Author: hoenimochi (Page 69 of 95)

MTL and currently learning HSK

Chapter 18

       After dinner that day, Chen Yuncheng took Ning Junyan to play in the abandoned factory building nearby. The open space in the middle of the factory was already overgrown with weeds, waiting for the land to be sold for redevelopment. Usually, there were hardly any people.

       When Chen Yuncheng went there, he didn’t expect anyone and asked Ning Junyan to watch over first. When he tried to get into the empty factory building through the broken window, a stone was thrown at him and hit him right on the buttocks.

       At that time, Chen Yuncheng was a little stunned, and pop his head out of the window, and asked Ning Junyan who was standing by the window, “Yanyan, did you hit me?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t answer but looked in the direction where the stone was thrown. Chen Yuncheng followed his line of sight, only to find a young man sitting on a dilapidated wall over there.

       He was one of those gangsters who used to bully him.

       Ning Junyan didn’t say anything and walked directly toward the boy.

       The young man was acting haughty and smiled when he saw Ning Junyan coming over. He held a small stone in his hand, and said, “What do you want?”

       Ning Junyan bent down and picked up a large stone from the ground, and threw it directly at the young man on the wall. The stone hit the young man on the shoulder, causing him to lose his balance on the wall and suddenly fell backwards.

       Chen Yuncheng was startled, and hurriedly ran over to grab Ning Junyan’s arm and ran out.

       Ning Junyan didn’t know why Chen Yuncheng wanted to run, but he wouldn’t resist if Chen Yuncheng pulled him along. The two of them stepped on the weeds and scraps of the old factory, turned their heads, ran out, and all the way back to their foster parents’ yard.

       It wasn’t dark yet, but the foster father and mother had already returned to the room.

       The two of them ran in. Chen Yuncheng didn’t catch his breath, so he hurriedly locked the courtyard door. Before locking the door, he went out and looked around, and then leaned behind the door and gasped for breath.

      Ning Junyan was also panting, and as he did so, his eyes fell on Chen Yuncheng and noticed that Chen Yuncheng had a long piece of grass dust on his head at some point. He reached out to pick it off, and used the grass to rub it against Chen Yuncheng’s face.

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t have the energy to slap him away, and only said, “Stop it.”

       Ning Junyan threw the grass aside.

       After a while, Chen Yuncheng went to pick up the grass and threw it into the trash can in the corner, he said to Ning Junyan, “Don’t mess with them, there are just too many of them. If you mess with them, they will keep looking for you, it’s very annoying.”

       He didn’t know if Ning Junyan heard and understood it or not.

       Chen Yuncheng walked over to the plastic basin, turned on the faucet, splashed cold water, and washed his face. He then raised his head with water all over his face and asked Ning Junyan, “Are you taking a shower?”

       Ning Junyan nodded and walked over.

       Chen Yuncheng took off all his clothes and didn’t bother to enter the basin, so he stepped into the basin and stood directly under the faucet to rinse.

       He didn’t dare to rinse for too long, as he was afraid that the foster mother would hear the voice and scold them for wasting water, so he quickly climbed out and let Ning Junyan, who had already taken off his clothes, go in to take a cold shower, and ran away to get a dry towel to wipe his body.

       The next day, Chen Yuncheng caught a cold.

       He didn’t know why he caught a cold. He was usually in good health, and it wasn’t the first time he took a cold shower, but this time he caught a cold.

       Early in the morning, Chen Yuncheng sneezed several times, yet his foster parents still urged him to take Ning Junyan out to work quickly.

       The foster mother also said to him, “The cold will clear up on its own in a few days, don’t be fussy.”

       Chen Yuncheng felt that he was not being fussy, but that he was dizzy and had little energy.

       The two of them came out of the yard.

       Chen Yuncheng said to Ning Junyan as he walked forward, “Let’s not go far today.”

       Ning Junyan nodded and followed him silently.

       As a result, by noon, they met the group of gangsters. Including the boy he met yesterday, there were five or six people in the other party, all of whom were older than Ning Junyan.

       Chen Yuncheng wanted to slip away, but he was drowsy and didn’t run in the right direction, and was finally surrounded by the group of people in the old factory.

       This was the first time Chen Yuncheng had really seen Ning Junyan fight someone.

       Ning Junyan must have learned about it. However, Chen Yuncheng didn’t understand it either. He knew that some children would learn Taekwondo, Judo, or something. He didn’t know what Ning Junyan had learned, but he fights in a systematic way.

       If it was just an organized martial art style or a series of martial arts routines, Ning Junyan shouldn’t be the opponent of those children who had grown up in society, but he had an unstoppable ruthlessness in him.

       The five or six teenagers had originally scattered in order to surround them, and when at first two people come to him, one of them was beaten by Ning Junyan before the other one shouted for someone to come.

       When the group of people gathered, Ning Junyan first protected Chen Yuncheng in a corner, and would not let anyone approach Chen Yuncheng. Later, he couldn’t hold back too many people by himself. After being pulled away, someone took Chen Yuncheng out and kicked him to the ground.

       It was not that Chen Yuncheng couldn’t resist, but after all, he was several years younger, thinner, and smaller, and his strength was a lot worse than that of the man opposite him. He fell to the ground, the man reached out and grabbed his shirt to pick him up, he lowered his head and bit the man’s hand, heard the other man scream in pain, and then he was slapped in the face, and his ears were buzzing sound.

       Ning Junyan rushed over at this moment, he no longer cared about others, he just pressed the boy who had attacked Chen Yuncheng to the ground and punched him all on the boy.

       The fight turned out to be extremely violent afterwards.

       Not only Chen Yuncheng and Ning Junyan were in a bad state, but the other group was also in a bad state. Ning Junyan’s head was covered in blood, but he still stood in front of Chen Yuncheng, looking at the person opposite him coldly, as if he would fight to the death if anyone dared to touch Chen Yuncheng.

       He didn’t know who in the group of teenagers said first, “Forget it, let’s go.” The others followed him and left. They didn’t want to fight with Ning Junyan, nor did they want to beat him to death here, so they retreated first.

       Only then did Ning Junyan turn to look at Chen Yuncheng.

       One of Chen Yuncheng’s trouser legs was torn, and a wound on his leg was bleeding. His face and eyes were swollen. When he opened his mouth to speak, he frowned when the wound was pulled, but he still asked Ning Junyan, “Are you alright? “

       This was not the first time that these gangsters had clashed with Chen Yuncheng. If it wasn’t for Ning Junyan’s tough attitude, they would not have attacked so hard, so this was the first time that Chen Yuncheng had been beaten so badly.

       But Chen Yuncheng didn’t blame Ning Junyan, he still remembered how Ning Junyan tried his best to protect him.

       When the two returned to the yard with their wounds, even the foster father was taken aback and took them to a nearby small clinic for the doctor to treat the wounds.

       At that time, the doctor examined them briefly and found that neither of them had any broken bones, only soft tissue contusions or skin lacerations. As for whether the internal organs were injured, the small clinic couldn’t detect them.

       The foster father didn’t plan to take them to the hospital. He simply took them back after the wounds were treated. On the way back, he scolded them while walking, blaming them for causing trouble outside and wasting his money.

       Later, Chen Yuncheng would think that it was fortunate that both he and Ning Junyan were lucky to have survived so many beatings without hurting their bones or internal organs, otherwise they might not be alive now.

       After they returned, Chen Yuncheng was in pain as if his whole body was about to fall apart, and all he wanted to do was to lie down in bed and rest.

       But after he and Ning Junyan had gone into the room, the foster mother appeared at the door again and cursed angrily at them.

