Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Hug me.
The next morning, Chen Lu went to look for Ji Maili, and the person who opened the door was Liang Lin.
Shen Lu: "Auntie, is Mai Mai up?"
"It shouldn't be up yet," Liang Lin let him in and said with concern, "Xiao Lu, Auntie has heard about your family's situation. If you have any difficulties, just tell Auntie. I will definitely help you if I can."
Shen Lu didn't quite understand this sudden concern, "Thank you, Auntie, I'm fine."
In Liang Lin's eyes, he and Ji Maili are still children. How can he be okay with such a big change happening in his family and his parents are not around?
Liang Lin glanced towards Ji Maili's room and whispered, "Did Mai Mai go to see you last night? He came back in the middle of the night without even turning on the lights, and just squatted here crying, saying he felt sorry for you. He almost scared me to death."
Shen Lu was stunned.
Liang Lin rubbed his arm. "Xiao Lu, I've watched you grow up. If you're having any problems, don't be shy with me. Mai Mai is immature. If there's anything you can't handle, please tell me. Your uncle may not be home, but I and your sister Huan are still here. Don't try to handle it all on your own."
Chen Lu scratched his palm with his fingertips, unable to describe the feeling in his heart. He had finally managed to convince himself these past few days, but now everything collapsed because of Liang Lin's words.
Shen Lu: "Auntie, I want to go see Mai Mai."
Liang Lin: "Go ahead. I don't know how long I cried last night. I think I should still be asleep."
The door was not locked, and Ji Maili was indeed still asleep. He lay there with his face on his side, his eyes red and swollen, and even in his sleep he looked like he was crying with grievance.
Shen Lu walked to the bedside, looked at him and sighed.
Forget it, let it be. Why should I hide from him? Anyway, as long as he doesn't say it, the little fool will never know that he likes him.
Shen Lu didn't bother him. He stood by the bed and looked at him for who knows how long. Ji Maili had been crying all night and her eyes were so swollen that she could hardly open them. When she opened her eyes and saw the person standing by the bed, she thought she was hallucinating.
Ji Maili sat up with a jerk, "Fuck, are you a human or a ghost?"
Shen Lu sat on the bed: "Human, do you want to touch it?"
Ji Maili was stunned for a long time before reaching out his hand. Shen Lu leaned forward and Ji Maili pinched his face, which was hot. "Why are you here? What time is it now?"
Chen Lu: "It's a little after nine o'clock. I came to supervise you doing your homework. School starts in two days. If I'm not mistaken, your schoolbag hasn't been opened yet."
Ji Maili: “…”
Ji Maili covered himself with the quilt and fell back onto the bed: "I didn't write it, I won't write it! What homework? I don't know! You're so annoying!"
Shen Lu looked at the person hiding under the quilt: "If you dislike me so much, then I'll leave?"
After being left out in the cold for so many days, Ji Maili was unwilling to let him go. He lifted the quilt and clamped his trouser legs with his toes: "Now that you're here, where are you going?"
Shen Lu looked down and asked, "When did you develop this magical skill?"
Ji Maili chuckled, loosened his feet, crossed his toes, and made a "yeah" gesture: "When you don't know, how about it, awesome!"
Shen Lu smiled and slapped his foot: "You're so awesome! Hurry up and get up!"
Ji Maili got up reluctantly, and while eating, he kept winking at Liang Lin and Ji Huan, asking them not to talk about his crying last night.
Seeing that he was in high spirits today, Ji Huan turned into that ruthless sister again, "That's enough. Don't squeeze your eyeballs into the rice bowl. Mom betrayed you as soon as Shen Lu walked in. Save your energy."
Ji Maili suddenly looked at Chen Lu.
Shen Lu didn't want to spoil the young master's reputation: "How about I pretend I didn't hear it?"
Ji Maili slapped his forehead and said, "How embarrassing."
Shen Lu smiled: "It's okay, I'm not laughing at you."
Ji Maili glared at him, "What are you doing now?"
Ji Huan couldn't stand it any longer: "Hey, hey, hey, you're bullying me again, aren't you? Who was the one crying and saying 'Wow, I'm so sad, I won't go to the hospital, I'm so sad for Chen Lu' last night? You slept through your heart and now that the pain is gone, you're bullying me again!"
Ji Maili blushed, jumped up, and pointed at her with chopsticks: "Ji Huan! Let's duel!"
Ji Huan rolled his eyes and didn't bother to pay attention to him, "Who wants to duel with a little sissy like you who cries for no reason?"
He had fought half of Donglin, challenged every high school bully, and even fought against Sha Zu, but he was actually called a sissy. Ji Maili shouted loudly: "You are the sissy!"
