Chapter 50. I felt a nameless fire rising in my lower abdomen. ...
In late March, Gu Shiyue went to Beijing to spend two weeks at the Aerospace Research Institute there for a visit and study.
Since Jiang Luo started dating, he and Cheng Jiashu have seen each other less often. Cheng Jiashu used to often invite Jiang Luo to his off-campus place to play games, but now that Jiang Luo is taken, his evenings are occupied by his girlfriend, leaving him with nothing to do.
With Gu Shiyue away from home these days, Cheng Jiashu has had a rare opportunity to bring Jiang Luo over.
The two people were playing video games in the living room, with a pile of snacks and drinks on the coffee table.
After finishing the game, Jiang Luo picked up his phone to reply to WeChat messages.
With over a month to go before the May Day holiday, Jiang Luo has already received several invitations from anime convention organizers to be a guest autograph session attendee. He turned down three invitations tonight alone, occasionally replying to messages while playing games.
Cheng Jiashu took a sip of his cola, crossed his legs, and glanced sideways at Jiang Luo's phone. "Brother Yue is checking up on me way too often."
"Hmm?" Jiang Luo raised his head and smiled. "Who told you it was him checking up on me?"
"no?"
"No. The organizers of the comic convention invited me to be a guest."
"Which convention?" Cheng Jiashu leaned closer and discovered it was a large-scale comic convention in Shenzhen during the May Day holiday, but Jiang Luo's rejection reply had already been sent.
Cheng Jiashu looked surprised: "Why refuse?"
It's one thing for a small exhibition to refuse, but for such a big exhibition, with Jiang Luo's fan base, the appearance fee must be very high.
Cheng Jiashu is a fairly well-known cosplayer in the community and has received invitations to anime conventions, so he's quite familiar with the pricing. However, his fanbase isn't as large as Jiang Luo's, so he naturally receives far fewer invitations. He's never been a guest at anime conventions before, finding it too troublesome and too lazy to go.
Jiang Luo's situation is different from his. Jiang Luo's parents have both passed away, there is no source of income for his family, and he has a younger brother who is still in high school. He needs this kind of opportunity to make money.
Moreover, Jiang Luo has so many fans, and they must be really looking forward to him participating in offline events.
Cheng Jiashu couldn't understand why Jiang Luo refused: "Did you accept invitations from other exhibitions?"
"No. I won't answer anymore."
Cheng Jiashu was completely bewildered: "Huh? What do you mean?"
"I'm not going to comic book conventions for autograph sessions anymore."
"No? Why?"
"I already have a boyfriend, so it wouldn't be appropriate for me to hold an offline autograph session."
"What's the big deal? You're not releasing any otome game characters anyway."
"Anyway, I just feel it's not suitable."
Some fans came to the offline autograph session because of Jiang Luo himself, while others came because of the characters he cosplayed. Jiang Luo was well aware of this, so he couldn't be in a relationship while simultaneously creating fantasies for those fans by cosplaying as a character. He felt that this would be disrespectful to both the characters he cosplayed and the fans who loved those characters.
After all, offline autograph sessions are for-profit.
Moreover, autograph sessions require interaction and close contact with fans. He didn't care about these things when he was single, but not now, because he has a boyfriend.
Cheng Jiashu clicked his tongue twice: "What a principled good boy. But how much money will you lose, and how many fans will be heartbroken?"
Jiang Luo smiled and said, "I didn't say I wouldn't participate in offline events, I just said I wouldn't be holding autograph sessions."
Jiang Luo will still participate in offline events. He won't attend comic conventions during the May Day holiday, but he has taken on an official commission from a popular game.
He was invited to serve as an official representative at the game company's anniversary carnival celebration held during the May Day holiday.
Cheng Jiashu had also received an invitation. He hadn't planned to go, but when he heard that Jiang Luo had accepted, he immediately decided to go as well.
Cheng Jiashu sat cross-legged on the sofa, munching on a bag of potato chips, and remarked, "Dating is such a hassle."
Jiang Luo glanced at him.
"I'm not free at all."
“Freedom is relative.” Jiang Luo smiled, his eyes narrowed. “I have never been unfree.”
