Chapter 116 Extra

Extra: Living Together (IV)

Xingchen Fitness Center is near Shen Yuhuai's apartment, only a ten-minute walk away.

It's close, so it's easy to go there when you don't have classes, and it doesn't waste too much time.

Shen Yuhuai doesn't get off work on time every day. Compared with Chen Qizhao who gets off work on time, Shen Yuhuai gets off work depending on the progress of the experiment. Even if he doesn't finish the work on Friday, he may be called to the laboratory to check the data on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, the two of them could stay in the apartment and sleep until they woke up naturally, but on Sunday afternoon, Shen Yuhuai might be called away by his tutor.

On Sunday night, Shen Yuhuai was still busy in the laboratory, so he asked him not to wait and order takeout first.

Chen Qizhao was not very hungry and wanted to find something to eat. When he opened the refrigerator in the apartment, he found it was full of raw food. Chen Qizhao was not very good at cooking, so when he wanted to get some instant noodles, he remembered that this was not his dormitory. He did not always have snacks or instant noodles ready. He had to go downstairs to the supermarket to buy them when he wanted to eat.

For the rare drinking time for a few people, the group was very lively on Sunday, with messages coming one after another, and everyone was discussing where to go for fun tomorrow besides drinking.

[- Yan Kailin: On Tuesday, I went directly to Kaizi’s friend’s place. It wasn’t far away, so my brother and I left right after class. ]

[-Liu Kai: Okay, no problem. How long can you play? ]

[-Yan Kailin: I don’t have classes on Wednesday morning, so I can play later. Brother Zhao’s class seems to be after 10 o’clock. ]

[-Cheng Rong: @Chen Qizhao, can I invite more people to the party? ]

It was a long time after they heard the news before they saw Chen Qizhao reply slowly.

[-Chen Qizhao: Yes. ]

[-Yan Kailin: Why are you back so late? Shen Yuhuai is next to you? ]

[-Chen Qizhao: He is working overtime, [Picture] in the supermarket. ]

The photo shows a shopping cart and Chen Qizhao is shopping in a supermarket buying snacks.

When he was quitting smoking, he had a strong craving for chewing.

The supermarket was not far from Shen Yuhuai's house. After Chen Qizhao went downstairs, he pushed the shopping cart to the snack area and put the snacks he often ate directly into the shopping cart. When he passed by, he also found a blue mint candy that Shen Yuhuai had bought before. He stood in front of the candy section and chose for a while, taking some mints and then some lemon candies.

When he pulled a full shopping cart to the counter to check out, Chen Qizhao's eyes inadvertently swept to the merchandise shelf next to the checkout counter.

He paused for a while and took a few boxes of family planning supplies from a row on the shelf. Then he thought that the ones he had at home might not be enough, so he took two more boxes.

After returning home, he casually placed the snacks in the locker next to the kitchen, took a bag of snacks and sat on the sofa to read some documents. He first read the progress document of the business project in the East District that Xiao Zhou sent today. Before he finished reading it, he received a call from Chen Shiming.

Chen Shiming seemed to have just returned home. When he called, there was a TV drama in the background, "The verdicts on Gu Shen and Gu Zhengsong have come out."

Chen Qizhao paused when he heard this, opened a webpage to search, and saw that the second-instance judgment had already come out. During this period, he maintained the habit of seeing a psychiatrist and forced himself to stop caring about the predetermined results. However, when he saw the verdict, he was neither very happy nor very excited. He felt much calmer than he had imagined.

It was as if this matter was very far away from him, his life was on track and would no longer be affected by this news.

"Is that so?" Chen Qizhao scrolled through the webpage and saw the word "death penalty". He said calmly, "This result is normal. The Gu family father and son have been responsible for smuggling drugs and illegally distributing dangerous compounds over the years. They deserve this result."

In comparison, Lin Shizhong's verdict is not much different from his previous life, except that he will have to stay in prison for the rest of his life.

Chen Qizhao read the verdict announcement over and over again. Noticing that Chen Shiming on the other end hadn't hung up the phone yet, he came to his senses and asked, "You're free tonight?"

"I'm watching a movie." Chen Shiming asked again, "Mom asked if you will be back this Saturday?"

Today is Sunday. Chen Qizhao thought for a moment and said, "Let's go back. I'll go back at noon on Saturday."

After they hung up the phone, Chen Shiming turned his attention back to the movie playing on the big TV in the living room. The direction of the plot made Zhang Yazhi next to him frown frequently, and she was even so bored that she took the time to post a message on WeChat Moments.

The eldest son is rarely free tonight. Zhang Yazhi knows that Chen Shiming doesn't like to watch those melodramatic TV dramas. Seeing the child watching TV with her in the living room, she asks Chen Shiming what movie he wants to watch. As a result, Chen Shiming picked and chose, and somehow he finally chose this romance film "Dawn at the Sea", which has a score of 5.0.

