【77】The Sleepless Male Lion

*Modern paro (online game paro), reality is not a game, but life is often like a play.

*Deceive self-deception and others & arrive like seven.

*Some things are only important when you lose them.

*If I could receive one dollar every time I took a ooc, my student loan would have ceased to exist long ago.

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? 24.

"Ah Qi, Da Fei and I are going to Tarli City for a week, take care of yourself."

Dabao said to Wu Liuqi, who was still in charge of the store, that his expression looked like a rare spirit.Not far from the store door was a royal blue SUV parked, and Wu Liuqi recognized that it belonged to Da Fei.

"Oh, are you going to discuss business?"

"Nah, recently a big client was very kind and gave me a coupon for a two-person tour. We're going to go to the hot springs to watch a show and climb the mountain along the way."

"Wow, it's so wide."

"We're not here, you have to eat well, don't always eat offal, you know?"

"Oh."

"Remember to lock the doors and windows, you keep forgetting."

"understood."

"Go out less at night, it's cold and easy to catch a cold in winter."

"Okay, okay, am I a brat?"

Wu Liuqi waved his hand, not paying attention to this set of nagging that he had heard hundreds of times.He thought that if he didn't interrupt, Dabao's remonstrance might not end for a while, and Da Fei would have to wait in the car to fall asleep.

"Okay, I'm leaving then."

"Be careful on the road."

Wu Liuqi propped his head and waved to Da Bao who was crossing the road, and a classic American joke suddenly floated in his mind:

Why do chickens cross the road?

In short, not because of loneliness.Wu Liuqi twitched the corners of his mouth, thinking self-deprecatingly, then turned to face the empty shop.

This is the fifth day.Usually when there were few customers, Qi would always chat with him in the store, but she was absent these few days.This made Wu Liuqi, who was used to the other party's existence, feel a sense of lack.

I've had this feeling before, that is when Mizunachi disappeared inexplicably.Wu Liuqi sighed, realizing for the first time that he was so afraid of loneliness.

The difference from then was that Wu Liuqi was able to contact Shang Qi.In fact, they send text messages to chat with each other every day, but the interval between each other's replies has become longer these days.

"A customer asked you for your contact information, beauty.?."

This is what he passed on at ten o'clock this morning.It's almost time to close the store now, and he still hasn't heard back.Wu Liuqibai stared at the chat room in a daze.

Strange to say, in the past, Wu Liuqi also spent the quiet nights and leisurely business hours alone, and he never thought it was a problem, but now he began to find it hard to bear being alone.Maybe it's after having tasted the company of someone that loneliness will start to look bitter.

Wu Liuqi came home at six o'clock and took a comfortable hot bath to wash away the oily fumes.He threw himself on the bed, lying on the huge little flying chicken, and let out a satisfied admiration.

The phone rings a notification tone.

"Not interested in"

Looking at the message from Qi, Wu Liuqi couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, as if he saw the calm No. [-] expression through the screen.

"I don't want beautiful women, your right hand is tired like this"

He teased unceremoniously.

After a while, he got up and sat in front of the computer, put the Swiss knife he bought a few days ago into a gift box and packed it, and then began to write the delivery note that he got back from the post office this morning.

When the hand holding the pen came to the column of the delivery address, he intuitively turned out the receipt list when he received the gift, and filled it in according to the delivery address on it.Wu Liuqi frowned, and the writing movement gradually stopped, feeling an unspeakable weirdness spreading in his heart.There seemed to be something he should have noticed but had been locked away in a dead corner of memory.

He received a gift from Mizunaki on his birthday.But whether it's birthday or home address, he obviously never mentioned any of them at the beginning of the show—

—Then how did the other party know?

Wu Liuqi's hand was a little unsteady.The uneasiness seemed to be visualized, climbing all the way up his hands, and draped on his shoulders against his spine, making him feel like a thorn in his back.It was cold, but he had the illusion that the air around him had dropped a few degrees.

"Brother Qi, will you sleep with me tonight?"

He picked up his phone, typed this message and sent it.

Wu Liuqi is only enough to calm down and think of asking for help, but it is not enough to realize how misunderstood what he said.

? 25.

Qi sat in front of the computer, holding the joystick with a force as rough as treating a father-killer and enemy.In the past few days, he kept forcing himself not to look for Wu Liuqi. For his plan, this was a necessary process.But obviously it was torture for himself and his rocker.

In the first two days, he thought of cheating himself by watching the other party's live broadcast record, so as to relieve the anxiety of not seeing people, but found that this would only have the opposite effect.So for the next three days, he devoted all his energy to the battle game, unscrupulously venting his dissatisfaction to the innocent opponent on the other side of the screen.

After the end of the few rounds, he put down the joystick, and stuffed the steamed buns on the table into his mouth to chew.Qi is not addicted to cigarettes or drugs, but he thinks that he has really felt the pain of withdrawal these days.This also made him worry that if the plan fails, he is not sure whether he has the ability to cheer up.

After reading countless articles, he knows that there is nothing "irreplaceable" about the so-called love, and those are just misleading praises written by lovers in love and poets who yearn for the beauty of love.The sea is wide and you can always find the next fish.But Qi is sure that even if he can find another person he likes, Wu Liuqi will still have a place in his heart.

Qi's feelings for Wu Liuqi can no longer be simply explained by the word secret love, he almost regards the other party as a kind of salvation.He can find himself by Wu Liuqi's side, not "the son of a certain powerful family" or "the shrewd and capable heir".He can show Wu Liuqi his soft side without any worries, and can remove all unnecessary sharpness and arms.

