At the start, I tricked the school beauty, and ended up with twins?

"Phew——"

After closing the door, Lin Xinyue leaned against it and let out a long sigh.

Gu Yu was still in a state of confusion.

Were he and Xinyue actually going to share a room?

Last time he got drunk, he slept in Xinyue's room; this time he's not drunk, he sleeps...?

Before he could gather his wits, Lin Xinyue, having composed herself, quietly walked over and sat down on the bed.

Gu Yu hurried over to sit next to her, staring at Xinyue's profile, temporarily forgetting how to start a conversation.

"You should go take a shower! You smell strongly of alcohol."

Seeing Gu Yu staring blankly at her, Lin Xinyue's cheeks reddened slightly, and then she nudged him to prompt him to wash up.

"Oh, oh, are we really going to sleep together tonight?"

Gu Yu quickly nodded, still voicing his doubts, and as the question slipped out, his heartbeat sped up.

No way! Was he actually going to share a bed with Xinyue today?

"No! You sleep on the small sofa! Or I will!"

Lin Xinyue raised an eyebrow and pointed to the beanbag sofa in the corner of the room.

She quickly read Gu Yu's thoughts because even though he tried to look calm, the corners of his mouth were nearly at a sixty-degree angle!

That guy was definitely gloating inside!

"Hehe... The small sofa must be cold, so I'll sleep on the sofa then!"

Busted for his mischievous thoughts, Gu Yu chuckled and volunteered to sleep on the small sofa.

He couldn't bear to have Lin Xinyue cram onto a sofa.

As a rough man, he wasn't so particular about comfort.

He hurried to the bathroom for a shower, and because he didn't have a change of clothes, he took a quick rinse.

Lin Xinyue had already bathed earlier, and by the time he came out with his hair blown dry, she had already burrowed into her blanket.

With the blanket over her head, there was no movement, and it wasn't clear whether she was genuinely asleep or just pretending.

Gu Yu assumed it was the former, cautiously walked to the beanbag sofa wrapped in his towel, holding his clothes, and then slowly lay down.

He glanced at Xinyue on the bed one more time and, seeing no movement, figured she must be truly asleep.

Gu Yu grew bold, tossed the towel aside, and pulled a blanket over himself.

"Goodnight~"

He whispered a goodnight to Xinyue on the bed, then reached out to gently switch off the light in the room.

The room plunged into darkness in an instant, with only the night glow of the city shining through the window.

The beanbag sofa where Gu Yu lay was right next to the window, allowing him to see the pale night sky as soon as he lay down.

While the night wasn't very dark, a few stars persisted in the northwest quadrant of the sky.

It was late September, autumn, with the handle of the Big Dipper pointing westward, meaning the brightest stars should be Phecda and Dubhe from the Big Dipper.

In the Big Dipper, they were the brightest two, but for the rest, light pollution made it impossible to see clearly.

He couldn't help recalling something his grandmother had said when he was young: The big city has no stars, because the bright lights of the city and the busyness of its people agitate the soul.

He didn't understand when he was young, but now that he had grown up, he realized that the stars were always there, it's just that urban dwellers seldom looked up to the sky.

Famed Gu Yanwu said: For generations, everyone knew astronomy.

He always believed that humanity's future lay in the vastness of space, not a virtual world.

Yet nowadays, people seemed to have forgotten about the stars above them.

Therefore, the debate over the cosmos and the Metaverse started emerging on the Internet.

If humanity became immersed in the Metaverse before stepping into the space age, the Metaverse might well become humanity's future grave!

A famous science fiction writer once said that the boundless cosmos remains the best destination for human imagination.

Once a civilization invests all its imagination in a virtual world, the consequences are self-evident.

Gu Yu lay on the beanbag sofa, letting his imagination run wild.

People always fret about the future at night.

He was no exception.

So he didn't notice that at that moment, a pair of bright eyes on the bed were fixed on him.

"It's so hot…"

Lin Xinyue had originally been pretending to sleep under the blanket, but it was too warm, so she quietly created a little gap for air.

