“Didn’t we agree on once a week?”
Gu Jiqing couldn’t quite remember when he mentioned the reward. He looked at Zhou Cibai and asked in confusion,
Zhou Cibai, who had just been condemning himself for his shamelessness in his heart, paused and looked up. He met Gu Jiqing’s innocent eyes and was stunned.
What does it mean?
Gu Jiqing doesn’t remember?
He had waited for a whole week, and Gu Jiqing actually wanted to default on his debt?!
His eyes changed from confusion to incredible shock and grievance. “How could you cheat?!”
Gu Jiqing: “……”
Zhou Cibai’s expression and tone suddenly made him feel that he was particularly like the heartless and unfaithful man in the TV series, and Zhou Cibai was the heartbroken good woman who was deceived and betrayed.
Feeling somewhat guilty, he looked at Zhou Cibai and quietly defended himself, “I didn’t.”
Every time Gu Jiqing was caught doing something bad, he would look at Zhou Cibai so seriously and then blink slightly, just like a ragdoll cat looking at you obediently. He looked particularly innocent and cute, but he also made people hate him so much.
Zhou Cibai couldn’t help but push Gu Jiqing to the corner of the sofa, bit his adam’s apple as punishment, and said angrily, “Little rascal.”
The smell and the temperature on his body were the smell and temperature that Gu Jiqing liked, so Gu Jiqing instinctively wrapped his arms around his neck and waist: “I didn’t, I just don’t remember anymore.”
After he said this, Zhou Cibai couldn’t vent his anger anymore.
He was so angry that she wanted to bite him a few times, but he didn’t dare to use force. He could only deliberately and viciously say, “The first night I slept in your room, you said that you would change it to three times a week. Have you forgotten it now?”
Three times a week?
Gu Jiqing often said things when he was half asleep, and he would forget them completely when he woke up the next day.
But he thought about Zhou Cibai’s physical strength and then his own physical strength, and he didn’t quite understand why he made such a suggestion at the time because he felt that he could only withstand it twice a week at most.
But Zhou Cibai would not lie to him.
Maybe it was because he was in such a good mood that night.
Just like today.
After all, he had promised Zhou Cibai, so he couldn’t go back on his word.
And when Zhou Cibai’s entire body covered him, he also felt it. It seemed that his body had begun to become familiar with and adapt to Zhou Cibai. Then, as a qualified bed partner, he had no reason to be pretentious anymore.
So he responded softly: “Okay, then we will change the rules tomorrow, but it’s better to still do it only twice a week, okay?”
He asked so sincerely that Zhou Cibai felt so guilty and soft-hearted at that moment. He looked into Gu Jiqing’s eyes and asked, “Gu Jiqing, will you believe everything I say?”
Gu Jiqing didn’t quite understand why Zhou Cibai suddenly said this.
But it was indeed a rare time when he could completely relax and not think in front of Zhou Cibai. He nodded. “En.”
A casual and natural nod is better than countless gentle words of love in the world.
Because he had seen Gu Jiqing at his calmest and most rational, at this moment, it was enough for Gu Jiqing to make his heart start beating violently.
Without waiting for Gu Jiqing to react, he lowered his head and kissed Gu Jiqing’s lips.
He thought that he would never lie to Gu Jiqing again in his life.
Except when he wanted to secretly eat Gu Jiqing.
The soft fabric sofa was deeply sunken, and the floor-standing lamp on the side was lit up, and the shadows of people were swaying continuously.
The kitten in the corner of the sofa had its tail caught in its mouth, unable to break free. Its nails scratched deep marks on the dark grey fabric, and weak whimpers escaped from its throat.
The book on the sofa was also pushed to the ground, the pages were accidentally turned, and the warm yellow light from the floor lamp blurred the black ink.
It says firelight, smell of meat, and meowing kittens. Perhaps this is the truth, this is life. [1]
The taste of the kitten and meat are both his favorite tastes.
But Gu Jiqing didn’t like it that much.
He liked the feeling of being out of control when he was with Zhou Cibai, whose senses were awakened by the warmth and strength of the other party, but he couldn’t lose control to that extent.
And is Zhou Cibai a real big dog? He licks him like when Zhou Zhou licks a kitten’s fur.
