Love at Second Sight [Interstellar]

The hover car stopped in front of the embassy. Zhou Yuchen opened the compartment door. Zhuang Yan had already calmed down. The two looked at each other, and each saw the anger in each other's eyes. Then Zhuang Yan's gaze turned away coldly. Zhou Yuchen's gaze But it stayed on his lips.

Zhuang Yan also noticed Zhou Yuchen's gaze, and when the other party looked away, he touched his lips uncomfortably, and saw a smear of red on his finger, which was left by Helena.

As soon as the car stopped, Zhou Yuchen got out of the car without waiting for Zhuang Yan. Zhuang Yan glanced at him and got up to follow.The two entered the VIP building behind the embassy garden without saying a word. When they reached Zhou Yuchen's suite, Zhuang Yan stood still at the door: "I want a separate room."

Zhou Yuchen said: "This is an extraordinary period. Haven't you seen how many people live in one room?"

Zhuang Yan pursed his lips, and Zhou Yuchen turned around and entered the room, took off his coat, threw it on the sofa, and went straight to the office room next door.Zhuang Yan sat down on the sofa, glanced at the military jacket on the armrest of the sofa, leaned back on the sofa, folded his arms, and looked unfocusedly on the coffee table.

Of course he was annoyed. You can't say that Zhou Yuchen interfered in his relationship, so he can continue to interfere. They are good friends, and friends are not so nosy, and even scolded him. Is that how he sees him?Are all his tender cares fake? ... Zhuang Yan got angry when he thought about it, and unconsciously rubbed his lips with his thumb, looked at his fingers, and felt angry.

Zhuang Yan just sat on the sofa without saying a word, holding back his anger for about ten minutes, suddenly something came next to him, Zhuang Yan was annoyed, so he didn't use his corner of the eye to scan, but the thing rubbed against his leg, and then Hopped up on the couch, slipped his big furry head between his cuddled arms and thighs.

Zhuang Yan looked down at it, and the snow leopard rested its chin on his lap, looking at him too.

Zhuang Yan moved his thigh, trying to turn his head off, but the snow leopard let out a "wow" and grabbed his leg with a big paw.

Zhuang Yan said: "He is so angry, why are you here?"

The snow leopard rested its chin on his thigh, raised its eyes and looked at him from bottom to top, looking pitiful.

Zhuang Yan became even more depressed. Seeing the snow leopard's big paw on his leg, he reached out to pick it up and squeezed it.

The snow leopard retracted its paws obediently, leaving the pads for him to pinch. Zhuang Yan pinched the thick, furry pads and looked down at the big cat for a moment.Suddenly frowned.

Zhou Yuchen was so angry that the Quantum Beast represented the true reaction of the owner's inner world. Why was his Quantum Beast willing to take the initiative to touch him?

Zhuang Yan was suddenly caught up in this question. He frowned first, puzzled, then relaxed, and then wrinkled tightly again. Then his face changed, became bewildered, and finally even a little uneasy.

What is he thinking?No, it's impossible...

He stood up all of a sudden, and Snow Leopard had no choice but to raise his head, watching him walk a few steps back and forth in front of the sofa.He thought of all the details of Zhou Yuchen's relationship with him, every look, movement, and smile.

Zhuang Yan stopped and stared blankly at Snow Leopard's ice-blue pupils. He must have been too angry to have such wild thoughts.

He dismissed it as nonsense in his head over and over again, and on the other hand, he was a little uneasy, and he needed proof.

Zhuang Yan was a little flustered, he put his hands in his pockets, his eyes swept around the room, and finally stopped at the door. Across the wall was another person, the source of his uneasiness.Yes, proof.

Zhuang Yan did some mental preparation, subconsciously took a breath, then walked to the door, raised his hand hesitantly, then knocked on the door, pressed his hand lightly on the doorknob, and the door opened.

In the room, Zhou Yuchen was leaning on the chair, with his elbows leaning on the armrest, communicating with his subordinates, his expression was calm, his tone was sharp, and when he heard the sound, he raised his head, Zhuang Yan was about to close the door reflexively, he wanted to make a gesture , Let Zhou Yuchen continue the conversation.The other party had already turned off the communication, looked at him and said, "Is there something wrong?"

