Chapter 43: Quarrel
Li Zimai is always irritated to death by Duan Rui. He just knew Cheng Che a few years earlier than Li Zimai and is just Cheng Che's neighbor. What is there to be proud of? He is Cheng Che's boyfriend!
Cheng Che chased after him for a long time before grabbing Li Zimai's elbow and asking, "What's wrong with you?"
"Why don't you ask him what he said but instead you call me crazy?!"
Li Zimai frowned, pursed his lips, and said with a look of grievance and anger: "I am your boyfriend! Why are you protecting him?!"
Cheng Che was speechless and didn't understand why Li Zimai would explode every time he met Duan Rui. "I didn't protect him. I just asked why you left so suddenly."
"Don't you understand? Don't you really understand?"
"What do I understand?"
Li Zimai pulled a few of his hair and turned around several times before calming down. He put his hand on Cheng Che's shoulder and asked, "When are you going to make our relationship public?"
Cheng Che said awkwardly, "...Didn't we agree not to make it public for the time being? You promised me."
"I regret it, and I want to go public with it now."
"You don't keep your word. You're lying to me again."
Li Zimai's mind raced, his thoughts revolving around Duan Rui's words, "It won't last forever." He desperately needed a way to prove that Cheng Che was his, forever his. He suppressed the turmoil rising within him and said as calmly as he could, "Okay, it's fine if we don't make it public, but why didn't you tell him that the person you were dating was me?"
"I don't like telling people this."
Cheng Che really doesn't like communicating with people, let alone sharing emotional issues. It's already very difficult for him to tell Duan Rui that he is in love.
Li Zimai suddenly let go of him and asked, "You don't like talking about me with others, or you just don't like me at all? You never said you liked me."
Cheng Che didn't understand how things had gotten so serious, to the point where his feelings were being questioned. Unable to appease her, Cheng Che got angry and said, "Don't you know whether I like you or not? Why are you saying that to me?"
Cheng Che didn't want to talk to him anymore. He threw the shopping bag at Li Zimai and turned to leave. Li Zimai hurriedly hugged him from behind, angrily and helplessly saying, "Why are you mad at me? It's you who doesn't want to make me public. If anyone is angry, it should be me."
There were people coming and going near the school. Cheng Che didn't want to be tangled up with him in public, so he struggled to break free from his embrace and said without turning his head, "Li Zimai, sometimes you really are unreasonable. I don't like you being like this."
The word "I don't like you" really hit Li Zimai in the heart. All the grievances and dissatisfactions since they fell in love came pouring out. He almost blurted out: "I'm being unreasonable. If I didn't like you, would I be unreasonable? You're always like this, demanding I obey, then ignoring me the moment you're unhappy, going back on your word, and not caring about my feelings at all. You're just taking advantage of the fact that I like you!"
Cheng Che had never been yelled at by Li Zimai before. Although Li Zimai didn't say a single curse word, it felt like his heart was cut into many pieces. He was stunned and had no idea how to react. His eyes suddenly turned red.
Li Zimai immediately regretted it and wanted to slap himself twice. He tried to hold Cheng Che's hand and apologize, but he was beaten to it. Cheng Che lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't consider your feelings."
"Clear..."
Li Zimai calmed down completely and regretted thousands of times that he should not have been disturbed by an outsider and had an argument with Cheche. How could Cheche not like him? He just needed time.
"I, I'll go back first."
Cheng Che was in a panic. Li Zimai hugged him tightly and whispered, "I won't let you go. We had a fight and I can't leave you alone."
"Let me go!"
Cheng Che pushed him away forcefully and ran away without looking back, leaving Li Zimai standing there all alone.
[Li Shen]: Cheche is in a bad mood tonight, please keep an eye on him and make sure nothing happens to him.
When Yang Mingxi received the message from Li Shen, he was passionately killing monsters with his teammates. He immediately left the battlefield after receiving the message and stared blankly at the dormitory door.
The door was quickly opened, and Cheng Che brushed his teeth, took a shower, and went to bed as usual. The only abnormal thing was that he took nearly twice as long as usual to shower. When he came out, the corners of his eyes were a little red. If his expression was not as cold and hard as usual, Yang Mingxi would have thought that he had hidden in the bathroom and cried.
