Chapter 141
At six o’clock, Lin Yi arrived at Qin Zhou’s dormitory.
The door to Qin Zhou’s room was ajar. Apparently, it’d been left open for Lin Yi.
Lin Yi knocked on the door, but no one answered. He thought for a while and called out softly, “Senior.”
Still no one answered.
If Qin Zhou were in and he knocked and called out to him, Qin Zhou wouldn’t just ignore him. So, Qin Zhou must not be in.
The open door could also not have been left for him.
Lin Yi took back his hand and remained standing outside.
After standing for a while, his phone rang.
Lin Yi quickly took out his phone. He’d received a new text message but it wasn’t from Qin Zhou but from Cheng Yang.
Reading the text message, Lin Yi rubbed his nose awkwardly and put the phone back.
Before he could put it back though, there came a voice from behind him.
“Why didn’t you go in?”
Lin Yi turned around and saw Qin Zhou walking towards him, carrying food in his left hand and milk tea in his right. He walked closer and asked easily: “Why didn’t you go in?”
Qin Zhou’s voice tickled Lin Yi’s ears.
He recalled what Cheng Yang had said to him about using body language and other signals to confess. As long as he expressed his feelings, he would be successful.
Lin Yi said, “I was waiting for you.”
He pretended to be calm on the surface but saying this made his toes curl. Fortunately, humans need to wear shoes, otherwise Qin Zhou would notice his embarrassment.
Qin Zhou glanced at him. “How long have you been waiting?”
He gently kicked open the door, went in first and put the things he was carrying on the table. “The weather’s getting cold. I was worried the food would get cold if I prepared dinner too early.”
He was explaining to Lin Yi why he was late.
While Qin Zhou’s back was turned to him, Lin Yi rubbed his face. “I wasn’t waiting long, I just arrived.”
After rubbing his face, he found that Qin Zhou had turned around and Lin Yi quickly put his hands down.
Qin Zhou looked at him. “Don’t you want to come in?”
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When he closed the door and turned back, Qin Zhou was handing him the milk tea, the straw already thoughtfully inserted for him.
When Lin Yi walked over and reached out to take the milk tea, Cheng Yang’s words flashed in his mind, ‘You can use your body language and concrete actions to convey this message. Isn’t this also a confession?’
Body language, concrete actions.
Lin Yi paused, his eyes fell on Qin Zhou’s hand. He deliberately brushed against Qin Zhou’s hand as he quickly grabbed the milk tea.
His hands were very cold, but Qin Zhou’s hands were warm about as warm as the milk tea in his hand.
The warmth made Lin Yi blush. He lowered his head to take a sip of milk tea to calm his agitation.
Cheng Yang’s words kept repeating in his mind.
Lin Yi moved the milk tea close to Qin Zhou’s lips, “Senior, do you want a sip?”
Qin Zhou stopped opening the lunch box.
Qin Zhou didn’t speak and neither did Lin Yi.
There was only one cup of milk tea. There was no way to misinterpret Lin Yi’s meaning. There could be no ambiguity.
Lin Yi remained calm on the outside but was roaring on the inside.
Aaaaaahhhhhh.
Oh my god.
He was very good at finding opportunities.
Lin Yi decided to pursue the victory and repeated: “Senior, do you want a…”
Before he repeat his offer, Qin Zhou lowered his head and bit the straw.
Qin Zhou really did take a sip. Lin Yi looked down a little bit, scanning Qin Zhou’s smooth and clear jawline, started at the perfectly protruding Adam’s apple on his neck.
As he swallowed the milk tea, his Adam’s apple bobbed slightly.
Lin Yi suddenly understood what Qin Zhou said about feeling itchy in the heart and a kind of burning on the lips.
This sip lasted only a moment. Qin Zhou let go of the straw and said, “I’ve tried it. It’s no longer that hot. You can drink it now.”
Lin Yi hurriedly looked away, placed his lips around the straw and took a few sips.
Suppress the agitation and alleviate the dryness,
By the time he regained his composure, Qin Zhou had already sat down and was pulling apart the disposable chopsticks.
Lin Yi quickly sat down and Qin Zhou handed him the chopsticks, “Eat something first before you drink anymore. If you finish that off, you might get too full to eat anything.”
“…Thank you, Senior.”
Lin Yi took the chopsticks and put the milk tea aside.
