What to do when dating a gloomy roommate online

Chapter 28 Story

can you tell me about your family

"I... this... maybe..."

Yu Zhong finally found his voice, but his expression didn't seem so smooth.

Clothes hanging under the window were still dripping, and the air could smell the faint woody scent of hotel shampoo.

Qi Yuechen suddenly smiled, and interrupted: "I probably misread it, but it looks good from this angle."

There was a rustling sound from the bedside.

Yu Zhong retracted near the head of the bed, stared down at his knees, and said in a muffled voice, "That's it."

"Why don't you blow your hair?" Qi Yuechen raised his hand to turn off the air conditioner, which made a slight "beep" sound.His voice returned to calm, "I will have a headache the next day."

Yu Zhong looked up at him in confusion.

"Go and blow dry." His voice was soft with an unquestionable order.

The water vapor in the bathroom hadn't dissipated completely, and the mirror was foggy, so Yu Zhong tore off a tissue to wipe it off.Just when he raised the hair dryer and began to blow his hair with the weak hot air, his thoughts could not help but drift back to the scene a few minutes ago.

I don't know why, but he always felt that Qi Yuechen's action...why was he so flirtatious, more alluring than a girl?

Obviously the other party just unconsciously licked his lower lip, and his whole body felt like it was burning.

Glancing inadvertently at the mirror, he saw himself blushing again.

Yu Zhong: "..."

He blow-dried this hair for nearly 10 minutes, and waited until the temperature on his face completely dropped before turning off the hair dryer.Coming out of the bathroom again, the time on the phone was almost 02:30 in the morning.

"You haven't slept yet." He found that Qi Yuechen was leaning against the bed and still lying down.

"Wait for you." Qi Yuechen only glanced at him before looking away.

Yu Zhong belatedly realized that because his clothes had been washed, his current image might be...

Subconsciously raised his arms and hugged his chest, but felt that it seemed more awkward between boys to do so, Yu Zhong put his arms down again.

He lifted up a corner of the quilt and quickly got in, tucking the quilt up to his chin, wrapping himself tightly, "I'm fine."

Qi Yuechen seemed unhurried, and when he saw him lying down, he stretched out his hand to turn off the light. At the moment of the movement, Yu Zhong could feel the slight tug from the quilt.

"Good dream." He said lightly.

Yu Zhong lay upright on the bed, with his hands sticking obediently to his side, staring at the ceiling, and whispered, "Good night."

Everything returned to silence in the darkness, and the sound of breathing became clearly audible.

Yu Zhong closed his eyes and tried to fall asleep, but for some reason, he felt that his body was very tired, but Jingshen was still excited.

He could even hear his own heartbeat, and his breathing rhythm was even affected, especially disturbing his sleep.

Might be a sleeping problem.Yu Zhong turned over slightly.

The heartbeat got louder.

He turned back resignedly.

Just tossing and turning three times like this, just as Yu Zhong pulled the quilt slightly and was about to change his position again, a question came from his ear, "Can't sleep?"

With his back to Qi Yuechen, Yu Zhong froze.

He gripped the quilt tightly and held his breath, "Did you wake me up..."

"No," Qi Yuechen's voice seemed to be right next to his ears, sounding very sober, "I've been awake all this time."

Yu Zhong turned around slowly.

He heard Qi Yuechen chuckle again, "To be precise, I haven't slept much for four days."

In the dark night, nothing can be seen, including the expression on the other party's face.

"Have you been insomnia?" Yu Zhong asked softly.

He thought of the medicine Qi Yuechen took, and the very faint shadow in front of his eyes.

"It's okay." However, Qi Yuechen's tone was very relaxed, as if he was talking about something irrelevant, "It's just that I didn't sleep well."

However, if you suffer from insomnia for a long time, your body will collapse.

Yu Zhong thought about it silently, with a trace of melancholy on his brows.

Qi Yuechen suddenly changed the subject, "Can you tell me about your family?"

The quilt moved a bit, he seemed to turn over, Yu Zhong could feel Qi Yuechen looking at him.

"Who said it?"

"Anything, or the person you think loves you the most."

The one who loves me the most.

Yu Zhong put his hands on the pillow and was silent for a few seconds.

Then I fell into memories, and my voice was like whispering, "I am a single-parent family. I was raised by my mother since I was a child. My father doesn't know who it is, and I have never seen it."

His fingers began to buckle the pillow cover bit by bit, completely subconsciously, "My mother is a tattooist."

"She gets up at six o'clock every morning, prepares breakfast for me first, then makes herself a cup of coffee without sugar, brings it to her workbench on the balcony, unfolds the drawings and starts designing for several hours."

