Guan Ze didn't sleep much that night. He was not used to having people around him. He would feel uncomfortable if someone was in the same room with him, let alone someone like Lin Yao who basically used him as a bed when sleeping with half of his body pressed on him.
He wanted to slap the kid away several times, but Lin Yao didn't sleep well. He twisted his body from time to time and kept mumbling something, as if he had suffered a great injustice. So he finally didn't move, closed his eyes and rested, spending the night in a half-asleep and half-awake state.
He got up before daybreak, stood beside the bed, stretched his arms and legs which were almost paralyzed from being squeezed, and then walked out of the room.
The hotel is in the city, and there is nowhere to run or stroll in the morning. He asked the waiter and went to the rooftop, where there was a restaurant. There was no one there early in the morning, so he could get some fresh air and exercise there.
Over the years, he has developed a habit of finding a place with good air to run every morning. Even if there is not enough space for him to run, he will at least move around, such as doing... Chen-style Tai Chi.
Guan Ze's lips curled up into a smile. The sight of Lin Yao doing the radio gymnastics in the tea room, one, two, three, four, two, two, three, four, made him laugh. He still remembered that Lin Yao threatened to perform Chen-style Tai Chi and asked him to perform it one day.
Lin Yao felt a little depressed when he woke up. He had been dreaming all night, but he couldn't remember anything about his dreams. He just remembered that he was running all the time. He didn't know why he was running. He just ran like a silly boy. He ran all night. When he opened his eyes in the morning, he felt that it was no different from having not slept at all.
"Fuck, what a hassle." Lin Yao yawned and stretched, pulling at his underwear. When he was about to get up after his little brother lay down, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to... not sleep alone last night
He suddenly turned his head and glanced to the side. It was empty, but there were obviously two pillows and Guan Ze's changed T-shirt thrown beside the bed.
"Oh... Oh... God!" Lin Yao's heart was pounding. He rolled over and rolled to Guan Ze's side of the bed. He grabbed the T-shirt and threw it on the pillow, then buried his face in it and took a deep breath.
The clothes still had the pleasant smell of Guan Ze. He hugged the pillow, raised his butt and pushed it twice on the bed: "It feels so good!"
I actually slept on a single bed with Guan Ze for the whole night!
God has opened his eyes! Not only has he opened his eyes, but they are wide open!
Lin Yao turned over and lay on his back, remembering the kiss from Guan Ze last night. He raised his hand and touched his mouth, then laughed towards the ceiling and couldn't recover for a long time.
Just when he was enjoying the beautiful scene, the door of the room opened. Lin Yao quickly grabbed the quilt to cover himself, and saw Guan Ze walked in with a few lunch boxes.
"Awake?" Guan Ze put the lunch box on the table. "I brought breakfast back so you don't have to go to the restaurant later."
“Oh…” Lin Yao looked at Guan Ze. Although Guan Ze certainly didn’t go to get him breakfast, he was still inexplicably touched. He wanted to say “Good morning, Mr. Guan” again, but he always felt that his “oh” was a little vague and indirect, so he didn’t say anything else.
Guan Ze went into the bathroom to wash up without closing the door. Lin Yao could see his swaying figure from the opposite wall.
After watching for a while and seeing his little brother lying down dejectedly, he slowly got up and got out of bed.
"Did you just go for a workout?" Lin Yao, with a messy head of hair, leaned against the bathroom door and looked at Guan Ze.
Guan Ze was shaving and looked at him in the mirror: "Well, there is an open-air restaurant on the top floor of the hotel. I went there to practice Chen-style Tai Chi."
"Ah?" Lin Yao was stunned. He was immersed in the proposition that Guan Ze's shaving movements were particularly sexy. He was a little overwhelmed when he heard about Chen-style Tai Chi.
"Someone said he would show me a set, but nothing happened, so I had to play by myself," Guan Ze turned his head and looked at him and smiled, "Don't you want to do exercises?"
"Do it," Lin Yao jumped a few times on the spot, "jumping exercise, one, two, three, four..."
Guan Ze was amused and turned back to continue shaving: "Like my son."
"Ah..." Lin Yao sighed and leaned back against the door frame, "I guess there's a generation gap between us."
"Is that so?"
