the bed, there was a pain in his ribs. He gritted his teeth and put his father down before rubbing it. Rubbing the area injured by Sterling Bian's knee.

After closing the door of his father's bedroom, Felix Qiu entered his room and saw Qiu Yan lying on the pillow through the light outside the window, with most of his back exposed outside the quilt.

He walked over and bent down to stare at Qiu Yan's face. The little guy had his eyes closed and his eyelashes were trembling slightly.

"Pretending." Felix Qiu said.

Qiu Yan didn't move, his eyes were still closed, but his eyelashes trembled even more.

"If I see you not sleeping before 10 o'clock next time, you won't have to sleep anymore." Felix Qiu said.

"Then why don't you come back early?" Qiu Yan opened his eyes and said a little aggrievedly.

"Don't pretend anymore?" Felix Qiu knelt down beside the bed, "I'll come back soon. If you don't have any money in the future, will you push Dad out to beg for food?"

Qiu Yan bit his lip and buried his face in the pillow. After a while, his shoulders twitched slightly.

"Are you crying?" Felix Qiu stood up, took off his clothes, changed into a T-shirt, opened the door and walked out, "I'm going to take a shower and give you ten minutes to cry."

When Felix Qiu finished washing up and returned to the room, Qiu Yan was still lying on the pillow, but he was no longer crying.

He turned off the light, got on the bed, lay down next to Qiu Yan, reached out and slapped his B*tt: "Come here, brother, give him a hug."

Qiu Yan quickly turned over and got into his arms and hugged his waist.

"Hey," Felix Qiu hid, "don't press on my ribs, it hurts."

"Brother," Qiu Yan buried his face in his arm and said with a nasal voice, "you are fighting again."

"I didn't do it first," Felix Qiu hugged Qiu Yan. Sterling Bian's angry eyes flashed before his eyes, and he smiled, "I just owed it."

"I got a little red flower today, and I got full marks on the math test." Qiu Yan whispered, with pride in his voice.

"Really? That's amazing." Felix Qiu sat up, took out his wallet from the coat hanging by the bed, took out a steel ball, put it into the piggy bank on the bedside, and flicked it on Qiu Yan's face. After a moment, "Hurry up and sleep."

The mornings of the two weekends are Qiu Yan's happiest time. Felix Qiu usually attends classes during the day and works part-time at night. On weekends, he has to teach a few junior high school children two afternoons. The only time he can spend with him is weekend mornings.

From the moment Felix Qiu got up in the morning and went out to buy breakfast, he followed Felix Qiu like a shadow, talking non-stop about school matters, what the teacher said, what his deskmate said, and he never stopped chattering.

Felix Qiu usually didn't talk to him. From time to time, he would respond with a hum or two, and he could continue talking.

Felix Qiu spent the whole morning sitting in the yard playing with him, sometimes playing with plasticine, sometimes drawing. When it was almost noon, Qiu Yan rubbed his nose, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Brother, I want to eat beef jerky."

"Okay," Felix Qiu took out his phone and checked the time. He usually doesn't let Qiu Yan eat snacks, but he will be more relaxed on weekends, "I'll take you to buy it."

There was a small supermarket at the entrance of the alley. Qiu Yan stood in front of the snack shelf and was a little confused. He couldn't choose between beef jerky and tofu skin.

"I want to eat all of them, can I buy them all?" he asked Felix Qiu with a raised face.

"No, pick one." Felix Qiu answered simply.

"Then you won't eat?" Qiu Yan was a little depressed.

"Don't eat." Felix Qiu said.

"I want them all." Qiu Yan pulled his pants.

Felix Qiu turned around and walked towards the supermarket entrance.

"Beef jerky, beef jerky, beef jerky..." Qiu Yan shouted quickly behind him.

"Big or small?" Felix Qiu walked back to the shelf.

"The big one." Qiu Yan pointed to the big bag.

"Are you ready for lunch?" Felix Qiu smiled, took a big bag and paid the money.

"Eat." Qiu Yan happily jumped behind him.

Sterling Bian and Brody Wan slept until noon when Brody Wan's mother knocked on the door and woke them up: "It's time to eat! Don't sleep anymore! I really doubt whether you usually sleep in at school!"

"Sleep..." Sterling Bian stretched out and kicked towards Brody Wan, "I just didn't get enough sleep..."

Brody Wan was almost kicked out of bed by him, sighed and sat up.

"Any information?" Brody Wan saw the light flashing on the phone that Sterling Bian had thrown on the bedside table, so he took it and took a look. "Hey, Seraphina Zhang?"