       Chen Yuncheng sat on the edge of the bed with his head down and did not speak, while Ning Junyan stood at the end of the bed and kept looking at the foster mother who was scolding them at the door.

       After a while, Chen Yuncheng heard that the foster mother suddenly stopped talking. He raised his head and saw the foster mother staring at Ning Junyan with wide eyes, so he also looked at Ning Junyan.

       The lights in the room were not bright, and Ning Junyan had gauze wrapped around his head, but he could still see the expression on his foster mother’s face with a grim calmness.

       The foster mother pointed at him and said, “Why are you looking at me like that? Do you not agree with me?”

       Chen Yuncheng noticed Ning Junyan’s right arm dropping to his side, and the right thumb resting on the trouser leg slowly over the other knuckles between his fingers. He quickly stood up, walked over, grabbed Ning Junyan’s hand, and said, “You’ve hurt your head again, what if it’s even worse now?”

       Ning Junyan didn’t speak, only looking down at his hand that was being held.

       Chen Yuncheng looked at his foster mother and said, “Foster mother, he has a head injury.”

       The foster mother realized that Ning Junyan was originally a fool and did not want to continue to be angry with the fool, so she walked away with a cold face.

       Chen Yuncheng walked over and closed the door, then came back and took Ning Junyan’s hand, saying, “Go to sleep.”

       They didn’t even take a shower, just took off their dirty clothes and climbed into bed.

       Chen Yuncheng was so tired that he didn’t even have the energy to talk to Ning Junyan, so he fell asleep immediately. It was only in the middle of the night that he woke up from the pain of accidentally touching the wound on his leg and felt Ning Junyan sleeping close to him with a bloody smell. Vaguely, he reached out and touched Ning Junyan’s head, and soon fell asleep again.


Notes:
Ning Junyan is kinda weird ngl, he gave out a psychopath kinda vibe ( ̄□ ̄;)


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Chapter 17

       Guan Anlin actually didn’t want to do anything to Chen Yuncheng. He only appeared here tonight just to meet Chen Yuncheng.

       He heard Chen Yuncheng’s voice in the darkness, and knowing that the other party could not see him, he reached out to stop the man, but he did not expect the man behind Chen Yuncheng to strike without mercy.

       Guan Anlin’s family was poor. After graduating from junior high school, he came out to work in society and was imprisoned for two years. He had fought countless fights since he was a child, and few of them could be his opponent, but the man in front of him was very strong. Once the man grabbed his neck, he held it firmly, and it made him feel suffocated almost instantly.

       He twisted his hand and tried to pull his fingers free while raising his knee to kick at the other man.

       The man reacted quickly, raising his leg to block his leg, and at the same time, his hand was gripping harder, choking Guan Anlin to the point where he almost lost the ability to resist.

       At this time, Chen Yuncheng grabbed the hand that was choking Guan Anlin’s neck, and said hastily, “This is my friend, let go first.”

       The indifferent Ning Junyan turned to look at Chen Yuncheng before slowly releasing the hand that was choking Guan Anlin.

       Guan Anlin stepped back and leaned against the wall, raised his hand to cover his neck, coughed twice in pain, then looked at Ning Junyan next to Chen Yuncheng, and hesitated to raise a hand to strike again.

       This time, Chen Yuncheng grabbed his arm, frowned, and said, “Are you here to fight today?”

       Guan Anlin didn’t speak, but still stared at Ning Junyan fiercely for a while, then turned to look at Chen Yuncheng and said, “I’m here to find you.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “Are you free to have a good chat with me?”

       Ning Junyan stood quietly beside Chen Yuncheng without speaking.

       Guan Anlin said, “I’m free, but you don’t seem to be free.”

       Chen Yuncheng knew that Guan Anlin minded Ning Junyan’s presence here, but he was unwilling to make Ning Junyan leave now for Guan Anlin’s sake, so he said, “We still have plenty of time to talk as long as you want.”

       Guan Anlin turned around and left.

       “Anlin!” Chen Yuncheng shouted at him, “Are you planning to continue following Zhang Wenyong?”

       Guan Anlin stopped, turned around, and said, “What does it have to do with you?”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “As I said, Zhang Wenyong only has money in his eyes, and everything he wants you to do is to use you. If he really considered you a brother, he wouldn’t have encouraged you to do those things!”

       Guan Anlin was moved, turned around, and strode closer to Chen Yuncheng, “You think of me as a brother? You think of me as a brother but you would stand by and watch me go to jail?”

       Ning Junyan took half a step forward at this time, blocking half of Chen Yuncheng’s body, and preventing Guan Anlin from approaching.

       Guan Anlin then stopped again, laughed self-deprecatingly, and turned to leave again.

       Chen Yuncheng shouted at his back, “Have you ever thought that if you hadn’t been in jail for two years, you might have been arrested and sentenced to ten or twenty years? I’m sorry, but what else could I have done then?”

       Guan Anlin didn’t look back this time and kept walking along the street, his back gradually becoming blurred under the streetlights.

       Chen Yuncheng sighed.

       Ning Junyan turned to look at him, “Let’s go back?”

       Chen Yuncheng nodded, “Yeah.”

       The two stopped at the door of Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk.

       Chen Yuncheng’s mood was not too good. He squatted down, unlocked it with the key, and pulled the shutter door halfway up. When he looked up at Ning Junyan, his expression changed into a smile again and said, “I’ll call you a taxi.”

       Ning Junyan stood under the streetlight, his shadow was stretched and half of it overlapped Chen Yuncheng’s body, he asked, “Why calling me a taxi?”

       Chen Yuncheng said with a smile, “You’ve been gone for so long to bring me back, and I can’t take you back again, so it’s not too much to call a taxi for you, right?”

       Ning Jun said, “It’s not too much.”

       Chen Yuncheng lowered his head and used the taxi app to call for a taxi. When he entered the address, he stopped and looked up at Ning Junyan, “Where do you live?”

       Ning Junyan said, “I’ll just get a taxi directly.”

       Chen Yuncheng said quickly, “No, I want to take you back safely.” He handed the phone to Ning Junyan, “You can get lost by yourself.”

       Ning Junyan took his cell phone and entered the address of the community where he lived now.

       When he was typing, Chen Yuncheng stood beside him and looked at him, and suddenly said, “After not seeing you for so many years, you’re still so good at fighting. I thought you’d become rusty after becoming a doctor and rarely fight with people.”

       Ning Junyan returned the phone to him and said, “That’s a human instinct, and it’s impossible to be rusty as long as one lives.”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled and tapped the button for calling a car. When he saw that the taxi was coming in five minutes, he put away his phone and said, “But you’d better not get into a fight with just anyone right now.”

       Ning Junyan said, “I know how far I should go. I won’t hurt anyone.”

       “I know you have a sense of propriety,” Chen Yuncheng said, “I’m just afraid you’ll accidentally hurt your hand. You’re going to have an operation, your hand is so valuable now!”

       Ning Junyan looked at him quietly. After a while, he raised his hand and stretched it out in front of Chen Yuncheng. The hand that was very precious in Chen Yuncheng’s eyes was also very beautiful. The fingers were slender, with well-defined joints. The nails were trimmed short and round, and they were also very clean.

       For a moment, Chen Yuncheng almost thought that Ning Junyan was going to touch his face, but Ning Junyan just helped him tidy up the scarf around his neck with his hands, and his movements were gentle. It was clearly the same hand that had just firmly strangled Guan Anlin’s neck, almost choking him.

       When Ning Junyan retracted his hand, he said, “Don’t be upset.”

       Chen Yuncheng froze for a moment at his words and looked at him in a daze.

       By this time, the taxi Chen Yuncheng had called for Ning Junyan had arrived, and the driver parked the taxi on the side of the road.

