Chapter 90
On the plane back, the two of them sat in the last row of seats, sleeping with their heads against each other.
Chu Yu woke up relatively early. His first reaction after waking up was to check if his collar was messy. He didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he touched the buttons that were buttoned tightly. His second reaction was that his ears turned red with embarrassment because of his first reaction.
The culprit was still fast asleep in his chair. No one knew he was dreaming. In his dream, he was sitting in a classroom during lunch break, doing a math test. The test required him to calculate how many excuses he had used to trick his boyfriend into kissing him. Luo Jiayu counted on his fingers seriously, his mind racing back to the scene of him whispering a bargain with someone this morning.
"I kissed you, do you want to kiss me back?"
"We didn't kiss goodnight last night, can we make up for it now?"
"I didn't have one before, but now that we're in a relationship, can we count it? I think we can, absolutely."
"Today is our second anniversary of being in love. Shouldn't we celebrate such a memorable day? To celebrate, let me hold you for a while longer."
"Oh, I didn't make any excuses."
"Okay, I'm just looking for an excuse. Kiss me again, and I won't let go unless you do."
It turns out that the shameless puppies will win in the end. It is hard to say how long they hugged each other before packing up and leaving the hotel. I only remember that the original sheet that had not been slept in and the other sheet that had just been made up were both wrinkled.
Chu Yu was so amused that she curled up in his arms. It was a long time before she raised her head awkwardly. Her eyelashes blinked rapidly because of nervousness. She looked at him hesitantly, leaned forward hesitantly, touched his lips tentatively, then turned her head and tried to escape quickly. The next second, she was pulled back, and the shallow touch deepened into a formal kiss. The hot air was filled with the minty scent of toothpaste and the smell of bergamot aftershaving water.
Chu Yu was used to closing her eyes when kissing. Luo Jiayu turned his head slightly halfway through the kiss and saw the granular sunlight passing by in the early morning dancing on his lover's trembling eyelashes. The blurred soft light outline and the close enough distance allowed him to see the fine hairs on the other's face.
He felt at the time that this was such a beautiful dream that he didn't want to wake up at all.
Outside the dream, Chu Yu, who had woken up, patted his cheeks twice, neither too hard nor too light. Luo Jiayu opened his eyes the next second, suddenly jumped up, and was then pulled back by the safety belt. However, he couldn't hide his triumphant joy: "Full marks!"
"What do you mean by full marks?" Chu Yu blinked and asked.
"I got full marks on the math problems." Luo Jiayu nodded seriously, very satisfied. Then he turned his head and looked at his childhood friend with narrowed eyes. "Did you call me just now?"
He hadn't intended to actually wake anyone up. Technically, the slapping of his face was a covert way of venting his anger. It just so happened that Luo Jiayu had just woken up from his dream after his papers were graded. He was asked this question with a smile, and for a moment he didn't react. After a moment's thought, he pointed to the view outside the porthole beside him and said, "I came to see you looking at the clouds."
It’s a sunny day today, and on any sunny day the clouds and sky tones look beautiful.
Luo Jiayu seldom looked at the clouds, as his focus was mostly on some immediately stimulating activities on the ground. However, Chu Yu had the habit of looking up at the clouds frequently. After looking at them, he would take pictures and send them to his childhood friends to share. Luo Jiayu would praise him from time to time. Clouds were sometimes a rare medium for two people to communicate quietly.
Luo Jiayu leaned over, but just as her head got close to her boyfriend's shoulder, her mouth automatically moved to his ear, whispering something in a low voice. Her tone and voice sounded like an underground spy:
"Is anyone else watching us?"
Chu Yu turned his head 180 degrees back and forth. Most of the trainees were sleeping with their eyes closed, while the cameramen and other staff members were resting in another cabin. No suspicious targets were seen.
So he turned around and reported obediently: "Not yet."
