Amorous Short Stories

Yan Wu entered the house and turned on the light, and the ladybug was lying flat on the ground by the door, humming.The ladybug's resting posture is also different from that of ordinary dogs. He doesn't lie down very much. When he is tired from standing, he spreads his limbs to the sides, slides down slowly, and puts his abdomen on the carpet, humming comfortably.Yan Wu squatted in front of the ladybug, took a small plate for him to drink milk, and talked to him: "Do you like the name ladybug?" The ladybug rolled back the tongue that licked the milk, and licked him when she heard Yan Wu's words the back of the hand.Yan Wu decided not to leave him alone at home in the future, which is a bit pitiful.

-Look at this cufflink

so many diamonds

too exaggerated

let me kiss my two little babies

Yan Wu took a photo of a ladybug and sent it, and then found a photo of Ding Qing and showed it to the ladybug: "Look at this man, that's why you are called a ladybug. It's ugly."

The ladybug stuck out her tongue to lick the screen of the phone, but Yan Wu hurriedly took it away.

—What are you doing, wearing a suit?

——rehearse for tomorrow's group pre

Super annoying, have to wear formal clothes.

And what about your photos?

Why only ladybugs?

By the way, how is your small business going?

——It’s okay, if you can’t get along anymore, you can come and be my partner.

— ok, but you have to teach me first

when are you coming

It's been a month...

Yan Wu thought for a while.

—Then next week.

--OK!I'm going to pick up the plane! ! !

- Don't!

——… Yan Wu suddenly loses control of his emotions hahaha

——What is your subject?

—— "Mainland Education System Cultivates Mainland Students to Become Middle Class"

—… Can you finish one class?

——I can’t finish talking, let’s list the headlines, it’s not like that in pre,

The main reason is that my last exam was too bad, if I don’t do the pre estimation, I’m finished hehe

Yan Wu shook his head, but Ding Qing came out happily.Put the phone in front of the ladybug again: "No, don't learn." The ladybug nodded.Yan Wu was very satisfied.

— By the way, give me an address, and I'll send you something

When Yan Wu arrived at the apartment in Hong Kong, he was very tired. He pushed open the door and was kicking his shoes, when he saw Ding Qing standing in the middle of the room, with his arms outstretched, "Ta—Da!"

Yan Wu was stunned for a moment, Ding Qing came over to hug him, with so much strength that Yan Wu's feet were off the ground.

Ding Qing looked at him with a smile, and reached out to help Yan Wu take off the backpack: "Look, is it clean?"

Yan Wu looked around for a week and felt that Ding Qing should often run here.It was cleaned very well, but Ding Qing still felt that he was not the owner, so he didn't touch the layout of the house.

"Very good, I praise you." Yan Wu sat down on the sofa carelessly, crossing his legs.

Ding Qing leaned over: "I even lent you your favorite Korean drama."

Yan Wu rolled his eyes at him, decided to live up to his kindness, and turned on the TV.

"You watch TV, I'll cook."

Yan Wu, who was drinking water, choked, "Have you learned how to cook yet?"

Ding Qing leaned against the refrigerator: "Please be well."

Listening to Ding Qing's finally no longer rigid Mandarin, Yan Wu felt unspeakable.

Ding Qing was standing in the kitchen with his back to Yan Wu, beating eggs, looking at the recipe next to him while beating.

Yan Wu looked over the TV and landed on Ding Qing.Ding Qing no longer wears a sweater. Today, he is wearing a white shirt and a thin blue sweater. His hair is also long and his bangs are pulled up. Compared with July, he is much stronger. His shoulders are wide and straight, looking Neat spirit.Yan Wu recalled the first time they met, Ding Qing was floating upwards, as if he was about to fly at the slightest movement, but now he was sinking, as if his roots were growing underground, and it was only more than a year.

Ding Qing tossed and tossed in the kitchen for three hours, it was almost eight o'clock, Yan Wu became more and more looking forward to it, guessing that Ding Qing would learn how to cook a full banquet in a month?So when Ding Qing came out with only a bowl of egg custard, Yan Wu nodded with a meaningful "hmm".

"How is it?" Ding Qing was very proud, waiting to admire.

too salty.Very salty.I can't eat it at all.

Yan Wu looked into Ding Qing's shining eyes: "Do you want me to say it's delicious, or do you want me to tell the truth?"

