Bai Qi couldn’t see the person behind Bo Yan, but he clearly heard that it was Lin Feng’s voice.
He had really come to confess.
His heart sank little by little. Lin Feng’s aggrieved and resentful voice rang in his ears again.
“Bai Qi never treated me like a boyfriend! What kind of couple only holds hands once in two years of dating?! We haven’t even touched each other at all! I’m not even as good as his roommate!”
“You don’t know how wronged I’ve been these past two years. I think he’s been cheating on me. Bo Yan, if you’re willing to date me privately, I’ll break up with him publicly and let everyone see how worthless that so-called school flower is!”
“Enough!” Bo Yan suddenly interrupted, his eyes icy cold. “I won’t date you.”
Lin Feng was startled by his gaze, but hearing the refusal, he couldn’t believe Bo Yan would reject him.
He had even gotten the aloof school flower, why not the school hunk? If it was inconvenient being a celebrity, they could just secretly date. It was all because he had a boyfriend!
Lin Feng’s emotions suddenly became uncontrollable. The gentleness of before was gone. “I’m breaking up with that bastard right now!”
As if breaking up would win Bo Yan’s heart, Lin Feng actually picked up his phone and started calling.
As the phone connected, a phone ringtone suddenly, jarringly, sounded at the door—the original, built-in ringtone used by Bai Qi’s phone.
Lin Feng froze, instinctively hanging up. The ringtone at his ear abruptly stopped.
At that moment, he seemed to finally realize something.
His excited emotions were abruptly extinguished. He stiffly moved to the side, directly facing Bai Qi’s light-colored eyes, shaped like flower petals.
So beautiful, exquisitely gorgeous. When they went out together, the whole school envied them, yet his personality was so wooden, completely unromantic, utterly unattainable, making him infuriatingly difficult to give up.
But now, he apparently had to give up…
Lin Feng opened his mouth, but couldn’t speak for a long time.
Bai Qi clutched his phone tightly, the words “bastard,” “worthless” echoing in his mind, completely dumbfounded.
He never imagined Lin Feng viewed him this way.
Before they started dating, he had clearly stated that he didn’t like physical contact. His ideal relationship was one of mutual respect. Lin Feng had also agreed, repeatedly assuring him that he would absolutely not overstep boundaries, which is why he agreed to date.
In these two years, Lin Feng had never expressed any dissatisfaction, even often saying that he liked this way of getting along.
Bai Qi didn’t understand. Why couldn’t they just break up peacefully if he wasn’t satisfied? For two years, if Lin Feng had said a single word of unwillingness, he wouldn’t have dated him for so long.
A chill ran through him. He hated betrayal more than anything; the thought made his bones cold.
At this moment, Bo Yan seemed to also realize that Bai Qi was Lin Feng’s boyfriend. His black eyes glanced over, the brow bone casting a shadow under his eyelids, his emotions unclear.
However, at that moment, Lin Feng suddenly leaned towards Bo Yan, as if to hug him.
Perhaps it was pure disgust towards Lin Feng, or perhaps he didn’t want such a bright and upright person to be tainted by Lin Feng, Bai Qi felt a rush of blood to his head. He couldn’t help but do the most outrageous thing of his life.
He lifted his right foot and kicked Lin Feng hard on the leg.
Bai Qi used all his strength in this kick, all his disappointment and anger completely released.
Lin Feng never expected the gentle Bai Qi to suddenly resort to violence. Combined with his forward momentum, he was caught off guard, collapsing to his knees.
“Ah!”
Lin Feng huddled on the ground, clutching his leg, his gold-rimmed glasses sliding off his nose, his handsome face flushed red, wanting to curse but too pained to speak.
This was the first time Bai Qi had ever hit someone. The force was such that even his foot, through his shoe, was a little sore, yet his mood was finally relieved.
Before, he always bottled things up. He never knew venting was so useful. His soft voice became unusually firm: “I’ve kicked you, let’s break up.”
He left those words and turned to leave.
However, as he passed Bo Yan, the intertwining cold fragrance made him momentarily dazed.
Bai Qi still held the signed phone case Bo Yan had given him. Seeing that Bo Yan didn’t intend to leave, he pursed his lips, and couldn’t help but lean closer to remind him:
“Be careful, he might attack you.”
The alluring sweetness drew near, Bo Yan’s pale, thin jaw tightened abruptly, and the blue veins on his neck gradually became visible.
He glanced down to avoid eye contact, coldly aloof beyond words: “Thank you.”
Bai Qi breathed a sigh of relief and strode away.
The corridor outside was brightly lit, warm light falling on him, his mood open and refreshed.
His white shoes stepped on the soft carpet. Just as he was about to leave the corridor, he vaguely heard a thudding sound behind him.
It was dull and heavy, a bit like bones colliding, sounding somewhat creepy, occasionally interspersed with screams.
It sounded like Lin Feng’s cries.
Bai Qi paused. Lin Feng wouldn’t be trying to harass Bo Yan again and getting beaten up by the bodyguards, would he?
He felt inexplicably relieved, even happier than when he kicked him himself. Bai Qi showed a slight elation and left quickly.
The next day, except for Lin Feng being hospitalized and not attending class, everything was as usual.
After the breakup, Bai Qi’s life remained peaceful, almost unchanged. It made him feel like there wasn’t much need to have a boyfriend; being single was pretty comfortable.
He spent half a day peacefully like this. During the last class break, Bai Qi was carrying his books, about to leave, when a bombshell hit the group chat.