Upon hearing this, Luo Jiayu silently clasped the fingers of the person hanging on his side. As his fingers tightened, his chin gradually rested on the person's shoulder. Then, maintaining this posture, the two children began to look at the clouds quietly.
As they watched, one of the children couldn't control his strong desire to speak. He couldn't free his hands to poke the other child, so he used his clasped hand to gently tickle the other child's palm with his fingers to attract the attention of those around him: "We can have another holiday after we go back this time."
"Well, I can sleep until I wake up naturally every day." Capibara's voice sounded very satisfied.
After two weeks of staying up all night, this time he wanted to make up for all the sleep he had lost and seize the opportunity to get a good night's sleep.
"When the holiday is over, it will be the finals."
"Well, we have to stay up all night again." Capibara's voice gradually became sad.
"After the finals, it's debut night." Luo Jiayu said as he silently tightened the grip on his clasped hands a little more. "It won't be long."
Chu Yu quietly let him hold her paw for a while, then finally seemed to react and turned to look at him belatedly: "Are we almost done?"
"We're almost there." Luo Jiayu said, then tried to correct the ambiguity in her boyfriend's words, "We've only just begun."
Chu Yu didn't say anything. He hadn't recovered from the fact that he had reached the finals. The memories in his mind flashed through his mind like a videotape, back to the beginning when he was disheartened and chose to give up after the unlucky task card he had drawn.
At that time, the whole world seemed strange and full of crises in his eyes. He often felt that although he could handle it, he was still walking on thin ice and it was difficult to sustain. But as the days went by, especially after his childhood friend came, the tormenting thoughts gradually faded from his mind without him realizing it.
At that time, he was hoping to stay in the draft camp long enough so that he could be released from prison. Looking back now, those few months were just a blink of an eye, making people feel like they were in a dream.
"We're almost through." Chu Yu repeated Luo Jiayu's words and sat there blankly for a while. His boyfriend's other paw came over restlessly to touch his hair. He squinted his eyes like a cat having its fur stroked, and leaned his head into his arms, looking like he was about to fall asleep again.
Luo Jiayu's ears were still red. He lowered his eyes to look at the profile of the person in his arms, and secretly raised the corners of his mouth. He felt that his boyfriend's hair was softer than the clouds outside. He liked looking at the person in front of him more than looking at the clouds. Chu Yu muttered something like a dream before falling asleep. He put his ear close to listen and finally heard what he said:
"very nice."
After returning to the camp, within two days, the program team arranged a new round of interviews. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was arranged specifically for Chu Yu.
After two days of recuperation, Chu Yu now seemed surprisingly calm about the fact that his inner voice could be heard by the whole world. His seemingly calm attitude astonished everyone in the interview department, and made the battle-hardened staff wonder if some strange ideas had popped out of his little head.
Interview recording site.
Host: "Today is a very special day."
Capibara looked at her earnestly.
Host: "Xiao Yu should have known this secret, right?"
Capibara looked at her earnestly.
The host looked at his clear eyes and decided to get straight to the point:
"We are all curious about your reaction when you know that your voice can be heard by everyone?" she asked.
Chu Yu was silent for a second.
Two seconds.
The first metaphor is opening your mouth.
“It was a shock at first.”
The host nodded seriously and asked patiently, "And then?"
"And now I have begun to try to control my emotions, using elastic and contractile excitement to control my inner voice." Chu Xiaoyu explained seriously, looking like a philosopher talking nonsense.
In short, his current goal in life is to be an excellent sliding rheostat, to get excited when he needs to, so that his emotions will be less distracted.
No one quite understood what he said, and the host was also stunned by his pretentious words. After sorting out his thoughts, he picked up the microphone again:
"Wow, that sounds amazing. Could you please demonstrate it to us?"
Chu Yu nodded obediently: "Sure."
The room was filled with silence at first, and then two seconds later, the entire interview room was caught off guard and suddenly erupted in a deafening scream:
[Twisting!! Splitting!! Crawling in the shadows!! Uppercut, left hook, right hook, undercut, sweeping kick, goat jump!! Completely crazy! Completely crazy! Completely crazy!!]
