Chapter 31 published..
The light in the room was not very bright. Ji Ruan only turned on the desk lamp, which could even be said to be dim.
Gu Xiuyi leaned against the head of the bed, his sharp facial lines were hidden in the darkness, leaving only a faint smile in his eyes.
There were scattered street lights shining in from outside the window, and a small cluster of jumping halos faintly ignited in his eyes, which made people feel intimacy for some reason.
When their eyes met, Ji Ruan was stunned. A strange warmth seemed to be rising from his fingertips, making him feel a little bewildered.
He put his hands on the back of the chair and smiled in confusion: "Has Boss Gu's massage business expanded to include acupoint massage?"
Gu Xiuyi's smile deepened: "Well, I have this plan. I will give you a free trial coupon first. Does this customer want to try it?"
Ji Ruan hesitated for only two seconds before standing up and walking towards Gu Xiuyi.
Although he couldn't explain why he felt strange when looking at Gu Xiuyi at this moment, at least he knew that he was not averse to this strangeness.
Even the warmth from her fingertips was gradually spreading throughout her body, as if the closer she was to Gu Xiuyi, the warmer the world became. Humans are animals that tend to move towards light and warmth, and Ji Ruan is no exception.
He sat down on the bed, put the stuffed bear on Gu Xiuyi as a cushion, and lay on his side with his back to him, his face against the bear's belly: "Let's start, be gentle."
"Um."
Gu Xiuyi placed his fingertips on Ji Ruan's solar plexus, feeling the warm body temperature, Ji Ruan closed his eyes comfortably.
"Can you go up a little?"
"How about a little more force?"
"…Forget it, let's just be gentle, just like at the beginning."
He just made a few requests to the technician, but his cheek was pinched. The technician seemed to laugh and said, "You have high demands?"
Ji Ruan rubbed the place where he was pinched, buried his face in the bear's belly and laughed: "Isn't this your professionalism? Besides, my head is very precious. If I can't massage it well, I won't come to you to consume in the future."
The customer was very grumpy.
Gu Xiuyi laughed: "Okay."
To be honest, Boss Gu has never served anyone before and has no skills at all. Fortunately, his force was light and his body temperature was high, and when he put it on Ji Ruan's forehead, it felt as comfortable as a hot compress even without moving.
Ji Ruan really likes his body temperature.
At the beginning, Gu Xiuyi was able to perform his duties as a technician conscientiously, but he let himself go after kneading for a while. Ji Ruan occasionally felt itchy on her cheeks, her earlobes were pinched, and her auricles were scratched, which was very itchy.
He grabbed Gu Xiuyi's hand, lying on his back and looking: "Do you still want to give me a full face massage?"
Gu Xiuyi laughed when he heard it: "I can have it...if you need it."
As he said this, he immediately stretched out his hand to show off his superb massage skills.
Ji Ruan immediately sat up: "Forget it, I won't come."
Originally, it was just pressing on the forehead, which Ji Ruan could still accept, but it felt very strange to be touched on the face. He couldn't explain it, but he just felt numb in his heart.
He casually pulled down his messy hair, got out of bed and sat back at his desk: "I'm done, I'm going to continue reviewing, Mr. Gu, you go back to sleep, good night."
Ji Ruan held the pen in his hand and seemed to enter into a learning state immediately, beginning to ignore what was happening outside. Gu Xiuyi looked at his straight back, stunned for a second, and then felt deeply lonely as if something was thrown away after being used.
He stood up and walked to the table, folded his arms and looked down at Ji Ruan: "No more?"
Ji Ruan looked back: "What else?"
"…Like thanking someone or something?"
"Thank you, it feels very comfortable."
"What about a little more?"
Ji Ruan pursed her lips, seemed to think seriously for a moment, and then looked at Gu Xiuyi with clear eyes: "I will repay you with a perfect test paper."
“…”
As it turned out, although Technician Gu's massage skills were not good, they were very helpful for the exam, and Ji Ruan indeed got several full marks.
However, the students were allowed to go home directly after the final exams and there would be no more test papers. In order to fulfill his promise, Ji Ruan printed out the report card and posted it on the technician's door for three whole days to express his sincere gratitude and praise.
In front of the door, Ji Ruan carefully smoothed every corner of the report card, and proudly looked up at Gu Xiuyi: "How is it?"
Gu Xiuyi: “…”
Gu Xiuyi curled his lips: "Great."
Although Gu Xiuyi always felt that he had gained nothing, this was after all the first promise that Ji Ruan had fulfilled to him... At least it could symbolize a breakthrough in their relationship...
Maybe, it can be considered a breakthrough... Gu Xiuyi comforted himself in this way.
The two of them looked at the glittering report card together. This report marked the beginning of the Spring Festival decorations.
The final exams at Kyoto University were held late this year, and the Chinese New Year was coming soon after they ended. All the furnishings in the house were changed to warm colors, the word "Fu" was pasted on the windows, and red lanterns were hung at the door.
On New Year's Eve, Gu Xiuyi was busy outside for half a day and returned home before dinner in the afternoon.
When I entered the room, Ji Ruan was leaning on a ladder and pasting couplets on the door.
