Love at Second Sight [Interstellar]

Zhuang Yan Snow Leopard jumped off the bed in the bedroom, and the two walked to the entrance. Snow Leopard squatted behind them, flicking its thick tail. Zhou Yuchen said "Huh?" and glanced at Snow Leopard. ?

Zhuang Yan stopped and asked him what's the matter with his eyes.

Zhou Yuchen said: "It asked me, can I let it enter your spiritual realm and meet it again, 'it' is...?" He seemed to have guessed: "You let Parker enter your 'small world'?"

Zhuang Yan said, "I thought you knew."

"No. 'Small World' is a special place." Zhou Yuchen said, "So it has already seen your Quantum Beast, what is it like?" He got the answer from his Quantum Beast, "A tree? "

Thinking of the groaning tree in his dream, Zhuang Yan felt a little ashamed to admit that it was his Quantum Beast, so he coughed and said to Snow Leopard, "I can't control you... to go in and out of that place, and that may not be my Quantum Beast." beast."

Snow Leopard whimpered and rubbed his head against Zhuang Yan's hand hanging by his side.

Zhuang Yan felt the softness of the fur on the back of his hand, and couldn't help but raised his hand to rub Snow Leopard's head and said, "There's really no way."

His tone was unprecedentedly gentle, and he himself felt very strange, as if after this leopard entered his spiritual realm, it became a closer existence than before.And the feeling was familiar.

He let go of his hand, and found that Zhou Yuchen had been watching him getting close to his Quantum Beast. He couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, and explained: "There was a man..." He paused, "His mental body is also a leopard, and he likes to talk to me very much." close."

"Really?" Zhou Yuchen raised his eyebrows slightly, but cared about Zhuang Yan's expression, and didn't ask further.

They leave the dormitory.This is the military camp, on a planet near the star of Imperial Qatar.Foreign vehicles are not allowed in the barracks or airships are allowed to land.Zhou Yuchen took Zhuang Yan and walked towards the main entrance.

Zhuang Yan found that some people greeted Zhou Yuchen with a military salute, without any surprise. It seemed that Zhou Yuchen lived in this barracks and lived with the soldiers.

"If you have anything to ask me, and the communication is not timely, you can come here." Zhou Yuchen sent Zhuang Yan to the spaceship and said this.

The spaceship arrived in Qatar, and it was not ten o'clock in the morning when Zhuang Yan returned to the school's dormitory. Kevin was not there. He handed over his coat to Jixiang, lay down in the bedroom, felt very tired, and soon fell asleep again.When Kevin came back, seeing that the professor was resting, he didn't dare to disturb him.

Zhuang Yan's dream was not quiet either. When he returned to the nebula, the "voice" kept whispering in his ear: "You actually despise me, you despise me! Do you know that I am..."

"Shut up." Zhuang Yan had no expression on his face. A pair of scissors appeared in his hand inexplicably. He stood up the blade of the scissors and said with a click: "If you talk again, I will cut off all your branches."

The "voice" made the branches shrink back in fright, and hugged their trunk tightly.

Zhuang Yan was finally able to calm down.

It was almost noon, and Kevin ran to the cafeteria to buy two lunches. Zhuang Yan ate it hastily. He had two classes in the afternoon. He was sorting out the class materials in the bedroom, and suddenly remembered that there was an important matter that he forgot to talk to Zhou Yuchen talk.

About clarifying the news about his marriage with Zhou Yuchen.

Thinking of this, Zhuang Yan turned on the communicator and sent a message to Zhou Yuchen, probably asking him and himself to clarify to the public, because the rumors had already affected his personal life.

After sending the message, he went to class.Until the end of the two classes, there was no reply to the message. Zhuang Yan looked at the terminal and frowned. He was too busy to read the message?Does he have to go to the barracks again?

Fortunately, before going to bed at night, the message finally replied: "OK."

Zhuang Yan was relieved to see the reply, and fell asleep.

The next morning, after he got up and washed, Kevin had already bought breakfast and put it on the table. Zhuang Yan sat at the table and read the fresh newspaper that Jixiang brought. Kevin said a little nervously: "Teacher... er .”

Zhuang Yan frowned, raised his head and said, "If you are not allowed to call 'Professor', will you not be able to call anything?"

"No, I'm just..." Kevin said quickly, then hesitated: "Can I call you teacher?"

Zhuang Yan paused, shook the newspaper and said, "It's up to you."

