Ch33 - Plans (2/2)
“You want to live a meaningful life.” Zhou Sheng answered.
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“Yes.” Yu Hao said, “Just like what you taught me, to eventually be who I am.”
Zhou Sheng mocked himself, “I didn’t teach you anything, don’t say that, that’s too fucking awkward. I haven’t even figured out how I want to live my life……forget it, let me do it, eat more.” Zhou Sheng took the steak and split it, then passed the bigger half to Yu Hao. He continued, “Look at this. Don’t keep looking at me like that, I’ll feel very stressed!”
Zhou Sheng fished out a folded poster and handed it to Yu Hao. On the poster, the words “Notice for Registration of the International College Cycling Competition in Spring” were written on it.
“You want to go?” Yu Hao was a bit surprised.
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Zhou Sheng responded with an “un”, “I wanted to ask for your opinion today, do you think I can?”
“Of course you can!” Yu Hao said, “You definitely can! You’re doing so well in your major!”
Zhou Sheng was hesitating, but Yu Hao said, “Go! Why don’t you want to go?”
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Zhou Sheng liked exercising. He liked the unbridled exhilaration of pushing himself to the extreme, and especially liked cycling and running because it made him feel like he was flying within the wind. He liked swimming too; when he swam, it was as if he had turned into a fish in the sea.
Zhou Sheng said, “Actually, I don’t really want to compete that much……but have you seen the back of the poster?”
Yu Hao ignored Zhou Sheng’s ambivalence and said, “Go! I’ll support you!”
Zhou Sheng, “I just want to know my approximate ranking amongst the rest.”
Yu Hao said, “You’ll definitely win! And even if you don’t, it doesn’t matter! What’s important is your participation!”
Originally, Zhou Sheng was just slightly curious. He wanted to discuss it with Yu Hao beforehand, and now he was convinced, “Okay, then I’ll sign up for the competition.”
“Just like what you said, General wants to live a slightly more meaningful life too.” Zhou Sheng continued, “I’ll try to take one step at a time before I find my answers ba. So you don’t need to worry so much.”
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Yu Hao smiled, and a bright idea suddenly occurred to Zhou Sheng, “If I’m going to sign up for the cycling competition, then why don’t you sign up for a Singing Talent show?”
“Never mind that.” Yu Hao immediately said.
Zhou Sheng, “Who was the one who said to live a more meaningful life just now?”
Yu Hao said, “But I definitely don’t want to be a singer!”
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Zhou Sheng, “Then what do you want to be? In any case, you have to accompany me.”
Yu Hao’s mouth was stuffed with steak. He chewed it for awhile before saying, “I can aim for a scholarship.”
Zhou Sheng said, “Okay, that’s settled then.”
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Yu Hao, “I want to take a Spanish course too.”
Zhou Sheng laughed, “You want to learn how to sing《Despacito》for me?”
Yu Hao really did want to learn that song. It was quite a chore to take a language course just for a song, but he liked it.
That afternoon, Zhou Sheng downloaded the form online and printed it out, then went to look for a college recommendation and have the document stamped. However, there was no one in the office. Yu Hao messaged Chen Yekai, and Chen Yekai replied to him very quickly.
【Get someone to come and keep watch beside the sickbed. I’ll come over right now.】
Zhou Sheng went straight to the hospital to take over from Chen Yekai. Yu Hao waited for him in the office. It was as if Chen Yekai had forgotten what happened that day, but he still looked very worn out. He came over to open the door, took the stamp, wrote a recommendation and attached Zhou Sheng’s report card. He said, “Do you think Zhou Sheng can win?”
Chen Yekai just needed one glance at him to guess what he was thinking. Yu Hao was laughing with a ‘hehe’; he didn’t really know how good Zhou Sheng was, but he believed that Zhou Sheng could win.
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“You can just leave this with me.” Chen Yekai’s phone suddenly rang with a “deng deng deng” like beating drums. Chen Yekai immediately picked up his phone and said, “I’ll hand it in for you guys, go back and jiayou ba. Yu Hao, don’t fall behind either.”
