Ch102 - [Extra 7] - End of the Story

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“I’m going to my Ge’s base this weekend, so I won’t go to your house to do homework.”

Fu Mingli said this to Cen Xiao as he bowed his head to sort out the homework assigned by the teacher.

Cen Xiao was silent for a while, before he put the problems he had copied for Fu Mingli into his schoolbag, and stood by the desk silently. “Can’t I go?”

“How come there’s so much homework again ah…” Fu Mingli pulled on the shoulder strap of his schoolbag, stretched out his hand, and searched the desk of the table to find the white-out.

“Why do you have to follow me everywhere ah?”

Fu Mingli patted the table and stood up. He was conflicted for a while before he looked at Cen Xiao.

Cen Xiao was half a head taller than him.

They were clearly the same age.

But he had to look up at him.

Fu Mingli was a little unhappy at the bottom of his heart.

Cen Xiao didn’t speak.

He just stood by and stared at Fu Mingli in silence.

“Xiao Ge, aren’t you going to play basketball?” Several boys passed by holding a basketball outside the window. One came over by himself and leaned close to the windowsill, his gaze lingering on Fu Mingli for a little while. “Mingli, are you coming ah?”

Fu Mingli raised his eyes and looked at Cen Xiao.

He wanted to go.

But his older brother and Shen Ge were coming back to pick him up tonight.

He pursed his lips, conflicted for a while, and then reflexively looked at Cen Xiao again.

Cen Xiao’s expression was faint.

His gaze again fell on Fu Mingli’s hand holding the shoulder strap of his schoolbag.

During class, Fu Mingli’s hand was itchy, and he had spattered the ink of his black pen on his hand. There were still light traces of black ink on his thin knuckles.

“Xiao Ge, hurry up ah! The head of our neighboring class said that if you go today, they’ll write a cheer for us for next week’s sport’s festival!”

“Come on, Xiao Ge, if you are not interested in them, let your bros benefit at least. That class head has good grades and is good-looking…”

“No.” Cen Xiao’s voice had already matured and it was a little low, between that of a mature man and a teenager.

With that, he looked at Fu Mingli. “Mingli won’t go either. He needs to go home and do his homework.”

“What homework ah? Doesn’t he always copy your homework? And there’s a freshman Meimei who has been yelling that she wants to see Mingli play basketball, shit! Xiao Ge, if you don’t want to go, you still can’t stop Mingli from going ah!”

Hearing this, Fu Mingli looked up and loosened his grip on his schoolbag. His expression looked a bit restless.

Cen Xiao frowned and looked at the several boys sprawled on the edge of the window with dissatisfaction at the bottom of his eyes.

“Forget it, forget it, let’s go. See you on Monday, Xiao Ge Mingli!”

The boys held the basketball again and pushed at each other.

“Why are you pushing me?”

“If Xiao Ge loses his temper in a bit, we will all suffer.”

“What losing his temper…”

“……”

The voices of the boys drifted away.

Fu Mingli wasn’t too happy as he slung his backpack on his back and said, “If you want to come with me, then come home with me now.

“But…you’ll have to finish your homework and then let me copy it. If I can’t finish it, my Ge will definitely have a dark expression again.”

Cen Xiao’s fingers twitched and he put his schoolbag on his left shoulder before grabbing Fu Mingli’s schoolbag and carrying it in his hand. Finally, he started smiling. “I’ve already finished it.

“If you don’t want to write it, I can help write it for you.”

Fu Mingli was used to this. He stopped and threw himself on Cen Xiao’s back, sending him stumbling forward two steps. “I just knew you, Xiao Ge, are the best! Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go! I must take you there!

“Shen Ge and them won the championship again! Tomorrow seems to be a training match for the secondary team, and we can watch them compete right there!

“Xiao Ge, do you think I should go try youth training ah…

“Forget it, forget it, even if my Ge wouldn’t break my legs, my skills aren’t enough. I tried playing a squad match with Lu Tun Ge and them last time, and I was just a corpse lying there.”

“…..”

Inside the QAQ team base——

Three years had passed, and the second floor of the base had been transformed into a training place for the secondary team.

Shen Qi stood behind the captain of the secondary team in his pajamas and watched him play a training match. The expression on his face was very faint, and you couldn’t tell if he was happy or mad.

