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After sending, there was a bang, Xia Yu put the phone upside down on the table.

Then he leaned back in the chair, slightly closed his eyelids, and looked at the direction of the table in a daze.

The curtains were only drawn one layer, the lights were not turned on, and the sunlight shone in, making the room a bit dim, as if it had entered the afternoon.

The fine dust slowly sinks and floats in the air, and the heat of the food dissipates little by little.

After a while, the person sitting at the table finally moved.

Xia Yu pressed the paging button to let the waiter come in to clear up the tableware, while she lifted the quilt and lay down on the bed.

After lying down for a while, he suddenly picked up the phone and turned on the screen, then stared at a certain reply inside and looked again and again.

It actually came out...

Xia Yu pursed her lips, turned over suddenly, and stuffed the phone under the pillow.

He was lying on his side, with half of his face sunk in the soft feather pillow, his eyes closed, his eyelashes black and long, and suddenly, he raised his hand and pulled up the quilt, wrapping himself in the darkness.

puff.

puff.

He could clearly hear his own heartbeat.

Zhou Ding was busy until the evening before returning to the hotel.

After returning to the hotel, he opened the door and found a metal insulation box on the table, which seemed to be provided by the hotel.

"Xia Yu?" He rushed to the bulging quilt on the bed and called softly.

"Ok?"

"You didn't sleep?"

Zhou Ding opened the insulated box, and the dishes inside were still hot and seemed untouched, "Did you order these? Haven't eaten yet?"

Xia Yu sat up: "Waiting for you. Why didn't you call me?"

"I thought I was going to be busy until late, but I didn't expect it to end quite quickly, so I stopped calling."

Zhou Ding brought out the food in the insulated box, "All the results of the competition have been counted. I swam to the final, and you are a little short."

"It's okay, it's up to you whether you can get in or not."

Xia Yu shook her sore arm, "I can't swim even if I got in, I've exhausted all my strength."

Zhou Ding glanced at him: "I'll give you a massage later, or you'll have muscle pain tomorrow."

The two sat down at the table while talking.

Zhou Ding was neatly dressed, while Xia Yu was only wearing a white nightgown from the hotel.The lace of the nightgown was loose, half of his white chest was exposed, and half was hidden in the shadows. As he picked up the vegetables, the wide collar of the nightgown slipped down a little bit, and half of the delicate collarbone and round shoulders were reflected in the surrounding area. In Ding's eyes.

Gradually feeling charming, Zhou Ding's Adam's apple rolled, and his eyelids drooped: "What did you do this afternoon?"

Xia Yu replied: "You checked the school forum, you are very popular on the forum."

Hot before, hotter now.

The forum is Zhou Ding's blind spot. He knows it, but he hardly reads it: "What does it say?"

"Say that the shoes you bought for me last time cost hundreds of thousands."

Zhou Ding was taken aback for a moment, and immediately raised his eyes to look at Xia Yu, but he saw Xia Yu eating with a calm expression, as if he was just chatting about this topic casually.

He blinked, unable to think of an answer for a while.

At this moment, Xia Yu suddenly put down the bowl and chopsticks.

Zhou Ding's heart skipped a beat, and he stopped eating.

"I never asked you..."

Xia Yu raised her eyes, looked straight at Zhou Ding, with a serious and serious expression, "What is the condition of your family?"

It's not that Xia Yu can't afford shoes worth hundreds of thousands. He has the money, but he won't buy them.

He didn't see the value of the pair of shoes that day either. He knew it was expensive, but he didn't expect it to be that expensive, thinking it was only five figures at most.So when he saw the discussion on the forum, he was also surprised. After searching the Internet, he found out the specific brand and value of the pair of shoes.

"Hundreds of thousands of shoes are free to send, and you happen to have two pairs."

After a pause, Xia Yu asked as if thinking of something, "Are the shoes genuine?"

Zhou Ding immediately said: "Of course it is genuine."

Xia Yu became even more curious: "It's good to have one pair of this kind of global limited edition, but you have two pairs, which happen to be the size of the two of us. What a coincidence? And I also searched the Internet. It was released at the end of last year, and it is not available for a long time now, so, where did you buy these shoes?"