The villa has many floors and the gate is more magnificent than that of an ordinary apartment. Ji Ruan is standing so high that Gu Xiuyi has to look up at him and is shocked by the height.
"What are you doing?" Gu Xiuyi stepped forward quickly.
Ji Ruan was still holding the double-sided tape. Hearing this, he lowered his head and looked over with a smile: "It's the couplets. Aunt Zhao and I went out to buy them this morning. Prices are really getting higher and higher now. A pair of couplets costs - what are you doing!"
Ji Ruan was halfway through her words when Gu Xiuyi suddenly grabbed her by the waist and hugged her down, causing her heart to tingle.
Gu Xiuyi didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he put Ji Ruan safely on the ground.
There was no one around, and Aunt Zhao was nowhere to be found. The pebbles on the steps were easy to bump into, and it was unknown what would happen if Ji Ruan lost his balance and fell down.
Gu Xiuyi felt horrified just thinking about it.
"Don't climb so high if there's no one around you anymore, you hear me?"
Ji Ruan's heartbeat hadn't calmed down yet. He felt a slight sense of weightlessness when he was carried down. He rubbed his chest and said, "What else can I say? You pulling me down is much scarier than standing there. What if you told me first?"
“…”
Gu Xiuyi calmed down and realized that his previous actions were a bit abrupt.
"Sorry," he coughed, "Are you done with it?"
"Just a little bit more..." Although Ji Ruan complained, he knew that Gu Xiuyi was doing this for his own good, so he stopped preparing to go forward and moved aside a little.
Gu Xiuyi took the double-sided tape from Ji Ruan's hand, stepped on the ladder two or three times to smooth the couplet, and then took Ji Ruan into the house.
Ji Ruan was still wearing a thick scarf. Gu Xiuyi helped him take it off. He looked at her pale face and asked, "Are you scared?"
Ji Ruan's eyelashes fluttered, and she lowered her eyes, not looking at Gu Xiuyi, and said confidently: "Anyone would be scared by that..."
Gu Xiuyi looked away and pressed on the top of Ji Ruan's head: "You are so delicate... Go wash your hands."
Aunt Zhao prepared a table full of delicious dishes for the New Year’s Eve dinner. It looked prosperous and festive. Ji Ruan took a photo and sent it to the dormitory group before he started eating.
There was also a dish of rice dumplings made with fermented rice wine on the table, which was particularly delicious and more to Ji Ruan's taste than any fish or meat.
However, Gu Xiuyi restricted Ji Ruan's intake on the grounds that glutinous rice was difficult to digest, which made Ji Ruan so angry that he put aside the dumplings and drank two bowls of soup to express his dissatisfaction.
In the evening, the two of them sat on the thick carpet in the living room with the cat to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Gu Xiuyi had lived to this day, and there were only a few days when he could watch the Spring Festival Gala peacefully on New Year's Eve.
So this moment was an extremely unfamiliar warmth for him.
Ji Ruan's phone was buzzing as his roommates sent him photos of their New Year's celebrations.
Qin Shan's family was still having dinner with the Spring Festival Gala playing as background music. Li Yu was already setting off fireworks outside. Han Xiaolin sent a photo of a snowman.
Ji Ruan clicked on it and looked at it. [@韩大仙, Han Xiaolin, why did you put the snowman in the refrigerator? ]
Han Xiaolin replied immediately: [How to do it.]
[Ji Ruan: ...?]
[Han Daxian: You don’t know this, right? According to our family tradition, building a snowman and placing it at the door on New Year’s Eve can bring prosperity in the coming year and ward off evil spirits.]
Ji Ruan raised his eyebrows: [Is there such a saying?]
[Han Daxian: I don’t know if there are other places, but we have them at home. When I was a kid living in the countryside, we would pile up a big one every year. Now that I’m in the city, the elevator apartment property won’t let me put it there. I figured, the door to the refrigerator is also considered a door, so I’ll just make do with it.]
God, the refrigerator door is also the door. Ji Ruan couldn't help laughing out loud, and Gu Xiuyi gave him a look.
Ji Ruan smiled, took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and showed the chat history to Gu Xiuyi.
Gu Xiuyi also raised his eyebrows: "Your friend is a talented person."
Ji Ruan laughed even more happily: "How can he still believe this kind of statement when he is an adult?"
"That's right," Gu Xiuyi echoed, "Feudal superstition is not good."
"you're right."
After that, the two of them were silent for a while and watched the Spring Festival Gala quietly. However, Ji Ruan began to reminisce a little and opened Han Xiaolin's picture to take a look.
Take another look a few minutes later.
This snowman...is still kind of cute.
"Ahem," Ji Ruan cleared his throat and tugged at the tassels on his pillow, "Why would anyone go out and build a snowman on New Year's Eve? How boring."
Gu Xiuyi nodded. He really thought so: "It's easy to catch a cold."
Ji Ruan: “…”
He turned and looked at Gu Xiuyi: "I would never do such a childish thing."
"Me too."
Gu Xiuyi answered casually before realizing something was wrong. The gazes around him seemed too intense.
