That night, Nie Chuan had a dream.

The beginning of the dream was beautiful. He and Celine were sitting by the window. The sunlight fell softly on Celine's profile, and birds were flying outside the window.

Just like a movie scene.

Nie Chuan supported himself on the windowsill with one hand and leaned down. The moment he was about to kiss Serin, the whole world suddenly shattered.

Nie Chuan wanted to catch Serin who had turned into powder, but his fingers passed through Serin and were firmly grasped by another hand.

When Serin's figure completely disappeared, Nie Chuan saw Reese standing in front of him.

"Oh... no..."

Reese looked at him coldly, his lips curved up, and he slowly approached Nie Chuan. A cold voice rang in his ears: "Do you want me to teach you how to use it?"

That ambiguous smile, full of male hormones, made my heart feel as if it was being squeezed by a hand, and the blood was about to burst out.

"No! No! No!"

Nie Chuan pushed the other person away with all his strength, suddenly opened his eyes, and saw the ceiling of the dormitory gasping for breath.

"Achuan? What's wrong with you?" Zhou Bin walked out of the bathroom while brushing his teeth.

"I'm fine... I'm fine..." Nie Chuan sat up and pressed his forehead.

Fortunately it was just a dream...

"Are you really okay? Did you have a nightmare?"

"Yeah... a very horrible nightmare..."

"It's rare. You always have unrealistic dreams. Is this the first time you have a nightmare?"

"...Haha, yeah... maybe I've been really unlucky lately."

Nie Chuan stood up and was stunned for a moment when he lifted the quilt, then he grabbed his head in despair.

No way! No way! No way!

Was it because he was about to kiss Celine that he got wet, or because of Reese's words, "Do you want me to teach you how to use it?"

Nie Chuan was sitting on the toilet in a daze when Zhou Bin's voice came from outside the bathroom door.

"Achuan, hurry up! I saw Reese is already downstairs in the dormitory!"

Nie Chuan's shoulders shook. He really, really, really didn't want to see Reese today!

No, not just today, I don’t want to see him again tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow!

After Nie Chuan had been lingering in the bathroom for more than twenty minutes, there was a knock on the door.

"I know! Let me stay a little longer!"

Nie Chuan thought about it, why not just let Zhou Bin lie for him and say that he had diarrhea today?

"You fell into the toilet?"

A cold voice sounded, as if this gate was nothing at all.

Nie Chuan's shoulders stiffened and he almost fell into the toilet.

"Reese?"

"come out."

Nie Chuan swallowed his saliva and opened the bathroom door.

"Let's go, you've been delayed for ten minutes." Reese raised his wrist so that Nie Chuan could see the numbers on his sports watch clearly.

Zhou Bin didn't know what happened between them, he just looked at Nie Chuan with amusement.

During today's morning run, Nie Chuan was absent-minded. The scene of Serin kissing Reese kept replaying in his mind. Surprisingly, he did not stop at all during the whole run.

As he continued to run with his head down, the back of his collar got hooked.

"Go back to shower and have breakfast."

Only then did Nie Chuan come back to his senses.

"what's wrong with you?"

"Nothing. I went back to the dormitory."

Nie Chuan had no intention of talking to Reese.

The afternoon class was over, and Nie Chuan should have continued training with Reese, but he really didn't want to see him.

Although Nie Chuan felt that he was very childish, he still composed a text message to Reese: I won't go to the practice this afternoon. The midterm exam is coming soon, and I want to read more books.

Then he threw his phone into his bag, not bothering to care how Reese responded.

He came to the library, opened the advanced mathematics textbook, propped up his chin and could not read a single word. His pen drew countless circles on the paper, and his thoughts flew away to who knows where.

"Do you not know how to do these questions, or do you not want to do them?"

A familiar voice sounded, and Nie Chuan suddenly woke up. He turned his head and saw Reese sitting next to him.

"You...why are you here?"

Reese reached out his hand and touched the paper in front of Nie Chuan, moving it in front of himself, and found that there were nothing but circles on it.

"Hey, give it back to me!"

Just as Nie Chuan was about to take the paper back, Reese held him down.

Several students who were packing up and leaving the library couldn't help but look over. When they found out that it was Reese Reddington, they all showed surprised expressions.

This was the first time they saw Reese in the library.

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

"What's going on?" Nie Chuan asked back.

Can't you wait until I've calmed down from the pain in my heart before I face you?

"Is it because of Celine?" Reese's expression didn't change at all, but the oppression in his eyes was real.

He seemed to want to expel all the distracting thoughts in Nie Chuan's mind, leaving only the most real thoughts.

Nie Chuan glared at the other person. Probably the bravest thing he had ever done was glaring at Reese.

