Absinthe

Hao Ai did not greet Zhong Xiu in advance, but sat quietly on a chair outside the laboratory and waited for him to come out.

He didn't want to disturb Zhong Xiu's experiment.

When he was in high school, he experienced the feeling of waiting for his boyfriend to leave school many times. At that time, he was always full of joy and anticipation. It is the same now, so he should experience the feeling of waiting for his boyfriend to get off work in advance.

The door of the laboratory opened a crack, and someone hurried past Hao Ai without stopping. When someone passed by, they quietly looked at the stranger sitting outside.People from several nearby laboratories came out one after another, but Zhong Xiu was still missing.

Hao Ai glanced at the phone. At [-]:[-], he felt that the people inside were almost gone. He was about to call Zhong Xiu to make sure that he was still in the laboratory, when a shadow suddenly fell in front of him.

He raised his head.

Zhong Xiu was still wearing the white coat he wore during the experiment, with his hands in his pockets and a faint smile on his face.Hao Ai stared straight at him, a little stunned.

He suddenly forgot what he wanted to say, forgot what he originally planned to say.

"What's wrong?" Zhong Xiu asked.

"No, I just think... you look pretty in this."

Zhong Xiu smiled, and his voice was soft: "How long have you been waiting? Why did you come here suddenly and didn't tell me?"

"Not long," Hao Ai stood up and said, "I missed you, so I came here."

"Didn't you just meet yesterday?" Zhong Xiu met his gaze, and the smile on his face deepened.

"I just saw it yesterday," Hao Ai said, "but I think about it every day."

"Do you miss me?" Hao Ai asked him.

Zhong Xiu pretended to think for two seconds, and said, "It seems a little bit."

"Only a little?"

"I miss you so much, so super—" Hao Ai approached him, wanting to hug his waist and touch his face or something, as long as Zhong Xiu didn't refuse, he could make more progress, and Zhong Xiu would certainly not refuse.

"Cough..." At this moment, someone from the laboratory came out and coughed softly.

It's Jian Zhao.

Zhong Xiu stood there without moving, but Hao Ai did not dare to move forward, but took a step back, moving a little further away from Zhong Xiu.

Jian Zhao glanced at Hao Ai curiously, and probably guessed the relationship between the two.Then he put away the surprise in his eyes, and said slowly: "Goodbye, Mr. Zhong."

"Goodbye." Zhong Xiu said.

Hao Ai looked at the back of Jian Zhao leaving, and said in a complaining tone: "Who is that little boy? He still calls you teacher, is he your student?"

"What a little boy, everyone is in graduate school." Zhong Xiu said.

Hao Ai: "I see, do you dislike my low education?"

"..." Where did it come from, why did it involve academic qualifications?Zhong Xiu was a little confused by Hao Ai's brain circuit: "I'm just stating the facts."

"Cut." Of course Hao Ai didn't care about the little boy, he just realized that he was very jealous, but it seemed that he didn't have any chance to be jealous before. Zhong Xiu used to reject all those who showed interest except him. Thousands of miles away, he gave Hao Ai all the sense of security.

That day when Hao Ai saw Jian Zhao smiling at Zhong Xiu outside the small auditorium, he really felt that it was an eyesore, but now he is not stingy, he is relieved, and he is free and easy.

He knew that Zhong Xiu still had him in his heart, only him.Can't tolerate others.

"I'm going to change clothes." Zhong Xiu said.

"Oh oh oh." Hao Ai repeatedly agreed.

He obediently sat on the chair, waiting for Zhong Xiu to change and come out.

Hao Ai counted the time in his heart, and in less than a minute, Zhong Xiu came out of it.He turned around and locked the door of the laboratory, and the two walked out of the research institute, walking side by side on the path leading out of the school gate.

"You didn't wear perfume?" Hao Ai didn't smell the familiar perfume.

"No, it is generally not used in the laboratory." Zhong Xiu said.

"Oh--"

"What's for dinner?" Zhong Xiu asked naturally.

"Don't eat, I'm full." Hao Ai said pretending to be angry.

