He said I was soft and nice

City A.

The sun is mercilessly scorching the earth, and the pungent smell of the asphalt road can be smelled through the window. Cicada screams tirelessly, and the elongated noise penetrates into people's ears through the cracks. It's inexplicably annoying.

Sitting in the library of City A, Qi Ling rubbed his eyebrows irritably, and turned on the phone again.

He looked at the chat interface with Xu Chen on the phone, his eyes fell on the other party's [um], and then there was a series of messages he sent, but Xu Chen seemed to be very busy, and most of the time the replies were very slow, and Horrible for short.

As if he was talking to himself alone.

He and Xu Chen have been away from Qingshui City for a whole week. As soon as they returned to City A, Xu Chen rushed to the company non-stop. In order to accompany him in Qingshui City, Xu Chen had to squeeze a lot of business. Now that he is back, Get busy all of a sudden.

He also heard that a project that Xu Chen was working on was in an important stage, and the results would be seen soon. The atmosphere in the whole company was very tense, and it was common to work overtime until late at night.

Apart from their online chat and video once this week, Qi Ling has never seen Xu Chen again. Compared with the previous day and night companionship in Qingshui City, this way of being in the same city but only relying on the Internet to communicate makes him especially uncomfortable. accept.

He found himself relying more and more on Xu Chen, wanting to hear his voice, see his face, feel his body temperature, act like a baby in his arms, and do more intimate things every day.

When he dreamed back at midnight, he would unconsciously hug the quilt tightly, as if someone was still holding him in his arms, but this feeling could not last long, he would only become more sober, knowing clearly that it was just his fantasy .

It was as if he had owned something, but he couldn't grasp it firmly.

This kind of emotion made Qi Ling extremely irritable, as if he was addicted to Xu Chen, but he had to suppress his thoughts, fearing that too strong emotions would scare Xu Chen.

After all, it's only been a week.

He glanced at the phone again, the top chat with Xu Chen was still quiet.

The corners of Qi Ling's mouth twitched, feeling like he was sick. He could open and read WeChat 30 times a day. If Xu Chen knew, would he think he was perverted?

He even wanted to explain his feelings to Xu Chen, wanted him to pay more attention to him, and took the opportunity to find out whether his feelings for Xu Chen were just a momentary infatuation or something else.

So Qi Ling euphemistically mentioned that he could go to Xu Chen's house next to Xu Chen's company at night. After all, his tutoring classes are during the day and he has a lot of time at night. He can take the initiative to find Xu Chen. Even if Xu Chen has to work at night, he You can also do your own project report next to him, he won't make trouble.

But when he made this proposal, Xu Chen told him that his father asked him to go back to his hometown every day this summer vacation, saying that it was to cultivate the relationship between Xu Chen and Xu Zhou brothers.

Xu Hanhai didn't know where he found out about the rift between the two brothers, so he came up with this idea, wanting the two to reconcile as before.

But Qi Ling didn't know if he and Qi Ling had reconciled, but he felt that the relationship was getting worse and worse, and Xu Zhou complained on WeChat every day.

At this time, the phone vibrated, he turned it on, and the chat in the dormitory group was still lively,

【Xu Zhou: I feel like I'm going to die. Not only do I have to be squeezed by my brother every day at the company, but I also have to face him when I go home. If I look at him more, he will ask me about my work. I think I'm not far from crazy. , brothers, if you don’t see me after school starts, remember to collect my body...]

Xu Zhou had just been scolded at the company, but he was so angry that he found an excuse to ask for an afternoon off. No one could tell the depression in his heart, so he had to complain in the group.

[Xie Kaiyu: Your brother is doing it for your own good. Which one of our majors can enter Xu's internship like you?It's still such an important project, you should study hard, and come back and tell us about any experience you have, so that we can learn more. 】

【Xie Kaiyu: Besides, your brother is so powerful. The stricter he is, the more he has high hopes for you. Don't be in the midst of blessings and not know your blessings! 】

In the eyes of outsiders, Xu Zhou is very happy to have such a powerful brother as Xu Chen, and he can also learn from the project team under him. This opportunity is not usually rare.

Xu Zhou could hear the envy in Xie Kaiyu's mouth, and it was hard to say.