“Don’t be nervous ah… What are your hands shaking for?” Bo Li stood behind another team member and glanced at Shen Qi silently. “Can you stay away from your poor secondary team? Look, you’re scaring them so much.”

Bo Li had retired a year ago because of a hand injury, and he had immediately been poached by Shen Qi to become the coach of the secondary team that still hadn’t achieved anything yet.

“No, as the captain of the main team, I don’t even have the right to watch the training match of the younger generation?” Shen Qileng snorted, quite dissatisfied, but he still turned around and left.

At the door, Fu Mingli and Cen Xiao were stuck to the edge of the glass window and looking in.

Shen Qi rubbed his hair.

Tch, this guy Cen Xiao had grown too fast. When he had first met him, Cen Xiao wasn’t much taller than Mingli. Now, he was close to his height, and half a head taller than Mingli.

On the contrary, Mingli hadn’t grown in the past two years.

Regarding this matter, Jiang Chuyao would call every once in awhile to ask if Fu Mingli didn’t eat well enough living by himself and wasn’t being nutritious enough.

“Shen Ge,” Cen Xiao called out in a well-behaved manner.

Fu Mingli directly drew close to Shen Qi. “Ge, can I go inside?”

In these three years, Fu Mingli had lost the baby fat on his face, and the outline of his facial features had already appeared.

Although he still looked very immature.

He was already a handsome little boy.

Shen Qi smiled and let out an “en.”

Then his gaze fell on Cen Xiao. When Cen Xiao was going to follow Fu Mingli in, he called out.

Fu Mingli’s mind was focused on “directly ahead is the current training competition of professional players,” so how could he care if his classmate had followed him or not.

The first floor training room.

Lu Tun and Xu Leng were livestreaming duo match.

It was a rare day off, and Ye Lai had gone to spend the weekend with Ji Yin and the kid.

Shen Qi pulled up a chair and sat face to face with Cen Xiao.

The boy was obviously still a little nervous.

Although Shen Qi looked young, in the end he was still Fu Mingli’s older brother’s legal partner and part of the older generation.

Unconsciously, his fingers rubbed twice on his knee, and Cen Xiao pursed his lips and took back the smile he had around Fu Mingli.

Shen Qi chuckled. “Don’t be nervous.”

He looked at the two people who were livestreaming, confirmed that the sound of them talking couldn’t reach them, and then continued to say, “Originally, I shouldn’t have been the one to talk to you about this matter.”

Cen Xiao suddenly straightened his back.

“But my man…” Shen Qi shut up in time.

Realizing that the boy in front of him was still a sophomore in high school, he still had to restrain himself.

“Your Mingyuan Ge…” This name sounded a bit awkward, so Shen Qi paused and glanced at the training room. “He entrusted me to say this. He doesn’t talk much, and he doesn’t think that he can communicate with children of your age.”

Fu Mingyuan only spoke a bit more when he was talking to Shen Qi.

In recent years, most of the things regarding Fu Mingli’s education had been done by Shen Qi, whether it was urging him to do his homework or life matters.

Fu Mingyuan’s main task was to beat Fu Mingli with his shoe.

Cen Xiao let out an “en,” looked up, and smiled at Shen Qi. “Shen Ge, please talk.”

His hands on his knees were clenched into fists.

His heart also beat uncontrollably.

“Mom and Dad want to take Mingli out of the country to finish high school,” Shen Qi said this and went to observe Cen Xiao’s expression.

Sure enough, the originally indifferent boy was a little stunned. He was probably afraid that Shen Qi would discover something he shouldn’t discover, and immediately lowered his head.

He was still young in the end.

Everything was shown on his face, and only Fu Mingli, that fool, couldn’t see what kind of thoughts the person who had grown up with him for so many years was carrying.

“Have you told Mingli yet…” Cen Xiao’s voice was a little low.

He was trying to restrain himself from questioning anything.

To Fu Mingli and to the entire Fu family, he was Fu Mingli’s friend and bro.

“Not yet. Mingli is impatient, you know, so…” Shen Qi observed Cen Xiao’s expression again, and then said, “You are his best friend. If he has any resistance about this afterwords, it would be better if you went to talk him out of it.”

Cen Xiao was silent for a moment. “He has to leave the country?”

He couldn’t help asking that.

Shen Qi let out an “ah” and looked at his text messages. “Right now, Mingli’s grades are too poor, and he can’t pass the exams for domestic universities. He can only try to get in abroad.

