The two of them were in a stalemate for a few minutes, and beads of sweat oozed out of their foreheads. Gu Beilu was really in the wrong, so he had to compromise and let Yu Xi throw the towel aside.

Yu Xi faced the mirror, sitting upright on the chair like a primary school student, with his knees together and his hands on his thighs, waiting for Gu Beilu to wash his hair. He looked at himself in the mirror and suddenly laughed at himself.

“What are you laughing at?” Gu Beilu picked up the ocean-scented shampoo with a serious face and smelled it. Yu Xi has liked the smell of the ocean since he was a child.

Yu Xi took the shampoo from him, put it close to her nose, and sniffed it intoxicatedly: “Derek, do you remember the first time you washed my hair?”

Of course Gu Beilu remembered.

At that time, Yu Xi had just moved in. They were playing in the yard when it suddenly started to rain heavily. The rain was so heavy that although Gu Beilu reacted quickly and dragged him back home, they were both soaked.

As soon as he entered the door, Yu Xi sneezed several times. The housekeeper dried the two children with a towel and asked the servant to cook ginger soup.

“Master, you will catch a cold if you keep doing this. You need to take a shower and change your clothes.”

When Yu Xi heard that he had to take a shower, he sneezed and rubbed his nose, then stood up and was about to walk out. Gu Beilu quickly stopped him and wiped his nose with a tissue without complaining: “Where are you going?”

Yu Xi stood there waiting for him to finish wiping, then said, “Go home and take a shower.”

Gu Beilu glanced out the window and said, “There’s no one at your house, take a shower at my house.”

Yu Xi scratched his head: “But… I don’t have any clothes to change.”

Gu Beilu didn’t say anything, took him into the room and opened the closet.

Most of his closet is filled with white shirts, except for one section filled with cartoon pajamas.

Yu Xi immediately saw a little shark that was exactly the same as the one in his house, and he was very happy.

Although this didn’t look like the style Gu Beilu liked, Yu Xi forgot to ask because his attention was attracted by a bunch of cute cartoon patterns.

That was his first time taking a bath at Gu Beilu’s house. To be precise, it was Gu Beilu who helped him take a bath.

Gu Beilu had no experience washing other people’s hair at that time, and he was very unfamiliar with making bubbles on Yu Xi’s hair, and the bubbles were all over the place. In the end, Yu Xi was wrapped in bubbles all over, like a bubble baby, with only two clever big eyes showing.

Weird, yet cute.

Gu Beilu said he looked like a little marshmallow.

But today was different from before. Today Yu Xi was injured, and Gu Beilu was very careful not to move too much, for fear of accidentally getting the wound wet.

In the mirror, Gu Beilu stood behind him, watching his nose and his heart, washing his hair seriously, taking care of every inch of his scalp.

Yu Xi squinted her eyes in comfort, but after waiting for a long time, not a single bubble fell.

“Derek.”

“Um?”

“No more bubble man?”

“…”

“Am I not a little marshmallow?”

Yu Xi didn’t realize that he was too sweet, but Gu Beilu’s hands, which were washing his hair, paused and his whole body felt numb.

Finally, under Yu Xi’s eager gaze, Gu Beilu hooked his nose with his foamy hand.

Yu Xi was happily admiring his white nose.

“On my face, too.”

Gu Beilu:…

At Yu Xi’s repeated request, some foam finally appeared on his cheeks. Looking at himself in the mirror, he laughed out loud with satisfaction.

Gu Beilu also laughed helplessly. I wish his little marshmallow could always be this cute.

He will definitely protect Yu Xi well so that Yu Xi can always keep this childlike happiness.

Yu Xi’s happiness is simple, a little bit of beauty and kindness in the world can make him happy for a long time. Because of this, Gu Beilu feels that it is extremely precious.

After laughing, Yu Xi suddenly remembered something: “Derek, I dreamed of you yesterday.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a large bubble flower flew up and landed on his chest. On his already fair skin, an even whiter flower bloomed.