Seeing Chen Shiming watching seriously, Zhang Yazhi had no choice but to continue watching, "Shiming, my friend's daughter just graduated this year..."

-

Shen Yuhuai arrived at the apartment after ten o'clock. When he arrived, he saw Chen Qizhao sitting on the sofa with a laptop on his legs, but his attention was on his phone.

Hearing the sound, Chen Qizhao looked up and asked, "Have you eaten?"

"I've eaten." Shen Yuhuai noticed the shopping bags in the distance, "Did you go to the supermarket?"

Chen Qizhao was browsing his Moments when he suddenly saw a post by Zhang Yazhi an hour ago. The photo included Chen Shiming, and the caption was a picture of him watching TV with his son. He clicked on the large photo, and suddenly felt that the scene of the movie she was watching was a little familiar, as if it was the bad movie "Dawn of the Sea" that he and Shen Yuhuai watched during the summer vacation.

He didn't comment anything, just liked Zhang Yazhi's post on her Moments.

After Shen Yuhuai came back, he went to the balcony and noticed that the green plants on the balcony had been watered. He put down what he was holding, went to the kitchen and saw the cupboards filled with snacks. He couldn't help but look up at his boyfriend who was still playing with his phone in the distance.

He was about to go over, but out of the corner of his eye he caught a glimpse of a few boxes of things on the counter next to him that had not yet been taken into the room.

“Take a shower?” Shen Yuhuai stood behind the sofa, pinching the back of Chen Qizhao’s neck.

The person playing with his phone leaned back and looked up, meeting the man's eyes. "It looks like the clothes haven't been confiscated yet."

“Go wash first.” Shen Yuhuai said and walked towards the balcony where the clothes were hung.

Chen Qizhao put the computer aside and walked to the bathroom in the master bedroom in his slippers.

A layer of warm air gradually rose in the shower room. Chen Qizhao took a warm shower. Seeing that Shen Yuhuai hadn't brought his clothes yet, he was about to shout to the outside when the bathroom door suddenly opened.

Shen Yuhuai came in with the two people's clothes and placed them on the hanger on the other side where they would not touch the water.

Chen Qizhao stood under the shower, the water splashing against his hair and face. Seeing that the people in the bathroom had put away their clothes but had not left yet, Chen Qizhao pushed his wet hair back and fixed his eyes on Shen Yuhuai. His heart was beating fast, "The things in the bathroom are all used up, and the new ones are put in..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Shen Yuhuai take out a few boxes from his pocket and put them in the drawer of the bathroom dry room.

“I just saw it on the cabinet outside the kitchen.” Shen Yuhuai: “Just brought it in.”

Chen Qizhao blinked, and Shen Yuhuai went straight into the shower room.

…

The last person to fall asleep was Chen Qizhao.

After it was over, Shen Yuhuai could only take a cold shower by himself, and then clean up the messy bedroom. When he went to the living room, he noticed that Chen Qizhao's notebook and mobile phone were still on the sofa. He was about to pick them up, and when he opened it, he found that Chen Qizhao's notebook was still on.

The notebook interface showed a message asking him to enter a password. He knew Chen Qizhao's password.

On Saturday, Chen Qizhao had a computer assignment to do and planned to use two computers for testing. He casually mentioned the computer password and said that he could use his computer when needed.

Shen Yuhuai didn't move. He hesitated for a moment, and finally entered the password Chen Qizhao told him.

The page opened quickly, and Shen Yuhuai was about to help him shut down the computer, but he noticed from the corner of his eye that there was a webpage that was not closed, and when he clicked it, he saw an interface with the judgment results.

Shen Yuhuai's gaze lingered on the webpage for a long time, and finally he turned off his laptop and took it back to the bedroom along with Chen Qizhao's phone.

There was a long table in the bedroom where he usually worked, and Chen Qizhao's professional books were already placed in a corner next to it. Shen Yuhuai put the notebook in its original place and looked at the bookcase behind the desk. There was an empty compartment for Chen Qizhao to put his things, and it was full of documents.

He returned to the bed, holding the now sleeping man in his arms, and smelling the scent of the mint shower gel on his body.

When his hand was placed on the pulse of his neck, he could feel his steady breathing. He rubbed it with his fingertips and noticed that Chen Qizhao's throat slipped.

"Qi Zhao?" Shen Yuhuai looked at him.

Chen Qizhao didn't respond, he was really fast asleep.

Shen Yuhuai's hand stopped at her boyfriend's Adam's apple, then moved away and hugged him tighter.

-

The two of them were not at all shy when it came to their relationship. Chen Qizhao himself was not a weird young man and did not think there was anything wrong with sex. He just did everything in the way he felt comfortable. However, this idea did not last long.

