Xueba and Xiaocao both collapsed

Yu Ze categorically denied it: "Impossible." No one knows better than him how intensive Qi Yuan's study is this semester, and it is impossible for him to have time to go out and mess around.

"So sure?" Jin Nan's tone was rather gloating, "The photo clearly captured Qi Yuan's face, standing at the hotel door with someone in his arms, even if he was beaten to death, it would be useless if he didn't admit it."

Hotel?In an instant, a certain scene of Qi Yuan hugging him flashed before Yu Ze's eyes.

"It seems that you are still kept in the dark about Qi Yuan taking the little girl into a room. Did that kid cheat or you two broke up?"

Yu Ze: "...Sorry, the little girl you mentioned should be me."

Jin Nan: "???"

Jin Nan, whose face was inexplicably shown, was silent for a while before opening his mouth again: "...OK, I just pass on a message for him. He is locked up now, and he said he will find a way out as soon as possible, so don't worry He, obediently wait for him to contact you."

"Okay, thank you." Yu Ze responded, paused, and couldn't help but ask again: "Qi Yuan... how is he doing now?"

"Don't worry, he's so thick-skinned, he won't die." Jin Nan clicked his tongue, showing a hint of envy in his tone, "But if you care about him so much, it's worth being beaten half to death."

Yu Ze: ...that's not necessary.

Without any extra pleasantries, Yu Ze hung up the phone, dragged the suitcase he had brought, and left the empty dormitory building.

On the way back, he kept thinking about Qi Yuan, and his resistance to the place he was about to return to faded away, so that when he suddenly saw that disgusting face, he couldn't react for a while.

It was Zhou Chengan who opened the door, with a gentle smile on his face, "Xiao Ze, welcome home."

Yu Ze didn't say a word, turned his body sideways and walked inside.

Zhou Chengan didn't mind either, and continued to smile and said, "I thought you didn't even want to come back for the winter vacation in order to avoid me." While talking, he reached out to pick up his suitcase.

Yu Ze pulled the suitcase behind him abruptly, and said in a cold tone, "Don't touch my things."

The smile on Zhou Chengan's face froze.

"Ozawa! You're back!" A pleasantly surprised voice sounded, and Ms. Yu trotted down the stairs all the way in her slippers, followed by Zhou Chensheng shouting loudly: "Slow down, don't fall! "

Yu Ze turned around, the expression on his face was still icy, but his tone softened a bit, "Mom, uncle."

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back!" Ms. Yu paused, and finally stopped a few steps away from him, carefully looking at her son's face, "Oh, Ozawa, you've lost weight."

Yu Ze was also looking at her.After a few months, he felt an indescribable strangeness towards this face that was somewhat similar to his own.

Seeming to be a little embarrassed by his gaze, Ms. Yu touched her white and tender cheeks, her voice lowered, "Xiao Ze, has mom gained weight?"

"Not fat, not fat, not fat at all." Before Yu Ze could speak, Zhou Chensheng quickly continued, "You're skinny!"

Zhou Chengan, who was standing by the side, suddenly laughed again, and said in an indescribable tone: "Oh, by the way, Ozawa, don't you know? Auntie has a baby in her belly now."

Then he got his wish and saw that beautiful little face fade away in an instant, turning pale and fragile, making one unable to help but want to do something to destroy it.

"Oh, I haven't had time to tell you..." Ms. Yu naturally leaned back against Zhou Chensheng with a shy expression, "I have a baby, are you happy? Ozawa, you are going to have a little brother or a little sister Already!"

With a slight movement of his fingers, Yu Ze pulled himself back from the blank world.She lowered her eyelashes familiarly, covering all the emotions in her eyes, "Well, I'll go up first."

He carried the suitcase in one hand and went up step by step. Behind him was Ms. Yu's sweet voice, and the father and son of the Zhou family were singing and coaxing her.

A family of three, no, it will soon be a family of four.

Yu Ze closed the door to isolate all sounds from his own world.

The 21st of the twelfth lunar month was a holiday, and I was dazed, and it was New Year's Eve in a blink of an eye.

