It was already late at night when Evan Tong got home. It was cold outside and not warm at home.
It was mid-February and normally the heating had not been turned off, but he didn't know whether the landlord hadn't paid the heating bill or the heating was just not working properly in this small rented house, but in the second half of the night it was as cold as an ice cave.
He quickly washed up, then got into bed with the electric heater in his arms. He tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and kicked the electric heater under him to cover his feet.
He suddenly remembered last winter, when he had just married Lucas Huo. He worked in the afternoon and came back late at night. He was cold when he entered the house. Afraid that he would be too cold and freeze Lucas Huo, Evan Tong simply slept on the sofa. Evan Tong didn't know about it at first, but one night he was woken up by the urge to pee, and when he got up to go out, he found out that Lucas Huo slept in the living room in the second half of the night with a blanket covering him.
After that, Evan Tong set an alarm for himself. Whenever the other party had an afternoon shift, he would go to bed early at night and get up at around 12 o'clock to wait for Lucas Huo. It was also at that time that he developed a habit of giving a cup of warm water to people who got off work in the middle of the night to drive away the cold.
These things seem to have happened just yesterday, but when I think about it carefully, a year has passed.
Before their divorce, the two still maintained this habit. Evan Tong still wakes up on time, and his body's conditioned reflex has been formed.
In the past, Evan Tong and Lucas Huo slept in the same bed, but with two separate quilts. Although it was not to the point where one had to keep the other warm, it was indeed much warmer to have one more person in the house.
Now, Evan Tong was rolling around on the bed with cold hands and feet.
He couldn't sleep, so he stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, thinking about what happened when he met Lucas Huo today. The more he thought about it, the S3xier he felt that man looked in his police uniform.
Thinking about men late at night, Evan Tong got an erection.
The frequency of his S3x life with Lucas Huo was so low that it was unbelievable.
Adult men have strong S3xual desires, but they only do it once a month on average, and they can't even enjoy it that time. Thinking about this, he got a little angry and blamed Lucas Huo. Making love should be intense, but that guy was so cautious. He wasn't made of plastic that would break if poked, so what was there to be afraid of?
Evan Tong, who was "hungry" before, always masturbated secretly when Lucas Huo was not around. He also bought a vibrator without his knowledge, but used it twice and didn't like it very much. Later, no one knew where it went.
His body reacted now, he bit his lip, closed his eyes, and reached his hand into his pajamas.
In the past, Evan Tong always fantasized about masturbating while thinking about those muscular and S3xy basketball stars, but tonight, for some reason, she couldn't erase Lucas Huo from her mind.
The way the guy was walking towards him in police uniform.
The guy standing on the roadside smoking.
Tsk, so S3xy.
Since he couldn't wipe it off, he simply gave up. Evan Tong ejaculated while thinking about his ex-husband.
However, after venting, he felt even emptier. When he thought about how he could only masturbate in the middle of the night when he was in his thirties, Evan Tong couldn't help but feel sad. He muttered and cursed, "It's all Lucas Huo's fault!"
After drinking and masturbating, Evan Tong was overworked and drank two large cups of coffee the next morning before he could muster up the energy to go to work.
Nothing happened in the school. As the countdown to the college entrance examination was about to begin, these restless young people who were usually lively and fond of making trouble gradually calmed down.
Evan Tong didn't have any classes in the afternoon, so he was called by his math teacher to discuss a test during evening self-study. As soon as he came back, Chu Yao's message came in.
Chu Yao said: Fang Baicheng wants your cell phone number.
When they were drinking last night, Fang Baicheng hinted that he wanted to add Evan Tong as a WeChat friend, but Evan Tong played dumb and fooled him.
He took his phone outside and called Chu Yao back in the sunshine.
Chu Yao: "Give it to me or not? I don't think you like him very much."
"I don't feel anything." Evan Tong said, "And I'm not in a hurry. I just got divorced, so it's nice to have a free life for a while."
"Really? I thought you were desperate for a man."
"It's hard to describe the image of me in your mind."
Evan Tong stopped at the entrance of the small supermarket and heard Chu Yao say, "Then I won't give it to him. Let's talk about it later. He's actually a good person, but he's definitely not as good as Brother Huo."
It is quite different, Evan Tong thought in his heart, but he couldn't say it that way.
