Gu Changheng looked up slightly at Zhou Li, while Zhou Li lowered his head and looked at Gu Changheng.
Gu Changheng had prepared many words to say, but upon seeing Zhou Li in person, he felt so overwhelmed with emotion that he choked up, his lips moving but no words coming out.
Zhou Li didn’t fare much better.
In fact, Zhou Li felt as if his heart might leap out of his chest, beating faster and faster with nervousness, causing beads of sweat to form in his palms.
Zhou Li didn’t know when he had started to like Gu Changheng. They had been classmates since the first year of junior high school. Unlike him who lived in the mud, Gu Changheng had always shone brightly.
He didn’t know when he was hooked, confused, and possessed by evil. His eyes uncontrollably followed Gu Changheng’s every move.
However, the gap between them felt so big.
Even though they were in the same class, they rarely interacted, and they had never even spoken to each other.
They had crossed paths a couple of times on the street, but Gu Changheng never even glanced at him. Even when they walked past each other, he never greeted him. It was as if he didn’t recognize him and just walked past him directly.
Zhou Li couldn’t even tell if Gu Changheng knew they were classmates.
But at this moment, Gu Changheng was sitting in his seat, looking up at him directly.
Zhou Li rarely had such close contact with Gu Changheng. He just thought he was so handsome. Staring at him made him dazed, and his heart raced uncontrollably.
“Hey, what are you two doing? Playing a game of who speaks first and who is puppy?” Zhou Li’s deskmate, Chu Rui, found it very funny to see the two of them just looking at each other without saying anything. He interrupted to break the awkward silence between them.
Zhou Li felt his ears burn with embarrassment. Realizing his own awkwardness, he quickly turned his face away and said, “Gu, Young Master Gu, you’re in my seat.”
“Ah!” Gu Changheng exclaimed, too excited to think straight, and stood up in a flurry. He accidentally knocked over a thick stack of books that Zhou Li had placed on the edge of the desk.
The books fell to the ground.
Both Gu Changheng and Zhou Li quickly bent down to pick them up. In the process of picking up the books, their hands inevitably brushed against each other.
Zhou Li seemed startled and took two steps back.
Gu Changheng gathered all the books, placed them back on the desk, and rearranged them, saying, “That, I… well…”
Faced with the much younger Zhou Li, Gu Changheng felt a rush of excitement for a moment. They met again. He struggled to find a proper opening line. After a long pause, he said, “I’m Gu Changheng.”
Zhou Li was equally nervous with his beloved in front of him. His mind was blank. After a brief “ah,” he fumbled for words and finally managed to say, “Zhou, Zhou Li.”
Looking at the interaction of the two, Chu Rui couldn’t help but laugh. He said, “We’re in the third year of junior high school now. We’ve been classmates since the first year. After knowing each other for so long, what’s with this sudden self-introduction?”
Gu Changheng also felt that his opening line was a bit silly. After laughing, he felt a bit calmer and asked, “Ah Li, do you have time tonight?”
Zhou Li was taken aback by the way Gu Changheng called him “Ah Li”.
Seeing the surprised look on Zhou Li’s face, Gu Changheng also realized that his approach actions were too straightforward and feared it might scare him.
