Hua Tong opened the door and came in. He first saw the luggage at the door, then with one glance saw the two people on the bed, one lying horizontally and one vertically, their faces close together, who knew what they were doing.

Hua Tong first stood in place blinking his eyes. When the person lying horizontally turned his head to look, Hua Tong immediately turned around, went out and closed the door, as if he had never returned.

"Scared silly." Qin Fang chuckled a couple times and crawled up from the bed. As Xing Yan just opened his eyes, Qin Fang tapped his finger on Xing Yan's brow and said, "Keep sleeping."

Qin Fang grabbed his phone. As soon as Hua Tong picked up, he immediately said, "Make yourself at home, I won't come back tonight."

"Get your ass in here," Qin Fang said.

"No thanks, you grown men do whatever you want, don't hold back. Tong-ge isn't someone so tactless," Hua Tong spoke very quickly. "If one bed isn't enough for you to toss around in, you can use my bed too."

"I think you're indeed too grown up." Qin Fang walked over and opened the door, looking at Hua Tong who hadn't had time to leave yet. "Brain full of adult rubbish."

Qin Fang jerked his chin inward, signaling Hua Tong to go in.

Just now Qin Fang was the one lying horizontally. Hua Tong didn't see the face of the one lying vertically. He asked Qin Fang in a low voice, "Xing Yan?"

Qin Fang nodded, "Mm."

Hua Tong continued in a hushed voice, "He's back?"

Qin Fang replied, "Yeah."

Hua Tong turned and walked toward the elevator, not looking back. "Damn, then why are you calling me? I'm out of here, I'm not coming back today, tomorrow, or the day after."

Qin Fang grabbed him back, laughing and saying softly, "We're pure little boys, only you're an adult. Come in, have you eaten? Let's have a meal together in a bit."

Hua Tong confirmed with him again, "Are you young people nowadays all so chill?"

Qin Fang said in his heart that they had already done what needed to be done, why would they be waiting for Hua Tong to catch them.

He laughed, "The guy's asleep. He hasn't slept for over two days, so rein in your imagination."

When the two of them came in, Xing Yan had already woken up and gone to wash his face. His face was still wet. Qin Fang said, "The blue towel is mine."

So Xing Yan went back and wiped his face. When he came out again, he greeted Hua Tong.

Hua Tong said with a smile, "Long time no see, even more handsome now."

The two chatted for a bit. Qin Fang asked Xing Yan, "Want to go out and grab a bite first? You can sleep more when we get back."

Xing Yan made an "mm" sound and said, "Not sleepy anymore."

Xing Yan had slept solidly for an afternoon.

When Hua Tong came in, Qin Fang was just lying there looking at him. He had also napped for a bit in the afternoon. When he woke up he felt dazed, seeing Xing Yan lying right there on his bed felt a bit unreal.

The two of them had messed around on this bed for quite a while earlier, intentionally or unintentionally getting each other all worked up. But that was about it, just to the extent of getting each other worked up.

Intimate things could be done, but going all the way still wasn't possible. Putting aside that it would be too fast with Xing Yan just back and them needing an adjustment period being together, even if they really planned to go through with it, Qin Fang didn't have the stuff here.

Forcing it the first time was asking for trouble. Besides both of them suffering, nothing would feel good.

At the time, Qin Fang had said to Xing Yan with some regret, "I don't have anything here, today I can only look at your legs."

Xing Yan bit the back of his neck and said hoarsely, "If you had everything here...then I'd really be nervous."

Qin Fang laughed so hard his shoulders shook. He imagined if he took out a bottle of lube and a box of condoms from the drawer at this moment, Xing Yan probably wouldn't be in the mood to continue. The mental image was too funny. Qin Fang lay there laughing for a long time.

Limited by the conditions, after getting each other all worked up, the two of them harmoniously fell asleep. This way of reuniting after a long separation was quite pure.