Cheng Jiashu chuckled, thinking to himself that was true. Jiang Luo was always carefree; he wouldn't let himself be unhappy. He seemed obedient, but he actually had very strong opinions of his own.
He will only pursue what he likes.
"Do you actually enjoy being looked after?" Cheng Jiashu asked him.
“Yes.” Jiang Luo nodded. “That person must be him.”
"Ouch..." Cheng Jiashu rubbed his arm, feeling a bit embarrassed by the cheesy sentimentality.
Jiang Luo smiled and continued, "It's a sense of belonging. After my mother passed away, I always felt like I was floating in mid-air, not knowing where to land."
This sense of belonging is different from the sense of belonging in family relationships; it carries a possessive quality that makes Jiang Luo feel secure.
Cheng Jiashu fell silent and looked at him quietly.
“And I feel that he needs me, and I also enjoy that feeling of being needed,” Jiang Luo said.
Cheng Jiashu chuckled, and unusually made a sarcastic remark: "So you ended up with him?"
"Yes."
During the two weeks that Gu Shiyue was in Beijing, Liang Siheng was also in Beijing. It was rare for Gu Shiyue to come here, and after his two-week internship ended, Liang Siheng asked him to stay for two more days.
For the past two weeks, Gu Shiyue has been staying in the graduate student dormitory at the research institute. Tonight, he's staying at a place arranged by his uncle. After taking a shower in the evening, he lay in bed and made a video call to Jiang Luo.
Living in the dormitory made video calls inconvenient, so this was the first time he had video-called Jiang Luo in two weeks.
Jiang Luo had just finished showering when she opened the door and heard her phone ringing on the bed.
Jiang Luo rarely goes back to the dorm anymore and has been staying with Gu Shiyue. It was Gu Shiyue's request, and Jiang Luo himself agreed. He already has a cat at home to take care of, and it's more convenient for him to move in. His roommates all know that he's in a relationship and that he and his partner are living off-campus.
Jiang Luo picked up her phone and glanced at it, somewhat surprised to see Gu Shiyue's video call.
He crawled into bed, lay on his side, and answered the phone.
Gu Shiyue was leaning against the headboard reading a book, with his phone propped up to the side.
This was actually his second call; Jiang Luo hadn't heard his phone ring while he was outside.
As soon as the video call connected, Gu Shiyue looked up at the camera.
"I just went to take a shower and didn't bring my phone," Jiang Luo said.
Gu Shiyue hummed in agreement and glanced at his hair.
Jiang Luo noticed his gaze and immediately smiled and said, "I've dried my hair, it's completely dry."
Jiang Luo has a bad habit: he doesn't like to blow-dry his hair after showering, preferring to let it air dry, both in winter and summer. Now, under Gu Shiyue's supervision, he obediently blow-dries his hair after showering.
Jiang Luo knew that Gu Shiyue would be staying in Beijing for two more days before returning. "Did you stay at your uncle's place today?"
"Hmm. What did you have for dinner?"
"I ate at the school cafeteria. It wasn't as good as your cooking."
Gu Shiyue looked at the person in the video. Jiang Luo was lying on his side on the bed, wearing his pajamas. The wide neckline hung loosely down, revealing half of his shoulder.
Gu Shiyue's gaze fell on Jiang Luo's clothes. Jiang Luo shrank into the blanket, covering half of her face, revealing a pair of smiling eyes: "I'm wearing your pajamas."
For the past few days, Jiang Luo has been wearing Gu Shiyue's pajamas, and the clothes still smell of Gu Shiyue.
"Why would you wear mine?" Gu Shiyue's smile was faint as he asked a question he already knew the answer to.
"It smells like you."
The pajamas Gu Shiyue was wearing were the ones he wore the night before he went to Beijing. Although they weren't the same ones, the style was the same. That night, he and Jiang Luo had been intimate until the early hours of the morning. Jiang Luo remembered the pajamas and the details of that night.
Jiang Luo looked at his pajamas and couldn't help but recall that night, her thoughts drifting far away.
The two hadn't seen each other for half a month.
Jiang Luo half-closed his eyes, remaining silent, with half his face buried in the pillow. Gu Shiyue assumed he was just sleepy: "Are you sleepy? If you are, go to sleep."
