Chapter 5

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Zhuang Hanxue heard the

movement of him getting up, looked back at him, then looked at the photo, and

said, "You are no different from when you were in college, except that you

changed your hairstyle. Your ex-boyfriend is pretty good-looking, but doesn’t

seem to be the same type as me, well, except for his age."

Qiu Zheyan was only worried

that he would be angry. But now that he is so calm, as if he is commenting on

the plot of a certain TV series, had nothing to do with him and it did feel

uncomfortable to see.

Qiu Zheyan took the photo and

asked, "Where did you find the photo?"

In the photo, there is red

brick wall, yellow ginkgo, and he is dressed more childish than he is now, wearing

a sportswear. The man next to him is half a head shorter than him, wearing a

knitted sweater and black trousers, looks neat and gentle, and looks stable.

Zhuang Han said: "Saw it just

under the mattress. I wonder what it is so I take it out and saw it’s a picture.

This person is your ex-boyfriend."

Qiu Zheyan didn't speak.

Zhuang Hanxue crossed his legs

and asked curiously: "Don't want to tell me?"

Qiu Zheyan's face darkened:

"There is nothing to say."

The more he was reluctant to

say it, the more curious Zhuang Hanxue became, and he asked: "Let's talk

about it. Why? The feeling still there so you don't want to talk about it?

Forget it...what are you angry about..."

Qiu Zheyan grabbed his

shoulder: "Are you not jealous when you see pictures of me and other

men?"

Zhuang Hanxue wondered:

"Uh, what's so jealous about this, I don't know how many years have been

since you broke up?"

……………….

"'What's so jealous about

this, don't you know how many years have passed since you broke up?'-he

actually answered me so plainly." After returning home, Qiu Zheyan went to

a friend to complain, and hit his forehead against the arm on the table,

"Why is he not jealous at all?"

The bar owner said jokingly:

"Would a boyfriend be killed just because he saw a picture of his ex?"

Qiu Zheyan was quite

distressed: "But I always feel that he doesn't love me very much. It's

like we are in a ‘raising and being raised’* relationship."

*QZY raising while ZHX being

raised

The boss stopped the action of

wiping the glass, and after a while, he said, "Have you be unconscious all

the time?"

Qiu Zheyan asked: "What

conscious?"

The boss said: "He

doesn't go to work, lives with you, eats what yours, uses what yours, and the

relationship that is easy to maintain with money is usually called nurturing*,

ah friend."

*being kept

Qiu Zheyan straightened up and

retorted angrily: "No! When there is no feelings is called nurturing. I am

in love with him, but he can't make money and doesn't want to go to work, so I

spoil him and I don't need him to go to work. That's all. We said we liked each

other. I like him, and he likes me too!"

The boss asked: "He said

he likes you? In bed? Men's words in bed can’t be counted."

Qiu Zheyan categorically denied:

"Of course not in bed."

Qiu Zheyan recalled the scene Zhuang

Hanxue said he liked.

For example, say to him:

"The pack of cigarettes you gave me a few days ago has already finished.

Give me another pack... I know it hasn’t been up to the three days of agreed time.

I know that smoking too much is bad for the body. If it’s not good, then give

me half a pack, alas, three roots are fine. Thank you Qiuqiu, I like you so

much.” （；¬＿¬)

Or: "My dear, the beer in

the refrigerator is all finished, buy another box. I like a beer when I eat. I

really want to drink it, I really want to drink it, I really want to drink

it... Thank you Qiuqiu, I really like you. Here, I'll divide the last one into

half for you." ಠ_ಠ

There is also: "Xiao Qiu,

look at that new game, it looks very fun, and the evaluation score is so high.

I see that there is an up test and I wants to play it too. I have played all

the games I bought before. Do you want to buy this game? Let’s play it together

on weekends, okay? Buy it, buy it, I really want to play it, I want to play it

until my whole body is itchy... Hee hee, baby, I love you the most! "

* the heck Zhuang Hanxue (╯°□°）╯︵

┻━┻

Without exception, after

succeeding, he would come up and give a kiss, and then ran to play.

Qiu Zheyan thought about it,

slowly and silently covering his face: "..."

He always feel that something

is wrong.

But if you really say that

Zhuang Hanxue is trying to get his money, it doesn’t seems so.

Zhuang Hanxue has very low

desire for materialism. Apart from smoking, drinking and playing games, he

never asked him any valuable things. Don't say he (QZY) didn’t take

initiative to buy. He bought Zhuang Hanxue's more expensive clothes before, but

he didn't see him wearing them, and he just wore a cheap T-shirt at

home. The lighter was only bought in the supermarket. Let alone rings,

belts, watches, or sports cars he never asked for it.

"What did you think

of?"

"No, nothing..."

Qiu Zheyan said a little

depressed: "After I came back, I told him that my parents had a good impression

of him. He was surprised and said, ‘How could it be possible?’ and 'You are so

good, don’t your parents think I am worthless and not good match for

you?'"

Qiu Zheyan said lovingly:

"I think, maybe he is a little bit inferior. He feels that he is old and

has no career, so he has no confidence. Is he worried that I might abandon him

at any time? When I think about it he is pitiful and cute. Wu wu wu."

The boss hesitated to say

something and stopped: "Forget it...You, just be happy..."

……

Zhuang Hanxue's big brother

was still in the hospital with his child. He continued to run errands to pass

the time, and brought game consoles and board games to the hospital to play

with the child.

