Chapter 11 Promise

Yu Yue feels that his college life has no beginning at all and is coming to an end.

In the second semester of the junior year, they all have to decide their future directions and then go on their own ways.

Go to the graduate school or work, this is a question.

Ding Yichao said, "go to the graduate school, it's always right to read more books. No postdoc, no enough knowledge."

Ye Lin…forget it. Don't ask him anything about the future. Yu Yue thinks in his mind.

After the winter vacation, Yu Yue returns to Beijing. The new tern has not started yet, he still lives in the apartment in Haidian.

Ye Lin has to work during the day, but he still cooks dinner at night.

Yu Yue is eating the cookies as a filling portion while Ye Lin is busy in kitchen. He casually presses the remote control. Suddenly, a news about a group of Hong Kong stars catches his attention.

"Ye Lin! Ye Lin!" He stares on the screen gloomily, shouts at Ye Lin: "come to see the news."

"What news?" Ye Lin runs out and looks on the screen, "oh, Edison Chen."

"Ye Lin…" the voice of Yu Yue is more and more serious.

"Relax. I take good care of your photos. I won't go to repair computer or hard drives. So don't worry. You won't be in nude picture scandal." Ye Lin says with a bad smile, and then returns to the kitchen.

"Ye Lin!" Yu Yue jumps up to follow him, "did you delete the photos?"

"No, I still keep them. Besides, if I deleted them, you would leave then." Ye Lin takes a several glances on him while he's cooking.

"Delete them. How unsafe it is. Ye Lin…where can I go now? You are the agent from Homeland Security, why are you afraid that I run away? Why do you need them as insurance?"

"Good watch prevents misfortune."

"Ye Lin…You said you want to have a serious relationship with me, but you even don't have the basic trust on me."

"Do you trust me? Trust is a two-way thing. Don't pretend to be innocent."

"I'm not the one who wants this relationship."

"Don't be rascally." Ye Lin says in a calm tone, "if I can be reasonable, could you please also be reasonable?"

"You take my photos to threaten me, who is unreasonable?" Yu Yue retorts.

"Well." Ye Lin turns down the fire, and turns around to face Yu Yue, "If you can say that you're with me voluntarily, and promise that you won't run away unless I break up with you, I will delete the photos. All things in the past, like I forced you and detained you, will be written off. Okay?"

"All right." Yu Yue looks at Ye Lin, saying without hesitation: "unless you want to break up, I won't leave you. And I'm willing to be with you, not forced or threatened."

"Good." Ye Lin walks to the study, takes out a black hard disk, connects it to the notebook, and then pushes to Yu Yue in front: "I only have this one backup, yours, and Cheng Xiaocheng's photos. All in here. You can check if you don't trust me."

Yu Yue doesn't open it. He directly deletes the folder named Yu Yue.

"Delete them all." Ye Lin says in a sudden.

"Huh, even Cheng's photos?"

"Delete all."

"Humph." Yu Yue chuckles, and deletes the folder with Cheng Xiaocheng's name.

Looking at the progress bar of deletion, Yu Yue straights up: "The computer data is really fortunate. Someone delete it and it's gone. Ye Lin, the memory of the human beings, can't be deleted."

"It's all right. I know that you won't be tied down by a sentence, but," Ye Lin smiles, "all the lands are belong to the king. You're not going anywhere."

"I know, I'm not going anywhere." Yu Yue smiles and raises his eyebrows, "I'll have plenty time to annoy you."

Yuck.

Ye Lin always feels annoyed. But think about it, there's nothing. His destiny may be problematical, but it doesn't really matter. So the basic reason is himself—he's a troublemaker, and that's why he often feels annoyed. Also, that's why he's getting more and more annoyed about Yu Yue.

Speaking of Yu Yue, he's person who would be reasonable if you were rascally, and be rascally if you were reasonable. As a red third generation, Ye Lin has to admit that Yu Yue is a master of thick black theory. They have known each other for three years, long enough to change someone from naïve to scheming. What's more, Yu Yue has a silver tongue, which sometimes makes Ye Lin can't find a word to argue with him and even be choked by his words. Ye Lin doesn't beat him anymore, because he's not a sadist, and it's troublesome to fight with him. On the other side, Yu Yue is too rascally—if Ye Lin was provoked and just made a gesture to beat him, he would lay down on the ground, clutching his ribs and whining that the old wounds hurt again. For the first time Ye Lin was deceived, and even pulled up his clothes to check. He didn't realize the truth until Yu Yue choked with laughter. But at that time, he had forgot what made him angry, and could only scratch Yu Yue's itch to vent his anger.

He bought Yu Yue a new car. Because the accident happened to Yu Yue when he was driving the BYD car, which made Ye Lin feel unlucky about it. Yu Yue chose a Peugeot 307 of his own. And then Ye Lin also bought a Volkswagen Passat for himself, alternated with the Mazda 6. His BWM, Mercedes and Porsche were parked in the garage—once suffered a loss, he learned to keep a low profile.

