Wang Chao felt that he wasn’t being childish at all, but he can’t allow Xie Zhuxing and Ji Jie to get too buddy-buddy…or at least have a closer relationship than he and Xie Zhuxing did. He said eloquently, “We met first. They’re all outsiders. Outsiders, you understand? Don’t think that just because other people call you ‘Ge’, it means you’re close friends.s. Have they eaten hotpot with you before? Have you drunk with them before? Have you touched fake boobs with them before?”
Xie Zhuxing couldn’t continue listening “What do you mean together? Only you touched, I watched.”
“I don’t care. Anyway, they’re not as close as I am with you.”
Xie Zhuxing didn’t pay any attention to him as he sat on the floor with his back to him. He started unpacking his things from the suitcase.
Wang Chao wasn’t happy. “Did you hear me?” He asked.
Xie Zhuxing didn’t want to offend him, so he replied, ” Closest, closest, you’re the closest to me.”
Wang Chao was satisfied. He sat on the side of the bed and took out a massage hammer from God knows where. He hit his thigh with it and said, “Honey, when you finish organizing, do mine too. I’m too lazy to put my stuff away. My arms and legs hurt.”
Everyone else had come to train and learn, but he felt like he had come to babysit a child.
And the child was lazy, stupid, and shameless.
His roommates in the other rooms were very excited, After all, they had just changed their environment and gotten new roommates. He could hear the faint laughter coming from the other rooms.
Wang Chao also felt that this was very refreshing. After he finished his shower, he circled around and took a selfie.
Xie Zhuxing was chatting with his mom on WeChat. He told her that he had just moved and asked about his dad’s minor surgery. After she told him that everything was going well, he subconsciously let out a smile.
Wang Chao finally felt that he had taken enough selfies and turned around just in time to see him smile. He asked, “Who are you talking to? Why are you so happy? Your girlfriend?
Out of all the things he could have said, he just had to say that. Xie Zhuxing’s good mood suddenly dispersed. “No, with my mom,” he answered.
Wang Chao mentioned again, “How about your girlfriend? Don’t you two live together? You moved here, so is she living alone?”
Xie ZHuxing didn’t want to talk about his private matters. “She found a new place to move into.”
Wang Chao didn’t continue that topic. He took off his shoes and laid on the bed, happily stretching. “I’ve never slept with a guy before, have you?”
“…What?” Xie Zhuxing said.
Wang Chao continued, “I used to sleep with my big bro when I was seven or eight, but then I peed myself. He beat me up then never slept together with me again.”
“You’ve never lived in a dormitory before?”
“Nah, never. The conditions were so bad, and I could never get along with the guys. They never liked me.”
Xie Zhuxing thought, It would be weirder if they like you.
Wang Chao continued, “I get along with girls fine, but the guys…ever since I was young, there’s only been a few I could get along well with. I had one close male friend in college…ugh, whatever. He wasn’t a good one anyway.”
Xie Zhuxing thought again, Do you think you’re a good one?
Wang Chao turned over and laid on the bed, looking at him with a skewed expression. He said brainlessly, “I think you’re pretty good.”
Wang Chao didn’t say anything else and turned his face to the other side. “I’m gonna go to sleep.”
Xie Zhuxing sent his mom one final message, closed the lights, and laid down too.
Before he fell asleep, he gave Wang Chao a detailed comment mentally. He’s a child who’s been spoiled rotten, and has a pesky mouth. He’s inconsiderate of other people’s feelings, but he doesn’t hold any malicious intent. In some ways, he’s still somewhat pure..
He didn’t know what made him view Wang Chao differently. He doesn’t even know his background. He could only see that his family was really rich.
There’s no harm that would come out of maintaining a good relationship with this guy.
These thoughts circulated in his mind for a few hours before looking at Wang Chao, who was lying lazily on the bed.
He had just come back from his morning run. He took a shower and saw that it was about time. So, he began to call for Wang Chao to wake up. He kept on calling him, but even when the other four members had got up one after another and finished washing, Wang Chao was still sleeping on the bed like a dead pig.
“The company’s car is about to come,” Xie Zhuxing called again. “If you don’t wake up, you’ll be late.”
Wang Chao’s eyes were still closed as he pulled up the quilt and covered his head.
Xie Zhuxing had been calling him the whole morning. He was already a bit annoyed as he reached out and ripped his quilt away.
Wang Chao was only wearing a pair of white undershorts. He groaned a few times, but it was unclear if he was awake or not. Soon, he was silent again.
The phone in the living room rang and Cheng Yao answered it. He called from the outside, “The car’s here! Let’s go!”
Wang Chao laid there motionlessly.
Xie Zhuxing was getting irritated now. He’d never seen an adult who would laze in bed to this extent. It wouldn’t be right for him to leave without Wang Chao, but everyone else had left already, so why couldn’t he?
He stood at the bedside for a few seconds and said something that even made him feel disgusted. “If you don’t get up right now, I won’t be close with you anymore. I’ll go room with Ji Jie.”
As he finished talking, he acted like he was going to walk away.
Wang Chao immediately rolled down from the bed and yelled, “You dare!”
“I’llgetup, I’llgetup. I’ll get up, okay?”
He complained as he got dressed. “You’re even more annoying than my brother. Just saying it once is enough, why do you have to say it 800 times? My ears were almost calloused by your yelling….Where are my pants?”
