As I spoke, I organized my thoughts.
"The problem is we don't know how long this mutual crossing will last. Is it related to time or your sleep? Does it only happen when you fall asleep, or do both you and Bai Yueguang need to be asleep for it to occur...?"
Qi Chen added to my words.
Hearing this, my eyes lit up, and I eagerly proposed my idea:
"Then can we try it tonight?"
"You mean..."
"Yes, I'm planning to stay up all night." I declared with a sense of sacrifice.
"..." Qi Chen paused, remaining silent for a while, but ultimately nodded in agreement with my plan:
"Well, it's worth a shot."
Perhaps feeling that staying up all night was inherently unhealthy, Qi Chen's previously dark expression softened slightly. He stood up and said to me:
"Then you'll have to bear with it tonight. It's still early before the mall opens, so why don't you take a nap here? Otherwise, I'm afraid you won't last through the night."
Take a nap here...
I instinctively recalled the feel of Qi Chen's chest muscles, and my face flushed bright red.
"Ah, um... no, that's not necessary..."
"I'll sleep in the living room," Qi Chen said, ignoring my protests as he went back to his bedroom to retrieve his pillow and blanket, setting them up on the sofa.
"Hurry up, it's almost dawn," he said to me with an unusually gentle expression.
This gentleness lasted until he stood downstairs at the girls' dormitory waiting for Bai Yueguang to return.
I was wearing the floral dress he had bought at the mall that morning, awkwardly smiling at him as I said,
“Qi Chen, can you give me your payment code? I’ll transfer you the money for the dress.”
He glanced at me with little interest while holding onto his white moonlight.
“You can just transfer it to me on WeChat.”
At his words, I froze, my hand gripping the phone trembling slightly, yet my strong desire to survive made me insist,
“Um… I think I’ll just scan yours. It’s hard to find you among all my friends…”
So Qi Chen took out his phone, tapping a few times on the screen while I maintained a polite yet awkward smile. Then he suddenly looked up.
“Xia, Chen, Xi.”
Qi Chen gritted his teeth, emphasizing each word.
“You deleted me?”
Oh no…
“What to do, everyone? I’m online and anxious.”
I admit that at first, my desire to add Qi Chen on WeChat was purely because… I was captivated by his looks.
The first time I met Qi Chen was on a sunny spring afternoon.
People often describe love at first sight in the most romantic terms.
For example, “Meeting you dazzled my entire youth,” “My heart sinks for you, only beating for you from now on,” “The moment I saw you, I heard God say: You can’t escape.”
As someone who had been single for twenty years, I originally scoffed at such words.
Until that day when I saw him through the glass window of a cat café.
He wore the simplest white shirt and jeans, carrying a space capsule-style pet bag as he walked in through the door.
In an instant, a cheesy line popped into my mind:
"That day, the Camellia was blooming beautifully, and you just happened to wear a white shirt that I like. Mom, I've fallen in love."
During the time spent petting the cat, I was completely distracted, my heart and eyes filled with thoughts of him.
I dared not look directly at him, only sneaking glances.
I overheard him chatting with the cat café owner, learning that he lived nearby and often came to bathe his pet cat.
It was a snow-white Persian cat, and his slender fingers gently groomed its fur.
My hand trembled as I accidentally pulled out a tuft of fur from the Ragdoll cat in my arms.
Help! I'm not usually one to be captivated by hands, but this man was simply too mesmerizing!
My inner groundhog was screaming in excitement.
The Ragdoll cat seemed displeased with my rough handling; with a "meow," it darted away.
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