ICY Chapter 7

Chapter 7

“Mom, what do I do? I did so many, many things wrong. What if he doesn’t forgive me?” Jiang Shi sobbed as he told Mother Jiang everything.

Jiang Shi’s eyes were still red and swollen, making Mother Jiang’s heart ache terribly.

“They are clearly bullying you!”

“Shut up!” Mother Jiang scolded Father Jiang.

“Good boy, don’t cry, don’t cry, Mom will help you think of a way.”

Father Jiang dejectedly picked up a cigarette he hadn’t smoked in a long time, wanting to go to the balcony for a puff.

Mother Jiang glared at Father Jiang, and Father Jiang reluctantly put down the cigarette.

“Son, look, the problem now is that you neglected A Li, right? They now think you were perfunctory with your friend and didn’t treat him well.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Since they think you weren’t sincere, then you have to treat your A Li with ten thousand times the sincerity to get his forgiveness. Our son is the most sincere person. In this matter, put A Li in your heart and do what you want.”

“But A Li doesn’t want to see me now.”

“Tomorrow is Sunday, you can’t waste this time. Conflicts shouldn’t be left for too long. Once time passes, and the conflict is suppressed, it may seem like nothing on the surface, but then your problem can never be solved. Conflicts shouldn’t last overnight, understand?”

Jiang Shi wiped away his tears with his hand, “I understand, Mom.”

“Then should I still cook for A Li?”

“Not this time. Otherwise, A Li will think that every time you have a conflict, you only use cooking to deal with it. Over time, this will become a cold treatment, which is not good.”

“Okay, Mom, I’ll contact A Li now.”

“Mom, A Li deleted me! What do I do, Mom? I want to go find him, right now.”

“Son, go tomorrow. Isn’t A Li’s brother not wanting you to see A Li? Let him cool down first.”

“Okay.” Jiang Shi dejectedly returned to his room with his phone.

“What are you doing? That what’s-his-name A Li is obviously toying with our son.”

“At least he’s important in our son’s heart, isn’t he? Our son wants to be friends with him, so I’ll help him. Hasn’t our son been very happy lately? He’s not as dull as he used to be. I’m quite happy with his changes.”

*

“Knock knock”

At eight o’clock in the morning, Jiang Shi appeared in front of Su Zhao Li’s house on time.

“Who is it?” Mother Chu yawned as she opened the door, looking at the young man she had never seen before.

“Hello, Auntie, my name is Jiang Shi. I’m here to see A Li.”

“Oh, oh, Jiang Shi, A Li always mentions you. Come in, come in.”

“A Li, A Li, your friend is here.”

The door on the right opened, and Su Zhao Li came out in his pajamas. There was no daze of just waking up in his eyes and face; he hadn’t just gotten up.

Su Zhao Li was also stunned to see Jiang Shi, “Come in.”

“Ah, okay, Auntie, I’m going in.”

“Okay.”

Jiang Shi closed the door after entering, and Su Zhao Li was sitting at his desk doing homework. Jiang Shi could only see his back.

“A Li, I squeezed orange juice for you. I’ll put it here for you.”

“No need, don’t want to drink.”

After saying this, neither of them spoke. Su Zhao Li’s mind couldn’t concentrate on the problems at all, so he could only pretend to write with the pen.

“Sob sob sob” Crying sounds came from behind him. Su Zhao Li turned his head in shock and saw Jiang Shi standing there helplessly with his head lowered.

“You…you…” Su Zhao Li didn’t expect this, and quickly pulled out two tissues and handed them over.

Jiang Shi tightly grasped Su Zhao Li’s hand, preventing Su Zhao Li from breaking free.

“Sit down first, sit down,” Su Zhao Li led Jiang Shi to the bed to sit down.

“Don’t cry,”

“Sob sob sob” Jiang Shi still kept crying, “I thought A Li you would never look at me again sob sob sob”

Su Zhao Li was speechless; he had originally decided to do so.

“It’s all my fault, A Li, I was really wrong. I always make you angry, I never listen to you. You always forgive me so lightly. You’re so good, but I didn’t treasure you. I shouldn’t have neglected you. I won’t do it again.”

