"Senior, hello. My name is Sikong Ting."
"Senior, could you take me on your research project?"
"Senior, drink less alcohol..."
"Senior?"
"Senior!"
"Senior... I like you."
How fortunate I am to have met you in my most beautiful youth.
How fortunate I am to have stroked the corners of your eyes and gently kissed the tips of your hair. Everything about you is the most dazzling rainbow in my youth.
This is a campus side story in two parts. Enjoy!
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Yinghua University of Science and Technology.
Sikong Ting entered this unfamiliar campus with a high score of 631 in the college entrance examination.
It was a season still carrying a bit of the lingering warmth of summer.
Sikong Ting was carrying a heavy suitcase when he saw the man exuding a gentle glow at the school gate.
Perhaps it was just a fleeting glance in the crowd, or perhaps it was predestined in the dark. From then on, his eyes seemed to be firmly locked on that man by some strange force.
"Hello. Are you a new junior?"
The handsome man walked over first, grinned at him, showing his white teeth, and reached out his hand. "What's your major?"
"… I… International Finance." Sikong Ting stared at his face as if he was mesmerized.
Love at first sight was just like this.
The man smiled in surprise. "What a coincidence! You're in the same major as me. My name is Qin Huaiqiu. You can call me Senior Qin."
"Senior Qin." Sikong Ting smiled too.
He had always known his sexual orientation.
Yes, he was gay. He realized this when he was just entering the ignorant stage of puberty. He didn't like women. Compared with females, the masculinity of men was more attractive to him.
But unfortunately, he had never been in a relationship.
Now, looking at the person in front of him,
it seemed as if a warm current had been injected into his heart.
He knew that something had taken root deep in his heart, then broken through the ground and slowly sprouted.
"This is your dormitory. It's a new dormitory building. It's a single room with an independent bathroom." Qin Huaiqiu put down the heavy suitcase in his hand, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and smiled at Sikong Ting. "You're quite lucky. The school is going to enroll more postgraduate students this time, so they built this new dormitory building. Originally, you undergraduates weren't eligible to live here, but since it would be empty anyway, the school decided to allocate it to you."
Sikong Ting looked at this single room which was not very luxurious but well-equipped and cozy. He felt quite happy and asked, "Where's Senior's dormitory?"
"You're asking about mine?" Qin Huaiqiu smiled. "Well, I'm not that lucky. I live in the old dormitory building. But since we're in the same major, I live next door to you."
Qin Huaiqiu walked to the window and pointed at a building that seemed to have been there for some time and could be seen from the window. "See? That's the building."
Sikong Ting walked over and took a look. "So I live so close to Senior."
Qin Huaiqiu nodded. "Don't worry, junior. Since you've just come to this school, if you have any questions, you can come to me at any time. By the way, junior, do you have any student organizations you want to join? I'm in the New Media Department. Are you interested in new media?"
Sikong Ting's eyes lit up. "I'm interested!"
In fact, it wasn't that he was really interested. He just wanted to find more opportunities to get in touch with this person in front of him.
They exchanged WeChat accounts. Then, after some coaxing from Sikong Ting, he dragged Qin Huaiqiu to visit the whole campus.
He managed to get closer to the other person on his first day at school.
"Senior, can I call you brother?" Sikong Ting suddenly said.
Qin Huaiqiu was a bit stunned. "Well, although I am indeed older than you, why did you suddenly say that?"
Sikong Ting looked up into the distance. "My home is in a very far - away city. I've never seen much of the world since I was a child. This time, coming here to study is the farthest I've ever been away from home alone. But I'm really lucky to meet Senior on the first day. I think Senior is so gentle to me, just like my real brother..."
He looked at him. "Is that okay, Senior..."
Sikong Ting's eyes sparkled in the sunlight. Somehow, Qin Huaiqiu nodded.
The relationship between the two was deliberately and forcefully taken a big step closer by Sikong Ting.
Sikong Ting was very happy. He knew exactly what he was doing and what he wanted.
He wanted him. He wanted to chase him.
He wanted his body and soul to belong entirely to him.
So from then on, Sikong Ting clung to Qin Huaiqiu.
Although Qin Huaiqiu was only one year older than him, they had many opportunities to take the same public courses.
Every time there was a public course, Sikong Ting would arrive early to occupy a seat, buy breakfast, and then send him a WeChat message:
Brother, have you left the dormitory? I've bought your favorite sauce - meat buns and fried dough sticks. You can just come to the classroom.
Gradually, Qin Huaiqiu, who often liked to stay in bed, now had a junior who could reserve a seat for him and also had a junior who knew his taste preferences.
The way Sikong Ting called him "brother" made him feel weak in the knees.
"Really... you've worked so hard." In another public course, Qin Huaiqiu rushed into the classroom just in time, sat next to Sikong Ting, scratched his head and said, "Alas, I always have to trouble you to reserve a seat and buy breakfast for me in every public course. I'm such a poor senior..."
"Brother, what are you talking about?" Sikong Ting deliberately pretended to be angry, pouted and said, "I reserve a seat and buy breakfast for brother because I want to do these things for you. Brother doesn't need to feel any pressure."
"But..."
"But what?" Sikong Ting chuckled and waved the breakfast he had bought. "Today it's also your favorite meat - floss cakes and chocolate milk."
Qin Huaiqiu looked at him, feeling warm inside.
"Sikong Ting, you..." For no reason, Qin Huaiqiu felt that something soft and dense had filled a corner of his heart.
"There's an opera gala at the Western Suburb Square tonight." Sikong Ting looked at the news push on his phone and casually asked, "Brother, don't you always like classical literature? Do you want to go?"
Qin Huaiqiu's eyes lit up as he ate his breakfast. "Really?"
"It's organized by the Cultural Bureau. This show should be grand!"
"Wow." Qin Huaiqiu leaned over to look at the poster on Sikong Ting's phone and exclaimed, "There are so many participating guests? It's a pity that I just found out about this. If the show is tonight, it's impossible to buy tickets now, right?"
Sikong Ting suddenly smiled, leaned close to Qin Huaiqiu's ear, and his warm lips were almost touching his earlobe.
"I've already bought the tickets. I knew brother would definitely like it."
Sikong Ting's eyes were as bright as stars.
"I know all of brother's preferences."