In the eyes of outsiders, the two of them are indeed brothers, but only he knows that Xu Chen probably doesn't regard him as a younger brother at all. The two of them were quite harmonious before, but recently, he can faintly feel Xu Chen's love for him. his hostility.

Whenever he made a mistake at work, Xu Chen would not give him any face at all, pointing it out mercilessly made him feel ashamed, even if he retorted, Xu Chen would coldly say to him, "If you don't want to do it, get out. "

He could only swallow his anger.

This situation caused him to subconsciously straighten his back and put his tail between his legs when he saw Xu Chen at home, as if he was afraid that he would be taught a lesson if he did not do well.

But with Xu Hanhai's instructions first, as long as he doesn't provoke Xu Chen at home, Xu Chen won't pick on him either, and the two of them are still in peace.

At this time, he looked at Xie Kaiyu's faint admiration for Xu Chen, and felt extremely uncomfortable.

[Xu Zhou: My brother is not as good as you imagined. 】

He wanted to say something to tell his roommate not to be fooled by Xu Chen's appearance, but Qi Ling, who rarely frothed, suddenly replied,

【Qi Ling: What's wrong with your brother?Isn't it because the job is a little harsh on you, so you speak ill of him? 】

Qi Ling was so angry that he almost envied Xu Zhou to death, and this person was still complaining here every day.

After he finished speaking, he felt that it was not enough, so he added another sentence,

[Qi Ling: I think Xu Chen is pretty good. 】

Xu Zhou was stunned when he saw the news, his hand speed was much faster than when he complained just now, and he didn't even have time to answer.

Qi Ling took a big sip of water to suppress his anger, and instead of looking at the WeChat group, he sent another message to Xu Chen,

[My tutoring ended early today, and I am now in the library of City A. 】

[The library is not far from your company, do you want to have dinner together?Call me anytime you are free. 】

In the end, there is still a super cute cat emoji attached, which is completely opposite to the attitude just now.

But after waiting for a few minutes, the other party did not reply as expected.

It's not that Xu Chen doesn't reply to his messages, but it's not that timely. He will carefully read what he sent and reply one by one, but it will be shorter than Qi Ling.

This made Qi Ling not so disappointed, and he still had a faint feeling of being valued. No matter how busy he was, Xu Chen would still take care of him. He had to be more obedient.

He looked up, looked at Xu's tall building not far away through the transparent and clean glass windows of the library, and blinked lightly.

The newly selected tutoring place is not only close to the city library, but also close to Xu's mansion, but his little thought didn't seem to have any effect.

It was a waste of his two or three hours of work time every day, the weather is still so hot...

Qi Ling lay down on the table listlessly, and clicked on the dormitory group on WeChat.

Even if they don't like Xu Zhou's words, at least they can find something related to Xu Chen from the other party's words.

But he clicked on the WeChat group, and found that there was a group call in the group. He looked through the previous messages, it seemed that Xie Kaiyu had chatted with Xu Zhou for a long time, and found that Chang Yongyi, who had always been the most active, hadn't spoken for a day.

The two were crazy about Aite for a long time, finally, Chang Yongyi finally appeared, and only said one sentence,

【I'm dumped……】

Qi Ling's pupils shrank slightly, and he quickly took out his earphones and joined the group call. As soon as he came in, he heard Chang Yongyi's pitiful crying voice.

"I just thought the atmosphere between the two of them was good, so I asked if we should develop it further, and Li Sihan refused me." After Chang Yongyi finished speaking, he couldn't help crying, and Qi Ling could clearly hear him blowing his nose The voice seemed to be seriously injured.

Xie Kaiyu didn't expect this situation, and hurriedly asked: "Didn't you agree to take your time? Why did you confess so quickly? Did she think it was too abrupt?"

Chang Yongyi sniffed, "You may not know that when I went to the resort hotel before, I had a good chat with her, and we even went for a walk in the forest together, and even after everyone returned to City A, we still had a good chat. We made an appointment to go to an amusement park alone."

"When we went to the haunted house, our hands touched each other. I tried to hold it halfway, and she responded to me."

The more Chang Yongyi thought about it, the more sad he became, "I almost mentioned it at the time, but I was afraid that she would feel too fast and scare her, so I endured it."

