The phone on the bed vibrated. Chen Qizhao turned on the phone and saw a message from Shen Yuhuai in the chat interface.
[Shen Yuhuai: Have you slept?]
[Zhao: Not yet.]
Shen Yuhuai was at home, sorting through the data he took from the laboratory. During this period, he was still chatting with Liu Sui and communicating the details of the experiment. Liu Sui said in a voice call while playing a game, “No, Brother. Let’s discuss it when we are back in the laboratory. Why are you in such a hurry? Don’t you have nothing to do in July?”
“I have something to do.” Shen Yuhuai’s eyes stopped on the computer screen, and he typed quickly. “I’ve packaged the data details and sent them to your email. I’ll give you the compressed package tomorrow. You can just fill in the experimental data according to the form.”’
Shen Yuhuai’s efficiency was astonishingly high. Even if Liu Sui was lazy, he had to raise his spirit when led by this god-level teammate.
“Okay, I’ll take care of the rest.” Liu Sui turned off the game and wrote down the things that Shen Yuhuai explained one by one. “Why do I feel like you are busier than in the first half of the year? Do you have something to do on Wednesday? It is rare to see you taking time off when doing experiments.”
Shen Yuhuai replied, “Someone has a birthday.”
“Can’t you just go to the birthday after you’re done with work? I haven’t seen you on anyone else’s birthday…” Liu Sui realized as he spoke. “No, who can make you skip an experiment for a birthday? It isn’t right, it isn’t right. Shen Yuhuai, something is wrong with you? Did you succeed in chasing your goddess?”
Shen Yuhuai filled in the data into the form and wrote comments. He answered briefly when he heard this, “Yes.”
“F*k! You are so quiet when doing something big! When will I meet the person…”
“You’ve met the person before,” Shen Yuhuai responded briefly. Then he saw the message reply below and said again, “I have something to do. Then I’ll hang up first.”
Liu Sui wanted to ask for some details. Then when he heard Shen Yuhuai’s words, he couldn’t help doing a short brainstorming in his mind.
There were only a few girls who appeared next to Shen Yuhuai. At most, they were in the experimental group or S College students. The key was that the women he saw weren’t good at all!
Shen Yuhuai stopped working and made a call to Chen Qizhao.
The other person picked up almost in seconds. As soon as the call connected, he saw that the camera lens was a bit messy. Then he saw Chen Qizhao clearly.
“I’m just getting ready for bed.” Chen Qizhao saw the bright background and vaguely saw the decoration of the room behind Shen Yuhuai. It wasn’t the decoration he saw in the city apartment. “Are you at home?”
Shen Yuhuai replied, “Yes.”
Chen Qizhao noticed the keyboard sound in the background. He was more sensitive to this sound. “Is it a work matter?”
His gaze moved quickly, shifting from the bright background to the person closest to the camera.
The man was dressed in pajamas, neatly dressed. There was only one button that was undone.
He didn’t wear glasses. When he spoke, something slipped down his throat, and there was an indistinguishable smell.
It was just… Shen Yuhuai was a bit far away.
“I just finished my work. I’ll sleep in a while.” Shen Yuhuai lowered his eyes slightly. He noticed Chen Qizhao’s slightly messy collar in the camera and the slightly messy bedding in the background. Based on the angle, he could tell that Chen Qizhao was now on the bed.
Chen Qizhao’s eyes didn’t move. “What is on the side?”
“A water cup.” Shen Yuhuai showed it to him. “Why are you asking this?”
“I couldn’t see clearly, so I just asked,” Chen Qizhao answered. “Are you using a laptop?”
Shen Yuhuai did use a laptop PC, and the camera was fixed at a certain position. His eyes darkened slightly as he understood something.
Chen Qizhao noticed that Shen Yuhuai’s distance seemed a bit further away, and even his voice became quieter. “Is there a book on the left?”
Shen Yuhuai looked at the folder next to him. “It is the materials brought back from the laboratory.”
Chen Qizhao’s eyes moved slightly. After a pause, he said, “I haven’t been to your room.”