       Ning Junyan said, “I’m leaving.”

       Chen Yuncheng seemed to have just regained his senses. He watched Ning Junyan get into the car, and followed him to the side of the car, waving to Ning Junyan through the taxi window that was lowered.

       Ning Junyan said to him, “You can find me if you need anything, anything at all.”

       Chen Yuncheng smiled again and said, “Alright.”

       The driver turned around and asked, “Can we go now?”

       Ning Junyan said, “Let’s go.”

       Chen Yuncheng took two steps back and stood on the side of the road watching the taxi leave.

       In Chen Yuncheng’s memory, Ning Junyan had never lost a fight with anyone.

       At that time, they lived on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by a factory, a large area of undeveloped wasteland, and old houses and streets cluttering the city-rural area.

       The surrounding environment was messy.

       Chen Yuncheng had a problem with a group of gangsters who hadn’t graduated from the junior high school nearby. In fact, he didn’t offend them, but he was often dirty like a little beggar. The gangsters would cuss him, and even throw stones when they saw him.

       He couldn’t deal with so many of them by himself, so he always hides when he could, and didn’t confront them head-on. It was only when Ning Junyan came that the situation changed.


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Side Story 4

       Li Zhenran was very unhappy that Li Zhenruo carried him out the door, but unfortunately, he had no better and more convenient way, and finally let Li Zhenruo carry him into the car.

       While starting the car, Li Zhenruo put on a Bluetooth headset and called Song Jun, and the two made an appointment to meet at the zoo’s gate.

       There was an event at the zoo early morning on the first day of the New Year. In the morning, the residents nearby took their children to the zoo to participate in the events. It was over before noon, and the park was closed in the afternoon.

       It was already noon when Li Zhenruo and the others arrived, and they only saw two or three people coming out of the zoo, but almost no one went in. Sure enough, Li Zhenruo and Song Jun were stopped by the staff shortly after entering, saying that the event was over and the zoo was preparing to close and asked them to leave.

       Song Jun pulled the staff member and whispered a few words, and the staff member turned to look at Li Zhenruo, then turned and left.

       Li Zhenruo was a little puzzled, “Is your sphere of influence so big?” It seemed like any random person he met on the road could be a demon.

       Song Jun said, “It’s not that big, but it’s more than you can imagine. Let’s go.”

       He took Li Zhenruo to the giant panda house.

       Li Zhenran stayed quietly in Li Zhenruo’s arms with a serious expression.

       The giant panda pavilion in the zoo was renovated last year. The whole panda pavilion was clean, and the glass was polished and transparent.

       Li Zhenruo followed behind Song Jun, leaned against the glass and looked inside, and saw three giant pandas inside; one was lying on the rockery, the other was lying down and sleeping, and the other was sitting and nibbling on bamboo.

       Li Zhenruo found that he couldn’t tell which one was the giant panda last night.

       In the end, the giant panda sitting and nibbling on the bamboo was the first to notice them, and when he raised his head to look at them, he was suddenly stunned, his mouth opened, and the bamboo in his mouth fell.

       Li Zhenruo asked Song Jun, “Is it him?”

       Song Jun also pressed himself against the glass and nodded, “En,” before waving to the panda.

       Li Zhenran also straightened up slightly and looked inside.

       The giant pandas were still stunned, looking at them with open mouths.

       Li Zhenruo asked strangely, “What happened to him?”

       Song Jun obviously didn’t understand either, so he raised his hand and knocked on the glass.

       The giant panda who had been sleeping was awakened by his knock and lazily raised its head to look at them before falling back to sleep again.

       The other giant panda, who was dazed in place, finally moved. It took another bite of the bamboo, patted its chest with his paws, and slowly crawled in their direction.

       Song Jun seemed to have a good relationship with the giant panda. He pressed against the glass and said, “I brought that round-faced cat to see you.”

       Li Zhenruo gave Song Jun a dissatisfied look.

       The giant panda didn’t seem to hear it. He climbed to the front of the glass, stood up against the glass, patted his front paws on the glass, and stared intently in Li Zhenruo’s direction. However, he was not looking at Li Zhenruo but at Li Zhenran in his arms.

       Li Zhenran was inexplicable and tilted his head slightly.

       The giant panda wiped the glass with its paws, looked at Li Zhenran seriously for a while, and suddenly covered its chest with both paws and fell backwards.

       Song Jun and Li Zhenruo were both startled, and Li Zhenran’s eyes widened.

       After the giant panda lay down on the ground, it kept covering its chest and started rolling from side to side, making a “woo woo” sound from its mouth.

       Song Jun patted the glass nervously, “Giant panda?”

       The giant panda rolled for a while and finally stopped. He flexibly rolled over from the ground, lay down in front of the glass, pointed at Li Zhenran and said, “Give him to me.”

       Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran, moved back more than ten steps in a row and looked at the giant panda warily.

       Song Jun was confused, “What’s with that?”

       The panda said, “It’s real this time. It’s love at first sight.”

       “Huh?” Song Jun looked surprised, then suddenly realised, turned his head to look at Li Zhenran in Li Zhenruo’s arms.

       Li Zhenran’s face seemed to darken even more. He breathed heavily and was suppressing his anger.

       Li Zhenruo hugged Li Zhenran tightly and said, “Don’t you come over. I won’t give it to you.”

       The giant panda patted the glass, and he seemed a little dazed, “Isn’t this cat the one from last night?”

       Song Jun pointed at Li Zhenruo, “Sober up. The one holding the cat was the cat last night. Didn’t you fall in love with him at first sight?”

       The giant panda scratched his head in distress, “I was originally, but this black and white one was made just like the lover of my dreams.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words and said, “Don’t even think about it!”

       “Huh?” The giant panda grimaced.

       Song Jun said in a low voice, “I told you last night that Garfield is my master’s apprentice. The Garfield he holds is his lover, so you should give up.”

       When the giant panda heard Song Jun’s words, his disappointment was immediately written on his face, “Why is this…”

       Song Jun comforted him, “Your species is different. You should stop thinking about it, and just find a giant panda at ease.”

       Although he said that, the giant panda didn’t seem to give up altogether. He kept staring at Li Zhenran, and after a while, he asked Li Zhenruo strangely, “Why do you want to be with a cat exactly like you?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly burst out, “You still ask me! He just ate the medicine pill you gave me last night and became like this. He is a person! Not a cat!”

       Song Jun put his index finger to his lips, “Shh—don’t attract the staff’s attention!”

       The giant panda opened its mouth in wonder, “Huh?”

       Later, Song Jun also said, “That black and white Garfield, whose name is Li Zhenran, was originally a person, but he ate the elixir you gave to Zhenruo last night, and he became like this.”

       The giant panda stretched out his claws and scratched his butt, “Isn’t that an elixir to improve cultivation?”

       Song Jun shook his head, “It doesn’t seem that simple.”

       The giant panda was stunned, “I don’t know. I bought it at an auction, and I thought it was an elixir to improve one’s cultivation.”

       Song Jun looked at him suspiciously, “You really don’t know?”

       The panda was a little aggrieved, “Chunjun, you suspect me.”

       Song Jun asked him, “Then how do you explain why he turned into this colour?”

       The giant panda scratched his chin, “Yeah, that’s weird.”

       Li Zhenruo put Li Zhenran on the ground and said to him, “You are not allowed to go there!” Then he walked to the glass and asked the panda, “Why did you give me that elixir?”

       The giant panda calmly said, “I like you.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “You change your heart so fast. Your love is worthless.”

       The giant panda was hit hard and looked at Li Zhenruo with wide eyes.