Qiu Zheyan went to the

hospital to pick him up.

He heard the two brothers talking from outside the door.

Zhuang Hanchen: "You have

all gone home with someone and met his parents. How are you getting

along?"

Zhuang Hanxue: "I don't

know. Maybe it's okay. Even if they are not satisfied with me, they can't tell

it to my face, right? Xiao Qiu said his parents like me, but who knows? In my

life I haven't gotten a lot of elders who knows I'm not promising to like me."

Zhuang Hanchen said

helplessly: "You know you are not promising, so won't you grow up a little

bit?"

Zhuang Hanxue: "No."

Zhuang Hanchen: "Then you still go back with him to see the parents?"

He heard Zhuang Hanxue say in

person: "It's not good to refuse. His parents are very good, better than

our parents. I can't say a word to refuse. If I let his parents refuse me, then

I will be at ease."

Brother Zhuang Hanxue said:

"You just use this careless attitude in everything you do, that’s why you

can achieve nothing until now."

Zhuang Hanxue: "Does

everything have to be accomplished in life? There is no shortage of me in the

world. Anyway, I have no grand dream of changing the world."

"You live in his house,

eat his food, and use his stuff. What's the difference between you being kept

by him? Don't you have any shame?"

"No. I just have a good

time. Don't worry so much."

"I’m saying, being with

men are not as simple as you think... you will know it slowly. You are now kept

at home like a pet. What if you break up in the future? You are older. It’s

hard to find a job, how can you support yourself then?"

"I don't like to go out

anyway. My dream is to eat and wait to die, what's wrong with it?"

"How long have you known

him? Are you sure that the man will feed you and wait for you to die, all his

life? If he is really good for you, he won't keep you out. If you want to eat

and die, why did you run out of the house?"

"Because I don't want to

get married. If you want me to get married, then I might as well go to

work."

Hearing this, Qiu Zheyan

walked away lightly, went to the first floor of the inpatient department, and

sent a message to Zhuang Hanxue: "I'm here to pick you up."

Zhuang Hanxue went downstairs,

and when he saw him, he hung onto him. He had always been stand without

standing, sit without sitting*.

*doesn’t has good posture

sitting/standing

The two went home holding

hands.

They saw someone selling fried

potatoes on the road and bought a box. Take one for you and one for me.

Qiu Zheyan knew that it was

wrong of him. He did it on purpose. Deliberately not encouraging Zhuang

Hanxue to go to work because he didn't want him to move forward. If Zhuang

Hanxue go to work and had contact with others, he can't fill all his (ZHX) life

with traces of himself. Zhuang Hanxue's academic qualifications are not

low, and his previous job was quite good. He was completely deceived by

him. He knows this is very selfish, but who in the world can say that they

have no selfishness?

Zhuang Hanxue hummed a little

song and said happily, "My niece will be discharged from the hospital in

one week. Then my brother will leave. My hard days will finally come to an

end."

Qiu Zheyan: "You said so,

but you run to see your big brother every day."

Zhuang Hanxue: "Big

brother is the big brother after all."

Qiu Zheyan squeezed his hand

and asked: "It will be the New Year holiday soon. I plan to invite our

employees to eat and play. Would you like to go together?"

Zhuang Hanxue shook his head

without thinking about it, "What am I going for? I prefer to play games at

home."

Thinking of what his elder

brother said, Qiu Zheyan hesitated and said: "It's been a long time since

you went out to see people and attending activities. Even if you didn’t come

out to have fun, you should just breathe out a bit. It's not the same thing to

be bored at home."

At his request, Zhuang Hanxue

nodded: "Okay."

That's how it is said.

Qiu Zheyan couldn't help but

worry about Zhuang Hanxue: He is a social phobic* otaku, right? Would he

be scared if he meet someone? Maybe he will always sit in a small corner

and play with his phone, right? Anyone talking to him, will scared him,

right? If he didn't care about it, he might just wear whatever clothes he

had and waste such a pretty face.

* I don’t think so hehe

He was blindly worried about

Zhuang Hanxue. He booked a place to eat and went home first to pick up Zhuang

Hanxue. When he entered the door, he was shocked.

Zhuang Hanxue had already

dressed himself up, glamorous and beautiful. Now in new look, suddenly give off

a white-collar worker feeling, and he looked several years younger than his age.

Qiu Zheyan's eyes lit

up. It was similar image to the one Qiu Zheyan saw when he first met

him.

Zhuang Hanxue said cheerfully:

"Let's go."

Qiu Zheyan: "Didn't you

say you don't want to go out? You don't want to go out, but you want to dress

up?"

Zhuang Hanxue has a motto:

"I don't want to go out just because it is so troublesome to go out to

party."

Qiu Zheyan was originally

worried that Zhuang Hanxue would be nervous and brought him to the hotel box*.

Unexpectedly, Zhuang Hanxue greeted them with a smile: "Hello, I am your

boss's friend, Zhuang Hanxue, just call me Xiaozhuang."

* separate room specially

opened in restaurant/business place to protect the privacy

After talking with a smile,

"Oh, no, I am older than you, so I should be called Lao Zhuang.

Haha."

He didn’t admit his age, and

after a while, he chatted with a few people next to him.

After dinner, go to sing at KTV.

When Qiu Zheyan came back from

the toilet, the only two or three beautiful girls in their company gathered

around Zhuang Hanxue, talking happily.

Qiu Zheyan: "..."

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