Moonshine is not far from Shanhai Road, and it only takes about ten minutes to walk there.
After nightfall, the streets full of traffic during the day completely changed their appearance.
The sycamore trees standing on both sides are illuminated with colorful night lights, and the whole city is shrouded in a completely different atmosphere from the daytime.
The vehicles coming and going are bustling and noisy, and the high-rise buildings are brightly lit. It deserves to be one of the top ten cities in the country for night scenes.
However, Ye Cheng has no interest in appreciating it at all, and is doing psychological construction for herself along the way:
Calm down, you must be calm later.
But when he walked to the door of the bar, he looked up and saw the familiar light board, and all his psychological defenses collapsed instantly.
—moonshine is a gay bar, where he and Lu Xiao met for the first time.
After Ye Cheng went to college, same-sex marriage was legalized.
Everyone around him knows his sexual orientation, and sometimes they meet to go to gay bars to relax.
With a face of his level, it was like a lamb in a wolf's den once he entered.
But he never asks out people, he only drinks and chats with friends in the booth.
Moonshine has a feature. It is normal business before zero o'clock, and after zero o'clock, same-sex friends begin to gather.
Many people didn't know this, and they were shocked after entering the night show by mistake. That's how Lu Xiao was tricked into it by her friends.
He had just returned to China that year, and he was surrounded by a group of wealthy second generations who liked what he liked.
Lu Xiao was wearing a high-tailored black shirt, and her 1.89-meter-high male model was particularly eye-catching. When passing by their booths, they are like walking hormones, attracting countless eyes to follow.
Ye Cheng's roommate Xiao 0 immediately proposed to continue the big adventure game just now, and whoever loses should ask that Tiancai for WeChat.
In the chaotic music and crowd, Ye Cheng met his gaze across a few seats.
Lu Xiao frowned tightly, apparently not knowing that there was a "Midnight Show" here.
Ye Cheng laughed and said, "Are you sure you want him? The half-breed next to him seems more reliable."
"Don't be in vain, you can still talk to him even if you are rejected. I haven't seen this kind of top-notch No. 1 for a long time." Roommate Shasha.
They played a round of dice, but they never expected that Ye Cheng lost.
The roommate looked at him enviously: "Come on, come on, remember to share if you want!"
Under the instigation of several people, Ye Cheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and prepare to go there.
But just when he looked up, Lu Xiao suddenly got up and walked over here.
The others gasped in fright, seeing him getting closer and closer, and finally stood still in front of Ye Cheng.
"Excuse me, can you add a WeChat?" Lu Xiao took out her phone and said.
His voice was deep and magnetic, and half the bar fell silent.
It was only later that Ye Cheng found out that they were also betting at the table that day.
That mixed race is a frequent visitor here, knowing that Ye Cheng never sends WeChat messages, so he deliberately wanted to play a prank with Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao couldn't stand being provoked, so she came over to ask for it on impulse.
As a result, on the second day, the most embarrassing thing happened to Ye Cheng.
At that time, the dormitory was celebrating his having an affair, and he also got an offer from the Lu family.
Only he found out that the person who asked him to scan the QR code last night hadn't passed his friend application until now.
Co-authored and fucked by someone.
With a speechless mood, Ye Cheng got up early in the morning to report to Lu's.
He followed a group of people into the elevator, and the elevator door slowly closed.
Suddenly someone pushed the door open, and a familiar figure walked in.
"Morning Mr. Lu." The person who opened the door greeted enthusiastically.
Others said to the people who walked in: "Good morning, Mr. Lu."
In the narrow space, Ye Cheng raised his head and stared at Lu Xiao in a suit.
The atmosphere fell into extreme embarrassment.
Seeing this bar again, Ye Cheng felt both old and new grudges welling up in his heart.
Lu Xiao dared to lie to him. In fact, he had been to this bar since high school.
Ye Cheng, who was so angry and bloody, didn't notice that it was only before eight o'clock, and the "Midnight Show" hadn't even started yet.
