【Zhou Xiang】The Tropic

1.

In the dream, Sun Xiang could vaguely feel someone sitting down on the edge of the bed. After sitting for a long time, a voice told him to "raise your hand" and "stretch your legs".He felt annoyed and muttered "you take care of me", but his body didn't listen to him, and he obeyed every instruction obediently.

After this, the guy seemed to smile.The laughter was very light, helpless and a little happy.

Then, he fell asleep completely, remembering nothing.

After the night passed, the sky shone on his eyelids, forcing him to open them. He vaguely felt that something was wrong.

……Grass!

Sun Xiang quickly blushed.

Moments after waking up.

No wonder it was so comfortable, the more I slept, the more comfortable I became. In my dream, I thought I was trapped in a cloud.It turned out that the whole body was stripped clean by a "good-hearted person", leaving only a pair of underwear, so the skin could fit the fluffy eiderdown quilt without any gaps, so there is nothing wrong with being uncomfortable!

While brushing his teeth, Sun Xiang tried his best to build up his mind and cheer him up: "We must not show timidity towards Zhou Zekai later. Isn't it just to help take off a few clothes? What is this?"

Fortunately, no third party heard his voice, otherwise he would have to rant wildly about Sun Xiang. It's alright -- just for one night, forgetting the real reason why he escaped home from the bar yesterday, is that okay?

2.

His psychological construction is only enough to last 5 minutes.

Five minutes later, Sun Xiang saw two cups of steaming milk and two sun-dried eggs of the same style on the dining table, and his stomach was aroused immediately.He pleasantly praised Zhou Zekai's improvement in cooking skills, he actually mastered the method of frying a whole sun-dried egg, forgetting about the Cold War and face problems.

This is just the beginning.

After the meal, Zhou Zekai brought a cup of granules and two pills, stared at him and ate them, and then solemnly reminded him that he had had two fevers in a row recently, no matter how busy he was with social gatherings, he must pay attention to his health.

Sun Xiang rubbed his nose: "...Understood."

Zhou Zekai suddenly laughed.Outlined by the morning light, his facial features became more and more profound, and with the addition of a smile, he was simply beautiful.

Sun Xiang was in a daze, and shifted his gaze with a guilty conscience: "Why, don't you believe it?"

"Only believe this." Zhou Zekai said so, and suddenly leaned over, closing the distance between the two of them.Sun Xiang was so startled by his actions that he wanted to shrink his neck, but in the end he didn't succeed for some reason.Then Sun Xiang felt that palm, which was similar in temperature to his dream last night, pressed against his forehead, "Well, almost 37."

Sun Xiang crashed.

Fortunately, it only takes a few seconds to measure the temperature.Before Sun Xiang could react, Zhou Zekai had stopped, and Shi Shiran sat back in his seat.

"Can I say hello next time?" Sun Xiang was taken aback, complaining angrily, but he didn't know that from this moment on, he had been pulled back into Zhou Zekai's rhythm.

3.

Yes.

That was the truth that he only realized after half a day—this cold war came suddenly, and the smoke cleared away without a sound.Before he knew it, Zhou Zekai seemed to have already taken the initiative to reconcile with him.

At 08:30 in the evening, Zhou Zekai came to look for him. In his packing box, there was the salt and pepper snake section of Haining Road that Sun Xiang had been thinking about before.Considering that the food was not tasty when it was cold, the two solved it directly in the office.

They then headed to the garage to get home.After the co-pilot sat down, out of the corner of his eye, Sun Xiang caught a glimpse of a large box tied with a ribbon in the back row, and the pattern looked familiar.But the light in the garage was dim, and he couldn't see clearly, so he couldn't help but turned his head twice to look at it.

"I can't run away." Zhou Zekai caught a glimpse of Sun Xiang's small movements, "Go home and tear it down."

"For me? What is it?!" The more this happened, the more impatient Sun Xiang became.

"Guess." Zhou Zekai played a nasty trick.

"Damn! How can you guess this?" Sun Xiang stared anxiously, "No, I need to know now!"

He has always been strong in action, and he will do what he says.While waiting for a red light for more than 100 seconds, he unbuckled his seat belt and leaned half of his body to the rear. After a lot of effort, he finally got the box rolled in the corner of the seat.

"Damn it—" The limited merchandise of a Kamen Rider series was lying quietly inside.If he hadn't just fastened his seat belt, Sun Xiang might have jumped up straight away, "How do you know I can't buy it the whole time I want to buy it? Damn it, it's real or not, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Zhou Zekai, how did you manage it? !"

