Chapter 74 (2/2)

He glanced it over and saw that his boyfriend had really left the first ten questions blank

He had really given He Zhao a 10-question head start How arrogant

But He Zhao kept reading Every solution was elegant, si probleht process couldn't be faked His approach to answering, his habit of underlining the key points in a question… were all identical to as on thisthe answers He still wasn't sure if he could believe it, but the facts were right there in front of hi uncontrollably bubbling forth in his mind He couldn't name it Aside froht the person in front of hier idiot

He Zhao opened his , Xie Yu folded up his sleeves and said, ”I'o a few rounds”

He Zhao said, ”Let's not Violence doesn't solve anything Let's sit down and calmly…”

Xie Yu was already in motion before the words 'talk it out' left He Zhao's mouth

He Zhao pushed himself off the stairs with one hand and backed away to the side, but before he could find his footing a punch ca wind

The stairas crah neither of the around, either Especially Xie Yu, the little hooligan of Black Water Street who never bothered with bullshi+t talk when he could fight instead, and who had grown up pinning everyone with a proble the beating, He Zhao thought, My boyfriend is really daht

Xie Yu started off brutally attacking, then slowly let up He Zhao, obliging, pulled Xie Yu into his arms He trapped his disobedient little friend, then kissed hihty, but his lips were very soft

Xie Yu's back was to the wall, the loose hood of his jacket covering his forehead and blocking his vision The strongest sensation he felt was the hand at his waist and how He Zhao was plundering his lips and teeth, willful, harsh, and invasive

The stairas very narrow

Several floors below, people were co, and the sound of their footsteps echoed up fro corridor

”I don't knohat to say either”

He Zhao hadn't cohtly, brushi+ng against Xie Yu's own When he spoke, he lifted his hand to pull down the hood on Xie Yu's head ”Come on Let me kiss you for another twenty minutes then”

”Get lost”

After this tussle, the feelings he had not been able to contain since ain when he saw He Zhao's near-perfect-score mock paper, now finally subsided

They sat side by side on the steps, gathering their own thoughts

Xie Yu rubbed at the corner of hiskissed After steadying hiarette?”

”Little kids shouldn't smoke” He Zhao pulled out a lollipop fro He held on to the stick and asked, ”…Compromise?”

Xie Yu took it and unwrapped the paper

”What on earth are you doing?” Halfway through unwrapping, Xie Yu thought again about the study guide he had spent so ether ”Do you kno ether that…”

He Zhao cut him off ”Second-to-last place in the year What on earth are you doing?”

After uide eht about the Coe Exa didn't seeht the books?”

He Zhao, ether,' also re ”You sent the e and crumpled the candy wrapper in his palm

fuck What the hell is all of this?

After going in a big circle, it turned out they both had worried over nothing

He Zhao leaned back on his hands, the corner of the step digging into his hand, and he suddenly wanted to laugh ”I thought… it's because Wan Da and the others made it sound like it was really true”

Xie Yu said, ”True, my ass They went so far off track and you still believed theone on for a while, now finally stopped

The stairwell felt a little empty

He Zhao hid his smile He looked doard from where he sat on the stairs and was silent for a while before saying, ”Do you remember, the last time ent to Dian Ji to eat and we ran into so the sweet, ht that matter would stay locked up in his heart and there would never come a day where he volunteered that story

He had locked it up so tightly it lost its shape

It stuck in his chest Couldn't go up and couldn't go down

It had already been a few years and many of the details had faded froht he had forgotten it, on soht of some day, he would wake up in a cold sweat

He finished telling the story all at once and didn't dare look at Xie Yu's face

Would his little friend look down on him for it? Would he be disappointed in hi and didn't notice that he was pushi+ng down harder and harder against the step, the hard edge leaving a deep i, and you're not to bla' He didn't bla more and more uncertain, but then Xie Yu took hold of the narrow plastic stick and pulled the lollipop from his mouth Then he put it to He Zhao's lips

”Ge, want some?”