Chapter 46: Kissing

Some things, when you think about them, are like a thorn in your side.

Lu Jiayan sees marriage as a matter of finding someone who is compatible with her, bound by law to live together, whereas in the case of a marriage of gentry, it is bound by profit.

Whether it is the former or the latter, what binds a marriage is not considered love.

When you have immediate interests, you don't care about your other half's past love life. At their position, people are smart enough to know what to say and what not to say, what to pretend not to know and what to live with, and nothing more.

But after seeing Sheng Mingzhi's heartless performance.

Lu Jiayan's heart swells with an unprecedented feeling of discomfort.

Much to his surprise.

He did not expect this uncontrollable outcome until he flirted with Sheng Mingzhi.

Whether Sheng Mingzhi has a first love, or is married, it is difficult to forget that first love.

Both answers served to sharpen the thorn in his side.

After Sheng Mingzhi had muddled through, he took a sip of hot milk.

Then he stares intently at the screen, as if he is fully engaged in the film.

A strange silence fell between the two again.

Sheng Mingzhi was so embarrassed that he looked for his head all over the floor, not even daring to look around.

He didn't even know what Lu Jiayan was doing to ask such a strange question!

What's even more outrageous is that he himself is affected by Lu Jiayan, and starts to feel weak.

What does he have to be ashamed of!

Not to mention the fact that he doesn't have a first love, so what if he does?

When Lu Jiayan was studying, there was this and that, so many flings.

Even during his years abroad, there were rumours that he was married and had children, and that Mei Mei had three children, did Mr Sheng ever go over these old scores with him?

...... so he just did.

What the hell is the point of having a weak heart?

The second half of Sheng Mingzhi's film is not at all enjoyable.

But Lu Jiayan didn't press him further, and Sheng Mingzhi stole a few glances as he drank his milk.

Hmm.

The dog man's expression was normal, as was his sight.

It's a complete and utter obsession with the film's plot.

However -

I never thought he would love to watch this kind of literary romance movie.

Sheng Mingzhi was inwardly surprised for a small moment.

But it soon occurred to him that Lu Jiayan did seem to favour quieter things, preferring golf to basketball and reading to drinking.

The most memorable was when he was in his first year.

Because Sheng Mingzhi was an interlocutor, Lu Jiayan was still in his senior year when he transferred to the secondary school.

The YunJing Secondary School is divided into two areas, the Upper School and the Middle School, separated by a long blue-green fence.

Every Thursday evening study, the Annexe organises a public service film for students to watch, with students taking turns to walk to the step classroom according to their class.

The staircase classroom can accommodate two to three hundred people and there is no teacher on duty when the film is being watched, it is all watched and scored by someone from the Student Union Discipline Department.

That's why the classroom, where we study every Thursday night, has also become a haven for early love among junior and senior high school students.

Since Sheng Mingzhi didn't catch the trend of early love, he wasn't interested in watching movies on Thursday nights.

That afternoon he finished his four sets of maths papers and contemplated how he would escape from the movie that evening and slip back into his dorm room to sleep.

He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he was interrupted by the publicity committee.

A lively and outgoing girl in their class let out a scream from the front door of the classroom, "Aaaahhh! Really fake!!! Is Lu Jiayan going tonight too?!"

One stone stirred a thousand waves, and the name caught the attention of almost all the girls in the classroom.

The nib of Sheng Mingzhi's pencil pauses for a moment.

"It's true! That's what the high school said! He picked the movie for tonight!"

"Holy crap my crap! Is it too late for me to go back to my dorm room and wash my hair!"

"Ahhhhhhh! So excited!!! It's his first time this term, right!"

"What are you philandering about, didn't you not like him before?"

"Who doesn't like him, so handsome."

......

Lu Jiayan was well known in the school when he was in high school.

The name of the man appeared on the wall of confessions for three days, and the posters were asking for his WeChat everywhere, like the schoolboy who would appear in a romance novel, with good grades, good temper, good people, and handsome.

The most exaggerated rumour I've ever heard was that almost all the girls in their class had a crush on him.

Because too many people like him.

It was as if liking him became a normal thing.

Shen Ling finished copying her homework and turned her head, "When are you going back to bed in your dorm room?"

Sheng Mingzhi paused for a moment and said, as if nothing had happened, "I'm not very sleepy. Don't want to go back."

"Oh." Shen Ling: "So, are you going to watch a movie in the classroom tonight?"

"What do you put on at night?"

"The Love Letter, have you seen it, the romance."

"Nope."

It is a literary romance.

Sheng Mingzhi was impressed because he had even baidued the synopsis of the film before he went to the step classroom.

