Lovely Allergen - Chap 42

(This is the second update. If you click on the latest update, you might miss the previous chapter’s Vinegar Spirit Xiao Yu.)

Song Yu accepted Le Zhishi’s friend request and promised Le Zhishi that he would play with him after the college entrance exam. The two of them would form a team.

He only started playing games in his first year of university.

At first, Song Yu thought that he could adapt well to life away from home. He thought that the heavy workload would be enough to enrich his daily life. However, reality proved otherwise. Even if he was really tired during the day, he still couldn’t fall asleep at night when he lay in bed and closed his eyes.

Later, he was dragged by his roommates to play games. He realized that it could temporarily divert his attention, so he played for a while. Song Yu was very good at sniping. His skills were stable and he leveled up quickly. However, after playing for a short while, the effect of diverting attention decreased significantly. He didn’t play much anymore.

He looked down at Le Zhishi happily looking at the friend interface and asked Song Yu if he could accept him as his disciple. However, Song Yu quickly rejected him.

“Why?” Le Zhishi felt that the master-disciple relationship in the game was very interesting. Many people were like this. His classmates kept trying to tempt him to become their disciple, but Le Zhishi never wavered. He only wanted to play games with Song Yu. When he found out that Song Yu also played this game.

“Isn’t our relationship complicated enough?” Song Yu said as he looked at the literature.

That’s true.

Le Zhishi felt that it was easier to call him brother.

After ending the game topic, the two of them tacitly sat in a row and started studying. Le Zhishi felt that Song Yu had a magical power that could calm him down. When he was beside him, as long as there was no thunder, he could focus on memorizing. His memory was much better.

The two of them were people who would forget the time when they were studying. Le Zhishi finished memorizing and went through the multiple choice question collection. When he looked up, it was already half past seven.

“No wonder I’m a little hungry.” Le Zhishi leaned back in his chair. “It’s already past dinnertime.”

Song Yu also remembered that he didn’t eat regularly, so he had forgotten about it. He picked up his phone and asked Le Zhishi, “What do you want to eat? Let’s order takeout. The rain hasn’t stopped, so the building might be flooded.”

“Can takeout be delivered?” Le Zhishi expressed his doubts. “I want to eat snail noodles.”

Song Yu questioned his request, but Le Zhishi really wanted to eat instant noodles. “When it rains, it’s very suitable to eat snail noodles. There’s also hotpot, soup, and water. It’s very comfortable to eat.”

“Nonsense,” Song Yu said, but he still sent a WeChat message to his roommate, Chen Fangyuan, asking if he had any snail powder.

[Chen Fangyuan: I’m done. But I have Hot and Sour Noodles. It’s delicious. I also have instant noodles. They’re all under my table. You can take them yourself! And ham sausages!]

“Hot and Sour Noodles are fine too.” Le Zhishi looked at the chat box on the computer screen. “Instant noodles should be quite delicious too.”

The word “should” made Song Yu feel sorry for him, so he patted his head.

Le Zhishi got his wish and ate a very unhealthy meal — soft Hot and Sour Noodles, potato chips, spicy Konjac, and a large stack of seaweed. He was already very full, but Song Yu still forced him to eat an apple. Le Zhishi was so full that he didn’t want to move at all. He lay on the table for a long time.

Feeling that his stomach was working hard to digest the food, Le Zhishi’s big eyes looked around. The flowers he bought at noon were a little wilted, but they were still very fragrant. There were many notes on the wall. Le Zhishi couldn’t understand the professional notes on them, and some were probably celestial maps and geological maps. The bookshelf on the table was neatly arranged with professional books and reference books, as well as printed papers.

There was no globe made by him. This made Le Zhishi a little disappointed, but it passed quickly. He thought that a handmade globe wasn’t accurate enough. If he put it on the table, would it make him look unprofessional?

It also wasn’t like a watch that could be worn on the wrist every day.

His eyes continued to look around. Le Zhishi saw a palm-sized bottle next to the thermos flask. The packaging was in English, and it said something about soft candy. He didn’t know the word in front.

Song Yu just came out of the shower. Le Zhishi turned around, picked up the bottle, and shook it at him. “Is this food?”

“No.” Song Yu walked over, took the bottle from his hand, and put it back. “Melatonin. It’s a hormone.”

Le Zhishi automatically categorized it as a skincare product. “Can I eat it?”

“No.” Song Yu urged him to take a shower. Le Zhishi had no choice but to take action.

Every time he was urged, Le Zhishi had the illusion that he was Song Yu’s roommate. This feeling stimulated Le Zhishi’s pleasure. It was as if they weren’t brothers with a three-year gap, but peers. They studied together, went to school together, and woke up and went to bed together every day.

He didn’t have to wait at home every day and ask Lin Rong if Song Yu would come home every other week.

After the two of them took a shower, they received a video call from Lin Rong. The family of four was separated from each other, and they chatted for a long time through the screen. It seemed to be raining heavily in Shanghai, and Song Jin’s work was temporarily canceled. The two of them could only stay in the hotel and look at the river scenery. Song Jin joked that it was a honeymoon rain arranged by God, but Lin Rong pushed him out of the picture.

