TSIBAMS Chapter 80

“Come on, let’s take a picture, Brother Qi!” Ye Xing waved his phone.

Qi Guang tugged at his backpack straps. “No, it’s kind of silly… there are so many people coming and going!”

Suddenly jumping from a remote small town to this bustling metropolis, though they had a brief stop in a second or third-tier city, it still felt a bit out of place.

For Qi Guang, S City had always been a vague place in his memory. There was a large exhibition here before, and his father had some partnerships with some of the exhibitors, so he followed them to take a look, just this one time. He only remembered when he was leaving at night, looking at the brightly lit streets and the towering buildings, it was the first time he had an impression of what the words “prosperous metropolis” meant.

And when he said to his mother at the time that he wanted to test for this university, it was just a whim.

Thinking of this, he touched the property ownership certificate through his bag, and suddenly felt a little stuffy in his heart.

“What’s there to be embarrassed about!” Ye Xing put his arm around his shoulder, holding his phone in the other hand, extending it further, framing both of their faces and the gate of F University in the viewfinder. “Brother Qi, smile!”

Qi Guang had never taken a selfie before. Looking at his face and Ye Xing’s squeezed onto the phone screen, he suddenly chuckled.

Ye Xing quickly pressed the shutter at this moment.

“What’s this photo of? Where are our faces?”

In the taxi, Qi Guang leaned on Ye Xing’s shoulder, watching him flip through the selfie they had just taken, and couldn’t help but frown.

“Sorry!” Ye Xing burst out laughing. “The focus was on the gate!”

Qi Guang snatched his phone, enlarged it and then zoomed out again, looking at it. Sure enough, the words on the gate behind them, while not particularly bright or eye-catching, were at least clear, while the two big heads in front looked like they had a 1000 degree myopia.

The only two certain features – male, alive.

But it actually had a unique aesthetic, at least better than two big heads jammed together, plainly and foolishly smiling.

“I’ll take another one for you tomorrow, the light is better during the day, and the output will be higher,” Ye Xing said.

“No need, we’re going back tomorrow, you can’t keep skipping class,” Qi Guang returned the phone to him.

“Isn’t this the school you wanted to go to! I wanted to take a good picture for you,” Ye Xing said.

“What for?” Qi Guang said, “To keep as a memento? It’s like I can’t get in! There will be plenty of opportunities in the future!”

A while later, the car arrived at their destination.

After opening the car door, he looked up and saw the five big characters “Seattle Garden.”

“It’s really called Seattle? I thought it was the name of the street,” Ye Xing clicked his tongue. “It’s quite fancy.”

“What? If you don’t like Seattle, we can switch to Venice or something next time…” Qi Guang smiled, closed the car door, and walked in front.

“No, this is good!” Ye Xing said, “If I said I liked the Sahara, we’d have to move to the Gobi Desert…”

After getting the keys at the property management office and setting up the water, electricity, and gas cards, Qi Guang truly felt—this house was real!

The community was quite large, with a small garden in the middle, the kind with an artificial pond and a pavilion, but it was so dark at night and the streetlights were so dim that they gave up the idea of ​​taking a shortcut through it.

Ye Xing walked behind Qi Guang. Although he didn’t say much along the way, he could still feel Qi Guang’s excitement.

It was a different kind of excitement from the pride he showed during the day, a belated, grounded excitement.

He knew that Qi Guang’s demands for material things had never been high, which was why he had resolutely given up his superior life and returned to the town two years ago during a period when his material and mental states were severely unbalanced.

And the excitement now was like the excitement of suddenly passing a ship when trying to survive on a desert island.

It’s easy to add flowers to embroidery, but hard to send charcoal in the snow.

When they reached the door and Qi Guang took out the key to open it, Ye Xing could even see Qi Guang’s hands trembling slightly as he turned the key, so much so that he didn’t react for a while after unlocking it to pull the door open.

Ye Xing opened the door and nudged him, “Brother Qi?”

“Huh?” Qi Guang smiled. “It actually opened.”

“If you don’t dare to go in, I’ll go in and warm up the house first.” Ye Xing stepped in, turned on his phone’s flashlight to find the circuit breaker.

“Idiot.” Qi Guang said with a smile.

The house was fully decorated. He didn’t know if it was decorated when it was bought or if his mother had done it herself, but the style was indeed to his liking. Unlike the “I’m rich” style piled up with marble like in Qi Jingsheng’s house, it had a simple and refreshing Japanese style.

Wooden floors and furniture, low sofas, solid-colored linen curtains, and a rug that, although covered in dust, still made people want to lie down and roll around on it.

Compared to Qi Guang, Ye Xing’s excitement was overflowing, running around and inspecting every room. “Two bedrooms and one living room, the master bedroom even has a bathroom.”

Then, he opened this cabinet for a while, touched that appliance for a while, insisting on leaving his fingerprints on the dust of every object, and then grabbed Qi Guang and shook him violently. “I love your house!”

“Pfft!” Qi Guang knocked him on the head. “What do you mean your house, my house? Aren’t you living here? Go to Home Inn if you’re not!”