Ding Qing frowned, took the spoon in Yan Wu's hand, and put a spoonful into his own mouth: "Impossible, I always follow the recipe... Oops, it's too salty."

Yan Wu originally wanted to say a few words of encouragement, but Ding Qing was even more optimistic: "I think it's normal to have flaws. As the saying goes, only hard-working steel can make fingers soft." He used a poem by himself.He remembered that "Zuozhirou" is a kind of wine, one thousand eighty-one cups, although he doesn't know what the relationship between "steel" and "wine" is, maybe it is made of burning steel to make a bar.

Yan Wu shook his head.

Ding Qing changed his words again: "As the saying goes, if you don't go through a bit of cold, how can you get the fragrance of plum blossoms?"

Yan Wu leaned forward and kissed Ding Qing's face, not wanting to listen to him recite poetry anymore.

Sure enough, it worked, Ding Qing's attention was diverted immediately, he hugged the back of Yan Wu's neck and left without letting him finish kissing, entangled with his own lips and tongue for a while, then pulled Yan Wu's hand to make him stand up, gently Gently pulled Yan Wu over, stretched his arms around Yan Wu's waist, buried his face in Yan Wu's abdomen, and a muffled voice came from there: "Are you tired?"

Yan Wu replied honestly: "Tired."

Ding Qing stood up, with a very grand expression: "Okay, then today we will practice abstinence." Then he patted Yan Wu on the shoulder, "Go to sleep, and I will chant Buddha." After speaking, he walked into the bathroom.The bathroom was out of paper, so Ding Qing walked out lightly, took out a few face towels, and re-entered the bathroom.

Yan Wu leaned against the table and looked at Ding Qing amusedly.Then he sighed, followed up in the bathroom, and decided to do Ding Qing a little favor.

"Ah, by the way, Luo Dafei is in love." Ding Qing lay on the bed chatting with Yan Wu.

Yan Wu looked at Ding Qing: "Really? With a girl?"

"Otherwise?" Ding Qing looked at him in surprise.

Yan Wu shrugged, he just asked casually. "Hong Kong people?"

"Yeah. It's called Little Apple." Ding Qing laughed. "Looking at them is like watching two elementary school students. The scene where they talk is like participating in a competition of 'who is more blush'. Pure love."

Seeing Ding Qing's fascinated face, Yan Wu laughed: "Are you envious?"

"kind of."

"But you are too sloppy in your bones, how innocent." Yan Wu really found it funny.Ding Qing is actually envious of other people holding small hands, obviously he is the kind of person who wants to light it himself if there is no spark, and jumps into the whirlpool when he is burning with passion/desire.

Ding Qing was wronged and wronged: "I am... a natural wave of love to the depths."

Yan Wu cooperated with him and nodded.

Ding Qing's eyes were glued to Yan Wu's face, and he looked carefully inch by inch: "I'm so lucky, you are so beautiful."

Yan Wu's face froze, he had never heard such an evaluation before, and he probably couldn't get along with this word, he frowned: "Do you know what it means to be beautiful?"

"I know." Ding Qing nodded, "You are the kind of car that runs fiercely like the one I like. It's the kind of delicate thing, I appreciate it, I don't like it. And, "Ding Qing Come over, "beautiful without self-knowledge, strong without self-confidence." When he first met Yan Wu, he felt that Yan Wu was fearless, arrogant and confident.After getting along for a long time, I found that Yan Wu was pessimistic and soft, with no sense of security. He was obviously a mercenary with smoke, guns, blood, and cannons, but he was somewhat fragile in Ding Qing's eyes.In Ding Qing's eyes, Yan Wu is very contradictory. This kind of contradiction makes Yan Wu full of beauty and needs protection.

Yan Wu obviously didn't look at himself from the perspective of a lover, and seriously felt that Ding Qing's brain circuit was abnormal, so he decided to change the subject: "Where did you learn those two sentences?"

Ding Qing smiled mysteriously: "I think it looks like you when I see it."

Yan Wu stayed with Ding Qing in Hong Kong for more than a week.Originally, on the third day, Poker sent a message to ask Yan Wu to go back, saying that he would have a meeting with Tide, but Ding Qing went out riding a horse and broke his leg. Bowling, Yan Wu playing, Ding Qing cheering on the side.In order to accompany Ding Qing, Yan Wu pushed back for a few days before rushing back to have a meeting with them.