He casually took off the school badge and name tag on the school uniform, and pushed the door in with anger.
At this time period, there are no hosts, and the atmosphere is not very exciting. There is a resident singer performing on the stage.
The receptionist walked over here.
Without waiting for him to speak, Ye Cheng said that he had friends gathering here and asked him to help lead the way.
The surrounding booths are sparsely populated, it is estimated that they went to the private room.
The bartender checked the order and asked if he was a girl surnamed Jiang.
Ye Cheng nodded coldly, followed him into the aisle.
As soon as I arrived at the door of the private room, I heard the sound of booing and deafening music inside.
Ye Cheng pushed open the door without hesitation, and the smell of smoke made people unable to open their eyes.
The environment in the private room is dim, extravagant and ambiguous, a group of people sit on the sofa and smoke.
He could vaguely tell that the one sitting in the middle was Lu Xiao, and Jiang Jin and Jiang Yirong were sitting next to him.
I can't go to evening self-study, and I come to this kind of place to smoke and drink, and there are a bunch of messy people sitting next to me.
Ye Cheng's face was frighteningly dark.
He walked over quickly, picked up the wine on the table, and splashed Lu Xiao's face with his hands.
There was an uproar in the private room, and the girls covered their mouths and screamed.
The scene was very chaotic.
Lu Xiaozheng had condescended to be a wingman for half an hour, when suddenly he was hit by an indiscriminate disaster, and he jumped up in anger.
"Fuck, are you fucking courting death?" Without thinking, he stood up and grabbed the man by the collar, pulling him across the coffee table.
With this force, one of the buttons on Ye Cheng's collar fell off, and Gu Lulu rolled to the ground.
The two got very close in an instant, and the young man's delicate and beautiful face came into view.
Caught off guard.
Even though the surrounding lights were dim, those indifferent and angry eyes still hit the soul directly, and the drooping eyelashes trembled slightly, with a sense of slenderness, fineness and fragility.
For some reason, looking at the tear mole in the corner of his eye, Lu Xiao suddenly had a feeling of deja vu.
This look... I always feel as if I have seen it somewhere.
His heart moved suddenly.
Fragmented images flashed before his eyes.
There seemed to be a hidden voice telling him that whenever Ye Cheng showed such an expression, it must be something wrong.
It was his fault.
He shouldn't have a cold war with him, and he shouldn't have come to the bar by himself without saying a word.
This absurd consciousness gradually invaded his mind like a wild horse running wild.
Long before Ye Cheng came, she was ready to fight him.
He clenched his fist subconsciously, his eyes burning with anger: "Do you know what you are doing?"
He wanted to punch the bastard for a long time.
Jiang Jin, who was next to him, had already recognized him, and was so shocked that he quickly stood up and tried to persuade him to fight.
Who knows, the next second.
Lu Xiao instinctively let go of her hands to protect her head, and blurted out: "I'm sorry, I was wrong!"
Everyone was quiet and looked at them dumbfounded.
There was deathly silence in the box.
The air froze.
Lu Xiao suddenly realized what she had just said.
Hold…
What's going on, what happened to him just now? Why would there be such an outrageous move...
For a moment, he felt like he was being controlled by muscle memory.
The subconscious voice told him: You must be right.
hateful.
Lu Xiao felt that there was a thunderbolt from the sky. In his proud seventeen years of life, he never knew how to write the word "counseling".
Why did it become like this? !
Twenty minutes later, on the Shanhai Road, the slightly cold night wind calmed down the restless mind.
With a livid face, Lu Xiao poked her neck and said, "That's the way it is, what else do you have to say?"
Ye Cheng's eyes were complicated, and her tone was not very good: "But you shouldn't come to drink, are you so contradictory?"
"I didn't drink."
"Then you smell so much of alcohol?"
"You splashed it, thank you."
After Lu Xiao finished speaking, she stopped looking at him, as if she was aggrieved.
Ye Cheng choked for a moment, and said nothing with a cold face.
Lu Xiao waited in the cool breeze for nearly a minute, but didn't hear a word from the other party.
