Rong Yi’s alcohol-soaked brain couldn’t process what was happening.

    “What ‘real or fake’?”

    Chen Ke Yao didn’t answer, but shifted his gaze to Zhou Li.

    Zhou Li was sound asleep, not moving at all. If Rong Yi hadn’t carried him all the way up and felt that he was still warm, he would have suspected it was a corpse.

    Rong Yi followed Chen Ke Yao’s gaze and stared at the ‘corpse’ Zhou Li for a while, then suddenly looked up: “Why are you staring at him? That’s rude.”

    “I…” Chen Ke Yao moved his gaze away awkwardly, “I wanted to ask, he…”

    Rong Yi didn’t wait for him to finish, and strode up to him: “Why can’t you stand properly?”

    “Huh?” Chen Ke Yao, who was leaning against the doorframe, looked confused. Then, under Rong Yi’s gaze, he subconsciously straightened up.

    “It’s so late, what are you doing in my room?” Rong Yi continued, pointing at him, “What do you want?”

    Chen Ke Yao hesitated for a moment: “…Isn’t this my house?”

    “Oh, right.” Rong Yi nodded, walked back into the room, and then suddenly felt something wasn’t right. He turned around and rushed back, “I paid the rent! I have regional autonomy!”

    Chen Ke Yao stared at him for a while, and laughed: “Actually, you’re also drunk, aren’t you?”

    Rong Yi shook his head: “I’m not.”

    “If you say you’re not, then you’re not,” Chen Ke Yao said, turning around and walking towards the door, “Rest early if you’re drunk, be careful not to cause trouble.”

    Rong Yi felt that his mind was particularly clear, and immediately judged the contradiction in this guy’s words.

    He immediately chased after him: “I drank, but I’m not drunk.”

    Chen Ke Yao lowered his head and changed his shoes: “Yeah, yeah, not drunk, not drunk.”

    Rong Yi was finally satisfied, wanted to go back to the room, took two steps and heard the sound of the door opening behind him, then turned back: “Where are you going?”

    “To the convenience store downstairs,” Chen Ke Yao said, “Don’t lock the door, I’ll be right back.”

    Rong Yi thought for a while, then also walked to the door and began to put on his shoes: “I’ll go too.”

    Chen Ke Yao looked like he wanted to stop him: “Don’t bother, tell me what you want to buy and I’ll get it for you.”

    While speaking, Rong Yi had already quickly changed his shoes.

    He felt that he was conscious, thinking smoothly, and moving freely, without any symptoms of drunkenness at all. He couldn’t understand what Chen Ke Yao was worried about.

    “I can go myself!” Rong Yi stood tall and proud in front of Chen Ke Yao after walking out the door, and raised his hand, “Let’s go!”

    By the time he marched to the elevator and pressed the elevator button, Chen Ke Yao had quickly followed. He looked at Rong Yi with a hesitant expression, but in the end, he didn’t say anything, even when they walked into the elevator together.

    “Don’t you think this elevator is a bit shaky?” Rong Yi stood in the center of the elevator, frowning.

    Chen Ke Yao looked at him, his expression extremely subtle: “…It seems… a little bit, maybe.”

    Rong Yi silently retreated to the wall and pressed against it: “Scary.”

    Chen Ke Yao didn’t say anything, just quietly turned his head, leaving him with the back of his head.

    After exiting the building, a gust of cold wind blew on his hot skin, and Rong Yi instantly felt extremely comfortable, so his mood also became cheerful.

    He took the initiative to talk to Chen Ke Yao: “What are you buying in the middle of the night?”

    “I’m hungry, buying something to eat,” Chen Ke Yao said, “I sleep late, the meal you usually make when you get back is actually lunch for me.”

    “Why do you sleep late?” Rong Yi asked again.

    “It’s a habit,” Chen Ke Yao said, “My biological clock is like this.”

    Rong Yi looked at him: “Why would it become a habit?”

    “…”

    Chen Ke Yao ignored him.

    “Why would it become a habit?” Rong Yi continued to ask relentlessly.

