He said I was soft and nice

Chapter 31

Until Qi Ling was brought into the hotel, he still felt unreal.

How did Xu Chen appear in Qingshui City? Shouldn't he still be working now?

Also, how did Xu Chen find him?

He hid there and was never found.

Qi Ling stared blankly at the person in front of him who took him to check in, still a little dazed, and murmured: "Did I hallucinate after being drenched in the rain for too long?"

Xu Chen dragged the person into the hotel room, first brought a towel to wipe the person's head, and replied: "It's not an illusion, it's me."

Hearing the familiar voice, Qi Ling felt an inexplicable ache in his heart. He touched Xu Chen's face, and the feeling underneath was real and warm. He said in a hoarse voice, "Why are you here?"

He couldn't help biting his lips when he thought of something, "Have you... been to my house?"

Then how did his parents treat Xu Chen?

He immediately looked Xu Chen up and down, except that the corners of his clothes and shoes were a little wet, everything else was normal.

"Did they say anything ugly? Don't take their words to heart, it's all nonsense."

Qi Ling was still about to say something, but Xu Chen pinched his face, "What are you thinking? I'm just a little closer to here on a business trip, so I just wanted to come and see you, and help you with your homework by the way."

"I was indeed going to look for you at your house, but your neighbor next door said that you went out in the morning and pointed me in the direction. I didn't have much trouble finding you."

Qi Ling breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good."

Given how sensitive his parents are to homosexuality, seeing Xu Chen might immediately make him think wrong and speak ill of him.

He didn't want Xu Chen to know that he was actually living in such a family.

Xu Chen wiped his hair for someone, but Qi Ling's whole body was wet, even his trousers were dripping.

Even so, Qi Ling was still tightly protecting his shirt, which was the only dry thing on Qi Ling's body.

He took the shirt from Qi Ling's hand and put it on the table next to him, "Next time you encounter something like this, you can use it to keep out the rain, you know? There's no need to protect it."

Qi Ling pursed her lips, but didn't reply.

In Xu Chen's eyes, this might just be a piece of clothing, but it was this clothing that gave him the courage to confront his parents and prevented him from losing himself in the endless accusations and disgust.

Xu Chen looked at Qi Ling who was dripping wet, and knew that just wiping his hair was useless, so he went straight to the bathroom, "I'll check the water temperature."

He looked at it, and he could take a bath. He was just about to bring Qi Ling over, but when he turned around, he found Qi Ling was behind him, as if he had followed him all the way here.

Xu Chen stopped walking, looked at Qi Ling who had kept his head down, and his voice slowed down, "Are you feeling uncomfortable? Take a shower quickly, and I'll get you a change of clothes, and I'll pass them to you later."

Qi Ling glanced at the T-shirt and trousers that were almost stuck to his body, but did not refuse, nodded and said, "Okay."

Xu Chen listened to the sound of water in the bathroom, and after making sure there was nothing wrong, he found Qi Ling's suitcase, opened it, and stopped in mid-air with his hand about to take the clothes——

The suitcase was a mess, clothes and school supplies were entangled, and some pen caps were opened and stained white clothes, as if they were stuffed in by someone.

When Qi Ling packed his luggage last time, he took a quick look at it. All kinds of supplies were neatly sorted, and even if they were taken out, such a situation would not happen.

Moreover, why did Qi Ling walk out the door with his shirt alone.

Or is this shirt found out by someone else?Then Qi Ling was pressed for questioning?

The more Xu Chen thought about it, the darker his face became, but at this moment, the sound of water in the bathroom stopped, and Qi Ling called him.

He quickly picked out two loose clothes that he usually wears and sent them over.

After Qi Ling took a shower, Xu Chen very naturally took on the task of wiping his head.

Qi Ling nestled on the sofa, with his back to him, uncharacteristically silent.

"Is there any discomfort?" Xu Chen probed his forehead, the temperature was still a little cold, "After the rain, you may catch a cold and have a fever. I will boil some hot water later, and you can take some cold medicine to prevent it."

Qi Ling nodded slightly.

When Xu Chen was about to stand up to boil the water, Qi Ling suddenly turned around and grabbed his hand. With little strength, Xu Chen stopped all of a sudden.