He pointed to his soaked T-shirt in disbelief: "You won't apologize to me?"
I don't know if it's because she stayed in this high school student's body for a long time, but Ye Cheng felt that her intelligence would drop sharply as soon as she talked to him, and her mood was extremely easy to fluctuate.
He said with a sullen expression, "Why should I apologize? You knew the answer in class but didn't tell me. Why didn't you apologize?"
If this conversation was heard by Jiang Jin, it is absolutely reasonable to suspect that their minds were squeezed by the door at the same time.
He hasn't used this kind of argumentative speech since primary school.
But Lu Xiao didn't think so, there was even a hint of injury in his dark eyes.
He was silent for a long time, and suddenly he answered irrelevantly: "Ye Cheng, do you give your passwords to random people?"
Ye Cheng was stunned by that thoughtless sentence.
After Lu Xiao finished speaking, she turned her head and left without waiting for him to answer.
His back is full of "I'm not happy", and the hair wet with wine is stubbornly sticking up.
It's so pitiful.
Ye Cheng stood there with a questioning face.
What does this have to do with passwords
After that day, Lu Xiao came back to class obediently.
But the two still didn't talk to each other, and there was even a distance of ten centimeters between the desks.
Every time the students on duty arrange the tables neatly at night, they will find that there is another air 38th line in the middle the next day.
Jiang Jin was the first to notice something was wrong, but he thought it was the reason for the friction that day, so he didn't take it too seriously.
Until this situation lasted for three days, and the fire at the city gate caused the fish in the pond—Ye Cheng stopped copying homework for him.
Jiang Jin suddenly felt that the sky was falling and the earth was falling, and he couldn't bear the nightmare of wrong ten questions in a row in English reading, so he bravely sent a message to Lu Xiao in the self-study class.
Jiulong Wu Yanzu: [Brother Xiao, why don't you forgive Brother Cheng, he also has good intentions.]
Lu Xiao ignored him.
He continued to work tirelessly: [We can't be too narrow-minded, right? How about I set up a line and ask you to have lunch together at noon?]
Lu Xiao looked down at the phone and was about to type.
Jiulong Wu Yanzu: [In the past few days, he went out to eat with the buddy from the lobster shop last time, and it happened that everyone knew each other.]
[How about making an appointment with that store?]
He waited for five minutes, but Lu Xiao still didn't reply to him.
Jiang Jin couldn't bear it anymore, and typed: [Brother Xiao?]
As soon as it was sent, a red exclamation mark popped up in the chat box.
Jiang Jin: "..."
Lu Xiao blocked him.
that day.
Another hot post on the forum: What's the situation in the East Building and West Building? Fighting again? (No cursing in this post)
Main Building: The East Building has been very uneven these two days. Lao Qi has been asked for trouble one after another. Did the first brother eat gunpowder? He wouldn't accidentally find fault with such a small incident before.
1L: put an ear.
2L: Thank you for the invitation. Lao Qi committed suicide first. He spread rumors to others, saying that Brother Yi had an affair with him at the same table, and Brother Yi was educated when he heard about it.
3L: What what? Brother Yi's deskmate, wouldn't it be Ye Cheng from last time, right
4L: The one above, yes, is Ye Meili.
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22L: Hahaha I really admire Lao Qi, he deserves to be the No. 1 cheapest in the thirteenth high school. So is there proof? I want to see it too.
23L: He was educated because there was no evidence. He said that Ye Meili was jealous of Jiang Meimei, and rushed into the private room and poured wine all over his body. Afterwards, the first brother chased him out and coaxed him for a long time.
24L: My day, why does it sound a bit sweet
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38L: There shouldn't be too many rhythmic ones here, what's the big problem? Two straight men, okay, what kind of love triangle plot...
39L: I'm the only one. The point is, the first brother was poured alcohol in public, but he didn't beat him to the hospital? !
40L: Upstairs, I was hammered into the bottom of the pit by this point, it killed me!
Jiang Jin looked at the reply below, and his heart skipped a beat.
