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There was no movement in the kitchen, but he didn’t see Qiao Yichen coming out either. Lin Dongyang finally couldn’t resist the temptation of curiosity and sneaked to the door of the kitchen to peek. As for why he was sneaking, Lin Dongyang expressed that he was still angry just a moment ago, so he didn’t want to show any interest now.
Otherwise, Qiao Yichen would become ‘arrogant because of his favour’ again!
In the kitchen, the steam in the pot was churning under the lid. Obviously the water was boiling, but Qiao Yichen was holding a mobile phone in his hand and staring at the screen.
“What are you doing?” Lin Dongyang couldn’t help asking.
Only to see Qiao Yichen indirectly glance at him. He even came over and raised his hand to close the kitchen door! Lin Dongyang hurriedly resisted, “What do you mean ah?”
Qiao Yichen held his mobile phone in his right hand and kept trying to close the door with his left hand. While Lin Dongyang asked him what he meant by closing the door, he was able to clearly see the content on the mobile phone, which was a detailed step-by-step explanation on how to cook noodles.
Lin Dongyang couldn’t hold back his laughter. He blocked the door with his foot, leaned his body against the door frame, and teased, “Don’t you know how to cook noodles?”
Qiao Yichen put the mobile phone into his pocket, and said calmly, “I forgot a little, so I reviewed it.”
“I thought you were going to show your skills. Since you can’t, then I’d better go and eat outside,” Lin Dongyang said and went to leave. Who knew that this time Qiao Yichen would just stand inside the kitchen and not come out to block the door.
Oh??? Not blocking me anymore?
Lin Dongyang pointed at the door with deliberate pretence and said, “I’m really leaving…”
Qiao Yichen’s face was expressionless. “You go.”
Lin Dongyang: “…” How can this person change his face faster than flipping through the pages of a book? One moment he was so brazenly blocking the door, but now he has taken the initiative to ask him to go.
He just wanted to take the opportunity to order Qiao Yichen about. After all, Qiao Yichen used to bully him by holding the ‘owing money’ thing over his head. Now that he had a chance to get revenge, how could he give it up?! So he walked back towards the kitchen again, rubbing the tip of his nose, and said, “Can you hold on a little longer and cook for me?”
“I don’t know how.” Qiao Yichen admitted that he couldn’t cook.
“It’s so easy to cook noodles. You can just put the noodles in when the water boils.”
The water in the pot was still boiling. When Lin Dongyang saw that Qiao Yichen wasn’t moving, he reminded him, “You should get to work. I won’t leave until I’ve eaten!”
Qiao Yichen quietly examined him, who had suddenly changed his mind. His penetrating eyes made Lin Dongyang look inexplicably embarrassed, as if his crooked ideas had been exposed by the other party.
Qiao Yichen didn’t say anything and just took out a packet of unopened noodles from the cupboard. With a ‘crash’, most of the packaging was torn open, and the noodles immediately scattered on the stovetop.
Lin Dongyang: “…” Hold back, don’t laugh!!
He purposefully cleared his throat to stifle his uncontrollable howl of laughter. “*Cough* If you can think of a better way to get this across then do that instead. It’s okay. Continue on.”
Qiao Yichen’s limbs stiffened. He poured all of the surviving noodles, about one-third of the packaging, into the boiling water, then put the unfortunate two-thirds that had scattered on the stove back into the torn packaging bag and put it aside.
“Put some salt in ah, or are you cooking freshwater noodles ah?” Lin Dongyang bossed him around, commanding with great joy.
But Lin Dongyang really regretted this sentence as soon as he had said it! Because he saw Qiao Yichen digging up a large spoonful of salt and pouring it in! While he was still leaning leisurely against the door-frame, out of reach.
Lin Dongyang supported his forehead with his hand. It was obviously very simple, boiled noodles, no skill required whatsoever. So, how could Qiao Yichen’s cooking skills make it seem like he was creating a nuclear weapon?
Sure enough, when the noodles were finished, Lin Dongyang had only one desperate thought: Why did two kitchen killers have to pretend to cook? He must have lived for too long and wanted to poison himself.
Lin Dongyang looked at the bowl of noodles in clear soup. There was no colour at all, but he could bear it. There was no fat or oil on the surface at all, he could still bear it. However, the noodles were only half-cooked, he couldn’t bear it at all!
As for the taste… Lin Dongyang thought to himself: I’m still young and want to live longer.
The two of them sat on the sofa looking at each other, neither of them moving their chopsticks first.
Lin Dongyang: “How about you try it first?”
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Seeing that Qiao Yichen had no special reaction, Lin Dongyang looked back at the uncooked noodles, and he also tentatively tasted it. He immediately spat them back out into the bowl, stuck his tongue out and bolted into the bathroom. He furiously rinsed out his mouth with water.
