Chapter 127 Extra

If line-if nothing happened (VI)

As this thought came up, Chen Qizhao's increasingly rapid heartbeat seemed to be warning him of something, and it stopped for a little longer than he expected. When Shen Yuhuai handed him the bottle of mineral water, he suddenly realized it.

"The water in the bag is gone. I just drank this bottle..."

Shen Yuhuai's hand was suspended in the air. After hesitating for a moment, he withdrew his hand. The next second, someone grabbed the bottle.

Chen Qizhao had already raised his head and started drinking water in gulps.

The boy tilted his head back, and a few drops of mineral water overflowed from the corners of his lips, dripped down his cheeks, and finally sank into the collarbone between his neck and were completely swallowed up by his clothes. In the sun, the action of drinking water seems particularly sexy, without any concealment.

Shen Yuhuai withdrew his hand and looked away slightly.

The sound of drinking water was very close, and the swallowing sound was particularly obvious in the noisy environment. Shen Yuhuai was unable to distract himself, and his attention was all on the heavy drinking sounds that came one after another. The thirst in his throat seemed to have worsened a bit.

Chen Qizhao drank half a bottle of water in one go, but his pounding heart still didn't stop.

He came back to his senses and noticed the gaze of the man next to him, then belatedly shifted his gaze to his own hand and the bottle cap in Shen Yuhuai's other hand.

Chen Qizhao: “…”

Wait, is this the same bottle of water he just took a sip from?

He seemed to have drunk Chen Yuhuai's water.

Chen Qizhao: "I am not..."

Shen Yuhuai: "Do you want more water?"

They both spoke at the same time.

Reason returned, and Chen Qizhao froze instantly. He lowered his head to look at the mouth of the bottle, and when he looked at Shen Yuhuai again, he couldn't help but look at his lips.

It’s not like I haven’t drunk from the same bottle of water with others before.

……! Chen Qizhao cursed in his heart, "Sorry, I'm so thirsty, I thought it was a newly opened bottle..." After he said that, he looked at the bag next to him. The mineral water in that bag had already been divided up.

He handed the bottle of mineral water back but it didn't work, and he held it in his hand but it didn't work either. After a while, he asked dryly, "Do you still want to drink? I'll go buy you a bottle."

Shen Yuhuai: "Do you want more water?"

Chen Qizhao blurted out: "No need, this water..."

Shen Yuhuai lowered his eyes slightly and took the water from him, "I'm a little thirsty."

Chen Qizhao was stunned for a moment, and saw Shen Yuhuai took the bottle of water, tilted his head slightly and drank two sips, and then twisted the bottle cap.

Shen Yuhuai finished drinking and looked at him, noticing that the boy’s face was red.

Just like the heat that rises after exercise, the originally pink skin color becomes redder and redder.

The movements were very smooth, without any pause or jam. After watching it, Chen Qizhao's mind became even more confused and he couldn't hear anything. In the end, the only sound was the sound of his heartbeat in his chest that was getting faster and faster.

"Yu Huai, let's go. The teacher should have finished the meeting." Liu Sui walked over.

Shen Yuhuai nodded slightly, "Shall we have lunch together at noon?"

Ask Chen Qizhao.

Chen Qizhao: "...I have something to do at noon."

Shen Yuhuai asked again: "What about at night?"

Chen Qizhao couldn't refuse twice in a row, so he had to agree.

Shen Yuhuai and Liu Sui left, and the physical education teacher shouted for everyone to gather, as it was almost time to end the get out of class.

Several people who played basketball with Chen Qizhao came over to talk to him and asked Shen Yuhuai a few more questions.

"Qizhao, is this water yours?" someone asked.

Chen Qizhao stopped and saw the bottle of water on the steps.

Shen Yuhuai did not take the mineral water away.

-

The temperature at noon seemed to have risen a few degrees. Chen Qizhao returned to the dormitory. His roommate was talking to Yan Kailin. In the lively dormitory, several people were talking about other topics and asked Chen Qizhao from time to time.