The two of them only kissed each other in the morning, and even if they flirted a few times, considering that they were a bit rough last night, Shen Yuhuai ended up taking a cold shower early in the morning.

Tuesday came in a blink of an eye. Tuesday was full of classes, and Chen Qizhao couldn't muster up any energy for a long time. When the get out of class was over, Chen Qizhao was no longer in the mood to drive, so he simply found a driver to take him and Yan Kailin directly to the bar of Liu Kai's friend.

They hadn't gathered for nearly half a month, so Cheng Rong called a lot of friends and the private room in the club was almost full.

The wine was pretty good, so Chen Qizhao found a comfortable spot to drink and didn't join the group of people playing games.

Yan Kailin: "Brother, don't you want to play a few games?"

"No." Chen Qizhao didn't even bother to raise his eyes. The result of following Shen Yuhuai's schedule was that if he was tired enough during the day, he would feel sleepy at nine or ten in the evening.

Chen Qizhao came here just to relieve his alcohol addiction, but he didn't want to drink too much, because alcohol is not a good thing.

When others came to persuade him to drink, he would join in for a while. It was much easier to drink with these young people, as there were not so many tricks and no fancy ways to persuade them to drink. By the time some people in the bureau were drunk and talking nonsense, Chen Qizhao was swiping his phone, thinking about what time to go back.

As we couldn’t catch the curfew at night and couldn’t stay in the school dormitory, we could only take Yan Kailin to a hotel outside the school.

Shen Yuhuai had to work overtime on Tuesday, and he had planned to go back to the dormitory early tomorrow morning to change clothes so as not to smell of alcohol.

Chen Qizhao was looking at his phone, replying to Shen Yuhuai’s message, when he suddenly noticed the gaze next to him.

Qin Yunxuan also came today, and his seat was pushed away by Yan Kailin. At this time, their eyes met, and Qin Yunxuan walked over with a glass of wine.

Qin Yunxuan: "Qizhao, last time I asked Cheng Rong to invite you, he said you didn't have time. Luckily we met today, how about a couple of drinks?"

Chen Qizhao had taken advantage of the kid from the Qin family before, so he ignored him and refused. Before coming, he listened to Yan Kailin chattering about gossip for more than ten minutes. He heard that Qin Yunxuan had a new boyfriend, and the person she brought to meet last month was different from the person she brought to meet the month before.

"You didn't bring your boyfriend here today?" Chen Qizhao raised his eyebrows slightly and clinked glasses with him.

Qin Yunxuan paused and said with a smile, "We split up."

He added: "It's boring to come here to drink and play with your phone. How about playing a game? Poker."

"What kind of poker are you playing? Xiao Zhao, come over here. We're short of one."

"Liu Kai is too drunk, let's get someone else to replace him."

Yan Kailin was drunk and asked: "Kaizi is not doing well?"

Liu Kai yelled: "Who can't?"

Chen Qizhao was not playing with his phone. He didn't even look at what was in his pocket. When he saw Yan Kailin drinking heavily in the distance, he was about to go over to help.

He had just taken a few steps when the phone in his hand vibrated and he saw Shen Yuhuai's message.

As soon as it was cut open, his expression changed slightly.

20 minutes ago——

[-Chen Yuhuai: [Photo] I brought you a midnight snack, but you weren’t in the dormitory? ]

[-Shen Yuhuai: In the library? ]

[-Shen Yuhuai: Telephone. ]

Now--

[-Chen Yuhuai:? ]

Chen Qizhao: “…”

How come this crappy phone has no message alerts? !

He didn't reply to Shen Yuhuai's message for 20 minutes, and Shen Yuhuai called him several times but didn't call back.

How to vibrate without any vibration! ?

Qin Yunxuan noticed Chen Qizhao's expression, "What's wrong? Did a friend send you a message?"

Chen Qizhao's sleepiness was swept away and he became awake.

He deleted some words and sent a message out.

[-Zhao: I wasn’t checking my phone just now, so I didn’t notice your message. ]

After posting it, I felt something was not right, so I made another patch to find an excuse.

[-Zhao: Not in the dormitory. I went out at night. ]

[-Zhao: It’s not too far. I can get back before the curfew. ]

Yan Kailin saw Qin Yunxuan swap seats with someone else and come to sit next to Chen Qizhao. He thought that this stinky scumbag wanted to come here to seduce his brother, and came over while he was playing games. He took the wine and wanted to squeeze him out, "Brother, let's go, let's go over there and play games."

Chen Qizhao: "No more playing, I have to go."

"Why are you leaving? We've only been drinking for a short time." Yan Kailin had just hooked his arm around Chen Qizhao when he suddenly saw a voice call pop up on the other person's phone interface.

A familiar avatar and name appeared in front of him.

[VX voice: Chen Yuhuai requests to talk to you]

Chen Qizhao: “…”

Yan Kailin: “!!!”