That's when she caught a glimpse of Gu Yu lying on the sofa, deep in thought.

A man is doubly charming when deep in thought, especially a handsome one, whose allure goes off the charts.

She was immediately entranced by what she saw.

Under the dim light, his lazy recline, and the sturdy, slender arms casually resting on either side of the sofa...

More importantly, it seemed due to his deep contemplation, the blanket had slipped halfway to the floor on one side.

The neat set of abs were faintly visible, and she unconsciously swallowed.

This was too—no, too aesthetically pleasing!

Realizing that her thoughts were getting inappropriate, she sheepishly curled up further into her bedding.

But before long, her head sneakily emerged from the covers again, continuing to covertly appreciate Gu Yu's "beauty."

"What is he thinking about? He looks so serious..."

Lin Xinyue was very curious about what exactly Gu Yu was pondering at that moment.

Before she knew it, she herself had fallen into a contemplative state.

Were his thoughts about the feelings between the two of them? Or reminiscing about the events of the day, or simply staring blankly into the sky?

However much she guessed, she could never imagine that Gu Yu was actually contemplating humanity's future and the vastness of stars and seas...

Every boy has an elusive dream of being a hero.

Just as she was lost in a daze, Gu Yu suddenly turned over, and their gazes met directly!

"Oh no! I've been caught!"

Lin Xinyue panicked inside. Being discovered spying on her boyfriend while feigning sleep would definitely be embarrassing!

But Gu Yu merely tugged at his blanket and then closed his eyes to sleep.

He hadn't noticed her eyes were open!

She let out a long sigh of relief, finally feeling at ease.

Tucking in the bedding, she too prepared to sleep.

But the very next second, Gu Yu suddenly sat up, brow furrowed, mouth slightly open as if he was doing something.

She got startled, thinking Gu Yu was about to get out of bed and pull her covers!

After a few seconds of no movement from Gu Yu, she watched him puzzled, unsure why he had suddenly sat up.

"Sleepwalking?"

A guess popped up in her mind, but she didn't really believe it.

Because the last time Gu Yu slept in his room, even drunk, he was very well-behaved.

Gu Yu's head acted as if it were a charging railgun, suddenly jerking upwards, and then the next second: "Achoo—~"

A sneeze with a full 360-degree rotation echoed throughout the room.

It was evident that he tried hard to keep it quiet, but it was futile.

"Pfft—giggle, giggle, giggle."

Lin Xinyue couldn't hold back her laughter anymore. She never expected that Gu Yu sat up for so long just to hold in a sneeze!

"Uh... Xinyue? Did I wake you up?"

Gu Yu rubbed his nose, looking puzzlingly towards Lin Xinyue, who was laughing non-stop like a mother hen on the bed.

He thought his sneeze was so loud that it woke his girlfriend.

"Yeah! It must be cold on the sofa, come sleep in the bed!"

Lin Xinyue quickly stopped laughing, then looked at Gu Yu, who was rubbing his nose, with some concern.

He must be cold, that's why he sneezed.

She pulled back part of the blanket and patted the edge of the bed invitingly.

"Uh... Really?"

Gu Yu froze for a moment, could this happiness be any more sudden?

Not even a cold in vain!

Before Lin Xinyue could finish her next sentence, he hurried over, blanket in tow.

"No way! Don't squeeze on my side! Sleep at the foot of the bed! Keep half a meter distance from me!"

Seeing Gu Yu about to crawl into her bed, Lin Xinyue quickly crossed her arms in front of her chest and stopped him with a mix of annoyance and shyness.

Gu Yu smiled sheepishly, picked up a pillow, and silently moved to sleep at the foot of the bed.

Settling into the warmth left by his girlfriend in the blanket, even half a meter away, he could feel her legs, tense and tight.

Knowing this was Lin Xinyue's limit, he whispered, "Let's sleep!"

Lin Xinyue didn't respond, just tugged at the blanket.

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