Chen Qizhao was absent-minded and did not reply to him several times.

Yan Kailin called Chen Qizhao several times, and saw that he was staring blankly at his phone, "Brother? Brother?"

"What?" Chen Qizhao suddenly turned off his phone.

Yan Kailin: "Why are you so nervous? I just saw you playing with your phone, chatting with someone, you looked so nervous."

"Nothing." Chen Qizhao placed his phone upside down on the table. "Has the takeaway arrived yet?"

"Not here yet." Yan Kailin turned around and talked to his roommate.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Chen Qizhao opened his phone to check the content. The entries on the search engine had changed several times, and the answers given were different. He changed the search term and saw the first question and answer that received the most likes.

What's the matter with wanting to kiss a guy on the mouth?

Netizens answered enthusiastically: Just kiss if you want to.

Chen Qizhao: “…”

He had been avoiding Chen Yuhuai for several days, but instead of letting the feeling subside, it intensified with the meeting in the morning. It's not like there aren't guys together in their circle, but it's a bit awkward to think about it. Chen Qizhao doesn't mind it, but what if Shen Yuhuai minds?

Chen Qizhao didn't figure it out. The more he thought about it, the more the scene of the other person drinking water in the morning emerged in his mind.

"There's something wrong with you."

A voice came from the side. Chen Qizhao looked up and found that the remaining three people in the dormitory were all looking at him. Chen Qizhao avoided their gazes and asked, "What?"

"Qizhao, you've been distracted more than once in the past few days."

"He was also distracted during Professor Tang's class last time, even though he usually listens most attentively."

"You often stare blankly at your phone. Tell me honestly, are you in a relationship?!"

"Does he have time for a relationship? Oh yeah, he hasn't been out drinking these past two days."

…

Chen Qizhao: “…”

All eyes were on Chen Qizhao. After being stared at for too long, he gave up and asked, "What if you have a girl you like?"

"What should I do? Then confess!" The roommate came over, "Is it the girl who brought you water this morning?"

Yan Kailin seemed to have heard some gossip: "Oh my god? What?! What riddle are you talking about behind my back?"

Several roommates were attracted by Chen Qizhao's words and asked him questions in a cross-examination manner. A bunch of single guys, all of them coming up with bad ideas. Before Chen Qizhao said anything, they had already imagined the plot.

"It's college, so it's okay to have a relationship."

Chen Qizhao was annoyed by what they said: "We are just friends now."

"That's even worse. Don't have a secret crush. Secret crushes have no future."

"Confess, can you bear it if we continue to get along as friends?"

Can you bear to continue being friends?

Chen Qizhao couldn't say it.

The air conditioner in the office building was whirring loudly, and the room was cool. The tutor was working on the other side, and Liu Sui and Shen Yuhuai helped the tutor organize the remaining materials and fill out the forms. It was already past four in the afternoon when they finished. A student from the school asked Liu Sui to go out and play, and Liu Sui asked Shen Yuhuai if he wanted to go eat together.

Shen Yuhuai: "You guys go ahead, I'll go to the library."

The library was quiet, Shen Yuhuai went to the library to get a few books, and finally sat down by the window. There were other students studying nearby. The air conditioning in the quiet library was sufficient. Shen Yuhuai opened his notebook, but his pen suddenly stopped after writing the first word.

The open book had complete charts and formulas, and the text had appropriate line spacing, but Shen Yuhuai just read it twice.

His brain was not tired, and his ability to receive information was not delayed. Shen Yuhuai paused for a while, allowing himself to concentrate on reading. However, when he finished reading and recorded the structural formula in his notebook, he was unable to write down the familiar formula at the first time.

Shen Yuhuai lowered his eyes slightly, saw some bad notes on the notebook, raised his head, and finally picked up his mobile phone and opened the photo album.

The photos in the album are all in the same color. The data on the laboratory record board, experimental results, stage tasks...all the information related to the experiment and daily life are in his album, except for a few photos of the basketball court behind a few tables.

