Chapter 3 Turning Point
The turning point came one night when Group 722 almost got into a fight.
Cheng Che had made an architectural model over the summer, and his teacher had asked him to add details to it for easier presentation. Since school had started, Cheng Che had been primarily busy with this project. He'd bring the model back that evening because the glue on the model hadn't dried yet and would easily fall apart if touched. So, Cheng Che had brought it all the way back to his dorm to air dry, ready to show it to his teacher the next day.
As soon as I entered the dormitory, Li Zimai was playing with his basketball and smashed the model to pieces. The model died tragically and the body was completely unrecognizable.
Yang Mingxi just came out of the bathroom and saw Cheng Che's dark face. The culprit was standing there at a loss.
In such a strange atmosphere, Yang Mingxi tried to ease the tension between his roommates. He cautiously walked over to see if the model's body was truly cold and if it could still be saved. However, before he could even touch the model, Cheng Che's bone-chilling voice rang out from above: "Don't touch it."
Yang Mingxi didn't dare to move, and stood aside to watch the culprit. Li Zimai apologized confidently, "I'm sorry, I was wrong."
Cheng Che squatted down to clean up the mess. Originally, the matter was over. Cheng Che was not an unreasonable person. He just looked fierce and had never done anything to embarrass others. But the second thing Li Zimai did wrong was to help Cheng Che pick up the model. As luck would have it, he grabbed Cheng Che's hand, the kind of hand that goes from palm to back of the hand.
Lizimai is tall and has big hands when playing basketball. Although Cheng Che is not short, his hands are unexpectedly small and soft, not very smooth, but very beautiful.
Yang Mingxi was stunned watching from the side. What was going on? The male god was getting gay? Just getting straight to the point?
Before he could react, Cheng Che grabbed Li Zimai's collar and slammed him against the wardrobe near the door. The situation was about to explode.
"Fuck, calm down, calm down, Brother Che, calm down! Fighting in the dormitory will be punished! We will all be punished!"
Li Zimai, who was about to be beaten, raised his hands in surrender, "I just wanted to help you fix it."
"Yes, yes, yes, I just want to help you fix it. Brother Che, don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive!"
Cheng Che quickly calmed down and unceremoniously let go of Li Zimai's collar, which had been scratched and wrinkled. He continued to pick up the models. When Li Zimai bent down to help him, he refused coldly: "Don't touch my things."
Li Zimai half-knelt there, not daring to move, allowing himself to look at the person in front of him - from such a close angle, he could clearly see the small round scar from Cheng Che's nose bridge to the center of his eyebrows. That small piece of skin was uneven, and there was an indescribable feeling in the look of it, but it was very... beautiful.
Cheng Che pushed him rudely and said, "Stay away from me."
Lizi took a half step back, hands in surrender, "Okay, further away, is this far enough?"
Yang Mingxi felt that Li Zimai did have a good temper, but this kind of good temper was a little weird, a weirdness he couldn't put his finger on.
A few minutes later, Cheng Che put on his backpack and prepared to go out. Yang Mingxi saw that he looked like he was going to stay overnight in the model room, so he reminded him, "The circuits in the teaching area have been unstable these days. Be careful not to catch a cold."
As a roommate, he could only help so far. Not long after, Li Zimai picked up the sports bag and slowly and neatly stuffed his tablet, earphones and mobile phone into it, as if he was about to go out.
Yang Mingxi asked: "Are you two not coming back tonight?"
Li Zimai: "Then you have to ask our Brother Che whether he will come back."
Cheng Che glanced at him and said, "I'm not coming back."
Li Zimai turned to Yang Mingxi and said, "I won't go back either. The dormitory is yours tonight. Don't hide under the covers to watch movies. Just go out in the open."
Yang Mingxi: “…”
The school had just started, and there were only two or three senior students in the model classroom. Seeing the legendary academic master coming to the classroom at the same time late at night, they all saluted.
Cheng Che said, "Don't touch my things."
Li Zimai: "I didn't touch it. I was watching you. Please give me some advice and make up for my mistake."
This was a conversation that was repeated three times along the way from the dormitory to the model classroom.
Cheng Che is extremely serious about his work, with a complete spirit of craftsmanship. He treats the model with the same strictness and responsibility as he treats a real building. Li Zimai stands beside him, looking at him with his hands in his pockets, his long legs leaning on the edge of the table.
Cheng Che looked up at him, frowned and said, "Go back."
It was already three in the morning, and they were the only two left in the classroom. Li Zimai directly moved a stool over and sat across from Cheng Che. Because his legs were too long, he could only cross them, looking rather nonchalant. He smiled and said, "I'm atonement."
"unnecessary."
"Then I'll cheer you on, okay?"
