Chapter 51: Roommate 11
Chen Beichuan was annoyed and couldn’t stay in the dormitory for another moment.
At eight in the evening, the 24-hour study room was bustling.
In this top university where the pride of heaven gathered, the top students from all over the country did not dare to slack off after entering university. They worked even harder in the more competitive environment, studying to death. There were quite a few people who spent the night in the study room.
Gu Xiu, that kind of slacker king, was a rare sight.
In the familiar study room and the rustling sound of flipping pages, Chen Beichuan opened his computer to write code, and his mood gradually calmed down.
At midnight, Chen Beichuan returned to the dormitory.
While he was away, Gu Xiu had indeed been outwardly compliant but inwardly defiant, not following the rule of lights out at eleven. The dormitory was brightly lit, but Gu Xiu was nowhere to be seen.
Chen Beichuan frowned. Gu Xiu’s desk was still the same as when he had left. The chocolate packaging box was casually placed there, and the box was already empty. The computer was not on, and the keyboard and mouse were pushed to the side.
He went out?
Chen Beichuan took a few steps and called out tentatively, “Gu Xiu?”
No one answered.
In the silence, he continued to walk forward and suddenly found that his closet was not closed properly.
This was by no means his carelessness, but must have been done by his thieving roommate. However, Gu Xiu had already rummaged through his closet several times. Logically, he should have become more and more skilled at stealing. Why did he leave such an obvious trace of crime tonight?
The double-door closet was open a crack, and a sleeve had fallen out.
Chen Beichuan walked over and pulled the closet door open.
Before he could be startled, the person in the closet screamed first.
“Ah!… Huh?” Gu Xiu was disturbed by the dazzling light, his eyes squinted into a slit. He carefully confirmed the person outside and mumbled in dissatisfaction, “Chen Beichuan! Quick, turn off the lights… you dog, you’re not following the dormitory pact…”
Chen Beichuan was silent.
He couldn’t digest the situation in front of him for a long while. It was roughly—
The little bird that was stealing his clothes to build a nest was clumsy and had built a messy bird’s nest, so sloppy that even he couldn’t stand it. So he had pushed his luck and simply moved into his soft and comfortable closet?
To describe it from another angle, it was that Gu Xiu was so sleepy he couldn’t tell east from west. Perhaps to avoid the light outside, he had crawled into his large closet and fallen asleep.
Gu Xiu, who had been caught red-handed and was half-asleep, was actually righteously telling him to turn off the lights—or rather, close the closet door.
If he didn’t cooperate and close the door, Gu Xiu would burrow into the clothes, wriggling like a worm, and hide his head in a windbreaker with a wide hem, covering his head and shoulders, blocking the light outside and his annoying roommate.
Chen Beichuan pondered for a long time and called out, “Hey, Gu Xiu.”
Gu Xiu made an annoyed sound, disgusted that his roommate was disturbing his sleep.
Chen Beichuan forcefully took away the clothes that were covering his head, looked at Gu Xiu’s eyes, and said word by word, “Wake up. Look where you are.”
Gu Xiu refused to open his eyes and only frowned and grumbled, “Chen Beichuan, you’re so noisy…”
“Gu Xiu!” Chen Beichuan raised his voice.
“Chen Beichuan, are you a double standard! It’s one thing to tell me to be quiet, but what do you mean by waking me up!”
Gu Xiu’s temper was quite big.
If Chen Beichuan had been a little angry at first, now he was so angry that he was speechless.
And after calming down and thinking carefully, now, Gu Xiu was really surrounded by his scent. The clothes on his head, the clothes he was wearing and holding, the clothes he was sitting on, were all his scattered clothes.
What is this if not a seduction?
This strange thought came from the depths of his subconscious, startling him, and he subconsciously took a step back.
Gu Xiu quickly took another piece of clothing to cover his head and comfortably curled up.
Chen Beichuan gently closed the closet door, calmed down, and his IQ came online. He roughly figured out the cause and effect.
He went to Gu Xiu’s seat, and a box of chocolates had been eaten clean by Gu Xiu. He scraped a little of the remaining chocolate powder, but couldn’t taste anything. Fortunately, he found half a piece of chocolate that Gu Xiu had left, with a tooth mark on it. He didn’t mind and brought it to his nose to smell it.
A faint smell of alcohol.
To confirm, he put the half a piece of chocolate into his mouth and ate it along with Gu Xiu’s tooth mark.