"Then go to the store to work on time according to the appointment. Some patterns will be completed quickly in a few hours; some patterns will be slow and will take several days to complete."

"I couldn't bother her when she was working, but I was lonely without my mother - that was when I was very young."

The beautiful but always slightly tired face seemed to appear in front of his eyes again.

Mom, don't go, I'm scared at home alone.Five-year-old Yu Zhong would say this when his mother was going out to work again.

Xiao Yu, you have to be good.Mom knelt down and touched his face, then said, be good, mom will be back soon.

So he nodded obediently and watched his mother leave.

Then I tiptoed on the balcony, tried to reach the window, kept looking out, and waited.

Wait from day to night.The children playing in the yard changed wave after wave, and sometimes they would call him downstairs to play together.

I don't want it, he yelled through the window, my mother said I can't go out and run around.

If he had been more obedient, would mom have gone home earlier?

But every time I have to wait until the moon rises to hear the sound of my mother's high-heeled shoes returning slowly.

This waiting carried out his entire childhood.

"Has she always been this busy?" Qi Yuechen asked softly.

"Because my mother's design style is beautiful and novel, the technique is superb, and the price is also good. She is a well-known senior tattoo artist in the circle, and she received a lot of orders. Of course, later she accepted more apprentices, and the studio gradually became larger. Just relax."

There are many relatives who love him, but if you say who is the relative who loves him the most, it is of course his mother.

"When I was a child, I was a little Douding, and I always stood in the front row in the class. Then there were a few boys in the class who liked to fight and didn't study hard. They colluded with people outside the school at a young age. At that time, they especially liked to blackmail people. He blackmailed me, and also liked to make noises in the class, and took the lead in isolating me. Until one day, when my mother was helping me with the laundry, she saw the footprints on my body."

"She went to see your teacher?"

"No. My mother took me directly to the billiard room where they used to play, and cleaned up a few people. In the end, four or five boys knelt down to apologize to me and promised to help me carry my schoolbag for a semester. The scene It's majestic and fun."

"Is it too dangerous for your mother to go to that kind of place with a woman?"

"Fortunately, my mother and the boss know each other. They are classmates in high school and good buddies. When my mother beat up those boys, the boss sat leisurely and smoked, and asked if he wanted to help," recalling that scene, Yu Zhong I couldn't help laughing out loud, "So that when I went to school later, it was rumored in my class that my family had an unspeakable background. Everyone respected me and didn't dare to speak loudly."

Qi Yuechen also laughed.

"Your mother is very good. I was bullied and satirized by my classmates when I was a child, so I fought with them, but lost. After returning home, my adoptive mother didn't ask anything, but ordered my aunt not to give me dinner, saying that I should reflect, When do you realize that you are wrong, and when will you give me food."

"She said that no one will hate you and bully you for no reason. If there is, it is your own problem. People must learn to find reasons from themselves."

His tone was very indifferent, and no emotion could be heard.

Yu Zhong stared at the darkness in front of him, wondering what Qi Yuechen's expression would be.

"So, did you do what she said?"

"I lied. I can't think of anything wrong with me, but if I don't say something, I might faint from hunger."

Yu Zhong's breathing eased.

"My adoptive father and adoptive mother both have their own set of life rules. They don't love each other, but they have many of the same hobbies. For example, following the rules of life and meticulous habits may be some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder."

"They don't like small animals with fur. They have lizards and spiders at home. When I was climbing with them when I was young, I met a stray cat that was very clingy. My adoptive father ordered me to throw the cat away on the spot. He counted three Seconds, I act."

Qi Yuechen recalled slowly.

"It was winter that day, and the kitten was small and looked like he hadn't been weaned, and he was shivering from the cold, so I was hesitant. When he counted to the third second, I was still thinking about what to do. So he jumped from my arms I grabbed the cat and threw it in the middle of the mountain road. When I turned my head to look, a car sped up not far away."

The voice stopped abruptly.

Yu Zhong couldn't help opening his eyes wide.He seemed to have guessed what was going on at that time.

There seemed to be a small, pale, powerless child in front of his eyes.

His eyes began to sore slightly.

After a few seconds of silence, Qi Yuechen changed the subject, "Life is like a pendulum, its two ends are pain and boredom, isn't it?"

Yu Zhong finally moved.

He lifted the quilt and slowly crawled towards Qi Yuechen's direction.

Then, through the quilt, she gently hugged him.

Qi Yuechen's expression fell into gloom, and he suddenly felt a soft person with a sweet fragrance in his arms.

A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"Let me tell you this," Qi Yuechen was so at a loss, he didn't know where the hand was placed for a while.Of course, he was hugged by Yu Zhong across the quilt, and he couldn't raise his hand, "It's not for sympathy."

