Chapter 116: Titmouse 06
The next morning.
“Gu Xiu, how did you do it? Mr. Jin had no reaction for the whole month he was in a coma, but as soon as you came, his brainwaves fluctuated!” On the phone, the nurse’s voice was excited. “If Mr. Jin wakes up, I can get a huge bonus. I’ll give you a part of it then. By the way, what time are you coming today?”
Faced with the temptation of money, Gu Xiu was unmoved. “Sorry, big brother. Didn’t I tell you before that I’m still in college? I’m going to school from today. I’m almost at school now. In the future, I can only go to the hospital for half a day at most…”
The big brother readily agreed, “Fine, fine, fine. It’s fine as long as you can come. As long as you keep coming, I’ll pay you for a full day’s work for half a day. Oh no, I’ll add another hundred, a total of three hundred. Remember to come this afternoon.”
“Oh,” Gu Xiu’s attitude was faint. Thinking of something, he said with a straight face, “By the way, I wiped his body yesterday. You don’t have to wipe him again.”
The big brother was treating him like an ancestor. “Fine, whatever you say, I’ll listen to you!”
Gu Xiu, who was working a part-time job, had turned the tables and was giving instructions like a boss. He hung up the phone.
The magnificent gate of A University was just across the street. Youthful college students were coming and going, talking and laughing, either in a hurry or at ease.
Gu Xiu, who was used to being lazy, had actually gotten up early, packed his textbooks and his schoolbag, and had arrived at the school gate at eight in the morning, which made the main god look at him in a new light.
Who knew that Gu Xiu would say, 【The school I’m attending now is also called A University. This is too much of a coincidence. Isn’t this the school I used to go to with Chen Beichuan? I highly suspect that Chen Beichuan is also in this chaotic world… maybe, he’s the protagonist shou!】
As Gu Xiu spoke, he was a little excited and also a little schadenfreude. His vivid expression changed on his face, making him look even more charming. 【Haha, if Chen Beichuan knew that he was the protagonist shou in a novel, I wonder how he would feel? I feel like I can laugh at him for the rest of my life.】
The main god did not reply.
Gu Xiu had no choice but to call him out. 【Hey, you should have a search function, right? Help me find the protagonist shou.】
The main god did not move. After a few seconds, he finally asked, 【Why don’t you call my name?】
Gu Xiu frowned. 【I’d like to, but you only told me one surname, Yan? Not sincere at all.】
The main god sighed lightly, very human-like, and said, 【…I don’t remember.】
Gu Xiu was too lazy to bother and continued to urge, 【Quick, help me find him!】
He waited for a few more seconds before the main god grunted in agreement, looking reluctant.
While he was asking the main god for help, Gu Xiu was not idle. He understood Chen Beichuan’s habits. Regardless of whether he had an early class or not, regardless of the wind and rain, this person would always get up early like an old man. If he didn’t go to the classroom, he would go to the library. Sometimes, because he arrived too early and the library was not open, he would turn to the 24-hour study room.
Otherwise, how could he be so celibate?
The first class in the morning was at 8:30. Gu Xiu glanced at the time. It was too difficult to cast a wide net on campus. But if Chen Beichuan was renting a place outside of school, he should have appeared near the school gate at this time.
Gu Xiu’s eyes were shining, and he was fully focused on observing the crowd coming in and out of the school. He was completely unaware that he had, in turn, become the center of attention of the crowd.
He was a freshman at A University, and the first semester was already halfway through. But he was a slacker and barely came to school. The college students at the school gate rarely saw a boy with such an outstanding appearance. They thought he was an artist filming, or some goddess’s boyfriend.
After a long while, Gu Xiu’s footsteps moved slightly.
The main god also spoke at this time. 【I’ve found…】
Before he could finish, Gu Xiu had already rushed out in a single bound!
The tall young man who had appeared out of thin air was also the focus of the crowd. Even if he had his head down and was wearing a black baseball cap… but Gu Xiu had recognized him at a glance!
Then, with a “where can you run, you dog” attitude, he rushed up angrily!
Chen Beichuan sensed something and raised his head.
His thin lips were exactly the same as in his memory, the most spicy and cheap. However, his other features were slightly different. At first glance, they were similar, but upon closer inspection, they were different, especially the color of his eyes, which were black, just like Gu Xiu’s.
