He Changzhi felt that Zhou Cibai’s lie was so childish and clumsy that he could not help pointing and scolding him: “Zhou Cibai, stop slandering people! At most, we were just trippin you. When did we kick you?!”
“So you admit that you deliberately tripped people while playing basketball?” Zhou Cibai instantly raised his eyes and looked at He Changzhi. His eyes were calm, but there was an undisguised sharpness between his brows.
He Changzhi was stunned.
Zhou Cibai took out his cell phone from his white coat pocket and tapped a few times. The words He Changzhi had just spoken echoed at the door of the locker room. “At most, we were just tripping you. When did we kick you?!”
He Changzhi’s expression turned extremely ugly in a second.
Zhou Cibai didn’t plan to say more to him and lowered his hands: “This is a violation of team rules. You quit the team voluntarily, or should I go find the coach? You can choose one.”
He looked at He Changzhi calmly and confidently, without any threat at all, but he had an innate sense of oppression from top to bottom, so strong that He Changzhi couldn’t help but clench his fists in order to control himself from retreating.
He knew he was not Zhou Cibai’s opponent, and he was also too clear on who the group of people on the school team would stand for.
So he could only grit his teeth, watching the indescribable strange atmosphere between Zhou Cibai and Gu Jiqing, and then thinking of the sentence “Gu Jiqing and I ‘also’ slept together” that neither of them refuted, and he exerted force on the back of his hands until veins popped out.
In the end, he just sneered, kicked the locker room door hard, and turned and left.
As soon as he disappeared from sight, Zhou Cibai, who had just had an aura of 2.8 meters, immediately looked at Gu Jiqing, “You… that… he didn’t bully you, did he?”
Gu Jiqing lowered his eyes and looked at his upright ankle.
“……”
Realizing that his little lie had been exposed, Zhou Cibai uncomfortably withdrew his foot and said with red ears, “It did hurt a little just now.”
The fall he had before was not light, so it was really painful, but not so painful that he couldn’t walk.
Gu Jiqing saw the grievance in his guilty conscience and curled his lips slightly. “I know, so do you want to apply some ointment?”
Where did the ointment come from?
Zhou Cibai raised his head.
Gu Jiqing took out a bottle of ointment for injuries that basketball players usually have from his pocket and said softly, “I was worried that you might get hurt, so I took it from your bedside table this morning.”
Zhou Cibai’s heart suddenly softened.
Gu Jiqing is not a heartless cat, he is a very thoughtful cat.
And it is a cat that can protect him and care about him.
Thinking of what he had just heard, Zhou Cibai felt that Gu Jiqing was indeed being a little different to him. So he took a step forward and let out an “En.” Then pretended to be calm and said, “Actually, I was hit on the back a few times just now. Can you help me apply some too?”
He thought he spoke very calmly, but his ears were already red as blood, and he looked as if he were extremely embarrassed.
Gu Jiqing chuckled: “En, then you go take a shower first, and I’ll help you apply it after you’re done.”
“Oh, okay.” Zhou Cibai realized that he smelled and quickly went into the shower room.
The two teams have two different locker rooms, each equipped with its own shower room.
The rest of their team is still celebrating on the basketball court, but only he quickly asked Xia Qiao and rushed over because Gu Jiqing was no longer with him.
So he must cherish this rare moment of solitude; otherwise, if everyone comes later, Gu Jiqing will definitely be taken away by that group of people again.
Zhou Cibai thought about it and took a quick shower.
Gu Jiqing didn’t think much either. He just leaned against the window, lowered his head, and looked back at the message from Xia Qiao, telling him that he was fine here.
Xia Qiao, however, was not at ease: [No, He Changzhi is the kind of person who will hate because of love, and he will do whatever it takes to save face. He has lost face so badly today, who knows what bad things he might be up to?]
Gu Jiqing casually replied, “He dares not touch Zhou Cibai.”
He Changzhi, a refined egoist, will not touch people he cannot afford to touch.
Xia Qiao replied instantly: [But he dares to touch you ah!!! You don’t have the kind of family support like Zhou Cibai!]
Gu Jiqing still didn’t care: [He also didn’t dare to really do anything]
What he said to He Changzhi was all true, without any exaggeration. He Changzhi knew him and should have known this.
Xia Qiao felt that Gu Jiqing simply ignored the extent of He Chang’s shamelessness: [He doesn’t dare to really do anything, but he can spread some nonsense, which is disgusting enough to make you sick to death. What if he really goes around saying you slept with him?]
[Spreading rumors is illegal, he dares not]
Gu Jiqing replied with an indifferent expression to these seven words. What’s more, what he cared least about was what other people said, so he dared to break up with He Changzhi without reservation.
Because once the only way the other person can harm you is to slander what you least care about, then they can only be unnecessarily angry.
After Gu Jiqing finished replying, the sound of water just stopped.
He looked up and saw that Zhou Cibai was only wearing a pair of basketball shorts, and he came out wiping his hair.
The robust muscle lines are all exposed, the waist and abdomen are tight and narrow, the abdominal muscles have clear blocks, and there are also fine droplets flowing, which is indeed sexy and eye-catching enough.
He remembered the scene of Zhou Cibai playing basketball and nodded seriously, saying, “No wonder so many girls want to marry you.”
“……!” Zhou Cibai, who was originally pretending to be calmly wiping his hair, paused all over before quickly explaining, “They’re just talking nonsense. I don’t even know them, and they must have their own boyfriends. They don’t really want to marry me, and I didn’t mean to lift my clothes to look cool. Besides, didn’t I tuck my clothes in later…”
As he explained, he realized that he seemed to be trying to cover up the truth, and he felt something was weird, so he just shut up.
