SEBLS Chapter 33

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Xu Zhong was walking on the way home. The temperature was extremely low at night, and it was snowing. Xu Zhong just wanted to go home quickly, lie in bed and play games.

There was a familiar figure not far away. Xu Zhong glanced at it casually and was surprised to find that the figure was Huai Nanzhi. There was another person standing next to Huai Nanzhi. Xu Zhong carefully identified the person before he recognized it as Ye Chuli.

Xu Zhong couldn’t help but hold his breath. How could they be together?

Perhaps noticing his gaze, Huai Nanzhi looked in his direction and was visibly stunned when he saw that it was Xu Zhong.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, Huainan spoke first, “Xu Zhong, since we’ve run into each other, come over here and join us.”

Xu Zhong wanted to leave, but his feet moved forward involuntarily.

“What are you doing?” Xu Zhong asked.

These two people obviously have no interaction at school, so why would they meet up privately?

For some reason, Xu Zhong felt uncomfortable. “Are you guys… a couple?”

Before Huai Nanzhi could answer, Ye Chuli said, “No, just ordinary friends.”

Hearing this, Xu Zhong breathed a sigh of relief for some reason, but Huai Nanzhi’s face did not look good.

However, Ye Chuli was right. They were indeed not in a relationship, so there was no need for him to be unhappy.

Xu Zhong was shivering due to the cold; he didn’t know how to answer. And just like that, no one spoke again. However, Ye Chuli’s untimely cough interrupted the silence.

Huai Nanzhi turned his gaze to Ye Chuli. Seeing Ye Chuli’s red face caused by the cold, he took off his outer clothing and put it on Ye Chuli’s shoulders.

Xu Zhong, who was also extremely cold: “…”

Why did this guy ask him to come over? To watch them being intimate?

Huai Nanzhi cares so much about Ye Chuli, but why does he feel uncomfortable?

……………………

The weather was getting colder and colder, so cold that it was impossible to go out without wearing something very warm.

Zhuang Wu decided to knit a scarf for Qin Qiyue and give it to him before the winter vacation.

Zhuang Wu wanted to go to the store to buy materials for knitting a scarf after school that day. As he made the decision too late and the weather was already very cold, he didn’t want to delay any longer. Qin Qiyue happened to be on duty, so Zhuang Wu didn’t plan to wait for him.

“Gege, I have something to deal with today, so I can’t go with you.” Zhuang Wu was not very happy. “I’m leaving first, Gege!”

Qin Qiyue had just picked up the broom. When he heard this, he was stunned for a moment before replying randomly without any emotion, “Hm.”

Zhuang Wu became even more unhappy when he saw Qin Qiyue’s expressionless face. Does this mean he didn’t care about him at all? How come he doesn’t look even the slightest bit unhappy?

But he didn’t have time to dwell on it. If he didn’t hurry to the store, it would close, so he had to run away quickly.

As a male, Qin Qiyue might not care whether something looked good or not, so Zhuang Wu mainly looked at the texture while choosing fabrics.

After buying it, Zhuang Wu rushed home with the materials but unexpectedly ran into Qin Qiyue who had just returned from school after finishing his cleaning duty.

Seeing Qin Qiyue, Zhuang Wu subconsciously hid the yarn and other things behind him.

“What are you hiding?” Qin Qiyue frowned.

Zhuang Wu smiled. “I’m not hiding anything. It’s such a coincidence that I ran into Gege right after I came home.”

“It’s quite the coincidence,” Qin Qiyue said indifferently, “but you don’t seem to want that to happen.”

“???”

“How could that be? I want to see Gege anytime, all the time. How could I not hope for such a coincidence?” Zhuang Wu hurriedly expressed that he didn’t understand why Qin Qiyue felt that way.

After that, Qin Qiyue didn’t respond to him anymore, but instead opened their door and went in.

Seeing Qin Qiyue about to enter his home, Zhuang Wu shouted, “Good night, Gege!”

Still no response.

Zhuang Wu’s intuition told him that Qin Qiyue was unhappy, but why? It can’t be because he didn’t leave with Qin Qiyue after school. Qin Qiyue didn’t care about it and didn’t show any emotion at all at that time.

Zhuang Wu wanted to give the scarf before the winter vacation, but knitting took too much time. Now that the end of the semester was approaching, Zhuang Wu had to stay up late to knit the scarf. Today, he knitted most of the night and only slept for three or four hours.

When he arrived at school the next day, Zhuang Wu was so sleepy that he was about to topple over. While others were reading during the morning reading, Zhuang Wu’s head had already fallen on the table.

Halfway through his sleep, Zhuang Wu felt a touch on his arm. He opened his eyes with difficulty and found that the teacher had just come down from the podium and was patrolling. The other was walking over to his direction. It was Qin Qiyue who woke him up.

“Thank you…” Zhuang Wu breathed a sigh of relief. “If it weren’t for Gege, I would have to stand throughout the whole morning self-study session.”

After the teacher walked past them, he walked around a few times and then returned to the podium and sat down.

Zhuang Wu said to Qin Qiyue shamelessly, “Gege, I’m so sleepy. I’ll take a nap first. If the teacher comes, please wake me up.”

“……”

It was really winning an inch and wanting a mile, but Zhuang Wu indeed looked very sleepy, so Qin Qiyue couldn’t bear to refuse and could only nod. “Alright. Go to sleep.”

Thus, Zhuang Wu slept through the entire morning self-study session.

Too little sleep is not enough sleep. Zhuang Wu slept for the whole morning. Initially, he only asked Qin Qiyue to help to watch out for the teacher during morning self-study. But after class started, even though they didn’t talk about it, Qin Qiyue still woke Zhuang Wu up when the teacher came down.