"what happened?"

Qi Ling lowered his eyes, his face was still a little sickly white, and there was no blood on his lips. He moaned twice, and said two words very softly, "I want to hug."

He was dripping wet before, and he didn't dare to let Xu Chen hold him for too long, but after taking a shower, his whole body was clean, and the desire was extremely strong.

I want Xu Chen to hold him, I want to feel the other person's body temperature and breathing, the closer the better.

As soon as the words fell, he was embraced by someone as he wished.

Xu Chen didn't ask the reason, and wrapped the man into his arms very naturally, with one arm around his waist and the other hand holding the back of his head. This was a posture Qi Ling was very familiar with.

"what else?"

It seemed that as long as Qi Ling said at this time, he would agree.

Qi Ling leaned his head in his arms, hugged his waist back, closed his eyes, his eyelashes trembled slightly, "Hold him tighter."

He felt that his whole body was tightly pressed against Xu Chen's, and the other's body temperature was transmitted bit by bit, accompanied by a steady and powerful heartbeat, filling his empty heart one by one.

He seemed to be alive again.

As time passed, Xu Chen felt the body of the person in his arms relax a little bit, his cold body temperature returned to normal, and his breathing was shallow. He thought he had fallen asleep, but just as he wanted to get up and carry him to the bed, Qi Ling panicked. Raising his head, the strength in his waist instantly increased, as if he was afraid that he would disappear.

Xu Chen looked at the person in his arms, and said softly, "I thought you were asleep, are you sleepy, do you want to sleep?"

Qi Ling woke up completely, shook his head, "Not sleepy."

Only at this time did he realize that Xu Chen was dressed very formally, and he should have rushed over just after finishing some work.

Qi Ling slowly let go of Xu Chen's waist, "Your clothes are also wet, go take a shower! I'm fine."

He is enough to worry about, there is no need to be hypocritical for so long.

Xu Chen wanted to say something, but Qi Ling pushed him into the bathroom and closed the door.

When Xu Chen came out of the wash as quickly as possible, he saw Qi Ling's messy suitcase being packed away, as if the previous mess was his illusion, Qi Ling was also sitting at the hotel table at this time, clapping Next to the position, "Didn't you say you want to guide me? I happen to have a lot of questions."

A pile of learning materials he recommended to Qi Ling was neatly placed on the table, and the other party's tone was the same as usual, as if he had already stepped out of that state.

Xu Chen sat over, and Qi Ling took his phone to check the battery level, it was only 2%, obviously it had just been charged.

"I stayed up late yesterday to study too late, and I turned off the phone before I had time to charge it, so I didn't reply to your message in time." After he finished talking about something, the corners of his mouth curled up, "Is there something I forgot to tell you , I opened an account on Weibo, originally to record my studies, but I didn’t expect to attract many people to read it, and I often discuss and interact with them in it, which is quite interesting.”

He created this account at the beginning because there were too many problems with the manuscripts posted by Professor Jiang. He wanted to record them and enjoy the process of solving the problems. Unexpectedly, there are many like-minded people on the Internet. Together, they gave him a lot of inspiration.

Qi Ling also showed Xu Chen the account number, "I already have [-] to [-] followers!"

His tone was a little proud.

Xu Chen nodded, took out his phone and paid Qi Ling another attention.

The smile on the corner of Qi Ling's mouth grew wider, "Haha, I have another fan!"

He tacitly replied to Xu Chen, and then took out a printed document on the table, "I roughly selected the direction of the project report, and this document also mentioned it, but some questions are so obscure that I haven't figured it out yet. , just to ask you."

Xu Chen looked at Qi Ling's serious side face, and was silent for a while, only to feel his heart tightening, "Qi Ling..."

But before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Qi Ling, "Oh! Answer me quickly! I'm going to Weibo to share today's learning experience after I'm done, there must be a lot of things to write, hurry up .”

He was in a hurry, and Xu Chen was helpless.

It was almost eleven o'clock after the discussion between the two of them. Qi Ling also said that he wanted to edit a material and put it on Weibo, but Xu Chen stopped him and carried him into the bedroom.

