Dou Xun didn't say anything for a long time.

Xu Xilin leaned on him, feeling the warmth on Dou Xun's body, and his eyelids began to fight. Dou Xun lowered his head and sniffed his lips, only smelling the mint scent of toothpaste, with almost no smell of alcohol: "How come you are so sleepy if you didn't drink too much?"

"I stayed up all night at school last night, and today I went to see my grandfather again..." Xu Xilin's voice became softer and softer, and in the end it was almost inaudible.

Dou Xun smelled something wrong on him. It might be because he saw the shower gel gift thrown aside and picked it up to use it. Dou Xun was a little uncomfortable with it, so he hugged him and rubbed against him, trying to get rid of the strange fragrance.

After a while, Dou Xun was depressed and thought of the little peach heart that was like a fishbone stuck in his throat just now. Suddenly he asked Xu Xilin without thinking: "...Why is it a good thing to not have a mother-in-law?"

Xu Xilin struggled to open his eyelids, which were three layers deep. "What?"

Dou Xun said: "I saw Yu Yiran left you a message, saying that you will definitely be in high demand in the future because you have a house and a car but no mother-in-law."

Xu Xilin was in a daze for a moment, then came to his senses, buried his face in Dou Xun's abdomen, and began to laugh wildly.

Dou Xun looked down at him in confusion, and Xu Xilin reached out and slapped him on the lower back: "Was your mother-in-law not kind to you back then? She has no conscience."

After saying that, Xu Xilin turned over, squinted at Dou Xun for a while under the light, and suddenly asked, "Who said anything to you?"

Xu Xilin was too sharp. Dou Xun was stunned for a moment, and then a deep sense of frustration surged in his heart.

Dou Xun thought about it and realized he didn't know how to beat around the bush, so he told the truth: "A girl put a box of chocolates in your bag."

Xu Xilin blinked, hooked his schoolbag with his foot, and took out the iconic nail polish chocolate.

Dou Xun waited quietly to hear what he said.

But Xu Xilin held the chocolate box, looked at it, and threw it aside without explaining anything. He just exaggeratedly made a sad face and sighed, "Your handsome brother Xu is so handsome and so popular, what should we do? I'm really worried about you."

Dou Xun: “…”

"Be nice to me, or he'll run off with someone else." Xu Xilin said earnestly, raising his hands to hug Dou Xun's head, "Will you take the Level 6 exam in my place in a few days? Okay, it's happily settled."

Dou Xun: “…get out.”

Shameless thing.

After the weekend, Dou Xun returned to school. When he picked up his backpack in the morning, he felt the weight was wrong. When he opened his bag at school, he found a box of 24 chocolates stuffed in his bag. Xu Xilin didn't have nail polish, so he took out a roll of insulating tape from somewhere, cut a yellow peach heart, and covered half of the box with it. It was simply infinity.

The love saint brother happened to see it and asked with a pained look: "... Is there a girl chasing you?"

This girl's aesthetic is really Fauvist. What the hell is that? I absolutely don't want it.

Dou Xun stuffed the chocolate back into his bag and nodded calmly: "My wife."

The second brother immediately forced a smile of praise: "It looks very simple at first glance, young man, you have good taste!"

Dou Xun ate two pills after class and happened to see a new notice downstairs in the dormitory.

Registration for the summer camp for guaranteed postgraduate study has begun, and a smell of the chaos of graduation is overwhelming.

It was a hot day and everyone was a little wilted. They were weighing their future paths anxiously amidst all the messy job-seeking and study information. The chocolate had melted a little, lingering on the tip of their tongue, too sweet, and in the end it began to taste a little bitter.

Dou Xun stared at the new notice for a while. Before he could figure out whether he should continue his studies or find a job, they began to force him to move forward. This was the first time that Dou Xun had experienced the feeling of being "pushed forward by time".

