SPDO Extra 2.2

Halfway through their walk, they were stopped by a few girls from the photography club who wanted to take pictures of them.

It wasn’t the first time; Qin Cheng was already familiar with their leader——a safe beta.

“How do you want to shoot?” Qin Cheng casually draped his arm over Jian Heng’s shoulder, standing confidently. “Like last time?”

“Yes, yes, yes,” the girls were very excited. It was rare to have such a handsome guy nearby, and he had such a good temper. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “Can you hug? How about a kiss or something?”

“Hugging is fine, kissing is fine too.” Qin Cheng wrapped his arms around Jian Heng from behind, his arm resting on Jian Heng’s neck. The two of them faced the camera with their faces close together. Jian Heng cooperatively leaned back slightly, his height of 1.91 meters and long legs making the scene even more striking.

The girls bit their lips, barely suppressing their screams.

What kind of fairy love is this!!! The country doesn’t need to assign me a partner! Just let handsome guys be with handsome guys!!!

The girls took 360° shots for five minutes, thanking them together: “Oops, sorry for wasting your time. As usual, we’ll send the prints to Jian-ge and the digital copies to Qin-ge.”

“Okay,” Qin Cheng waved goodbye to them, “make sure to edit it nicely.”

“No need to edit!” the girls waved back.

Qin Cheng held a milk tea in his left hand and held Jian Heng’s hand with his right, occasionally swaying it. “It’s been almost three years since our first photo together.”

“Feels like just yesterday,” Jian Heng squeezed his fingers.

Qin Cheng smiled and didn’t say anything.

***

As the sky dimmed, couples walked hand in hand along the roadside, hurrying by. They were just like the most ordinary couples, holding hands, occasionally joking and laughing. The days when they were still struggling with the question of how to deal with being gay felt like yesterday, yet it also seemed like a long time ago.

The photo when Jian Heng running 5,000 meters, later, he found another one in Jian Heng’s notebook.

It was an old notebook, filled with math notes from the first to the third year of high school. The photo was tucked in the last page. The sharp pen strokes were restrained, and stroke by stroke, it was written carefully, ‘I will wait for you in the future’.

He still remembered the feelings at that time, his heart was filled with indescribable tenderness. For a long time, he couldn’t help but take out the photo and grin foolishly.

It turned out someone had already written you into their future.

Nothing could be more touching than this.

Later, he asked Jian Heng while holding the photo, “When did you get this photo?”

Jian Heng said he got it from that girl right after the competition.

That’s why he was surprised when Qin Cheng took out the photo. He didn’t expect that such a carefree person would also value this ordinary photo as much as he did and hide it just like him.

So they say, fate really is something too wonderful for words.

***

“You can’t bring the milk tea inside, leave it at the door,” the gatekeeper pointed to a nearby empty space, where a row of milk tea drinks were placed. “I’ll keep an eye on it for you.”

“Ah?” Qin Cheng said, “I remember you used to let us bring it in, DaYe[mfn]大爺 (dà ye): uncle; (chiefly Northern China, colloquial) paternal uncle (father’s elder brother); respectful form of address used on elder man (older than sixty).[/mfn].”

“New rule, we don’t know why,” the DaYe said, “we just follow the rules.”

“Alright then.” Qin Cheng looked at the milk tea he had barely drunk, swallowed hard, feeling a bit reluctant.

“Finish it before going up.” Jian Heng pulled him aside, leaning against the wall to take a sip.

“Is it okay?” Qin Cheng also took a few sips, feeling a bit uneasy, “What if there’s no seat?”

The school tyrants at the Medical University were experts at grabbing seats, rushing to the library after class with a fierceness that was even stronger than when he ran a hundred meters. Qin Cheng had seen it before.

“My roommate saved a seat,” Jian Heng calmly flaunted his affection right under the DaYe’s watchful eye. “No rush, let’s finish our drinks first before we go up.”

The two of them dawdled on the first floor of the library for almost fifteen minutes drinking milk tea before heading up.

As soon as they sat down, Qin Cheng’s phone lit up.

Tan Qi’er: Freaking awesome, Brother. When you say you’re trending, you really are. You have a natural talent for making it to the hot search list.

