What are the other methods?
Zhou Cibai raised his head and saw Gu Jiqing’s moist, red lips. He was stunned for a moment, and quickly reacted. Then the blood at the base of his ears was evaporated by the heat and flowed through his entire neck.
“……”
F*ck!
Who does Gu Jiqing think he is?!
Zhou Cibai quickly explained: “That’s not what I meant. I didn’t come here to do that with you. I just wanted to, no, not that I didn’t want to, anyway…just…do you want it?”
Zhou Cibai explained for a long time but found that he couldn’t explain it clearly. In the end, he could only lower his head, clench the ointment bottle in his hand, and ask the last four words embarrassedly.
Gu Jiqing thought about it and chose to tell the truth: “I am actually a little tired today, and I am very sleepy. I want to sleep.”
“Then don’t.”
Zhou Cibai raised his head without hesitation.
The answer was unexpected. Gu Jiqing looked at the ‘obvious that something was wrong’ in Zhou Cibai, as if silently questioning.
Zhou Cibai stepped back and avoided the gaze, his ears still flushed with shyness, but he did not hide his desires and thoughts, “I do want it, but if you don’t want it, you should say no.”
“But I think you seem a little unhappy today.” Gu Jiqing expressed his thoughts honestly.
Zhou Cibai hurriedly said, “But if you don’t want to do this kind of thing, I will also be unhappy.”
After he finished speaking, he looked into Gu Jiqing’s gentle and inquiring eyes, and he knew that Gu Jiqing must have considered his feelings and habitually ignored his own deepest wishes.
For Gu Jiqing, this may just be a habit that has been formed over the years.
But for Zhou Cibai, this is a very bad habit.
He didn’t want Gu Jiqing to humble himself, even in front of him.
So even though he was about to explode with anger, he still tightly grasped the ointment bottle, looked at Gu Jiqing, and seriously said, “Under the circumstances of point number 1 and 7 of the contract, everything you do in front of me can be done just because you want to do it, not because you think I want you to do it. At least in front of me, you can try to only do what you like to do.”
When he said this, his voice was deep and powerful, and his eyes looking at Gu Jiqing appeared bright and firm under the bathroom light.
Like two very young stars, they even have enough light and heat to burn and light up an entire deserted galaxy.
Gu Jiqing thought to himself that those might be the two stars that were closest to him.
So he felt that it was not impossible for him to give what Zhou Cibai said a try.
Just then, Xia Qiao opened the balcony door and shouted, “Gu Gu, come out after you finish washing up so we can play games! We are short of one! They are all so useless! They can’t carry me!”
Gu Jiqing was about to respond when Zhou Cibai looked up at him, “Aren’t you tired? You just said you were sleepy and wanted to sleep.”
Gu Jiqing looked into his righteous eyes and slightly paused.
Agreeing to his friend’s request had become his instinct. He didn’t even think about the possibility of refusing, nor did he have time to think that he was indeed very tired today.
As he paused, Zhou Cibai had already wrapped him in a bathrobe with a sullen face. “Did you not listen to what I just said to you?”
There was even a hint of displeasure in his tone.
But Gu Jiqing did intend to give it a try, “It’s not that I don’t want to listen, it’s just that…”
Before he could finish, Zhou Cibai said in a cold voice, “I know that because of your mother, you have been used to not saying no since you were a child. But in fact, if someone dislikes you because you reject them, their liking for you is cheap. As long as there is a conflict of interest, they will give up this love. But people who really like you will never feel bad because of your reasonable rejection, so refusal itself is actually a kind of screening and protection.”
Gu Jiqing: “.”
That makes sense.
“But…”
Zhou Cibai’s voice became even colder, “And this is also your legitimate right. Just like you wrote in the first rule that it should not be done more than once a week and not more than two hours at a time, as long as you don’t want to, I will never force you, and I will never hate you because of this. This is the basic principle of mutual consideration and respect between people.”
