Absinthe

Hao Ai's execution ability is very strong, if he says he wants to chase someone, he will act immediately.

The first step of Hao Ai's chasing action: gain a sense of presence in front of Zhong Xiu.

I chat with him every day, with new topics constantly, good morning and good night, and greetings about my health and well-being can't be left behind.It's a pity that there is no winter in Nanchuan, unlike Zheng Chuan's four distinct seasons, and even the temperature drops only slightly. Hao Ai didn't find a chance to remind Zhong Xiu to add clothes when it was cold.

Zhong Xiu was very helpful to Hao Ai's initiative.Before he enters the laboratory, he will always report to Hao Ai first, saying that he has entered the laboratory, and the news may not be replied in time, so don't mind.

Needless to say, Hao Ai also knows how to measure, Zhong Xiu is very busy, it is impossible to spare time to chat with him, and he himself does not just watch the phone all day long waiting for a reply.

However, when Hao Ai was writing new video scripts, he would still turn on his mobile phone from time to time to see if he had received any new messages. The frequency was about every 10 minutes, as if he had a mobile phone addiction.

If Zhong Xiu came out of the laboratory early at night, he would go skateboarding with Hao Ai, and there would always be a bunch of skateboarders gathering in the open space behind the basketball court every night.

After going back and forth, people in the skateboarding club gradually got to know Zhong Xiu. Someone asked Hao Ai who he was, and Hao Ai said that he was a friend very reservedly.

Zhong Xiu glanced at him and corrected him, "He's a good friend."

After all, this person has too many friends, and so many people present can be regarded as his friends, and he can't show his specialness at all.

Zhong Xiu put the skateboard upside down on the ground, and then sat on it, watching a group of young and energetic students practice their moves.

"It's a boyfriend." Hao Ai suddenly came over and said.

"No." Zhong Xiu turned his body slightly and moved a little away from him, and said, "It's an ex-boyfriend."

"..." Hao Ai looked very hurt: "I'm dead! Let me crash my head on the skateboard to death!" As he spoke, he poked his head and wanted to hit Zhong Xiu.

Zhong Xiu's arms were numb from his bump, and he couldn't help laughing: "Didn't you hit the skateboard? Why did you hit me?"

Hao Ai didn't accept this, but complained in a low voice: "If you don't understand something, tell me, maybe I know."

He bumped and leaned against Zhong Xiu's shoulder, and Zhong Xiu suddenly felt his arms become more numb.

In fact, Zhong Xiu always wanted to ask Hao Ai about his past, but he was also afraid that uncovering Hao Ai's scar would make him hurt.

It is too impulsive and irresponsible for both of them to reunite rashly without knowing each other's current living conditions.If it was in the past, when they were young and had no scruples, of course they could ignore everything, as long as there is wine now, but now they are no longer children, and each has a brand new life and a completely irrelevant interpersonal relationship. They've been absent from each other's lives for far too long.

So he wanted to wait for the time to mature and give him more time to get to know Hao Ai now and the past six years.

Seeing Zhong Xiu kept silent and didn't want to talk, Hao Ai changed the subject again.

"Did you send me two emails during my freshman year?"

In the first semester of college, Hao Ai received two English emails in his work mailbox, and the sending email was an unfamiliar domain name.

"So you saw it." Zhong Xiu paused, and said without changing his face, "It's some literature, and I accidentally sent it by mistake."

"Oh—" Hao Ai said in a long voice.

It was indeed literature, and Hao Ai couldn't understand most of the chemistry-specific vocabulary in it. He even looked up professional dictionaries for this purpose, and asked a lot of classmates in the chemical engineering school.

But the end of the two emails was not literature, which Hao Ai could understand.At the end of the first email, Zhong Xiu said that he was assigned to a new laboratory and established a research direction, as if he suddenly saw the road ahead.

At the end of the second email, he said that he was preparing to start a very important project recently, and hoped that everything would go as planned.

Hao Ai read the content of the email and thought he had sent it to the wrong person, but at the end, he felt that Zhong Xiu had sent it to him specially.Hearing what Zhong Xiu said, he realized that it was sent to the wrong person.