       When he looked at the panda’s reaction, Li Zhenruo also felt that his words were too harsh, but no matter what, he had to dispel the panda’s idea of ​​Li Zhenran as soon as possible, so he said, “We are trying to find a way to change my second brother back to his original form. He was not a cat at all. He looks like a cat exactly like me, but the fur is black and white, so we wondered if it had something to do with you.”

       The giant panda said aggrievedly, “It has nothing to do with me.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Then do you have a way to make him return to the original?”

       The giant panda looked in the direction of Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenruo blocked his sight so that he could not see it.

       The panda said, “Let me see it.”

       Song Jun asked him at this time, “You don’t have a solution, do you?”

       The panda looked down at Song Jun and admitted, “I don’t even know what’s going on. Of course, I had no solution.”

       Although he knew it was likely that the giant panda had nothing to do with it, Li Zhenruo still couldn’t help but be a little disappointed.

       “Hey!” The giant panda stopped him, “I can’t go out now. Let’s go to the amusement park tonight. I’ll study what’s going on. After listening to you guys, I also think it has something to do with me.”

       Li Zhenruo looked at him suspiciously, “You won’t have any thoughts on my second brother, will you?”

       The giant panda lowered his head, “Um—” after thinking for a while, he raised his head and said to him, “I don’t like him anymore when he becomes a human.”

       Li Zhenruo warned him, “You are not allowed to change your mind even if he can’t become a human!”

       The giant panda pouted and poked his fingers on the glass. He didn’t answer Li Zhenruo for a long time and finally raised his head reluctantly and said, “Let’s talk about it at night.”


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Side Story 3

       Xia Hongshen made a phone call and hung up after a couple of brief explanations.

       Song Jun approached and asked him, “Is it Master Yun Po?”

       Xia Hongshen replied “En” and turned his head to see that Li Zhenruo was still scratching the cat, and suddenly felt that his back seemed to be itching as well.

       “Master?” Li Zhenruo picked up the funny cat stick beside the bed and didn’t ask where it came from. He shook in front of Li Zhenran and asked Xia Hongshen, “When will your friend arrive?”

       Li Zhenran turned his head and closed his eyes.

       Xia Hongshen watched the funny cat stick dangling in front of his eyes and said casually, “It can be as soon as a day or two or a month or two later.”

       “Ah?” Li Zhenruo stopped, “Then what should we do?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “What can we do?”

       Li Zhenruo combed Li Zhenran’s hair with her fingers, “Does that friend of yours have a solution?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “If you give enough money, there is usually a way.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help sighing, “If it’s just about money, that’s the best solution.”

       After speaking, he couldn’t help burying his face on Li Zhenran’s back again and then giggled twice.

       It was useless to delay time here in Xia Hongshen, but Li Zhenran definitely had no way to return to Li’s house like this. Li Zhenruo considered whether to take him out for a walk or go back to Li Zhenran’s apartment to live in the world of two cats.

       Before he made up his mind, Li Zhenruo heard the sound of the closing and locking of a car from downstairs. He carried Li Zhenran and walked to the window to have a look. He saw his boss’ Hummer parked on the roadside. Luo Fei and Feng Junyuan were walking toward the small building.

       Today was the first day of the New Year, and Li Zhenruo suddenly felt it was like Luo Fei was accompanying his wife back to her mother’s house.

       Suddenly, Li Zhenruo felt Li Zhenran pulling him in his arms.

       He lowered his head and saw that Li Zhenran was looking up at him, his eyes were dark and translucent, and after a while, he reluctantly made a “meow”. This was the first sound of Li Zhenran’s meow after he became a cat. Li Zhenruo understood it; Li Zhenran told him to go.

       “Let’s go?” Li Zhenruo was a little unsure, but he quickly realised that Li Zhenran probably didn’t want to be seen by Luo Fei.

       He then carried Li Zhenran and said to Xia Hongshen, “Master, I’ll go first. Let me know if there is any news.”

       Xia Hongshen didn’t mean to stop them and waved his hand to let him go. Li Zhenruo was thinking about sending a can of canned food to Xia Hongshen first. If he liked it and he hurried up, he would then bring him the rest of the canned food.

       Just as he walked out of Xia Hongshen’s room with Li Zhenran in his arms, he met Luo Fei and Feng Junyuan who were approaching.

       When Feng Junyuan saw that he was carrying a cat, he asked him curiously, “Where did the cat come from?”

       “Oh,” Li Zhenruo said with a smile, “My friend’s cat.”

       Feng Junyuan saw that he was going to leave, “Are you leaving?”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “I come to say New Year’s greetings to Master and leave after I’m done.”

       However, as soon as he finished saying that, Luo Fei suddenly said, “Wait.”

       Li Zhenran raised his head from Li Zhenruo’s arms and looked at Luo Fei vigilantly. Luo Fei looked at Li Zhenran repeatedly for a moment, and said to Li Zhenruo, “This cat looks very much like you.”

       Li Zhenruo replied casually, “All Garfield looks the same.”

       Luo Fei frowned slightly, but in the end, he didn’t say anything. He only said to Li Zhenruo, “Say hello to Zhenran for me and wish him a happy new year.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Thank you, and I wish you a happy new year, boss.”

       When Li Zhenruo left with the cat in his arms, Feng Junyuan saw Luo Fei’s thoughtful look and asked, “What are you thinking about?”

       Luo Fei shook his head and said, “There’s something familiar about that cat’s scent.”

       Feng Junyuan’s face turned red suspiciously, and said, “It’s so cute, I want to touch it.”

       Luo Fei said with a smile, “If you want to touch it, then touch it.”

       Feng Junyuan shook his head, “When I was about to reach out, the cat was unhappy when I saw it.”

       Luo Fei said with a smile, “Its temper not bad for a small one.”

       Li Zhenruo came out of the small building with Li Zhenran in his arms and thought with a sigh of relief that fortunately, Luo Fei didn’t see him. Otherwise, Li Zhenran would definitely be angry.

       He opened the driver’s door, put Li Zhenran in the passenger seat, and asked with a sigh, “What now?”

       Li Zhenran stared coldly ahead.

       Li Zhenruo knew he was still unhappy, so he could only say, “It’s useless for you to be upset. I didn’t mean to. I thought that was really an elixir of immortality and wanted you to live longer…”

       Li Zhenran finally turned to look at him.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I will try my best to find a way; you won’t be like this forever. Even if it is the elixir of Taishang Laojun, it is impossible to turn a person into a cat directly, right? It’s faster than reincarnation.”

       At this time, Li Zhenran finally reluctantly made a “meow”.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Let’s go home?”

       Li Zhenran nodded.

       There was no way for them to return to the Li family. The apartment in the city was being cleaned all the time, and there was no problem going there at any time.

       Back at home, Li Zhenruo put Li Zhenran on the ground and went over to open the window for ventilation.

       Li Zhenran turned on the TV with his paw and then jumped to the coffee table to press the remote control. Li Zhenruo opened the window and came back to see that he was having a hard time pressing it, so he walked over and bent down and picked up the remote control to help him press it.

       As a result, he looked down and saw Li Zhenran staring at him coldly, silently put the remote control back under his paws, and couldn’t help but whisper, “How come you’ve turned into a cat and gotten grumpy?”

       Li Zhenran pressed the remote control with his paw to change channels.

       Li Zhenruo sat on the sofa and reached out and poked Li Zhenran’s tail, but Li Zhenran immediately swung his tail to the other side.

       “Second brother…” Li Zhenruo called him.

       Li Zhenran pretended not to hear it.

       Li Zhenruo knew that Li Zhenran would not pay attention to him. The most important thing at this time was to have thick skin, so he turned into a cat and jumped on the coffee table, sitting right next to Li Zhenran who was watching TV. After a while, he stretched out his paws and pulled him.

