Su Luyang did not mention the phone call that day. It was also on this day that Xiang Ling suddenly realized what Su Luyang meant when he confessed to him: "I know there are some things you can't tell me now, but I have some too."
Xiang Ling also discovered that he never knew which school Su Luyang had studied in, why he, as an excellent student, suddenly returned to China, and he had no idea why Su Luyang was so resistant to musicals.
However, Xiang Ling did not ask deliberately. He knew too well how it felt to be asked a question that he absolutely did not want to answer.
So he would rather wait until the day when Su Luyang himself is willing to say it.
Su Luyang doesn't like musicals, but Xiang Ling is still the president of the musical club, so Xiang Ling still organizes the daily club activities seriously.
After the National Day celebrations, they had a lot more free time. Every year, they only had to finish the semester's play before the holiday. This semester, Xiang Ling and his team had calculated that the performance would take place after New Year's Day. From now on, they still had more than three months to prepare, which was plenty of time.
Moreover, this semester they recruited many new members who can play musical instruments. Together with the old members, Xiang Ling and his team made a temporary decision to change the accompaniment played through speakers to live music during the performance.
This increases the difficulty, but it is also an unprecedented innovation for them and is well worth a try.
Xiang Ling can also play musical instruments, but he only knows how to play the erhu. He learned it in high school and hasn't touched it since college. After chatting with the newly formed orchestra group in the club several times during this period, he felt the urge to pick up the instrument again.
The play they are going to perform this semester is "Chicago", and the erhu is obviously not suitable for it. Xiang Ling was encouraged by a new member and started learning saxophone from him.
After consulting with professionals, Xiang Ling asked someone to bring him a saxophone from abroad, but before that, if Xiang Ling wanted to learn, he could only borrow it temporarily.
When Su Luyang first heard Xiang Ling say that he wanted to learn the saxophone, he was quite supportive. However, when he found out that he wanted to share one with someone, his face immediately turned dark.
"I'll go out and buy you one tomorrow. You can just play it for now and change it when the one you bought arrives." Su Luyang said.
As a 23-year-old "mature man", Su Luyang is very clear that he is not suitable to make unreasonable demands. Instead, he should find a solution directly and get rid of things that make him feel uncomfortable.
Xiang Ling didn't pay attention to that. He was surprised: "You are twenty-three?"
Xiang Ling had just turned eighteen when he graduated from high school, and now he has just turned twenty-one in his third year of college. Su Luyang, who is in the same grade as him, is already twenty-three!
Before, Su Luyang said that he was the oldest, and Xiang Ling thought he was only a few months older, but he didn't expect it was several years.
Su Luyang said with a calm expression, seemingly nonchalant, "I took a two-year break from school."
Xiang Ling let out an "ah".
"I had a minor accident and stayed in the hospital for more than a year," said Su Luyang.
Xiang Ling got a little anxious after hearing what he said: "What kind of accident has you been lying down for over a year? Are you okay now? Why didn't you tell us? In case there's anything you need to pay attention to, we can help you more!"
Su Luyang said: "Of course I left the hospital only after I was fully recovered. Don't worry, I'm fine now."
Xiang Ling was still unhappy: "What kind of accident can cause someone to be bedridden for over a year? I have a friend who was in a serious car accident and he only stayed in the hospital for four months. Your time is three or four times as long as his."
Su Luyang shrugged helplessly: "It's not a big deal. It's just that two minor accidents happened during my hospitalization, so the timeline was stretched a bit."
Xiang Ling wanted to speak, but Su Luyang hugged Xiang Ling and said, "Don't talk about this. It's all in the past. I'm glad I'm okay now."
As expected, Xiang Ling stopped asking. Su Luyang had been avoiding telling them what had happened to him. It was obvious that he didn't want to say it.
Perhaps, this accident was the reason why Xiang Ling transferred schools.
Xiang Ling thought of the phone call Su Luyang received on the night of the National Day celebration and frowned with some worry.
In the blink of an eye, Saturday arrived again. Su Luyang got up earlier than Xiang Ling.
Because the domestic environment is different from other places, Xiang Ling said before returning to China that he would keep a low profile on campus. Coming out in a small circle like they did was considered skirting the rules in school, and being too high-profile in their relationship was a complete challenge to the school's authority.
This is not allowed. If the matter gets out of hand, the punishment will be minor and you may even be asked to quit.
So after they returned to China, they had almost no close contact except for the incident on the night of the National Day celebration.
Xiang Ling didn't want to make a big deal out of it, nor did he like doing overly intimate things in public. According to Xiang Ling, he was afraid that "he would not be able to control his desire", but in Su Luyang's eyes, Xiang Ling was just making excuses to quibble.
Xiang Ling is obviously shy.
They couldn't be intimate in public places, and Xiang Ling didn't agree in the dormitory either. Su Luyang couldn't stand it. As a man who had just entered the passionate period of love, he couldn't actually have physical contact with his boyfriend. He felt worse than before they were together. At that time, he could still hold hands, but now he couldn't even hold hands.
After protesting several times, Xiang Ling finally agreed to let Su Luyang exercise his boyfriend's rights during their date.
So Su Luyang has been looking forward to Saturday for a long time.
Saturday was his and Xiang Ling's first date, and they were alone from start to finish. Their plans didn't change much from the past: they'd get up early, go to the provincial library, eat, take a walk, and then go to the training school for a three-hour class that lasted until five o'clock.
But things changed after five o'clock, as five o'clock was their official date time.
At 4:59, Su Luyang glanced at his watch, closed the pen cap, and handed the test paper he had just corrected to Xiang Ling.