Dou Xun remembered that whenever Xu Xilin chatted with him, he would talk about how much money he wanted to make, what he would do next year, what he would do the year after, and what he would do after graduation. Sometimes he would even plan a path for him that sounded simple and easy to understand, but he would always reject it with disdain. It turned out that he was only able to reject and find fault, and until now he had no ideas of his own.

In this summer with the sound of cicadas, Dou Xun suddenly realized his own naivety - it turned out that Xu Xilin had always been trying to accommodate him and take care of him, including his feelings and future.

While men take care of, love and protect each other, there will inevitably be some overt or covert comparison.

Normally, this little comparison has no presence, and it only quietly emerges when Dou Xun's always domineering self-confidence suffers a small blow.

Xu Xilin's care did not make Dou Xun feel sweet. Instead, he felt an unprecedented panic in his heart.

The miser finally discovered that the door of his vault was not locked.

Dou Xun wondered, what if Xu Xilin got tired or annoyed one day?

If there are other people who like Xu Xilin, and they don't need him to accommodate them, or take care of them, and never make him angry...then how can I keep him?

Dou Xun used to think that everyone in the world was a fool, but he was the only one who understood. He had never had this sense of crisis as an ordinary person.

It was not until his resume was rejected countless times just because of the six words "insufficient bachelor's degree" that Dou Xun, who had "understood" for twenty years, realized that he was just one of the thousands of ignorant mortals, and a not very likable one at that.

When he grew up, he was neither a god nor a child...

Dou Xun only now understood the painstaking efforts of his teacher who had prevented him from skipping a grade six years ago, but it was already a little too late.

Perhaps because he was thinking too much during this period, when he returned home that night, Dou Xun, who never had a good heart, had a nightmare for the first time. He dreamed that Xu Xilin got married, and married a woman who was wrapped up like a mummy and whose face could not be seen clearly. The two of them stood together woodenly, which was not festive at all. Wu Tao was the master of ceremonies. Dou Xun rushed over anxiously, but before he could say anything, Wu Tao showed the same obscene and suggestive face that he had when he was grilling skewers that day, and smiled at him with contempt.

The blurred faces of the people around him were all looking at him and laughing. Xu Xilin was also laughing. In the dream, Xu Xilin was not happy for some reason. He had his hair parted with oil and dressed himself up as a classic traitor. When he laughed, he didn't look like himself, but a bit like Dou Junliang.

Dou Xun's chest seemed to be blocked by an ice brick. He was finding it increasingly difficult to breathe and was about to go crazy. After struggling for a while, he suddenly opened his eyes... and discovered that the culprit was Xu Xilin, who had his arm across his chest and was pressing down on it.

Dou Xun let out a long breath and moved his arm away, but his heart was still beating violently. The grief and anger in his dream lingered. Dou Xun turned the air conditioner down by two degrees, then tilted his head in the dim light in the room to look at the sleeping Xu Xilin——

Fortunately, he still has a young and handsome face, without any of Dou Junliang's greasy look.

Dou Xun crawled into Xu Xilin's quilt like a psychopath, and as if to confirm something, he put his arms around him, but his grip was too strong and it made him uncomfortable. Xu Xilin was sleeping too soundly, so he struggled unconsciously, rolled out of the quilt, and slid to the wall to face the wall.

Dou Xun sat there for a while, staring at his back dejectedly, threw the quilt on him, and occupied another corner with a heavy heart.

The width of the large single bed is such that there is a distance of two palms between two people sleeping on it.

Sleeping like this is very energy-saving and environmentally friendly.

But Xu Xilin didn't notice that Dou Xun was particularly silent during this period. He was really too busy to care about him.

"Vitamins" was very successful in the early stages, with orders increasing every month. Xu Xilin opened a message board below the website.

Every day, a group of idle college students would order fruits and chat in the forum. Since the merchants, waiters and customers were all classmates, the entire "Vitamin" website had a special harmonious atmosphere. It was not like a commercial website, but more like a group of big kids playing "house" seriously. The message board was completely a campus internal spam forum.

Some expressed their love, some complained about the slippery floor in the cafeteria, some complained about the difficulty of homework and the large number of exams, and some even called on everyone to oppose the restoration of closed-book courses in political education!