“This is also Mom and Dad’s current thoughts.”

“As long as his grades are good, he won’t have to leave the country?” Cen Xiao raised his eyes and looked directly at Shen Qi.

His eyes were probably full of youthful spirit and firm emotions ba.

Shen Qi smiled and nodded.

“It’s not that easy to improve his grades ah…” He held his chin in one hand, tapped his fingers against his cheek, and seemed to be troubled.

With Fu Mingli’s grades, he was afraid it was really difficult to improve them in just one year.

Cen Xiao tightly pursed his lips, grit his teeth, loosened his fists, and stood up. “Mingli is very smart, he’s just lazy. I’ll urge him and help him improve his grades. Shen Ge, can you discuss with Uncle and Auntie to stop him from leaving the country?

“If he goes abroad, it will be difficult for him to return home ba. He may not adapt and miss home…”

He should also miss me.

Shen Qi sat up straight and smiled. “No, Cen Xiao, in what capacity do you say these words? As friends? Classmates? Brothers?

“Can you ensure that Mingli’s grades will improve?

“If he fails to meet expectations, will you be responsible for Mingli’s life?

“It will take you a lifetime to fulfill what you say…” Shen Qi leaned over and raised his eyes to stare at Cen Xiao.

Cen Xiao seemed to have calmed down.

He was much more mature than Fu Mingli.

Because his parents weren’t around all year round, he was independent, autonomous, and self-disciplined.

He knew exactly what he wanted. He had known it since junior high school, when he had met Fu Mingli.

When they started high school, he had better choices. He could have gone to the city’s main school, but he still chose to just matriculate into the attached high school with Fu Mingli.

“I’m not a child, I understand.” Cen Xiao’s voice was much firmer than just now. “I’ll be responsible for him.

“All my life.”

……

“High schoolers these days are really amazing.” Shen Qi half leaned on Fu Mingyuan and repeated Cen Xiao’s words. “At his age… Ah, it seems that I had started playing professionally back then.”

Fu Mingyuan lowered his head and played with his hand.

The years had not left any traces on them.

“Gege… If I met you at that time, would I also have been so determined?” Shen Qi raised his waist and kissed Fu Mingyuan’s lips.

Fu Mingyuan immediately stretched out his hand to hold the back of his neck and let out an “en.” His throat bobbed, and he was silent for a moment.

“Yes.

“We would always stick to each other.”

Shen Qi let out an “ah,” scrambled up, grabbed his shoulder, and kissed him.

……

They still told Fu Mingli about studying abroad.

But that was after discussing the matter with Jiang Chuyao.

At the beginning, Jiang Chuyao was really afraid that with Fu Mingli’s grades, he wouldn’t be able to attend a good university in China.

In addition, she hadn’t been with her little son for so many years, and now that she was older, she wanted to make up for this deficiency.

When the proposal was first put forward, it was rejected by Fu Mingyuan.

Fu Mingli didn’t need this kind of compensatory affection.

And he would never accept the arrangement of studying abroad.

The ending was set from the beginning.

It was just that in the middle, besides Fu Mingli, the two old men who had been married for a long time had pretty much guessed Cen Xiao’s intentions towards their own family’s Didi.

After all, he was young, so with just one trick from Shen Qi, they confirmed it.

The Fu family had no objections about giving Fu Mingli away to Cen Xiao.

It was just that since then, Jiang Chuyao kept nagging Fu Zhen that the Fu family was actually going to come to an end.

Fu Zhen began to coax his wife all day and night and stopped Jiang Chuyao’s thoughts of having another son in their old age.

And the idea of sending Fu Mingli to study abroad naturally met with Fu Mingli’s firm opposition.

Fu Mingli was very stubborn. That night, he directly chose to leave home.

Although he lived alone at home for the time being, this didn’t prevent him from expressing his opposition to the idea.

Cen Xiao’s house was chosen as his place to go to after he left home.

Cen Xiao’s family lived in the same community as Fu Mingli.

In the evening, Fu Mingli wanted to copy his homework as usual.

Cen Xiao stopped him by grabbing his hand and took back the exercise book he had put on Fu Mingli’s side.

“Xiao Ge, what’s going on…” Fu Mingli jumped up and wanted to grab it back. “Hurry up, hurry up, if I still don’t copy it, I’ll be cold tomorrow!”

