The high school class group that has been silent for a long time has suddenly become lively in the past two days, among which Meng Rui was the most active.
When Yu Jia Xing blocked the group, Meng Rui approached him in a private chat and asked if he was going to the high school reunion.
In Yu Jia Xing’s perception, a class reunion should be something that only old classmates who have been apart for more than 10 years would organise. He had no presence in the class and it would be awkward for him to go, so he declined without much hesitation.
At the end of the week, Yu Jia Xing casually mentioned this to Jing Fu Yuan, who took his words in, but focused on Meng Rui.
“Meng Rui?”
“En.”
“That stupid guy you liked in high school?”
Yu Jia Xing was peeling a lychee to eat, and when he heard Jing Fu Yuan say this about Meng Rui, he didn’t stuff the lychee into his mouth, but just pressed it against his lips.
Jing Fu Yuan glanced at him as he swallowed the lychee in one bite, his lips moist and shiny with lychee juice.
“……En.”
Jing Fu Yuan cupped his chin and kissed, Yu Jia Xing’s lips had a sweet lychee taste, he licked and fiddled with his tongue before releasing him and saying, “You still dare to ‘en’?”
“I liked him before in the past.” Yu Jia Xing began to peel the lychee diligently again, “I don’t like him anymore, I don’t even remember what he looks like.” He handed the peeled lychee to Jing Fu Yuan.
Jing Fu Yuan didn’t reach out, but bowed his head and ate it from Yu Jia Xing’s hand.
When Yu Jia Xing asked him if it was good, he got it cheap and acted good1means to get a bargain but act as if they don’t like/need it. Eg.: someone gave me a ring, I happily put it on but say: “I don’t need this, I already have many.”, he tugged at Yu Jia Xing’s hair and kissed his eyes and corners of his mouth, “Only children like to eat sweet food.”
“Oh.” Yu Jia Xing brushed his lips, “Little friend Jing Fu Yuan, you just ate the lychee I peeled, was it good?”
Jing Fu Yuan came very close, the two people’s breaths intertwined at once, the tips of their noses were as close as they could be. When you look at people at this angle, your eyes tend to become cross-eyed. Yu Jia Xing wanted to laugh but held back, so he closed his eyes when he couldn’t hold back anymore. Jing Fu Yuan’s kiss fell, the softness and tenderness of his kiss was enchanting, and Yu Jia Xing obediently opened his mouth to let his tongue dive in.
“Not as sweet as you.” Jing Fu Yuan said, sitting up from the sofa.
Yu Jia Xing lay limp on the sofa looking at him, after a while he flung himself up and into Jing Fu Yuan’s arms, and they both fell back onto the sofa.
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City C was neither big nor small, two months later, Yu Jia Xing bumped into Meng Rui in the supermarket, who had just finished paying and called out to him: “Yu Jia Xing!”
Yu Jia Xing turned his head and saw him, and raised his hand to wave as a greeting.
Meng Rui had shaved his head, and his whole body was more spirited, and his smile was still very sunny, with a silly look in the sunshine.
Yu Jia Xing suddenly thought of Jing Fu Yuan and how he had woken him up this morning, calling him ‘Xing’er, Xing’er’ in his ear with an airy tone and reaching out to pinch his face. When he opened his eyes, he came up to him and kissed him on the cheek. Yu Jia Xing could see the smile on Jing Fu Yuan’s face. The curve of Jing Fu Tuan’s mouth was not very big, but Yu Jia Xing knew that the smile was for him and the tenderness was also for him.
Meng Rui said: “Almost didn’t recognise you.”
“Ah……en.” Yu Jia Xing didn’t know how to answer, he could only respond.
Why on earth did he fall for Meng Rui in the first place? When he was young, Meng Rui’s presence was more like a support, he can’t say how much he liked him, just that the gentle smile at that moment made him find salvation and made him feel moved.
However, after he fell in love with Jing Fu Yuan, everything became different. In order to be worthy of the love in his heart, he finally took a step forward to try to catch up.
“I’m leaving.” Meng Rui smiled and waved at him.
“En, bye.” Yu Jia Xing turned back around and continued picking out fresh vegetables, Meng Rui’s appearance not bringing him much of a waver.
But when he got home, he was still very good and told Jing Fu Yuan about his encounter with Meng Rui.
Jing Fu Yuan was actually a little jealous, as that man was the first person Yu Jia Xing had ever liked and was considered his first love. When Jing Fu Yuan thought that he had even asked Yu Jia Xing if he liked Meng Rui, he wanted to slap himself.
He couldn’t help but want to know more details, about what Yu Jia Xing thought after he ran into Meng Rui again or something, but he couldn’t say anything, he should have been the mature one, but now he was like a child who was afraid of having his beloved thing taken away from him, worried and childish, even despicable: “Just a few words?”
“En.” Yu Jia Xing said, “It’s not like I know him well, so there’s nothing to say.”
