MNL Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Night Talk: I Will Definitely Give You a Home.

Chapter 66: Night Talk: I Will Definitely Give You a Home.

With the guy who lived with Xu Jing gone, and Shen Yan not wanting to return to his dorm, he simply stayed to listen to Xu Jing recite his English composition. After tutoring him for so long, he knew in his heart that Xu Jing just didn’t like studying English, so he was unwilling to put any effort into it. Otherwise, with his memory, it definitely wouldn’t be difficult for him to do well in the subject.

Seeing the weary expression on the person in front of him, with a hint of irritability in his usually calm eyes, Shen Yan couldn’t help but become distracted. Over the past few months, he seemed to have never considered this question: Xu Jing was very smart, and learning anything was easy for him, requiring very little effort. But in the process of learning English, in addition to not being good at it, he was more so forcing himself to accept something he didn’t like.

And he himself had never asked the other person if he was willing.

“Shen Yan?” Xu Jing raised his voice, finally pulling Shen Yan back from his thoughts. “I’ve called you three times. What were you thinking about?”

“Nothing. What’s wrong?”

“Finished reciting.”

Xu Jing shook the test paper in his hand, put it on the table, and walked to the sink outside. He splashed a handful of water on his face without any reservation, his movements somewhat rough.

Shen Yan took all of this in. When Xu Jing came back in, he suddenly got up and walked in front of him.

Although Xu Jing was thin, his frame wasn’t small. Coupled with his height of 1.8 meters, he was already considered very outstanding among his peers. But Shen Yan was two years older and regularly worked out and boxed, so the difference in their builds was still quite significant when they stood together.

“Hug.”

Xu Jing was stunned for a moment, and then he was pulled into a strong embrace. At the same time, a low apology came from above his head: “I made you do something you didn’t like doing.”

Xu Jing, who had overused his brain, didn’t immediately understand what Shen Yan meant until he saw the English test paper on the table, and then he suddenly realized.

“It’s not a big deal.” Xu Jing gently patted Shen Yan’s back and said, “Am I that fragile?”

Shen Yan didn’t say anything. Xu Jing said seriously, “I should be thanking you.”

Shen Yan shook his head and said, “It’s what I should do.”

Xu Jing immediately said, “It’s not.”

In the past few months, Shen Yan hadn’t worked any less hard than him, organizing materials, setting test questions, marking homework, and explaining problems – he did everything himself. During this time, he studied almost every day until dawn, and Shen Yan stayed with him, also working as a nanny, serving tea, pouring water, doing laundry, and cooking. Although the other person always looked like he was enjoying it and doing it willingly, he couldn’t take these things for granted.

“Anyway, I really hated it before, but now, I’m willing.”

Xu Jing’s voice was very calm. After Shen Yan heard it, he didn’t say anything for a long time. After a long look at each other, the former was really embarrassed by the gaze and finally couldn’t help but cough and said softly, “A kiss, maybe, boyfriend?”

Although the light in the room was a bit dim, the balcony door was open, and the opposite dorm building was brightly lit, with many people standing on the balcony chatting. After he spoke, Shen Yan pressed the back of Xu Jing’s head with his left hand and lowered his head to kiss him without explanation. The sounds of play and laughter next door made the atmosphere a bit tense. Xu Jing’s heart was pounding like thunder, and his response was clumsy and stiff.

At this moment, they were like two guilty thieves, openly doing something that couldn’t be discovered. The chaotic brain was completely occupied by the forbidden and exciting stimulation.

And just then, a sound suddenly came from the door. They were too engrossed to hear it until the sound of the door opening rang out. Shen Yan immediately let go of Xu Jing, and Xu Jing subconsciously turned his back, his heart beating to the extreme.

The person who came was Liu Qi, who lived here. He had just returned from the classroom after studying and didn’t care that there was suddenly another person in the room. He went straight to his suitcase and began rummaging through it to find something.

Xu Jing subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

“I’m leaving first,” Shen Yan said. “Go to sleep early.”