The Chen Beichuan in this chaotic small world, just like Lu Shichen and the others, was only three or four parts similar to the “chen” sir in his memory, and each had a few different memory points on their faces.
Gu Xiu was engrossed in carefully confirming the person in front of him, and the latter seemed to be annoyed by his bold gaze. He raised an eyebrow, and his thin lips also moved, letting out a soft “tch.”
This annoying look, it’s a dog, alright.
Chen Beichuan was a celebrity on campus and had encountered his fair share of rude people who would block his way to hit on him. He didn’t even plan to ask this inexplicable young man a single question and was about to leave.
But as soon as he turned his head, he accidentally met a pair of sparkling and wet eyes. The young man had not said anything, had not done anything, but his footsteps were inexplicably held back, and he couldn’t move.
Gu Xiu blinked his bright and clear eyes.
Chen Beichuan opened his mouth, wanting to ask the other’s intentions.
And Gu Xiu, having finished his confirmation, got straight to the point. With his overly pure face, he arrogantly waved the wallet in his hand and said, “Chen Beichuan, be with me, and this one million will be yours!”
So much so that Chen Beichuan was stunned for a moment. He took a long time to react, but he still couldn’t. A guy who looked like this was actually learning from those greasy and tacky rich men, and was planning to play the game of keeping someone?
He suspected that he had misheard, frowned, and let out a “huh?”
“Say it, how much do you want,” Gu Xiu was smug and added, “how much do you want to be with me?”
While Chen Beichuan was silent, Gu Xiu confidently said to the main god, 【To deal with a stinking dog, provocation is enough!】
The main god was speechless for a moment, and Chen Beichuan in front of him was even more speechless.
After a long while, Chen Beichuan put on an even more annoyed expression than before and said coldly, “Get out of the way.”
Gu Xiu was well-prepared. When one move failed, he would use another. He smoothly changed his tune. “Oh my, I was just kidding. I don’t have a million. I’m just an ordinary college student, and also your schoolmate, your junior…”
With that, he opened the wallet in his hand. Inside was just a campus card, no one million.
The campus card showed his personal information. His name was Gu Xiu, a first-year student of the School of Computer Science.
He really was Chen Beichuan’s junior, a direct one.
His purpose was to attract attention using the method that Chen Beichuan hated the most. This was, of course, the experience he had summarized from the campus small world. At that time, he had secretly worn Chen Beichuan’s clothes as his roommate. Wasn’t Chen Beichuan still thinking about him while being disgusted and annoyed?
This series of moves made Chen Beichuan laugh speechlessly.
The 18-year-old tender young man seemed not to have seen the hidden meaning of that cold laugh. On the contrary, he took it as encouragement and also laughed, and then he continued, “The one million was a lie, but my confession just now… was not a lie.”
Chen Beichuan’s expression paused, and he raised a pair of dark black eyes that showed no emotion.
Gu Xiu’s eyes were still sincere. He was saying the most unreliable words, but his eyes, which could most truthfully reflect his heart, showed no trace of a lie.
“I, I said that…” Gu Xiu scratched his hair, his cheeks slightly red, and he stammered awkwardly, “just to get your attention.”
At the same time, in his mind, he had a different, so confident that he wanted to raise his tail to the sky, look. 【Sincerity is always the ultimate weapon!!】
Main god: 【…】
But Chen Beichuan still reacted faintly. “Fine, I’ve noticed. I’m going to class.”
“Hey, wait for me…”
Gu Xiu shamelessly chased after him and stubbornly followed the other to a fourth-year course.
Originally, he had indeed wanted to take the sincere route and seriously pursue his amnesiac boyfriend once. But he had been listening to this class for no more than ten minutes, and he had to fight against a powerful drowsiness. His head was nodding, and he had completely forgotten his plan to be attentive.
His head almost hit the metal thermos on the desk. It was Chen Beichuan who, with quick eyes and nimble hands, reached out to support his forehead, avoiding an accident.
Gu Xiu woke up from this. He turned his head and saw a gloomy black face, but he was not discouraged and grinned.
Chen Beichuan was speechless and warned in a low, cold voice, “If you’re sleepy, go back and sleep. Don’t disturb me here.”
The teacher was talking incessantly for more than an hour and finally entered the break time. Thinking that he would have to endure it again, Gu Xiu was in great pain, and Chen Beichuan couldn’t stand him anymore. He stood up and was about to change his seat.