Zhou Ding licked his lips with a hesitant expression.

Seeing his expression, Xia Yu became more suspicious: "You can't be cheated, can you?"

Zhou Ding shook his head immediately: "No, I'm not cheated."

"Then why are you hesitating?"

Xia Yu raised her eyebrows, "Could it be that you originally bought these shoes for someone else, and you gave them to me when you didn't give them away?"

"how is this possible?"

Zhou Ding became anxious, "This is for you!"

As he said that, he sighed as if giving up resistance, "My mother and I want it, and my mother can get it."

"Then you just said that your mother bought it..." Xia Yu stopped in the middle of speaking, his mouth was still open, but he didn't make another sound.

The room fell silent.

The charm dissipated, and the tense atmosphere began to spread. They looked into each other's eyes, and no one made a sound for a long time.

Xia Yu was the first to react. He took a breath, looked at Zhou Ding and said, "She knows." He said in a firm tone.

Zhou Ding licked his lips: "Should."

Xia Yu asked: "What should it mean?"

Zhou Ding couldn't help sitting up straight, and straightened his back: "That's right, she knew that I was with the man, but she didn't know it was you."

Xia Yu: "..."

He was silent for a while, and then said, "You came out with your family?"

Zhou Ding straightened his back, but his voice was a little weak: "I didn't say it officially, but I think they should all know."

He looked at Xia Yu's expression, and said cautiously, "I didn't mention you to them, so it shouldn't matter? Isn't it a breach of the agreement?"

Xia Yu didn't speak.

He sat in his seat, frowning slightly, and did not move for a while.

Zhou Ding's heart was almost in his throat: "Xia Yu?"

Xia Yu raised her eyes: "It doesn't count."

His voice was flat, without a hint of joy or anger, "How does your family react when they know you like men?"

Zhou Ding breathed a sigh of relief: "There is no response."

He added, "I originally bought the basketball uniform and shoes on a certain treasure, but then the schedule was out, and besides competing outside, I was also training at school, so I went out with you alone at night when I was free, and I didn't want to play at night. , so I thought it would be a long time, and the express delivery would be in time, so I could send you a better pair, so I asked my mother to find that pair of shoes."

He looked straight into Xia Yu's eyes and said seriously, "That's my favorite style, I want to wear it with you."

Xia Yu was unmoved: "And then?"

Zhou Ding: "..."

He had no choice but to continue dryly, "Don't you have to report the size when you buy shoes? Once you report the size, it's a men's shoe. If you report the style again, won't my mother know?"

Xia Yu asked again: "And then?"

"Then my mother asked me if you were in a relationship, and I said yes, and she said you should talk about it, and show it to her when you're done."

"It's gone?"

Zhou Ding nodded: "It's gone."

Xia Yu looked at Zhou Ding with a complicated expression, but remained silent for a while.

It took him a long time before he blinked, and his tone was still unbelievable: "They don't care so much about you being gay? Do you have brothers and sisters? It seems that you haven't heard of it."

"No, my parents are just me."

Xia Yu's expression became more complicated in an instant: "Your house is so open?"

Zhou Ding said: "My mother works in the fashion industry."

Xia Yu was completely silent.

Gay is everywhere in fashion circles, this is something that ordinary people know, so the moment Xia Yu heard this word, Xia Yu understood why Zhou Ding had so many limited editions, and also why the other party could get out of print shoes, and even more understood Why did Zhou Ding come out so easily and easily.

When he was in Sanya, he also talked about this topic with Zhou Ding. At that time, Zhou Ding said that coming out should not be a problem, but he still didn't believe it.

It turned out that there was really no problem at all!

It seems that coming out of the closet is as common as eating.But in such a circle, homosexuality is indeed as common as eating, and naturally more people can accept it.

"Xia Yu, Xia Yu?"

Xia Yu was still in shock: "Huh?"

"are you OK?"

Xia Yu shook her head: "I'm fine."

Just very envious, very envious, "Your mother can accept it, can your father and your grandparents accept it too?"

"It's not a big problem. My mother has the final say in my family."

Xia Yu: "..."