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"How did you spend Christmas?" the groom asked Yan Wu and poker while wiping the glass.Two idlers sitting in the bar after eight o'clock in the morning.

Yan Wu took a sip of his wine: "I don't know, I haven't."

Poker took a sip of wine: "I don't know, I used to be with my sister."

Not to be outdone, the groom also poured himself a glass of wine: "What about this year?"

"She lived with her family." Poker never met his father, and then his mother passed away. His sister, who is seven years older, is Poker's only family member.My elder sister was very kind to him, she gave him food and clothing with all her heart, and later she traveled all over the world with poker, getting together less and leaving more, and she usually went to see her at Christmas.My sister married an American seven years ago, lives in a small town in Tennessee, and has a son and a daughter.In the past five years, Poker and their family got along very well. My brother-in-law didn’t know his job and thought he was a firearms design engineer. The children liked all kinds of small toys brought by their uncle, empty bullet casings, model guns, and military light sticks.When poker passed the high-speed station in Tennessee last year, I saw a man who had a problem with his team in Sudan, and followed him to teach him a lesson.

That Christmas the whole family was drinking eggnog around the table, the youngest son played the piano and the youngest daughter sang.Suddenly, large and small stones smashed through the window and smashed over. The children screamed. The sister squatted on the ground and hugged her children. The brother-in-law took the shotgun and went out. The bat followed, the outside whistled, a large crowd gathered, and my brother-in-law was also involved, fired a shot but missed anyone, and some people continued to throw stones into the room, and there was a burning wine bottle.When the police arrived, most of the people had run away, leaving a few local hooligans gathered, but none of the principals were caught.Poker experience, no serious injuries, broken arm.The brother-in-law's leg was injured, and he walked with a limp. The younger son's hand was half pierced by a stone, and he stopped playing the piano. The daughter began to be afraid of the dark and couldn't turn off the lights at night.

Poker never appeared in front of them again.

Poker sighs.

Yan Wu originally gave Ding Qing the address where he lived, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not safe, so he went to a small Chinese training class by the Ping River and took a job under Fang Jihuai's name, nominally a teacher in Chiang Mai. The Chinese teacher gave Ding Qing this address.Yan Wu also finally received Ding Qing's gift, a string of prayer beads, and a dog tag.Ding Qing explained the engraved "LADYBIRD" on the dog tag and the string of Buddhist beads. He found that many people around him were wearing this, so he specially prayed to the master to consecrate it, a safe talisman.He also asked Yan Wu if he believed in this, or if he didn't believe in Jesus.Giving Yan Wudang a Christmas gift to make up for not being able to spend the holidays together, Ding Qing went to Los Angeles with his mother for Christmas. In Ding Qing's words, he can finally relax.Ding Qing asked Yan Wu if he wanted to go to LA together, so he could relax. Yan Wu thought about it and refused. After carefully calculating the cost of falling in love with Ding Qing for such a long time, he felt that it was still a bit expensive, but fortunately, the travel expenses were on his own , Board and lodging follow Ding Qing.Ding Qing asked if he wanted to pay him for the air ticket, Yan Wu was very upset, I worked hard to earn money, I want to spend it for whoever I want, if I don’t have enough money, I spend less, why use his money, and it belongs to his family money.Ding Qing obeyed Yan Wu and decided not to say such words again. Although he felt that such small money should not be so clearly distinguished, Yan Wu minded him and did not persuade him any longer.

Yan Wu didn't celebrate any holidays before. If he was not preparing for a war or recovering from his injuries, he didn't spend much of the past few years when he was free. New Year's Day and Christmas, and the second year after sleeping, it doesn't make any difference.Year after year is quite boring, and I don’t know where or what to do next year.

Yan Wu sighed.

When the groom saw them sighing and sighing, he was also saddened.

The groom sighs.

"Do you want to go to my place to watch a movie?" Yan Wu asked them.The groom and Poker were stunned at the same time. After all, although they had known each other before, that is, they lived their own lives, they were all alone, and they suddenly got together, which felt unreal.The groom was even more surprised. He never felt that Yan Wu was someone who was willing to make friends. He was a bit closed off.

