Difficult To Raise Chapter 22
byChapter 22 Apology The fist that was about to be thrown out just…
The fist that was about to be thrown out suddenly stopped in mid-air.
“No, don’t do it,” Jiang Ran lowered his head, his face was as pale as paper, his voice was trembling, but he held his hand very hard, for fear that he would really ignore it and hurt Jiang Jin, “Go back.”
Li Song turned his head and was about to say something, but when he caught sight of his excessively white face, he was immediately startled and suppressed the words that came to his lips.
Jiang Ran was so uncomfortable that he could hardly stand. He didn’t dare to look at Jiang Jin anymore. He just held Li Song’s arm with a dull face: “I bumped into him first. It’s none of his business. The rats are still waiting. Let’s go back first.”
Li Song was reluctant at first, but he paused when Jiang Ran took his hand. Since the two of them broke up, they had never had such physical contact. He was distracted for a moment and shut his mouth obediently.
The two were about to walk back when the man behind them suddenly made a sound.
“Wait.”
Jiang Jin leaned against the wall and casually glanced at Jiang Ran’s hand holding Li Song’s arm. The gloom and gloom in his eyes almost spread out, “Did I tell you to leave?”
The forward steps paused, and both of them turned to look at him at the same time.
“What else do you want to do?”
Li Song couldn’t help it this time. He shook off Jiang Ran’s hand and walked quickly up to Jiang Jin. He stared at him with eyes almost bursting with fire. “We won’t hold you accountable anymore. You are still so stubborn and want to cause trouble, right?”
Jiang Jin glanced at him coldly, not bothering to say a word, and the contempt in his eyes almost solidified.What Li Song hated the most was this look in his eyes. He was so angry that he was shaking all over, and his whole body was like a dynamite about to explode.
The atmosphere between the two was very tense, like a string that was stretched to the extreme and would break without knowing when.
Jiang Ran knew that today’s matter would not be solved so easily, but it was impossible to just watch the two fight.He walked forward tiredly, grabbed Jiang Jin’s clothes, and said almost pleadingly: “You… don’t be like this, let’s talk somewhere else, okay?”
He wanted to call him Xiao Jin like before, but Jiang Jin’s repulsive attitude made him afraid to call out, so he had to omit the title.
Jiang Yan looked from his eyes to the bloodless lips. The expression on his face was very cold, and he neither said yes nor no, but Jiang Ran tightened his grip as if he had received a response.
“Let’s go,” he turned his head and said to Li Song: “This is someone I know. We have something to talk about. You go back first and tell the mice for me.”
“Jiang Ran…” Li Song was stunned for a moment.
“It’s really okay, you can go.” Jiang Ran repeated: “Don’t let me say it a third time, okay?”
Li Song was unhappy, but he knew Jiang Ran to some extent, and he had already said it for this reason. It was useless to pester him, and it would only make people more annoying. He could only grit his teeth and walk away without looking back.
As soon as they left, the energy in Jiang Ran’s heart also dissipated. After four years of not seeing each other, Jiang Jin was already much taller than him. Standing together like this, the two of them felt like they were being suppressed by him for no reason.
He called out as calmly as possible, “Xiao Jin…”
“Don’t call me.”
Just as he started, he was interrupted.
Jiang Jin pulled the clothes out of his hands with a cold face, “You don’t deserve to call me by my name anymore.”
The shape of his eyes was almost the same as before, but his eyes were completely different.
When he looked at Jiang Ran before, his eyes always had a bright light.Now the light has gone out and turned into a cold thorn. It only takes one glance to injure a person completely.
Jiang Ran lowered his head in despair, hiding the sourness in his eyes, “I…I didn’t expect to meet you here.”
“Really?” Jiang Jin laughed and said pointedly: “It seems that I showed up at the wrong time.”
Jiang Jin has always been very observant. In such a short period of time, he noticed the vague and seemingly invisible involvement between Jiang Ran and Li Song, which made him feel inexplicably unhappy.
But Jiang Ran was in a trance and didn’t hear what he meant. He continued: “You have grown taller and changed a lot. Are you studying in the high school next to you now? These years…”
“Shut up.” Jiang Jin interrupted him unbearably and said in a cold voice, “Do you think I’m here to catch up with you?”
What Jiang Ran wanted to say was blocked in his mouth.
“Now, turn around.” Jiang Jin ordered: “Disappear from me, and don’t let me see you again in the future.”