"Hehe," Zhou Zekai's eyes showed the color of the moon halo under the projection of the night lights, and brisk emotions flowed in them, "find me later."

"Is it possible?!" Sun Xiang was so excited that he wanted to hug Zhou Zekai immediately, "That's great, that's great!"

He has completely forgotten the shame of the black history at first. As he has made a beautiful woman in his family, he puts different "dials" into the belt and let it make a strange light and voice: "Hahahahahahahahahahahaha, you see yes, you see yes Not very handsome!"

"Yes."

Zhou Zekai agreed with him.

Sun Xiang played with great interest for a while, and naturally chatted with Zhou Zekai about the entire Kamen Rider series.

And no matter what he said, Zhou Zekai showed an appearance of being particularly willing to listen.So when he got back to the apartment, the first thing Sun Xiang did was to rush to the bedroom to take out another notebook, and invite Zhou Zekai to watch the latest episodes with him.

Zhou Zekai's comprehension ability is so high, and Sun Xiang guessed that this guy might have done his homework secretly, otherwise why would Zhou Zekai always answer the conversation quickly and discuss with himself smoothly and fluently when he talked about knowledge related to his previous popular science works?

It doesn't matter, no matter what the reason is, in short, he is very happy and happy!If the happiness value triggered by empathy in a certain field is 100, then when someone like Zhou Zekai who has common topics in 99 other fields meets him in the 100th field, the happiness value must be multiplied by 100 Not too much.

Before going to bed, his mood was still unbelievably high, and he wondered how to measure this night.

He didn't want to use perfect to describe it, he felt that the word was barren and pale.

Finally, after thinking for a long time, Sun Xiang finally found the most suitable description——

"This is my ideal life," he concludes, not knowing he can't help but laugh.

"Don't sleep?" Zhou Zekai saw the light in the crack of the door and knocked on the door helplessly.

"Right away!" Sun Xiang replied.

"Good night. Have a good dream." Zhou Zekai said.

"Some people go to bed earlier." Sun Xiang complained with a smile, "I will definitely have a good dream!"

4.

After saying that, he quickly fell asleep.

It's just that the content of the dream has a little deviation.

He dreamed about his 30th birthday.The cake was served on a large dining table.In addition to knives and forks, dinner plates, and decorative flowers, there is also a photo album next to it.

The photo inside is of herself and...Zhou Zekai in the same suit?

This is not the point.

The point is that both of them wear exactly the same ring on their left ring fingers.

The moment Sun Xiang saw this detail, he woke up from his dream.After waking up, the first thing he did was to pick up his phone to confirm the current date - so that he could know whether he was dreaming or not.

Don't blame him, the happiness in the dream is terribly real.In particular, my emotions are so high and full, as if copied from every minute and second of last night.

Sun Xiang rubbed his temples and walked to the window.The sky is about to dawn, and the horizon is green with duck egg shells.The sun hovers behind the clouds, as if trying to hide its own existence, but this hiding is only a futile struggle—as time goes by, it is like the truth that he avoids to think about intentionally or unintentionally, and sooner or later it will usher in a moment of complete exposure .

Gradually.

The first rim of gold plated the cloud closest to the surface, as if something was about to spill.

Sun Xiang stared at the increasingly bright gap for a long time, thinking of something.

5.

Also troubled was the friend who was let off by Sun Xiang when he drank half of it a few days ago.

The reason was that he suddenly received an invitation from Sun Xiang.The content is simple: drink, old place, old time.

He had just met a girl, and he wished he could spend 24 hours flirting with her. He wanted to refuse Sun Xiang's invitation by reflex.What's more, Sun Xiang talked nonsense, he didn't explain why they got together, and it was said that it was only the two of them.It caused all kinds of weirdness in his heart.

He pondered for a long time, is there any day to celebrate recently?No, is there anything worth complaining about?It seems not.When it's over, he won't offend Sun Xiang at some point, right?

But people have taken the initiative to ask him out, so it is definitely not good to refuse.He hesitated again and again, and finally, he came to the bar with a blank face.

"What's the matter? It's mysterious." He opened a bottle of wine, handed it to Sun Xiang, and secretly looked at the other's expression, "Unhappy?"

Sun Xiang didn't speak, and lowered his head, wondering what he was thinking.

The friend had no choice but to open another bottle of wine by himself, touched him, and was not in a hurry to drink, and continued to look at him curiously.