Poker over there has already agreed: "Okay, I can."

"I'll go too." The groom put the wine glass down the stage, "The store is closed for Christmas."

"Are you closed on New Year's Day?" Poker asked him.

"No." The groom showed a shrewd smile, "You can't close the store on this kind of reunion day. You don't know how many homeless ghosts will come to get drunk."

After finishing speaking, he felt that it was out of place, Poker and Yan Wu on the opposite side lowered their heads and sighed again.

On Christmas Day, the groom closed the store, and the three of them searched for a long time at the video store downstairs in Yan Wu, not knowing what to watch.Yan Wu and Po Ke didn't know Thai, so the groom had to translate for them and persuade them to learn Thai.Yan Wu asked if he wanted to watch a horror movie, Poker said yes, the groom said no, why are you so nervous about the festival, and then he recommended a love movie, Poker said yes, Yan Wu saw that the two of them were looking forward to it, so he agreed up.When queuing up to go to the counter to swipe the card, Yan Wu saw a movie on the shelf next to it. The cover was a Hong Kong actress, probably Qiu Shuzhen. Because of Ding Qing, Yan Wu felt familiar even when he saw Hong Kong.Yan Wu easily took it down and borrowed it together, planning to keep it until New Year's Eve to read by himself.

The three of them borrowed from an American romantic comedy movie, full of laughs, lovable characters, the heroine is happy like a silly big sister, and the male protagonist is cool and slaps faces in various ways. The chemical reaction when they meet together is also very interesting.

In the end, where the heroine confessed, she borrowed her friend’s mobile phone to call the hero and made a show of love. The heroine turned her head and saw the hero who thought she was flying away. The two looked at each other across the fountain, and suddenly colorful lights flashed around the fountain. In the light, the two ran towards each other, embracing each other in the music.

The groom and poker together: "Oh--" and the groom patted his touched heart, showing the old aunt's smile.Poker is also nodding beside him.Yan Wu looked at it and raised a question after observing for a long time: "The person she borrowed the phone has left, why don't you return it?"

The other two turned their heads to look at him resentfully, and looked at each other again: "Suchakilljoy."

Yan Wu drank quietly and closed his mouth, a little aggrieved, just wanted to ask a reasonable question.Only the ladybug arched Yan Wu's arm to comfort him.The groom happily embraced the ladybug and kissed it non-stop.

Just after Christmas, Yan Wu went to pick up the New Year's Day gift from Ding Qing, a lava lamp.On the way back, the tire got punctured, so Yan Wu went to a car repair shop to fix the car.Yan Wu sat beside him, with a ladybug lying on his feet.The ladybug was biting things at home, and Poker asked Yan Wu to accompany him more, otherwise he would suffer from depression, and Yan Wu was so scared that he would take him with him everywhere.The ladybugs were running happily outside the house. Yan Wu wanted to chase him at first, but the ladybugs would get into the low bushes and could not make a cry.Yan Wu stood patiently at the place where he entered and waited. Sure enough, the ladybug found that Yan Wu hadn't followed in, so she turned back to look for him, biting him and wanting to run together.Yan Wu was very tired, and trained ladybug according to the poker method, and now he finally started to obey the rules.Now he is lying safely at Yan Wu's feet. The most important thing is that the ladybug is hungry. After eating so much at noon, he is still hungry so quickly. Yan Wu looks at him helplessly, calling him a fool.

Yan Wu looked at this car repair shop boredly, and saw the proprietress coming out to deliver water to the boss with her belly out, and suddenly remembered the pregnant woman in 503, which vaguely coincided with the pregnant woman who died in a certain operation.

After the car was repaired, Yan Wu sat in the car and wanted to see her. Yan Wu didn't think about what to do, but thought it was not far anyway, so he just went to see her.In what name Yan Wu was still thinking when he was on the road, thinking that it would be bad to go empty-handed, and stopped at the supermarket to buy something.Looking at the shelves, I didn't know what to choose, so I finally bought milk on the safe side.I also bought a pack of dog food for Ladybug.