Ji Huan: "Just say you are illiterate. Is it considered an insult to use the word sissy on me? I am a woman to begin with."
Ji Maili couldn't convince Ji Huan, so he went to Liang Lin and said, "Mom, look at her!"
Ji Huan was not afraid of him: "It's okay that he loves to cry, but he also loves to complain. He's just a little sissy."
Ji Maili retorted loudly: "I'm not!"
Ji Huan was not angry enough with him, and he even tried to win over Shen Lu in front of him: "It must be very uncomfortable for you to be with a little sissy like him all day long. He is always troublesome and likes to cry. How can you stand him?"
Ji Maili slammed the table fiercely and glared at Chen Lu: "Tell me, is everyone afraid of me in school?"
Shen Lu smiled and said, "It's okay. After the sports meeting, no one should be afraid of you anymore. Didn't you check the group chat? They recently gave you a new name."
Ji Maili looked at Shen Lu's not very kind smile and frowned warily, "Don't tell me, I'll see for myself."
Ji Huan was curious: "What nickname? Is it Little Idiot?"
Chen Lu clarified for Ji Maili, "No."
Ji Huan said disappointedly, "The people in your school are no match for him. They can't even discover his true nature!"
——[Year Group]
Ms. Hui from Class 10: Is anyone signing up for the amusement park tomorrow?
Wu Lina, Class 6: Are the little cuties in your class going?
Sister Hui from Class 10: Don’t dwell on the cute girl in our class, she’s already taken!
Class 2 Physical Education Committee: Who is this little cutie?
Class 9 Chi Chi: Is there anyone in Donglin No. 1 Middle School who doesn’t know who the little cutie is?
The cultural committee member of Class Five: That little cutie who grabbed the baton from other classes during the relay, yelled all the way during the 400-meter race, cursed while running alongside others, and brought water to the God of Slaughter during the basketball game!
Liu Li from Class 1: If the cutie goes, the God of Slaughter will go too, right?
Qi Miaomiao from Class 3: If they both go, I’ll go too!
Seeing the end, Ji Maili, who was also curious about who the "little cutie" was at the beginning, twitched his eyelids: "......"
I'm not some fucking cutie! Damn it!
"Little cutie?" Ji Huan expressed his confusion: "How is he cute? Little idiot is more suitable for him."
Ji Maili glared at Ji Huan.
Bullshit, even idiots don’t sound good!
Why do Chen Lu and the others call him the God of Slaughter? It sounds so disgusting to call him that!
Liang Xiaohui looked around in the group, but no one in the class knew Ji Maili's contact information. In the end, it was Zhou Luyang who called Shen Lu to settle the matter.
Ji Maili was a little reluctant to go: "Only children go to places like that."
Chen Lu felt a little guilty about not being able to play with him properly during this holiday because of him. He said, "You haven't been to an amusement park in years. There are so many things for kids to do there nowadays. I'm just afraid you don't dare."
"I don't dare?" Ji Maili always used provocation. Seeing Chen Lu's shameless words, he went straight to the point: "Go ahead, I want to see who dares not!"
Shen Lu: "Are you sure? I'll give you five minutes to regret it."
Ji Maili jumped up: "Whoever goes back on his word is a dog. Go tell the group now, I'm going, I have to go!"
Five minutes later, Chen Lu tagged Ji Maili, whom he had previously invited to join the group, in the senior group. After that, messages to add him as a friend kept coming in, with a ding sound every now and then.
Ji Maili was lying on the bed, almost getting annoyed by the rejection. He kicked Chen Lu, who was sitting on the table next to him helping him with his homework: "Look, look, here comes another one, and it's endless. Tell me, are you deliberately causing trouble for me?"
"No." Shen Lu said, "I'm looking for friends for you."
Ji Maili didn't like him always talking about finding friends for him, "Why are you so eager to find friends for me, like a matchmaker?"
Shen Lu glanced at him and said, "If I were a matchmaker, I would introduce myself to you."
He showed his courage for the first time, but unfortunately the little fool didn't understand at all. Ji Maili raised his eyebrows and said, "You are sensible."
Shen Lu expected this to happen, he smiled helplessly, "Mai Mai."
Ji Maili rejected two more friend requests, "Why?"
Shen Lu tapped his homework book and said, "Don't skip classes anymore. There's still more than a year left. Listen carefully in class. I'll help you catch up on what you've missed when I have time."
Ji Maili found that this person always liked to say things he didn't like to hear. He frowned and asked, "Why are you torturing me like this?"