"I'm not sleepy." Jiang Luo held the phone closer, so close that Gu Shiyue could hear his breathing. "I think I might not be able to sleep tonight."
His voice was hoarse, and his breathing was very noticeable. Gu Shiyue asked, "What's wrong?"
"I miss you." Jiang Luo rolled over, lying flat on the bed, holding her phone in front of her, and said with a smile, "I feel a nameless fire in my lower abdomen."
Gu Shiyue chuckled silently and said, "I'll try to do it myself today."
Jiang Luo made a "hmm" sound, but before she could speak, she heard Gu Shiyue say, "I'll lick it for you when we get back."
Jiang Luo wasn't in a bad mood yet, not in a state where he needed to comfort himself, but Gu Shiyue's words made his blood boil, and he suddenly felt a surge of anger.
Jiang Luo hadn't expected that Gu Shiyue's offer to lick him included not only his front but also his back. Gu Shiyue fulfilled his promise the very night he returned from Beijing, licking Jiang Luo until he was completely soft, and they made love right there in the shower.
The time had lasted too long, and Jiang Luo's legs went weak and he couldn't stand anymore, so Gu Shiyue carried him out of the bathroom. Jiang Luo clung to Gu Shiyue's body with his legs wrapped around Gu Shiyue's hips, and Gu Shiyue kept moving all the way, while Jiang Luo, with his neck tilted back, couldn't suppress the sounds he made.
Gu Shiyue sat down on the edge of the bed with Jiang Luo in his arms, sitting all the way down. Jiang Luo felt an unprecedented fullness and pressure. She bit her lip and groaned, her eyes moist.
Gu Shiyue gently kissed his eyelashes, and the two sat face to face, their kisses deepening and increasing in speed.
Afterwards, the two lay in bed embracing, covered with a thin blanket.
Jiang Luo was still reeling from the memory of Gu Shiyue licking him in the bathroom. Just thinking about it made him blush. He had said "dirty" and "no" at the time, but Gu Shiyue still did it.
Jiang Luo's face flushed red. Gu Shiyue touched it and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Hmm?" Jiang Luo raised his eyes.
"Why is my face so hot?"
"Mmm..." Jiang Luo hugged his waist and buried her face in his neck, "Don't help me with that anymore."
Which one?
"Lick...that, I can't stand that."
"dislike?"
Jiang Luo immediately said, "I like it. It's just that I can't quite handle it... I haven't recovered yet."
"If you like it, why don't you want it?" Gu Shiyue stroked the back of his neck and asked calmly, "Do you prefer the front or the back?"
Jiang Luo blushed even more and answered honestly, "I like them all. As long as it's you."
"Do you want to do it again next time?"
"Hmm... I'll take it."
The two lay on the bed for a while.
"Senior."
Gu Shiyue closed his eyes and hummed in agreement.
Has your dad been looking for you lately?
Gu Shiyue opened his eyes. "He contacted you?"
"No, no. Didn't he talk to me before, telling me to break up with you? He even said that if I didn't, he would interfere in your future life..."
"If he wanted to interfere, he would have done so long ago."
You mean... he was just trying to scare me?
"He's probably trying to test your attitude." Gu Shiyue knew his father well; his father wasn't the same Gu Hong he used to be. "Don't worry, he can't interfere with me. Don't take this to heart."
Jiang Luo looked up at Gu Shiyue, "Senior, do you and your father... do you hate him?"
"I don't hate him. I just can't talk to him anymore."
"That's good."
Gu Shiyue looked down at him.
"I hope you are happy and don't carry unnecessary negative emotions."
"By the way, senior, are you free during the May Day holiday?" Jiang Luo changed the subject.
Gu Shiyue chuckled: "Aren't you changing the subject a little too quickly?"
Jiang Luo smiled and said, "Let's talk about something happy."
What's wrong with May Day?
Jiang Luo mentioned to Gu Shiyue that he would be serving as a member of the committee during the May Day holiday. To prevent Gu Shiyue from misunderstanding, he also explained the duties of the committee.
Gu Shiyue nodded after hearing this: "I'll go with you."
"Tell me every time you go on a long trip in the future," Gu Shiyue said, stroking the hair on his forehead. "No matter where you go."
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