Secretly Liking Him - Chapter 22

Chapter 22

This night was destined to be a sleepless one for Gu Xun.

Even though it was already very late by the time he got home, after finishing cleaning himself up, Gu Xun still didn’t feel the slightest bit sleepy.

Every single detail of the time he had spent with Shen Yanzhi earlier kept replaying in his mind—the fireworks, the fountain, the music, and even the lingering summer heat in the wind made him feel happy.

Seeing how he smiled so wide that his teeth showed all the time, Shen Yanzhi couldn’t help but smile along with him: “Did you pick up money? Why are you so happy?”

Gu Xun turned his head to look at him, holding back his smile just a little bit, then took a deep breath, shook his head, and said very seriously: “Even happier than picking up money.”

Shen Yanzhi probably hadn’t expected him to use such a serious attitude to answer this teasing question, and couldn’t help but daze for a moment.

Yet Gu Xun started foolishly smiling again, looking over at Shen Yanzhi from time to time, and then smiling again.

Shen Yanzhi was made completely confused by his smiling, and in the end, he could only attribute Gu Xun’s reaction to having a sudden fit of craziness.

But he also felt that, being smiled at by him, his own mood inexplicably became very good too.

Gu Xun seemed to be born with the ability to infect the people around him, just like—just like a little sun, making people feel warm.

Looking at his careless and heartless smile, Shen Yanzhi suddenly felt a kind of longing born within him; he really wanted to know what on earth it took to be as happy as Gu Xun.

On the other side, what Gu Xun was thinking was: so liking someone is such a happy and joyful thing.

Just thinking about it made him unable to stop smiling.

He could suddenly understand the kind of mindset Wang Xiaosong and Shi Juntao had, of pressing forward even knowing the difficulties; the matter of liking someone really could not be controlled.

Just like how he couldn’t control himself not to smile, just like how at this moment, he also couldn’t control his liking for Shen Yanzhi.

Liking is liking, how could there be any way around it? How could it be like what he said before, to just casually change to another target to like.

Shen Yanzhi rubbed his head: “Be careful your face will hurt later, go to sleep quickly.”

Gu Xun obediently turned off the light, but in the darkness, the corners of his mouth were still turned upward, and there was still not a single bit of sleepiness.

Just by sleeping and leaning a tiny bit close to Shen Yanzhi, he felt as if an electric current had passed through him.

Gu Xun couldn’t help but shyly shrink back a little bit: “How about…”

Shen Yanzhi used an “Hm?” to express his questioning.

Gu Xun said somewhat twistingly and awkwardly: “How about I go back to my own bed to sleep…”

Shen Yanzhi was clearly surprised for a moment and asked him: “Why?”

How could Gu Xun tell Shen Yanzhi: I like you, just touching you a little bit makes my whole body feel numb!

Therefore, Gu Xun could only talk nonsense: “Uh, I drank too much Cola just now, I’m afraid going to the toilet constantly will disturb you…”

Then Gu Xun heard the low laughter of Shen Yanzhi beside him. They were clearly both still in their voice-changing period, but Shen Yanzhi’s voice was just exceptionally better-sounding than others’.

Gu Xun felt that his own ears were burning hot.

Shen Yanzhi said: “I’ve already been sleeping-with-by-you until I’m used to it. Besides, if you climb up and down in the middle of the night, it’s not as convenient as being down here. Sleep, anyway it’s a holiday, no need to fear waking up late tomorrow.”

Gu Xun, by that phrase “slept-with-by-you until I’m used to it,” was made to feel his entire person burning scorching hot, so hot he was almost sweating.

When Shen Yanzhi adjusted his sleeping posture, he bumped his arm against him and asked, “Are you hot?”

Gu Xun: “Um… a little…”

“Then turn down the temperature a bit.”

Gu Xun, like a parrot echoing a voice, started feeling around for the air conditioner remote control placed by the bedside, hesitantly turned it down by two degrees, and then pulled the air conditioning blanket—which was only covering a bit of his own belly—over to cover Shen Yanzhi’s body.

Feeling his movement, Shen Yanzhi seemed to let out another laugh, then leaned a bit closer to his side, and the two half-bodies leaned entirely together.

Gu Xun’s whole person went stiff. Shen Yanzhi’s body was a bit cool, and he said: “You are really warm.”

In this kind of weather where the “Autumn Tiger” (late summer heat) was raging, the only one who would praise someone for being warm was probably only Shen Yanzhi.

The blood rushing to Gu Xun’s face made his brain feel like it was about to explode. Crucially, he also didn’t dare to move, for fear that moving back and forth would affect Shen Yanzhi’s rest.

