The flash of warmth on his lips made Tao Zhiyue's heartbeat stop.
At that moment, they were so close that they were face to face, and he even saw himself reflected in the other person's eyes.
Tao Zhiyue opened his eyes wide in astonishment, his pupils filled with the brilliant colors of the night, and the beautiful world overlapped in the depths of their eyes.
His red ears did not retain what Huo Ran said, but the words echoed in his body and took root.
It was not easy for Tao Zhi to calm down his disordered breathing and hide his pounding heartbeat.
He didn't know what to say for a moment, so he subconsciously touched the corner of his mouth and complained softly: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Huo Ran clutched the used tissue tightly, unwilling to throw it away, and showed a slightly silly expression: "I'm embarrassed to say it."
He was afraid that Tao Zhiyue would be angry, so he hurriedly explained: "Originally, it was gone, but you took another sip of milk tea, and then it was there. I originally wanted to say it, but suddenly it was gone again..."
With his clumsy and long-winded words, Tao Zhiyue's face turned redder and redder, and he blurted out: "That's why you keep staring at me."
Huo Ran paused for a moment, then nodded solemnly, "I like looking at you."
His eyes were as bright as the scorching sun, without a trace of impurity.
Tao Zhiyue seemed to hear the sound of snow melting.
He wanted to find a suitable word or sentence to express his mood at the moment, but no matter how beautiful the language was, he couldn't do anything.
In front of the sun, everything becomes eclipsed.
He thought for a long time and then said softly: "Next time I will bring you the braised beef I made."
"Really?" Huo Ran suddenly became excited, "Actually, I wanted to ask you just now, but I was embarrassed..."
He felt a lot embarrassed today.
Tao Zhiyue laughed, "Really, it's my gift to you."
Hearing the word "gift", Huo Ran seemed to be reminded, and his voice became a little dull, "Speaking of this, it seems that you should bring a gift to the other person when you meet for the first time."
"For you to agree to meet me is the biggest gift to me."
"So I forgot to get a gift, I'm sorry."
Huo Ran honestly lowered his head to admit his mistake. He reached out and took out two rectangular pill boxes from his bulging pocket.
"Although I gave you medicine when we last met, and I gave it to you again today, it seems not very good, but I think your burn is a bit serious, and the cut on your finger has not fully healed, so..."
It's a burn ointment and a scar removal ointment.
In the summer night wind, the tall man stood in front of him with his head lowered.
Obviously I secretly prepared medicine for him, but it seemed like I had done something wrong.
Tao Zhiyue looked at the top of his thick hair, his eyes gradually filled with transparent stars, condensing into moist dew.
While Huo Ran couldn't see him, he sniffed quietly and then did something he had wanted to do before.
He gently rubbed Huo Ran's hair, and tears fell silently.
When Huo Ran looked up at him blankly, Tao Zhiyue only had a little redness in the corners of his eyes, which seemed to blend in with the faint blush on his cheeks, as if he was simply shy.
Tao Zhiyue gave him a pure smile.
"Can I give you a hug?"
Before Huo Ran could react, he had already taken half a step forward, hugged the other person gently, and then quickly let go.
It was a short hug, really just a hug.
The redness in the corners of his eyes dissipated over time and disappeared without a trace.
Tao Zhiyue teased him more and more, "You smell like hot pot all over your body."
Huo Ran's whole body froze, like a light bulb with a blown fuse, and he couldn't even move his eyes.
After a long time, he said in a daze: "I'll wash it when I get back."
Tao Zhiyue nodded funnyly, "Well, I'm going back too."
Huo Ran started to stutter, "I-I'll take you home."
"I want to walk back today by myself."
Huo Ran conditioned reflex.
"Then don't walk on the road, take the sidewalk on the side and be careful of vehicles."
Tao Zhi thought more and more, "Why do I feel that this sentence sounds familiar."
Huo Ran came to his senses and immediately fell silent.
When they parted, he couldn't even blink.
When Tao Zhiyue took the two ointments he gave and walked towards home, Huo Ran stood there and stared for a long time.
The picture that once existed in his imagination became reality at this moment.
The thin and slender figure was shrouded in warm yellow light, leaving a long and diagonal shadow on the asphalt road.
He felt happy and even more indescribably moved.
Tao Zhiyue could feel the hot sight behind him, as if it could break through the deep and dense night.
He couldn't remember how long it had been since he had been watched like this.
But soon, Tao Zhiyue woke up from his charming mood.
People were coming and going on the streets at night, and with a solemn expression, he passed by them all alone.
Tao Zhiyue has been obsessed with the sense of order since he was a child. Whether it is a building made of bricks following the principles of mechanics, or a code compiled sequentially in a language framework, there is a clear and beautiful logic behind it.
Logic brings order, and order allows individuals to have a reliable and stable life experience.
He cannot accept a life without logic, which makes him feel unreal and uneasy.
Tao Zhiyue carefully sorted out the information he got from Huo Ran.
He first dropped out of school and moved away to avoid his acquaintance with Huo Ran in college. Two months ago, he resigned from his last company and had the foresight to escape from another encounter written in the plot.
So the investment fell through. At the same time, four suitors appeared in Huo Ran's life.
Tao Zhiyue felt that perhaps because his character was too out of control, the plot gave up on him and chose someone else to assume the "function" of this cannon fodder.
But he still met Huo Ran, and became the first love that Huo Ran truly fell in love with. The plot was on track, so those substitutes quietly exited.
Everything revolves around Huo Ran's feelings. He is destined to fall in love with someone, and then be left with incurable pain until he is redeemed by the real protagonist.