Gu Xiu’s energy came again, and he energetically clung to him.
Chen Beichuan looked at him with a complicated expression and suddenly asked, “You want to pursue me?”
Gu Xiu nodded like a pecking rice. “Mm-hmm.”
Chen Beichuan glanced at the time. “The break is twenty minutes. You can go and buy me a coffee—but I don’t want the one from school. I want the 99 coffee from the east gate.”
Gu Xiu readily agreed. Seeing that time was tight, he rushed out of the door without hesitation.
It’s finally quiet.
Gu Xiu had just left when a few classmates couldn’t help but come over with curiosity and asked, “Who is that? He’s so handsome. Does he have a girlfriend?”
Chen Beichuan glanced at his classmates and didn’t answer a single word.
All the lively people who had come up had returned in vain in his coldness.
Chen Beichuan just happened to take this time to review the content that the teacher had taught in the first half of the class—just now, because Gu Xiu was dozing off, he had snatched most of his attention. It was the first time he had been so distracted in class, and he hadn’t been able to hear much of the content.
However, now that he had just read for a while, he couldn’t help but look at the time again.
There were still fifteen minutes left.
Even if Gu Xiu flew, he would probably have just reached the east gate in five minutes. Not to mention that he had to cross half a street to the coffee shop, order, wait, and then rush back with the coffee…
Time passed by, and it seemed to be several times faster than usual.
Chen Beichuan found that he was a little absent-minded. He simply closed his textbook and closed his eyes to rest.
And what he didn’t know was that Gu Xiu had just run out of the teaching building and had cleverly realized the time problem. So his footsteps came to a screeching halt, and he turned to the abandoned warehouse behind the rostrum.
The layout of A University in this world was exactly the same as the one he had experienced before, and the abandoned warehouse, which was a legendary gay hookup holy land, was as always!
The main god did not know Gu Xiu’s plan. He only saw him rush to find a pen and paper from the cabinet, write something, and then nimbly take off his clothes, and with a “poof,” he took the initiative to turn back into the tit spirit he despised.
The main god asked hesitantly, 【Are you trying to…】
As soon as he returned to his original form, Gu Xiu’s noise level increased by several times.
“Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp!” Of course, I’m flying over!
Main god: 【…】
Considering that he couldn’t take his clothes with him when he transformed, Gu Xiu had specially prepared two notes, one for the coffee shop to order, and one for the cheap clothing store next door, explaining that he was in a hurry and asking them to prepare the things first, and that he would go and get them later.
Plus two hundred-yuan bills, as long as there was enough money, he naturally didn’t have to worry about the boss finding it strange and not doing his job.
A small tit looked small, but its speed could reach an astonishing 30-40 kilometers per hour, equivalent to a slow car.
Gu Xiu first flew to the fitting room of the clothing store. Seeing the clothes that the boss had prepared for him, he quickly turned back into a human, and then he calmly left the clothing store in the boss’s shocked gaze.
In the coffee shop not far away, the coffee he had ordered was also ready.
He had only ordered the smallest 200ml cup of coffee. Fortunately, he was a bird spirit from a non-scientific world. He could barely carry it with his small bird’s beak. He had flown half the way, then he had gone back to the warehouse to change his clothes, and then he had run all the way back to the teaching building!
At the last few seconds of the twenty-minute time limit, Gu Xiu returned to the classroom, covered in sweat, and handed the coffee to Chen Beichuan in his shocked gaze.
Chen Beichuan was stunned for a few seconds. He looked at the young man’s heaving chest, blinked, and his gaze continued to move down. He couldn’t help but remind, “…Your shoelace is untied.”
“Oh,” Gu Xiu quickly bent down to tie his shoelace. “I didn’t even notice.”
To get back on time, he was so anxious that he couldn’t care about anything.
Because he had just run, all the blood in his body was boiling, and his fingers were also trembling a little. He was clumsy and couldn’t tie his shoelace for a long time.
Chen Beichuan couldn’t help but ask, “Are you sure you’re a student of A University, and not a retard who ran out of the hospital next door?”
Gu Xiu stopped his movements. “…”
Chen Beichuan got up from his seat, bent down to take a look, and saw Gu Xiu pursing his lips, his face full of defiance.