Wu Liuqi may not be the only ray of sunshine in his life, but it is the first ray of dawn that announces the end of Noah's Ark drifting.

He got up, walked into the bathroom and picked up the phone on the sink.Yes, he keeps his phone in the bathroom.Otherwise, he couldn't help but reply immediately the next second the other party sent a message.

"A customer asked you for your contact information, beauty.?."

This was a message from nearly nine hours ago, and Qi was a little unhappy looking at this message.How much he wanted to stay by the other party's side, but this group of damned guests were desperate to get to know Wu Liuqi only by using Wu Liuqi as a springboard.

"Not interested in."

He returned, and then angrily pressed the phone back on the stage not too gently, with such force that the toothbrushes and mouthwash cups around jumped and almost fell off the stage.

Qi turned on the faucet, ready to fill a whole jar of hot water for a bath.While waiting, he went back to the dormitory to pick up the planner, read it one by one and confirmed that there were no omissions in the steps.

first step:

* Find out the other party's hobbies, personality, time and place of haunting.

*If possible, by the way, integrate into the other party's circle of friends.

* Occasionally create some coincidences so that the other party will gradually leave an impression on you.

Qi is sure that he has indeed grasped Wu Liuqi's information.

Wu Liuqi lives at No. 67 Zhinan Lane, Cike Street, Zhongshan Fifth Road, East District, Xuanwu City.Birthday 11/29, Capricorn, blood type O.Height and weight 173cm/62kg.I sell beef offal in my own shop, I am interested in playing video games, I like chicken related peripherals, I like to taste delicious food, and I especially like to drink milk tea.

He is not good at integrating into the so-called circle of friends, but at least Dabao is someone he can manage well.

As for creating chance encounters, it was a very difficult challenge for Qi.It's not that it's difficult to meet, but it's very difficult for him to hold back and not let himself run into the other's store every day, but he still manages to do it.

The second step:

* Take the initiative to ask the other party to go out.

*Speak less and maintain a sense of mystery, be a speaker instead of a speaker.

*Try to let the other party give advice on where to play.

Most of the articles that Qi read mentioned that "Straight men have a novelty-seeking mentality. If you talk less, you can maintain a sense of mystery and make the other party interested in you. If you talk too much, it is easy for him to lose interest in you.", "Just keep silent when the other party Sometimes lead him to speak, and once the other party speaks vigorously, listen quietly and don't interrupt."

Based on Wu Liuqi's chatterbox and familiarity attributes, he didn't even need to go through this step.Wu Liuqi carried out the task he invited for the first time by himself, and even the places to visit were taken over by the other party as a tour guide.Qi was originally a taciturn person, and Wu Liuqi would often talk non-stop without opening the topic.So this whole step is undoubtedly just for Qi to enjoy the time with the other party.

third step:

*Integrate into each other's life and accompany them from time to time, but at most one week, you can't meet every day.

Qi is a bit... or should I say a complete failure in this step.Staying by Wu Liuqi's side was so comfortable that it took a full two weeks before he really succeeded in warning himself not to run into the other's store.

And now he is executing the fourth step:

* Start to snub the other party, test your position in the other party's heart, and don't take the initiative to show up until the other party asks to meet.

This is also the most critical step.Once Wu Liuqi did not make this request within a week, it would be officially announced that he could not be the object of special attention to the other party.

Qi felt that this week was extremely long and at the same time extremely short.He is always looking forward to the text message from the other party, and sometimes he turns on the phone every few minutes to confirm that he has not missed the call. At this time, he wishes that the time can pass faster so that he can end this tormenting process early; but with The deadline for a week was approaching, and he began to pray that the time would pass more slowly. Every second passed, his mood became more depressed. He heard the ticking sound from the pointer, like a death row prisoner step by step on the execution platform Hear the funeral bell.

He has even begun to think pessimistically whether he should take the other party back by force and imprison him in a place only he can see.But Qi knew very well that once he did this, everything he wanted would be destroyed by himself.

He likes Wu Liuqi's optimistic sunshine, and the way the other party looks straight at him without any scruples.No matter what means he used to force the other party to stay by his side, that look in his eyes would no longer exist.He didn't want any negative emotions to appear on the other person's face because of him, that was the last thing he wanted to see.

His face was sullen, and Qi didn't recover until the hot water overflowed the bathtub and soaked his feet.

When he stepped up and was about to turn off the faucet, the phone rang again to remind him of a text message.Qi frowned, stretched out her hand anxiously to get the phone, and opened the text message like a family member of a seriously ill patient listening to a doctor's announcement.

"Brother Qi, will you sleep with me tonight?"

Qi froze in place.The world seemed to be set to silent mode for a moment, the sound of gurgling water falling on the feet, the melodious sound of the bedroom, and the sound of the phone call, all became far away, so far away that it was unreal.

Wait, the sound of an incoming call?Qi consciously came over and immediately pressed the answer button.

"Uh...hey pretty boy, the moonlight is pretty good tonight, how about we buy some snacks and talk all night?"

Listening to Wu Liuqi's unsteady tone, he felt a very long-lost feeling.

"...Ah Qi? Are you listening?"

"Um."

He said.

"I'll go."

Then he immediately hung up the phone, turned off the faucet, pulled off a coat, put it on, and hurried out.He didn't even bother to notice that tonight was a new moon and the dark clouds were particularly thick.

tbc