       Li Zhenran moved away a bit.

       Li Zhenruo stretched out his tail slowly and hooked his tail in a circle.

       Li Zhenran pulled his tail out calmly.

       Unwilling to give up, Li Zhenruo stretched out his tail again, hooked the tip of his tail, and then moved his butt over to sit next to him.

       This time, Li Zhenran raised his paw and pressed his head to push him away.

       “Meow~” Li Zhenruo began to call her brother pitifully.

       However, Li Zhenran ignored him.

       He raised his claws and scratched his head, and Li Zhenruo felt he had to do something to attract Li Zhenran’s attention. He was a little confused about this and finally went to Li Zhenran and lay down and raised his tail.

       Li Zhenran looked at the hairy buttocks in front of him and the small hole in the middle and couldn’t help raising one leg and kicking it.

       Li Zhenruo was kicked forward by him and almost fell off the coffee table. When he turned his head and was about to get angry, he heard his mobile phone ringing, so he ignored Li Zhenran’s side and turned into a human form to answer the phone.

       The call was from Song Jun. When he saw the name, Li Zhenruo thought Xia Hongshen’s friend had arrived. However, when the call was answered, Song Jun asked if he wanted to go to the zoo.

       “Zoo?” Li Zhenruo was inexplicable. He sat on the ground next to the coffee table and stretched out his fingers to tease Li Zhenran.

       Li Zhenran turned his head coldly.

       Song Jun said, “The giant panda asked Luo Fei to send tickets, saying that the zoo has activities and inviting us to play.”

       Li Zhenruo asked him strangely, “Are you and the giant panda very close?”

       Song Jun replied, “Not bad, but he seems to want to meet you.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “See me? Why did he want to see me?”

       Song Jun said, “It seems he knows about the elixir, and he felt a little sorry. He said he want to see if he could be of any help.”

       Li Zhenruo reached out and grabbed Li Zhenran’s tail and wagged it. He pondered and asked, “The giant panda is very powerful, isn’t it?”

       Song Jun thought for a while, “How can I put it? He should have a good background, after all, he is a national treasure, but I don’t know to what extent. Of course, if he is rich, he should not be as rich as his senior brother. “

       Li Zhenruo hesitated for a moment and felt that he should go see the giant panda. The matter of why the giant panda gave him this thing and why Li Zhenran turned black and white, he should ask clearly.

       He asked Song Jun, “Are you going?”

       Song Jun said, “Senior Brother Xia doesn’t want to go, but if you need it, I can accompany you.”

       Li Zhenruo said quickly, “Come with me. I’m not familiar with giant pandas.”

       Song Jun agreed, “Okay.”

       He hung up the phone, and Li Zhenruo squatted in front of Li Zhenran, “Come on, let’s go see the giant panda.”

       Li Zhenran looked at him this time and made a soft “meow”.

       Li Zhenruo said, “I’ve got nothing to do with him…”

       Li Zhenran obviously didn’t believe it, and he asked Li Zhenruo: Does he like you?

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “We’ve only met once.”

       Love at first sight?

       “He’s a giant panda, right? The species are different.”

       What does he mean by giving you something?

       Li Zhenruo reached out and grabbed his beard and pulled it, and Li Zhenran almost bit him.

       “I just didn’t understand what he meant by giving me something, so I wanted to find out. I’m bringing you with me; why are you jealous.”

       After speaking, Li Zhenruo stretched a hand to Li Zhenran, “Let’s go?”

       Li Zhenran looked at him for a moment, then slowly raised a paw and placed it on his palm.


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Chapter 16

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t move and simply said, “I’m not cold.” He actually had a pretty rough life, and even in the coldest winter, he didn’t wear a scarf or gloves when he went out. And now that he was in a well-heated room, he felt hot.

       Ning Junyan had already put on his coat. When he heard what Chen Yuncheng said, he reached out, took off the scarf, and said, “Let’s go then.”

       Chen Yuncheng felt the softness on his neck disappear in an instant. He saw that Ning Junyan was holding the scarf in his hand, and the other hand opened the office door and walked out, so he immediately followed.

       They passed by the nurses’ station.

       A young nurse raised her head and greeted, “Chief Ning.”

       Ning Junyan nodded, his attitude looking a little cold.

       Chen Yuncheng walked beside Ning Junyan and asked him, “You are already the chief? That impressive?”

       Ning Junyan said calmly, “It’s deputy chief.”

       Chen Yuncheng said with a smile, “That’s also very impressive.” He actually did not know that at Ning Junyan’s age, being able to become a deputy chief surgeon in this top three hospital was not something that could be simply described by the word ‘very impressive’.

       They took the elevator downstairs.

       Originally, Ning Junyan wanted to drive, but Chen Yuncheng said, “Why don’t you take a taxi? I’ll treat you to dinner today. You can have some drink if you don’t drive.”

       Ning Junyan had already pressed the underground floor button, but he then reached out and pressed the light on the first floor and said, “Okay.”

       They passed through the hall on the first floor of the inpatient building and came out of the garden from the main entrance, and the cold wind hit them instantly.

       Chen Yuncheng gathered up his lapel subconsciously.

       Ning Junyan stopped and once again hung the scarf around his neck. He then wrapped it around his neck and said, “It’s cold now.”

       Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and touched the scarf. The scarf was light grey with a dark grey logo on it. He was unfamiliar with these brands, but the scarf’s texture was as soft as cashmere, and the labels were all in English. It shouldn’t have cost cheap, and although the scarf didn’t have a tag, it looked new, and the folds were all neat and tidy.

       “Is this a gift for me, or do you want to lend it to me to wear?” Chen Yuncheng asked with a smile in order to ease the awkward atmosphere.

       Ning Junyan said, “It’s a gift for you.”

       Chen Yuncheng walked with him towards the hospital gate and asked, “Why did you give me a scarf? I’m not afraid of cold.”

       After a while, Ning Jun said, “It looks good.”

       Chen Yuncheng paused in his footsteps.

       Ning Junyan stopped and turned to look at him.

       The scarf was indeed quite nice, fuzzy, and soft around Chen Yuncheng’s neck. It made him look like he was several years younger. It was as if he was a college boy shopping with his girlfriend.

       Chen Yuncheng smiled and said, “Thank you.”

       It was Chen Yuncheng who chose the place for dinner, as he insisted on treating today, and invited Ning Junyan to a hot pot restaurant with a decent ambience.

       This kind of weather was suitable for eating hotpot, and everything was shrouded in a layer of steam.

       When Chen Yuncheng took off his coat, he also took off the scarf. He carefully folded the scarf a few times, wrapped it inside the coat, and then asked the waiter to cover it with a cloth cover.

       When it was time to finish eating, Chen Yuncheng took the scarf out and put it under his nose, and sniffed it. He was satisfied that it did not smell like a hotpot.

       As they stood outside the hotpot restaurant, Ning Junyan said to Chen Yuncheng, “Let me take you back first.”

       “No need,” Chen Yuncheng put on the scarf, then looked up at him, “You should take a taxi and go back to rest.”

       Ning Junyan disagreed and still said, “I’ll take you back first.”

       Chen Yuncheng said, “It’s quite close for me to go back from here, and it just so happens that I ate a bit too much in the evening. So I will take a walk back.”

       Ning Junyan said, “I’ll walk with you.”

       In the end, Chen Yuncheng smiled and said, “Let’s go.”

       They walked slowly along the street together.

       This area was quite close to Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk. There were old urban areas nearby, where one could see tall buildings as well as old buildings and old shops.

       In this way, walking along the street with Ning Junyan reminded Chen Yuncheng of many things in his childhood.