Le Zhishi also felt that the rain was very coincidental. Otherwise, he might have returned home by now. A man, a cat, and a dog, very miserable.

He glanced at Song Yu and felt that he was even more miserable. After all, he didn’t even have a cat or a dog.

After hanging up the phone, Song Yu began to urge him to sleep again.

“Didn’t you always say that you don’t sleep enough? Today can be a good night’s sleep.”

Their dormitory was a typical four-person room. Song Yu asked Le Zhishi to go up and sleep on his bed. After all, the bedding he used was of the same brand as the one at home, so there shouldn’t be any allergies.

Le Zhishi lay down obediently, and his phone was taken away by Song Yu. The air conditioner was on. He crawled into the quilt and was instantly enveloped by the familiar scent of Song Yu. It even made him have an illusion that he could sink into it indefinitely. For a moment, he wished that he could be buried in it forever, and that no one could find him except for Song Yu.

The college entrance examination was very hard, and studying was very tiring. He wanted to hide in Song Yu’s quilt.

“I’m turning off the lights.” After Song Yu finished speaking, the lights in the dormitory went off. The darkness was like a bigger quilt, covering him at an extremely fast speed. Le Zhishi consciously moved inwards, leaving space for Song Yu.

But he waited for a long time, and Song Yu still didn’t come up. He waited patiently for a while, and when he felt that a long time had passed, he couldn’t help but lean on the bed railing and look down. He saw Song Yu sitting quietly below, reading a book.

“Aren’t you going to sleep?” Le Zhishi asked. “It’s already ten o ‘clock.”

“I’m not sleepy,” Song Yu said. “You sleep first.” Then he added, “I’ve discussed it with my roommate. I’ll sleep in his bed.”

Le Zhishi was extremely disappointed. He leaned against the wall tightly, and the space left for Song Yu instantly became meaningless.

He didn’t respond.

Both of them were silent for a while. In the end, Le Zhishi seemed to compromise. He turned around, faced the wall, and pretended that he was already asleep. But he heard the sound of Song Yu turning off the desk lamp, and also heard Song Yu climbing into the other bed.

He comforted himself in his heart that the bed was indeed too small. Maybe Song Yu just chose the more tolerable one between cleanliness and narrowness.

The dark space was especially silent. Le Zhishi persuaded him and fell asleep in a daze. But when he was half-awake, a white light flashed outside the window, and the whole space lit up. Not long after, a big lightning strike woke Le Zhishi up.

He woke up very loudly. Song Yu immediately turned over, thinking that he had fallen. “Le Zhishi?”

“Yes …” Le Zhishi’s voice was very weak, as if he was sick and had broken out in a cold sweat. But he didn’t fall down. He just covered his head with the quilt and said in a muffled and vague voice, “I’m fine …”

In fact, he had always felt that it was embarrassing to say that he was afraid of thunder even though he was already 18 years old. He should exercise. Besides, he had just fallen asleep. Even if he was scared out in a cold sweat, Le Zhishi wanted to try to fall asleep again.

But the thunder couldn’t be stopped just because he wanted to. The scariest thing was that he could feel the frequency and knew that it would appear again soon. So he was anxious and couldn’t relax at all.

After three more lightning strikes, Le Zhishi still wanted to ask Song Yu to accompany him. He stretched one hand out of the quilt and wanted to hold on to the railing to get up.

But he didn’t expect that his outstretched hand would be held.

Le Zhishi lifted a corner of the quilt in confusion and looked down. He saw that Song Yu was already standing under the bed.

“Are you okay?” Song Yu gently pinched his fingertips. “Your hand is very cold.”

Le Zhishi shook his head, but when a bolt of lightning struck, he couldn’t help but retract his hand. He was already so scared. Song Yu was used to seeing him cry. Le Zhishi felt that there was no need for him to be stubborn.

“I can’t sleep.” He didn’t say that he was afraid. “Can you come up and accompany me for a while?”

In the darkness, he seemed to hear Song Yu sigh softly. Maybe he heard wrong. Anyway, Song Yu came up in the end. Le Zhishi felt alive again. He desperately shrank toward the wall, hoping that when Song Yu lay down, he would have the illusion that he wasn’t actually taking up the space.

But it turned out that the bed was still too small for two boys. Besides, Song Yu was 1.86 meters tall.

“Am I squeezing you?” Le Zhishi’s tone was a little embarrassed. He didn’t dare to lean his whole body against Song Yu, afraid that he would feel squeezed.

Song Yu said no, and then said, “You’re very thin.”

Le Zhishi was relieved. He reached out and pulled Song Yu into the quilt. The space was very small. The two of them couldn’t lie flat, so they could only sleep on their sides. Song Yu turned his back to him and didn’t say a word. Le Zhishi also turned in the same direction. With his back against the wall, he faced Song Yu’s broad back. The space that was empty for him was full. The body temperature on his back exuded some kind of healing substance. It couldn’t be seen or touched, but it made Le Zhishi feel at ease.

