Chapter 84

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Hai Xiu nodded in agreement, yet felt too lazy to move. Therefore, Feng Fei asked, “Want me to carry you over?”

“No need!” Hai Xiu hurriedly stood up, running away while hugging his clothes with a reddened face. dqjEMe

Feng Fei got up from the bed, washed his hands before purposely knocking on the door as he passed by the bathroom, frightening Hai Xiu that he shivered.

Feng Fei chuckled and asked, “You forgot to lock the door again?”

The unnerved Hai Xiu spoke from within the bathroom, “It…It’s not like we have guests here.”

Feng Fei’s heart fired up again after hearing this from Hai Xiu. Wanting to lay around with him again, he knocked on the door twice before stating, “Open the door.” gFcu7

Inside the bathroom, Hai Xiu felt embarrassed to the point where smoke was about to come out of his ears. He tightly grasped the shower head before asking, “Why…Why should I?”

“I wanna see you ah.” Feng Fei leaned against the other side of the door and smiled. “Come on, you open the door for me now.”

At that moment, Hai Xiu had the urge to squeeze and hide himself inside the toilet tank. Why does Feng Fei like bullying him so much!

Feng Fei waited outside the door for a bit; following the shadow cast over the steamy fog inside the windowsill, he found that Hai Xiu was really coming over. Smiling, he lightly knocked on the door again and said, “I wanna go play with you, so quickly finish your shower. Don’t catch a cold.” GrTYKy

Feng Fei then went downstairs.

Since it was already after midnight, Feng Fei wanted to have a midnight snack. Remembering what Hai Xiu had for dinner a few hours ago, he thought that the other might be hungry as well.

Feng Fei headed towards the kitchen and flipped through the cookbook that he had bought along with his tutoring books earlier. He found an easy recipe from within the book, and followed the recipe to a T.

By the time Hai Xiu had finished washing up and came downstairs, Feng Fei had already finished preparing the midnight snack. LdQuJr

Hai Xiu’s nose moved when he smelled the food and asked as he approached Feng Fei, “Did you order take-out? It’s already this late…were there still people delivering food?”

“What take-out! I made this myself!” Feng Fei flipped open the mini steamer, placed a potholder on his hand, before carrying out a small porcelain bowl from inside.

The dish that Feng Fei made was steamed egg with shrimp. The egg was steamed until it was soft and fluffy while mixing in a generous amount of shrimp. A layer of sliced shiitake mushrooms and chives were sprinkled on top of the steamed egg, making the dish smell very fragrant.

Hai Xiu’s saliva was about to fall from his lips. dWE5OK

Feng Fei took a porcelain spoon and gave it to Hai Xiu, stating, “Here. Have a taste. It’s my first time cooking this dish.”

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“It really is my first time, otherwise I would’ve tried something more complicated.” Feng Fei arrogantly stated, “Has there ever been anything where I didn’t do well when I tried?“

Hai Xiu praised him again and again, and continued to feed Feng Fei. The two of them fed each other in turn, and soon half a bowl had been finished. Hai Xiu had really been hungry. After eating a bowl of hot steamed eggs, he was filled with satisfaction. 

“When did you learn how to cook? I haven’t seen you practicing any….”

Feng Fei smiled and said, “I bought the recipe book way before, but didn’t ever have a chance to read it, but I got the chance to practice now.” 9t6xD

Hai Xiu blinked, and Feng Fei explained, “Didn’t I tell you before? When we graduate from high school and go to college, we can move out and live together. When that happens, I’ll cook for you every day.”

Hai Xiu was taken aback. He and Feng Fei were not officially together at the time. Even though Feng Fei hadn’t said it casually, he didn’t dare to take it seriously.

But Feng Fei obviously didn’t take the previous promise as a joke. He laughed and said, “I’ll take it step by step and learn a few home-cooked dishes. I want to learn something you love to eat, and save it for a night when you’re hungry to make it.”

Hai Xiu felt the steamed egg in his mouth become extra sweet. adUho8

Hai Xiu whispered, “I can also learn…we can come back and cook together.”

“You?” Feng Fei smiled. “All you need to do is wait for me to serve you delicious food.”

After thinking about it, Hai Xiu felt more and more excited. Although they were also living together now, it could only be regarded as borrowing their parent’s place. If they moved out to live together, it would be more like…cohabiting.

When that happens, Hai Xiu could move all his belongings in and put it together with Feng Fei’s, they were just like a small family. ugsvL4

He couldn’t be happier.

Feng Fei thought even further than Hai Xiu. He started to plan out loud, “We should find a suitable place and see if we should rent or buy…Before my parents left, they left me some money. I asked my mother if–after going to university–I can buy a house near the university; my mother said that I could buy the place if the location as well as the price is right.”