“Okay.”

At this time, Liu Qi found an English dictionary and sat on the bed, reading it seriously. Xu Jing didn’t say anything, grabbed a set of clean clothes, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

But this shower was particularly difficult. Xu Jing didn’t want the rusty shower head to touch his body, so he carefully pressed the switch of the shower head through a layer of tissue. During the shower, he felt that the walls weren’t clean enough, so he stayed in place, afraid to make any big movements, for fear that he would touch somewhere else.

This shower took nearly an hour, and Xu Jing felt a little embarrassed. He planned to tell Liu Qi later, but he didn’t expect that the person had already fallen asleep on the bed, snoring loudly.

The book fell to the side, and he hadn’t changed his clothes. He had obviously fallen asleep unconsciously. Xu Jing hesitated and struggled for a moment between turning off the lights and waking the other person up, but finally chose the latter.

Xu Jing called Liu Qi twice, but found that not only did he not wake up, but the snoring was even louder. Without thinking, his sleep quality for the next few days would definitely be poor. After all, when he slept with Shen Yan before, not only did the other person sleep well, but the movements were also very small, with only a slight breathing sound. Even so, he had been suffering from insomnia for several days at the beginning, let alone now with such a big commotion.

Xu Jing picked up the book on the ground and tapped Liu Qi’s thigh heavily. Finally, the snoring stopped abruptly, and the person on the bed opened his eyes sleepily. Seeing Xu Jing standing in front of him, he looked dazed and said, “I… fell asleep?”

“Yeah.” Xu Jing looked like he was asking what nonsense.

Liu Qi rubbed his eyes a few times and struggled to wake up from his sleep. Seeing Xu Jing with a bath towel on his shoulder, he remembered that he had been waiting to take a shower and had fallen asleep.

While Liu Qi was taking a shower, Xu Jing quickly lay down on the bed. Without the deafening snoring, he could calm down and review what he had learned today. So, while thinking about the English he had recited today, he unconsciously traced Shen Yan’s face. Gradually, his consciousness became blurred. Before falling asleep completely, the last thought in Xu Jing’s mind was that he would complete four English mock papers tomorrow, memorize thirty-five advanced vocabulary words and sentence patterns, and two excellent compositions.

Like the school schedule, the radio started broadcasting here at six o’clock. Fortunately, they didn’t have to run exercises. The students went directly to the cafeteria to eat breakfast and gathered in the classroom for self-study at seven o’clock. Ye Rui came in the middle to call out a name and left, just like Zhou Yan said before, good students don’t need teachers to manage them, it all depends on their own consciousness.

Xu Jing, who had been woken up twice by Liu Qi last night, had a cold expression on his face when he got up in the morning. Shen Yan patiently coaxed him for an hour from the moment they met until he finished breakfast and returned to the classroom.

After getting over his morning grumpiness, Xu Jing completely immersed himself in studying. He had made a list of plans in his head last night and wrote down everything he needed to do today. The exam was coming soon, and although he had boasted in front of Shen Yan last night, he actually only had a 40% to 50% chance of success.

Xu Jing raced against time to complete his study tasks and didn’t notice that Shen Yan had disappeared after dinner. He didn’t come back until about an hour later, and he slowly sat down in the seat next to him.

“Where did you go?”

“Toilet.”

Xu Jing glanced at him and said, “An hour?”

“A man has urgent needs.”

Xu Jing was silent and finally gave Shen Yan a thumbs up under the table.

They were the last to leave the classroom today. Xu Jing was willing to leave only after he had consolidated all the content he needed to learn. On the way back, Xu Jing walked a little slowly and said a lot of boring things for both of them. Shen Yan knew that Xu Jing didn’t want to go back to the dorm, so he didn’t say what he had done, but instead gave serious answers to every nonsense Xu Jing said.

The ten-minute journey took them almost half an hour. Only when they reached the entrance of the dorm did Xu Jing have to face reality.

