Chapter 71
Liu Yuda looked up in surprise, looking towards the entrance of the playground. Indeed, he saw a tall and slender figure, exuding a cold and anxious aura.
“Damn!” The call had already been hung up. Liu Yuda exclaimed in surprise, “Is that guy really going to find Cheng Xuyuan?!”
Gu Juncheng stood outside the playground, looking through the protective net at the camouflage uniforms inside. He frowned slightly, thinking that he probably wouldn’t be able to find anyone for a while.
However, when his gaze touched the crowd, he recognized the unique boy almost instantly, as if by magic.
Gu Juncheng’s heartbeat began to accelerate rapidly. He felt his breath was like a gale, the sound of which was deafening. Everything in the world became blurry, and the camouflage uniforms became an illusory background.
All that was left was the boy’s soft black hair, obsidian-like eyes, light-colored thin lips, and fair neck.
Gu Juncheng felt his heart was about to jump out of his chest.
When he saw the person he had been thinking about day and night for more than two years, his first thought was fear.
He was afraid that all of this was fake.
Cheng Xuyuan was discussing with Qi Zimo about what drinks to buy later, and also cared about his physical condition. When he spoke, he had a slight smile, which made the girls around him blush and their hearts beat faster.
Some people noticed Gu Juncheng at the entrance of the playground, and their eyes were filled with curiosity.
Gu Juncheng’s eyes were fixed on Cheng Xuyuan. When he suddenly saw the gay-looking boy next to him holding his arm, he could no longer bear the jealousy in his heart. He strode forward and blocked their way.
Cheng Xuyuan was taken aback and looked up at the other person.
When he met those narrow and handsome eyes, Cheng Xuyuan’s heartbeat suddenly missed a beat. His eyes contained too many emotions, such as regret, joy… and timidity.
Qi Zimo noticed him and asked in surprise, “Senior, is there something wrong?”
“I came to find him.” Gu Juncheng looked at Cheng Xuyuan, his tone hiding a tremble, even if he tried to cover it up, it still showed.
Cheng Xuyuan had already determined that the other party was the male protagonist of “The Pen God”. He should have met him before as an external plug-in. He blinked and said to him, “Do you know me?”
A hint of surprise flashed in Gu Juncheng’s eyes, followed by a touch of sadness. But he carefully looked at the other person’s face, almost certain that he was the Pen God from back then.
In this world, no one else would have such beautiful eyes.
Qi Zimo felt the subtle atmosphere between the two and whispered in Cheng Xuyuan’s ear, “Then I’ll go first.”
After Qi Zimo left, Gu Juncheng’s expression became a bit cold. He asked, “Was that guy just now your boyfriend?”
“Huh?” If someone else asked this question, Cheng Xuyuan would probably be angry. But the boy in front of him didn’t make him feel any negative emotions. “No, he’s my roommate. He and I…”
“Do you miss me?”
Gu Juncheng interrupted Cheng Xuyuan’s words in a low voice, making his face stunned.
After a while, Cheng Xuyuan said, “I don’t know you…”
“You’re lying.” Gu Juncheng looked straight into Cheng Xuyuan’s eyes. “How could I not recognize you? You are the Pen God, aren’t you?”
“No.” Cheng Xuyuan answered truthfully. Not to mention that his memory had been erased by the main god, his current identity was just an ordinary college freshman.
There was a hint of doubt in Gu Juncheng’s eyes. He clenched his fist tightly and then loosened it. His voice carried a touch of grievance, “Do you really… not recognize me at all?”
Looking at his downcast eyes, Cheng Xuyuan felt a pang of guilt, as if he were looking at a large pet dog that had been abandoned by its owner. Perhaps the impression this world had left on him was too profound, and he had never forgotten the protagonist of this world in his subconscious.
“I don’t know…” Cheng Xuyuan looked at his dim eyes and said with a heartache, “But we can get to know each other now.”
Gu Juncheng stared at him blankly.
“My name is Cheng Xuyuan, from the Software Engineering Class 2.” Cheng Xuyuan slightly hooked up the corner of his mouth. His faint smile made Gu Juncheng forget to react for a moment.
“You, you’re not the Pen God, are you?” Gu Juncheng looked at him disappointedly, then regained his calm, “I’m sorry, you just look too much like a friend I used to have, so…”
“It’s okay.” Cheng Xuyuan said understandingly, “From now on, we are friends.”
Gu Juncheng stared at his eyes for a while longer. After confirming that he really regarded him as a stranger, he said calmly, “Hmm, having more friends is not bad.”
At this moment, Liu Yuda, who had been observing them for a while, walked up to Gu Juncheng and said, “I thought something was wrong, but it turns out you recognized the wrong person.”
Cheng Xuyuan waved at them, “Then I’ll go eat first, see you seniors.”
After Cheng Xuyuan left, Liu Yuda looked at Gu Juncheng’s unusually lost eyes and comforted him nonchalantly, “It’s just a case of mistaken identity, why are you so upset?”
Gu Juncheng shook his head and didn’t say anything more.
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A gloomy mood had been hanging over Gu Juncheng. For the next half month, he remained silent and never went to find the boy named Cheng Xuyuan again.
Even though he looked a lot like the Pen God, if he wasn’t him, it didn’t matter how similar they looked.
Having had hope and then lost it, Gu Juncheng experienced the feeling of going from heaven to hell. During this period, he often dreamed of the Pen God returning to his side, but when he woke up, he remembered clearly that the Pen God was really gone.
His roommates all noticed Gu Juncheng’s low spirits and tried to cheer him up and distract him.
