Taking advantage of Ke Shaobin’s bewildered face, Xin Yan kissed him again.
This time it wasn’t a stolen kiss. It was an open and forceful kiss.
Ke Shaobin came back to his senses and hurriedly began to struggle. However, Xin Yan’s hand was powerful. He pressed Ke Shaobin’s hands over his head and gently hugged Ke Shaobin’s waist with the other hand.
The kiss became deeper and deeper. Ke Shaobin only felt a burst of numbness all over his body, as if an electric current was constantly rushing through. He wanted to struggle, but lost the opportunity. Xin Yan controlled his entire body to death.
Ke Shaobin’s entire body trembled. His legs were going soft from the kiss.
Xin Yan’s kiss was so domineering that the sensitive corners of Ke Shaobin’s mouth were invaded by him inch by inch. A few times before, because he was in a dazed, half-asleep state, Ke Shaobin’s feelings hadn’t been so real, but now, he was awake…
He felt as if he had become a delicacy on the table, being slowly savored by Xin Yan bit by bit, little by little.
This made Ke Shaobin ashamed.
Ke Shaobin struggled hard. He didn’t know if he touched the wound. He made an ‘ouch’ sound, frowning in pain so that Xin Yan immediately let go of him, looking a little nervous. “What’s wrong? Did it hurt you?”
Ke Shaobin opened his mouth to gasp for air.
After calming down his breath, he glared at Xin Yan and said, “Xin Yan, are you crazy?!”
Xin Yan laughed a little. “Probably? They all say I’m crazy.”
Ke Shaobin realized that there was no way to reason with this person. He forced himself to resist the urge to beat Xin Yan violently, saying, “You just talked nonsense…”
Xin Yan’s face stiffened. His gaze deepened as he stared at Ke Shaobin. “Nonsense?”
He seemed to be poked in the sore spot. A very depressing, painful emotion suddenly surfaced on his face as he stared into Ke Shaobin’s eyes and said word by word, “Do you think that I talked nonsense when I said that I liked you just now?”
Ke Shaobin’s scalp went numb at his look. He didn’t know what to say for a moment.
Xin Yan’s voice was full of grievances. “I like you. Don’t you believe me? Do you think I’ll be able to meet you by opening a side account in the game? Going to the Library, I happened to join the Research Group 183? As a graduate student, we happened to be in the same dormitory… Are there so many coincidences?”
Ke Shaobin was speechless by this sentence.
Could it be that Xin Yan really… likes him?
Doing all this to get close to him?
Ke Shaobin’s mind was in a mess. When he sat on the bed, his entire body was about to collapse.
After a long time, Xin Yan sighed lightly. He stroked Ke Shaobin’s hair and said softly, “I’m sorry.” He got up and headed out the door. As he reached the door, he said, “If you can’t accept my feelings for you, I won’t kiss you again in the future. Let’s separate for a while.”
Ke Shaobin didn’t sleep the entire night. He went to the class the next day with dark circles under his eyes. His mind was wandering all the time in class, and messily answered the teacher's question when he was named. His classmates asked him what was wrong, and Ke Shaobin couldn’t help but blush as he remembered the experience of being forcibly kissed by Xin Yas last night. “No–nothing. I’m just not feeling well.”
When he returned to the dormitory after class, Ke Shaobin’s favorite dishes were set up in the dining room.
Xin Yan made it himself. A note was placed on the table. “Eat on time. It’s okay to be angry with me, but don’t be angry with your body. I’m not staying in the dormitory tonight. I’ll be in the laboratory.”
Ke Shaobin ate with mixed feelings.
Xin Yan has been learning to cook recently. The dishes he made were getting better and better. Was it also for him?
He didn’t even know what to do.
He never liked anyone, and he had never been confessed to. If Xin Yan was a girl, he might have come directly to the door to propose. Who didn’t want such an attentive and gentle person? Marrying her home would not be a loss. However, Xin Yan was a boy, and he was also the dominant one, thinking of the experience of being kissed by Xin Yan until his legs went limp. Ke Shaobin couldn’t help blushing.
Boy and boy. If they were together, what should they do to make out?
Phew, phew, phew, why did he think about this? He didn’t agree yet!
***
In the next few days, Xin Yan completely disappeared from Ke Shaobin’s eyes.
The meals were all set on the table every night Ke Shaobin returned to the dormitory after class. Sometimes Xin Yan made them himself, and sometimes Xin Yan packed them back in a thermos box and put them on the dining table when he didn’t have time to cook.
