After rebirth, I want to stay away from bamboo horses

In the second semester of my sophomore year that year, school started late due to the leap month. In early February, when it was warm but still cold, Qin Shuo happily took Zhen Xin to a baking studio.

"Welcome you two, what do you want to learn?" the young lady from the studio greeted warmly.

"We want to learn how to make chocolate." Qin Shuo said with a smile.

Zhen Xin followed him and nodded in agreement.

"Okay, please come with me here." The young lady led them to the workbench.

Peel the cocoa fruit, grind it into powder, add cocoa butter and icing sugar to taste, then pour it into a mold and refrigerate it. Qin Shuo is very patient in every step.

He has never liked this kind of meticulous and patient work. In the past, he couldn't sit still in a sketching art class and wanted to leave after half an hour.

This time, he quietly learned how to make chocolate all afternoon, and learned a lot about different flavors of chocolate.

On the way back, Zhen Xin asked curiously: "Why do you suddenly want to learn to make chocolate?"

"When giving something to someone, don't you have to make it with your own hands, so that it can better express your feelings?" Qin Shuo didn't know who he was thinking of, and smiled happily, "By the way, Valentine's Day is coming soon, what are your plans for that day?"

"What arrangements can I make as a single person? In the past years, when we were young, we all went to KTV to sing together, and we always ordered the single love song."

"Um... I'm afraid I have something to do this year and I won't be able to be with you."

"Is it possible that you are going to..." Zhen Xin seemed to have had a premonition. Halfway through the question, she choked in her throat and squeezed out with a heartbroken smile, "Oh, whatever you want..."

On Valentine's Day, Qin Shuo disappeared early in the morning. Zhen Xin asked Sister Feng and found out that Qin Shuo had gone out early in the morning.

Zhen Xin thought of the smile on Qin Shuo's face when he said he had plans for Valentine's Day that day. It was really eye-catching. Zhen Xin couldn't laugh when she thought that Qin Shuo had someone else in his heart.

Zhen Xin hides an impossible person in her heart and cannot accept the love of others, so she refuses calls from female classmates to express their love.

He went home, put on a scarf, and rode slowly alone to the KTV he had agreed with his friends.

When passing by the store, a huge promotion banner stood out, but he silently bought himself a large box of chocolates.

As in previous years, it was the same few neighbors who showed up. Several people asked why Qin Shuo didn't come, but Zhen Xin just answered that he didn't know and sat silently in the corner. He thought to himself that if nothing unexpected happened, after today, he wouldn't need to wait for Qin Shuo to finish school together.

After it was over, Zhen Xin returned home, hid in her room, took out the chocolates in her schoolbag, peeled off the wrapping paper, and put one piece after another in her mouth as if to punish herself.

The sweet and greasy taste of chocolate stimulated the mouth. Her teeth were numb and even nauseated, but Zhen Xin still didn't stop.

It wasn't until I ate the last one that I noticed tears, and I don't know when my face was wet.

That night, Zhen Xin forced herself to stop escaping, to face the reality that love was unavailable, and to put an end to her unspeakable unrequited love.

In the end, excessive consumption of chocolate led to acute gastroenteritis, and Zhen Xin was hospitalized that night.

When Qin Shuo came to the hospital to see him the next day, Zhen Xin tried hard to calm down and return to the position of a good friend, and stop having any inappropriate thoughts.

"What's wrong with you? No matter how much you like chocolate, you can't eat so much at once!" Qin Shuo cursed directly.

"I like it, I'm happy to do it, don't worry about it!" Zhen Xin said coldly.

"Love must be restrained. How can you be so presumptuous? Your life is at stake!" Qin Shuo seemed very angry.

"I saw a box hidden in the drawer of your bedside table yesterday. Where are your chocolates?" Zhen Xin didn't know why, but she still asked without giving up.

"It's a gift. Why, you still think you didn't eat enough last night, so you still want to eat?" Qin Shuo asked with hatred.

"No, I won't eat anymore." Zhen Xin's eyes dimmed a bit, like a child who had done something wrong, and lowered her eyes.