Oh God! It’s no different from eating salt!
He walked out looking like hell and looked at the indifferent Qiao Yichen, only to see him spit out the noodles in his mouth. Lin Dongyang suddenly realized that he had been holding it in his mouth without swallowing it, just waiting to pit him!
Lin Dongyang gave him a thumbs up and exclaimed, “You’re awesome.”
Qiao Yichen took the two bowls from the coffee table to the kitchen, and poured the noodles directly into the trash can after filtering out the water. There was no oil or meat, just rinse the bowls twice and they were clean.
After tidying up, Qiao Yichen picked up his keys and said, “Let’s go out and eat.”
Lin Dongyang followed Qiao Yichen and went out for barbecue in the evening. After tasting Qiao Yichen’s dark dishes, the spicy lamb skewers were like a real delicacy. Qiao Yichen took the initiative to settle the bill, and then went back to school with Lin Dongyang. After all, he still had classes tomorrow.
Qiao Yichen drove the car, and Lin Dongyang sat in the passenger seat and played with his mobile phone. It was already past nine o’clock in the evening. Qiao Yichen’s single apartment was separated from the busy city center, only two kilometers from the sea. This location was mainly secluded, there was less traffic and no overly loud honking sounds.
Qiao Yichen had put a very light and nice-smelling incense in the car. Lin Dongyang sat in the car and played with his mobile phone. He felt a little uncomfortable, so he put his mobile phone back in his pocket and looked up at the street lights that were flying past on both sides of the spacious road.
He turned his head to look at Qiao Yichen who was driving seriously. The street lights shone on his face through the car window. His side profile was very three-dimensional. He was obviously three years younger than him, yet he looked more mature than him. Lin Dongyang couldn’t help but to take a closer look at his appearance.
“What are you looking at?” Qiao Yichen kept looking straight ahead.
Lin Dongyang: “I’ll still return the money to you.”
Qiao Yichen: “I’m not short of money.”
Lin Dongyang: “You mean the 10,000 yuan for food, not the 140,000 yuan for clothes. I don’t wear women’s clothes. Is it bad to give your sister the dress? It’s still brand new, I haven’t removed the tag.”
Qiao Yichen glanced incredulously at Lin Dongyang and said, “The three measurements don’t match.”
Lin Dongyang: “…”
Qiao Yichen looked strangely at his face again, his gaze stopping for just two seconds before he looked back at the road. Lin Dongyang’s body tensed under his gaze.
Qiao Yichen: “Your waist is thicker than hers.”
Lin Dongyang: “…”
That wasn’t all. Qiao Yichen thought for a while and added, “Her bust isn’t as big as yours.”
Lin Dongyang couldn’t stand it anymore, “I don’t have a f*cking bust. A man’s bone structure is originally bigger than a woman’s.”
Qiao Yichen: “I mean the chest measurement. So, it doesn’t fit. Just keep it for yourself.”
Lin Dongyang felt embarrassed and also ridiculous. Finally, he couldn’t hold back a low snort of laughter. Qiao Yichen might also feel that it was a bit odd to talk about the topic of the three measurements with a guy, so he also followed with a low laugh.
The last remaining unhappiness between the two of them was dissipated by this laughter.
“It’s mainly because the midterms are soon. I don’t have time to study English,” Lin Dongyang stopped to explain and then suddenly changed his tone and said forcefully, “You can buy your own meals in the future! Just because you have some money you really consider yourself to be a lord.”
After what happened tonight, Lin Dongyang was completely enlightened! Combined with the three periods of understanding, the following conclusions could be drawn:
How did Qiao Yichen behave when he hadn’t seen him before? His obedience was deceitful ah! Calling senior sister from the bottom of his heart.
But that had changed since they met. Lin Dongyang said he wanted to hit him eight out of ten times, but seeing that he was tall and strong, he decided to hold back first.
But it was different tonight. Qiao Yichen was doing as he commanded. He pushed him but he didn’t fight back, as if he really was the little milk dog he had imagined in the beginning.
He must have been stimulated to become like this, but to be honest this wasn’t that annoying, Lin Dongyang thought to himself.
“An Qi said you went home. What happened to your face?” He had wanted to ask this question for a long time, but the two had a conflict before, so he didn’t mention it.
Qiao Yichen didn’t answer immediately, but was silent for a moment before finally speaking in a deep voice. “My father hit me.”
He didn’t hide it. Although it sounded rather humiliating, he wanted to be honest with the people who cared about him.
Lin Dongyang was stunned. He had thought that the mark on Qiao Yichen’s face was caused by a fight with someone else, but he didn’t think it would be his father who hit him. This was really cruel.
Sure enough, he was stimulated to become like this tonight. It seemed that the relationship between father and son wasn’t good. If the father-son relationship wasn’t good, the family wasn’t harmonious. No wonder Qiao Yichen had become so dull and unreasonable.
