Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Fearing that Hu Ying and Lin Qingning wouldn’t know how to start a fire, Zhai Xingchen and Pei Xu went straight into room number three as they passed by. The two of them helped Hu Ying and Lin Qingning start the fire, while Hu Ying sat on the kang (a heated brick bed) silently watching Zhai Xingchen, and Lin Qingning squatted beside him, quietly learning.
Zhai Xingchen touched the kang (heated brick bed) and found it was already a bit warm, so he got up and stood up.
“Put several basins of water in the room, and put the kettle by the bedside. Don’t change the coal briquettes; I’ll come over and change them for you tomorrow morning,” Zhai Xingchen instructed.
“Thank you,” Lin Qingning said. “I really don’t know how to do these things.”
“It might be a little strange since it’s your first time sleeping here, so please be careful.” Zhai Xingchen added, “Then you guys should get some rest, we’ll head back now.”
Pei Xu and Zhai Xingchen were heading to room number four. Lin Qingning and Hu Ying escorted them to the door. Lin Qingning stood outside for a while, until he could no longer see Pei Xu and Zhai Xingchen, before turning back. After closing the door, he noticed that Hu Ying seemed a bit off, sitting there with her head down and not saying a word.
He bent down and glanced at Hu Ying.
He noticed that Hu Ying’s eyes were red.
He crouched down and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Hu Ying looked both arrogant and pitiful, saying, “I’m so angry.”
Tears welled up in his beautiful phoenix eyes.
Lin Qingning smiled, patted his leg, and said, “There will be plenty of opportunities later. It’s just that we’ll be staying together at night. Back in Nancheng, the two of them also shared a room. Actually, there’s not much difference between four days and six days. It won’t make a difference. Didn’t the director say that these few days are all opportunities for dates? That’s the most important thing.”
Hu Ying lay down on the kang (a heated brick bed): “I really hope the Beicheng Station will be closed soon. I feel like I don’t belong here. I haven’t had any good luck since I came here. Look at me, I’ve ended up in this dilapidated house twice.”
“Pei Xu also got caught twice.”
“But he slept with Xingchen,” Hu Ying said, sitting up again. “Did you see it? When Pei Xu and the others were carrying the bedding, he actually put two layers on the inner side of Zhai Xingchen’s bed, but only one layer on his own!”
Lin Qingning smiled and sat down on the kang (a heated brick bed): “I saw it.”
Pei Xu did a lot of things behind the scenes that they didn’t know about.
Pei Xu had another side that none of them had ever seen.
He wondered what his interactions with Zhai Xingchen were like in private.
Zhai Xingchen also saw the bedding.
If they hadn’t tidied up the bedding, he wouldn’t have known that the bedding in his sleeping spot was different thickness from that in Pei Xu’s.
No wonder he felt so relaxed and soft when he slept.
Zhai Xingchen turned his head and glanced at Pei Xu.
Pei Xu walked with ease, a smile on his face.
He certainly knew why Pei Xu was in such a good mood.
Feeling a strange emotion stirring within him, Zhai Xingchen pursed his lips.
After they returned to the hotel, they started tidying up the room.
Because Yan Zhi had stayed here before, the hotel room was very clean, with almost no signs of habitation. The two of them spread their bedding on the bed, and just as they finished, Pei Xu took a coat and covered the room’s security camera.
“I knew he’d try to cover it up,” a staff member complained.
“They had a date all day and he won the internal betting again. Pei Xu is probably feeling all smitten right now.”
“Last night was different from the night before, and tonight is different from last night. Zhai Xingchen’s feelings must be different from last night, right? Pei Xu was really amazing today.”
Zhai Xingchen noticed Pei Xu had covered the camera, so he turned to look. Pei Xu sat down on the opposite bed, and the two sat facing each other for a while before suddenly looking at each other and Pei Xu smiled.
“Go wash up first,” Zhai Xingchen said.
“It looks like there’s a shower here, I’ll take a shower,” Pei Xu said.
The conditions here were much better than in room number 3.
“Then you go first,” Zhai Xingchen said.
Pei Xu went to take a shower, and Zhai Xingchen tidied up the bed. After he finished, he sat down on the edge of the bed.