“A Li, I never didn’t treasure you. I didn’t want to make you sad, didn’t want you to get hurt, but in the end, I hurt and saddened you again and again. A Li, hit me, okay? Scold me. You haven’t hit or scolded me yet, I…I’m afraid I’ll turn bad in the future. Hit me, okay? If I don’t learn my lesson, then don’t hold back. It was my fault to begin with.”

Su Zhao Li suddenly also wanted to cry a little, “No, I’m just being difficult and melodramatic. I know all of this. I like to make a fuss over small things. I like to control you and bully you. I know this isn’t right, but I just can’t help it.”

Su Zhao Li’s voice was choked with sobs, and Jiang Shi felt terrible, “No, A Li, you’re being like this to me because you’re good to me, and there’s nothing wrong with you being like that; it’s clearly very cute. It’s clearly my fault. A Li, don’t take it all on yourself, don’t make excuses for me. A Li, don’t cry, don’t cry because of me.”

“Are you stupid? How could I not be wrong? I know myself. Don’t always be biased towards me. Think carefully; it’s my fault. Don’t even know how to be angry.”

“A Li, I’ll get angry if you say that again. You can’t say that about yourself.” Jiang Shi heartbrokenly wiped away Su Zhao Li’s tears.

Su Zhao Li was coaxed by him and wanted to laugh a little. How could someone be so stupid?

“Are you still going to follow me?” Su Zhao Li asked Jiang Shi.

“Of course, of course, I want to follow A Li for a lifetime.”

Jiang Shi couldn’t accept becoming strangers with Su Zhao Li.

“Then it’s settled. I’ll apologize this one time, and I’ll also make it clear that I’m just difficult, I just like to make a fuss over small things, I just like to control you. If you can accept it, then you can’t have a single complaint in the future; you have to endure it all. If you can’t accept it, you can leave now.”

“You’re not difficult.” Jiang Shi corrected again.

“Okay, do you accept it or not? You’ll listen to me in everything from now on.”

“I accept everything.”

“Hmph”

“A Li, have you forgiven me?”

“A little bit.”

“Then A Li, can I hug you?”

“For a little while.” Su Zhao Li was very proud.

“Okay, thank you, A Li.”

Jiang Shi happily hugged Su Zhao Li, holding him in his arms. Only by holding Su Zhao Li like this could he calm his heart that had been uneasy all night.

Their A Li was the best.

“A Li, you smell so good. I smelled it as soon as I came in. A Li, your room also smells good and is very tidy. I’ve smelled this scent on my clothes before, that jacket, it smells very good.”

Su Zhao Li’s ears were a little red. How could someone be so blunt?

“No more hugs, no more hugs.” Although Su Zhao Li said so, the force with which he pushed Jiang Shi away was minimal.

Jiang Shi didn’t know what was wrong with himself. He just wanted to hug Su Zhao Li, so he simply picked Su Zhao Li up and sat him on his lap, so he could hug A Li more easily.

Of course, Jiang Shi didn’t know what Su Zhao Li was thinking now. Not just his ears, Su Zhao Li’s entire face was flushed. Su Zhao Li nestled in Jiang Shi’s arms, pressed against Jiang Shi’s chest, and his nose was filled with Jiang Shi’s scent.

Su Zhao Li estimated that if he hugged him for a while longer, he would be covered in Jiang Shi’s scent. That wouldn’t be bad.

Su Zhao Li found a comfortable position and leaned on Jiang Shi like this. Neither of them said anything about separating; it wouldn’t be bad if time stopped at this moment.

“Bang”

“Jiang Shi, how dare you…” The rest of Chu Nan Du’s words were choked by the scene before him.

Why was this happening!

The two people hugging inside both turned their heads to look at him, and they still hadn’t separated like that. Chu Nan Du didn’t look at Jiang Shi; he was stupid. Chu Nan Du glared at Su Zhao Li, who was still lying shamelessly in Jiang Shi’s arms, even looking at Chu Nan Du provocatively.

“Bang” The door closed.

