Chapter 094: Childhood sweethearts if line: (IV)

Yu Wen often receives love letters, and is adept at handling such things. No matter what kind of love letter it is, it will not stay in his schoolbag for more than a week.

But that time was an accident.

The owner of the love letter had a broken bone in an accident and was recuperating at home, and he couldn't find anyone for a while.

On the way home from school with Xie Heyu by bike, he happened to meet her classmate. Yu Wen remembered this and hurriedly said "wait for me", then stopped her classmate and asked for a contact number.

Before leaving Xie Heyu, they were talking about the flowers that Yu's mother carefully nurtured in the yard. Some varieties have reached their flowering period, and Yu Wen said that he would go back and make a wreath for Xie Heyu to wear.

Xie Heyu's reaction was flat, but there was a rare smile in her eyes.

Yu Wen's thoughts were always jumping around. After asking for the contact information, he had forgotten the previous casual chat. Seeing Xie Heyu looking at him and waiting for the next step, he asked blankly: "Aren't you leaving?"

"..."

This casual remark was shelved.

A few days later, Xie Heyu found the love letter in his schoolbag and asked naturally: "Which class are you from? Do you want me to return it for you?"

Yu Wen finally added the girl's contact information. He was typing with his head down. He shook his head perfunctorily and said: "I won't return it for the time being."

Xie Heyu asked him who he was chatting with, and Yu Wen said casually: "The owner of the love letter in your hand."

Things started to go wrong from here.

Yu Wen added the girl and agreed to return the love letter when she returned to school. The girl was generous and didn't feel embarrassed when she was rejected. During the voice chat, she joked with him:

"Hahaha, you didn't open the love letter, did you? I wrote at the end that if you don't return the love letter to me within ten days, it will be regarded as your tacit consent, and then we will be lovers in the future... Then I deliberately broke my leg so that you couldn't find me. This was all my plan, hahaha..."

Yu Wen knew she was joking and laughed along. Neither of them took it seriously. Xie Heyu, who accidentally heard the voice message, took it seriously.

During the chat, he was playing games at Xie Heyu's house, with the voice playing out loud. Xie Heyu came out of the kitchen with soda water, and heard this, and stood there, motionless.

Yu Wen explained, "It was just a joke."

Xie Heyu didn't say anything. After playing a game with Yu Wen, he said in a neutral tone, "I don't think it's fun."

For a moment, I couldn't tell whether he was talking about the game or the joke.

When there were three days left in the ten-day countdown, Xie Heyu saw the love letter in Yu Wen's schoolbag again and asked, "Aren't you going to return it?"

Yu Wen said, "She is recovering at home. Let's talk about it when she returns to school."

Xie Heyu: "Where is her home? I'll send it to you."

Yu Wen thought he was surprised and waved his hand, "No need."

On the second to last day, Xie Heyu asked, "Are you going to return it?"

Yu Wen was annoyed by him and covered his ears, "Don't say that... Even if I don't return it, can I really date her?"

Xie Heyu: "... You can obviously avoid this possibility."

On the last day, Xie Heyu didn't ask him again.

Yu Wen received a call from his mother.

"Received a love letter? I didn't!" Yu Wen said angrily, "Who! Who spread rumors about me!"

Yu's mother: "Little Xie said so."

Yu Wen: "..." Xie Heyu, you are

so childish.

Yu Wen went to settle the score with him.

"Xie Heyu, you are so childish. You even complained to my mother. The last time you were so childish was when you were in elementary school."

"..."

"Aren't you going to apologize to me? If you don't apologize to me, I will be really angry."

"..."

Yu Wen pulled Xie Heyu's schoolbag strap and could only see the back of his head. He finally realized that Xie Heyu seemed, might, seemed to... be in a cold war with him.

How long has this symptom lasted?

After walking for a long time, Xie Heyu still showed no signs of speaking.

Yu Wen couldn't help it and asked, "What does this have to do with you? Why are you angry?"

He racked his brains but couldn't figure it out.

Xie Heyu had a sense of exclusivity in his friendship with him, Yu Wen understood and accepted it, but why did this possessiveness extend to a romantic relationship?

In this way, if he falls in love in the future, wouldn't Xie Heyu be even more angry?

I don't know if it was an illusion, but the already tense atmosphere became even more tense after these words came out.

Xie Heyu ended this one-sided cold war and whispered four words: "I'm leaving first."

Yu Wen was stunned as he watched his back quickly disappear.

As graduation approached, the two returned to their previous relationship, going to school together as usual, doing homework together, and playing a few games together during breaks.

The awkwardness before seemed like an illusion, which never existed in reality.

But Yu Wen knew very well that it was not an illusion, and...

there was a gap between him and Xie Heyu.

On the eve of the college entrance examination, all the senior high school students were on edge. Only Yu Wen, who had obtained the admission quota half a year earlier, had the leisure to think about these things. After the

college entrance examination, the class organized a large dinner. After the dinner, everyone went to KTV. The atmosphere was just right, and Yu Wen secretly drank two sips of fruit wine.

He was not drunk, but the head teacher still saw it at a glance. The snow-white glutinous rice balls suddenly turned into red apples. It would be strange if he didn't see it.

The head teacher asked him to call his family to pick him up. Yu Wen felt guilty and didn't dare to call his parents, so he called Xie Heyu.