    “Because…” Chen Ke Yao glanced at him, “Sleeping while bathing in the first rays of dawn every day for three hundred years can make you become immortal.”

    After hearing this, Rong Yi couldn’t figure it out for a moment, and stopped moving.

    Chen Ke Yao looked back at him standing there blankly, tilting his head and thinking hard, and laughed: “Hurry up and catch up.”

    The two entered the convenience store. Chen Ke Yao walked to the refrigerator to pick out a midnight snack, while Rong Yi stood in front of the cashier, hesitating over the various candies on the shelf.

    He felt a little restless, and his throat was uncomfortable. He wanted to buy some mints, or gum would also be good. But the rows of square boxes in front of him all looked a bit unfamiliar, and didn’t match the brands he often bought.

    Frowning and struggling for a while, Chen Ke Yao came back with a rice ball.

    Rong Yi reached out and pulled him to his side, then pointed his chin at the shelf in front of him.

    “Which one do you think is better?”

    “…”

    “You haven’t eaten any of them?”

    Chen Ke Yao looked at the shelf, then looked at his face, and then cautiously shook his head: “…No.”

    Should have said so earlier, what a waste of emotion.

    Rong Yi ignored him, reached out and randomly picked up a small box and looked at it, then looked up and asked the clerk standing at the counter: “Which flavor is better in this series?”

    The clerk hesitated: “Although I haven’t eaten them, they probably aren’t very good… Sir, you can look at the row below, that one has various flavors.”

    After he finished speaking, he also glanced at Chen Ke Yao.

    Chen Ke Yao immediately and quickly moved two steps to the side, and only after moving away from Rong Yi did he hand over the rice ball in his hand: “Heat it up, please.”

    Rong Yi bent down and looked at the row of shelves below one by one, and sure enough, he saw packaging boxes printed with various food patterns. He thought about it, picked a box of strawberry flavor, and then went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of cola, and gave them to the clerk to check out together.

    After walking out of the convenience store, Chen Ke Yao’s expression was very subtle.

    “People are already dead asleep, don’t you need to be so active, right?”

    “Huh?” Rong Yi was puzzled.

    While he was confused, he very smoothly tore open the package of gum he had just bought, and handed it to Chen Ke Yao.

    “Do you want one?”

    “…”

    Chen Ke Yao very obviously swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

    Why is this person suddenly so polite, clearly craving it but not taking it. Rong Yi was a little annoyed, took out a small package from the box and stuffed it into Chen Ke Yao’s hand that was carrying the bag.

    “Here, try it.”

    These candies are actually individually wrapped, quite delicate.

    After silently marveling, he took out another one from the box, bit it open with his teeth, squeezed it into his mouth and started chewing.

    Chen Ke Yao looked at him with a terrified expression.

    “What are you doing?”

    Rong Yi frowned and chewed, chewed, chewed, not saying a word.

    Chen Ke Yao was still in shock, opened his mouth and looked at him for a long time, and asked: “…Is it delicious?”

    “Not delicious,” Rong Yi shook his head, “That clerk lied to me.”

    “…”

    “The texture is particularly strange, and it’s slippery,” Rong Yi spat the chewed rubber product back into the packaging, “A bit disgusting.”

    Chen Ke Yao lowered his head and looked at the flat, square little package that had just been forcibly stuffed into his hand.

    “Don’t eat it either, throw it away,” Rong Yi said as he walked towards the trash can, “It’s too disgusting.”

    He had only taken two steps when a burst of laughter suddenly came from behind him.

    Turning around, he saw Chen Ke Yao squatting on the ground, laughing so hard that he couldn’t catch his breath, and it seemed that even tears were about to fall.

    “What’s wrong?” Rong Yi asked in confusion.

    Chen Ke Yao seemed to want to say something, but couldn’t stop laughing, and couldn’t even straighten his back. He could only close his eyes and wave his hand at him.

    Rong Yi was confused: “Are you crazy?”

    Responding to him was still a series of laughter that almost made him cramp.

    “Stop laughing,” Rong Yi stretched out his hands and carefully maintained his balance, “You’re shaking too much from laughing!”