The next second, the room returned to peace, the small speaker was instantly muted, and Chu Yu, sitting in the interview chair in the center, said calmly and obediently, "Well, that's about it."
Everyone was stunned.
Everyone was amazed.
After two seconds of silence, the whole room exploded with roaring laughter. Everyone in the interview room, including the audience, laughed so hard that they could almost flip the earth over.
Chu Yu, who had amused everyone, closed his eyes sadly, covered his forehead with his hands, exhaled deeply, and then turned away from the camera. Then everyone heard the second wave of his inner voice:
[I'm just a cowardly little boy who only knows how to be ordered around. I don't even have the courage to refuse. I see through myself. This is how my life will be.]
Everyone laughed even harder.
After the broadcast, Chu Yu walked out of the interview room, squatted there and walked around in autism for a while, then decided to go back to hug her boyfriend to soothe her broken heart. But before she could find the right way, another uninvited guest appeared in her sight.
Wei Ziyu was originally the next interviewee arranged by the program team. When he saw Chu Yu at the door, he seemed to be hesitant to speak. After hesitating for a long time, he quickly walked forward and blocked the person's way.
Capibara was stunned. The first moment he saw the other person, he remembered the last time he was dragged into a small dark room and trapped for an hour and a half.
Since that night, he and Wei Ziyu had not had any direct contact, so when they first met, he subconsciously thought that the prince was going to cause him a new round of trouble.
However, this time the other party did not act as domineering as last time. On the contrary, Wei Ziyu hesitated and his eyes were wandering. His mind replayed a series of scenes in which he finally mustered up the courage to find Jiang Chenglu a while ago, the two of them reconciled after confessing to each other, and then were told the truth.
At that time, he thought that the rift between him and his boyfriend was caused by the person in front of him, but in fact Chu Yu did nothing and he was wrong about it.
Jiang Chenglu said that he should apologize if he wrongly accused someone, and his actions indirectly led to a series of troubles that later caused Chu Yu to be trapped in the small dark room, so he should apologize more sincerely.
The arrogant prince had never sincerely apologized to anyone in his life. He was not very skilled the first time, and it was difficult for him to let go of his damn face, which led to him stuttering and hesitating for a long time with a blushing face. Chu Yu didn't even understand whether the words he said in these confusing sentences were Chinese.
"I... I used to be prejudiced against you... but, but now I understand... I... you..."
Chu Yu was listening quietly at first, but then he frowned warily.
Blushing, stuttering, wandering eyes, unnatural expression, and nervousness.
He compared these speech features with the few relevant scenes in his memory bank and found that there was only one possibility that matched.
Oh no, he seems to be confessing his feelings.
Wei Ziyu was still struggling to choose words and form sentences: "That's right, I just want to say that I actually..."
At this moment, Capibara's originally lazy brain began to work rapidly.
It's impossible to accept it, not in this lifetime, so it's best to reject it gracefully before the other person can even utter a complete sentence. How can you do that gracefully? The easiest way is to find an objective reason that leaves no room for debate.
Where is the reason? What is the reason?
Capibara's eyes lit up, got it.
Wei Ziyu was still hesitating, but Chu Yu slowly reached out to interrupt him. As soon as he opened his mouth, his words quietly surprised everyone:
“I’m 1.”
Prince: “…”
Prince: "Ah?"
Just as he finished speaking, a "pop" sound was heard not far away. They both turned their heads and saw Luo Jiayu, who had just rushed over from the dormitory, standing there motionless, with a box of French fries that had accidentally fallen to the ground at his feet.
A certain prince of the Zhejiang circle ran out of the interview room impatiently to pick up his wife because he hadn't seen her for thousands of seconds. As a result, he just came up from the corner of the stairs and was caught off guard by hearing these three words.
Luo Jiayu: “…”
Luo Jiayu: “Ah?”
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