On the morning of New Year's Eve, Yu Ze was woken up by his own body temperature.

He let out a low gasp, and opened his heavy eyelids with great effort, only to see the ceiling in front of him twist and turn.

He raised his hand with difficulty and touched his cheek, as if he had a fever.

But at this moment, there was a tinge of gratitude in his heart, and he no longer had to rack his brains to make up reasons to avoid the New Year's Eve dinner at night.

Every year, Zhou Chensheng takes them back to Zhou's house for New Year's Eve.When he was younger, he couldn't refuse the adult's request, so he could only sit on pins and needles surrounded by the strange eyes of the Zhou family.

That feeling is like being stripped naked and thrown in the public, accepting pointers from others.

After lunch, Zhou Chensheng repeatedly confirmed Yu Ze's condition, and finally agreed to leave him alone at home to recuperate from his illness.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Yu Ze breathed a sigh of relief.

After taking the anti-fever medicine, he lay back on the bed again, his consciousness was drowsy, when he heard the phone vibrate, he suddenly woke up again.

[I'm afraid that there will be too many blessings on the [-]th night, and you won't be able to see my greetings. I'm afraid that the firecrackers on the first day of junior high school will be too noisy, and you won't be able to hear my blessings... Qiao Yifan hereby wishes you an early New Year ,Happy new year! 】

Turning on the phone, it was Qiao Yifan's blessing message.

A trace of unconcealable disappointment flashed in Yu Ze's eyes.The long-lasting high fever slowed down his thinking. It took him a long time to move his fingers, and then the phone vibrated again.

"Hey Ozawa! Ignore the group text message just now! Ignore, ignore!" Qiao Yifan's enthusiastic voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hmm..." Yu Ze lay back down again, and let out a vague response from his throat.

"Hey? Ozawa, why does your voice sound weak?" Qiao Yifan immediately heard something wrong with him, "What's the matter with you? Are you sick?"

"Fever."

Qiao Yifan jumped three feet high, "Damn it! You have a fever! What to do? Have you been to the hospital? Is the hospital open today? Is it serious? How about I go to your house now—"

Under a series of bombardments, Yu Ze had no choice but to interrupt him, "Stop. I'm fine. I'll be fine after taking the medicine and sleeping for a while. Don't worry about it."

"Really?" Qiao Yifan asked suspiciously, then asked after a pause, "Otherwise, I'll ask the driver to pick you up to my house for New Year's Eve, okay?"

"I don't want to toss back and forth, just let me have a good rest. Happy New Year's Eve, hang up."

Others' families happily spend New Year's Eve, so what is it if an outsider intervenes in it?He was just a superfluous person.

The corner of his lips raised a self-deprecating arc, and Yu Ze slowly closed his eyes.This time I fell asleep until it was dark.

When I woke up the room was pitch black.

All the strength in his body was relieved by the fever, and Yu Ze felt like he was soaked in hot water, like a soft-legged shrimp.

In the silence, the phone rang suddenly.

He obviously just fell asleep, but there was a feeling of tiredness from the inside out, which made him not want to lift a finger.

The bell rang for a while, then stopped, and then rang again persistently after a few seconds.

He sighed deeply, sat up and took the phone.Another strange number.

The phone was connected, but Yu Ze didn't speak, neither did the other party, only the slight sound of footsteps came through the current.

However, his heart suddenly hit his chest, and Yu Ze hesitated, "...Qi Yuan?"

"It's me, Xiao Yu'er." Two seconds later, the deep voice finally sounded, the voice was very low, but the tone sounded very urgent, "Say a few more words to me, I'm about to think You are dead!"

His dry and white lips opened and closed slightly, but his throat seemed to be choked by something, and he couldn't make any sound.

"Little Yu'er? Yu Ze? Are you still there?" Qi Yuan couldn't hear his response, so he became anxious and quickly apologized: "Are you angry with me? I'm sorry, we agreed to spend the winter vacation together, we But I missed the appointment, I'm really sorry Xiao Yu'er—"

"...Yes, we agreed to be together, why didn't you come?" The always clear voice was slightly hoarse, trembling and choking in imperceptible, "Why didn't you come?"

