Oral period

It was close to two o'clock in the evening, but the lights were still on in the dormitory at the end of the fourth floor of the old dormitory—different from the excitement of games or talking in the past, this night, the room was abnormally quiet.

"Are you busy recently?" The black-haired boy sat on the upper bunk, reading a book against the wall, but his eyes did not fall on the paper in front of him, but naturally lowered, looking at the roommate who was writing at his desk in the middle of the dormitory , After deliberating for a long time, he opened his mouth and broke the silence.

"Yeah, there are two comics that I drew before, and they are about to be released. Originally, I would just draw a few new episodes, but the publisher said that the ending needs to be changed, and there are some lines..." Xia Jingzhe propped his forehead, Grabbing the obstructive bangs to the top of his head, he frowned slightly unconsciously. It seemed that the situation was more troublesome than what he said, "I changed the computer, and I couldn't find some of the original manuscripts before, so I had to redraw-these It doesn't matter, the most annoying thing is forcing me to change the ending, I can't bear it..."

"Can't I change it?"

Xia Jingzhe looked up at him, with a faint smile: "If you don't change it, you can't publish it. If you can't make money, who will support you?"

Zhenxiao choked, looking at the little smile in his eyes, he was a little speechless—according to the norm, at this time, he should try his best to choke the other party, pretending to repay his kindness, or say something soft on purpose Good words, so tired that Xia Jingzhe rubbed his goosebumps and told him to shut up, but after all, he had already remembered the past between the two of them, even if he deliberately pretended to pretend, now looking at the faint blue and black eyes of his sweetheart, he really can't say that. Here comes the word.

Even a little regretful, Xia Jingzhe had a deep grudge against him without saying goodbye, and after being teased maliciously for so long, his impression of him probably got worse—but he didn't dare to change the status quo rashly, for fear that the other party would notice something strange , forcing him to tell the reason for his change of attitude, and not beating him up like he said before can clear him up, just black him out of his own world...

What to do, the person he liked since childhood is right in front of him, but he has to pretend he is completely unfamiliar, and even bullies him to maintain his personality... Even though Xia Jingzhe's teased appearance by him is really cute, but his mood has changed Too much, and there will only be more flaws revealed in the subtleties of his attitude. Sooner or later, he will not be able to hide it.

He didn't hear his answer for a long time, Xia Jingzhe thought that he had poked his heart, for no reason, he thought of the bag of impending bread that was placed on the corner of the table not long ago, paused with the tip of his pen, and hurriedly remedied with subtle guilt: "Then what?" , I didn’t mean that, don’t think too much—drawing comics is my hobby, and if I have the opportunity to publish it, of course I have to fight for it, it has nothing to do with you..."

"Well, I know," he wasn't stupid enough to take a joke seriously—Zhen Xiao got up and got out of bed, and choked at him expressionlessly as usual, "Mr. Xia is so rich, it's more than enough to support me. It's a pity that I can't provide any special services, I can only eat and drink, and it is destined to be a money-losing business."

Xia Jingzhe didn't know what he thought of, his expression was unnatural for a moment, and his tongue was a little knotted: "Who wants you to provide special services, don't play tricks!"

"Huh? I mean to provide comic references, life experiences and so on," Zhen Xiao put a cup of hot coffee in his hand, with a meaningful tone, "Where did you think?"

Xia Jingzhe: ...

For the sake of the coffee, he can temporarily ignore the other party's trapping him - speaking of which, when did this man learn the trick of slapping a slap and stuffing a sweet date, which made him feel a little embarrassed and angry.

"By the way," Xia Jingzhe took a sip of the coffee. Feeling bitter, he added a piece of nondescript toffee to it, trying to melt it with the temperature of the coffee. He picked up his pen and said, "I'll leave tomorrow afternoon after class. Alright, the editor made an appointment for dinner to talk about publishing, you can go to the cafeteria to have dinner by yourself, the meal is stuck in the drawer of my desk."

Zhen Xiao nodded and thoughtfully stopped disturbing him, feeling like a left-behind child who was placed at home by his parents, or a virtuous wife who waited for her husband to return home from work, and would help make coffee.

The night is deep and quiet, and even Xia Jingzhe himself can't tell when he will rest, and Zhenxiao naturally doesn't do such silly things as waiting for him to finish drawing——by the time he finally decides to modify the storyboard of the plot, the time has already passed When it was almost four o'clock, he stood up and fell into the bed in a daze, but something hit his lower back, and he struggled to find out two homework books.

How could it be here... Xia Jingzhe rubbed her waist and sat up, thinking that she had misplaced it by accident, and was about to throw it back into her schoolbag, when she suddenly remembered something, and opened it by mistake—as expected, a certain part of the homework book There is an exercise paper in the page, which is one of the homework assigned by their teacher. The entire test paper with the answers is placed here with them, and they are required to take one sheet a day... The two pages with the test paper in the homework book are filled. The other book is the same, with familiar yet unfamiliar handwriting, probably written by Zhen Xiao imitating his handwriting.

