Chapter 73

Living alone does have many inconveniences, and from then on, washing clothes and cooking became Tao Luanxi's job alone.

The food that Tao's mother had stuffed in the refrigerator was almost finished. Tao Luanxi rummaged around for a long time before finding a bag of frozen dumplings. She sighed and took it to the kitchen to cook.

After the dumplings were cooked, Tao Luanxi ate them in a haphazard manner and forgot to add vinegar. However, when he thought about the fact that Qiu Yi's family still had a nanny who came to cook for them every day, he felt jealous enough.

After lunch, Tao Luanxi had to attend classes in the afternoon, so he rested for a while, yawned, and got up groggily to go to school.

When he went down to the second floor, Tao Luanxi went to the window to take a look, and made sure that Qiu Yi had not come down, then he walked out boldly with confidence.

"Why are you here?"

"Scared!" Tao Luanxi was frightened by Qiu Yi's sudden appearance, and covered his chest and said, "Why do you always like to scare people!"

"I went over there to throw away the garbage, and I saw you when I turned around." Qiu Yi pointed behind him.

Tao Luanxi took a look and saw that there were indeed two green trash cans.

Qiu Yi raised his lips and said, "Come here and wait for me?"

Tao Luanxi snorted: "Why should I wait for you?"

"Oh~" Qiu Yi nodded: "You came to Wenxinyuan for sightseeing? I see."

Tao Luanxi glared at him but didn't refute him. It didn't matter if Qiu Yi misunderstood her. At least the fact that he had moved in wouldn't be exposed.

But it was not easy to avoid being exposed. They were obviously going the same way, but they had to split up into two groups. In order to avoid bumping into Qiu Yi, Tao Luanxiduo had to deliberately delay for a while before leaving after class in the evening.

"Aren't you afraid your father will be anxious waiting for you if you leave so late?"

Usually every night when Qiu Yi came back from Shen Tan's place, he would walk a distance from the gate with Tao Luanxi, and only turn around and leave after watching Tao Luanxi get into the car. These past few days, Tao Luanxi had been dragging his feet and refused to leave, and Qiu Yi was a little curious.

"Hurry up, I'll accompany you to the school gate."

"No, I'll stay a little longer." Tao Luanxi held the test paper tightly and refused to let go: "There are only a few questions left, I will leave after I finish them. My dad has been working overtime these days and will be late. You go first!"

"Are you sure you're alone?" Qiu Yi tilted his head to look at him, smiling ambiguously: "There are few people in the school at night, and the darkness is perfect for doing other things."

"Rogue!" Tao Luanxi cursed in a low voice. There were still students in the class who had not finished their class, so Tao Luanxi did not dare to speak too loudly: "I will never do anything else with you in school!"

"Well, this ghost is pretty cute."

Tao Luanxi raised her hand and pinched Qiu Yi fiercely. Qiu Yi felt pain and immediately bent over to cover her chest. She hissed in dissatisfaction and said, "You are too harsh on your boyfriend!"

"You go first, stop making trouble!"

Qiu Yi rubbed Tao Luanxi's hair reluctantly and said, "I'm leaving first. Be careful. Send me a message when you get home."

"good."

After Qiu Yi left, Tao Luanxi forced himself to concentrate and finished the test paper. He calculated that Qiu Yi should have returned home by now, so he slowly got up from his seat.

There were only a few people in the school at that time, and one of the street lights behind us was about to break down, illuminating the road in a blurry, khaki color, which was particularly unpleasant to look at.

The wind was still a little chilly at night. Tao Luanxi hugged her arms tightly and muttered softly that it would be better to go with Qiu Yi, at least she could hold his hand.

He returned home sighing left and right. The house was dark and there was no one in sight. Tao Luanxi felt disappointed and missed the midnight snacks prepared by her mother every night and the warm welcome of Silly Girl.

Tao Luanxi looked at Qiu Yi's family outside the window: "You are the only one who can give me some comfort!"

Before he could finish his words, all the lights in the house suddenly went out. Tao Luanxi was startled, turned on the light of her cell phone, felt for the door, and tried to turn it off several times but there was no response.

"Damn!" The power is out!

The house was pitch black and I couldn't see anything. Only a faint light from other houses shone through the window.

Tao Luanxi wanted to cry but had no tears. It seemed that it was not a collective power outage, but a circuit failure in her own home!

It was definitely unrealistic to find someone to come and fix it at this time, but Tao Luanxi was unwilling to stay in this room alone for a whole night. So now there were only two choices, go home or go find Qiu Yi.

Tao Luanxi held the cell phone in her hand, her brows furrowed into a frown.

Secretly, he really wanted to find Qiu Yi, but he didn't want to destroy the ambiguity of "you don't know that I live next to you".

To find, or not to find?

Tao Luanxi gritted his teeth and decided to go out to see if other houses in the building also had a power outage. When he walked downstairs, most of the residents were asleep at this time. Tao Luanxi looked up and saw that only the fifth floor could barely see a little light, but he was not sure if there was electricity.

Tao Luanxi took off her school uniform jacket as soon as she got home. Now she was only wearing a short-sleeved shirt. She couldn't help but sneeze in the cool breeze.

At this time, the cell phone rang. Tao Luanxi picked it up and saw that it was Qiu Yi.

"Are you home yet? I saw you haven't sent me a message in a while, so I just called you."

"We're home." Tao Luanxi's nose felt sore. What on earth was he trying to do by lying at this time? !

"Are you going to sleep or working on your exam questions?"

"Just do some more test questions." Tao Luanxi forced herself to speak in a relaxed tone, "Are you going to sleep?"

Qiu Yi was silent for a long time. When Tao Luanxi almost thought he had hung up, he said in a low voice, "I'm behind you."

Tao Luanxi's eyes widened and he immediately turned his head to look behind him. Under the shadow of the camphor tree on the roadside, he could barely see a lit cell phone screen.

Qiu Yi walked out from the shadows, looking unhappy: "Why didn't you tell me you moved here?"

Tao Luanxi looked at him in disbelief, sniffed, and could no longer hide the grievance in her tone: "I wanted to give you a surprise, so I kept it to myself and didn't tell you."

Qiu Yi sighed: "I've felt that something was wrong with you recently. I was going to follow you out of the school gate tonight to watch you get on the bus to go home, but I didn't expect to see you enter this neighborhood."

Tao Luanxi sniffed and kept silent.

Qiu Yi stretched out his hand and pulled Tao Luanxi into his arms, saying helplessly, "Little liar!"

"I wanted to give you a surprise!" Tao Luanxi pleaded again and again.

Qiu Yi didn't dwell on this question any more. He patted Tao Luanxi's back with his big hand and asked, "Is there a power outage at home?"

"Yeah." Tao Luanxi buried his face in Qiu Yi's chest, his voice muffled.

“Do you want someone to fix it?”

"You can't find anyone at this time!"

Of course he could find it, but what would that matter? Now that Qiu Yi knew about it, he didn't plan to let Tao Luanxi live alone.

"Come to my house?"

Tao Luanxi remained silent.

Qiu Yi chuckled: "The little liar is still so stubborn!"

"I have a home!"

"Okay," Qiu Yi lowered his head, his chin lowered to Tao Luanxi's heart: "Please, come live in my house, okay?"

The voice was so gentle that it penetrated into Tao Luanxi's ears over and over again, stimulating Tao Luanxi's already fragile heart.

He managed to hold on for a few seconds, but finally gave up.

"good."