He actually had a lot of words he wanted to say, yet didn’t know what he should say to Shen Yanzhi.

Finally, when Shen Yanzhi was almost about to fall asleep, Gu Xun only then weakly asked a question: “A-Yan, do you hate puppy love very much?”

At first, Shen Yanzhi didn’t make a sound, and Gu Xun thought he had fallen asleep.

But after a while, Shen Yanzhi said: “I don’t hate it, I just feel that, at our age, it’s not the time to talk about these things.”

Gu Xun let out a disappointed “Oh,” feeling that the gap in ideological awareness between himself and a good student was still so very, very large.

But the words Shen Yanzhi said next caused a powerful shock to the deep recesses of Gu Xun’s soul.

Shen Yanzhi said: “It’s not because it affects studying, but rather I feel that, the liking at this kind of time is of no use at all.”

Gu Xun was suddenly very angry and aggrieved by these words: “How! How useless! I—”

Gu Xun wanted to say: Didn’t I, just because I like you, listen to a whole afternoon of good words and beautiful sentences and essay collection analysis!

But he didn’t dare say it out loud, so he could only use Wang Xiaosong and the others as examples: “I see Wang Xiaosong and them, just because they have someone they like, they started becoming hardworking!”

Shen Yanzhi pulled his hand for a moment; that temperature was clearly slightly cool, yet it gave Gu Xun a sensation of being burned.

Shen Yanzhi said: “Lower your voice, be careful Auntie and Uncle will hear.”

Gu Xun swallowed a mouthful of saliva, enduring with great effort to not turn his hand over to grip Shen Yanzhi’s hand, and obediently lowered his voice to say: “Isn’t this just being very useful…”

Shen Yanzhi, however, asked him with a slightly cold and detached tone: “And then? What can they do?”

Gu Xun was totally confused by his question: “Ah? What?”

Shen Yanzhi sighed and said softly: “They aren’t even certain where their own future is.”

Gu Xun didn’t quite understand; he felt that what they were talking about seemed to be two different issues: “…Just, what do you mean by what you said?”

Shen Yanzhi drew back the hand that was holding Gu Xun’s hand, which made Gu Xun feel a bit of faint loss.

Shen Yanzhi: “If I want to like someone, to love someone, it must definitely not be at this kind of time. The current me can give nothing to that person.”

How much Gu Xun wanted to say: To be liked by you is already the greatest grace, what else needs to be given?

Then he heard Shen Yanzhi say slowly: “I hope that when I meet that person, I can control everything of my own, and then give her all of what I have.”

“Whatever she wants, give it all to her.”

“So right now, it’s not allowed.”

Gu Xun’s heart was fiercely struck for a moment, as if there was a feeling of some pain.

He didn’t dare to substitute himself as the person Shen Yanzhi spoke of, not daring to imagine how happy that would actually be.

Gu Xun couldn’t help but think: so liking someone is not only filled with happiness and joy, there will also be this kind of time.

This kind of time when one feels uncomfortable in one’s heart.

Shen Yanzhi probably also knew that what he said might be too distant for Gu Xun, so he explained softly: “My parents… their relationship is not good.”

It was probably just like what Shakespeare said, that a hasty marriage seldom turns out well.

Their marriage was more than just seldom turning out well; to be precise, it was simply a farce.

Shen Yanzhi felt that he should absorb the experience and lessons from it, not to like for the sake of a momentary impulse; a relationship should have a stable foundation, regardless of which aspect.

And at their current age, they had nothing, so puppy love was never within the scope of Shen Yanzhi’s plans.

Knowing him until now, Gu Xun had never heard Shen Yanzhi proactively mention his parents or his past, and for a moment, he actually didn’t know how to follow up the conversation.

He restrained his curiosity of wanting to ask for details, trying his best to reduce the chance of touching upon Shen Yanzhi’s bad past memories to the lowest.

Therefore, Gu Xun flipped his body over, facing his face toward Shen Yanzhi’s direction, and said in a small voice: “If I were a young girl, after hearing you finish this paragraph, I would be crying and shouting to throw myself at you.”

In fact, right now he also quite wanted to, it was just that Gu Xun had snapped out of that kind of intoxicated state of secretly being happy.

He was a male after all; no matter how much he liked Shen Yanzhi, that could only be in his heart—quietly, secretly, liking him.

Shen Yanzhi only took it as him joking, so he followed his words and said down along: “If you were a young girl, I would right now look for Auntie Shen to set a childhood betrothal marriage.”

He said it so casually, yet it made Gu Xun’s heart feel sour and uncomfortable.

