Chapter 58 Crazy and Romantic

  Perhaps it was too smooth to be with Tong Chen, and after experiencing a twist with Qin Kei, I suddenly felt much lighter in my heart. Although the romance with Qin Kei has just begun, nearly two months of living together have made us mutually familiar and understanding, and we even have a very deep tacit understanding of each other.

  Recently, I have been trying to instill in Qin Ke Yi the idea of turning our co-rental relationship into a cohabiting one. According to Qin Ke Yi's understanding, we are already considered cohabiting, so after I listed a large number of "strong words and stolen logic" -like fallacies, I finally made Qin Ke Yi understand that true cohabitation means two people sleeping in the same bed and regularly engaging in high-intensity confrontational exercises on the bed. After much hesitation, Qin Ke Yi agreed to sleep in the same bed but firmly refused to engage in high-intensity confrontational exercises, claiming that if I insisted, we would continue our current separate living arrangement. In any case, things are developing in the direction I expected, and it's another leap forward in our relationship, so I agreed to Qin Ke Yi's proposal.

  But on the issue of sleeping in whose bed, we had a disagreement. We are both people who can't sleep well when leaving our own beds, so after our unanimous negotiation, it was finally decided that every week 1, 3, 5, and 7 would be spent sleeping in Qin Ke's bed, and 2, 4, and 6 would be spent sleeping in my bed.

  On the first night we slept together, I tried to break through the last barrier in our relationship, but Qin Ke Yi only let me kiss him and explicitly warned me not to have any illusions about anything else. So on the first night we shared a bed, I lay awake with excitement, staring at the clock's hand spinning round and round until dawn...

  "How did you wake up so early?" Qin Ke said to me with a dazed expression as soon as he opened his eyes.

  "You slept quite well last night, didn't you?" I asked Qin Ke Yi back.

  "Hehe! Who made it so comfortable to lie in your arms? From now on, I can basically say goodbye to my dolls. Ah! Thinking about it, I'm actually a bit reluctant to part with them!"

  "You're not going to hold me every night and sleep, are you!!?" I asked incredulously.

  "It was you who suggested sleeping together, right!? I've always liked to sleep with something in my arms! When I was little, it was my mom; when I grew up, it was a doll; and now, I can hold you, hehe, God is still pretty good to me!" Qin Ke said this as she hugged me even tighter.

  "But then, I suddenly had an idea."

  "What's your idea?"

  "I think every Sunday, it seems like we should experience the feeling of separation, each sleeping in our own beds."

  "Why?" Qin Ke asked in confusion.

  "Hmm... First of all, although we are living a happy life now, we can't forget our roots. So it's necessary for us to recall the hardships and think about the sweetness. Every week, we should revisit the lonely days when we were not together, lying in our own beds. Only then will we cherish this hard-won happiness even more."

  "Haha! Go die! You're already talking nonsense the moment you wake up in the morning! I don't think that was a difficult time at all."

  "Secondly, you strangle a certain desire of mine every day, but then get infinitely close to me every night. This has caused a certain degree of devastation to my mental and physical state, making it impossible for me to fall asleep peacefully. If this continues, I will eventually be on the verge of collapse! So I need a physiological buffer period."

  "What? Is it really that painful?"

  "Hmm...? It's fine, just a little bit."

  "Never mind, let's end it quickly before I get addicted. In the future, we'll just go our separate ways. After all, I still have my doll, and if one day I accidentally turn you into some kind of freak, my conscience will be condemned."

  "Let's just pretend I never said anything..."

  ……

  During class, Qin Ke suddenly sent a message saying they had to train tonight and would be back late, and told me she suddenly wanted to eat fish. So after class, I went to the vegetable market to buy a fish on the way.

  The weather suddenly started raining, and I was busy in the kitchen when I realized that Qin Ke Yi didn't bring an umbrella. So I quickly scooped out the fish I had just stewed and covered it with a plate, then grabbed an umbrella and headed to Building 1 to pick her up. When I arrived at their training room, they hadn't finished yet, and everyone was following the music under Qin Ke Yi's lead, doing energetic aerobics. Through the glass of the back door, looking at Qin Ke Yi who was exercising, suddenly felt a warm feeling in my heart...

  "How did you get here!?" After training ended, Qin Ke Yi and everyone else walked out of the house, saw me standing at the door, looking very excited.

  "It's raining outside! I'll come pick you up!"

  "Really good! Give me a kiss! You wait here for me, I'll go next door to change my clothes and come out!" Qin Ke heard my words and excitedly gave me a peck on the cheek, then ran off to the next room. At this moment, the feeling in my heart was even warmer.

  "Let's go!" A few minutes later, Qin Keyi walked out of the next room, waved goodbye to several girls, and went downstairs with me, her arm around mine.

  "Great! Just now, several girls in our team were praising you for being handsome!" Qin Ke suddenly said to me.

  "It's very normal, a normal reaction." I calmly said to Qin Ke.

  "Shameless! They even crossed over to where Lao Wang's house is! What are you proud of?!"

  "Didn't they say we're a good match?" I asked Qin Ke with a smile.

  "They just kept sighing 'what a pity...'!"

  "Yes! They're all pitying me! What a waste of a person I am!"

