Finally returning to school.
As he walked into the stairwell, Ji Anche smelled a strong odor of paint. He frowned and muttered, "Is someone renovating nearby? The smell of paint is so strong."
Gu Hanzhou was equally puzzled, "I haven't heard anything about the school renovating recently."
Finally climbing up to the third floor.
As they approached the dormitory door, the smell of paint became increasingly pungent and irritating.
Ji Anche covered his nose and wanted to walk forward, but Gu Hanzhou, who was in front of him, suddenly stopped.
Ji Anche urged breathlessly, "Hurry up, why aren't you moving?"
Gu Hanzhou's voice was dry, "Ge."
Sensing something was wrong, Ji Anche quickly took a few steps forward.
A dazzling blood-red color came into view.
Large patches of red paint had been splattered on the dormitory door and the floor in front of it.
On the adjacent wall, large blood-red characters were written, [Stay away from Gu Hanzhou, that psycho!]
Seeing the scene before him, Ji Anche's face turned cold. The pungent smell of paint assaulted him, and he covered his nose and took a few steps back.
Gu Hanzhou also saw the words on the wall. He explained with a pale face, "Ge, I'm not a psycho."
"I'm really not."
Ji Anche patted his shoulder, comforting him, "Don't be afraid, Ge knows you're not."
Ji Anche endured the choking smell and picked up the mop beside him.
He dipped the mop in the red paint that hadn't yet dried on the floor and directly lifted the mop to wipe away all the words on the wall.
"Xiaozhou, it's okay, don't mind those words." Ji Anche casually threw the mop aside.
Gu Hanzhou grabbed his wrist, "Ge, what do we do now?"
Ji Anche's eyes were sharp, and he said in a cold voice, "Call the police and let them handle it."
The police acted very efficiently and quickly caught the student who had splashed the paint.
The student who splashed the paint looked like a quiet and thin boy.
The boy lowered his head tremblingly, not daring to look up at Ji Anche, and apologized profusely, "I just wanted to carry the paint bucket back to the dormitory, but I accidentally spilled it at your dormitory door, I'm really sorry, so sorry, very sorry."
He had never seen this boy before. Ji Anche asked directly, "Who told you to do this?"
The boy hurriedly shook his head, "I'm really sorry, but I accidentally spilled the paint myself, no one told me to do it."
Ji Anche sneered, "Weren't those words written by you?"
"I... I..." The boy hunched his shoulders and stammered, unable to speak.
Ji Anche repeated in a cold voice, "Who exactly made you do it?"
The boy's body trembled with fear, his voice shaking with fright, "I don't know, I really don't know."
"You don't know, huh?" Ji Anche took out his phone, pretending to make a call, "Then I'll call the police, and the police will definitely find out."
"Please, don't call the police! I'll tell you!!!" the boy cried, "I didn't want to splash paint either, he forced me to. He threatened me with my grandma. His influence in school is too strong, I can't fight him at all, I really have no choice."
Ji Anche was almost frantic, "Then hurry up and say it. Who exactly is that person?"
A strong fear was revealed in the boy's pupils, and he said with trembling teeth, "Ouyang Wei. That person is Ouyang Wei."
Hearing the name Ouyang Wei, Ji Anche's expression was stunned. The originally vague memories gradually became clearer.
He was wrong. The person who harmed the male protagonist in the original book was not Ouyang Yechen at all, but Ouyang Wei. Ouyang Wei was the most disgusting person.
Ji Anche planned to find some time to meet Ouyang Wei alone. He would nip all the dangers threatening the male protagonist's safety in the bud in advance. But Ouyang Wei didn't live on campus, so where could he find him?
Ji Anche simply asked, "Where does Ouyang Wei currently live?"
"I can't say..." The boy shook his head desperately, tears streaming down his face, "He'll kill me. I can't tell you."
Ji Anche took out his phone and threatened, "Then I'll call the police."
The boy bit his lip tightly, his face pale as he begged for mercy, "Please don't call the police."
He paused, his expression struggling, and said, "...I'll tell you everything I know."
After learning where Ouyang Wei currently was, Ji Anche planned to go there tomorrow. It was too late today.
The boy tentatively asked in a low voice, "Are you going to find Ouyang Wei?"
Ji Anche raised the corner of his eye slightly and glanced sideways, "What's it to you?"