They were like two croissants left in a sealed bag. Without Song Yu, Le Zhishi felt that he was in danger.

The older he grew, the more he knew that this anxiety was wrong. He was taught to be an independent person, and he tried hard.

But if Song Yu was by his side, he couldn’t help but get closer to him. Only then would he be able to ease this unbearable anxiety.

The sound of rain and thunder mixed together. They were all elements of Le Zhishi’s memory that were familiar to him. The memory of him clinging to Song Yu when he was young was awakened. At that time, he was also like this, but he was never allowed to hug him.

So Le Zhishi pressed his forehead against Song Yu’s back, just like when he was young.

They hadn’t been so close in a long time. Le Zhishi seemed to be able to feel Song Yu’s heartbeat. It beat heavily against his muscles and bones. His emotions were stabilized, but Le Zhishi’s thoughts were still wandering. For some reason, he thought of the night Song Yu finished his college entrance exam. He thought of the feeling of hugging Song Yu after he fell asleep.

That feeling seemed to be stored in his body. It was hidden. Only when he was so close to him would it be accidentally triggered and reappear. Then, it would give birth to some kind of expectation.

These were all things that he couldn’t control.

Song Yu didn’t move or speak. It was as if he was really just there to accompany Le Zhishi. At the thought that he might disappear after he fell asleep, Le Zhishi didn’t feel sleepy at all.

Thunder struck again and again. Le Zhishi gradually shrank back into the blanket. Song Yu couldn’t help but remind him, “Don’t cover your head with the blanket. It’s bad for your breathing.”

Only then did Le Zhishi obediently move up. He still leaned his forehead against Song Yu.

“Will you fall?” he asked Song Yu.

Song Yu quickly answered, “No.”

Le Zhishi said again, “If you’re sleepy, go to sleep. Don’t worry about me.”

Song Yu was silent for a while. “If I didn’t care, you wouldn’t have come up.”

That made sense.

“Are you unable to sleep?” Song Yu said after a while. His tone sounded a little awkward. “If you’re afraid, you can lean on me.”

“Okay.” Le Zhishi leaned on him obediently. He felt very comfortable with his chin resting on his shoulder, so he breathed out contentedly.

Then Song Yu tilted his head and moved forward.

Le Zhishi actually wanted to fall asleep, but as soon as he closed his eyes, the light of lightning would illuminate the room. This moment would awaken many of his memories. For example, the way Song Yu wanted to send him to the hotel, and the scene of him holding his hand in the cafeteria.

And the scene of him talking to that girl.

This seemed more willful than him asking Song Yu to sleep with him, but Le Zhishi really didn’t like him talking to others.

The sound of thunder didn’t stop. It was a tug of war in the heavy rain with an inexplicable sense of loss and weak willpower.

Just as Song Yu was staring blankly at the patterns on the bed curtains opposite his roommate, he heard Le Zhishi speak suddenly.

“Aunt Rong said that you might not be home because you have a girlfriend.”

Song Yu’s heart sank. He then denied it. “No, I’m just a little busy.”

He heard Le Zhishi say again, “I turned around and ran away today because I thought of this sentence. I thought you were in a relationship and didn’t want to disturb you. “He added,” My appearance at that time was a little unnecessary. ”

Song Yu was already used to Le Zhishi’s straightforwardness. He just felt that it was a little funny. At that time, he only responded with a few words and at most nodded. How could it be interpreted like this?

“Do you think I’m in a relationship when I’m standing 20 centimeters away from her?”

“Then what do you think a relationship should be like?”

Song Yu didn’t say anything. After a while, he repeated his previous statement. “In any case, I’m not in a relationship.”

Le Zhishi said very softly, “Okay, but he couldn’t help but say,” The boys and girls in our class who are in a relationship have endless days to talk about every day. They talk online and laugh when they see each other. ”

Song Yu felt that Le Zhishi still didn’t believe him, but it was ridiculous to misunderstand a chat as a relationship. “If you saw me hugging another person and thought I was in a relationship, it would be slightly more logical.”

Le Zhishi said, “Yes.”

Song Yu was about to say yes when he heard Le Zhishi say, “This logic isn’t reliable either. You hugged me before.”

Song Yu almost laughed when he heard this. He felt that sometimes Le Zhishi’s desire to win was very strange. “It’s sophistry to use childhood as an example.”

“Not childhood.” Le Zhishi quickly refuted him. He seemed to feel that talking with his back facing him wouldn’t be intimidating, so he pulled Song Yu over and made him lie face to face with him.

In the darkness, Song Yu could see his eyes. A little light came in from the window, illuminating his eyes. His stubborn face was also particularly beautiful.

“The day I went to your room to watch a documentary after your college entrance exam and fell asleep, the day you gave me the nameplate, in the middle of the night, you turned over and hugged me.”

For the sake of demonstration, Le Zhishi pulled Song Yu’s arm away, burrowed into his embrace, and buried his head in his chest.

“That’s it.”