I Only Want You chapter 24
The name “Momo” had always been something only Yang Xiaole called him, and he had heard it countless times over the years.
But at this moment, listening to the deep and pleasing “Momo” in his ears, Yan Lan suddenly wanted to thank Yang Xiaole for giving him this nickname.
An intimate and affectionate nickname is undoubtedly one of the best ways to bring people closer. Yan Lan listened to Xie Yun Zhi calling him “Momo,” and at least for this moment, he felt that he was the person closest to him in the world.
The two immersed themselves in the warmth of this moment, completely forgetting that there was still a fourth person in the room.
Auntie came out of the kitchen and saw the two hugging each other, involuntarily exclaiming.
Startled, Yan Lan quickly let go and turned around, only to catch a glimpse of Auntie awkwardly retreating into the kitchen. It was so embarrassing that even the back of her head seemed to be embarrassed and wanted to find a hole to hide in.
Suppressing a chuckle, Xie Yun Zhi held Yan Lan’s hand and walked upstairs. As they walked, he said, “Auntie, prepare some late-night snacks for us.”
The next moment, from the kitchen, Auntie’s voice, which still carried a hint of panic, was heard.
Yan Lan, being led by him, reached Tiantian’s bedroom first. Tiantian was sitting on the floor, playing with LEGO.
He knew they had entered, but he didn’t lift his head, pretending not to know.
Xie Yun Zhi let go of Yan Lan’s hand, walked to him, and knelt on the carpet, negotiating with him: “Teacher played with you for a long time during the day. Now it’s time for Teacher and I to be together.”
Tiantian raised an eyebrow in confusion. “You want Teacher to play with you too?”
Xie Yun Zhi nodded.
Tiantian, full of suspicion, looked towards Yan Lan, not particularly willing. However, he remembered what Yan Lan told him during the day to be good to his uncle, so he reluctantly nodded in agreement.
Yan Lan smiled at Xie Yun Zhi, who had just finished negotiating with Tiantian. “Do you also want me to play LEGO with you?”
Xie Yun Zhi grabbed his wrist. “Forget about LEGO. I want you to do something else with me.”
Obediently, Yan Lan was led into the master bedroom. Xie Yun Zhi took off his suit jacket, turned around, and saw Yan Lan still standing near the door, not moving. He couldn’t help but smile. “Not coming in?”
Yan Lan, seemingly like a punished child, pressed his back against the door, watching as Xie Yun Zhi walked back to him. The deep eyes were tinged with a hint of tenderness. “A kiss?”
Yan Lan extended his hand, grabbed Xie Yun Zhi’s tie, and pulled him towards himself. At the same time, he slightly tilted his head to meet Xie Yun Zhi’s lips.
This kiss was a bit fierce. Xie Yun Zhi’s lower lip was nibbled by Yan Lan’s teeth, not bleeding but a bit painful.
Xie Yun Zhi deliberately made a pained sound, then felt something wet and soft soothingly brushing across his lower lip. He instinctively extended his tongue to play with it, mischievously pushing it back.
A long kiss left Yan Lan’s eyes moist, looking bright and shiny.
Xie Yun Zhi licked his slightly swollen lips, used his thumb to wipe the corner of Yan Lan’s mouth, and teased, “One more kiss?”
Yan Lan suddenly gave him a white-eyed look and waved away his hand. “Do you want to ask every time before kissing me in the future?”
“Okay, okay, I won’t ask anymore. I will kiss you whenever I want…”
In the end, Auntie prepared the late-night snacks for two people, but only one person went downstairs.
Xie Yun Zhi said, “place them in a tray, I’ll take it up to eat.”
Auntie didn’t dare to ask why it had to be taken upstairs. She found a tray and moved the late-night snacks on the dining table into it. Xie Yun Zhi took it and left, saying, “You go and check on Tiantian, make sure he doesn’t sleep too late.”
Auntie agreed.
Xie Yun Zhi returned to the bedroom, and because his lips were a bit swollen, Yan Lan, who was embarrassed to go out, was sitting cross-legged on the single sofa, not allowing Xie Yun Zhi to get too close.
“No worries. It actually looks okay. Get used to it after kissing a few more times, and it won’t swell.”
Yan Lan expressionlessly pulled open the collar of his pajamas, revealing the kiss marks he had left on him, giving a look that said, “What are you going to say about this?”
Xie Yun Zhi picked up a shrimp dumpling with his chopsticks and extended his arm to feed him. “I can apologize for this. When I kissed you, I did get a bit carried away, and I don’t know how it ended up on your neck.”
Yan Lan glanced at the shrimp dumpling on the chopsticks and bit into it.
Xie Yun Zhi retracted the chopsticks and continued, “If you have no classes in the future, come to my place.”
At this point, Yan Lan suddenly remembered something, took out his silent phone, which was on silent mode, and opened WeChat. He saw that he had four unread messages from Yang Xiaole, almost one every fifteen minutes.
[Momo?] [Hello, momo?] [Bearing a grudge.jpg] [Hmpph]Yan Lan felt a bit guilty and replied to him.
Yang Xiaole replied instantly.
[It’s okay, I understand. So, do you have time to tell me now?]Xie Yun Zhi glanced at his phone, seemingly casually asking, ” Your roommate?”
Yan Lan nodded and replied, keeping his phone away.
“Does he know about us?”
Yan Lan nodded again, opening his mouth to accept the shrimp dumpling fed to him.
Xie Yun Zhi replied as he fed him the shrimp dumpling, “okay.”
During the second half of Yan Lan’s eleven-day vacation, he stayed at Xie Yun Zhi’s house. Since Xie Yun Zhi couldn’t find time to stay with him and Tiantian every day, Yan Lan spent his days playing with Tiantian and switched to spending evenings with Xie Yun Zhi when he returned from work.
