Overspill

Yu Ci and Xu Cheng walked around the parking lot for a while before finding their car.

Xu Cheng sat in the car, looking fierce while touching the keys, but actually threatened Yu Ci harmlessly, "If you dare to laugh at me, I will throw you halfway."

He laughed sullenly twice, and said with great face, "Understood."

Only then did Xu Cheng start the car with satisfaction.

While adjusting his direction, he remembered to ask Yu Ci, "What are you going to get?"

The smile on Yu Ci's face faded a little.

"Go get a pair of custom-made cufflinks," Yu Ci said while looking out the window, "It's my birthday present for Qiao Hexing."

Qiao Hexing's birthday is less than ten days away.

Xu Cheng thought for a while, "But cufflinks are very common. He doesn't lack these cuffs and watches. You can't show how special you are by giving them."

He sincerely advises Yu Ci, who doesn't want to be unique in his sweetheart's gift list.

However, Yu Ci lowered his eyes, "I know. But my gift is not suitable for being too special."

With his current status as Qiao Hexing, he can only give gifts according to the rules.

What he didn't tell Xu Cheng was that he actually prepared a gift, which was a leather pendant made by himself.It was not expensive at all compared to the pair of cuffs, and it was a bit clumsy, but it took him a long time to make it.

With the wealth of him and Qiao Hexing, the gifts that money can buy are not precious, and only the things that took the time to make with their own hands can be seen at a glance.

But once this gift was sent out, and he said that he made it himself, his thoughts on Qiao Hexing were tantamount to being half-honest.

So he couldn't give it away, at least not as a serious birthday present.

Xu Cheng also turned the corner at this time, knowing that Yu Ci was concerned about the relationship between his father and Qiao Hexing.

"Actually, the cufflinks are pretty good," Xu Cheng changed his words, "You made them to order, low-key and unique. He will think of you when he uses them in the future, which is not bad."

Yu Ci knew that he was comforting himself, so he smiled and said nothing.

"By the way, this is Qiao Hexing's first birthday after coming to your house, right?" Xu Cheng thought of something while driving the car, "Will your dad hold him a birthday party or something?"

Xu Cheng glanced at Yu Ci cautiously.

Yu Ci felt a dull pain in his heart for a moment.

It stands to reason that it should be done. After all, Qiao Hexing is now Yu Ci's nominal "fiancé". Although there is no engagement ceremony, he has already lived in Yu's house. In order to show importance, Qiao Hexing should be congratulated.

But once Yu Shenyan helped Qiao Hexing organize the birthday party, it would still be held at Yu's house, and it would basically have the same effect as publishing the news of the engagement in the newspaper.

"I don't know," Yu Ci shook his head, "I don't have any news from my dad."

Yu Ci took the pair of custom-made cufflinks, and had dinner with Xu Cheng before going home.

However, when he got home, Qiao Hexing hadn't come back yet.

It was dark upstairs, the door of Qiao Hexing's room was closed, and there was no familiar figure sitting by the window of the small living room.

Yu Ci felt a little lost.

Before he knew it, he had gotten used to living with Qiao Hexing, but Yu Shenyan was always absent as the key person who maintained them, which caused the ambiguity of his relationship with Qiao Hexing, and made him often forget Qiao Hexing's identity.

Sometimes when he went out and saw Qiao Hexing, he even had the illusion that Qiao Hexing was a young master sent by a family friend, and he was just staying at Yu's house.

Yu Ci stared at the beautifully wrapped cufflinks in his hand for a while, then stuffed them back into his bag.

He was lying on his back on the sofa, the bright light shone on his face.

He remembered that in the haunted house in the afternoon, the girl named Ning Yao kept hugging him, too scared to open her eyes.

But in fact, he was also afraid in his heart. There were several times when he also wanted to run wildly.

At that time, he thought, it would be great if Qiao He was here.

He could stand beside Qiao Hexing and hold Qiao Hexing's hand openly and aboveboard.

Then he is not afraid of anything.

Yu Ci lay on the sofa and fell asleep unconsciously, and when he woke up again, it was almost ten o'clock.

He vaguely felt someone patting his shoulder, seeing that he was not awake, he pinched his ear again.

Yu Ci struggled to open his eyes, but the light in the living room was still bright, making it difficult for him to keep his eyes open.

And Qiao Hexing stood in front of him, with his knees touching his knees, as if he had just returned.

"Why are you sleeping here?" Qiao Hexing asked him, seeing Yu Ci's confused face, a smile flashed in Qiao Hexing's eyes, without thinking too much, he put his palm on Yu Ci's face, and gently pressed his eyes with his thumb tail.

It's a very intimate gesture.

Yu Ci was taken aback for a moment.

Qiao Hexing was too close to him, so close that he could still smell a bit of tobacco on Qiao Hexing's cuffs, and a little... the smell of women's perfume.

The fragrance is already very weak, but this kind of gentle and charming floral fragrance is obviously not used by Qiao He's guild.

Yu Ci's heart skipped a beat.

He subconsciously turned his face away, keeping a little distance from Qiao Hexing's hand.