The sound of rushing water came from the bathroom. Zhai Xingchen turned on his phone, played a song, and then boiled a kettle of water. Just as the water boiled, Pei Xu finished showering. He came out wrapped in a bathrobe, his exposed chest covered in red.
“I’m done washing, you can go wash now,” Pei Xu said.
Zhai Xingchen said, “I just boiled a kettle of mineral water.”
Pei Xu nodded.
Zhai Xingchen opened his suitcase and took out a set of pajamas.
He had finally started wearing pajamas again.
He took his pajamas to the bathroom, which was filled with white steam, making the mirrors blurry. He looked at the wet towels on the shelf and realized he had forgotten to bring it.
He pushed open the door to get a bath towel, but when he came out, he saw Pei Xu had taken off his bathrobe and was putting on shorts.
Hearing the door open, Pei Xu was startled and turned around to look.
Zhai Xingchen stood frozen in place.
Pei Xu naturally pulled up his shorts and put on a black t-shirt, covering his tall and muscular body.
“I forgot to bring a bath towel,” Zhai Xingchen said.
Pei Xu hummed in agreement and sat down. Zhai Xingchen walked over to him, squatted down, and took his bath towel out of his suitcase. Pei Xu sat behind him, wearing only black shorts, revealing his incredibly long legs.
Zhai Xingchen took a bath towel, pursed his lips, and went back into the bathroom.
Sigh, it’s not like he’s seen it for the first time, what’s there to be so shocked about?
Zhai Xingchen started brushing his teeth, thinking to himself, “I really should just give up.” The feelings that had just surfaced within him were instantly shattered by reality, but for some reason, his face turned even redder.
Pei Xu sat by the bed.
When Zhai Xingchen saw it, he was inexplicably excited.
He lay down and looked at the videos and photos he had taken that day on his phone. He had taken many photos on the mountain, and as he zoomed in on them, he could see Zhai Xingchen’s fingers, eyes, ears, and lips clearly.
He had never really looked closely at Zhai Xingchen before, but now he could stare at him without restraint.
Just looking at that face was enough to get him excited.
Twenty minutes later, Zhai Xingchen came out of the bathroom.
Pei Xu lay on the bed, covered by the blanket, and put down his phone.
Zhai Xingchen went to pour water, and Pei Xu said, “I’ve already poured it for you, it’s here.”
Zhai Xingchen glanced at the head of the bed, then walked over in his pajamas. He sat down on the bed, picked up a water glass, and took a few sips.
Pei Xu glanced at the pajamas he was wearing. The pajamas were short-sleeved accompanied by shorts that reached his knees. His gaze was involuntarily drawn to Zhai Xingchen’s two straight, long, and white legs.
“It’s not too cold to shower here,” Zhai Xingchen said.
Pei Xu hummed in agreement and said, “Your pajamas are quite cute.”
Zhai Xingchen looked at the pajamas he was wearing.
He was wearing ordinary plaid pajamas, without even a pattern, and he didn’t know what was cute about them.
He put down his water glass, sat on the bed, glanced at Pei Xu, and then smiled.
It seemed that both of them remembered the awkward moment earlier, but their feelings were different.
“I’ve already spoken to the director. I’ll buy breakfast outside tomorrow morning, so you don’t need to make it,” Pei Xu said.
Pei Xu really cared too much about him.
He thought of the fireworks filling the sky, the rose painting, the thick quilt, and the hot water that had been poured.
Zhai Xingchen hummed in agreement. He lay on his pillow and suddenly smelled a faint scent of mint.
Hey, this doesn’t seem like his pillow.
Their pillows were both pure white; so they got them mixed up.
The minty scent, mixed with Pei Xu’s unique aroma, lingered around his nostrils, as if Pei Xu were still sleeping beside him.
Pei Xu, the male protagonist of Jinjiang Literature City, who was extremely sensitive in body and mind, with volcanic magma hidden beneath an iceberg, and a majestic glacier towering into the clouds, he was perhaps only seeing and feeling the tip of the iceberg right now.
No, it’s definitely just the tip of the iceberg.
Pei Xu, who was like a blank sheet of paper, would become a “day and night” type of person[1] after he had tasted the sweetness of success.
But what he saw made him suspicious.
Could he handle it?
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[1] A “day and night” type of person who hides by day and comes out at night is described in Chinese by the idiom.