"Bring it here!" Sterling Bian grabbed the phone.

Seraphina Zhang sent him a WeChat message half an hour ago. Sterling Bian wanted to listen, so he raised the phone to his ear, then stopped and looked at Brody Wan.

Brody Wan was waiting, and when he saw him like this, he lifted the quilt he was wrapped in unhappily: "What's wrong, are you afraid that I will hear someone reject you?"

"Damn, don't be a hooligan. Haven't you seen enough in the shower?" Sterling Bian pulled his underwear and laughed twice. "If I really get rejected, it will be the first time in my life. You can witness it."

"Okay." Brody Wan picked his ears.

Sterling Bian pressed listen, and Seraphina Zhang's gentle voice came from the phone: "How is your injury?"

"Fcuk!" Brody Wan yelled, "Fcuk!"

Sterling Bian was also stunned. This gentle greeting instantly wiped away his previous unhappiness with Seraphina Zhang. He glanced at Brody Wan and said to the phone: "It's okay, what are you doing?"

"Is it the sun or the moon that is shining today?" Brody Wan ran to the window and opened the curtains, "It's the sun... Did you feel guilty when you saw her that day?"

"Why are you guilty? I'm not her," Sterling Bian threw the phone aside, jumped out of bed, put on her clothes and ran into the living room, shouting to Brody Wan's mother, "Auntie!"

"Hurry up and wash your face and eat. This has already saved you a meal. If I didn't call you two, you wouldn't be planning to eat today, right?" Brody Wan's mother said with a smile.

After finishing a large table of dishes prepared by Brody Wan's mother, Sterling Bian lay half-ly on the sofa, tossing his cell phone up and down in his hand.

After about ten times of tossing, Seraphina Zhang's reply came back: "I was let off by my classmates. Shopping alone is so boring..."

Sterling Bian took the phone, thought for a moment, and called directly. After it rang several times, Seraphina Zhang answered the phone and said "Hello" lazily.

"Where are you shopping?" Sterling Bian asked.

"It's a pedestrian street, where else can I go shopping," Seraphina Zhang said, "What are you doing?"

"I'll go over there," Sterling Bian stood up and went into Brody Wan's room to get his coat and put it on, "you'll be waiting for me at Manji in twenty minutes."

Brody Wan's house is very close to the pedestrian street, and it only takes about ten minutes to get there by taxi. It's just the right time to get to Manji from Sterling Bian.

He glanced inside and didn't see Seraphina Zhang, so he made a phone call.

"Ah, I'm just walking over there from the cinema," Seraphina Zhang said calmly, "Wait for me for two minutes. I'm carrying something and walking slowly."

"Just wait for me where you are, I'll go over." Sterling Bian said, this is Seraphina Zhang. For another girl, he really wouldn't be so patient.

He hung up the phone, put the phone back in his pocket and was about to walk towards the cinema, when he looked up and stopped.

hehe.

hehe! hehe...

When fate comes, there is really no way to stop it.

But what surprised Sterling Bian the most was not that he ran into Felix Qiu after just two steps on the pedestrian street, but that Waverly Bian was actually standing next to Felix Qiu!

Felix Qiu can actually be related to Waverly Bian?

What the Fcuk is going on?

Sterling Bian stood there and looked at Felix Qiu. He was stunned for a long time and couldn't decide whether to pretend he didn't see it and walk away, go up and punch him, or continue to be stunned.

Or say happy birthday to Waverly Bian?

Felix Qiu was obviously surprised and didn't move even while standing.

"Oh, Sterling Bian?" Waverly Bian broke the silence and raised her eyebrows. When she found that Sterling Bian's eyes were not on her, she turned to look at Felix Qiu, a little confused, "Hey, do you two know each other?"

"I guess so." Felix Qiu smiled.

"Let's go." Waverly Bian glanced sideways at Sterling Bian, pulled Felix Qiu's sleeve, and went straight forward to pass Sterling Bian.

Felix Qiu didn't move and still looked at Sterling Bian.

The feeling in Sterling Bian's heart now is a bit indescribable. Even the feud he had with Felix Qiu is no longer the focus. Felix Qiu and Seraphina Zhang, Felix Qiu and Waverly Bian, what is going on? He has no idea at this moment. Concerned, he felt nothing at all when facing Felix Qiu's provocative eyes.

There was only one sentence in his mind: Waverly Bian knew Felix Qiu, would she tell Felix Qiu, and what would she say?

