The weather was getting hotter and hotter. In the blink of an eye, it was mid-June. The final exams of A University are over, marking the official arrival of summer vacation.
The family had originally planned to let Shen Qingzhuo adapt to the group’s affairs in advance. He didn’t care whether he went or not, but the kid suddenly asked him to help with cultural studies.
Although he was a sports specialty student, but the requirements for cultural studies in key universities were not low. Xiao Shen was afraid that his cultural studies would lag behind.
Shen Qingzhuo thought about it and agreed readily.
It just so happened that his childhood friend went on a summer vacation, so the apartment was vacant, and the two of them moved in together.
“Are you sure your family agrees?” On the day of moving, Shen Qingzhuo confirmed with the kid again, “Don’t accuse me of kidnapping a kid later.”
Xiao Shen bent down and easily picked up a large box of heavy objects and replied with a smile, “Don’t worry, Gege, even if I die outside, no one will worry about me either.”
“Pei, pei, pei!” Shen Qingzhuo slapped him, with a somewhat angry tone, “What are you talking about? Am I not a human?”
Xiao Shen stuck out his tongue and apologized fluently: “I’m sorry, Gege, I was wrong!”
Shen Qingzhuo’s heart softened, and he smiled and rubbed the boy’s stubbled hair, “Come in.”
He originally thought that he would take care of the child during the summer vacation, but he didn’t expect the situation to be completely the opposite.
Young Master Shen grew up in a pampered way, his ten fingers never even touched water, and he couldn’t even tell the difference between salt and sugar, so naturally he couldn’t cook.
But on the first day of moving in, Xiao Shen showed him his excellent cooking skills. A simple bowl of noodles with scallion oil almost made his tongue fall off.
The two of them lived together in an unexpectedly harmonious way, as if they had been getting along for a long time.
In the hot summer days, they would stay at home with the air conditioner on to make up for the lessons. When the sun went down, Xiao Shen would go to the gym to train for a few hours.
Of course, sometimes there are embarrassing situations.
High school students occasionally stay in bed in the morning. Shen Qingzhuo knocks on the door but can’t wake him up, so he opens the door and goes in. “Get up.”
Xiao Shen lies on the bed, topless, with a thin blanket covering his abdomen, and speaks coquettishly in a low voice: “Gege, I want to sleep a little longer~”
“You can’t, I have to go out this afternoon, so I can only give you extra classes in the morning.” Shen Qingzhuo walked over and pulled the blanket, “Otherwise, you…”
The last word stopped abruptly, Shen Qingzhuo blinked, turned around abruptly, and his voice changed in shock: “Why don’t you wear clothes when you sleep?”
Xiao Shen woke up, looked at his energetic appearance, and said innocently, “Experts say that sleeping like this is healthy.”
“What experts…” Shen Qingzhuo didn’t dare to look at him again and left the place quickly.
But the shocking scene just now kept playing in his mind.
Damn, what do high school students nowadays eat to grow up?
The boy in the room couldn’t help but become more excited just because his gege looked at him more.
Xiao Shen tried to hold back but couldn’t help it. He wrapped himself in a bath towel and walked into the bathroom. He stayed there for a long time before walking out again.
Shen Qingzhuo tried to forget this little incident, but unfortunately, he caught the kid in embarrassing situations more and more often.
The boy was not shy at all but said confidently, “Gege, all high school students are like this!”
Shen Qingzhuo: “……”
He tried to think back to his high school days and found that he was not so energetic at that time?
After thinking about it, he could only conclude that sports students have more energy than ordinary people and that they have nowhere to vent.
That night, Shen Qingzhuo suddenly had an idea and took a walk to the kid’s training ground after dinner.
When he entered, several teenagers were just following orders and entering the water.
Shen Qingzhuo stood on the shore, slightly widening his eyes, and quickly recognized from the splashing water track that the fastest and most agile figure was the kid.
As expected, after the boy broke through the water, he looked at him first and shouted in surprise, “Gege!”
Shen Qingzhuo smiled and waved his hand and gave a thumbs up.
The training was not over yet, he sat aside and waited patiently.
After a while, the other members of the swimming team left the training ground one after another to take a shower, and the venue became quiet.
“Gege, come here!” Xiao Shen was lying on the shore, grinning at him with a mouthful of refreshing white teeth.
Shen Qingzhuo walked over as he was told, “Is the training over?”
Xiao Shen looked up at him and touched his protruding ankle with his wet hands.”Can Gege swim?”
“Of course.” Shen Qingzhuo dodged unconsciously, “I’ll take you to our swimming pool if I have a chance!”
Before he finished speaking, he was dragged into the swimming pool.
With a “plop”, a huge splash of water appeared in the swimming pool, but the expected choking did not happen. Two big hands lifted him up.
“Is it cool, Gege?” Xiao Shen’s smile became brighter.
Shen Qingzhuo spit out the water in his mouth, brushed his wet hair up, and he didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry and said, “Do you want to murder Gege?”
Xiao Shen did not answer him, his eyes fixed on his face.
The white, jade-like skin was covered with water droplets, reflecting the crystal-clear light under the light.
The dark hair was brushed away, revealing the rich and beautiful features, but the smile was pure and lovely, blending two extremely contradictory beauties into one.
As if bewitched by something, Xiao Shen couldn’t help but hold the slender waist under the water tightly and gradually approach the tender and wet red lips.