Gu Jiqing lowered his head and chuckled.
Zhou Cibai felt so awkward. “What are you laughing at?”
Gu Jiqing looked up at him with a smile in his eyes, “Do you know there is a dialect in our hometown?”
Zhou Cibai: “En?”
Gu Jiqing said, “Henpecked1To be under one’s wife’s thumb..”
Zhou Cibai frowned slightly.
Gu Jiqing explained slowly: “It means being controlled by your wife.”
Zhou Cibai: “……”
Gu Jiqing seemed to be in a good mood, and his tone was full of gentle smiles. “The way you looked just now was exactly like the uncle from my neighbor’s house when I was a child. He always explained things to aunty in this way, but after explaining, he still had to kneel on the washboard outside the door. Don’t you think it’s miserable?”
Zhou Cibai said, “It’s not miserable, it’s very happy.”
“En?”
Gu Jiqing seemed to hear a somewhat unexpected answer.
Zhou Cibai whispered, “Don’t be fooled by my grandfather’s powerful appearance. When I was young and my grandmother was still alive, if he said a few more words to Grandma Wang next door during the day, he would have to kneel on the washboard when he came home at night. At that time, I felt that my grandfather was very pitiful, but after my grandmother passed away, my grandfather told me that he felt very happy every time he knelt on the washboard because it showed that my grandmother cared and loved him. He couldn’t even kneel on the washboard anymore, which is truly pitiful.”
Gu Jiqing originally just thought Zhou Cibai was so adorable that he couldn’t help but make an analogy, but he didn’t expect to get such a serious and sincere answer from Zhou Cibai.
So he put away his joking expression and said seriously, “Then your grandfather must love your grandmother very much.”
“En.” Zhou Cibai did not deny it. After he finished answering, he said, “My dad also often kneels on the washboard.”
Gu Jiqing: “En?”
Why are you suddenly saying this?
Before he could ask, Zhou Cibai added, “My brother is the same.”
Gu Jiqing: “.”
“That day on my dad’s birthday, a female star handed my brother a business card. That night, he knelt on Zhou Xiaoyue’s math book until Zhou Xiaoyue finished his homework.”
Gu Jiqing: “……”
It really is a family tradition.
But why did Zhou Cibai suddenly say this?
Gu Jiqing thought about the Zhou family’s background and wondered if he would be under strict supervision if he knew these things.
But Zhou Cibai just looked at him and said with a red ear, “So our Zhou family should be the ancestral henpecked, and I will definitely do the same in the future.”
Why are there still people competing to be henpecked?
Listening to Zhou Cibai, a native of Beijing, awkwardly and clumsily imitating the pronunciation of “henpecked,” Gu Jiqing couldn’t hold his head and laughed out loud.
It’s the kind of spring when the warm sun rises, the thin ice suddenly bursts, and after the ice and snow melt, the peach blossom petals lightly rippled with a shallow water-like smile.
The red mole at the corner of his eye also bloomed with the radiance of early spring recovery.
Zhou Cibai had never seen Gu Jiqing laugh like this before, and he paused in place for a moment.
After realizing how childish and strange things he had just said, Zhou Cibai realized that this laugh of Gu Jiqing was a mockery laugh towards him.
He immediately went to cover Gu Jiqing’s mouth in anger and embarrassment, saying, “I’m serious, you’re not allowed to laugh.”
“I didn’t laugh, I just thought you were so cute.” Gu Jiqing tried to control his laugh.
But for some reason, Gu Jiqing, who has always been able to control his emotions well and rarely causes any ripples, couldn’t hide those laughs for a moment, and his eyes also curved slightly into beautiful crescents.
Zhou Cibai thought it was beautiful and felt itchy and ashamed inside, so he quickly stretched out his other hand to cover Gu Jiqing’s eyes as well.
Gu Jiqing’s visions darkened, and he reached out to grab Zhou Cibai’s hand. However, due to a lack of vision, he accidentally stepped on Zhou Cibai’s foot while playing and tripped directly.
Zhou Cibai hurriedly tried to help him up, but because he was covering Gu Jiqing’s face with both hands, he was a little slow to withdraw them, and Gu Jiqing had already fallen forward. He instinctively grabbed both sides of Zhou Cibai’s arms and even stepped on his feet. As a result, Zhou Cibai could only fall back.
Zhou Cibai immediately grabbed Gu Jiqing’s waist, then staggered back a few steps and slammed his body into the locker, forcibly stopping the falling trend and allowing Gu Jiqing to fall directly into his arms, avoiding the possibility of him getting hurt.
Only with quick enough reactions and a calm and reliable body could the crisis be resolved.
Gu Jiqing wanted to say thank you.
But when he looked up, he found that Zhou Cibai’s ears and neck had turned completely red.
Then he realized that he was stepping on Zhou Cibai’s feet, lying in his arms, grabbing his arms on both sides, and being held by his waist. Their noses almost touched each other, and their breaths were intermingling vaguely.
Zhou Cibai’s upper body is still naked.
Adding to the pleasant atmosphere of a romantic afternoon film between the two just now, Gu Jiqing suddenly felt his heart on the left side of his chest beat.
On the right side of his chest, he felt the heartbeat of the person who was pressed tightly against him, so violent that it seemed about to jump out.
Gu Jiqing thought, it was a good time to have a kiss, even though they were not each other’s lovers.
But people who can stimulate each other’s hormones and hearts are also hard to find in this vast sea of people.
So he looked up and asked softly, “Zhou Cibai, do you want to kiss?”—
The author has something to say:
Father, brother, and grandfather: reputation has been damaged!
T/N: Not him selling out his own family lol