As the afternoon wore on, I wondered if word had spread that Lu Jiayan was coming to the classroom today.

The walk from the Junior School to the Senior School was full of girls, double the number of people who used to watch the film.

When we got to the classroom, it was even darker.

Shen Ling held Sheng Mingzhi's arm as she walked and squeezed, dumbfounded: "What's the big deal? It's just a Lu Jiayan."

Lu Jiayan is only the President and Head of the Discipline Department in the Student Council, so he rarely comes to the classroom due to the heavy workload in his senior year.

The scene was so crowded and chaotic that everyone was looking for a seat and there were all sorts of whispers from the crowd.

"Which one, why didn't I see it?"

"Shit, there's so many people, how can we find them."

" Is Lu Jiayan really here, how come I didn't see it at all."

......

I don't know if I was infected by the inexplicably bizarre star-crossed atmosphere of the scene.

It made Sheng Mingzhi vaguely anticipatory, lifting his chin and letting his eyes search the crowd.

It was a pity that he was nowhere to be found after scanning all the students wearing their student union work badges.

It was only when the film began and the entire stairwell was darkened that Sheng Mingzhi had to withdraw his eyes, a wave of regret and loss lingering in his heart.

But soon, Sheng Mingzhi's loss was replaced by panic.

At some point, Shen Ling, who was holding his arm, got separated from him.

Sheng Mingzhi is night-blind and is fine with light, but in this situation, where there is only dim cinematic light, he is basically blind.

From the top to the bottom of the classroom, apart from the seats, the most common thing is the steps, which can be stepped on if you are not careful.

Sheng Mingzhi stumbles along and occasionally bumps into people's stools.

In exchange for a few words, "How did you get away?"

He was about to apologise when a clean male voice came from behind him, "Excuse me."

Sheng Mingzhi felt his body freeze.

Even the heart stood still for a second.

The man who complained was silenced for a moment when he saw the boy who spoke.

Until a little further away, Sheng Mingzhi could still hear the two girls' "holy shit" voices in the darkness.

"My grass is Lu Jiayan!"

"That's Lu Jiayan just now, isn't it? He's so handsome... Help, I forgot to take a picture!"

Sheng Mingzhi was pulled along for a few steps, but finally seemed to have come to his senses and was a little embarrassed: "Brother Jiayan, I can walk by myself."

When they reached the light, Sheng Mingzhi could see Lu Jiayan's face in the faint light.

Wearing the blue and white uniform of the Annexe, zipped up to the chest, with the sleeves rolled up and a short black sleeve underneath.

He is also wearing a school uniform, but Lu Jiayan is dressed like a school drama hero, fresh and clean, with a detached and cold temperament.

At that time he was quite short, Lu Jiayan was already 5'6" and when he looked at him he had to look up.

He did not know Lu Jiayan very well, but had only met him a few times because of his relationship with Sheng Xu.

Sheng Mingzhi didn't expect Lu Jiayan to remember what he looked like.

The other person asked, "Here to see your brother?"

"No. Just came to see a movie and got separated from my classmates."

Lu Jiayan paused, "First year class, right?"

Sheng Mingzhi nods dutifully.

Lu Jiayan slapped him on the shoulder, "Come on. Take you to your class."

I don't know how many sightings I gained along the way.

When Sheng Mingzhi appeared at the front of their class seats, the whole class was quietly gawking at Lu Jiayan behind him.

Only Shen Ling waved her hand mindlessly, "Here here!"

Lu Jiayan also seems to have noticed Shen Ling.

He gave Sheng Mingzhi a meaningful glance.

Similarly aged students of the opposite sex in the same class, one pretty and one handsome, can easily be associated with early love.

Sheng Mingzhi somehow got a brain fart and subconsciously retorted, "...... is not early love."

Lu Jiayan pauses and raises an eyebrow.

Only then did Sheng Mingzhi realise what he had said, and his face was so hot with embarrassment that he wanted to dig a crack into the ground.

Why did he refute it?

And most importantly, why did he rush to deny it to Lu Jiayan?

Would Lu Jiayan ...... overthink it?

So, Sheng Mingzhi's mind was blank for the entire evening study session.

If there was a way to turn back time, he would go back and strangle his talking self.

Once Lu Jiayan had set him up, he sat behind the lectern in the step-room, his posture as lazy as ever, as if he had no bones.

Propped up on his chin, he stares slowly at his computer, watching the film. The look in those peach blossom eyes is focused, the ends of the eyes are slightly tilted, and there is tenderness hidden in the corners of the eyes.

