Chapter Four

After taking a shower, Qiu Suo jumped down the stairs in three steps, without wiping the wet hair in his head, a few drops of water flowed down his neck into the T-shirt, soaking a small part of the collar of the T-shirt.

“Why didn’t you blow-dry your hair?” Gu Dian glanced at Qiu Suo, and handed him a pair of chopsticks, “Hurry up and eat, the food is getting cold.”

“I don’t want to blow it, it’s so hot, and it’s cool when it’s wet,” Qiu Suo took the chopsticks. He naturally sat next to Gu Dian. He saw that the opposite seat was empty, and asked Gu Dian, “Big Brother is gone? Did he really go to celebrate the Qixi Festival?”

“Eat your meal.” Gu Dian remembered what Gu En had just said to him about him (GD) wanting to spend Qixi Festival ^[1]Chinese Valentine’s Day with Qiu Suo, the corner of his mouth unconsciously turned up, and he gave Qiu Suo a spoonful of shrimp and put it in his bowl.

When the two of them finished eating, the aunt appeared at the right time and cleared the table.

“Do you want this watermelon to be cut?” The aunt poked her head out of the kitchen.

“No, auntie, I’ll cut it.” Qiu Suo jumped up from the sofa.

“Just let auntie cut it.” Gu Dian wondered, why this person had become so diligent now. Obviously, he was a person who doesn’t even bother to take clothes in the shower.

“I want to cut it.” Qiu Suo slipped and rushed into the kitchen.

10 minutes later, Qiu Suo brought a small glass bowl and walked out. The bowl was filled with small pieces of dark pink watermelon flesh, and the top piece was forked with a transparent crystal fruit fork.

“Dang dang dang dang–” Qiu Suo handed the small bowl to Gu Dian and gave him a messy BGM ^[2]Background Music.

Even though he didn’t want to eat it, Gu Dian reached out and took it, forked up a piece, and threw it into his mouth. “Let’s eat together, I can’t finish it.”

“You can’t finish eating such a small bowl? No, you have to finish it.” Qiu Suo turned around, went back to the kitchen, and took out half of the watermelon. A hole was dug in the middle of the watermelon flesh, and a big round spoon was inserted in the hole.

Qiu Suo held the watermelon, rubbed it against Gu Dian, sat cross-legged on the sofa, smiled, and dug a spoonful of watermelon flesh. His mouth was stuffed and bulging, “Gu Dian, see how good I am to you. I even gave you the sweetest core.” He swallowed the watermelon in his mouth and threw out a sentence, “On this night of the Chinese Valentine’s Day ^[3]Qixi was the pinyin for Chinese Valentine’s Day, this is caring for a single dog from a single dog.”

“What a mess.” Gu Dian said that he disliked it, but his expression instantly brightened, like the colorful sunlight shining from the gaps in the clouds, and several pieces of watermelon were forked and thrown into his mouth.

Truly unable to eat anymore, Gu Dian decided to rest for a while. He turned his head and looked at Qiu Suo. The latter was looking down at a large watermelon with his long and thick eyelashes, scooping a large watermelon with his head down. His shimmering wet and shiny hair tips were hanging over his eyebrows, fluttering, making Gu Dian’s heart flutter as well.

“Can you finish eating such a big one?” Gu Dian asked Qiu Suo.

“I can finish it.”

“Don’t upset your stomach, the watermelon is very cold.” Gu Dian reminded him.

“Ai, I’m feeling so hot today,” Qiu Suo wiped the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand and looked up at the air conditioner on the wall. “Gu Dian, is your home air conditioner broken?”

Gu Dian leaned forward and grabbed the remote control of the air conditioner from the coffee table. He glanced at the displayed temperature, 25 degrees, the standard room temperature. He raised his hand to lower it by two degrees, “It will be fine in a while, I’ll lower it for you.”

“Ai, there are two doctors in your family, it can’t be helped if you’ll be too healthy. The temperature of the air conditioner is so high.” Qiu Suo shook his head.

“25 degrees is high?” Gu Dian frowned.

Qiu Suo: …That’s not too high, but I just feel so hot.

Gu Dian put the small bowl on the coffee table, stood up, and touched Qiu Suo’s forehead with his palm, “You don’t have a fever? It’s not hot at home, and your hair is still wet. Why do you feel hot?”

After speaking, he sat back and picked up the small bowl at the coffee table again, forked up a piece of watermelon, and threw it into his mouth. He suddenly remembered something, stood up again, covered the back of Qiu Suo’s neck with his palm, and the skin against his palm was hot and slightly throbbing.

Gu Dian removed his hand, sat back, and patted Qiu Suo’s knee. As he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Qiu Suo’s shout, “Hey hey, it was so comfortable just now when you placed your hand there, leave it there for a while.”

“You…” Gu Dian’s heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and his heart seemed to jump out of his chest. He raised his head and glanced at the cold white air coming out of the air conditioner on the wall. The air conditioner was indeed broken, and he felt so hot that he was dying.

“Ugh,” Qiu Suo directly pulled Gu Dian’s wrist and placed it on the back of his neck, “I feel a little sore here…help me rub it.”

His wide palm gently rubbed the small part of red skin, Gu Dian’s breathing became heavier. He kept breathing deeply, forcing himself to speak in a calm tone, “Is it better, Qiu Suo?”

“No–” Qiu Suo’s mouth turned flat. “What’s wrong with me? My heart is beating a bit fast, and my body seems to be boiling… Gu Dian, call your elder brother and ask, I seem to be sick.”

Gu Dian’s hands began to tremble.

“Don’t rub it like this.” Qiu Suo lowered his head and said in a low voice, “Gu Dian, don’t rub your hand like this…you… be steady, don’t go up and down, hmm— “The scent of sweet milk chocolate spread from the back of Qiu Suo’s neck…

Gu Dian was going crazy, and his body began to exude an intoxicating smell of alcohol one after another. With his other hand, he pressed his thigh tightly, his radius ^[4]The radius or radial bone is one of the two large bones of the forearm. was jagged, his knuckles were scarily white, his face was flushed, and the corners of his eyes and lips were red.

“Qiu Suo—”

“Huh?”

“You are differentiating.”

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