This is the logic currently displayed in the entire novel world. It is strange, but extremely tough.
Tao Zhiyue didn't understand why there was such a twisted logic. According to the plot in his memory, the first protagonist as the main subject of the narrative was Shen Nian, and Huo Ran was just his backer and lover. The image shown in the book was stereotyped. , almost like a tool man.
He intuitively felt that all this should be related to the real protagonist Shen Nian.
But according to the timeline in the book, Shen Nian would not meet Huo Ran until two years later.
Tao Zhiyue had no idea what Shen Nian looked like, and there was no specific description of where he lived in the book, so he had no way of starting at this moment.
He frowned, and in his depression, a message alert came from his cell phone.
[hr: Tell me when you get home. ]
[hr: I will also walk back today^-^]
Seeing this all-too-familiar face, Tao Zhiyue couldn't help but smile.
There is absolutely no similarity between Huo Ran and the unkind CEO in the book.
After thinking about it, Tao Zhiyue did not reply to him, but clicked on the space updates.
He wanted to take another look at the picture of this person who went to the game to plant flowers in the middle of the night and then posted it to his feed with his little thoughts exposed.
my garden.
A few lines down, summer is coming.
Tao Zhiyue glanced at it and saw that there were already many likes and comments under the photo of roses.
[Comment] Art Team Lin Jiajia: It looks great! What a beautiful shot! ! !
[Comment] I will never be bald: It’s the season to eat crayfish! When will Brother Tao come out for a dinner date
[Comment] Gym Coach: Summer is here, it’s time to exercise, and we are always waiting for every member to arrive.
…
[Comment] Is it an official or not? You changed your avatar and sent out roses. Are you in love? !
[Comment] Is it an official, not a gua: Wuwu, my girl hasn’t been caught yet, but you actually left the single first! ! !
After seeing Guan Yudong's message, a vague idea flashed through Tao Zhiyue's mind, and he sent the message.
[Tao: Are you there? ]
[Is it an official, not a prostitute: Yes! ! ! ]
[Official, not gua: I’m so sour, so sour, so sour! ! ! ]
[Tao::d]
[Tao: I want to ask you a question. ]
[Is it an official, not a prostitute: Uh-huh, you say. ]
How should he describe it
Tao Zhiyue suddenly fell into silence.
He died with the regret of never being loved, came to a novel world with bizarre and entangled plots, and became the cannon fodder and first love of the protagonist Gong Huo Ran. His existence was to create conditions for the protagonist to get to know each other and fall in love, and even committed suicide in the end. It is also to open up the knot between the two protagonists and give them a happy ending without any barriers.
However, he is not the indifferent and snobbish Tao Zhiyue in the book, and Huo Ran is not at all ruthless or even paranoid like in the book.
Huo Ran did come to northern Shanxi because of the power of the plot, but he stayed here and was reluctant to leave because he wanted to see him.
Although they met because of the plot, the little bits and pieces of life and every heartbeat are extremely real.
Tao Zhiyue might be able to deceive himself. Huo Ran's words about pursuing him were his groundless conjectures and hallucinations.
But when he heard those words, he happened to take a bite of bread in his mouth. Such a delicate and rich taste still lingers between his lips and teeth.
His life was real and so was his love.
This is the logic that Tao Zhiyue is convinced of.
So he wrote the message word for word.
[Tao: I have a very beautiful piece of code. I checked it many times and there are no errors, but it cannot be executed. ]
He used the metaphor he is most familiar with. When programming, such problems will arise from time to time.
But here, the consequences are far more serious than a piece of code not being executed, which means that there will be no ending for him and Huo Ran.
They had just started, but they were heading towards disintegration.
Guan Yudong knew nothing about this, so he enthusiastically sent one reply after another.
[Official, not gua: Ah, it shouldn’t be. ]
[Official, not official: Are you sure there are no bugs? ]
[Official, not gua: No, Tao Tao said no, so it definitely means no. ]
[Is it official or not: Memory allocation failed? ]
Nothing was wrong. Their encounter was shrouded in countless misunderstandings, and the emotions that sprouted quietly were so real and vivid, filling every gap in his empty life. As soon as I think about it, there are countless details swirling in my mind.
The only problem is that he is cannon fodder set in the novel.
He is not the protagonist who matches Huo Ran.
[Official, not Gua: Could it be a compiler problem? Just change the compiler. ]
Looking at the answer sent by Guan Yudong, Tao Zhiyue clutched the phone tightly, his fingers turning white from the exertion.
What if this story was changed to a different protagonist
[Tao: Do you read online novels? ]
[Is it an official, not a prostitute:! The topic jumps so much! ]
[Is it an official, not a crotch: Look at the duck, I like to read romance novels/Shy]
[Tao: In love novels, what kind of person can become the male protagonist? ]
[Official, not gua: This question is very profound... Let me think about it. ]
[Is it an official, not a prostitute: I must like the heroine very much. ]
[Official not official: In addition, basically handsome and rich, those with a campus background are academic tyrants or school tyrants, those with urban backgrounds probably have successful careers, CEOs, celebrities, etc. Anyway, they must be powerful. The place. ]
[Official, not gua: Unlike me, everything about me is cute. ]
[Official, not gua: Little bear spreads his hands.jpg]
Tao Zhiyue's tense expression finally relaxed, revealing a faint smile.
He felt that there was only one condition left for him.
In the strange and treacherous logic of the novel world, he temporarily found a possible solution.
Even if the error report fails, it doesn't matter.
He will keep trying until he finally cracks the strange program that has trapped them.
[Tao: One last question. ]
[Tao: Is your Sunshine Villa still lacking people? ]