The uncle and nephew arranged their holiday time clearly, living harmoniously without disturbing each other.
Even the aunt got used to not seeing Yan Lan whenever Xie Yun Zhi came back. The next day, he would emerge from the guest room as if he had been there all along.
Time flew by, and the holiday seemed to end in the blink of an eye.
On the 8th, Yan Lan had a full day of classes from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., so on the night of the 7th, he packed his things, and Xie Yun Zhi drove him back to the art academy.
Before getting out of the car, without waiting for Xie Yun Zhi to say anything, Yan Lan turned his head, reached out, hooked his neck, and, disregarding the driver in the driver’s seat, gave him a peck on the lips.
Xie Yun Zhi replied, “Good night.”
Back in the dormitory, Yang Xiaole paused the ongoing TV series as soon as he saw him coming back, walked over to him, and opened his collar to check his neck.
Good, no traces of a kiss.
Then, Yang Xiaole cupped Yan Lan’s face in his hands.
Good, he looked happy.
After checking, Yang Xiaole turned around and went back to continue watching the TV series.
While opening his canvas bag and walking inside, Yan Lan took out three plastic lunch boxes and placed them next to him.
Yang Xiaole glanced at them and asked, “What is this? Is it for me?”
Yan Lan nodded.
Curious, Yang Xiaole opened the lunch boxes: one with boneless lemon chicken feet, one with crispy chicken, and one with honey-glazed chicken wings.
Yan Lan said, “I brought you a midnight snack.”
Yang Xiaole pouted, found his utensils, and said, “Well, I forgive you for leaving me in the dorm without a word, ignoring me completely.”
The complaint in his words was strong, and Yan Lan felt sorry but also amused.
They had been roommates for so many years, spending every holiday together. It was the first time Yan Lan had left him in the dorm for several days. It was normal for Yang Xiaole to feel resentful.
“I have a premonition that I will soon become a lonely person, guarding an empty room. I was thinking of finishing school, getting a job, and renting an apartment with you. Now it seems that it’s going to be shattered. No, it’s definitely shattered. After you graduate, Xie Yun Zhi will definitely ask you to move in with him.”
Yan Lan typed: It won’t be so fast. We can still live together, and we will always be good friends, irreplaceable good friends.
Holding a spoon, Yang Xiaole finished reading the message, raised an eyebrow with a sly smile, and, dispelling the resentment from earlier, said, “That’s right, I’m the legitimate boyfriend! Xie Yun Zhi, he’s just a concubine!”
Yan Lan found his words amusing and asked, “Can I tell him that?”
“Concubine Xie? Sure, go ahead.”
Amused, Yan Lan opened WeChat.
[From the words of Lele, he is the legitimate boyfriend, and you are the concubine.]At this moment, Xie Yun Zhi was probably still on the way, so he replied quickly.
[Whom does Emperor Momo love more?] [.] [Is it difficult to choose? Shouldn’t you decisively choose me?] [It’s like this; we adults don’t answer multiple-choice questions. We want everything.]After a few seconds.
[I miss you.]Yan Lan’s cheeks felt a bit warm.
[I miss you too.]Early the next morning, because there was a morning class at 8 a.m., and the professor would take attendance, Yan Lan, dragging a sleepy and exhausted Yang Xiaole, headed towards the classroom at 7:40.
“Coffee, I need coffee.”
Yan Lan led him to a vending machine, scanned the code, and bought two cans of coffee.
“I don’t want this.”
Yang Xiaole said disdainfully, but he still took it, opened the ring pull, and drank it reluctantly.
The two of them immersed themselves in the ocean of knowledge the whole morning.
Finally enduring until the end of the morning class, Yang Xiaole, whose upper body was almost collapsing on the desk, felt utterly exhausted.
“I can’t take it… sometimes I wonder why I’m pursuing a master’s degree…”
Laughing, Yan Lan lowered his head to tidy up his books and stationery. Since Yang Xiaole was too tired to move, he helped him tidy up as well.
After leaving the classroom, Yang Xiaole hung on him like a boneless creature, unwilling to walk properly. “I need to eat something good. At times like this, I need meat, junk food to save my soul.”
In the cafeteria, Yang Xiaole reluctantly perked up a bit. They both wanted different things to eat, so after leaving their bags to save seats, they went separately to buy their own lunch.
Yang Xiaole headed straight for steak and pasta, while Yan Lan lined up at the common dishes counter, which had both meat and vegetarian options.
Normally, Yan Lan frequented the cafeteria. Apart from the attention he received during the freshmen welcome party performance, where he hid in the dorm and ate instant noodles for those two days, he usually had his meals in the cafeteria.
In theory, no one should be too surprised to see him in the cafeteria.
However, for some reason that day, Yan Lan felt like there were more eyes on him than before, and he could always catch people looking at him and whispering.
This feeling was uncomfortable, and his face turned cold with displeasure. Suddenly, he didn’t feel like eating in the cafeteria and wanted to pack food and return to the dorm.
On the other side of the cafeteria, Yang Xiaole, playing with his phone while waiting for his meal, suddenly overheard two girls behind him talking about Yan Lan.
“Hey, look over there, isn’t that Yan Lan?”
“It seems like him… Can’t believe he dares to show up. Doesn’t he know yet?”
“Maybe not, after all, the post only came out late last night. If you hadn’t shown it to me this morning, I wouldn’t have known he’s actually being kept by several men at the same time. It’s disgusting. I really can’t believe he’s that kind of person.”
Yang Xiaole slowly lifted his face, and for a few seconds, his mind went blank, like a robot with rusty joints, turning stiffly.
“What are you talking about?”