Shen Yuhuai paused. “Wait a minute.”
The video chat was hung up. Chen Qizhao held his phone and waited a while. Then an expected video request popped up.
Shen Yuhuai appeared in the camera. This time, he was close. There was no extra background decoration. The person was right in front of his eyes. Then after a while, the camera switched, and what came into view was Shen Yuhuai’s room in the Shen house.
The room was more spacious than the city apartment. The decoration style was more modern and simple. The color tone was the same as the apartment in the city, and there was more furniture.
The simple style was precisely Shen Yuhuai’s style, and he could see it all at a glance. However, Chen Qizhao didn’t want to see this. His eyes moved with the camera, and he saw Shen Yuhuai’s room completely. He could only hear the background sound and the hand moving with it. He didn’t even see the face.
After Shen Yuhuai finished speaking, a short silence spread in the atmosphere.
There was a low laugh from the background of the camera. Then the man’s voice seemed to come from the other side of the earpiece, extremely close. “What else do you want to see?”
Chen Qizhao simply said, “I want to see you.”
The camera switched, and Shen Yuhuai appeared in the camera. “And then?”
Chen Qizhao licked his lips slightly. “Get closer.”
The camera was moved a bit closer, and the person was brought closer.
Chen Qizhao’s gaze moved to the corner of Shen Yuhuai’s lips. He seemed to see the invisible wound that was bitten by him during the day. He was half lying on the bed. The taste of the mind in his house was mixed with a bit of sweetness. It was scattered between his lips and teeth, like a taste that was wrapped outside.
He kind of wanted to kiss Shen Yuhuai.
At night, Chen Qizhao hung up the call with Shen Yuhuai and went to get another mint candy.
He lay on the bed after washing and inexplicably thought of the scene of Shen Yuhuai pressing down on him during the day. It was as if the other person’s breath was still close at hand. The exhaustion from a busy day surged up at this time. Chen Qizhao pulled up the quilt to fall asleep. In his dream, there seemed to be a hot and damp itching around his neck that crawled down the back of his neck little by little. It made his whole body dry and hot like fire. Gradually, that damp heat sprayed on his back.
The tingling sensation made his scalp tingle. A large hand seemed to touch his face.
When he looked closely, he saw that it was Shen Yuhuai’s face.
In the middle of the night, Chen Qizhao suddenly woke up. He sat on the bed and exhaled softly, his body sticky.
The air conditioner in the room was blowing gently. The sound was weak and inaudible. Chen Qizhao didn’t feel the slightest coolness. He was silent for a while when he turned over the quilt. Finally, he went to the bathroom to take a cold shower.
A long time had passed by the time he returned to his bed. He had lost his sleepiness, so he touched the phone beside him and opened the chat interface between him and Shen Yuhuai. He didn’t send a message to Shen Yuhuai. He just stayed on this interface for a long time. He was about to exit when he accidentally clicked into Shen Yuhuai’s Moments again.
Then he saw Shen Yuhuai’s Moments.
The photo of the noodles he sent to Shen Yuhuai not long ago was lying on top of Shen Yuhuai’s Moments.
Asking him for a photo and then sending it to his Moments…?
Chen Qizhao felt itchy in his hands and his heart. He couldn’t say what it felt like.
He was just a bit happy.
Soon, the day of the birthday party came. The Chen family didn’t make any public announcement about this birthday party, and the people they invited were all close friends.
The party was held in the Chen family’s garden, which was lit up, and the fountain shone brightly. During this period of chaos, the peaceful and beautiful birthday party seemed to be the only good thing during this time. The hostess Zhang Yazhi followed the servants and gave them orders while accompanying Chen Jianhong to talk with the guests.
All the uncles who could be named had come here. The party without entertainment was a bit more lively. Chen Qizhao lowered his eyes slightly and glanced at the door from the corner of his eyes. The Shen family hadn’t come yet.
The message reply on his phone was from 15 minutes ago, and there was no reply after that. Shen Yuhuai might be driving.
He opened the chat history, clicked on the phone interface, and grabbed a glass of champagne.