Without getting an answer from Nie Chuan, Reese asked again: "Did you receive the gift I sent you to comfort you?"

"Huh? What?" Nie Chuan tilted his head.

Reese came closer. The pressure from a male who was stronger than himself made Nie Chuan's sense of crisis explode. He leaned back until his shoulder rested on the window sill.

He glanced over and saw that there was only one student wearing black-framed glasses and eating a sandwich in the entire library.

The other party raised his head and looked at them.

“It tastes like chocolate.”

Nie Chuan suddenly recalled the scene last night when he opened the express box and a bunch of condoms fell out.

That kind of thing has no comforting effect at all!

"Have you tried opening it?"

Reese's voice was very light, and the cold sound quality was like a piece of silk sliding through Nie Chuan's heart.

Nie Chuan was about to cry.

Could you please not say things like this in such a serious tone?

"No." Nie Chuan pushed Reese hard, but the other party did not move at all.

Nie Chuan looked towards the man with glasses and found that he was still looking at them.

Reese finally let go of Nie Chuan and turned his head to look at the man with glasses. The man with glasses was completely stunned.

Reese only said one word to the man with glasses: "Go."

Although Nie Chuan couldn't see Reese's expression, he was definitely very imposing, because the man with glasses packed up his things and left quickly.

The entire library was silent with only the two of them left.

Reese didn't seem to intend to tease Nie Chuan anymore. Instead, he crossed his arms and said, "I think we should have a good talk. I don't want you to still be such an idiot during the practice match next week."

Nie Chuan pressed his forehead, sighed and said, "Okay, I admit that I know very well that I am in a bad state of mind right now. If you can leave me alone, I promise that I have a good self-healing ability and I will be fine soon."

"It's been a whole night and a whole day. Your self-healing ability is not very good."

"...So what do you want? I've liked Serin for a long time, but she only wants to be with you, and you...are my teammate."

"What's your definition of 'a long time'?"

"Half a year."

"That's not long at all."

“…”

"Cerin just touched my chin, that wasn't a kiss at all," Reese said flatly.

Nie Chuan smiled bitterly: "She doesn't even want to touch my chin."

"Do you care that much?"

"I don't know what's wrong with me. Just leave me alone, and I promise to resume training tomorrow, okay?" Nie Chuan said helplessly.

"If I gave you Seren's kiss back, would you still do this?"

Nie Chuan paused.

"Wha...what? Give it back to me? How? Are you going to drag Serin in front of me and ask her to kiss me?"

"If I return it to you, can you promise to return to normal?"

Reese raised his eyebrows, and Nie Chuan realized that this guy was serious.

"Heh...if you can really give it back to me, I promise I will be normal."

The next moment, Reese pressed Nie Chuan's shoulder, he turned his face sideways, light and shadow flowed between his eyebrows, and before Nie Chuan had time to appreciate the beauty of that moment, the other person's lips had already hit him.

A warm and gentle touch, yet with an irresistible force.

Nie Chuan's mind went blank, his pupils dilated instantly, and what he saw in his eyes was Reese's elegant, slightly curled eyelashes.

Reese's tongue slid across Nie Chuan's lips, lifted his upper lip and squeezed in, instantly sweeping up all his space.

Nie Chuan's shoulders were stiff. He had no idea how to react. All the blood in his body seemed to flow to the place where Reese's tongue had licked.

He felt a force that seemed to be taking away everything in his body through this kiss, and then he suddenly realized that it was Reese's sucking.

What are you doing!

How come the tongue got in?

Nie Chuan pushed Reese's shoulders hard and leaned back.

Reese grabbed his wrist with one hand and twisted it behind Nie Chuan's back easily. He pressed his body even harder, and Nie Chuan was pushed against the wall, with the back of his head hitting the window. Reese's tongue stirred vigorously in his mouth, from the sides of Nie Chuan's tongue to his upper palate and his teeth, followed by a burst of sucking, and Nie Chuan couldn't even breathe.

All he knew was that Reese had adjusted the angle again, wantonly ravaging his lips and teeth.

The kiss that Nie Chuan had imagined countless times happened just like that. Unfortunately, there was none of the feminine tenderness, but instead a pure sense of strength and possessiveness that seemed to want to crush him and swallow him into its stomach.

Nie Chuan's sense of crisis was overwhelming. He tried to turn his face but Reese followed him like a shadow. He kept lingering and dragging until Nie Chuan felt something in his heart. Reese's kiss became slower. But the slower it was, the more obvious the palpitation became.

Until Reese's tongue finally came out.

As if with reluctance, the tip of his tongue licked the gap between Nie Chuan's lips lightly, and every cell in Nie Chuan's body trembled.