"My grandparents are a little traditional, but they are not stubborn, they are very reasonable, and they can make sense. Moreover, they are old and in poor health. They have been living in a nursing home and don't care much about things."

The more Zhou Ding said, the more relaxed he became, "My father listens to my mother, as long as my mother is happy, so there is no problem with him."

Xia Yu looked at Zhou Ding in a daze.

There was no fluctuation in his heart about the hundreds of thousands of shoes, but the family Zhou Ding talked about made him speechless with envy.

Does such a family really exist?

Are the people of the previous generation and the previous generation really so enlightened?

Xia Yu had never seen it before.

Haven't met any of them either.

"You didn't make it up, did you?" Xia Yu asked after a long silence.

"of course not."

Zhou Ding took out his mobile phone, "If you agree, I can have a video with my mother now, and you can appear on camera with me."

Xia Yu hurriedly reached out and pressed Zhou Ding's cell phone: "No, I believe you. I just think..."

He slowly withdrew his hand and blinked lightly, "I think it's too unreal."

Zhou Ding understood, he reached out and touched Xia Yu's head, and told him seriously: "It's true. There are many families like this, and there are many people who can accept homosexuality."

Xia Yu said, "But I've never met one before."

Zhou Ding smiled: "Didn't you meet me?"

Xia Yu was startled for a while, and didn't say anything for a while.

The hand hanging by his side curled up, he licked his lower lip, and asked abruptly, "How old are your grandparents?"

"Grandpa is 75, grandma is [-]." "Does it make sense at such an age?"

Zhou Ding nodded: "Yes, just tell them well."

Xia Yu took a deep breath, eyes slightly closed, as if thinking about something.

But after a while, he didn't say anything, but restrained his expression, and said to Zhou Ding: "Okay, stop talking, let's continue to eat dinner."

Xia Yu didn't speak any more, Zhou Ding followed suit, and the two finished their dinner quietly.

After dinner, Zhou Ding went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Xia Yu sat by the window sill, staring at the night sky outside the window.

The night sky was dark, with no stars on it, and the moon was half hidden in the clouds, and only half a crescent could be seen.

But the exposed part is surprisingly bright, clean and translucent as if washed.

Xia Yu picked up her phone and looked at the calendar.

There are three more days, and it is Ching Ming Festival.

With a bang, the bathroom door opened.

Zhou Ding came out of it wiping his hair: "Do you want to wash it?"

Xia Yu shook her head: "I washed it at noon."

After finishing speaking, he changed his words, "Let me wash another one."

He walked into the bathroom, didn't take a bath, but stood under the shower with his head down, letting the water flow on his head.

The chest felt a little uncomfortable, as if something was pressing on it, it was a little heavy, and I had to breathe harder than usual.

After taking a shower and walking out, Zhou Ding asked him again: "Are you okay?"

Xia Yu nodded: "I'm fine, just thinking about something."

Zhou Ding asked: "Shall I massage you?"

Xia Yun hummed, took off her clothes and lay down on the bed.

The warm light fell on him, revealing his fair shoulders and beautiful curves.

Zhou Ding found the essential oil from the cabinet in the room, tore open the package, and poured a little on his hand.

He rubbed his palms until they became hot, and then pressed them on Xia Yu's back.

As soon as the hand fell on the body, the sore feeling spread instantly.

Xia Yu was lying on the pillow, and he could see Zhou Ding's handsome eyebrows when he turned his head sideways.He was lowering his head, pressing down with a serious expression. He was not wearing a bathrobe, only a bath towel was casually wrapped around his body, his upper body was exposed to the air, his shoulders were broad and his arms were strong. leaps to the fore.

The heat on the shoulders became stronger and stronger, penetrating from the skin to the depths of the body.

The fingertips were about to be touched, and the soreness and tingling sensation hit the brain together, and the things inside were temporarily pushed aside.

Xia Yu looked at Zhou Ding from head to toe, while looking back at the posts on the forum, his eyes became more and more straightforward, and Zhou Ding couldn't concentrate on the massage.

After a while, Zhou Ding stopped: "Want to do it?"

Xia Yu shook her head, staring straight at Zhou Ding's firm and beautiful chest muscles: "Zhou Ding, shall I give you a massage too?"