“Xiao Jin…” Jiang Ran was stunned, “We haven’t seen each other for so many years, don’t you have anything to say to me?”
“You and I have nothing to say for a long time.” Jiang Jin said slowly, “Since four years ago, we have no more words.”
Every word seemed to turn into a knife, biting Jiang Ran’s heart bit by bit, causing him pain but not giving him pleasure.
Jiang Jin’s figure in school uniform became extremely tall at that moment, as if something poured out of his body, crushing Jiang Ran mercilessly.
“I will never forget that rainstorm four years ago in my life.” Jiang Jin leaned down and spoke slowly in his ear: “But you are someone I will definitely forget in the future.”
“There are many things that there is no room for regret from the moment you make a choice. I thought you knew it better than anyone else.”
Jiang Ran lowered his head and curled his fingers. If he was sensible enough, if it were another person, he would have shut his mouth and turned around and left here.
It’s a pity that he is not someone else, and he is facing the younger brother who has been in his heart for four years.
“Xiao Jin,” Jiang Ran said harshly, “What if I said, I am willing to make up for it? Can you…can you give me another chance?”
Pride and dignity have long been worn away in the past four years, and nothing is left. Jiang Ran just wants Jiang Jin to ignore him. He really can’t stand such sarcastic remarks.
Unfortunately, the only answer he got was a sneer.
“You want me to forgive you? Yes, if I could turn back time, I would pretend nothing happened.”
For so many years in the past, Jiang Jin had always been well-behaved and clingy in front of him. He gave him his softest side and his sharpest side facing the outside.
All the people and things that could hurt them were blocked by him, but now, the thorn was also aimed at Jiang Ran, making him unable to get even closer.
Jiang Ran never knew that his younger brother would have such sharp moments.It turned out that being looked at by him with such eyes would be so painful.
He jerked forward and grabbed his wrist, their skin touching each other, and the scorching temperature spread from his fingertips little by little.Jiang Jin seemed to be burned for a moment, frowning and retracting his hand, but he clenched it so tightly that he couldn’t break away for a moment.
“Xiao Jin, I miss you very much,” Jiang Ran stared at him, pursed his white lips, and repeated, “I have missed you very much these past four years.”
Miss him every morning when I wake up.I miss him, every sleepless night, not a day goes by without thinking about him.
Jiang Jin’s eyelashes trembled suddenly, and it seemed that the hand was no longer holding his wrist, but his heart. He rounded and squeezed his heart wantonly, making his eyes red.
Jiang Jin turned his head and did not look at him. His eyelids drooped slightly to cover up all his emotions. He cruelly threw his hand away and deliberately said in a cold voice: “It’s too late, we can’t go back.”
After saying this, he turned around and left without any further hesitation, leaving Jiang Ran with only a familiar yet unfamiliar figure behind him.
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Until he returned to the private room, Jiang Ran was thinking about Jiang Jin, his cold expression and sarcastic tone. The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. At the dinner table, when others were toasting, he would not refuse anyone who came, accepting all the orders, and kept drinking to drown his sorrows.
But he had a pretty good drinking capacity, even though he was like this, he was not completely drunk yet.But it is true that drinking makes him brave. After three rounds of drinking, he regained some courage and wanted to see Jiang Jin again.
Even though he had just said such harsh words, it was nothing to Jiang Ran who finally got to see him again.
I owe him this, Jiang Ran thought, if he can calm down, anything will do.
When the meal was over, Tang Qin put his arm around his shoulder and said with a hint of drunkenness, “I’ll take a taxi and let’s go back. The rat will leave with his girlfriend, so don’t worry about him.”
Jiang Ran said: “You go first, I have something else to do.”
“What’s going on?” Tang Qin looked at him with some confusion, “Why do I feel like something is wrong with you today.”
Jiang Ran lowered his head, “It’s okay, I just met an acquaintance and went over to say hello.”
Tang Qin said “Oh” and let go of the hand on his shoulder, “Okay, then I’ll go with them.”
“Yeah.”
Tang Qin walked away arm in arm with the others. Only Li Song remained where he was, looking at Jiang Ran with a half-smile.
“Are you going to see that rude little guy just now?” He narrowed his eyes, doubt written on his face, “You really have a crush on him, right?”
Jiang Ran didn’t want to talk to him, and was afraid that he would pester him. He was worried that Jiang Jin would leave first if he was too late, so he had to explain: “I said we are acquaintances, can you be normal?”
Li Song snorted coldly and wanted to say something else, but was stopped by his companion who had just come out of the bathroom.
