Chapter 36
Qu Xing couldn't bear to live this year. All he could think about was Ling Yin. He wanted his vacation to end immediately and return to base for training. A few days seemed like a lifetime.
"Let's find a place to play?" Meng Hui said.
Qu Xing was holding his phone and sending a message to Ling Yin:
--Where are you?
Captain Beauty——Relatives' Home
Captain Beauty——[Exhausted]
Qu Xing laughed out loud.
"Are you going, Xingxing?" Meng Hui asked.
"I'm not going, Huihui," Qu Xing smiled and looked up: "You guys go."
Yu Dun glanced at Qu Xing's phone and said, "Esports players train from morning till night, and when they have time off they just want to sleep. How can they have the energy to play?"
Meng Hui didn't answer. Instead, she looked at Qu Xing for a while, then suddenly narrowed her eyes and asked, "Xingxing, are you in love?"
After hearing this, Qu Xing didn't react at all. Yu Dun froze for a moment, then hurriedly explained, "How is that possible! He doesn't even get close to girls normally."
Meng Hui: "Aren't there boys?"
Yu Dun froze again.
"That handsome Ling from your team," Meng Hui continued, shockingly, "looks like a perfect match for you."
Many people say that Qu Xing and Ling Yin are a good match, but when it comes from those netizens, it seems like a joke. When it comes from the elders, Qu Xing feels that they are definitely a good match.
"Every time I see you two standing on that stage, you don't look like brothers like others, you look like a couple, hahahaha." Meng Hui said, even feeling shy: "Ouch."
Yu Dun: "...Why don't I feel anything?"
Qu Xing felt relaxed and refreshed after hearing what he said. He stretched out lazily in the corner of the sofa and said, "Indeed."
Because he had already made up his mind to pursue her, he didn't care about what she said and sent a message:
——My cousin said we are a good match
Ling Yin saw the message on the other side and didn't know how to react.
He felt like his heart was torn in two. One half felt like it had been pierced by something, leaving a leaky sieve. He didn't dare to imagine what Qu Xing had been through. From his few words, he only knew about his cousin. The other half was disturbed by the word "matched" he had said, which made his heart tremble.
"Why are you sighing? Breathe it back in." Ling Song said.
Ling Yin glanced at his unreasonable father, then turned his eyes back to his phone.
An Yining didn't even turn around and scolded softly, "Are you sick?"
Ling Song glanced at his wife and asked with concern, "What happened?"
Ling Yin shook his head, thought for a moment, and then said, "I have a... friend. His father is very mean, his grandmother passed away, he has a cousin, and no one knows where his biological mother is. I've never heard him mention her. It seems like," Ling Yin's voice dropped, "he seems to be all alone and helpless."
Ling Song frowned. "When did I make a friend like this? Where is this kid now? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Ling Yin really didn't want to describe Qu Xing as a pitiful person. Qu Xing didn't have that kind of temperament at all. He looked cheerful and soft, but he was actually very strong inside.
He shook his head: "Maybe I'm overthinking it. He should still have a family."
An Yining tilted his head and said, "Why don't you ask?"
Ling Yin couldn't help but sigh again: "I don't know how to ask, he doesn't seem to want to talk about it." Glancing at a relative coming over, Ling Yin decisively interrupted the topic: "We'll talk about it later."
Ling Song couldn't help but look at Ling Yin a few more times. He lowered his head and sent a private message to his wife:
——Is your son in love?
——It must be unrequited love. She doesn’t even want to talk to him about things.
——The little girl is so pitiful, what family background is this?
Ling Yin suddenly narrowed his eyes and looked at the two people beside him. He snatched Ling Song's phone with lightning speed, scanned the chat content between the two, and calmly typed three words into the chat box:
——Little boy
send.
The couple: "..."
Well, that's not love.
Qu Xing was arguing with his "cousin" about the issue of "If you want to go out and play, just go and play. You don't have to stay and accompany me. I don't really need anyone to accompany me." Suddenly, a message popped up in the DL internal group.
Your Fourth Master - Children
Your Fourth Master - I have a sad news to announce
Your vacation is over
Your Fourth Master - there is a temporary filming task tomorrow, it's from our sponsor, we have to shoot it quickly during the holiday, so as not to occupy the normal training time
Are you, Fourth Master—ok?
Your Fourth Master - no matter where you are, you must come back before 10 o'clock tomorrow.
Your Fourth Master——Reply
Your Fourth Master - I called them one by one.
Qu Xingru was pardoned: "You can go with peace of mind. I have to go back to the base tomorrow."
Meng Hui asked, "Why so early?"
"We have a filming assignment." Qu Xing tried hard to suppress his smile, so Huihui wouldn't think he was happy about them leaving. He just really, really, really wanted to see Ling Yin.
