Chapter 45: Roommate 05
Even though Gu Xiu had suddenly become handsome after his shower, his nature was hard to change.
His suspicion of being a pervert had not been completely dispelled, and he had a bunch of bad habits that Chen Beichuan found unbearable.
A few days had passed since the last room check, and the dormitory was as messy as if it had been hit by a tornado. The center of the mess was Gu Xiu, who was playing games with a lollipop in his mouth.
In the evening, Chen Beichuan returned to the dormitory, strode towards him, and took off his headphones.
Gu Xiu paused, raising a pair of eyes that were still clear despite staying up late to play games.
Chen Beichuan’s cold gray eyes were pressed down, and the words that came out of his thin lips were as sharp as a knife. “Room check tomorrow. You’d better clean up your dog kennel right now. If I get points deducted because of your internal affairs, I won’t let you off.”
Gu Xiu was impervious to reason. He raised an eyebrow and curled his lips, his appearance unrestrained, his words frivolous. “Since you’re the one who’s afraid of getting points deducted, then you can just help me clean up, right? Good student, I thought you did a pretty good job last time.”
Chen Beichuan’s handsome face froze into a block of ice. “Do you not have hands or feet?”
“My hands and feet are fine,” Gu Xiu didn’t take it to heart at all and even smiled. He raised his two hands to his chest, like a puppy, his black and white eyes sparkling. “Do you want to touch them?”
“…”
Chen Beichuan was instantly speechless. For the first time in his life, he felt that his language function was so powerless.
After going back and forth, in the end, there was only that sentence: “You clean it up yourself. Tomorrow at five in the afternoon, I want to see a clean dormitory.”
Gu Xiu let out a long, nonchalant “Oh～,” put on his headphones again, and clearly didn’t listen.
After a while.
One wave had not yet subsided, and another had risen.
The choking smell of smoke wafted over. Chen Beichuan frowned, thinking it was his imagination. He turned his head and saw Gu Xiu crossing his legs as if no one else was there, one hand quickly moving the mouse, and the other holding a cigarette, puffing away in the enclosed dormitory space.
Chen Beichuan was completely enraged, but Gu Xiu, a working man, also had his own difficulties.
【Ahem, ahem!】 He could only cough in his sea of consciousness, complaining miserably. 【I’m really sick of this smoke. Can’t the protagonist gong smoke instead? I heard that you Jinjiang people really like to use smoking to make the male lead cool.】
【…】 007 was silent for a few seconds before answering his boring question. 【The protagonist gong in this world is only 22 and is still in school. Smoking is definitely not good, and it doesn’t fit his top student persona. On the contrary, you, a sloppy scum gong…】
“Hey, Gu Xiu.”
The electronic voice of 007 in his mind came to an abrupt end, replaced by a low male voice that drilled into his eardrums.
【Alright, the protagonist gong is angry.】 007’s voice had a bit more vitality. 【’Key Plot Point 2′ is about to begin! You two are going to have a big fight, and then the protagonist gong will be so angry that he’ll go to an internet cafe for the night and run into the protagonist shou being harassed by bad guys…】
The tense atmosphere was like a drawn bowstring, ready to snap. The two of them stopped what they were doing, took off their headphones, and turned to face each other across the not-so-spacious dormitory aisle.
But Chen Beichuan was stunned for a moment, and his brow instantly relaxed.
Gu Xiu was still holding a cigarette in his hand, his hair a messy bird’s nest. He was undoubtedly a street punk that people would avoid at first sight, not at all like a student from a famous university.
But his eyes were exceptionally clear and bright, his black pupils like black chess pieces that had just been fished out of clear water.
“Hiss.”
During the confrontation, Gu Xiu was burned by the falling cigarette ash and let out a very light gasp.
Chen Beichuan: “…………”
Then Gu Xiu acted as if nothing had happened, pretending to be nonchalant. He brought the cigarette to his mouth, took another drag in front of Chen Beichuan, and then coughed lightly.
Chen Beichuan was silent, his heart as if it were caught between two completely different emotions, being pulled left and right. The anger that had already accumulated to its limit, it was not right to let it out, and it was not right to not let it out.
After a moment of contemplation, he suddenly stood up from his chair, and the metal chair legs scraped harshly against the tiled floor. Gu Xiu immediately frowned. As the troublemaker in this dormitory, he was the first to show his dissatisfaction.
Chen Beichuan couldn’t bear it anymore. He strode up to him, stood over him, and looked down at him with cold eyes. “If you want to smoke, go outside.”
Gu Xiu glared back. “Why should I?”
His attitude was undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire. Chen Beichuan was instantly furious, and all his accumulated anger exploded in this moment. The last three words were almost squeezed out from between his teeth. “Go outside and smoke.”
“Why should I go out? If you’re not happy, you can go out!” Gu Xiu’s temper flared. He extinguished the cigarette, not to cooperate, but to stand up and face his overly oppressive roommate at eye level.
Between young and hot-blooded boys, sometimes just an exchange of glances, what are you looking at, and two people with no grievances could immediately be at odds. A few more pushes on the shoulder, and they could even get into a fierce fight.
And of course, Chen Beichuan would not just provoke with his eyes. He pushed aside the blocking Gu Xiu, picked up the remaining half a pack of cigarettes and a brand new lighter on the table, and threw them into the trash can without a word.
Gu Xiu immediately shouted, “Hey! What are you doing!?”
Chen Beichuan acted as if he hadn’t heard and silently picked up the wireless mouse and threw it into the trash can as well.
“Hey!”
Gu Xiu was furious and immediately grabbed the other’s wanton arm.
Chen Beichuan naturally did not cooperate and struggled hard. Gu Xiu quickly added another hand, and Chen Beichuan also refused to back down, his legs joining the battle.