This guy’s temper was clearly not very good, and he had a lot of little thoughts. It was probably all because he liked him that he had held back his sharp words and had completed his difficult task without any complaints.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Beichuan simply reached out his hand, moved Gu Xiu’s fingers away, and in a few strokes, he had tied his shoelace neatly, with a beautiful bow.
To prevent Gu Xiu from having unrealistic expectations, he didn’t forget to add, “Taking care of a retard, no need to thank me.”
“…”
Gu Xiu happily finished the hot chocolate hazelnut latte, was fully revived, and his spirit was greatly boosted.
Because the pretentious man had said that he didn’t drink anything with sugar, and had turned around and thrown the coffee to him.
Hehe, he knew it. That’s why he had chosen his favorite flavor when he had ordered.
Although he had been repeatedly attacked by his foul mouth, Gu Xiu had no intention of giving up. His eyes darted around, not knowing what other ghost ideas he was planning.
As soon as class was over, Chen Beichuan rarely lingered in the classroom. He picked up his bag and stood up to leave.
In the corridor, Gu Xiu chased after him from behind. His bright black eyes blinked, and he looked at him with expectation, and said excitedly, “My shoelace is untied again!”
Chen Beichuan: “…”
Gu Xiu had already finished his coffee, and the empty cup was still in his hand.
It seemed that he wanted to use this to prove that he didn’t have his hands free and couldn’t tie his shoelace.
Of course, Chen Beichuan did not cooperate with his performance and directly said sarcastically, “You can’t even tie your shoelace. Are you a bird? You have two wings to fan the wind?”
He had directly hit the truth. Gu Xiu was slightly startled. On second thought, this person had always said he was a little bird before he had turned into a tit spirit. The heart that had been held up was put back. He blinked and said innocently, “Mm, maybe I really am?”
Chen Beichuan was so choked by him that he was speechless.
People were coming and going, and whispers were continuous.
Chen Beichuan was a celebrity at A University, a famous campus prince and senior. Gu Xiu, who often skipped class, was a new face, and his temperament was not as cold and aloof as Chen Beichuan’s. The whispers were basically all about him, and it seemed that someone was even being urged by a friend to come and hit on him.
Chen Beichuan glanced at the lively crowd, let out an annoyed “tch,” and then he swung his crossbody bag behind him and squatted down.
His fingers were long and nimble, and they flew between Gu Xiu’s shoelaces. Before long, the originally loose shoelaces were neatly tied by him.
“Hey, hey,” seeing that he had tied his shoelace with a cold face and had turned to leave, Gu Xiu did not take a good thing and chased after him again. “I haven’t even told you my name…”
Chen Beichuan’s movements paused. He had actually subconsciously ignored the fact that the two of them were strangers who had not exchanged names. In his subconscious, he always felt as if he had been entangled by this guy for a long time.
But these were not important. The name of an annoying gay man, what did it have to do with him?
And he had already seen it on the campus card. He wasn’t a goldfish with a three-second memory, so of course he remembered.
It was just that he hadn’t left immediately, so Gu Xiu took the initiative to introduce himself. “My name is Gu Xiu.”
He operated his phone for a few seconds and then said, “I’m also from the computer science department, a freshman. I’ve added you from the department group. You should accept it.”
Chen Beichuan stood there straight and did not move, as if he hadn’t heard. He tilted his head and saw Gu Xiu staring at him with his bright black eyes, which were like bright stars in the night sky, filled with a silent desire.
Chen Beichuan’s throat rolled, and his fingers moved unconsciously, looking for his phone in his pocket.
Who knew that the clinging Gu Xiu would actually take a step back on his own.
“Then I’ll be leaving now. You can go and eat,” Gu Xiu confidently patted his chest. “If you need anything, you can call me anytime. I’m very fast!”
Chen Beichuan was silent for a moment. He thought that he had indeed been incredibly fast when he had run to the east gate. His words were not an exaggeration.
Chen Beichuan let out a faint “mm” as a response, his attitude still a little cold.
And this guy Gu Xiu was not deliberately playing hard to get. After saying all that, he really left.
Chen Beichuan silently lowered his head, took out his phone, and checked the friend request he had just received.
Nickname: Gugujiu
Profile picture: Angry Little Bird
Note: I’m Gu Xiu ^-^ (AngryWiddleBird version)
Chen Beichuan: “…”
What a non-mainstream Jiujiu package.
And, what’s with the coquettishness?