    Chen Ke Yao, who had just stopped a little, raised his head and glanced at him, then lowered his head again, his whole body shaking uncontrollably.

    Truly inexplicable.

    Rong Yi ignored him, carefully moving towards the trash can like walking on a tightrope, wanting to throw away this disgusting gum.

    After finally reaching the trash can, just as he threw the chewed lump in, he was suddenly pulled from behind by Chen Ke Yao.

    “Don’t throw it away, it’s too wasteful,” he said while still laughing, “Let’s keep the rest for now.”

    “It’s really disgusting.” Rong Yi told him very seriously.

    “Consider it a favor, just keep it for one more night,” Chen Ke Yao said with a distorted expression, “Throw it away tomorrow, okay?”

    “Why?”

    “You’ll, you’ll know tomorrow.”

    After Chen Ke Yao finished speaking the last word, he started laughing like a madman again, slapping his thigh loudly while laughing.

    Rong Yi glared at him for a while, and then threw the opened box of disgusting gum into the bag he was carrying.

    “Then I’ll give it to you.”

    Rong Yi felt that Chen Ke Yao was not quite right in the head.

    But in this moment when the elevator seemed to be swinging wildly like a swing, this not-so-normal person became his only support.

    “Help me,” Rong Yi leaned against the elevator wall and asked him for help with a painful expression, “It’s too scary.”

    Chen Ke Yao reached out while still laughing: “No, why did you still buy alcohol to drink when you’re already like this?”

    “What alcohol?” Rong Yi pulled his sleeve tightly, his whole body tense.

    Chen Ke Yao pointed with his other finger: “The one in your hand!”

    Rong Yi raised his hand and looked at it, and then became puzzled.

    He remembered that he had drunk most of the bottle he had just bought from the convenience store in one go before getting on the elevator which was ice cola. But the small half bottle in his hand now, the packaging looks a bit like fruit wine.

    He muttered softly: “Who switched it on me?”

    “…” Chen Ke Yao continued to twitch.

    Rong Yi looked back at him: “Was it you!”

    “No.” Chen Ke Yao shook his head with a smile.

    “You’re the only one here,” Rong Yi looked at him seriously, “It must be you!”

    “…” Chen Ke Yao didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and finally nodded, “Okay, it was me.”

    “You…” Rong Yi immediately took a sudden step forward, but before he could finish speaking, both his steps and tone began to waver.

    After losing the support of the wall, the whole world began to spin. Rong Yi couldn’t stand still at all, staggered two steps to the left, staggered two steps to the right, and finally stumbled forward with Chen Ke Yao’s repeated “Careful.”

    Chen Ke Yao had already reached out to help him, so he was immediately hit by him and retreated repeatedly, and finally the two of them crashed against the wall together.

    After Rong Yi plunged into him, he finally had support. He felt incredibly stable and found this body very warm and reliable, so he subconsciously reached out and hugged him.

    The small half bottle of fruit wine fell to the ground with a thud, and rolled to the other side of the elevator.

    As it stopped in the corner of the elevator, the elevator door opened.

    “…Um,” Chen Ke Yao was at a loss, “We’re here.”

    Rong Yi nodded: “Oh.”

    Then, he lowered his head and giggled.

    “…What are you doing?” Chen Ke Yao’s voice was very nervous.

    “It’s, it’s so comfortable hugging you like this,” Rong Yi said while rubbing against him twice, “Especially comfortable.”

    In a silence, the elevator doors closed automatically.

    Rong Yi, who was comfortable all over, soon became too sleepy. He simply closed his eyes and became drowsy. But just a second before his consciousness completely cut off, the guy who had been stiff and letting him hug him suddenly pushed him away.

    Rong Yi, who had been pushed and leaned against the other wall of the elevator, shook his head dizzily, and then found that Chen Ke Yao was frantically hammering the door opening button on the control panel. As soon as the elevator door opened, this person rushed out without looking back.

    Rong Yi leaned against the wall for a while, then staggered out. Then he found this guy standing at the corner of the stairwell.

    Chen Ke Yao was holding onto the handrail, bending over, and vomiting violently.

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