Today he gave Xiang Ling a small test to summarize his previous studies. As Ji Qiulin said, Xiang Ling had an amazing memory and there was not a single mistake on the entire test paper.
"All correct." Su Luyang said, "Excellent."
Xiang Ling held the test paper with some pride: "Of course."
Su Luyang smiled and looked at the time again. It was exactly five o'clock.
It's time for the appointment.
Su Luyang stood up, not even giving Xiang Ling time to pack up his materials and textbooks. He leaned over and gave Xiang Ling a quick kiss.
"award."
Xiang Ling: “…”
"Teacher Su." Xiang Ling's face turned red. "It's class time now, please restrain yourself."
"Boyfriend." Su Luyang pointed to his watch. "It's a date now. Please understand."
Today they made an appointment to eat crabs. October is a good time to eat crabs. Whether it is river crabs or sea crabs, they are delicacies that cannot be missed.
Province S is not a coastal city. The store Xiang Ling found air-freights the freshest seafood and river fish every day, and its business is very good.
After class, they took the subway there directly, saying they were there to eat crabs, but in fact, when they got to the restaurant, they also ordered many other seafood, including oysters, scallops, sea bass, mantis shrimp, hairy crab... the whole table was filled with them.
The two of them were sitting in a private room, which was decorated in a Japanese style. There was a tatami mat in the middle, and they could put their feet in the groove under the table.
The table was square. Su Luyang and Xiang Ling sat opposite each other at the two ends and began to slowly peel and eat the shrimps.
The two people peeled shrimps in different ways, but at almost the same speed. After they finished peeling the first shrimp, they both reached out and put the meat they had peeled into the other's bowl.
"You eat it yourself." Xiang Ling was happy in his heart, but pretended to refuse.
Su Luyang picked up the shrimp that Xiang Ling had peeled for him and happily put it into his mouth: "Okay, I'll eat it."
After this, the two of them were like playing house. They had peeled the fruit at the same time, but they both had to feed the fruit in their hands to the other.
"Next time we have time, let's go to the beach." Xiang Ling said, "Melbourne or Venice."
"You like traveling abroad very much." Su Luyang said.
"Because I'm very interested in the customs, history, culture, language and literature of every country," Xiang Ling said. "It's good to have the opportunity to experience nature more."
"What do you want to do in the future?" Su Luyang asked. They had not discussed this topic before.
"If you're talking about a job, given my major, I might become an interpreter. But honestly, I haven't really thought about it. My parents don't expect me to follow in their footsteps. I've always followed my interests and learned whatever I wanted to learn. I love all kinds of languages; they're incredibly fascinating to me," Xiang Ling said. "So I'll stay for graduate school; it's still early days for a job."
"You want to take the postgraduate entrance examination? Which one?" Su Luyang asked.
"I'll choose University A. I like it here and I've already found a mentor." Xiang Ling was very proud. "I'm so outstanding, I'm in high demand, okay?"
"Is that so?" Su Luyang said.
"What about you? What do you plan to do after graduation? You studied computer science, and I don't know much about this major." Xiang Ling asked.
"If you want to take the postgraduate entrance exam, then I'll stay and take it too," Su Luyang said. "The computer science program at University A is pretty good."
"You're so casual about deciding whether to take the postgraduate entrance exam!" Xiang Ling was shocked and said, "I did the same thing when I went to France before. How could you make such a decision so quickly? Su Luyang, this is the postgraduate entrance exam, it's a serious matter. Don't you think you should think carefully about it?"
Su Luyang was stunned.
"Don't you want me to take the postgraduate entrance examination with you?" Su Luyang asked.
"Of course not. I'm very happy that you and I are studying for a master's degree together, but this is your life. I don't want you to make these decisions just to accompany me or anything like that. If you really want to take the postgraduate entrance examination, it should be because you want to and you like it." Xiang Ling said.
Su Luyang opened his mouth but couldn't say anything. His eyes were a little dazed, as if he suddenly thought of something and was trapped in his own thoughts for a moment.
Xiang Ling didn't disturb him when he saw this. He picked up his chopsticks and quietly added some fish meat to his meal.
After a while, Su Luyang whispered, "Thank you."
Xiang Ling was a little surprised: "Why are you thanking me?"
Su Luyang said, "No one has ever thought about me like this before."
Xiang Ling wanted to reply, "How is that possible? Even if no one else said it, my parents must have." But Xiang Ling didn't say it. Everyone's life experience is different, and he couldn't use his own way of looking at the world to dictate to everyone.
He also suddenly recalled that Su Lvyang had never mentioned his parents since he moved in. When they occasionally chatted in the dormitory, they would talk about their parents. Even Ji Qiulin had mentioned it before, but Su Lvyang never did.
Su Luyang has always kept silent about his past. Even if someone asked him about it unintentionally, he would immediately change the subject and laugh it off.
Plus, Su Luyang’s sleeping posture.
After suppressing those words in his stomach, Xiang Ling felt a surge of heartache. He actually didn't say anything just now. He just told Su Luyang that when Su Luyang made a decision for him, he should first consider his own feelings instead of doing it for someone else.
But Su Luyang said that no one had ever thought about him like this before.
What kind of consideration is this? Xiang Ling was brought up like this since he was a child. In his opinion, every decision he made should take his own feelings into consideration.
Everyone is an independent and free individual and should live for himself, not for others.
Xiang Ling felt extremely uncomfortable. He looked at Su Luyang and said seriously, "Su Luyang, your boyfriend will think about you from now on."
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