The chocolate block and chocolate powder on the outside were all normal, bitter with a hint of sweetness. When the chocolate had almost melted in his mouth, the taste of the liquor-filled center seeped out, enriching the texture and layers of this chocolate.
This was liquor-filled chocolate.
Then the current Gu Xiu, perhaps because he had eaten a whole box of liquor-filled chocolate, and because of the negligible amount of alcohol in it, was drunk.
Chen Beichuan: “…………”
When a person is speechless to the extreme, even the feeling of being speechless is gone.
His heart was as still as water, calm and composed. He calmly and coolly opened the closet, called out “Gu Xiu” again, and seeing that Gu Xiu was curled up and not moving, he directly reached in with a blank expression, found Gu Xiu’s arm, and pulled it out with force.
This naturally aroused Gu Xiu’s strong resistance, which was nothing more than shouting that he was only allowed to set fires but not allow the common people to light lamps.
Chen Beichuan was unmoved. “Go back to your bed and sleep, or you can sleep in my closet for a night and get a stiff neck and go to the orthopedics department tomorrow.”
Perhaps this taunt had an effect. Gu Xiu became obedient and followed him, stumbling forward. Although their two-person room was a loft bed, the bed was accessed by a slanted wooden staircase, which was quite gentle. With him supporting him from behind, he should be able to get this guy up.
The guardrail by the bed was also high enough, so he probably didn’t have to worry about Gu Xiu rolling off in the middle of the night…
Chen Beichuan was lost in thought. Gu Xiu, who had been obedient for a while, became restless again, twisting and turning in his hand. Finally, he grabbed his arm for support and suddenly bent down.
“Blargh—”
Chen Beichuan was startled. His subconscious reaction was not disgust and avoidance. He quickly went to support Gu Xiu and asked eagerly, “What’s wrong?”
The vomiting reaction was only a few times, coming and going quickly. The clothes of the two and the dormitory floor were still clean. After dry heaving, Gu Xiu started to sway again, looking dizzy and very uncomfortable.
“Gu Xiu,” he didn’t know if he could hear him. Chen Beichuan called him several times. “Are you okay? Do you want to go to the hospital?”
Gu Xiu leaned on his roommate’s arm and recovered a little. He roughly understood his physical condition, shook his head in refusal, and then said, “Drunk.”
He had never drunk before, let alone gotten drunk. Inexplicably, he just felt that this feeling was very familiar, and he could even accurately describe it. This was being drunk.
Chen Beichuan didn’t know what he was thinking and just found it both funny and annoying. “You still know you’re drunk. Then do you know that you’re eating liquor-filled chocolate…”
His voice came to an abrupt end.
Gu Xiu suddenly raised his head, his clear black eyes staring straight at Chen Beichuan, unblinking.
Chen Beichuan was so stared at that his heart panicked, and his throat couldn’t help but bob.
Staring was not enough. The bold and reckless Gu Xiu even pushed his luck, stretched out a finger, and at a distance of one or two centimeters from his gray eyes, he drew a circle.
After doing this incredible action, Gu Xiu, on the contrary, tilted his head and let out a confused “Huh?”
That gaze was direct and penetrating, as if it were looking at him but not. And the shape that Gu Xiu had drawn… really looked like glasses. Chen Beichuan’s face immediately darkened, and he furrowed his brow and asked, “Who are you thinking of?”
“Mm…”
It was not an immediate denial, but a long and deep thought.
Regardless of whether this was the effect of alcohol, it was enough to make Chen Beichuan furious.
“Ji Ning?”
The groggy Gu Xiu did not react to this name and still stared at him intently, so much so that his firm self also began to waver. He didn’t know if he had been bewitched or if he was wishfully thinking that Gu Xiu was looking at him.
Infatuatedly, nostalgically, looking at him.
Gradually, a thick confusion appeared in his light gray eyes, cloudy and hazy. Only the pupil was clear and fixed, a kind of timeless lead gray that transcended time and space.
Gu Xiu tossed and turned, just a few foolish exclamations. But this time, the suddenly raised tone reflected the drastic change in his state of mind. “Huh! Huh huh!?”
“…Huh?” As if he had been infected by his foolishness, the confused one was now Chen Beichuan.
【Shutdown countdown ten, nine—】
【Why did the host privacy protection mode trigger again??】 007 muttered to itself in a somewhat irritable manner. The small silver ball of light flew out. To see the current confusing situation clearly, it was better not to look, but when it did…
【Huh???!】
He vividly played the role of the astonished and intertwined host from three seconds ago.
The suppressed memories came flooding back like a tide. 007’s non-existent eyes widened, and its tone became tumultuous, stumbling and incoherent.