"I know." There was a muffled voice in his chest, and then the two arms around him became stronger.

Yu Zhong sniffed, "I'm just feeling sad all of a sudden."

The person in his arms struggled for a moment, and the next second, the light on the top of the bed was turned on.

Suddenly the darkness was illuminated, even a very faint warm light made Yu Zhong unable to open his eyes for a while, and narrowed his eyes.

"What are you?" Qi Yuechen froze slightly when he saw the wet face and reddish eye sockets of the person in his arms, paused, and changed into a very gentle voice, "Are you really crying?"

"I miss my mother very much, and I love you very much." Yu Zhong's voice was choked with sobs, "Why are you so pessimistic? I hate Schopenhauer. Life is not only caused by the pain caused by chasing desires and giving up chasing. boring.

Isn't the short-lived happiness gained from the fulfillment of desire not happiness?Dialectical materialism believes that contradictions are the unity of opposites, so where there is pain, there is happiness. Happiness is not just the negative side of pain, but coexists in unity. "

Qi Yuechen's heart moved slightly.

At that moment, he seemed to hear the voice of the Milky Way pouring into his heart.

"Four years ago, my mother encountered a creative bottleneck and accepted an invitation from an old senior to fly to City F to gather folk songs. Do you still remember the air crash that shocked the whole country? The plane my mother was flying on was that flight."

"Ten hours ago, she was still smiling and waving goodbye to me, telling me to wait for her obediently at home. But ten hours later, she became a few cold Chinese characters on the list of victims."

He still lay on the window sill and waited, but he could no longer wait for the long-awaited figure who had returned from the moon.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have brought up this topic." Qi Yuechen raised his hand to caress the hair of the person in his arms, a flash of pity flashed in his eyes.

"It's okay because my mom is the one who loves me the most and it's been years since."

Yu Zhong raised his head, looked seriously into Qi Yuechen's eyes, and said solemnly, "Promise me, don't give up your life so easily, okay?"

Qi Yuechen's eyes moved slightly.

He didn't expect that his intermittent or frequent thoughts would be exposed naked one day.

But this feeling does not seem to be embarrassing.

Somewhere in the heart is tugging, a little sour, a little sweet, and other indescribable tastes.

"Of course I won't." His hand brushed the back of Yu Zhong's head and landed on his neck.

It has the same delicate touch as last time, but there is a warm ironing in addition to the numbness.

It is like a clear spring, gurgling, flowing through winding paths and steep rocks, and finally pouring into the most secluded part of the valley.

After lingering for a moment, he withdrew his hand and gently wiped away the tears hanging from the corners of Yu Zhong's eyes with his fingertips.

"Don't cry," he said softly, looking down at the person in his arms, "your eyes will be swollen tomorrow."

Yu Zhong responded muffledly, lowered his head, pressed it against Qi Yuechen's chest, rubbed his face a few times, and said to himself, "You promised me, you must keep it."

"I will."

"Have a good meal."

"Ah."

"Sleep well and rest on time."

"Ah."

"Don't take that kind of medicine, you will become drug dependent."

"Well... I will try my best."

Yu Zhong looked up at him sadly, "Is your insomnia serious?"

"It's okay." Qi Yuechen, who had been looking at him, suddenly sighed.

Under the warm light, there is nothing to hide.

Like the person in your arms.

As the atmosphere begins to warm up, many previously overlooked things will gradually begin to become apparent.

But the person in his arms still didn't know anything, hugged him, raised his head and continued to ask, "Then what should we do? Do you want to try a scientific remedy?"

Qi Yuechen turned his gaze away and tried his best to ignore some images that flashed by in his mind, but when his gaze fell not far away, when Yu Zhong washed the clothes hanging on the handle of the cabinet, some details were deliberately neglected The picture began to enlarge in his mind again.

For example, the mole on the opponent's lower back, and the tattoo line hidden in the tailbone.

Qi Yuechen closed his eyes to cover up the gloomy emotions in his eyes.

But at this time, the person in his arms started to move again.

"I'll go to the bathroom." He pushed Yu Zhong away roughly.

Hearing the sound of splashing water coming from the bathroom again, Yu Zhong looked bewildered: Could it be possible to fall asleep faster by taking more baths?

The author says:

Note 1: "Life is like a pendulum, swinging between pain and boredom" - Schopenhauer

Note 2: "When Shimamura gained a firm foothold, when he looked up, the Milky Way seemed to pour down on his heart with a crash" - Kawabata Yasunari from "Snow Country"

The second half of this chapter plans to write about the daily interactions of young couples (crossed out), but I can’t write it in space...so I stopped abruptly, and the next chapter will continue. The author said that the first half was a bit heavy and I cried so hard.

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