Seizing Dreams [B1]

Ch 142.1

The moment they opened the door to their rented house, Yu Hao felt like he had withdrawn from one kind of life and returned to his long-lost past. Beyond the door was Beijing's world of ice and snow, while within it was the verdant Ying City, as well as the dense white fog of early winter. Zhou Sheng turned on the lights, and the warm light illuminated this three-room rented house.

The dining table, sofa, and even the tablecloth and shelves had never even been moved. The shelf with the coffee pot beside the dining table still looked just as it did the day Yu Hao left—after his departure, Fu Liqun and Zhou Sheng wouldn't make coffee at home, so it had just been left there like that for half a year.

"We're back." Zhou Sheng said.

"Finally back." Yu Hao felt like he had entered an illusion of returning home from a long journey. There was very little dust in the mountains, and he only needed to clean it a little before Chinese New Year's Eve. Fu Liqun put his bag down and said to Cen Shan, "Go take a bath first?"

Cen Shan uttered an "un" and said, "Rest for a while ba."

Most of Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng's clothes had been left here. Previously, the three of them had agreed to terminate their lease after graduation and let the lease last until June, just in case they still needed to stay here for a period of time to write their graduation thesis. Yu Hao tidied up simply, while Zhou Sheng went to open the fridge to look for some food.

At three o'clock late at night, Cen Shan moved a chair and sat in the bathroom to bathe Fu Liqun. Cen Shan was wearing clothes, but Fu Liqun was stark naked as he let her wipe his back. He sat with his head lowered, and his back facing the bathroom door. The bathroom door opened a crack, and the steam inside swirled in the air. Yu Hao heard them talking when he passed by and just found it amusing; when they were still staying in their dormitory, the three of them would see one another without any clothes on once in awhile, so it wasn't anything strange.

Yu Hao mixed hot water with milk powder and made four cups of the beverage. Zhou Sheng drank it, and soon after, the bathroom door closed. When Fu Liqun came out again, he had already shaved, and his hair was wet while he dried Cen Shan's long hair with a hair dryer. Cen Shan had changed into Fu Liqun's shirt, which hung loosely on her, and she stood barefoot outside the bathroom.

Fu Liqun was a lot paler now and was slightly slimmer too. Yet after tidying himself up, he had returned to his previous school hunk appearance. After Fu Liqun finished using the bathroom, he whistled at Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng to signal for them to bathe.

Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng laughed as they messed around in the bathroom. When Zhou Sheng was fighting, he had scraped the back of his hand and his elbow, so he stood while raising his hands. Yu Hao was naked as he bent over to help rub the area below his ribs and his abs, which tickled Zhou Sheng a lot. A moment later, he pressed Yu Hao again, and Yu Hao cried out from the bathroom.

"Two kids." Cen Shan was both crying and laughing.

"Don't get too excited." Zhou Sheng said, "Or else we won't be able to sleep later!"

"It's the holidays anyway, we don't need to go to work," Yu Hao answered, "We can sleep in. Yi, sis-in-law, that ear stud..."

Cen Shan had coiled up her hair today, revealing the ear studs she wore. Every time Yu Hao saw Cen Shan, she would have her hair down, so he could see her ear stud today particularly clearly today.

"Yeah." Cen Shan casually said, "I've always been wearing it."

It was nearly six o'clock after they were done. It was snowing in Ying City, and heating hadn't been turned on for nearly a month, so it was both humid and cold. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng hugged each other under the blanket to warm each other up, but he felt like this really was the most comfortable place in the world.