The dish was indeed his favorite. He took some with his chopsticks and put it in his bowl.
Qin Zhou said, “It’s not the winter solstice yet and the canteen hasn’t prepared mutton. There will be some during the winter solstice and I’ll eat with you then.”
Lin Yi: “Oh, okay.”
After a while, Lin Yi came to his senses, “Senior, didn’t you say you couldn’t eat mutton?”
Qin Zhou looked at him and said, “By ‘eat with you’ I meant that I won’t eat but I’ll watch you eat.”
Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat. “Oh.”
He lowered his head to eat.
After eating for a while, Lin Yi felt something was wrong.
He came to confess but instead, he was acting like he was the one being confessed to.
And he found that Qin Zhou didn’t seem to understand what his intentions.
Because this wasn’t going at all like Lin Yi had planned, Qin Zhou was now talking about his recent work.
Qin Zhou said, “Ou Ying is too busy lately so she gave me part of the work.”
Qin Zhou said, “I heard from Wang Feihang that you were asking about Rule 1-3? Were you asking for you or for the ice cube?”
Lin Yi saw Qin Zhou’s lips opening and closing but wasn’t really listening to what Qin Zhou was saying.
Lin Yi was thinking about something.
He felt that inviting Qin Zhou to have a sip of milk tea hadn’t gone as he’d anticipated.
So Lin Yi stretched out his hand, tentatively picked up a piece of the dish with his chopstick and placed it carefully in Qin Zhou’s bowl.
After doing so, Lin Yi raised his eyes to see Qin Zhou’s expression.
Qin Zhou’s expression didn’t change much. Lin Yi’s move only made him pause mid-sentence. But the pause was only for a moment and Qin Zhou continued on speaking.
Lin Yi didn’t give up. He picked up a bit more and put it again into Qin Zhou’s bowl.
Again, he looked up again to see Qin Zhou’s reaction. This time, Qin Zhou didn’t even pause at all.
Lin Yi thought for a moment then picked up another piece and put it again into Qin Zhou’s bowl.
He was very sincere in giving him the food that he’d filled Qin Zhou’s bowl with just three chopstick scoops. He had to pile it carefully to prevent the food from falling out.
Qin Zhou looked at him. “…”
Lin Yi retracted his hand but Qin Zhou didn’t move his eyes away and kept staring at him closely.
Under Qin Zhou’s direct gaze, Lin Yi didn’t dare say for certain that it was his body language finally having an effect. He opened his mouth, unable to hold back from asking quietly, “Senior, do you know what I’m doing?”
Qin Zhou didn’t answer immediately and asked after looking him up and down, “What are you doing?”
Lin Yi choked. “I’m… I’m not doing anything.”
‘If I knew that’d be the answer, I wouldn’t have asked’, he thought.
Confessing is so hard.
It was even harder with body language and concrete actions.
“Senior, eat some more.”
After realizing that Qin Zhou was still staring fixedly at him, Lin Yi made to scoop up more food for Qin Zhou.
But this time, before he could stretch out his chopsticks, his shoulders were caught by a sudden force.
Snap.
Lin Yi was unprepared and the chopsticks in his hand clattered to the floor. Qin Zhou was holding him against the wall behind the table.
Before he could react, Qin Zhou had pressed against him.
“Little genius.”
He and Qin Zhou were extremely close, so close that Qin Zhou only needed to lower his eyes to look at him, “Do you think I don’t know what you’re doing?”
This close, Lin Yi could feel the warmth radiating off Qin Zhou. He could feel Qin Zhou’s breath brush against his neck. He felt a little panicked. “I…”
“Of course I know.”
Qin Zhou stared intensely at him. He moved even closer. His cheek almost touching Lin Yi’s, he whispered in his ear, “From when I received that text message, I already knew what you were doing.”
Suspense!!!!
When you’d happily let the Yi monster be devoured on the spot by the Zhou monster… maybe that should be the top campus rule? 🤤
oooooh 🤭🤭🤭
Yes it’s here! The confession! It. Is. Here. Insert meme
It’s happening!
Confession time!! Exciiiiiting!!
Qin Zhou : You’re bribing me so that I’d take you to 1-3 world with me..
Lin Yi : 🤐
🤐
Now that you mention it, why does it feel so very likely ?😭
I can see this happening. Why can I totally see this happening????
Fans self Whew 😮💨 it is hot in here 🥵
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