Sun Xiang was absent-minded the whole time, and didn't pay attention to the other party's reaction. After touching the mouth of the bottle, he simply raised his head, as if accumulating energy for an important speech, and drank it all in one go.Then he put the bottle down, wiped his mouth, and dropped an atomic bomb: "Don't you know a lot of gays? Every day you say you are proficient in the world of LGBT emotions? Then let me ask you—"

"Huh?" My friend sat up straight excitedly but in a daze.

"—do men only like a certain man?"

6.

"Wait, wait, wait!" My friend slipped his hand and almost knocked the wine bottle to the ground, "What do you mean? What do you mean, men will only fall in love with a certain man?"

"What else can it mean?" Sun Xiang looked at him dissatisfied, his eyes seemed to say, a shitty relationship expert, he couldn't understand something so simple, "A man, he suddenly felt that it seemed okay to spend his whole life with a certain man Accept, but replace it with anyone else, like you—”

"Go, go, go."

"Tch, let's make an analogy." Sun Xiang glared at him, "For example, forget it, in short, he can't accept any other man, what is this, is it gay?"

"Yes...or not?" When it came to this point, no matter how slow the friend was, he could already tell that 99.9% of the "a man" was referring to Sun Xiang himself.After comprehending the subtext in context, his jaw almost dropped in shock.

After all, on weekdays, everyone's joking is just joking, complaining that Sun Xiang never finds a girl is a deep cabinet, but at most it's just flattery.Based on his knowledge of gays and Sun Xiang, he can assert that Sun Xiang is not like the type who is born to fall in love with men no matter what angle he looks at.

He tentatively asked: "How did that man determine that he only likes a certain same sex?"

Sun Xiang didn't hesitate to think: "How can I be sure? When I think of him marrying someone else, I feel absolutely impossible! I can't agree!"

It's all "I can't promise", shit, is it true? !

The friend covered his mouth to prevent the sound of "Fuck" from overflowing.

If he was a little dizzy just now, he has now figured out how big the secret he heard is.He secretly swore that he must not speak out easily, otherwise, according to Sun Xiang's personality, when he regained consciousness, he would definitely kill himself.

However, keeping secrets secret and satisfying curiosity is another aspect.

He comforted Sun Xiang, saying, "This man is definitely not gay, it's just that the person he likes happens to be a man." As expected, Sun Xiang breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, he began to actively pour wine for Sun Xiang, using all his strength to test, trying to get the name of that "specific object" out of Sun Xiang's mouth.

Who would have thought that even though Sun Xiang was half drunk, his tone of voice was still strict, and he would not even tell him the other party's last name.

Oh my god, my friend thought, he can be 100% sure that the "specific object" is the existence of Sun Xiang who sent messages when he had nothing to do when he was shopping at the party before, and who had to carefully choose souvenirs for others when he was on a business trip!

He was not convinced, so he drank two more bottles in his heart, two bottles were not enough for four bottles, there was nothing in the world he couldn't say!

……after an hour.

Sun Xiang leaned on the sofa with the pillow in his arms, his eyes slightly closed, as if he was completely drunk and fell asleep.

But he got nothing, and he was almost drunk, he felt hopeless.

"It's really you." The friend stood up staggeringly, and took out his wallet to pay the bill, "I'm the loser. I'll write it down to you later!"

After paying the bill, he felt a little worried. In this crowded place, Sun Xiang wouldn't be left to sleep all night.

He was quite witty, so after thinking about it, he sent a message to Fang Minghua - they also knew each other.

Fang Minghua was always reliable, and returned quickly: "The address is right? I'll find someone to pick him up."

7.

Half an hour later, my friend was playing Glory of Kings boringly, when suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder.

"Who--"

As soon as he looked up, he froze.

He swears that he has never seen such a handsome man in such a big age, except of course Sun Xiang.

The other party was wearing the simplest bomber jacket, plus a pair of washed jeans that were so ordinary that no brand could be seen, but that was just the clothes—if you only look at the figure and facial features, it must be described as the best of the best—this guy stood In the ambiguous lighting of the bar, you don't need to make any gestures deliberately, and you will naturally become the focus of the whole world.

This made him, who is also a man, feel ashamed.

In addition, he also noticed a crucial point - although the other party said polite thanks, he deliberately pulled down his mask and looked at his behavior, and there was a trace of contempt in his eyes, as if with The hostility that can only be understood by males—he was shocked, and the light bulb in his mind was lit: Is it really this person? !

8.

After the handsome man thanked him, he insisted on putting down the cash that was greater than the amount of the bill, and then, as if he was like air, he stepped forward to help Sun Xiang up, wrapped the guy's arms around his shoulders, and wanted to leave with him.

