The strategy was almost successful!

Ji Zhihuai knew Liao Ruming's taste very well.

Before Liao Ruming came, he had already bought the ingredients for lunch.He didn't tell Liao Ruming about this until he was ready to eat. Liao Ruming stared at the dishes on the table, and then asked suddenly: "When did you buy it?"

Ji Zhihuai hesitated for a moment, then replied: "In the morning."

Liao Ruming propped his chin and asked casually, "How early?"

Ji Zhihuai kept silent.

"Five o'clock? Six o'clock?"

Ji Zhihuai reluctantly replied, "Six o'clock."

Liao Ruming shook his head and sighed: "Why don't you like asking for credit?"

Look at what Ji Zhihuai did yesterday.

"A Day in an Ordinary Mountain Village" was released at [-] o'clock last night. Ji Zhihuai probably read it several times, and then he was still writing...or polishing that love letter.Then he went to buy vegetables at six o'clock and prepared to cook for Liao Ruming.

... When Ji Zhihuai went shopping, he didn't know if Liao Ruming would eat here.He just thought it was necessary to gamble on a possibility.

But he never said these things in front of Liao Ruming, even if Liao Ruming asked, he didn't know how to take credit for himself in front of Liao Ruming.This guy looks cold and arrogant, but inside he is really innocent.

Hearing what Liao Ruming said, Ji Zhihuai was taken aback for a while, and then he was embarrassed for a moment before saying, "I... what should I say?"

Liao Ruming thought that when Ji Zhihuai was 15 years old, his parents had passed away, and he had been struggling to survive in the following days, looking for a way out.He's always been a little lacking when it comes to human interaction.

Liao Ruming couldn't help feeling a little soft-hearted.

He poked his favorite sweet and sour pork ribs with his chopsticks... and then said, "You should tell me how much you like me, and then carefully prepared this table dish, and then hope that I will stay for a while..."

While talking, Liao Ruming thought what was he doing?Teach Ji Zhihuai how to attack himself?

But he looked at Ji Zhihuai's unresponsive look again, and he became angry for a moment - with Ji Zhihuai's stupid look, he expects him to attack Liao Ruming? ?

Wait another 800 years.

Liao Ruming immediately rolled his eyes, ate in silence, and was too lazy to continue talking.

Ji Zhihuai was at a loss, and asked carefully: "Are you angry?"

Liao Ruming snorted: "This is all angry, so how much anger will I have to be with you?"

Ji Zhihuai was sharp for a rare moment: "Did you often get angry before?" He didn't wait for Liao Ruming to speak, and quickly added, "It was my fault before, and I won't make you angry in the future."

Liao Ruming looked at him strangely for a while, then sneered to express his disdain and doubt.

Ji Zhihuai was speechless.

He stared at Liao Ruming who was still a little angry, and felt that his lover was like a puffer fish.

...Oops, Liao Ruming can't let this know.

Ji Zhihuai kept his mouth shut very self-aware, and did not express his true thoughts.From another point of view, he feels that Liao Ruming is also very good now, real and lively.

After eating, the two cleaned up the dining table and the kitchen, stood on the balcony and chatted for a while, and then prepared to take a lunch break.

The topic of their chat finally became less romantic, and they talked about Ji Zhihuai's voice and the upcoming concert.

Ji Zhihuai's voice recovered well, apparently Liao Ruming's arrival made his voice heal without medicine.But for the concert two weeks later, the loss of voice this time can still be said to be a huge blow.

Regardless, things have happened.Yuanda Brokers still decided to let Ji Zhihuai rest for two days before going to practice singing.

Apart from Ji Zhihuai's career, they also chatted about other things.Life, travel, pets...everything is fine.They tacitly ignored the various problems that lay between them for the time being, and chatted like friends.

Finally, Liao Ruming yawned unconsciously.

Then Ji Zhihuai said, "Go and rest."

Liao Ruming asked a very serious question: "Where do I sleep? You let me sleep in my room, in the pile of clothes?"

Ji Zhihuai was so ashamed that he discovered Liao Ruming's bad taste.Maybe Liao Ruming didn't really care about those clothes, but Liao Ruming always made fun of it.

Ji Zhihuai didn't know how to deal with it, he could only answer the solution to the problem: "You can sleep in my room. I've already packed it."

Liao Ruming looked at him unexpectedly, thinking, tidy up?So this guy was ready early in the morning?Deliberately trying to get him to move back in?

When Liao Ruming lay on Ji Zhihuai's bed, he didn't even think about it.

He was too lazy to think about it, and didn't want to torture his brain.He fell asleep for a moment, and suddenly remembered the love letter.Most of it is still placed on the sofa in the living room, but it is just a thin piece of paper, and it will be bad if it is blown away by the wind.

He got up, went downstairs, and put the paper in the middle of his wallet.

Now that electronic payment is prevalent, Liao Ruming only put a few spare banknotes in his wallet, and then various documents.There is also a photo of him and Ji Zhihuai, which is placed in the mezzanine.

He folded and stuffed the love letter, feeling a strange feeling in his heart.

...Since they are all documents and cards, this love letter seems to have become some kind of... a status symbol.A subtle sense of ritual.

Liao Ruming paused for a moment, lowered his eyes slightly, then took out the small piece of paper and put it behind the photo of him and Ji Zhihuai.

He took out the group photo, looked at it for a while, and then sighed softly.

He was impressed by this small group photo.