"Okay, teacher!" Kevin blurted out what he was about to say, "Teacher, Admiral Zhou Yuchen sent someone to post a small video on the forum yesterday, about you!"

Zhuang Yan paused, raised his head and said, "What video?"

"It was last night." This kind of thing happened once and twice, Kevin quickly opened his terminal, found the video and played it for Zhuang Yan.

A three-dimensional image was projected on the ground. Zhou Yuchen was sitting on an office chair. He was still wearing a military uniform at work. His legs were crossed, and his posture was slightly relaxed. It seemed that he took this video after a busy day.

"Hi everyone. The rumors about the marriage between Mr. Zhuang Yan and I are just some people's guesses and fabrications. In fact, although we are matched, we are just simple friends at present."

"These false rumors have attracted too much attention and affected Mr. Zhuang's normal life at school. I don't want to see this. I cherish the friendship with Mr. Zhuang and hope everyone can respect personal privacy. Disturb his life again. Thank you."

The video was made into a post and posted on the SG forum, probably because most of the people who paid attention to this matter were sentinel guides.The post has been turned over thousands of pages so far.Not only because everyone is paying attention to the marriage, but also because although Zhou Yuchen is an idol revered by many military students, he has become more and more low-key in recent years, hardly appearing in public, let alone speaking in a video alone.

1st floor: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Floor 2: So marriage does not exist?

Floor 3: Not married yet?

Floor 4: The Lord has spoken, it seems that there will be no marriage

Floor 5: I'm just here to lick my face

6th floor: The upstairs is naive, the admiral only said that the rumors are not true, and did not say whether they will marry in the future

7th floor: The admiral said that if you don’t know how to get married, you won’t get married. What are you doing upstairs thinking so much?

8th floor: I think there is nothing wrong with the 6th floor. Read carefully what the general said. "Currently" are just simple friends, so maybe in the future

Floor 9: Damn, how can a man be so handsome, even if I am a sentinel, I would still bow down under his military pants

Floor 10: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Floor 11: But at least it’s been clarified, it’s just friendship

……

Floor 38: Hehe, the admiral’s words include punctuation marks, a total of 144 characters, and 84 characters are defending that Professor Zhuang.He hasn't spoken out in public for almost five years.At the beginning, when he was accused of being unrighteous on the battlefield and stealing military merits from his colleagues, he made such a big fuss that he didn't say a word.Now Professor Zhuang can post a video just for his personal life, don’t you understand?

29th Floor: Upstairs Correct Solution

Floor 30: Correct solution

Floor 31: I feel the same way!And I feel that the eyes of the general who said the word "Mr. Zhuang" in the video are much gentler!This is love, right?This is love!

……

XXX House: Originally, I didn’t believe the news of the marriage. After all, the general once said that he would not accept a guide. It’s been so many years. If I want to find a guide, I’ve been looking for it for a long time. But why did I believe it after watching this clarification video? ?

There were still a lot of comments in the back, Zhuang Yan didn't want to read any more, so he closed the post and remained silent for a long time.

He didn't expect that the so-called clarification didn't make the situation go in the direction he expected at all, but instead slipped into a more uncontrollable direction.

He wondered if Zhou Yuchen did it on purpose, why couldn't he just say the words "will not marry" in the video?Why can't we just say "the Zhuang family and the Zhou family have no possibility of marriage"?

Zhuang Yan was a little annoyed.

Kevin said cautiously: "Teacher?"

Zhuang Yan looked up at him, and Kevin said, "I have to go to class."

Zhuang Yan: "Then why don't you go?"

Sensing that the professor was in a bad mood, Kevin quickly packed up the terminal and slipped away with his tail between his legs.

Zhuang Yan glanced at his terminal, and was a little bit tempted to send a message to ask Zhou Yuchen why he made the clarification so ambiguous.But after much deliberation, it is useless to accuse others of their way of doing things, and you have to rely on yourself. If Zhou Yuchen didn't say anything, you can just make up for it yourself.

So he logged on to the SG forum, posted a post as himself, identified himself, and then clarified the rumored relationship with the two of them like Zhou Yuchen, and then added: "I have never planned to marry, and there will be no such possibility in the future." .”

As soon as his post was published, it was quickly promoted to the position second only to Zhou Yuchen's clarifying news, and the forum was boiling again.Some people genuinely believe that there is no possibility of marriage, while some people said that "no one can tell what will happen in the future." To be honest, I don't think you are a good match."

