Strawberry Pop Pop Pop chapter 73
Zhang Jie stopped, and Liang Xie’s voice trembled as he urged, “Let’s go!”
He didn’t want to hear Su Li’s blame and questioning, let alone see Su Li’s disgusted and contemptuous expression. He had deceived Su Li, but he genuinely liked him.
He knew he didn’t deserve love, and he didn’t deserve someone as good as Su Li. So initially, he had wanted to reject Su Li. But he couldn’t bear it. He was afraid that if he rejected Su Li, they would become strangers.
Liang Xie’s body trembled, even though it was summertime, he felt cold.
“Let’s go!” he said again.
He was so anxious that he forgot that his wheelchair was smart and electric, and he didn’t need Zhang Jie’s help to leave. Perhaps subconsciously, Liang Xie was still hoping for something unrealistic.
Zhang Jie had to continue moving forward.
Su Li became anxious and stopped Zhang Jie, but he felt it was inappropriate and quickly let go. He stammered, “Sorry!” Then he said to Liang Xie, “Don’t leave! Can you… can you wait for me?” He ran to the ticket counter and pointed at Liang Xie while saying to the staff, “Is the seat next to him still available?”
The staff replied, “Yes, but sir, this is a disabled seat. You need to show some identification, and this movie has already started for ten minutes.”
“I don’t have any identification… then, how about the closest seat to him?” Su Li was afraid that Liang Xie would leave and kept glancing back.
Fortunately, Liang Xie didn’t insist on leaving.
Su Li paid for the ticket and got one. He walked back to Liang Xie, held the ticket with two fingers, and raised it, saying, “Hello, Liang Xie, I’m Su Li. I was wrong today; I tricked you into coming, I’m sorry! But can you… can you not be angry and watch the movie with me?”
Liang Xie didn’t understand what Su Li was doing.
Su Li gritted his teeth and said with determination, “This is our first date; can you say something?”
Liang Xie, bewildered, looked at him.
“Is it a date?”
“After falling in love, watching a movie together, isn’t that a date?” Su Li muttered, feeling embarrassed. He glanced at Liang Xie’s handsome face and felt shy; his heart was pounding.
He saw Liang Xie lower his head, and after a while, he finally responded, his voice hoarse, “A… date?”
“Yeah, a date after falling in love. Isn’t it?” Su Li mumbled, feeling quite embarrassed. He took a peek at Liang Xie’s handsome face and couldn’t help but smile. “I’m very, very happy to see you! You don’t know how much I wanted to see you…”
Su Li smiled. In the eyes of others, he might be ordinary, but at this moment, in Liang Xie’s eyes, he was a unique presence.
Concerned about Liang Xie’s arm, which wasn’t injured, Su Li said, “Is your hand okay?”
“It’s fine, just a minor scrape,” Liang Xie replied numbly, taking a while to come to terms with the situation. “You…”
Liang Xie closed his eyes for a moment and then looked at Su Li in disbelief. When he opened his mouth, his voice trembled, “Don’t… you mind me like this?”
“Why would I?” Su Li answered quickly and firmly. His eyes were still a bit dry from crying earlier thinking that Liang Xie avoided meeting him because he didn’t like him, now that he saw that wasn’t the case he felt relieved.
Caught up in the moment, Liang Xie didn’t know how to react and just stared at him.
Su Li thought Liang Xie didn’t want to continue, so he said cautiously, “If you don’t want to watch the movie, can we just sit and chat for a while? Twenty minutes… ten minutes?”
five minutes?”
“…”
Su Li felt embarrassed being stared at by Liang Xie. He thought he might die of embarrassment and could hardly speak. He forced a couple of awkward laughs and explained, “I look better in videos than in person. Unlike handsome guys like you, who are even better in person. You’re much better-looking in person, hahaha.”
After laughing, he wanted to find a hole to hide in.
Since it was already getting late, they didn’t watch another movie.
Liang Xie hailed a taxi to take Su Li back home, and they both sat in the back seat.
When they arrived at the entrance of Su Li’s residential complex, Su Li bid farewell reluctantly. He repeatedly asked Liang Xie to promise, “You can’t avoid seeing me in the future. If you can’t go out, I can come to your place, and I’ll bring you some delicious food. Anyway, I just want to see you.”
