A smooth Yuhua stone was twirling in Chu Mian's hand, and he held his face sideways in a trance, watching Yu Ran eat two big bowls of rice.
There were more and more people in the cafeteria. Yu Ran wanted to serve Chu Mian a bowl of tomato soup, but when he raised his eyes, he found that the food in front of him was not moving at all. He asked, "Why don't you eat? Are you hungry?"
Chu Mian frowned slightly, and said in a tired voice, "I have no appetite."
He relaxed his strength and let the rain flower stone in his palm slide to the table.
This stone was picked up from the ground by Yu Ran just now. It has a round appearance and a cold touch. After washing it, I insisted on giving it to him, saying that this kind of stone is very rare. Chu Mian straightened it out and saw that it was only in the shape of a peach heart.
Seeing that Yu Ran was almost full, Chu Mian tentatively asked him again: "Are you okay?"
Yu Ran wiped his mouth with a tissue, thought for a while, and said, "Oh yes, I have to go to the grocery store to catch the internet. What do you want to eat, I'll bring you some?"
Chu Mian maintained the posture of resting her chin, and suddenly took a heavy and deep breath, her eyes were sullen.
He didn't have a seizure, looked away from Yu Ran's face, and said: "You go, I'll be alone for a while."
Yu Ran got up without saying a word, leaving Chu Mian with a chic back. Since he was in a very calm state, Chu Mian thought about it and began to wonder if he had misunderstood it.
She couldn't verify the answer by thinking alone. Chu Mian wanted to contact Cui He, but felt that she didn't know Yu Ran well enough. If she knew about it, she would feel even more incredible.
After hesitating, Chu Mian called Ye Xi and asked her to come over for a chat.
Ye Xi was very straightforward, and appeared in front of Chu Mian in less than five minutes. They stayed away from the classmates in the class and found a quiet step to sit side by side.
Chu Mian seldom stays alone with Ye Xi, and the two of them communicate privately in the QQ group. It can be said that they meet because of Yu Ran.
However, Chu Mian thinks that Ye Xi is the most suitable person among all her friends to confide in secrets. She has a restrained and sensitive personality, and has a high ability of empathy, unlike Cui He who always stays out of things.
Chu Mian opened her mouth, hesitantly said: "I don't know what to say... There is one thing I haven't told others, that is, my feelings for Ran are more out of bounds, not just friends, do you understand?"
He bowed his head in silence, ready to accept Ye Xi's surprised reaction. But after a few seconds, the other party just gave a calm "Oh".
"I just like him." Ye Xi said it for him.
Chu Mian was taken aback, "Aren't you surprised?"
Ye Xi thought for a few seconds expressionlessly, and suddenly showed a surprised expression.
"Forget it." Chu Mian's cheeks became hot, ignoring her poor acting skills, "So you know."
"Well... generally speaking, we girls are more observant about things like this, especially you and Yu Ran are very obvious." Ye Xi thought about his words, "The main reason is because you are so obvious."
The point she emphasized made Chu Mian feel at a loss, so she just nodded her head resentfully, and said in a deep voice what she wanted to talk to her about: "It seems that Yu Ran just... confessed his love to me."
After he finished speaking, he hesitated first, and added: "It seems not."
Ye Xi suppressed the word "Congratulations" and asked him carefully. Chu Mian told her in every detail, and after he finished speaking, he couldn't help but be puzzled: "Then what?"
The more he thought about it, the more confused he became: "What is this now...?"
Ye Xi pondered, and patiently helped him analyze: "From the perspective of us normal people, that kind of dialogue is indeed a 'confession', yes, maybe it's time to kiss in the next second."
Chu Mian didn't make a sound, just glanced at her.
"But from Yu Ran's point of view..." Ye Xi frowned, and it was difficult for her to figure out Yu Ran's thoughts, "He may feel that he can like you with peace of mind now? So he didn't ask any more questions. "
The Yuhua stone in Chu Mian's hand was almost covered with heat, and he came to a conclusion: "That is to say, did Yu Ran not realize that I am willing to be liked by him?"
"Hmm. He might think he's in love with you unrequitedly... No, he might think he's still in love with you secretly." Ye Xi shook his head as he spoke, "No, he might even think that his way of asking questions is very clever. You Not in any doubt."
After listening to her, Chu Mian took a deep breath and let it out heavily.
The atmosphere became stiff, Ye Xi was quiet for a moment, then turned to find Chu Mian holding his forehead in a daze, his eyes were slightly red.