When Yan Wu arrived at 503, he found that the door was unlocked. He thought something was wrong, but after a closer look, the lock was broken. A rope was tied to the handle inside the door, and he pulled the door loosely, and it could be opened with a light tug.Yan Wu guessed that the man crashed it last time and never repaired it.Yan Wu raised his hand to knock on the door, but when he heard a crackling inside, he immediately opened the door and went in. He saw a woman stepping on the stool, with one hand supporting the stove, controlling the balance. She was probably changing a light bulb and almost fell off.Yan Wu stepped forward to help her down, took the light bulb on the stove, stood up and said to her: "I'll do it."

The woman was stunned, and turned to look at her own door. Half of the rope was still dangling, and Yan Wu changed her mind.He supported his waist and stood back.

The boiling water had just boiled, the woman turned off the fire, went to get the water, saw that Yan Wu had not only changed the light bulb, but seemed to be repairing the thread, thought about whether to pour him a glass of water, hesitated for a while, and decided to give up, not wanting to appear friendly.

Yan Wu got up, jumped down, looked at the ladybug at the door, and then at the woman.The woman nodded as she agreed, Yan Wu whistled, and the ladybug jumped in lightly and ran to Yan Wu's side.

Yan Wu poured himself a glass of water, sat by the table, and put the milk on the table. He didn't hold it properly when he put it, and it slipped. Yan Wu reacted quickly, got up and scooped it up. Fang Xiang leaned over, the woman felt someone approaching, she shrank instinctively, protected her belly, bent over and lowered her head, rolled herself up as much as possible, trembling.

Yan Wu was a little embarrassed, and sat back in his seat.The woman also realized that Yan Wu didn't intend to do anything, so she sat up slowly and regained her calm expression.

The two didn't speak for a long time.

"You know how to play Go, right?" Yan Wu recalled the certificate.

The woman didn't respond.

"I want to learn. Three times a week, I will pay." The water is too hot, Yan Wu blows on it, the woman has no source of income now, she will agree.

The woman didn't look at Yan Wu, but nodded after a while.

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During Christmas and New Year's Day, Yan Wu received text messages from Ding Qing, as well as photos of various parties, mainly of the band singing.Yan Wu faced people in the background of Ding Qing's photo and also met some celebrities.Ding Qing was going to stay in LA until mid-January, and told Yan Wu that he was going to start practicing diving again.

Yan Wu looked at Ding Qing's photo and laughed. Ding Qing had the ability to lift weights lightly. Yan Wu thought that Ding Qing would spend a long time in bitterness and hatred, gloomy and depressed.Or on the other hand, work hard, hang the beam and stab the stock.But Ding Qing obviously didn't have any, and he didn't know what Ding Qing was planning.

On New Year's Day, Yan Wu got up in the afternoon to go out to buy some carrots, but the nearby small shops were closed, so Yan Wu had to go to a big supermarket to buy them, and they were sold out when he arrived.Yan Wu scratched his head and was about to go back. When he met someone blowing fireworks sticks, a ladybug was grabbing Yan Wu's trousers and wanted them. Yan Wu took a few sticks, thinking of giving them to him at night.

It was dark when we went back, Yan Wu took a bowl for himself and ladybug, and made oatmeal with milk for dinner.Yan Wu turned on the TV, turned off the lights, and sat on the ground with the ladybug to watch the program. The program was a live broadcast of the fireworks parade. Yan Wu turned his head and looked out the window. He could see the beautiful fireworks blooming in the distance, and there was only a faint crackling sound. .

There are no good shows, but fortunately Yan Wu was well prepared.He took out the stock for New Year's Day, put it in the disc player and started playing.After playing the movie for a while, Yan Wu felt that something was wrong. Looking at the introduction, it turned out to be a gay movie.

After the ladybug finished licking her own milk, she began to bite Yan Wu's pants. Yan Wu hugged him away and gave him a bone. While watching TV, eating cereal, and running away, she didn't watch much of the movie.

The fireworks outside the window were set off for a while, and it seemed contagious to this side, and probably the residents near this side also started to set off fireworks.A bunch of fireworks exploded in the air, illuminating two shadows, one large and one small, in the room, flashing on the wall for two seconds, and then disappearing.The crackling sound was getting closer and closer, and there was a tendency to come downstairs.

Yan Wu thought that it was almost done, so he brought a firework stick and prepared to give it to the ladybug.The ladybugs circled around Yan Wu's feet excitedly.The movie was almost over, and it ended at the Tsing Ma Bridge. Two men drove across the bridge and chatted.When the music started, Yan Wu was stunned. The male version of "Undercurrent", accompanied by the car running away on the bridge, exited the screen.

