Chapter 10 Chapter 10 "Cheating? Or in a different place?"...

Half a year ago, Qiao Yu drank a lot of wine. After discovering his bad drinking habit, he consciously stayed away from alcohol.

But this time he had unfounded expectations of alcohol, always feeling that it could improve his mood which was about to collapse.

It's a bit like trying anything desperately.

However, his alcohol tolerance was better than before, and he was still conscious after drinking half a glass.

Thinking about what I said to Jiang Mian yesterday, I felt bitter in my heart. I tried to vent my anger all night but it was useless. Now I felt aggrieved again at a rapid speed.

Damn, is he in love?

Why is it that Jiang Mian, this bad guy, is so hard to get over in his heart?

Qiao Yu was so angry that he wanted to slap himself in the face.

He was in great grief and moody, but Zhou Shuhe patted his shoulder and comforted him amid the noise, thinking that his youth was not in vain.

But Qiao Yu’s youth ended too hastily.

It was so sloppy that when Zhou Shuhe asked him why they broke up, he couldn't tell the reason.

"Cheating? Or in a different place?"

Qiao Yu chose the closest one between the two: "A different place."

"Oh!" Zhou Shuhe sighed and drank half a cup of wine. "Isn't this a common problem? There's nothing to regret."

Meeting too early is doomed to not last forever; the world of adults always goes their separate ways.

Although this result seems commonplace today, five years later, Qiao Yu at that time was like running into a dead end, banging his head and bleeding, but still unable to make a move.

"It's better than cheating." Qiao Yu muttered softly.

At least it can completely stop his thoughts.

"Think positively," Zhou Shuhe comforted him, "Most people who are in different places are also cheating."

Qiao Yu: “…”

He closed his eyes.

After drinking a glass of wine, Qiao Yu felt so heavy that he had to support his head with his hands.

I felt a little dizzy, but not particularly dizzy. I felt I could control it. I knew to purse my lips and talk less nonsense.

Zhou Shuhe laughed at him for not having any improvement in his alcohol tolerance, but Qiao Yu just said "I'm not drunk", which made the other person laugh.

After the party, this group of people went to KTV.

Qiao Yu didn't have the energy and insisted on leaving.

Zhou Shuhe went over to support him, held his arm, turned around and said to the others, "You guys continue, I'll carry this back to the dormitory first."

When Qiao Yu was sitting, he felt that he was in good condition and could hear and see well.

He stood up and felt that he was in good condition, but he couldn't walk in a straight line. The whole world seemed to be rushing towards him.

"Hey, you can walk, but don't build on the green belt, okay?"

Zhou Shuhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't know how many times he had pulled Qiao Yu back from struggling and forced her back on track.

"Is that okay? If not, I'll carry you."

"Okay," Qiao Yu said vaguely, "I can go back by myself."

After hearing this, Zhou Shuhe let go of his hands, and Qiao Yu was about to fall to the ground like a tumbler.

"No, I'm not drunk," the person insisted, "I just feel dizzy."

But soon, he completely lost his sense of direction, the world was spinning around him, and he fell on Zhou Shuhe's shoulder like a dead fish.

The other person held his thigh and walked towards the school step by step.

"I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time today."

"I can see that," Zhou Shuhe said, "You must be very tired from being tense every day. Just go back and take a nap after drinking."

Qiao Yu didn't think alcohol could be so effective, but he didn't say anything to refute it.

He pressed Zhou Shuhe's shoulders, and his whole body leaned back extremely stiffly. Zhou Shuhe bent his back even more for this. Qiao Yu felt that he had caused trouble for the other party, and perhaps he should not have drunk that glass of wine.

The irritability caused by the accumulated guilt made him want to stay away from Zhou Shuhe, but he also knew that forcibly staying away from him at this moment would be another way of causing trouble.

"Shuhe," Qiao Yu leaned forward and negotiated with him, "Put me down."

Zhou Shuhe also said in a friendly voice: "It's easier for me to carry you than to support you."

"Help me again."

"don't want."

"I can walk by myself..."

"You're stuck to the ground and I have to pull you up."

“…”

Qiao Yu thought that he wouldn't lie flat on the ground, right? If you really can't stand anymore, you have to find a green belt to lie down.

But in this cold winter, lying down for a night could result in death.

He can't die, he still has his grandma.

There is also one month's salary in arrears.

He is alive and useful.

Suddenly, Zhou Shuhe stopped and mumbled something, but no one knew what he was saying.

Qiao Yu stretched his neck forward with great effort, trying to hear more clearly, but the next second, his shoulders were suddenly grabbed and he was peeled off Zhou Shuhe's back like peeling a chestnut.

He only had time to say "Hmm?" during the whole process before being hugged sideways by another person.

"Qiao Yu, wake up, do you know him?"

Qiao Yu stared at Jiang Mian's face, wondering if he was hallucinating from drinking.

Jiang Mian also looked at Qiao Yu: "Do you know him?"

Zhou Shuhe: “?”

Where did this weird thing come from?

"I'm his roommate?" Zhou Shuhe couldn't believe it.

"Oh," Jiang Mian said expressionlessly, "I'm sorry."

