Chapter 8: [I hate you.]

Time becomes slow and unmeasurable.

Li Xuan gradually lost his strength, and his cell phone slipped out of his fingers and fell to the ground with a bang.

Alarmed, Li Xuan came back to his senses first, and he violently pushed Su Xingchuan away, ignoring the wetness at the ends of his eyes and lips, and Su Xingchuan's subconscious retention, he grabbed his cell phone in a hurry and ran to the door, changed his shoes, and rushed out.

Leave Su Xingchuan alone in the living room.

The door was still open, blown by the wind in the hallway, and the scent and warmth of the embrace dissipated little by little.

Like a dream.

There was a kitten craft ornament sitting on the cabinet next to it, and Su Xingchuan caught a glimpse of it, picked it up and slammed it into the floor, splitting it into pieces.

Su Xingchuan closed his eyes.

He leaned against the wall, after the passion bloomed like a firework, only a tail of residual smoke remained, Su Xingchuan For the first time, he felt like a joke, even if he was dumped, he still shamefully strayed away from other people's feelings.

Crazy. He's probably crazy.

Or maybe it's just too lonely.

He really, really misses Li Xuan.

When he first met Li Xuan seven years ago, he didn't know how deep a mark Li Xuan would make on his life.

.

Seven years ago.

Su Xingchuan watched Li Xuan leave the basketball court as his friend approached him and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Li Xuan has disappeared from Su Xingchuan's field of vision, and Su Xingchuan only remembers his name.

And those beautiful eyes.

kitten-like, narrow on the inside and wide on the outside, with a slight upturn at the end of the eye.

Seeing Su Xingchuan staring blankly off the field, Yu Qinglan hammered his shoulder, "What's wrong with you?"

Su Xingchuan hastily withdrew his gaze and replied, "From medical school, just met yesterday."

Yu Qinglan thought Su Xingchuan was so strange.

"What did you just say?" Su Xingchuan reacted only after half a day and picked up the conversation, "Having a barbecue? That's fine."

Su Xingchuan thought that his encounter with Li Xuan had come to an end.

As it turned out, he met Li Xuan in the backstreets that night.

He and a group of friends from the lobster restaurant, today outside the wind, open-air seating only a few scattered guests, Su Xingchuan casually swept a glance, and saw Li Xuan wearing a light blue sports suit, back to them, sitting on a plastic chair.

He hangs down his right hand and eats with his left.

Su Xingchuan recognized him instantly.

Remembering the fate of meeting twice, Su Xingchuan hesitated for a moment, but still turned around and explained to his friend, and then walked towards Li Xuan alone. Li Xuan seemed to have heard his footsteps, and suddenly looked up, and Su Xingchuan stopped at the same place.

Li Xuan has sauce all over his mouth, like a kitten.

He looked up at Su Xingchuan again with those kitten-like eyes, blinking and innocent.

Su Xingchuan: "Why are you here?"

Li Xuan doesn't answer, looks down and continues to eat; he orders an order of oily chow mein, chopsticks in his left hand, and because he's unskilled, he has to fling them in his face every time he pinches a noodle.

Su Xingchuan sighed, pulled out the chair next to Li Xuan, sat down, and said, "Do you want me to help you?"

Without saying a word, Li Xuan immediately pushed the plate in front of Su Xingchuan, Su Xingchuan: "...... Are you just waiting for me?"

"Yes." Li Xuan was honest.

He held up his gauze-wrapped hand, which looked like a little pig's hoof, and said with a wink, I can't afford to eat.

"Why are you eating fried noodles when your hands are like this, can't you just have a portion of fried rice?" Su Xingchuan took Li Xuan's chopsticks and went to ask the owner for another spoon, he picked up the noodles and put them in the spoon, then brought them to Li Xuan's mouth.

The first time he handed it over, he was unthinking.

It was only when I hit Li Xuan's lips that my heart snapped, it seemed a little too intimate, Li Xuan was a boy no matter how pretty he was, and a twenty year old boy at that, and he--

Before he could figure it out, Li Xuan had already opened his mouth and ate the fried noodles in the spoon in one gulp.

He's enjoying himself.

"I think we've only met twice."

Li Xuan nodded, "I want ham hocks."

"......" Su Xingchuan obliged and brought a piece of ham sausage to Li Xuan's mouth.

Li Xuan looks like she's in a good mood, her slender legs peeking out of her light blue gym shorts and wiggling around.

"Why are you waiting for me here? What do you want?" Su Xingchuan was suspicious.