Gu Jiqing let out an “En” and said, “But…”
“No buts. I think Xia Qiao and Lu Ping really like and want to be friends with you. If you really want to be friends with them forever, you should try to start by saying no.”
After Zhou Cibai finished speaking, he looked at Gu Jiqing with a very serious expression, as if he had turned into a powerful and older controller in an instant.
Then Gu Jiqing said, “But Xia Qiao is really difficult to carry. If he loses points, he may hold me and cry all night, and he will also want to sleep with me.”
“……”
The “powerful older man in control,” who had gone to great lengths just to sleep with Gu Jiqing, suddenly stopped where he was, with a dazed look on his face.
Gu Jiqing saw his reaction and curled his lips slightly, “It’s okay, I’ll play a few rounds with them.”
“No.” Zhou Cibai quickly came to his senses and refused with a straight face: “If you say you want to sleep, you have to sleep. You can’t spoil them. At worst, I can play with them. Anyway, I’ve been practicing hard for a period of time, and my skills are not bad now. I should be able to carry them.”
Gu Jiqing: “……”
So the faint light coming from Zhou Cibai’s bed that he saw every night when he woke up was because he was practicing Honor of Kings.
Gu Jiqing suddenly felt that Tsinghua University students’ spirit of diligence and study might be more extensive than he had imagined.
“But why are you practicing this?”
Gu Jiqing couldn’t help but ask in a gentle voice.
Zhou Cibai: “……”
After a brief pause, his ears turned red, and he avoided looking at him. “Nothing.”
Gu Jiqing looked at him quietly.
Realizing that he couldn’t keep the excuse any longer, Zhou Cibai lowered his head and quickly explained, “Because the Guan Yu you played last time was quite handsome, I wanted to play with you, but I didn’t want to be too bad and hold you back, so…”
So he started to learning hard and practice diligently.
Gu Jiqing recalled that he seemed to have played a game with Zhou Cibai a month ago. Zhou Cibai played a little fox with a pink tail and was rescued by a hero named Guan Yu.
No wonder he practices so seriously.
It turned out that the 1.9-meter-tall muscular man was too embarrassed and want to save his face.
Thinking of Zhou Cibai pursing his lips, frowning, curling up in the quilt, and practicing Honor of Kings seriously, Gu Jiqing couldn’t help but curl his lips: “But I think you are also very cute when you play Daji.”
Zhou Cibai blushed and quickly said, “Don’t laugh! Aiya, don’t worry about it! Just go to sleep! Leave the rest to me!”
“En, okay.”
Gu Jiqing imagined how Zhou Cibai had been secretly practicing the game for the past month and couldn’t bear to dampen his enthusiasm any further, so he sat on the edge of the bathtub, swinging his legs, looking up at Zhou Cibai with a smile.
Zhou Cibai faced his gaze, his ears red with uneasiness. He took out his cell phone, called Lu Ping, and asked in a low voice, “What are you doing on Gu Jiqing’s terrace?”
“Barbecue ah, what? Did it disturb your sleep?”
Zhou Cibai: “No, I’m fine, but Gu Jiqing is not feeling well today and has been very sleepy. He said that he wanted to go to sleep in the afternoon. You guys don’t bother him.”
As soon as the words fell, the other side immediately said worriedly. “F*ck! Gu Gu is not feeling well?! Why didn’t you say so earlier?! Aiya, Wang Quan, stop eating, pack up your things, everyone goes back to their own home, each finds their own mother! Don’t disturb Gu Gu’s rest!”
“Then what should we do with the game?”
“Go to the living room or turn on the microphone.”
“Oh, okay, but Gu Gu doesn’t mind!”
“I don’t know, but he definitely wants to have a good rest.”
The noisy voices of several people on the other end of the phone soon crowded outside the bathroom door: “Gu Gu! Are you okay? If you are not feeling well, go to bed early. We have put food on the table for you. If you are hungry, heat it up in the microwave. Call us if you need anything! We are leaving first! We won’t disturb you anymore!”
