Ch 36

This sentence seemed like a joke, but Lou Cheng was suspiciously silent. Is Xiao Ding joking or is he serious?

He was lost in thought. If he nodded and said yes at this time, does it mean that there is something wrong with his own sexual orientation…? If he said no, it was the other girl who handed him the love letter and asked to pass it on. Then Xiao Ding is about to fall in love with someone else?

“Lou Cheng, why don’t you talk?”

Lou Cheng didn’t want Ding Xuerun to fall in love with other people, but it was impossible for him to do it himself. He painstakingly advised: “What I want to say is, you are only in the second year of high school. Don’t fall in love with other people, it will affect your study. Although you have almost got the admission letter…”

“You said not to fall in love with other people.”

This ambiguous sentence caused Lou Cheng to feel weird, and his face blushed badly. Is Ding Xuerun gay? Does he want to hit on him?

Before he could think clearly, Ding Xuerun sent a message to make him go to bed early: “You have to go to class tomorrow, don’t play with your mobile phone.”

Lou Cheng was lying in bed and couldn’t sleep.

He got up to go to the toilet, stood in front of the urinal, and looked down to see if he was bent. After looking at it for a while, he discovered that… the shape was upturned and slightly curved.

He was a little panicked.

He was so old that he realized for the first time that there was something wrong with his sexual orientation.

He thought that if Xiao Ding had really wanted to hit on him, he would have agreed-anyway, Ding Xuerun must not be nice with others!

During the few days of Ding Xuerun’s competition, Lou Cheng was not idle either. He did a lot of research on the Internet and kept up with IMO’s news.

He also searched some posts about gay culture to see, secretly, like a thief.

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At the end of April, Ding Xuerun’s competition was over. Before they even returned, the news had spread throughout the country, and it appeared on the homepage news of major media outlets. This year’s IMO was won by the national team, who took home the gold medal.

The Chinese national team has won the most championships in the award’s history, and it is not surprising that the Chinese national team also won the award this year, but it is still exciting good news.

The school rushed to make the banner overnight, and then put it up the next day. This time is to congratulate our school’s student Ding Xuerun on winning the IMO Championship and appearing on the local news.

Lou Cheng learned that Ding Xuerun’s plane would arrive at the Capital Airport at the night. He’d take another flight back to City D once he arrived.

When he arrived at the airport in City D, it was almost three o’clock in the morning.

Old Dou was particularly concerned about Ding Xuerun, and he specifically applied for school funding and booked him a star hotel near the airport. The principal approved it without hesitation, stating that Ding Xuerun is a role model for the entire school. Allow him to speak on the podium after the holiday.

Lou Cheng sent a message to Ding Xuerun in advance, saying that he was coming to pick him up. He adjusted the alarm after one o’clock in the morning and fell asleep early.

Ding Xuerun has been on the plane and didn’t see Lou Cheng’s news. He saw WeChat after arriving at the Capital Airport. He immediately said to Lou Cheng: “Don’t come to pick me up, you sleep well.”

However, he didn’t get a reply, so he rushed to get on the next flight.

Perhaps as a result of the gold medal, the seats on the national team’s flight back to China were all business class, and Ding Xuerun sat and wrote the speech.

The flight arrived fifteen minutes earlier. Ding Xuerun arrived at 2:30 a.m. with no luggage. He went straight out of the airport and was about to take a taxi to the hotel reserved for him by the school when he received a call from Lou Cheng.

“I saw your flight landed? Where are you?” Lou Cheng was a little sleepy and yawned with his arm on the window frame.

Ding Xuerun stood by the taxi aisle late at night, and said: “Are you at the airport?”

“Yeah, it’s three o’clock in the morning, you want to sleep on the street?” Lou Cheng picked up the newspaper in the car, which was sent by the school solely because the headline featured Ding Xuerun, a student at their Liu Zhong high school.

Lou Cheng, a person who has never read a newspaper, read it several times. He read aloud: “-Ding Xuerun’s unrivaled achievements in mathematics are closely related to his exceptional talent. He has been attracted to numbers since he was a child and has a strong interest in mathematics- Why isn’t the school coming to pick you up? I’m still good to you, and I got up at three o’clock in the morning to pick you up!”

A taxi stopped in front of Ding Xuerun, rolled down the window, and honked at him: “Would you like to go?”

Ding Xuerun shook his head and asked, “Where are you? I’ll came to you. “

“What about the parking lot? I can’t park at the airport. Where are you? I’ll come get you.”

The two men didn’t hang up all the time. Lou Cheng come out of the car and began walking toward the airport exit. Ding Xuerun also took an elevator from underground and ran into Lou. Lou Cheng.

In the middle of the night in early May, Lou Cheng come out wearing only a short sleeve, exposing his forearm muscles, and assisted Ding Xuerun in retrieving his schoolbag, saying, “that’s all you have. How did you spend the last ten days?”

“Put on one set and wash the other,” Ding Xuerun said, “Aren’t you cold when you wear so little?”

“It’s going to be summer,” Lou Cheng wanted to hook his shoulders, but suddenly he thought of something. The arm paused in mid-air before withdrawing silently.

Ding Xuerun pretended not to notice, opened the door, and sat in the passenger seat.

He lowered his head and fastened his seat belt, and Lou Cheng started the car: “You are now a celebrity in the city.”

