HSS CH21

Chapter 21: Didn’t Kiss Anyone Else

“Your… mouth itches?” Lin Miao’s eyes widened as he stared blankly at Huo Yuchuan.

Can you just kiss someone because your mouth itches?

Then if something else itches down there, are you going to randomly 【beep–】?!

Huo Yuchuan averted his gaze and countered, “Why are you here?”

As soon as this topic came up, Lin Miao got angry again, “Didn’t you say you couldn’t sleep? But I saw you sleeping just now!”

“I wasn’t sleeping,” Huo Yuchuan said without blinking, “I was exhausted from not sleeping for the past few days and passed out.”

Lin Miao frowned, half-convinced, “Really?”

“Mm,” Huo Yuchuan stared at his lips, which were red from the kiss, and his throat rolled as he asked, “Did you come here because you were worried I wouldn’t sleep?”

Lin Miao hummed a couple of times and said, “But you seemed to sleep pretty well without me…”

“Not well,” Huo Yuchuan said, “I had nightmares.”

Lin Miao remembered him sweating coldly just now, which indeed looked like a nightmare. He recalled his mother saying when he was little that the things people feared would reflect in their dreams—the more afraid they were, the more likely they were to dream about it. “What did you dream about?”

Huo Yuchuan paused for a moment and said, “Being bitten by a dog, chased by a ghost.”

“That’s so terrible,” Lin Miao forgave him a little. He remembered hearing from his mother that the things people feared would show up in their dreams—the more afraid they were, the more likely they were to dream about it. “Have you ever been bitten by a dog?”

Huo Yuchuan: “……Yes.”

He leaned over, looking sincere and a bit pitiful, and said, “I can’t sleep well without you.”

Lin Miao’s anger dissipated even more, and he grumbled, “Alright, then you should sleep. Do you have business meetings tomorrow?”

Huo Yuchuan “Mm”ed, and seeing that he himself was so sleepy that his eyes could hardly stay open—probably from the tiring journey—he fell asleep in no time.

The warm yellow light fell, outlining his soft profile, making him look gentle and quiet.

Huo Yuchuan watched him and suddenly didn’t want to sleep. He hadn’t expected Lin Miao to come find him, even if it was just because of a ridiculous lie, it was already a pleasant surprise. He had thought it was just a chaotic dream, a self-fantasy, a self-rescue, but it turned out to be real.

The person he wanted to see the most had appeared right in front of him, with a school bag on his back.

Huo Yuchuan watched for a long time before reaching for the phone on the bedside table. He saw that Little Zheng had called him, probably to remind him that Lin Miao had arrived, but he hadn’t heard it.

There was also a message from Lin Miao, saying he didn’t need him at all, followed by an angry emoji.

Huo Yuchuan’s finger rubbed over the angry emoji and typed, “I do need you.”

Lin Miao slept until the next morning. When he woke up, Huo Yuchuan had already left and sent him a message saying there was breakfast on the second floor of the hotel.

He saw another message from Huo Yuchuan last night, saying, “I do need you.”

Lin Miao’s lips curled up. After thinking calmly, he still felt that kissing was a bit strange and wanted to ask someone about it.

He posted online, “Is it normal for good friends to kiss?”

After posting, he went to wash up and then went downstairs for breakfast.

When he opened the post again, he saw that many people had replied, but it looked even stranger.

“Not normal, should kiss twice.”

“Not normal, should do it.”

“If good friends don’t kiss, what kind of friends are they?”

“Anyway, Guan Yu wouldn’t kiss Zhang Fei.”

“Normal, doing it is also normal.”

“Normal, I kiss my friend every morning before getting up.”

Then people started asking, “Just kissing? Tell us more.”

“Tell us more.”

“Tell us more.”

……

After that, everyone went to ask the person who mentioned kissing their friend, and no one paid attention to him anymore.

So is it normal or not?

Lin Miao was puzzled and asked the person who mentioned kissing their friend, “Do you also sleep together?”

After a while, the person replied, “Yeah, we also kiss before sleeping.”

Lin Miao: “……” Are you really brothers?

Unable to find an answer, he asked his roommates in the dorm group chat.

“Do you… kiss your good friends?”

He Yu: “??”

Jiang Leming: “Whoa, bro, you’re not planning to kiss me, are you?”

Lin Miao imagined it and wrinkled his face in disgust, “You’re so disgusting.”

Jiang Leming: “Then who do you want to kiss?!”

Lin Miao immediately replied, “No one.”

Zhou Zhuo: “I’ve seen people kiss after winning a competition.”

Jiang Leming: “Yeah, I’ve seen it too! They were so happy, hugging and kissing!”

Zhou Zhuo: “Did you guys win a competition too?”

Lin Miao: “No.”

Zhou Zhuo: “Then why the kissing?”

Lin Miao: “Because my mouth itches.”

Jiang Leming: “Lin Miao, you’re so creepy, kissing a friend just because your mouth itches.”

Lin Miao: “It’s not my mouth that itches!”

He Yu: “Then who kissed you?”

Lin Miao paused for a moment and didn’t dare to say it was Huo Yuchuan.

He Yu asked again, “Does he kiss other people too?”

Other people? Lin Miao was taken aback. Yeah, when Huo Yuchuan’s mouth itches, does he also kiss other people?

He immediately sent a message to Huo Yuchuan, “Do you kiss Little Zheng when your mouth itches?”

“Do you kiss Boss He?”

Huo Yuchuan didn’t reply, probably busy.

Lin Miao remembered that Huo Yuchuan had mentioned kissing before, maybe it was just when his mouth itched and he kissed whoever was around!

Last night, it was probably just because he was here, and he had no one else to kiss.

If he had been sleeping with Little Zheng last night, he would have kissed Little Zheng, right?

What a casual mouth!

So when Huo Yuchuan came back that night, he saw Lin Miao sitting on the bed playing with his phone, wearing a mask.

He reached up to touch his forehead, “Do you have a cold?”

“No,” Lin Miao glanced at him and asked, “Why didn’t you reply to my messages?”

Huo Yuchuan, with a straight face, said, “I didn’t see them.”

Lin Miao: “Then if your mouth itches again, will you kiss Little Zheng?”

Huo Yuchuan answered irrelevantly, “Why are you asking this?”

Lin Miao, stepping on the quilt, said, “I’ll call Little Zheng in here for you to kiss.”

Huo Yuchuan: “Harassing employees is illegal.”

Lin Miao: “……”

“Have you never kissed Little Zheng?”

Huo Yuchuan took off his tie and walked towards the bathroom, “No.”

Lin Miao muttered, “So you’ve kissed someone else……”

After taking a shower, Huo Yuchuan came out to see that Lin Miao had already fallen asleep. He was still wearing the mask, lying on his side, hugging the quilt, with one foot pressing on it. His sleep pants had ridden up a bit, revealing his lower leg.

Huo Yuchuan sat on the edge of the bed, listening to his rising and falling breaths, and gently lifted his hand to take off the mask.

The night was quiet. Huo Yuchuan leaned down slightly and whispered, “I haven’t kissed anyone else.”

“Ah?” Lin Miao suddenly opened his eyes, “But didn’t you say last time that you had kissed someone?”

Huo Yuchuan: “……”