I don't know whether he is angry or sad now, Ye Xi quickly comforted him: "Hey, Yu Ran, it's normal. He always listens to the literal meaning when he listens to other people's words, and it will definitely not work to beat around the bush with him. How crooked he is now, How straight is the mind."
Chu Mian gritted her teeth hard, but said nothing.
Ye Xi said again: "So, you have to tell him clearly."
Chu Mian asked casually, "What did I tell him?"
"Yu Ran can only understand the expression 'I like you', it's better to add something like 'I want to be with you'." Ye Xi said sincerely.
Chu Mian clenched the Yuhua stone tightly, lowered her head slowly, buried her face in her knees, and covered her head with her arms.
"Huh? Don't cry." Ye Xi was very worried.
Chu Mian suddenly raised her face and retorted, "I didn't cry."
Then the head was buried again.
To take the initiative to express your feelings to Yu Ran, you have to use the most straightforward way... This is extremely difficult for Chu Mian. He is not good at expressing emotions to others by nature, and he would rather use a reserved attitude to hint at the other party little by little, rather than put aside his shame and make a quick decision. Especially when facing the Muggle Yu Ran, no one can predict how this person will react in the next second.
Maybe they will refuse him with strange reasons.
Chu Mian raised her head slowly, and said sullenly, "If he doesn't understand, then he doesn't understand. I'm not ready anyway."
He let go of his hand and threw the stone on the ground in a fit of anger.
Ye Xi bent down to pick up the Yuhua Stone, stuffed it into Chu Mian's hands, and encouraged, "Whenever you're ready, go for it!"
Chu Mian grabbed the stone, ignored her, and slowly got up and walked away.
At noon the sun was warm and pleasant. The canteen near the cafeteria was crowded with students in military training and agriculture. Cui He struggled to move to the freezer to choose the ice cream he wanted to eat.
Yu Ran broke open a popsicle and shared half of it with her. They have nothing to do now, and they don't want to go back to the dormitory building with poor signal, so they squat outside to bask in the sun, and listen to Lu Ziyao talking about her relationship experience, such as running away from home at three in the middle of the night, seeing her ex-girlfriend sitting on a boy's lap after breaking up, The cigarette holder of a pack of cigarettes is full of her name... No matter how you listen to it, Cui He feels that the way of gay dating is very unmainstream.
"Don't call your name 'Lu Ziyao' anymore, change your name to 'Lu Ziye'." Cui He sneered while biting a popsicle, and turned his head to tell Yu Ran: "Don't learn this kind of wrist-cutting and lettering in the future, stick it Your tattoo stickers will do."
Yu Ran shook his head and said, "There's no need to post that stuff in the future."
"What's wrong?"
"Chu Mian doesn't mind if I like him." Yu Ran said, sucking up all the crumbs of the popsicle.
Cui He didn't understand the relationship between the tattoo stickers and Chu Mian, and she was not interested in asking, because she was more curious about another thing: "How do you know that Chu Mian doesn't mind, did you ask him?"
She just mentioned it casually, unexpectedly, Yu Ran actually nodded and told her the past triumphantly.
The popsicle melted into drops of water, and slowly slid down the corners of Cui He's mouth. She wiped it off in amazement, and asked, "Then, what did you do after that?"
"It's time to eat."
Cui He was stunned, "Shouldn't you be happy?"
"That's right." Yu Ran patted his thigh excitedly, "I'm more happy to eat two bowls of rice!"
As he spoke, he still puffed up his chest, showing Cui He his slightly protruding stomach.
Cui He furiously slapped him on the head, "Are you a pig!"
She grabbed Yu Ran's collar and said sternly, "Chu Mian means that you are allowed to chase him, understand?"
"Understood." Yu Ran was almost stunned by her palm.
"Then why don't you rush after him?"
Yu Ran gave a "tsk" and said earnestly: "As long as I like Chu Mian, I will be very happy. 'Accept as soon as you like it' is the basic conscience of a person. Chu Mian is so kind, if it were you, would you have the heart to make an inch of it?" Hey... Cui He, let me tell you, as men, we must know how to be grateful."
Cui He really wanted to raise his hand to give him a slap, but for Chu Mian's sake, he endured it. She held Yu Ran's shoulders and said earnestly, "Do you know what the best way to be grateful is?"
"Being a cow or a horse?"
"It's 'a promise with your body'!" Cui He pushed him away angrily, "You idiot! Get lost!"