Xie Zhuxing picked up his pants from the ground and asked suspiciously, “You’ll get up if your brother calls you once?”
“If I don’t wake up when he calls me once, he’ll kick me. Look, this was from when he kicked me yesterday.”
He turned around and pulled down his underwear a bit, showing Xie Zhuxing the bruise on his buttcheek.
Xie Zhuxing thought, …Who wants to look at his butt?
Finally, after much trouble and nagging, the six of them walked out. They were silent as the elevator went down, no one speaking a word. But even the slow Wang Chao knew that these people held some grudges towards him.
He was pretty unsatisfied. So what if he woke up late? But he didn’t want to cause trouble, so he stood closer to Xie Zhuxing.
Once they got downstairs, Xie Zhuxing apologized to the driver of the SUV.
The driver laughed, and he didn’t seem upset or anything. He got off the driver’s seat to help them open the door. It was probably because Duan Yikun had warned him beforehand.
Wang Chao didn’t care about the others. He got in the car first and sat in the fourth seat of the last row.
The other members got on and sat in the front.
Xie Zhuxing went to the last row, there were only three seats remaining from the eight.
The drive to the company was only about ten minutes, but because of traffic, there was constant stopping on the road. As a result, they wasted about half an hour.
Wang Chao laid in the last row, his head resting on Xie Zhuxing’s leg. He slept for another half an hour.
Day after day, in the blink of an eye, a week has passed for the month-long training.
Wang Chao had adapted to the dance class. Although he was still a beginner and he couldn’t dance very well, at least he didn’t cry when he was stretching now.
But he still couldn’t get rid of his laziness. Every morning, he needed Xie Zhuxing to keep on urging him to wake up. When he was in class, whenever the teacher was not looking, he would start to slack off. And he would try to get Xie Zhuxing to slack off with him.
Duan Yikun would often come and watch them in class. He would always see Xie Zhuxing dancing seriously while Wang Chao followed him blindly. Xie Zhuxing would practice singing, and Wang Chao would sit beside him and open his mouth without making any sound. When Xie Zhuxing was practicing his fingering on stringed instruments, Wang Chao would be laying on his shoulder, drooling in his sleep.
…But this had already surpassed Duan Yikun’s expectations for him. At least he wasn’t skipping class.
Class ended a bit early today. They were let go before 8 o’clock. Everyone got ready to get in the car to go back.
But Wang Chao didn’t get on the bus. He said, “You all go first. I have to go home and get something.”
The driver said, “How about I drop you off? I heard that your house isn’t far anyway.”
“No need, my car is parked in the parking lot.”
Everyone else got in the car, and just as Xie Zhuxing was about to get on, he pulled on him and said, “Don’t go. Come with me.”
Xie Zhuxing didn’t want to go to his house, so he tried to find an excuse. “I don’t want to. I have to video call my mom at eight.”
Wang Chao hooked onto his shoulder, not letting him go. “Where can’t you video call? The WiFi signal at my house is good.”
Xie Zhuxing could only wave to everyone and said, “You guys go first.”
Who knew that Wang Chao would drive to the bar.
“Didn’t you say you’re going to go home?” Xie Zhuxing said. “This is your home?”
Wang Chao said complacently, “This is about half my home.”
“If Kun-ge finds out, he’s going to scold you.”
“Whatever, it’s not like being scolded hurts or anything. I haven’t seen a girl in so many days, and I’ve been staying around you guys for so long. If I don’t come out and play I just might turn gay.”
He undid his seatbelt and said, “You go play by yourself. I’m going to go back.”
Wang Chao held onto him and said, “I know you’re very loyal to your girlfriend. Just think of it as coming out for a few drinks.”
Wang Chao grinned, “Then you don’t have to. This way I don’t have to call for a driver later, it’ll save me some trouble.”
He held onto Xie Zhuxing’s arm as he swung it around, “Xiao Xie, good Xiao Xie, just stay with me. It’s so boring by myself.”
Good Xiao Xie had no choice but to go in with him.
It could be said that this type of messy environment fitted his personality perfectly. One glance, and you could tell that he was stupid and one-track-minded. As soon as he sat down, he attracted a few heavy makeup-covered faces in low-cut suspender skirts.
Wang Chao teased one of the girls he thought was the most pleasing to the eye. The others left when they saw that they had no chance.
Xie Zhuxing didn’t drink. He ordered a cup of lemonade, took a piece of watermelon, and started eating.
Wang Chao and the girl flirted with each other for a while, and he said something next to the girl’s ear, causing her to laugh and gently hit him.
Wang Chao said to Xie Zhuxing, “You sit here, order whatever you want. I’ll be back in a bit.”
Wang Chao held onto the girl’s waist, and the two walked out of the bar.
Xie Zhuxing thought he was going to buy something for the girl to make her happy, but in the end, after almost an hour, he still hadn’t come back.
He didn’t want to wait anymore. He called the waiter over to settle the bill, getting ready to go back by himself.
Just as he was walking out of the bar, he saw Wang Chao come back. The light near the entrance was especially bright. His face was red as he asked, “Where are you going?”
“Where did you go? It’s almost eleven. We have to go back.”
Xie Zhuxing stopped him and said, “I’ve already paid. Let’s go.”
Wang Chao held onto his shoulder and said with a smile, “I’ll treat you to something good tomorrow.”