“Go, go.”
“Aiya, you stepped on my shoe.”
“It’s your shoes that I stepped on. Who made your Wan’er won’t be able to even fly?”
“What my Wan’er can’t even fly? She flew twice in the last round! Hey, how come there is still a response from Lao Si’s phone call?”
“Nonsense, he’s right next door.”
After a while of noise, the door was closed, and the footsteps faded away.
Gu Jiqing’s phone was buzzing with messages of concern.
There are no complaints, only sincere advices and good night.
This was an experience Gu Jiqing had never had before. It turned out that the consequences of rejection were not as bad and troublesome as he thought.
His cell phone was also quickly taken away by Zhou Cibai’s hand, and then Zhou Cibai lifted him up from the bathtub by his buttocks, put him on the bed, and wrapped him in a blanket. “If you are tired, just get a good sleep and don’t think too much.”
“Okay.”
Gu Jiqing thought that since he had decided to give what Zhou Cibai said a try, he might as well try it from the beginning to the end.
And it seemed that he had become accustomed to this fully automatic care mode. He was naturally held by Zhou Cibai and then put down naturally.
However, Zhou Cibai’s reaction has not subsided, even after he gave such a long string of reasons. He probably really wants it.
Gu Jiqing asked, “But what will you do?”
Zhou Cibai’s face turned red as he hurriedly tucked in his blanket for him and said, “I’ll be fine after playing a few games. Anyway, when I read those novels, they all said that one should have self-control to be proud of. I can’t be worse than them.”
It seems that Zhou Cibai consulted a lot of various types of learning materials when he was studying.
So although large dogs are indeed a little too strong and a bit too much for him to handle, but they are indeed very cute and reliable.
So when he felt Zhou Cibai had also entered the bed, Gu Jiqing closed his eyes, turned sideways, and automatically pressed himself against the warm source, saying, “Good night.”
Zhou Cibai took a deep breath, let Gu Jiqing hold him so that he couldn’t soften1He refers to his bro lol, then gritted his teeth and forced the game open.
Gu Jiqing knew nothing about this. When he woke up from his sleep, he heard the faint sound of the game and asked softly, “Did you win?”
The voice that answered him was low and steady: “En, we won.”
Then it’s good.
Otherwise, Xia Qiao will make trouble again.
As expected, Zhou Cibai is always reliable.
Gu Jiqing, relying on instinct, rubbed against Zhou Cibai’s arms again and was about to continue sleeping when his phone rang.
He rubbed his eyes twice on Zhou Cibai’s arm, drove away his drowsiness, and lazily turned over to pick up his phone from the bedside.
Seeing that the caller ID was “Brother Lu,” Gu Jiqing’s figure paused slightly.
Zhou Cibai noticed and turned his head, whispering, “Who?”
Gu Jiqing said, “My former roommate.”
Then he answered the phone.
A voice quickly came from the other end of the phone, pretending to be intimate: “Hello, Gu Gu, have you slept?”
Gu Jiqing didn’t want to answer this kind of question from a knowledgeable consultant, he just let out a hoarse “En.”
The other person quickly said, “Sorry ah, Gu Gu, didn’t I disturb you? The main thing is that things are really urgent. Did you see the final assignment posted in the group?”
“Not yet.”
“Oh, remember to take a look, Lao Xie asked us to complete the modeling on a group basis and submit it before the 8th. There are only me, you, and He Changzhi who are participating in the modeling competition in our class. Maybe it will be more efficient. So He Changzhi asked me to ask if you want to join us?”
His voice was not small, and Zhou Cibai and Gu Jiqing were very close to each other.
When the three words “He Changzhi” appeared, Zhou Cibai’s fingers sliding on the screen paused.
Gu Jiqing noticed that something was wrong with him and knew that he didn’t like He Changzhi, but the tone on the other end of the phone was so earnest and intimate that it was hard to refuse, and he was not good at refusing such invitations either.