"You need rest."

Xu Chen picked Qi Ling up from the table without hesitation, and after walking a few steps, he realized something was wrong——

Qi Ling was too light.

Even if he hadn't hugged people like this before, he still had a rough estimate of Qi Ling's weight. Now, by comparison, Qi Ling was at least four catties lighter.

Just this week.

He put him on the bed, straightened Qi Ling's avoiding face, and looked at him, "Didn't you eat well at home?"

Or did Qi Ling's parents abuse him and deny him food?

No, Qi Ling spends most of his time in the library every day, and there are places to eat outside, so how could he be hungry.

Then there is only one possibility——

Qi Ling is his own hungry self.

Qi Ling pursed his lips into a straight line and didn't return.

He didn't want Xu Chen to know about his anorexia.

Recently, in order to maintain his daily physical strength, he has been breaking up bread and pouring water to force it to eat, and he is still covering his lips tightly to prevent himself from spitting it out.

He wanted to find an excuse to prevaricate, but Xu Chen asked him again, "Have you eaten today?"

Qi Ling looked away, and whispered back: "Eat."

"What did you eat? When did you eat it? Where?"

Xu Chen asked three questions in succession, but Qi Ling couldn't make them up at all.

There was still something Xu Chen didn't understand, so he called the front desk, "Bring us a porridge, something lighter, as soon as possible."

Qi Ling looked at the porridge in front of him, but he didn't reach out for a long time. His recent symptoms of anorexia were very serious. Even if Xu Chen was there, he would probably vomit it out.

Seeing that he was not moving, Xu Chen took the porridge himself, filled a spoonful and tested the temperature, it was just right.

When Qi Ling saw the porridge being handed to his mouth, his eyes were full of entanglement. He was really afraid that he would spit it out, but this was the first time Xu Chen took the initiative to feed him, and he had personally touched it...

In the end, he couldn't hold it back, and tried to suck it in, but as soon as the porridge touched his mouth, the familiar feeling of nausea surged up instantly, and he immediately went to the toilet covering his mouth.

After vomiting, he looked at Xu Chen who had been guarding him all the time, feeling a little uneasy, he explained: "I... didn't vomit on purpose, I don't have a good appetite recently..."

"sorry."

Xu Chen wiped his mouth clean, "There's no need to apologize."

Qi Ling's condition was obviously not right, he tried the porridge, it was very light and the temperature was just right, but Qi Ling vomited as soon as he took it.

How far did those two people push Qi Ling?

Seeing that Xu Chen didn't ask any further questions, Qi Ling even put away the bowl, gritted his teeth, "I can try again, I will try not to vomit."

Not only for Xu Chen, but also for himself.

He could feel that he was seriously malnourished because he hadn't eaten recently, and he would even feel dizzy after reading half of the literature. Now that Xu Chen was by his side, he had to save himself.

In the end, he barely ate three spoonfuls, which is his limit now.

Xu Chen wiped the corners of his mouth clean, looked at Qi Ling looking at him with a look of anticipation, paused, and said, "It's great."

But Xu Chen obviously never praised others like this, his tone was stiff and stagnant, strange and funny.

The corners of his mouth curled up, and he couldn't help complaining: "Xu Chen, do you always praise people like this? It's not sincere at all, it's like coaxing a child."

Xu Chen cleaned up the bowl, looked at the smiling man leaning on the bed, recalled his words, slightly lowered his body, his eyes were on the same level as Qi Ling's, lightly stroked his hair, and said slowly: "Qi Ling!" Ling, you did really well."

Qi Ling was stunned for a moment, looking at Xu Chen, who was obviously serious and rigid in front of him, but still trying to coax him seriously, suddenly felt that his eyes were a little bit dry, and the smile on his mouth could hardly be maintained, so he could only look away in a panic, Xiao He said: "What...it's more like coaxing a child."

He rubbed his eyes, trying to hold back the previous emotion, but he saw Xu Chen raised his hand and brushed the end of his reddened eyes with his fingertips, his movements were full of pity,

"Qi Ling, you don't need to carry so much by yourself."

"Now, you have me."

In fact, I can also be relied on by you.