Regarding the matter of Gu Jiqing staying in Zhou Cibai’s room, except for the people involved, everyone else was happy.
Including Gu Jue, who thought the relationship between Gu Jiqing and Zhou Cibai was really good.
And when the banquet ended, after greeting Zhou Cibai’s parents and easily solving Zhou Xiao Yue’s second grade International Mathematical Olympiad questions, the two stood in Zhou Cibai’s room, speechless.
The atmosphere was a little awkward.
Although they usually sleep in the same room in the dormitory, this room and that room are still different.
Because this room only has one bed.
Moreover, due to the large number of guests at home this time, the spare four-piece set and disposable pajamas were all used up, and the two of them were stuck in a stalemate where only one bed could be covered and Gu Jiqing had no pajamas to wear.
Regarding this matter, Gu Jiqing has a lot of self-awareness as a gay person.
After getting a clear picture of the current situation, he said directly, “It’s okay, just find me a coat or a blanket, and I’ll cover up on the couch for the night.”
Zhou Cibai’s room was actually quite large, with a study balcony and bathroom, but due to the installation of an indoor backboard, a large area of space was left without furniture. There’s only a single sofa for one person to sit on.
Not to mention a tall man like Zhou Cibai, even a thin adult male like Gu Jiqing struggles to curl his entire body up, let alone sleep all night.
Zhou Cibai wasn’t so bad as to toss someone over the edge because of his own little homophobia and mental issues.
And with Gu Jiqing’s character, there was absolutely no way he would let him sleep on the sofa.
So he just remained calm, expressionless, and said, “It’s okay, the bed is big, one person on one side, no fluence.”
The bed is indeed quite large, about 2.2 meters in size, it’s almost as big as two single beds in a dormitory. One person is sleeping on one side, and indeed they will not interfere with each other.
Gu Jiqing didn’t make any pretence, he nodded, and said, “En, okay, I happen to sleep relatively honestly.”
Upon hearing the words “honestly,” Zhou Cibai remembered Gu Jiqing’s two experiences of climbing into his bed. His body stiffened slightly, and he was somewhat tempted to go back on his words.
However, Gu Jiqing had already stood in place, raised his eyes, and looked at him. His eyelashes blinked lightly, as if he had told some big truth, so he couldn’t understand why Zhou Cibai hesitated.
Zhou Cibai: “……”
Bear with it, forget it.
Perhaps besides being prone to getting into the wrong bed, Gu Jiqing does sleep relatively honestly.
After all, after they squeezed into a single bed that night, everything was relatively peaceful, and nothing happened.
Zhou Cibai suppressed ten thousand conflicting thoughts in his heart and forced himself to nod calmly, “That’s good.”
Then the room fell into an extremely awkward silence once again.
Gu Jiqing felt fine in his heart because he felt that his sleeping habits were indeed very good.
Moreover, Zhou Cibai is also a gentleman who has homophobia. He doesn’t have any unnecessary ambiguity or do anything impolite. It’s also easy and hassle-free to wake up after a good night’s sleep, just in time for the two of them to go to the volunteer activities together.
But what’s more troublesome is that he doesn’t have pajamas.
In fact, it’s not impossible to sleep with only a shirt on, but Zhou Cibai seems to be unable to accept him not wearing any pants, so this choice can only be rejected by Gu Jiqing himself for now.
He felt that Zhou Cibai had already conceded to this extent, so he wanted to do his best to avoid causing trouble for the other party.
So after the silence, he was the first to open his mouth. “It’s getting late already. I want to wash up and go to bed. Would it be convenient to borrow a set of pajamas that you’re not wearing?”
“En? Oh, okay.”
Zhou Cibai regained his senses and hurriedly took out a set of pajamas from his wardrobe, which he usually does not wear, and handed them to Gu Jiqing. He also helped to take out new toiletries, set the bathroom water temperature, and prepare to leave quickly to avoid unnecessary embarrassment.
Just before the door was closed, Gu Jiqing suddenly called out to him, “Zhou Cibai.”