He passed by Waverly Bian in silence and walked forward without looking back.

"Let's go!" Waverly Bian raised her voice and shouted at Felix Qiu again.

Felix Qiu looked back at Sterling Bian's back and followed Waverly Bian's footsteps.

After walking forward for a while, Felix Qiu asked, "What is your relationship with Sterling Bian?"

"Me and him?" Waverly Bian sneered, her voice full of disdain, "What relationship do I have with him? If I tell you, I'll scare you to death."

"Oh." Felix Qiu smiled and said nothing else.

Waverly Bian sneered again: "Do you think Sterling Bian and I are siblings or something?"

"Isn't it?" Felix Qiu glanced at her.

"That's right, but it's not embarrassing enough to say it," Waverly Bian frowned, "He was the son of my father and another woman."

Felix Qiu's footsteps paused, and Waverly Bian turned around and took a few steps back. Her voice was a little cold: "He is the son of Jian San'er."

Felix Qiu said nothing.

After Waverly Bian said this, she didn't continue and changed the subject: "What do you think if I perm the ends of my hair?"

"Your school allows high school students to have their hair permed?" Felix Qiu asked.

"What's the point of perming the ends of your hair?" Waverly Bian shook her hair, "Do you think it looks good with a perm?"

"I don't know." Felix Qiu said.

"Hey, when you were tutoring Chen Tingting during the winter vacation, didn't I go find her? The ends of my hair would be curly at that time," Waverly Bian reminded him.

"...I don't remember." Felix Qiu thought for a while.

"You don't remember this?" Waverly Bian glanced at him with some disappointment, "Then my hair was much longer than it is now. You don't remember it either, do you?"

Felix Qiu covered his mouth with his hand and coughed lightly: "Have you cut your hair?"

"Hey!" Waverly Bian glared at him and raised her voice, "Don't you even remember what I look like?"

"No," Felix Qiu said, "I will think of you when I see you."

Waverly Bian wanted to say something, but Felix Qiu pointed to the road on the right: "You are going to get your hair done, right? I'm leaving now. The make-up class is almost over. Happy birthday."

Before Waverly Bian could say anything, Felix Qiu turned around and strode away along the road that turned right.

When Sterling Bian saw Seraphina Zhang, she was sitting on a bench by the roadside, playing with her mobile phone with her head down, her long hair covering half of her face, and she looked quiet and comfortable.

However, the scene that would have made Sterling Bian's heart flutter now felt nothing special. He walked over to Seraphina Zhang and sat down.

"You scared me." Seraphina Zhang turned around and saw it was him, and patted her chest, "Why didn't you call me?"

"Wouldn't it be the same if I called you," Sterling Bian said, "Have you eaten?"

"I lost weight," Seraphina Zhang touched her face, "and my face has become rounder."

"I can't tell, it's quite beautiful." Sterling Bian glanced at her.

"Why do you say that?" Seraphina Zhang laughed.

"Du? Who else said that?" Sterling Bian asked.

"No one." Seraphina Zhang smiled.

Sterling Bian felt that Seraphina Zhang's smile was a bit too obvious, so he also smiled: "Felix Qiu?"

"Don't make random guesses," Seraphina Zhang put away her smile and frowned again after two seconds, "He didn't mean anything else."

Sterling Bian was not a very patient person to begin with, and now she was as irritated as if she had just fallen into the river and was picked up humiliatingly and then kicked down again. Seraphina Zhang didn't know whether this was intentional or unintentional. His words made him quite unhappy: "Did I say that he had other intentions?"

Seraphina Zhang was stunned. This was the first time Sterling Bian used such a tone to her. She raised her hair and said, "I didn't say anything. You two are my friends. I just don't want you to get into trouble because of me." It's like there is a grudge..."

"Friend?" Sterling Bian leaned back in his chair and looked at her. "I don't know what's going on with Felix Qiu, but I'm pursuing you. Don't say you don't know."

Seraphina Zhang lowered her head, still with a smile on her face: "Sterling Bian..."

"I have a bad temper and no patience," Sterling Bian interrupted her, feeling extremely irritated. "If you want to, just say so. If you don't want to, just tell me. Is it fun to hang on to me like this? Is it fun?"

"What are you talking about!" Seraphina Zhang's smile froze on her face.

"It's nothing," Sterling Bian stood up, "literally, it's just a matter of saying whether you want to or not. I don't want to be with you if both sides are hanging on."

After saying this, he turned around and walked away without looking back. He didn't hear clearly what Seraphina Zhang shouted behind him.