When Yu Hao saw Zhou Sheng again in the evening, he seemed a bit off.
“What happened?” Yu Hao guessed that something had happened in the hospital.
“How are you so good at discerning people’s moods?” Zhou Sheng scrutinised Yu Hao with a doubtful gaze, “Nothing much, Professor Lin was at the hospital.”
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Yu Hao tried to sound him out, “And then?”
Zhou Sheng thought over it for a bit, “There’s no ‘and then’. We’ve handed in the form, so where are we going next?”
Yu Hao, “I’m going to study.”
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Zhou Sheng, “I’ll go play ball……forget it I’ll go study too ba.”
And thus, what happened next was that Yu Hao studied in the library while Zhou Sheng took a nap beside him. Sometimes, Yu Hao felt that Zhou Sheng could really sleep a lot. He was always either eating or sleeping, yet he didn’t get fat.
A new semester commenced, so students began returning to college one after another. Yu Hao decided to spend more time on preparing for next semester’s courses. Meanwhile, Zhou Sheng would spend half his time accompanying Yu Hao in the library, and the other half sleeping or playing games. In the beginning, both of them would go everywhere together — wherever one of them was, the other would be there too. And after Fu Liqun returned to the college and joined in, the three of them would always move around the campus as a group. With the addition of Fu Liqun who was half a head taller than the other two, this trio seemed very peculiar to onlookers.
Chen Yekai hadn’t looked for Yu Hao for a long time. When Yu Hao messaged him, Chen Yekai would only chat with him briefly. Yu Hao was really worried about his mental well-being, yet he didn’t dare mention it to Zhou Sheng.
Winter passed in Yin city. Now that it was spring, couples could be seen everywhere. In spring, everything was imbued with new life, and a sentimental feeling inexplicably struck him, rending Yu Hao’s heart apart. Especially when he was alone with Zhou Sheng, he wouldn’t dare to get too close to him and he would always worry about losing what they had.
Every morning, after waking up, Zhou Sheng would call out to him before going out for a jog. He would come back with breakfast while Yu Hao would be brushing his teeth, then greet him with a “wu” and glance at him — and this was what he felt was most difficult to suppress; at that kind of timing, his heart would already be stirred up, but coupled with Zhou Sheng’s masculine scent that seemed to invade his senses, he always felt like something was going to happen while he was half-asleep.
He was aware of his own thoughts, and Zhou Sheng was mostly aware of them too — what could he hide from him? But Yu Hao was always doing his utmost to contain their relationship within the boundary of friendship, and wouldn’t dare to do anything that would cross this boundary in the slightest. But Zhou Sheng seemed to care even more for Yu Hao then he did before, though he joked with him a lot less, and he wouldn’t tease him occasionally like before.
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“Your hubby’s not here?”
When he attended his Higher Mathematics class, the students in the front row turned around and teased him.
Yu Hao’s face immediately flushed red, “He went for a competition.”
Yu Hao knew that a lot of people in class were already starting to gossip about them. They were always stuck together; when Zhou Sheng goes for his runs, Yu Hao would memorise his words at the field with his earphones on, buy water for him and look after his clothes. When everyone was playing basketball, Zhou Sheng would always pass the ball to him too.
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Yu Hao remembered that his previous roommate was gay too, so he was probably the one who spread it around.
Yu Hao reserved a seat for Zhou Sheng in the afternoon. When he returned to his dormitory, Fu Liqun was wiping his shoes.
“Yu Hao, you don’t have anything on with Zhou Sheng ba.” Even Fu Liqun couldn’t help but ask.
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“Gege!” Yu Hao looked like he was going mad. A lot of people in their college called Fu Liqun “Gege”. He thought, why is Fu Liqun asking that too? You live with us every day, so wouldn’t you know if there really was something between us? But he changed his mind as he said, “What if there really was something between us?”
“Calm down!” Fu Liqun immediately said, “Of course I would wish you both well!”
Yu Hao, “……”