too embarrassing

"It's impossible to forget what happened, it's just that I can't remember it for the time being."

--"Spirited Away"

The swaying hazy yellow light reflected the handsome mixed-race face in front of him.An inexplicable sense of familiarity came over him, making Niu Keqing vaguely remember something about the university.

It's almost seven or eight years from now, right?

Memories are gradually retracing in my mind.

The summer of my junior year was hot and noisy. Every corner of the university was filled with summer light and shadow, and even the cicadas on the trees were singing very loudly.

"Pass the ball!"

"No. [-] is defending!"

"Hurry up......"

On the playground of the university campus, there is a group of male students who are playing basketball. They are wanton and flamboyant, vigorous and handsome, sweating heartily in the sun.

Among them, there is a boy with a particularly eye-catching appearance and a particularly tall figure, that is Guifenin.

He was wearing a white vest and jersey. His lean muscles were covered with fine beads of sweat, reflecting a layer of bright light in the sun, and every pore revealed the vigor of youth.

Not far away from the field, Niu Keqing, who had just finished class, happened to pass by.

He was riding a bicycle, humming a little tune, passing by the basketball court leisurely, and was running towards the dormitory.

Accidents always come so suddenly.

When a certain player made a long-range three-pointer, Guifenin jumped up high in order to prevent the opponent from scoring, raised his hand and slammed the ball away.

The boy's strength was so great that he instantly slapped the basketball away from its original direction, drew a circular parabola in the air, and threw it straight at Niu Keqing outside the court.

"Boom!" The tragedy happened.

The basketball hit his head hard, hitting Niu Keqing's temple right in front of him. The poor man only saw a black shadow attacking him, and he fell to the ground with his car and people.

There was an exclamation all around.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Niu Keqing was so unlucky that he didn't even have time to say "ah" before being knocked out gorgeously.

Under the scorching sun, Niu Keqing was lying on the ground staring at the stars, and suddenly felt a shadow covering him.

—someone was approaching him.

The man squatted down beside him, gently lifted his head, and among those who pressed him, they seemed to call him a few times: "Student! Hello! Classmate! Are you okay? Wake up!"

The sound is pretty good.

As the culprit, Gu Yifening rushed over immediately. He knelt beside Niu Keqing on one knee, looking at his injuries anxiously.

"I'm sorry, I hit you hard this time," Gu Yifening patted Niu Keqing's face and kept talking to him: "Wake up! Can you hear me?"

Niu Keqing heard it, but he couldn't open his eyes even though he tried his best.The sun was too dazzling that day, his head hurt and he felt dizzy, and the whole world was spinning.

dying.

The murderer was this man with a nice voice.

There were more and more people around, and the students were all terrified by Niu Keqing who fell to the ground suddenly, and they talked at once——

"Oh my god, did he get knocked out or suffer from heat stroke?"

"Call an ambulance! Take it to the hospital!"

"Aren't we a medical university?"

"Send it to the school infirmary quickly..."

"I...I..." Niu Keqing lay on the ground, trying to say something intermittently, but in vain.

Gu Yifenen rolled his eyes seeing him, and decisively picked him up, "Everyone, make way! Make way for me!"

While half awake, Niu Keqing was hugged by two powerful arms like a limp salted fish.His long legs were so weak that they could only hang down from the man's arms.

Niu Keqing leaned against the hot sweating chest and snuggled into the arms of this stranger, so hot and dripping with sweat.

It's the smell of summer and hormones.

He could vaguely hear the man's heavy breathing next to his ears, then a few shouts, and then, the footsteps of others retreating one after another.And then, there was the sound of wind blowing in my ears.

Holding the unconscious Niu Keqing in his arms, Gu Yifening ran wildly on the long school road, passing through the flow of people coming and going, attracting many surprised eyes.

"Give way! Make way!"

Under the watchful eyes of many people, Niu Keqing is like a weak heroine in a TV series, being hugged by a hero who saves the beauty, Niu Keqing runs on the tree-lined road.

This scene made the students on the side of the road click their tongues.

Many people on the school road took out their mobile phones to take pictures and videos. It is conceivable that the news of this beautiful "male man" will definitely be spread on the campus forum the next day.

In Niu Keqing's vague memory, the school road was very long, because he passed out in that boy's arms, as if he had slept for a long century.

But when he woke up in a daze, he was still in that boy's arms, and that boy was still running.

Ah, it turned out that I just fainted for a while.

The running Guifenin gritted his teeth, the sweat slipped from the temples of his hair, passed through the edge of the jaw, gathered to the sharp line of the chin, and then swayed with his movements, dripping onto the person in his arms face.

Niu Keqing was woken up by this huge drop of sweat.

When he opened his eyes tremblingly, what he saw was a beautiful face——

Delicate and pleasant, like a girl's appearance; white and flawless, like a gardenia blooming in early summer.