Yan Kailin came in with a gift and saw Chen Qizhao talking with Cheng Rong and the others beside the fountain. He gave Chen Qizhao the limited edition sneakers that he had carefully selected and learned that Cheng Rong’s gift was a custom-made lighter. “F*k, last time I asked you what you were giving, and you said you didn’t know.”
Cheng Rong answered, “I didn’t remember until after you asked.”
Liu Kai added, “It’s okay. I also gave a tie.”
Yan Kailin asked left and right, making sure that his gift wouldn’t be too cheap. Then he looked at Chen Qizhao with confidence and found that Chen Qizhao was looking at his phone. He leaned closer to look. “Brother, what are you doing? Chatting with Brother Huai?”
He saw the name on top of the chat interface. “On my way here, Brother Huai seemed to have called my brother.”
Cheng Rong wondered, “Shen Yuhuai? What is there to talk about?”
These young people were afraid of meeting such serious people, for example, Chen Shiming of the Chen family, Yan Kailin’s older brother, Yan Kaiqi… and Shen Yuhuai. These serious people didn’t match their circle. They couldn’t play together. If they encountered each other, these serious people would even raise the alarm. It was inevitable that they would take Chen Qizhao and Yan Kaiqi away with a complaint.
Thinking of the restlessness of drinking and hanging out in bars before, they always kept people like Shen Yuhuai at a distance after meeting them.
Liu Kai said, “I still remember drinking and meeting Shen Yuhuai last year. I was so uncomfortable.”
“F*k, he must’ve taken some benefits from my brother. Didn’t he always like my Moments a while ago? He must’ve gone through my Moments for my brother.” Yan Kailin chattered as soon as he heard this. “IT is too scary. You guys don’t know. He liked my Moments. What is the difference between this and telling me clearly? It scared me so much that I didn’t dare post for a while.”
Cheng Rong said, “You have to be careful. People like them are very smart. They can find any clue in a photo.”
Yan Kailin nodded fiercely. “Last time when I was drinking, my brother actually figured out what bar I was in from a photo. It was too scary. But it is getting better recently. Shen Yuhuai hasn’t given me a like for over two months. Still, it is true that he probably doesn’t have time to give me a like.”
The group of people talked about Shen Yuhuai with a few sentences. Chen Qizhao looked up at Yan Kaiqi, who was talking to Chen Shiming in the distance, and asked casually, “Why did he call your brother?”
Yan Kailin was just complaining about his brother’s recent tyrant behavior. Then he heard this. “Call? I didn’t understand. They seemed to be talking about business. I heard them talking about some organizations. I haven’t heard any of the names pronounced.”
Chen Qizhao listened, and his expression was thoughtful.
At this time, there seemed to be more noise coming from outside the garden. New guests came in from the entrance, and Chen Jianhong walked over while holding champagne.
Chen Qizhao glanced at the door and saw a figure in the distance. Among the guests, Shen Yuhuai was tall and eye-catching. He could be seen at a glance.
After a while, their eyes met, and Shen Yuhuai nodded to him from a distance.
Yan Kailin wasn’t interested in his brother talking about work at all. Then when Shen Yuhuai was mentioned, he suddenly remembered something. He took a glass of champagne from the table next to him and said in a casual tone, “Oh, let me tell you something exciting. My brother was drunk last time and leaked something. Shen Yuhuai seems to…”
Before he finished speaking, he saw an extra glass of half-drunk champagne on the table.
The owner of the champagne walked quickly to the other side.
Cheng Rong wondered, “Seems to what?”
Liu Kai asked, “How can you talk halfway?”
Yan Kailin’s gaze inexplicably followed Chen Qizhao over. It wasn’t until he saw Chen Qizhao standing in front of Shen Yuhuai that he added the next sentence. “…He seems to be in a relationship.”
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Thanks for the chapter!
Poor silly YK. His head will explode when he finds out that CQ is SY’s boyfriend. Hahahaha!
Aww Kailin you sweet summer child
Is Yan Kailin about to be the next one clued in? Come on, Shiming gege, you are about to be outdone by this little dense milk puppy? 😅