Li Xuan raises his little pig's hoof again.

"Injured."

"It's not like I hurt you, you go find those punks."

"You're the one who hurt it," Li Xuan whispered, "You're the one who pulled me behind you and I touched that glass."

"So it's my fault now? If it wasn't for me that night, not to mention your pig's hoof, your face would have been beaten into a pig's head by them!" Su Xingchuan was furious and couldn't help but say, "You're too heartless to put the blame on me, I'll make it clear to you, I'm the one who pulled out the knife to help you, I'm not accepting the banner, as for the injury on your hand, I'm not responsible for it."

Su Xingchuan quickly drew a line in the sand with Li Xuan.

Li Xuan moved his lips, wanting to say something but not saying it.

As Su Xingchuan prepares to leave, Li Xuan, with an aggrieved look on his face, slowly retrieves his plate, awkwardly holds his chopsticks in his left hand, and eats his noodles in a messy manner.

Su Xingchuan is once again at his mercy.

He sat down again and took away Li Xuan's chopsticks.

"Okay, okay, feed you this bowl of noodles and we'll be clear."

Li Xuan's shin is back up.

Su Xingchuan asked while feeding him, "What did you just want to say?"

Su Xingchuan guessed he wanted to say thank you.

After all, Su Xingchuan that night was indeed heroic, not just anyone would dare to rush into a dark alley despite the danger, scare off a gang of punks and save someone they've never met, it was simply to the extent that it could be front page news in school, and maybe even get extra credit.

Besides, Li Xuan hasn't thanked him yet.

He waited for Li Xuan to say thank you.

But Li Xuan said, "I want to eat green vegetables, I don't like eggs, don't give me eggs."

"......" Su Xingchuan thought to himself, "I owe him from my past life?

Li Xuan ate the green vegetables and suddenly smiled happily.

This is the first time Su Xingchuan has seen him smile.

Her eyebrows are arched like little crescent moons, but they're cold little crescent moons, because Li Xuan's smile fades in a flash.

Su Xingchuan had only one thought in mind at the time: what did he taste like? Sweet or savory?

"Su Xingchuan," Li Xuan said suddenly, "I know your name, I've asked several people."

Su Xingchuan froze, unsure.

"Thank you for saving me, I've asked my dad to talk to the teachers and the school leaders, you'll be honored, do you want a banner? I'll go buy one for you tomorrow."

"Huh?"

Hearing Li Xuan speak a long series of words, Su Xingchuan was still a bit uncomfortable, especially when Li Xuan's soft tone was matched with his cold face, the sense of conflict was unusually strong.

"No, what banner? I'm just kidding," Su Xingchuan reacted before waving his hands, "Just kidding."

"Is that all right?" Li Xuan thoughtfully, "Then can I eat with you later?"

Li Xuan suddenly stared straight at Su Xingchuan, his eyes were not quite round and almond, but when he slightly lowered his head and looked blearily at Su Xingchuan, his eyes looked extra round, extra innocent and extra cute.

Su Xingchuan's "yes" was already on the verge of his mouth, but was stopped by reason.

He frowned and asked, "What do you mean, eat together?"

"Just eating together."

Li Xuan opened his mouth again, "I want to eat ham hocks."

The corner of Su Xingchuan's mouth suddenly twitched, "...... When you say eat together, it wouldn't mean I feed you, would it?"

Two days later.

North Campus Cafeteria #2.

Su Xingchuan told Li Xuan, "Are you done? Holding up your little pig's hoof every day, who are you showing your misery to?"

Su Xingchuan said as he passed the spoon to Li Xuan, who opened his mouth and took a big bite of rice filled with tomato and beef brisket soup. Satisfied, he slowly lowered his right hand and began to alternate between his legs again.

He wore a white T-shirt with cartoon graffiti today, along with a pair of black shorts and a pair of Su Xingchuan sneakers that I suspect would never cost less than five thousand dollars if they were authentic.

Su Xingchuan finally figured out the identity of this little scoundrel.

I heard that his family is very rich, casually a piece of clothing on his body is not less than four figures, there is a special driver to pick him up when he goes on vacation, the reason why he does not go to study abroad is because he is introverted and can not be too far away from his parents.

I heard from the students who knew him: he was super difficult to deal with, although he didn't have any temper, he wasn't late for class, and he handed in his homework on time, but it was like he didn't understand what other people were saying, and he had his own set of logic and didn't care about other people at all.

