Chapter 499: Qiao Mu Private High School

Bai Liu turned down everyone.

Hou Tong was really aggrieved this time, she Buming white, "Why? You don't have a girlfriend either, so you'd rather eat alone than with someone else?"

"Being alone suits me better." Bai Liu headed out the door, his back pausing for a moment, "When I'm alone, I have someone to keep me company."

Hou Tong Buming understood the meaning of these words as she watched Bai Liu's slim back in his school uniform disappear into the neon light of the bustling shopping street, her eyes filling with tears.

"There's no one there ......" Hou Tong sobbed, "isn't it still alone?"

Bai Liu redeemed his voucher for two large buckets of carbonated drinks, and played with Spades from the beginning to the end of the shopping street, where he won the biggest prize by playing all the two-player modes by himself, while all the shopkeepers and passers-by looked on in a daze.

The prizes are then sold off on the roadside to boys and girls who want them, and the money is used to continue playing until the shopkeeper cries out for money and gives Bai Liu away.

By the time we reached the end of the shopping street, at the beginning of the night, the 100 yuan in Bai Liu's pocket had become more than 200 yuan.

They stood side by side in the dark alleyway at the end of the shopping street, Bai Liu holding his drink, turning to Spades; "Anything else you want to play?"

"Now you can stop picking out what's on sale."

"That." Spades raised his hand, and he pointed in a certain direction, his tone insistent, "How much is that thing?"

Bai Liu followed the line of sight of Spades, a huge Ferris wheel covered with a circle of colourful led bulbs that could flash and change the font.

And the font now reads [Ren Qiang (love) Yan Xue live and let live, together forever (stars)

Spades looked straight at Bai Liu: "I want that."

Bai Liu: "......"

The Ferris wheel is the most popular amusement item in the whole shopping street, because it is very high and big, and on the riverside, the view is excellent when you turn to the top, you can overlook almost half of the city's river view, a thirty-minute turn can kill time, and it is also convenient for some couples to do some more intimate things in it, and each Ferris wheel cabin turns to the top of the two minutes can also according to the different requirements of customers in the cabin The two minutes that each capsule spins to the top can also be used to flash different lights depending on the requirements of the client.

The more popular prompts are something like love you for life, use forever together, get rich overnight and so on and so forth, because the college entrance exams are coming up recently, there are also a lot of families coming to play and there are also some congratulatory messages like golden rankings.

But it's not discounted and it's expensive, Bai Liu costs a hundred and fifty per person.

It's a good thing that he and Spades had played the game so much before and made a lot of gifts for him, which sold for almost a hundred and fifty.

The usual Bai Liu would think that spending $150 for a 30-minute ride on the Ferris wheel is a useless exercise in ego projection, some commercial cheap marketing trap, a very extravagant love toy.

But now ......

Spades looks up at the giant Ferris wheel, holding Bai Liu's hand tightly, the neon dappled light falling into his black eyes as he gazes at the line [Together Forever], looking intently and yearningly.

It's probably one of the few words this guy knows.

It is not clear for whom the acquaintance was made.

Bai Liu withdrew his gaze, "Let's go."

"Go and sit."

"Are you sure you're alone?" The owner of the Ferris wheel looked at Bai Liu, who had come alone, with some surprise.

Girls and couples in his program come to sit alone more often than boys.

"No?" Bai Liu asked back in a flat tone.

"Yes yes yes!" The boss nodded hastily as he tapped on the electronic screen and slid out some banners, "Pick the one you want to light up as you turn to the top."

Bai Liu raises his hand and is about to choose the slogan "Forever and Ever" when Spades preempts him by clicking on another one.

"This one." Spades stared at the electronic screen, "Pick this one."

Bai Liu looked at the slogan chosen by Spades, and he paused.

Spades chose - [Bai Liu Gold List Title, smooth sailing]

"Boss, wait a minute." Bai Liu gave Spades a quick glance, "I'll think about what to choose."

"OK OK," the boss gave an OK gesture, "just take your time choosing and come over before the next wave of machines starts."

Bai Liu pulled Spades into a corner, his hands on his chest and a slight smile on his lips, "Why did you choose that? Do you know what that means?"

"Know." Spades said, "Your school hangs every day."

That's true, Qiao Mu Private High School has slogans all over the school and everyone around Bai Liu says it, so it's hard for Spades not to recognise it.

"So what do you mean by talking to me?" Bai Liu asked.

Spades paused for a moment, "You've been doing questions for this, and everyone around you wants this."

"What they have, you must have too."

"We only have enough money for one ride." Bai Liu's tone was muted, "Are you sure you want to pick this? If you pick this, your name won't come up and you won't be able to choose to stay together forever."

He could see that Spades would prefer the together forever tagline, the guy always put what he wanted first and he didn't think Spades could resist the temptation of [being together forever].

"Have you thought about it?" Bai Liu asked, "Which one to choose?"

Spades stared at Bai Liu for a moment, then he oh-so-slowly lowered his head and spoke but in a tone that didn't hesitate at all: "The golden medallion."

It was Bai Liu's turn to pause.

"You want me to go gold that badly?"

"No." Spades looked at Bai Liu, "It's that all those people have a lot of people who wish they were golden, and you have to have them too."