Niu Keqing felt in a daze that he was being hugged by a good-looking Vajra Barbie.

But the most amazing thing is those light blue eyes, right?Exquisite and thin under the sunshine, like the color of sparkling sea water.

So much so that Niu Keqing felt that he was hugged by a fairy with blue eyes.

"Is it a half-breed?" Niu Keqing was not so clear-headed, and asked in a murmur as he thought of something in his mind.

But his inquiry was too weak, and Guifenin didn't hear it. He was just running hard, and his mind was buzzing from exhaustion.

So, Niu Keqing answered silently in his heart: "Yes, he is of mixed race. These eyes are really beautiful, and the person is also beautiful."

At that time, Niu Keqing never imagined that this face, as delicate as a porcelain figure, would be hidden in his memory for so many years, and would be awakened by a dating app called "LUO".

"If you feel dizzy, you can talk to me and stay awake," Gu Yifening's voice was pleasant, and it came steadily from the top of Niu Keqing's head.

As early as in high school, Niu Keqing completed the enlightenment of sexual orientation. He knew very well how attractive a good-looking boy was to him.

Although the timing wasn't right, he still had the mentality of striking up a conversation and wanted to say something, "You..."

He wanted to ask "Are you single", but couldn't.

Guifenin, who was running fast, gasped and said to him: "Hold on a while, we will be in the infirmary soon."

Niu Keqing gave a "hmm" and suddenly gave up on the conversation.Because the moment he opened his mouth, he suddenly realized: people don't necessarily like men.

The scorching sun casts a large piece of golden sunlight, and the cow being hugged can be as quiet as a chicken.When he looked up, he saw the boy's face was dappled by the sunlight.

Those swaying pale golden lights flickered as Guifenin ran, constantly changing light and dark.

Strangely enough, this short-lived memory, like a brightly colored oil painting, took root in Niu Keqing's mind for eight years.

Even though it has been covered in dust for many years, now it can still be restored as clearly as before after this unintentional arousal.

But that little story that happened in college was not as sweet as those campus novels, it was short-lived and ended without a problem.

Before being sent to the school infirmary, Niu Keqing passed out again.When he woke up, there was no one beside the hospital bed, only he was lying quietly in the empty ward.

Guy Ifnin, who had sent him, was long gone.

Turning his head to the side, Niu Keqing found a note left on the bedside table:

"I'm very sorry about today's matter, I have to leave first. If necessary, please dial this number: 15********9."

The handwriting is quite beautiful, in delicate lower case script, the saying "handwriting is like a person" is really true.

Niu Keqing knew that the boy left him the note, and he also left his contact information and a bag of snacks and drinks.

It seems that the "culprit" who knocked him out was not some irresponsible dog.

Later, the story of Niu Keqing being carried and run by a boy spread throughout the campus.Because of this incident, Niu Keqing was ridiculed by many people as a "weak chicken". For a long time, he was ridiculed and talked about.

As for the mobile phone number, Niu Keqing never dared to call it.This string of eleven-digit numbers has been silently lying in his phone address book for eight years.

Yeah, a momentary throb doesn't make a long-lasting crush.What's more, the throbbing was followed by the embarrassment, being ridiculed and talked about that lasted the entire college life.

What is there to recall about such a memory?

Unexpectedly, the meeting many years later was caught off guard and brought back memories that Niu Keqing had neglected.

Now, in a small corner of a Thai restaurant, the two people, who had briefly met in college, met.

The light and shadow were flickering, Niu Keqing went from surprise to bewilderment, and his heart "thumped", and the voice in his heart kept echoing: "It's him, it's him..."

Gu Yvening saw that he kept looking at him, as if he was in a daze, but he didn't seem to be in a daze.So he called out: "Mr. Niu?"

Niu Keqing didn't listen, he was catching traces of past memories.

The chandelier gradually stopped shaking.

In the light and shadow that slowed down, it only took a few seconds for Niu Keqing to think of it and become determined.In an instant, the existence of the person sitting in front of him changed its meaning.

For Niu Keqing, Gu Yifening is no longer a netizen who met for the first time, but an old man who has been away for many years.

The cup in his hand could no longer be held firmly, and with a "bang", it fell from Niu Keqing's hand and rolled twice on the table.

The water in the glass had been drunk long ago, and only a little bit spilled from the overturned glass, which wet the corner of the tablecloth and wet the man's fingertips.

Gu Yvening quickly straightened the cup for him, picked up the napkin, wiped away the water on the table, and said without any blame: "Why are you so careless?"

Niu Keqing saw that he was busy cleaning up, just sat quietly, still staring at the familiar face.

It seems that in this way, the blurred memories can be outlined more clearly.

Quietly, in his heart, he greeted Gu Yifenen again, "Long time no see, my old classmate."