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“Let’s go back, I want to do it.” Lin Dongyang’s face was a little hot. He didn’t know whether it was because he was embarrassed or if he had just shouted too hard.
The door slammed shut with a bang, and Qiao Yichen didn’t wait until they reached the bedroom that was just a few steps away. He directly pressed Lin Dongyang against the door and kissed him fiercely, as if to make up for the time they spent apart during the holidays.
With the strength of his arms Qiao Yichen grabbed Lin Dongyang’s hips and was able to pick up this person who was not much lighter than him. Lin Dongyang’s back was against the door, and his legs were wrapped around Qiao Yichen’s waist. He cupped Qiao Yichen’s face and chased the other party’s tongue.
The two impatient men were like dying vines, tightly intertwined, desperately trying to extract the nutrients of life.
“You’re hard.” Lin Dongyang giggled and took the time to catch his breath.
Qiao Yichen deliberately moved forward twice, “What can be done? It’s already in your hands.”
“Then just eat it and wipe it clean, leaving no residue behind.”
Being here didn’t seem to be much different from when he was being idle at home. Lin Dongyang was still at home alone during the day, and would go out for a walk when he was bored. If he really didn’t want to go for a walk, he would use Qiao Yichen’s computer to play games. In the evening, he would wait for Qiao Yichen to come back for dinner.
Day after day, they looked like a married couple, and Lin Dongyang even joked that he was becoming a ‘housewife’.
For a few days, Lin Dongyang preferred to use the game to kill time, and asked Qiao Yichen, “Do you not play the game anymore?”
He clearly remembered Qiao Yichen’s reply, “It’s not the game that got me addicted, it was you.” This caused Lin Dongyang’s old face to flush and he surrendered.
At first, he just spent the days eating and drinking, waiting for the start of school, but every time he saw Qiao Yichen, who was tired after working all day, Lin Dongyang felt distressed. Because of this distress he volunteered to cook, give massages, and do the housework, etc.
It was the so-called ‘He who stays near vermillion gets stained red, and he who stays near ink gets stained black’. Sharing a room with a serious and hard-working Qiao Yichen everyday, gradually influenced Lin Dongyang. Over time he also felt like his daily life was too bleak. So, he decided to learn English on his own from time to time and Qiao Yichen became his veritable personal teacher.
On this day, the weather was gloomy, it was like a boulder was pressing down on peoples’ heads. Just looking at it made it hard for you to breathe.
Lin Dongyang frequently picked up his mobile phone to check the time, then put it down again, and so on.
“Why haven’t you come back yet?” As he said this, he went into the kitchen. The water in the pot was already boiling, so he poured a bowl of beaten eggs in. Then he watched as the eggs rose and fell with the boiling water.
Suddenly, there was a loud ‘boom’, which pulled Lin Dongyang’s wandering mind back. The drizzle outside the window had turned into torrential rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning.
He dialed Qiao Yichen’s number, and the call was answered after two rings.
“Why haven’t you come back yet?”
“I got a flat tire, so I can’t drive. I’ll find the time to fix it later.”
“Oh, then, take a taxi.”
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Qiao Yichen didn’t object, “En, I’ll wait for you. Do you know where the bus stop is?”
“I know, out the gate, a hundred meters or so to the left.”
“En.”
After hanging up, Lin Dongyang turned off the stove, and rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find an umbrella. He thought it must have been prepared by Qiao Yichen when he lived by himself, so he only had one.
The rain was so heavy that it could form a puddle as soon as it hit the ground. When he walked to the nearby bus stop, he couldn’t see Qiao Yichen’s figure. There was only a woman holding a child in a baby carrier and sheltering from the rain.
His calves were splashed by the rain, so Lin Dongyang moved further inside the shelter again. A bus stopped and two people holding umbrellas got off before they disappeared into the rain.
A burst of oppressive thunder roared, and the child in the woman’s arms started to cry loudly. The woman’s coaxing didn’t help in the slightest.