Ye Xing understood what Qi Guang meant, but at the moment he didn’t want to be serious, “I’m living here! The landlord is so handsome, can I sign a ten-year rental contract first?”

“Silly dog.” Qi Guang stepped onto the rug barefoot, sat on the sofa and took out two T-shirts and shorts from his bag.

Only then did Ye Xing realize that he had come so suddenly that he didn’t even bring a change of clothes.

Looking at him stunned in place, Qi Guang tossed him a T-shirt and shorts. “Here you go! Hurry up and take a shower! You’re all sweaty.”

Ye Xing smiled, took the clothes and turned to the bathroom.

“Wait!” Qi Guang called out to him. He stopped and looked at Qi Guang taking a pair of underwear from the bag. “I only brought one, you…”

Although it was just out of the principle of mutual respect and love, it couldn’t stop the strong sense of amusement in this scene.

Ye Xing took a breath, a little embarrassed.

“No need,” he waved his hand, “You wear it, I can go commando.”

“So casual, you often go commando!” Qi Guang said.

“Breathable and refreshing, I guarantee you’ll be satisfied. Wanna try it, boyfriend?” Ye Xing walked towards the bathroom.

Just as the sound of water started in the bathroom, the phone in Ye Xing’s bag vibrated.

Although it was his boyfriend’s bag, he had never liked rummaging through other people’s bags without their knowledge. Qi Guang ignored it and continued browsing the food delivery apps on his phone.

Then, the bag started vibrating again. This time it was confirmed, it must be a call.

He didn’t know if this guy had told the teacher he wasn’t coming back tonight. Thinking of this, Qi Guang decided to take a look for him.

He unzipped Ye Xing’s bag. The bag was very empty, so empty that there was only a key, an ID card, a phone and…

A suspiciously shaped bottle and an eye-catching box.

How eye-catching?

The kind that he almost consciously averted his eyes from at the checkout counter every time he was at the supermarket.

And there was no need to guess what was in that bottle.

Qi Guang got nervous, not even wanting to deal with the phone, quickly zipped the bag closed, and sat far away from it.

By the time Ye Xing finished showering and came out, he was still a little out of it, grabbing his clothes and squeezing Ye Xing into the bathroom.

“So urgent,” Ye Xing glanced at him.

“Your phone rang just now, in your bag,” Qi Guang said.

“It’s probably Li Ke calling, forgot to tell him I wouldn’t be going back tonight,” Ye Xing said casually, “You didn’t answer it for me either.”

He clicked his tongue and walked towards the sofa.

Qi Guang quickly closed the door.

When the water from the shower head hit his body, the two things in Ye Xing’s bag appeared in his mind again.

You little bastard!

Silently buying tools means—going to force him?

It’s not like he said he didn’t want to…

But there was something that felt off.

This feeling was too weird, why did he have to prepare tools secretly!

He pondered over it for a long time, almost scrubbing off a layer of his skin before he suddenly realized that the thing he was conflicted about was not the deep interaction itself, but simply who was going to top!

Qi Guang turned off the shower with a snap.

He had been busy with final exams and tutoring this elementary school student during this time, and didn’t have time to think about this matter. He didn’t expect the elementary school student to have the leisure to secretly plan to take him down.

Heh, what a story of the farmer and the snake.

This annoying little snake demon was probably already waiting by the door, ready for him to fall into his magic web after showering clean!

Is it too late to Google *The Art of War*… ah, no, *Boyfriend’s Usage Guide* now?

Too late, he didn’t bring his phone in.

Whether it was out of nervousness, unwillingness, or a hint of excitement that he didn’t want to admit, Qi Guang nearly dropped the soap several times while lathering himself.

He washed for nearly half an hour, feeling uneasy, before drying his body and putting on clean clothes.

The living room was silent, not even a hint of music to cover it up.

Hmm, it was the calm before the storm.

He stood in front of the mirror, felt his firm abs, patted his still dripping cheeks, took a deep breath, and turned to open the door.

But to his disappointment… no, to his surprise—Ye Xing was actually asleep on the sofa!

Wearing his clothes, with his legs wide open, one foot on the rug, the other propped up against the back of the sofa, one hand also on the rug, and the other hand holding his phone on his collarbone.

It looked like he fell asleep while playing on his phone.

Qi Guang suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Thinking about it carefully, they had gotten up early to catch the train to the studio, didn’t even get any rest, and then took the train here in the afternoon, had irregular meals and had been running around all day.

If it weren’t for the excitement supporting them, they would have been exhausted.

But the person in front of him, with that unrestrained sleeping posture, even a dog couldn’t match it.

Only then did Qi Guang feel hunger and sleepiness surging towards him, but sleepiness temporarily won over hunger. He forced himself to wash their dirty clothes in the water, hung them on the balcony, dragged Ye Xing into the room.

Then, before turning off the lights, he went back to the living room to lock the front door, glanced at the two bags on the sofa, and picked them up as well for the bedroom.