CH 25

Following Qiao Luo’s expectations, Fu Zhi Zhou stayed to accompany him for the entire winter holiday. He would take him to eat snacks, watch movies and go to the arcade.

But in reality, on the first day of Fu Zhi Zhou’s return for the holidays, he caught Qiao Luo and stuffed him into the study room, forcing him to do his holiday homework.

Qiao Luo’s full day of dating checklist had turned into tons of worksheets. His entire being resembled a little seedling that had been extremely dehydrated. The little branches and stem were slumped down in nearly a close circle. He asked Fu Zhi Zhou, “Where’s the date you promised?”

Between the promised date stood a mountain of questions and an ocean of papers. Fu Zhi Zhou explained geometry and trigonometry in great detail for him, then stared him down as Qiao Luo spent the entire afternoon trying to memorise the ‘principle of universal connection’.

Afterwards, when Qiao Luo smelt the ink from the papers, he almost felt like puking. He accusingly looked at Fu Zhi Zhou and said, “My first love is too bitter.”

Studying required a combination of work and rest. Fu Zhi Zhou looked at the progress and then at the time. He stretched out a hand and hugged his tormented, pitiful little boyfriend into his arms. And just like magic, he fished out two movie tickets, “I’ll take you to the movies tomorrow.”

In order to go out to the cinema with Fu Zhi Zhou for a date, Qiao Luo woke up early in the morning and stood at his closet, eyeing his clothes with a stink eye. He resolutely refused to wear down jackets. He must wear a mature and handsome woolen coat.

As a result, before he even left the house, he received Fu Zhi Zhou’s call, “Your Brother Pang Zi and Brother Zhao Zi are back. They want to go for a drive and invited you to come along. Wanna go?”

Qiao Luo was very disappointed and lost. He mumbled as he fiddled with his very cool woolen coat, “Wanna go… but…”

He was almost in tears. He had to first wait for a whole week, then did a full day of homework, so how come they still couldn’t go on a date?!

He pouted and complained in a small voice, “But you promised that you’ll bring me to the movies.”

Fu Zhi Zhou, “Buy another 2 tickets and we can all go together.”

Qiao Luo was anxious, “I want to watch it with you! Only the two of us!”

From the phone came Fu Zhi Zhou’s laughter, no longer teasing him, “Come out quickly. I’ve already changed the timing to a night movie. Just us two, not letting them sit in.”

Qiao Luo put down his shamelessness of wanting to show off his good looks and changed into a down jacket before leaving the house. He crawled into the front passenger seat, pulling a long face, with an appearance of an angry man, “Let’s go.”

Fu Zhi Zhou did not start the car. He reached out and patted Qiao Luo’s head, asking, “Not happy? Did you forget something?”

Qiao Luo refused to let him pat, dodging Fu Zhi Zhou’s hand. Leaned towards the window, he grumbled, “I’m close to forgetting you.”

Fu Zhi Zhou released his seat belt and leaned all the way, cornering Qiao Luo, “So angry? Then are you still going to give me a kiss?”

Qiao Luo fastened his seat belt. After lamenting for a while, his face turned red as he said in a soft voice, “Gi… give you.”

Before they left, Qiao Luo was kissed into a befuddled state by Fu Zhi Zhou. He felt as if he had turned into Fu Zhi Zhou’s scent. The little unhappy spot in his heart followed the air in his lungs, getting sucked away by Fu Zhi Zhou, then followed along the entanglement of the collision of the lips and teeth, diving straight into the sweet honeyed juice.

They agreed to have lunch together and just like a couple of years ago, they still chose to dine at their favourite KFC store.

When Fu Zhi Zhou and Qiao Luo arrived, the people inside had already ordered 3 large buckets of chicken.

When Qiao Luo saw them, he continued to use the same address he used to call them since young, “Brother Xiao Pang, Brother Zhao Zi.”

Brother Xiao Pang1 could not be called Brother Xiao Pang anymore. He had slimmed down a lot since high school and shot up in height. If it wasn’t for his signature black rimmed glasses, Qiao Luo would have nearly been unable to recognise him.

Because Fu Zhi Zhou hadn’t returned for winter break, the others had also stayed in school or went to play during their holidays, so Qiao Luo hadn’t seen them for quite a few years. When he was young, he used to always play together with them. They actually had a pretty good relationship. When Qiao Luo saw them, he forgot all about the little fact that he and Fu Zhi Zhou couldn’t go on a date alone.