When Gu Jiqing woke up on the sofa wrapped in a blanket, he felt exhausted and began to think about whether to add some other restrictions to the treaty.
However, when he turned around, he saw Zhou Cibai busy making breakfast in the kitchen. Zhou Zhou had obviously been taking a walk and was happily playing there with Zhou Cibai’s coat in his mouth.
Zhou Cibai was even willing to spend money on such an expensive coat.
He suddenly felt that he seemed a little too selfish.
In order to help him clarify the rumors, Zhou Cibai was willing to sacrifice his original reputation and come out publicly. As a qualified bed partner, it seems that he should not be too lazy either.
He sat up, rubbed Zhou Zhou’s head, exchanged a small ball for Zhou Cibai’s coat, then stepped on the carpet and was about to go to the kitchen to help.
Zhou Cibai turned around immediately. “You’re up?”
Gu Jiqing nodded. “En.”
As expected, his voice became a little hoarse again.
Zhou Cibai looked away embarrassedly, “Well, there is warm water and throat lozenges on the table. The towel is soaked in hot water for you, and the toothpaste is squeezed. The toiletries are all disinfected after I bought them this morning. You wash up first, and I’ll have breakfast ready after you finish.”
Gu Jiqing felt that Zhou Cibai’s service seemed a bit too good, whether as a bed partner or a landlord. He said, “Actually, I can do all this myself. I can also help share the cooking and housework in the future…”
“No, I like cooking.” Before he could finish, Zhou Cibai flipped the omelette over neatly and whispered, “Besides, this is our family’s rule. Men in the Zhou family must work in the kitchen after marriage. This is a rule set by my grandmother’s generation. Just think of it as helping me adapt to a married life in advance.”
“……”
Gu Jiqing felt that this was a bit strange.
But he didn’t think much either.
Because, based on his understanding of Zhou Cibai, Zhou Cibai would indeed not be willing to be the one being taken care of, so it should also be okay for him to be lazy for a while.
However, Zhou Cibai’s grandmother must be a heroic woman to set up such family rules.
Gu Jiqing silently praised the old lady in his heart for a week, and then slowly went to wash and change clothes.
When he came out, breakfast was already set on the table.
Gu Jiqing thanked him and was about to pick up his fork when Zhou Cibai hurriedly asked, “Aren’t you going to take a photo?”
“?” Gu Jiqing raised his head and blinked. “Taking a picture of what?”
Zhou Cibai pointed in front of him and said aggrievedly, “I even fried a heart-shaped one specially.”
His expression was like that of a kindergarten kid who did something good secretly, but the teacher forgot to praise him.
When Gu Jiqing looked in the direction he pointed, he found that the two fried eggs were indeed in the shape of hearts, and the jam on the toast was also drawn into two cute smiling faces. The plating was very exquisite, and a new tablecloth was also changed.
“……”
Although Gu Jiqing himself had never been in a relationship, he had seen many of his female friends in love, so after a brief silence, he probably understood: “You want to take a photo and post it on WeChat Moments?”
“En.” Zhou Cibai pursed his lips and found a justifiable excuse for himself, “Just do the whole act.”
That also makes sense.
Thinking of what he and Zhou Cibai had discussed last night, Gu Jiqing took a photo from a beautiful angle, added a filter, and recalled the template of female friends showing affection in the past, adding: [Love Breakfast], then pointed the phone at Zhou Cibai and asked, “Is this okay?”
Zhou Cibai said, “You should add ‘Mr. Zhou did it.’”
“Oh, okay.”
Gu Jiqing carefully added the words “Mr. Zhou did it” and posted it on his Moments.
He habitually set it to be invisible to everyone related to the Gu family.
Zhou Cibai took a photo from another angle, cleverly including a section of Gu Jiqing’s finger, and captioned it [A loving breakfast for Gu Xiao Mao1Xiao Mao means little cat. I’m gonna use Xiao Mao cuz it sounds cute.]. Inspired by Gu Jiqing, he blocked the elders at home and sent it to his Moments.
Sure enough, the comments were soon filled with the two people’s mutual friends.
[Roar at the sight of injustice on the road]: Zhou Cibai! Don’t play dead! Read my WeChat! Answer my call! Tell me why you lied to me! And you poisoned me so early in the morning!!!