Lin Yao remembered what Guan Ze said last night and nodded: "Yes, I guess he is really like your son. He eats candy whenever he wants, without thinking about whether it will cause tooth decay or affect his regular meals."
"But you haven't eaten it yet, right? You want to eat candy, but no one buys it for you." Guan Ze smiled.
"… Exactly," Lin Yao sighed and squinted at Guan Ze, "Can you not be so mean? Is it so fun to poke someone in the weak spot?"
"I thought you would explode if I poked you, but you didn't?" Guan Ze put down the razor and washed his face.
"I didn't sleep well. Besides, the aftereffects of your story yesterday are still stuck in my head. I can't blow it anymore."
Guan Ze turned around and leaned against the sink looking at Lin Yao. This was the first time he saw such helplessness on Lin Yao's face, with a melancholy that was hard to capture. Even when he was crying last night, he was not as painful to watch as he is now.
"What do you want?" Guan Ze walked up to him. He couldn't stand his messy hair, so he reached out and pressed down the few strands of hair that stood up on top of his head. But as soon as he took his hand away, the hair immediately stood up again.
"You have lost your memory, right? I told you clearly yesterday what I wanted." Lin Yao slapped his hand away and stared at him with provocation in his eyes.
"Don't you consider the consequences?" Guan Ze frowned.
"How funny! You haven't even started yet, and you still have time to consider the consequences? When you can't even eat candy, are you thinking about how sweet it is or whether you will get cavities if you eat it, hero!"
Guan Ze looked at the little flame dancing in his eyes and sighed after a long time: "Then keep chasing me. I have a crush on you. If you catch me, it's yours. If you don't, don't cry."
"That means you don't plan to reject me, right?" Lin Yao raised his eyebrows, and his face instantly lit up.
"Yeah." Guan Ze nodded, walked into the house and prepared to change his clothes.
"That's what you said!" Lin Yao held onto the door frame and yelled at the back of his head. If he hadn't held onto the door frame, he would have probably fallen to the ground, crawled over, hugged Guan Ze's legs and bit them twice.
"Yeah." Guan Ze responded and lowered his head to look for clothes in his box.
"Let me make it clear first!" Lin Yao jumped to his side in small steps, "If you catch up with him, you have to admit it!"
"Yeah." Guan Ze continued to respond, but stopped flipping through the clothes and supported himself on the edge of the table with his hands.
"Don't..." When Lin Yao was about to continue speaking, he found that Guan Ze seemed a little abnormal. He moved closer to Guan Ze's face and found that Guan Ze had his eyes closed. "What's wrong?"
"It's okay," Guan Ze pinched his brows, slowly opened his eyes, looked at him, and said, "Go on."
"That's all." Lin Yao didn't move. If it was someone else, he wouldn't be so sensitive, but this person was Guan Ze, and he wouldn't ignore even the slightest movement. Guan Ze was obviously uncomfortable just now. "Are you dizzy?"
"Maybe I didn't eat breakfast and my blood sugar is low," Guan Ze smiled, "Eat something, we have to go out soon."
"Didn't you say you'd bring me breakfast after you've eaten?"
“That means you haven’t eaten enough.”
"Oh," Lin Yao was still a little skeptical, but Guan Ze looked fine now, so he didn't say anything more. He didn't want to force someone to admit that he had a problem. "Then have another piece of chocolate later. Don't you always bring it with you?"
Lin Yao had never participated in an exhibition before. He helped out when the exhibition was being set up. He thought it was fun despite the chaos all around him, and it was better than going to work.
When helping to build the scaffold with Guan Ze, Lin Yao felt very energetic, but a little distracted. He couldn't help but glance at Guan Ze. After glancing at him a few times, Guan Ze looked at him and whispered, "What the hell are you looking at?"
"I'm just looking at fart," Lin Yao looked away, "I'm just looking at fart."
Guan Ze was happy and didn't say anything else. After setting up the booth, he helped the two girls from the marketing department to organize the materials. Lin Yao sat on a chair at the side in a daze.
"Is this power strip okay, Mr. Guan?" A guy from the marketing department came back with a power strip. They didn't have enough power strips, and no one knew where this guy got one from.
"Where did you get it?" Guan Zeguan smiled and looked around. "Don't do it right next to us, or someone will come looking for you."
