Chapter 45
Ye Xuan paced back and forth in the living room with an excited heart, hoping Xia Chenxi would come back quickly.
However, after circling the living room who knew how many times, his restless heart gradually cooled down.
Xia Chenxi still had not come back.
It was already six o’clock!
Ye Xuan glanced at his wristband. There were no messages either.
What was going on? Had he gotten too absorbed in training and forgotten?
Ye Xuan put his thumb near his mouth and could not help stomping his foot.
He should ask.
But if he asked, would it seem too deliberate?
If he did not ask, he would have to keep waiting here.
Even if he asked, he would still have to wait!
After a fierce inner struggle, Ye Xuan finally opened his wristband and sent Xia Chenxi a message.
It’s six. When are you coming back?
The reply came back very quickly.
Xia Chenxi: Soon. If you’re hungry, go find something to eat in the kitchen.
He was not training.
Then where had Xia Chenxi gone?
Ye Xuan ran to the balcony and leaned against the railing. The sky was thick and dark. Without human interference, nature had less pollution under control, and even the night stars hanging high above had become more numerous. Ye Xuan saw a true starry sky.
Not a few sparse stars, but a dazzling, brilliant sky.
He seemed to understand why couples in idol dramas liked dating under the stars.
To confess love under a starry sky like this really was something romantic.
The slightly cool night breeze brushed against his face, as if calming Ye Xuan’s restlessness a little. But his heartbeat only grew faster and faster.
Was he looking forward to Xia Chenxi?
It was just giving a gift. Why was he this excited? So excited that it felt a little excessive.
He had given gifts to his close brothers before too, and had chosen them carefully, so why had he never felt this kind of fluttering feeling?
Ye Xuan startled and gripped the railing.
It couldn’t be that because of that virus, there was something wrong with his heart, right?
The more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed. Before, when facing Xia Chenxi, his heartbeat would sometimes become very fast too.
Please don’t let there really be a problem.
But his heartbeat was only fast. His body did not feel uncomfortable anywhere.
Ye Xuan was wondering whether he should ask Xie Yan when a message notification popped up on his wristband.
Xia Chenxi: Look down.
Ye Xuan looked down. A figure was standing under the streetlamp, holding a bouquet of flowers and waving at him.
The distance was far and the light was dim, so Ye Xuan could not see the person clearly, but he knew very well in his heart that the person was Xia Chenxi.
Could it be that he had come back this late because he went to buy flowers?
Were the flowers for him?
Ye Xuan’s face inexplicably heated up. Then he shook his head. It could also be for someone else. Wasn’t he being too self-important thinking this?
Another message popped up. It was still from Xia Chenxi.
Xia Chenxi: The night sky is beautiful tonight. Did you see it?
Ye Xuan looked toward the figure under the lamp. The figure held the flowers and raised his head to look at the sky.
Ye Xuan also raised his head and looked at the sky.
He had already looked at it just now, but for some reason, looking at it again, he felt that the starry sky at this moment was even more beautiful.
Clearly, they were the same twinkling stars, the same night sky.
The surroundings were quiet and silent. No one disturbed the two of them.
It was as if Xia Chenxi were standing right in front of him, watching the starry sky with him face to face.
His heartbeat sounded one beat after another, as if it was going to pierce through Ye Xuan’s eardrums.
When Ye Xuan lowered his head to look at the streetlamp, his heartbeat abruptly stopped.
There was no one under the streetlamp.
Had Xia Chenxi left while he had been looking up?
What had he been imagining just now? Ye Xuan laughed at himself.
Maybe not only his heart had a problem, but his brain too.
Ye Xuan returned to the room and sat down on the sofa.
Not long after, a faint sound came from the entrance. The door opened, and the person who came in was Xia Chenxi. He held a bouquet of flowers in his arms. A refined fragrance drifted over from afar. It was a bouquet of lilies.
After changing his shoes, Xia Chenxi carefully placed the bouquet on the cabinet.
Ye Xuan curled up on the sofa and could not help asking, “It must not be easy to get a bouquet like this at a time like this, right? It’s even wrapped so nicely. Are you giving it to someone?”