Looking at Zhuang Wu who was sleeping soundly, Qin Qiyue couldn’t help but wonder what Zhuang Wu had been up to to make him so sleepy.

Moreover, he still has no clue what Zhuang Wu was doing.

It was clear that some time ago, Zhuang Wu was still telling him that he would study hard and strive to get a ranking close to his so as not to be transferred away by Hu Jianlong.

But now, Zhuang Wu was sleeping soundly during class. Qin Qiyue glanced at the blank book on Zhuang Wu’s desk.

He didn’t have any notes. Now that it was the critical period of senior year, if one just missed a few classes, they would probably fall behind.

After hesitating for a while, Qin Qiyue took the book from Zhuang Wu’s desk.

Just like that, Zhuang Wu’s originally blank book was filled with key points.

Zhuang Wu slept too soundly that after the fourth class, he was not able to go eat. Qin Qiyue glanced at Zhuang Wu on his way out of the classroom but eventually left without saying anything.

After a while, Zhuang Wu finally woke up, not because he woke up from sleep, but because of hunger. He had not eaten in the morning, and if he also didn’t eat at lunch, he would be really hungry to death.

However, the empty classroom told Zhuang Wu without a doubt that they had all gone to eat long ago, and it would be too late for him to eat now.

The next second, Qin Qiyue walked in carrying plastic bags and saw Zhuang Wu who was looking out of the classroom.

After returning to his seat, Qin Qiyue placed one of the bags on Zhuang Wu’s desk.

“What is this?” Zhuang Wu took the bag and opened it. Inside was a bowl of malatang[mfn][/mfn]. He was instantly moved. “Gege, you’re so nice. How did you know I was hungry?”

Qin Qiyue sat down, opening the other bag in his hand. “You didn’t eat breakfast and lunch. You haven’t eaten anything; how can you not be hungry?”

Noticing that Qin Qiyue brought two of the same, Zhuang Wu asked, “Gege, you didn’t go to the cafeteria to eat either?”

“Yeah,” Qin Qiyue said casually. “If I go to the cafeteria to eat and then go out of school to buy malatang, where will I find the time?”

Zhuang Wu felt a little embarrassed for some reason.

Then, he heard Qin Qiyue say, “Eat quickly. After you finish, I will briefly teach you the lessons you missed this morning.”

When Zhuang Wu heard that Qin Qiyue was going to explain the lessons to him, he immediately became joyful.

After they both finished eating, they threw the lunch boxes into the trash can and Qin Qiyue began to explain the lessons to Zhuang Wu.

Zhuang Wu spread out the book and found that there was a lot of handwriting that did not belong to him. The content was also quite detailed. The handwriting looked a lot like… Qin Qiyue’s?

He looked at Qin Qiyue suspiciously, unable to resist his curiosity.  “Gege, did you write these?”

There was nothing to hide, so Qin Qiyue told the truth, “Yes.”

“!!!”

Qin Qiyue had just picked up the pen when he felt his waist constricted. He lowered his head and saw that it was Zhuang Wu who was hugging him.

“How can Gege be so good?” Zhuang Wu nuzzled him. “I like Gege even more!”

“……”

Qin Qiyue pushed him away calmly, “Look at the lesson.”

Zhuang Wu sat up obediently and secretly looked at Qin Qiyue’s face. Sure enough, his cheeks and ears were red.

After sleeping for a whole morning, Zhuang Wu was no longer as sleepy and was very serious while listening to Qin Qiyue’s explanation.

During the process, Qin Qiyue’s hands and Zhuang Wu’s would always accidentally touch, and every time, Qin Qiyue would blush and withdrew his hand first while Zhuang Wu resisted the urge to smile.

Gege, why are you becoming more and more lovely?

Of course, it was impossible to cover all the key points of the morning lesson during just the lunchbreak, so they continued until the lunchtime nap.

Qin Qiyue usually did his own homework during this time, and he had never done something like this, where he put his own homework aside and helped explain to others.

Although he had slept for a long time in the morning, Zhuang Wu was afraid that he would feel sleepy again in the afternoon. When Qin Qiyue was about to talk about the next topic, Zhuang Wu interrupted him, “Gege, the first class this afternoon is physical education. I don’t want to be lethargic due to sleepiness, so, how about I sleep for a while?”

Qin Qiyue asked, “You still haven’t gotten enough sleep after sleeping for the whole morning? Why are you so exhausted? ”

“No…” Zhuang Wu was afraid that Qin Qiyue would think that he didn’t want to listen to him, so he just made up an excuse, “I did get enough sleep, but I was just worried that Gege would be tired if he didn’t take a nap.”

Didn’t you just say that you were afraid of being exhausted? Why did you change your words?

“I’m not sleepy.” Qin Qiyue wanted to refuse, but when he glanced at Zhuang Wu who was eagerly waiting for his answer, he couldn’t refuse anymore, “…Forget it, I’ll take a nap.”

Under Zhuang Wu’s unblinking gaze, Qin Qiyue fell asleep on the table.

Before he fell asleep, he felt Zhuang Wu’s head rest beside his arm.

Qin Qiyue didn’t move for a long time. He opened his eyes when he heard Zhuang Wu’s steady breathing. After making sure that Zhuang Wu would not wake up, he moved closer to Zhuang Wu. Their heads were touching each other, and Qin Qiyue’s hand could touch Zhuang Wu’s hair with just the slightest movement.

Zhuang Wu liked to move around when he sleeps anyway, so if the other has any suspicions after he woke up, everything could be explained.

He didn’t know why he did this, he just inexplicably wanted to get closer to Zhuang Wu.

During the first physical education class in the afternoon, Zhuang Wu thought Qin Qiyue would go to the sports field to play basketball as usual, so he sat with Ji Zhixian to chat with him. However, this time, Qin Qiyue did not play basketball but rather walked straight towards them.