thunderstorm
The moment the dormitory door was pushed open, Song Shuyang seemed to see an angel descending to the earth, and his eyes automatically cast a layer of soft golden light on Guo Zixiu.
He rushed over with a cry of “Ah!”, “Guozi! Wuuuuuu… I missed you so much!”
Guo Zixiu was held so tightly that he dared not move. "You, don't get so close to me. Let's keep some distance."
Song Shuyang let him go and wiped away a bitter tear. "I haven't spoken a word for two days. If no one comes back to the dormitory, I'm going to go crazy."
Guo Zixiu straightened the hem of his clothes that had been wrinkled by him. Although he no longer dared to have such thoughts about him, he couldn't help blushing when his face was too close to him.
Song Shuyang helped him take the suitcase and asked him, "Didn't you say you would be back tomorrow?"
"Ah, my part-time boss offered me triple my salary and asked me to come back today."
Guo Zixiu put the suitcase down and took out the clothes one by one. Song Shuyang stood up on one leg and watched from the side, a little confused. "What kind of part-time job are you doing? The boss is so generous."
Guo Zixiu paused, then quickly said calmly, "It's a restaurant outside the school. Maybe they were afraid they wouldn't be busy tomorrow, so they asked me to come back early."
"So what time are you leaving?"
"No need to go out, just... do some forms or something, you can do it in the dormitory."
"Okay," Song Shuyang sat back in his seat and turned down the volume on his phone. "You go ahead and do your thing. When you're done, we'll go to the cafeteria to eat."
Song Shuyang watched the online class out of boredom again. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. Guo Zixiu was usually gossipy, but why didn't he ask about the progress between him and Jin Zhou recently?
And as for the so-called part-time job he mentioned, it seemed like I hardly ever saw him going out. What kind of part-time job has such flexible hours?
Once suspicions began to form, many things started to seem more and more wrong. Furthermore, Guo Zixiu had recently bought a new phone and a whole bunch of new clothes and shoes. He didn't want to think too badly of his friend, but he had suffered a loss himself in the Han Zhuqing incident and had seen the methods of these wealthy older men. He was worried that Guo Zixiu might accidentally go astray.
The more Song Shuyang thought about it, the more worried he became. However, he knew that he was not good at beating around the bush when speaking, and he was even more afraid that if he guessed wrong, it would hurt the other person's self-esteem. He wanted to find someone to discuss it with, but he happened to be in conflict with Jin Zhou recently. Finally, after thinking it over, he decided to observe for a while and not do something bad with good intentions.
In the evening, he invited Guo Zixiu to have a meal of grilled fish in the cafeteria. This was not a particularly high-end dish outside, but it was an improvement in life for a group of poor students who lived on their living expenses at school. He wanted to let him feel the power of friendship materially, and perhaps persuade him to come back.
Halfway through the meal, Guo Zixiu suddenly asked, "How are you and your brother doing lately?"
Song Shuyang thought it was a bit strange that he asked now, like he had forgotten his lines in a play and was reminded by the director. However, he guessed that he was busy with something else and couldn't think straight, so he didn't think much about it. "We broke up, otherwise, guess why I've been staying alone in the dormitory these days."
Guo Zixiu was only slightly surprised. "Why did you break up so easily? Didn't you two get along well before? I noticed you often stayed out all night."
"Hey, don't you think it's strange?" Song Shuyang moved closer to him and lowered his voice. "We are so familiar with each other, just like brothers. Let alone my family, I can't get over it myself."
Guo Zixiu blinked. "But you're not really brothers, you just call each other that. Strictly speaking, you're childhood sweethearts. You're quite suitable for each other. You don't have to go through the adjustment period like other couples do, and both of your parents know each other well."
Song Shuyang still said with a bitter face: "No, it's too weird. You know, Jin Zhou has even seen me wet the bed. It would be so embarrassing if we were really together."
Guo Zixiu's thoughts drifted towards something more serious for a moment, but he didn't say anything out of fear of frightening him. He patiently tried to enlighten him, "So, after all you've said, it's essentially because you can't accept the change in their relationship. It's not that you don't like him?"
Meeting Guo Zixiu's calm eyes, Song Shuyang's eyelashes trembled slightly and he suddenly lost his temper.
Because I know it is impossible, I am just deceiving myself.
She said she didn't like Jin Zhou and had no feelings for him. If she really had no feelings for him, how could it be that he was the only one in the world she didn't feel disgusted by when he kissed her?
The physiological reaction has already given the answer.
He held his face in his hands and lamented, "What's the point of saying this now? Is there any point in starting to review after the exam?"
"You can always make up for it if you fail," Guo Zixiu encouraged him actively. "Your brother likes you so much, just act cute and coquettish in front of him. I guarantee you'll win him over in no time."
Song Shuyang gulped down a mouthful of drink and said, "Forget it. It's fine now. If we really get together and find that we are not suitable, we won't even be friends anymore."
He didn't want to lose Jin Zhou, so it would be nice to stay with him even as his younger brother.
