Chapter 44 Date
As soon as Qi Xing said this, Qi Ronghua's expression changed immediately and he shouted, "What are you talking about! Say it again!"
Qi Xing shrank his neck, and said something a little cowardly: "Dad, you heard everything, why do you want me to say it again? I just like men, and it's useless for you to force a girl on me."
"Don't talk nonsense," Wang Cuilan looked at her son in disbelief, her voice trembling, "Don't say these nonsense just to get angry with your father, take back what you just said."
"I'm not talking nonsense," Qi Xing lowered his voice, a little embarrassed, "Mom, I've always liked boys. It's natural and I can't change it."
Wang Cuilan: “But…”
"You have to change it even if you can't!" Qi Ronghua scolded, "You like men, you like men, you are so ashamed to say such things!"
Qi Xing was upset, and his tone became cold and hard: "You can't change your innate sexual orientation. If you think I'm embarrassing, you can still have a second child and practice with the trumpet. Don't count on me."
"I'll kill you first!"
Qi Ronghua got angry and picked up a stool and threw it at him. Qi Xing subconsciously moved sideways to block it, and the stool hit his back and shoulder. The pain was so severe that he almost saw stars.
Qi Ronghua was still not satisfied and wanted to hit him a second time, but Wang Cuilan reacted and immediately stood up, stretched out her hand to block her son, and raised her eyebrows: "What are you crazy about! Hit me again! If you hit my son to death, I will fight you!"
Qi Ronghua was so angry that his face was shaking: "You are still protecting him! It's because you spoiled him that he became like this!"
"What's wrong with my son?!" Wang Cuilan raised her voice, "What's wrong with him now? Isn't he better than an old thing like you?! What does it matter if I like men? Do you have any objections? I didn't ask you to like men!"
Qi Ronghua's face turned green, and he glared at Qi Xing who was hiding behind Wang Cuilan: "Tell me yourself! Which man do you like? Is it Ye Xingzhou?!"
Qi Xing's head immediately retracted behind his mother. Wang Cuilan turned back in surprise: "Do you like that Mr. Ye?"
Stared at by his mother's scorching gaze like a searchlight, Qi Xing opened his mouth but couldn't utter a word.
...He shouldn't have gotten so carried away and said everything he should and shouldn't have said.
Qi Xing laughed dryly, and Wang Cuilan clapped her hands. She accepted her son's change in sexual orientation and attitude faster than ever before: "Hello, Mr. Ye! My son, you have a really good eye!"
"That Ye Xingzhou is pretty good?" Qi Ronghua cursed angrily, "What are you thinking! He looks okay and has skills, but what about his character? Do you know how he defeated his uncles and brothers to get to the top? The Ye family is such a big family, how many shameful things have happened in it? If you like this kind of person, you are not afraid of being eaten alive by him!"
Speaking of "character", Qi Ronghua suddenly remembered what he said at the beginning: "Character is something you should consider when marrying your children to each other". He felt a pang of pain in his heart. Qi Xing, this rascal, couldn't he be allowed to live a peaceful life for two days!
Wang Cuilan disagreed, "I think he is a gentleman, how can he be as bad as you say? Isn't it enough to be good-looking and capable? If I hadn't seen that you were good-looking and seemed to have some abilities, would I have married you? At that time, you were penniless and had nothing! Young Master Ye at least has everything!"
Qi Ronghua was filled with resentment: "You were obviously deceived by his face!"
Wang Cuilan: "Then he is indeed good-looking! How could your son like him?!"
Qi Ronghua: "Don't mess around here and protect this kid. He's just making trouble. If you don't spoil him, he won't be like this!"
Wang Cuilan: "You are the one who is making trouble. You are the one who is making trouble! You are making trouble for no reason during the New Year and making the whole family unhappy!"
Seeing that his parents were arguing more and more fiercely, Qi Xing finally couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Please stop arguing. Where did I say that I like Ye Xingzhou?"
"If you don't like Ye Xingzhou, then who do you like?!"
Qi Ronghua and Wang Cuilan spoke in unison, and four eyes looked at him at the same time.
Qi Xing: “…”
He shouldn't have spoken.
Qi Ronghua's brows were still furrowed tightly: "I don't care whether you like Ye Xingzhou or some other wild man, as long as you are a man, you can't do that. You must change this habit!"
"I can't change it," his father said, and Qi Xing got angry again, "I was born like this, and even if you kill me, I can't change it."
Qi Ronghua was so angry that he wanted to pick up something and throw it at him. Wang Cuilan helped to block him and almost rolled up her sleeves to fight with Qi Ronghua. In the chaos, Qi Xing simply ran away. Anyway, he would be an eyesore if he stayed here, so it would be better for him to get out of here quickly.
