[The water army hired by the monkey: Dear Mr. L, when you see this line of words, please open Baidu Image Search "負荊请罪", and see the bloody Lian Tuo, now please automatically fill in the blanks in your mind that Lian Tuo is me, and then we will continue——]
[The navy hired by the monkey: I like Chu Chuan. ]
[The Monkey’s hired naval officer: …………………………………It seems a bit awkward to say this, so let me say it in a less awkward way: Everyone says that life is a play, and in this play I lived up to everyone’s expectations and fell in love with an actor, without looking back, hopelessly.]
[The water army hired by Monkey: This is a bit embarrassing, but I think I still need to tell you - although our online love relationship seems to have ended the next day, I don’t know why, I still have the illusion that I have cheated. 】
[The monkey's hired navy: Will you be angry? ]
[The water army hired by Monkey: ...Don't be angry. After all, in the past four years, I really didn't seem to like you. I just admire your talent. We have always been very good friends. I hope it will be the same in the future. Chu Chuan cannot replace your position in my heart.]
[The sailors hired by the monkey: My name is Chu Li, I am 23 years old this year, and I am currently an editor in the editorial department of the "Moonlight" magazine of Yuanyue Society. I hereby swear with my career: As long as Mr. L is still writing, I will definitely rush to the front of the team of liking and adding to the favorites. ]
[The navy hired by the monkey: That’s all. ]
[The water army hired by Monkey: PS: I didn’t drink, and my head wasn’t hit by the door. I just like Chuan, and have liked him for a long time. He should like me too, if he wasn’t teasing me just now - although I don’t think we are officially together yet. ]
Chu Li was holding her phone anxiously, waiting for Mr. L's reply.
Unbeknownst to her, Mr. L was in the room right under her feet at this moment. He jumped from the floor to the bed, then from the bed to the floor. Finally, he hugged the pillow in his arms, fell on the bed, and rolled back and forth several times...
Then he threw the pillow away, stretched out his long legs, sat down on the edge of the bed, and started typing.
A few seconds later, Chu Li's phone vibrated.
【The disappeared Mr. L: Oh, it’s okay. 】
[The disappeared Mr. L: Go and like Chu Chuan, after all, he is handsome (I heard) and rich (fact). 】
Chu Li stared at his phone for a long time.
[The water army hired by the monkey: Are you Teacher Jiang Yucheng? ]
[The missing Mr. L: Do you think I look like him? ]
...She always thought so before today, but since Mr. Jiang Yucheng himself would never say something like "Go and like Zhaochuan, he's handsome and rich" (*no matter the circumstances), now she really doesn't doubt that Mr. L is Jiang Yucheng.
[The navy hired by the monkey: ...Is there a chance for us to meet? ]
[The disappeared Mr. L: Why did you suddenly have this idea? 】
[The Monkey’s hired naval officer: We’ve known each other for so many years, why don’t we meet? This way I don’t have to guess who you are every day. It’s exhausting…]
[The missing Mr. L: You just announced that you like Joo-chon, and you asked your online lover to meet in person? Aren’t you afraid that Joo-chon will get jealous? What if he doesn’t let you meet me? ]
[The monkey’s hired navy: If he gets jealous and doesn’t let me come to see you, I will set off some fireworks to celebrate that he is jealous of me, and then I will stay at home and not see you. After all, I haven’t seen you in the past three years, and I won’t die if I don’t see you. I’m not that curious.]
[The disappeared Mr. L: ………]
[The missing Mr. L: How can a good person talk like a dog? ]
[The monkey’s hired navy: Ehehehehehehe. ]
After some serious and casual teasing, Chu Li stopped talking to Mr. L for the time being.
At this moment, she suddenly saw that Ah Xiang had sent her another screenshot of a Weibo post, with the caption "Ah ...
When Chu Li saw Zhu Chuan's Weibo, she was standing in the attic right above the man's room, carrying a cotton shirt to hang in the closet... At that time, she was holding her phone in one hand and browsing Weibo, and holding the clothes hanger in the other hand. She read most of Zhu Chuan's Weibo with an empty mind. When she read "I'm so happy that there is such a coincidence in the world. I like you too", she threw the phone and the clothes hanger out together.