A while ago, a classmate left a message on the message board, saying that it would be better if "Vitamin" didn't just deliver fruit. This led to a lively discussion. Some suggested that they deliver takeout food as well, and some otakus who were too lazy to leave the school suggested that they take orders to help purchase daily necessities. There were also a few who wanted to create chaos and hoped that Vitamin's "fruit boy" could help bring flowers into the girls' dormitory when delivering fruit, and mail them to express their love.

At first Xu Xilin ignored it, but later the voices of the masses grew louder and louder. Some students did nothing themselves but had great imaginations. They sat in their dormitories and imagined a complete industrial chain for "vitamins" and wrote a 5,000-word plan.

That kid might have some talent for MLM. After reading his business plan, one gets the illusion that this small website based on the school will soon be able to break out of Asia and go to the world, punching the Hong Kong main board and kicking Nasdaq!

The establishment of "Vitamin" was supported and protected by the school. Although it was called "entrepreneurship", it was essentially an "entrepreneurship" in an ivory tower. It was more like a special internship than a business. In the final analysis, it was not as difficult as making a living in the society. Xu Xilin understood this principle, but the success from the beginning to now was too prosperous, and he inevitably got a little dizzy.

Xu Xilin was inspired by the proposal and couldn't help but want to give it a try. He planned to undertake the daily necessities purchasing service - in the future, he would purchase from the Walmart supermarket closest to the school every week and charge a service fee based on the size of the order. Xu Xilin didn't want to make a profit from this business. His idea was pretty good. He planned to open up a bigger market for himself through this popular service and expand the market through the mutual support of different businesses. If this model is good, he also plans to set his sights on a bigger stage before graduating from his senior year - Xu Xilin is eyeing all the colleges and universities in the city, and wants to really run his own brand after graduation.

This summer, both of them are very busy.

Xu Xilin, who was full of ambition, updated the website and prepared a new business platform while taking a driver's license test. Xu Jin left a car that year, and his grandmother wanted to sell it, but Xu Xilin couldn't bear to do so, so he kept it in his basement and hired someone to maintain it regularly, just in time to use it for supermarket shopping.

Dou Xun finally attended the summer camp for guaranteed postgraduate study. At the same time, he did not give up on finding a job. He kept submitting resumes for internships and jobs and took a lot of futile online written tests.

The summer camp ended quickly. Dou Xun had never been lazy in his studies and had a solid foundation. He passed two rounds of exams smoothly, and a teacher hinted that he would have no problem. However, he still had no progress in finding a job. All the positions he received were unreliable ones.

But the school's results at least gave Dou Xun some comfort, slightly easing his repeated self-doubts of recent days and briefly clearing up the gloom.

Dou Xun was about to go home when Xu Xilin sent him a text message at the right time: "I passed the second subject test and the level 6 test of naked running. Come back soon and take you to eat something good!"

Dou Xun replied with a "not bad", but before he could send it, he received the next message from Xu Xilin: "I got 427!"

Dou Xun: “…”

How can you be so happy when your life is so miserable?

He stood on the side of the road for a while, feeling amused and helpless, then put his phone in his pocket and walked away.

At this time, two men came out from the corner of the street. One had a pointed face and looked like a monkey. The other was about thirty years old, wearing a large flowered shirt and had a scar between his eyebrows. They looked neither like students nor migrant workers. They watched Dou Xun get into a taxi and then walked out together stealthily.

The monkey said, "Dahui, what does your sister think?"

"Don't mention it." The man in the flowered shirt waved his hand. His name was Zhang Dahui, and he was Wu Fenfen's cousin. When he was young, he was a second-rate gangster who loved fighting. Later, he was turned into a listless vagrant after being cracked down on several anti-pornography and anti-illegal publications campaigns. In the past two years, thanks to Wu Fenfen, he opened a small supermarket in the office building rented by Dou Junliang, which was a place for white-collar workers to buy snacks.

