"Oh, it's okay. Your father and I are very open-minded." Zhong Ling studied a pile of flyers. "If you like her, bring her home for dinner and get married soon. I think the flower-themed wedding banquets in Country D are good, or our traditional weddings are also fine."

"If I had known you had someone you liked, I wouldn't have arranged a blind date for you." She then muttered, "It seems our ancestors were right. The principle that those who are close to water get the moon first is always applicable."

Zhong Ling flipped through the flyers, and the more she read, the more satisfied she was. She couldn't wait to make the decision: "I saw that the nearest auspicious date is in mid-August. How about we schedule the wedding banquet in mid-August? Then you can go to get the marriage certificate in July."

Seeing that Zhong Ling was getting more and more outrageous, Yu Ci interrupted her with a headache: "Why are you so anxious when the matter hasn't even been settled yet?"

Bah, what do you mean the character "八" hasn't even been started? It means the character hasn't even been started to be written.

Yu Ci shook his crooked brain and laughed at himself secretly.

He doesn't even have anyone he likes, so where can he write?

"Okay, Mom." Yu Ci said perfunctorily: "I have something to do here, so I'll hang up first. I'll come back to see you another day."

Zhong Ling stopped flipping through the flyers and, before the call was hung up, she shouted at the top of her voice, "Remember to bring your partner back for dinner next time."

“Beep, beep, beep—”

The phone call was hung up.

Yu Ci breathed a sigh of relief.

Shi Jin turned to look at him, his expression calm: "What's wrong?"

Yu Ci touched his nose helplessly: "My mother is urging me to get married."

Shi Jin paused for a moment, and withdrew his gaze, which fell calmly on the porridge in the bowl: "Don't you want to get married?"

"It's not that I don't want to." Yu Ci casually opened WeChat: "I don't have a partner yet? Where can I find someone to marry?"

Shi Jin raised his eyelids and looked at Yu Ci's profile: "Isn't he the director of that show?"

"Who?" Yu Ci thought for a while before reacting: "You mean Zhong Sisi?"

Shi Jin looked at him quietly: "Yeah."

At the airport and in the villa, Zhong Sisi was by Yu Ci's side both times, and she seemed to be very close to him. If they weren't lovers, then they were......

Yu Ci smiled directly, his brows relaxed: "She is my cousin, my mom and her dad are siblings."

Shi Jin's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and the fingers holding the porridge spoon paused for a moment: "... like this."

"Yeah, what else do you think?" Yu Ci chuckled and moved his eyes back to the phone. When he saw it, his eyebrows raised slightly.

He stared at the notification on the WeChat page that his friend had passed the test. After a while, he looked at Shi Jin thoughtfully.

He was very familiar with this WeChat avatar. It was the WeChat of the second sister of the Shi family that Zhong Sisi added when he went to the airport to pick her up a few days ago.

He suspected that the woman was Shi Jin, so he asked Zhong Sisi to get her WeChat and sent her a friend request.

But the application was never approved, so he didn't care about it anymore.

How come it suddenly passed at this time?

Yu Ci's fingertips rubbed the WeChat avatar named "Shi" for a moment, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

Shi Jin noticed Yu Ci's gaze and turned his head away.

The young man with clear eyebrows had light eyes, and his lips, which were always light in color, were stained with the warmth of the porridge water, becoming bright in color. He was wearing a long-sleeved shirt with buttons buttoned to the top, a bright red mole between his eyebrows, and a fair and handsome face.

At this moment, a guess in Yu Ci's mind came true.

He no longer hesitated and pressed the voice call button with his index finger.

“Buzz——”

There was a vibration from a cell phone on the sofa.

Yu Ci and Shi Jin turned their heads to look at the same time.

On the large screen of the mobile phone, the voice call from WeChat occupies the screen.

Shi Jin stood up and picked up the phone. When his eyes fell on the call avatar on the screen, his brows frowned slightly.

This is......

One of the two friend requests he had just accidentally accepted.

He pursed his lips and clicked the green answer button.

"Hello."

The voice with a slightly changed pitch coming through the receiver overlapped with the voice behind him. Shi Jin paused for a while, then turned his head.

Yu Ci held up the phone and looked at him with a half-smile: "Second Sister Shi?"

Shi Jin was silent for a moment and hung up the call.

Yu Ci chuckled and hung up the call.

Silence spread silently between the two of them.

Shi Jin put down his phone, sat back on the sofa, and looked at Yu Ci calmly: "Do you have anything to ask?"

Yu Ci raised his eyebrows slightly: "Second Sister Shi, is that you?"

"yes."

Yu Ci asked again: "About a month ago, the person I met at the door of the bar was also you?"

As if he was afraid that Shi Jin had forgotten, he added: "Black skirt, in a popular place."

Shi Jin lowered his eyelids: "It's me too."

He originally thought that Yu Ci would ask him why he wore a skirt, but...

"You were sent by my mother, right?"

Shi Jin paused slightly, raised his eyelids, and a hint of doubt appeared in his light-colored pupils.

Yu Ci raised his eyebrows and looked at Shi Jin's reaction. He felt that he was trying to cover up his mistake: "Don't pretend. I know everything."

No wonder Zhong Ling suddenly called him just now. She must have heard some messy gossip from Zhong Sisi and thought that she had a "sweetheart", so she called impatiently to urge him to get married.

