26

The room was so quiet that only the frantic beating of their hearts remained, loud and clear, impossible to ignore. Lin Xiao opened his mouth, about to speak, but Su Bai nervously cut in first: “Uh, did you lock the door?”

Lin Xiao’s throat went dry: “…It’s locked.”

Su Bai also swallowed, his words a bit jumbled: “T-that’s good. I heard there’s been a thief in the building recently… someone even lost their computer.”

Lin Xiao let out a short laugh and asked, “Su Bai, are you nervous?”

Truth was.. Lin Xiao was nervous too.

Su Bai licked his lips, continuing to fumble for words, his mind in a chaotic mess. Suddenly, he remembered something that had happened earlier that evening, and without thinking, he hurriedly brought it up, trying to fill the unsettling silence in the room: “Oh, right, senior called me tonight. He told me…”

Lin Xiao turned over, lying on his side, facing Su Bai. His voice was low, tinged with irritation: “What did he say?”

Damn, can’t shake that ghost.

Su Bai felt a bit regretful but could only grit his teeth and continue: “He said… he likes me, and if I can’t win you over, I should consider him.”

Lin Xiao immediately regretted not just getting into a fight with the senior earlier today. After simmering with anger for a moment, he asked Su Bai: “So, how did you respond to him?”

In the darkness, Su Bai couldn’t see Lin Xiao’s eyes, but he still slightly lowered his gaze and earnestly repeated, word by word: “I said, ‘Thank you, senior, but if I can’t win over Lin Xiao, I won’t consider personal matters anymore. I want to dedicate my whole life to scientific research and contribute to the country.'”

Wonder what kind of expression the senior had after hearing that…

Lin Xiao fell silent for a moment, first amused by Su Bai’s old-school tone, but then those shy, deliberate words began to bloom in his heart, like spring shoots growing with the wind—expanding more and more, lush and green, scratching at his insides in an almost unbearable way, making him want to grasp something tightly to find relief.

Damn it, is this little retard doing this on purpose? Lin Xiao gritted his teeth.

At that moment, Su Bai quietly asked again: “Do you think I can win you over…?”

Lin Xiao could only hear the pounding rush of blood in his ears, his heart racing faster and faster, relentlessly pushing the blood through his veins. It surged to his eardrums, filling him with a throbbing intensity. Lin Xiao suddenly pressed the back of Su Bai’s head without warning, pressed him against the wall with his body, and then kissed him fiercely like a man possessed. This was Lin Xiao’s first time kissing someone, yet he moved with such skill that it felt like he had done it a hundred times before. He sucked and licked Su Bai’s warm and soft lips fiercely and desperately. Su Bai’s animal like muffled moan, his shy and innocent gaze, the fresh herbal scent around him, his clumsy yet passionate response, and the thing that became hard and hot between his legs…. fragments of all these impressions rushed into his mind.

The youthful boy who had been by his side since childhood, unknowingly filling all his hopes and desires, finally fell from the dreamlike clouds and landed heavily in Lin Xiao’s arms.

So soft, so warm, so irresistible.

Su Bai was pressed firmly against the wall by Lin Xiao, unable to move. When their lips parted, he stubbornly asked: “C-could I… actually win you over? You haven’t said yes, but you kissed me…”

Lin Xiao practically shouted: “Yes! Yes! You fool! You’ve already won me over!”

In the darkness, Su Bai smiled, and the smile was so bright that Lin Xiao felt as if he could see it clearly: “Are you sure? You’re going to date me now?”

Lin Xiao kissed Su Bai’s lips again, more passionately this time, and said excitedly: “I’m sure. I want to be with you. You’re mine now.”

Su Bai, blushing, seriously corrected him: “It’s me chasing you. You’re mine now.”

Lin Xiao almost wanted to bite him: “You chasing me? I feel like it’s always been me chasing after you.”

Su Bai lowered his head, grinning stupidly, as if he couldn’t believe it. He reached out to touch Lin Xiao’s face: “How did you suddenly agree? It’s like a dream… I even prepared so many candles, planning to set up a heart shape downstairs by your dorm in a few days.”

Lin Xiao twitched his lips: “Oh, really?”

Su Bai buried his little head in Lin Xiao’s chest, excitedly saying: “Then I’ll set it up for you tomorrow, as a celebration for us officially starting to date.”

Lin Xiao, feeling a bit nervous, thought for a moment and replied: “Then do it in the dorm room. It’s too windy downstairs.”

Su Bai nodded: “You’re right. Okay, I’ll do that.”

Lin Xiao immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Author’s note: Hurry up and get together, I’m already impatient…