Sheng Mingzhi's eyes fell on him, and the classroom was flooded with people taking pictures of Lu Jiayan, who had no idea how many people were taking pictures of him.

Ten minutes into the film, Lu Jiayan changed his pose and Sheng Mingzhi followed suit.

The boy suddenly took out his phone and seemed to be talking about something.

A soft smile curves her lips and a pearly swirl appears at the corner of her mouth.

Sheng Mingzhi begins to unconsciously guess who Lu Jiayan is talking to.

Maybe it's from the disciplinary department, maybe it's a friend, maybe it's a classmate, a girlfriend or maybe it's not.

He couldn't contain himself and kept guessing how many people could take up one of the spots in that tiny smartphone.

In such aimless speculation one almost makes oneself sit up and take notice.

That is, until Lu Jiayan got up, said something to the disciplinary student, and then patted him on the shoulder.

He stayed only briefly for ten minutes, striding away amidst a clear chorus of regretful sighs from the stairwell.

There was a new senior behind the podium and when he heard the sighs from the classroom, he laughed and scolded, "Enough, are you here for the movie or for Lu Jiayan?"

Memories come to an abrupt end here.

Sheng Mingzhi looks at the big screen in front of him as the whole film comes to an end.

He doesn't remember a thing about what played out earlier.

Fortunately, though, the dog man was watching intently and seemed to have completely forgotten what had just happened regarding his first love.

That's why one just can't be happy too soon.

Sheng Mingzhi had just finished celebrating when Lu Jiayan's faint voice rang out in his ears.

"I'm a bit curious."

Sheng Mingzhi didn't understand what he was suddenly curious about, but after watching the film, he was probably curious about the plot, right?

Lu Jiayan was curious, but he couldn't answer any questions.

The next moment, Lu Jiayan coolly continued, "Why are you bored."

......

......

What is it?

Sheng Mingzhi was confused for a moment.

Immediately afterwards, a thread was strung through the brain, and suddenly the conversation between the two men an hour earlier came to mind.

Lu Jiayan asks him if he still misses his first love when he gets married.

He said you are so boring.

Then now, an hour having passed, Lu Jiayan asked him.

Why you're bored.

......

......

So.

He hadn't done anything else for an hour, but had spent it thinking about this?

?????

And to think he thought that the dog man, so engrossed, was seriously watching a movie!!!

It seems to be a little disbelieving in its suspicions.

Sheng Mingzhi showed a few moments of disbelief and hesitantly said, "You didn't, just now, spend an hour obsessing over this, did you?"

Lu Jiayan's expression did not change, he was calm and collected.

As if to say: yes, or what?

The man spoke, "Is that strange."

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

I can't believe I actually admitted it.

Sheng Mingzhi was dumbfounded and said nervously, "...... and no."

He thought about it, "It just seems that there's no point in dwelling on the subject, I guess."

"Hmm." Lu Jiayan turned his head to look at him, "So, little Mr. Sheng's answer is?"

Unrelentingly, they got up to their roots.

Whether there is a first love.

Or do you miss your first love when you're married.

...... always felt like both were death options.

Sheng Mingzhi was silent for a moment, his face expressionless: "I choose not to answer."

Lu Jiayan's tone is flat: "There is no such option."

...... line.

It's the first time I've seen how outrageously careful dog men can be.

Sheng Mingzhi was repeatedly questioned.

Finally annoyed: "No. Is it necessary for you to dwell on that? What do you care if I had a first love, I never even cared about you!"

He was in a hurry and blurted out, "Why don't you talk about yourself? I didn't mind that you were in love with my brother in high school either!"

When the words came out of his mouth, Sheng Mingzhi shut up urgently.

Unfortunately, it was too late, and Lu Jiayan was at first stunned, then gave a look of absurdity.

"Me, with your brother, in a relationship?"

As if he had discovered some world-class disaster, Lu Jiayan pauses every few words.

Not only that, but he suddenly remembered that Sheng Xu had also been strange for a few days some time ago.

Talking to him on the phone about work, he looked like I'm straight and I'm Kongdong and suspected he had a crush on him.

Now it seems to be the source of all the rumour-mongering.

It was found by him.

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

Stiffly, "Yes, yes! Am I not right!"

Lu Jiayan laughed at him: "No. Where are you right."

He paused and beckoned, "Come here. First tell me where you got such an outrageous delusion from."

Sheng Mingzhi thought to himself, "I'm not going there.

He ducked away and muttered, "Then you all ate, lived and slept together in high school, which would have been a lot like being in love."

Lu Jiayan: ......