[Yang Mingxi]: ...Did you have a fight with Brother Che? He just took a long shower and his eyes are quite red...
[Li Shen]: Yes. I'm downstairs in the dormitory building. Call me if you need anything.
[Yang Mingxi]: Aren’t you coming up?
[Li Shen]: I won’t come up. He is annoying me now.
Yang Mingxi sighed deeply. He didn't expect that the great man would quarrel when he was in love, and would wait so humbly at the bottom of the dormitory building. Love is really the most exhausting thing.
Yang Mingxi didn't start washing until Cheng Che went to bed. After he finished cleaning up as quickly as possible, he quickly turned off the lights and climbed into bed, playing mobile games without making any noise.
He clearly felt that Cheng Che turned over several times, and the other party's phone also vibrated for a long time, with long vibrations like a phone call and short vibrations like a message. Yang Mingxi didn't even need to think about who was contacting Cheng Che. He was curious about what happened that could cause the two great gods to quarrel and make Li Shen beg for forgiveness so humbly.
In the middle of the night, Yang Mingxi woke up from the urge to urinate after drinking too many carbonated drinks during the day. He climbed out of bed in a daze and found Cheng Che sitting alone at the computer, drawing a picture! He was so shocked that he woke up completely.
After going to the bathroom, Yang Mingxi mustered up the courage to ask, "Brother Che, are you in a hurry to submit the drawings? Why are you still working on them so late?"
Cheng Che didn't answer his question directly, but only said: "Did I wake you up? Sorry, my silent mouse is out of battery."
"No, no! I was a deep sleeper! Even an 8.0 magnitude earthquake wouldn't wake me up! What's that to you?"
"Um."
Cheng Che didn't say anything. Yang Mingxi saw that there was a documentary playing in the small window on his computer screen, and thought to himself that this great man was a great man. His way of relieving his bad mood was to draw pictures and watch movies late at night.
Yang Mingxi climbed onto the bed and reported to Li Shen, but there was no response from the other side for a long time. Yang Mingxi waited and waited and then fell asleep again.
Li Zimai, who had been waiting downstairs in the dormitory, wanted to strangle himself to death a few hours ago. Why could he say those words without restraint and even blame Cheche? He must have been possessed by some dirty thing.
He sent many messages to Cheng Che, saying sorry and listing all his wrongdoings from beginning to end. Cheng Che replied with one sentence: I'm going to sleep.
Completely unresponsive and withdrawn into his shell, Li Zimai was completely clueless. He typed several key questions into a mobile website, such as: What should I do if I have a fight with my partner? What should I do if I make my boyfriend angry? What should I do if I make my girlfriend angry? And so on, the answers were all unreliable.
The next morning, Cheng Che was awakened by the vibration of his phone. He thought it was Li Zimai, but it turned out to be Wu Ze asking in the group chat: [Are we still meeting today? @栗@CChe]
Cheng Che then remembered that today was the 3rd and they had agreed to go on vacation to a mountain near the capital.
Wu Ze asked this question because he saw a photo of Li Zimai waiting in slippers at the bottom of the men's dormitory in another group. The group members exaggerated the situation and said that Li Shen had a fight with Cheng Che and was kicked out of the dormitory by Cheng Che.
No one responded in the group for a while. Cheng Che didn't want to spoil everyone's fun, so he replied: [Gathering. Where is it?]
Wu Ze: @Li, where is the God of Li? Do you want to drive there?
Cheng Che finished washing up and tidied himself up, then glanced at his phone again. Li Zimai still hadn't replied in the group chat. A long time later, Wu Ze privately sent Cheng Che a photo of Li Zimai sleeping beside a flower bed, saying, "Why did they say you had a fight with Li Shen? And why didn't they let him stay in the dorm?"
Cheng Che noticed that Li Zimai's toes, clad in slippers, were red from the cold in the photo. Although summer was approaching, the night temperature never exceeded ten degrees Celsius at its coldest. Cheng Che wondered if Li Zimai had sat downstairs all night again. He felt a pang of frustration, angry at Li Zimai for always trying to force him to be soft-hearted, and also angry at himself for always showing his inferiority in front of Li Zimai.
[Cheng Che]: There was no fight. I came with him. Let’s meet at the school gate at nine o’clock.