       Back then, when the two of them went out to steal things, they often went out without any money on them and could not even afford to take the bus, so they walked along the street.

       Their foster parents’ compound was on the city’s outskirts, and they did not dare to steal too often nearby for fear of being recognised. So they could only walk along the street to the intersection of the city centre with dense traffic. The furthest they had walked was for two hours, as Chen Yuncheng remembered.

       Ning Junyan’s shoes didn’t fit. When they got there, they sat down in the shade under the overpass. Ning Junyan took off the shoes, and there was a big bright blister on his heel.

       Chen Yuncheng didn’t dare to puncture the blisters, so he just found some toilet paper, kneaded it to make it soft, and wrapped his heel up.

       As the result, when he returned that night, the toilet paper was soaked in pale yellow tissue fluid and bright red blood, and it started to be mushy as it stuck to Ning Junyan’s feet.

       The two of them hid in the room, and Ning Junyan sat on the edge of the bed while Chen Yuncheng squatted in front of him. Chen Yuncheng tore off the toilet paper a little bit, then brought in clean water to wash his feet, and then finally found a band-aid to put on Ning Junyan’s foot carefully.

       After putting it on, Chen Yuncheng squatted in front of Ning Junyan, looked up at him and smiled, and asked him, “Does it still hurt?”

       Ning Junyan shook his head.

       Chen Yuncheng picked up the basin on the ground and went to the yard to pour the water.

       Walking like this put Chen Yuncheng back in a trance. Ning Junyan had grown taller and he himself had grown taller, yet he was still a few centimetres shorter than Ning Junyan.

       It was already dark, and they had been walking for almost half an hour. There were fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road.

       Ning Junyan spoke very little. After Chen Yuncheng gradually found the feeling of being in his childhood, he didn’t think that there was anything wrong with Ning Junyan not speaking. After all, from a long time ago their pattern of getting along was that he spoke and Ning Junyan listened, and he had long since gotten used to it.

       Near the front of Chen Yuncheng’s small kiosk, there was a building whose exterior wall was being repaired. A row of scaffolding was erected against the exterior wall. Pedestrians could only pass through the narrow passage between the shop on the bottom of the building and the scaffolding and had to be careful of the steel pipes under their feet and over their heads.

       Originally, because it was cold in winter and the street was blocked by scaffolding, there were few people in the street. The shops in this area did not do well in winter and were closed early because of the cold weather and the scaffolding.

       The light of the street lamps was blocked by a layer of wooden boards at the height of the second floor, and the narrow passage was suddenly very dark.

       Chen Yuncheng walked ahead and said to Ning Junyan, “Be careful.”

       Ning Junyan gave a soft “um”.

       Chen Yuncheng raised his hand and put the fallen scarf back on his shoulders. As he walked, he thought that when he got to the front of the kiosk, he would help Ning Junyan call for a taxi to take him back. After all, Ning Junyan accompanied him all the way, and since it was getting late, it would be inappropriate to invite Ning Junyan in.

       When he looked up, he saw a man smoking at the end of the narrow passage.

       At that time, Chen Yuncheng didn’t think too much, until when he was almost in front of the man, the red light suddenly went out, and the man stretched out a hand to Chen Yuncheng in the dark.

       Chen Yuncheng subconsciously retreated to the back, and Ning Junyan was behind him who reacted faster than Chen Yuncheng. He grabbed Chen Yuncheng’s shoulders and pulled him backwards, and he stepped around Chen Yuncheng’s side and met the outstretched hand.

       The person in the darkness froze for a moment and then went to push Ning Junyan.

       But no one saw how Ning Junyan did it, the next second he had already grabbed the man’s neck and pushed him backwards. They were already at the end of the passage, so Ning Junyan’s push pushed the man outside the passage, exposing his face to the light of the street lamp.

       Chen Yuncheng saw that the person who attacked him was Guan Anlin.


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I asked my friend who is a doctor if it was possible to become the deputy director of a tertiary hospital at the age of 30. She said it was difficult, and I thought it was not impossible, so I just display it casually.

By the way, doctor Ningis a great fighter, which will be explained in the next chapter


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Hey ho! Sorry for not updating Morbid Addiction for so long, I will try to compensate with multiple updates today (˶• ༝ •˶)
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Side Story 2

       Li Zhenruo was terrified because of his own thoughts, and the anger on Garfield’s face became more and more obvious.

       At this time, Li Zhenruo’s cell phone suddenly rang, he reached out to answer it and saw that it was a call from Song Jun.

       When the call was connected, Song Jun said to Li Zhenruo, “Happy New Year!”

       Li Zhenruo believed that Song Jun was definitely not calling early in the morning to pay respect for the New Year, but still said, “Happy New Year, what’s up so early?”

       Song Jun said, “Oh, I found the giant panda after you left last night and asked him why he gave you something. Guess what he said?”

       Li Zhenruo is actually not too in the mood to chat with Song Jun now, but she still asks, “What?”

       There was a smile in Song Jun’s tone, “He said he likes you.”

       “He likes me?” Li Zhenruo exclaimed in surprise.

       After he finished speaking, he felt the Garfield raise a paw on his waist, turned his head to see that the other party’s face had fallen down, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, “What does he like about me? We are of different species.”

       Song Jun seemed to be in a good mood, “He said that he had never seen a cat with such a round face, like a silver plate with a full moon, radiant.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his hand to cover his face, “I am thankful for his words…..”

       Song Jun’s voice over there holding in laughter was obvious, “So he said that he seemed to fall in love with you at first sight, but he wasn’t sure, after all, he still prefers pandas, and the things from last night were given to you as a gift, so you don’t have to be too concerned.”

       Li Zhenruo moved his mouth and found that he didn’t know what to say.

       Song Jun continued, “You really don’t need to worry too much, that little money is nothing to a giant panda, not to mention he has such a rich senior brother.”

       “Senior brother?” Li Zhenruo was distracted.

       Song Jun said, “You don’t know he is Luo Fei’s junior brother? Aren’t you working with Luo Fei?”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned, “I’ve never heard of this. Could it be that Luo Fei is also a giant panda?”

       Song Jun denied it, “He’s not. I haven’t seen Luo Fei’s real body, so I don’t know what he is.”

       “Anyway,” Li Zhenruo wanted to tell Song Jun about feeding his second brother the elixir last night, but Song Jun also said at the same time, “Anyway, I’m calling to tell you something.”

       So Li Zhenruo had to ask, “What’s the matter?”

       Song Jun’s tone was a little more serious, “Don’t take that elixir from last night just yet.”

       “Ah?” Li Zhenruo became nervous, straightened his back and knelt on the bed, “Is there a problem?”

       Song Jun said, “The auction ended last night, and Senior Brother Xia caught the person who brought the elixir to the auction. He admitted that this is not an elixir to improve cultivation at all.”

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly asked, “Then what is it? Will there be a problem with eating it?”

       Song Jun said to him, “I don’t know yet. It is said that the medicinal pill was indeed leaked from Taishang Laojun’s pill furnace, but the specific function is unknown for the time being. Senior brother said you had better bring it to let him find someone to look at.”

       “Ah—” Li Zhenruo exclaimed.

       Song Jun was taken aback, “What’s wrong?”

       Li Zhenruo turned her head and stared at Garfield lying beside the pillow, “It’s too late!”

       Song Jun couldn’t help but hurriedly ask, “Did you eat it? Did something happen?”

       Li Zhenruo swallowed hard, “I gave it to my second brother, and then—he seems to have turned into a cat…”

       The Garfield by the pillow looked at him coldly.

       Song Jun was silent for a moment, unable to hold back the “wow”, then took off his phone and seemed to say something to the person next to him.

       Li Zhenruo asked impatiently, “What should I do?”