Su Xingchuan thought it was an exaggeration at first.

After two days together, all he had to say was: the description was accurate.

"The tomato brisket in the cafeteria was not good, it smelled like ketchup." Li Xuan said.

"So what do you want to eat? Michelin?"

Li Xuan lowered his eyes, "I didn't say that."

Realizing his tone was too harsh, Su Xingchuan cleared his throat and took the initiative to ask, "Is your hand better?"

Li Xuan shook his head again.

"You're just going to rely on me?"

Li Xuan nods.

Su Xingchuan was speechless, "Why me? Because I saved you? This is pure revenge!"

Li Xuan's eyes slowly shifted downward from Su Xingchuan's face to his stomach as he asked, "Aren't you playing basketball today?"

Su Xingchuan said in a rude voice, "What's it got to do with you?"

Li Xuan was stunned and his expression immediately turned pitiful.

The legs aren't wobbly anymore, they're together.

"Fine, fine, I'll fight and fight."

Su Xingchuan passed the spoon to his mouth and said inanely, "Young master, eat, I'm starving."

Neither had class in the afternoon.

Li Xuan was watching Su Xingchuan play by the basketball court.

My friend lifted his chin toward the field and joked, "Charming, the people who come to watch you play have gone from girls to boys."

Su Xingchuan glanced back at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan is fiddling with a drink bottle next to him.

He bought a bunch of drinks, both energy drinks and sodas, and he had a lot of fun lining them up in a square line, then putting Coke and Vitamin Water on the very outside.

Su Xingchuan doesn't understand what he thinks about every day.

"Play ball play ball." Su Xingchuan urged.

The first half ended with a three-pointer by Su Xingchuan, who lifted up the hem of his jersey and was just about to fan himself when he saw Li Xuan's eyes projecting straight at him.

Su Xingchuan narrowed his eyes slightly and quickly lowered the hem of his shirt to cover his sweat-stained abs.

Li Xuan pouted.

"......" Su Xingchuan mulled over a hint of something wrong.

He walks over to Li Xuan, who immediately rises and points grandly to his right with both hands, showing him the drink kiosk he's built by emptying the vending machine next to him.

"Is there anything you like to drink?"

Li Xuan's eyes were full of anticipation.

Su Xingchuan didn't want to comply with him and said in a biased way, "Sorry, I only drink mineral water."

Li Xuan had a moment of disappointment.

Su Xingchuan and his friend asked for a bottle of water, unscrewed and drank two big mouthfuls, tilted his head back and drank the water when he had been cautioning himself: do not be soft, do not be this inexplicable young master to pinpoint, you do not know what he is playing in his heart, so cold, ignore him, and he drew a line, never, never, never be soft.

But when he looked down and saw the sullen Li Xuan, Su Xingchuan blurted out, "I'll take that Vitamin Water."

Li Xuan immediately curved the corners of his mouth.

He handed Su Xingchuan the vitamin water.

The rest of the drinks went to waste, and Su Xingchuan asked Li Xuan's opinion and distributed them to the students on the court in Li Xuan's name. Li Xuan didn't care about Su Xingchuan's kindness, and he didn't really respond to the thank yous he got from the others, and just stared at Su Xingchuan.

Su Xingchuan sat down next to him, and Li Xuan asked, "Is it hot? You can lift up your jersey and fan yourself."

"...... Could you be any more raw?"

Li Xuan tilts his head, his eyes innocent.

"If you like abs, go and practice, what's the point of always looking at others'?" Su Xingchuan suddenly became interested, put his hand towards Li Xuan's stomach and asked with a bad smile, "Do you have any?"

Li Xuan froze, and Su Xingchuan slapped him on the stomach.

Flat, but soft.

Su Xingchuan laughed, Li Xuan ears red, he abruptly got up, threw the long-prepared packet of wet paper towels into Su Xingchuan's arms, and then walked away without looking back.

"Not a bad temper." Su Xingchuan said.

Su Xingchuan thought that Li Xuan wouldn't talk to him for at least a couple of days, but the next day he ran into Li Xuan in the library.

Li Xuan sat down across from him and took out the laptop and books in his book bag with his left hand.

The thickness of the medical books seemed alarming, but Li Xuan skillfully flipped them open to the two-thirds position and looked at them attentively.

Li Xuan's seriousness in studying has changed Su Xingchuan's opinion of him. Su Xingchuan can no longer read his own books, and he is gradually lost in thought, thinking aimlessly: the young master could have relied on his face or his father to make a living, but he wants to study medicine to help the world, which is very impressive. But according to the young master's temperament and character, in the future, the doctor-patient relationship will be a big problem ah.