Bai Liu is quiet.

He understood what Spades was saying. Spades didn't want him to be golden, Spades just wanted him to have people who really wanted him to be golden - like himself.

"I got it, so let's go for the golden ticket." Bai Liu turned and walked over to the Ferris wheel, pausing suddenly as he walked, "Do you want to get it with my name?"

Spades didn't hesitate: "Yes."

So the Ferris wheel owner received the strangest banner collage request of his life, and he looked at Liu Bai's suddenly flashing banner as the pod turned to the top with a look of utter sophistication.

[Spades Love, Bai Liu, always a golden success and smooth sailing].

The dumbfounded onlookers next to them: "Always golden, what kind of slogan is that?! Up went a schoolboy couple?!"

Boss: "......"

The end of the tour was a movie, and they chose a very cold horror movie. The only people left in the cinema, apart from another sweet couple who left halfway through, were Spades and Bai Liu, who were sitting in the best seats, and a small bucket of popcorn placed between them.

Both men watched the film very quietly.

The horror is like a walking light, reflected frame by frame in the equally dark eyes of the two men, the film's images of the protagonists screaming and panicking as they flee, and outside the film, the two hands under the seats gradually interlocking their fingers and clasping them together.

Spades suddenly spoke with envy: "If only we were in this horror game."

Bai Liu, who is holding hands: "......"

What's this brand new idea of alien romance?

Spades' eyes were staring at the movie screen, the horrific images of the film staggered in the pupils of his deep black eyes, and his tone was serious.

"There, I'll be able to give you everything."

It was almost nine o'clock when they came out of the cinema. They followed the display road outside the cinema, and all the way there were all kinds of shops related to movies, weird and fancy, and a lot of horror movie equivalents.

Bai Liu doesn't take more than two steps before he has to look back to see where Spades has gone.

The man harboured a great sense of alarm and curiosity around these horror movie equivalents and would always come over to look at them, walking away from the man.

When Bai Liu turned around, Spades was gone again and he frowned for a while before finally spotting Spades outside the window of a neighbourhood shop.

Spades rests his hands on top of the window glass, his eyes staring straight at something in the window, his body overflowing with an intense, wanting desire.

Bai Liu: ......

A sense of foreboding began to rise.

Bai Liu followed Spades' line of sight and his mind went blank for a moment.

The shop assistants in the window were carrying an assortment of peripherals, one of which was a huge, long, skinny ghostly doll suit that stood out in particular. The suit was obviously handmade and looked rough, with lots of rough lines showing, but this made it particularly creepy instead, with the face not stitched but exposed in a hollow, looking like a cheap, half-finished piece.

Bai Liu's heart suddenly pounded so violently the moment he saw the doll suit that his eyes lost focus and he had only one thought in his mind that was completely out of his control -

-- [This is his stuff]

[He wants it back.]

The clerk patted the doll suit down, placed it on a wooden hanger and turned to close the door.

Without any hesitation Bai Liu pushed through the door and he asked point blank, "Hello, I would like to ask the price of this doll suit?"

"This one?" The clerk turned her head over, "This one might be expensive."

"This dress was picked up from an orphanage where something had happened to our boss, it was said to be a collection and not for sale, but today, I don't know what happened, but suddenly he said he was going to prepare for the perfume industry and was not collecting, so he was going to give the dress and let me put it here."

"Our boss is a foreigner, and he asks high prices for collections." The shop assistant couldn't resist advising, "You're a student, aren't you? It's better to advise you not to enter this pit."

Bai Liu looked directly at the shop assistant: "Can you tell me the price?"

The clerk flipped through the listing, then looked up, "Twenty thousand."

Bai Liu's chest rose and fell for a moment as he gradually calmed down, said thank you and walked out.

He took Spades' hand as he walked back, his head bowed, his expression unreadable, his hand clenched tightly.

20,000 ...... is too expensive.

Spades suddenly said, "I want that."

Bai Liu took a deep breath and was about to say I can't afford it when he saw Spades raising his hand and pointing at a small cooler with [on sale] written on the side.

"I'd like some ice cream." Spades looked at him and asked, "Can I have ice cream on sale?"

A rampant desire in Bai Liu's heart subsided and he took a breath and said, "Yes."

The small freezers are in the form of unmanned vending and contain whatever sorbet is available.

Spades leans over and chooses carefully, then suddenly speaks up and asks, "What's your favourite kind of food?"

Bai Liu was quiet for a long time and said, "Strawberry flavoured cuteness."

"Then I'll have this." Spades said.

Bai Liu looks around: "No more of this flavour, vanilla?"

Spades turns depressed in the flesh: "No more ......"

The corner of Bai Liu's mouth quirked up a little: "Why does it have to be my favourite flavour?"

Spades lowered his head as he looked at Bai Liu and said in a calm tone, "If I eat your favourite flavour, I will become your favourite flavour too, and you will probably like me a little more too."

"Your time alone is coming to an end and I'm leaving, Bai Liu, so before I go, can you tell me you like me?"

The light of the freezer flickered twice and went out, and a dark silence fell between Bai Liu and Spades.

The small smile on Bai Liu's face slowly disappeared and he said very coldly.

"Don't."

"I hate you, Spades ."