The two of them fought, you push me, I push you, you advance, I advance even more. They immediately got into a tangle, and the metal chairs on both sides were knocked with a harsh sound. Water cups, books, and keyboards were all swept to the ground in the indiscriminate battle.
His hands and feet were so busy that it took Gu Xiu a long time to say in his mind with his mental energy, 【Holy shit, how is the protagonist gong, a researcher, so strong…】
007 was quite proud: 【After all, he’s a protagonist gong from our Jinjiang. His brainpower and martial prowess must be the ceiling of this world～】
This is so discouraging.
Gu Xiu found that he couldn’t beat him. It was normal to not be able to beat him according to his status. After all, he was just a small scum gong who couldn’t get the protagonist shou.
But this protagonist gong had really pissed him off. Now, he was not convinced in his heart or his mouth. He was panting and exhausted but refused to admit defeat. While Chen Beichuan was off guard, he bit into that firm and powerful arm!
Chen Beichuan was in pain and let go for a moment.
Gu Xiu had rich combat experience. Although his body in this world was slightly inferior to the protagonist gong’s, he could play dirty. He seized this opportunity, knocked the protagonist gong down, and quickly turned the tables.
His hands and legs couldn’t restrain Chen Beichuan, so he added his whole body weight!
The dormitory, which had been in a fierce battle, suddenly fell into a silence that lasted for several seconds.
Their current posture was simple, one on top and one on the bottom. Chen Beichuan was lying on his back on the ground, his neat short hair a messy bird’s nest just like Gu Xiu’s. His well-ironed white shirt was wrinkled, and a button on his collar had even popped off. His handsome face was flushed from the intense exercise, and his chest was heaving noticeably.
Gu Xiu’s condition was not much different.
He had his legs spread open, his upper body slightly tilted forward, and he was sitting firmly on Chen Beichuan, using his whole body weight to suppress the protagonist gong of this world. Although he was so tired he was panting, his mood was exceptionally cheerful.
It wasn’t until a few seconds later that the only sound in their ears was each other’s heavy and rapid breathing.
Looking at each other’s flushed cheeks, messy hair, and the hot sweat on their necks from a strange angle, it was strange no matter how you looked at it.
Beep—
From the closed dormitory door, came the sound of a code being scanned to open the door.
Besides the two of them, only the dormitory aunt could open the door of this two-person room. The two of them did not pay attention to the strange sound and still wanted to continue to decide a winner.
However, click—
The dormitory door was opened.
The dormitory aunt stood at the back, only a little of her curly, instant-noodle-like hair visible. And in front of her stood two men and one woman, all neatly dressed. The leading boy was gentle and refined, holding a familiar room check record sheet in his hand.
Time seemed to have frozen. No one made a sound for a long while.
The gentle boy stood frozen in place, wanting to say something but holding back several times. Every strand of his hair exuded embarrassment. It took him a long time to finally speak, “Uh, this week’s room check has been moved up by a day. It’s a surprise inspection.”
The student union cadres in charge of the room check scratched their heads, trying to understand this shocking scene.
The only girl carefully poked her head out. She was petite, and only now did she show her face. She had a round face and big eyes, a typical “sweet girl.”
Seeing the terrifying scene of a man on top of another man in the dormitory, her pupils suddenly constricted. The “brother” that had rolled to the tip of her tongue was barely swallowed back. Her throat gurgled, and she struggled to speak, “I shouldn’t have… uh… disturbed you, right?”
“…”
The more she spoke, the more wrong it sounded.
But there was no way to explain. An explanation was a cover-up.
But this shocking scene did stop the three of them. No one dared to be the first to step forward, as if there were an invisible barrier at the door, and those who trespassed would die.
The three of them stood with their hands clasped in front of them. They casually looked around, simply confirmed that there were no illegal electrical appliances, and then said their goodbyes.
“Then… you guys can continue. We’ll continue to the next room,” the leading boy woke up as if from a dream and called out to the still-dazed Chen Nanyuan. “Let’s go, junior. If we encounter this kind of situation next time… uh, there probably won’t be a next time.”
They politely averted their gazes the whole time and thoughtfully closed the door for the two of them.
The dormitory returned to silence.
Chen Beichuan: “…”
He was going to kill Gu Xiu.
Chen Beichuan’s gray eyes were almost red with anger. He glared at Gu Xiu above him and gritted his teeth, “Get up.”
Gu Xiu hated this kind of commanding tone the most. And this person was under him. Shouldn’t he be begging him nicely? Thinking of this, Gu Xiu naturally did the opposite. The butt that had just moved away a little fell back down. “Why should I? Beg me.”
This time, the landing point was a little off. Both of them felt it and saw the fleeting stiffness on each other’s faces.
Gu Xiu pretended to be nonchalant and still refused to admit defeat. He slowly moved his body, adjusting to the correct leg position…
He adjusted slowly, but to Chen Beichuan, it felt like a tormenting grind, a tease, and a flirtation.
They had just had a fight, and the hot blood had not yet subsided. Their cells were filled with boiling dopamine, and their bodies were also hot, with sparks everywhere, ready to ignite.
Sensing the uncontrollable change in his body, Chen Beichuan’s face changed drastically. He raised his voice and shouted again, “You fucking… get off me!”
His voice was trembling with anger, and only upon closer listening could one hear a hint of an imperceptible hoarseness.
Having pushed the pride of heaven to the point of anger and embarrassment, Gu Xiu had vented his anger and was in a good mood. He resumed his main job and knocked on 007 in his mind, asking, 【What’s the progress of this plot point?】
007: 【18+ content detected…】
It shut down before it could finish its sentence.
Gu Xiu: “?”
