Chapter 238: Extra 5 Yanzi, he really likes maid costumes
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After dropping off Fu Xuezhou for two days, Lou Yan couldn’t hold out any longer. He threw the car keys to Fu Xuezhou, letting him commute to school on his own every day.
On this day, after finishing his morning classes and returning home, Fu Xuezhou saw an extra person in the house. That person was none other than Lu Haoxiu, who lived on the fourth floor downstairs.
Lu Haoxiu looked haggard, with red eyes as if he hadn’t slept for days. Li Sanxin and Lou Yan were sitting beside Lu Haoxiu, talking. When they heard the door open, all three turned to look at Fu Xuezhou.
Seeing that Fu Xuezhou was a bit damp, Lou Yan belatedly glanced out the window. “Is it raining?”
“Little Yu*.”
* rain
Fu Xuezhou casually placed his bag and umbrella aside, then walked a few steps towards Lu Haoxiu, scrutinizing him with lowered eyes.
Lu Haoxiu felt tense under his gaze, stammering, “H-hello?”
Fu Xuezhou narrowed his eyes slightly. His hair was damp from the rain, slightly disheveled, hanging over his handsome and lazy brows, making him seem even more unapproachable.
Lu Haoxiu became increasingly afraid, then heard Fu Xuezhou ask, “Why didn’t you go to school?”
“???”
Lu Haoxiu never expected Fu Xuezhou to ask such a question. Confused, he subconsciously replied, “Um, I took leave.”
Fu Xuezhou sneered coldly, a faint resentment in his tone.
“This is our neighbor downstairs, Lu Haoxiu,” Lou Yan coughed lightly, pretending to introduce, “Little Lu has been having nightmares these past two days, unable to rest well. His parents gave him a day off, but since there’s no one at home during the day, he came over here because he was scared.”
Lu Haoxiu gave a shy smile towards Fu Xuezhou. He sneakily glanced at Fu Xuezhou a few times, feeling a familiar sensation in his heart. Some instinct warned Lu Haoxiu not to provoke this person; he was dangerous.
Lou Yan pointed to Fu Xuezhou and introduced to Lu Haoxiu again, “He’s Fu Xuezhou, my…”
“Boyfriend!” Lu Haoxiu blurted out subconsciously.
This statement surprised everyone. Lou Yan asked in confusion, “That’s right, he’s my boyfriend. How did you know?”
Lu Haoxiu shook his head blankly. “I don’t know… I just felt like he should be your boyfriend.”
Fu Xuezhou looked at him again, feeling pleased. He rarely condescended to ask, “What kind of nightmare did you have?”
“I forgot,” Lu Haoxiu sighed bitterly, glancing at Lou Yan, “Since the night I saw Brother Lou, I’ve been having intermittent nightmares. But every time I wake up, I forget what happened in the dream, except that it was very scary, extremely scary.”
Every day upon waking up, Lu Haoxiu’s tears would wet his pillow. He always felt heavy-hearted, restless, and his mental state was deteriorating. Even though his parents took him to the hospital for examinations, they couldn’t find anything wrong. Lu Haoxiu knew that it was just some psychological issues bothering him.
He felt inexplicably anxious and anxious. In this state of anxiety, Lu Haoxiu kept thinking of Lou Yan. The more he thought about Lou Yan, the more he wanted to see him. It seemed that as long as he saw Lou Yan, he could finally feel at ease.
Li Sanxin smiled strangely, “Then we must have a strong connection. I’ve been having nightmares these past two days too, and just like you, I don’t remember the content of the dreams after waking up.”
As he spoke, Li Sanxin glanced up and down at Lu Haoxiu, the smile on his face deepening. He gently said, “It’s really strange. I felt a strong sense of familiarity when I first saw you. Little brother, have we really never met before?”
Lu Haoxiu’s eyes lit up, and he excitedly nodded repeatedly, incoherently saying, “Brother Li, I also felt very familiar when I first saw you, as if I’ve known you before. Really, I’m not lying to you, I felt the same when I saw Brother Lou!”