Gu Beilu’s heart tightened and his movements became awkward.

The dream from last night came back to his mind again, and he suddenly felt a little uneasy, yet also a little inexplicably expectant.

“What did you dream about me?” he asked casually.

Yu Xi played with the bubbles on his chest and said, “It’s the same scene right now, the dialogue is the same. But there’s one thing that’s different.”

Gu Beilu asked: “What’s the difference?”

Yu Xi thought about it seriously: “You don’t seem to be wearing any clothes either.”

He spoke in the most natural tone, no different from describing every everyday scene.

Gu Beilu: “…”

“Anything else?”

Yu Xi tried to recall and said, “I forgot… Anyway, I dream about you every day, and every day is different.”

Gu Beilu looked at him in shock for a moment: “Do you dream about me every day?”

“Yeah, I dream about it every day.” Yu Xi didn’t think this was anything strange. He saw Gu Beilu every day, just like eating and sleeping, so it was normal to dream.

The scenes in his dreams are ever-changing, under the sea, in the forest, in the sky, in fairy tales… In all these bizarre dreams, the only thing that remains unchanged is him and Gu Beilu. It is the same for them in reality. No matter where he goes or what he does, Gu Beilu will be there. The two of them being together is as natural as breathing.

But Gu Beilu was a little surprised. He didn’t dream often, and most of his dreams were about Yu Xi. But he didn’t expect that Yu Xi actually dreamed about him every day.

His heart softened and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curled up, but Yu Xi was concentrating on playing with the bubbles with his fingers and didn’t notice his expression.

Gu Beilu suddenly felt that he was thinking too much.

Since Yu Xi could dream about him every day, it was not strange for him to dream about Yu Xi at that time. They were inseparable like conjoined twins, so who else could he dream about if not Yu Xi?

He suddenly understood and breathed a sigh of relief.

*

The next day, Yu Xi took a leave of absence and stayed at home. Gu Beilu also did not go to school all day. He stayed at Yu’s house with his computer and study materials.

When the doorbell rang in the afternoon, Gu Beilu was sitting at a small table in the living room studying, and Yu Xi was leaning on the sofa watching TV with a fruit platter in front of him.

Gu Beilu stood up and walked to the door to check. When he saw Shen Di, Su Weifan and Yang Hui on the surveillance camera, his good mood of the day came to an abrupt end.

I finally got rid of these cats and dogs for a day, but now they are like dog-skin plasters again.

As soon as the door opened, Shen Di rushed in, threw his schoolbag on the sofa, and rushed towards Yu Xi, shouting and asking for a hug.

“My dear Xixi, I miss you so much! Let me see where you are hurt… Ouch——”

Gu Beilu pulled him off Yu Xi with a sullen face, and then threw his schoolbag on the sofa. Su Weifan and Yang Hui behind him saw this and silently put their schoolbags on the ground.

“What are you doing! I’m here to see Yu Xi, not you!” Shen Di was pinched so hard that it hurt and glared at him unhappily.

Gu Beilu warned coldly: “The patient needs quiet, don’t make a fuss.”

Shen Di rolled his eyes, but lowered his voice consciously. He came close to Yu Xi to share the new game console, saying that when he was on sick leave, he liked to lie at home and play this game console the most.

When he was sick, he had food and drink at home, could lie down and watch TV, and his classmates brought video games to visit him. Yu Xi felt that this was really a blessing, because when he was sick before, he could only lie alone in the hospital.

He excitedly invited his friends to eat fruit, saying that today’s strawberries were the most delicious and sweetest.

“I want to eat, I want to eat. I’m so thirsty!” Shen Di didn’t like strawberries, so he took a piece of mango first. “Delicious, delicious!”

Gu Beilu thought he was too noisy, so he turned to Su Weifan and asked them why they were there.