The boys wiped the sweat off their faces with their arms, or stood in the intermission to drink water.

The shadows of the trees and the people overlap, and the effect of the photo is completely different. Shen Yuhuai paused on the phone screen, slightly spread out two fingers to enlarge the picture, and a certain person's face became clearer. His fingers stopped on the boy's face and his eyes deepened.

A few books I found were stacked next to me, and not a single word was added to the notebook.

When the school bell rang outside the library, a message popped up on WeChat, which had been silent for a long time.

[-Chen Qizhao: Where are we having dinner tonight? ]

After a while, a new message popped up.

[-Chen Qizhao: Are you still in school now? ]

Shen Yuhuai finally came back to his senses.

[-Shen Yuhuai: What do you want to eat? ]

[-Shen Yuhuai: At school. ]

There were many people finishing their classes, so it was unwise to crowd into the cafeteria at this time, so they ended up going to a restaurant recommended by Shen Yuhuai, which was also on campus.

When Chen Qizhao arrived at the entrance of the library, Shen Yuhuai was already there.

As the two walked to the restaurant, the expected awkwardness did not come. Chen Qizhao did not take the initiative to speak, but Shen Yuhuai always found the right topic.

We’ve eaten together so many times that we all know the dietary taboos.

Chen Qizhao picked out a few dishes and handed them to Shen Yuhuai, who then added some more.

“Two cans of beer, this dish is not spicy.” Shen Yuhuai said to the waiter.

Chen Qizhao was stunned when he heard about beer. This was the first time Shen Yuhuai suggested drinking.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yuhuai looked at him.

"No." Chen Qizhao avoided his gaze. In the following time, he became particularly concerned about Shen Yuhuai. He remembered very clearly how many sips of beer he drank and how many dishes he touched.

Shen Yuhuai seemed to come here often, and when the two of them were having dinner, some acquaintances came over to say hello.

Chen Qizhao also knew one of the group, who were the ones who blocked the entrance of the library and asked questions about Shen Yuhuai. This time they were several people, and from the conversation, Chen Qizhao roughly knew that they were a student team, and they knew Shen Yuhuai because Shen Yuhuai had helped them a lot.

Chen Qizhao drank half a can of beer, but his eyes were always fixed on Shen Yuhuai who was talking to someone.

Shen Yuhuai was very polite when talking to people. He would listen patiently and look at the other person, but his eyes did not fall on this side. Chen Qizhao simply didn't move his eyes away. He looked at Shen Yuhuai for as long as Shen Yuhuai talked to others.

He also looked at places he had not dared to look at before, and he took a closer look at places he had liked to look at before.

The more he watched, the more he felt these people were noisy. Can't you see they were still eating? How could they chat for so long?

But he didn't interrupt the conversation.

The students chatted for a few minutes before leaving. The other team happened to be going to borrow the laboratory from the Ninth Institute next week. Shen Yuhuai told them a few things to pay attention to, but while chatting, he couldn't ignore the gazes from the side, and at the right time he found an excuse to end the conversation.

"You guys have been chatting for so long that the food is getting cold." Chen Qizhao said.

“Yeah.” Shen Yuhuai picked up some food, “I thought you could talk.”

Chen Qizhao paused. "They are quite polite this time, and aren't you talking about the laboratory? I just..."

Shen Yuhuai looked at him, “Yeah.”

After dinner, it was already dark.

Only by looking at the time did they realize that the meal took a bit long. In the past, when they had dinner together, they were used to taking a walk together to digest the food. Chen Qizhao didn’t know how to do this before. After dinner, he would go back to the dormitory with his roommates to enjoy the air conditioning. This habit was developed with Shen Yuhuai.

At this moment, Chen Qizhao was a little absent-minded when they were taking a walk after dinner, especially when they walked to the playground. The two of them rarely spoke. Chen Qizhao didn't know how to start, and Shen Yuhuai didn't take the initiative to speak.