Zhou Shuhe narrowed his eyes, not feeling any apology.

As the two of them came and went, Qiao Yu finally reacted.

He raised his hand, placed his palm against Jiang Mian's chin, and pushed the disgusting face away.

Jiang Mian looked up, and the two of them were in an eerie stillness.

Zhou Shuhe spoke in silence: "What are you doing?"

Jiang Mian put Qiao Yu down and used his free hand to pick up the claw that was waving at his face.

He locked Qiao Yu's wrists with just one hand. Qiao Yu struggled symbolically but failed to break free. He was a little furious and his eyes were red.

"Don't cry," Jiang Mian said helplessly, his voice softening a bit, "I don't have a free hand to wipe your tears."

Zhou Shuhe narrowed his eyes: "Did you cry?"

"It will be done soon," Jiang Mian explained patiently, "He is allergic to tears."

"Really?" Zhou Shuhe was surprised, "Can you be allergic to that thing?"

“…”

It seems that they are not very familiar with each other.

Jiang Mian stared at Zhou Shuhe for two seconds and decided to give up his hostility towards this campus beauty.

"I'm Qiao Yu's friend, just leave him to me."

Zhou Shuhe looked Jiang Mian up and down and saw that he was well-dressed and did not look like a student.

"You're not from our school, are you?"

"no."

Zhou Shuhe frowned: "Then how can I hand him over to you?"

Qiao Yu was drunk and unconscious.

Zhou Shuhe didn't dare to take the risk of handing such an unconscious person over to another unprotected stranger, even if the other party was really a friend.

"I have to take him back to the dormitory."

He grabbed Qiao Yu's arm, probably meaning for Jiang Mian to let go.

But Jiang Mian didn't let go, and followed suit: "Then I'll go too."

Just like that, there was one more person in the double dormitory.

Jiang Mian carried Qiao Yu to the bed, took off her coat, shoes and socks, and even wrapped her heels with his palms.

Acting subconsciously, Qiao Yu couldn't warm up his hands and feet in winter.

After settling the person to sleep, Jiang Mian still hunched over.

Qiao Yu still held the collar of his shirt in her hand, and she was reluctant to let it go until now.

Zhou Shuhe poured a cup of warm water and placed it on the bedside, thinking why this action was like leading a dog.

Although Qiao Yu was so resistant at first, after being carried all the way over, she curled up like a rabbit and started to sleep obediently.

The overly intimate actions and abnormal patience finally made Zhou Shuhe discover a clue from this gay couple.

"You're just friends?"

At the beginning of the school year, Zhou Shuhe accidentally saw Qiao Yu rejecting a boy. He listened to the confession very calmly and rejected the boy very calmly. There was no ripple or surprise in the whole process, as a straight man should have.

At that time, he guessed that the other party might have had the experience of being confessed to by a same-sex person.

This is not uncommon in college.

Later he thought that Qiao Yu might not like girls, but after getting to know him for a long time, he found that Qiao Yu disliked both genders equally.

It’s not that I don’t like it, I just feel distant from it.

He clearly smiles when talking and gets angry when provoked, but that faint sense of alienation is like a glass wall between you. You know there is such a distance called "friends", you can't step into it and he can't step out.

Compared to Zhou Shuhe's cheerful personality who has friends everywhere, I actually don't like such friends who are difficult to get close to.

But after getting to know each other for half a year, he felt that compared to those bad friends who just hit it off, Qiao Yu was a person worth making close friends with.

But I can never get deep enough.

Until Jiang Mian appeared.

He had never seen Qiao Yu hold on to anyone and not let go, completely breaking the polite boundary between friends.

Jiang Mian's attitude towards Qiao Yu was also unusual. In any case, Zhou Shuhe would not hold Qiao Yu's heels when taking care of her to sleep.

"You can be overly understanding." Jiang Mian's voice came faintly from the bed.

Zhou Shuhe twitched his lips: "I haven't heard that Qiao Yu has been in a relationship recently."

"Oh," Jiang Mian responded out of habit, "That's good."

Zhou Shuhe: “…”

Judging from Jiang Mian’s reaction, even if he is not a romantic partner, he is at least an ambiguous partner. But since they can even hold each other’s collars to sleep, Zhou Shuhe still prefers the former.

However, half an hour ago, Qiao Yu was heartbroken over his first love who "might as well cheat on him", and half an hour later he was holding on to another man's clothes and refused to let go.

Zhou Shuhe felt that given Qiao Yu's character, he would not be so fickle.

Then it is only possible that his "first love" is the man in front of him.

What a sin.

Zhou Shuhe hesitated for a moment about whether to stay or leave, and finally decided to mind his own business.

Qiao Yu is obviously still thinking about her, and judging from the performance of this first love, it seems he is also having that intention.

Regardless of whether there was any misunderstanding, it was up to the two of them to resolve it. As for them as outsiders—

"Do you need me to make room for you?" Zhou Shuhe asked.

"Thank you." Jiang Mian asked for Zhou Shuhe's phone number and passed it to Luo Hao. "A man named Luo will contact you later. Let him arrange everything."