Jing Fu Yuan was satisfied with this answer and raised his hand to touch Yu Jia Xing’s hair as a reward, but then he heard Yu Jia Xing say: “Don’t you two know each other very well? You often play basketball together.”
“Ordinary ball-buddy relationship.” Jing Fu Yuan replied stiffly, and then he suddenly thought of something, “You kept going to the basketball court before, was to watch him?”
Yu Jia Xing’s impression of senior year was already very vague. He carefully recalls that it seems to be true, so he nodded.
Jing Fu Yuan licked his teeth, the sharp tiger teeth cutting into his tongue a little painfully. It was true that flying vinegar2refers to inexplicable jealousy, eg. when someone gets jealous when their bf looks at a pretty girl he doesn’t know shouldn’t be eaten, after all, at that time he only saw Yu Jia Xing as a stunted and timid child.
But how could he not care? Now this child was his lover, a part of him that he couldn’t let go of, a treasure that he wanted to hold in his arms at all times.
The details that he hadn’t noticed before were all wirelessly enlarged in front of his eyes, and Jing Fu Yuan thought of the first time he saw Yu Jia Xing, who seemed to have been called by Meng Rui to play ball.
Jing Fu Yuan moved up in front of Yu Jia Xing and bit into his neck.
“Ge ah.” Yu Jia Xing’s hands naturally rested on Jing Fu Yuan’s back, “Do you care about it a little?”
Not only did he care, but he was also jealous. Jing Fu Yuan couldn’t wait to meet Yu Jia Xing earlier, like him earlier, and be together earlier……but he was afraid of meeting too early and missing out. Although he knew this is just right now, he still couldn’t help thinking that if he could get ahead of that person, if he could sensed his feelings earlier……or worse, at the moment Yu Jia Xing entered the basketball court, he would try his best to play handsome and shoot to make him notice him and leave a deep impression on him.
“It’s not caring.” Jing Fu Yuan stroked the hair at the back of Yu Jia Xing’s head and embraced him into his arms, “It’s hating that I can’t stuff all of me into your memory, to be the most important part of you, so that you can’t remember anything but me.”
“I’m bound to fail my exams if you’re so vicious.” Yu Jia Xing rubbed his chin against Jing Fu Yuan’s shoulder, “But……” he pushed Jing Fu Yuan away, his hand still pressed against his shoulder.
“You’ve succeeded.” Yu Jia Xing’s eyelashes were long and curly, like the thousand paper cranes that hung on the roof when he was a child, trembling gently without having to touch them, “All I can think about now is you.”
Who doesn’t know how to say love words? He wasn’t going to lose. Love words is so sweet, he must let Jing Fu Yuan taste it too.
Jing Fu Yuan did taste it, and his Xing’er’s mouth was as sweet as if it was coated with honey. He hugged him tighter, wanting to rub him into the marrow of his bones, but he was afraid he would hurt and was reluctant to hurt him, so he could only hug him a little tighter, letting him smell like himself and indulging himself in it.
After a while Yu Jia Xing said: “Meng Rui……”
Jing Fu Yuan bit his earlobe, he closed his mouth and waited until Jing Fu Yuan loosened his teeth and used his tongue to lick the bite mark before he spoke again: “I had just learned of my sexual orientation at that time, and I liked Meng Rui because……he had a nice smile, the kind that is very sunny.”
Jing Fu Yuan’s smile was never called sunny, in fact he rarely smiled, his tenderness was only given to Yu Jia Xing, and his smiles were all reserved for Yu Jia Xing.
“I fell in love with you……” Yu Jia Xing suddenly smiled brightly with a crooked head, “because you told me not to deny myself and said you would stand up for me.”
Jing Fu Yuan looked at him and he blinked again: “Just kidding.”
“Meng Rui just feels so sunny and upbeat, so I was attracted to him.”
Meng Rui would burst into a smile for everyone.
“But you’re different, you’re the one who gave me courage—”
Jing Fu Yuan would only smile at him alone.
So before his brain realised it, his heart had given him the answer—-
He wanted to chase after Jing Fu Yuan, to convey the feelings that overflowed from his heart.
“That’s why I’m desperately trying to tell you that I like you.” Yu Jia Xing’s eyes lit up, and there was light in them as well as Jing Fu Yuan, “And I also want us to be together.”
The atmosphere was just right, and Jing Fu Yuan was just about to lean in and kiss him when he reached out and covered Jing Fu Yuan’s mouth and said: “Wait, wait! There’s something I don’t know if I should say!”
Jing Fu Yuan gestured to him with his eyes to say it.
Yu Jia Xing said with a heated smile: “Although the first person I liked was not you.”
Jing Fu Yuan opened his mouth to bite his palm, his teeth lightly brushing against his palm to tickle it.
“But my first love was you.” Yu Jia Xing let go of his hand and closed his eyes, “End of report! You can kiss me now!”
“Fool.” Jing Fu Yuan smiled tenderly and lowered his head to kiss him.