He hesitated and turned his head, and suddenly met Ji Ruan's eyes. The child was staring at him with big and beautiful eyes.
Gu Xiuyi looked at him for a while and found that the man who said making a snowman was childish actually had his eyes full of eagerness to try.
The other person's eyes flashed, and Ji Ruan immediately realized that Gu Xiuyi had guessed his thoughts, and he smiled.
He was sure that his smile was extremely cute and sweet, with his dimples filled with pure sugar. No one, male or female, could resist it, from an 80-year-old man to a 3-year-old child.
What’s more, he is a pretentious and introverted man like Gu Xiuyi.
Sure enough, Gu Xiuyi pursed his lips, and Ji Ruan saw some relaxation in his expression.
But the next second, Gu Xiuyi suddenly turned his head and looked at the TV, "Who is singing now?"
Obviously he is avoiding the question.
Ji Ruan took the remote control from his hand, forcing him to look at him again: "You don't know him even if I tell you, why ask him? Why don't we live in the present?"
Gu Xiuyi: “…”
Gu Xiuyi was really helpless.
Ji Ruan is usually lazy, but once he looks at someone seriously, his eyes will be very bright. Because of his light pupil color, he looks as beautiful as gem beads, and his gaze is hot enough to burn the other person's ears red.
Gu Xiuyi raised his hands to cover Ji Ruan’s eyes and moved his face away.
Ji Ruan’s eyes went dark, but a faint sigh came from his ears.
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Ten minutes later, Ji Ruan appeared outside the door with Gu Xiuyi carrying a small bucket.
He was wearing quite thick clothes, and it was inconvenient for him to sit up because of his round body. Gu Xiuyi was not afraid of the cold, so he just wore a very ordinary winter outfit, and his movements were many times more agile than Ji Ruan.
Even until his hands touched the snow, Gu Xiuyi still felt incredible: "Who said that you would never do such childish things? Why are you doing it again now?"
Ji Ruan was afraid of slipping, so he walked carefully: "Oh, isn't this to bless you to get rich next year?"
"No need," Gu Xiuyi helped him up: "I'm very rich."
Ji Ruan laughed: "You are such an interesting person, who would complain about having too much money?"
This is true. As a businessman, Gu Xiuyi certainly would not treat money as dirt. So under Ji Ruan's smiling gaze, he sighed and began to make snowballs resignedly.
Instead of going to the yard, the two of them piled two big snowballs at the door and stacked them together to make a simple snowman prototype.
——In fact, they were all made by Gu Xiuyi.
Ji Ruan's thick clothes restricted his movements too much, so he could only play with the snow as if it were mud.
Finally, when the snowman's appearance was completed, Ji Ruan was responsible for using buttons as eyes, carrots as nose, branches as arms, and then putting a scarf around his neck to complete the final embellishment.
It was so cold that Ji Ruan's legs were numb from the cold. When he tried to stand up, he accidentally sat down on his butt. The embarrassing thing was that he couldn't get up because his clothes were too thick.
He tried hard several times to hold on to the snow, but it didn't move at all. It was as if there was a magnet buried in the snow that was sucking him hard.
In the end, Ji Ruan could only raise his hat and look at Gu Xiuyi eagerly.
Gu Xiuyi wanted to help Ji Ruan up from the beginning, but the sight of the little kid struggling on the ground was particularly interesting, and he couldn't help but be playful, so he withdrew his hand, hugged his arm and watched the fun for a while.
But now Ji Ruan obviously couldn't get up, his nose and cheeks were red. Gu Xiuyi was afraid that he would catch a cold if his pants got wet by the snow water while sitting on the ground, so he leaned over and half-hugged him to pull him up.
Ji Ruan's legs were numb, and he took a deep breath with the help of his strength.
Gu Xiuyi was surprised: "You didn't even move, why are you panting like this?"
Ji Ruan glared at him unhappily: "Do you know how heavy this outfit is? Phew - it doesn't hurt your waist to talk while standing."
Gu Xiuyi smiled helplessly.
Ji Ruan caught his breath a little more evenly and only then did he have time to look up at Gu Xiuyi.
Apart from anything else, the two red lanterns at the door were a very good choice. The bright light spread on Gu Xiuyi's face like a veil, making him look warm.
Even the eyes are warm.
Ji Ruan stared at him for a while, then said without thinking: "You have beautiful eyes."
Gu Xiuyi's eyes suddenly flickered, as if he became uncomfortable because of this sentence: "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Ji Ruan's round dimples were revealed: "I have bad hearing but I'm not blind. To be honest, I didn't notice it before, but now it really looks good."
For a moment, the white air exhaled from Gu Xiuyi's mouth stagnated.
His Adam's apple moved and he turned his head: "You must be drunk from the rice dumplings, Ji Ruan?"
Ji Ruan laughed again after hearing this.
Snow began to fall from the sky. Ji Ruan didn't want to get wet, so he picked up the bucket and walked into the house, saying slowly, "I'm not drunk."
The sound became sticky in the snowy air.
After he walked away, Gu Xiuyi came back to his senses and looked at his back. The breath that subconsciously came out of his chest could be called sweet.
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