Qin Cheng raised an eyebrow, flipping through his English book while replying.

Student Heng Heng’s boyfriend: Speak human language.

The other side quickly sent over a few pictures, and Qin Cheng clicked to open them. They were all photos of him and Jian Heng drinking milk tea on the first floor. At the time, he was so busy chatting with his boyfriend that he didn’t even notice who was taking the pictures.

Fortunately, both of them had good looks that could withstand scrutiny; otherwise, with this camera’s pixel quality, even living people would look like ghosts.

The last picture was a screenshot of a forum post.

The title was ‘If I were drinking like this at the door, I might look like a fool’. Qin Cheng laughed, scrolled down, and saw a string of comments, ‘Be more confident, drop the ‘might”.

Qin Cheng laughed for about five minutes. Jian Heng squeezed his hand and pushed over a piece of paper. Have you memorized the words?

The tough guy sighed; he hadn’t. He had to start with ‘abandon‘ this time. Each time he saw these kind of thing, it was like seeing a new word.

The library has air conditioning, with a cool breeze blowing and only the sound of school tyrants flipping through books around him. Qin Cheng couldn’t hold on for even ten minutes.

This environment was just too suitable for sleeping.

But he couldn’t sleep. The library at the Medical University was a treasure trove of resources. As an outsider, just occupying their library was already taking advantage. If he fell asleep there, he would want to slap himself.

Isn’t it said that the environment influences people? Studying in the library with Jian Heng was much better than studying in bed…

***

They studied until ten o’clock at night when the security guard came to kick people out. The library still had at least half of the people.

On the way down, Qin Cheng said softly: “I feel like if I came here every day, I could at least pass the graduate program entrance exam.”

“Want to take the graduate program entrance exam?” Jian Heng looked at him.

“No, no, no, I just said that casually,” Qin Cheng jumped down three steps at a time, threw away the trash at the corner of the stairs, turned around and said: “I’ve studied enough. If I took the graduate program entrance exam, it would be like sending me off. It’s more reliable to go straight to work.”

As the two people were leaving the library, a boy rushed over from the side, walking with his head down and not looking where he was going, and bumped straight into Jian Heng. Jian Heng’s reaction was so quick it could rival a professional athlete; just as the boy was about to hit him, Jian Heng swiftly stepped back diagonally, and the boy ran directly into the glass door.

This reaction speed, Qin Cheng couldn’t help but whistle.

The boy who wasn’t watching where he was going bumped into something quite hard. Just as Qin Cheng was about to go over and help him, the boy looked up, and his face overlapped with the face on the forum photo for a second.

Qin Cheng narrowed his eyes. I didn’t go looking for you, but you came knocking on my door.

Without saying a word, Qin Cheng directly grabbed him by the back of his collar, leading him to the side. Jian Heng followed behind.

The boy, dazed from the bump, only reacted when he was pulled aside. He looked at Jian Heng with a terrified face, then turned to look at Qin Cheng. After recognizing the fierce-looking alpha in front of him, his face turned pale with fear.

Qin Cheng had checked last night; the audacious boy who dared to dig his corner was named Zhou Lai.

Qin Cheng looked at him with a smile that didn’t reach his eyes. “This student, I think we have a kindred face. How about we become friends? I’m a freshman on the track and field team at the neighboring National Sports University. My name is Qin Cheng.”

Qin Cheng spoke the last few words in a low, deliberate tone, word by word, and his expression was as ferocious as if he was going to peel off his skin and pull out his tendons.

Zhou Lai’s voice trembled with fear, finally realizing the seriousness of the situation: “I, I, I don’t want to, don’t want to be friends…”

Qin Cheng patted him on the shoulder. With his well-developed muscles from years of training, the sports student’s hand came down hard enough to almost make Zhou Lai kneel with a single slap.

Qin Cheng was still looking at him, smiling kindly while pointing at Jian Heng: “You don’t want to be friends with me, so how about being friends with him? He’s my boyfriend, handsome, right? He’s a first-year clinical medicine student at the Medical University, named Jian Heng. Does he look familiar?”