Shen Lu said, "You'll be a senior next year. What are you going to do with your grades? Are you not planning on going to college?"
Ji Maili was used to doing whatever he wanted. He said, "I don't think I'll pass the exam."
"Sure, I'll give you some extra lessons." Shen Lu said, "You're not dumber than others. They can do it, so why can't you?"
This kind of inspirational quote didn't have much effect on Ji Maili. "I can't learn it, so you'd better stop working on me. You're not only tutoring me but also wasting your own study time. What if it's holding you back?"
Shen Lu was not afraid of being delayed by him, "Then you should pay attention in class. If you don't understand, I will teach you again. Don't you want to apply to the same university as me?"
"I do." He was almost envious, especially after hearing Bian Yuan say that he and Lin Shifei had been together from high school to college and then graduation. However, compared to envying Ji Maili, he was more sensible and knew his own limitations. "But it's just a thought."
Chen Lu: "As long as you dare to think about it, you can definitely do it. Otherwise, when I go to college, the two of us will really be separated."
Ji Maili was stunned for a moment.
Hearing Shen Lu say that they were going to separate, Ji Maili became anxious. He looked at Shen Lu and said, "But, but with my grades, how can I possibly take the exam with you?"
Shen Lu urged, “How will you know if you don’t try?”
Chen Lu's words successfully made Ji Maili wilted, but Chen Lu knew that it was not so much that he was wilted, but rather that he was thinking seriously about what he said.
Shen Lu gave him time to think about it.
Chen Lu stayed at Ji Maili's house for a day. Liang Lin asked him to stay there at night, but Chen Lu refused.
Downstairs, Ji Maili watched Shen Lu start his motorcycle, and suddenly stood in front of the car, holding the handlebars with both hands, "Are you going racing again?"
Shen Lu was frightened by him: "Are you crazy? You are very dangerous!"
Ji Maili didn't let go: "Is that so?"
Shen Lu sighed: "Not going today."
Ji Maili didn't believe it, "Then why don't you live in my house?"
Chen Lu: “…” Living here will kill him?
In the past, Shen Lu often stayed at Ji Maili's house, and Ji Maili would also stay at his house, but the situation is different now. Shen Lu believes that he does not have such good self-control. If he runs out for a walk after taking a shower again, he will really go crazy.
Chen Lu couldn't tell him why he didn't live here. Seeing Ji Maili blocking the way in front of the car, he turned off the engine and said, "We agreed to take the bus to the amusement park tomorrow. I can't go on a motorcycle. I'll ride my motorcycle home and meet you at the agreed place tomorrow."
Ji Maili looked at him suspiciously. He had become less familiar with Shen Lu in the past two years and didn't know whether what he said was true or not. "Really?"
Chen Lu: "Really? If you don't believe me, I'll play the video for you when I get home."
Ji Maili let go of his hand and looked at the time. "It's 9:05 now. You have to send me the video before 9:30."
Shen Lu found it funny. What the hell was the difference between this and reporting to your partner? "Okay, I'll send it to you when I get home."
Ji Maili glared at him and muttered, "You really make me worry."
"Mai Mai," Chen Lu looked at Ji Maili, who was afraid that he would go racing, "Can I hug you for a moment?"
In the morning, Liang Lin said that Ji Maili went home last night and squatted at the door crying. Shen Lu felt depressed when he thought of these words. Now, taking advantage of the darkness, Shen Lu quietly gave himself a break.
Ji Maili snorted, opened his hand, and threw himself into Chen Lu's arms, patting him behind his back with both hands, "Why are you like a child?"
"Sometimes I really miss my childhood." Shen Lu hugged him, "When we were little, you would hug me whenever you wanted. Now I have to ask you to hug me."
Ji Maili could no longer remember when she stopped hugging Shen Lu like she did when she was a child. Maybe it started when they had a fight, or maybe it was even earlier.
Since they reconciled, it was not the first time that he wanted to hug Chen Lu. He felt sorry for him and always wanted to hug him, but he didn't dare to mention it, and he was afraid that Chen Lu would not want to. In the two years of separation, they had grown up and become estranged. There were many things about Chen Lu that he didn't understand, and he was afraid that their relationship would no longer be as good as before.
Hearing Chen Lu say that he missed his childhood, Ji Maili thought he was thinking about the days when he had a father and a mother. Now he was all alone, and Ji Maili blamed himself for not hugging him earlier. He tightened his arms around Chen Lu and said, "Don't ask next time. Hug me if you want."
Chen Lu: "Anywhere is fine?"
Ji Maili said generously: "Sure, what's wrong with that? If anyone dares to say no, I will beat him to death!"
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