He couldn’t help but nudge toward Shen Yanzhi’s side: “Beautiful thought of yours! If I were a young girl, the young fellows chasing me would definitely line up from our house door to the First High School and even make a turn!”

Shen Yanzhi, while messing around with him, replied back: “Isn’t this just right to match well with me?”

He meant something by it, his tone revealing a tiny bit of liveliness that belonged to this age, which was rare for him normally.

Gu Xun immediately spat at him: “Smelly shameless!”

Shen Yanzhi said with a smile: “Learn it from you.”

“Pei!”

“Go to sleep quickly.”

There was already tiredness in Shen Yanzhi’s voice; he was clearly sleepy.

Gu Xun hesitated over and over again, and finally asked: “Then you… then what kind do you like?”

After asking, Gu Xun immediately held his breath and concentrated his spirit, pricking up his ears for fear of missing a single word, but the result on Shen Yanzhi’s side was another long while without any sound.

Gu Xun then poked him.

Only then did Shen Yanzhi say: “I haven’t thought about it, probably only after meeting will I know.”

For a moment, Gu Xun also didn’t know whether he wanted Shen Yanzhi to meet them, or didn’t want Shen Yanzhi to meet them.

On one hand, how much he wanted Shen Yanzhi to also be able to feel the joy of today—so happy that he even felt he could fly.

But on the other hand, he was afraid that when that day really arrived, he himself would be sad.

Gu Xun actually still had a lot of questions he wanted to ask Shen Yanzhi, but in the end, none were asked out loud.

He said: “Sleep, I won’t disturb you anymore.”

Gu Xun kept his eyes open in the darkness for a very long time without falling asleep, repeatedly thinking over those words Shen Yanzhi had said.

One moment fearing what if Shen Yanzhi met an unsuited person and got cheated on by a scumbag, one moment fearing what if Shen Yanzhi met a thoroughly good girl and then lived happily ever after.

Clearly knowing that blind thinking was of no use, yet Gu Xun just couldn’t help it.

When thinking of that phrase Shen Yanzhi said, “Whatever she wants, give it all to her,” his heart felt bursts of sourness again.

Only when the morning light pierced through the gaps in the curtains did Gu Xun find himself unable to hold out any longer and fell asleep.

Beside him, Shen Yanzhi opened his eyes, using that little bit of faint light to look at Gu Xun’s face which had finally fallen into a deep sleep, and frowned with some confusion.

Normally, Gu Xun basically fell asleep the moment his head touched the pillow, but last night he actually didn’t fall asleep until right now.

Connecting it to the topic they talked about last night, Shen Yanzhi’s brow furrowed even tighter.

Could it be that Gu Xun… also liked some girl?

How could Gu Xun, who was already sound asleep, know what Shen Yanzhi was thinking about right now; after falling asleep, he uncontrollably leaned over to Shen Yanzhi’s side, wishing he could stick to the person like an octopus.

Shen Yanzhi was originally still searching his brain for a list of girls Gu Xun might possibly like, but being leaned on like this, listening to his sound sleeping breath, gradually he also couldn’t hold out anymore.

Adjusting his posture, Shen Yanzhi closed his eyes, deciding to think about this question after waking up.

When Shen Lan lightly and hand-foot-quietly opened the door to poke her head in and look, she saw the two lads sleeping and rolling together again.

Only what surprised her this time was that above the bedside table, it unexpectedly wasn’t un-cleared game consoles, but quite a large pile of books.

Shen Lan couldn’t help but enter the room to take a look, finding that they were all some basic writing textbooks, instantly knowing that they should all be Gu Xun’s. Her heart was suddenly gratified to the utmost; her own silly son finally knew to make progress!

Look! Now even when going out to play, he knows to buy books back to read!

Shen Lan’s heart was excited; leaving Gu Xun’s room, she went to find Gu Jingyuan to talk about this matter.

Gu Jingyuan then smiled: “This is being influenced by good company. Before, didn’t Little Shen say that Gu Xun mainly had his score pulled down by Chinese language this time? Now it looks like he is going to make it up.”

The smile on Shen Lan’s face blossomed into a flower; at this moment, how could she have any mind to think about wrinkles or no wrinkles: “No way! I have to go to the streets!”

Gu Jingyuan hurriedly pulled her: “What are you going to the streets for?”

Shen Lan: “The two children work hard at studying, shouldn’t I keep up the nutrition! I’ll go see what is still available at this time, at the very least I must buy a pork trotter back to stew a soup, later on order a pig brain back for them, heard that thing supplements the brain, ai, don’t know if Little Shen eats it, if not then eat walnuts, Xun Xun anyway eats everything…”

Gu Jingyuan didn’t know whether to laugh or cry: “Row, row, you have the final say.”

