Yu and Nuo, like many couples, moved in together during their junior year.
Although Yu had come out to his family long ago, none of his college friends knew. So, the two of them decided to come out to their friends at a specific time.
Upon knowing this news, their friends had varied reactions, but there was a common curiosity: how did these two completely opposite personalities get along?
At that time, Yu and Nuo did not provide an answer to this, they just smiled.
In Yu's post, he expressed:
— Being with this person makes the ordinary moments in life feel tangible. Holding hands in the sunlight, the silent comfort of coffee and tea, embracing each other after meals. Time can stretch like this, into eternity. I can imagine our old age together, just like it is now.
All the arrogance that seemed visible at first glance was just to give tenderness to one person. Both of them had been softened by the passage of time.
After living together, Nuo's slightly flouncy became fully exposed.
One day.
"Yu, I want Luosifen for dinner."
" My Little Prince, can you smell this room? The smell of Luosifen from yesterday is still lingering!"
They had been eating Luosifen for three days.
"So I got craving for it." Nuo's gaze slid towards the cabinet where a box of Luosifen was kept. "Just tell me if you want to eat it or not."
"Eat, eat, eat!" Yu leaned close to Nuo's ear, his breath tickling him, "We'll have Luosifen for dinner, and I'll have you for dessert tonight."
Nuo blushed, not so politely kicking Yu on the waist, "Go cook the noodles!"
After integrating each other into their lives, Yu's hidden tenderness was even greater than what Nuo had imagined.
During the last autumn of their student life, Nuo fell victim to the seasonal flu. It happened just two days before Yu's subjective law examination and a month before Nuo's Advanced High School Teacher Qualification examination.
The night before Yu's exam, Nuo, citing the need for flu patients to be briefly separated from exam candidates, kicked Yu out of their apartment with only the master bedroom and asked him to stay in a hotel.
That same night, Nuo's flu suddenly worsened, causing nausea, vomiting, and a high fever, he managed to find some fever-reducing medicine in a daze before passing out.
When he woke up, it was the middle of the night the next day, in a hospital room.
Staring at him with a deathly pale face and bloodshot eyes was the incredibly gentle Yu.
"Who am I?" Yu held his hand, rubbing his thumb repeatedly in his palm.
Being thirsty for too long, Nuo's throat was parched.
"Yu."
A kiss landed on his forehead, as if measuring his temperature. Then Yu whispered in his ear, "You scared me to death." His voice was trembling.
"I wanna drink." Nuo was out of strength, "I'm hungry."
Fortunately, the seasonal flu did not develop into pneumonia.
Yu stayed by Nuo's side in the hospital for two days, not leaving for a moment, and even asked a nutritionist cousin from Qianlin to prepare meals for him.
During a break when the head nurse came to change his medication, she chatted with him, "Young man, when you were brought to the hospital, this handsome guy had a bluish face, exuding coldness, colder than the outside temperature, scaring off a few rookie interns who dared not approach. Later, you were always by his side, with eyes full of tenderness and self-blame, making even a 40-something aunt like me feel touched."
Listening to the head nurse's words, Nuo looked at Yu, seeing him awkwardly staring at the white wall, not knowing what to do with his hands, muttering defensively, "I didn't do anything."
In fact, just thinking about the night when he vomited in the bathroom, splashing it on the floor without cleaning up, and making a mess of the medicine cabinet, Yu would be very anxious when he returned home. Moreover, Yu called him dozens of times the next day, but he didn't answer.
Before the head nurse left, she told them, "I really should have my wife come and learn how to care for someone."
Yu and Nuo looked into each other's eyes and smiled.
Upon discharge, Nuo wanted to express his affection to Yu, but found it too cheesy to articulate in person, so he sent a text message instead, it writes "Yu is the surname I love the most, gentleness is exclusively for you, let's consider it common knowledge."
Receiving the text message, Yu smiled, took Nuo's hand, and softly whispered in his ear, "Gentleness is the essence of your love for me, you are the one I love most."