"It's fine to make friends, but I don't want to go too far. At least I don't have that idea now."
"I see." Chu Yao said, "So what kind do you like? Lucas Huo is only lacking in bed skills?"
"Don't keep calling me Lucas Huo all the time. Is this the only man I have in my brilliant and charming life?" Evan Tong was unhappy. "I have to look forward. There is a large green grassland waiting for me to eat. Why should I stare at him?"
"Young man, you have the world in your heart and will definitely achieve great things in the future!" Chu Yao's smile made Evan Tong feel cold all over. This woman was really fierce, so fierce that Evan Tong could automatically read and understand many meanings of every word she said.
"Sister, I have to go to a meeting. You go ahead and do your work." Chu Yao said, "Don't worry about Fang Baicheng. I'll take care of him for you."
"I don't need to express my gratitude for your kindness." Evan Tong said, "I'm going to kneel down and greet you. The ice cream is about to melt while I'm waiting for you."
After hanging up the phone, Evan Tong went into the supermarket to buy a box of ice cream. He sat in the supermarket and watched an episode of a sad TV drama about a tragic love story with his boss before returning to the office.
Chu Yao said that she caught Fang Baicheng, which meant to stop him from provoking Evan Tong.
However, Evan Tong suddenly realized that his childhood friend's words were sometimes not credible at all, because when he came out of school to eat in the evening, he saw Fang Baicheng.
It's quite impressive that this person actually found his way here.
Evan Tong originally wanted to pretend he didn't see it, but Fang Baicheng walked right up to him and greeted him.
"What a coincidence." Evan Tong smiled wryly.
He can't stand those clingy people. They are all in their thirties. Can't they stop being like vines and walk independently?
"It's not a coincidence," Fang Baicheng said frankly, giving Evan Tong a headache, "I came here on purpose to wait for you. Chu Yao wouldn't give me your phone number, so I had no choice but to come here."
He pointed to the school gate and said, "I've been here for a while, but the guard won't let me in without a pass."
Evan Tong looked back at the old man sitting in the mail room and said politely and distantly: "Yes, this is a school, and we can't let in casually."
He raised his hand to check the time in a pretentious manner, then walked quickly forward.
Most people would know that the other person is anxious when seeing this situation, so they would stop talking nonsense and not disturb him. However, Fang Baicheng just followed him like that, as if he didn't feel Evan Tong's rejection of him at all.
"Do you have time? Let's have dinner together?"
Evan Tong glanced at him, thought for a moment and said, "I'm sorry, I really can't. I'm teaching the senior class and have a lot to do. I have to go back as soon as I can to buy some food."
Fang Baicheng felt a little disappointed, but he still smiled and nodded: "What about after school tonight?"
"It's too late." Evan Tong said, "My school is over at 9:30."
This is not convincing at all. Evan Tong hadn't started drinking at 9:30 yesterday.
But Evan Tong was a man who could justify anything he said: "Let's do it another day. I'm not feeling well lately."
This rejection was actually very obvious, but Fang Baicheng was persistent. He took out his phone and said, "In this case, at least add me on WeChat and leave me your phone number. You can't let me come here for nothing, right?"
Tong Qiuxin said, "It wasn't me who asked you to come."
But one should not be too extreme in life. Evan Tong always tells himself to be a calm and amiable teacher.
A teacher should not easily hurt the fragile heart of a man in love.
Evan Tong said, "Okay."
He took Fang Baicheng's phone, entered his own number, handed it back, and the other party called him directly.
"You have my number too, so feel free to call me if you need anything."
Evan Tong laughed and went into a small shop.
He was originally going to have fried rice noodles, but now he decided to buy some instant noodles and go back to the office.
Dealing with Fang Baicheng was more tiring than dealing with those little brats in the class. When Evan Tong returned to the office, he just lay down on the desk without any appetite at all.
"What's wrong, Teacher Tong?" The head teacher of the next class was a woman in her forties. She liked chatting with Evan Tong and thought he was interesting. She came in with a pile of exercise books and asked him with a smile, "You look so hopeless. Who messed with the handsome guy in our Chinese class?"
Evan Tong smiled and waved his hands: "Teacher Yu, why is life so tiring?"
"You can't ask me that."
"ah?"
Teacher Yu poured him a glass of water, placed it in front of him and said, "Go and ask the heavens for help!"