"Just came back and sat here for a while, and fell asleep accidentally," Yu Ci rubbed his eyes, and asked as normal as possible, "Senior, where have you been, why are you back now?"

Qiao Hexing noticed Yu Ci's movement and slowly withdrew his hand.

"I met with an ex-friend," Qiao Hexing said indifferently, "The chat was a little late."

The living room was silent for a while, save for the sound of the clock ticking.

Yu Ci couldn't bear the strange silence, he stood up from the sofa, "Then I'll go back to my room first."

As he said that, he was about to go to the room, but when he passed by Qiao Hexing, Qiao Hexing grabbed his wrist and pushed him back on the sofa.

Qiao Hexing's hand was so strong that Yu Ci almost fell on the sofa, and he grabbed one of his shoulders, which hurt a little, and he couldn't help frowning.

He was just about to ask Qiao Hexing what's wrong, but he found that Qiao Hexing's eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes fell on his chest. He stretched out a hand and grabbed the collar of his shirt.

Yu Ci was wearing a white shirt today, with a thin camel cardigan over it.

Qiao Hexing opened the collar of Yu Ci's shirt with two slender fingers, and saw half of the red lip print on the inside of Yu Ci's collar, like a red rose stuck to it.

In such a special place, what kind of intimate posture is required to leave the lipstick in this place?

Yu Ci somehow felt that Qiao Hexing's gaze was getting colder.

"Didn't you go to the haunted house with Xu Cheng this afternoon?" Qiao Hexing rubbed his finger on the lip print, "Who left this?"

He smiled, as if joking, but there was no smile in his eyes, "Can Xu Cheng know how to wear lipstick?"

Yu Ci: "..."

This made Xu Cheng hear that he had to work hard with you.

But he didn't think too much about it, and explained bluntly, "When I went to play with Xu Cheng in the afternoon, I met a classmate from our school. It was Fang Ruqing and his cousin. Later we accidentally separated, and I and His cousin walked together, she should have accidentally bumped into him."

As if to verify what Yu Ci said, the screen of his phone on the sofa lit up for a moment.

It was a WeChat message that had just been sent, and the profile picture was Ning Yao's selfie.

"Yu Ci, I just got home, thank you for accompanying me to the haunted house this afternoon. I will also go to University A in a few days, can I have dinner with you?"

The screen quickly went dark.

However, both Qiao Hexing and Yu Ci had already seen the news.

Unable to explain why, Yu Ci suddenly felt a little guilty, but soon he felt that there was no reason for this guilt.

"Is this girl the one you met this afternoon?" He heard Qiao Hexing ask.

"Uh, yes."

Qiao Hexing chuckled, "She seems to have a crush on you, what about you? Are you going to meet her?"

Qiao Hexing said while staring at Yu Ci's face.

Yu Ci didn't look up, so he didn't see the gloomy expression on Qiao Hexing's face.

In fact, Yu Ci did not intend to meet Ning Yao, he himself is not very good at dealing with girls.

But he looked down at his fingers, the lights in the living room were so bright, the shadows of him and Qiao Hexing were reflected on the ground, because they were very close, their shadows were entangled together, at first glance it looked like a distorted monster, separated Also inseparable.

His feelings for Qiao Hexing are also such a distorted monster, knowing that it's not possible, knowing that it shouldn't be, but still growing savagely, and one day will swallow him up.

Maybe he should try to see if he can get Qiao Hexing out of his heart.

"Maybe," Yu Ci said in a low voice, "Xu Cheng gets along well with them, maybe the four of them can have a meal together and be friends."

In fact, he won't meet Ning Yao, and he won't be with anyone until he has cleaned up his feelings.

But in front of Qiao Hexing, he was like an unarmed man facing a well-equipped cavalry, always looking for a shield to block himself.

Obviously Qiao Hexing knew nothing about his feelings, but he always wanted to show him in a panic, you see, I will not pester you, I will try my best to hide myself well, and will never cause trouble to you.

Just like the unsigned gifts he once sent out.

No one will know who has held these things in the palm of their hands.

Qiao Hexing looked at Yu Ci's head that had never been raised, and he saw the small scarlet mole on the back of Yu Ci's neck, like a brush dipped in cinnabar and dropped a little on the rice paper.

In fact, he has always known that Yu Ci is good-looking and that he is also very popular with others, but he never seems to have thought that Yu Ci would accept invitations from others.

"Then I hope you have fun with them." Qiao Hexing took a step back, his shadow no longer covering Yu Ci.

Yu Ci finally raised his head.

But Qiao Hexing had already turned around and went back to his room, and the door was closed gently.

Yu Ci withdrew his gaze in a bit of a sense of loss, and leaned back on the sofa again. He could feel that Qiao Hexing seemed a little unhappy, but he didn't understand why he was unhappy.

He was the only shadow left on the floor.

Yu Ci took the phone and switched to Ning Yao's WeChat page.

"Sorry, I may not eat at school these days, but you are welcome to visit University A."

After posting this, thinking about Xu Cheng's chat with Ning Yao in the afternoon, he added, "Xu Cheng may be free, you can make an appointment to see Xu Cheng."