The person on the other end of the phone was breathless, and he didn't know how to explain it. He could only promise with 12 points of seriousness: "I'm sorry, Xiao Yu'er, I will never break an appointment with you again, and I won't let you alone—Xiao Yu'er Yu'er, what's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

In the darkness, warm tears burst out of the eyes, flowed over the flushed cheeks and became hot, and then dripped onto the back of the hand, making a crisp sound of water.

"Yu Ze! Please talk to me, don't scare me!" Qi Yuan's voice was chaotic, "Please, don't ignore me... I was wrong, I was really wrong, I swear that if I do it again Lie to you and I will die if struck by lightning!"

"Qi Yuan——" There was a cry of collapse, and all the discomfort and grievances poured out violently like a flood that opened the gate.

Qi Yuan's heart was about to be broken by a cry, his voice was hoarse and rough as if mixed with stones, "Don't cry, little fish, don't cry... I want to kill myself when you cry!"

Yu Ze covered his mouth with one hand, tears were still streaming out.

"Wait for me first..." The man on the other end seemed to have bumped into something. There was a bang, and another bang. The terrible impact lasted several times. Suddenly there was a whistling wind, and then he gasped again, " Xiao Yu'er, don't cry, is there anyone in your family now?"

Yu Ze took his hand away and whimpered, "No..."

"Hey, don't cry, I'm here, I'm here." At this moment, all the words became pale, Qi Yuan could only repeat, "If you're tired, sleep for a while, don't hang up, I'm always here .”

The sobbing sound gradually stopped, but Yu Ze hadn't cried so wantonly for many years, and with the symptoms of high fever, his consciousness soon became drowsy again.

He fell on the bed, still holding the phone tightly in his hand, putting it next to his ear, listening to the other party's coaxing voice, and closed his eyes again.

He woke up again with Qi Yuan's call, "Little Yu'er, can you tell me which building you live in?"

Yu Ze froze for a moment, "Where are you?"

"I'm in your community, but I don't know which building you live in."

In the next second, Yu Ze threw off the quilt and jumped off the bed. When he landed, his knees gave way and he almost fell to his knees on the carpet.

He stabilized himself, rushed to the window and pulled the curtains aside.Not far downstairs, under the dim streetlights stood a tall figure.

I don't know when it snowed outside, and the little snowflakes looked like dancing elves under the light, and they fell lightly on the boy's black coat, looking extraordinarily pure and flawless.

As if sensing his gaze, the boy raised his eyes, looked in his direction, seemed to smile, and then waved vigorously at him.

At that moment, the iceberg fortress that had been crumbling in Yu Ze's heart collapsed.

Before he even had time to put on his coat and shoes, he stumbled towards the gate and sprinted out.

He traveled all the way through the ice and sea, through the thorny jungle, through the long time, through the lonely years, through the darkness and suffering, and flew towards his light and future.

Qi Yuan saw the little guy stumbling forward at a glance, his body was faster than his brain, he took a few strides to meet him with his long legs, "Little Yu'er, why did you get down—"

The boy who was running towards him rushed towards him without stopping. He subconsciously opened his arms and hugged him tightly.

"...Xiao Yuer?" Qi Yuan hugged him, and laughed happily, "So enthusiastic? Does Xiao Yuer miss me too?"

Holding the stiff coat tightly with both hands, Yu Ze raised his head in his arms, his amber pupils were moist and bright, burning with a desperate fire.

"Say that you will love me forever and never leave me." The commanding sentence pattern sounded like she was about to cry.

Qi Yuan was stunned for a moment, then lowered his eyes, looked at him tenderly and lovingly, and said calmly and crazily: "I like you, I like you so much that I am about to die - even if one day I die, my ghost will always be there pestering you."

It should have sounded creepy, but Yu Ze smiled brightly.

A snowflake fell on the petal-like red lips, he tiptoed, and printed the cold snowflake on the other's thin lips.

A cold and hot kiss.