"A Zheng..."
He Yunzhou opened the door, looked at Huo Zheng who appeared outside the door, and almost thought he was dreaming.
There was a thin layer of sweat on Huo Zheng's face, his clothes were extra messy due to running around, dark circles under his eyes and somewhat messy hair, making him look more embarrassed than ever.
"Mr. Huo, I'm sorry, this is our VIP area, it's not allowed—"
And around him, there were still a few anxious hotel staff.
A person who looked like a hotel manager tried hard to stop Huo Zheng, but when He Yunzhou opened the door, he looked even more flustered.
"Sorry, sir, this Mr. Huo said he knows you and needs to talk to you about something urgent, we didn't have time to inform you in advance..."
The hotel manager looked at He Yunzhou (and Li Fu behind him) and at Huo Zheng who suddenly stopped all his movements, sweating profusely.
"It's okay, this is me... my friend."
He Yunzhou's eyes stuck to Huo Zheng's body uncontrollably, he said in a trance.
After hearing the word "friend", Huo Zheng's eyes dimmed obviously.
"Yun Zhou, you... I..."
It was obvious that he was the one knocking on the door frantically before, but when He Yunzhou really appeared, Huo Zheng stuttered a little, and he couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time.
"How did you come?"
He Yunzhou murmured that the person who had just appeared in the conversation before suddenly came before his eyes.
Even if he has recognized his feelings for the other party, he still can't recover at this moment.
At some point, the staff who had been chaotically surrounding the door had already left without making a sound.
At the door of the hotel villa, there are only the sound of the wind blowing through the woods and various twittering birdsong.
Huo Zheng looked a lot thinner.
He Yunzhou couldn't help thinking.
In fact, it was only a few days apart, but the other party looked like a cat that was sent to an unscrupulous foster family, with a dull coat and a listless spirit, which was indescribably pitiful.
"How have you been all this time?"
He Yunzhou asked involuntarily.
Huo Zheng looked straight at He Yunzhou, his gaze could even be described as "greedy". After hearing He Yunzhou's question with concern, his lips trembled slightly.
"I want to tell you something."
Huo Zheng said without thinking, his expression was tense, and his face was full of pain.
"..."
He Yunzhou's heart tightened suddenly.
He stared blankly at Huo Zheng, clearly knowing what to say, let's continue, but all the voices seemed to be blocked in his throat, and he couldn't utter a single word.
And Huo Zheng, who was watched by him, also became more nervous under that gaze.
"cat… "
After looking at each other for an unknown amount of time, Huo Zheng finally made a small sound.
"What?"
"It's nice to be your cat..."
Huo Zheng's voice became a little clearer, and after the first sentence was spoken, the rest of the words became smooth and calm in an instant.
"I've thought about it. It doesn't matter if you want to use me as a substitute for the cat, or just treat me as a cat, as long as I can be with you."
Because of his dyed black hair and haggard appearance, people couldn't help but think of the man who strayed on the street. He opened his green eyes, stared straight at He Yunzhou, and said loudly.
"A Zheng?"
He Yunzhou opened his eyes wide and looked at the other party in surprise.
Being a cat is also... nice
If it wasn't for Huo Zheng standing in front of him, He Yunzhou would really think that he was hallucinating.
There is no way to imagine that such words would come from someone like Huo Zheng.
But even so, the heartbeat still began to pound in the chest.
"What the hell are you saying..."
"I love you." Huo Zheng suddenly took a step forward, and hugged He Yunzhou.
And He Yunzhou couldn't move at all, he could only let the other party press himself hard into the warm and familiar embrace.
Through the clothes, He Yunzhou could clearly feel his body temperature, his breathing, everything about him.
"I figured it out. In fact, everything doesn't matter, as long as I can be with you."
Huo Zheng repeated in He Yunzhou's ear.
He has been holding He Yunzhou tightly, and after expressing all his thoughts in one breath, he can no longer squeeze out the extra courage to look at He Yunzhou.
What if He Yunzhou still rejected him with a particularly embarrassed look like before
What if he just doesn't want to
Huo Zheng had to admit his fear, he had no doubts at all, if he heard He Yunzhou's refusal, he would probably die on the spot from a broken heart.
After all, all his enthusiasm and all his hopes in this life were poured into those words he said before.
He couldn't bear even a single rejection—
Then, he heard He Yunzhou's voice.
"I, I just want to be with you...to be together forever."
Huo Zheng's shoulders trembled heavily.
"I like you too."
Next, is this sentence.