Jian Heng stood to the side, looking at him coldly. When he was expressionless, he exuded a murderous aura, as if he could pull out a scalpel and perform a vivisection[mfn]活體解剖 (huó tǐ jiě pōu): sentisection vivisection; biopsy vivisect; Vivisection (from Latin vivus ‘alive’ and sectio ‘cutting’) is surgery conducted for experimental purposes on a living organism, typically animals with a central nervous system, to view living internal structure. The word is, more broadly, used as a pejorative catch-all term for experimentation on live animals by organizations opposed to animal experimentation, but the term is rarely used by practicing scientists.[/mfn] on him at any moment.

Zhou Lai was so scared that he almost cried.

“You’re an alpha, act like a man,” Qin Cheng straightforwardly took out his phone, pulled up the photos of his confession, and held them up in front of him, “This is you, right? Next time you confess, buy a flower smaller than you to give. It looks like you’re not even as big as the flower. Men can’t be called small, you know.”

Zhou Lai nodded tremblingly, tears welling up in his eyes.

Not to mention that Qin Cheng’s character has never been one to have tender, protective feelings for the fairer sex, just because he did this shit, he doesn’t feel the slightest bit of sympathy.

“You nodded, so you admit this person is you, right?” Qin Cheng swiped his index and middle fingers across the screen, zooming the photo in and out. “You know he has a boyfriend, right? You know, right? And fucking medical students understand medical students better, sports students don’t know shit. You’re quite capable.”

Zhou Lai shook his head frantically; he had been possessed by a ghost this time. How could he have provoked such terrifying two people: “Ge, I was wrong, I was wrong, I won’t dare again…”

Qin Cheng leaned down, frowned, and looked him in the eye, pointing at himself: “Look at me, do I look that kind-hearted? Don’t I look like someone who could kick you to death with one kick?”

“I was wrong, Ge, Ge, I was wrong, I really won’t dare again, I really won’t dare again…” Zhou Lai backed away vigorously, “I won’t dare, I won’t dare…”

“You better not dare,” Qin Cheng straightened up, “if there’s a next time, I’ll strip you and throw you on the rooftop for exhibition, surrounded by a circle of roses. I’ll make you run naked while holding a rose.”

Zhou Lai didn’t dare to move.

As he turned to leave, Jian Heng shot a cold glance at Zhou Lai. His expressionless, cold demeanor made Qin Cheng momentarily feel like he was back in high school, once again witnessing Jian Heng’s intimidating aura that could intimidate Tan Qi, ‘as if he were about to draw a knife at any moment’.

Zhou Lai was so scared that his legs went weak, and he fell to the ground with a thud. The next second, he actually burst into tears.

Qin Cheng didn’t even know what to say anymore. Just this? Just this? Not to mention that Jian Heng was with him, even if he wasn’t, Jian Heng would never fancy something like this.

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The author has something to say:

Blind students, have you noticed the highlights[mfn]盲生，你們是否發現華點了 (máng shēng, nǐ men shì fǒu fā xiàn huá diǎn le): lit. Blind students, have you found the highlights. 盲生，你發現了華點 (máng shēng, nǐ fā xiàn le huá diǎn), Blind student, you discovered the highlights, is an Internet buzzword that comes from The Detective Collection of Sherlock Holmes. It is a variant of what Holmes said to Watson when he discovered the key point in solving the case, that is, 華生，你發現了盲點 (Huá Shēng, nǐ fā xiàn le máng diǎn), Watson, you’ve found the highlights.[/mfn]? Qin-ge is 1.90 meters ‘zero’, Jian-ge is 1.91 meters ‘one’, oh yeah!

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千載難逢 (qiān zǎi nán féng): once in a blue moon; not occurring once in a thousand years; extremely rare (idiom); once-in-a-lifetime; of a lifetime; difficult to meet in a thousand years; an idiom that comes from a historical story. The original meaning is that it is hard to encounter something once in a thousand years. Later, it was used to describe an extremely rare opportunity.

妙不可言 (miào bù kě yán): too wonderful for words; indescribable; ineffable; beyond words; inexpressible; unspeakable; to describe something that is too good to be expressed in words.

狗膽包天 (gǒu dǎn bāo tiān): lit. dog’s guts; extremely daring (idiom); foolhardy; extremely audacious; brazen; outrageously bold; daring beyond measure; to be extremely bold and reckless.
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