"...It's nothing." Zhuang Yan stood stiffly at the door. He felt that he had taken a wrong step, and now he was in an awkward situation. Zhou Yuchen seemed to have noticed something from his expression.

Zhou Yuchen ignored his disguise and still looked at him with calm eyes. For the first time, Zhuang Yan felt that Zhou Yuchen's gaze was so aggressive, as if it could strip away all his disguises and make him invisible.

Zhuang Yan compromised, he had no way out, so he said, "Sorry."

"Sorry, sorry." Zhou Yuchen said lightly, "What are you going to apologize for this time?"

"I shouldn't have quarreled with you." Zhuang Yan found that his tone was a bit difficult, his thinking was becoming chaotic, and it was difficult for him to function normally to cope with the situation in front of him, "...I have a bad temper. If you say that about me, I will naturally I just got angry... Besides, that's something I didn't expect, it shouldn't be like that, it's my relationship problem, if you can't see it, you can talk to me, but I don't understand why you are so angry..."

"Don't understand?" Zhou Yuchen interrupted him, "You really don't understand?"

"I don't understand." Zhuang Yan said, and at the same time his body trembled slightly, he did confirm the look in Zhou Yuchen's eyes, but the direction of the confirmation seemed to be reversed.

"That's it." Zhuang Yan said quickly, maintaining his superficial composure and composure, "I'm wrong, and you are also wrong. You can give advice on my decision, but you can't attack me like that, that's it."

He glanced hastily at the clock on the wall: "It's getting late, I'm going to rest first."

"You haven't eaten dinner yet, haven't you eaten dinner yet?" Zhou Yuchen sat up straight instead, and his tone softened.

"No, I'm a little tired, I'm going to bed first." Zhuang Yan took a step back, turned around and walked out, forgetting to take the door with him.

He walked through the small reception room to the other room, and he didn't have time to think about where Zhou Yuchen should sleep in this suite with only one bedroom.He just fell back on the bed and looked at the ceiling.

The paws stomped silently on the floor. "Leave me alone." Zhuang Yan closed his eyes and said.

Snow Leopard had no choice but to back out.

Zhuang Yan turned over, faced the wall, closed his eyes, thoughts were flying around in his head, he was about to explode, he had given up thinking rationally, two villains were fighting in his mind, one was screaming "No! No!", another called "Yes! Yes!"

Zhuang Yan sighed irritably, turned over again, this time he fell asleep.

He returned to the spiritual world, the platform made of gas, the branches of the cloud tree hanging there quietly, without the croaking of a certain voice, it was quiet, and it seemed that the universe outside the platform was becoming more and more empty and vast.

Usually Zhuang Yan always disliked that voice for disturbing his rest, but at this moment he expected the "voice" to come out, not only to ask it clearly, but also to subconsciously regard it as an object to confide in.

However, after waiting, there was no sound, and the branches didn't even shake.

The scene gradually blurred, Zhuang Yan's heart skipped a beat, and he woke up dimly.

There is someone next to the bed.

He was startled, and then he closed his eyes to keep breathing, so that no one could see that he had any signs of waking up.

The man pulled over the blanket next to him and gently covered Zhuang Yan.Zhuang Yan slept on his side without a quilt, and the temperature in the room was a bit low.

Then the man squatted down, beside the bed, facing Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan closed his eyes, a little nervous: what will he do?

Zhou Yuchen rested his elbows on the edge of the bed, and suddenly reached out, touched Zhuang Yan's face with his fingers, then pressed it against, gently stroking half of Zhuang Yan's cheek.Zhuang Yan felt the warm and dry palm on his face gently caressing, and his thumb brushed over his browbones and the corners of his eyes, not intimacy, but a sense of cherishing and pity.It's like the touching and kissing when his mother accompanied him to sleep when he was a child, except that his mother's palms don't have calluses, nor are they so slender and strong.

At this time, Zhuang Yan should be asleep and unconscious. What Zhou Yuchen wants to do should reflect his true inner thoughts...

Zhuang Yan held his breath secretly, Zhou Yuchen stroked it for a while, then suddenly leaned over, his breath slowly approaching.