Shen Lan took her bag and wind-fire-urgently prepared to go to the streets. Before leaving, she even dug into her wallet, counted a few bills out, and gave them to Gu Jingyuan: “You put these on Xun Xun’s desk, after buying those things, he probably doesn’t have much left on him. Remember to make your movements a bit smaller, don’t wake the child up. Alright, I’m leaving first, any later and I won’t be able to buy good ones!”

Gu Jingyuan watched her leave the door like a gust of wind, stood in place and dazed for a moment, then only helplessly shook his head and smiled.

Therefore, Gu Xun, who slept until almost dinner time before getting up, discovered that having slept until now, not only was he not dragged up by his mother to be nagged at, he unexpectedly even had money to take…

This…

Gu Xun poked Shen Yanzhi, biting his ear with him: “In this, is there some matter going on?”

Shen Yanzhi said in a small voice: “Possibly same as what you said, seeing you proactively buy books, she got excited.”

Gu Xun suddenly realized. Yesterday he was still joking with Shen Yanzhi, but the result was his mom came for real, and he conversely couldn’t react to it.

Gu Xun counted the bills, shaking his head with “tsk tsk tsk”: “My dad’s pocket money has never been this much. If it develops according to this trend, later on I should conversely support him.”

After hearing it, Shen Yanzhi couldn’t help but smile: “Then you remember not to spend it recklessly, to save yourself from being unable to produce it when the time comes.”

Gu Xun joyfully stuffed the money toward his pocket, but the result was he was stopped by Shen Yanzhi.

Gu Xun was puzzled; Shen Yanzhi then took a binder clip over from the desk, organized those bills a bit, and clamped them together with the clip.

Shen Yanzhi handed the clamped money back to him: “This way is convenient.”

Seeing that it could even be done this way, Gu Xun started turning his pockets inside out; after turning pockets he turned his schoolbag, organizing out quite a lot of messy paper currency.

Shen Yanzhi: “…”

Gu Xun looked at those wrinkled bills, and for the sake of face, forcefully expressed: “Although it’s a bit messy, sometimes when suddenly discovering there is still money, the sense of pleasant surprise is particularly full!”

Shen Yanzhi shook his head, took another clip over, and helped him organize it all together.

Gu Xun looked at those two binder clips clamping money, his heart filled with heroic pride: “I feel that right now I definitely walk with wind. First High School let’s forget it, but taking our class for example, I can definitely be rated as the richest man!”

Shen Yanzhi looked at him, smiling without speaking, a look of ‘as long as you are happy it’s fine’.

Gu Xun: “…”

Gu Xun suddenly understood something.

Gu Xun: “…Will the truth cause me to suffer harm?”

Shen Yanzhi answered very seriously: “That depends on how you define it.”

Gu Xun asked tentatively: “Just… for example, how much was your pocket money every week in the past?”

Gu Xun asked still quite carefully; what he asked was the past, because right now Shen Yanzhi’s parents were both no longer around, so there shouldn’t be pocket money, only inheritance or something of the sort…

Shen Yanzhi took his phone which was placed to the side over, after unlocking it he fiddled with it a few times, then showed the text message interface to Gu Xun.

Gu Xun: “…”

Gu Xun felt it was his own eyes tricking him: “My eyesight is probably a bit not good, how many zeros is this?”

Shen Yanzhi then smiled, stuffing the phone into his hand: “You count.”

What Shen Yanzhi showed Gu Xun was the bank’s transfer records, once a month; the number, for people of their age, was a bit frightening.

Even more frightening was the balance display following the monthly transfer amount.

Gu Xun hurriedly stuffed the phone back to him again: “…My heart is a bit unable to take it.”

Only after taking back his phone did Shen Yanzhi state his purpose out: “I don’t lack money, so in the future if Auntie gives me money again, you just treat it as stored with me. Whenever you want it, you can always ask me for it.”

Gu Xun could finally understand why Shen Yanzhi wanted to flaunt his wealth to him just now; the feeling was to return the pocket money his mom gave yesterday!

The anger in Gu Xun’s heart, for some reason, surged up with “ceng ceng” bounds: “That was given to you by my mom, elders giving pocket money, isn’t this very normal!”

In Gu Xun’s view, parents giving pocket money, that was an expression of liking and closeness!

Shen Yanzhi returning the money to him, did this mean that actually in Shen Yanzhi’s heart, his relationship with his family hadn’t reached that level of closeness yet…

Once this thought arose, Gu Xun’s heart instantly felt bad.

