EAY Chapter 69

Love Philosopher

Love Philosopher

69

After more than two months, Qi Ye’s short story was finally completed, and both of them felt a sense of relief.

“Congratulations, congratulations.” Shi Ran cupped his hands at him.

Qi Ye smiled faintly, opened his arms and pulled him into his embrace, “You’ve worked hard.”

Shi Ran: “I didn’t help you with the drawing.”

Qi Ye: “You helped me a lot, and these days, we haven’t been able to go on dates.”

“I’m not just thinking about having fun. Being able to help you is even happier than going on a date.” Shi Ran said, “This is what you call taking care of each other, you know?”

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.” Shi Ran nodded pretentiously, “At your service anytime.”

Qi Ye smiled, “We can go on a date tomorrow. Where do you want to go?”

Shi Ran: “Anywhere is fine?”

“Yeah.”

Shi Ran: “I really want to go to Tibet.”

Qi Ye said: “Then can you ask for leave? If you can, we’ll go.”

“Haha, I’m just kidding, we’ll go to Tibet later.” Shi Ran thought for a while and said, “Why don’t we go camping tomorrow? I’ve found several places suitable for camping. Anyway, we have the basic equipment, we just need to buy some food. No, we need to buy lots and lots of food.”

“Okay, whatever you say.”

The camping trip was set, but it fell through the next day. Shi Ran stood outside the window, the tears in his heart were like the heavy rain outside the window. Pitter-patter, pitter-patter.

Qi Ye had just folded the clothes from the dryer and came over to take a look, “Looks like we can’t go camping.”

“Yeah.” There was no expression on Shi Ran’s face.

“But we still have to eat the stuff.” Qi Ye said, “Let’s go to the supermarket now.”

Shi Ran’s eyes lit up instantly. Anyway, his focus was on eating delicious food, so it would be better to move the camping trip to home. He immediately said, “Then let’s buy ingredients and have hot pot, you can’t even eat hot pot outside.”

Qi Ye said: “We can also set up an indoor tent.”

“Hey, hey, wait a minute, does this scene seem a bit familiar?” Shi Ran said, “Didn’t we have something like this when we were in college? The people in the dormitory were going camping, but it rained heavily and we couldn’t go?”

Qi Ye also smiled: “Yes, it’s like history is repeating itself.”

“I still remember Li Tianyi rolling around in anger.” Shi Ran had another idea, “Hey, why don’t we call them to come to our place for hot pot? It’s been a long time since we had a gathering.”

Qi Ye was a little disappointed, a world of two that he finally managed to temporarily put work aside for.

Shi Ran saw it and immediately rubbed his face with both hands: “Okay, then we won’t call them, just the two of us will eat.”

Qi Ye became happy and comforted Shi Ran: “We’ll call them together next time.”

The two were just about to go to the bedroom to change into clothes to go out when Shi Ran’s phone rang. As soon as he answered, he heard Li Tianyi’s loud voice, shouting, “We have distinguished guests! Open the door quickly!”

Shi Ran and Qi Ye looked at each other, both thinking, no way, are we so in sync at this time?

They opened the door and, sure enough, Li Tianyi and Meng Nan were standing outside. Meng Nan was carrying two large bags of ingredients, and Li Tianyi was holding up a bottle of red wine in his hand, “Surprise! Unexpected, right?”

Meng Nan shook his head and sighed, “I told him to call in advance, but this guy insisted on trying his luck.”

Shi Ran: “You actually got it right. If you had been any later, we would have gone out, and you two would have had to wait outside.”

“That’s right, my luck isn’t just for show.” Li Tianyi kept saying as soon as he entered the door, “I guessed that it would rain today, so you guys would definitely sleep in. And according to Qi Ye’s healthy clock, even if you sleep in, it wouldn’t be past noon. So you would definitely be up by this time.”

Shi Ran shook his head: “You’re too scary.”

Li Tianyi smiled and said: “This is your dear friend’s concern for you.”

Meng Nan and Qi Ye went to the kitchen counter to prepare the ingredients. Shi Ran walked over to take a look and was surprised to see that they had bought so much stuff, “You guys are also here to have hot pot?”

Meng Nan nodded: “Yeah, a certain madman called me early in the morning and told me to go to the supermarket.”

“You’ve treated us to so many meals, it’s time to return the favor.” Li Tianyi said, “Seeing that it was raining today, I thought of that disappointing camping trip back in school.”

