"Damn it, ptooey, ptooey, what I just said doesn't count. I'm so sorry, Sister Xu. I'm a science student, and my brain and mouth..."
"It's alright." Xu Youqing smiled and clinked glasses with everyone.
"Thank you everyone for celebrating our birthday with us."
The incident was forgotten, and everyone started a new round of games.
Xiang Yu was still feeling the warmth of the previous game and was a little hot. He whispered to Xu Youluo next to him, "I'm going to the restroom."
Xu Youlu hummed twice and continued to urge everyone on, "Let's keep going! I'm going to turn around!"
Xiang Yu splashed cold water on his face, trying to suppress the restlessness in his heart, but the effect was minimal. He could only walk to the window with his face wet to let the cold wind blow and breathe fresh air.
After pausing for a moment, I prepared to go back, and ran into Anjie coming out of the women's restroom next door.
"..." Xiang Yu's first thought was to avoid the other party, but since she couldn't be too indifferent when they met face to face, she nodded to greet them.
Anjie lowered her head, her face flushed, and didn't react much, so Xiangyu simply walked around her.
"Student Xiang Yu..."
Looking back at the corner of her clothes that had been tugged at, Anjie realized she had overreacted. She suddenly let go, her face flushed.
"I...I'm sorry," emboldened by the alcohol, Anjie seemed to have made up her mind. "Um...could you tell me...who was that girl...?"
Xiang Yu asked, "What girl?"
Anjie stammered, "You just said you have someone you like, and I want to know who she is... I want to learn from her..."
"It's me." Gu Chen suddenly appeared at the corner, and both of them were taken aback to varying degrees.
When Anjie saw that someone had arrived, she decided not to continue the conversation. She quietly greeted Gu Chen and prepared to go back first.
She walked to the right, and Gu Chen blocked her from the right; she walked to the left, and Gu Chen blocked her from the left.
Anjie: "?"
When Xiang Yu saw Gu Chen blocking someone for the first time, she knew something was wrong. She went over and pulled him away, saying to An Jie, "He's drunk. He's not usually like this."
Alcohol did indeed make Gu Chen dizzy and lightheaded, but he believed he was fully conscious. When Xiang Yu tried to pull him away, he wrapped his arms around her waist and gave An Jie a bright smile.
"I'm sorry, Xiang Yu is my boyfriend."
Anjie was clearly taken aback. "...Huh?"
Xiang Yu stared at him wide-eyed, unable to believe that this guy had come out to his classmate.
Gu Chen was busy showing An Jie his relationship with Xiang Yu and didn't notice Xiang Yu's expression.
"Don't believe me?" Gu Chen raised an eyebrow and tilted his head to give Xiang Yu a quick kiss on the corner of his mouth.
Xiang Yu: "..."
Anjie: "...I'm sorry, I disturbed you."
Xiang Yu watched An Jie run off around the corner, then pushed Gu Chen away, wanting to ask him what he was thinking.
To everyone's surprise, Gu Chen, who was all smiles just a second ago, instantly changed his expression after being pushed away, as if he had been abandoned, "You pushed me away?"
The tone was the same as when cursing a faithless man.
"You're drunk." Xiang Yu tried to pull him to the pool to wash his face, but the other man wouldn't budge despite his tugging.
"..." Xiang Yu felt that she had to keep a close eye on this guy from now on and not let him drink so much alcohol.
Gu Chen is a bit difficult to deal with when he's drunk.
Xiang Yu sighed and coaxed softly, "Are you dizzy? Shall we wash our faces?"
Gu Chen stared, remaining motionless.
His eyes were still the same as before.
Xiang Yu: "..."
Xiang Yu slowly leaned closer and kissed the other person's lips, her voice even gentler than before, "Go wash your face by the pool, okay?"
Gu Chen's eyes changed. How should this change be described?
A withered tree comes back to life?
A long-awaited rain?
Gu Chen put his arm around Xiang Yu's waist, picked him up, and carried him into the bathroom, placing him on the sink.
Lean in and kiss the other person's lips, grinding, nibbling, and biting.
After a brief kiss, Gu Chen released Xiang Yu, nuzzled against her neck, and whispered in a low, husky yet tender voice, "Your face is so red..."
While saying this, his hands were still wandering around the other person's waist.
"I can't see." Xiang Yu pulled the hand off her waist.
Gu Chen's expression froze. Xiang Yu recognized that expression; it was as if he was about to start disobeying.
Having no other choice, Xiang Yu could only press the other person's hand back onto his waist.
Gu Chen rested her chin on his shoulder and let out a pitiful sob, "You took off your clothes in front of them."