Jiang Yucheng took a screenshot immediately and sent it to Chu Li along with a series of "...". He was so speechless that he only had time to leave one sentence: Everything has to be based on first come first served.
Chu Li had no time to pay attention to him, and of course had no time to discuss with him whether this matter could be solved by "first come, first served". He stuffed his phone into his pocket, opened the attic door, and called the man's name downstairs in a tense voice. Then he realized that it would have been better if he hadn't called him. As soon as he called, the door downstairs was slammed shut.
Chu Li was stunned.
Lying on the stairs and looking down, he found Ergouzi, who was squatting at the door of Zhuchuan's room and was also locked outside, looking as confused as himself.
Chu Li skipped to Zhechuan's door and knocked on it with all his courage. He called out "Zhechuan" tentatively. The room was so quiet... The person inside didn't even respond, and even his presence disappeared completely.
"...Zhuchuan," Chu Li called again. At this moment, her heart was beating out of her throat, and her chest seemed to be filled with a little bird. She let her face get closer to the door of Zhuchuan's room. "If on the way back, I can understand that you said the wrong thing, were hungry, made a joke, said dirty words or just argued with me in daily life, I can stop caring about those words——"
“…”
"Then you just need to tell me what your Weibo post means. Is it what I thought it meant?" Chu Li increased the strength of her hand, banged on the door, took a deep breath, blushed, and used up all her courage as if she wanted to stand up and save the universe, "Teacher, you like me too, right?"
There was no response from the people in the room.
Chu Li's forehead rested against the door of the man's room...
She didn't know that the man didn't actually walk far away. He just sat on the floor with his back to the door, legs crossed and expressionless. Her words were clearly heard by him. The vibration of the door when she knocked on it also vibrated his back. When she asked, "What does your Weibo post mean?", the fingers of the man holding the phone on the other side of the door seemed to jump unconsciously...
He lowered his head... and looked at the phone.
A minute later, Chu Li's phone vibrated in her pocket. While the whole world was discussing "Teacher Chu Chuan's iron tree blossomed" and "Who is so unlucky" on Weibo, QQ, and WeChat, she received a new message -
【Zhuchuan: Go away. 】
Chu Li: "..."
Where are you going?
Chu Li was bewildered. How could someone just say “I like you, too” and then tell someone to “go away”? After confessing their love to each other, shouldn’t they cry with joy and hug each other?
Next, the beautiful film is sent directly to the bridal chamber;
Even if domestic films were more subtle, they should have a passionate kiss;
Even if it's a stupid movie, at least come out and give her a high five to celebrate her being single...
But this man told her to go away -
Even domestic horror films can't catch up with this kind of imagination.
Chu Li: "I'm not leaving, you come out."
[Zhuchuan: If you don't leave, I will never be able to get out in this life. ]
Chu Li: "..."
Chu Li's girlish heart that was about to fly to the moon palace in the previous second suddenly returned to earth. She suddenly realized the cruel fact that the person she liked never seemed to be willing to follow the routine. So the temperature on her face quickly cooled down. Chu Li lifted her face from Zhuochuan's door expressionlessly: "I won't leave. You came to pick me up today. You haven't eaten breakfast or lunch yet? If you have the guts, just starve yourself to death in there."
【Tsukawa: …】
【Zhu Chuan: How could I be so blind as to fall in love with a despicable person like you? 】
【Zhuchuan: You can't bear to let me starve to death, after all, I'm already blind.】
"..." Chu Li kicked Zhuchuan's door with her foot, and it was like kicking him in the face. "Then at least say something to me, not Q typing, Zhuchuan, say something."
【Zhuchuan: I don’t.】
[Zhuchuan: You are not wearing slippers again. The ground is cold. Go put on your slippers.]
"If you don't come out, I will never wear slippers again in my life."
【Zhouchuan: I'm going to go out and chop off your legs.】
Chu Li: "..."