The tip of his nose touched Nie Chuan's nose, and he said in his usual cold tone: "I'll give it back to you."

Nie Chuan suddenly came to his senses, opened his eyes wide and asked loudly: "Give it back to me? What kind of return is this? I thought you..."

Fortunately, there were not many people in the library at this time, otherwise Nie Chuan felt that he would not have to live.

"What do you think?" Reese looked at Nie Chuan with indifference, as if a basin of cold water was poured down from over his head.

Nie Chuan stood there in a daze, speechless.

"You think I'd let Celine kiss you?" Reese laughed.

There was a mockery in his smile that Nie Chuan had not seen for a long time.

"If you're just thinking about that kiss, the only thing I can tell you is that even if Serin kissed you, it would only be like this. But I would never kiss Serin in this way. Is this answer enough for you?"

Nie Chuan imagined that the kiss with Serin would be as fresh and clean as in an art film. How could it be like this...

"You said you would never kiss Seren in this way...does that mean you won't accept her?"

"It's really rare that you can understand."

"But...but why do you...want to...kiss me?" Nie Chuan rubbed his lips hard with the back of his hand.

"You look like an idiot who has never been kissed before, so you have such high expectations for kissing, right?" Reese crossed his arms, with a teasing look in his eyes, "I just want to break your fantasy so that you don't dwell on such meaningless things."

There is really no fantasy now!

Nie Chuan cried bitterly in his heart.

"Then you don't have to put...put that in too!"

"What?" Reese obviously knew what Nie Chuan was talking about, but he still asked back.

Nie Chuan thought he had long understood how bad Reese was, but now he realized that there is no worst, only worse.

"Your tongue! Bastard!" Nie Chuan cursed in a low voice.

His three perspectives are about to be shattered!

"If you don't stick your tongue in, how can you call it kissing?" Reese supported himself on the table and leaned towards Nie Chuan again. The curve of his lips was something that no one had ever seen him smile like!

Nie Chuan was like a frightened bird and almost covered his mouth, fearing that Reese would do it again.

"Oh, it turns out that you are so innocent, Xiaochuan." Reese turned his head to the side, and the hint of a meaningful smile made Nie Chuan unable to look directly at it.

Please don’t call me “Ogawa” at this time!

You bastard! I'm going to go back and brush my teeth! I'm going to buy the purest mineral water and use mint toothpaste to brush my teeth inside and out!

Now thinking back, every time Reese called him "Xiaochuan", Nie Chuan felt that Reese could be friendly at times. But now this "Xiaochuan", combined with the previous topic, was so ambiguous that it was beyond belief!

"If you do this again...I will end my friendship with you. I'm serious."

Nie Chuan felt that he needed to explain his thoughts to Reese.

"Listen carefully, if you continue to neglect your training for these meaningless reasons, I will make you know what regret is. I mean it."

An overwhelming sense of oppression came over him. Nie Chuan swallowed his saliva and was unable to utter a single word.

Reese stood up and glanced down at Nie Chuan who was sitting there stupidly: "If you really care about Serin that much, then surpass me and take her attention back."

After saying that, Reese left, leaving Nie Chuan where he was.

Yes, if I really become outstanding, how could Serin not see me?

But Reese Reddington, it's really arrogant of you to say such things so openly!

Just wait, one day I will surprise you with my newfound respect!

That night, Nie Chuan returned to his room, put the big box of chocolate-flavored condoms into a shoe box, and pushed it under the bed.

Zhou Bin, who was lying on the bed next to him, asked curiously, "Achuan, what are you doing?"

Nie Chuan was too lazy to explain to him. Anyway, Zhou Bin didn't believe that this box of things was sent by Reese.

"Oh..." Zhou Bin smiled, "Even if you hide them all, it doesn't mean they don't exist."

Nie Chuan ignored him.

Zhou Bin leaned over to the bed and said, "Hey, Achuan, why don't you open one and try it?"

"Give it a try? Who should I ask to try? You?" Nie Chuan said unhappily.

"Oh, forget it. Why don't you find some yarn?"

"Go to hell!" Nie Chuan threw the pillow at Zhou Bin's face.

Although Nie Chuan has let go of the matter of Serin kissing Reese, the midterm exam is truly unavoidable. It accounts for 30% of the credits and must be taken seriously.

Even Carlo and the others paused all their practices and focused on reviewing.

Nie Chuan was hanging out in the library with other international students. Not only was the principle of communication giving Nie Chuan a headache, but even the advanced mathematics that Nie Chuan was most confident in was giving him trouble. He regretted being too conceited and always playing mobile games in advanced mathematics class. Now he got his comeuppance.

The other international students also had deep hatred and resentment.

At this time, someone walked to the bookshelf opposite their table and returned several books one by one.