Seeing that the person would disappear from sight in a few seconds, the friend felt an impulse and shouted, "Wait! Are you his boyfriend?"

The man's footsteps paused, but he didn't look back.

"Now it is not."

Huh?

The friend was stunned, until the other party completely disappeared around the corner, and he recalled: "Not now, not now... translate it, will it be in the future?"

Grass!

Fortunately, he still sweated for Sun Xiang's love path for a long time, dare to say that this is a story of two-way secret love and showing affection!

9.

Zhou Zekai didn't care what the third party was imagining behind his back.

At the moment, all his attention is on Sun Xiang.People who drink a lot will have a higher body temperature than usual.Sun Xiang's position next to his was like a fever, burning him emotionally, but the cold wind blew in his face, and repeatedly lowered the temperature, and this cycle repeated, torturing Zhou Zekai. The road seems to have walked for a whole century.

Ye Mingkang, the owner of this bar, knew him and helped open the back door and found a private parking space, so that Zhou Zekai didn't have to worry about being photographed, so he swaggered back to the car with Sun Xiang.

Sun Xiang was obviously extremely drunk, his five senses were immersed in alcohol, and his weight was all supported by Zhou Zekai.Fortunately, during the two steps just now, the night wind was blowing hard enough, so when Zhou Zekai settled him into the passenger seat, he finally recovered a little clarity.

Zhou Zekai suppressed his irritability and leaned over to fasten his seat belt for him.At such a close distance, the smell of alcohol on Sun Xiang's body became clearer.It might be German stout, vodka, whiskey, and less obvious mint mixed together, Zhou Zekai frowned, he couldn't help thinking about how many kinds of alcohol this guy had drunk, even he was a little drunk.

Thinking of this, he glanced around.The night is dark, the light is sparse, except for the shadow of the sycamore tree, it is the red brick wall.Zhou Zekai realized that there would be no disturbers for a while, so his eyes involuntarily sank a little.

He slowly leaned over, and stopped at a position where the tip of their noses was only a punch away, and began to stare at Sun Xiang with deep eyes, not knowing what he was planning.

In the end, within a few seconds, the person being stared at suddenly opened his eyes.

When Sun Xiang found out that the guy in front of him was Zhou Zekai, he immediately smiled, extremely lazy and relaxed: "Huh? Why are you here?"

"Why can't you come?" Zhou Zekai slowly adjusted the tightness of the seat belt for him, then casually asked the second question, "You don't want me to come?"

"It's interesting to say that?" Sun Xiang didn't know where he was being poked, and suddenly he smiled and straightened his face: "...Do you just like to play with others, watching others feel uneasy and happy? Cold war today, reconciliation tomorrow , what else do you know? You don't know anything!"

"I know." Zhou Zekai was slightly taken aback, his eyes suddenly lit up.For a moment, his Adam's apple rolled violently, and after a long period of silence, he suddenly repeated in a very soft tone, "I know."

How could he not know.

Two days ago, he felt that life was a fucking jumping machine.At first, the altitude climbed smoothly and kept going upwards, making him think that he could touch the sky in the next second.As a result, at the moment when I was the most proud and confident, it fell straight down without saying hello.

It turns out that falling in love and falling in love are such difficult and complicated things that we can't refer to our past experience in dealing with other things at all.When you fall in love with someone, let him see the darkest side of his heart—fragility, hesitation, timidity, and lack of patience.

This was the first time that he was shaken, questioning his tentative decision, questioning whether he could persevere.

Then every other day.When he was sitting on the edge of someone's bed full of worry, irritability and gloom, he suddenly heard the other person chanting his name.

He thought he had heard it wrong.

He sat on the edge of the bed, the light in his eyes fluctuated, and he had the illusion that he was a survivor of a shipwreck, lying on the only foam board in the world, feeling like he was going to fall into the sea in one second, and he seemed to see land immediately in the next second.

In the end, he gave up thinking and became more self-willed than ever. He told himself that as long as there is one more sound, he will still be able to persist.

Then, as if the other party was afraid that he would go back on his word, he immediately cursed, bastard, then, idiot, and then, Zhou Zekai!

well.

He knew he was hopeless, and he was saved again.

Every cell in his body is screaming: What are you thinking? You two have a relationship that can't be done without anyone who can leave each other. You can't give up on him at all!

Just these three words filled him with courage again.Isn't it just gambling, playing heartbeat.Very good, judging by the results, although Sun Xiang hadn't waited for those few words to be completely uttered, he was certain that he should have succeeded.

That's why Zhou Zekai was able to repeat calmly and confidently: "I know."