After ten o'clock in the evening, most of the people in the venue had left, and Hao Ai and Zhong Xiu were also preparing to leave.

"By the way, what's in that aquarium at your house?" Zhong Xiu asked.

The last time he went to Hao Ai's house, Zhong Xiu naturally noticed the big aquarium, but he didn't see any living things in it at all.

What I raise is the tortoise you gave me six years ago. I raise it as my son, and it is very precious.But Hao Ai didn't have the nerve to say it. "That... I'll tell you next time you go to my house."

He secretly scolded the tortoise for not being up to date, why did it hide again, why did Zhong Xiu see it without a single glance?

Back home, Hao Ai fed the turtle.The red-footed tortoise is an omnivorous animal. Hao Ai is used to feeding it ham sausage and fresh vegetable leaves.

After searching for a long time, Hao Ai fished the tortoise out from a crevice in a rock, weighed it nervously, looked at it for a while, and finally put it back again.

The second step of Hao Ai's chasing action: in front of Zhong Xiu, he should be more mature and stable.After all, so many years are not wasted, Zhong Xiu can't let Zhong Xiu's impression of himself remain the same as before.

How to become a mature and steady man?Hao Ai felt that it should first be shown from the outside.

Hao Ai called Shen Jin and asked, "Do you have any recommended perfume?"

Shen Jin is a very popular beauty blogger on the Internet, male.The two first met on the Internet. Shen Jin claimed to be his fanboy, and after watching Hao Ai's video, he took the initiative to follow him.Shen Jin saw some shooting locations in his video and felt familiar, so he asked him if he was also studying at Z University.

After questioning, it was discovered that the two were alumni of the same level.

Shen Jin is a southerner who speaks soft plastic mandarin. He looks pure and innocent, but has a rather flamboyant personality.

He and Hao Ai developed from netizens to real friends. During that time, Hao Ai encountered some bad things at school. Thanks to Shen Jin who kept enlightening him, the two of them had dinner and drinks when they had nothing to do.

He didn't hide his affection for Hao Ai at all, he ate and played with him, chatted with him, and sent him some pretentious words copied from nowhere, so he almost said that he wanted to chase him.

Hao Ai didn't notice it at first, but then he gradually felt that something was wrong. After he broke up with Zhong Xiu, he had been thinking about him all the time, and he never let go.He knew that Shen Jin was having a good time in the circle, and he would go up to flirt with a good-looking man when he saw him. Of course, he didn't have any interest in Shen Jin, and he just wanted to make it clear to him as soon as possible.

One day after eating outside the school, on the way back to school, Hao Ai suddenly asked Shen Jin seriously: "Are you 0?"

Shen Jin was very puzzled, and thought to himself, "Isn't it obvious?"

"Coincidentally," Hao Ai smiled brightly, "Me too."

"...I really didn't see it." Shen Jin himself is pure zero, so don't mention how uncomfortable it is now.

But after talking about it, the two are still very good friends. Until now, after graduation, they both came to Nanchuan to develop.

"Yo, the sun is coming out from the west!" Shen Jin was very surprised.

Hao Ai usually lives a rough life and doesn't like to dress up very much.Unlike him, Shen Jin is an exquisite gay guy.

"Are you finally looking for a man?" Shen Jin joked.

"Who said," Hao Ai said, "Don't we gays all have to be more refined?"

Shen Jin rolled his big eyes: "You have been expelled from gay status by me a long time ago."

"Okay, then I will apply for re-naturalization now." Hao Ai said.

"No approval!"

Hao Ai also stopped making detours with him, and said frankly: "Okay, let me tell you the truth, I want to chase someone."

"Really?" Shen Jin asked incredulously.

Hao Ai hasn't been in a relationship in the past few years, and he doesn't hang out in circles, and lives a pure life with few desires.When asked why he didn't talk about it, he just said that he didn't meet the right one.

"Well, that's... my ex-boyfriend, who just came back from abroad a few days ago..."

"Understood, Zhong Xiu?" Although he had never met him before, Shen Jin was familiar with this name, every time the two of them drank too much, Hao Ai would mention this name.