Cheng Che put down his phone and stood on the balcony looking down at the dormitory building. Li Zimai was still sitting there. Several girls passed by him several times, each time holding up their phones to take pictures, as if they were looking at something rare. He didn't want Li Zimai to be stared at like this.
Cheng Che quickly went downstairs and suddenly stopped a few meters away from Li Zi. He clenched his fists and it took him a long time to muster up the courage to go forward and wake the other person up.
Cheng Che stood in front of Li Zimai, looking him up. He saw his slightly red eyes and aggrieved expression, as if he was accusing Cheng Che of being cruel, saying: How could you have the heart to ignore me?
Li Zimai looked at him, neither getting up nor speaking.
"Let's go, the squad leader is waiting for us."
Cheng Che did not forget that he was arguing with the other party, and his tone of voice was very stiff.
Li Zimai climbed down the pole, stood up and wanted to hold his hand, but Cheng Che dodged him, so he had to follow him silently.
The boys' dormitory was quite a distance from the school gate, and it took fifteen minutes to walk there. For the first time, Cheng Che felt that this distance was so long. He paused, turned to Li Zimai and said, "Go home and change your shoes first. I'll tell the monitor and the others."
Hearing his sudden softening, Li Zimai finally couldn't help herself. Regardless of the fact that they were on campus, she hugged him and apologized: "Cheche, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to lose my temper yesterday. Can you forgive me?"
He buried his face in Cheng Che's neck and said in a low and pitiful voice, "I like you so much. I wouldn't be like this before."
Only then did Cheng Che feel that his skin was very hot. He pushed Li Zimai away, put the back of his hand on his forehead, frowned and said, "You have a fever."
"...No, just a little hot."
He didn't want to ruin the vacation he had finally arranged because of such a small matter.
Cheng Che called Wu Ze and said apologetically that he might not be able to go today. Wu Ze said it was okay and that he and Lin Lin could go alone and it wouldn't affect anything.
After hanging up the phone, Cheng Che said, "Go to the hospital."
Li Zimai said reluctantly, "It's nothing... I'm just a little hot."
Cheng Che turned around and left. Li Zimai quickly followed him and said, "Okay, okay, let's go to the hospital. You accompany me."
The hospital was still crowded during holidays. Cheng Che had to wait in line for a long time to register at the fever clinic. When he came out after registering, Li Zimai had already fallen asleep leaning against the wall.
He rarely behaved so disgracefully in public, not to mention falling asleep while sitting downstairs in the dormitory building or in the hospital corridor. He was really not feeling well, but even in this state he had to wait a whole night to apologize to Cheng Che.
Cheng Che held the registration form tightly and tightly. He always hurt the people around him like this, whether it was his grandmother, his deceased mother, or Li Zimai. They always had to endure his weird and difficult temper.
The doctor prescribed some fever-reducing and anti-inflammatory drugs, and also instructed Cheng Che on some physical methods of cooling down the body. "If you need an IV drip, I'll write a prescription and you can just wait in the lobby."
Li Zimai held Cheng Che back and said, "Forget it, let's go home and not take up any more medical resources."
After returning home, Li Zimai really couldn't hold on any longer and fell asleep on the sofa. Cheng Che took off his shoes and coat, and brought a thick quilt from the bedroom and covered him with it, wrapping him tightly.
Cheng Che was about to get a wet towel when Li Zimai suddenly grabbed his hand, half-closed his eyes, and said in a nasal voice, "Are you leaving? Can you please not leave?"
"I won't leave. I'll get a towel to wipe you off."
Li Zimai rarely heard him speak so softly. The low, clean voice of a young boy softened Li Zimai's heart. He couldn't help but pour out his grievances, "...Duan Rui said that you and I can't stay together for long... What basis does he have to say that? You just don't want to make me public..."
Cheng Che was speechless. He thought Li Zimai was just acting on impulse, so he didn't want people to know about their relationship and didn't want people to look at Li Zimai with strange eyes. He never thought that Li Zimai would care so much about this matter.
Li Zimai quickly fell asleep again. Cheng Che wrung out a wet towel and applied it to his forehead, carefully wiping his palms and arms. After completing the entire routine, Cheng Che leaned over the sofa and watched Li Zimai. After a moment, he lowered his head and kissed the tip of his nose, saying softly, "You've become ill from anger just because of something like this. You're such a loser."
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