As hot as a storm

On the first day she found out that she would not be able to meet, Pei Xu's feeling was one of surprise.

The next day was depressing.

On the third day he began to sit on his hands.

After the first week passed, he felt like it was just a little too much to handle.

By the time the second week rolled around, he felt like he really couldn't stay up.

It's not like the old days of avoiding the camera or avoiding Papa Zhai and Mama Zhai and the others, where avoidance was the catalyst, the overall sweetness, but now it's straight up no seeing each other.

Every day just rely on phone, video, SMS, these, it does not work, but like pouring water on a soldering iron, did not cool down the iron, but a burst of white smoke all instantly evaporated.

In this way, the daily video becomes a sweet torture.

Di Xingchen is too embarrassed to look into the camera.

Because Pei Xu puts her cell phone so close, her whole face dislikes the camera, her eyes are focused, and there's a certain fire of longing.

Thoughts have already made Pei Xu, who has always been a very restrained gentleman, reveal his most tormented appearance.

"The finale is in a week." Di Xingchen purses her lips, looks slightly red, and says, "Six days."

"Six days." Pei Xu says, "It's hard to get through the day, and I didn't sleep well yesterday."

In the past, I heard that one day's absence was like three autumns, which felt like an exaggeration, but when I fell in love, I realized that it was really hard to see and feel, and my heart was going to be crushed.

It's hard to video, it's even harder not to video, Mingming is a kind of torture, but also willingly, one day not to video, he misses him even more.

Pei Xu rolled over in bed and sighed. Di Xingchen was infected by his emotions, a little heartbroken and secretly pleased.

He loves watching Pei Xu toss and turn for him.

Doesn't love make people contradictory.

Wanted to love him and abuse him again.

When the two of them first started video chatting, the conversation was as ambiguous as it could be, and the tone of their voices could be raspy in just a couple of sentences, and sometimes the two of them could react to each other without saying anything. Now Pei Xu tries to talk to him about plain topics.

Otherwise, "It's hard again at night."

In fact, the physical suffering was fine and could be endured, but it was mainly the mental longing. Half a month was really too long, especially when they were just entering the stage of passionate love, staying together twenty-four hours a day might not even be enough.

Di Xingchen drops her eyes and chats with Pei Xu about her daily life as usual: "...... Maybe it's raining today, there aren't too many fans, but when I went to the restaurant with my classmates at noon today, three girls came over to take a picture with me. They're freshmen, and they're all very polite."

"You didn't go out to eat today?" Pei Xu asked.

Because there are too many people in the study cafeteria, it's easy to be mobbed and affect yourself as well as others, so Di Xingchen basically goes out to eat.

Either that or go home and eat.

"We practiced dancing too late today, it was almost two o'clock when I got there, and there wasn't much in the cafeteria." Di Xingchen said. "And I lowered my umbrella a little bit, so hardly anyone recognized me on the way, and I didn't see any paparazzi."

Pei Xu gave a "hmmm" and suddenly said, "I see a storm tomorrow."

"Hmm?"

Pei Xu sat up with a start, "There's a storm tomorrow."

It had been raining in Nancheng before the Spring Festival, but after the Spring Festival, it was almost always sunny, and this sudden storm brought down the temperature all of a sudden.

Di Xingchen went to lunch with her classmates.

They were also out late today, the restaurant floor was covered in dirty water because of the storm, there wasn't much left in the restaurant, and outside it was pouring white rain.

Di Xingchen looked out and felt like the rain was falling on his heart. What he felt was not the coldness of the pouring rain, but the intensity of the pouring rain, crackling and snapping at his heart, beating his heart hot and burning.

"I didn't realize that it could rain so much in the spring, I heard that the dormitories over at Essence Park are all in the water." His classmate said, "Huang Yu and the others are moving their dorms."

Di Xingchen looks out the window and stares at the rain.

"Star?"

Di Xingchen snapped back, "Huh?"