He should not have shared a dormitory with Sheng Xu when he was in high school.

Before Lu Jiayan can say anything, the cinema suddenly goes dark.

Those who didn't go were shocked, and Sheng Mingzhi was one of them, when the lights went out and he couldn't see anything.

In the darkness, an exchange is heard.

"Is the power out?"

Sheng Mingzhi had just stood very far away from Lu Jiayan in order to carry on a fight with him.

Suddenly, darkness overwhelmed him, and he panicked at that moment and did not move.

He was going to call out to Lu Jiayan.

But then I remembered that I had just argued with someone with so much backbone, and now I was a wimp in a second.

Wouldn't it look humiliating for him.

It's just a power outage.

He can walk out just as well by touching the walls.

Sheng Mingzhi's self-esteem got the better of him and he made up his mind to stand on his own two feet.

But I didn't expect it to go wrong, and just as I took my first step, I was hit by a child.

Without warning, he fell backwards towards the bottom of the steps.

Only instead of the expected pain, I fell into a warm embrace.

The familiar scent of grass and trees lingered on the tip of her nose. Sheng Mingzhi was confused for a few seconds and was held steady by a man around her waist in the confusion.

But when he stood firm, the hand across his waist did not drop.

A soft sigh came from beside my ear, "Little heartless, but hard-hearted."

Lu Jiayan looked down at him, "If I don't watch you, you won't even cry out if you fall, will you?"

Sheng Mingzhi :.

He spoke back defiantly, "Who told you to argue with me first."

After a pause, he justified, "Then you apologize to me."

Lu Jiayan didn't hesitate: "I'm sorry."

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

The wave loses, the level of cheekiness loses.

The other party was too nice in apologizing.

He couldn't think of a new way to lift the bar for a while.

However, Sheng Mingzhi was a little uncomfortable with his arms around her and whispered, "Let go of me a little."

Mainly in public, he had never been this close to Lu Jiayan before and it always felt a little delicate.

Lu Jiayan didn't seem to hear him and didn't move a muscle.

Sheng Mingzhi had to look up and repeat it.

It was only when he looked up that he bumped into Lu Jiayan looking down.

The other man looked down at him, his eyes just intertwined.

It was clear that the theatre was already dark.

But Sheng Mingzhi inexplicably felt a light in Lu Jiayan's eyes, brimming with light, with little hooks.

For just a second, the link that Shen Ling had sent him popped into Sheng Mingzhi's head.

Just looking at each other for twenty seconds makes you feel the urge to kiss.

Sheng Mingzhi's eyes felt like they were glued to it and he forgot to move away.

The sound of his heart beating was infinitely amplified in his eardrums, almost to the point of deafness.

He mentally counted by a ghost: eleven seconds, twelve seconds, thirteen seconds ......

Then.

...... nineteen seconds, twenty seconds.

b Nothing happened.

Sheng Mingzhi laughed coldly and thought to himself, "What the hell kind of link is Shen Ling posting, it has no scientific basis at all.

How could he have expected anything less from Lu Jiayan?

Only a tinge of regret welled up in my heart that I didn't want to admit.

He distances himself a little from Lu Jiayan.

Instead, Lu Jiayan lowered his head and laughed softly, tingling and numb: "So lost."

A sense of 'do you want me to kiss you that badly'.

Sheng Mingzhi pauses, raising his eyes, a little bewildered.

He froze for a few seconds.

It was only then that I understood what Lu Jiayan meant by his words.

In other words, the other party had just noticed his own mental activities the whole time?

And to think you were expecting to kiss him?!

Grass.

Sheng Mingzhi's face instantly burnt into a frightening red.

Lu Jiayan's smile became more pronounced as he whispered, "There's surveillance in the theatre, doesn't little Mr. Sheng mind?"

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

He was about to retort in exasperation, but then swallowed his words.

Shen Ling's phrase "you test him" came to mind.

It was like a tightening rope that immediately took hold of what Sheng Mingzhi was most concerned about at this time.

He hesitates for a moment, mentally prepares himself a little and follows Lu Jiayan's flirtatious way of speaking.

A serious, but youthful voice: "Isn't the power out, it's not like we can't film it."

A straight ball caught Lu Jiayan off guard.

The original teasing heart gave a pause, and those peach blossom eyes curbed their smile and sank.

Sheng Mingzhi feels like he tried pretty well.

When Lu Jiayan didn't answer, I was a little unsure if I was being too forward.

...... scares the dog man?

As a result, the next second he felt a gentle pinch on his chin.

Before Sheng Mingzhi could react for a moment, his lips were forcefully covered by his opponent.