Su Weifan, tell him seriously that when the fried chicken he ordered yesterday was delivered to school, Yu Xi had already gone home and they ate it all. Only after he finished eating did he hear about Yu Xi’s injury, so he skipped a study class today to visit him.

Gu Beilu nodded, thinking this reason was acceptable. He turned to look at Yang Hui again: “What are you doing here? Are you eating fried chicken too?”

He felt that both of them were easy to deal with, but the sweeping monk was the most annoying.

Yang Hui took out a notebook from his bag and said enthusiastically, “I didn’t eat fried chicken. I just came here to give you today’s notes. I met them halfway and found out that your brother was injured.”

Shen Di was watching Yu Xi playing the game console. He took the time to look up and laughed: “You’re giving notes to the academic god? You’re really an interesting person.”

“The teacher asked me to send him off. He is the most absent student in the grade, and the teacher is very nervous.” Yang Hui didn’t care about the ridicule, and quickly sat down on the other side of Yu Xi in a familiar manner.

Yu Xi finally had the chance to formally meet Yang Hui. he happily wanted to high-five him, but was stopped by Gu Beilu.

“Your hand is injured, you can’t move.”

Yu Xi thought about it, and finally gave Yang Hui a high-five. They were so amused by their own actions that they both burst out laughing.

Shen Di was used to it, Yang Hui was more carefree than Shen Di, only Su Weifan was a little surprised to see this scene. Gu Beilu was so cool at school, but at home he was like Yu Xi’s nanny, taking care of him.

Gu Beilu sat there bored and listened to Yang Hui’s chattering. Then he remembered that he had also dreamed of Yu Xi. Now he couldn’t stand him anymore. In contrast, Su Weifan next to him looked much more pleasing to the eye.

Yang Hui felt thirsty after talking so much and reached out to take some fruit from the fruit bowl.

Gu Beilu took the fruit plate away first: “It’s not enough. If you want to eat, come and cut it yourself.”

Yang Hui was very thirsty, so he stood up without thinking and followed Gu Beilu to the kitchen.

Su Weifan saw that they were the only ones in the living room who were from Class 7, so he joined in playing the video game. Shen Di thought he was not good at playing and did not want to take him with him.

Yu Xi invited him to join his team.

Yu Xi also stared at the screen intently: “Well, I put the sandwich and milk in my pocket, and I was worried that they would fall out when I climbed over the wall.”

Shen Di gave him a look: “You are stupid, how can you carry things when climbing over the wall?”

Yu Xi also looked up at him and asked, “How do I transfer it?”

After the game was over, Shen Di put down the game console and raised his arm to demonstrate: “Just throw the object up to the wall first, and then climb up, like this——”

Yu Xi shook his head after hearing this: “Throw it on the ground? No, breakfast is for Gu Beilu.”

Gu Beilu is a mysophobe and will definitely not eat food if it falls on the ground.

So no.

Shen Di was very angry when he heard this and complained unhappily: “Humph, he is the one who is always bothering me. If it weren’t for him, you wouldn’t be injured like this.”

Su Weifan looked at Yuxi, then at Gu Beilu in the kitchen.

Yu Xi smiled and said, “It’s okay, it doesn’t hurt anymore.”

Shen Di looked at the large bandages on his body and felt distressed: “If I had known, I wouldn’t have told you that you could climb over the wall at the rockery.”

He originally wanted to ask Yu Xi to find an opportunity to go out and play together, but he didn’t expect Yu Xi to secretly go out to buy food for Gu Beilu, that stinky-faced man, and even hurt himself.

Gu Beilu is really not a good person!

Yu Xi’s kitchen is an open kitchen. Yang Hui talked to himself while washing fruits, but Gu Beilu didn’t hear a word he said.

When he brought out the new fruit plate, Gu Beilu’s face looked a little gloomy.

Shen Di said he wanted to try the strawberries to see if they were really delicious. Gu Beilu quickly snatched out the only two strawberries and stuffed them into Yu Xi’s mouth.