"Why don't you go to our dormitory, don't go home and nap in this rain."

They have a class at 4:00 p.m.

"No, I have to go back for something." Di Xingchen said.

A rumble of spring thunder sounded outside, and the rain seemed to be getting heavier.

Di Xingchen held her umbrella and looked back at her classmates running towards the dormitory.

It was raining too hard, it was lunch break time, and there was hardly a soul to be seen on campus. He looked around with his umbrella and saw only white rain and trees swaying in the wind. The greenery of the Chinese dance was especially good, lush and green everywhere, beautiful on sunny days, but when it came to stormy weather, it looked messy and shady.

Di Xingchen pursed her lips, feeling like she was cheating.

Exciting and tense.

He held his umbrella and headed for the Wende Building, the most isolated building in their school, nestled in the southeast corner of the middle dance.

Who knew that when he had just walked to the square at the main entrance of the school, he saw two familiar figures from afar, standing right at the main entrance.

He'd seen these two men many times, almost every other day they'd be seen snapping pictures of him with their cameras, but then when the others gathered around, these two men stayed far away from him, keeping a distance.

At the moment these two were probably waiting for him to come home from school.

They had their class schedules which they had touched Mingming for nothing, and knew that he had no classes for the first two periods of the afternoon, and that he must be going home.

Di Xingchen heart tightened and immediately lowered his umbrella a bit, those two people were too familiar with him, and just by looking at him from afar, they actually recognized him, and when they saw him running past the square, those two people immediately followed.

Di Xingchen crossed the plaza and walked even faster when he saw the two men following him. Behind the Wende Building is the east gate of the school, with woods on both sides, he walked faster through the woods on the left, and finally simply ran, passing through a round door, and entering the interior of the Wende Building.

The Wende Building is a Chinese style, H shaped building, divided into two main buildings in the north and south and two rows of corridors in the east and west, with a four square courtyard in the center, which has green trees, and the sound of the rain seems even louder because it is surrounded by tall buildings. He went directly up to the north side of the Wen Building.

Because of the storm, there are very few people studying in the Wende Building today, this is the building he purposely picked because it is the furthest away from the dormitory area, usually except for classes, very few students cross this side to study. There are a few umbrellas placed in the hallway in twos and threes, and there are probably only three or four people studying in a classroom, which is particularly quiet.

He went straight up to the fourth floor.

None of the classrooms on the fourth floor were open, not a single person, only the sound of the rain rattling outside the window, which in turn made the building even more silent.

He then pulled out his cell phone and sent a message over to Pei Xu.

He was afraid to even call, being a thief, but unusually excited.

I haven't seen him for half a month, not only Pei Xu misses him.

He misses Pei Xu too.

So Pei Xu says she wants to meet him while it's storming today, and he agrees, torn.

Even if it's risky, even if it's only another week before they go public.

Pei Xu asks, "Are you in the Wen or the De building?"

The Wen Building is to the north and the De Building is to the south.

"I'm in the Mandarin Building."

"I'm in the DeLou, wait a moment." Pei Xu returned.

"I think some paparazzi saw me." Di Xingchen said.

He clutched his phone, his heart jumping out of his throat, they used to secretly fall in love under the camera, before that, they secretly fell in love in front of Zhai's father and Zhai's mother, and now, they had to secretly fall in love hiding from the paparazzi and passersby.

Clutching his cell phone, he ran towards the connecting corridor, and just as he reached the corner, he crashed into Pei Xu's arms.

He looked up and Pei Xu hugged him and said, "Why are you all wet."

"I ran too fast." The umbrella in Di Xingchen's hand is still dripping water down.

The two of them hadn't seen each other for too long, and perhaps the environment and atmosphere like today had an effect on the two of them as well, and this time they met and hugged each other, their blood boiled with vigor. Pei Xu pulled his hand, "Go."

Di Xingchen follows Pei Xu forward, nervously and excitedly looking back.