The three of them went out to eat together. After the meal, Hua Tong didn't come back and directly took a taxi to Feng Zhe's place without looking back.

Qin Fang originally told him there was no need. Hua Tong quickly waved his hand, "No need to keep me, no use saying more. Your new flame is back, this old abandoned wife will consciously withdraw. The forest is so big, I need to find another tree."

"Then go." Qin Fang waved at him. "I don't have to keep you either."

Hua Tong laughed, hailed a taxi, said "bye", and got in the car and left. Leaving behind a pair of little lovers reunited after a long separation.

Halfway through driving, Qin Fang suddenly pulled over to the side of the road. Xing Yan asked him, "What's wrong?"

Qin Fang opened the door and got out. "Wait for me."

Xing Yan waited in the car, watching Qin Fang enter a supermarket. A while later when he came out again, his hands were in his pockets. When he opened the door and jumped into the car, the things in his pockets were directly thrown onto Xing Yan's lap.

Xing Yan didn't need to look to guess what they were. He lowered his head and laughed.

"Don't laugh so shyly, you weren't like this in the afternoon." Thinking of what happened in the afternoon, Qin Fang felt a bit flushed, but he was past the age of being all bashful and was quite frank. "Don't know when we'll use them, but sooner or later we will."

Xing Yan took the items and stuffed them in his own pocket, saying, "We can use them anytime."

Qin Fang touched his ear. Two men in their twenties, these consumables would probably be used up quite quickly.

Because of an intimate interaction in the afternoon, there was no chance for any sense of unfamiliarity to appear. The mood felt like flying in the clouds. From time to time, turning to look at the handsome guy sitting beside him, he couldn't help but smile from the bottom of his heart.

Xing Yan really hadn't slept for two or three days. He had been too busy recently. In order to squeeze out time to come back earlier, he could only sleep three or four hours a day.

As soon as he finished all the work at hand, he booked a flight at the first opportunity. On the plane, his mood was always on edge and he couldn't catch up on sleep. He still had to go back for a few days next month, but his state of mind when he went back this time would be completely different from when he was there before.

After all, he had a boyfriend now.

"Do you have pajamas?" Qin Fang asked Xing Yan. "If not, I'll find you a set."

"I do," Xing Yan said. "But I want to wear yours."

"Okay." Qin Fang smiled quite sweetly. "I originally thought you had just changed personas on WeChat, but now I find you really aren't the you from before."

Xing Yan looked up at him. Qin Fang said, "Before you were a cool boy."

"And now?" Xing Yan asked.

"Now ah," Qin Fang ruffled his hair. "Now you're just a spoiled brat."

Those words were too saccharine, but Xing Yan had nothing to say. That's exactly what he was.

After they had both showered, the two of them lay on the bed. Qin Fang wasn't sleepy at all. He rubbed Xing Yan's fingers and called out to him, "Yan-ge."

Xing Yan grabbed his fingertips. "Mm."

"I heard everything you said during the day, but I was anxious to do something at the time, so I didn't say much." Qin Fang chuckled softly in the darkness and continued, "Are you sleepy? If not, let's chat."

"I'm not sleepy. Go ahead."

Qin Fang quite enjoyed playing with Xing Yan's hands. As he spoke, he gently grasped his fingers, "I have a bad temper, and sometimes when my temper flares up, I can be stubborn. Also, in some aspects, I tend to overthink."

Xing Yan asked in response, "You still have a bad temper?"

"I may seem quite good, but actually, I'm not that great." Qin Fang sighed and said, "At that time, I was overthinking our situation. By letting you go with that card, I felt you handled the matter poorly. You made such a good relationship seem like a burden to both of us, as if it was your burden and you also felt it was mine. So just go, and think carefully about what love truly is."

"Yeah," Xing Yan said, "I thought too much back then."