"You don't know!" Sun Xiang retorted extremely forcefully, but his voice suddenly became softer, "And how could you know..."

"Know what?" Zhou Zekai couldn't help laughing, the irritability in his eyes has been replaced by a thousand tenderness, coaxing him, "Tell me."

"No...it's too embarrassing." Sun Xiang muttered, saying "Don't stare at me." You swear not to tell me.

"Well, I swear." Zhou Zekai groped for one of his hands, clasped his five fingers in tightly, and then raised it up, "Look."

"Okay." Sun Xiang's gaze rested on the clasped hands for a moment, obviously not yet discerning that Zhou Zekai in front of him was real. "I dreamed of our wedding photo. It was placed on the dining table. I..."

Zhou Zekai was surprised that he was calmer than expected: "What else?"

"I feel that I should like him." Maybe this sentence made him feel embarrassed to say it in his dream, and his face turned red all the way to the roots of his ears.But after saying it, as if he breathed a sigh of relief, he dared to look Zhou Zekai in the eye, "I shouldn't. I like him. According to Alan, I don't have feelings for men. He is the only object of my heart."

9.

Frank, vigorous, arrogant.

He completed his declaration.

The momentum that erupted in that instant was comparable to the saying "No.11 season is the season of reincarnation" in the glory field.

But when his voice fell, the surrounding area was extremely quiet.Zhou Zekai should have been silent for a while.

This long silence gave birth to unresolved anxiety, which taught Sun Xiang to wake up suddenly.He seemed to have finally realized what was going on at this moment, but it was definitely impossible to take back what he said. He froze for two seconds, his face flushed even redder, and he anxiously grabbed Zhou Zekai's neckline: "Speak up!"

"I," Zhou Zekai's voice finally sounded, it was still so pleasant, but hoarse than usual, as if suppressing some great excitement, "...what do you want to hear?"

"Anything is fine!" The drunkenness made Sun Xiang's shame quickly fade away, and instead gave birth to the courage to get an answer immediately.

"Understood." Zhou Zekai smiled softly, brushed Sun Xiang's hair behind his ear with his free hand, "I can do whatever I want?"

Sun Xiang didn't turn the corner, and nodded instinctively: "...um."

Then he felt a softer and warmer breath than the night breeze, slowly sweeping to the tip of his nose.

Uncontrollably, Sun Xiang closed his eyes.

It's a pity that before the substantive contact occurred, he was shocked and made an extremely bad move - because of nervousness, he subconsciously pushed Zhou Zekai away.

Zhou Zekai lowered his face and stared at him, his obsidian-like eyes filled with dark tides: "You're usually drunk, and that's the case too? Grabbing a kiss?"

"D-Of course not!" Sun Xiang blushed, stammeringly retorted, "It depends on who it is!"

Zhou Zekai still looked at him with distrust.

"Really!" Sun Xiang was angry because of being suspected, "I don't have time to provoke you, it's just you this time! Of course I wanted to kiss you just now, isn't that nervous!"

After speaking, he seemed to realize what he had yelled, and quickly turned his face away to look out the window, wishing he could get into the cracks in the ground.

"I know." Zhou Zekai smiled from his eyes, leaned over, straightened Sun Xiang's head, and bent over frankly under the other's nervous gaze.

The hair was frizzy, but the lips were as soft as imagined.

"There can't be a second time." He taught the other party, and then kissed again, "You must give me the address in the future."

This is about Sun Xiang running out to drink with others but refusing to give the address, strike while the iron is hot, and settle the score after the fall.

But obviously, this calculation is a bit inappropriate - the other party's attention is not here at all.

Sun Xiang's head was dizzy, he felt that he was drunk again, and it seemed like he was dreaming. He fell from a high altitude and drowned in a dream full of wine.He looked at the face close at hand in a daze, and saw the street lamp or the moonlight outside the window, which made the other person's outline bright, but no matter what, it was nothing compared to those eyes——as if a pair of eyes The light of the entire galaxy was gathered inside, making it impossible for him to look away.

In a daze, he just let Zhou Zekai press his lips, rubbing them slowly, and murmured the commanding words: "Do you remember?"

"Remember..." Sun Xiang answered subconsciously, and only after he finished the answer did he realize that he was being entangled again, with a little bit of face remaining on the line, "Hmph, Mr. Zhou is so busy, I don't have the nerve to bother you."

Zhou Zekai smiled lightly, his eyes seemed to say, just dream.

"Ordinary friends are really troublesome. But—" He bit Sun Xiang's lips as punishment, as if to teach him to remember the pain of this moment, "I am your boyfriend."

TBC