Xue Lan locked himself in the room.
He had always felt that the original owner "Xue Lan" was an annoying cannon fodder character in the original text, and that the original text was even called off by fans during its serialization period.
But now he feels that he is not even as good as "Xue Lan".
Although "Xue Lan" in the original story did many annoying things under the name of liking Wen Yan, at least he played a role in promoting the plot and helping Duan Wenzheng and Wen Yan to find their feelings for each other. But what about him? He clearly wanted to bless them, so why is he...
Duan Wenzheng realized his feelings for Wen Yan because of "Xue Lan"'s persistence in pursuing him. After Xue Lan seriously crossed the "high-voltage line", he kicked him out of the club. At that time, Duan Wenzheng and Wen Yan had not yet broken the final window paper with each other.
It was precisely because Duan Wenzheng had driven away "Xue Lan" in the first place that Duan Wenzheng and Wen Yan had a conflict over Duan Wenzheng kicking "Xue Lan" out of the team. During the conflict, Duan Wenzheng confessed his love to Wen Yan and forcefully kissed Wen Yan while out of control.
A kiss didn't bring the two together, but it made their relationship different.
Wen Yan beat up Duan Wen Zheng after being forcibly kissed, and became even more "disgusted" with Duan Wen Zheng who was always flirting with her, thus starting Duan Wen Zheng's "husband-chasing crematorium".
It can be said that "Xue Lan" being kicked out of the team is an extremely important plot in the original text.
At least he helped the protagonists, the top and the bottom, gradually understand each other's feelings.
But I, not only did I not help, but I made things worse by falling in love with Duan Wen Zheng.
Xue Lan buried his head in the quilt, feeling that he no longer had the face to face Duan Wenzheng and Wen Yan.
…
"What the hell? Why would I knock? You called me over in the middle of the night just to let me knock on your door?!"
Zhou Kanqing's eyes were almost rolling up to the sky. Duan Wenzheng glanced at the tightly closed door and signaled him to be quiet.
"That's not right..." Zhou Kanqing thought again and felt something was wrong. He lowered his voice and said gloatingly, "Duan Wenzheng, I didn't expect you to be so cowardly that you don't even dare to knock on the door?"
"I'm not a coward, he won't open the door if I knock."
"Oh, you want me to help you trick kids? No, I have to protect our team leader..."
Duan Wenzheng glanced at someone who was gloating: "Knock or not? I haven't told you about your anal prolapse and nightclub..."
"Then how can it be mine... Okay, mine." Zhou Kanqing was about to argue, but Duan Wenzheng's gaze pushed him back. Knowing that he was in the wrong, he gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Knock, can't I knock?!"
Zhou Kanqing stood up resignedly and knocked on the door at Duan Wenzheng's urging.
He knocked on the door lightly, and there was no response from inside.
"Are you asleep?" Zhou Kanqing asked in a low voice.
"You told him to open the door."
Zhou Kanqing stared at him in disbelief: "What did I say?"
"Whatever." Duan Wenzheng was too lazy to pay attention to his hesitation: "Just say you're checking the dormitory and ask him to open the door."
"…?" Zhou Kanqing rolled his eyes in anger: "It's 3:30 in the morning, and you're checking the dormitories?"
"Lanlan, are you asleep?" Zhou Kanqing continued to knock on the door speechlessly, and slightly increased the force: "It's me, I have something urgent to find you, open the door quickly!"
Duan Wenzheng stood up and leaned quietly against the door.
"Lanlan?" Zhou Kanqing called again suspiciously. If Duan Wenzheng didn't have a wound on the corner of his mouth, Zhou Kanqing would have suspected that Duan Wenzheng was playing a trick on him.
Duan Wen Zheng stood quietly by the side, patient and silent.
But the door of the room was still tightly closed. Just when Zhou Kanqing was about to give up, the door in front of him opened a little, and a slightly nasal voice came from the dimness inside the door: "What's going on..."
Before Xue Lan finished speaking, and before Zhou Kanqing had time to react, Duan Wenzheng, who was leaning casually beside him, suddenly pressed down on the door!
Xue Lan didn't expect that Zhou Kanqing would really team up with Duan Wenzheng to deceive him. At this moment, it was too late for him to close the door. Duan Wenzheng seemed to be certain that Xue Lan would not close the door and would trap his hands, so he directly clamped his hands on the door panel.
Xue Lan didn't look at Duan Wenzheng. His eyes fell on Zhou Kanqing. His red eyes made Zhou Kanqing swallow guiltily: "Um, Duan..."
Duan Wenzheng said without even turning his head: "Go to bed early. I have something to talk to him about alone."
Zhou Kanqing was stunned for a moment before he realized that Duan Wenzheng's words were directed at him.
"Fuck, Duan Wenzheng, you are a cunning rabbit that dies and runs away... No, you are killing me after I have done my job..." He was choked by himself, and suddenly realized that the two sentences were scolding himself no matter how he said them. He simply gave up and gritted his teeth and said to Xue Lan guiltily: "He, he said he wanted to apologize to you. If he bullies you again, you can shout me loudly. I, I will go back first."