"That's a game."
"A girl has confessed her feelings to you."
I don't like her.
"So who do you like?"
"you."
Gu Chen straightened up and looked at him. "I like you too."
After saying that, he kissed her, and the kiss deepened gradually.
A group of people were chatting as they walked over. Xiang Yu nudged them, but his feet were lifted off the ground as they grabbed him by the waist and lifted him by the buttocks, carrying him directly into the cubicle.
After the two people came in and left, the intimate and lingering atmosphere in the cubicle had reached its peak.
Gu Chen breathed slightly out of breath and whispered in Xiang Yu's ear, "...The birthday party should be almost over...Should we go back?"
Inside the private room, men and women were having a great time, leaving only Xu Youqing with her most basic rationality.
Amidst the laughter and chatter of the crowd, Xu Youqing opened her phone and read the message she had received from Gu Chen.
Li Yifan was drunk, his cheeks flushed. He looked around and slurred as he approached Xu Youqing, "Where's my brother? Why isn't he back yet?"
Xu Youqing replied to the other party while still holding her phone, "Xiang Yu is drunk and is vomiting everywhere. Gu Chen took him home first."
How many drinks did Brother Yu have in total?
Yang Shuhuan and Zhang Boyuan remained silent to varying degrees, feeling that Gu Chen was more drunk, but neither dared to speak or ask what information was hidden behind the text message.
"Ah... hiccup~" Wang Zehao had just had bad luck and then disobeyed the game's rules by drinking three rounds in a row, so he was feeling incredibly dizzy. Hearing Xu Youqing say that, he suddenly had a brain fart and boldly leaned over to look at the phone, "Let me see! I don't believe it! They must be..."
As he leaned closer, Xu Youqing slammed the phone screen black, then poured him a glass of wine, interrupting his words, "Here you go."
Wang Zehao frowned, exclaimed "Ah!", and complained with a pout, "Why is it me again... Why is my luck so bad..."
He then drank it all in one gulp.
The two, who had left early, walked back to their guesthouse. When they passed a pharmacy, Gu Chen stopped.
"Wait here for me, don't move around." Gu Chen touched his face. "Otherwise you'll get lost."
"..." I'm afraid you'll get lost.
Xiang Yu didn't dare say it out loud; it was too difficult to persuade a drunk Gu Chen. So she nodded and said, "Then hurry up, I'll wait for you."
Gu Chen staggered into the pharmacy and came out a few minutes later.
Gu Chen's actions at the restaurant gave Xiang Yu a premonition that their relationship might take a further step tonight, and she couldn't help but glance at the plastic bag in Gu Chen's hand.
He saw it, a box.
Hangover cure.
Xiang Yu: "..."
He really couldn't figure out this guy's thought process.
The two returned to the guesthouse reeking of alcohol. Xiang Yu had run hot water in the bathroom. After confirming the water was hot, he leaned out and asked, "Would you like to shower first?"
"You go ahead and wash up." Gu Chen sat on the edge of the bed, an empty hangover cure dangling from his lips.
He looks much more awake than when he came back.
Xiang Yu nodded and closed the bathroom door with relief.
I heard the bathroom door slam shut, and the sound of running water could be heard inside.
Gu Chen then dared to take out the items from his coat pocket: two other things he had just bought at the pharmacy.
Gu Chen carefully examined the two items from different angles, and then opened Baidu on his phone to research them.
When Xiang Yu came out, Gu Chen's behavior seemed a bit strange.
Gu Chen cleared his throat twice, got up and walked over, "It's my turn to wash."
Xiang Yu stepped aside to let him in, then lay back on the bed feeling sleepy. He closed his eyes in a daze and heard the bathroom door open in his half-asleep state.
She opened her eyes a crack and saw Gu Chen walk to the bedside, pick up a bottle of hangover remedy from the bedside table, open it, and hand it to her.
"Baby, come on, open your mouth."
Xiang Yu also drank some wine, but she wasn't very drunk. However, she still let Gu Chen hold the wine and drank it little by little.
Gu Chen kissed the corner of Xiang Yu's mouth, which was stained with brown medicine.
Xiang Yu enjoyed the fleeting, light kiss, but Gu Chen seemed to have more in mind, and his advances grew stronger.
Feelings stirred by the heart, and in a moment, he heard the sound of a bedside drawer being pulled open.
"..." Xiang Yu looked at what Gu Chen was holding and was confused, but her eyes gradually cleared.
"Is it okay?" Gu Chen asked her boyfriend's opinion again.
Seeing Xiang Yu nod again, she went to kiss him again.
The closer the two got, the less any constraints they felt tonight.