Bai Liu turned his head away to avoid Hei Tao who was approaching him. He could smell the obvious alcohol in Hei Tao's breath.

Of course, maybe it wasn't Spade's, it could be his.

Bai Liu probably drank more vodka tonight than he had ever drunk in his entire life.

Although his thoughts and actions seemed to be stable, his limbs felt weak as if he was drunk. When Hei Tao opened his arms and pressed towards him, Bai Liu couldn't help but lean back and lean his shoulders against the wall for support.

Hei Tao lowered his eyes and looked at Bai Liu whose face was flushed. This time he did not ask Bai Liu why her face turned red - because Bai Liu's face was always red after drinking.

The sounds from the other side of the wall had become muffled.

Bai Liu slowly raised his eyes and looked at Hei Tao, his breathing was warm and light, Hei Tao could see a very faint halo in Bai Liu's eyes, which was caused by the smell of alcohol and drunkenness.

The halo made Bai Liu's vision unfocused. Although his eyes were clearly on Hei Tao's face, Hei Tao always felt that Bai Liu seemed to be looking through him at someone hiding behind him.

"...I can put it on you." Bai Liu said softly. He seemed to be smiling and a little lazy. "But do you know where to put it on?"

Spade paused, and asked honestly, "Where?"

Bai Liu's smile became more obvious. He reached over Heitao's back and opened the drawer. Inside was a whole box of Ares condoms, ranging from small to large sizes. Bai Liu took them all out and laid them out on the bed.

"?" Spade was a little confused, "Should I wear all of them?"

Bai Liu raised his head, holding his chin with a half-smile, his eyes filled with undisguised mischief and nostalgia: "Have you ever played with balloons?"

Spade: "I've seen it, but never played it."

"I was like that when I was a kid." Bai Liu smiled, his eyes fixed on Heitao's face, becoming distant. "I grew up in an orphanage. The director and teachers there didn't like kids like me. Other kids could get two balloons from festivals, but I didn't."

Spade pursed his lips into a straight line: "They should give it to you."

"There is no such thing as right or wrong in this world." Bai Liu lowered his eyelids, his voice was very nonchalant, "I am not sad about this kind of thing in essence, because those balloons that are shipped in bulk are not worth much money."

Bai Liu paused for a moment and said, "But the other kid who didn't get a balloon doesn't think so."

"He got a bunch of balloons from somewhere, painted them with colorful markers from the craft room, and handed them to me in front of all the kids who got balloons."

Bai Liu lowered his head and smiled: "I saw the rubber rings on these balloons. He found them in the trash can, washed them, and used an air gun to blow them up to make the balloons."

"He didn't know what these things were originally used for, but he turned them into balloons that even a child would think were beautiful and gave them to me."

Bai Liu's eyelashes trembled slightly: "In essence... I shouldn't be happy about this kind of thing."

"Because these balloons are not worth much, and they are dirty and disgusting."

But Xie Ta just looked at him like that, holding the balloon and looking at him, with a small wound on his hand from rummaging through the trash can, and Bai Liu took it over as if possessed.

Then Xie Ta looked at Bai Liu and smiled slightly.

At that moment, those cheap balloons and those dirty and disgusting condoms seemed to become pure and precious because of Shetta's smile.

It was a very strange feeling. It was the first time that Bai Liu realized that the value of these items could actually shift in subjective perception.

"For the first time, I feel that these things are actually valuable." Bai Liu said softly, "Because he gave them to me."

"He made me think condoms weren't nasty."

Spade held up a box of condoms, examined it for a moment, and then asked, "Are these really nasty balloons?"

"In my original concept, these balloons are used to do very dirty things." Bai Liu raised his head, he reached out to touch Hei Tao's face, parted his hair, and looked into Hei Tao's pure black eyes with half-closed eyes, "It is used to hold the desire of human flesh to fully contact."

Spade is confused: "If you want full contact, why do you need to use this thing to isolate yourself?"

"Because of distrust, fear, and terror." Bai Liu lowered her eyelids. "People can't believe that the person they have no contact with is disease-free, can marry them, can give their children a happy marriage and future, and can love them forever, so they use this thing as the last line of defense to protect themselves."

"This is the correct way to use a condom most of the time - because there really is no one in this world who will love you forever and won't hurt you."

"But people always use this excuse to get entangled with each other, and then use this thing to separate themselves from each other - sometimes they don't even use it in order to better control and harm each other, such as making the other party pregnant with their own children and getting a better sexual experience."

"From a universal logic point of view, it is right to use this thing."

Bai Liu looked at Hei Tao and said, "I found this logic ironic, so I told the person who gave me the balloons the origin and purpose of them. I thought they were disgusting at the time."

"You know what he told me?"

Spade stared at Bai Liu and said calmly, "If I were a very dangerous monster, and one day someone wanted to get close to me, this thing would protect him from my harm."

"I don't think it's evil, it's a protective tool."

Bai Liu was silent for a long time, and then he said, "Yes, that person told me the same thing."

"I can teach you how to use and wear it." Bai Liu's voice was very calm, "... maybe besides me, there is no one else who can teach you these things."

Just like Shetta didn't understand that the balloon he was holding up was a condom that everyone laughed at.

"No need." Heitao interrupted Bai Liu abruptly.

There was no emotion on his face. He suddenly reached out and collected all the condoms, swept them into the bedside table, then turned off the light. He turned around and pushed Bai Liu into the quilt and covered her up. He said in a muffled voice, "I won't wear it anymore. I'm going to sleep."