He also wasn’t the kind of person who could hide things, plus he didn’t intend to hide or conceal, so it very quickly reflected out on his face.

Shen Yanzhi hadn’t expected Gu Xun to reveal such a bad-feeling expression because of this matter, and for a moment was somewhat at a loss for what to do.

Gu Xun even turned his face away, using action to refuse to continue communicating with Shen Yanzhi, which had never ever happened in the past.

Shen Yanzhi sighed and said softly: “Apologies.”

Gu Xun over there was holding a breath, asking him with a particularly stiff tone: “What are you apologizing for?”

Shen Yanzhi said: “I don’t want to raise a conflict with you because of this kind of matter.”

Gu Xun wished he could pick up that frighteningly thick diary book and smash it on his face: “What conflict can there be!”

Shen Yanzhi said with a calm tone: “Money is a thing that easily triggers conflicts. At the start one might not care, but no one can say for sure how it will be in the future.”

This kind of calmness of his made Gu Xun feel it was piercing to the ear, feeling it was simply like Shen Yanzhi was questioning his character.

Just that little bit of money! Was he that petty!

But the words Shen Yanzhi said next suddenly poured down and extinguished the anger that Gu Xun was about to burn up with.

“A-Xun, I don’t want because of this, to have any unpleasant matter happen with you.”

Shen Yanzhi’s voice was very light: “Thinking that it might be like this makes me feel very bad.”

A family having more than one child might produce conflicts because of failing to hold the bowl of water level (treating them equally).

Shen Lan right now held the bowl of water level for them, but he wasn’t truly Gu Xun’s brother; this point made a lump always remain in Shen Yanzhi’s heart.

He was somewhat afraid, afraid that everything of the present would change because of some small matters.

Gu Xun originally was like a balloon about to explode, but right now he deflated down again like losing air.

Then Gu Xun did a thing that he himself wanted to do yesterday but had never dared to do all along: he wrapped around and hugged Shen Yanzhi in one go.

In fact, it wasn’t the first time the two of them hugged together; when sleeping dazedly and hugging together, it also wasn’t non-existent.

But to hug together with conscious clarity like this was the first time.

Gu Xun could clearly feel the temperature on Shen Yanzhi’s body, the scent on him, his breath, his heartbeat.

And also… his insecurity…

Gu Xun felt this was wrong; why should a person like Shen Yanzhi be insecure?

He should be the most awesome, most awesome, most awesome person in the whole world, being the center of the solar system would be perfectly fine.

Such a person, why would he be insecure for this kind of matter…

Gu Xun’s nose felt sour: “Don’t talk nonsense ah, my mind is very broad, absolutely won’t because of this kind of dog-shit-倒-灶 (trivial/messy) matter become whatever… my mom is your mom, my dad is your dad, I absolutely won’t… you are just my biological brother!”

So don’t be like this ah, don’t you dare…

Be a bit happier ah…

Shen Yanzhi: “I will take it as true.”

Gu Xun: “It originally is true!”

Shen Yanzhi raised his hand, lightly hugging Gu Xun back: “If we could always be like this, it would be good.”

Gu Xun’s heart felt both touched and bad; touched that Shen Yanzhi still valued him quite a bit, bad that he probably was going to be biological brothers like this with Shen Yanzhi for a whole lifetime.

Therefore, Gu Xun hugged Shen Yanzhi with force, wishing he could hug enough to make back his capital in one go, to compensate his ruined piece of a young boy’s heart.

After they both calmed down, they both felt that just now seemed a bit too melodramatic, and for a time the atmosphere was quite awkward.

Gu Xun: “That what… let’s go eat dinner first… otherwise my mom should charge in.”

Shen Yanzhi gave an “um” sound, expressing agreement.

Then they both discovered that the selection of dishes on the dining room table was a bit overly rich.

Gu Xun dryly complained, saying: “…I really didn’t know our house had the tradition of celebrating National Day.”

The result was over there Shen Lan discovered they got up, hurriedly came over and said: “You two eat slowly! The soup is almost ready!”

Gu Xun: “What soup ah?”

“Gastrodia elata stewed pig brain!”

Gu Xun looked at his mom with a face of terror: “Mom! Even if you made a spicy one I would accept it, why is it Gastrodia elata!”

Shen Yanzhi, reacting with speed, made the answer on behalf of Shen Lan: “Gastrodia elata is good for the brain.”

Shen Lan said happily: “Still Little Shen understands! Ready right away! You two just happen to eat it while hot!”

But at the end Shen Lan after all still asked a sentence: “Little Shen can you eat this?”