Feng Fei calculated. “When the final grades come out and the college applications are finalized, I will go check out the houses…My eldest brother is good at this. When the time comes, we can ask him. Let’s choose a suitable place and go early, then we’ll have time to decorate and tidy up, so as not to make any mistakes.”

Hai Xiu was so moved he didn’t know what to say. jywKXS

Feng Fei squeezed his hand and said, “I’ll listen to you on how we should decorate, and what we’ll buy at home, and how we’ll arrange the furniture. When we’re done, we can ask my mother to come visit us…if she sees that we’ve cleaned up the house well, she’ll be sure of my commitment.”

Hai Xiu nodded vigorously.

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Feng Fei smiled, secretly planning…it was about time for the big reveal with his parents.

Feng Fei had to take care of all these things before they started university, so when school started in the future…they will be greeted with a new, fresh life. 4EJgU2

“Are you still going to eat more? Just leave it and go to sleep if you’re full.” Feng Fei got up.

Hai Xiu hurriedly insisted, “I’ll eat, I’ll eat…”

Hai Xiu finished all the dishes that were left and went to wash the plates again.

Feng Fei watched him clean up, then took him upstairs and lowered the temperature in the bedroom, put the blankets over them, and hugged him to sleep. 4u3BXY

While they were waiting for the results, the two did not travel, but chose instead to stay in the city and snuggle together every day.

The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the two would enjoy their couple time at home during the day, and at night when the weather was cooler, would go out again—to eat dinner, walk along the streets, and go shopping.

When they got tired from shopping, they would go to the dessert shop to rest while they ate, or go to the cinema to watch a movie. Hai Xiu could now sit next to strangers naturally, but Feng Fei still couldn’t change his previous habits. When they went to the cinema, Feng Fei would also buy the seats surrounding theirs—front, rear, left and right—regardless of Hai Xiu’s efforts to persuade him not to.

Once, they met a curious ticket seller who asked Feng Fei why the two people bought so many tickets. Feng Fei’s nonsense spouting ability immediately emerged. “Domestic animation is not easy! Look at this cinema’s movie lineup–it’s all crowded by Hollywood films. I can’t bear to see it! Supporting the domestic box office more is what each of us Chinese movie viewers should do.” wJhHMB

The ticket sales girl was so moved that she immediately filled an entire bucket with popcorn and presented it to Feng Fei. Feng Fei handed the popcorn to Hai Xiu, who was stunned. He didn’t forget to educate him. “Are you gonna be rude and not say thank you?”

Hai Xiu regained his senses and hurriedly thanked the ticket sales girl. Feng Fei raised his eyes slightly. With a smile on his face, and holding a stack of tickets, he pulled Hai Xiu inside the theater.

After entering the room, Feng Fei—who claimed to be desperate to support domestic movies—had his eyes all over Hai Xiu. He thought that watching Hai Xiu was more interesting than watching movies.

After coming out of the theater, Feng Fei didn’t even know who the protagonist of the movie was just now. jd1tfT

After watching a movie in the evening, it was already a little late, and was a good time to have supper. During this time, Feng Fei and Hai Xiu patronized the famous late-night snack shops nearby.

After supper, if they were sleepy, they would go home directly; if not, the two would take a stroll along the streets for a while, enjoying the tranquility and coolness of the summer night.

During these days, as they waited for the results, the two of them did not have any anxiety, and tried to enjoy all the fun they had given up during their preparation for the exam.

Feng Fei would also ask his friends if there were any new restaurants whose food tasted good or had a novel theme, and then he would take Hai Xiu to try them one by one. eX3JfP

Feng Fei had always felt that he owed Hai Xiu a little. After dating for a whole year, he had never taken him to relax and enjoy their relationship’s honeymoon period, so he surprised Hai Xiu every day–whether it be the movie premiere ticket that had suddenly appeared in Hai Xiu’s wallet, or the cute gift box placed by the bed. Feng Fei even put a flower gift box with a card written in advance at the door, so that Hai Xiu would see it when he got home….

Through these days, Hai Xiu felt that the air around him was suffused with sweetness.

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Feng Xuan came to the house to get some things and got a glimpse of Feng Fei’s coaxing methods. Seeing it for himself made Feng Xuan sigh with emotion; Feng Fei’s expertise had come out of the blue in this regard—he was even better than Feng Shizuo and Feng Xuan himself. Honestly though, it wasn’t that surprising. When Feng Fei was a child, he watched his parents love each other every day, then he grew up and watched his elder brother and sister-in-law spreading dog food all day long. As for treating their lovers, he had been baptised with first hand examples ever since childhood. When it came to treating Hai Xiu…Feng Fei could show 100% patience and enthusiasm.