Investing means risk, and he just wants to get the minimum living allowance in this relationship.
Song Shuyang followed Guo Zixiu back to the dormitory in a daze, and ran into an old acquaintance.
"Senior?"
Seeing him, Shen Xi was also surprised for a moment, "Didn't you go home during the holidays?"
"Well," he said proactively when he saw Chen Xi and the other two girls each holding a large box, "Where are you going? Let me help you move it."
"No, no, our drama club has a rehearsal tomorrow. Let's take the props to Dahuo today. It's very close."
Song Shuyang couldn't bear to watch a girl carry heavy things. He turned around and asked Guo Zixiu to go first, and took the box from her hand. "It's okay, I just ate a lot and need to digest it. Put those two up too, so we don't have to carry them several times."
Chen Xi was a little worried, "Can you move it? It's quite heavy."
"It's okay." Song Shuyang did feel a bit tired after the two boxes pressed up, but he couldn't collapse after pretending to be so strong, so he said, "Let's go."
Fortunately, the University Student Activity Center was not far from the cafeteria. Song Shuyang was afraid that the box would slip, so he used his chin to support the top, gritted his teeth and moved it to the backstage in one breath. He breathed a sigh of relief the moment he unloaded the box.
Shen Xi watched from the side and couldn't help but chuckle.
"Thank you very much. I'll save a ticket for you on the day of the official performance. It comes with academic credits."
Song Shuyang's eyes lit up when he heard the word "credits". "You guys get credits for being an audience member at this performance? What about the logistics?"
Chen Xi recalled, "The audience gets 0.5 points, the logistics is probably 1 point, and the creative staff will have to see how well they can finish in the competition later. If they come in first place, they can get 3 points."
Thinking of his precarious GPA this semester, Song Shuyang immediately raised his hand enthusiastically, "Me, me, me, I'm very efficient at work. If you need an extra or something, I can do it."
Chen Xi clasped his hands together and said, "Great, we're short of people everywhere. So, I'll add you to the group chat and notify you in the group every time we have a rehearsal. If we're short of actors, I'll also let you know. If you pass the audition, you can participate."
This gave him something to do, so Song Shuyang kept saying "thank you", but when Chen Xi repeatedly searched for his name in the friend list, he froze.
"Um...senior, let me add you again. I might have accidentally deleted you before."
It was that time when Jin Zhou deleted it! He was killed by the society again!
Fortunately, Chen Xi was a respectable man, so he gave him some face and didn't ask any more questions. He scanned the QR code and added him again, pulling him into the group chat.
Group name: "Thunderstorm" crew rehearsal notification group.
When Song Shuyang saw the two words in the quotation marks, he felt a little dizzy.
"You guys, are rehearsing this play?"
Chen Xi, who knew the inside story, finally sensed something was amiss, but she had a promise to Jin Zhou, so she couldn't show it too obviously. She forced an explanation, "We can't look at the relationships in the play with worldly eyes. This isn't just a melodramatic love story about forbidden love. Don't feel too burdened, okay."
Song Shuyang felt guilty, thinking she was hinting at something, but then he realized she probably knew nothing, so he said, "Well, you do make sense."
The next day, Song Shuyang got up early in the morning to help with the big job. Guo Zixiu also signed up enthusiastically when he heard that there were extra credits. The two of them helped move props onto the stage backstage and listened to the two actors, a male and a female, reciting their lines with emotion in the play that was being rehearsed today.
"Feng! We! Are siblings from the same mother!"
"You're talking nonsense!"
"Your mother is also my biological mother! I am your brother and you are my sister!"
"But I already have your child! For three months!"
…
Song Shuyang felt extremely tormented when listening to this, and felt that every line was directed at him.
Especially when he was a child, there was a period of time when he insisted on calling Jin Zhou "sister", trying to use the power of words to turn back time and reverse yin and yang...
Fortunately, Jin Zhou won’t get pregnant.
"Holy shit!" Realizing what a bizarre sentence appeared in his mind, he was shocked by his overly divergent thinking!
Guo Zixiu was puzzled, "What's wrong with you, Yangyang?"
Song Shuyang came back to his senses and moved the wardrobe out. "It's okay, I just pinched my hand."
Chen Xi also heard it and asked with concern: "Is your hand okay?"
"It's okay, the screws are loose and it's a little hard to move. We need to find two more people."
He finished his work half-heartedly and waited in the audience, where he had to put all the props away again after the rehearsal.
His phone lit up and he saw that it was a message from Jin Zhou. He immediately unlocked it and clicked on it to read it.
Jin Zhou sent a picture, showing a plastic bag with several paper bags inside.
He waited patiently for Jin Zhou to add a caption to the picture, but a whole minute passed and he didn't say a word.
Of course, Song Shuyang would not take the initiative to pay attention to him. He annoyedly closed the chat interface, turned off his phone and watched the rehearsal on the stage seriously.
"We are committing incest, it's a sin!"
The word automatically faded in his mind. Song Shuyang couldn't stand it anymore, so he unlocked his phone and watched some videos.
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