"Want to eat hot pot?" Zhong Xiu asked again.

"I don't want to." Hao Ai said.

"Well, it seems a little greasy. During this time, I have been eating and drinking all day..." Zhong Xiu thought for a while and said, "Let me cook for you tonight, okay?"

"What are you doing?" Hao Ai was immediately attracted by his words, and immediately stopped pretending to be angry.

"Home cooking, I should cook whatever you want." Zhong Xiu said.

"Hao Ai smiled, quite surprised: "It seems that your cooking skills have improved compared to before. "

"Well, I learned it when I was abroad." Zhong Xiu said.

The two turned around again and walked back to the classroom apartment.Zhong Xiu suddenly said: "The man just now is called Jian Zhao, he is not my student, I just take him with me occasionally when doing experiments, and the rest is fine."

"It's okay?" Hao Ai repeated these three words on purpose.

"Well, I don't have any thoughts about him," Zhong Xiu said, "he won't have any thoughts about me either."

"I know," Hao Ai said, "I know, you are super super-like me."

"En." Zhong Xiu responded in a low voice.

Hao Ai was very happy to hear that, and repeated it without getting bored: "You like me so much."

"What about you?" Zhong Xiu lowered his voice.

"Me?" Hao Ai pointed at himself and said with a smile, "Of course I do too—I like you so much."

"Yeah." Zhong Xiu also smiled, his words were enough.

Back home, Zhong Xiu was cooking in the kitchen, and Hao Ai was playing with his mobile phone in the living room.Hao Ai uploaded a new video last night, and it was set to be sent on a regular basis. He only remembered to read comments and private messages now.

Looking at it, Hao Ai suddenly remembered something, "Zhong Xiu." He called into the kitchen.

Zhong Xiu turned his head and asked him what he was doing with his eyes.

Hao Ai was afraid that Zhong Xiu couldn't hear him, so he asked loudly, "Did you watch the new video I posted last night?"

"Look." Zhong Xiu put the porridge ingredients into the pot, turned on the fire, and then walked out of the kitchen.

"Have you commented?" Hao Ai asked.

Zhong Xiu sat next to him, was silent for two seconds, and nodded: "Yeah."

"What's your ID name?"

Zhong Xiu shook his head and refused to answer the question.

"Excuse me? I see, you won't be the kind of little fan who confesses his love in the comments all day, right?" Hao Ai asked narrowly.

"No."

"Then did you praise me?" Hao Ai asked again.

Maybe not.Zhong Xiu thought about it, and found that the comments he left always had the same content, and he didn't mean to praise Hao Ai.

"No." Zhong Xiu said truthfully.

"..." Hao Ai was dissatisfied: "Then you can praise me in the comments now."

Zhong Xiu paused, "Okay." As he spoke, he turned on the phone.

Hao Ai kept refreshing the interface, and after a few seconds, a new comment appeared.

xx: praise you.

Hao Ai looked at the new comment notification on his phone, and looked at Zhong Xiu's phone interface in disbelief, with a look of shock on his face: "Fuck!! So you are Xiaocha!?"

"It's not Xiaocha, it's XX." Zhong Xiu corrected.He read the pronunciation of the English alphabet.

"Axiu? Xiuxiu?" Hao Aile said, "Then why are you pretending to be a girl? If I knew it was you, I would..."

"What are you talking about?" Zhong Xiu said with a smile, "I never said I was a girl, did I, and the gender in the information has always been male."

Hao Ai clicked into the information column of xx, and found that his gender was written as "male". Why didn't he notice it before?

"Praise me seriously again, and I'll put your comment on top." Hao Ai looked at him with starry eyes.

"Is there a problem with the original one?" Zhong Xiu found out his original comment, and a kaomoji: ヾ(?°?°?)? ?

Looking at it horizontally and vertically, Zhong Xiu felt that this emoji was very similar to Hao Ai.But when he said this, he would laugh at him again: How does a kaomoji look like me?

"This one is not impossible, I will find you a template for reference..." Hao Ai bowed his head and flipped through the comments: "It's like this."

