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When I woke up again, it was bright daylight.
Although Zhou Xiao was tortured badly, he was the one being served in the second half of the night.
Xie Wenji was busy cleaning for people, and he also picked up the soiled sofa covers and bed sheets and quilt covers, washed them and hung them up to dry before going to bed.
It was almost four in the morning when he finished the follow-up cleanup. He was also very tired during the day, so he fell asleep even more deeply than Zhou Xiao.
After Zhou Xiao opened his eyes, he quietly looked at Xie Wenjie's sleeping face.
He sleeps so well, he looks handsome no matter how you look at him.
Zhou Xiao felt a little warm in his heart when he thought about a man like this pursuing him...
Last night, neither of them deliberately talked about the breakup of Xie Wenjie and Zhou Yao. Xie Wenjie didn't care, and Zhou Xiao didn't want to face it... Before they broke up, he felt that he and Xie Wenjie were entangled, and his behavior was improper and morally problematic.
They broke up, and it seemed that it was because of my interference that I caused the couple who were originally happy to break up.
In short, he was wrong, it was his retribution, and he accepted it.
After a while, Xie Wenji opened his eyes.
He had indeed been very busy during this period, and was awakened by his biological clock. When he opened his eyes, there was still a hint of sleepiness in his eyes.
However, he was not in a bad mood when he woke up. When he saw the person next to him, he was in a good mood and leaned over to kiss him on the lips.
It was just a light touch, and I felt an inexplicable sense of affection.
He said, "Good morning, wife."
Zhou Xiao was silent, but at least he didn't say 'no' to him. Xie Wenji was very satisfied and planned to skip a day of work with him in his arms.
In the end, he was unable to skip work. Although he blocked some people in yesterday's circle of friends, there were still some people who liked to spread rumors among those who saw it, which brought him some trouble. Some of the old man's illegitimate children always thought that this was a loophole that they could exploit, and maybe they would even make trouble to the old man later.
For several days afterwards, Xie Wenji would return to the apartment after get off work and cook dinner for Zhou Xiao... and they would occasionally have some physical contact, and the two of them lived a quite harmonious life.
Zhou Xiao was busy submitting resumes for the autumn recruitment during graduation season and didn't pay much attention to what Xie Wenji was busy with every day. Until a week later, Zhou Xuecheng called Zhou Xiao again and said, "Come home in a couple of days and discuss your brother's engagement."
"Engagement?" Zhou Xiao was stunned for a moment, but didn't dare to ask further.
He opened Zhou Yao's chat box, and their conversation was still about the address they sent before.
Zhou Xiao typed in the dialog box, and finally deleted and reduced some words, sending out only two words, "Congratulations".
The other party responded quickly, [Zhou Yao: Thank you, brother.]
The relationship between the two brothers is a bit strange.
When Xie Wenji came back in the evening, Zhou Xiao observed his expression and didn't see anything wrong. He sighed in his heart and his thoughts became even more confused for a moment.
Xie Wenji had urgently processed some documents today and was now exhausted. He was so tired that he couldn't even lift his fingers. He just wanted to empty his mind completely.
In a state of emptiness, he still followed his heart and returned to Zhou Xiao.
Just like Zhou Xiao said, this is "home", and he seems to have really found a sense of belonging that belongs only to his family here.
When he came back, Zhou Xiao was sitting on the sofa watching TV.
What Xie Wenjie didn't know was that the people watching TV were actually thinking blankly and were not paying attention to the content at all.
Xie Wenji walked over, bent down from behind the sofa, and hugged Zhou Xiao.
He spoke lazily, but refused to reveal his exhaustion, "Baby, shall we order takeout tonight? For a change?"
The words "change of taste" seemed to irritate Zhou Xiao's nerves.
He stood up suddenly and said, "I've eaten, you can order for yourself."
After saying that, Zhou Xiao planned to go back to his room.
Xie Wenji stretched out his hand, but ended up with nothing...
"Zhou Xiao?" Xie Wenji called him.
Zhou Xiao stopped but didn't look back at him.
In fact, Xie Wenjie didn't say anything, and Zhou Yao didn't say that his fiancée was Xie Wenjie, so the result might not be what he thought.
Besides, even if that's what he wants, so what? It has nothing to do with him anyway, right? He's not Xie Wenji's...
Zhou Xiao took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and tried to return to normal.
He heard Xie Wenji take a few steps towards him, "Are you in a bad mood?"
Zhou Xiao's tone was almost cold, a result of forced calmness. "No, I'm just very sleepy... I'm a little tired today."
Zhou Xiao always seemed aloof in front of Xie Wenji. Hearing him say this, Xie Wenji breathed a sigh of relief and smiled casually, "So that's how it is. If you're tired, go to bed early... I'm tired too, and I was just worrying about how to tell you."