The content of the note was different every day.
“It’s going to cool down tomorrow, so remember to wear an extra jacket.”
“I made your favorite vermicelli baby cabbage. It’s the first time I made it, stemmed them too soft. You can just make do with it. I’ll sleep in the laboratory tonight, lest you’re angry when seeing me.”
“I make your favorite crawfish today. I asked senior brother Liu if your wounds had recovered. You don’t need to avoid eating it anymore and you’re allowed to have a spicy meal to relieve your cravings. I packed two pounds back, enough for you to eat. Remember to take out the trash when you’re done.”
“Your socks are all over the place and you often can’t find the other one. I’ve sorted them out for you and stored them in a box under the wardrobe.”
Ke Shaobin: “...”
I had mixed feelings every time I saw the notes. He really didn’t understand Xin Yan. A few days ago, like a pervert, he sneaked into his room in the middle of the night and kissed him. He also kissed him forcibly on the day of his confession. These days, however, he had begun to be a gentleman, not going back to the dormitory every night, and simply sleeping in the laboratory…
Although the person was not there, he took care of his daily life with care and tenderness.
The clothes were neatly hung for him; the socks were sorted, and there were delicious meals every day when he went back to the dormitory.
It was difficult for Ke Shaobin to describe this feeling of being taken care of.
He found that he wasn’t averse to having someone take care of his life in such a little way.
And…
In the past few days of Xin Yan’s absence, he missed him a little.
Even in last night’s dream, he dreamed of Xin Yan again. This time, he was sure it was a dream because Xin Yan hadn’t returned to the dormitory at all. The content of the dream made him so ashamed that he could not wait to burrow into a crack in the ground.
He dreamed that Xin Yan kissed him.
Was he also driven crazy by Xin Yan?!
***
And so it went for a week.
Xin Yan was absent every day. Ke Shaobin’s mood became more and more irritable.
Returning to the dormitory that afternoon, Ke Shaobin unexpectedly found that Xin Yan had just come out of the shower.
They looked at each other. Ke Shaobin quickly turned his head as if he was electrocuted, his ears reddened. “You–you don’t sleep in the laboratory anymore ah? Why did you come back?”
Xin Yan walked up to him. He said with a low and gentle voice, “I miss you.”
Ke Shaobin: “......”
The simple three words, like electricity, made his heart tingle as well.
Xin Yan chuckled and reached out, rubbing Ke Shaobin’s hair. “Is the anger gone?”
Ke Shaobin lowered his head and didn’t speak.
Xin Yan said, “Can I go back to the dormitory to sleep? The desk in the laboratory is hard and icy. I couldn’t sleep well every night. Also, if I often sleep in the laboratory, my senior brothers and sisters will have opinions about me.”
Ke Shaobin hurriedly said, “You can come back if you want to ah. This is also your dormitory.”
Xin Yan said, “Can I?”
Ke Shaobin blushed and nodded. “...En.”
Xin Yan smiled. “I bought dumpling wrappers and meat filling. I’ll make dumplings for you to eat tonight.”
After saying that, he turned around and went to the kitchen. He made dumplings seriously with his apron.
Ke Shaobin found that the 23-year-old Xin Yan differed completely from the teenager he remembered who was subjected to school violent.
Xin Yan’s height had exceeded 185cm.
His current handsomeness and competence replaced the pale emaciation of his youth. The man’s legs were straight and slender. Although his expression remained cold, there was a hint of warmth in his expression as his flexible hands wrapped the dumplings quickly.
Because he was making dumplings for the person he liked.
He approached the matter as attentively as he did a fine chemistry experiment.
Ke Shaobin’s nose suddenly turned a little sour—— These days, was this how Xin Yan stood in the kitchen every afternoon when he returned to the dormitory early to prepare dinner for him?
After cooking, he put the food in the insulated box, wrote a note, and left silently. Worried that Ke Shaobin would be angry, he went to sleep in the laboratory for a week. He even had faint dark circles under his eyes…
The more Ke Shaobin thought about it, the more sad he became.
People like Xin Yan were like lone wolves, and shouldn’t be bound by anyone or anything. However, when the lone wolf had a soft spot in his heart, he would reveal his most tender and vulnerable side before his beloved.
He didn’t hesitate to block Xiao Tu’s knife in the Library for him. He accompanied him to the hospital for an entire week with his careful gentleness… It was enough to prove that his liking was serious.
Should he respond? Ke Shaobin hadn’t figured it out yet.