Zhao Zi loved to joke around. The moment he saw Qiao Luo, he immediately went to order another plate of the new dessert, then passed Qiao Luo the uneaten one. He turned to ask Fu Zhi Zhou carrying the memories of nostalgia, “You still bring this little tail with you wherever you go? I still thought that once he grew up, he wouldn’t care about you. So now does he still need your permission to eat cold desserts?”

Fu Zhi Zhou took the ice cream cone and held it for Qiao Luo, “Eat something before eating cold desserts.”

Qiao Luo picked up an egg tart obediently and saw an elder sister walking over while carrying a few pies. Pang Zi stood up immediately to receive the items, letting the lady sit beside him before boasting, “Come come come, I’ll solemnly introduce you. This is my girlfriend.”

He stickily and bossily cut a few pies for his girlfriend, “I’ve introduced Zhao Zi just now. That is Fu Zhi Zhou, one of my iron-clad brothers in middle school. There’s another Yu Zi Heng who’s in the faraway USA and hasn’t returned yet. If there’s a chance in the future, I’ll introduce him to you. Next up is the little handsome brother at the side. He’s Fu Zhi Zhou’s little tail, a temporary member of our F42.”

The two parties greeted each other. Zhao Zi asked Fu Zhi Zhou in an extremely unwilling tone, “Handsome fellow, have you shed your single dog status? I would never have imagined that the previous damned little fattie would actually leave the solo band earlier than me!”

Fu Zhi Zhou calmly fed Qiao Luo a mouthful of ice cream and bumped Qiao Luo’s leg under the table. He smiled, “Zhao, you are the only single dog on this table.”

Zhao Zi blanked out with wide eyes for 3 seconds. Pang Zi was the first to react, “That’s not right, you lack so much in brotherhood. I brought my girlfriend over and immediately introduced her to you guys. You’d better call out the person quickly.”

Fu Zhi Zhou fed Qiao Luo another spoonful of ice cream. He was afraid that his tummy would hurt during this winter season, so he ate the remaining bit. Then, he pulled Qiao Luo’s chair nearer to himself, “We’ll speak again when there’s a chance in the future.”

Zhao Zi was attacked. He reacted half a beat slower and struggled to say, “What do you mean I’m the only single dog? Little tail, do you have a girlfriend too?”

Qiao Luo was currently taking advantage to sneakily rub against the front of Fu Zhi Zhou when the topic suddenly landed on his head. He nearly choked to death on his hamburger. It’s true that he dated early, but it’s also true that he didn’t have a girlfriend. Yet, he wasn’t willing to deny it.

He did shed his single status. His boyfriend was tall and handsome, right next to him.

Fu Zhi Zhou wiped the chicken oil stain at the side of Qiao Luo’s mouth, helping him out of this encirclement, “We’ll introduce them to you next round.”

As the only single dog, Zhao Zi joined in the enthusiasm, more passionate and lively than anyone else, “When is the next round? How ‘bout we book a time tomorrow?”

When Pang Zi was in high school, he had never received a love letter before and even frequently helped girls to pass Zhao Zi and Fu Zhi Zhou love letters. Finding him in the pits, Fu Zhi Zhou pitied his brother. Changing his address of Pang Zi, he gave Pang Zi lots of face, not wanting to steal the chance of being the protagonist today from the other, “Today’s protagonist is Handsome Pang. Quickly ask him how he chased sister-in-law. As for me…… Wait till summer vacation. We’ll travel overseas and I’ll bring the one in my family3.”

The instant Pang Zi was called Handsome Pang, he was so touched he immediately raised a cup of large coca cola to cheers Fu Zhi Zhou, “Good brother! Qiao Luo will go too, everyone brings their families!”

Qiao Luo’s face blushed red. He secretly took a big gulp of coke to cool down. Then, he was hugged by the shoulder by the incomparably natural Fu Zhi Zhou, and heard him say, “Okay, we’ll all go.”

Shi Si’s note: Silly Zhao, not only are you the only single dog on the table, you’re even the only light bulb.

T/N: This FZZ ISNT EVEN TRYNA HIDE IT

Editor: Musk

same meaning as ‘fat’

to those who don’t know, F4 is actually a small group of 4 popular handsome men from the show secret garden (china) or boys over flower (japan and korea)

aka his partne
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