The boy choked, "N-nothing."
Ji Anche didn't see it.
After the boy turned around, the corners of his lips curled into a triumphant smile.
Returning to the dormitory.
Fortunately, there was no smell of paint inside the dormitory.
However, Ji Anche still went to get some air freshener and sprayed it a little everywhere in the dormitory.
Gu Hanzhou uneasily clutched the corner of his garment and asked softly, "Ge, are you going to find Ouyang Wei?"
Ji Anche was afraid that the male protagonist would worry, so he comforted him, "Don't worry, I'm not going."
"That's good then, gege must not go."
A look of disgust surfaced in Gu Hanzhou's eyes, "Ouyang Wei can use any underhanded means, gege must not risk yourself."
Ji Anche didn't take the male lead's words to heart.
If he didn't take the risk, the person in danger might be Gu Hanzhou. It was better for him to solve the root of the problem beforehand, so there would be no future worries.
Gu Hanzhou: "Ge, I want to ask a question."
Ji Anche: "Go ahead and ask."
Gu Hanzhou asked curiously, "What does 999 in WeChat Moments just now mean?"
Ji Anche's cheeks flushed slightly.
999 was wishing them happiness in their relationship.
He didn't want the pure and innocent male lead to know about those unhealthy things.
So Ji Anche made up an explanation, "999 means they're praising our good grades. After all, 9 is the largest single-digit natural number, implying success in the college entrance exam."
Gu Hanzhou made a look of sudden realization, "So that's what it means."
Ji Anche just breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he heard Gu Hanzhou continue to ask curiously, "Then why did they also wish us to have a son soon?"
"Does 'have a son soon' also mean wishing us good grades?"
Ji Anche suddenly choked, "Cough cough cough..."
"That person is talking nonsense, you don't need to pay attention to him!"
Gu Hanzhou's eyes curved into a happy smile, and he obediently said, "Okay, I won't pay attention to him."
The warm orange sunset light streamed into the room through the window lattices, casting a gentle halo on the room.
Gu Hanzhou noticed the expression on Ji Anche's face and tentatively asked, "Ge, are you ignoring me today because of what happened yesterday?"
An unnatural look flashed across Ji Anche's face, and his fingertips also quickly curled up.
"Ge, I'm sorry."
Gu Hanzhou gazed at him earnestly, a fragile look hidden deep in his dark eyes, "Ge, I know I'm sick."
Ji Anche was stunned, "Ah?"
He frowned, "What illness could you have? Don't talk nonsense!"
Gu Hanzhou said softly, "I crave closeness with others, but at the same time, I have an extreme lack of security, which has reached a pathological level. I know this isn't normal."
It was as if a sharp blade was cruelly dissecting the outer flesh, displaying the unsightly inner self to Ji Anche without reservation.
"Maybe it's because my growing environment was abnormal from the very beginning."
"From the time I had memories, my mother suffered from severe mental illness. She would always hit me for no reason. I could only live cautiously, carefully trying to figure out her her thoughts, and try my best to please her. Only in this way could I avoid being beaten."
"During the Spring Festival, firecrackers were set off outside. The dark sky was filled with dazzling and beautiful fireworks, and it was the first time I had seen something so beautiful."
"I was too young at that time and couldn't help being curious, so I ran out to see the fireworks outside. When I returned home, I found that the door was locked from the inside."
"No matter how I knocked, the door didn't open."
"In the end, I slept in the snow for a whole night."
"The snow felt cold at first, but then it slowly became warmer."
"Warmer than my body."
Ji Anche's heart ached with throbbing pain, and he really couldn't listen anymore.
He leaned over and hugged Gu Hanzhou, trying his best to give Gu Hanzhou some comfort.
Gu Hanzhou returned the embrace, holding his waist, his voice apologetic, "Ge, I didn't do it on purpose yesterday."
"It wasn't on purpose that I hugged you, nor was it on purpose that I touched you."
Gu Hanzhou lowered his eyes dejectedly, "No one has been willing to get close to me since I was little, you are the first. You are the first person who took the initiative to help me in campus bullying, the first person to hug me, the first person to like me."
"So I couldn't help but want to get a little closer to you, a little closer. Intimate touch brings me an indescribable sense of security, makes me feel very comfortable, and makes me feel that you are sincere towards me."