Liang Xie couldn’t help but smile, making the corner of his mouth curl up. He reassured Su Li and shared his address.
Su Li took a closer look and exclaimed, “Isn’t this that super high-end apartment building in the city center?”
He remembered that for Gu Nuan’s 18th birthday, Ji Mu and Gu Yuanchen had gifted him an apartment on one of the floors in that building. Su Li wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling like he was surrounded by wealthy people everywhere.
“If you plan on visiting, let me know in advance. I’ll have Zhang Jie take you for facial recognition and fingerprint scans. Otherwise, it might be inconvenient for you in the future.”
“Okay!”
Su Li was excited, hesitating to get out of the car. It was only after the driver urged him that he finally opened the car door. After a moment, he turned back, blushing, and quickly leaned over to kiss Liang Xie’s cheek.
Then he pretended to be calm, got out of the car, and stammered, “See you… next time. When you get home, let me know… please.”
Liang Xie was taken aback but responded, “Ah, ……okay.”
Both of them were stuttering.
That night, Su Li called Gu Nuan multiple times to express his gratitude.
He also told Gu Nuan about his date with great enthusiasm, “Starting from today, you can bother me with stories of your love life for 1-2 hours every day and I’ll happily accept it!”
Gu Nuan declined politely, saying, “Whenever I have time.”
“What’s wrong with you?”
“I’ll be spending time with my brother every day from now on, so I won’t have time to talk to you about these things.” Gu Nuan was lying on Han Yang’s bed, flipping through a book. The sound of running water from Han Yang’s shower could be heard. He said with contentment, “If you really want to hear it, we can talk for a few minutes now.”
Su Li hung up the phone as if his life depended on it.
Gu Nuan was teasing Su Li on purpose, and he couldn’t help but laugh when he saw the call ended notification from Su Li. Unfortunately, he was spotted by Han Yang.
“Why are you laughing so happily?”
“It’s Su Li; he met his online boyfriend today.” Gu Nuan put away his book, rolled onto Han Yang’s bed, and lay on his stomach. He propped his chin with one hand and said, “I used to think he had met a scammer, but now it seems like I was too worried. That guy, Liang Xie, is Su Li’s boyfriend. He avoided meeting Su Li previously because of his leg problems.”
Perhaps Su Li hadn’t explained clearly, and Gu Nuan thought Liang Xie’s leg issues were just temporary injuries.
But when Han Yang heard the name Liang Xie, he suddenly paused and asked, “Liang Xie?”
“Do you know him?”
“Do you have a picture of him?”
Gu Nuan took out his phone and showed Han Yang the video screenshot Su Li had sent him, skipping over Su Li’s countless exclamations about how handsome Liang Xie was. He asked, “Do you know him, brother?”
Han Yang replied with certainty, “He’s Lao Liang’s twin brother.”
Gu Nuan perked up his ears.
Han Yang reached out and ruffled Gu Nuan’s hair. “It’s a small world. Well, at least Su Li won’t be bugging you every day.”
“Why, are you jealous of me and Su Li?” Gu Nuan nestled in Han Yang’s arms and said, “You’ve been like this since we were kids.”
Han Yang didn’t explain further.
But if Gu Nuan had paid attention back then, he would have realized that Su Li was the one at fault. Once because of a childhood incident when he knocked over Gu Nuan, he almost got beaten up by Han Yang and has been holding a grudge ever since.
He knew that Han Yang cared about Gu Nuan and disliked him, so he would often playfully hold Gu Nuan’s hand and kiss his cheek, then proudly smile at Han Yang when it was done, as if taunting him, “Can you do this? You can’t, can you?”
Even in the fifth grade, when Su Li still didn’t fully understand what love was, he purposely went to Gu house, found the perfect opportunity when Gu Nuan went to the bathroom, and said to Han Yang, “Do you know how wonderful love between two Omegas is?”
He acted like he wasn’t afraid of anything when he was a child!
Four years older than him, Han Yang didn’t say a word after hearing this. He simply took away the cake that Aunt Xu had brought for Su Li and didn’t let Su Li have a single bite.
Such annoying incidents continued until Su Li and Gu Nuan entered junior high, attending different schools, and things finally settled down.
Whenever Han Yang thought about these past events, he couldn’t help but frown.
For him, Su Li was really quite terrible.