It's kinda exciting.

He smiled and twisted his head to look at Pei Xu, he realized that Pei Xu was really skinny, his chin was thinner than before, his knuckles were all more distinct than before, grabbing him, but as hot as ever. He wore a black sweatshirt, and looked really like a college student, cool and handsome, like wrapped in the cold wet water of the spring rain.

The Wende Building has four floors in the north and south, plus east and west connecting corridors, just like a labyrinth. It was the first time for both of them to come here and they were not familiar with the building; there were a little more students in the Virtue Building than in the Wende Building, which could be seen through the umbrellas in the corridors.

"I don't know if those two chased them here." Di Xingchen said.

The places you can go on this side are actually quite limited, and all the floors are occupied except for the fourth floor of the Man Building.

The two of them came down from the De building, outside the rain fell more heavily, the wind blew, the whole boulevard seems to sway, the two of them held an umbrella through the boulevard, not far from the other building, the building has a small east door, not open, the outside is blocked by a row of bamboo, there is a pebble paved path, Di Xingchen suddenly realized that there is a place to shelter from the rain, and pulled Pei Xu's hand into the back of the bamboo forest, and then into the bamboo forest. and took Pei Xu's hand and disappeared into the bamboo forest.

The door to the little east gate was locked, and there was just enough room in the doorway for two people to get out of the rain. This side is close to the woods, secluded and hidden. Di Xingchen put the umbrella down and said excitedly, "Make it look like we're not eloping."

Pei Xu's hair is still a little wet.

The rumble of thunder makes the surrounding become more silent, through the gap of the bamboo forest, you can see the silent road outside, on the other side of the road is the woods, the sky is dark, but let this sheltered corner of the rain is like a paradise.

This was a world that belonged to the two of them, and it was unlikely that anyone would ever find it.

Di Xingchen is shaking a little.

It's the cold plus the over-excitement.

Pei Xu takes off her sweater and wraps it around Di Xingchen.

Di Xingchen said, "I'm not cold, you wear it yourself."

Pei Xu, wearing only a black T-shirt inside, revealing his white and slender arms, directly embraced him.

The two pressed together and could hear each other's violent heartbeats.

Maybe because of the environment, maybe because of the excitement of avoiding the paparazzi, or maybe because of the nostalgia of not seeing him for half a month, Di Xingchen bursts out with a rush of excitement he's never felt before. He broke away from Pei Xu's arm, cupped his face, and stood on tiptoe to kiss him.

In a world where the sky was drowsy and the sounds of thunder, rain, and wind mingled together, someone was frantically searching for them while they kissed in a silent, unoccupied corner, surging like never before. Di Xingchen's back leaned against the door, both feet almost off the ground. All the thoughts of the past half month were in that kiss.

He smelled his favorite peppermint scent again, and his soul rose with his body.

I don't know how long they kissed, but they hugged each other tightly.

They felt each other's intense love.

Separations and obstacles have become catalysts for their love, turning their love, which has always been as gentle and restrained as a love synthesis, into a mold.

Hotter, deeper.

"When did you get here?" Di Xingchen asked.

"It's been a while." Pei Xu pecked at his neck.

"Have you had lunch?" Di Xingchen asked.

"Two bites." Pei Xu said.

"Why don't you put your coat on, don't freeze."

"I'm hot." Pei Xu says, "Know how much I missed you?"

Di Xingchen looked at Pei Xu with a smile and the two of them stared at each other for a while before they kissed again.

There were no more gaps in their souls, and they clung together.

The storms of this sky are not as powerful as young love.

"Let's find a way to see each other every day from now on," Pei Xu said, "I really miss you too much."

That's when love engulfs everything, and Di Xingchen says, "Okay."

He found Pei Xu amazingly handsome, and his heart never slowed down. He grabbed his sweater and wrapped them both in it as best he could. Outside, the rain was pouring down, and they were two burning fires.