Huo Zheng lowered his head and stared blankly at He Yunzhou.
"I don't think of you as a cat for a long time. Stupid, you are no longer a cat to me..."
He Yunzhou repeated incoherently.
Huo Zheng just looked at He Yunzhou foolishly and smiled.
After getting the response I dreamed of, the first thing that flooded into my brain was not joy, but blankness—or, because I was so happy and incredible that my brain couldn’t handle such intense emotions at all, so I simply emptied all the emotions. Let your mind go blank.
In Huo Zheng's sight, He Yunzhou's cheeks were reddish, and his eyes were as bright as stars.
Then, Huo Zheng found that He Yunzhou approached him.
He Yunzhou raised his hand, put it on the back of Huo Zheng's head, and pushed in his direction.
Caught off guard, Huo Zheng's lips touched He Yunzhou's.
"Well-"
Huo Zheng let out a sigh from deep in his throat.
It was a kiss that was not at all charming, not at all romantic.
This kiss was even clumsier than a drunk's random kiss, but there had never been any kiss that could compare to this moment.
Fascinated, mind fluttering, like a dream.
You can use any words to describe it, but this kiss almost made Huo Zheng boil to the point of vaporization. The feeling of liking is like a fountain gurgling from the bottom of my heart.
Huo Zheng felt that his whole body had fallen into this kiss, it was so sweet that he was about to die of drunkenness immediately.
"Cough cough... cough cough cough..."
What separated the two in the end was a particularly blunt cough from a certain onlooker.
"Sorry, I'm still here."
Li Fu looked expressionlessly at the two people hugging each other tightly at the door, and then said stiffly in a voice that seemed to have been frozen in a freezer for 72 hours.
Only then did He Yunzhou and Huo Zheng regain their senses very reluctantly.
"Yes, sorry."
He Yunzhou said in a low voice. He bit his lip, forcing the uncontrollable smile away from the corner of his mouth.
Just confessing to someone he likes in front of his friends, kissing—in theory, it should have made him feel very uncomfortable.
However, probably because the secretion of dopamine in the brain is too strong, He Yunzhou at this time does not feel shy or embarrassed at all.
His cheeks were hot and his heart was beating terribly fast.
And Huo Zheng beside him also looked similar to him. The man who looked pitiful before now seemed to be drunk, staring at him blankly, with a look on his face that could only be expressed with a foolish look. Described as a smirk.
Li Fu only glanced at him, then quickly looked away.
"If you want—I can spend my time somewhere else."
Li Fu turned his head, looked in the direction of the bedroom and said quietly.
The friend's suggestive tone made He Yunzhou's face feel hot, and he shook his head quickly.
"No, I—"
"OK-"
Huo Zheng's cheerful approval and He Yunzhou's refusal overlapped.
They both spoke at the same time and stopped talking at the same time.
After a brief silence, He Yunzhou's face turned redder, while Huo Zheng's eyes became more erratic.
A sweet and weird atmosphere spread among the three.
Of course, the sweetness is mainly between Huo Zheng and He Yunzhou.
Surrounding Li Fu, there is only a faint fragrance - that is the fragrance that belongs to the single sound dog.
The corner of Li Fu's mouth twitched slightly, and Liu suddenly felt that he might need to take some stomach medicine.
…
It was quite a while before He Yunzhou and Huo Zheng completely returned to normal.
He Yunzhou's luggage had not even been opened, but Huo Zheng had already carried it in his hands.
"I planned to leave before, now I can go back with Ah Zheng." Standing in front of Huo Zheng, He Yunzhou whispered to Li Fu, who looked disheveled, "...Sorry to trouble you."
he added.
Li Fu raised his eyebrows, he passed He Yunzhou's shoulder, and looked at Huo Zheng.
Ever since Huo Zheng appeared, Li Fu had been very silent. The two men who had countless fights with each other did not speak to each other, nor did they show any strangeness in front of He Yunzhou.
"The boat is my friend."
Except for this moment.
Li Fu suddenly turned serious, and said to Huo Zheng word by word in a serious tone that made one feel a little uncomfortable.
"You'd better not bully him."
The words were very simple, and it sounded like an ordinary reminder, but Huo Zheng knew very well that Li Fu was very serious.
But Huo Zheng was not angry.
He just raised his arm and gently wrapped it around He Yunzhou's shoulder.
"Don't worry, he is my lover, and I will never bully him."
Huo Zheng seriously emphasized the pronunciation of the word "lover", and as expected, he saw Li Fu's particularly ugly expression.
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