Chapter 15: Alone

At the company headquarters, Yu Wen finished painting a layer of paint and was sweating profusely.

The weather was hot and humid, and the room under renovation had no air conditioning, so there was a sense of restlessness in the air. Xie Heyu was responsible for a wider range of things, and his forehead was wet with sweat, which hung wetly in front of his eyes. His sleeves were rolled up above his shoulders, revealing his well-defined biceps.

He handed Yu Wen a bottle of water. Fearing that he would be hot, he took off the small paper hat on his head, but worried that he would need it again later, he hesitated and put it on his own head.

"Let's go to the dance studio downstairs and rest for a while."

Yu Wen saw that he was wearing the paper hat crookedly, and sweat soaked his entire neck, lingering on his moving Adam's apple, sparkling. While emitting strong hormones, the sharpness of his facial features was weakened by the small boat hat stained with paint. He had a kind of handsomeness that was both blunt and aggressive.

He praised sincerely, "Teacher Xie, you are so sexy."

"..."

Xie Heyu stared at him for a moment, pursed her lips, and the roots of her ears under her hair were a little red.

"Let's go." He silently looked away and poked Yu Wen's shoulder with his finger, indicating to hurry up.

The dance studio was equipped with the most advanced fresh air system on the market, and it became cool in a short while.

Yu Wen lay flat on the floor, like a wind-dried fish.

Xie Heyu came over with a plastic bag, which contained plump and red strawberries.

Yu Wen didn't move, just moved his black and white eyes to look at him, "Strawberries? Where did you get them?"

"I bought them and put them in the refrigerator. I've washed them."

Yu Wen closed his eyes and prepared himself mentally for half a minute. Finally, he sat up.

He touched the plastic bag and his eyes lit up, "It's ice cold."

"Yeah." Xie Heyu took a towel to wipe the sweat off his face, opened the plastic bag, and picked the reddest one at random, "It tastes better after being refrigerated - that's what the shopping guide said."

Yu Wen took the strawberries he picked and chuckled, "Actually there's no difference, but the iced ones are more thirst-quenching... Don't you eat them normally?"

Xie Heyu: "Occasionally."

Yu Wen: "Then why did you suddenly think of buying strawberries?"

"You've been staying at home for a week and haven't left the house. I went to see you and bought them when I passed by the supermarket." Xie Heyu paused and added, "Xie Jiamao asked me to go."

Yu Wen stared at his red ears, thinking that people with muscles are different. They dissipate heat more slowly than others.

"I'm a bit lazy, I don't like to go out." Yu Wen changed his posture, bent over a little, and lay down to stare at a bag of strawberries.

You say he is diligent, he is too lazy to raise his hands; you say he is lazy, in order not to raise his hands, he deliberately lay down.

"Did the boss ask you to supervise me to eat these? I don't think I told the boss that I like to eat strawberries." Yu Wen muttered. "

I picked them, not Xie Jiamao. Last time at the dinner, your taboo list only had sour strawberries." Xie Heyu saw a few remaining strawberry leaves, picked them out, and noticed that Yu Wen still had half a strawberry in his fingertips. After thinking for a while, he reached out to the latter.

"Give it to me."

Yu Wen pushed the plastic bag towards him, "You eat it."

"I mean the one in your hand."

"..." Yu Wen's eyes repeatedly jumped between "Mom is perverted" and "This must be a misunderstanding."

Xie Heyu saw his tangled expression, organized his words, and whispered: "I can eat anything. If you don't mind, you can give me the ones you don't want to eat."

In fact, it was not that serious, but Xie Heyu's expression was too serious. Yu Wen even had an illusion that the other party mustered up a hundred thousand points of courage. If he was rejected, he would not be able to maintain his cool and aloofness, and his eyelashes would droop and drop golden beads.

He was confused and handed it over.

Xie Heyu chewed expressionlessly, his Adam's apple sliding as he swallowed the half-bitten strawberry. Yu Wen felt as if an electric current was running through his scalp. A large amount of yellow waste material popped out from nowhere and filled his entire brain.

Something was wrong.

He woke up as if from a dream.

"No, no, no." He sat up from the ground and pushed the plastic bag towards Xie Heyu as if he was avoiding a flood. "I ate a lot of snacks before going out. I can't eat anymore. Teacher Xie, please eat it. Haha, haha."

He was a little flustered for a rare time. His language system seemed to be attacked by a virus. After a long time of this and that, he finally uttered, "Teacher Xie, I want to go home first."

The paint in the reception room had not been finished yet. Xie Heyu was puzzled by his sudden farewell, but still said tolerantly, "Okay."

Then he stood up, picked up the strawberries, "I'll take you home."

-

Xie Heyu's car was parked in the basement. When taking the elevator down, Yu Wen earnestly persuaded him not to send it, and even brought up the reason that the electric donkey could not be transported together. After getting out of the elevator, Xie Heyu asked, "Where is the car?"

Yu Wen pointed to the shared electric car outside the glass door.

A circle of loading appeared on Xie Heyu's face, and he asked doubtfully, "You want to take this shared bike... home?"

Yu Wen: "..."

Xie Heyu didn't understand, but respected it. He measured the size of the shared electric bike with his eyes and said, "It should be able to fit."

Yu Wen was silent for a while, laughing at his own stupidity and Xie Heyu's tolerance.