"After returning to my hometown, our contact has not been broken. Good morning and good night every day, and we will also make video calls to chat. I thought it was almost done, so I couldn't help but mention it..."

Listening to Chang Yongyi's words, Qi Ling's heart sank for some reason.

The solitude in the hotel, he and Xu Chen avoided everyone and stayed together for a long time, went to the amusement park alone, and had an affair. According to Yongyi, the two of them contacted Xu Chen more frequently than he did.

But Chang Yongyi failed to confess...

Chang Yongyi's sad voice still echoed in my ears, "I thought the two of us were about to pierce the window paper, but after mentioning it, Lin Sihan hung up the phone immediately, and finally sent me a text message after a long time. WeChat message, say sorry."

"If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't say it. I should take my time. Woohoo, why am I so stupid!"

Qi Ling was a little dazed, Chang Yongyi's thoughts were exactly the same as his now, he obviously already had a stable relationship with [appointment], but he still wanted more in his heart, he wanted to go to Xu Chen's side and occupy all of his time With energy, let him be inseparable from himself, and be with him forever.

He is too greedy.

Chang Yongyi's words made his restless heart suddenly drop to freezing point. Obviously, the current state is good enough, why would he want to cross that line, what if he fails?

But he was still a little reconciled, he staggered out of his seat, and went to the corridor of the library to ask for clarification.

"Did she reject you because you said something wrong?"

As soon as Qi Ling opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was harsh, as if it had been ground by sand.

Xu Zhou immediately noticed that Qi Ling's tone was not right, "Qi Ling, what's wrong with you?"

Why does it sound worse than Chang Yongyi's state.

Qi Ling cleared his throat, concealed the soreness in his heart, and explained: "No, I was in the city library, and I was not very talkative just now."

Chang Yongyi was also a little dazed when he heard Qi Ling's words, "Just last night, the two of us chatted on the phone, we were very happy. I heard her laughter, and confessed without holding back..."

"She was stunned, and when she realized it, she hung up the phone, and then sent me an apology at three o'clock in the middle of the night. She said it too quickly, and she couldn't accept it."

"I don't know how to reply now, I just feel ashamed to talk to her again."

Listening to Chang Yongyi's words, Qi Ling brushed his hair back from his forehead and tried to calm himself down, "There are a few points you should pay attention to. First, Li Sihan replied to you at three o'clock in the middle of the night. It may be all night long." I haven't slept, and I've been thinking about your confession to her, which proves that she is very conflicted."

"Second, she's saying it too quickly, rather than outright saying she doesn't like you, which shows there's room for it."

Chang Yongyi stopped howling when he heard Qi Ling's analysis, "You mean I still have hope?"

He really likes Li Sihan.

"I think she still has a crush on you. It's just that you confessed suddenly. She felt caught off guard too quickly and didn't know how to respond. Besides, you've only known each other for a month? She might think it's too frivolous and think you're just having fun. .”

What Qi Ling said was well-founded, and Chang Yongyi was convinced, and asked eagerly, "Then what should I do?"

"Take it easy."

"do not give up."

Qi Ling closed his eyes, not knowing whether these two words were addressed to Chang Yongyi or to himself, "See if you can return to the state you were in before the two of you, meet and get along more after school starts, so that she can feel If it suits you, you can tentatively mention it again."

Again, these words apply to him as well.

Don't act too hastily, let's stabilize the existing relationship between the two first.

But now the two of them don't see each other once a week, and Xu Chen texts him in the middle of the night many times, just like jet lag. In this situation, no matter what he thinks now, it doesn't matter.

Chang Yongyi on the phone heard what he said, hung up the phone in a hurry to reply to the message, and the chat in the dormitory group naturally ended.

He took back his earphones and cell phone, and was about to leave the corridor when he heard someone call out to him in surprise.

"Qi Ling?" Xu Zhou pushed open the door of the corridor, saw that the person was indeed here, and grinned, "You said I wanted to try my luck when I was in the library, but I didn't expect you to be here."

In the afternoon, he used the library to borrow materials to prepare for Professor Jiang's project, and he asked for leave on the grounds that all the literature and materials on economics were on this floor, so he found Qi Ling easily.

"When did you come back to City A, why didn't you tell me?"

