Facing the increasingly hot sun, returning to the base, Shen Qiao was about to go to the training room when he saw Lu Zhe coming down the stairs.
As soon as Lu Zhe saw him, the smile in his eyes became much warmer, and there was a glimmer of light in his long and narrow eyes. After stepping down in three or two steps, he raised his hand and pulled Shen Qiao's collar, and dragged the person in front of him neither light nor heavy. .
In the next second, Lu Zhe's face came closer, and a faint scent of cedar hit him.
"Where did it go?"
Noticing that Shen Qiao didn't come back with his bag as usual, Lu Zhe guessed that he wasn't going to the swimming pool, but he moved his nose instinctively—
Sure enough, the smell of disinfectant powder that remained after his swimming in the past was not too obvious. Instead, it was a faint floral scent that almost disappeared.
The smile in Lu Zhe's eyes condensed, and before Shen Qiao could answer, he asked again:
"Which Omega did you go out on a date with, the scent of flowers is so strong?"
When Shen Qiao heard his question, there was a slight smile in his eyes, but he thought, no wonder he always heard others say that Alpha's nose is better than a dog's nose. Only after seeing Lu Zhe today did he know that this was true.
Aware of Lu Zhe's deliberately aggressive tone, Shen Qiao looked at him with a half-smile, and replied lazily, "Can I date Omega, others don't know, you don't know?"
Hearing this, Lu Zhe didn't hold back his laughter, he laughed softly, feeling inexplicably happy.
From before, he liked the feeling of being included in his own circle by Shen Qiao, and all the secrets of the other party were open to him. They walked side by side in the wind and rain, bathing in the bright sunshine together.
At first, he didn't know that he was special. He thought that Shen Qiao just didn't care about being known about those things, which made Lu Zhe observe who was close to Shen Qiao for a long time. As long as he thought of Shen Qiao's Those who had been heard like this in the past, Lu Zhe inevitably felt a little jealous.
It was not until they got together later that he personally confirmed from Shen Qiao's mouth that the other party had only told him about those things.
During the time when he was studying in different places in the third year of high school, Lu Zhe couldn't help thinking while he was tired and lazy in his studies:
During his absence, what kind of people will Shen Qiao meet
Will someone walk into Shen Qiao's life like himself, understand his past, empathize with his pain, and what's more, share his future glory with him
As long as he thinks of these, Lu Zhe will have an unbearable urgency from the bottom of his heart, as if a voice is urging him: grow up faster, and become stronger faster.
He wished that he was a seedling growing in the farmland, being pulled up and down again and again by the anxious sower, soaring high in the face of the wind, and finally becoming an existence that sheltered a small field.
He is so eager to use branches and leaves to pull Shen Qiao into his own world, give him a shade in summer, let him rely on heating in winter, and hide this treasure deeply. It is best that he is the only one in the world who knows Shen Qiao. good.
Fortunately.
There was no other person by Shen Qiao's side.
Just after coming to Huacheng, Lu Zhe couldn't help but hold injustice for Shen Qiao. His family's baby is so good, why has no one discovered it? How did he let him live such a bad life
Lu Zhe was angry when he thought about it when he was addicted to smoking.
…
Thinking of this, Lu Zhe suddenly asked, "Without Omega, is there a Beta or... other Alpha?"
Shen Qiao didn't know what he was eating. He looked at him up and down for a long time with an unreasonable gaze, and didn't want to talk anymore. He resumed his usual rude tone, and accompany him in a condescending manner:
"Oh? What if there is? What if I don't?"
Lu Zhe's eyelids were drooping, and his eyelashes were like reeds bent over by the calm lake, casting a shadow in his eyes.
After groaning for two seconds, he spoke unhurriedly:
"If there is, I'll see who is so insightful and like the same baby as me."
"No... Then I can only treat you better."
Shen Qiao didn't expect to wait for these two sentences, her expression froze, and then she looked around subconsciously, as if Lu Zhe told him something that could not be seen.
"Don't use such strange words." Shen Qiao patted his hand that was holding on to his collar for a long time, and left a sentence casually, wanting to pass him upstairs by mistake.
Lu Zhe recently found out the law of his going out. He originally estimated that he was coming back now, so he went downstairs to have a look. Now that he bumped into it, he naturally went with him.
The smell of cedar came over from behind, Shen Qiao looked down at the stairs under her feet, stepped on the two raised lines on the stairs like an obsessive-compulsive disorder, and heard Lu Zhe ask with a smile:
"What strange word?"
Shen Qiao was silent.
Lu Zhe didn't give up easily: "Qiao Qiao, if you don't make it clear, how do I know what to say next time and what not to say?"
Shen Qiao took a deep breath calmly, lest a few days after he arrived at the DG base, there would be an incident of violently injuring the captain.
Lu Zhe fell behind him slowly, calling him "Jojo" again and again with a high tone, as if he would never give up until he replied.
Still unable to hold back, Shen Qiao stood at the entrance of the stairs on the second floor and looked back at him impatiently, trying to frighten people directly to the point where they lost their ability to speak with fierce eyes.
It's a pity that Lu Zhe didn't take his set. Seeing him annoyed, he couldn't hold back the smile on his face, and his expression became more and more arrogant, but he coughed in a low voice and raised his hand in a gesture of surrender.
He was about to close when he was ready, but saw Shen Qiao's thin lips move, and then he squeezed the two words out of the gap between his teeth viciously:
"baby."
