Bai Liu rejected everyone.
Hou Tong was really upset this time and wanted to cry. She didn't understand: "Why? You don't have a girlfriend, so why would you rather eat alone than with others?"
"Being alone is more suitable for me." Bai Liu walked out, and his back paused for a moment, "When I am alone, there is someone to accompany me."
Hou Tong didn't understand what this meant. She looked at Bai Liu's slender figure in school uniform disappearing in the bustling crowd and neon lights of the commercial street, and tears welled up in her eyes.
"Where is the person..." Hou Tong sobbed, "Isn't it still just one person?"
Bai Liu exchanged the coupons for two large barrels of carbonated drinks, and played with Hei Tao from the beginning to the end of the commercial street. Under the dull and dazed gazes of all the shop owners and passers-by, Bai Liu played all the two-player modes by himself and won the biggest prize.
Then he would sell the prize on the street to any boy or girl who wanted it, and use the money to continue playing, until the store owner cried and took the money and sent Bai Liu away.
So after playing for a while, Bai Liu's money increased instead of decreased. By the time he reached the end of the commercial street and the lights came on, the one hundred yuan in Bai Liu's pocket had turned into more than two hundred yuan.
They stood side by side in a dark alley at the end of the commercial street. Bai Liu raised his drink and turned to look at Hei Tao. "Anything else you want to play?"
“Now I don’t have to pick things that are on sale.”
"That one." Spade raised his hand and pointed in a certain direction, his tone insistent, "How much is that thing?"
Bai Liu followed Heitao's line of sight and saw a huge Ferris wheel covered with a circle of colorful LED bulbs that could flash and change the fonts.
The current font is [Ren Qiang (love) Yan Xue, life after life, forever together (stars)]
Heitao looked straight at Bai Liu and said, "I want that one."
Bai Liu: “…”
The Ferris wheel is the most popular attraction in the entire commercial street, because it is very high and big and is located on the riverside. When it reaches the top, the view is excellent, and you can overlook the river view of almost half of the city. One circle takes 30 minutes to kill time, and it is also convenient for some couples to do some intimate things inside. Moreover, each Ferris wheel cabin can flash different light signs according to the different requirements of the customers in the cabin during the two minutes when it reaches the top.
The more popular prompts are things like "I love you forever", "Let's be together forever", "Get rich overnight" and so on. Because the college entrance examination is coming soon, there are many families coming to play, and there are also some congratulatory messages like "Passing the exam".
But this item is not discounted and is quite expensive, costing Bai Liu one hundred and fifty yuan per person.
Fortunately, he and Spade had played the game very well before, and he had earned a lot of gifts for him. These gifts sold for about 150 yuan.
Normally, Bai Liu would think that spending $150 to ride a Ferris wheel for 30 minutes is a useless waste of self-emotional projection, a cheap marketing trap of some business, and a very luxurious love toy.
But now...
Hei Tao looked up at the huge Ferris wheel. He held Bai Liu's hand tightly. The neon lights fell into his black eyes. He looked at the words "Together forever, for all eternity" with concentration and longing.
These may be one of the few words this guy knows.
I don’t know for whom I met her.
Bai Liu retracted his gaze: "Let's go."
"Go sit down."
"Are you sure you're alone?" The owner of the Ferris wheel looked at Bai Liu in surprise as he came alone.
Most of the girls and their couples who come to this project sit alone, but there are few boys who come alone.
"Is it not possible?" Bai Liu asked back in a flat tone.
"Sure, sure!" The boss nodded quickly. He turned on the electronic screen and some slogans slid out. "Pick the slogan you want to light up when you turn to the highest point."
Bai Liu raised his hand and was about to choose the slogan "Forever and ever", but Hei Tao got there first and clicked on another one.
"This one." Spade stared at the electronic screen, "Choose this one."
Bai Liu looked at the slogan chosen by Hei Tao and he was stunned.
Spades chose——【Bai Liu passed the imperial examination and everything went smoothly】
"Boss, wait a moment." Bai Liu glanced at Hei Tao with his peripheral vision, "Let me think about what to choose."
"Ok ok." The boss made an OK gesture, "Take your time to choose, and come over before the next wave of machines start up."
Bai Liu pulled Heitao to a corner. He crossed his arms over his chest with a faint smile on his lips: "Why did you choose that? Do you know what that means?"
"I know him." Spade said, "You guys fail every day in school."
That's right. Qiaomu Private High School has slogans that say "Success in the Imperial Examination" hung all over the school. Everyone around Bai Liu is talking about it, so it would be hard for Hei Tao not to recognize it.
"Then tell me, what does it mean?" Bai Liu asked.
Spade paused for a moment: "You have been doing the questions for this, and everyone around you wants this."
"What they have, you must have too."
"We only have enough money for one ride." Bai Liu said in a light tone, "Are you sure you want to choose this one? If you choose this one, your name won't appear, and you can't choose to be together forever."
He could see that Spade wanted to choose the slogan "Together Forever". This guy always put his own wants first. He didn't think Spade could resist the temptation of "Together Forever".
"Have you made up your mind?" Bai Liu asked, "Which one do you want to choose?"
Hei Tao stared at Bai Liu for a while, then he said "oh" and slowly lowered his head. He spoke without any hesitation: "I hope you will pass the imperial examination."
Now it was Bai Liu's turn to be stunned.
"Do you really want me to pass the imperial examination?"