Just as he was thinking about it, there was a tap on his shoulder.

It's Yu Qinglan.

Yu Qinglan leaned over and whispered in his ear, "Don't forget to go over early to help blow up balloons and set up the venue for the club's anniversary event tonight."

Su Xingchuan really forgot.

He was so pestered by Li Xuan in the past two days that he even forgot to do one of his major course assignments, not to mention the club's anniversary activities.

He nodded and whispered, "Okay, I get it."

Yu Qinglan glanced back at Li Xuan before leaving the study room.

Su Xingchuan didn't notice Li Xuan's increasingly somber face as he finished his homework, glanced at the time and prepared to leave.

I remembered Li Xuan when I was packing my bag.

He paused in his movements and peeked at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan catches him and glares at him.

Slightly embarrassed, Su Xingchuan took out his cell phone and sent a message to Li Xuan: [Debate club activity tonight, I'm leaving first].

Cat Head: [Not allowed.]

Su Xingchuan: [Why not?]

Cat Head: [Just not allowed.]

Su Xingchuan: [I don't accept orders without reason.]

Cathead: [I hate you.]

It was as if there was an audio version of this statement, and Su Xingchuan could already imagine how Li Xuan had huffed and puffed out the words.

Su Xingchuan laughed softly and stopped replying as he put away his cell phone, stuffed the last book into his backpack, and left.

Still a little worried, he stopped at the turn in the doorway and hid behind a porch post to look into the study room. Li Xuan was still flipping through his book, seemingly unaffected, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

The best view of the campus in the summer, with a field of broken gold on the boulevard.

The leaves rustled.

Su Xingchuan walked towards the Debate Club into the wind.

He turned around every now and then to make sure Li Xuan wasn't following him.

Although he could get rid of that little follower, Su Xingchuan suddenly felt that something was not quite right, as if something was missing.

It's also indefinable.

When he got to the club, he was the center of attention as soon as he walked in, everyone clambered around him and he made everyone laugh with a few words.

Su Xingchuan looked at the messy setup scene and directly began to divide the labor: "One person to blow up the balloons, two people to pull the ribbons, all the boys to move the table, and then another person to set up the projector, quick, try to get it done in twenty minutes."

Su Xingchuan can easily become the backbone of a group of people.

It's been that way since I was a kid.

He was also susceptible to girls because of it, and just now, he received a friend request on his phone.

It's a schoolgirl who just joined the club.

Su Xingchuan hesitated and decided to pretend he didn't see it.

It wasn't that he was repulsed by girls, it was just that there was a precedent of being bothered frequently after being friended, and he'd like to avoid that happening again as much as possible.

Yu Qinglan walked up to him and whispered, "Did you receive a friend request from a schoolmate?"

"How do you know?"

"She asked me, wanted to know if you had a girlfriend."

Yu Qinglan pointed to the right side of the classroom, "That's the schoolgirl, she's pretty, I like her hair so much."

Su Xingchuan looked over and nodded, "Quite pretty."

"Not even this? You're too discerning."

Su Xingchuan smiled, "I didn't pick."

"Then why not?"

"Eye candy, I guess. I don't think I've met anyone who's eye candy."

As soon as he spoke, a familiar figure appeared at the door of the classroom, Su Xingchuan subconsciously walked over, and sure enough, it was Li Xuan.

Li Xuan, holding a pen in his left hand, said fervently, "You left your pen in the library."

Su Xingchuan doesn't want to expose him.

Su Xingchuan leaned against the door frame, "I won't accompany you for dinner tonight, go to the cafeteria by yourself, order a porridge, it's easy to eat."

Li Xuan raises his little pig's hoof again.

"No selling out."

Li Xuan turned his head and walked away, his back all puffed up.

Su Xingchuan looked and laughed.

"Is this what fits the eye?" Yu Qinglan's voice suddenly came from behind him, startling Su Xingchuan.

He turned back and asked, "What?"

Yu Qinglan looked toward Li Xuan at the end of the corridor, then asked Su Xingchuan, "Are you pretending or are you real?"

"What are you talking about?" Su Xingchuan did not understand.

"You can't tell he's gay?"

Su Xingchuan knew a vivid moment, "How is that possible?"

Yu Qinglan shook his head, "I have to inform my schoolmate so that she will die early and not waste her time on the deep cupboard."