Every time he uttered a word, Shen Qiao seemed to have suffered great mental damage, and her eyes became dazed.
He was about to warn Lu Zhe not to say this word again, but he heard Lu Zhe's gentle and doting reply:
"here I am."
Shen Qiao: "..."
Seeing that he was going to make people go too far, Lu Zhe tried his best to restrain his smile, and was about to reveal the plot contentedly, but his eyes were fixed on Shen Qiao's back.
Aware of Lu Zhe's gaze, Shen Qiao turned around and looked -
Manager Zhou is standing in the corridor with his mouth open, and throwing a peeled egg in it is sure to swallow one.
He looked at Shen Qiao, then stretched his neck to look at Lu Zhe again, showing an expression of hesitant to speak, and finally collapsed his shoulders and said in a resigned voice:
"You guys... calm down a bit."
Shen Qiao was hurt by his eyes full of content. After holding back and holding back, his face was about to change, and he said weakly: "...Aren't you going to ask what we were talking about just now?"
Just ask! Give him a chance to prove his innocence!
Lu Zhe's cheeks became sour, he raised his hand and pressed it with the back of his hand, holding back a smile and echoing his words: "Yes, Manager Zhou, would you like to know more about the summary of our chat?"
Manager Zhou looked at the two of them in shock, with a line of words from Hong Guoguo written in his eyes:
Shameless! shameless! Dog man!
Now, do you feed people dog food and force them to open their mouths
He took a step back subconsciously, shook his head and waved his hand: "No no no, no explanation, I understand."
"I'm just reminding you to pay attention. When you fight with BLX tomorrow, you have to maintain a normal state. I never heard that people's IQ will drop when they are in a relationship. Do you worry about the two of you?"
Shen Qiao didn't have a chance to prove his innocence, and his expression became a bit irritable.
Seeing this, Lu Zhe answered Manager Zhou with a smile: "You don't need to worry about me. Do you know what it feels like to have enough IQ?"
Manager Zhou said "hey", thinking that Lu Zhe was disgusting that he disturbed him and Shen Qiao, muttered "I don't know good people", and walked in the direction of the office.
Seeing him leave, Lu Zhe let out a sigh of relief.
Sensing that there were some violent pheromones around Shen Qiao who was standing on the spot, Lu Zhe opened his lips and was about to speak when the other party raised his finger:
"To shut up."
Shen Qiao's eyes were full of gloom, and he warned him gloomily: "Before you win BLX, you are not allowed to say a word to me except in the game."
Lu Zhe raised his eyebrows helplessly—
It's all Zhou Dazui's fault, he thought, if the other party hadn't heard Shen Qiao say those two words at an untimely time, he would have coaxed him already.
Seeing that Shen Qiao strode away in the direction of the training room after throwing away the warning, Lu Zhe touched his nose and did not dare to stroke the tiger's whiskers any more, so he followed quietly.
…
Shen Qiao did what he said.
Until the start of the game with BLX, he didn't say anything to Lu Zhe in private, and was ready to prove to Manager Zhou that he was really not a lover.
Twenty minutes before the game.
Shen Qiao was smoking in the corridor outside the bathroom, Lu Zhe was standing nearby waiting for him, but just happened to meet Momo, the core of BLX coming here.
Momo is also a smoker, and he has already found out the cigarette case. When he discovered the strange situation between Lu Zhe and Shen Qiao, clues appeared in his eyes.
He is the captain of BLX. Although he is an old teammate with Shen Qiao, he is no stranger to Lu Zhe. He immediately raised his chin and asked Lu Zhe, who was close by, in a low voice, "I recently heard a story about the two of you. What's the matter? There's a quarrel?"
Lu Zhe asked him back with a smile, "You think it looks pretty?"
Momo nodded: "No one is allowed to have beautiful dreams? Who doesn't want to beat DG? If you have to give it away, I will be very kind, right?"
Lu Zhe looked at him with pity: "Wake up, it's time to go to the toilet."
Momo held the cigarette between his fingertips and snorted. He didn't know what to think. He glanced at Shen Qiao's smoking back, and asked hesitantly, "You two..."
Seeing that he was the old captain of Shen Qiao, Lu Zhe rarely said the truth: "Well, it's true, but we're not together yet - I'm chasing him."
Mo Mo was surprised at first, and then he didn't know what to think, but his eyes naturally revealed: "So that's how it is."
Lu Zhe saw the thoughtfulness in his eyes and asked, "What?"
Momo waved his hand, and the cigarette between his fingers swayed: "I remember one thing, you know that he just came to our BLX spring game, right? It's the one that everyone thinks he can win that year's MVP. year."
Lu Zhe replied in a low voice, "Yes, that's when I signed a contract with DG."
Momo nodded and didn't light his cigarette. He lowered his hand and said slowly, "Actually, before DG, our team manager noticed you. Your id in the Korean server is Satan, right?"
Lu Zhe was startled, as if he realized something.
Immediately afterwards, Momo continued: "We wanted to sign you at that time, and the manager also said about it. During that time, Xiaolang played very fiercely and was in good shape—"
"After the spring split, it was rumored that you signed a contract with DG."
Lu Zhe's heart seemed to be grabbed by a hand.
Only then did he know that during those times he didn't know, Shen Qiao secretly made such preparations for their reunion—
His heart was sour, looking at Shen Qiao's back, his tone was indescribably complicated:
"Thank you for telling me about it."
Thank you for telling me that he never stopped loving me.