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Actually, the name Xia Xia isn't strange, but because her family likes to call her "Xia Xia" with the last syllable repeated, not many people call her Xia Xia.
It was only when Bai Yixia looked at Qi Wang that she belatedly realized that over the years, it seemed that only Zhou Qingchi liked to call her Xia. Her feelings were somewhat complicated for a moment, and a strange feeling rose in her chest, as if she had noticed something that no one else had ever noticed.
She was so happy that she wanted to rush over and hug Zhou Qingchi immediately.
At that moment, Bai Yixia really wanted to talk to Zhou Qingchi and ask him why he didn't call her Xiaxia like everyone else.
But Qi Wang didn't give her that chance.
Bai Yixia's blank expression was so obvious that it left the young man somewhat bewildered. He became slightly reserved and cautiously asked, "Did I say something wrong?" He raised his hand and rubbed his hair. "I heard your friend call you that the other day. I... I felt it was a bit unfamiliar to call you by your full name, so I just copied it. Don't you like it?"
Qi Wang's words quickly snapped Bai Yixia out of her daze.
friend.
Bai Yixia's expression remained unchanged, but inwardly she felt bitter and sighed: "Yes, in Zhou Qingchi's eyes, they're just friends, friends who've known each other for a long time. To him, the difference between Xiaoxia and Xiaxia might just be that they use less mushy terms of address for friends."
Her excitement was dampened, and her initial desire to ask questions gradually faded. Bai Yixia shook her head and said, "It's okay, you can call me whatever you want."
Qi Wang's complexion improved slightly, and the light returned to his eyes. But only for a second, and he frowned again, hurriedly explaining, "Oh right, I just got my phone back. I didn't mean to not reply to messages this afternoon!"
If he hadn't reminded her, Bai Yixia really wouldn't have remembered his "mysterious disappearance." She asked curiously, "I had completely forgotten about it until you mentioned it. How did he just vanish while we were chatting?"
Qi Wang sighed, put the backpack on the table, unzipped it, and a yellow and white cat poked its head out, meowing, and then started beating Qi Wang up.
"I had arranged to meet you to discuss the set design, but I forgot to lock the door after picking up the package. This guy sneaked off." Qi Wang said, poking the cat's head with exasperation. "There's been a cat poisoning incident in my neighborhood lately, and I was worried it might get hurt, so I rushed to find it, and then I forgot about it."
Bai Yixia was surprised that he also kept a cat. She nodded in understanding and bent down to play with the cat.
I thought the kitten would be shy around strangers, but it acted as if it was very familiar with Bai Yixia. It twisted its body and stretched its head over, rubbing itself against Bai Yixia's fingertips.
"Huh? It's quite affectionate," Bai Yixia said with a smile.
Upon seeing such an adorable creature, Bai Yixia instinctively wanted to share it with Zhou Qingchi, but when she picked up her phone, she discovered that their video call had ended a minute earlier, leaving her feeling disappointed.
In the chat box, Zhou Qingchi sent her an explanation, saying that his roommate had asked him to help, and he would hang up first.
Bai Yixia was stunned when he hung up on her, her mood suddenly becoming hazy. She didn't even notice the kitten playfully tugging at her skirt.
She held her phone, unsure of what to say, and after a moment of silence, she could only manage a reluctant reply.
- Kiss: Okay, let's chat again later.
Qi Wang was busy outwitting the kitten and didn't notice her disappointment. Instead, he was at a loss because the kitten was tangled in his skirt, so he could only call out to Bai Yixia, "Xia, can you push it away?"
Bai Yixia snapped out of her reverie at the sound of "Xia," subtly curling her fingers before softly responding. She gently picked up the kitten, feigning anger as she tapped its forehead, "You naughty little thing! You tore my skirt, make your owner pay for ten more!"
After saying that, she tried to hug it, but Qi Wang stopped her.
Bai Yixia looked at Qi Wang with a puzzled expression, "Can't I hug it? It seems quite affectionate to me."
Qi Wang helplessly stuffed it back into his backpack and explained, "No, no, it's just that it went out to play for a long time today and it's very dirty. Don't let it get your clothes dirty." After hesitating for a moment, he added, "It's actually quite wary of strangers, but it probably remembers you, so it's more affectionate towards you."
Bai Yixia looked at the kitten in surprise and examined it carefully. It wasn't until she saw the five-pointed star-shaped pattern on its head that she remembered it and couldn't help but laugh, "Oh, it's it. I almost didn't recognize it after it was cleaned up."
"You still remember it?" Qi Wang's voice also carried a hint of surprise.
Bai Yixia remembered this little creature all too well. Among a group of stray cats, it was the strongest fighter. Despite being the smallest, it always managed to beat the other cats who were begging for food until they howled in pain. For a while, its story was a frequent topic in Bai Yixia's group chat with her two friends.
"So that's why I didn't see it back there. Turns out you adopted it!" Bai Yixia nodded at the kitten's head. "Now it's living a good life~"
Qi Wang nodded, "Since I was going to move out and live on my own anyway, it would be good to find someone to keep me company."
Bai Yixia turned to look at him and saw that he seemed to have something to say, but hesitated for a long time before speaking. Just as she was about to speak, she heard a bell ring in the teaching building. She looked at the time and saw that it was already past ten o'clock, and the teaching building was about to close.
Qi Wang immediately breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, "It seems there isn't enough time tonight. Xia, do you have time tomorrow? We can talk about the set design."
Tomorrow is Friday, and Bai Yixia has no classes all day. Thinking that it was already past ten o'clock, Bai Yixia was in a hurry to go back and contact Zhou Qingchi again, so she didn't dwell on whether Qi Wang had anything left unsaid and continued his sentence: "Sure, I'm available whenever it's convenient for you."