Zhuang Yan was almost suffocated in his heart, he waited, as soon as Zhou Yuchen made any outrageous actions, he would immediately open his eyes and sit up, and speak clearly to Zhou Yuchen.

Then when the aura was almost exhausted, it suddenly stopped there, Zhou Yuchen didn't do anything, he withdrew his hand, stood up, and quietly left the bedroom with the snow leopard beside him.

Zhuang Yan opened his eyes and stared blankly at the ceiling.

This night is destined to be sleepless.The next day when Zhuang Yan got up, his eyes were sore and his mind was dizzy. He walked to the door of the bedroom with difficulty and opened the door. Zhou Yuchen was leaning on the chair of the dining table in the living room. There was breakfast on the table, and he was having a video conference on the terminal. Hearing the sound, he looked at Zhuang Yan and said, "Are you up? We are going to Prince Dawes' funeral at eight o'clock, so you have to get ready." After one night, his attitude seemed to return to normal.

"What?" Zhuang Yan still couldn't open his eyes.Zhou Yuchen said: "Look at your terminal, they should have notified you too." He got up and went to the next door with the video conference.

Zhuang Yan opened the terminal and looked, and sure enough there was.The funeral required formal attire. He glanced at the room. The orderly was standing at the door on duty. There was his own suitcase in the corner. He went to find a formal attire. After washing in the bedroom, he changed his clothes. After putting on his shirt, he saw Looking at himself in the mirror with his jacket and collar open, he frowned, and reached out to tie his tie.

After trying it a few times, all of them turned into ugly knots hanging around his neck. After all, most of the time Zhuang Yan's life was done by others. There were maids and attendants outside, and auspiciousness at home.Right now is an exception.

It was already [-]:[-], and he still had to eat breakfast. He went to the living room and continued to try in front of the mirror on the wall next to the door. To no avail, he tore off his tie and glanced at the orderly at the door: "Harry? It's Harry." Right?" He remembered the orderly's name.

"Yes, sir." The orderly saluted.

"Can you wear a tie?"

"Er, no, sir."

"Aren't you alright?" Zhou Yuchen came out of the room and saw Zhuang Yan standing in front of the mirror with a loose collar and a blue tie in his hand, so he came over and took his tie, wrapped it around the back of his neck, and gathered it up , staggered, knotted.

Zhuang Yan's body was stiff, and the atmosphere was silent. Both of them looked down at the bow tie that was taking shape, and Zhuang Yan looked at Zhou Yuchen's slender hands.

It was Zhou Yuchen who broke the deadlock first: "You are so skilled at peeling crabs, why can't you tie a tie?"

Zhuang Yan paused and said, "I didn't know you could still wear a tie."

The corners of Zhou Yuchen's lips twitched: "My father taught me, otherwise, looking at my mother, would it seem that she would wear a tie for a man?"

One sentence eased the atmosphere, Zhuang Yan's lips moved, and the knot in Zhou Yuchen's hand took shape.

"Windsor knot, suitable for people who are too serious." Zhou Yuchen's tone was a little teasing. Zhuang Yan glanced at him, and the two looked at each other. Zhuang Yan saw the smile in his eyes, and the original turbulent thoughts in his heart suddenly reversed. .

What he originally thought was that from now on, he should pay attention to the distance with Zhou Yuchen. Whether it was really as he suspected, or his misunderstanding, before looking back, he was indeed too close to Zhou Yuchen.

But at this moment, just looking at each other, the embankment that Zhuang Yan had just built in his heart was shaken.

Zhuang Yan didn't speak, while Zhou Yuchen smoothed his tie with his fingers and said, "I hope you won't say that easily to Princess Helena again at the funeral."

Zhuang Yan's body tensed up, while Zhou Yuchen looked at him, withdrew his hand and said, "Take it as a suggestion from a 'friend'." As he spoke, he walked towards the dining table.

Irritable mood surged up again, Zhuang Yan finished his breakfast without taste, and went to the funeral with Zhou Yuchen.

Andorra is facing a national crisis, and the funeral is very simple.Zhuang Yan stood in front of the flower bed, looking at the huge portrait.Helena walked slowly to his side.