Yu Ran was baffled by her sudden anger.
When Chu Mian returned to the dormitory, she didn't even take any medicine, and just lay on the bed to sleep. He woke up intermittently a few times in the middle, and when he heard the instructor blowing his whistle to call everyone to gather, he didn't bother to go out, so he simply continued to sleep.
Having known Yu Ran for a long time, Chu Mian found that suffering from sleeping sickness is a lucky thing, and she can fall asleep at any time in order to escape.
In the evening, Zhao Wuli came in and woke him up. The instructor will organize everyone to watch a movie later. Called several times, Chu Mian did not answer, Fang Zhao had no choice but to pull Zhao Wuli back, and whispered: "Don't rush, let Chu Mian rest, it may be inconvenient for him."
"What's the inconvenience?"
Fang Zhao felt that it was hard to talk about that kind of thing, so he said cryptically, "It's not convenient to walk today."
Zhao Wuli didn't understand, and kept caring about the specific situation. The two were whispering to each other, when Yu Ran rushed in and raised his head to greet Chu Mian: "Let's go, let's go watch a movie! Chu Mian, are you awake?"
Chu Mian kept facing the wall, and after hearing Yu Ran shouted a few more times, he finally opened his eyes and said, "No."
"Why, what's wrong with you?" Yu Ran stepped on the ladder with concern and climbed up, poking his head towards Chu Mian's bed, "You haven't eaten anything in the afternoon, do you want some porridge? I'll go to the cafeteria and get you a bowl. "
Chu Mian sighed softly, not wanting to miss the chance to get along with Yu Ran, and finally got up helplessly, and lined up with them to the screening hall.
Afraid that Chu Mian would be hungry, Yu Ran deliberately brought a large bag of snacks into the arena, and let Chu Mian choose what he wanted to eat while the instructor was not paying attention. Chu Mian shook her head and refused, staring straight ahead, and didn't talk to Yu Ran much.
After all the students were seated, the lights in the auditorium were completely darkened, and the movie "Cyborg" began to play on the big screen. Chu Mian had an impression of this film, which was basically "horribly bad", so he closed his eyes and took a nap.
Yu Ran was chewing rainbow candies beside him, stuffing them into his mouth one by one, just when he was about to lower his head to identify the color of the candy in his hand, his left shoulder suddenly sank.
He turned his head and found that Chu Mian was asleep with his pillow on his body, and his gentle breathing brushed his neck. Yu Ran was afraid that the sound of chewing would affect Chu Mian, so he could only swallow the candy softly.
Chu Mian is actually awake, he just wants to take advantage of this dark and noisy environment to calmly think about the best way to guide Yu Ran.
"Falling in love" should be strange and distant to them, but under the stimulation of emotion, it still becomes a new problem before their eyes - they don't know what words to start with, and they don't think about how it will end. The way it ends, I don't even know whether to answer it or not.
Originally, this liking could be extended infinitely only by ambiguity, and the answer could be approached without derivation; but one of the answerers was Yu Ran, so all the correct possibilities would be turned into unknowns.
Chu Mian leaned on Ran's shoulder, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know how many relationships there are between people?"
Yu Ran didn't listen to his question carefully, "Are you awake? Then I ate something."
As he spoke, he took out a box of peach-flavored Pocky biscuit sticks.
Chu Mian didn't have the strength to make fists with his hands, and his voice was displeased: "Can't you listen to me seriously once?"
Just as Yu Ran put a Pocky in his mouth, he subconsciously turned to look at Chu Mian, but accidentally poked the biscuit stick on Chu Mian's lips.
Chu Mian was upset, opened her mouth in a strange way, and bit off a small piece.
Then he realized that the other end of the biscuit was inside the burner.
Yu Ran was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly chewed off the Pocky on his mouth quickly, then took out a new one, and turned to poke Chu Mian's mouth.
Chu Mian understood the meaning of his action slowly, and opened her mouth to bite off a mouthful cooperatively. The moment the biscuit broke, his heart also sank.
Yu Ran simply didn't watch the movie, and fed Chu Mian one by one with the Pocky in his mouth, and deliberately kept the biscuit-only end in his mouth, leaving Chu Mian with the sweet and sour peach coating.
Chu Mian completely forgot what he wanted to say before, and kept accepting the biscuit sticks that Yu Ran handed over with his mouth. Every time he bit down, he had the illusion that their lips were getting closer.