"But I was too selfish, only considering my own feelings and not taking your thoughts into account. I didn't expect my closeness to cause you trouble. Ge, I'm very sorry that I didn't realize this sooner."
"Thank you, gege, for your understanding and patience these past few days. I will pay attention to keeping my distance from gege in the future and will not make gege feel annoyed again."
"Ge, I will try hard to change."
At the end, a fragile look appeared between Gu Hanzhou's pale eyebrows, and his voice was dry and almost hoarse, "Ge... can you not dislike me?"
His mind was in a mess, unable to sort things out, a hundred times more complicated than a math problem. He didn't know what was wrong with him. Ji Anche sighed in distress and explained, "I don't dislike you, and I don't feel annoyed at all."
Gu Hanzhou tentatively asked, "Gege doesn't dislike it?"
Ji Anche replied decisively, "I don't dislike it."
Gu Hanzhou: "You don't dislike my touch either?"
Ji Anche said with certainty, "I don't dislike it!"
He really didn't dislike it at all.
Gu Hanzhou chuckled softly, "Then does gege like it?"
Ji Anche lowered his head, pursing his lips in silence.
Like it?
He didn't dislike the male lead's closeness, and even... even liked his touch a little.
Knowing clearly that it was wrong, he still couldn't help but indulge in it.
A few seconds passed.
Ji Anche stammered softly, "I'm not sure if I like it or not."
Seeing the blush on Ji Anche's fair cheeks, Gu Hanzhou chuckled softly, "Gege, we can find out the result with an experiment."
Ji Anche raised his eyes in a daze and asked blankly, "How do we experiment?"
Gu Hanzhou placed his fingertips on the snow-white nape of the young man's neck and gently rubbed it, "Ge, do you like this?"
A familiar itch spread from the back of his neck.
Like a cat being gently stroked on the back of its neck, it was so comfortable that he even felt a little like squinting his eyes and stretching lazily in contentment.
Ji Anche's earlobes were slightly red, and he said honestly in a low voice, "Li... like it."
Cool fingertips spread downwards.
The skin they brushed against tingled.
A numb sensation rapidly traveled from the brain to the nerve endings.
Gu Hanzhou leaned close to his ear and whispered softly, "Does gege like this?"
Warm breath brushed against his earlobe, and his snow-white skin was stained with crimson. Ji Anche's breathing hitched slightly, his voice trembling uncontrollably, "Like... like it..."
Gu Hanzhou gazed at the young man in front of him.
The young man's face, from his earlobes to his cheeks, was completely red, like a blushing peach, its sweet juice about to drip out.
Gu Hanzhou's eyes darkened, and he deliberately placed his fingertips on the young man's waist dimples and traced them.
A throbbing sensation spread from the depths of his bone marrow.
Ji Anche couldn't help but let out a suppressed groan.
The cicadas outside chirped incessantly.
A brilliant Milky Way hung in the dark night sky.
In the desolate weed garden, the ground was covered only with withered grass seeds and fallen leaves.
Faint sparks fell on the grass, and the gentle evening breeze of midsummer softly scattered the sparks everywhere. A tiny flame ignited on a dry tree, and the dazzling fire instantly lit up the surrounding darkness and silence.
The vigorous and luxuriant flames spread around, and in an instant, a small spark ignited a vast expanse.
Feeling the reaction in a certain place, Ji Anche's body stiffened.
Suddenly, his cheeks flushed crimson, and he pushed Gu Hanzhou away, stumbling and hurriedly running off the bed.
Running to the next room, Ji Anche gasped for breath, trying hard to calm his rapidly beating heart.
He just... actually...
... !!!!!!
Had a reaction.
Ji Anche took a deep breath, suppressed his embarrassment, and tried hard to comfort himself.
He was now a vigorous high school boy, and it was normal to have a reaction at this age.
It's nothing serious!
No need to pay too much attention to it!!
Ji Anche just breathed a sigh of relief.
The iron fist of reason quickly dealt him a heavy blow.
Having a reaction was indeed normal, but what was abnormal was...
Why would he have a reaction to Gu Hanzhou???
This was comparable to an annual family ethics drama.
《On the Unspeakable Secrets of a Father to His Son.avi》.
Ji Anche slowly slumped down against the cold wall, almost wanting to bury his head and cry.
He actually had abnormal desires for his son...
Help.
Was this a distortion of human nature or a decline of morality?
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