Chapter 89 First Meeting
When he first entered college, Li Zimai heard people talking about a person named Che from time to time, and his name would appear with him anytime and anywhere.
On the list of admission scholarships, Li Zimai saw Cheng Che's name clearly and followed him. The face in the photo left Li Zimai with only a fierce impression.
There were not many classes in the first two weeks of school. At most, the class was electing class leaders and recruiting new members for various clubs. Li Zimai was not interested. He had just moved out of the Jiang family and was very free. Li Zimai spent all day doing things he had never dared to do before.
For example, eating hot pot, playing games, and playing basketball. Although he had done a series of exciting and life-threatening activities such as racing, rock climbing, and skydiving during his rebellious period, he had not tried ordinary life. So after the college entrance examination, he lived a very happy life alone and didn't want others to ruin his new life. He himself became more and more of a homebody and would not go to school unless it was necessary.
At the beginning of the school year, class leaders were selected and the counselor asked everyone to be present. Li Zimai went to school just for the purpose of meeting everyone. That visit was directly posted on the school's major websites, and then all kinds of messy harassment began. Li Zimai didn't want to go to school anymore.
There was military training in two weeks. His uncle originally asked him if he wanted to go and asked for leave if he didn't want to go. However, Li Zimai didn't want to be unconventional and wanted to go and see the situation first.
On the first day of military training, everyone was on the playground attending the opening ceremony, and the boys from the four architecture classes were arranged into one team.
Cheng Che stood at the end of the first row, wearing camouflage uniform, with a dark face and furrowed brows, looking fierce and unapproachable, but his eyes were particularly beautiful, and they directly dealt a heavy blow to Li Zimai.
Li Zimai now thinks that it might have been love at first sight, but at that time he just glanced at her hastily, thinking that the child must have suffered some kind of blow to be so fierce.
He must have no friends, Li Zimai thought.
Li Zimai has been exercising since he was a child, but Li Qing was afraid that it would hurt his hands playing the cello, so she always forbade him from doing anything dangerous. When Jiang Xun was learning fighting, Li Zimai could only run beside him and was not even allowed to hit the sandbags.
Li Zimai believed that a man should have strong fists, so he often secretly learned martial arts from his brother and even competed with him. When Li Qing found out, he would criticize Jiang Xun and Li Zimai. Jiang Xun was ten years older than Li Zimai and more mature. With their father away from home, Jiang Xun raised his younger brother as his own son. He didn't want him to hurt his hands, so he stopped teaching him.
Later, when Jiang Xun took his younger brother to a banquet, Li Zimai ran away and was almost kidnapped by human traffickers. Fortunately, Li Zimai was smart and escaped.
Jiang Xun has not told his family about that incident until now, but since then, Jiang Xun has been secretly teaching his brother various fighting techniques and asking him to exercise. Although Jiang family bodyguards follow his brother at all times, Jiang Xun does not want his brother to be powerless to fight back when danger occurs.
Therefore, Li Zimai has been physically strong and good at kung fu since he was a child, but since he plays the cello and nothing dangerous happens, outsiders think that he is a spoiled young master.
Everyone in the military training thought so, including the instructors. They couldn't stand Li Zimai being so tall and yet so gentle, so they would focus on Li Zimai during every training session. If others did twenty non-standard push-ups, Li Zimai would do thirty, which were more standard than a soldier's.
Everyone could see that the instructor was targeting Li Zimai, but no one dared to say anything. Li Zimai didn't care either. At most, he just smiled and joked with the instructor. The instructor's fist hit the cotton, but it didn't have much effect, so he didn't target him anymore.
But Cheng Che was different. He had a bad temper. No one knew what the instructor said that time had touched his heart. The boy, who had always been quiet and withdrawn, punched the instructor in the face and went straight to the Academic Affairs Office.
Li Zimai thought that the boy was really fierce, and also thought that the instructor was impolite. Why did he say that the boy looked sad every day because his mother had died?
Li Zimai ran into his uncle when he returned home in the evening and happened to hear him talking about this. He said that in all these years, there had never been a student beating an instructor at Hua University. Those who could be admitted to Hua University were all top students and good students. There was no way there would be someone as disobedient as Cheng Che.
His uncle said that the college was going to punish him. Li Zimai, out of kindness to help his classmates, told his uncle what he had heard during the day, and also said that the instructor had also targeted him.
My uncle immediately went to the students to find out what happened, and finally wrote a letter of denunciation and sent it to the instructor's unit. He then called Cheng Che to give him a lecture, and the matter was finally over.