Although the words were arrogant, the door was still tightly closed... Chu Li stood at the man's door holding her phone, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. She had seen people being shy, but she had never seen a guy who was almost 1.9 meters tall and could make a scene at the slightest disagreement being so shy... His increasingly eloquent words revealed his nervousness. Chu Li, with the mentality of "OK, OK, you are a little princess", realized that in terms of "shyness", she had completely lost, so she took two steps back, cleared her throat and said, "Then I'll go put on my slippers."
Turning around, he took two steps outside.
The door behind me opened with a click, leaving a small gap.
The moment Chu Li turned around, the person behind the door disappeared in a flash, and the door slammed shut again.
Chu Li: "..."
The dog squatting at the door had a look on his face that said, "Have you guys made enough noise?" Chu Li looked at the dog face for a long while and said seriously, "He started it first."
…
The next day, Chu Chuan kept his word and never left the room again - Chu Li had never imagined that her first love would be like this. After they confessed their love to each other, she racked her brains but couldn't coax the man she liked out of his room to meet her.
……………………What are you doing? We are all adults now.
Chu Li was so confused and angry that she almost forgot about being "shy". She curled up on the sofa in the living room for the whole afternoon, with her feet on the soft and warm belly of the big dog sleeping on the other side of the sofa, and browsed Weibo... She watched many tutorials on "how to get a scared kitten out from under the bed" and many videos on "how to tame a dog's rebellious behavior", but she couldn't find the correct way to coax a man with normal IQ, no preference for sweets, and a maximum hunger resistance level out of her room.
Chu Li was helpless.
As I watched "Zhechuan, a love letter" climb from the 40th hot search to the fifth, I couldn't help but think: "Yellow Spring Inn" seems to be still selling, damn, I sacrificed my lifelong happiness for entertainment gossip, but it benefited Xindun Society?
Maybe the New Shield Society is popping champagne right now?
While I was casually scrolling through Weibo, I accidentally saw a new Weibo post from a marketing account: [Tell me what’s bothering you recently and see if anyone will reply to you and give you an answer:)]
Troublesome things?
To be honest, I'm not exaggerating, but I have a truck full of troubles.
Chu Li sat up from the sofa and replied: [He confessed to me, probably we both love each other... but then he hid in his room and refused to come out to see me. Is he shy or what? How can I coax him out of the room? ]
After returning the initial greeting, I didn't expect anyone to pay any attention to me and turned around to finish cooking.
She casually made some egg fried rice, took a little for herself, and left most of the rest in the pot for fear that someone would starve to death. Chu Li walked out of the kitchen with the dish in her hand and opened Weibo on her mobile phone. Only then did she realize that in the past 20 minutes, more than a hundred people had replied to her.
[I'm afraid it's not because of shyness. 】
[Are you regretting it? ]
[I regret it.]
[You'll either die or regret it. If you try to pry open the door, the person might already be gone. They've jumped out of the window and left the Earth.]
[How can a boy be so shy? When I confessed my love to her, I wanted to pick her up and run away - why are you hiding yourself? ]
[…I feel sorry for my sister. I think he must be regretting it.]
[I didn’t have time to look carefully, so we broke up! ]
…
Chu Li: "..."
Chu Li put down her unfinished dinner and rubbed her stomach. It was still growling with hunger, but her stomach twisted uncomfortably... She truly felt the discomfort of her internal organs sinking into ice water in an instant, and now, she suddenly had no appetite at all -
…………Shy or regretful?
In a normal TV series, this kind of suspicion would keep the male and female protagonists busy for four or five episodes, but Chu Li was in no mood to play it out for so long. In fact, she stood up almost immediately and returned to the door of Chu Chuan's room.
Don't ask clearly.
Not to mention acting at level 4 or 5, she will die from the entanglement tomorrow.
Take a deep breath.
"Teacher," Chu Li leaned against the door, holding a cell phone, "If you are not starving to death and your cell phone still has power, please log in to Weibo and search for the marketing account "Weibo Funny XXX", then look at her latest Weibo post. Click on the third post and see the popular comment with 3589 likes?"
Chu Li looked at the glowing screen of her mobile phone, reflecting her calm face——
"3589 likes, 87 comments, more than 60 of them told me that there was no other reason for you not to come out, not because you were embarrassed, but because..."