Meng Nan: “Was it disappointing? I remember you ate a lot afterwards, happier than anyone else.”

“You guys won’t believe it, Qi Ye and I really planned to go camping today, and then we woke up and found that it was raining.” Shi Ran said, “Exactly the same as that time in the dormitory.”

Li Tianyi quickly said: “How is it the same? You have to bring us along to be the same. By the way, you guys didn’t think about inviting us when you went camping, did you?”

Shi Ran shrank his neck and admitted defeat, “I’m going to clean up the table.”

“Try to understand, Qi Ye has been busy recently, and the two of them haven’t been on a date in a long time.” Meng Nan had already put on gloves to prepare the ingredients, “Li Tianyi, don’t just stand there, come and help.”

“Coming.” Young Master Li can now do some simple housework, otherwise his girlfriend would keep nagging him. He said while tearing open the bean sprout packaging bag, “Okay, I’ll let you off the hook. I also saw Shi Ran’s post on Moments yesterday, saying that his roommate can finally have a good rest recently, and guessed that Qi Ye’s manga was finished, so I dared to ask you two to hang out.”

Qi Ye, who was cutting potatoes, stopped his knife, “So you mean you guys didn’t dare to come recently?”

Li Tianyi said: “Yes, Shi Ran gave us a death order, not to come to your house before you finish your manga. So don’t you think we haven’t come to freeload off you for a long time?”

Qi Ye: “I don’t think so.”

Li Tianyi: “……”

Shi Ran laughed heartily. Qi Ye glanced at the living room and continued to cut his potatoes.

After Shi Ran finished laughing, he said: “Don’t be too aggrieved, okay? Although I didn’t let you come to the house, did I say I would treat you to dinner outside? Hey, Meng Nan, that workaholic, has come to me for dinner twice, but you, a leisurely young master, couldn’t find the time once.”

“I’m not free, I have work too, okay?” Li Tianyi retorted.

Meng Nan: “Yes, yes, we’re all especially free, you’re the busiest.”

“Okay, I’m sorry,” Li Tianyi rarely apologized proactively, and said to Shi Ran, “It’s just that the times you asked me to dinner were too coincidental. My baby had already asked me in advance, how could I refuse her invitation? If I refuse once, it might be a year before we eat together again.”

Li Tianyi and Xiao Ning have had a very good relationship from college until now. They originally planned to live together this year, but Xiao Ning may be transferred to the headquarters for further training for two years, so the cohabitation plan was temporarily put on hold.

Meng Nan asked: “Is Xiao Ning going to the headquarters soon?”

Qi Ye: “Yes, it’s in a little over a month. She also went on a business trip today.”

Shi Ran said: “I can’t believe you’ve really improved, I thought that if you knew Xiao Ning was going away for so long, you would be crying and begging her to stay in a pathetic way.”

“I might have been like that before, but now I’ve grown up.” Li Tianyi said with a proud face, “I discussed it with her carefully, this is a very good learning opportunity for her, and it’s also a good test for our relationship. If we can survive two years of long-distance, and our relationship is still good, then wouldn’t we have more confidence in entering marriage?”

Qi Ye briefly commented: “You did a good job.”

Li Tianyi was about to cry: “Qi-ge, you really rarely praise me!”

“Hey, hey, wash your vegetables properly, don’t spill water everywhere.” Meng Nan pushed him.

Li Tianyi snorted and returned to his place obediently to wash the vegetables, “I didn’t even tell you guys, actually when I first heard this news, I didn’t want her to go, after all it’s two years, not two months. I even secretly hoped that Xiao Ning could stay for me, I thought that even if she went to study, even if she came back and got promoted or something, how much could her salary increase? It’s not like I can’t afford to support her, I could give her ten times her salary. But I didn’t say anything at the time, Xiao Ning was also considering it herself, so I let her decide.

But later we talked seriously again. That was the first time Xiao Ning told me so much about her work. That’s when I realized that she really likes this job and does it very seriously, so her whole person was shining when she talked about it. I felt a sense of guilt at the time. I felt that if I trapped this beautiful her by my side, it would be a sin.

So later I figured it out, it’s actually very simple, if you love someone, you shouldn’t just think about yourself, you should think more about what they really need. Although love is selfish, you have to do a lot of selfless things to make this selfishness complete.”