"Don't worry. I don't know whose booth it is over there at the gate. It's a mess and no one is around. The subwoofer next to it is making me dizzy. I think it must have shaken people away." The guy scratched his ears.
Music was playing in the exhibition hall, so Lin Yao couldn't hear what he said, but he was still shocked by his words. He couldn't help but interrupt: "We have condoms at this exhibition?"
Everyone was stunned and stared at him. Lin Yao felt a little scared and quickly went over the sentence in his mind again. Then he blushed a little: "Subwoofer?"
"Oh, Lin Yao, what are you going to do?" A little girl from the marketing department shouted with a smile.
The exhibition was actually very relaxing. Lin Yao had basically nothing to do. The people in the marketing department were busy with reception, so he sat in the corner playing with his mobile phone, glancing at Guan Ze from time to time.
Guan Ze was wearing a shirt with his sleeves rolled up casually. On the surface, he looked no different from the other male colleagues in the marketing department, but his temperament was completely different. Lin Yao felt that it would be no problem for him to stare at him for a whole day.
As more and more people came, Guan Ze walked up to him. Probably because he saw that he looked bored, he tapped his shoulder with his finger and said, "Let's go for a walk."
"Okay!" Lin Yao immediately became excited when he heard this, jumped up and followed Guan Ze.
Guan Ze's "walking around" meant looking around the exhibition, picking up some information about other companies, and running into several acquaintances and chatting for a long time. Lin Yao felt like a child being taken by an adult to the vegetable market. The adult was bargaining for vegetables while running into acquaintances and chatting for a few words, and the child was following behind, looking around and touching things.
However, he really likes this state of walking and stopping with Guan Ze like shopping. Guan Ze would sometimes lean close to his ear and ask him questions about design. His voice was very low but very clear, and it was like an electric shock when it entered his ears.
After walking around twice, Guan Ze walked out of the exhibition hall and sat down on a bench outside: "Hurry up if you want to smoke."
Lin Yao smiled a little embarrassedly, lit a cigarette and stood beside the trash can: "Do you usually go shopping? I felt like I was just going shopping."
"If I don't go shopping, who else can I go shopping with?" Guan Ze put a chocolate in his mouth and looked up at the leaves above his head. "I'm exhausted just taking my son to the zoo and amusement park every week."
"Amusement park," Lin Yao has mixed feelings about this place. When he went to the amusement park as a child, Lin Zong would always torment him, such as putting him on the swing and pushing him back and forth, and not letting him get off. He was so angry that he cried for half an hour, and Lin Zong just pushed him for half an hour. Sometimes Lin Yao felt that he couldn't find anyone more boring than Lin Zong. "I haven't been to the amusement park for a long time. When I was a child, I couldn't play peacefully whenever my brother went with me."
"I'm going to take Lu Teng there this weekend, do you want to go?" Guan Ze suddenly asked.
"I do," Lin Yao answered without thinking, and then he thought about whether he should be polite, "Is it convenient?"
"You're so fake," Guan Ze laughed. "What's the inconvenience? Children are just children. It doesn't matter if you take care of one or two."
"Then take me with you. I want to play Crazy Mouse." Lin Yao put out his cigarette and sat next to Guan Ze, his eyes narrowed with a smile.
The two-day exhibition was actually not tiring work. People from the marketing department still had to talk to each other. Lin Yao just sat on the side and watched the fun. He was in a good mood because Guan Ze said he would take him to play Crazy Mouse.
He has never gone out to play with the person he likes, but he has been thinking about this during the past two days of the exhibition. Playing together means riding in a car together, strolling together, eating together, sitting and resting together... Anyway, they do everything together, even cleaning and picking up leaves in the amusement park, he feels it is very enjoyable.
The only regret was that he didn't dare ask to share a bed with Guan Ze again the next night. Guan Ze seemed a little tired. After dinner, he went back to the room, took a shower and lay down. When Lin Yao came out of the shower, he found that Guan Ze had fallen asleep.
This time Lin Yao did not take the opportunity to act like a hooligan. Guan Ze had already made his position clear, you come and chase me. This made him feel much more at ease, and he temporarily put away the mentality of "if not now is the right time to act like a hooligan, when will I be?"
Lin Yao stood beside Guan Ze's bed and stared at him for a while, then he struck a strongman pose, gritted his teeth and whispered viciously, "You'll be mine sooner or later!"