He didn't know many people here, so he had to go to the city to live with his cousin.
An hour later, the cousin hung up the phone, turned around to look at Qi Xing who was leaning on the sofa in a daze, and said with a smile: "I told your mother that you will stay at my place tonight, and asked them not to worry. Have you had dinner?"
Qi Xing rubbed his empty stomach, feeling a little embarrassed.
"You said it's New Year's Day, why did you quarrel with your parents to the point of running away from home?"
My cousin shook his head and went to open the refrigerator to get some vegetables. He was alone, and his parents had gone to the village. He had originally planned to cook frozen dumplings for the New Year's Eve dinner, but now that there was one more person, he had to make do with it: "Let's have hot pot. It's too late to make anything else."
Qi Xing nodded quickly and stood up to help wash the vegetables.
After the hot pot was cooked, the two chatted while eating. Seeing Qi Xing was absent-minded, his cousin asked him again why he ran away from home. Qi Xing was a little embarrassed and changed the subject: "Why didn't you bring your cousin's wife back for the New Year? Aren't you going to get married this year?"
"It may not be possible yet. Something happened in her family. We went back on New Year's Day for this. She will resign and return to her hometown after the New Year. She will not go to Beijing again. I don't know what to do for the time being." My cousin said a few words and didn't want to say more. He felt helpless.
Qi Xing's heart was moved, and he asked in a mysterious way: "Do you like her?"
The cousin looked at him with a little surprise: "How can you get to the point of getting married if you don't like him? Of course you like him. Aren't you always heartless? Why are you suddenly interested in this? Is the quarrel with your parents because of emotional problems?"
Qi Xing was a little at a loss for words. His cousin was just too smart and could see through everything at a glance.
"Well, I came out to them, and my dad was so mad he wanted to beat me to death..."
"Coming out isn't a big deal these days," my cousin said, and then I realized, "You have a partner? But your parents are not happy about it?"
Qi Xing: "No way."
Cousin: "That's the tone. You just asked me if I like someone or not. Do you really like someone?"
Qi Xing was completely speechless. He liked Ye Xingzhou?
...That's impossible!
Aren’t they just friends with benefits? Okay, they are a little more intimate than friends with benefits, but, do you like them?
Ye Xingzhou is good-looking, but the person he fell in love with at first was not Ye Xingzhou, right?
Moreover, he has liked many people, and without exception, they are all good-looking. But when it comes to liking someone, he seems to have no idea what liking someone is. He pursues people just for fun, and his success rate is almost zero. Either the other party is too straightforward and he gets rejected, or he finds out halfway through that the other party is different from what he imagined and withdraws because it is boring. It’s like when he sees a nice toy in a window and wants to buy it but fails to do so for various reasons. He will be unhappy for two days at most and then immediately forget about it. Can this be considered liking it?
So there was nothing special about Ye Xingzhou, and he even used force on him. If that bastard didn't have a good-looking face, I wouldn't have stayed with him for so long.
Well, that should be it.
As if he had figured it out, Qi Xing breathed a sigh of relief, relaxed, and smiled at his cousin: "Do you think I look like someone who would be trapped by love?"
Cousin: "Okay, forget it if it's not."
They chatted about other things. Qi Xing looked down at his phone. He had just left a message to Ye Xingzhou when he came out from his parents' place. The bastard actually ignored him.
After that, he became more absent-minded, checking his phone from time to time, and his conversations with his cousin were irrelevant several times.
My cousin smiled and didn't expose him.
After eating hot pot, my cousin cleaned up the table and washed the dishes. Qi Xing wanted to help but was stopped: "Please sit down. I'm afraid you'll be distracted and drop my bowl."
Qi Xing blushed: "Uh..."
He went back to the living room mumbling, but there was still no reply from Ye Xingzhou on his phone. It had been almost three hours.
Qi Xing sat down and rubbed his face, feeling a little depressed.
Well, Ye Xingzhou was indeed a little special. After all, he had never been so close to anyone else before, and the feeling was indeed different. Although he was annoyed by that bastard most of the time, he would occasionally feel itchy and think about him unconsciously.
And recently it seems that the frequency of this worry is getting higher and higher.
Ye Xingzhou wasn't that bad. He would hold him back when he almost fell off the mountain, carry him to the hospital when he was sick, and let him take his beatings and help him teach a lesson to those he disliked.
It is true that she has a pretty face and strong abilities in that area, and she can make him happy.