Zhuang Yan looked at her, Helena was wearing a black veil, her face was haggard from grief, the corners of her eyes and nose were still red, and said, "Zhuang Yan, about what you said yesterday..."

"No." Zhuang Yan said, "You are very tired now, we can talk about this matter in two days. Besides, your parents are not in the mood..."

"You don't need to tell them about this." Helena said directly, cutting off Zhuang Yan's words.

Zhuang Yan stopped, and said after a while, "Are you serious?"

"Yes." Helena said, "I have already decided that I cannot accept your charity."

"You know I don't mean that."

"I know, but if I accept it, I will feel like that, and I will despise myself even more." Helena raised her head and looked at Zhuang Yan seriously, "If you and your family are willing to help us, then On behalf of Andorra, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to you, and I will repay you within my ability, but don’t get married, Zhuang Yan, this is not just a matter of breaking a promise and then going back on it. Didn’t you say that you like me insisting on what I want? ?”

Zhuang Yan stared at her for a long time, lowered his head, put his fingers on his lips, and finally said: "Okay." He also knew that marrying Helena was not the only way to help her, nor was it completely good for her. In his personal life, he was a little impulsive yesterday.He was just worried that she would suddenly have such a heavy burden on her shoulders, and that she would collapse.

Helena looked at him, Zhuang Yan still frowned, looking at her with worry in his eyes, this was his way of expressing tenderness.

From the outbreak of the beast tide in Westminster to the death of her brother, and at this moment, she felt a sense of relief for the first time. She raised her chin at Zhuang Yan and said, "Don't look like this, you won't be married if you marry me." What a good thing, do you know that every letter you send me is thrown away by the maid?"

"I know." Zhuang Yan said, "But I think if I keep writing, you will always read one."

Helena smiled, but when she lowered her head and raised her head again, there were tears in her eyes, and she choked up slightly, "Can you hug me again?"

Zhuang Yan stretched out his hand, and Helena snuggled into his arms, leaning on his shoulder, letting tears wet his shoulder.

After the funeral was over, Zhuang Yan was still talking with Helena and the Grand Duke and Queen. After a long delay, he left and walked out of the palace gate. Zhou Yuchen's hover car was waiting for him outside.

Zhuang Yan got into the car, Zhou Yuchen crossed his legs, sat by the window and asked, "Why is Mr. Zhuang here?"

Zhuang Yan glanced at him, and Zhou Yuchen said, "Aren't you going to stay and have a meal with your father-in-law and mother-in-law?"

The corner of Zhuang Yan's mouth twitched, and he said, "You know I'm going to stay for dinner, but you still let the car wait for me?"

Zhou Yuchen said expressionlessly, "Who said I was waiting for you?"

Admiral Tangtang turned out to be a childish ghost.Zhuang Yan didn't know why, since he and Helena explained the matter clearly, his upset mood in the morning seemed to have calmed down, and he didn't bother to fight for this quick talk. He leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes pretending to be tired. Gather your thoughts.

Zhou Yuchen, on the other hand, looked at Zhuang Yan with deep eyes, wondering what he was thinking.

The two went back to the embassy with their own thoughts. In the next few days, they each had their own things to do. Zhou Yuchen dispatched troops to assist Westminster's defenders in resisting the beast tide, and worked with the imperial reinforcements who rushed over. Handover——Zhou Yuchen has completed his mission. The animal swarm crisis that the Principality of Andorra is facing now has surpassed the scope of small animal swarms. It is enough to attract the attention of the empire, and a new batch of reinforcements will be sent to assist the Principality.

Zhuang Yan was busy discussing with his family how to provide support to Andorra. The family cannot provide free support—even if Zhuang Yan becomes the head of the family, this is impossible. This is a deal. If the Zhuang family provides assistance, Andorra Er is about to write a check—the mining of rare materials in the Andorra galaxy will be transferred to the Zhuang family. This check will have to be cashed when the principality survives the beast tide and restores the country's economy.