Peng Yuan said, “The military training ended today. The freshmen should have some kind of class gathering. Don’t you guys plan to go and socialize?”
Liu Yuda glanced at Gu Juncheng and deliberately said, “I’m the freshman class assistant, I definitely have to go. If you guys want to have fun, you can come along. After all, we are all direct seniors.”
Zhang Yongbo immediately understood their intention. They wanted Gu Juncheng to relax at the freshman gathering. So he also followed and said, “I heard that Juncheng is already recognized by the junior girls as the school’s most handsome guy. Why not let him go?”
Gu Juncheng was editing a planning case on his computer and said without lifting his eyes, “I don’t have time.”
“Don’t you want to see the freshman who is even better looking than you?” Peng Yuan said in a teasing tone.
If he hadn’t said anything, it would have been fine. But with that remark, the pressure around Gu Juncheng became even lower, and the gloomy atmosphere almost made it hard for people to breathe.
Liu Yuda hurriedly smoothed things over, “That Cheng Xuyuan is not as good looking as Gu Juncheng. Don’t compare the two of them anymore. Last time I saw in the group that some fujoshi paired them up, isn’t that nonsense!”
“Huh?” Zhang Yongbo was inexperienced and didn’t know they could be paired up, “Do they know each other? How did they get paired up?”
Liu Yuda, looking like he had seen and known a lot, said to him, “This you don’t understand. That group of fujoshi has a very rich imagination. Seeing that Gu Juncheng and Cheng Xuyuan are handsome, they said the two of them are locked.”
Peng Yuan curiously asked, “What does ‘locked’ mean?”
“‘Locked’ means letting the two of them be together.” Zhang Yongbo indicated that he still understood a bit.
At this moment, Gu Juncheng’s eyes suddenly lit up.
His fingers uncontrollably hit the keyboard hard, and clear fragments of some memories flashed through his mind.
The memory brought up the sightseeing tower in Nancheng.
That night of dazzling fireworks, the Pen God and he stood together in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the sightseeing tower. They breathed on the glass and wrote down the three letters “CXY”.
At that time, Gu Juncheng had asked him in confusion, “What do these three letters mean?”
The Pen God arrogantly told him, “My name. Of course, the name of a god cannot be casually told to mortals.”
And he wrote “GJC” behind the three letters “CXY”, and laughed at the Pen God, “Locked.”
CXY and GJC, locked.
“Liu Yuda,” Gu Juncheng suddenly looked up at his roommate, his voice carrying a hint of excitement that was hard to detect, “Can you repeat the name of that freshman?”
“Huh?” Liu Yuda was startled and took a moment to react, “Oh, you mean the one who looks like your friend? His name is Cheng Xuyuan.”
Cheng Xuyuan, isn’t the abbreviation CXY?!
Gu Juncheng abruptly stood up from his chair. His large movements drew the attention of the entire dormitory. He asked Liu Yuda, “Where is their gathering now?”
Liu Yuda flipped through the group chat records and replied, “It seems… they are playing games on the lawn of the sports field.”
Playing games on the lawn of the sports field is something almost every college freshman will experience. It’s also the first time everyone gets to interact through games after enrollment.
The students of Software Engineering Class 2 had just arrived at the sports field. Everyone had been tanned quite a bit by the scorching sun during military training, except for Cheng Xuyuan, who was still as fair as ever, standing out in the crowd.
The class monitor had everyone form a circle and stood in the middle to distribute snacks and drinks to everyone. There were many bright lampposts around the sports field, providing enough light for them to play games together.
“Let’s play the game of ‘Blind Man’s Elephant’,” the class monitor suggested to everyone, “The rule is to blindfold one person, then touch the person next to them. If they can guess who they touched, they win; if they guess wrong, they have to continue.”
This game tests everyone’s familiarity with each other. Everyone said the difficulty was too high, so the class monitor took the opportunity to let everyone get to know each other again, which is also a way to promote camaraderie among classmates.
About ten minutes later, the game officially began.
The first blindfolded girl cleverly caught Cheng Xuyuan. After touching his cheek a few times, she blushed and said, “Is it Cheng Xuyuan?”
“It’s too easy to guess, his skin is so good!”
“Just by touching his nose, you can guess it. His nose is so high!”
“The smallest face in the class, it was exposed in an instant.”
Everyone said it was too simple. Cheng Xuyuan’s face was like a living sign, you could guess it just by touching it casually.
Cheng Xuyuan touched his own face, wondering in his heart: Is it really that obvious?
He followed the rules of the game and put on the blindfold.
The surrounding sounds began to become clear.
There were footsteps approaching.
Cheng Xuyuan’s lips slightly curved up, waiting for the footsteps to come to him. He turned around and directly grabbed the other person’s arm.
“Hold on, let me guess.” Cheng Xuyuan curiously stretched out his hand, compared the other person’s height, “…You’re taller than me, do we have someone this tall in our class?”
The other person didn’t speak, letting his fingers wander over their body.
Cheng Xuyuan directly reached out to touch the other person’s face, his movements gentle and careful.
For some reason, no one spoke.
After touching for a long time, Cheng Xuyuan really couldn’t guess, so he had to say, “Well, I don’t have the ability to recognize people by touching their faces…” Saying that, he prepared to turn around to find someone else.
The next second, a hand forcefully grabbed his shoulder, forcing him to turn around.
Then, the other person hugged his waist, brought him close, and domineeringly took off the blindfold.
This action was full of possessiveness, as if what was taken off was not a blindfold, but the veil of a bride in ancient times.
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Author’s Note:
The graduation thesis is making people bald = =
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