The other person was very tall, and when his arms were stretched out, the lines were smooth and pleasing to the eye, instantly attracting countless attention.

Someone nudged Nie Chuan, who was deep in thought, with his elbow: "Hey, Nie Chuan! It's Reese Reddington!"

When Nie Chuan heard that name, his heart trembled.

Because of reviewing these days, Nie Chuan hardly saw Reese except for morning exercises.

Whenever he saw him, Nie Chuan would think of that kiss... an experience in his life that could not be ignored...

"Oh, so what if it's him?" Nie Chuan pretended not to see Reese and continued to read with his head down.

But in fact, I couldn’t understand a single word.

"Aren't you familiar with him?"

"How could I be so familiar with him..."

As he was talking, Reese had already walked to Nie Chuan's desk with his hands in his pockets, and lowered his eyes to look at his draft paper.

"You've been wrong since the third step. You used the wrong formula and your thinking is wrong."

"Huh?" Nie Chuan lowered his head and took a closer look. He seemed to understand. No wonder he couldn't figure out the correct answer no matter how hard he tried.

"Will you do it?" Reese asked coldly.

Nie Chuan wanted to lie and say "I will do it", but he just couldn't say it.

"Won't."

So embarrassing!

"Didn't I help you solve the problem before? I also told you that it was a required question for the instructor."

"I gave that piece of paper to another student..." Nie Chuan was about to bury his head in the desk.

The other students watched their conversation and dared not utter a word.

"Didn't I tell you to make sure you understand?" Reese's voice was flat and it was impossible to tell whether he was angry or not.

Nie Chuan knew that he was a top student, and a cool top student. People condescended to solve the problem for him, but he gave it to others without even looking at it. He was really asking for death...

Without getting an answer from Nie Chuan, Reese simply took the pen from Nie Chuan's hand and turned the draft paper to the next page.

The posture was smooth and graceful, and several more female students sat nearby.

Reese did not sit down, but stood behind Nie Chuan, supporting the table with his left hand, pressing the draft paper, and writing formulas and calculation steps on the paper with his right hand.

Nie Chuan was already quite tall, but in this posture he looked like an elementary school student being taught by a university professor, almost being held in Reese's arms.

"Do you understand?" Reese asked, turning his head sideways.

The breath of his words passed over Nie Chuan's earlobe, so close that Nie Chuan felt that the other party was about to cover his ear again.

If someone else did this kind of posture, it would definitely be very ambiguous, but Reese's face did not have any extra expression, making people feel that he was simply teaching Nie Chuan, and he was teaching him very seriously and solemnly.

"Hmm... I think I understand. Let me take a look."

"If your midterm results are not satisfactory, I will definitely let you try the gift I gave you."

Reese's voice was so low that the other international students couldn't hear clearly even though they wanted to.

Nie Chuan's back stiffened. He was considering whether he should destroy the shoe box of condoms when he returned to his room at night.

Reese stood up and said, "Who told me that Chinese students are all good at advanced mathematics? You are really an exception."

When Nie Chuan came to his senses, Reese had already left.

"Nie Chuan! Show us quickly, which question is Reese doing?"

"Wow! This is it! I don't know how to make it either! Let me see!"

Everyone passed the paper around.

Nie Chuan pressed his forehead. It was over! If he couldn't get a high score in advanced mathematics, he didn't know how Reese would punish him!

Perhaps God also felt Nie Chuan's seriousness. In this midterm exam, Nie Chuan scored good in almost all subjects, which surprised Zhou Bin greatly.

"Achuan, although I think you are never stupid, you don't seem to be very smart either."

"What do you mean?" Nie Chuan happily held a chocolate in his mouth as he sat in front of his computer, looking at the grades sent to his mailbox by the school, feeling a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

"I'm evaluating you objectively." Zhou Bin said with a smile.

"How can this be impressive! Are you still my brother?"

The midterm exam is over, which also means that their practice match with CBU is about to begin.

On Friday night, Nie Chuan packed his things and prepared to take the train to New York with Carlo and others.

Before leaving, Zhou Bin gave Nie Chuan a big bag of snacks, including shrimp crackers and spicy dried tofu.

"Wow, where did you buy these? I want to eat them!"

"My girlfriend gave it to you. I hope you go early and come back late, so that I can spend more time with her."

"cut!"

"Hey, are you sure you don't want to bring your chocolate flavored thing? Maybe a girl on the CBU cheerleading team will take a fancy to you and you can use it."

"Get out of here!" Nie Chuan hit Zhou Bin in the face with the snack bag.

"You don't want snacks? Then I'll eat them myself."

"I want it, take it back!" Nie Chuan walked to Zhou Bin's bed again and put the bag of snacks into his bag.