Parents are their children’s life teachers. Most children with a good family background but a poor parent-child relationship were very rebellious, even extreme. It was good that Qiao Yichen didn’t grow up crooked.
It was nearly 10pm by the time the two of them had had dinner and driven back to school, but there were still many students walking around the campus. There were even some male students who took advantage of the fact that they couldn’t be seen clearly at night to come out to enjoy the moon in their big underpants and flip-flops. They couldn’t sleep anyway, 10pm was just the beginning of the night for these young people. The day was behind them and they were still far away from going to bed.
After getting out of the car, they silently walked towards the dormitory buildings. Dormitory buildings No. 5 and No. 6 were facing each other, one to the left and the other to the right.
Before parting, Lin Dongyang still instructed with concern, “Go back and apply cold water on your face to reduce the swelling.”
After saying that, Lin Dongyang walked towards dormitory building No. 6, but Qiao Yichen just stood on the road and quietly watched his back. He gently touched his face with the back of his hand, except for some swelling and pain, there was no longer any feeling.
Lin Dongyang transferred 10,000 yuan to Qiao Yichen that night, but the other party didn’t accept it and also didn’t respond. Eventually, the transfer was timed-out and returned to him.
The following week, Lin Dongyang and Qiao Yichen tacitly didn’t communicate with each other. They weren’t in the same class, so it depended on the probability of them meeting after school.
After Lin Dongyang realized the importance of English, he worked hard for a week, exceeding the three-day limit of Li Wei’s bet. So, Li Wei lost the bet. Every time he watched Lin Dongyang read English books, he thought of the scene of washing Fatty Han’s smelly socks!
Lin Dongyang flipped through his English books every day when he had free time. On the surface, he was serious, but it was another matter whether he actually learnt it or not.
Li Wei came out of the bathroom with a foot wash basin. He put it down and squatted on the floor. There were two pairs of socks soaking in it.
Li Wei’s expression was full of disgust. “D*mn Fatty Han! Your feet stink! It’s hard for the socks to be worn by you!”
After Fatty Han returned to the dormitory, he changed into a pair of flip-flops. When he heard Li Wei say that, he seriously picked up his feet and sniffed them. “No, they’re fine. That’s just sweat from being covered up in sneakers.”
Li Wei pouted, how disgusted he was. He looked at Lin Dongyang who wasn’t concerned about anything and asked, “Yang-zi, what made you become so fond of learning?! Teach me!”
Fatty Han: “You have to believe in Yang-zi! If our brother wants to learn, we must give our full support. Even the likes of you, you have to believe that our brother loves learning!”
Li Wei: “Get out, get out. You’re a blabbermouth.”
Fatty Han shook his fist to give him a boost. “Today is your third day of washing socks, 27 days to go until one month. Fighting~ You’re the best!”
Lin Dongyang gloated. “I love learning, learning makes me happy.”
Li Wei wanted to cry but had no tears. He couldn’t renege on a promise. He could only admit to losing the bet. The remaining 27 days were a long way off.
The mid-term exams were coming up soon. Whether it was software operation or other course exams, Lin Dongyang dared to guarantee: No problem! Little case!
But during the English test, Lin Dongyang’s vow was like a balloon that had been burst. He was completely discouraged. Yes, he had studied honestly for a week, thinking that he would at least be familiar with the words. However, when he saw the paper, he realized that the words he had accumulated over the past few days didn’t even f*cking appear!
The whole classroom was very quiet, except for the rustle of the pen scratching across the paper. Lin Dongyang scrunched his face, biting the cap of his pen absent-mindedly. His mind was full of confusion.
What will he do now? Why is it that everytime he takes the English test, it is like torture?! Although his flesh didn’t hurt, his heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney were worried so much it was painful!
He looked up at the weather outside. The dark clouds were pressing down and he felt a sense of oppression seeing the storm coming. It seemed as if heavy rain was about to pour in the next second. Just like his unbearable mood right now.
I will not be able to do it, there is no way ah. Everyone else didn’t have enough time but he thought the time was too long. Forget it, he just needed to casually write whatever he could. In the past he always muddled through, but this time he was going to fight for his dignity.
Lin Dongyang filled out the answers in the pattern ‘AABBC, BBA’. There was a 25% chance of an answer being right anyway.
After he finished the questions. He looked up and squinted at Li Wei who was not far away. They communicated through eye contact, and had a tacit understanding from being roommates for three years. Li Wei saw him looking his way and knew what he meant. He nodded and then shook his head. Lin Dongyang would understand, this meant that Zhu Wenbo hadn’t finished yet, so let’s wait.
A xueba would always review their answers over and over again until it was finally time to turn in the paper and then the three people would follow their lead and hand in their papers uniformly.