“Hey, hey, I’m sorry, he’s drunk.” The man probably also saw that the two of them were not getting along. He was afraid that something would happen and he would not be able to explain to Jiang Haodong. He dragged Li Song forcefully and said, “Let’s go quickly. We have to go sing even if we don’t have an appointment.”
Li Song was already a little drunk, so he was pulled away without even saying a word. He could only look back at Jiang Ran as he walked.
The surroundings finally quieted down. Jiang Ran rubbed his temples tiredly. He returned to the restaurant and found a place outside to wait quietly.
If you’re lucky, Jiang Jin might not have left yet…
With such expectations, Jiang Ran actually didn’t move a step, watching everyone who came in and out of the restaurant closely.
Perhaps it was God’s blessing. After waiting for an unknown amount of time, a familiar figure finally appeared at the door of the restaurant. Jiang Jin seemed to have drunk a lot of wine, and his steps were obviously unsteady. He was being held up by several boys next to him, making him walk crookedly.
Seeing that he had his companions, Jiang Ran hesitated for a while, and finally stepped forward and whispered, “Xiao Jin.”
As soon as the words fell, several people stopped.Jiang Jin raised his eyes drowsily, his eyes fell on him, and he looked at him quietly for a long time.
His eyes first showed confusion and joy, and then turned into inexorable indifference. He ignored him and only said to the people around him: “Send me back quickly.”
Someone touched his head and saw the loneliness on Jiang Ran’s face. He couldn’t help but interjected, “This person is calling you. Is he someone you know?”
Jiang Jin glanced at him and said coldly: “I don’t know him. Let’s go quickly.”
Several boys were hesitant, feeling that they didn’t look like they didn’t know each other, so they didn’t move for a long time.
Jiang Jin clicked his tongue impatiently, shook them off, and stumbled forward.Jiang Ran was afraid that he would fall, so he quickly reached out to help him, but a hand grabbed his arm.
“Let go, don’t fucking touch me.” There was undisguised disgust in the young man’s tone, which made Jiang Ran’s heart tremble, and a slight pain spread from his heart throughout his body. He stared at Jiang Jin’s familiar yet unfamiliar face, and couldn’t help but murmur: “Xiao Jin…”
Jiang Jin sneered, “Who are you? Do I know you?”
Jiang Ran was stunned for a moment, “Xiao Jin, I am brother…”
“Shut up!” The boy suddenly shouted, as if he had been stabbed in the foot, and said angrily: “Don’t mention this word!”
“I’m sorry…” Jiang Ran lowered his eyes.
Jiang Jin came closer and stared at him for half a second. A sneer appeared on his lips, and he raised his legs to walk forward again.
“Xiao Jin, I have something to tell you. Can you please listen to me before leaving?” Jiang Ran couldn’t help but follow him a few steps.
Seeing Jiang Jin rejecting him so much, he had no hope at first, but he never thought that Jiang Jin actually stopped after hearing these words.
He exhaled heavily and gestured to his friends around him to let them go first.The other boys had long felt that the atmosphere between them was strange. They felt uncomfortable standing aside, neither leaving nor staying. Now seeing Jiang Jin’s actions, they immediately felt like they were being forgiven and left without hesitation.
Jiang Jin pressed the slightly aching temples. The drunkenness made him feel dizzy and his stomach felt overwhelming.He leaned against the tree trunk next to him and smiled, with a hint of sarcasm in it, “Okay, what do you want to say to me?”
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Copywriting of the pre-released article “Can You Break Up with Him”:
Change the attack text.
Zhong Yi found out that her boyfriend of three years had cheated on her.
The person he cheated on was Yu Si, a student from the Fine Arts Department of University A next door.That man was younger than him, had a softer personality than him, and his family was wealthier than him.
Zhongyi is jealous and unwilling.So he planned to hook up with Yu Si’s crush before breaking up.
But before he could take action, he accidentally learned something: this Chen Xi was actually the cousin of the scumbag.
Zhong Yi: “…”
Forget it, Zhong Yi thought, I’m not crazy enough yet.
The plan failed, Zhong Yi made plans in his mind to break up, and prepared to have a showdown with the scumbag and end it.
He was stopped by someone on the way. The person looked down at him and said in a calm tone, as if he was talking about a normal thing: “Can you break up with him?”
Zhong Yi: Wait…it seems I haven’t started hooking up with you yet, right?
Asking for acceptance ~ Bowing