Xu Qichen stood there, and this familiar and unfamiliar land seemed to suck his legs firmly, making him unable to take a step. He could only look at the man sitting on the bus station bench and his black and white eyes.

Xia Zhixu just said that he did all this just to feel the feeling of being loved by him.

What does this mean?

The truth came too suddenly, and Xu Qichen almost lost his most basic judgment ability.

He just felt his mind was very confused and didn't know what was going on.

Are you dreaming?

"I don't understand..." Xu Qichen frowned, his voice weak.

"I know you don't understand." Xia Zhixu smiled and pointed at himself in front of him. "You stood there when I first saw you. To be honest, I was so stupid when I was a child. Now, I think back and think about it. It turns out that I fell in love with you the first time I saw you, and I didn't even know it myself. I have accepted the basic rules of attracting each other since I was a child, which made me think I just want to be friends with you when I was moved."

Xu Qichen's heart moved, and his chest seemed to be a dry well that had been dry for a long time, and the sound of running water suddenly appeared.

He couldn't understand what he was saying.

At first glance, I fell in love with it...

Joy seemed to be separated from his consciousness. They inexplicably captured their own body and filled every cell. Before he could react, he fell into emotions.

But, how is this possible?

This is something he dared not think about.

"It's also in this place. You said that you never want to be friends with me again." Xia Zhixu took a deep breath, as if he wanted to try hard to get out of the painful memories. "Actually, do you know? I've thought about it a long time ago. Every minute and every second I'm with you, I'm struggling. Do you want to say it? Let's just say it out, but I'm too brave, and I'm afraid you'll run away if you take the wrong step."

He lowered his head and pretended to be relaxed, "I think, as long as you don't expose this layer of paper and rot those words in your stomach, I can at least occupy a relatively intimate identity, always accompany you, go to college with you, watch you realize your dreams, find someone you like, get married, have children, and when you are busy, I can still drive you to pick up your child from school. I really thought so at that time."

Xu Qichen's fingers began to tremble uncontrollably.

Xia Zhixu's voice was a little choked, "I can really hold it back, I can just be friends."

As long as you can stay by your side, your identity is not important at all.

I'm not that greedy.

"But God didn't even give me such a hope, and I would ruin everything while I was away." He wiped his face, stood up, and walked to Xu Qichen, only one step away.

He smiled at him, still the same way he was when he was young, his little tiger teeth shining in the sun.

His tone was very solemn.

"I am 25 years old this year. I have been living for two-fifths of my time. Rounding it all over my life. Originally, I wasn't going to tell you these words, and I didn't want to disturb your life. But since I met you at the last class reunion and talked to you for a while, I couldn't sleep all night. Even if I was so tired that I fell asleep, I was full of you in my dreams." He smiled mockingly, "I'm afraid that if I continue like this, I will get sick."

Looking at Xia Zhixu in front of him, Xu Qichen's heart seemed to be grabbed and it hurts so much.

He never thought that Xia Zhixu, who was looking up at everyone, would become like this for him.

"People always say that time can heal everything, and that's how everyone advises me."

He lowered his eyes and shook his head, "But I don't think that if so, then he is also a quack doctor. He used the wrong medicine to make me more and more helpless. I thought later that the reason why I became like this is perhaps because I have never gotten it before, because I was unwilling to accept it, so I wanted to borrow your consciousness. In just over ten minutes, I used these virtual characters to approach you and feel the feeling of falling in love with you. Even if it was fake, even if you just did the task, it was enough. I got what I wanted and could come out."

"But I was wrong." His voice became lower and lower, and the ease he pretended to be defeated. "From the beginning, I was wrong. People are greedy. Once they get it, they want to be a second time, don't want to end, and are not even satisfied with having you only in the virtual world."

"I finally understand that I have been suffering for so many years, not because I didn't want you, but because I just like you, I just want to be with you, I..."

He raised his head and looked at Xu Qichen.

"I love you."

Finally, after speaking out what he wanted to say for the past ten years, Xia Zhixu thought he would feel relieved.

But now he realized that he did not feel his wish at all, but began to feel nervous, as if he was still looking forward to something. After all, in so many virtual worlds, he got a lot, more than he thought.

just in case……

just in case.

Xu Qichen suddenly lowered his head and started to smile.