Shen Yanzhi: “…Can.”

Gu Xun tugged his arm: “How can you just say you can eat it!”

Shen Yanzhi turned his head and said to him in a small voice: “If I don’t eat it, believe it or not, it will all be you eating it.”

Gu Xun felt this possibility was truly too terrible, he didn’t dare think about it: “…Good brother!”

Shen Yanzhi’s expression was also quite grave; Gu Xun had an opinion toward Gastrodia elata, while he had quite an opinion toward both Gastrodia elata and pig brain.

When eating dinner, a soup bowl was placed in front of each of him and Gu Xun, and within the bowls there was each a pig brain.

Gu Xun just watched Shen Yanzhi drink up a bowl without changing his face, and could only brace his framework to also drink it, otherwise he feared his mom would beat him up.

Shen Lan was clearly quite happy toward the matter of them both obediently drinking it: “This thing is not easy to buy, if not for catching it by chance it couldn’t be bought, looks like in the future still need to order in advance.”

The taste of Gastrodia elata in Gu Xun’s mouth hadn’t scattered yet, and hearing his mom say there was a next time, his eyes went perfectly round.

Shen Yanzhi directly said: “Auntie, actually according to nutritional components, eating fish has a better effect for supplementing the brain. Pig brain’s fat content is relatively high, eating too much easily makes one grow fat, get high blood lipids and the like.”

Hearing it, Gu Xun immediately followed up: “Right ah mom! Look! Handsome young fellows like the two of us, if we got fat, how ruining to the scenery it would be!”

Shen Lan at the start conversely hadn’t considered this point; hearing it, she also felt it had reasoning, so she carefully asked Shen Yanzhi about which ones were healthier and also supplemented the brain when eaten.

When with great difficulty the two of them returned to the room, Gu Xun was still smacking his mouth: “I feel the Gastrodia elata taste is still in my mouth…”

Shen Yanzhi: “Once I think that there is a pig brain in my stomach…”

He didn’t continue downwards, but Gu Xun understood; Shen Yanzhi at a glance was someone who hadn’t eaten this thing in the past, so the impact should not be small.

Gu Xun reached his hand out to pat Shen Yanzhi’s shoulder, saying: “In the future don’t hold out to the death, my mom at most whips me, she definitely will be loath to whip you.”

Shen Yanzhi then looked at him, discovering that when Gu Xun said these words, there wasn’t a single bit of an unwilling expression.

Gu Xun discovered he was looking at himself, so he touched his own face: “What’s wrong, did I eat the pig brain onto my face?”

Shen Yanzhi couldn’t resist laughing out: “No.”

Gu Xun wondered: “It can’t be looking at me because I grew handsome right?”

Shen Yanzhi’s eyes and brows were curved like crescents: “Um, yes.”

Gu Xun instantly blushed, saying stamer-stutteringly: “Or-originally handsome!”

Shen Yanzhi was made to feel a bit strange by his sudden blushing: “Why did you blush?”

Gu Xun instantly blew his fur: “Mind your business!”

Shen Yanzhi could only abandon this topic, then asked him: “Start writing homework?”

Gu Xun’s emotion hadn’t gone down yet, his speaking tone still blowing up just like just now: “Write then write!”

Shen Yanzhi couldn’t resist laughing again, shaking his head while laughing, feeling Gu Xun truly was a living treasure.

Gu Xun took advantage of the time he took homework to touch his face with his hand, discovering it was particularly hot, instantly feeling particularly losing face, but this kind of matter again could not be controlled, so he could only transfer attention to also take his homework out.

The result was when clearing space for the desk surface, from the essay collection bought yesterday dropped out two ice cream coupons.

Both coupons were expired, even for being scrap paper they were suspected of being too small and too colorful.

Gu Xun originally wanted to casually throw them into the trash can, but yet stopped when throwing them out.

Gu Xun subconsciously took a look at Shen Yanzhi opposite him, who had already taken out a memo paper, preparing to write questions for himself.

Looking over from this angle of his, Shen Yanzhi lowered his head slightly, his forehead hair falling between his brows, contrasting his skin to be increasingly white; the shadow dropped by his long eyelashes was like small fans, his nose was very straight, his mouth slightly pursed, a look at him showed he was very serious.

The fingers holding the pen were fair and long, the nails very clean, trimmed round and beautiful.

Generally speaking, it was beautiful to the point of taking one’s life.

Gu Xun subconsciously took a look at his own hand; it wasn’t dirty, the fingers were also quite long, but he just felt it wasn’t as good-looking as Shen Yanzhi’s hand.