It was raining hard outside at the moment.
“It’s a good thing you two brought umbrellas, otherwise we’d all be drenched like dogs.” Fatty Han said happily. Neither he nor Li Wei had an umbrella. Before the exam in the afternoon, the weather was just a little gloomy, but it hadn’t started to rain yet.
Zhu Wenbo opened his umbrella and said to Lin Dongyang and Li Wei, “Then, Fatty and I will share one and you two can share the other one. It’s just right.”
“Okay.”
Lin Dongyang had just opened his umbrella when out of the corner of his eye he saw Wang Dan sheltering from the rain. She was by herself and still wearing her gray canvas shoes. He was afraid that her shoes would get soaked when stepping on the water. In her hand, she didn’t have anything except a pen for the exam. So, she just stood quietly in the corner watching the heavy rain outside.
Lin Dongyang changed his mind. He went over and handed his umbrella to Wang Dan.
“Take it.”
Wang Dan was also becoming more and more familiar with Lin Dongyang these days. Although at first it was because she was afraid that he would tell people her little secret, so she had boldly invited him to the library to discuss. It was at that time, she found that a good-looking person like Lin Dongyang turned out to be willing to make friends with someone like her who was mediocre and had no distinguishing features.
Did she still need friends when she was so used to being alone? Of course, everyone was eager to be cared for and understood. Once a lonely person experienced it, they would hold on tight and not let go.
Wang Dan smiled thankfully and took the umbrella. The name Lin Dongyang seemed to carry a warm energy of its own. He was really like a ray of sunshine in winter, not strong but gentle.
“Thank you. Then, what about you?”
Lin Dongyang smiled and put his arm around Li Wei’s shoulder. “Don’t worry, there are more over there.”
Wang Dan followed his line of sight and looked over. At this moment, Zhu Wenbo also happened to look back in their direction. Wang Dan blushed and lowered her head to avoid eye contact. Lin Dongyang secretly sighed: This beautiful secret love ah!
Fatty Han saw Lin Dongyang give his umbrella to a female classmate, blew a rogue whistle secretly, and then greeted, “Come over and squeeze in with us.”
Li Wei ran over. As a result, the folding umbrella was forced to fit these three big men under it! There was also a two-hundred pound one! The umbrella said: I’m bearing pressure that my body shouldn’t bear.
Fatty Han: “Come here, Yang-zi! We can stuff one more.”
Lin Dongyang: “… Are you guys trying to stuff me on top of the umbrella?”
Fatty Han: “Why don’t we go back first? Then we’ll bring you another umbrella, you wait for a while.”
Lin Dongyang: “Then, I’m waiting for you, hurry up ah.”
“Don’t worry, don’t worry. We won’t leave you behind.” Then, the three people pushed and shouted, huddling together and walking away from the school building. As a result, Li Wei had just walked out a few steps when he immediately turned around and ran back, he said, “Fatty, you’re too big, I can’t squeeze in. You can also bring me one back later.”
“Okay!” The two people under the umbrella gradually walked away.
Lin Dongyang: “That one umbrella is only enough for himself. Adding Zhu Wenbo is enough,, but you still tried to squeeze in.”
Li Wei’s hair was drenched. Fortunately he had a buzz cut and didn’t do any hairstyling. Otherwise, if he went out to show off his hair in this rainstorm, his hairstyle would change for free.
Seeing that Wang Dan hadn’t left yet, Lin Dongyang asked suspiciously, “Are you waiting for someone?”
Wang Dan shook her head. “Then, thank you, I’ll go first. I’ll return the umbrella to you this afternoon.”
Lin Dongyang: “No problem, return it to me when you have the time.”
Wang Dan had just opened the umbrella and was about to leave when a sweet voice was heard, “Can you take me with you?”
Lin Dongyang heard the voice and looked back. It was Liu Yiyi dressed in a little pure and fresh dress. At the moment, she was looking at Wang Dan with a smile.
Wang Dan was stunned for a moment. Liu Yiyi was recognized as the class flower. She hadn’t said a word to her in the three years from freshman year to now. Wang Dan’s impression of Liu Yiyi was that of a proud peacock. Although she was beautiful and amiable on the surface, arrogance had long been ingrained in her bones.
OMG He finally sees how handsome his junior is!!!
Thank you for the chapter~
Oh.. When they will start dating?
I think QY was very satisfied with the three measurements😙😙😙
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
Thank you for this chapter, Oyen.
Me: kiss him on the bruise, kiss him on the bruise, KISS HIM on the bruise
I swear if that girl hurts or bothers my new adopted baby Wang Dan imma fight her gender won’t matter at that point-
I’ll get the guns (σ｀д′)σ
😤👍 we will protect tiny bebe
I have a chainsaw and some shovels
:3 we are set for slaughter
Thank you for the chapter ❤️