Qi Ling glanced at him, saw that he was dressed formally, and subconsciously asked, "You just came out of the company? Your brother..."

He actually wanted to ask what your brother is doing now, but the words made a detour, "Your brother agrees to you coming out now?"

When Xu Zhou heard this, he actually felt a little uncomfortable. Does he have to ask Xu Chen to approve him to join the company?

"I said I had some materials to borrow from the library, and I spoke to another leader and they came out."

In that project team, except for Xu Chen, everyone else respected him, and he asked for leave easily.

He didn't want to discuss this issue with Qi Ling, "You haven't returned to me yet, why did you suddenly return to City A?"

Didn't Qi Ling go back to his hometown?

Qi Ling saw that he couldn't find any useful information from this set, so he replied casually: "I'll come back when I have something to do."

"Then you are still working as the previous tutor? Do you need me to introduce you to a new one?"

Xu Zhou thought that he knew Qi Ling fairly well. He had plenty of summer vacation and was still in city A. He definitely wanted to do more tutoring to make money.

"No need." Qi Ling replied, and he walked out of the stairs, "I've already looked for it, and now the two tutors are too busy, so I don't want to pick it up again."

"I'm going back."

Unless necessary, he actually didn't want to have much contact with Xu Zhou.

Xu Zhou immediately stopped him, "Wait a minute, are you going back to be a tutor? I'll see you off."

Qi Ling pushed him away, "My two tutors are nearby, so I don't need you to see them off."

Besides, he is going home.

Seeing Qi Ling walking towards the library on his own, Xu Zhou immediately followed, but everyone around him was reading and studying, so he couldn't do anything to stop him, so he whispered: "I know you're afraid It's hot, even if the tutor walks nearby, it will be uncomfortable, I'm driving, shall I see you?"

Qi Ling didn't reply to his words, and even thought he was noisy, and just wanted to leave early.

Seeing that he didn't return, Xu Zhou knew that he didn't want to, so he caught a glimpse of the economics-related books on his desk unexpectedly, and he had a flash of inspiration, "I borrowed a copy of "XX Economic Theory" a few days ago, and it is related to the topic requested by Professor Jiang. It fits well, at that time the library showed that it was the last one, did you not borrow it?"

Sure enough, as soon as these words came out, Qi Ling stopped moving, "You really have?"

In fact, he came here today to look for this book, but the library is gone. Xu Zhou has been in City A, so it is not surprising that he can borrow it first.

Xu Zhou nodded, "This is not a place to talk, let's go out first."

The two came to the door of the library.

Qi Ling pursed his lips, and said, "Just lend me that book for a day, and I'll return it to you after taking a few photos."

"On the contrary, if you have any questions that you don't understand, you can also ask me."

That book was really important to him, but he didn't want to owe Xu Zhou any favors.

Xu Zhou knew that Qi Ling's attitude towards academic issues was always upright and eager, so he didn't dare to say anything else.

"I've been busy these days too, so I haven't had time to read it. It's just right for you."

Qi Ling took out his mobile phone and transferred the money to Xu Zhou, "I will pay you the borrowing fee, and I will only borrow it for one day. If you need it, I will send you a copy of my summary later."

A few words didn't take Xu Zhou's advantage at all. Thinking about it, Xu Zhou had learned a lesson for nothing.

Knowing Qi Ling's temperament, Xu Zhou didn't refuse. Seeing that he was about to leave after finishing speaking, he immediately asked, "You really don't want me to see you?"

"I'm going home. I've already booked a taxi." Qi Ling showed him the taxi interface, and the taxi would arrive in six to seven minutes.

Xu Zhou didn't expect him to move so fast, he was a little unwilling, "I can send you directly downstairs in the community, I know you are afraid of heat, and your tutoring place is so far away from University A, the road is boring, I can do it Let's talk with you."

Qi Ling was checking the current location of the driver, when he heard that he gave Xu Zhou a look inexplicably, "Xu Zhou, I'm not a three-year-old kid."

He asked again, "Yu Chengcheng hasn't returned yet?"

Xu Zhou looked very idle.

Xu Zhou didn't expect him to mention this all of a sudden, "Yeah! She won't come back until school starts."

He didn't want to talk about Yu Chengcheng with Qi Ling, and wanted to expose it, but Qi Ling didn't intend to let it go.