Bai Liu looked at the ceiling. He could hear the faint sound of thumping and panting coming from the bedside, but he smiled for some reason and asked, "Why not?"

Spade was silent for a long time in the dark night before answering: "I'm not sure if you will be hurt."

"This protective item looks fragile."

Bai Liu's voice was very calm: "Haven't you hurt me before? Don't you want to do it now?"

"My intuition at that time told me that I should separate you from that heart." Spade's tone was a little low, as if he felt that he had done something wrong.

Bai Liu asked: "What about now?"

Spade said, "Now my instinct tells me that I shouldn't hurt you anymore."

Bai Liu turned his head slightly and looked at Hei Tao with a squint, imitating the man's tone: "Why? There is no reason, right?"

"There is a reason," Spade said. "We are married and we took a vow."

In a strange tone, he solemnly imitated the oath that the soldiers made when they were married by the priest: "From now on to eternity, whether in good times or bad, in wealth or poverty, in health or disease, in happiness or sorrow, I will love you and cherish you forever and ever."

Bai Liu couldn't help but chuckle, but he quickly began to pour cold water on her: "This is just a game in your life, you don't have to take it so seriously."

"My life is all about games." Spade asked in confusion, "Why can't I take it seriously?"

Bai Liu fell silent. He turned his back to Hei Tao and said, "Good night."

Hei Tao was lying flat on his back facing Bai Liu. He said "oh" and then closed his eyes.

After he heard Bai Liu's breathing became completely even, Hei Tao quietly opened the bedside cabinet. He lowered his head and looked at the condoms inside for a while, then reached out and took out a box.

There was a loud gasp coming from the next room.

"This thing, it turns out to be a balloon, no wonder we have to use our mouths..." Spade nodded in sudden realization and muttered to himself, "So Guy and the others are out of breath from blowing up the balloons?"

Then Spade was caught up in a new round of questions: "Why do two people blow up balloons together on their wedding night?"

But this time, Bai Liu behind Hei Tao was really asleep, and there was no one left to answer his endless questions.

The next morning, when Bai Liu slowly woke up, he pulled out his gun within a second and aimed at the unknown white spherical objects in the room.

After one night, Bai Liu felt like he had moved into a new room, filled with balloons of all sizes.

After confirming that this was the room he slept in last night, Bai Liu put away his gun, put on his clothes, and expressionlessly tore off a balloon as big as a washbasin that was stuck to the wall.

He saw the ball mouth, a pale yellow rubber ring.

Bai Liu paused for two seconds, walked to the bedside table and opened it while buttoning his shirt, then paused again.

At least six boxes of unopened condoms that were placed in the drawer yesterday have already been used up, leaving only a few empty boxes lying in the drawer.

Bai Liu slowly adjusted his breathing, cleaned up all the balloons in the room, threw them into the trash can, turned around and walked out of the room.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Alex and Guy outside, peeking in. Bai Liu gasped as he came out.

Guy spoke frankly, looking at Bai Liu with horror: "You're still alive! I thought Hei Tao had...killed you!"

Bai Liu was silent for a moment, then he looked at Guy with a questioning look.

Guy's eyes couldn't help but wander around Bai Liu's waist: "Last night, Heitao came out and asked for condoms."

"I ordered twelve boxes, of all sizes." Alex's eyes were particularly strange, and he said slowly, "But we already have six boxes in the house, which adds up to nearly two hundred..."

Bai Liu: “…”

Guy couldn't help it, and looked into the room curiously: "What did you do in the house last night? You used so much in one night?"

Alex thought of Tang Erda, and looked at Bai Liu with an increasingly strange look in his eyes. He emphasized faintly, "We have all sizes available..."

Bai Liu ignored the topic as if nothing had happened and asked calmly, "Where's Heitao?"

Alex had a very complicated look on his face: "We met Spade this morning, he said he didn't have enough, so he went to town to buy condoms..."

"We thought you wouldn't get up for a while." Guy said with a hint of sarcasm, squinting his eyes, "After all, Spade looks very anxious, and it feels like he will be back soon to continue using it with you."

Bai Liu: “…”

Guy was right. After Bai Liu loaded the gun with a smile and said he was going to find Spade, Spade ran back by himself.

Bai Liu was stunned when he saw the spades.

This person's face was covered in various paints, and he was holding a bunch of huge balloons that looked like abstract paintings. His hair was covered in various paints that intertwined into colorful lines.

Hei Tao walked up to Bai Liu, who was breathing heavily, which was unusual for him.

Bai Liu noticed a circle of red marks around the man's mouth - it was obvious that he had been blowing balloons very hard all night.

Spade held up a pile of about seven or eight balloons that had been damaged by paint. His black eyes seemed to be shining in the mess of colors: "I couldn't find a marker, so I borrowed paint to paint."

Bai Liu was silent - he realized that this guy was imitating Shetta's behavior of drawing balloons with a marker and sending them to him.

But he is not good at it at all, so he produced a bunch of even more terrible works of art.

But Spade himself didn't seem to notice it. He stood straight and said, "I played all night, and these are the best ones."

"Here you go. They didn't give you the balloon." Spade stuffed the balloon into Bai Liu's hand and said, "You should have it."

Hei Tao panted, his tone particularly serious: "The two of them definitely didn't blow up as many balloons as I did last night. Our marriage won over them."

"I just asked, and among the people getting married here recently, we two are the ones who used the most condoms on the night of our wedding. We must be the best couple."

Bai Liu looked up at the dirty Spade. He finally took the balloon, gave Spade a hug, and said, "Yes."

“We had a great relationship.”

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