[JiChen]: Zhou Cibai, please be more restrained and don’t force Gu Jiqing to post one and then post one yourself
[Yu Bai Fei Bai]: ??? Wait, I only took the exam for two days. What happened?! Brother Zhou, aren’t you a straight man?! Have I fallen into a gay nest?!
[Xiao Qiao is not Xiao Qiao]: Zhou Cibai, you stinky dog!!! Quickly let Gu Gu reply to my WeChat!!! Otherwise, the mother’s famil2The mother’s family here refers to the bride’s family.will call the police!!!
[Lao Wang next door]: Mr. Zhou! Did you force Gu Gu to post on Moments? Do you know how troubled I am now? All the people I introduced to GuGu before came to me and complained about their broken hearts!!!
Who told you to introduce guys to Gu Jiqing all day long?
He just wanted to drive away all his potential love rivals before Gu Jiqing found out. Otherwise, Gu Jiqing was good-looking and easy to deceive. What if he was kidnapped by someone else when he wasn’t paying attention?
Zhou Cibai felt that he was gradually losing his moral bottom line.
But after seeing that Gu Jiqing didn’t think much about anything and just drank milk and ate fried eggs slowly, he felt that morality was useless.
Anyway, Gu Jiqing has said that he would believe whatever he said.
Thinking of what Gu Jiqing said last night, Zhou Cibai couldn’t help but lower his head and smile.
Gu Jiqing believed in him unconditionally.
Then Gu Jiqing trusted him.
To trust him is to depend on him, to depend on him is to like him, and if he likes him, he will definitely become inseparable from him.
It’s great that Gu Jiqing can’t leave him.
Zhou Cibai couldn’t hide the smile on his lips.
As soon as Gu Jiqing picked up the cup of milk, he saw Zhou Cibai looking at the fried eggs with a silly smile on his face: “……”
He felt that Zhou Cibai didn’t seem very smart recently.
But for some reason, he seemed to be in a good mood when he saw Zhou Cibai’s not-so-bright days.
So he took the initiative to start a small talk during the meal: “Will you stay here during the winter vacation?”
“What’s wrong?” Zhou Cibai raised his head.
Gu Jiqing said, “Nothing, I just made an appointment with a kid to coach her in a competition during the winter vacation, so I may have to stay in Beijing until the New Year. I wonder if it’s convenient for me to stay with you.”
“Convenient, of course it’s convenient!” Zhou Cibai didn’t expect such a pie to fall from the sky.
He had been thinking that exam week would begin tomorrow and that he and Gu Jiqing would surely be very busy. If he went home right after the exams, he would have to wait a month before he could pursue Gu Jiqing again. He had not expected that such a good thing would actually happen.
“I also have to make an architectural model during the winter break, so I’m not in a hurry to go home.” Zhou Cibai was just making up an excuse, but suddenly he thought of something and looked at Gu Jiqing excitedly. “Can you send me the model of the solar hut design you made yesterday?”
Gu Jiqing blinked: “What do you want that for?”
Zhou Cibai said, “It’s useful anyway.”
Gu Jiqing didn’t think much about it either. “En, okay, I’ll give it to you later.”
Zhou Cibai added, “Since you don’t have an exam today, let’s go to the supermarket and buy some daily necessities.”
Gu Jiqing nodded, “Okay.”
“It seems like Zhou Zhou needs a bath. Let’s take him to Pei Yiming’s store in a few days.”
“Okay.”
“You have an exam tomorrow morning. I’ll drive you there.”
“Okay.”
“If you have time, please help us draw a couple portraits, in case someone still doesn’t believe it.”
“Okay.”
“Why do you say okay to everything?”
“En?”
Otherwise?
Gu Jiqing raised his head and blinked.
Zhou Cibai couldn’t help but smile again, looking down at the silly little cat who was so gullible. Then he took out his cell phone and changed the note from Gu Jiqing to Gu Xiao Mao.
When Gu Jiqing put down the cup of milk, he happened to see these words unintentionally. He thought that he and Zhou Cibai should be very familiar with each other now, so there was no need to use the AXX format anymore, so he lowered his head and modified a symmetrical note.
Gu Jiqing had never had such a comfortable finals week.
He can sleep soundly and peacefully every day without being disturbed by other people preparing for exams in the dormitory or being pulled aside by someone every once in a while to ask questions, thus interrupting his own review.