He didn't understand why he was so nervous. It was just sharing a strawberry, not kissing. Why was he so nervous... Bah, bah, bah, don't think about it.

He pushed those weird thoughts out of his mind, took a deep breath, and relaxed.

"I was just kidding. I just suddenly thought of whether shared electric cars can be put into the trunk. I wanted to test it for no reason. Now I'm not interested anymore. It's so boring. Let's go home quickly."

Xie Heyu didn't say anything, nodded, raised her hand and pressed the down button of the elevator.

Yu Wen was silent for less than a minute.

"Teacher Xie, can your car be turned into a convertible?"

"No."

"Oh, that's a pity, hahaha."

"You want to sit? I'll drive it next time."

"No, no, I just had a sudden idea. Don't worry about me."

Abandoning the inexplicable sense of shame, Yu Wen fell asleep as soon as he got in the car. When he woke up, he found that Xie Heyu's coat was covering his face, probably to block the sunlight for him.

"Thank you, teacher..." He moved his shoulders and stretched his waist. There was a faint scent of detergent on his coat, which was dry and cold. Like its owner, Yu Wen thought it smelled good and took a deep sniff.

"Huh, are we here?" He pulled off his clothes and hugged him in his arms. The short ten-minute nap recharged his tired body from painting, and even his voice became cheerful.

Xie Heyu glanced at him sideways, "Yeah. Eat well, remember to take vitamins, and don't get sick."

"Yes sir!"

Yu Wen saluted him, took the strawberry in his hand, pushed open the car door, and jumped into the door of the apartment building.

The paper hat was left in the co-pilot.

Xie Heyu picked it up, looked at it for a moment, and hesitated for a moment between throwing it away and not throwing it away.

Forget it, keep it.

Xie Heyu flattened the hat, wrapped it with a tissue, and put it neatly in the storage compartment.

What if he wants it next time.

"Thank you, teacher!" After doing all this, Xie Heyu was about to drive away, and Yu Wen rushed out again. His clear voice startled his hands and made him feel guilty for some reason, as if he had done something bad.

"...What's wrong?"

Yu Wen panted slightly, leaned on the car window, and met Xie Heyu's eyes. He felt that Teacher Xie's eyes were wider than usual, and he felt as if he was guilty of being a thief.

He was amused by his divergent thinking again. He knocked on the car window, waited for it to come down, and leaned half of his head in, his eyes bright.

"Come up and sit. I'll treat you to dinner tonight. Thank you for taking care of me for so long."

Xie Heyu: "..."

-

Yu Wen said he would cook for him himself, but Xie Heyu didn't seem to be looking forward to it and was silent all the way.

Yu Wen found that his neck was red when he got into the elevator.

"Teacher Xie, are you hot?" Yu Wen pointed at his light pink neck, looked at his red and bleeding ear tips, and whispered: "College students are energetic and full of blood..."

He completely forgot that he had just graduated from college.

"It's okay, it will be fine in a moment." Xie Heyu covered his shoulders with his coat to hide his physiological reaction. He put his hands in his pockets and leaned against the handrail of the elevator. After a while, he said in a muffled voice: "Is it inappropriate for me to go to your house?"

"Huh? What's wrong? Didn't you plan to come to see me?" Yu Wen scratched the back of his head, "And I also went to the boss's house for dinner last time..."

To be honest, it was even more inappropriate.

Xie Heyu didn't say anything. As the elevator number continued to increase, the hands in his pockets clenched nervously, and the veins on his wrists were even visible.

Seeing that he looked up and stared at the elevator number without any intention of explaining, Yu Wen could only guess on his own.

"Well... Teacher Xie, are you gay?"

Xie Heyu froze like a robot that had crashed.

"Ah, it may be a bit presumptuous to ask this... Anyway, I'm not gay. If Teacher Xie has a boyfriend, please tell him not to worry. You and I have a legitimate brotherhood."

Yu Wen gestured between the two of them, his expression upright enough to join the party directly.

"..."

Xie Heyu paused for half a minute and turned his head to look at him mechanically.

Yu Wen's face was full of ashes, exuding his own firmness and sincerity.

"...Oh."

Xie Heyu responded.

Yu Wen heard a false sense of disappointment in his low tone.

-

Opening the door, Yu Wen found a pair of brand new slippers and squatted at Xie Heyu's feet to gesture.

"It seems a little small."

Xie Heyu pulled him up, "It doesn't matter, you can wear it."

That was all he could do. Yu Wen took off his shoes and socks, stepped on the ceramic floor barefoot, ran over and turned on the air conditioner, while adjusting the temperature, he said: "I will go to the supermarket to buy a pair tomorrow, so that you won't squeeze your feet next time... Oh, I don't mean to ask you to come often, please don't worry about your boyfriend."

Xie Heyu approached with slippers, grabbed his ankles and stuffed them into the shoes.

"I don't have a boyfriend."

Yu Wen thought about it and quickly changed his words, "Please don't worry about your girlfriend."

Xie Heyu: "...No." "

Then..." Yu Wen hesitated and his voice became softer, "I don't have any improper thoughts, please don't worry about it, Teacher Xie."

Xie Heyu: "..."

He raised his head and looked into Yu Wen's eyes.

After a long while, the young man relaxed his expression, and sighed with indulgence, saying, "Don't worry."

This means that he is a straight man.

Yu Wen was relieved.