“Hahaha,” Li Sanxin laughed and patted Lu Haoxiu’s shoulder. “Don’t be nervous, let’s consider it a bond at first sight. Don’t worry, dreams are all fake and opposite to reality. There’s no need to take them seriously.”
Lou Yan sat aside watching them, his lips curved with a faint smile, but his eyes were filled with various turbulent emotions.
He initially thought Li Sanxin’s dream was an accident, but he didn’t expect Lu Haoxiu to have similar nightmares. The behavior of these two individuals clearly indicated that they still retained emotions from before the time reversal.
Would their memories gradually return?
How did this dream come about?
Lou Yan felt somewhat worried.
He wanted them to regain their memories, but he was also afraid of any lingering side effects after they did.
…Forget it.
Lou Yan sighed, letting everything go with the flow. He couldn’t control whether they dreamed or not.
Lou Yan stood up and walked to the balcony to get some fresh air, habitually taking out a lighter to play with.
The orange-red flame flickered, accompanying the sound of the lighter’s clicks, gradually calming Lou Yan’s mood.
Outside, the fine rain veiled the world in a white mist. The green trees swayed gently in the rain, and the scent of damp earth and grass after the rain was full of vitality.
Fu Xuezhou walked to Lou Yan’s side, and Lou Yan smiled, turning his head to look at him. “I almost forgot to ask you, how did you manage to redeem this lighter from Count Grey?”
At that time, in order to get the remaining soul of Lu Haoxiu and the wax candle, Lou Yan traded the lighter to Count Grey. He thought he would never need the lighter again.
“Camera,” Fu Xuezhou said.
Lou Yan was stunned for a few seconds. “The camera I gave you?”
Fu Xuezhou nodded faintly.
“How is that possible?” Lou Yan was skeptical. “That camera is just a common electronic product. How could it be exchanged for this lighter?”
“Count Grey’s rule in his store is equal-value exchange,” Fu Xuezhou said, leaning against the railing with one hand, his slender and tall figure slightly leaning, the slanting rain blowing on him, giving him a gentle appearance as if the ice and snow were melting. “There are several photos I took of you in that camera, which are of extraordinary value to me, so I was able to exchange them for the lighter.”
Lou Yan was speechless, pondering. “It can work like that?”
“Of course,” Fu Xuezhou lifted the corners of his mouth, leisurely saying, “provided that the shop owner is your friend.”
“…”
Lou Yan twitched his lips, gave Fu Xuezhou a disdainful glance, then returned to the living room in a bad mood.
In the living room, Li Sanxin and Lu Haoxiu were still chatting eagerly.
“Brother Li, did your dream last long?”
“Very long, exceptionally long. Were there deaths in your dream?”
“Definitely, plenty of deaths. Probably a lot!”
“So—”
“So,” Fu Xuezhou cut in, his tone indifferent, ruining the atmosphere, “what’s for lunch?”
The words Li Sanxin wanted to say were suddenly stuck in his throat. He forcefully pressed the vein on his forehead. “…Fu Xuezhou, sometimes I really wonder how low your emotional intelligence can go.”
“His emotional intelligence is not low at all,” Lou Yan glanced at Fu Xuezhou slantwise, sneering, “He’s just too lazy to bother with you guys.”
Li Sanxin chuckled twice, “Yanzi, I really don’t know what you see in him. Aren’t you ever choked up by him when you talk about love?”
“Hmm,” Lou Yan replied calmly, “he’s not lacking in emotional intelligence when he talks to me.”
“…” D*mned gay couple!
Li Sanxin’s face turned iron-gray from this dog food.
He didn’t want to say another word to this pair of lovebirds. Expressionless, he stood up and walked to the kitchen to prepare lunch for the four of them.
Fu Xuezhou had afternoon makeup classes and urgently needed to replenish his energy. His body was at its peak vitality, not easily tired but prone to hunger. Combined with the late start of his school day, he hadn’t even had breakfast, and now his stomach was so empty it was starting to hurt.