Zhuang Yan talked with Zhuang Ze again and again about this. This was the first time he participated in family decision-making. After analyzing all kinds of things from the perspective of family interests, Zhuang Ze finally gave his approval and arranged matters with the Grand Duke and various other matters. The details of the support were as busy as Zhou Yuchen's after a few days.

The two of them were in the VIP suite of the embassy, ​​each occupying a room, and only had meals facing each other in the living room. Zhou Yuchen's attitude was calm and his tone was flat, but there was always something missing. Zhuang Yan was often discussed about assistance in the middle of meals. The communication was interrupted, and they walked aside and talked for a long time. When they returned to the table, they were about to accept Zhou Yuchen's sudden ridicule: "Mr. Zhuang is very busy." "It's so hard, I don't know if the princess is moved?"

When it comes to verbal fights, Zhuang Yan has always been unwilling to show weakness. If others are mean to him, he will return the meanness. But this time he will not reply, at most he will say "no hard work", because he knows that Zhou Yuchen has misunderstood He was engaged to Helena again, thinking that Zhou Yuchen had annoyed him so much before, it would be much cheaper to annoy him than to win a two-word battle.

Furthermore, if the misunderstanding is clarified, he doesn't know what he will face again. He feels that it will be even more embarrassing, and it is better to maintain the status quo.

Thinking about it now, Zhou Yuchen's gesture of intervening in his life was too sudden and forceful. In just a few months, they changed from being rivals in love with a certain distance to being like friends, but a little closer than friends.

Zhuang Yan knows that he has a bad temper, is rigid and stubborn, and it can be said that it is difficult to get along with, so apart from family members and friends who grew up with him, he has rarely met someone who is as proactive as Zhou Yuchen, who takes the trouble to get along with him completely tolerantly , insert | into his life.

People's hearts are indifferent and self-interested, especially after Zhuang Yan has lived in isolation for so many years, apart from the family he was born with, he understands how precious this initiative and the care and concern it brings are.

So he couldn't refuse it from the beginning, and now he couldn't just cut it off.

He has to think about it carefully, take advantage of this period of indifference, think about the experiences of these days, what he saw and heard in the cave, if he can't find out the "voice" and ask him carefully, he won't be able to talk to people, Think about how to face Zhou Yuchen in the future.

He also gradually understood his relationship with Helena.What Helena said to him before going to Yun Mercury was unknowingly remembered in his heart. Those words made him speechless at the time, but now they often resound in his heart.

In the past, he might have been too arrogant and blind. Since he kept saying that he loved Helena, why didn't he understand what she was after?Why didn't she understand what she wanted?Is it Helena that he loves, or a shadow that he has drawn in his heart?

The more Zhuang Yan thought about it, the more he understood that the previous relationship, like the sand raised in the water, had already settled down.

He was wrong in a few places, and Helena was wrong in a few places. In the end, they still missed the opportunity to grow old together. The idea of ​​"home" that he had pondered countless times by himself finally became a dream. picture.

Five days later, the Second Army set off, and Zhuang Yan's own spaceship was with them.He separated from Zhou Yuchen and boarded his spaceship.

Less than two hours after the departure, Zhuang Yan was still dealing with the remaining matters of the aid, when suddenly a communication request popped up, Zhuang Yan was taken aback when he saw the signature on it, had to sit up straight, and clicked accept.

The communication was connected, and Zhou Dun's kind face—in fact, this face looked ten years older than Zhou Yuchen's, but that smiling expression was exclusive to the elders towards the younger ones.

A life-size [-]D image was projected on the ground, and there was still a multi-party communication——Zhou Yuchen was also there.

Zhou Dun smiled and said, "Zhuang Yan, long time no see, how are you doing?"

"Marshal." Zhuang Yan nodded, "Thanks to Marshal's concern, everything is fine."

"I heard from Yuchen that you are not safe in Yunshuixing." Zhou Dun said, "But Yuchen's mission has been completed, and at least nothing happened to you, otherwise I will have no face to see your father."

"Marshal is serious." Zhuang Yan frowned imperceptibly. He always felt that Zhou Dun's purpose could not be as simple as condolences. Sure enough, Zhou Dun said in the next second: "You are returning now, and the route happens to be away from Fomalhaut. Not far away, do you want to come to my house for a meal?"