The woman’s eyes watched the rain anxiously as she looked around, but to no avail. The downpour didn’t look like it would be stopping anytime soon, and there was no one coming to pick her up.
The baby’s cry was very urgent, and it reminded people of an old man with asthma. The way the baby cried, unable to catch its breath, made one’s heart panic.
Lin Dongyang’s eardrums hurt from the noise, and he couldn’t help but ask, “Are you getting on a bus or going back without an umbrella?”
The woman smiled with some embarrassment, “When I went out, it wasn’t raining so I didn’t bring an umbrella. Now it’s raining heavily so I want to wait for it to stop before I go back, for fear of getting my baby wet, but the rain won’t stop for a while, and the baby just keeps crying.”
“Where’s your family? Tell them to pick you up ah.”
“My husband went away on a business trip, and we are normally the only two people at home. I didn’t pay attention to the weather when I went out. It’s supposed to be summer rain, but it’s still raining so heavily.”
Lin Dongyang handed over the umbrella in his hand, “You can use it.”
The woman hesitated, but eventually took it gratefully, “Thank you little brother. I live nearby, I’ll come back and return it to you after I get back home.”
“No need, I’ll be going back in a moment, you keep it. The baby can’t stand the cold.”
The woman thanked him repeatedly before leaving with the umbrella in one hand and her baby carrier in the other. The bus stop was finally quiet and there was only the sound of rain falling.
When Qiao Yichen got off the bus, he saw the person who was waiting for him. Lin Dongyang scratched his head and said, “Sorry ah, I lent the umbrella to someone else. I was supposed to pick you up.”
Qiao Yichen just asked about what happened and didn’t blame him. “What is there to apologize for? You didn’t do anything wrong. It’s just that you’re going to get wet for no reason.” After he said that, he took off his coat to cover Lin Dongyang’s head.
Lin Dongyang laughed, hooked his arm around Qiao Yichen’s shoulders so that they could lean against each other, and then gave him half of the coat, “Then, let’s go back together.”
Even an umbrella couldn’t keep out the heavy rain, how could a coat stop it? But, they just leaned in close together, and walked home in the pouring rain with one coat.
There was not a single dry place on his body, so Qiao Yichen used a towel to wipe off the rain temporarily and said, “Go take a shower and change your clothes first, I’ll go heat up the food.”
“You’re wet too, so why don’t we… shower together.”
Qiao Yichen’s hand that was drying his hair paused. He raised his eyebrows and looked into Lin Dongyang’s wandering eyes. Qiao Yichen hooked his lips up into a smile and said, “Then let’s have dinner in an hour.”
The rain didn’t stop for four hours. Qiao Yichen sat on the edge of the bed and was sorting out documents, while Lin Dongyang lay beside him memorizing English vocab.
A moment later, lightning ripped through the sky, turning the heavy blackout curtains white and the night as bright as day. Just when Lin Dongyang thought that the thunder would probably be loud, his ears were covered by a pair of hands.
The deafening thunder immediately followed, but it was cut off by the pair of hands.
This was probably the loudest thunder in recent years, and it felt like a harbinger of something bad.
Lin Dongyang said with some helplessness, “It’s not like I’m a girl, I’m not afraid of thunder ah.”
“I was afraid that you’d be scared.”
“Is it possible that you want me to pretend to be weak and drill into your arms?”
Qiao Yichen opened his arms. “I’ll hug you.”
Lin Dongyang laughed, burying his head into Qiao Yichen’s arms. “Living with you, sooner or later I’ll die from a rapid heartbeat.”
Lin Dongyang’s hair tickled Qiao Yichen’s chest, so he grabbed his waist and picked him up, and Lin Dongyang’s posture instantly changed to sitting on top of him.
“Qiao Yichen, did you know that you might be my saviour?” Lin Dongyang became serious.
“Why do you say that?” Qiao Yichen was lying on his back and the weight of the person on top of him made his abdomen tense up.
