Chapter 9: Just kisses on the face, not on the mouth.

Deep cupboards?

It was not the first time Su Xingchuan had heard the word, but it was the first time he associated it with himself, and he found it absurd.

Yu Qinglan looked at him with complicated eyes.

Su Xingchuan snorted and said disdainfully, "How can that be?"

He waved his hand and headed back to the club classroom, "Go ahead and set up, get it done by five, then we'll all go to dinner."

The crowd responded to him.

Yu Qinglan raised his eyebrows and said nothing.

Su Xingchuan was disdainful, but in fact, his heart was still rippling, and he looked up at the door and window from time to time during the anniversary celebration of the club, fearing that Li Xuan would be waiting for him outside.

Thankfully, no.

At the end of the event, Su Xingchuan was tired of being messed around by a group of seniors and juniors, so he sat down to take a rest, and then he swept his eyes over Yu Qinglan, who was sitting with the girl who had just sent him a friend request, and Yu Qinglan was covering half of his face with his hands, gabbling about something, and looking over to Su Xingchuan every now and then, with a lot of energy.

Su Xingchuan flew over with an eyeball.

Yu Qinglan noticed, smiled at his sister, and walked around the row of desks next to Su Xingchuan.

"What for?"

Su Xingchuan looked askance at her, "You just looked like an old woman in the village, I feel like I've been rumored."

Yu Qinglan laughed, "Really no, I'm complimenting you."

"Although I don't have any interest in schoolgirls, you shouldn't talk nonsense and ruin my reputation." Su Xingchuan rubbed his temples.

"Didn't say you were in the deep closet, don't worry."

"...... I wasn't in the first place," Su Xingchuan said, "He's just one of my new friends, I've always been good to my friends, you know me. "

Yu Qinglan looked him up and down, "But have you noticed that you've been distracted all night?"

Yu Qinglan pierced Su Xingchuan's disguise with a single word.

His eyes flinched slightly and his face stiffened a bit as he said in a calm voice, "I'm a bit tired today."

Yu Qinglan hugged his arms and laughed, "I hope so, or else schoolmates will be too disappointed."

"Boring." Su Xingchuan said.

After returning to the dormitory, he lay alone on the bed, his arm on the back of his head, Li Xuan's face always floating in his mind.

Not really.

I just think he's cute and funny.

Not so much that, really.

He closed his eyes.

He thought so in his heart, but the next day he still subconsciously avoided Li Xuan. Li Xuan normally went to the cafeteria at eleven o'clock at noon to eat, and sat behind one of the pillars in the southeast corner, while Su Xingchuan purposely went to eat before eleven o'clock and sat on the other side of the room today.

Li Xuan caught him.

Halfway through the meal, Li Xuan sat down next to him with a plate of rice with shredded pork and fish.

Not a word had been said, and the air of questioning had closed in.

Su Xingchuan almost choked.

Turning his head to see Li Xuan's puffed up expression, he was surprisingly a bit vain, "Come, come so early?"

Li Xuan puts a spoon in Su Xingchuan's hand.

Stuffed with skill.

It seems that Su Xingchuan has become his full-time nanny.

"......" Su Xingchuan frowned, "Eat yourself."

Li Xuan turns his head and doesn't say anything.

Having guessed that he was going to gamble, Su Xingchuan deliberately said, "Can't you eat the covered rice by yourself? You're not paralyzed."

Li Xuan puts his little pig's hoof on Su Xingchuan's arm.

The sudden physical contact caused Su Xingchuan's body to jolt, and the place touched by Li Xuan suddenly began to heat up and tingle, generating countless tiny electric currents that ran violently to the back of Su Xingchuan's neck.

It's a strange feeling.

In fact, Li Xuan often did this action two days ago, Su Xingchuan just took it as a pout and didn't take it seriously, and only now did he find it strange.

Wouldn't that be a bit ambiguous?

It was normal for guys to put their shoulders up to each other, but if his roommate put his hand on his arm, he'd probably frown and shake it off. It wasn't unacceptable, it just seemed strange. He'd acquiesced to all of Li Xuan's behavior the other day, and it just wasn't right.

He carried Li Xuan's hand away, annoyed: "It's been a week, still pretending to be sick, the glass is just a scratch, neither hurt the nerves nor the bones, I usually play basketball are more serious than your injuries, why are you so delicate?"

Li Xuan slowly withdrew his hand.

Su Xingchuan's heart thumped again.

"I-" he trailed off.

"Sorry." Li Xuan surprised himself by apologizing as he shoved his right hand into his pocket and got up to leave.

Su Xingchuan was in a hurry to chase him before he finished eating.

When he got to the door he remembered to buy a packing box and dumped all of Li Xuan's covered rice in it.

He chased them out with his packing box.

Luckily, he was tall enough to stand on the steps and still see Li Xuan's silhouette.

Li Xuan is heading into the woods alone.

Su Xingchuan chased after him and grabbed him, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry for talking too much."

Su Xingchuan didn't even know why he had to apologize to Li Xuan, but he always subconsciously softened in the face of Li Xuan.

Li Xuan looked at him steadily, "You hate me."

Su Xingchuan froze, slightly flustered, explained, "No ah, it's not annoying, it's just that ...... I've never seen a boy as petulant as you are, and I think ...... think it's quite strange. "

"Where's the weirdness?"

Su Xingchuan also couldn't say what the name was, and was afraid that he was making a fool of himself, so he could only skim over the topic for the time being, "Let's eat first, I packed and brought it over for you."

Li Xuan was relentless: "What's so strange about it?"

Su Xingchuan sighed, "Not weird, you're not weird at all, there's nothing weird about having to feed a twenty year old, and I'm surprised I even went along with it, I'm weirder, okay?"