“En?” Zhou Cibai held the doorknob and looked up at him. “Is there anything?”
“En.” Gu Jiqing met his gaze and said in a warm voice, “I want to say thank you to you.”
Zhou Cibai paused slightly as he held the doorknob.
Gu Jiqing looked at him, his tone serious and gentle. “Thank you for the previous matter regarding He Changzhi and today’s incident too.”
Perhaps not accustomed to this sudden and solemn gratitude, Zhou Cibai blushed for an instant and quickly avoided his gaze. “It’s nothing, everyone would do so, you don’t have to take it to heart.”
After speaking, he hurriedly left the scene.
“Not everyone would do this.” Gu Jiqing said softly.
Zhou Cibai paused again.
“Not everyone is willing to help, protect, and stand up for someone when they don’t like them. This is a beautiful and kind quality, so you are a very good person. I am grateful and cherish it.”
Gu Jiqing only habitually reciprocates the same kindness to those who have expressed goodwill towards him.
However, when he said this, his gaze towards Zhou Cibai was too gentle and firm, as if Zhou Cibai were a hero worthy of praise in his eyes.
So much so that when Zhou Cibai met his gaze, his heart skipped a beat, and then a strange emotion began to ferment and spread infinitely in his chest, as if some emotion was about to break free from its inherent shackles and be exhaled.
It wasn’t until the phone on the table in the bedroom started tinkling incessantly that he suddenly regained his senses. He then hurriedly threw down a sentence, “You take a shower first.” and quickly closed the bathroom door.
When the bathroom door was heavily shut, Zhou Cibai tightly grasped the handle and worked hard to calm down for a long time before making up his mind to take some time to have his heart checked in the next two days.
Then he started thinking about what Gu Jiqing had just said.
Very good.
Thank you very much.
I also cherish it very much.
……
Sh*t.
Gu Jiqing couldn’t have originally had no thoughts about him but ended up being attracted to him because he helped him twice, could he?
When Zhou Cibai thought of this, he immediately dared not think further. He pursed his lips tightly, sat back on the sofa, picked up his phone, and tried to divert his attention.
Coincidentally, a message came from the dormitory group.
[Roaring at the sight of injustice on the road]: @Lao Si Hahaha, I flipped through chat records today and saw the guide I sent you. It’s really funny. We even thought that Gu Gu wanted to bend you, which was outrageous
[Roaring at the sight of injustice on the road]: And you see what this bending guide is all about: finding opportunities to live in the other person’s house, borrowing their bathroom, wearing their clothes, and giving them a psychological suggestion that you are already their lover
[Roaring at the sight of injustice on the road]: There is also a way to show weakness appropriately, satisfy a man’s inflated vanity and strong willpower, stimulate the other person’s protective desire, remain aloof, make the other person suffer, and start getting jealous. What’s all that about?
[Roaring at the sight of injustice on the road]: In what era do people still believe in this? You’ve watched too many idol dramas from a decade ago. Otherwise, what kind of man would take this? Hahaha……
At night, Zhou Cibai, who had just saved the beauty as a hero, handed Gu Jiqing his pajamas, and asked him to take a shower in his own bathroom. “……”
Before he could fully react, the bathroom door opened.
He looked up.
Gu Jiqing’s hair is slightly wet, and he walked out in his pajamas.
Due to the significant difference in body size between the two, Zhou Cibai’s pajamas were loose when he wore them. The sleeves and trouser legs were rolled up due to being too long, revealing his fair and slender wrists and ankles. The collar was also forced to reveal large patches of skin and flat, sunken collarbones.
Perhaps because the water temperature was a bit hot, the originally cold and white skin was scalded into a light dusting of smoke.
The waist, on the other hand, is thoroughly hidden in the black satin, empty and ungainly, making people particularly desirable to……
Hug.
The moment he realized what he was thinking, Zhou Cibai cursed himself for being crazy and quickly turned his gaze away. “That, you, I……”
“What’s it?”
Gu Jiqing walked over to Zhou Cibai as if nothing had happened. and found that the sofa blanket had slipped to the ground. He bent down and picked it up.