He originally always felt he himself had already grown to be thoroughly good in ten thousand ways, but seeing Shen Yanzhi, he had a feeling of being inferior in ten thousand ways.

Yet handling it, there wasn’t a single shred of unwillingness; he only felt joy in his heart, feeling very sweet.

Gu Xun lowered his head to look at that ice cream coupon in his hand, looking at the date printed on it, which was exactly yesterday.

Then he fly-fast opened his diary book which had double password locks, and clamped those two coupons into it.

Before closing it, he saw his name which he had secretly written onto it yesterday while taking advantage of Shen Yanzhi not paying attention, and in an instant his hand paused.

He raised his eyes to look at Shen Yanzhi opposite him who was currently writing questions, fast took paper and pen, using other books to block the diary book, and wrote a sentence.

So want to change into that person whom you will meet.

This sentence, connected together with the name above, became the best portrayal of his mood from last night to this moment.

Only pity, he could only secretly write it down, unable to speak it to A-Yan.

Gu Xun secretly glanced another look at Shen Yanzhi opposite him, started another line, and continued to write.

Today’s A-Yan is so ni-ma (freaking) handsome!

After finishing writing, Gu Xun secretly rejoiced for a bit, then smoothly closed the diary book.

Opposite him, Shen Yanzhi actually knew Gu Xun was darkly and scratchingly writing things in the diary book, but also didn’t care much, thinking he was preparing to start keeping a diary.

Just looking at this speed, it should also just be a one-sentence diary.

By the time Gu Xun opposite him had packed up, the question writing on Shen Yanzhi’s side was also finished.

Gu Xun then, according to the corresponding subject took his own small booklet out, upright and properly pasting the memo note onto it.

The process was still very smooth, the answering also correct, but Shen Yanzhi yet was holding Gu Xun’s answers and looking for a long time.

Gu Xun, being looked at by him, thought there was some twist: “…Isn’t it correct? Is there still some problem?”

Shen Yanzhi said: “Yesterday I forgot to buy another copybook for your handwriting.”

Gu Xun angrily flipped him the middle finger, two of them!

Although after taking back the booklet, he also admitted this handwriting contrast was a bit tragic, but it didn’t need to be like this right…

Gu Xun hummingly started copying the homework of just that subject, only while copying and copying, he stopped.

Gu Xun hesitantly asked: “A-Yan, is it that if I do it myself, the effect will be relatively better?”

Shen Yanzhi nodded: “Um, your foundation is still not good enough, if you do it yourself, the improvement should be even faster.”

Gu Xun was conflicted for a moment, and finally painfully closed Shen Yanzhi’s exercise book: “I, WILL, DO, IT, MYSELF!”

That vigor could truly be said to be teeth-gritting; it didn’t look like writing homework, it looked like going to a battlefield.

Shen Yanzhi: “…”

Gu Xun exerted effort for half an hour, only then writing about one third, then he sincerely asked Shen Yanzhi: “How long did you write just now?”

Shen Yanzhi thought for a bit, saying: “About twenty minutes.”

Gu Xun thought, this probably is the gap between a learning god and a mortal…

Then he remembered on the ranking chart, that long string of names separating them, feeling this time gap was converted into one individual name after another, pulling apart the distance between the two of them.

Gu Xun took a deep breath; he didn’t want to always be like this.

At least, at least don’t be that far away ah…

Shen Yanzhi saw that on his lower lip which was bitten to paleness there was a spot of red, so he immediately reached his hand out to pinch his chin: “Let go.”

Gu Xun subconsciously let go, then he felt Shen Yanzhi’s slightly cool fingertip touch onto his lip, accompanied by a bit of pain.

Shen Yanzhi’s brow wrinkled up: “What are you thinking, it’s even bitten broken.”

Gu Xun then dryly laughed: “Thinking about the questions…”

Total nonsense, he couldn’t say thinking that the difference between me and you is too much, thinking of that distance makes me feel very anxious and hard right…

Shen Yanzhi’s brow was still wrinkled: “Don’t smile.”

Gu Xun then had no choice but to not smile, because actually his smiling was also quite uncomfortable.

Shen Yanzhi wanted to find something to wipe it for him, but Gu Xun yet felt it didn’t need to be that troublesome, licking it himself would do.

The result was licking it once, Gu Xun was instantly pained to silliness, his whole face wrinkling up, wishing he could cry out on the spot.

Looking at him like this, Shen Yanzhi couldn’t resist straight sighing: “You wait.”

Gu Xun then looked with wide eyes and waited, then after probably five minutes passed, only then did he see Shen Yanzhi take a bottle of frozen mineral water back.