"Okay." Meng Hui pulled Qu Xing into her arms and rubbed her, "This is too hard. Oh, my poor little Xingxing."
Under the chaotic attack of her hands, Qu Xing raised his phone and replied to the group with a 1. Then he freed himself and was about to retreat to the other side of the sofa when Meng Hui pulled him back.
Meng Hui held her head and gave her a big kiss: "Mommy loves you!"
Qu Xing was bullied by her until his fur was all messed up. Yu Dun was speechless: "Mom!"
"Tsk." Meng Hui let go of Qu Xing: "I'm his mom fan."
Yu Dun: "..."
The Yuton family drove away that night.
Qu Xing went for a stroll on his skateboard, the wind rushing towards him as he moved forward. The surrounding scenery was vast, but Qu Xing seemed to be trapped by the word "Ling Yin". Not even a gentle breeze, not even a strong wind, could blow away Ling Yin's face, his hands, and his body temperature and fragrance from his mind. He wished it were tomorrow. He had to see Ling Yin right away and hug him, only then would he feel a little better. After seeing him, he had to follow him closely. If he were separated for even a moment, his longing would probably intensify...
Qu Xing didn't know what was wrong with him. He probably didn't even use his brain to think. When he reacted, Ling Yin had already answered the call.
"When will you come back?" Qu Xing asked.
"Tomorrow morning." Ling Yin was slightly stunned: "What's wrong?"
The wheel slid quietly for a while, and Qu Xing, taking advantage of his and Ling Yin's already unusually close relationship, said the words very naturally: "I miss you."
He heard Ling Yin take a slight breath, smiled, and turned a corner with his skateboard.
"Where are you?" Ling Yin asked.
"At my home," Qu Xing said, "or at the nearby music park."
"It's the park where I was photographed running away."
"Wait for me." Ling Yin said.
What?
Qu Xing stopped abruptly: "Okay... no... wait... what are you going to do?"
There should be someone over there with Ling Yin. Qu Xing heard a few unrecognizable voices, and then Ling Yin said softly with a slight tremor: "I miss you, too."
These words seemed to carry an electric current, piercing through his skull, illuminating every inch of his flesh and blood. Qu Xing froze in his tracks.
The clamor of the music park carried clearly to the other side. Ling Yin couldn't hear Qu Xing's voice, not even his breathing. He knew he was impulsive, very impulsive. Qu Xing's "I miss you" was probably just a simple teasing, not the kind of agonizing desire he had, the kind that made him want to see her and hold her in his arms the next second. But he still said it, and he said it with such sincerity that there was no room for redemption.
Qu Xing caught a glimpse of a phone being secretly raised towards him not far away, and suddenly said, "I'll send you the location, come to my house."
Ling Yin: "Okay."
Qu Xing squatted behind the front door of his house, so that Ling Yin could open the door immediately and pull him in for a kiss.
Ling Yin likes him.
Isn't this obvious?
Lingyin and him had spent so much time together, like a "young couple." Even when he suspected he was ill and couldn't sleep, he'd still kiss and hug Lingyin, spending every day with him. Lingyin, in turn, let him spend every day with her, even sometimes feeling jealous. He attributed it all to his own overwhelming charm, because he was Lingyin's idol. This "liking" had long since surpassed the boundaries of friendship, but he still wasn't sure where it would end.
Is it the level where they can hug and cuddle, or the level where they can kiss a few times but not French kiss, or maybe they can even accept kissing, but when it comes to the last step, even after taking off their clothes, they find that they can't accept it.
Now Qu Xing felt like a fool. He already liked her so much, so even if it wasn't originally a homosexual liking, he could still make it so. The boundaries between all kinds of liking were inherently fuzzy and entangled. Was it really necessary to separate them so closely?
Even if Ling Yin couldn't accept it after kissing him, he didn't believe she would be willing to break up with him. As long as he was sincere and restored their normal relationship, and persisted for a while, Ling Yin would accept that there was someone with ill intentions. Once Ling Yin gradually accepted it mentally, he could gradually win her over physically. Even if it took a while, it wouldn't matter.
But thinking about this now was meaningless. Because Ling Yin obviously liked him, not just in a normal way, but in the same way he liked her. Because of that trembling "I miss you too."
If the five days without seeing Ling Yin felt like a lifetime, then the time it took for Ling Yin to come felt like another lifetime.
He squatted behind the door, lost in thought, and stood up the moment the doorbell rang. He opened the door, ready to drag the person in as expected, but his legs went numb for a moment.
Before he could stand firm, Ling Yin squeezed in, raised his hand to close the door, and then hugged Qu Xing tightly in his arms.
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