41 Chapter 41
◎ Listening to Your Heartbeat ◎
Not long after Pei Yun left, Lin Sumo also went downstairs.
After eating and arriving at the training room, Lin Sumo saw Pei Yun fiddling with his keyboard.
He walked over with curiosity. “What are you doing? What’s wrong with the keyboard?”
“Accidentally bumped it just now,” Pei Yun said. “A keycap seems broken. The sponsor sent a set of the same color before; I’m getting it to swap out.”
Lin Sumo let out an “Oh” and looked at Pei Yun’s desk.
The position of “L” on the keyboard was empty, and the keycap printed with “L” was lying quietly to the side, separated from the main unit.
Pei Yun held the new keycap in one hand and steadied the keyboard with the other, installing the keycap.
His slender fingers coordinated perfectly, looking extremely beautiful. They swept casually across the keyboard, like an artwork carved from jade.
“This,” Lin Sumo picked up the broken keycap. “Do you still want it?”
Sunlight spilled onto Lin Sumo, and strands of hair blown by the wind cast shadows on his face. He stood in front of Pei Yun, the smile on his lips as warm as the scattered sunlight.
Pei Yun raised his hand and rubbed the top of Lin Sumo’s head. “Why would I want it if it’s broken? Why do you ask?”
“Give it to me, okay?” Lin Sumo asked.
“Sure,” Pei Yun looked at Lin Sumo. “What’s wrong? What are you going to do?”
“Nothing much,” Lin Sumo smiled. “You’ll know when the time comes.”
Usually, they woke up the earliest in the base, so there was no one else around right now. Pei Yun called him, “Lin-lin…”
Lin Sumo was stunned by the address, then realized this must be a pet name for lovers. So he looked up. “What is it?”
“I want to kiss you now,” Pei Yun looked at him. “Can I?”
A butterfly lands among the flowers, dancing out its truest desires in the sunlight.
Who is defining the ambiguity of this moment?
Lin Sumo was surprised by his propriety and directness. After a moment, he said, “You can, my boyfriend.”
Before his voice fell, Pei Yun’s slightly cool lips covered his.
Lin Sumo was startled by the action. Upon reacting, he didn’t move or hide, slowly closing his eyes.
A moment later, Pei Yun gently released him. “Thank you.”
The softness on his lips was fleeting, yet he could still feel the lingering warmth of the kiss. Perhaps because of this, Lin Sumo’s face and heart were both hot.
“Pei Yun,” Lin Sumo called him.
Pei Yun asked, “What’s wrong?”
Lin Sumo flashed a smile at him. “Kissing on the first day of dating?”
His smile was bright and flamboyant, but after the words left his mouth, he looked a bit sly. The window upstairs wasn’t closed, and the wind from outside was blowing in. Lin Sumo’s eyes were obscured by his blown hair, but his gaze toward Pei Yun couldn’t look away for a long time.
“Just now,” Pei Yun leaned back on the desk. “Were you willing?”
Lin Sumo didn’t understand. “Willing, yeah.”
“I was willing too,” Pei Yun smiled, his gaze not shifting from him. “So, is there a problem?”
Lin Sumo tilted his head and thought seriously. “Seems like there’s no problem?”
“Then isn’t that enough,” Pei Yun said. “Or did someone make a rule that you can’t kiss on the first day of dating?”
Lin Sumo had nothing to say.
There really didn’t seem to be such a rule.
Ordinary couples might need some time to understand each other deeply and cultivate feelings, but he and Pei Yun didn’t seem to need that.
Seventeen years of time; they understood each other well enough.
As for cultivating feelings, although they weren’t together before this, the feelings had been cultivated enough.
In that case, kissing on the first day of dating didn’t seem to be a problem.
Pei Yun couldn’t help but want to laugh looking at Lin Sumo.
Unexpectedly, he suddenly asked, “By the way, is this your first kiss?”
Lin Sumo didn’t expect him to ask this. He turned his head away uncomfortably. “Mn… yes.”
“Don’t be shy, Lin-lin,” Pei Yun sat on the desk, gently lifting his chin, half-forcing Lin Sumo to look him in the eye. “What’s there to be shy about with your boyfriend? It’s mine too.”
Lin Sumo was about to cook from the heat.
Please! He didn’t want to know, okay!
…Alright, knowing was still something he wanted.
But don’t use this method, hey!
The initiative was clearly in his own hands just now…
Under Pei Yun’s ardent gaze, Lin Sumo blushed and threw out a sentence, “Forget it, can’t beat you,” then ran away as if escaping.
There was a two-day break after the regular season. Lin Sumo went out for a trip.
Lin Sumo wandered for half the day before finding a DIY handicraft experience shop inside a shopping mall.
Half an hour later.
Lin Sumo returned to the base.
He walked up to Pei Yun with a mysterious look. “Didn’t you give me a keycap just now? Guess what I did with it?”
Pei Yun was a bit curious. “What did you do?”
Lin Sumo chuckled twice and pulled down the collar of his team uniform T-shirt. “Look.”
Pei Yun focused his gaze on his chest.
A hole had been manually drilled into one corner of the light blue keycap. Strung on a thin metal chain, it had turned into a necklace, worn around Lin Sumo’s neck.
Lin Sumo’s face was a bit red. “Because I discovered that the letter on this key was my initial.”
Lin Sumo, L.
He continued, “Um… is it pretty self-deceptive? Since clearly, you didn’t give it specifically for that…”
“No,” Pei Yun spoke up. “It’s very beautiful.”
Pei Yun squatted down, gazing into his eyes. “Thank you, Lin-lin.”
“This way, I’m pressed against your chest.”
“I can listen to your heartbeat.”
Lin Sumo felt his heart was about to jump out.
Damn it, why didn’t he realize this guy was so smooth before…
On the first day of dating, he was about to die from being flirted with. What was going on?
Lin Sumo looked at him. “I…”
Just as he said the word “I”, someone suddenly pushed the door open from outside. “Ya, Little Mo-mo, what are you doing?”
Lin Sumo turned his head almost frantically. “Ah, no, nothing.”
Seeing Xiao Lanyu’s face, he finally returned to normal and found an unrealistic excuse. “Nothing, nothing. Isn’t it a holiday? Just came over to look around randomly.”
Behind him, Pei Yun suddenly stood up, startling Xiao Lanyu. “Pei Yun? No, you scared me to death, popping up suddenly…”
“Sorry,” Pei Yun smiled. “Dropped something just now, was picking it up.”
Lin Sumo rolled his eyes at his boyfriend in his heart. This excuse was just… something else.
“You two are actually so…” Xiao Lanyu thought for a long time about the wording. “Harmonious?”
Lin Sumo: “Huh?”
“Actually didn’t start arguing,” Xiao Lanyu looked at them with interest. “Didn’t you find each other particularly annoying before?”
“Now… pleasing to the eye,” Lin Sumo’s face was a bit hot. “It’s fine, probably won’t argue anymore in the future.”
This time Xiao Lanyu didn’t speak, but Pei Yun asked him, “Really? With our relationship… isn’t bickering usually quite normal?”
Xiao Lanyu looked confused. “No, is there some relationship between you two that I don’t know about?”
“This…” Lin Sumo awkwardly fudged it over. “Nothing…”
“Nothing?” Pei Yun teased him intentionally. “Lin-lin, that’s not what you said this morning.”
Alarm bells rang in Lin Sumo’s heart. “No, nothing! Alright, stop talking!”
Finally, amidst Xiao Lanyu’s confusion and Lin Sumo’s flustered bristling, Pei Yun successfully shut his mouth.
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