“You’re changing the trajectory of my life.” Lin Dongyang pondered, “I used to be very confused about what I should do after I left school. Even after thinking about it for a long time I still couldn’t figure it out and then I started panicking about entering the workforce. I think there should be a lot of ordinary students who have such worries.”
Still feeling sentimental, Lin Dongyang’s tone changed, “But they are not as lucky as me, because I have you.” He looked at Qiao Yichen’s handsome face, oblivious to his sitting position and weight.
“Then what about now?”
“Now I have a goal. To catch up to you. Isn’t that great!”
Qiao Yichen laughed. Lin Dongyang thought he was being laughed at, so he punched him in the chest out of angry embarrassment. The laughing Qiao Yichen was stunned and hammered breathless. His coughing even caused Lin Dongyang, who was sitting on him, to shake.
“What are you laughing at ah? I will work hard! How can someone like you, who was born at the end of someone else’s pursuit, know? I’m going to ignore you!”
Qiao Yichen felt wronged, rubbing his chest as he said, “That’s unfair. I’m just happy that you unexpectedly want to start working hard for me, there was no other meaning. I got punched by you for nothing.”
“Really?”
“Really. I’m very happy.” He was really happy. As long as we work hard, we can go really far together. Looking into the future, I will have you.
“That’s more like it,” Lin Dongyang went to rub the spot he had just hit with satisfaction.
“Did you study well today?”
“Of course, I swore to catch up with you in the future!”
Qiao Yichen smiled innocently, “Then let me test you. What does husband mean?”
Lin Dongyang looked fearless and blurted out without thinking, “Laogong.”
“Yes?”
“F*ck! You’re taking advantage of this,” Lin Dongyang pressed down on Qiao Yichen’s abdomen and then started tickling him, as he added, “I want to take it back.”
It was obviously a rainy day that was so oppressive it made people breathless, but the two people inside the apartment were laughing more than the sun.
It was a warm daily routine, and they thought it would always be like this. However, the sudden unforeseen event caught everyone by surprise.
At the beginning of the new semester, there was a lot of fresh blood pouring into the school. Those new students were calling out “senior” in front of the older students in a childish manner, trying to quickly adapt to the new campus life.
But before the fever of the freshman welcome party had passed, a bucket of freezing cold water was poured on Lin Dongyang’s head.
Intimate photos of him and Qiao Yichen were secretly taken by someone, and now his peers, his teachers, and his classmates all had photos of his private life.
It was like being stripped naked and thrown in front of all of his acquaintances. That feeling of being seized by the throat was like he was falling into an ice cave, and no matter how warm the temperature was the feeling couldn’t be eased.
One moment the dormitory was filled with the enthusiasm of reunion, and the next second it was grabbed by the neck.
It turns out it didn’t take long to ruin the beautiful moment.
Zhu Wenbo flipped through a few photos and said, “They were all taken at the same hotel where we had that get-together at the end of last semester.”
Li Wei: “When Yang-zi left, there were a few people who left at the same time.”
Fatty Han, who usually talked the most and had the most uncontrollable mouth, didn’t say anything at the moment, he just looked annoyed, and his fierce looking appearance made people afraid.
Thanks for the chapter ❤️
It must be that school grass. What a bitch
thanks for the chapter <3
I want to see how both of them handle this
I knew something bad was gonna happen °∆°
It must be the so called “school flower” 😡😡
Kill!!!!🔪🔪🔪
I love how different my opinions of LDY’s trios are now compared with back then cuz I used to be super annoyed at them and now im just waiting for Fatty-Han, Zhu Wenbo and Li Wei to pummel the school grass into dust, I mean we already knew FH doesn’t give a crp about ‘not hitting girls as a gentleman’ bs idea.
Thanks for the chapter <333
Thanks for the chapter ♥️♥️
Destroy the f*cker who stuck their nose where it doesn’t belong
LD need not worry, his husband will solve the problem.
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️