Fu Xuezhou frowned slightly, went into the kitchen, and washed two apples.
Seeing this, Li Sanxin couldn’t help but mock, “Are you washing two apples to give one to Yanzi?”
Fu Xuezhou raised an eyelid lazily, looked at him without any expression. Without denying it, he tacitly confirmed it.
“Yanzi doesn’t like eating apples,” Li Sanxin finally found a chance to counterattack this dog couple. His spirits lifted, “Really? Despite being in a relationship, you don’t even know that Yanzi doesn’t like eating apples?”
He also had some doubts in his heart. Did this guy really like Yanzi? They’d been dating for three months, he shouldn’t be unaware of such a trivial thing.
Fu Xuezhou’s hands paused while washing the apples.
Seeing Fu Xuezhou’s annoyance towards him from the moment they met, it was as if this person had once bullied Yanzi. He didn’t understand where this emotion came from, but it didn’t stop him from taking the opportunity to strike at Fu Xuezhou whenever he could. Li Sanxin smirked and provocatively questioned, “Fu Xuezhou, do you really not know what Yanzi likes?”
Fu Xuezhou’s hand squeezed the apple so hard it split into pieces. Fu Xuezhou shook off the fruit pulp, stood up straight, and looked at Li Sanxin expressionlessly. With a dark shadow over his face, Fu Xuezhou said in a low voice, “Say that again?”
“Oh, are you threatening me?” Li Sanxin smirked, glanced outside the kitchen, emboldened by Lou Yan being just outside. He wasn’t afraid at all, but rather eager to test Fu Xuezhou’s true feelings, “Are you embarrassed by what I said? You don’t really care about Yanzi, do you?”
If he didn’t even know his preferences, what was the point of their relationship? It would be better to break up!
Fu Xuezhou’s face darkened, and he stared straight at Li Sanxin, not saying a word, the pressure making Li Sanxin’s smile somewhat stiff, instinctively wanting to escape.
Just as Li Sanxin was about to call for Lou Yan to save him when he felt a sense of dread, Fu Xuezhou suddenly asked, “What?”
Li Sanxin almost didn’t react, “What what?”
Fu Xuezhou fell silent for a minute, then asked in a low voice, “What does he like?”
By saying this, he implicitly admitted that he indeed didn’t know Lou Yan’s preferences, indirectly “losing” to Li Sanxin.
He didn’t understand Lou Yan’s life.
Nor did he understand the details about Lou Yan.
Fu Xuezhou lowered his eyes, a shadow of confusion on his face, looking somewhat pitiful.
Li Sanxin was taken aback, then looked at Fu Xuezhou strangely. The dislike he felt towards Fu Xuezhou from the first moment he saw him gradually dissipated, replaced by relief and guilt.
He thought that maybe he had misunderstood. Fu Xuezhou’s current appearance clearly showed that he deeply loved Lou Yan.
This guy, who wasn’t very likable, might really have a future with Lou Yan.
Li Sanxin’s mood was complicated, sometimes a little sour, sometimes a little guilty, but more often, he felt happy for his buddy and breathed a sigh of relief.
“He doesn’t like apples, but he likes ice cream and cold water. He doesn’t like things that can stick to his teeth…”
Li Sanxin was talking incessantly about Lou Yan’s preferences and habits, and Fu Xuezhou was listening earnestly. As Li Sanxin kept talking and saw Fu Xuezhou’s focused expression, he started feeling a bit uncomfortable.
Watching his own cabbage being plucked right in front of his eyes, and having to teach this person how to pluck it, was really not a pleasant feeling.
Li Sanxin sighed and glanced at Fu Xuezhou again. With a hint of evil emerging in his heart, he said softly, “But the most important thing is that Yanzi really likes maid costumes…”
“He once told me that if someone proposed to him wearing a maid costume, he would definitely not refuse.”
Fu Xuezhou: “…”
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