The atmosphere was just right, Shen Qingzhuo didn’t react for a while and let him approach with a confused look until the voice of the staff came from the door: “Is there anyone else? It’s closing time!”
He suddenly woke up, pushed the boy away, and swam to the shore in a hurry.
Xiao Shen floated in the water, feeling both annoyed and regretful. He almost kissed him.
On the way back, they both tacitly did not mention what happened just now, pretending that nothing happened.
After arriving home, Shen Qingzhuo immediately closed the door to isolate himself from the boy’s burning gaze.
That night, he had that beautiful dream again.
In the dream, that person in a dragon robe hugged him from the front, biting his earlobe repeatedly, his breath was hot…
Until the man raised his face, and it overlapped with the boy’s face.
“Xiao—” Shen Qingzhuo gasped and broke free from the dream.
He sat up, stunned for a long time, and then slapped his forehead in despair.
Shen Qingzhuo, you are hopeless. How can you dream about a high school student?
Young Master Shen moved out of the small apartment overnight. Just as the holiday was about to end, he said that he had something to do at school and returned to school early.
At first, Xiao Shen didn’t think too much about it, but after just one week, he keenly noticed something was wrong.
His gege’s reply speed became very slow, always perfunctorily saying that he was busy and making excuses for not wanting to meet him.
He quickly concluded that his gege was avoiding him.
So, he stopped asking and quietly went to wait at the gate of University A.
“By the way, Lao San, where is your high school student? Why haven’t I seen him sticking to you recently?” Lao Er put his arm around Lao Si’s shoulder and teased him maliciously, “Could it be that the high school student has fallen in love with someone else already?”
Shen Qingzhuo couldn’t stand hearing this now and frowned slightly, “Don’t talk nonsense, I’m not such a beast.”
Lao Si reminded him seriously, “Anyway, I think that high school student has other intentions. Qingzhuo, you are right to stop associating with him.”
“That’s not the case either…” Shen Qingzhuo retorted absentmindedly. He glanced out of the corner of his eye and found a familiar figure squatting on the curb opposite the school gate.
He turned his back subconsciously and spoke quickly: “You guys go first, I’ll go back to the dormitory to get something.”
From that day on, Young Master Shen began to live a life of seclusion, moving between the dormitory and the teaching building.
He didn’t know what he was hiding from either, but he thought that young people are often fickle-minded, and if they can’t wait for him, they will definitely give up soon.
Until this night, he walked back to the dormitory building as usual, and suddenly a person jumped out from the shadows on the side, “Gege!”
Shen Qingzhuo’s little heart was beating wildly with fear, and he blurted out, “How did you get in?”
“Gege ignored me, so I had to come to Gege.” Xiao Shen stared at him intently. “Gege, why are you hiding from me?”
“I’m not hiding from you.” Shen Qingzhuo turned his eyes away guiltily. “I’ve been busy lately.”
“So busy that you don’t even have time to reply to messages?” Xiao Shen interrupted his explanation and took a step closer to him, “Gege, do you even believe what you said?”
Shen Qingzhuo took a step back, feeling inexplicably like an irresponsible scumbag.
Passing students cast curious glances at him, and he didn’t want to be watched, so he lowered his voice: “Follow me.”
Xiao Shen stopped being aggressive and followed his gege obediently.
The two walked to a quiet grove, and Shen Qingzhuo spoke first: “You are about to take the college entrance examination. The most important thing right now is your studies. You can put other things aside.”
“I don’t understand.” Xiao Shen stopped and lowered his voice, “Did I do something wrong to make Gege hate me?”
“No.” Shen Qingzhuo hesitated for a moment but decided to say, “You didn’t do anything wrong, but we are not actually very familiar with each other either, you should…”
“Gege, are you trying to draw a line between us?” Xiao Shen asked in disbelief.
Shen Qingzhuo was silent for a few seconds, which was considered acquiescence.
“I understand. Gege also finds me annoying…” Xiao Shen stepped back step by step. The crackling sound of branches being crushed sounded particularly frightening in the silent night.
“Sure enough, no one wants me, no one likes me, Gege too.” The boy’s choked voice contained unspeakable brokenness and sadness, and he suddenly turned around and ran out.
“Xiao Shen!” Shen Qingzhuo panicked, “Come back! That’s not what I meant!”
The running boy paused for a moment and finally turned around and walked back under his gaze.
In the dim light, Shen Qingzhuo found that his eyes seemed to be red, and his expression was pitiful and aggrieved. He pursed his thin lips tightly, as if he was trying hard to hold back tears.
Shen Qingzhuo gritted his teeth and simply smashed the jar[mfn]It’s a slang, it refers to when you see something is already hopeless, so you just go along and be reckless.[/mfn], “Did you want to kiss me in the swimming pool that day?”
Xiao Shen was stunned for a moment and replied hesitantly, “Yes.”
Shen Qingzhuo endured the shame and tried to reason with him: “I am your brother, we are both boys, you should not have that kind of impulse towards me, understand?”
Xiao Shen shook his head, suddenly stepped forward, and used his body to press his gege against the rough skin, “Why not?”
Shen Qingzhuo didn’t expect this reaction and was stuck, “What why?”
In the darkness, the boy’s eyes were incredibly bright. “I like Gege, so I want to kiss Gege.”