Zhang Dahui took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth irritably. "That woman has never been smart since she was a child. Even if she got lucky enough to marry a rich man when she grew up, she couldn't keep her head down. His mother, Ms. Dou, is only in her forties. She eats, drinks, whores and gambles all day long. How could she want to die? My unlucky sister has actually started to covet his property, and asked me to find a way to take the child left by his ex-wife - do you think she is bored at home all day and has watched too many Hong Kong movies? I think she has postpartum paranoia."

The monkey next to him was startled and said, "Do it?"

"Hey, you're dead." Zhang Dahui slapped him on the forehead. "Don't you know that murder is against the law? You idiot."

The monkey thought for a moment and asked, "Then why are we still following him?"

Zhang Dahui exhaled a smoke ring in frustration and felt very helpless.

Although his cousin is an absolute moron, their family's livelihood depends on her. Without Wu Fenfen, where can he find a job that is leisurely and profitable from nine to five?

"I can't get things done, but I still need to coax people." Zhang Dahui sighed like a man, "What can I do? No matter how stupid she is, she is still my sister. Just... follow her for two days, and then tell her that I tried my best, but the thing couldn't be done... Just show her an attitude to make her happy, that's all."

After he said that, he took his monkey-faced little brother and drove a second-hand black car, following Dou Xun all the way back home.

The security in Xu Xilin's residential area is tight. Zhang Dahui led the monkey and walked around the community for a while. Finally, he mixed into a decoration team and successfully sneaked in. He squatted outside Xu Xilin's house for a while, took a few photos thoughtfully, and then completed his mission and left.

After more than a month of peace and quiet, Dou Xun received a notice saying that he had successfully obtained a place in the graduate school, but he needed to confirm it before mid-October. But after a month of being proud, Xu Xilin encountered some troubles.

First, the "vitamin" promotional posters in the school window were maliciously torn off.

Then, another dormitory area inexplicably suspended the dormitory managers from collecting things on behalf of students on the grounds of "health inspection" and "food safety."

A few days later, the teacher in charge of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department talked to Xu Xilin and said a lot of things like "Young people should be down-to-earth in doing things". Xu Xilin was confused, and then "Vitamin" did not get the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award for the first time that month.

Xu Xilin was overwhelmed for a while. When the National Day was approaching, the school suddenly introduced a new regulation - in order to facilitate the unified management of the campus, it was required that milk orders, fresh fruits, express deliveries, etc. be uniformly delivered by the education supermarket in the dormitory building area.

At this time, no matter how stupid Xu Xilin was, he knew that he was an eyesore to others.

He used to think too simply. The reason why selling fruits was going smoothly was, firstly, because the school supermarket did not expect the fruit stall to make money, and secondly, he happened to catch up with the school's support for students' innovation and entrepreneurship, so the people in the supermarket could not say anything.

But it is outrageous that he actually wants to get involved in other businesses.

After a month of booming vitamin and daily necessities purchasing business, the Education Supermarket’s turnover plummeted by 50%.

Those who can open supermarkets in schools are definitely not just passers-by outside the school. Most of them are related to the school. They all have their own service scope and territory, and everyone has been living in peace for so many years.

Who knew that an ignorant young man would interfere.

For the first time, Xu Xilin realized that his efforts were just to build a sand pot on the beach. When the tide was not high, the sea looked at him gently, making him feel like he had built a landmark building on the beach. But he was getting carried away, and a little wind and waves came over, and his so-called "career" became a bunch of bubbles.

Xu Xilin had no choice but to urgently cancel the "Supermarket Weekly Delivery" service. Then, using his status as a grade committee member, he asked classmates from each class to help write a joint letter stating the various inconveniences caused by the school's new regulations, and asked someone to deliver it to the principal's mailbox.

Finally, Vitamin had to make a compromise - the website was shut down for a week for maintenance, and then it launched packages of different types and prices based on the supply of fruits, and included the supply of education supermarkets in it, and reluctantly let the people who were slandering him behind the scenes to have a share of the pie.