Then it seems understandable that he is thinking about this person?
He bought the most beautiful toy in the window, and the more he played with it, the more addicted he became. He didn’t want to let go, nor did he want anyone else to touch it. Does this count as liking it?
Qi Xing looked up at the sky, still reluctant to admit it.
He thinks it's good as it is now. He can flirt when he's happy and have sex when he's in the mood. Why does he have to talk about love? It's too much trouble.
Dating is so annoying. Like his cousin and his wife, they dated for several years but finally ended up going their separate ways. It’s boring. Or like his parents, an old couple holding hands for more than 20 years is like the left hand holding the right hand, which is even more boring.
Besides, Ye Xingzhou never admitted that he had a crush on him. He just said that he was narcissistic and overthinking, and that he was a fool to fall headfirst into it.
Qi Xing collapsed on the sofa, resentful of Ye Xingzhou who never replied to his messages.
After closing his eyes and staring blankly for a moment, he sat up in despair, picked up his phone, poked the screen hard with his finger, and sent a new WeChat message.
"Brother Ye, Uncle Ye, Father Ye, you are not going to be kidnapped by those evil-hearted people in your family, are you?"
Five minutes later, without receiving a reply, he sent another message.
"A date?"
When Ye Xingzhou caught a glimpse of the message popping up on his phone, the car had just gotten off the highway and entered the city. It was already late at night after nearly four hours' drive from Huaicheng.
Stopping at the intersection, he picked up his phone and finally replied: "Send me the location."
Qi Xing: “???”
Ye Xingzhou: "Didn't you say date?"
Qi Xing cursed him as a beast, pretending to be dead for so long, but only reacted when he saw these two words. He was indeed an animal with a lower body.
"If I ask you to make an appointment, can you make an appointment for me?"
“You can try.”
Qi Xing didn't believe it at all, so he casually sent his location, ignored him, exited WeChat and opened the game.
Twenty minutes later, Ye Xingzhou's new message came in: "Go downstairs."
Qi Xing: “Huh?”
Ye Xingzhou: "My car is outside the community, I'm going downstairs now."
It took Qi Xing a long time to come back to his senses. He got up from the sofa in shock and went to the balcony to look outside.
It was too far away to see clearly, and Ye Xingzhou called: "Come down, or should I go up and invite you?"
"Are you really here?" Qi Xing almost bit his tongue.
The person on the other end of the phone chuckled: "Who said the date just now?"
Qi Xing was a little speechless. Could this person have transformed into a living person?
But the moment he heard Ye Xingzhou's voice, he became excited and all the depression he had felt that night was swept away: "Okay then, I'll be down right away, just wait."
After hanging up the phone, Qi Xing went back to the living room and picked up his coat. His cousin, who was watching TV, looked up and asked, "Are you going out?"
"Ah, a friend is here,... I'll go downstairs." Qi Xing felt a little guilty, explained vaguely, and looked away.
My cousin laughed and said, "Okay, do you want me to hold the door open for you?"
"Let's talk about it later. I'll call you later." He became more and more uncomfortable and quickly slipped away after saying this.
Ye Xingzhou's car was parked just opposite the community. He had already gotten out of the car and was leaning against the door smoking. The light from the street lamp divided his body into two halves. Half of his shoulder and his entire face were hidden in the darkness, but the light of the cigarette butt was flickering.
Qi Xing paused. Although he couldn't see Ye Xingzhou's face clearly, he had a hunch that this man was staring at him.
Ye Xingzhou came, driving hundreds of kilometers to find him on New Year's Eve, after his father kicked him out of the house for coming out.
Qi Xing was a little excited, but he suppressed himself and walked over slowly.
"Master Ye, what are you doing here in the middle of the night?"
Ye Xingzhou finished smoking the cigarette, threw it away and crushed it with his toes, then put his hand around his waist.
Breathing close to each other, Ye Xingzhou asked him in a low voice: "Where are we going to meet?"
Qi Xing snorted and laughed: "Whatever."
Ye Xingzhou's hand stopped at his waist, rubbed it slowly, and stopped moving.
With the help of a little light from the street lamp, Qi Xing saw his eyes clearly. Just like before, they were full of his own shadow.
He raised his hands, put them around Ye Xingzhou's neck, and whispered in his ear, "Ye Xingzhou, I can't do it myself without you here, it's annoying."
The sticky and laughing voice sounded like a complaint. Ye Xingzhou tightened his hands on his waist and his breathing became a little heavier.
Qi Xing moved closer to him: "Really?"
Ye Xingzhou said nothing more and opened the car door forcefully: "Get in."
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