"Xu Zhou, you have a girlfriend now, so there's no need to spend so much time on me. Even if we had a good relationship before, now you should focus on Chengcheng. I'm not interested in continuing the threesome. Say Honestly, it's annoying."

"I hope you will come to me less in the future."

Qi Ling's blunt words immediately fixed Xu Zhou in place. He twitched the corners of his mouth dryly, pretending not to understand, "Qi Ling, there is no conflict between having a girlfriend and continuing to be friends with you? Be the best brother, so I also want you to have a better relationship with Yu Chengcheng."

"It's you, you seem to care about it since I made a girlfriend. What do you care about?"

Qi Ling didn't expect Xu Zhou to throw the question directly at him. He noticed the other party's probing gaze and didn't answer for a while.

It was impossible for him to confess his sexual orientation to Xu Zhou. To Xu Chen, he could guarantee that the other party would not make it difficult for him as a college student, but Xu Zhou was not.

Xu Zhou's temperament is a bit treacherous, and the circle of the two of them is too close, he doesn't want to cause trouble.

Moreover, Xu Zhou's current behavior is indeed reasonable among ordinary friends.

On the contrary, he seemed to have overreacted. Even Xu Zhou began to doubt him?

Seeing his silence, Xu Zhou asked tentatively, "Aren't we friends?"

Qi Ling raised his head and turned around Xu Zhou's face, but he didn't see any clues, but the eyebrows and eyes similar to Xu Chen's in front of him made him dazed.

He pursed his lips and replied, "You, Chang Yongyi, and Xie Kaiyu are all my friends."

He has been in college for three years, and there are only three of them who can talk. Maybe he should learn to treat Xu Zhou and Chang Yongyi as equals.

The most important point is that with Xu Zhou around, he can also get more news about Xu Chen.

After Xu Zhou heard Qi Ling's words, he was a little bit unwilling. How could Qi Ling suspiciously put him and Chang Yongyi on the same line? Wasn't he good enough for him?

But of course he won't show it, "Okay, what you say is what you say."

It's pretty good for Qi Ling to let go.

"It must be very hard for you to come here from University A to tutor, right? It will take two or three hours on the way, and the temperature in City A is still high."

When Xu Zhou thought of something, he had a flash of inspiration, "Why don't you stay at my house, my house has a lot of rooms, and you have been to my house many times, so you are not unfamiliar."

He was annoyed that he had to face his brother's ice cube face every day when he went home, and with Qi Ling around, he would feel much better.

When Qi Ling heard his words, his eyes widened slightly: "Live in your house?"

Then will he be able to see Xu Chen every day...

Just thinking of this possibility, he felt his heart suddenly beating violently, and the fingers hanging by his side were slowly clenched, fearing that Xu Zhou would notice, he slowly rolled his back behind him.

Seeing his silence, Xu Zhou thought he was unwilling, and explained: "Don't worry, my father and mother have also gone abroad, so you won't feel uncomfortable."

Qi Ling licked his dry lips, raised his eyes to look at Xu Zhou, and felt that he was pleasing to his eyes for the first time.

Xu Zhou obviously noticed that Qi Ling's eyes were different, changed from the previous casual, bright, as if he was very interested in what he said.

But just when he thought the other party would readily agree, Qi Ling shook his head firmly,

"No."

He can live in Xu's house, but Xu Zhou shouldn't be the one to say this invitation.

Instead, he can try to mention it to Xu Chen.

"I have something else to do, I'll go first."

After Qi Ling refused, he was ready to go outside to find the car he had booked. He needed a quiet place to think about how to talk to Xu Chen, and after so long, the driver should be here soon.

At this moment, his mobile phone buzzed. He thought it was a message from the driver, and was about to read it, when he suddenly found Xu Zhou still following him.

Just as Qi Ling wanted to say that the two of them could break up, when he turned his head, he found a person standing not far away.

It was Xu Chen who he was thinking of.

Xu Chen looked at the two people who appeared from the library together in front of him, his dark eyes swept over Qi Ling, paused briefly on his face, and then lightly moved his eyes away.

Even if Xu Chen didn't say anything, Qi Ling was sensitive to the other party's hidden emotions——

Xu Chen was angry.