Su Weifan’s eyes fell on Gu Beilu’s face and he found that he was a little different from before. He couldn’t tell what was different, but just now he seemed to be just impatient, but now there was a little more…sadness?

*

During the days when Yu Xi was injured, Gu Beilu was present every time the dressing was changed. He felt heartbroken every time he saw him and kept asking the doctor whether he would be left with a scar.

The doctor said that the area of ​​the abrasion is relatively large, but everyone’s skin heals differently, so in addition to good care, you must also pay attention to your diet.

Gu Beilu was worried every day during that period. In order to prevent scarring, he strictly controlled Yu Xi’s diet according to the doctor’s orders. Yu Xi had to eat only bland food for a long time.

On the day when the wound finally healed and the skin returned to normal, Yu Xi was so greedy that he ate cola chicken wings and sweet and sour pork ribs for three days.

Shortly after this incident, the school removed the rockery, raised the wall, and hung a warning sign prohibiting climbing.

Shen Di was heartbroken when he found out, and said that this towering wall had ultimately cut off his chance of having a wild youth.

Yu Xi told him not to climb over the wall as it was still very dangerous, and quietly opened his schoolbag to show him that there was a stack of leave requests in the bag.

Shen Di opened his eyes wide, his mouth wide enough to swallow an egg: “Oh my god! Why do you need so many leave requests!”

Yu Xi quickly covered his mouth and whispered, “Gu Beilu got it from the student union. He said that we should not climb over the wall in the future. If we want to go out, we should go through the main gate openly.”

Shen Di felt that Gu Beilu did a good job this time. This is what a human being should do:

“Then let’s go out for some fried food during the afternoon self-study period! There’s a new shop opening on the street next door!”

Yu Xi shook his head and said: “You can’t use it indiscriminately. This is a three-year supply. You can only use one per month.”

Shen Di was so anxious that he scratched his head and said, “Then let’s use up this month’s allowance today. It’s almost the end of the month anyway.”

Yu Xi zipped up his schoolbag and said, “It can be used on Thursday. We’ll go eat on Thursday.”

Shen Di calculated that there were still two days left: “Why does it have to be Thursday? Four is unlucky.”

Yu Xi explained to him: “Because Gu Beilu is only free on Thursday afternoons, this is his condition. We must take him with us every time we use the leave note.”

The competition class’s curriculum is intensive, unlike theirs which have self-study classes every afternoon.

Shen Di: “…” He knew that Gu Beilu would not do anything evil!

During that period, Yu Xi also discovered another thing.

Some of Gu Beilu’s little habits seem to have changed.

For example, when buying water from a vending machine or convenience store, he no longer has to wipe it with a disinfectant wipe before drinking it.

Yu Xi watched him unscrew the bottle cap and drink, looking at him in confusion.

Gu Beilu drank half the bottle in one breath, and only then did he realize that Yu Xi was staring at him with strange eyes.

“What’s wrong? Is there something on my face?”

“You haven’t disinfected it yet.” Yu Xi reminded while looking at the water bottle.

“No need to sterilize, it’s just outer packaging.” Gu Beilu tightened the bottle cap and smiled at him, his movements very natural.

Yu Xi reached out to pinch his face, then touched his forehead to make sure he was not sick.

When he returned home that day, Gu Beilu picked up an orange from the plate and accidentally dropped it to the ground.

He bent down to pick it up, peeled it without hesitation, broke it into petals, and put it on the small plate in front of Yu Xi.

The butler was standing by, puzzled but didn’t dare to speak. When he saw the orange fall to the ground, he had already reached out to catch it, but he didn’t expect the young master to not mind the dirtiness.

Yu Xi observed for quite some time and found that Gu Beilu’s habits had indeed changed.

These habitual little movements cannot be faked, and outsiders generally won’t notice them, but they are so familiar with them that they can keenly perceive the slightest changes in the other person.