He sat on the sofa outside the KTV, kneeling together, waiting obediently for his parents to pick him up.

When Xie Heyu arrived, he immediately emphasized: "Don't complain."

"..."

Xie Heyu reached out and touched his face. Fortunately, it looked red, but it was not burned.

The way home was the one that faced the river. Yu Wen shook the hem of Xie Heyu's coat and looked at the city lights reflected on the river, sparkling like stars.

"Xie Heyu... I'm graduating, and you'll be a sophomore in high school soon, and you'll be an adult now."

Xie Heyu: "...I am an adult."

Yu Wen wanted to see the river view and refused to leave, so Xie Heyu stopped immediately. The two walked side by side, very close to each other, and the smell of detergent was mixed together by the wind.

Yu Wen lay on the railing, like a small fish trying to get stranded because of laziness. He said: "I'm going to study in another city... What will you do alone? Xie Heyu, I'm so worried about you..."

Xie Heyu: "You are talking drunkenly again."

"I'm not drunk." Yu Wen had to prove himself, stood up straight, and walked along a slightly higher narrow platform next to him, "Look, I can still walk in a straight line--"

People should not be too complacent.

Before he finished speaking, Yu Wen staggered and leaned to the side, and was hugged by Xie Heyu.

The boy's body temperature was higher than usual on a summer night. Yu Wen felt Xie Heyu's breathing rhythm passing through his chest. The dry and long scent that belonged to Xie Heyu came over him, covering him tightly.

Xie Heyu didn't let go.

"Xie Heyu." Yu Wen called out, and the hand on his shoulder curled up helplessly, not noticing that the hand on his waist tightened a little.

"You really don't have a mental illness, right? Uncle and I are very worried about you."

"...Hmm?"

His voice was too close, Yu Wen was at a loss, and babbled: "You seem to care about me a lot... Of course, this is because Yu Wen is loved by everyone. But your possessiveness is too strong. I'm worried that you have a mental illness. You have always been a person who can distinguish the priorities. If you feel that something is wrong with you, you must go to the doctor and you must not be afraid of seeing a doctor."

"...Hmm."

The helpless hmm made Yu Wen feel relieved for no reason.

Although he himself felt that what he said was incoherent, Xie Heyu seemed to understand what he wanted to express, and also understood his restraint and helplessness at the moment.

Yu Wen then remembered some small things and continued to chatter.

Xie Heyu occasionally responded, his voice muffled in the wind, ethereal and helpless.

Every response he made was too close.

There was a faint fragrance on the collar, and the shadows on the ground were mating and entwined.

Yu Wen tasted an indescribable...ambiguity from this awkward and stiff embrace.

-The

university that Yu Wen was recommended to was in another city, not far from South City, but not too close.

He could only come back during the holidays, and in just one year, Xie Heyu grew a lot taller.

During this period, the two maintained online contact. Xie Heyu never took the initiative to ask Yu Wen about his campus life, but Yu Wen knew that he wanted to listen.

-Whenever talking about the milk tea at the school gate, the snacks in the back streets, the tourist attractions in the city...Xie Heyu would ask a few more questions.

How much sugar? How spicy? Is it fun?

Yu Wen said with a smile: [What? Are you making a strategy? Are you going to go to college here in the future?]

Xie Heyu said: [Yes.]

Yu Wen didn't know whether he was telling the truth or a lie.

If it was the truth... then this city, perhaps when Yu Wen didn't know, had a great attraction for Xie Heyu.

Yu Wen went home during the summer vacation of his freshman year, and he didn't tell anyone.

He was thinking of giving his parents a surprise, but his family happened to be away. He squatted at the door for half an hour, and then he saw Xie Heyu running in hurriedly.

In the hot summer weather, Xie Heyu's forehead was covered with sweat, his eyelashes were wet, and he looked at Yu Wen for a long time, as if he wanted to confirm whether the person in front of him was an illusion or reality.

Yu Wen was very surprised and didn't know how Xie Heyu got the news.

"Auntie called me and told me to go home early after school, otherwise you'll have nowhere to stay..."

Xie Heyu opened the door with his back to him, and took off his school uniform jacket. His short-sleeved school uniform was soaked with sweat, outlining the clear outline of the boy's back.

Yu Wen felt that he had lost weight.

He subconsciously reached out and poked Xie Heyu's back, saying, "But school isn't over yet, is it?"

"Yeah." Xie Heyu said, "I asked for leave and came back."

Yu Wen curled his lips, "You're still so jumpy."

Xie Heyu was used to his slowness and didn't refute him.

After entering the house, Xie Heyu went to get ice cream, and Yu Wen followed behind him, step by step.

Xie Heyu asked him what he was doing.

Yu Wen took the ice cream, scooped a spoonful and put it in his mouth, looked at Xie Heyu expectantly, and said: "Did you miss me?"

After a long time of separation, the first thing he did was to give Xie Heyu a warm hug. Yu Wen did not expect to see such a loss of control in Xie Heyu.

But he just wanted to tease Xie Heyu.

"...Yes."

Xie Heyu was more frank than Yu Wen expected.

Yu Wen's half spoonful of ice cream was stuck in the air, and he did not react: "Ah?"

Xie Heyu scratched his sweaty forehead.

"I missed you a lot. Can't you see?"