It was a year ago, after Ji Zhihuai won the "Scara Award", a global music hall, before they kissed each other for the first time, an employee of the company accidentally took a photo of them with a Polaroid .

Then he gave this photo to Liao Ruming, so for a year, Liao Ruming kept this group photo in his wallet.Even though he decided to leave Ji Zhihuai, he did not throw away this group photo.

In the photo, they are attending a dinner after the awards ceremony.Liao Ruming was half dead from hunger, so he took a piece of cake to eat there, but when Ji Zhihuai and the others came back after being courteous, seeing a small piece of cream on Liao Ruming's lips, he subconsciously reached out and brushed it away.

Then Ji Zhihuai subconsciously licked off the cream on his fingertips.

His actions were so logical that Liao Ruming at the time didn't even find it strange.He just raised his head, a little dizzy from hunger, so he looked at Ji Zhihuai blankly.

It was at this very moment, their profiles and gazes meeting, the cake in Liao Ruming's hand, his slightly parted lips due to an accident, the whiteness of Ji Zhihuai's fingertips, and the bright crystal lamp above their heads... …all frozen in this picture.

... Liao Ruming recalled that night again.

He believed that for Ji Zhihuai, it must have been a dreamlike night.The same is true for Liao Ruming.He has obtained a kind of fullness, as if he has developed a game character, and this game character also gives him the feeling of having a long face.

Besides, it was his lover.

... Liao Ruming stared at this photo for a long time, and then a trace of confusion flashed in his eyes.

He seems to confuse the real with the unreal.He couldn't seem to forget that moment, he even...he was even thinking, if he returned to reality, could he really treat this experience as just a dream?

This was, without a doubt, all that had happened to him.

He sighed, put the photo together with the love letter, then called out 017, and said lazily, "This place is too real."

017 listens quietly.

Liao Ruming said: "Sometimes I feel that I have time-traveled instead of coming to a game world."

"This is indeed the Second Universe." 017 said rigidly, "However, for you, this is indeed just a game world."

"Can I forget him?" Liao Ruming murmured, "He is my first love."

System 017: "..."

It's just a system—

The small ball of light floated aimlessly, listening to Liao Ruming's nagging complaints.

Liao Ruming said that he began to hate this game.Because he knew he could only stay in this world for one night after all.He has his life, and that life belongs to the world outside.

Liao Ruming said that he wanted to leave Ji Zhihuai, probably because of this reason.He realized that he had paid too much affection and care for Ji Zhihuai.He kind of wants to be with Ji Zhihuai forever.

...but they can't be together forever.

It was just a dream of his.a game.

017 wants to say, after all, it is the first time to fall in love, and it is normal to have nostalgia.

How many people fall in love with virtual characters all their lives?

But considering the mental health of its host, as well as its own safety, 017 decided not to say anything.

At this moment, 017 suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure at the stairs on the second floor, who seemed to be standing there all the time. 017 couldn't help but wanted to take a closer look, but the next moment, that figure disappeared again.

017 couldn't help being startled, thinking, is that...Ji Zhihuai?Ji Zhihuai has been standing there listening to Liao Ruming's thoughts?

But... 017 knew that Ji Zhihuai probably couldn't hear it.After all, 017 was there.In the presence of the game system, people belonging to the second universe cannot hear the conversation between the player and the system.

So 017 was just curious.At this moment, 017 didn't think there was anything wrong with Ji Zhihuai himself.

If it knew that Ji Zhihuai had already heard Liao Ruming's "tired of listening" in the presence of 017 outside the lounge of Yuanda Brokers, then 017 would probably start to doubt Ji Zhihuai all of a sudden. identity.

But obviously it doesn't know.

And Liao Ruming didn't know even more.He didn't even know that Ji Zhihuai was standing at the top of the stairs watching him, he thought Ji Zhihuai had already slept in the pile of his clothes.

However, the cautious 017 still decided to investigate Ji Zhihuai's situation in private.After all, this is a small world in the second universe. As a game system, 017 cannot let go of any unstable factors that may cause danger to players.

Liao Ruming didn't know 017's plan, he put the wallet in the bag, thought for a while, then shook his head, and walked upstairs.

017 asked him: "Then, host, what are you going to do next? Get back together with Ji Zhihuai?"

"Walk one step at a time." Liao Ruming yawned, "You know, I am a very freewheeling person."

017 thought, yes.Break up when you want to break up, get back together when you want to get back together.It's the man who pity you.

Once again, 017 couldn't help feeling a little pity for Ji Zhihuai.

Liao Ruming suddenly looked at 017 suspiciously: "Why do I feel that you are complaining about me?"

017 said dully: "How is it possible? You must be thinking wrong."

Liao Ruming: "..."

He chuckled, too lazy to bother 017, he waved the little ball of light away.

He walked into Ji Zhihuai's room, fell on the bed, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Maybe it was because of that photo, or maybe it was because he slept in Ji Zhihuai's room. In his dream, Liao Ruming suddenly recalled the moment when Ji Zhihuai began to like him.

按照017的说法，爱慕值的前30%只能算是有好感，30%到60%算是喜欢，60%到90%算是爱。90%之后，017就没解释了。

It just said that Liao Ruming would know when the time came.

However, Liao Ruming still doesn't understand what it will be like after 90%.

He just remembered that at the 30% point, Ji Zhihuai liked him from the beginning.It was at the moment when he moved into this house.