After Zhou Kanqing finished speaking, he didn't dare to look Xue Lan in the eye again and ran back to his room.
There were only two people left in the corridor again.
Duan Wenzhen's hand blocked the door and the door frame. Xue Lan did not close the door forcefully, but he was also stubborn and refused to open it.
"You don't have to open the door, I'll talk here." Duan Wen Zheng did not rush in, but spoke softly through the door.
"I'm not blaming you or being mean to you, I just want to know why you think Wen Yan and I... are a couple?" Seeing Xue Lan lowering her head and not speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Did Zhou Kanqing say something?"
Xue Lan shook his head hurriedly.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with Duan Wenzheng's tone, and it had nothing to do with Zhou Kanqing. He also never thought that he would be so useless as to cry.
He just felt that he was really bad. He clearly wanted Duan Wen Zheng and Wen Yan to be happy, but how could he really fall in love with Duan Wen Zheng without realizing it
It's really... terrible.
Duan Wenzheng obviously didn't believe his denial. He felt more and more that Zhou Kanqing must know something.
But at this moment he had no time to care about Zhou Kanqing, so he could only continue: "No matter why you think so, I can't possibly like Wen Yan, because..."
Xue Lan subconsciously raised her head because of his words.
There was no light in the corridor, only the warm light in the room was faintly scattered on Duan Wenzhen's face.
Xue Lan fixed his eyes on the wound at the corner of his lips, his face turned pale instantly, and he could no longer hear what Duan Wenzheng was saying. All he could think of was the forced kiss and conflict between Duan Wenzheng and Wen Yan after "Xue Lan" was kicked out of the team.
"... You don't have to answer me now. I said this just because I hope you won't continue to misunderstand me and... Are you not listening?" Duan Wenzheng explained carefully, but found that Xue Lan's face turned pale. He quickly reached out his hand to touch Xue Lan's cheek.
But Xue Lan seemed to come to his senses suddenly, and hurriedly avoided his hand, and even pushed him out directly.
"It's late, I'm going to bed!"
Duan Wenzheng staggered back two steps, but the door in front of him slammed shut again.
Duan Wenzhen stood there in shock. He stared at the tightly closed door and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.
The closed door could never be reopened. Duan Wenzhen looked at the rays of light gradually rising in the sky, rubbed his brows in frustration, and had to turn around and leave.
But the situation seemed to be worse than Duan Wenzhen had imagined.
He originally thought that Xue Lan was just angry with him and that he could just coax him as usual, but since then, Xue Lan has avoided him except during training.
Zhou Kanqing naturally noticed something was wrong between the two of them, and the clubs recently were filled with a strange atmosphere.
"You haven't reconciled yet? Look at Lanlan, she's been spending all her personal time with that Shen Rong from Glory recently. How come you can't even look after a person now? If you keep going like this, maybe one day our team's flower girl will transfer to Glory." While Xue Lan was called to the office by Xie Zhinian, Zhou Kanqing approached Duan Wenzheng again and joked, "You can't do that either. Wasn't she fine the day you asked me to knock on the door?"
If it had been in the past, Duan Wenzheng would have retorted until Zhou Kanqing wanted to beat him up, but this time, Duan Wenzheng did not respond.
"No way? How serious?"
Zhou Kanqing moved a chair and sat down next to Duan Wenzheng. His original gloating expression turned into a rare serious expression: "What did you say that day?"
"Apologize? But why do I feel that you are not the kind of person who can apologize..." Zhou Kanqing fell into deep thought, and his rare serious expression deviated from the track again after a turn: "You didn't kneel down to apologize? You didn't slap yourself in the mouth?"
"No." Duan Wenzheng finally answered. His expression was indistinguishable from joy or anger. He just lowered his head and fixed his gaze on the space bar that was being rubbed back and forth by his fingertips: "But I said I like him."
"...?!" Zhou Kanqing was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He glanced at the empty training room with a guilty conscience: "What did he say?"
"He..." Duan Wenzheng thought of Xue Lan's pale face and the action of pushing him out of the door, and his fingertips stopped moving: "Zhou Kanqing, do you think I look so out of place?"
Zhou Kanqing has known Duan Wenzheng for many years, and whenever he saw him he always looked like he deserved a beating. How could he be as frustrated as he is now
It's not like he hadn't thought about this happening in the first place, but when it actually happened, Zhou Kanqing didn't feel like setting off fireworks to celebrate. He hesitated for a long time, as if thinking about what to say to comfort Duan Wenzhen.
But when the words came to his lips, he turned around and said, "Although I really want to comfort you, this is the fact."
"… "
"You are indeed like this. Although you never fail to deliver at critical moments, you are not serious about small matters. How can people trust you?" Zhou Kanqing sighed and said with concern, "If I really have to choose between the dirty talk you usually say and the nonsense you say after drinking, I would rather believe what you say when you are so drunk that you can't even tell the difference between one and two. It is also difficult for me to believe what you say seriously..."
Duan Wenzheng suddenly raised his head and fixed his eyes on Zhou Kanqing.
"What did you just say?"