He only knew that int he past few days when Xin Yan was away, he was completely wrong. He always felt empty in his heart. Sometimes, when footsteps sounded outside the door, he would suddenly turn around and look at the dormitory door, happily thinking that Xin Yan was back.
He was embarrassed to take the initiative to contact Xin Yan. However, the moment he returned to the dormitory today and saw Xin Yan, his first reaction was not hate at all, but joy.
Ke Shaobin realized that his feelings for Xin Yan were quite special.
When he was in high school, he took Xin Yan as his role mode. Xin Yan’s side account became his most trusted netizen. In graduate school, when they lived in the same dormitory, he regarded Xin Yan as his best roommate.
For so many years, he never seemed to have invested so much affection in a second person.
Ke Shaobin’s head was a mess.
When eating dumplings, he accidentally burned his mouth. Xin Yan laughed softly and reached out to wipe his lips with his thumb gently. Ke Shaobin’s face was red, and he quickly dodged.
After dinner, Xin Yan went to the kitchen to wash the dishes. After returning to the living room, he took the initiative to find a topic. “The game has been updated. The new version has a new sect and a lot of new features. Have you seen it?”
Of course, Ke Shaobin knew. In the past few days, when Xin Yan was away, he was still thinking that he might be able to bump into each other in the game, so he took some time to log into the game every day as well. Naturally, he saw the announcement.
Ke Shaobin asked, “Do you want to play the new sect?”
Xin Yan said, “En. I’ll open a side account. Let’s upgrade and do quests together.”
Ke Shaobin readily agreed. “Okay.”
They logged into the game together.
Ke Shaobin made a side account called ‘Foodie Xiao Ke’, and Xin Yan made a female side account called ‘Foodie Guardian’. After Ke Shaobin saw his ID, he froze slightly. His ears couldn’t help but flush red. “Can’t you be a little creative with your name? It’s Guardian every time.”
Xin Yan said lightly, “Isn’t this quite good? It fits my state of mind.”
Ke Shaobin blushed and ignored him. He killed mobs to upgrade himself.
Both were three-year veterans and leveling up had been very smooth. Instead of upgrading, they were traveling through the game to see the scenery. When they came across mobs, they would fight a few of them in passing.
In the next few days, after returning to the dormitory after school, they cooked and ate together. After that, they corrected their thesis and logged into the game to upgrade together when they had time. Xin Yan didn’t mention ‘I like you’ again. He didn’t secretly kiss Ke Shaobin in the middle of the night, as if the previous confession had passed. They resumed the relationship as netizens who talked about everything.
A week later, both of them had their side accounts up to full level.
On this day, Ke Shaobin had just gone online. He received an invitation from Xin Yan: ‘Friend [Foodie Guardian] invited you to the map where he is. Do you agree?’
Ke Shaobin agreed without thinking.
When entering the map, he found that he was surrounded by a vast white snow-capped mountain. Few players jumped on the snow-capped mountain in the game because they had to be very skilled in light work to get up. Ke Shaobin’s moments at that time posted a screenshot of himself jumping to the top of the snow-capped mountain. Four years ago, he first met Dark Night Guardian at the top of the snow-capped mountain.
Ke Shaobin was about to ask what he was doing here when he saw Xin Yan suddenly typing in the private chat channel: “Do you remember this place? The place where I met you at the beginning.”
Ke Shaobin: “En. I remember.”
Xin Yan: “After seeing it in your moment at that time. I thought that the scenery of this game was very good, so I downloaded it to play. That was my first exposure to online games. I got lost in the novice village for an hour.”
Ke Shaobin couldn’t help laughing. “Are you that noob?”
Xin Yan: “En. I explore slowly. It took half a month to reach the full level, and then it took a few days to practice light work. I fell to my death countless times in this snow-capped mountain.”
Ke Shaobin: “...”
Xin Yan: “IN the end, I flew to the top of the mountain with light work, and sure enough, I saw you in a daze there.”
The snow was falling heavily on the top of the mountain. Ke Shaobin’s red-clothed character was sitting on the vast snow-capped mountain looking at the scenery. He heard footsteps behind him, and when he turned around, he saw a black-clothed assassin walking in front of him, whose ID was called Dark Night Guardian.”
Ke Shaobin took the initiative to say: “Brother, do you have a guild? I see that you have no guild logo above your head.”
Dark Night Guardian: “No.”
Ke Shaobin excitedly sent an invitation. “Then you can join us to help. Those who can climb to the top of this mountain must be good at light work!”
Dark Nigth Guardian: “Okay.”