It’s okay to have heartache once!

Zhen Xin didn't want to talk more, fearing that the bitterness in her heart would accidentally leak out.

"It's good that you know!" Qin Shuo seemed relieved and sighed, then sighed and continued, "Yesterday on Valentine's Day, I confessed my love to Kong Xiuzhu."

Zhen Xin didn't expect Qin Shuo to tell him so directly, and she didn't react for a moment: "Oh... Congratulations to you..."

"Alas, but he rejected me! He said he wasn't ready yet and doesn't want to fall in love yet. Alas... I'm heartbroken." Qin Shuo sat beside the hospital bed dejectedly.

Zhen Xin did not expect such an ending. Qin Shuo and Kong Xiuzhu were not together. Does that mean that everything still has a chance?

In this way, Zhen Xin began to struggle again between giving up unrequited love and being reluctant to give up.

Zhen Xin withdrew her eyes and looked at Qin Shuo again, but hesitated to speak. Would it be too strange if she confessed to him now?

"Hey, I said I like Kong Xiuzhu, why aren't you surprised at all?" Qin Shuo suddenly realized something and asked.

Zhen Xin pursed her lips: "From the first day you met Kong, you kept whispering in my ear how cute he was. It's been a semester, more than half a year, and I still don't know? I should I’m used to it.”

The words he said were not only for Qin Shuo to listen to, but also seemed to be admonishing himself. You should get used to it slowly. Qin Shuo only regards himself as a good friend since childhood. He likes others.

"I was originally worried that after you found out that I like boys, you would feel uncomfortable and not want to be friends with me anymore. I didn't expect... Thank you, Xin Xin, you are the first person to know my secret. From now on, I don’t have to hold it in anymore, it’s really hard to hide alone!”

Hearing this, Zhen Xin smiled bitterly and murmured: "Yes, it's really hard!"

The smell of chocolate still lingered between his teeth. Zhen Xin just wanted to brush his teeth quickly. He quickly put the gift box away, went upstairs, and hid it in the storage box in the closet of the guest bedroom.

Unknowingly, there were already a lot of chocolates stacked in the storage box. Some of them were probably expired long ago. After all, they were sent by Qin Shuo. Zhen Xin didn't want to throw them away and kept them neatly.

His stomach couldn't stand the stimulation now. The chocolate he had just put it in his mouth and accidentally swallowed mixed with his saliva made his stomach ache. He covered his stomach uncomfortably.

When he was looking down at the bedside table drawer for painkillers, Qin Shuo walked in wearing a bathrobe, carrying the fragrance after bathing.

"What are you looking for?"

Hearing this, Zhen Xin's hands shook and she closed the drawer: "I'm not looking for anything, I just put away the chocolates."

Qin Shuo glanced at the closed drawer and said nothing.

"By the way, did you read the notice from the class group? There will be a class reunion for the tenth anniversary of graduation at the end of the year. Will you go?" Zhen Xin asked as she had nothing to say.

"Why did you mention the class reunion again?"

"again……?"

"Besides, I'm very busy, so I don't have time to see you."

"Oh, then I..."

Zhen Xin was interrupted by a strong kiss mid-sentence.

Qin Shuo held Zhen Xin's waist with one hand and pressed his neck with the other to accommodate him. His tongue flexibly pried open his teeth and drank hard: "Well, it's a bit sweet."

Zhen Xin only felt a pair of hot hands walking behind his back through the fabric of his clothes. They were eager and strong, and they had a strong tendency to penetrate through the hem of the sweater.

Over the years, this hug has become familiar to him. When he was feeling fragile a few days ago, he especially hoped that Qin Shuo could hug him and hold his dying life tightly.

Zhen Xin hugged her back with all her strength, with her last desire. The temperature on his body was getting hotter and hotter, but the remaining trace of reason prompted him to resist softly: "Well... don't."

The soft voice made Qin Shuo even more excited.

Feeling the hot contact between her big hand and the skin on her back, Zhen Xin hurriedly struggled and pushed hard to separate the distance between the two people: "No... I... I feel uncomfortable in my stomach."