"Okay, then two o'clock in the afternoon?"
"Can."
Bai Yixia went to pack her things, while Qi Wang waited outside with the cat in his arms. After she came out, he turned off the lights, and the two went downstairs together.
The direction from the school gate was opposite to that of the dormitory building. Qi Wang wanted to use the excuse of going the same way to give Bai Yixia a ride, but he couldn't. He could only say goodbye at the gate, "Xia, be careful on the road, see you tomorrow."
What danger could possibly be on the way back to the dorm? Bai Yixia was both amused and exasperated, but watching Qi Wang's retreating figure, she inexplicably felt a sense of relief. She took out her phone, fiddled with it for a moment, and muttered, "What roommate is more important than me? I'll hate you for a while, Zhou Qingchi!"
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In Peking University's dormitory building, in male dormitory room 423, Zhou Qingchi, whom he disliked, threw his roommate, who had broken his leg, onto his seat, took out his phone from his pocket, and skillfully opened WeChat.
Not seeing any news about Bai Yixia's arrival, his expression instantly turned cold.
His roommate hissed and was about to thank Zhou Qingchi when he saw him open the ticketing app again and buy a ticket home for tomorrow.
He hesitated for a moment, "Wait, wait a minute, are you really this homesick? I didn't see you coming home so often last year?"
Zhou Qingchi turned off his phone screen, smiled slightly at him, and said, "Go home and see if my brother is secretly playing games." He looked down and then opened his phone to take a picture of his roommate's injured leg.
My roommate asked, puzzled, "Are you going to give this to your brother?"
"Tell him to be more careful when he plays basketball at school, so he doesn't grow a third leg too," Zhou Qingchi replied casually.
His roommate's expression shifted slightly for a moment, but before he could say anything, Zhou Qingchi threw a cane at him, hitting him in the face.
"Try harder next time and try to get the fourth one," Zhou Qingchi said.
"Zhou Qingchi, you have a really sharp tongue."
Zhou Qingchi was covered in sweat when he went to carry his roommate. He was taking off his clothes to wash up when he heard this and hummed, "You flatter me."
Roommate: ...Nobody's praising you, okay? :)
But he was quickly distracted by Zhou Qingchi's physique, staring at his clearly defined abs with a twisted expression. "What kind of person are you? I've never seen you exercise much. Why can't I have a body like that?"
Zhou Qingchi paused for a moment, looked down at his abs, and a thoughtful expression appeared on his face.
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Bai Yixia said she hated Zhou Qingchi, but she answered the video call without hesitation.
She pursed her lips slightly from the darkness, about to rebuke Zhou Qingchi, but her gaze fell on the screen and she couldn't look away.
There's no other reason than that there's a man on the screen pursuing her.
I wonder what happened in Zhou Qingchi's dorm room across the way. The lights were almost as dim as Bai Yixia's. Zhou Qingchi seemed to have just casually put on a shirt, buttoning the top two buttons haphazardly. With his movements, the shirt opened slightly at his lower abdomen, revealing his firm abs.
Bai Yixia felt a little embarrassed, but she also stiffened her neck and stared blankly at him.
Did Zhou Qingchi really have such a great figure?
She usually thought he was tall and slender with excellent proportions, and looked as good as a model just by standing there. She never expected that the part hidden under his clothes was so well-endowed.
A hand reached into the screen and turned on a small light. In the light, Bai Yixia could clearly see water droplets slowly sliding down her abs. She involuntarily swallowed, her mind screaming: No, he's not really seducing me, is he?!
Is this right? Is this really right? Am I dreaming? Or are they already together without each other knowing?
Bai Yixia was stunned for a while before she remembered that she could take a screenshot, but she hesitated when she put her hand on the button and asked herself: Is this right?
However, my thoughts couldn't keep up with my hand speed, and the phone had already made several clicking sounds.
Bai Yixia comforted herself: It's okay, Bai Yixia. It's only natural to like beautiful things. You didn't do anything wrong!
She took a deep breath, completely disregarding everything else, and snapped several more screenshots. Smiling, she consoled herself, "Wow, you did a fantastic job! Bai Yixia!"
Yes, what's wrong with that? Actually, to be honest, she and Zhou Qingchi even took a bath together, so seeing her childhood friend's abs shouldn't be a problem, right?
Of course, that was when I was one or two years old.
When Zhou Qingchi's voice rang in her ear, Bai Yixia was caught off guard and nearly dropped her phone.
Deep down, she still felt guilty. Bai Yixia didn't realize that Zhou Qingchi had called her by her full name. She gave a steady "hmm" and obediently greeted him, "Good evening, Brother Zhou."
Zhou Qingchi pulled out a chair and sat down. Although Bai Yixia was a little disappointed that she couldn't see his abs, the open neckline fulfilled her dream of not seeing his collarbone that morning, and even gave her a glimpse of his pectoral muscles.
Bai Yixia: Alas!
Her gaze shifted from Zhou Qingchi's face to his chest muscles, and her fingers, resting on the side of her phone, began to twitch restlessly.
But Zhou Qingchi's face was still the most attractive to her, so she turned her gaze back to him, smiled with her eyes crinkling, and said, "What's going on over there? It's so dark."
After saying this, Bai Yixia was stunned for a moment, because she suddenly noticed that Zhou Qingchi's expression was a little strange tonight. He didn't have his usual smile, and his wet hair hung down, covering his eyebrows and making him look particularly cold.
"Brother Zhou? What's wrong? Are you unhappy?" Bai Yixia became anxious, forgetting all about her good looks, wishing she could jump into the screen herself.
Hearing this, Zhou Qingchi raised the corners of his mouth and looked up at her, "Have you finished talking to that friend?"
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