Gu Xun was blank-minded: “Where did it come from?”

Shen Yanzhi directly pushed the bottle against his lower lip, replying back: “Went out to buy it.”

Gu Xun, feeling that ice-cold touch, felt it didn’t seem very painful either; even the condensation water outside the bottle seemed to be sweet.

Shen Yanzhi, with one inattention, saw Gu Xun over there licking the bottle, instantly between crying and laughing took the water bottle away: “What are you recklessly licking.”

Gu Xun: “…Just cool-cool, a bit thirsty.”

Shen Yanzhi took a look at his cup over there, discovering it was finished long ago, and took another look at the mineral water in his hand which was still full of ice cubes, finally giving his own cup to him.

Gu Xun holding Shen Yanzhi’s cup, his eyes stared till the slippery round.

Shen Yanzhi asked with confusion: “Aren’t you thirsty?”

Gu Xun on the spot tilted his neck back and did a major half cup of water dry in one go; that momentum gave Shen Yanzhi a fright.

Shen Yanzhi: “…”

Looks like he was truly thirsty…

What Gu Xun thought was, if he knew there was this kind of good matter, breaking a lip counted as what fart!

Then he lowered his head to look at the cup in his hand, pondering whether the place he drank just now was the place Shen Yanzhi had drunk before.

But very quickly, Gu Xun thought, even if he hadn’t drunk there just now, he definitely had drunk there before! Heng!

Shen Yanzhi just watched Gu Xun finish drinking water and look at the cup foolishly smiling, feeling it was truly hard to understand Gu Xun’s smiling point, then he put the mineral water bottle over again, pasting it on his face: “Hold it well, if it hurts use it to compress.”

Gu Xun said in his heart if he were to be even more shameless, at this moment he should act spoiled and let Shen Yanzhi help to compress.

But what took his life was that for some reason, he suddenly became exceptionally wanting face.

Therefore Gu Xun took the mineral water bottle, silently compressing his lip.

Shen Yanzhi took his unfinished exercise book over to look, and Gu Xun looked at him.

Shen Yanzhi studied it for a bit, raised his eyes and said to him: “The foundation still needs to be patched up, reading comprehension is also not okay, I discovered you sometimes cannot understand the questions.”

Gu Xun originally was still immersed in the beautiful color (Shen’s looks), hearing Shen Yanzhi say he himself couldn’t understand questions, instantly waterfall sweated: “Ah? Is… is there?”

He felt he understood them! He just didn’t know how to do them!

Shen Yanzhi leaned over, pointing for him to see: “This question, you just didn’t understand. The meaning of this sentence is…”

Gu Xun: “…So it means two meanings?”

Shen Yanzhi only looked at him, his expression explaining everything.

Gu Xun directly pushed his face toward the desk, the feeling of tragedy hard to express in words: “So the thing pitting me is still Chinese language!”

Shen Yanzhi was both amused and worried: “Don’t hit the desk, watch out for your mouth!”

Gu Xun then lay on the desk and turned his head to look at him, pouting his mouth at him: “Nuo, it doesn’t hurt much anymore.”

Although saying it didn’t hurt much anymore, Gu Xun’s lower lip still was a bit swollen, looking red-red, overflowing with a bit of water light, and on top could be seen the small wound bitten out by teeth.

Shen Yanzhi’s gaze congealed for a moment before shifting to his face: “So in the future you still need to spend more effort on that. The diary needs to be written, um, try to write a bit more.”

Gu Xun’s pouted mouth hadn’t been pulled back yet, and hearing him say diary, instantly went stiff, his gaze also drifting away, not daring to look at Shen Yanzhi.

He just now, right in front of A-Yan’s face, wrote that thing ah…

Although certain that the content he wrote could definitely not be seen by Shen Yanzhi, Gu Xun still felt flustered and hot.

Shen Yanzhi just looked at his face turning red like this; Gu Xun’s face pasted on the desk, his mouth pouted, as if a bit aggrieved, and also as if…

As if wanting someone to kiss him once…

Shen Yanzhi’s heart skipped a beat, then he felt amused at this thought of his; Gu Xun just liked making trouble for fun.

Therefore Shen Yanzhi just continued to explain the questions below to him, moving the exercise book a bit toward his side: “Look at this again.”

Gu Xun also leaned toward his side, the result was his mouth rubbed onto Shen Yanzhi’s hand.

Gu Xun: “…”

He didn’t do it intentionally! He didn’t think of taking A-Yan’s advantage ah ah ah ah ah!

Shen Yanzhi: “…”

A bit hot, a bit soft.

Gu