Chapter 4
However, Han Shuo's shout didn't bring Meng Yuxiu back, but it startled the teacher who had just passed by on the playground.
"Hey, which class are you in? What are you doing standing on the playground so late?"
"Go back right away! Go back right away!" Han Shuo quickly ran towards the dormitory building.
Just as he reached the dormitory building, the lights-out bell rang. The dormitory, which had been faintly noisy, instantly fell silent, leaving only the dim yellow light in the corridor.
His dorm room was just past the bathroom. As he ran over, he bumped into Meng Yuxiu, who was rushing out with a washbasin. Before Han Shuo could say anything, Meng Yuxiu gave him a cold glare and went back to his own dorm room.
Han Shuo rolled his eyes, speechless at Meng Yuxiu's attitude, which made him seem like a respectable woman being harassed.
The lights were off in the dormitory. Han Shuo groped his way in and found his teacup and washbasin on the shelf against the wall, using the faint light coming in from the corridor.
On my way to the restroom, I ran into the dorm supervisors. The male dorm supervisors are two senior high school students. Every night after the dorm bell rings, they check the condition of each dorm room. If they find anyone chatting after lights out, these two senior high school students have the right to educate them.
So everyone else was like mice seeing a cat when they saw these two dorm supervisors. Forget about being able to come out to wash their face and brush their teeth after lights out, they had to sneak around even to talk to each other.
But Han Shuo is different. Han Shuo's body contains the soul of a twenty-two-year-old adult, so he sees these seventeen- or eighteen-year-old students as if they were little kids.
After a semester at this school, he had already become very close with the dormitory manager.
He was brushing his teeth in the bathroom, chatting and laughing with the two dorm supervisors.
Why are you so late today?
Han Shuo said, half-jokingly and half-seriously, "I'm off to date."
Upon hearing this, the two dormitory supervisors immediately became curious and pulled Han Shuo, who was still brushing his teeth, aside to bombard him with questions.
"Really?"
"Of course it's true!" Han Shuo smiled mysteriously, his mouth full of foam. "I kissed her so hard her lips are swollen, hahaha."
Although people in this world get married quite early, and there are others who get married and have children at the same age, those people either go back to their villages to farm or go to the city to enter society after finishing junior high school.
Those of them in school are all serious students, so when they are just beginning to experience romantic feelings, they are still quite taboo about things like love.
One of the dormitory supervisors excitedly asked him, "Hey, Han Shuo, which class are you from?"
Han Shuo was stunned for a moment, then he felt a pang of pain in his groin.
The reason was that in 1990, the year he arrived, homosexuality was prevalent, and he was gay. Not only did the two male dormitory supervisors ask this subconsciously, but Pidan and Doufu also asked.
"Han Shuo, what kind of boyfriend do you want to find in the future?"
Even when the people in his dormitory were chatting and laughing, they would occasionally say that so-and-so (male) in the dormitory liked so-and-so (male) in another dormitory.
He wondered why it was as if men dating was the only normal social phenomenon, since there were plenty of pretty female students in the school.
Although he had kissed Meng Yuxiu that night, he was still speechless when he heard the dormitory manager's words.
"If I were crazy enough to go looking for a man, it would definitely be with a girl."
The two dormitory supervisors laughed and said, "You're really good at making things up."
Han Shuo didn't think much about what those words meant. The two dormitory supervisors still had to patrol the dormitories, so they told him to hurry up and finish washing up and go back to sleep.
When Han Shuo returned to his dormitory after washing up, the room was already filled with the sounds of snoring. He put down his washbasin, closed the dormitory door, and climbed into his bed.
Lying in bed, he thought about tonight's events. Although Meng Yuxiu had a bad temper and was currently angry, he wasn't in a hurry. He figured Meng Yuxiu would come to his senses and then obediently come to him for a kiss. After all, they had already kissed; if he gave up now, wouldn't all that kissing have been for nothing?
So Han Shuo slept exceptionally well tonight. Having found the key person, he felt half relieved.
However, he waited patiently for Meng Yuxiu, but the second day passed, the third and fourth days passed, and no one came to his door.
During morning exercises, Han Shuo deliberately cut into Class 1's line and stood at the back next to Meng Yuxiu.
While doing his exercises, he kept calling out "Hey, hey, hey" to Meng Yuxiu, but Meng Yuxiu was only focused on doing his standard exercises. His long neck was like a swan's, and he looked ahead arrogantly, not even giving Han Shuo a second glance.
Han Shuo was really worried now.
"Damn! Could he have really fallen in love with this place?" Han Shuo was distracted during class, and the more he thought about it, the more panicked he became. Even when the math teacher called his name, he was still dizzy calculating the duration of that night.
21900 minutes. I estimate we kissed for more than twenty minutes that night. Okay, let's say twenty minutes.
21900-20, damn it! Han Shuo cursed inwardly, there are still 21880 left!
"Han Shuo!" The math teacher's shout pulled Han Shuo back to reality, followed by a burst of laughter from the classroom.
Han Shuo was stunned and realized that he was standing in front of the blackboard without knowing when, holding the chalk tip high in his hand, and the blackboard read: 21900-20=21880.
"..."
Han Shuo couldn't sit still any longer; he decided to take the initiative to talk to Meng Yuxiu.
At lunchtime, he took his lunchbox and ate in the cafeteria while keeping his eyes on the door.