“Mm, giving it to someone.”
As expected, it was not for him. Ye Xuan hid the disappointment in his eyes.
“Did you come back so late because you were choosing flowers?”
He had not even sent him a message before Ye Xuan asked. He had not even cared about him returning from his mission.
Xia Chenxi walked over and sat beside Ye Xuan. “No. I also went to handle something else.”
“Oh.” Ye Xuan pursed his lips toward Xia Chenxi. “Go cook.”
This was the first time Ye Xuan had taken the initiative to ask him to cook. It did not quite fit his usual style.
Xia Chenxi suppressed the strange feeling in his heart and asked, “You’re hungry already? I ran into your teammate. He said you only finished eating hotpot after four this afternoon.”
He glanced at his wristband. “It’s not even seven yet. Just now, I also told you to find something in the kitchen if you were hungry.”
Damn it. Why was Xia Chenxi so sharp?
Ye Xuan’s eyes drifted, and he stammered, “The mission today was too tiring, so I get hungry fast.”
He bit his lip, his bright eyes meeting Xia Chenxi’s. “Xia Chenxi, you won’t refuse me, right?”
Xia Chenxi’s ears quickly turned scarlet. He covered his face and sprang up from the sofa.
“Got it. I’ll make it for you.”
Xia Chenxi rushed into the kitchen in a few steps and closed the door, fleeing in panic.
In Ye Xuan’s eyes, Xia Chenxi seemed to be avoiding him. Why was he avoiding him? Did Xia Chenxi think he was annoying?
An indescribable emotion surged up at the tip of his heart. It was very subtle, and Ye Xuan was too careless to notice it.
He stood up from the sofa, took down the apron hanging outside the kitchen, and knocked on the kitchen door.
“Xia Chenxi, you didn’t take your apron.”
A hand reached out from the kitchen, but the person did not appear. Ye Xuan handed the apron to Xia Chenxi and asked strangely, “Xia Chenxi, what’s wrong? Are you okay?”
Xia Chenxi’s voice came from behind the door, muffled and hoarse. “I’m fine. Wait outside.”
“Oh.”
Ye Xuan returned to the sofa.
He felt that Xia Chenxi was very strange tonight. It was as if he were avoiding him.
Ye Xuan saw the flowers by Xia Chenxi’s door, and an idea broke through the soil in his mind.
Could it be that Xia Chenxi had someone he liked?
The base was full of men.
Could Xia Chenxi have fallen for a man?
Ye Xuan suppressed the urge to scream and went into the bathroom to splash cold water on his face.
Xia Chenxi liking men—what did that have to do with him?
That was Xia Chenxi’s own private matter.
But why did his heart feel a little stuffy?
In the kitchen.
Xia Chenxi sat on the floor, his face as red as if it had been steamed. Ye Xuan just now had been too cute. Ye Xuan’s skin was fair, and his eyes were big and beautiful. Those fox-like eyes had finally revealed their unique charm just now.
Far too alluring.
He simply could not withstand it. If he had left one second later, he felt like he would have exposed himself.
How would Ye Xuan view his feelings?
Would he think he was a pervert?
He had once heard Ye Xuan say he was straight and would never bend in this lifetime.
Unless his brain got struck by lightning, unless he got hit by a car and turned into an idiot, unless he got hit by a falling object and lost his memory.
Otherwise, there was absolutely no way he would fall in love with a man.
Xia Chenxi gradually calmed down. He absolutely could not show his affection too much.
Their current relationship was already the most ideal one.
Good brothers.
Maybe in Ye Xuan’s eyes, it did not even count as good. Just brothers.
Xia Chenxi pressed his hand to the side and felt that he had pressed on something.
He took the pair of black leather gloves out of the apron.
This was a gift Ye Xuan had given him.
So that was why he had tried every possible way to get him into the kitchen, even using a method like acting spoiled.
Heat surged upward. Xia Chenxi gently kissed the glove, as if kissing Ye Xuan’s hand.
Too cute.