Chu Li choked up——
I can't say the word "regret" no matter what.
It seems that if I speak out my words, the nightmare will come true.
Standing in front of the man's door, she clenched her fists quietly, and her face was reflected on the screen of her mobile phone. This time, she was shocked by herself - she hadn't seen that clenched-teeth look for many years. The last time she showed such an expression was when she was in middle school and got the first place in the class. She was suspected of cheating by her classmates. The whole class committee joined forces to report her to the teacher for punishment, but she refused to admit it.
This kind of expression is called "stubborn".
Even though I knew that the matter had been settled, I still——
Stubbornly unwilling.
Chu Li blinked and frowned. After a whole day of speculation and anxiety, her excitement was finally crushed by the overwhelming words "he regretted it". She even felt a little regretful for leaving random messages...
There was no movement on the other side of the door.
So Chu Li, who had struggled for a whole day, suddenly decided to give up. She knocked on the door and said, "You don't have to tell me. I won't ask. Let's just pretend nothing happened. Anyway, no matter what happened, we can just pretend nothing happened. After all, this is not the first time. I'm leaving. Good night."
Chu Li removed his hand.
She took two steps back, her chest heaving uncomfortably, and she slumped her shoulders like a poor defeated insect, tensing her face and ready to leave—
However, at this moment, the door behind him suddenly opened.
The man walked out of the room quickly, grabbed her wrist, dragged her back and pushed her against the wall. Chu Li widened her eyes slightly, and the next second her chin was gently lifted by the man, and she looked into his brown eyes.
The man's big hand held her chin, and in the dim light, he rubbed the corner of her eye as if exploring. When he found that there was only a little warmth there but not wet, he seemed to be relieved.
"…What?"
Chu Li was pressed between the man and the wall, her voice hoarse.
"Look at you." Zhuchuan's voice was flat.
Chu Li reached out and pushed him away, but failed. She simply grabbed the shoulder of his shirt and gritted her teeth: "Look at me? I stood at your door for a whole day, and you didn't even think of coming out to see me."
"…Because I feel like if I don't come out now, you'll cry again," the man said as he lifted her up, rubbing her face with his warm palms, his tone slightly helpless, "How can I not come out?"
“…”
How much of a crybaby do I feel in your eyes?
I guess I didn’t cry many times in total. One time I even cried because I was so happy.
Chu Li pursed her lips and lowered her head, perfectly expressing her grievance without saying a word. Facing the man’s silence, three big words seemed to float over her head: What the hell is it to you?
Feeling the slightly rough palm against her cheek and never leaving, her face, which had been frozen stiff, quickly warmed up. Chu Li then remembered that she had been lying in the living room for a whole day without turning on the heating, and at this moment, she was trying her best to stop herself from actively rubbing against the man's warm big hand...
Her body was stiff and her face was expressionless as she felt his hand gently caressing her cheek, causing a slight itch.
"I'm afraid of this, I could easily make you angry or cry... every time you cry, it's like you can't stop crying," Zhu Chuan said, and felt the tip of his thumb pressing against the corner of her eye get slightly wet. He sighed, "See, you come on just as I tell you to."
Chu Li lowered his head more and more.
"I forgot to turn on the heating," Chu Li said in a muffled voice, "It's so cold in the living room, why didn't you open the door for me..."
Before he could finish his words, he had already left the cold wall and fell into a warm embrace.
“…”
“…”
...Even if it's just for this second, have peace.
The tip of her nose pressed against his chest, and through his clothes, she could smell his scent. Chu Li closed her eyes in the man's arms.
"Do you regret it?"
“No regrets.”
Her vision was instantly blurred by the gushing liquid, and the worries and ups and downs in her heart finally settled down in the man's low and firm words "no regrets"...
Chu Li felt that what Chu Chuan said seemed to be quite right——
She does seem to be a tearful person.
...But there's nothing wrong with that.
There are so many things in life that are worth crying about, happy or sad, why hold them in? Anyway, in the eyes of the person who never tires of wiping your tears, your tears will never become cheap no matter how many times you cry.