       After a while, Song Jun answered him from the other side of the phone, “Are you serious?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Of course I’m serious!”

       Song Jun said, “Then you’d better bring your second brother here, maybe Senior Brother Xia has a solution.”

       Li Zhenruo could only answer, “Okay, I’ll be right here.”

       He hung up the phone, and Li Zhenruo timidly looked at his second brother.

       Most of the Garfield’s face was black as if it was used to brush the bottom of a pot, and his expression was extremely difficult to see.

       Li Zhenruo cautiously and tentatively called out, “Li Zhenran?”

       Garfield frowned slightly.

       In the cold winter, the doors and windows were closed. It was impossible for a wild cat to get in from the outside, and his second brother wouldn’t get up and go out so quietly and still hadn’t come back. If he looked at the door of the room, wasn’t it still locked at this time?

       Although the Garfield’s expression couldn’t be as rich as that of a human being, his second brother’s expression was not rich at all, and that frowning expression was clearly an expression of trying his best to endure.

       Li Zhenruo rushed towards him at once, “Second brother?”

       Li Zhenran nimbly dodged and ran to the end of the bed.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t give up and rushed over again, this time pressing Li Zhenran on the bed, but when his head was approaching, Li Zhenran raised a paw against his forehead, preventing him from getting close.

       But how does a cat’s strength compare to that of a human being? Li Zhenruo buried his face in Li Zhenran’s belly and rubbed it back and forth.

       Ah, so soft and warm!

       In the middle of the rub, Li Zhenruo also turned back into a cat, pressing Li Zhenran under him with force, hugging his neck with his paws, and licking his chin back and forth.

       Li Zhenran pulled him away and just wanted to get out of bed when Li Zhenruo rushed over and hugged him again.

       Although it was a little mean, Li Zhenruo thought that Li Zhenran was so cute, help!

       Li Zhenran disappeared early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, and Li Zhenruo still didn’t know how to explain it to the Li family.

       He found a sports shoulder bag from the cabinet in Li Zhenran’s room, stuffed Li Zhenran in it, and opened the door to go out.

       When he went down from the third floor to the second floor, Li Zhenruo met Li Zhenzi who had just come out of the room.

       Li Zhenzi’s hair was still dishevelled. He was wearing slippers, had sleepy eyes, and said to him, “Morning, Happy New Year.”

       Li Zhenruo lifted the backpack strap, nodded and said, “Morning.”

       Li Zhenzi saw that he had even put on his coat, so he asked, “Are you going out so early on the first day of the New Year?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t want to say more, just “Um.”

       Li Zhenzi followed him downstairs, always felt that he was a little weird, and asked, “Where’s my second brother?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “He has already gone out.”

       Li Zhen stood on the last stairway and stopped, “So early?”

       Li Zhenruo replied, “En, he was still waiting for me. If there is a delay outside, he might not be back in the next two days. Please tell Uncle Li for me.”

       Li Zhenzi looked at him strangely, “If it wasn’t so long ago, I would have suspected that you had killed my second brother and split up with him.”

       Li Zhenruo turned his head and gave him a blank look. Without saying anything, he walked to the entrance hall to change his shoes.

       On the first day of the New Year, the school was as deserted as the streets. The guard outside the school was almost reluctant to let Li Zhenruo in. Later, Li Zhenruo called Song Jun so the guard would open the door.

       After they got in the car, Li Zhenruo put Li Zhenran out of the sports bag.

       Li Zhenran had been very unhappy and was not even willing to exchange a few words with Li Zhenruo.

       Li Zhenruo wanted to tease him, and when he went out, he pulled a piece of grass and stretched it out in front of Li Zhenran’s eyes, but Li Zhenran pressed down the grass with a paw and looked at him blankly.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he could see Li Zhenran’s implicitly saying: Drive well!

       He parked the car under Xia Hongshen’s small building, Li Zhenruo wanted to get off the car with Li Zhenran in his arms, but Li Zhenran jumped off when he opened the car door.

       The Garfield’s entire face was originally slumped downwards, but now Li Zhenran’s face slumped even more, with a look of imposing manner that no strangers should approach.

       Li Zhenruo had no choice but to follow behind him.

       They went up to the second floor of the small building, and the door to the room on the right side of the stairs opened first. Long Xing came out wearing pyjamas and slippers and was surprised to see Li Zhenruo bringing a cat over.

       He trotted over and shouted, “Little Garfield, you brought a Garfield over here?”

       Li Zhenruo was powerless to correct him that his own name was not Garfield.

       Long Xing bent down, put his hands on his knees, looked down at Li Zhenran, and said in surprise, “You look just like you, but the fur colour is different, it’s not your brother, right?”

       Li Zhenruo whispered, “It’s my second brother.”

       “Your second brother?” Long Xing had heard of Li Zhenran, and his head was a little confused, “Isn’t your second brother…?”

       Li Zhenruo didn’t dare to say too much in front of Li Zhenran, and could only say, “It’s too complicated to explain it clearly for now. I’ll go to the master first and talk to you later.”

       “Okay,” Long Xing nodded obediently, “Go ahead.”

       As soon as they finished speaking, Song Jun had already opened the door of the room and greeted Li Zhenruo, “Come here, your master is already up.”

       When Li Zhenran heard this, he walked ahead in the direction of Song Jun’s room without looking back.

       Li Zhenruo hurriedly followed, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Xia Hongshen sitting by the bed in a coat and playing games.

       Song Jun squatted in front of Li Zhenran and said “wow”. He seemed to want to touch Li Zhenran’s head, but he felt it was not good, so he just said, “Garfield, your second brother looks exactly like you.”

       When he heard Song Jun’s words, Li Zhenruo also squatted down and looked at Li Zhenran carefully. It seemed that except for the colour of his coat, everything else looked exactly the same as him. Even then the colour of his coat and also the yellow parts of his body fur were all replaced with black fur.

       Li Zhenran looked at them blankly, trying to suppress his emotions.

       Li Zhenruo knew that he was in trouble, and felt sorry in his heart. He reached out to touch the top of Li Zhenran’s head, but Li Zhenran avoided him. Li Zhenruo didn’t give up and continued to reach out and touch, this time Li Zhenran raised his paw and opened his hand.

       The third time, Li Zhenruo turned into a cat and rushed up, pressing Li Zhenran to the ground and rubbing it, Li Zhenran was slapped by him indifferently, and when Li Zhenruo licked his lips at the end, he couldn’t help sticking out his tongue back. After licking it, Li Zhenruo suddenly looked at him with light.

       Song Jun hurriedly picked up his mobile phone from the bed, took more than ten photos of them, and planned to post them on Weibo.

       “Okay,” Xia Hongshen tapped on the bed with his cell phone at this time, “Show him to me.”

       Li Zhenruo turned back into a human form, grabbed Li Zhenran quickly, picked him up by the neck, and handed him to Xia Hongshen.

       Xia Hongshen didn’t reach out to pick it up, but just put the phone aside, looked at Li Zhenran carefully, and pondered, “It’s exactly the same.”

       Li Zhenruo put Li Zhenran on the ground, sat beside the bed and asked Xia Hongshen, “Master, what’s going on?”

       Xia Hongshen looked at him, “Why did you give it to him to eat?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little embarrassed to say it, but Xia Hongshen didn’t have to guess to know his little thought.

       Li Zhenran felt a little itchy on his back, but he didn’t want to really lift one leg to scratch the itch like a cat, so he jumped on Li Zhenruo’s leg and rubbed his stomach.

       This was the first time that Li Zhenran has been so close to him since he turned into a cat. Li Zhenruo was immediately flattered and scratched Li Zhenran’s chin, but he turned his head to avoid him and then saw his back rubbing against him, and quickly reached out to help him scratch the itch.