Looking at the interface where Lu Xiao blocked him, he stumbled again.
Something is wrong, they are very wrong.
There is no evening study on Friday night, and everyone is leisurely swiping and chatting.
Huang Shengan next door ran to the gate of No. 13 Middle School after class, waiting for Ye Cheng to leave school.
Gao Qiulan bought lobster and beef bones, and specially called him over for dinner.
The two first turned to the alley to buy roast duck.
Huang Shengan tilted his head and looked at Ye Cheng who was silent all the way, and asked curiously: "What's wrong with you, the word 'unhappy' is written all over your face, who offended you?"
Ye Cheng is really depressed these days.
Originally, he thought that with his understanding of Lu Xiao, he could easily control this guy's changes, but instead he got himself into it.
In the final analysis, he overlooked a point.
The twenty-seven-year-old Lu Xiao is very different from the seventeen-year-old Lu Xiao.
Twenty-seven-year-old Lu Xiao would confess her feelings, but seventeen-year-old Lu Xiao would bury them in her heart.
After all, he is a young boy in a sensitive period.
He looked Huang Shengan up and down until he got goosebumps.
That's right, isn't there a seventeen-year-old high school student here
"If your friend is suddenly angry and refuses to communicate with you, how can you stop him from being angry?" he asked seriously.
Huang Shengan was shocked by his question full of youthful pain, and he said after a while: "Why is he angry with you?"
Ye Cheng thought for a while and said, "It seems that I told others the password, but I don't seem to have done such a thing."
Huang Shengan choked speechlessly: "Is it the game password? It's all up to me. Is it your girlfriend?"
"...No." Ye Cheng had difficulty explaining to him.
They carried the roast duck through the sparsely populated alleys, and came face to face with a few people smoking cigarettes.
Ye Cheng was looking down at what to say when she heard a familiar voice.
"I said who walks without looking at the road. It turns out that we are number one in our grade."
The broken voice and the beating tone are deeply memorable after hearing it once.
Ye Cheng raised her head and looked at the mocking Zhang Qi.
Seeing Huang Shengan's school uniform, Zhang Qi curled his lips and said, "Why, you didn't play with Lu recently, but with this little boy?"
Huang Shengan didn't know about Ye Cheng's sexual orientation until after college, so he frowned and stared at him for no reason.
Ye Cheng gave him a cold look, and was about to walk past him and leave.
Zhang Qi suddenly shrugged his shoulders and bumped into it, taking advantage of the opportunity to grab the plastic bag he was carrying.
Ye Cheng didn't expect his sudden action, the bag in his hand flew out, and the roast duck spilled all over the floor.
"Ouch, I'm sorry, I accidentally bumped into you." Zhang Qi immediately raised his hands in surrender, and said shamelessly.
"Hey, why are you like this? Don't you apologize!" Huang Sheng'an became angry and said angrily.
Ye Cheng stopped him, looked at Zhang Qi and said, "No need to apologize, just pay me a new one."
Zhang Qi said with a gloomy smile: "Are you sure you dare to let me compensate you?"
As she spoke, she raised her hand and wanted to pull Ye Cheng's collar.
Unexpectedly, Ye Cheng reacted faster than him.
He quickly blocked Zhang Qi's arm with his backhand, took advantage of the momentum to cut his arms behind his back, and slammed them against the wall.
A series of actions happened in just a few seconds, and no one had time to do anything.
"What are you afraid of?" Ye Cheng pressed his shoulder and said coldly.
There was a slight sound as the bones collided.
"I'll fuck you!" Zhang Qi gritted his teeth in pain.
Only then did the few people behind him react, and they all rushed forward.
Seeing that the posture was wrong, Huang Shengan immediately spat out, making a gesture to fight with them.
At this moment, several figures walked over from the alley.
Ye Cheng threw Zhang Qi aside and saw the leading figure.
It's Lu Xiao.
Zhang Qi froze in place, obviously seeing him too.
After the other people noticed Zhang Qi's wink, they all stood still and did not dare to move.