  "Get lost! You're making me lose face!" Qin Ke shouted at me with a smile. Then she hugged my arm tightly, her head also leaning on my shoulder, and we strolled together under the umbrella in the rain...

  The rain isn't heavy, but fine and gentle, occasionally splashing on my face. In the sweltering summer, it makes me feel a rare coolness. The scene of Qin Ke Yi and I walking silently in the rain seems to have appeared in my dreams before. Perhaps this kind of romance, which is not artificially created but very natural, is what truly touches people's hearts...

  "Hey! Have you seen a Korean movie called 《xxx》?" Qin Ke suddenly asked me.

  "What's going on?!"

  "There's a scene where the male and female leads come out of a bar, just in time to catch the rain, and they start dancing wildly in the rain, like tap dance, so romantic!" Qin Ke said excitedly.

  "Crazy enough! Just finished drinking and then got rained on, aren't you afraid of getting pneumonia?!" At this moment, there was a faint sense of foreboding in my heart.

  "Let's get healthy! Let's have one like them!" Qin Ke suddenly said with a smile, confirming my intuition.

  "You're crazy! You were sweating so much just now! Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"

  "Come on! Ah, you can't be more romantic! Come on!" Qin Ke suddenly snatched the umbrella from my hand and threw it aside. Then he took a few steps back, kicked off his slippers, and started jumping up and down barefoot.

  The water on the ground was stirred up by Qin Ke Yi's feet again and again, mixing with the raindrops falling from the sky. On this stage composed of water and rain, although there was no musical accompaniment, Qin Ke Yi once again conquered me with her dynamic and elegant dance moves.

  "What are you standing there for? Come on!" Qin Ke Yi jumped up and down for a while before coming over to pull me along, so I started imitating her movements, joining in with the crazy but romantic gestures... At this moment, I once again felt the urge to spend my whole life with someone...

  "Come on, let's go! The fish at home is cold!" I timely stopped our romantic move, although I wanted to accompany Qin Ke Yi to continue.

  "Okay, let's go home and have some fish!" Qin Ke exclaimed excitedly, then put on his shoes and wrapped his arm around me again, sharing an umbrella with me as we headed home.

  After returning home, I hastily fetched a dry towel from the bathroom and had Qin Kai sit on the sofa to help him wipe his face and hair clean of water. At this moment, I suddenly discovered that Qin Kai's white shirt had become almost transparent under the effect of the water, with his black underwear almost completely visible...

  "What's wrong?" Qin Ke said with a red face and a smile.

  "Ha ha, let me see what brand your underwear is!" I said with a smile to Qin Ke Yi.

  "Pervert! ...Did you see clearly?"

  "No! So I decided to undo your clothes and take a look!" As soon as I finished speaking, my two hands began to move towards Qin Ke Yi's buttons. And so, Qin Ke Yi and I started a "lingerie" defense war on the sofa...

  "Alright! Stop it!" Qin Ke suddenly shouted at me with a red face after making a fuss for a while.

  "What's wrong?"

  "It's all your fault! I... my bra strap broke! Hate you! You're going with me to buy a new bra tomorrow!" Qin Ke said softly, her face red, before walking into her room with her arms wrapped around her chest.

  The next afternoon, Qin Ke Yi indeed took me to Song Lei Shopping Mall to buy underwear. From the moment Qin Ke Yi pulled me into the underwear store, I was destined to be a person of great attention in this small space. Qin Ke Yi pulled me to choose various types of underwear and asked me "Does it look good?" from time to time. And I just pretended to read the newspaper to cover up my embarrassment, while mechanically nodding my head to perfunctorily respond to Qin Ke Yi.

  "Where's my girlfriend?" I suddenly felt that Qin Ke Yi had gone quiet, so I put down the newspaper and found that Qin Ke Yi was nowhere to be seen. So I asked the salesgirl next to me.

  "It seemed like he went that way just now." The salesgirl said as she pointed in a direction, so I ran towards the direction she was pointing...

  "Wait! What's wrong?" I caught up with Qin Ke Yi and asked.

  "What's wrong? Are you embarrassed to go shopping for underwear with me? You're being so awkward!!" Qin Ke said angrily.

  "Can't you just be normal?! It's all girls, and they're buying that kind of thing! People who don't know will think I have some kind of perverted hobby!"

  "Why can't you accompany me shopping like other boyfriends?! You're so special!" Qin Ke Yi said discontentedly.

  "Don't compare me with others!" Qin Ke turned around angrily after hearing my words, so I grabbed her again.

  "Alright, alright! Calm down! It's not civilized to quarrel in public! Be good! Smile!" I think it's ridiculous to quarrel for this reason, so I took the initiative to back down.

  "Stop making faces at me!" Qin Ke turned around and hit me, the atmosphere had eased up a bit.

  "Alright, alright! I'll go with you! Let's go!" I said helplessly to Qin Ke.

  "No! I want you to go buy it for me yourself!" Qin Ke said with a smile.

  "What did you say!!! I'm going! Are you crazy!? Beat me to death, I won't go!!" I shouted at Qin Ke in utter disbelief.

  "Really not going?" Qin Ke asked me with a mischievous smile.

  "I won't go!" I replied with utmost determination.

  "If the style you choose makes me satisfied, I might consider it. Tonight, I'll hold an underwear show for you." Qin Ke smiled and walked to my side, whispering in my ear...