The Crematorium 2
It was already very late when Zhou Yao finished his social event. Xie Wenjie was introduced to his relatives and friends by him, and they were officially tied to the same boat. Today was also Xie Wenjie's home court.
The two of them had booked a suite upstairs, and after seeing off the last group of guests, they went straight upstairs to rest.
Although they appear to be a couple in front of outsiders, their relationship is actually just a little closer than that of ordinary friends, so they don't stay in the same room. Even if they book a suite, they live in separate rooms.
After Xie Wenji finished washing up, he took out his phone and checked various apps as usual. He found a few more friend requests on WeChat, from a group of people he had just added at the banquet.
He went through each person one by one, and then set the message do not disturb function for those who were not valuable.
Xie Wenji was a little absent-minded when doing this, and he kept thinking about the scene where Zhou Xiao rejected him.
There was no anger at being humiliated, just a slight regret.
As his fingers slid across the screen, looking at the applications one by one, he would vaguely wonder if among these people, there was the one he wanted...
Xie Wenji suddenly came back to his senses and felt that he was a little crazy.
He got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water. After calming down, he turned around and knocked on the door next door.
Zhou Yao heard a knock on the door and opened it to look out. "Brother Xie, what's wrong?"
Xie Wenji wiped his face and said expressionlessly, "I have something that I need your help with... Can you give me Zhou Xiao's contact information?"
"..." Zhou Yao's expression instantly became a little alert, "You want his contact information? What do you want to do?"
"I do." Xie Wenjie said the dirty talk without any pressure, thinking about how to confront Zhou Yao so that he would be more receptive.
Zhou Yao rolled his eyes and replied, "Oh."
After saying that, he nodded, took out his cell phone, and found Zhou Xiao's number on the spot.
Now it was Xie Wenji's turn to be confused. Seeing him stunned, Zhou Yao smiled and kindly explained, "It's normal for someone like my brother to be missed by others."
Xie Wenji gave Zhou Yao a meaningful look.
Could it be that this guy saw through his thoughts and wanted to sell out his own brother? If Zhou Xiao knew, he would probably be very hurt.
Thinking of this, Xie Wenjie felt a little uncomfortable for some reason.
But he didn't show it, just gave Zhou Yao a knowing look.
…
Zhou Xiao has a very regular schedule. He goes to bed early and gets up at six in the morning. After packing up, he leaves the hotel and returns to school.
He didn't want to go back to the Zhou family. He didn't feel a sense of belonging to the Zhou family.
As soon as Zhou Xiao arrived at the dormitory, his roommate sent him a message.
[Liu Ze: Zhou Xiao, are you going back to school today?]
Liu Ze was the person who asked Zhou Xiao to go to the library on the day he landed in this world.
The system has determined that this roommate is a complete stranger in the storyline, even lower in status than Zhou Xiao, the "cannon fodder" card, and has never met any important characters in the main storyline from beginning to end.
But he was secretly pursuing Zhou Xiao.
He and Zhou Xiao were roommates. Zhou Xiao always covered himself tightly outside, but his true face was always revealed in the dormitory. He was not very straight to begin with, so he immediately decided to pursue Zhou Xiao. However, Zhou Xiao was too introverted and silent, so this roommate took good care of Zhou Xiao's emotions. In the plot, this roommate was unable to confess his love to Zhou Xiao until he went abroad.
Zhou Xiao typed, [I'm back.]
The words 'The other party is typing...' immediately appeared above the dialog box, but it took a full two minutes before a message was sent.
[Liu Ze: Have you had dinner yet? Do you want me to bring you anything?]
[Zhou Xiao: No, thank you.]
The other party "typed" for a long time and finally replied with "OK".
After exiting the chat box with Liu Ze, Zhou Xiao found a red dot below, which was a friend request.
System, [It's Xie Wenji.]
Maybe it was because he had clearly rejected Xie Wenjie yesterday, so he didn't dare to reveal his identity.
Zhou Xiao sneered and directly clicked "Reject".
…
Xie Wenjie waited for two days, but Zhou Xiao still didn't approve his friend request. He knew that he was rejected again.
