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    “Cluck cluck cluck cluck cluck—”

    “Smack.”

    A fair and clean hand stretched out from the quilt, ending the annoying rooster crowing alarm with lightning speed.

    Chen Zhuo rubbed his dry eyes. He went to bed late last night. Zhao Jiashu and Li Ang were playing games, and he was huddled in the quilt secretly video chatting with Xie Yu.

    Huddled in the quilt, the video was very blurry.

    But the newly-confirmed couple couldn’t wait to be glued together with super glue, even the sound of each other’s breathing sounded good.

    Xie Yu in the throes of love was like a changed person, very clingy, and no trace could be found of the way he looked at the beginning of the semester when he grabbed Chen Zhuo’s collar and wanted to beat him.

    Chen Zhuo, who had been trapped in the “lonely” shell for a long time, felt needed and loved by Xie Yu’s clingy state.

    The two chatted until one or two in the morning, and Chen Zhuo couldn’t stand being so sleepy, so he reluctantly hung up.

    If he hadn’t made an appointment with Xu Qingyou to go to his house for dinner, Chen Zhuo could have slept until two in the afternoon before getting up.

    Sleepy, really too sleepy.

    Chen Zhuo sat up, tugged at his crumpled cotton pajamas, the red marks on the side of his neck had turned brown, which was particularly noticeable on his fair skin.

    Xie Yu’s bite was fierce, but he avoided the artery area, only sucking on the superficial skin layer.

    The curtains were tightly drawn, Chen Zhuo squinted in the dimness for a while, and the first thing he did after waking up was to pick up his phone and look for Xie Yu.

    The dialogue box of [Spoiled Little Wild Boar] has already been pinned to the first column of the interface.

    Chen Zhuo looked at his note for Xie Yu, and chuckled softly. It sounded pretty good, but he didn’t dare to show it to Xie Yu, otherwise he would definitely make a fuss.

    No matter how he thought about it, it felt like he was dreaming. The way he and Xie Yu got along seemed to be completely different from other couples.

    They started arguing while kissing, and started kissing again while arguing…

    Chen Zhuo was a little hazy about the specific situation that Friday afternoon.

    He only remembered that Xie Yu’s eyes were so focused and affectionate when he looked at him, and only remembered Xie Yu’s flushed cheeks and that sentence:

    “I like you, I am very loyal.”

    There were no particularly moving love words. On careful recollection, every confession Xie Yu made was a guarantee and promise to him.

    A smile appeared on the corners of Chen Zhuo’s eyes and eyebrows, and he clicked on the message Xie Yu had sent long ago.

    It was a natural report and sharing: [Good morning, Chen Xiaozhuo classmate, I accompanied our mom to the hospital, she is being examined, you should still be sleeping, right? Remember to go eat when you wake up.]

    Chen Zhuo was stunned when he saw the word “our mom”.

    The title of mother was too distant for Chen Zhuo.

    So distant that the first thing he thought of was not his mother’s warm embrace, but hot, viscous blood.

    Accompanying the humid rainy season tightly stuck to him.

    His mother conceived him with flesh and blood, and finally protected him with her own flesh and blood.

    Chen Zhuo often wondered, if their family of three had all died in that car, would they still be a family in the next life?

    Warm water left his eyes and “pitter-pattered” on the phone screen.

    Chen Zhuo rubbed it indiscriminately with the back of his hand, but it didn’t wipe clean. No matter how independent he was, he was only nineteen years old.

    [Youspoon]: [Good morning, I’m getting up too, I’m going to Qingyou brother’s house for dinner today.]

    Xie Yu didn’t reply immediately, he should be busy.

    Chen Zhuo changed his clothes and tiptoed out of bed. After washing up with the lowest possible decibel, he realized that he had changed a lot.

    He used to have no friends, but because he was good-looking, people would approach him, but in the end, they would always say that he had a bad personality and a bad temper.

    Chen Zhuo was not a person who was particularly good at self-reflection, so he regarded them as pure farting.

    He had experienced such a big change at a young age, it was already amazing that he hadn’t become so twisted as to commit illegal crimes, what more could they want?

    But since he went to college and met Xie Yu and the others, he had learned to confide, and also learned to put himself in other people’s shoes and get along with friends. He was not as prickly and annoying as before.

    He was a little happy, things would get better and better, including him and Xie Yu.

    Chen Zhuo iced his red eyes with cold water, put on his coat, stole two small breads from Xie Yu and put them in his pocket, and left the dormitory.

    Originally, Xu Qingyou said he would come to pick him up, but he politely refused. Transportation was so convenient, and it was very fast by subway, so there was no need to make a special trip.

    The air in late December was cold and dry, and Chen Zhuo sneezed three times in the north wind. He suspected that Xie Yu was thinking of him.

    Chen Zhuo arrived at Xu Qingyou’s house with a fruit gift box he bought from the mall.

    Just as he was about to ring the doorbell, his phone rang, it was a video call from Xie Yu.

    Was he checking up on him?

    Chen Zhuo raised his eyebrows slightly and turned to walk into the nearby stairwell.

    There was an echo in the stairwell, Chen Zhuo deliberately went down two more floors before tapping to answer.

    Xie Yu’s face with sharp and handsome lines appeared on the screen, and he asked in a ruffianly manner, “Why did it take so long to answer? Are you neglecting me again? Where are you?”

    Chen Zhuo stood in front of the small window, clicked on the rear camera, and showed him the surrounding environment: “Are you being a sensitive little thing again? I’m in the stairwell, I just arrived, I haven’t knocked on the door yet, and you called, has Auntie finished the examination? How is her health?”

    Xie Yu was very satisfied with his initiative to inform him, and said in a relaxed tone: “It looks good for now, there are still a few items that haven’t come out, it will probably take half an hour, my dad has mobilized all the experts he could, and will let the doctors take a look later.”

    Chen Zhuo nodded, looked at himself in the screen, and slightly raised his phone to adjust the angle.

    “Okay, tell me when the results come out, if it’s convenient.”

    Xie Yu keenly captured Chen Zhuo’s little movements, completely pleased, and chuckled: “Yeah, it’s convenient, you’re not an outsider, of course it’s convenient.”

    Chen Zhuo’s dark eyes were bright, occupying Xie Yu’s entire phone screen, and he teased him with a smile: “Hey, you’re getting better and better at talking, did your brain finally turn on?”

    Xie Yu bent his knuckles and knocked on the phone twice as if knocking on his head, accidentally taking a screenshot, “You’re teasing me again, be careful I’ll punish you.”

    Chen Zhuo raised his chin slightly and looked at him provocatively, “Then you try, see who punishes who.”

    Xie Yu laughed and said: “Okay! Provoking me, huh? You just wait, wait and cry.”

    It was getting more and more obscene.

    Chen Zhuo heard someone calling Xie Yu’s name, quickly ended this dangerous topic, and said: “Okay, stop talking nonsense, you go busy, we’ll see you in the dormitory tonight.”

    Xie Yu said: “Don’t wait until tonight, if my mom is okay, I’ll pick you up, send me your location.”

    Chen Zhuo lowered his eyelashes, thought for a moment and said: “It’s not on the way.”

    “Wherever you are, it’s on my way.”

    Xie Yu turned his head and said something to someone, then turned back and said to Chen Zhuo: “Okay, baby, stop playing hard to get, quickly send me the address, I have something to do here, I’ll hang up first, bye, see you later.”

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