But Zhou Cibai’s eyes are like the stars ah.
And they are also two beautiful red giant stars as well.
After a brief silence, Gu Jiqing said three words seriously: “I don’t want to.”
The person on the other end of the phone and Zhou Cibai paused at the same time.
This was probably the first time that the other party made a request to Gu Jiqing but was rejected so directly and clearly. He was stunned and asked, “Why?”
“Because I don’t like it.”
Maybe because he was half asleep and was suddenly woken up, there was a kind of childishness in Gu Jiqing’s voice, like a child just waking up.
And these six simple words, coupled with his usual gentle tone, made it hard to refute.
This is Gu Jiqing.
Would Gu Jiqing refuse so bluntly?!
Not even a decent excuse?!
The other party was completely stunned, as if he couldn’t believe it.
A low, lazy chuckle escaped from the corner of Zhou Cibai’s lips.
Hundreds of kilometers away, He Changzhi, who was sitting next to Brother Lu and listening to the entire conversation and that ambiguous chuckle, froze in place with his whole body cold.
He opened his mouth, wanting to say something.
Gu Jiqing hung up the phone without even saying goodbye, then turned around lazily, got into Zhou Cibai’s arms in the most comfortable position, closed his eyes, and whispered, “Zhou Cibai.”
“En?”
“Can the one time in Point 1 be changed to two times?”
With just a few words, Guan Yu, under Zhou Cibai’s finger, instantly rushed straight into the enemy’s second tower.
He tightened his throat, so flattered that he couldn’t even move his fingers. “Why?”
Gu Jiqing buried his face in the crook of his neck: “Because I like it ah. And the way I owe you today. I’ll give it to you later, okay? Just treat it as a reward for Point 6.”
Do things you like, and don’t do things you don’t like.
It turns out that it is not as troublesome as he had imagined.
Although they were just some small things, he promised Zhou Cibai to give it a try, so he had to give it a try.
After he finished speaking, he fell into a deep sleep while holding Zhou Cibai.
Zhou Cibai was left alone, holding his phone with a gray screen, listening to his teammates’ screams in the game, and standing there in a daze.
It took a long time for him to react, and then he started rolling around on the bed excitedly. Halfway through, he realized that he might wake Gu Jiqing up.
He immediately stopped his actions, suppressed his pounding heart, carefully put away his long legs and feet, got back into bed, hugged Gu Jiqing, and, with red ears, secretly gave Gu Jiqing a tender and nervous kiss on the corner of his lips.
Gu Jiqing doesn’t like being in the same assignment group with He Changzhi.
But he likes sleeping with him.
Then, to round it off, Gu Jiqing doesn’t like He Changzhi, he likes him.
Gu Jiqing likes him.
That’s right, Gu Jiqing likes him.
And he also wants to give him a reward.
The more Zhou Cibai thought about it, the happier he became, and he couldn’t help but pecked Gu Jiqing’s lips again.
Then he thought of Gu Jiqing’s words, “I like it,” and couldn’t help but peck him again happily.
He turned around, closed his eyes, and thought of those words again. He couldn’t help but stand up and peck him again.
So that night, Gu Jiqing dreamed that he turned into a motionless tree, and a woodpecker with strangely long wings held and pecked at him all night long.
He would definitely ask Zhou Cibai to drive away this strange bird.
Gu Jiqing was thinking this in a daze in his dream, and then he was pecked hard by the woodpecker again. He angrily used branches to cover his torso.
Under the pillow of the long-winged woodpecker, the mobile phone page was stuck on a late-night forum: [Don’t want to let your boyfriend down? Fierce 12Once again, 1 refers to topMouth3The author uses English here, and I’m not sure what they mean by MouthFollowMe either.Follow Me! ]
As a qualified future boyfriend, he absolutely cannot let Gu Jiqing down with his reward—