Li Xuan surprised me by nodding and saying seriously, "You're just weird and somehow mad at me."

"......" Su Xingchuan took a deep breath, his blood pressure spiking.

All right.

He dragged Li Xuan to sit on the bench.

Or he feeds Li Xuan, and does whatever it takes.

While enjoying the service, Li Xuan raised his right hand to Su Xingchuan, who said miserably, "It hurts, it hurts when I touch it, it hurts so much that I can't sleep."

To Li Xuan, being a spoiled brat is as easy as breathing, Su Xingchuan said, "I'm just feeding you."

"You said I was faking."

"......" Su Xingchuan was speechless.

"You apologize first."

Su Xingchuan suspected that he must have owed Li Xuan a lot in his past life, and that he couldn't pay it all back, so he had to pay it back in this life.

Li Xuan said it with conviction.

Su Xingchuan couldn't do anything about it and apologized while feeding him, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said you were faking."

Li Xuan then moved his butt and sat close to Su Xingchuan.

It's his way of showing goodwill.

Su Xingchuan pushed him away and he moved back.

After a few times, Su Xingchuan got tired and let him move around. Because he was in a happy mood, Li Xuan's legs interlocked, occasionally touching Su Xingchuan's legs, and the rhythm was disorganized, and Su Xingchuan's breathing was disorganized as well, so he could only focus on the plastic food box, and Li Xuan didn't like green onions and ginger, and he didn't like eggs.

Li Xuan had a small appetite and pushed Su Xingchuan's arm away halfway through the meal, saying, "No more."

Su Xingchuan hands him a Kleenex, "Petulant bag."

Li Xuan took the comment in stride.

"Did your parents feed you until you went to school? How can you be like this? You're so old and you need to be fed, aren't you ashamed?"

Li Xuan turns his head and doesn't say anything.

"You did it on purpose." Su Xingchuan had seen through him.

Li Xuan nuzzled, a bit of cunning showing in his brow.

Su Xingchuan threw the lunch box into the trash can not far away and sat back down next to Li Xuan.

The afternoon would have been hot, but the interlocking green leaves of the grove shielded the sun from the heat and sent a cool breeze through Li Xuan's hair.

Li Xuan had his little pig's hoof on Su Xingchuan's arm again, and he turned it up and down to look at his injured hand, fiddling with the tape on the gauze, which was starting to buckle, and Su Xingchuan looked down too.

Li Xuan is very quiet at this time.

It's nice and dopey and not obnoxious.

Su Xingchuan suddenly thought and asked politely, "Did you not make any friends in school?"

He never seemed to see Li Xuan walking with anyone else. Whether he was going to the cafeteria to eat or reading in the study room, Li Xuan was always alone.

Li Xuan nods, "No friends."

"Why? Personality dissonance with your roommate too?"

Li Xuan didn't seem to like the topic much, but when Su Xingchuan asked, he answered seriously, "Don't want to spend time."

"Do you guys talk in the dorms?"

"Occasionally."

Su Xingchuan understood.

He guessed that Li Xuan's clinging to him was probably due in large part to his lack of friends and his loneliness at school.

Su Xingchuan thus felt more compassion for Li Xuan, and he tentatively reminded, "You can take the initiative to show your goodwill and bring some snacks back to share."

"Don't."

"Why?"

"I don't like them and I don't want to take the time."

"But one can't be lonely without friends, can one?"

"It's not lonely," Li Xuan said in puzzlement, "My mom and dad, and my aunt and uncle, are all very nice to me, and if I have something I want to say, I can say it to them, and they all listen carefully."

Su Xingchuan heard Li Xuan talk about his family for the first time.

So Li Xuan isn't a lonely little wretch, he's just a kid who grew up in a pampered and wealthy family with a different brain and a bit of an ego.

Su Xingchuan had thought that unloved children would be clingy, but it seems he was wrong.

A bird calls from the trees and Li Xuan looks up.

Su Xingchuan looked at the side of Li Xuan's face.

His face was so small, palm-sized, with delicate eyelashes eyes nose and lips. When he searched for the bird in the tree with his eyes, his mouth pushed up slightly and his cheeks were still bulging. Su Xingchuan reached out and pinched Li Xuan's face.

Li Xuan's face is a bit baby fat and very comfortable to pinch.

Su Xingchuan couldn't resist squeezing a few more times.

Li Xuan suddenly turned his head to look at him, and Su Xingchuan froze, and before he could react, he saw Li Xuan leaning toward him and--

A kiss on his cheek.

Su Xingchuan lagged for a full five seconds.

!

He lurched to his feet and blew up, his face flushed a shade of red and white, and he couldn't speak properly.

"Wh, what the hell? What did you just do?"

Li Xuan's eyes were innocent, and with a look of being scared by Su Xingchuan, his butt moved back.

The hidden worries of the past few days and Yu Qinglan's remark about flirting finally erupted in this moment, he knew it, just knew it.

The feeling in my cheeks hadn't gone away yet.

He forced himself to calm down first.

He suppressed his tumultuous heartbeat and advised cautiously, "Li Xuan I'm telling you, I'm not gay, it's impossible for me to like boys, and it's even more impossible for me to like you. If you are gay, please stay away from me, I respect you as a group, but please don't bring troubles and burdens to others, don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you are good looking, let me tell you, I can't possibly like boys in my life, I am normal in my orientation, normal! Is that clear?"

Li Xuan listened quietly to Su Xingchuan's words.

He nodded.

Su Xingchuan breathed a sigh of relief and thought thankfully: it was fortunate that he had contained it in time, otherwise the consequences would have been unimaginable.

He was just about to calm down when he heard Li Xuan ask carefully, "Can I have another kiss?"

"......"

Li Xuan said knowingly, "It's just a kiss on the face, not on the mouth."