Add to that what she just said, "The one who is close to the water gets the moon first." He was puzzled at first, where did the one who is close to the water get the moon first? But now that he thinks about it carefully...

Apart from this roommate who suddenly moved in a month ago, who else can be considered to be so close to me?

He said that he had lived in this house for more than a year and it had been vacant for more than half of the time, and Xu Qian had not been enthusiastic about introducing tenants to him. Not long after he saw the beauty in the black dress at the door of the bar, she took the initiative to ask him to rent out half of the house.

It seems like they are all here waiting for him to take the bait.

Thinking of this, Yu Ci curled his lips and looked at Shi Jin: "What conditions did my mother give you to pretend to be a boy and move in?"

"I don't know your mother." Shi Jin frowned slightly and pursed his lips: "As for me pretending to be a boy, it's just..."

Halfway through his words, he realized something was wrong: "I'm not pretending to be a boy, I—"

"How about this," Yu Ci raised his eyelids with a smile in his eyes: "I'll ask the questions and you answer them."

"good."

Yu Ci threw the phone back onto the sofa and said, “Is there a reason why you moved in?”

He moved because he needed a new environment to conceive novels, and downstairs here is a bar street, which meets his requirements for a new environment, so...

This must be a reason?

Shi Jin thought for a moment and nodded: "Yes."

Yu Ci raised his eyebrows: "Does this reason have anything to do with me?"

Shi Jin paused slightly and looked at Yu Ci.

One of the reasons why he moved in was because Xu Qian said the owner of the house went out early and came back late, so it was relatively quiet.

If this reason counts.

Shi Jin pursed his lips slightly: "I guess so."

“So—” Yu Ci’s eyes swayed slightly, and the smile in his tone almost overflowed: “It seems that my mother is very skilled in the trick of being close to the water and getting the moon first.”

Shi Jin raised his eyes hesitantly: "You said that those who are close to the water will get the moon first... Are you talking about me?"

"Isn't it?" Yu Ci chuckled, and his wanton eyebrows raised lightly: "You disguised yourself as a man and moved in here, and you changed back to women's clothes in front of me several times, just to attract my attention, right?"

"It seems my mother should have given you a lot of money, but don't worry about it." The man's smile deepened, his tone was lazy, and the teasing meaning in his words was clear: "I am a lesbian."

He took advantage of the fact that he couldn't verify it and said something nonsense, "Do you know what autosexuality is? It means that you only like yourself."

Shi Jin:......

He looked at Yu Ci in silence: "Actually..."

Yu Ci raised his eyes and lazily fell on Shi Jin: "Hmm?"

Across the table, a handsome young man in black sat on the sofa opposite, his back straight and his brows calm.

The light amber pupils reflected the warm white light above her head, the dark eyelashes cast a shadow under her eyes, and the light-colored lips were stained with water, shining brightly in the light.

Yu Ci's gaze was involuntarily drawn to those lips, which were soft and looked like vanilla jelly.

He felt inexplicably dry in the mouth.

On the table was a cup of black tea that came with the takeout order. Yu Ci picked it up and drank it all in one gulp. The sweetness that he used to despise flowed through his throat and turned into cold spring water, extinguishing the inexplicable heat that was welling up.

Yu Ci threw the can of black tea into the trash can: "What did you say?"

Shi Jin pursed his lips and said, "I am a man, not a woman dressed as a man."

“As for the skirt…” He lowered his eyelids, his dark eyelashes spread under his eyes, hiding the embarrassment that welled up in his owner’s eyes: “…it was an accident.”

——

Shi Jin didn’t know whether Yu Ci believed it in the end.

The conversation ended with Yu Ci being called away by a phone call.

Shi Jin cleaned up the takeout boxes on the table, stood in the empty living room for a while, and finally went into the bathroom.

He is used to taking a bath to relieve fatigue after going out.

Warm water flowed out from the faucet, forming whirlpools in the white bathtub.

The steaming hot air fumigated the bathroom, caressing the ends of the hair of the people in the bathroom, and blurring the mirror in front of the sink.

Shi Jin stood in front of the sink and raised his hand to wipe away the mist on the mirror.

The mist dissipated, revealing the fair and handsome face of the person in the mirror.

He looked at himself in the mirror quietly for a long while, pursed his lips, and lowered his eyelids to hide the slight doubts that appeared in his eyes.

he......

Does it look like a girl?

——

Yu Ci was called away by Xu Qian.

When he drove to the address given by Xu Qian, there was already a group of people standing there.

The two groups were confronting each other, one was led by Xu Qian, and the other was Ulala, a group of people with colorful hair, led by a red-haired young man wearing ripped jeans.

The red-haired young man looked at Xu Qian smugly, chewing gum in his mouth making a crunching sound: "How is your brother Ci? He hasn't come for such a long time, is he afraid to come?"

"Bah." Xu Qian spat at him with disdain, his disdain clearly visible on his face: "With someone like you, my brother Ci can handle ten of them at a time. Are you scared? Just wait patiently. If you have the guts, don't beg for mercy later."

"I would be scared? What a joke!"

The red-haired young man laughed exaggeratedly, and just as he was about to speak, he saw a car appear in his sight. He raised his teeth and looked at Xu Qian sarcastically: "Could this car that just stopped belong to the brother Ci you mentioned?"

The author has something to say:

False. Autosexuality.

Really narcissistic,