There are many people on the playground at night, and the lights are bright every few meters.

The sound of running with the ball on the basketball court at night overlapped with the sounds of the day, and the noisy night playground seemed to be getting farther and farther away with the two people's steps.

The farther away from the playground, the darker the atmosphere became. From afar, there were only a few figures walking around.

When we finally reached the woods behind the playground, the street lights had dimmed and this place seemed like a dark and quiet secret place. The young couple walked past them on the dark roadside. The further Chen Qizhao walked, the faster his heartbeat became.

After a day of fermentation, a certain entanglement seemed to have reached a new node at this moment.

Not far away, a vending machine was emitting a faint light. The playground fence separated the other side. Further down, there was a lively tennis court.

At this moment, the pace of the two suddenly slowed down.

Chen Qizhao bumped into Shen Yuhuai's shoulder, and when the other party stopped, he suddenly moved a few steps to the side. The two of them arrived next to the fence, and Shen Yuhuai's back was against the fence.

The light was dim and passers-by didn't notice the changes here.

Shen Yuhuai lowered his eyes slightly, and Chen Qizhao was standing in front of him.

Chen Qizhao: "I have something to tell you."

Shen Yuhuai: “There is something…”

The two spoke in unison, and Chen Qizhao paused. In addition to his roommate's instigation, he was more certain that there were some things that even friends could not do after they understood them.

Although I can continue to be friends with Shen Yuhuai, the embarrassing scene will continue to reappear today.

Just like he would kiss Chen Yuhuai on the lips when he dreams, thinking about it day and night, and the next time he dreams about Chen Yuhuai, it might be a different dream.

Chen Qizhao found that he didn't have that patience. The moment he understood his own thoughts, he found that it seemed impossible to maintain an ordinary friendship, but he was unwilling to give up Shen Yuhuai.

A quiet atmosphere spread between the two of them, and Chen Qizhao only saw Shen Yuhuai’s eyes.

There was obviously not much light, but he felt that there seemed to be a little light in Shen Yuhuai's eyes.

"There's something I want to tell you." Chen Qizhao had never been in a relationship before, and he got stuck just as he started to speak, "You...Brother Huai, do you have a girlfriend?"

Shen Yuhuai didn't move, just looked at him quietly.

"And you have a boyfriend." Chen Qizhao failed to summarize his words. "That is, you are in love..."

Before he could finish his words, Chen Qizhao's mouth was blocked.

Chen Qizhao suddenly opened his eyes wide.

There was a rustling sound from the playground fence.

Shen Yuhuai leaned forward slightly, and after the kiss, they separated, “I’m not in a relationship.”

The touch on his lips separated very quickly, and Chen Qizhao only felt it was soft and cool, with a hint of the scent of Chen Yuhuai.

My mind was almost a mess, and that feeling can't be replicated.

Chen Qizhao looked at Shen Yuhuai, and Shen Yuhuai was also looking at him, and no one took up the rest of the answer.

“I just didn’t feel it.”

Chen Qizhao suddenly became bolder and said, "I'll kiss you again."

Shen Yuhuai didn't say anything, so Chen Qizhao took it as his tacit consent and immediately walked forward to Shen Yuhuai, and without saying a word, he touched his mouth, but he didn't touch it, only the corner of the other person's lips.

After they separated, Shen Yuhuai asked him, “Did you feel it this time?”

Chen Qizhao pursed his lips and said, "No."

Shen Yuhuai: "Then how about..."

Chen Qizhao moved closer and kissed her again.

This time the separation and silence lasted a bit longer, and Shen Yuhuai was about to speak.

Chen Qizhao went forward with a confused mind.

This time Shen Yuhuai stretched out his hand and held the back of his neck, and they did not separate after the brief touch.

Chen Qizhao's heart was beating so fast that it almost jumped out of his throat, and he even forgot to breathe.

The problem that had been bothering him for several days was solved at this moment.

So this is what it feels like to kiss Chen Yuhuai on the lips.