In any case, Zhuang Yan's real-name post and Zhou Yuchen's statement corroborated each other. The discussion lasted for three or four days. After the news spread, the outside world gradually accepted their explanations.The classroom where Zhuang Yan was attending class was gradually empty of students from other departments.

It was not long before school started, and Zhuang Yan's life was a little busier than in Fontainebleau, but it was still calm, almost deserted.He didn't take much part in the social circles among the nobles of the imperial capital. Zhuang Han, who came to the imperial capital a little later than him, was in charge of all these. Ministry, a chaotic political circle.

Even Zhuang Yan's own small circle - his former classmates, colleagues who did research together, and friends who studied abroad in the imperial capital, such as the How Sai family - he only maintained basic contacts.Frankie Fitzgerald, the vice president of the Mech Academy, invited him twice to participate in academic gatherings. The topic of discussion was related to his previous research field, but he refused without thinking. .

A few days later, it was Zhuang Yan's class as usual. He walked into the fan-shaped classroom and saw that there was one more seated than on the roster. Looking around the classroom, his eyes froze when he scanned a corner of the classroom.

A virtual screen can be erected on each student's seat, and the size and transparency can be adjusted arbitrarily. This can block part of the face. Although this person is wearing casual clothes and sitting in an inconspicuous corner of the huge classroom, his sitting posture , is no different from what I saw that morning and in the video.

Zhuang Yan had no choice but to turn around and concentrate on teaching.He is very strict in class management. During the first few weeks of school, students have already experienced his style. This class is also a basic class.

After class, some students came up to ask questions as usual. Zhuang Yan answered them and looked up, but there was no one in the corner.

He walked out of the classroom and found a message on the terminal, asking him to meet him in the box of the cafeteria near the teaching building.

When Zhuang Yan arrived at the private room, Zhou Yuchen was indeed sitting by the window, with all the dishes ordered on the table.

Zhuang Yan sat down opposite him, and the two moved their chopsticks. Zhou Yuchen said, "The investigation has progressed. About three thousand light-minutes away from the Leon star, there is a small galaxy close to the Langton family. One of its planets is A large military factory directly under the empire had received a large number of weapons, including fighter planes and spaceships, when the new year was approaching last year, but a careful inspection of their inventory list revealed that the source of these weapons was somewhat vague."

Zhuang Yan frowned and said, "A military factory directly under the empire? Those people are too courageous."

Zhou Yuchen said: "I asked someone to check again. The official within the jurisdiction of this factory is a retired lieutenant colonel. After checking his resume carefully, he was indeed Langton's subordinate."

Then it is almost certain.Zhuang Yan paused for a moment, then spoke again, but said, "It's fine to just say these things in the communication."

"Oh." Zhou Yuchen said, "You don't want me to come?"

Although Zhou Yuchen's voice was as steady and mellow as usual, Zhuang Yan inexplicably heard a hint of disappointment inside.He thought it was a little too rude for him to express his disapproval so bluntly, so he said, "It's not that I don't want to, but just after the rumors have passed, we... shouldn't get too close, right?"

Zhou Yuchen felt that he was not repelling him, so he slowed down and said, "Zhuang Yan, are you being too careful?"

"?" Zhuang Yan frowned slightly.

Zhou Yuchen said: "Rumors are just a layer of bubbles. As long as our words and deeds are consistent, we can pierce it at any time. Why should we be so cautious?"

Zhuang Yan was stunned, and suddenly understood Zhou Yuchen's meaning, weak people would care too much about other people's eyes, strong people just need to be honest and do something when necessary.

He has been troubled by this matter for so long that he has ignored what is the real solution.Rumors are only secondary. Perhaps he should go directly to Helena, express his feelings to her, win her trust, and be the last one to keep him. This is the most important thing.

Zhou Yuchen's words seemed to wake him up, Zhuang Yan understood, and said to Zhou Yuchen, "Thank you."

Zhou Yuchen couldn't help but smiled and said, "Thank me for what?"

Zhuang Yan couldn't say anything to him, the conflict between him and Zhou Yuchen all came from Helena, and he said, "It's nothing."

They chatted for a while, and after eating, the two left the cafeteria and chose a quieter path, Zhou Yuchen sent Zhuang Yan back to the dormitory apartment.

Zhuang Yan returned to the dormitory and thought about it for a long time in his bedroom. He decided to finish the guiding course early - within two months at the latest, and then ask for leave to go to the Principality of Andorra.

However, the next week, in the classroom on Wednesday afternoon, Zhuang Yan walked into the classroom and unexpectedly saw Zhou Yuchen, sitting in the same place as last time.He wasn't just surprised this time.