Shen Jin accidentally saw a photo of Zhong Xiu, wearing a decent suit, with outstanding temperament, handsome and eye-catching. Hao Ai set this photo as the screen saver of his mobile phone for a long time, but then he changed the screen saver for some reason.

"Ah."

"Resurrection of old love?"

"It's not a resurgence," Hao Ai said, "The fire has never been extinguished."

"Stop it, I don't want to hear it." Shen Jin is no longer interested in knowing Hao Ai's only love history, and is tired of hearing it.

Shen Jin asked: "What brand of perfume do you want to buy?"

"Uh... something more expensive, right?" Hao Ai didn't know anything about perfume brands, but he had an intuition that the perfume Zhong Xiu used should be expensive, but finding the same one was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Then you can't just buy it online? Sort by price, pick the most expensive one, why bother going to the counter?"

"No, I have to buy the same style. Wait until I ask him what brand it is."

After hanging up the phone, Hao Ai sent a message asking Zhong Xiu: What brand of perfume do you use?

It was near noon when Zhong Xiu replied, saying a brand name.

Hao Ai: Okay, remember to eat lunch at noon! [kiss]

Then Hao Ai told Shen Jin, and Shen Jin was very proud after hearing it: "I am familiar with this brand, and I did a special evaluation before."

"Have you decided which one to buy?" Shen Jin asked again.

"I remember the smell, I can smell it, but I don't know the name."

Choosing a date is worse than bumping into it. It happened that both of them were free in the afternoon, so they made an appointment directly to try the fragrance at the counter of the mall.

It may be because of luck that I tried the second one, and Hao Ai smelled it.

Hao Ai put down the small strip for the fragrance test and said, "It should be this one."

"Are you sure? The top and bottom notes of the perfume are still a bit different." Shen Jin said.

Hao Ai doesn't know what the front and back are.

He leaned up to smell it again, and was overwhelmed by a very strong fragrance. He frowned and said, "Maybe not, his style doesn't seem to have such a strong smell, does it?"

This fragrance didn't quite match the cold aura on Zhong Xiu's body, but it seemed to be a strange complement.It tastes like summer, like the hottest summer that has ever passed.But probably not suitable for summer use.

He glanced at the ingredients, pepper, star anise, wormwood... okay, no wonder the taste is so strong.

"Oh my god, it should be this one." Shen Jin glanced at the label, paused deliberately, and then continued, "Its name sounds nice."

"What?" Hao Ai asked.

"Crazy in love with absinthe."

Hao Ai was obviously taken aback when he heard the name.

"It matches your name quite well, Hao Ai, madly in love with absinthe," Shen Jin chewed on the two names, and said with a smile, "Isn't it."

Seeing Hao Ai stunned in place, Shen Jin suddenly realized: "This is the one your ex-boyfriend used."

"...Really." Hao Ai paid the money in a trance.

He was still in a daze until the cabinet sister packaged the perfume and handed it to him.

Hao Ai had a decision in his heart.

He won't back down anymore, and he doesn't want to wait any longer, he's going to see Zhong Xiu, immediately.

Hao Ai came here by car, and was going to take Shen Jin home, but now he suddenly saw that he had forgotten his friends and asked Shen Jin to take a taxi back by himself.

The car was stuck on the viaduct, Hao Ai had never been so impatient, and wished to fly back to H University immediately.

He lowered his head and sniffed his wrist, and sprayed some on his wrist when he was trying the fragrance. Now the fragrance is very weak, it's the familiar breath, the smell of Zhong Xiu's body.

The sky ahead gradually turned crimson.It was getting late, the sun that was about to set was blocked by the surrounding tall buildings, and night was coming.Hao Ai took out the exquisitely packaged perfume, unpacked the box, and sprayed a little into the car.The aroma diffuses in the closed compartment, like a glass of absinthe, or a sunset that is about to rest.

The author says:

I'm finally here!A friend asked why this article is called absinthe, not because of the low absinthe band or because of the absinthe, but because of this perfume of Artisan - madly in love with absinthe!The boyfriend fragrance in my heart is top1 (of course it is just a personal feeling, you need to be cautious when planting grass)