Although he used to think that Gu Beilu was a bit too obsessed with cleanliness and sometimes a bit troublesome, it didn’t affect other people after all. Now the sudden change made him a little uncomfortable.

When Gu Beilu unscrewed the bottle cap without disinfection again, he finally couldn’t help but ask: “Derek, why are you a little different recently?”

“Why don’t you disinfect these things?”

Gu Beilu thought Yu Xi’s serious questioning was cute, and reached out to ruffle his fresh hair: “This is all a psychological effect. I used to feel comfortable after disinfecting everything. Now I feel uncomfortable doing so, so I won’t do it anymore.”

Yu Xi did not seem to understand but still nodded.

*

At the end of the first year of junior high school, Gu Beilu won the first place in the National Comprehensive Science Competition, and Yu Xi’s grades were consistently in the top ten in the class. They happily welcomed the summer vacation.

Yu Xi found that he had grown a lot taller, and excitedly pulled Gu Beilu to compare heights. Then he regretfully discovered that Gu Beilu had also grown taller, and the gap between them had not narrowed.

“Derek, I must be as tall as you next year. ” He set a height goal like he did every summer vacation.

Gu Beilu hugged the man and coaxed him, “Okay, okay, start eating two bowls of rice for every meal now, and you will be taller than me next year.”

*

As soon as summer vacation arrived, Gu Beilu asked Yu Xi: “Do you want to sleep at my house, or should I sleep at yours?”

After entering junior high school, Gu Beilu found that he never liked long vacations that much. He had to be separated from Yu Xi for seven or eight hours every day at school, and only during vacations could they be together for 24 hours. He had to sleep with his out of revenge.

During the winter vacation, Gu Beilu used the excuse that it was too cold to sleep alone and pestered Yu Xi to sleep with him for a month.

Gu Beilu is like a small stove. He can keep warm in winter, but in summer…

Yu Xi turned his head to look at the blazing sun outside and said, “Derek, it’s not cold now. It’s warm enough for two people to sleep together.”

It’s the middle of summer in August now, and he sweats even when he sleeps. If someone were to stay close to someone else, he would be so hot that he would die.

Gu Beilu said: “It’s just too hot, we need to turn on the air conditioner. If we sleep together, we only need to book one room, which is more environmentally friendly.”

Yu Xi, who was well aware of the importance of environmental protection, nodded and actually felt that it made sense.

However, Yu Xi was still woken up by the heat in the air-conditioned room in the middle of the night.

It was such a big bed, but Gu Beilu insisted on staying close to him and holding him in his arms. He was sweating profusely from the heat.

It really is a big furnace.

Yu Xi tried to break free and moved his body, but then he froze.

By the time he figured out what was going on, he was so embarrassed that he couldn’t even breathe.

He had a wet dream.

How could this happen to him in the arms of his best friend?

Unable to believe this was real, he closed his eyes tightly, then opened them again after a dozen seconds and reached out his hand again.

…It’s not a dream, it’s real.

After accepting this unavoidable fact, he held his breath and climbed out of Gu Beilu’s arms.

He called Gu Beilu softly twice, and after making sure that he was not woken up, he dared to stand up on tiptoe, holding his pajamas.

The bed was too soft, and as soon as he stood up, he sank into it. Gu Beilu turned over, and Yu Xi was petrified on the spot.

He stood in a strange posture for a few seconds, waiting for Gu Beilu to fall asleep again, then he gritted his teeth and slowly stepped off the bed.

The bathroom door closed, the sound of water was heard, and Gu Beilu finally opened his eyes.

He looked towards the bathroom, then lifted the covers and touched the sheets.

The next day, Gu Beilu got up early, opened the curtains, and saw a pair of white underwear on the balcony.

He pushed open the glass door in a good mood and went out to collect the clothes.

There was no heat in the morning breeze. Clothes and towels were blown up by the wind, and a faint fragrance drifted in. Gu Beilu felt that summer vacation was really great.