Seeing Xu Jing reluctantly opening the door, Shen Yan was a little expectant, wondering what cheesy words the other person would say, but after waiting for two seconds, he only heard Xu Jing say, “Leaving.”

“…”

Okay, it was also as expected.

The door was gently closed. Shen Yan leaned against the wall, counting down in his heart. When he counted to “zero,” the door was opened again.

Looking at Xu Jing’s surprised expression, Shen Yan curled his lips and deliberately asked, “What’s wrong?”

“Where will you sleep tonight if I don’t open the door?”

There was a hint of joy in Xu Jing’s voice, and his beautiful eyes were smiling.

Seeing this, Shen Yan couldn’t help but smile and said, “Then I can only sleep here, guarding the door for you.”

“When did you switch dorms with him?” As soon as he said this, Xu Jing suddenly thought of the hour that Shen Yan had left, and he had the answer in his heart. He also asked, “Did he agree so easily?”

“Of course not. He didn’t agree at first, and then I beat him up.”

Xu Jing was stunned for a moment. In an instant, he wondered if Shen Yan would be disqualified from the exam because of this. He didn’t hear the other person’s joking tone at all.

“Just kidding.” Shen Yan knew what Xu Jing was thinking at this moment and smiled, “Do I look like a violent maniac?”

That’s right, how could Shen Yan do such a stupid thing? Xu Jing felt that he was too surprised and his brain was a bit muddled.

After Shen Yan entered the door, he packed his luggage and explained, “Actually, it’s nothing. I told him three ways to solve physics problems, and he agreed.”

If it were someone else, this statement would be a bit far-fetched, but since it happened to Liu Qi, Xu Jing had no doubt. He had never met someone so obsessed with studying in his life.

“Why did you suddenly decide to switch with him?”

“You think I would let him keep you up all night?” Shen Yan made the bed and turned to look at Xu Jing and said, “I couldn’t bear it.”

Whether it was because of this sentence or the distressed look in his eyes, Xu Jing’s heart beat faster in an instant.

This person was always so thoughtful.

It seemed that as long as Shen Yan was around, he could always be a little smoother.

Late at night, the two of them consciously slept on their respective beds. From the narrow window of the room, they could see the starry sky outside. The summer breeze swept through, and the window screen fluttered slightly. The soft moonlight sprinkled through the cracks on the edge of the window, quietly intertwined with the night.

They were both sleepless this night. They chatted on and off, from astronomy and geography to games and comics, they talked about everything. Xu Jing said a lot of things that he usually never mentioned, such as how he once squatted on the side of the road and watched cats and dogs fighting for two hours, and the cat won in the end. For example, before, because he drank two bottles of wine, he watered all the potted plants that Qin Xin raised to death that day. Even when he was a child, he pretended to be deaf and mute to the teacher for a month in order not to learn piano. Shen Yan laughed straight.

Later, they talked about the past.

“Do you still remember what she looked like?”

“It’s a little blurry.”

“No photos?”

Xu Jing thought of Shen Yan’s home, which could be moved away at any time, and didn’t seem to have seen anything about Zhong Yiqiu.

“There is one, but too much time has passed, and it’s faded.”

Xu Jing felt a little sad when he heard it. He turned over and looked at Shen Yan, his tone very serious, “Shen Yan, wait for me a few more years, I will definitely give you a home.”

Hearing this, Shen Yan smiled softly.

This smile made Xu Jing a little unhappy, as if he was saying how naive his idea was, but Xu Jing still added firmly, “Really!”

Shen Yan was silent. He closed his eyes, and many pictures flashed through his mind, but they were all things he didn’t want to remember. His heart also ached inexplicably, wave after wave, like a tide, surging endlessly. Shen Yan clenched his fists and tried to restrain his breathing, so that Xu Jing didn’t notice the abnormality.

After a long time, a soft answer rang out in the darkness, “Okay.”

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Responding to him was a soft and even breathing sound.