After returning from the exhibition, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening when Guan Ze got home. He left his car at the train station and sent several colleagues home one by one.
Lin Yao dozed off in the passenger seat, but he didn't fall into a deep sleep this time. He woke up as soon as Guan Ze parked the car: "Are we there yet?"
"No," Guan Ze was looking out the car window, "I'm hungry, let's go to a supermarket and buy something to eat."
"I'm hungry too," Lin Yao pressed his stomach and felt as if his stomach didn't exist. "There's a night market near my home. Shall we go eat some skewers?"
"OK."
Grilled skewers were one of Lin Yao’s favorite foods when he was in college. Especially when he returned to school after eating the dishes his mother cooked during the holidays, he would shed tears of longing when he saw the grilled skewers stall.
After graduation, he lived at home and basically said goodbye to kebabs forever. Now that he had this opportunity, he could hardly control himself. He jumped out before Guan Ze's car stopped. By the time Guan Ze parked the car and came over, he had already ordered a lot of kebabs.
"Let's not drink," Lin Yao said to Guan Ze as he threw various skewers of meat into a small basket, "Let's just eat meat. I want to satisfy my craving."
"Whatever you want." Guan Ze smiled, found a table and sat down, supporting his forehead with his hand while watching Lin Yao picking food with great enthusiasm. This kid could be so happy just eating a kebab.
Lin Yao finally finished picking out the food and sat down next to Guan Ze: "Hey, if my mom knew that I ate skewers, she would definitely nag me that I would lose my memory soon. Eating too many skewers would cause me to lose my memory, eating too much MSG would cause me to lose my memory, and I would definitely have to step on soap when taking a bath, and if I step on soap, I would definitely fall and lose my memory..."
"My mother's only goal in life is to prevent her two sons from losing their memories." Lin Yao summed up.
Guan Ze laughed for a long time. He liked listening to Lin Yao talk about these things. No matter how helpless Lin Yao's tone was, he always made people feel at ease when he said it. The warm home and the mother who was a little neurotic but loved her son very much, all these made Guan Ze very emotional.
When the skewers came up, Lin Yao's eyes lit up. He patted Guan Ze's leg and said, "Boss Guan, I won't be polite with you. If you want to eat them, just grab them from me."
"You eat yours..." Guan Ze wanted to say that he could just take a few bites, but before he could finish this sentence, an empty bamboo stick was placed in front of Lin Yao. He had no choice but to take out the few bites that he was going to "take casually" from the plate at once.
Lin Yao stopped talking and lowered his head to eat very attentively. Not long after eating, his cell phone suddenly rang. He took the tissue handed to him by Guan Ze, wiped his hands, and took out the cell phone. It was probably his mother at this time.
When he pressed the answer button, he saw that the number displayed on the screen was Qi Jian's, but the call was already connected, and Qi Jian's voice came out of the receiver: "Xiao Yaoyao--"
You could tell right away that the man was drunk; his voice was so loud that Guan Ze could hear it clearly, and he tilted his head and smiled.
"Brother Qi." Lin Yao put the phone to his ear.
"Come and have a drink!" Qi Jian continued to shout.
Lin Yao put the phone away: "I just got home from a business trip. I'm exhausted. I won't go."
"You don't give me face at all," Qi Jian said with dissatisfaction, "You didn't want to give me face before, and you won't give me face now. If Guan Ze calls you, you will definitely come! Isn't that right!"
"Brother Qi," Lin Yao was embarrassed. Qi Jian's voice was very loud, and he and Guan Ze were sitting next to each other. Guan Ze could probably hear what he said. "I'm really tired. Are you with Jun'er? Give him a call and I'll talk to him."
"Jun'er is too busy picking up girls," Qi Jian suddenly sighed, "You can't say who you like, but you like him."
"Brother Qi, I'm not going to talk to you anymore. I'm hanging up." Lin Yao was overwhelmed.
Just when he was about to hang up and turn off the phone, Qi Jian suddenly said, "Brother, I'm telling you, it's impossible for you to like him. Your opponent is too strong, understand!"
"What?" Lin Yao was stunned. Opponent
"You like it even though you don't know shit," Qi Jian said to him in a serious tone, "His sister's leg became lame because she was trying to save him. Can you win over her?"