Smiling non-stop.

Xia Zhixu was a little confused. Is what he said just now very funny?

The uneasy mood became more and more intense.

"We are just a pair of fools."

Deaf and blind, and so stubborn.

After so many years of groping in the darkness, the person I was looking for was obviously each other.

Xu Qichen walked half a step closer.

His voice was choked.

"Hug me."

Xia Zhixu stood there in a daze, everything exceeded his expectations.

Does that happen if it really appears?

Xu Qichen raised his head and looked at his eyes with wet eyes. He stretched out his hand and pulled Xia Zhixu's arms.

"Hug me."

Xia Zhixu, who had been holding back his emotions, hugged him in his arms. He had a lot of things to say, but they were all stuck in his throat and could not say it.

Do you like me too?

Do you really like me?

How could you like me...

He buried his head between Xu Qichen's neck.

Xu Qichen's hand trembled slightly, and he hugged Xia Zhixu's back. He sniffed, his voice soft.

"You shouldn't know, Lin Ran, Mu Yao, Song Yuanyan, Su Lin, their prototypes are all you. I have never had a love experience and can't write a good love story. The only thing I can refer to is my feelings for you. However, I thought it would be impossible for me in my life, so the ending of each story is so miserable that I was so miserable that I was deceived into this ghost system by you. I think it was a punishment given to me by readers."

I felt that the person who was holding me had stiffened his body, and Xu Qichen rubbed his neck, "Rounded, I have only loved one in half of my life."

His breath gently lingers on his side neck, as if he is some kind of soothing.

"His name is Xia Zhixu."

Xia Zhixu's mind was blank for a moment.

He never thought that he had always played himself carefully.

"Hey, I didn't cry, why are you crying?" Xu Qichen patted his back and smiled softly, "I wouldn't tell you if I had known."

He is obviously 25 years old, but he still crys.

Xia Zhixu rubbed his shoulder, "What you said never counts."

It's really a grudge. Xu Qichen pushed him, "Then you just pretend you haven't heard of it."

"Impossible. If you don't admit it, I'll let 0901 call out the video for you to see. When you admit it, you will stop it." He laughed and showed his little tiger's teeth. "After you go back, you will tell me again."

This fool is crying and laughing.

Xu Qichen's ears were a little hot, and he lowered his head and smiled embarrassedly.

Suddenly I found that under my neckline there was a badge with the character Xia.

I flipped over the lapel and said three words on the nameplate.

Xia Zhixu.

"this……"

"This is my last little selfishness." Xia Zhixu covered his nameplate and smiled a little embarrassedly, "Stop looking." After saying that, he forced his hand to hold his hand, "Can you accompany me to a place before you go back?"

“Where to go?”

Xia Zhixu smiled, without saying a word, but led him into this campus where countless memories were stored.

It is empty and there is no one. They no longer have to worry about anyone's eyes or hide. Instead, they hold each other's hands openly, put down their past grudges and anxiety, and accept this place that has been kept in their hearts for too long.

"You made these?" Xu Qichen looked at Yinglin and the marble steps leaning into the school gate. Each of them coincided with his memory. "It's so magical."

"I've come back many times, and many places are different." Xia Zhixu sighed, "so I can only restore it with my memory."

Xu Qichen never went back to Jingjian once.

Although he knew that after he left, there were many clarification posts on the post bar and many people came out to help him explain, the experience of that month made him unable to muster up the courage to return to this place that once gave him a lot of warmth.

Before he knew it, Xia Zhixu took him downstairs of the teaching building, and he smiled and said, "Student Xu Qichen, we have to go back to class."

He seemed to be waiting for something, standing there, and after a few seconds, he shouted again, "0901, hurry up."

The voice of 0901 suddenly appeared: "Sorry, the audio failed just now, I fixed it."

"Stop talking nonsense..." Xia Zhixu cleared his throat and repeated again, "Student Xu Qichen, we want..."

The class ringtone suddenly rang, and the loudness completely covered up the half of his words.

Xu Qichen was amused by him and couldn't stand up straight. "I can't tell, you are still a formalist."

Xia Zhixu resisted the desire to clean up this stupid AI, "We will settle the account later..." He grabbed Xu Qichen's hand and pulled him to the fourth floor.
To be continued...