"No." Heitao looked at Bai Liu, "It's because those people have a lot of people who hope to pass the imperial examination. You should also have some."
Bai Liu fell silent.
He understood what Spade meant. Spade didn't hope that he would pass the imperial examination. Spade just hoped that he would have someone who truly hoped that he would pass the imperial examination - such as himself.
"I see. Then let's get your name on the list." Bai Liu turned and walked towards the Ferris wheel. Suddenly he paused and said, "Do you want to have your name on the same level as mine?"
Spade said without hesitation: "Yes."
So the Ferris wheel owner received the strangest slogan collage request in his life. He looked at the slogan that suddenly flashed when Bai Liu's cabin turned to the top with an extremely complicated look.
[Black Spade Love White Willow, always on the list of top scorers, smooth sailing. ]
The stunned onlookers nearby said: "Forever successful in the imperial examinations, what kind of slogan is this?! Are they a pair of academic geniuses going up there?!"
boss:"……"
The tour ended with a movie. They chose a less popular horror movie. In the entire cinema, apart from another sweet couple who hugged each other and left halfway through the movie, the only people left were Heitao and Bailiu who were sitting in the best seats, and a small bucket of popcorn placed between them.
They both watched the movie quietly.
The horrifying scenes were like a kaleidoscope, reflected frame by frame in the two people's equally dark eyes. In the movie, the protagonist was screaming miserably and running away in panic. Outside the movie, the two hands placed under the seats gradually intertwined and clasped together.
Spade suddenly spoke with envy: "It would be great if we were in this horror game too."
Bai Liu, who was holding hands: "..."
What kind of new alien love idea is this?
Hei Tao stared at the movie screen intently, his dark pupils reflecting the horrific scenes in the movie, and he spoke in a serious tone:
"There, I can give you everything."
It was almost nine o'clock when they came out of the cinema. They walked along the exhibition road outside the cinema. Along the way, there were all kinds of movie-related peripheral stores, which were strange and varied, and there were also many life-size peripherals from horror movies.
Bai Liu had to turn back every two steps to see where Hei Tao had gone.
This person had a great sense of vigilance and curiosity about the life-size scenes in these horror movies, and would always go over to take a look, but as he walked, he would disappear.
This time Bai Liu turned around and found that Hei Tao was gone again. He frowned and looked for a while, and finally saw Hei Tao outside the window of a nearby store.
Hei Tao placed his hands on the window glass, his eyes fixed on something in the window, his whole body filled with a strong desire.
Bai Liu: ...
I began to have a bad feeling.
Bai Liu followed Heitao's line of sight and his mind went blank for a moment.
The clerk in the window was moving all kinds of peripherals, among which a huge, thin ghost doll costume was particularly eye-catching. The costume was obviously handmade and looked very rough, with many thick lines exposed, but this made it particularly scary. The face had no stitches, but a hole exposed outside, looking like a cheap semi-finished product.
The moment Bai Liu saw the doll costume, his heart suddenly started beating wildly. His eyes were a little out of focus, and there was only one thought in his mind that he couldn't control at all -
——【This is his thing】
【He wants to take it back.】
The clerk dusted off the doll costume, placed it on the wooden hanger, and turned to close the door.
Bai Liu pushed the door open and walked in without any hesitation. He asked directly: "Hello, I would like to ask the price of this doll costume?"
"This one?" The clerk turned around and said, "This one might be expensive."
"Our boss found this dress in an orphanage that had an accident. He was said to be keeping it and not selling it. But today, for some reason, he suddenly said that he was going to work in the perfume industry and would not keep it anymore. He was going to give this dress away and asked me to put it here."
"Our boss is a foreigner, and he always charges a high price for his collections." The clerk couldn't help but advise, "You are a student, right? I suggest you don't fall into this trap."
Bai Liu looked directly at the clerk: "Can you tell me the price?"
The clerk flipped through the sign and looked up: "Twenty thousand."
Bai Liu's chest heaved, he gradually calmed down, said thank you, and walked out.
He held Heitao's hand and walked back. He lowered his head so his expression couldn't be seen clearly, but his hands were clenched tightly.
Twenty thousand... is too expensive.
Spade suddenly said, "I want that one."
Bai Liu took a deep breath and was about to say that he couldn't afford it when he saw Hei Tao pointing at a small freezer with "on sale" written on the side.
"I want to eat ice cream." Spade looked at him and asked, "Can I have discounted ice cream?"
The surging desire in Bai Liu's heart gradually subsided. He took a breath and said, "Okay."
The small freezer is an unmanned automatic vending machine that sells all kinds of ice cream.
Hei Tao was lying on top of the food, choosing carefully. He suddenly asked, "Which one do you like best?"
Bai Liu was silent for a long time, then said, "The strawberry flavor is much cuter."
"Then I want this." said Spade.
Bai Liu looked around and said, "We don't have this flavor anymore. How about vanilla?"
Spade became visibly depressed: "No more..."
Bai Liu's lips curled up: "Why do you have to eat my favorite flavor?"
Hei Tao lowered his head, looked at Bai Liu, and said calmly: "If I eat your favorite flavor, I will also become your favorite flavor, and maybe you will like me a little more."
"Your time alone is coming to an end, and I am leaving too, Bai Liu, before I leave, can you tell me that you love me?"
The light in the freezer flickered twice and then went out, and a dark silence fell between Bai Liu and Hei Tao.
The slight smile on Bai Liu's face slowly disappeared, and he said coldly:
"don't want."
"I hate you, Spade."