There is also no need to queue up in the cafeteria to eat bad meals. When Zhou Cibai doesn’t have exams, he cooks. Occasionally, when Zhou Cibai has exams, he also doesn’t mind cooking and showing off his cooking skills.
Often after dinner, he would curl up on the carpet in front of the sofa, watching Crayon Shin-chan on the super-large screen. Zhou Zhou would lie obediently beside him, and Zhou Cibai would wash dishes in the kitchen, not far away.
The open kitchen structure made them feel as if they were always in the same space, and the splashing sound of washing dishes also diluted the often inhuman feeling in the big house that was decorated almost like a model house.
Taking into account the intense review period during the final week, Zhou Cibai did not torture him too much. He just occasionally made sweet and sour pork ribs on a night when they were leaning against each other watching cartoons, and they would suddenly kiss because of the perfect atmosphere.
Then the carpet was stained.
But this has nothing to do with Gu Jiqing. When he soiled the carpet, Zhou Cibai wrote a profound self-reflection by hand, promising that the next time he would not soil it for more than two hours. He also replaced the carpet with a thicker, softer, and more comfortable one.
It was not until the day of the holiday that the two were caught red-handed in the dormitory by Lu Ping and Xia Qiao.
“Zhou Cibai! Tell me the truth! What happened? Why did everyone in the dormitory suddenly stop becoming single overnight except me? Do you know how miserable I am?”
Lu Ping waited for Zhou Cibai in various examination halls for ten full days, but Zhou Cibai always arrived on time, handed in his paper early, and left, leaving him no room to question him.
Lu Ping had never felt such a strong sense of betrayal, so today he caught Xia Qiao and blocked their way into the dormitory. As expected, he blocked the two “adulterers” who came back to get their luggage.
Gu Jiqing didn’t care at all and just packed his things slowly.
Zhou Cibai was entangled by Lu Ping’s ‘I was deceived and betrayed by my good brother’ look, and he could only say with a guilty conscience and a righteous attitude: “I didn’t lie to you. Anyway, it happened on New Year’s Day…”
“New Year’s Day? That’s, isn’t it…” Lu Ping thought of the two teeth marks, took a deep breath, and opened his eyes wide. “Could it be that on that day… wuwuwu…”
Before Lu Ping could utter the overly erotic word, Zhou Cibai covered his mouth and dragged him out.
Xia Qiao, who remained in the dormitory, also hurriedly asked, “Gu Gu, are you really with Zhou Cibai?”
Gu Jiqing and Xia Qiao rarely kept anything secret from each other, and he knew that Xia Qiao had seen something by asking this question, so he softly said, “No.”
“Then what’s the matter with you two now?!” Xia Qiao was so anxious.
Gu Jiqing thought for a moment and said, “Roommates?”
“A roommate who cooks breakfast and dinner for you every day, picks you up from classes, walks and feeds your dog, and shows affection to you on WeChat Moments?!”
“En, because Zhou Cibai told me last time that we were a couple in order to help me, it’s not good to ruin his reputation.”
Xia Qiao looked at Gu Jiqing as he lowered his eyes and packed his things. At that moment, he suddenly hated Gu Jiqing for being a piece of wood.
But this cannot be blamed entirely on Gu Jiqing.
Because Gu Jiqing had suffered too much pain, his subconscious self-protection mechanism naturally made him avoid thinking of this. He was unwilling to think about it or dared not to think about it.
As Gu Jiqing’s friend, he didn’t know what to do for a moment.
Outside the door, Zhou Cibai had already dragged Lu Ping aside: “Watch your words!”
“No!” Lu Ping finally caught his breath and immediately said anxiously, “You dare to do it, but you dare not let others say it!”
For the sake of Gu Jiqing’s image and to prevent Lu Ping from talking nonsense in the future, Zhou Cibai frowned: “Don’t talk nonsense, Gu Jiqing is not with me yet.”
Lu Ping: “?”
Zhou Cibai said, “I haven’t chased him yet.”
Lu Ping: “???”
After a brief moment of shock, he reacted: “F*ck! Doesn’t that mean you got your current position by forcing him to abdicate?!”