“Bo Yan is returning to Jiang University to study, and will move into the dorm today. He’s already at school!”
The originally quiet classroom instantly exploded.
Many people were mesmerized by Bo Yan’s handsomeness just from seeing him from afar yesterday, now knowing he was returning to class, and they might even encounter him every day, everyone was very excited.
Especially the physics department, where Bo Yan was studying, was going wild; even the corridor outside was bustling.
Bai Qi was in the Chinese department, feeling like it was completely unrelated to him, yet his ears were still filled with the excited shouts of many people: “It’s said that Bo Yan is already heading towards the dormitory building!”
“Let’s go to the downstairs of the building and take a look!” Zhang Cheng, as a Bo Yan fanboy, was well-informed about the latest news in the group. “He’s in the physics department, so he’ll definitely live in Huazhang Building. It’s said that only two dorms have empty beds. Let’s just take a look downstairs.”
Bai Qi shook his head, shrinking into his mustard-yellow hoodie like a hamster. “I’m not going.”
He had a good impression of Bo Yan, but because of the incident with Lin Feng, meeting again felt awkward, an indescribable embarrassment; Bo Yan probably didn’t want to see him either.
Zhang Cheng winked and leaned closer, “I know you’re in a bad mood because Lin Feng tried to cheat. It’s a good chance to cheer yourself up by looking at a handsome guy.”
Zhao Bin, the second eldest, also came over, his jaw dropping when he talked about Bo Yan, “Go take a look, you wouldn’t believe how handsome Bo Yan is in person. Definitely on your level! As expected of our Jiangda school hunk.”
Bai Qi awkwardly glanced around. Seeing that most of his classmates had left, he whispered, “Don’t you guys want to know who Lin Feng tried to cheat with?”
Before he could finish, Zhang Cheng immediately became indignant, “Yeah, you’re a rose stuck in pig manure, and that pig manure actually dared to smear shit on you!”
Bai Qi: “…It’s Bo Yan.”
The room instantly fell silent.
Zhang Cheng and Zhao Bin opened their mouths, looking at each other, swallowing their curses.
Zhang Cheng suddenly fell into thought, “That kid Lin Feng wouldn’t have been beaten up by Bo Yan, would he? Bo Yan is famously a straight man, he really dislikes gays and has a really bad temper; he might have really beaten him up.”
Zhao Bin fully agreed, “At the beginning of the year, he was rated as the ‘dream guy’ in the gay community. A program came to interview him, I think it was the place where Lin Feng was doing his internship, Bo Yan didn’t go at all, and even used his connections to get the program cancelled.”
Bai Qi turned back in surprise, saying it shouldn’t be so, but he was also a little suspicious in his heart.
It could very well be the case.
Since Bo Yan was hostile to homosexuals, he would definitely find Lin Feng’s harassment disgusting. Recalling the incident, Bo Yan’s expression was terrifying when Lin Feng confessed, and the fight started before he had walked far.
Now he definitely couldn’t go. Bo Yan probably found him disgusting too.
Saying goodbye to the two, Bai Qi went to the cafeteria and bought a simple bowl of egg fried rice and a bunch of grapes. Carrying his things, he returned to the dorm. Their dormitory building was a bit far from Huazhang Building; the road was fairly quiet.
However, Bai Qi felt hotter and hotter. It was a little cool when he went out this morning, but now that the sun was up, it was exceptionally hot. Wearing a hoodie was too stuffy.
His slender, white fingers clasped together to fan himself, bringing a negligible amount of coolness. In the sunlight, the veins on the back of his hand showed a cold blue. A red string was wrapped around his wrist, the amulet on it swaying gently.
People kept glancing this way, even lowering their voices when passing him, as if afraid of disturbing him.
Bai Qi lowered his eyelashes and walked quietly upstairs.
It was so hot that he was a little dazed after walking up to the sixth floor. Tiredly, he opened the door to Dorm 605.
The fourth bed in the dorm was unoccupied; even the cabinet was broken, and when you opened the door, you could easily be hit by the cabinet door that would bounce back. Bai Qi always used one hand to open the door and the other to push it inward.
Today was no exception. Bai Qi had all his food hanging from his left wrist, while his right hand casually pushed inward, but his palm unexpectedly collided with something.
Cool, smooth, and elastic, a faint cold fragrance wafted over.
Bai Qi froze, and when he looked up, he saw a pale, naked back.
Broad shoulders, narrow waist, an extremely perfect outline, cold white muscles, thin, smooth, and subtly powerful. The man’s long arms were propped on the table, seemingly repairing the cabinet, vaguely revealing a high, thin nose.
It was Bo Yan.
As if feeling the touch on his back, Bo Yan suddenly turned his head, his thin lips pressed into a sharp line, his slightly cold gaze falling on him.
Bai Qi was caught off guard by the close encounter, his surprised red lips slightly parted. His face was flushed and alluring due to the heat, his petal-like eyes covered in a thin mist, like a clear spring on a snowy mountain.
“I-I’m sorry.”
He never expected to see Bo Yan in the dorm, and he even hit him as soon as he entered. Bo Yan wasn’t wearing a shirt, it must have hurt; that area of skin was red.
Bai Qi apologized anxiously, his hoodie collar slightly askew, revealing a small patch of snow-white, delicate skin, tender, fragrant, and soft, inexplicably seductive.
After a moment, he heard no response, and when he looked up, he saw Bo Yan staring fixedly at him.
He seemed to have wanted to say something, but suddenly didn’t, his pale, handsome cheeks gradually turning crimson.