Cen Xiao sat across from him with a rare serious expression while holding his homework book in his hand. “Fu Mingli.”

Fu Mingli was stunned. He very seldom heard Cen Xiao call him by his full name.

The first time seemed to be when he had written a love letter to the girl in the next class, yet in the end, the girl had rejected him because he looked too young, and he had cried to Cen Xiao.

“Oh… What…” Cen Xiao stared at him, and Fu Mingli was a little embarrassed now.

Copying homework was actually bad.

But he didn’t want to do it. Moreover, he had been spoiled by Cen Xiao in recent years and had grown used to it.

“What do you want to do in the future?”

Cen Xiao stared at him for a moment and helped him take out his homework from his schoolbag, notebook by notebook. He divided them into different categories: what had to be finished today, what teachers wouldn’t check, and what was more difficult and could be finished later….

Fu Mingli had a headache as soon as he saw him do this.

The workload of a high school second year was very heavy.

There was too much homework.

“Do you want to go abroad?” Cen Xiao asked.

“I don’t want to!” Fu Mingli immediately reflexively jumped up and only then realized something.

When he came over here, he hadn’t mentioned this matter to Cen Xiao.

He didn’t know why, but he didn’t want to mention it.

Subconsciously, he felt that Cen Xiao would be unhappy.

“How did you know?” Fu Mingli sat back again and began to play with his cellphone.

His older brother and Shen Ge hadn’t sent him any messages.

Fu Mingli was a little disappointed, and his expression was a little depressed.

“Your Ge came to find me that day.”

Cen Xiao sat down next to him and helped him to take out his pen. “He told me that your parents want to take you out of the country.”

Fu Mingli let out an “oh” and said in a low voice, “Then…they want you to persuade me? Why do they always do this… When I was a child, they didn’t pay any attention to me, and now they want to force me…

“I don’t want to go abroad, and I don’t want compensation. I’m very good now, and I’ll be very good in the future. Are my grades that important?”

Because his studies were poor, Fu Mingyuan and Shen Qi would often seek him out.

His parents would also often call him and pay attention to him.

In the final analysis, he wasn’t mature enough.

Clearly he didn’t want to care, but he just couldn’t help it.

Everyone said that this was something only kids in their rebellious phase would do.

Cen Xiao was silent for a while, raised his hand, and then put it down again. He brought it to his side and pursed his lips.

“No.

“He asked me if I was willing to be responsible for your life.”

Although he had cut out the words in the middle.

But this also counted as the truth.

Cen Xiao told himself.

Fu Mingli’s tears that had been brewing were now immediately sucked back in. “What responsible for my life?

“Why should you be responsible for my life…”

“I said I would help you improve your academic performance. You can’t go abroad.” Cen Xiao put the pen into his hand.

Fu Mingli’s hands were a little cold.

He was still wearing a thin short sleeved T-shirt and it was a little cold at night, with no heater turned on in the room.

Cen Xiao’s finger wiped the back of Fu Mingli’s hand. The two of them froze, then both turned their heads away.

Cen Xiao turned on the heater.

“I don’t want to study…” Fu Mingli lowered his head and pressed down the strange feeling from just now.

“Then do you want to go abroad?”

“No.”

He didn’t want to do anything.

Cen Xiao let out an “en” and said, “I told your Ge that you can’t go abroad. If you go abroad…you would miss me a lot.”

“What the hell?” Fu Mingli was shocked.

“So, just obediently stay with me, study hard, and go to the same university as me.”

Cen Xiao patted Fu Mingli on the back of his hand. “I’m going to be responsible for your life.

“You’re not allowed to copy homework anymore.

“I’ll help you make up your studies every day from now on.”

Fu Mingli’s thoughts were still stuck on Cen Xiao’s “if you went abroad, you would miss me a lot.”

He kept feeling that something about it was off.

His thoughts had completely deviated, and he didn’t remember at all that he had absolutely refused to study and also to go abroad.

Cen Xiao stared at Fu Mingli’s completely bewildered look for a long time.

He swallowed.

The light in the room was very bright.

He stretched out his hand and put his palm on Fu Mingli’s back. “Mingli, promise me?

“I will definitely be responsible for your future life.”

His tone was too sincere.

And also bewitching.

Fu Mingli was stunned for a while before he realized that he had just nodded.