Cheng Che always ignored people who didn't understand him. He didn't want to sit face to face with Li Zimai. When he was moving, he accidentally knocked the utility knife to the ground. Li Zimai picked it up first and handed it back to him, "You're welcome."
Cheng Che frowned and repeated, "Don't touch my things."
"Shouldn't you say thank you first? You won't make friends this way."
"None of your business."
Basically, Li Zimai said something and Cheng Che retorted. Although his attitude was not bad, it was definitely not friendly. Li Zimai probably understood why Cheng Che was a loner. This guy was a hedgehog and no one could get close to him.
The classroom was unusually quiet. Cheng Che looked up inadvertently and fell into a pair of smiling eyes.
It has to be said that there is a reason why Lizi caused a sensation in the school when he entered school. He has an extremely aggressive appearance, with a high nose bridge, thin lips, deep eyebrows and eyes, and smooth and clear contours. In addition, he is tall, with broad shoulders and a thick back, and tight muscles. Just by sitting so casually and lazily, he can attract a lot of attention.
Cheng Che had little experience interacting with people, but considering they were roommates, he didn't want to appear particularly impatient, so he said perfunctorily, "Just watching won't atone for your sins."
Lizmai immediately got to work and moved several street trees on the model to ensure that they were in a straight line and the spacing between them was exactly the same. During the process, he even pinched the crowns of the street trees to regularize the not-so-round crowns into spheres with a radius.
"Is this why you always come first?"
Cheng Che was always upset about the fact that he always scored lower than Li Zimai. After all, the second place student received half the academic bonus.
Lizi said seriously, "Maybe it's because I'm too smart."
Cheng Che glanced at him without saying anything, as if he was speechless about the mysterious confidence of a straight man like Li Zimai.
After a while, Li Zimai looked at the model and finally found a topic: "Do you like Gary?"
Cheng Che was about to stick the curtain wall materials on, but when he heard this, he looked up at him and did not deny it.
Li Zimai followed suit and said, "Why did it change to this?"
“The structure can’t handle it.”
"Tell me about it?"
Cheng Che finally looked him in the eye and politely explained how his first draft had failed. Li Zimai grabbed a piece of used wax paper from the next table, scribbled on it, and asked, "Is that what you mean?"
Cheng Che nodded and listened to the other party's explanation: "Here, the Vierendeel truss is separated from the main body. You can also use a box chord and round steel tube web truss as the whole, and then use titanium skin as the outer skin... How about it, am I amazing?"
If it weren't for the last sentence, Cheng Che would be willing to classify Li Zimai as a great god.
After this incident, the relationship between roommates in Room 722 became obviously tilted. Before, the relationship was divided into three parts and they did not interfere with each other. Occasionally, Li Zimai would answer Yang Mingxi. But now, there is a clear separation, and Yang Mingxi is the only one on the other side of the boundary.
"Eating in the cafeteria?"
"I'll go by myself."
"Fifth Canteen?"
"I'll go by myself, don't follow me."
"How can you ask me to follow you? I also eat in the cafeteria."
"I'm going to the third cafeteria."
"What a coincidence! I'm going to the third cafeteria too."
......
This was a meaningless conversation that was repeated every day. Yang Mingxi was playing games. He rolled his eyes at them and said, "Can you guys just go eat?"
Li Zimai tilted his head and smiled, "Come on, Brother Che, we still have to bring food to Brother Xi."
It was definitely not because Yang Mingxi was lazy that he didn't go to the cafeteria to eat, but every time he tried to go to the cafeteria with the other two, Li Zimai looked at him with an inexplicable look, which made Yang Mingxi feel uneasy.
"It's a good deal. I told my idol to come to the third cafeteria today."
"You're awesome. You can even figure this out."
"The third canteen has Cheng Che's favorite sweet and sour lotus root on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and the fifth canteen has it on Thursdays and Saturdays. Add in the boiled pork slices that my idol loves, and that's the third canteen today."
"Hahahahahaha, awesome."
"Fuck, the male god picked up food for Cheng Che and even opened a bottle of mineral water. This is too thoughtful of him."
"A few days ago, I saw Li Shen helping Cheng Che carry his schoolbag."
"Uh, why does it feel gay?"
"Hahaha, gay as hell, did you read that post?"
"The one about the gay man?"
The girls smiled at each other and then started gossiping on the forum.
The normal conversation between two gay people here goes like this:
"Don't force food on me that you don't want to eat."
"I'll eat this dish, but I won't eat onions or meat that tastes like onions."
"It's urgent."
"You're right."
"That's my water."
"Oh, sorry, I'm giving it back to you. I haven't drunk it yet, and I just happened to have the cap off the bottle for you."
“.......”
Li Zimai has always made it his mission to irritate Cheng Che.
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