Hao Ai held up his mobile phone and showed him the comment: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh my husband posted a new video! ! !Tell everyone! !Sanlian has been arranged, and my husband's beauty is also open today [kiss]

"..." Zhong Xiu raised his hand and gave Hao Ai a shudder, "Impossible, don't even think about it."

"Oh!" Hao Ai covered his head with one hand, and threw the pillow in his arms at him with the other.

Under Hao Ai's threat, Zhong Xiu finally posted another comment: I love you ヾ(?°?°?)? ?

This comment has been pinned.

Hao Ai replied below: [kiss]

Zhong Xiu made a hearty dinner, including mapo tofu, braised potato chips, steamed fish, sweet and sour pork ribs, and he also cooked a pot of polenta.

After eating, Hao Ai collapsed on the sofa, sluggish and didn't want to move.After Zhong Xiu finished clearing the table, he got up from the sofa again and volunteered to wash the dishes.

Zhong Xiu glanced at him and said, "You'd better lie down." Then he walked towards the sink with the bowls and chopsticks.

"It's okay, I'll wash it for you!" Hao Ai followed him into the kitchen.

Two people each occupy a faucet to wash dishes.

Zhong Xiu cleaned the bowl and put it on the marble table. Then his gaze stayed on Hao Ai's slender wrist on the left side. After looking at it for a while, he still couldn't see the tattoo clearly, so he looked away again.

Hao Ai put the washed bowl on the bowl next to Zhong Xiu, and was about to pat Zhong Xiu on the shoulder, when Zhong Xiu suddenly grabbed his wrist, rubbed the inside of his wrist with his thumb, and asked: "What's the tattoo?"

Hao Ai pulled his wrist out of Zhong Xiu's hand, obviously not wanting him to see it, "Any random tattoo, it's nothing to look at."

Seeing Hao Ai's indifferent face, Zhong Xiu felt a sudden pain in his heart. Hao Ai used to be most afraid of pain.

He didn't know why Hao Ai got the tattoo, and what the tattoo meant. He couldn't help but speculate in bad directions, such as his ex-boyfriend.He doesn't mind on the surface, of course it's fake, he's jealous to death.

Seeing that Zhong Xiu seemed quite disappointed, Hao Ai felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He hesitated for a moment, but stretched out his arm and said, "Come on, let you see."

He put his arm close to Zhong Xiu's eyes, as if impatient, "Look at it! Let you see enough!"

Zhong Xiu finally saw clearly that the pattern on Hao Ai's wrist was a colorful little dinosaur.It's really small, and the coloring is not very clear.

He was a little dazed for a moment, is it because of me?

"Don't think too much about it," Hao Ai seemed to see what Zhong Xiu was thinking, and tried to cover it up: "I got this tattoo...to commemorate my little dinosaur."

"Well," Zhong Xiu said, "then you must like your little dinosaur very much."

"Does it hurt?" Zhong Xiu asked again.

"not bad."

Hao Ai was relatively free when he was a freshman and sophomore, and went to the tattoo studio whenever he was free. Later, he learned tattooing from the boss, and endured the pain to tattoo a small colorful dinosaur on his wrist.

"Don't hold on to it all the time, I still have to put the bowl in the cupboard." Hao Ai glared at him.

Zhong Xiu let go of his wrist, wiped off the water on the bowls with a rag, and put them one by one into the cabinet.

Hao Ai was about to bypass Zhong Xiu and go out.

"Wait a minute." Zhong Xiu blocked Hao Ai's way and pushed him against the cabinet.

"What are you doing..." Hao Ai took a step back unconsciously, and his body touched the door of the cabinet.

However, Zhong Xiu didn't get closer, but held Hao Ai's wrist again.

Hao Ai was grabbed by Zhong Xiu's wrist, and felt that his hand that had just touched the cold water still had a little bit of coolness remaining.

"Thank you." Zhong Xiu said such a sentence inexplicably.

Then he lowered his head and kissed Hao Ai's wrist lightly.

The author says:

I myself feel that this chapter is too sweet...it's time for a reunion (it doesn't seem to be any different from reunion now)