【This, this person is… that, that…!】
Chen Beichuan looked up.
007 reflexively shrank its head and fell silent. Although the young man in front of him was much more tender than in his memory, plus this sharp glance… it was too, too familiar!
【Three, two, one!】
007 was forced to shut down.
Gu Xiu was oblivious to this and was busy identifying the person in front of him. He couldn’t see clearly with his eyes, so he simply added his hands, quite wantonly holding the other’s cheeks, and the force was not small, so much so that Chen Beichuan’s thin lips were forced to pout.
The veins on Chen Beichuan’s temple were throbbing. “Gu—XI—U—”
However, the next second.
Unexpectedly.
Chen Beichuan’s pupils instantly became two small dots.
Gu Xiu, on his mouth, gave a peck.
There was no word more fitting than “peck.” Like a little bird, fast, with a bit of caution.
Gu Xiu puckered his lips, his lip bead rosy and round, and then on his forcedly upturned lips, he gave a fleeting touch.
It was so light, without a hint of aggression, and the itchy feeling was not obvious. But Chen Beichuan’s brain instantly crashed, and he stood there foolishly like a three-year-old child.
After Gu Xiu had done his bad deed, he asked in a daze, innocently and purely, “Huh? What happened?”
Chen Beichuan paused. “…You’re asking me what happened!?”
Gu Xiu saw that his neck was red and his veins were prominent. He tilted his head in confusion. “Huh?”
“…”
Chen Beichuan completely lost his temper.
Gu Xiu had already fallen into a deep sleep and was even falling into his arms.
Chen Beichuan caught him with a belly full of anger, staring at the side profile of this young man who had stirred his heartstrings but was not responsible, his straight nose. His heart was like a trapped beast that couldn’t find an exit, rampaging, and he was extremely annoyed.
Finally, he pinched the back of Gu Xiu’s neck and, to the person who had no power to resist, he whispered in a hoarse voice, “You’re done for, Gu Xiu.”
Then his fierce expression was revealed, his anger erupted, and he bit fiercely on the fair ear between his black hair.
“Ah!!”
“Chen Beichuan! You bit me?” Gu Xiu woke up as if from a dream, his eyes wide in disbelief. “You actually bit me!?”
This person, has he forgotten what shocking thing he had just done? He was angry and embarrassed after being bitten?
Chen Beichuan was clearly the victim, the victim whose first kiss had been stolen!
Chen Beichuan was instantly furious, but he couldn’t say anything about the first kiss and only said coldly, “Are you awake now?”
Gu Xiu covered his ear, still in disbelief. The protagonist gong from Jinjiang fighting with him was one thing. It was quite sexually tense for men to fight occasionally, but biting his ear… how could he do that? So shameless!
Even he couldn’t do such a thing!
“You!”
Gu Xiu could only say “you” and couldn’t squeeze out any other lines for a long time, like a pure and innocent little white flower who had been taken advantage of in an old Mary Sue love movie.
Chen Beichuan, on the other hand, generously offered a compensation plan. “At worst, you can bite me back.”
“I’m not a dog! Who’s like you!” Gu Xiu’s face was red. He turned his head away in anger and just happened to see his roommate’s messy closet, and he was stunned.
The dead memories slowly returned to his mind.
From being unable to stop eating the whole box of chocolates, to suddenly getting sleepy and his eyelids fighting, to finding a nest to rest because the stairs were too difficult to climb, and logically crawling into his roommate’s closet, which he had rummaged through countless times…
“Uh…” Gu Xiu paused for a few seconds, scratched his head, and his arrogant and domineering aura instantly disappeared. He mumbled softly, “You really should have bitten me.”
Then he was suddenly held by the chin by the other party. Gu Xiu was startled, and the scolding words had just rolled to the tip of his tongue.
Chen Beichuan’s teeth opened, interrupting his chant.
A merciless bite, on his cheek!
It happened so suddenly and unexpectedly that Gu Xiu was completely dumbfounded.
As if he were afraid that he wouldn’t react, Chen Beichuan even provocatively raised his finger and scraped the painful spot on his cheek.
“You bit me again!” Gu Xiu covered his face, his already large black pupils round,stretching his eye sockets taut, and his dynamic double eyelids were also brought out by his anger. “…You even bit my face! Are you a dog, Chen Beichuan!?”
Chen Beichuan still had that same annoying stinky face. He was not moved even after being scolded and only said in a tone with a hint of an imperceptible grievance, “Heh, you deserve it.”