"Well, then you should go to bed early too." Zhou Xiao had adjusted his mood. He looked back at Xie Wenjie and smiled at him.
When Xie Wenji saw him smile, he smiled too.
He really wanted to laugh, and he felt happy when he saw Zhou Xiao.
Zhou Xiao returned to his room, washed up quickly, and then lay down on the bed to sleep... He didn't sleep well. He woke up once in the middle of the night, but found that the familiar figure was not beside him.
The guest room in this apartment has not been cleaned up yet, and Xie Wenji is a thick-skinned man. Even at night when the two of them do nothing, they still sleep in the same bed and share the same big bed.
...Xie Wenji is not here tonight.
Zhou Xiao thought that he might have left.
He pulled the quilt over his head, and his head and heart felt stuffy.
In the end, he fell asleep in a daze and didn't even think about getting up and going outside to verify his guess.
In fact, the person he thought had left fell asleep on the sofa in the living room while waiting for digestion after eating takeout.
Of course, he lay down after sitting for a while, and he didn't suffer any serious pain. When he woke up in the morning, he didn't feel any extra discomfort except that he smelled because he hadn't taken a shower. So he simply packed up, went back to the bedroom quietly without disturbing Zhou Xiao, took some clothes to change, took a shower in the public bathroom, and then went back to work.
When Zhou Xiao got up, Xie Wenjie had already cleaned up everything. The living room was spotless, as if no one had been there.
...So he left a long time ago, right?
Zhou Xiao lowered his eyes with a lost expression.
It's night again.
Xie Wenji didn't come back.
Zhou Xiao opened WeChat, clicked on Xie Wenjie's chat box, and stared at the chat box between the two for a long time.
The chat history was filled with a series of '1's sent by Xie Wenji, and he didn't respond much.
Why is there no '1' today?
Zhou Xiao was in a daze for a long time before his phone vibrated.
I came back to my senses and saw that the message was from Liu Ze, two messages in a row. [Liu Ze: Zhou Xiao, when are you going back to the dormitory?]
[Liu Ze: Don't get me wrong, I'm not rushing you. It's just that the electricity bill needs to be paid. I figured if you don't come back this month, you don't have to pay it. You've only been here a few days anyway.]
Zhou Xiao blinked, feeling inexplicably lost.
He thought for a moment and typed, "I'm not sure... You hand it in first, and I'll give you a hand afterward."
Liu Ze was very happy. What Zhou Xiao said proved that he would come back to live there soon.
He found a few more topics, trying to chat with Zhou Xiao more, but Zhou Xiao didn't pay much attention to him later, and only replied with "um" or "oh" occasionally. Liu Ze was afraid that Zhou Xiao would think he was a bother and ignore him, so he decided to quit and said "good night" to him.
When Zhou Xiao saw Liu Ze ended the topic, he realized that his attitude was very perfunctory.
But he didn't do anything else. He just stared at the screen the whole time, just a little absent-minded.
Now that he was really free, Zhou Xiao had nothing to do, and he suddenly realized how empty he felt inside.
His fingers unconsciously clicked on Xie Wenjie's chat box again, and coincidentally, a message from the other side came in.
[Xie Wenji: 1]
Zhou Xiao stared at the '1' for a while, then reached out and tapped Xie Wenji's portrait.
The system displayed a message: [Zhou Xiao patted Xie Wenji and said he missed him very much.]
Zhou Xiao was stunned for a moment, his face flushed! Damn Xie Wenji, how could he set up Paipai like this!
He felt awkward and helpless as if his thoughts were revealed, and for a moment he deeply regretted his naughty behavior.
[Xie Wenji: Baby, do you miss me?]
Zhou Xiao only glanced at this sentence quickly and his heart beat faster.
So, no matter what Xie Wenjie said afterwards, he seemed to be avoiding reading it. After exiting the chat box, he turned the phone over, let the temperature on his face cool down, and then opened the phone again and cleared Xie Wenjie's message.
But I still saw the last message from Xie Wenji... he was still talking smooth talk.
On the other side, Xie Wenjie had no idea that after he said that, all the messages he sent out afterwards were cleared.
[x: My phone fell and won’t turn on. I just fixed it.]
[x: Damn WeChat, it's so troublesome to change the login, so I didn't use the backup phone to send you a message.]
[x: Baby, eat well. I'm too busy lately and have to sleep in the office. Don't wait for me.]
[x: I miss you too.]
Then, after Xie Wenji said "I miss him", he didn't go back to the apartment for two days.
And based on Zhou Xiao's personality, he definitely wouldn't ask, and a gap inexplicably began to form between the two of them.
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