Zhou Cibai didn’t know where Lu Ping learned these messed-up words, but they were so accurate. He couldn’t even refute it, so he could only say coldly, “Don’t worry about it. Gu Jiqing doesn’t know about this anyway, so you also don’t tell anyone else.”
Although Lu Ping is usually unreliable, he always keeps his mouth shut about his brothers’ secrets, so Zhou Cibai can trust him.
But Lu Ping was shocked: “Wait, what do you mean Gu Jiqing doesn’t know yet… F*ck?! You haven’t confessed to him yet?!”
Lu Ping felt like he was about to break apart.
Zhou Cibai just kept a straight face and said nothing.
Lu Ping choked on a mouthful of blood. He knew Zhou Cibai was innocent, but he didn’t expect Zhou Cibai to be so innocent. “If you don’t confess, how will he know that you like him?”
“You don’t understand.” Zhou Cibai whispered, “He said that he doesn’t want to fall in love, and he thinks falling in love is tiring.”
Lu Ping was anxious: “Then what’s the difference between what you’re doing now and being in a relationship?!”
Zhou Cibai: “……”
Lu Ping became even more anxious: “Then do you think he likes you?”
Zhou Cibai: “……”
“Are you two pieces of wood?!”
Lu Ping never expected that, as the only truly single guy in the dormitory, he would have to worry about such problems.
“Just wait, leave this to me.”
After Lu Ping finished speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and prepared to go to the dormitory.
Before Zhou Cibai could even prepare to pull him back, Lu Ping had already pushed open the dormitory door: “Gu Gu, do you have time to play games with me tonight? I called a friend, the national server Daji, who is very strong. Play together.”
Gu Jiqing has been living a comfortable life recently. After the exam, he had nothing else to do. He could play games to kill time in the evening, so he said, “En, okay.”
Before Zhou Cibai could stop him, he heard Gu Jiqing agree, so he paused and had no choice but to agree.
After returning home in the evening, he sent ten thousand messages, warning Lu Ping not to mess around, and prepared a large and sumptuous dinner for Gu Jiqing.
Then he comforted him in advance: “Well, you know, Lu Ping’s brain is not very good sometimes, and he might do some weird things. If he does something excessive later and you feel unhappy or uncomfortable, just tell him directly, it’s nothing.”
Gu Jiqing thinks that it’s just playing games, what could Lu Ping do? At most, he can send his head flying. He was used to it and didn’t take it to heart.
Zhou Cibai really couldn’t figure out what Lu Ping was planning to do to Gu Jiqing.
So when the two of them sat cross-legged on the sofa, Gu Jiqing was slowly touching his skin, but Zhou Cibai was extremely uneasy.
Until Lu Ping and the others entered the room, everything was normal. The new friend Lu Ping brought in did have the national server Daji’s mark, so it seemed that he was not looking for someone to trick Gu Jiqing.
Zhou Cibai breathed a sigh of relief, and then he whispered to Gu Jiqing, “If you feel tired of playing C and leading the pace, then why don’t I play jungle, and you can just pick Yao or Ming Shiyin and follow me?”
Considering Gu Jiqing’s lazy personality, this was indeed a suitable suggestion. He was about to agree when a sickly sweet male voice suddenly popped up in the team’s voice chat the next second.
“Wa! Gege chan! Are you the jungle king? Is that you in the avatar? So handsome! Do you want to be a CP? I will play Yao and support you, can you carry me? So, do you have a CP? If not, how about being a CP with me? I’m pretty, have a sweet voice, and have good skills. And I can also sing for you, gege chan~”
“……”
At that moment, the entire team’s voice channel fell silent.
It was not until a long time later that Gu Jiqing repeated it slowly in his clear and lazy voice: “Gege chan.”
Zhou Cibai came back to his senses in an instant, and his ears immediately turned red. He kicked the national server Daji out of the room and then said to Gu Jiqing, “This person has nothing to do with me!”
“En, got it.” Gu Jiqing casually drank a sip of water and slowly added three words: “Gege chan.”
Zhou Cibai: “……”
F*ck.
Lu Ping simply wanted him to die——
The author has something to say:
Zhou Cibai knelt down on the washboard: Wifey, listen to my explanation
Gu Gu drank tea slowly: OK, gege chan
[1] Quoted from Lao She’s Divorce (strongly recommended!)