"You said so much during the day, and I didn't directly respond to you. Actually, I also found it a bit hard to say." Qin Fang pondered for a moment before continuing, "These past two years, it wasn't just you who was reflecting. I was also contemplating every day. I also made mistakes back then, and I can't completely absolve myself of blame."

Xing Yan interrupted him, picking up where he left off to say, "You didn't."

Qin Fang laughed and slowly said, "I did. At that time, I pounced on you like a ball of fire. I had never been in a relationship like this before. I felt that since I liked you and we were together, I had to be like that. I had to give you the best of everything. Whatever you did was fine, and everything about you was right.

"Blinded by love, even if you didn't want to say something, I wouldn't press you. Even if I knew you had something on your mind, I wouldn't necessarily ask. Maybe subconsciously, I still felt that since there was so much time ahead, we could slowly talk about it later.

"Actually, this isn't a very healthy way of interacting. I placed you in my future plans, and because you couldn't give me the path I hoped for, I felt upset and thought you were wrong. But the way I approached our relationship wasn't entirely right either. I was using the mindset of a passionate love period to think about the future, to the point where I almost lost myself."

Just as Xing Yan was about to speak, Qin Fang pinched his fingertips, not letting him say anything. Qin Fang continued, "We were wrong in different ways, but neither of us is innocent. In our early twenties, we were still too young, and even now, we're still young and can't say we're mature enough to consider things.

"This two-year cooling-off period may not necessarily be a bad thing. I always believed we would eventually be fine. We never said we broke up; we were just each learning to grow. I always thought this was good, and I looked forward to the day we would start anew.

"But when I saw the scars on your body, I felt it wasn't good anymore. I felt regret for the missing two years."

As Qin Fang said this, his hand stroked Xing Yan's arm, touching his scars. Qin Fang sniffled and said, "I've never regretted meeting you and being with you. I never felt we broke up, even though we needed to each become more mature. You've always been such an amazing person."

He said this long speech slowly, sentence by sentence, very earnestly. Xing Yan didn't speak for a long time; he just tightly held Qin Fang's hand.

Qin Fang turned over, going from lying flat to lying on top of Xing Yan, face to face. In the darkness, they could only make out a faint outline of each other.

Qin Fang kissed Xing Yan's chin and said to him, "So never apologize to me again for these two years. It makes me regretful. My young man has become an even better lover, but I missed the gradual transformation."

Xing Yan raised his hand to hug Qin Fang, and Qin Fang buried his face in Xing Yan's shoulder. They had the same scent on their bodies, but Xing Yan's body was very warm, making the simple shower gel fragrance become more ambiguous and alluring.

Qin Fang's voice was muffled against Xing Yan's body as he said, "Ah, now I feel it's too embarrassing to say these things..."

When Xing Yan laughed, his chest vibrated. Qin Fang, lying on top of him, could also feel it. Xing Yan said, "When I said it during the day, I also felt shy and embarrassed."

"Yeah, we've really grown up." Qin Fang sighed, "In the past, we could say anything, but we'd blush when doing something that required taking off clothes. Now it's the opposite. We can casually do things, but saying a few words makes us bashful."

Xing Yan laughed and stroked the back of Qin Fang's neck, asking, "Are you lying on me motionless because you're embarrassed?"

"I guess so. I just feel comfortable lying like this. Your body is nice and warm," said Qin Fang.

Xing Yan took a deep breath and said, "But I'm about to suffocate. You're pressing down too heavily."

Qin Fang then laughed and rolled off, his hand touching Xing Yan's belly as he said, "My boyfriend is still a bit too thin. You're really ruining the mood."

Xing Yan took a deep breath to steady his breathing before saying, "Thin or not, if you press down on my lungs like that, I can't take it..."

Qin Fang reached over and rubbed his chest. The atmosphere between them was so natural, seemingly no different from two years ago.

Like countless deep nights they spent together, the two young men in the window whispered sweet nothings to each other, while outside the window, the stars hid behind the clouds, flashing and disappearing, also intimately chatting.