Chapter 106, Spring Break

time flies.

In a trance, Zhuo felt as if Ling would take it for granted to stay by his side, knocking on the door in the morning to say "Dinner is ready", asking himself every day "What do you want to eat today", etc.... But in fact, they have only known each other for less than a year.

Despite this, the way they get along seems to have been the same for many years.

Maybe this is what they call congeniality.

One is too lazy to talk.

A quiet person.

We don't interfere too much and we breathe the same air, but I don't feel awkward at all. Instead, I feel comfortable and at ease.

The troublesome thing is that Zhuo already has a feeling of not wanting to let go.

"Men's possessiveness."

Zhuo knew very clearly where this emotion of his came from and why it occurred.

If I were to say that I fell in love with Zero, neither he nor Zero had that kind of passion and eagerness to fall in love with each other.

But to his friends, Zhuo's possessiveness seemed abrupt.

After realizing this, Zhuo was a little overwhelmed.

If this continues, and I continue to get used to Zero's existence, what will he become when the house is empty one day in the future?
I'm afraid there's no way back.

But there is no way to point it out—that’s called excessive self-consciousness.

Although Ling personally said that she didn't hate spending time with him and even expressed some good intentions, Zhuo didn't think so and it couldn't be out of romantic feelings.

No one knew the experience between Lu Mingze and Ling better than him.

Moreover, there was no sign of love in their relationship.

So if you express the wrong thing, it will make future relationships very awkward.

Having said that, life still has to go on.

Time is still speeding up.

Soon it was late March.

3 month 21 day.

The school started its spring break.

春假的时间是3月21日~4月10日，一共20天。

Zero still comes here every day as usual and stays here all day. After it gets completely dark, she will leave before Utsunomiya Shuo gets sleepy.

The timing is very good every time.

I really don't know how she did it.

After all, even Zhuo himself didn’t know when he would feel sleepy.

But Ling just knew.

The spring break is neither long nor short. It is worth mentioning that Zhuo’s family finally bought a TV... and also got a PS3 and the latest game controller as a gift.

That day, Zhuo went to the supermarket to swipe his card to buy groceries, and the shopping guide pulled him aside and said: He won a prize.

Zhuo was thinking: I haven’t even spent anything yet, how come I won the prize?

The shopping guide said: If I say you won the prize, then you won the prize. You are the 32nd customer who walked in with the right foot today. Congratulations on winning the prize.

Zhuo said: Okay, since you said you won the prize, then you won the prize.

The store then delivered the TV to the house and kindly helped to install it... and then was stopped by Zero.

In the end, Zero installed it himself.

She said she didn't like other people's traces.

"..."

It's a very subtle reason.

That night, Zhuo and Ling had nothing to do, so they turned off the lights and sat on the sofa to watch a horror movie.

In fact, Zhuo doesn’t like watching horror movies. To be honest, he is a little scared.

He has caught up with the time travel and dragon thing, maybe there really is something fishy going on! Right?

But Neon’s evening show is so professional.

As soon as it gets dark, there are always ambiguous variety shows (this is already a polite way of saying it), adult movies, adult anime, or horror movies... all of which are impossible to watch during the day but impossible to avoid at night. There is no choice at all.

The movie opens.

At the beginning, it was always the same. Zhuo could even guess who would die first from the girls' lines.

However, if the sudden scream, accompanied by music and unexpected horror scenes, appear together, it will still be scary.

This is the body's normal stress response.

"It is indeed the body's stress response," Ling said, sitting upright with his eyes fixed on the screen, but his expression did not change from beginning to end: "...Can you put your legs off me?"

"Uh."

Zhuo touched his nose and stepped back silently.

It was all because of the scary background music that he couldn't help but jump towards Zero.

"We are all brothers, we are all brothers~"

Zhuo patted Ling's arm, signaling her not to worry about it, as they were all brothers.

Zero said nothing.

To her, horror movies are no different from other movies. She just watches them when she is bored...

So when she saw that Utsunomiya Shuo was really frightened by this thing, she was still a little speechless.

The movie was not finished.

Because when the program was halfway through, there was a loud thunder and the power went out.

The vision turned dark in an instant.

This time Zhuo was very calm and didn't even blink.

Being scared by a horror movie is just because the atmosphere is well rendered, and ugly things suddenly pop up... No one can stand it.

Zero is half reptile, so doesn't count.

But a power outage, or thunder?
Haha, sorry, he will just sleep better.

The weather this week was very bad, probably because of the coming of the rainy season. It was said that the air pressure caused the power outage. Anyway, the rain never stopped... In a few years, an animated film called "Weathering with You" was made because of the rainy season.

There is indeed a continuous thunderstorm outside at the moment, but I didn't expect it to cause a power outage.

It is said that the power should be turned off on rainy days.

But after surviving for so many years, this is the first time that the power was cut off due to a thunderstorm.

Fortunately, except for the TV, all other electrical appliances in the house are unplugged, so there should be no problem, but other electrical appliances must be checked tomorrow.

"Ah... I lost halfway through reading. This is the most annoying thing. Is your phone nearby? Use it to illuminate the room first."

Because Ling still has to go back, if there is a power outage, the elevator will probably not be usable, so he needs to use the mobile phone for lighting.

But he asked but received no response.

"……zero?"

Still no response.

Zhuo was not worried that anything would happen to Ling, because they were very close to each other, so close that he could smell the scent of shower gel on Ling's body.

But there is no reaction... Is there a leak?

After he took out his cell phone from his pocket, turned on the built-in flashlight on the phone, and pointed the light at the ceiling.

Zero happened to speak.

"...I'm fine."

There was still thunder outside and the rain was crackling, but the house was exceptionally quiet.

The rear light of the mobile phone faintly illuminated the outline and structure of the house. Ling was still sitting steadily in the original position, his cheek facing him, his face calm, and his eyes calm.

It's like a murky lake under the moonlight, reflecting no light.

Scary calm.

Especially cool and cold.

As if there was a wall between us.

(End of this chapter)