It wasn't until the last Pocky was eaten by the two that Chu Mian realized that their lips were never qualified to touch each other just because of their ambiguity. Even every time they hug, they have to find a proper reason to cover up their lack of confidence.
Obviously the atmosphere at the moment is just right, and she knows that she is connected with him... But when Chu Mian breathed, there was a suppressed soreness in her throat. He couldn't remember what issues he had thought about just now, only inexplicable grievances and regrets remained in his heart, wondering why he couldn't take the initiative to ask Yu Ran to be with him.
So he finally understood that the answer to the question of "love" doesn't matter how it starts or how it ends.
——but at this moment, the feeling of eagerly wanting to take the other party as his own.
He leaned on his shoulder and took a deep breath, whispering: "Let's go out."
Yu Ran tilted his head and asked, "Have you stopped watching the movie?"
"You think it looks good?"
"No." Yu Ran said, "If you want to leave, then go."
The discipline in the projection hall is not strict, and the gate is not guarded, but everyone tacitly agrees that the instructor will patrol, so they all sit in their seats to watch the movie.
No one noticed that the two boys left so generously.
The night is falling, the sky is not completely dark, and the world is blue.
Under this kind of light, Yu Ran couldn't clearly see the emotion in Mian's eyes, followed him carefully down the steps, then trotted two steps to block him, and asked, "Do you want to go back to the dormitory to sleep?"
"No rush, it's still early."
Both of them stood still, Yu Ran asked again: "Can I sleep in your bed today?"
"Yes." Chu Mian took out the cold and smooth stone from her pocket, and handed it over, "You take it."
Yu Ran reached out to take it.
Chu Mian adjusted her breathing, looked at Yu Ran's face, and said slowly, "There are two kinds of relationships between people."
"Ok?"
"One kind is formed naturally, such as family members, friends, benefactors, and enemies; the other kind needs to be confirmed by both parties, such as love, employment, marriage, and mentoring." In order for Yu Ran to hear clearly, Chu Mian spoke very slowly Said, "Yu Ran, which one is between us?"
Yu Ran said without hesitation, "Friend."
"Yes." Chu Mian's Adam's apple rolled, "But now... I don't want to be friends with you."
Yu Ran's breathing was stagnant, and he stared at Chu Mian with trembling eyelashes, feeling unprecedented panic in his heart.
Chu Mian saw that he was worried, so she put her hand on his shoulder, as if to comfort him.
"Yu Ran, I know you have a bad brain and poor comprehension skills, but I still have a glimmer of hope for you." Chu Mian couldn't help pinching his shoulder to remind him to concentrate, "I'll take You have to listen carefully to what you say, and think carefully about what it means.”
Yu Ran nodded.
The strength of Chu Mian's fingertips was gradually lost due to tension, and her ears and temples were blushing, "If you want us to become a relationship other than 'friends', then I can satisfy you now."
He unconsciously licked his lips and continued to ask, "Do you want to confirm with me?"
"Confirmation..." Yu Ran's brain was running fast, and he nodded with half understanding, "meaning, we can become a relationship that needs to be confirmed by both parties?"
Chu Mian breathed a sigh of relief, as it turned out that Yu Ran did not understand hints like Ye Xi said, "Well, you should have thought about it that way, just being friends is not enough... In short, our idea is It’s the same, so now we can agree to a new relationship with each other.”
Yu Ran looked at him in surprise, "One, the same idea?"
"Nonsense." Chu Mian turned her face away and stopped looking at the other party, "Do you agree or not?"
Just such a tactful release of emotion is enough to make him ashamed. If he asked Yu Ran himself "Would you like to fall in love with me", then he might be dizzy and hot enough to explode.
Answer or not... Yu Ran's thinking became dull.
He couldn't believe that Chu Mian had the same idea as him, and even took the initiative to confirm the relationship with him.
Yu Ran stared blankly at the Yuhua stone in his palm, each stone stirred up thousands of waves, each wave was stronger than the last wave, and the previous wave died on the beach!
His body seemed to be electrified, and then he suddenly realized: Chu Mian, this is to him...
Proposal!
Yu Ran covered his face with his hands in surprise, and almost stuffed the Yuhua Stone into his mouth.
Chu Mian couldn't wait for the other party's response, and she was almost ashamed to feel frustrated, and said in a low voice, "If you don't want to, forget it."
"Yes, I am willing!"
Yu Ran impatiently stepped forward and put his arms around Chu Mian's neck, hugged him tightly, and shouted ecstatically—
"husband!"