Ye Lin didn't know that Yu Yue and Ding Yichao had known each other for a long time until he was released. The trip to Y city upset him for a period. However, he found that Ding Yichao was a person who had no improper thoughts after a long time observation. It was not only to say that he wouldn't have feelings for Yu Yue as a straight man, but also that he seems to have no feelings for girls. This remained Ye Lin of a joke—the monkey king had gone for peaches after he freezing the seven fairies. He's really a monkey. And there's no reason to embarrass an innocent monkey.

However, Yu Yue came home later and later. When he was at school, Ye Lin would pick up him every Friday, but always couldn't find him. And it took a long time to get him on the phone. He was either eating the western food in Sanlitun, or shopping in Nanluoguxiang, or drinking in Houhai. The most outrageous once is before the May Day Holiday, he tells Ye Lin he's watching the stars in Fragrant Hills.

Ye Lin's face falls in a second. He drives to the Fragrant Hills to pick him up at the gate. As expected, he's with Ding Yichao again.

Ye Lin doesn't speak with a sullen face, he drives Yu Yue to the villa near Fragrant Hills.

Yu Yue is still smiling: "what's the matter? I won't leave you, and I just go out for fun, you are really stingy."

Ye Lin presses him down on the sofa, and sits opposite to him: "Yu Yue, we need to talk."

"Alas, didn't the party teach you to talk less and do more?" Yu Yue stands up and wants to leave, "I'm going to take a shower and go to bed."

"Sit down!" Ye Lin snaps.

"What!" Yu Yue shouts back.

"Yu Yue, sit down. I want to talk to you. Don't be rascally. If you go to bed, I'll make it impossible for you to get up tomorrow."

Yu Yue glares at him for a period, weighing the seriousness of his remark, and sits back down then.

"You've gone too far, Yu Yue." Ye Lin looks at him sullenly, "I'm not unreasonable. You're free to go out for fun, and I can not interfere with you. But you are like this every time, every time, with that Ding Yichao, not come back until eleven or twelve o'clock. What the hell are you doing?"

"I'm a human being. Can't I have a life of my own? Does everything have to revolve around you?" Yu Yue looks back against his eyes, "I have my friends, and I'm going out for a dinner and a chat. What's the matter?"

"It's one o'clock now." Ye Lin puts the phone screen in front of him. "If I didn't go to find you, were you going to come back?"

"So what if I didn't come back? Is that illegal?—Oh, sorry, I forget. Lord Ye, you are the law. I was wrong, spare my life." Yu Yue's words are full of sneer.

"Yu Yue, you're always like this. I'm talking to you seriously, but you either reply with the irrelevant answer, or gag and quip. What do you want me to do? I'm saying this to you as if you were some one I could talk to. But you act like you don't know what I am saying. Should we solve this problem in some way without talking?"

Ye Lin's eyes are up to look at him, that makes Yu Yue feel that he's from the two years ago, with a pair of wolf eyes, oozing with cold.

Yu Yue lays back on the sofa, turns his head to look out of the window for avoiding Ye Lin's eyes.

"I'm not saying that you can't be friend with Ding Yichao, or you can't go anywhere. I just hope that you can remember where the boundary is." Ye Lin forces him to look back at himself, "I'm hoping to have a long-term relationship with you, but if you are unappreciative, it won't work. And then we can only go back two years ago. I'll lock you up, like the owner and the dog, and that's no fun at all. Actually I like to think of you as a human being."

"Ye Lin, I am a person. It is your duty to treat me as a person, not grace." Yu Yue looks at Ye Lin coldly, saying word by word, "do you want me to thank you for this?"

Ye Lin's hands suddenly tighten for a second, then he becomes relaxed again: "I'm not saying that, I just state the facts. Not everyone is qualified to be a person in front of me, that's the reality. You're smart, you know which way you want to go, and which way you can go."

Ye Lin looses his hands, and tones it down a little bit: "I didn't want to say those to you. Stick to the facts, I just want to tell you, you should know how to balance while you are going out for fun. Get back when you should, don't let me go out to look for you in the middle of the night next time."

Yu Yue nods with the undisguised impatience in his eyes.

Ye Lin has seen it already but he doesn't stop Yu Yu from standing up.

Nothing is impossible for Ye Lin in his whole life. Maybe Yu Yue will an exception.

He keeps telling himself that it doesn't have to be Yu Yue. It is only because Yu Yue is so stubborn. If he let him go, it would be like admitting defeat and giving him what he wanted.

However, he felt a little panic just now. He is still not into Yu Yue's eyes, not to mention the heart. Ye Lin feels that he has done the utmost sincerity, but Yu Yue is still perfunctory to him. When he was under investigation, he had an inexplicable fear of ending up alone. Now, that fear resurfaces in a sudden.

He just doesn't understand that what he is so afraid of.