After that, Cheng Che's name became more and more famous. His classmates either called him "Cheng Che who founded the college" or "the one who beat the instructor." In short, he was well-known.
Li Zimai didn't care too much about it, but sometimes after class he would see Cheng Che walking alone in the school, chewing on bread, and the bread didn't look very tasty.
He is so lonely, Li Zimai thought.
Later, for some reason, everyone started calling Cheng Che "Brother Che" instead of "the one who beat up the instructor". Li Zimai was quite curious and wondered if the cool guy had recruited a younger brother.
Once, Li Zimai passed by the door of Class 3 and saw Cheng Che standing alone on the drawing table checking the light bulb. It looked like he was going to change the bulb himself. The dust on the lampshade accidentally fell into his eyes. He lowered his head and raised his sleeve to wipe it. Soon his eyes turned red and he blinked and looked around.
Li Zimai still doesn't know why he instinctively hid to the side at that time. He felt like a guilty thief, and his heart was beating fast.
Gradually, Lizimai went to school more frequently. One reason was that there were more professional courses, and the other was that he was curious to see if Cool Guy had done anything interesting that day, such as repairing light bulbs and water pipes, or cleaning the toilet.
Yes, he also wanted to poke the blocked toilet in the teaching building.
Once in a design class, a girl said the men's restroom was smelly and asked the boys to go check it out. The boy said with a disgusted expression, "Whose butt is so big that it can block all three holes?" At the end of the get out of class, someone said we could go to the restroom now, saying that Brother Che from the next class had cleared the restroom. There was a mixture of gratitude and disgust in his words.
Li Zimai thought at the time that Cool Brother was so amazing, he dared to do anything and was an extraordinary person.
As the days passed, Li Zimai rarely saw Cheng Che at school. They were in different classes, Cheng Che left as soon as class was over, and Li Zimai lived off campus, so the chance of them running into each other was very small.
Li Zimai knew that he was gay and was interested in Cheng Che, but at that time he was just interested and thought this cool guy was interesting, but he had no plans to go further. He was very principled and did not touch straight men, especially straight men who had girlfriends.
Li Zimai didn't know how to describe the news that Cheng Che had a girlfriend. It was understandable but also a bit regretful. At that time, Li Zimai felt that paying too much attention to a straight man was a bad sign, so he reduced the frequency of going to school.
One time, a girl confessed to him and asked Li Zimai if he also had a girlfriend. The word "also" was very interesting. Li Zimai asked one more question, and the girl said that many people confessed to Cheng Che, and Cheng Che either said that he didn't like him or had a girlfriend, but no one had ever seen his girlfriend. She said that if he really had a girlfriend, then his girlfriend would really be relieved. Her freshman year was almost over and she still hadn't come to attack her boyfriend. She said that it would be great if she had a boyfriend like Cheng Che who would be on his mind every day.
Li Zimai laughed when he heard this and comforted her that he would find it, but he couldn't because he was gay.
After that, some people in the school started to spread the news that Li Shen was gay. It didn't cause much sparks on a small scale, but it also attracted some messy gays.
Li Zimai didn't want to have a random relationship anymore. Xu Sinian scared him. He couldn't be a scumbag anymore or he would get punished. Besides, he was very free at that time. Why did he need someone to control him?
At that time, Li Zimai felt that no one in the world was worthy of his freedom.
The real turning point came during the summer vacation of his freshman year, a few days before his birthday. The weather was very hot that day and Li Zimai's car was stuck in traffic and was hit by a scam. He waited for a long time in the hot weather before the traffic police came to deal with it.
He didn't know why he walked into that alley. Maybe it was shady there, maybe he was in a hurry to go home, or maybe it was God's will. In short, Li Zimai was glad that he walked into that alley and met Cheng Che, who was staring at the ice cream on the ground and crying quietly.
He just dropped an ice cream, why is he crying so hard? If he buys him a new ice cream, will Cheng Che stop crying?
Li Zimai couldn't describe his mood at that time. The unprecedented sour and numb emotion exploded in his chest. He even hurried to the store to buy ice cream.
When he came back, Cheng Che was no longer on the street corner. The ice cream in his hand had melted, and the sticky liquid flowed down his wrist and stuck to his forearm. He felt extremely uncomfortable. He didn't know if it was because of his obsessive-compulsive disorder or because he couldn't find Cheng Che.
Later, he said the first sentence to Cheng Che: Wow, little brother is quite popular.
Even I like you.
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