Yan Wu held the bowl of oatmeal in one hand, and a firework stick in the other. The ladybug lay down at his feet. The fireworks outside the window lit up the room one after another, and then quickly dimmed. The sound of cheers echoed in the distance. One after another, my heart was very blocked for no reason.

Standing there in a daze, Yan Wu didn't look down at the ladybug until the song was played, and decided to go to bed early after putting down the one in his hand, so as not to think too much.

But there was a knock at the door.

Suddenly, Yan Wu's heart beat wildly, and he had a premonition of what he would see.

But he froze when he opened the door and blurted out "fuck".

Ding Qing had a smile in his nose and eyes, wearing a Dodgers baseball cap, looked at Yan Wu triumphantly, held his face in his hands after he finished speaking, and kissed the corner of his mouth with a smile: "Yan Wu Classmate, I really like you, but you only want to do such nasty things.” Seeing that Yan Wu was still depressed in his own world, he opened his arms and hugged him: “That’s fine, fuck it Fuck." Taking a deep breath, he now knows that the white galbanum is the smell of medicine, and the faint oolong leaves are from Yan Wu.

Yan Wu reached out to hug Ding Qing, raised his head and kissed Ding Qing's mouth, ready to explore further, the ladybug came over and pulled Yan Wu's trousers.When Ding Qing saw the ladybug, he said, "Oh—" and bent over to hug him.Yan Wu looked at him with a smile: "He is very familiar with life." The ladybug never clings to people, and is very cold.

As a result, as soon as Ding Qing stretched out his hand, the ladybug couldn't wait to surrender to the enemy and treason, jumped into Ding Qing's arm, and licked it eagerly, as if Ding Qing was his good friend who took care of him, Yan Wu was so angry that he stretched out his hand to hug the ladybug back, Unexpectedly, the ladybug couldn't hold it back once, and pulled the ladybug to loosen Ding Qing's clothes. Yan Wu shook his head and said to him, "Don't think about the fireworks stick, you traitor." The ladybug lowered her eyes aggrievedly, Huddled on Yan Wu's shoulder, humming.

Ding Qing looked at the two of them with a smile, and poked the ladybug's back with his hand: "Okay, enough hugs, please give me some love?"

Yan Wu put the ladybug down, and the ladybug became heavier and heavier.

"You come from LA?"

"That's right, I went to the address where you collected things, and there was no one there. I thought of the place you mentioned first." Ding Qing walked in, and sat on the sofa very disrespectfully, spreading his arms on the sofa On the backrest, with his feet folded on the coffee table, he stretched out his hand and patted the place next to him, signaling Yan Wu to come over, looking like a big boss.After taking a look at Yan Wu's eyes, he immediately put his feet away, sat upright, and pretended to be cute, "Fortunately, we arrived before 12 o'clock."

Yan Wu smiled and shook his head: "Why, you will turn back into Cinderella at 12 o'clock?"

Ding Qing smiled at him: "That's right, just wait until the prince is here."

Yan Wu cut with a smile, walked over and kicked Ding Qing's feet: "Come on, set off fireworks for the ladybug."

"Okay." Ding Qing rubbed his hands and went to the window with Yan Wu, opened the window, and Yan Wu handed over the firework stick, "Where is the fire?"

"I didn't, I'm quitting smoking." Yan Wu looked at him.

"Me neither, I quit smoking too." Ding Qing looked back at him.

The ladybug began to scratch Yan Wu again.

"Okay, I'll go find a lighter." Yan Wu looked down at him helplessly, very melancholy, you know Ding Qing so well, go pick him up, now you're picking me up again...

Ding Qing held the pyrotechnic stick out of the window, burning green fireworks: "Where is yours, will the next one be red?"

Yan Wu lights up another one, which is yellow: "Traffic lights, not bad, very close..."

Ding Qing laughed and watched the fireworks burn out in the night wind with Yan Wu, accompanied by fireworks and lights in the distance.He turned his face and stared at Yan Wu's profile: "I like you."

Yan Wu still stared at the distance, and smiled slightly: "I like you too."

Ding Qing was stunned, all the smiles on his face faded, he didn't move for a long time, his eyes were heavy on Yan Wu's smiling side face.