In front of Hai Xiu, Feng Xuan said with a smile, “If I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought you two had just gotten together.” Sp19rM

Feng Fei ridiculed, 

“Am I the type to only be sweet at the beginning? The longer the time, the better the relationship between us.”

Feng Xuan agreed with this point. Seeing Hai Xiu’s embarrassment at their conversation, he politely left first.

Before leaving, he saw a table full of papers on the coffee table in the living room. Feng Xuan glanced curiously and found that it was Hai Xiu’s analysis of Feng Fei’s results. According to Feng Fei’s approximated results, he listed the universities he should apply to in advance. PYIisw

For each university, Hai Xiu downloaded their information from the internet, and analyzed in detail their most popular majors and the proportion of talents in the field. Hai Xiu also recorded the specific address of each university, the location of each major, the area, the public facilities, the year and month of the establishment of the school…there was no detail that was left out–everything was recorded. Seeing this, the good intentions behind such an action could not be hidden.

Feng Fei followed Feng Xuan’s gaze and looked at the densely marked printing paper with a smile. 

“He has been tossing around for so many days now. I didn’t have the patience to watch it, so he just did it all by himself. I told him to wait until the results came out, but he wouldn’t listen to me. I’m afraid I’m not good at applying for colleges, so I have to prepare in advance…really, he is basically an expert on applying for the exams now, ask him anything, and he’ll definitely know the answer.”

Feng Xuan shook his head and smiled; he suddenly felt that he was just third wheeling, and left after a few more words. hgQFZ3

In this way, the two of them ate, drank, and played around, relaxing all the way until the night before the results came out.

Before the results came out, Hai Xiu was glued in front of the computer, refreshing it over and over again, repeatedly entering Feng Fei’s ID number.

“Don’t, don’t make trouble…” Hai Xiu was busy focusing on the screen of his computer. He entered his number at lightning speed before repeatedly hitting the search button over and over again.

Feng Fei saw what the other was doing and shook his head helplessly. “Why don’t you give it a rest? Stop searching for now. Come over and have some fruit.” kTw89n

Feng Fei pulled over his own gaokao entrance ticket, and couldn’t help but pull Hai Xiu along as well. Hai Xiu begged as he was pulled, “Just once more, one last time….”

Feng Fei had only allowed Hai Xiu to search for a few student numbers, so the latter had already memorized all the numbers a while ago. Without looking at the gaokao ticket, he typed in another student number at lightning speed. Feng Fei had to take control of his mouse, taking over for the other as he pressed the search button one last time.

Feng Fei hopelessly stood up, yet a second after the webpage refreshed, the examination results appeared.

Hai Xiu, “!” AlsOgP

Feng Fei almost fell onto the computer screen as he stared at the final total score located at the bottom of the screen: 622. He then moved up and saw Feng Fei’s name, ID card number, etc. appearing at the very top of the page, before looking over the entire page again and again, double and triple-checking that it was really Feng Fei, before excitedly grabbing Feng Fei with his hand as he shouted incoherently, “six hundred and twenty two! ！ 622 AH! ！ ！ ahahahahah! The minimum grade to get into the A list universities are all below 600 ahahahahahahah! I wanna jump out the window ahahahahah…”

Feng Fei laughed out loud as he grabbed the suicidal Hai Xiu and gave him an aggressive kiss, stating, “Don’t make trouble, let me check your grades too.”

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“Wait a second, wait a second…” Hai Xiu blocked the screen as he meticulously checked Feng Fei’s marks for each of the subject, before giving another surprised shout, “Your English grade is 141! AHAHAHAH how the f**k did you get such a high mark ahahahah….”

Feng Fei chuckled and replied, “I put in 150% of my attention on the gaokao at that time. Coincidentally, the questions in the exams this year were originally not that hard, I simply wrote down what you had me memorize in the writing section. It’s just lucky that the topic of the writing section matches what I’ve memorized…Okay okay, move it! Let me look at your grades!” BtzTPs

Hai Xiu had wanted to analyze the grades for Feng Fei’s other subjects, but the latter had already pulled him to the side and took over the computer before searching for Hai Xiu’s student number to find the other’s grades.

Since neither of them knew Hai Xiu’s results yet, even Feng Fei felt nervous to the point where his fingers trembled a little.

Most students knew that the results would come out today, so everyone had been accessing the same webpage, making the site a little slow. As the page started refreshing, Feng Fei nervously stared at the monitor. A few seconds later, the webpage showing Hai Xiu’s results finally appeared.

Student name: Hai Xiu. NAZsYk

Gender: Male.

Ethnicity: Han Chinese.

Total score: 722.

On that year’s gaokao exam, Hai Xiu’s total score exceeded Feng Fei’s by a total of 100, while also outscoring the country’s second place score by 17 points, making him the first science major first place holder in years. IbH4pB\n