Evan Tong felt that Fang Baicheng might be a monster, and he kept asking him out for several days in a row. He tried and failed over and over again, but he kept trying and never gave up. He had never seen anyone with such perseverance, and Evan Tong really wanted all the students in his class to learn from him.
He didn't answer any of Fang Baicheng's ten calls, and he only replied with two words at most when he received twenty messages. But the man still persisted. Evan Tong suddenly understood why he was able to study for a Ph.D. - as long as you persevere, you can grind an iron rod into a needle.
But unfortunately, Evan Tong is not an iron pestle, and Fang Baicheng can't grind him down.
This week, it’s not just Fang Baicheng’s matter that’s upsetting.
Evan Tong didn't know what was wrong with him. He had a headache in the afternoons for several days in a row. It was so painful that no medicine worked and he couldn't sleep when the pain came.
On Friday noon, he was sitting in his office grading papers with his cell phone on silent, but he knew that as soon as he turned it on, he would definitely see Fang Baicheng's message.
He was too lazy to look and had already turned Fang Baicheng's WeChat to do not disturb mode.
Evan Tong felt that he had gone too far, but since the other party hadn't explicitly said that she liked him and wanted to pursue him, it was not easy for him to reject her outright. It would be too embarrassing to end up being considered as being too sentimental.
Just ignore it. As the saying goes: escape is shameful but useful.
"Teacher Tong, if you really can't do it, go to the hospital." The colleague sitting opposite looked at him worriedly, "You look too bad. You vomited twice today, right?"
It's almost the third time.
Evan Tong didn't even have time to reply before he ran to the bathroom and vomited again.
He didn't know what was wrong with him. When his headache got severe, he started vomiting. If he hadn't known that he didn't have a uterus and couldn't conceive, he would have suspected that he was pregnant.
When it got faster, Evan Tong felt that he couldn't take it anymore. If he continued like this, he might be on the news tomorrow, with the headline being "Senior 3 class teacher dies suddenly on eve of college entrance examination."
In order to avoid being reported in social news, he decided to abandon the principle of "staying on the front line even if slightly injured" and go see what was going on.
Evan Tong greeted Teacher Yu, asked him to help look after his class, and then packed up his things to go to the hospital.
As he walked out, Evan Tong thought of the Korean dramas he watched with his mother when he was a child, in which cancer and tumors were always mentioned. He suddenly felt that he might have a tumor in his brain, and it was a malignant one.
The more I thought about it, the more miserable I felt. Just as I was about to recite a poem to mourn my miserable life, my cell phone suddenly rang.
Because of Fang Baicheng, Evan Tong has started to be afraid of mobile phones, but luckily, the person who called this time was Lucas Huo.
Lucas Huo asked him: "Are you busy?"
"How can I answer the phone if I'm busy?"
The person over there smiled, and Evan Tong actually felt that the diameter of the "tumor" in his brain had shrunk. It turned out that he was not only obsessed with uniforms, but also with voices.
"Do you have something to talk to me about?" The two hadn't seen each other or contacted each other for a week. Evan Tong thought this was quite normal. He really wanted Fang Baicheng to learn from Lucas Huo.
"I don't have work this afternoon. I just went to my mom's house. She brought some food for us. She happened to pass by your school and asked if you were there. She wanted to bring it to you."
Huo's parents are very kind to Evan Tong and treat him like their own son. They haven't told their elders about their divorce yet because they are afraid that they will be upset.
"As for me..." Evan Tong originally wanted to pretend that he had something to do to fool people, but before he even reached the gate, he saw Lucas Huo standing there in a police uniform with a bag in his hand.
This person, if you are destined to meet, you really can't avoid it. Evan Tong accepted it. He felt that he didn't have a tumor in his brain because he was not the protagonist of a Korean drama. After all, if this was a Korean drama, they would definitely miss each other instead of meeting by chance.
Evan Tong muttered, "There's no dramatic conflict here. Shouldn't you have arrived when I left?"
"What?" Lucas Huo stood at the door waiting for him to come out.
Evan Tong smiled helplessly and said, "It's okay. I just feel that we are really like the saying 'A floating leaf returns to the sea, and we will meet again somewhere in life'."
The author has something to say:
Some people have to wait outside for a long time before they can see you, while others just happen to catch you coming out.
This is fate.
What is destiny?
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