A feeling of unwillingness suddenly surged in his heart. He bought some health products and flowers, carried his drawing board, drove to Z University.
Zhou Yao revealed a lot to him that day, and Xie Wenjie knew Zhou Xiao's major and dormitory building.
He first went to see the professor who had taught him before, then pretended to stroll around and walked to the downstairs of Zhou Xiao’s dormitory.
Zhou Xiao’s activity trajectory was very simple. Xie Wenjie knew that he would definitely go to the library later.
There is a natural lake next to Dormitory Building 7 with beautiful scenery. Students often sketch nearby. Xie Wenji pretended to come from Mingyue Lake for sketching and rested in the living area.
Xie Wenjie was dressed casually today and looked no different from this group of college students. Students from Z University came to chat with him one after another. He seemed to have a natural affinity, attracting all kinds of people to come to him.
Unfortunately, Zhou Xiao is not among this group of people.
Xie Wenji politely rejected the advances of about seven or eight people. Finally, before his patience ran out, Zhou Xiao appeared in his sight.
He hurriedly stood up and walked towards Zhou Xiao.
Zhou Xiao lowered his head and walked a little fast. He didn't expect that someone would suddenly block his way and he was caught off guard and bumped into him.
"I'm sorry..."
As soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by a low and magnetic voice.
"Zhou Xiao? What a coincidence, you live in this building?"
Hearing this slightly familiar voice, Zhou Xiao's back instantly tensed up.
Seeing the slight reaction of the person in front of him, the smile on Xie Wenji's face deepened... It was really strange. Everyone had a high initial friendship level with him, so why was Zhou Xiao the exception?
This was their third meeting, but he was still wary of her.
Is it really just because he has social anxiety?
Zhou Xiao hummed softly, his eyes wandering, and he looked like he wanted to escape.
Xie Wenji didn't let him have his way. "Since we happened to meet, Ah Xiao, could you walk with me?"
"No……"
Xie Wenji laughed, it was indeed the same word.
"So what do you want to do? I'll accompany you?"
Zhou Xiao wanted to continue to refuse, but Xie Wenji said, "I will accompany you, or you will accompany me. Which one do you want to choose?"
Zhou Xiao pursed his lips tightly, his expression saying 'I don't want to choose either', but the situation before him was obvious; Xie Wenji wasn't someone who could be easily dismissed...
About half a minute later, Xie Wenji saw the young man in front of him, who was half a head shorter than him, sighed inaudibly and replied reluctantly, "I'm going to the library."
Xie Wenji picked up his drawing board and smiled calmly, "That's great."
Xie Wenjie followed Zhou Xiao to the library.
The library of Z University is very luxurious. The study area has a small room separated by bookshelves. There is a desk in it and a booth on each side that can seat two people.
The space was not big, and Xie Wenjie and Zhou Xiao sat face to face. Xie Wenjie's long legs seemed to have nowhere to put, and they kept touching Zhou Xiao's from time to time.
...This blatant hint was so obvious that even if Zhou Xiao was a fool, he could understand some of Xie Wenjie's thoughts.
Zhou Xiao felt a little uneasy.
Xie Wenji was drawing a sketch, and the charcoal pencil made a rustling sound on the paper.
Zhou Xiao raised his head and glanced at him secretly. Seeing that he was not looking at him, he felt a little relieved.
He felt relieved and started to practice questions. After a while, he felt his phone vibrate twice.
It was a message from Liu Ze. [Liu Ze: Zhou Xiao, have you been to the library?]
Zhou Xiao replied with a "hmm".
The other party continued to ask, "Can I come to you? I have a few questions about my experiment that I don't understand."
Zhou Xiao hesitated for a moment, thinking that he had already rejected him once last time, and finally agreed.
Xie Wenji looked up at him quietly.
Zhou Xiao wore a pair of old-fashioned glasses... It was understandable. If he hadn't covered up his face, with a personality like that, he would have been eaten alive without leaving a single vestige.
But he still remembered the amazing feeling he had when he first saw Zhou Xiao, and what was presented on the canvas was also the scene of their first meeting.