It turned out that the meeting on the top of the snow-capped mountain back then was not a coincidence at all!
Before meeting in the game, Xin Yan had done a lot of preparation and fell to his death countless times on the snow-capped mountain.
In an instant, bits and pieces of the game in the past four years came to his mind…
Xin Yan, who played games late at night, just to help him collect vegetables;
Xin Yan, who logged in on time every day and accompanied him to play dungeon and arena;
Xin Yan, who would patiently listen to him and give him advice every time something bothered him;
Xin Yan didn’t like online games, but Xin Yan liked him ah!
Therefore, Xin Yan accepted the online games he didn’t like to play for him. He even signed the consent form for the holographic game for his sake. How could he be so cherished and valued by a person?
Ke Shaobin’s nose was a little sour, his eyes became moist, and his vision was a little blurred.
—— Xin Yan deliberately did all the coincidences he thought.
A firework prop in the game suddenly popped up before him, and immediately after, the world channel began to swipe the screen: “[Foodie Guardian] set off a [Guardian for Life] firework to [Foodie Xiao Ke] on the top of the snow-capped mountain with a message: I like you, let me continue to guard by your side, okay?”
Ke Shaobin: “......”
The tears that he endured finally came out of his eyes. He never cried, but what Xin Yan did really moved him a little.
Before Ke Shaobin could speak, he saw a message pop up on the screen.
——Foodie Guardian, requesting a marriage with you.
After the game version update, there was an additional husband and wife system. There were many husband and wife quests.
Ke Shaobin looked at the fireworks blooming in front of him and the marriage proposal message that popped up. His cheeks instantly turned red, and he choked up. “Xin Yan, what are you doing ah? Proposing in the game…”
Xin Yan had walked to his side by now. He said in a low and gentle voice, “If you can accept it in reality, let’s start in the game. Let’s be husband and wife in the game first, okay?”
Ke Shaobin: “...”
Xin Yan said, “If you are not satisfied with me. You can divorce at any time.”
Ke Shaobin subconsciously interrupted him. “Who wants to divorce you?” Realizing that he seemed to have said the wrong thing, Ke Shaobin hurriedly blushed and closed his mouth.
Xin Yan chuckled and leaned over to look at Ke Shaobin seriously. “I like you. Can I kiss you?”
Ke Shaobin blushed and didn’t agree, but he didn’t deny it either.
Xin Yan leaned over to kiss him.
This time, Ke Shaobin did not resist.
It was just that the hand holding the mouse trembled slightly and his ears were red.
Xin Yan kissed him carefully, gentle to the extreme. Ke Shaobin was kissed to the point where his entire body went limp.
After a long time, Xin Yan withdrew, stared at Ke Shaobin’s confused eyes that had lost focus, and said with a smile, “Since we are already married in the game, let’s get along as husband and wife. In the future, I won’t sneak into your bedroom to kiss you. I’ll just live in your bedroom and sleep with you, okay?”
Ke Shaobin’s face was red. “You-you're getting ahead of yourself! You’re so thick-skinned.”
Xin Yan: “How can I catch you if I’m not thick-skinned?”
Ke Shaobin: “...”
It seemed to make sense.
Xin Yan said seriously, “I bought a cookbook and recently learned a few more dishes. I’ll slowly make them for you. In the future, you can’t tell me what you want to eat.” He gently rubbed Ke Shaobin’s hair and said seriously, “Thank you for the note that you wrote for me back then when I was most helpless.”
Ke Shaobin froze for a moment, only to see Xin Yan take out a note from his pocket.
After a few years, the note was still in perfect condition, brand new as if it had just been written——
“People with envy are mediocre.
They isolate you, they bully you, and in the end, they are just jealous of you.
Because you are so good, they can only find ways to seek your shortcomings to comfort themselves. In their hearts, they dare not admit that they live in such a happy family and yet they are still inferior to you.
In your life, they’re just a bunch of irrelevant jumping clowns.
One day, you will spread your wings and leave these ugly-faced people far beneath your feet.
They are not worthy of affecting your progress.
Fighting, Xin Yan.”
This was the words of encouragement written to Xin Yan when he saw him being blocked and bullied in the restroom in high school.
Ke Shaobin thought he had covered it up well, not realizing that Xin Yan had known all along that he had written the note.
Ke Shaobin took a closer look, and underneath the note, there were a few lines that Xin Yan later added——
“If one day I can spread my wings and fly high.
I just want to fly with you to a wider blue sky.
Guarding you for the rest of your life.”
[END]
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