“Look,” he threw the newspaper to Ding Xuerun and drove out from the parking lot. “I’m not sure who wrote the report, but it is said that he came to school. During the interview, old Dou told reporters how talented you are… he said that you are his favorite student. Hahaha, he likes you so much, why doesn’t he come to pick you up?”

“It’s better to be a brother.” Lou Cheng glanced at him.

Ding Xuerun’s lips curled and he looked down at the newspaper with a “um.” He noticed that the photos of himself when he won the prize, as well as the photos on his student ID, had all been published.

“Lou Cheng, do you know where a hotel is nearby?”

“A hotel? You want to stay in a hotel? You’re staying at my house. Why are you staying in a hotel?”

Ding Xuerun shook his head and looked at him and said: “The school knew I didn’t arrive until the early morning and booked a hotel for me.” 

Lou Cheng: “…”

He scolded: “Why didn’t you say it earlier?”

“I said, I didn’t expect you to really come.” Ding Xuerun was a little guilty and asked him softly: ” Are you sleepy?”

“Are you sleepy? I haven’t had a good night’s sleep for many days.” He was particularly aggrieved.

Ding Xuerun was looking out the window when he noticed a large hotel sign hanging from the top of a tall building.

“There.” He pointed the direction to Lou Cheng. “It will take an hour for you to drive home. Why don’t you stay in the hotel with me?”

Lou Cheng didn’t say anything, but he did wonder if the hotel room was too small. Now, the school must be very stingy, it is impossible to provide Ding Xuerun with a suite. How inconvenient it must be to sleep in a bedroom that is smaller than his.

Although he thought so, he already drove in the direction of the hotel.

In less than a minute, his car stopped outside the hotel lobby.

Ding Xuerun leaned in, unfastened his seat belt, and said, “Come with me,” before Lou Cheng could make a decision.

Lou Cheng looked down at his soft hair and swallowed: “Are you afraid of staying alone?”

“I’m not afraid,” he said, “I just don’t want you to be so tired and still driving. Driving with fatigue is not good.” He added.

Lou Cheng just got out of the car and followed Ding Xuerun into the lobby.

Ding Xuerun asked him to wait next to him and said, “I’ll go to the front desk to get the key to the room. You didn’t bring your ID card. You can follow me when I get it.”

Lou Cheng answered and said in his heart that it was like that.

Obviously, the front desk is used to seeing men and women do this, but then two boys, who are all student-like, young, and attractive, are far too uncommon.

Ding Xuerun didn’t change his expression when he approached the hotel’s front desk, nor did he specifically request a standard room.

Opening the door, Lou Cheng faced the big bedroom, standing outside the door not knowing what to do.

Ding Xuerun gently pulled his wrist: “If you are sleepy, go to bed first. I have been on the plane for more than ten hours, and I will take a shower.”

Lou Cheng’s face flushed, and he couldn’t stop sweating. The palms of the hands are all dripping wet.

In a daze, he sat on the edge of the bed, listening to the sound of running water in the bathroom.

The hotel’s bathroom design is generally very dim, with frosted glass doors, and Lou Cheng is afraid to look at it at all.

Ding Xuerun took a shower more quickly. After all, he was sleepy. He washed in less than ten minutes and blow-dried his hair. He was wearing his own short-sleeved pajamas.

Lou Cheng was still fidgeting as he had been when he first arrived.

Ding Xuerun asked him: “Do you sleep on the left or the right?”

“B-both” Lou Cheng felt that the heating in this room was turned on. He was too hot and sweaty.

“Then I’ll sleep on the left,” he said, opening the quilt and laying down. “Do you want to wash up, Lou Cheng? Go to bed without washing up, or it will be dawn.”

Lou Cheng immediately stood up and said hurriedly: “I’ll take a shower too.”

Before Ding Xuerun could speak, he rushed into the bathroom and spent more than 20 minutes in the bathroom before coming out.

Lou Cheng exhaled a sigh of relief when Ding Xuerun’s eyes were closed, indicating that he was sleeping. He was too sleepy, and he wasn’t as careful as he was before. He gently lifted the quilt from the other side and lay down. Ding Xuerun, on the other hand, had just fallen asleep. His sleep was very shallow, his eyes opened, and he said quietly, “I didn’t adjust the alarm, do you have anything to do tomorrow?”

“Nothing.”

“That’s good…” Ding Xuerun grabbed one of the pillow corners and soon fell asleep again.

Lou Cheng didn’t dare to move, his heart pounding lightly but quickly. He is not used to sleeping in the same bed as others and has never experienced sleeping in the same bed as others.

Ding Xuerun was now lying next to him, leaning against him with two snow-white pillows. Lou Cheng lay flat at first, all his limbs were neatly arranged, and he did not dare to move. But as his sleepiness deepened, his sleeping posture began to be unscrupulous.

Ding Xuerun awaken by the heat.

His regular routine of work and rest has caused his biological clock to be exceptionally punctual, and no matter how late he goes to bed, he will wake up at that time.

He awoke around 6 or 7 a.m. to find Lou Cheng pulling the quilt, and he rolled over to him, his arms resting on him as if he were wrapped in his arms.

Ding Xuerun didn’t move after realizing what had happened, and even moved closer to Lou Cheng.

He fell asleep again for a while.

When Lou Cheng’s messy biological clock woke him up, he was too scared to speak when he opened his eyes. He noticed Ding Xuerun in his arms, his head gently buried in his chest, breathing quietly.