There is never a shortage of beauties around him, but someone like Zhou Xiao is really rare...
Her facial features are delicate and perfect, her skin is translucent, her lips are rosy, and her face is cold and charming.
Now he could only see half of Zhou Xiao's face, but even this part of his chin had a very beautiful curve.
Very suitable for the jawline controlled by fingers.
Xie Wenji was daydreaming, and the plot in his mind had fast-forwarded to the scene where he pinched Zhou Xiao's chin and forced those somewhat gray eyes to look into his.
Thinking of this, Xie Wenji frowned slightly.
Before that, I should take off those glasses that are in the way.
Xie Wenjie has always been a very active person. He immediately stood up slightly, reached out to take off the glasses of the person opposite him, and saw Zhou Xiao looking up blankly, and Xie Wenjie smiled with satisfaction.
Zhou Xiao's glasses are not plain glasses. He is really nearsighted and the degree of myopia is very high. After taking off his glasses, he can hardly tell males and females from five steps away, and can't tell humans and animals from ten steps away.
Zhou Xiao came back to his senses, his expression becoming panicked, "Give it back to me, give it back to me!"
Of course, he wouldn't feel uneasy if he took off his glasses himself, but if someone suddenly took them off, especially someone he was wary of from the beginning, his reaction would naturally be bigger.
Xie Wenji pinched his glasses with two fingers and shook them in front of him. "Were you replying to WeChat just now? Whose message was it?"
Zhou Xiao pursed his lips and did not answer.
Xie Wenji didn't force it. He thought for a moment and continued, "You can still do it. Just add me on WeChat."
"Don't say 'no'!" Xie Wenji saw him frown and immediately interrupted the spell.
Zhou Xiao half opened his mouth and was stunned for a moment.
Xie Wenjie thought he was particularly cute and wanted to pinch him, but he knew that at this stage, if he acted rashly, Zhou Xiao would definitely be more wary of him.
After thinking about it, Xie Wenji suddenly paused.
Why does he care about Zhou Xiao’s attitude towards him?
Only then did Xie Wenji slowly come to his senses… If he just wanted to have fun, why would he have gone to so much trouble to approach her so cautiously? After all, she was just an unloved, invisible young master.
He actually wanted to start as friends and then slowly develop feelings for each other?
Xie Wenji had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and thought of some clues -
'Being attracted by beauty', there is also an elegant way of saying it...
He fell in love with Zhou Xiao at first sight.
Xie Wenji was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't notice the man in front of him hesitated for a moment, then suddenly stood up, trying to retrieve his glasses from his hands.
But he didn't succeed.
Even if Xie Wenjie was in a trance, his reaction speed was much faster than Zhou Xiao, who was half-blind.
He raised his arm almost reflexively, and blocked it with his other hand to control Zhou Xiao's movements.
As a result, Zhou Xiao really couldn't see clearly. When he stretched out his hand, he failed to reach Xie Wenjie's right hand accurately. Instead, he knocked his left hand off target, and his body also tilted.
Seeing that Zhou Xiao was unstable, Xie Wenji hurriedly supported him with both hands.
'Click.'
The noise stunned the two men. They looked down at the same time and saw that Zhou Xiao's glasses had been broken in Xie Wenjie's hands.
Zhou Xiao blinked, a little shocked.
Xie Wenji was silent for a second, and suddenly felt guilty, "I, cough, I didn't mean it."
Zhou Xiao's eyes were filled with mist, "I, I can't see clearly..."
Xie Wenji helped the man up and said, "I'll compensate you and take you to get glasses now, okay?"
Zhou Xiao sat down again, his beautiful eyes starting to lose focus. "I can't see clearly. I can't go out..."
"..." Xie Wenji was also speechless. He almost forgot that Zhou Xiao was not only nearsighted, but also socially anxious. Now his buffs were fully stacked.
"I'll hold you and be your guide dog, okay? If you're scared, just hold on to my arm and I promise not to let anyone touch you." He really felt guilty and wanted to make amends sincerely, even saying that he wanted to be his dog.
Zhou Xiao was also silent. After a long while, he responded in a low voice, "Okay."
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