When Meng Yuxiu came in, took his lunchbox and teacup, and stood in his seat, Han Shuo took his own lunchbox and teacup and went over. There happened to be an empty seat next to him.
Han Shuo saw that Meng Yuxiu was opening his lunchbox, but when he saw that it was him next to him, his expression visibly fell for a moment.
However, Han Shuo came to seek peace today, so he didn't care what attitude Meng Yuxiu gave him.
"Are you eating? Why are you so late?"
Meng Yuxiu ignored him and took out a spoon from a bag in the storage compartment.
Han Shuo grinned and leaned over to help Meng Yuxiu lift the lid of the teacup, which was still slightly hot from the boiler room. His eyes lit up when he saw the food inside.
"Not bad, Meng Yuxiu, the food is pretty good. We all brought pickled vegetables and dried plums, but you brought water chestnuts. Oh wow, and shredded meat too."
Han Shuo took a spoonful from Meng Yuxiu's teacup and put it in his mouth.
Meng Yuxiu glared at him.
Han Shuo said, "Don't be so stingy. We've only exchanged pleasantries."
Meng Yuxiu seemed startled by his shamelessness. He quickly turned his head to look. In fact, his worries were unnecessary. The cafeteria was noisy, everyone was eating, and Han Shuo's voice was not loud, so no one heard him at all.
However, since Han Shuo was telling the truth, he couldn't help feeling guilty.
Seeing his strong reaction, Han Shuo comforted him, "What are you afraid of? We're not from this world, and no one will know who we are when we get back."
Meng Yuxiu sneered: "Since you don't care so much, then take off your clothes and run around naked right now."
Han Shuo chuckled: "Then let's forget it. I don't even have a hair on my body yet, it would be too embarrassing to run around naked."
Meng Yuxiu rolled his eyes and picked up his lunchbox.
Han Shuo nudged him with his elbow, knowing that Meng Yuxiu was easily embarrassed, so it was best not to provoke him at this time. He leaned closer and whispered, "Are you still angry?"
"Is it worth it?" Meng Yuxiu ignored him and continued eating.
"You're not angry?" Since that's the case, Han Shuo asked, "Then when are we going to kiss?"
Meng Yuxiu choked on his food for a moment, then turned to look at Han Shuo, who was looking very serious, and was speechless.
"No more kissing."
"Didn't you say you weren't angry? Why aren't you kissing me anymore?"
Meng Yuxiu replied coldly, "So I don't have to stick my tongue in your mouth."
Han Shuo chuckled and draped his arm over Meng Yuxiu's shoulder. "This matter can't be resolved? Ah, okay, okay, I was wrong. It must have been my imagination that day. You didn't stick out your tongue."
“I just didn’t extend it,” Meng Yuxiu emphasized.
"Yes, yes, yes." Han Shuo nodded repeatedly. Now, regardless of whether he stuck out his tongue or not, as long as Meng Yuxiu agreed to kiss him, he would be happy to bark like a dog in front of the whole cafeteria right now.
"When will we kiss?"
Now that Han Shuo had given him a way out, Meng Yuxiu couldn't keep up his airs any longer. He said, "Evening self-study is over."
Han Shuo decisively said, "No, we've already wasted several days. Tomorrow is Friday, and we have to go home, so we won't have any more time."
Meng Yuxiu asked, "So what do you want?"
Han Shuo thought for a moment, "Let's include the ten-minute break between classes."
Meng Yuxiu was stunned again. He widened his eyes and asked, "Ten-minute break between classes? Where can we kiss during ten-minute break? The corridors and the playground are full of people! And it's broad daylight..."
Han Shuo was quite puzzled. He found it strange that Meng Yuxiu, who was from the 21st century just like him, could be so old-fashioned.
He stared at Meng Yuxiu's face suspiciously, scrutinizing him closely.
Meng Yuxiu was very fair-skinned; it was rare to see a boy with such fair skin, at least Han Shuo had never seen one in either of his lives. Needless to say, even Han Shuo, a straightforward man with little appreciation for women, had to admit that he was indeed very handsome.
He was tall and not thin. Although his face was fair, the angles of his features already showed signs of a heroic spirit.
However, those narrow eyes... Han Shuo thought for a moment and finally came up with a sentence: "His eyes had the clarity of a college student."
A guess suddenly popped into Han Shuo's mind.
He asked Meng Yuxiu, "How old are you? I mean, you're from the 21st century."
Meng Yuxiu didn't understand why Han Shuo suddenly changed the subject, but he told the truth: "Seventeen."
"..." Han Shuo was really thinking, "Holy crap! No wonder this person is still so thin-skinned even in this world, no wonder he keeps studying. He really is a seventeen-year-old student!"
Seeing his strange expression, Meng Yuxiu asked him what was wrong.
"fine……"
"oh."
Han Shuo was incredibly frustrated. After hearing Meng Yuxiu's age, he felt inexplicably guilty, but there was nothing he could do. In order to go back, being a minor was fine; after all, it was just a kiss.
But then Meng Yuxiu suddenly asked him, "And you?"
I am twenty-two.
Meng Yuxiu was slightly surprised, but quickly responded with an "Oh" without changing his expression.
Han Shuo: "What?"
"It's nothing. I thought you were the same age as me, but I didn't expect..." Meng Yuxiu paused halfway through his sentence, then stopped talking and continued eating.
Han Shuo twitched his facial muscles slightly. "What... do you think I'm too old?"
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