Mr. Zhao Fei's house squatting neighbor

09

Zhao Fei noticed the stack of colored printed materials on a Sunday afternoon.

The timing is June.The weather is getting hotter.The TV kept broadcasting that the temperature this week broke through the highest level of the same period last year.The air is unimaginably hot and humid, and it is impossible to live without the air conditioner.

Zhao Fei sat on the sofa at Xu Chaoran's house, stroking Huazi's smooth fur beside him.There was no need to hide Xu Chaoran, so he put on a light short pajamas, revealing his red-spotted arms and calves due to excessive scrubbing.

Xu Chaoran had already given him the spare key at home.When he handed over the key, he smiled meaningfully at him.Zhao Fei took over the heavy metal piece, feeling his heart beating extraordinarily violently.

It's not that he doesn't know what Xu Chaoran means.only……

Sleepiness gradually enveloped Zhao Fei's whole body like a silent night.He worked overtime at the company in the morning and hurried home at noon, exhausted physically and mentally.After taking a bath for an hour, he came out of the house and knocked on the door of Xu Chaoran's house.There was no response, so he had to go home and opened the door with the spare key.

I thought the man would say to him badly, "Don't you have the key, open the door yourself".After entering the house, Zhao Fei found out that Xu Chaoran was really not at home.Huazai was sleeping on the wooden floor at the junction of the balcony and the living room, and immediately greeted him warmly after hearing the sound.Zhao Fei rubbed the back of Huazai's neck, changed into slippers, and sat down on the sofa where the three of them were sitting.

Hua Zai also snorted and followed, jumped onto the armrest of the sofa, squinted his eyes and arched Zhao Fei's hand.Zhao Fei was stroking Huazi while looking at the black and white hairs stuck to his hands.

Recently, he found that his cleanliness and obsessive-compulsive disorder have improved.After wearing Xu Chaoran's slippers by mistake that day, he no longer brought his own slippers when he went to Xu Chaoran's house.Hua Zai's fur occasionally gets on his body, and he can bear it without cleaning it off, so that his colleagues have asked him if he has recently started raising cats.The time to take a shower has also been cut in half from two hours, and I haven't scrubbed my skin so vigorously for a while that my capillaries are broken and my whole arm is covered in blood.The previous wounds, large and small, were gradually healed.It's just that there are deep and shallow scars left on his originally fair skin.

However, to be able to reveal this kind of self in front of another person is already an unprecedented level of decision for Zhao Fei.Xu Chaoran didn't change his attitude towards him just because he was seeing a psychiatrist—he wasn't alienated, nor close.He still nestled in front of the wooden desk all day typing codes that seemed to never end, occasionally turned around and told him a cold joke, and covered Zhao Fei with a thin quilt after he fell asleep in a daze.

Therefore, Zhao Fei asked his psychiatrist and his own heart——

Can he really have happiness?

Slumped comfortably on the sofa, Zhao Fei slowly closed his eyes, feeling like he was about to fall asleep again.He struggled to sit up straight and looked at the wall clock.It's already 04:30 in the afternoon.If you fall asleep now, you will have insomnia in the middle of the night.Zhao Fei stood up, stretched vigorously, and randomly circled around the living room, trying to make himself more energetic.

He walked to Zhao Fei's desk, stopped, and looked at the messy desktop.

Although at the beginning he said to Xu Chaoran, "No matter how messy your house is, it doesn't matter to me", but now, Zhao Fei has an urge to help him tidy up from the bottom of his heart.

Just when he was about to turn around and see out of sight, he saw a corner of the table covered by several printed mails, colorful advertising jams.

The content exposed at the corner made his heart beat a beat slower for no reason.He hesitated, but finally pulled out the dark paper with slightly trembling hands.

It is an introduction of the house type.

There are five coloring pages in the advertisement, all of which show the types of houses newly launched in City Y.Zhao Fei looked through it, and found that unlike the 40-square-meter single apartment they live in now, the selected units are all above 120 square meters.

Trying not to think too much, he carefully stuffed the jammed paper back into place.Huazi Mimi yelled and came over to ask him to play with him.Zhao Fei absent-mindedly tossed little mice one by one, and let Huazai roll back and forth on the floor, but he felt empty in his heart.

Before he knew it, he already cared so much about men...?

There was the sound of a key opening the keyhole from the entrance.Zhao Fei quickly patted his cheek.Don't get me wrong.he reminded himself.He had nothing to do with his own life...

Xu Chaoran, who was carrying a plate and putting it on the dining table, looked at Zhao Fei who was sitting on the sofa in a daze.

"It's time to eat." He pretended to be nonchalant and greeted loudly.

Zhao Fei was obviously taken aback.After a while, he nodded thoughtfully and moved towards the dining table step by step.

The two began a silent dinner.

Something is wrong with Zhao Fei - Xu Chaoran thought to himself while moving his chopsticks.After he came back, Zhao Fei deliberately put a distance away from him, and what he said to him went into his left ear and out of his right ear, and he didn't take the initiative to help when cooking as before.

It seems to be hiding from myself...but why?

After eating a meal hastily, Xu Chaoran still couldn't think of the reason.Obviously the two were still talking and laughing last night.

He got up and put away the bowls and chopsticks, but saw Zhao Fei walking towards the entrance hesitantly.

"I bid farewell..."

"So fast?!" Xu Chaoran put down the things in his hands, walked quickly to the living room, and stopped Zhao Fei, who was dodging his eyes. "Are you busy tonight?"

"..."

"What's on your mind?"

"..."

"What happened?!" Xu Chaoran was about to grab Zhao Fei's shoulder and shake it vigorously like the male protagonist in an idol drama.

Zhao Fei shook his head anxiously, but refused to say anything, he just wanted to go back to his home.Xu Chaoran had no choice but to forcefully grab his wrist and let him sit on the sofa.

"I have something to discuss with you. Just waste one minute of your time."

Zhao Fei sat there anxiously, but when he saw Xu Chaoran walking towards him with the advertisement coloring page, his expression turned into astonishment.

"Recently, I have connected the final payments of three projects one after another, and together with the money I saved before, I have more or less made up the down payment." Xu Chaoran stuffed the house type introduction into his hands. "I want to directly buy a large-sized house and be your landlord. Which one do you like better?"

He seemed to be afraid that Zhao Fei would run away in a second, so he quickly pointed to the introduction and started talking. "What I like most is the 132-square-meter three-bedroom and two-living room in this community. You won't get tired of playing it. What do you think... Zhao Fei? Why do you..."

Xu Chaoran squatted down, and lightly touched Zhao Fei's eyes with his thumb.

"Why are you crying...?"

Zhao Fei couldn't control his emotions at all, sobbed a few times and then burst into tears.

Xu Chaoran looked at him worriedly.Finally he sighed, sat down on the sofa, and put his arms around the thin shoulders of the crying man.

-tbc-