"Brother Zhang, what are you doing?" Jiang Jin asked with a sneer as he looked at the roast duck that had been spilled all over the floor.
Lu Xiao didn't look at Ye Cheng, but stood face to face with Zhang Qi.
The atmosphere between the two was a little tense, as if they knew each other.
Zhang Qi snorted, and said darkly: "It's nothing, I accidentally touched his roast duck."
Jiang Jin glanced at Lu Xiao, and said, "Oh, we're all classmates. If we touch one, we'll pay for one. Right, Brother Cheng?"
He blinked at Ye Cheng.
Zhang Qi taunted: "Compensation, of course I will."
"No compensation."
Lu Xiao's voice sounded, and the surroundings fell silent.
Ye Cheng looked at him suddenly, and slightly gathered her five fingers hanging by her side.
Jiang Jin was even more stunned, almost writing "No, you won't help Zhang Qi" written on his face.
Zhang Qi didn't expect him to say that, and his face was very exciting.
Lu Xiao moved his lips, and the next sentence made him feel like falling into an ice cellar.
"It's not good to waste too much food, eat what's on the ground."
The air was dead silent again.
Zhang Qi panted heavily, the anger in his eyes was completely aroused.
Compared with the real school bully, he is still far behind.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, Jiang Jin hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "Well, Brother Xiao, aren't you here to buy roast duck? Let's go quickly, we still have to line up...it's almost six o'clock."
Lu Xiao still looked at Zhang Qi motionless, and from Ye Cheng's perspective, he could clearly see his expression.
His eyebrows were lowered, his black eyes shone with coldness, his nose was slightly open, and he looked angry.
Zhang Qi stared at him for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Lu Xiao, don't be too arrogant."
He glanced at Ye Cheng again, turned around and walked away angrily.
Lu Xiao didn't stop him.
After he left, Jiang Jin patted his chest with lingering fear and said, "Brother Xiao, calm down. You two made promises at the Academic Affairs Office last time, and you will be punished if you fight again."
The boy next to them was the captain of the basketball team, a boy of mixed race, who persuaded him, "That's right, it's not worth it for this kind of rotten fish and shrimp. Don't forget what those old men said last time."
Lu Xiao didn't speak, and looked over the roast duck on the ground, and landed on Ye Cheng.
He glanced at Ye Cheng, then at Huang Shengan who was beside him, turned and left with a sullen face.
Ye Cheng frowned unobtrusively.
Jiang Jin waved to him, and quickly turned to chase Lu Xiao.
"Brother Xiao, don't you want to buy roast duck?"
The captain of the basketball team smiled at Ye Cheng, followed them and left.
Huang Sheng'an shook his head repeatedly and said, "It's really bad luck! I didn't expect the thirteenth middle school to be so chaotic. Tell me why you want to transfer."
He picked up the roast duck on the ground and threw it into the trash can, and said, "Who were those from your class just now? They are quite loyal."
"En." Ye Cheng lowered her eyes and responded.
Huang Sheng'an asked him strangely: "Why do I feel that the most handsome guy seems to have a problem with you, are you taking his position as a class grass?"
Ye Cheng was a little depressed at first, and almost made him laugh.
"God damn class grass, it's the school grass, okay?"
Huang Shengan became interested in gossip: "Tsk, it's really rare that you can admit that someone is more handsome than you. The school grass of Thirteenth Middle School is interesting. What's his name?"
Ye Cheng said: "Lu Xiao, I didn't admit that he is more handsome than me, I just stated the facts."
Huang Shengan was startled, his face suddenly became a little strange.
"His name is Lu Xiao?" He asked in disbelief.
"What's wrong?" Ye Cheng looked at him.
The corner of Huang Shengan's mouth twitched: "The person who kicked you out of the team in the game that day, the note you gave him was Lu Xiao."
Ye Cheng: "?"
With a stick in his throat, Huang Shengan said hesitantly, "The angry friend you mentioned, could it be him? Why do I feel... he seems to be jealous?"