He had actually nodded!

Although he had just said that he would study and go to the same university as him in the future, Fu Mingli kept feeling as though something was off.

However, the current situation already didn’t allow him to think about this mess.

Cen Xiao was a person who had a plan and did what he said.

He arranged everything.

Fu Mingli still resisted at first.

Then he resigned himself to his fate.

Because he studied hard, no one talked to him about going abroad anymore.

Moreover, his life became happier.

Cen Xiao would help him prepare everything he needed in his day-to-day life, and he just had to concentrate on studying.

Whenever he was thirsty or tired, there was someone there to help him.

The students around him were all terribly envious.

Fu Mingli was always a bit embarrassed.

But if Cen Xiao didn’t do it anymore, he would definitely not be used to that.

So, he didn’t refuse.

He disliked studying, but his brain was very flexible. As long as he studied hard, he could learn.

His grades had been steadily rising.

His relationship with Cen Xiao was also getting steadily closer.

Fu Mingyuan and Shen Qi still paid attention to him.

On the day when the college entrance exam test results came out, Fu Mingli specially changed into new clothes.

Cen Xiao leaned against the door frame and watched him take off his school uniform and put on his new shirt.

The white shirt made the youth look more delicate.

Third year studies were very tiring, but Fu Mingli had actually gained some weight because of Cen Xiao feeding him.

You couldn’t tell when he wore clothes though, as his frame was relatively small to begin with.

His waist was slim, and the cuffs of his sleeves were rolled up to reveal his pale wrists.

Cen Xiao stretched out his hand to lead him.

Fu Mingli naturally let him hold his wrist.

“Xiao Ge, why aren’t you changing your clothes? You need a sense of ceremony to check your grades.”

Cen Xiao shrugged. “Do you still need a sense of ceremony going from your home to my home?”

“Isn’t that nonsense? This is a crucial period that determines whether we can be in the same school in the future!” Fu Mingli’s footsteps were very anxious.

The results had already been released.

But it took him a while to change his clothes.

Cen Xiao’s eyes fell on the back of his head, and he half narrowed his eyes and smiled helplessly.

As soon as they reached the living room, Fu Mingli’s cellphone rang.

It was a text from Shen Qi.

[Shen Ge: No need to check, you two can go to the same school [their grades]]

Fu Mingli stopped.

He froze in place for a moment.

Then he jumped up and rushed into Cen Xiao’s arms. “AHHHHHH I ACTUALLY GOT SO MANY POINTS ON AN EXAM! Xiao Ge, I love you!”

Cen Xiao had actually expected this a long time ago.

Fu Mingli was already in the top 20 of their grade when he took the mock exam.

As long as his luck on the exam was a little better, and he worked a bit harder, there was no difference between their grades.

However, the second half of Fu Mingli’s words made him stiffen when he caught him.

“I can finally game! I won’t have to dream about doing homework and studying in the middle of the night!” Fu Mingli was still babbling on.

Cen Xiao tightened his arms around his waist.

His lips rubbed his earlobe. “En, I love you too.”

Fu Mingli felt numb all over.

His arms hanging around Cen Xiao’s neck went weak.

“What nonsense are you talking about…”

He struggled to get down.

Cen Xiao didn’t let him and kept them in this position.

Fu Mingli hit him.

He then felt that this action was too idiotic, so he stopped his hand and said, “Why did you kiss my ear!”

Cen Xiao laughed. “I heard your previous sentence.

“I was responding to you.

“Although it’s not that good to let you say it first, since you said it, I’ll respond to you.”

“What are you talking about?! What did I say?!” Fu Mingli’s ears were already red.

“I love you.” Cen Xiao, on the other hand, wasn’t frantic and helped him repeat it again.

In the end, Fu Mingli didn’t struggle at all.

He wasn’t stupid.

What was more, there were still lessons from the past.

There were so many beautiful girls who liked Cen Xiao, but he had never even given them a glance.

Every time a girl confessed to Fu Mingli, Cen Xiao’s expression would grow terribly dark.

He wasn’t stupid.

He could guess what was going on.

“Then…then alright ba.” Fu Mingli hung onto him, his toes against the ground.

“Then don’t kiss my ear.”

They looked each other in the eye for a while.

The window wasn’t closed tightly, and the wind blew in.

“Kiss here.”

He pointed to his lips.

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