Finishing today's homework for him ahead of time was a great help... But it didn't belong to the category they had agreed on before, not to mention changing the handwriting thoughtfully—Xia Jingzhe raised his head and looked at the empty The bed board, the mood is a bit complicated: it really is not an illusion, Zhen Xiao has been getting better and better towards him recently.

He has not been in close contact with others for too long, and he instinctively rejects such kindness, fearing that he will fall into the deep end and end up being betrayed by others, but the other party has already clearly denied it once, and he doesn't want to ask again, "Why do you Questions like "Being so nice to me" are both hypocritical and hurtful, and there is also a suspicion of self-indulgence. With Zhenxiao's personality, he will definitely not admit it, and most likely will take the opportunity to make a few sarcasm, provoking ridicule for no reason... Social interaction between people The relationship is actually much more complicated than drawing comics. He, who is praised by fans as being good at describing emotions, is actually a little at a loss.

Is it really just a conscience discovery, or as he thought, there is something hidden about the disease... Xia Jingzhe was thinking aimlessly, his brain was a little dizzy when he was trapped and overloaded, probably because of the forced change to a happy ending not long ago Affected by the plot, the thoughts are also biased in strange directions - if he is an ordinary girl, then Zhenxiao's teasing behavior can be explained unexpectedly, but unfortunately he is not, and there are not so many in the world Love at first sight for no reason...

Suddenly there was a creaking sound of the bed board in my ears, it was the person sleeping on the upper bunk who turned over.The young man was startled, he recovered from the meaningless delusions, and was a little irritable for no reason. He rubbed the hair that he had scratched when he was drawing manga before, and fell into the bed again, muttering softly to himself: "What are you thinking about?" Woolen cloth……"

What a pity.

It was only four o'clock, less than two and a half hours before he usually woke up for school... He just fell asleep like this, forgot to wash up, and also forgot to set an alarm clock.

Before this day came, Zhen Xiao never thought that the job of "waking people up in the morning" would fall on him - in the days when he and Xia Jingzhe lived together, no, in the same bed, he usually liked it The one who stays in bed, Xia Jingzhe, who seems to be a bad person, actually has good living habits. He gets up on time and keeps tidy. How he takes care of himself, unknowingly, he still becomes a do-it-yourselfer as he thought, and until now he has not been taught how much laundry detergent to pour when washing clothes.

Every morning, Xia Jingzhe always wakes him up. Although the method is cruel and doesn't even give him room to act like a baby, after waking him up, he will become gentler visibly. class's request to make things difficult.

However, today, until the alarm clock he set by himself sounded, Xia Jingzhe hadn't violently pulled him up as usual.

Without someone for him to act coquettishly and tease, Zhen Xiao settled down and got up on his own with a blank expression. Before changing his clothes, he poked his head out and glanced at the other party's two legs that were still stretched out of the bed. Then he understood what was going on, lightly changed his clothes and climbed out of bed, seeing Xia Jingzhe's strange posture lying on the lower bunk and the increasingly thick black and green eyes, he still didn't wake him up directly.

It’s okay to miss the morning reading. The Chinese teacher is very good. He may not come to the class a few times in the morning. It’s okay to explain a few words afterwards, but the first class is the class of the head teacher... Zhen Xiao looked at it with his toothbrush in his mouth After a glance at the time and a little deliberation, he came up with the optimal solution to wake up the other party in another 10 minutes.

——It's just that he missed a condition: Xia Jingzhe, who didn't have enough sleep and was woken up, got up very angry, and it couldn't be solved in a minute or two.

What does that feel like... It's like meeting a big cat with a bad temper on the street. The cat is sleeping soundly, and it will show its teeth and claws in its dreams when it is disturbed a little bit, but behind it is more terrifying than mountains of knives and seas of fire. There is only one way to go left and right, and once you go forward, you will definitely wake up the sleeping cat.

Fortunately, Zhen Xiao's sense of fear was as dull as his sense of pain, and he avoided these threats by mistake——Facing Xia Jingzhe's restlessness, he only hesitated for a second before continuing to shake people awake.

The person who has not woken up is really fierce, the hand holding his arm is actually pinched into his flesh, it seems that if you can't push it away, you will die together, and the mouth is slurring meaningless swear words, which is probably ten times when he is awake. more than double.

It's also really cute, like a cursing little animal, throwing a tantrum with its shaggy hair—at least in Zhen Xiao's eyes, so that he was scratched and bitten, and he also had two free hands to rub Xia Jingzhe's messy hair.

After a stalemate for no less than 10 minutes, he finally managed to shake the sleeping person a little better, at the cost of a clear fingerprint on his arm, deep and scattered nail marks... and an equally deep tooth mark.

Xia Jingzhe woke up almost the moment he opened his eyes, staring at the mottled marks on his arm for a few seconds, his expression was in a trance: "Sorry, I just dreamed that a ghost was catching me..."

The corners of the eyes of the person who was violently resisted by him were neither anxious nor annoyed, they looked at him even with a little tenderness, and then whispered in a usual calm tone: "Be prepared to make it up to me.

Xia Jingzhe:..."

——As for dragging someone who hates physical exercise to the classroom, it is already halfway through the first class.