Chu Nan Du’s world collapsed. He woke up and was told by his caregiver that Jiang Shi had come to see Su Zhao Li. He rushed over without even washing his face, but what was the result? What were they doing inside! They were hugging each other, in that position!! And provoking me!!!

Why was this happening!

Was this right!!

“Are you tired?” Su Zhao Li asked Jiang Shi.

“Not tired, I want to hug A Li.”

“You only brought orange juice when you came to apologize today?” Su Zhao Li drew circles on Jiang Shi’s chest.

Jiang Shi couldn’t help but swallow, “I also brought a bouquet of flowers, but my mom said it wouldn’t be good to suddenly bring flowers to find you, so she told me to put them at your door and go in by myself. That way, if I didn’t coax you well, you would still see the flowers at the door and maybe wouldn’t be so angry. If I coaxed you well, then I would take them back inside.”

“That was your mom’s idea.”

“No, no, coming to your house was my idea, buying flowers was also my idea, but I wanted to come last night, and my mom told me to come this morning.”

“Then why did you want to buy me flowers?”

“From the first time I saw A Li, I thought flowers were very suitable for A Li.”

Speaking of the first time, Jiang Shi thought of what Chu Nan Du had told him, “A Li, I won’t play soccer anymore. I’m sorry for hurting you so many times.”

“No, I like watching you play soccer.”

“Then…then I’ll accompany A Li every time you go to the Sports Field, and I’ll go play soccer after making sure A Li is safe.”

“Haha, no need, no need to make such a fuss.”

“It’s necessary. A Li’s safety is the most important.”

“Okay.”

“Speaking of orange juice, was the orange juice you gave me on Monday at noon homemade?”

“Yes.”

“You’re still lying. Do you think I can’t taste it? That’s clearly the taste of what your father made. You’re just being perfunctory and won’t admit it.”

“No, no, A Li, I really made it, but my dad insisted on messing around that day. He added his own recipe when I wasn’t paying attention. A Li, which one do you think tastes better?” Jiang Shi asked a little nervously.

“Yours tastes better.”

“Jiang Shi, let me tell you, I was first in the entire school in the liberal arts class on the last exam, twenty points higher than the second place. Next time, I’ll be higher than him, Jiang Shi, you, all of you can’t look down on me.”

“A Li is amazing. I’ll never look down on A Li. I’m even afraid that A Li will dislike me.”

“How could I?”

“Jiang Shi, I want to see the flowers you bought me. What kind of flowers are they?”

“Roses. A Li, sit down, I’ll go get them.”

Roses! Roses!!

Su Zhao Li was very anxious. He listened to the sounds outside and hurriedly walked into the bathroom to fix his hair.

“Bang” The door opened, and the door closed again.

Su Zhao Li looked at his pajamas, never mind, he wouldn’t change.

Outside, there was Chu Nan Du’s crazy laughter. Su Zhao Li sat expectantly in his previous position.

“Bang” The door opened, and the door closed again.

“A Li.”

Su Zhao Li looked at Jiang Shi with a smile, his eyes falling on the bouquet. Su Zhao Li’s smile froze, and he couldn’t smile anymore.

He finally knew what Chu Nan Du was laughing at outside.

“Look, A Li, there are so many kinds of roses in the flower shop. I didn’t know which kind you liked or which color you liked, so I bought one of each. Look, there’s red, pink, blue, yellow…, and they all have names, but I didn’t remember them. A Li, do you like them?”

“Ha, haha, I like them, I like them.”

“Which one does A Li like the most?”

“The red one, I like the red one the most,” Su Zhao Li replied immediately.

“Okay, I remember, I’ll buy red ones for A Li in the future.”

“A Li~”

“What’s wrong?”

“Hug” Jiang Shi was a little embarrassed, but Su Zhao Li was so fair, so soft, so fragrant, he just wanted to hug him.

Su Zhao Li pinched Jiang Shi’s cheek, “Not allowed, this is a reward, I’ll give it to you next time.”

“Okay.”

“I want to take a picture. Jiang Shi’s first time giving me flowers, I want to record it well.”

“Come on, A Shi, let’s take a group photo.”

“Smile” Su Zhao Li pinched Jiang Shi’s chin, the two faces cheek to cheek, and they had their first group photo.