And the man raised his head as if aware of it when he looked over, and couldn't see the other person's expression clearly from too far away, but Zhuang Yan seemed to be able to imagine his expression and eyes, and he turned around uncomfortably.

Sure enough, after class was over, Zhou Yuchen left again and sent Zhuang Yan a message asking him to have dinner at a nearby school cafeteria.

It seemed to become a habit after that.Zhou Yuchen often came to the imperial capital from the planet where the army was stationed because of work. At first it was every four or five days, and then it became two or three days. He would often sit in the fan-shaped classroom in the afternoon when Zhuang Yan was in a certain class, unobtrusive in the corner.

The classroom in the afternoon was very sunny, and he would even bring some documents to read later, or sit on the chair to read a book, and often did nothing, just watching Zhuang Yan's lecture.

Zhuang Yan thought this was a bit strange, but Zhou Yuchen explained: "I find that the atmosphere on campus makes me relax. When I come here, I can rest for a while without thinking too much about work."

When Zhuang Yan finished class, Zhou Yuchen would wait for him in the box. The two of them had dinner, and when it was getting dark, they walked along the quiet path to Zhuang Yan's dormitory.

When you are alone from time to time, you must find some topics.The first thing to talk about is the facts of the assault case.But Zhuang Yan soon discovered that chatting with Zhou Yuchen was not as boring as he imagined. Zhuang Yan was involved in the field of mecha design theory and tactical analysis, and Zhou Yuchen was not only a top mecha fighter, but also experienced many battles. generals.

Zhuang Yan also discovered that if Zhou Yuchen wants to chat with someone, he can easily create a harmonious atmosphere, making people forget the barriers unconsciously and talk freely.

They have too many issues to discuss.Apart from teaching, Zhuang Yan didn't want to step into the field related to mecha design, so he rejected many invitations to salons and exchange meetings, but with Zhou Yuchen, he committed the same problem as most scholars: he is usually unsmiling , as soon as he talked about the things he had studied with his heart, he couldn't help eloquently, and he was very stubborn and serious, and he didn't give in to his arguments.

After a few uncontrollable but innocuous disputes, Zhuang Yan was also a little embarrassed. In fact, some friends in the past couldn't stand his seriousness and tough attitude when talking: "Sorry, I won't do this again."

"Why not?" Zhou Yuchen looked at him with imperceptible tenderness in his eyes, and smiled, "What's wrong with being serious?"

Even though he said that, Zhuang Yan still told himself in his heart that he couldn't do this next time, but when the next time came, he would still go back to his old ways.Moreover, he has not been on the battlefield a few times, and Zhou Yuchen's actual combat experience can undoubtedly correct and make up for his theory, and even disputes can benefit.

They no longer just stopped at the downstairs of Zhuang Yan's dormitory. When they met for the third time, the two walked downstairs to the dormitory. They were having a lively conversation. Zhuang Yan got hot-headed and blurted out asking Zhou Yuchen to come to his dormitory. Have a cup of tea and talk, and then it's back to that.

Kevin was amazed by this phenomenon at first, but after a few times, he gradually got used to it.When Jixiang saw the snow leopard appearing in the living room, he said "oh" and "oh" excitedly, and kept rubbing against its thick fur.

Zhuang Yan once sent Zhou Yuchen away, and when he returned to the dormitory, he heard Kevin helping to pack the teacups and saying, "Teacher is in a good mood these days."

Jixiang said: "Because human beings will be very happy when they have friends."

Zhuang Yan was about to push the door open with his hand, when he was startled for a moment, the words Zhou Yuchen said in the video suddenly sounded in his ears: "I cherish the friendship with Mr. Zhuang very much."

Hearing this sentence at first, he only regarded it as a polite remark—between him and Zhou Yuchen, he never thought that it would develop into the current way of getting along.

He pushed the door and walked in, Kevin and Jixiang both looked over.Kevin realized that he should have heard what he said about the professor just now, so he couldn't help but nervously said, "Teacher..."

Zhuang Yan glanced at him and said, "Have you corrected your homework?"

"...I'll change it right away!" Kevin quickly handed the teacup to Jixiang, and slipped into the room.

The days passed by in the blink of an eye, and the relationship between Zhou Yuchen and Zhuang Yan did not seem to attract the attention of others, and the rumors about them gradually subsided. This was certainly the result of their clarifications, but there was another reason - the relationship between the academy and the public In the meantime, the news of the war gradually spread.