There was a sudden smell of shower gel in the air, just like the one on Zhou Cibai’s body. The empty collar also hung down, and all the spring scenery was visible in front of Zhou Cibai’s eyes.
Although it was only for a fleeting second, when Zhou Cibai saw those two shallow spots, he instantly felt like a big dog with its tail stepped on. He jumped up from the sofa with a “whoosh” and left an incoherent sentence. “That-you go to bed first, bathroom, I’ll go.” Without looking back, he rushed into the bathroom.
The sound of water soon came crashing in.
Gu Jiqing, who was holding a sofa blanket, “……”
It seemed like it was indeed difficult for Zhou Cubai to be alone in the same room as him.
After thinking about it, he decided that when he went back tomorrow, it would be better to maintain a more detached, safer, and undisturbed distance with Zhou Cibai.
After all, Zhou Cibai’s willingness to endure was his demeanor, but he himself should have more than a little discretion.
Gu Jiqing carefully laid out the sofa blanket, got into the bed, chose the corner at the edge, and shrunk himself into a tiny little one. Only a quarter of the quilt was covered in order to minimize its presence and not occupy Zhou Cibai’s space.
The snowstorm howled wildly outside, and the decorative fireplace inside the house cracked in response to the scene.
At first, Gu Jiqing was a bit unaccustomed to the bed, but the smell on his body was mostly familiar to him, so he quickly fell asleep.
But Zhou Cibai didn’t come out of the bathroom for a long time.
He tried to lower the water temperature as much as possible, but still couldn’t bring down the warmth all over his body.
His mind was filled with Gu Jiqing’s gentle, trusting, determined, and somewhat admiring gaze as he looked at him, as well as the spring scenery.
How could there be a man who is so white and still so……
Pink.
Zhou Cibai even felt his blood begin to flow without stopping just by thinking of this word.
The most crucial thing is that Gu Jiqing’s gaze clearly indicates that he had some different ideas.
And although he doesn’t believe in those online emotional guides, how did every one of them just happen to be right?
Even if it’s a coincidence, there must be a reason for it.
Zhou Cibai became more and more agitated as he thought about it. In the end, he decided that he must immediately explain to Gu Jiqing that helping him was only based on a basic sense of morality and not for any other reason, in order to avoid misunderstandings.
Thinking about it, Zhou Cibai turned off the shower, hastily wiped himself a few times, and then wrapped himself in a bathrobe and left the bathroom.
However, as soon as he went out the door, he saw that on the side of the huge two-meter-two bed, a slender but long figure under the thin quilt was rolling towards the other side of the bed at a slow but gradually accelerating speed.
Almost instinctively, Zhou Cibai took a few steps and rushed over, kneeling on one knee on the bed. He reached out to grab Gu Jiqing’s waist and pulled him back. Gu Jiqing immediately rolled back obediently in the direction he pulled, and Zhou Cibai quickly got up.
As a result, when Gu Jiqing rolled back, he happened to press against Zhou Cibai’s bathrobe belt that was draped over the bed. So when he stood up, there was a direct jab, the belt’s knot was pulled open, and the person was also thrown down with it.
Even though he was quick-witted and supported himself with his elbows, he still firmly fell on Gu Jiqing’s body.
Gu Jiqing’s already loose pajama collar slipped off his shoulders, revealing his snow-white and thin shoulders with a hint of light color, creating a strong contrast with Zhou Cibai’s tense and wheat colored arms.
This was also the first time Zhou Cibai realized that Gu Jiqing was so thin, so soft, and smelled so good, and his facial features looked even better up close than when they were in daylight.
Just wrapped in his own scent, lying underneath him, somewhat bewildered when he lifted his eyelashes, the end of his eyes hooked the small red mole through the ignorant charm, as if easily hooked on all the world’s good scenery.
So Gu Jiqing suddenly woke up in a daze and looked at the handsome face in front of him, which was infinitely enlarged because he was so close. He noticed the other person’s embarrassing situation at this moment and then asked softly, “Do you need any help?”