       While scratching, Li Zhenruo asked Xia Hongshen, “Master, what kind of medicine is this? Why is he like this?”

       Xia Hongshen touched his chin, “I don’t know either. There are so many things in Taishang Laojun’s pill furnace, and sometimes even he can’t tell them apart, do you think others can?”

       Li Zhenruo was a little anxious, “Then what should I do? It’s okay because it’s New Year’s holiday these few days. After the New Year, how can my second brother go back to work?”

       Xia Hongshen said casually, “Can’t you communicate with him? Can you be his secretary and listen to his orders?”

       Li Zhenruo said, “Master, don’t joke.”

       At this time, Song Jun took Xia Hongshen’s cat biscuit and came to tease Li Zhenran, but Li Zhenran didn’t even look at it.

       Song Jun lamented, “What a determined cat.”

       Then Xia Hongshen grabbed his hand and fed it into his mouth to eat.

       When he saw this, Li Zhenruo said, “I have canned tuna imported from Norway over there. Master, do you want it?”

       Xia Hongshen folded his hands on his chest, pondered for a long time, and said, “I’ll make a call and ask an old friend to come over, he may be able to know.”

       Li Zhenruo said loudly, “Thank you, Master!”


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Side Story 1

       Before they knew it, it was already the Lunar New Year.

       Li Jianglin was discharged from the hospital before New Year’s Eve. Although his body had not fully recovered, he did not want to stay in the hospital for New Year’s Eve.

       Li Zhenruo stayed at Li’s house for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

       Every year he had a New Year’s Eve dinner at Li’s house, but this year was the first time as a guest. Li Zhenruo felt that the atmosphere was a bit strange.

       There were only two of Li Jianglin’s four sons left. Wen Chun also packed up and moved away from Li’s house, so now the house seemed a little desolated. In addition, Wang Ma was taken back by his children for the Chinese New Year, and the whole family was even more deserted.

       After dinner, Li Jianglin didn’t go back to his study or bedroom and sat in the living room watching TV.

       He didn’t leave, and neither Li Zhenran nor Li Zhenzi went back to the room but sat down on the sofa to accompany him. On the other hand, Zhu Kai went out to walk the dog as usual after eating and sat down beside Li Jianglin obediently after walking the dog.

       Li Zhenruo was sitting on the sofa and stared at the TV screen absent-mindedly wondering whether to sleep here tonight or pretend to leave later and sneak back in as a cat.

       Although Li Jianglin did not object to him and Li Zhenran, his attitude was far from that of an amiable father-in-law. He was always polite and distant.

       It must not be Li Jianglin’s intention to invite him to Li’s house for New Year’s Eve dinner, but rather it was that he had no objection when Li Zhenran. If he kissed and followed Li Zhenran back to the room in front of Li Jianglin, he wondered if it would make Li Jianglin’s illness even worse.

       When he was thinking about it absent-mindedly, Li Zhenruo’s cell phone suddenly rang.

       Li Zhenran glanced at him.

       Li Zhenruo took out his mobile phone and saw that Xia Hongshen was calling, so he picked it up and went to the dining room to answer the call.

       As soon as the phone was connected, Li Zhenruo said to Xia Hongshen, “Happy New Year, Master!”

       In the end, Xia Hongshen just said, “Can you come out now?”

       “Now?” Li Zhenruo was stunned. Although it was only after eight o’clock in the evening, it was already dark outside. He glanced at Li Zhenran again and asked in a low voice, “What’s the rush?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Come to the city amusement park, the demon market will be opened tonight, and I will show you.”

       “Demon market?” Li Zhenruo felt like he heard something incredible.

       Xia Hong felt that Li Zhenruo was too long-winded, “Coming?”

       Li Zhenruo glanced at Li Zhenran, “But…”

       Xia Hongshen said, “Whatever,” and wanted to hang up the phone.

       “I’ll come!” Li Zhenruo hurriedly called out to him, “But I want to come back early to spend the New Year with my second brother.” He said the last sentence in a low voice.

       Xia Hongshen replied, “You can come back whenever you want.”

       As he hung up the phone, Li Zhenruo walked over and said, “I’m going out.”

       Everyone in the room turned to look at him.

       However, Li Jianglin just glanced at him and turned back to continue watching TV, while Li Zhenzi smiled meaningfully.

       Li Zhenran stood up and asked him, “Where are you going? Shall I drive you?”

       Li Zhenruo had already put on his coat and said, “My Master told me to go out, I should be back soon. You can watch TV with Uncle Li for a while.”

       Li Zhenran didn’t say anything, but caught up when Li Zhenruo had come out of the building and walked into the yard. Li Zhenran an arm around his waist from behind, pressed his chest against his back, and whispered in his ear, “Where to?”

       Li Zhenruo felt the heat lapping at him and his ears were tingling. He said, “Master asked me to go out.”

       “It’s New Year’s Eve Day,” Li Zhenran said as he reached out and gave his waist a squeeze.

       Li Zhenruo shrank his waist and said, “Then I have to spend the New Year with you later. I will be back soon. Just wait for me.”

       After he finished speaking, he reached out and grabbed Li Zhenran’s arm. He found that he was not wearing a coat, and quickly said, “It’s too cold outside, you go back first.”

       Li Zhenran held his hand tightly and said, “It’s eight o’clock now, and you must be back before twelve o’clock.”

       Li Zhenruo turned around and put his arms around his shoulder, kissing his lips, “Wait for me.”

       The streets on New Year’s Eve were very deserted, with hardly a car to be seen coming and going. On the way, Li Zhenruo received another call from Song Jun, telling him that because of New Year’s Eve, the demon market was opened ahead of schedule today, and it was now possible to get in.

       Li Zhenruo was very curious and asked Song Jun, “Why do you want to go to the demon market on new year’s eve?”

       Song Jun said, “You human beings celebrate the New Year, Senior Brother Xia also wants everyone to have a good time together. Otherwise how lonely would it be if a demon lived in solitary?”

       Li Zhenruo felt that his words were surprisingly reasonable.

       They drove to the parking lot of the city’s amusement park, and Li Zhenruo found that there was more than one car parked, one of which was a familiar Hummer. When he looked at the license plate carefully, he found that it was his boss Luo Fei’s car.

       In the so-called demon market, probably all the demons in the city would come, right?

       As he thought of this, Li Zhenruo was a little nervous for no reason and wondered if he would see something strange.

       It was dark in the amusement park, but there was a small passageway where the ticket was checked, and there were people checking tickets at the entrance.

       Li Zhenruo realized that he had no tickets, and hesitated for a while about whether to call Xia Hongshen, but when he looked closely, he realized that the person checking the tickets turned out to be Feng Junyuan.

       The handsome Doctor xiao Feng took off his white coat and stood at the ticket gate with an expressionless face in his down jacket. After he saw Li Zhenruo, he raised his hand and waved to him.

       Li Zhenruo walked over, “Xiao Feng?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Come in quickly.”

       Li Zhenruo still felt it was strange, “Are you checking tickets here?”

       Feng Junyuan nodded.

       Li Zhenruo asked him, “Why you?”

       Feng Junyuan said, “Because my Master is the owner of the demon market.”

       Li Zhenruo was stunned for a moment before he reacted, “You mean my Master?”

       Feng Junyuan nodded and said to him, “Come in, Master is waiting for you.”

       Li Zhenruo walked through the ticket gate and suddenly found that the amusement park, which looked dark outside, became brightly lit and crowded.

       There were colourful lanterns hanging on the trees everywhere, children with balloons running back and forth, the Ferris wheel in the distance was turning gently, and cheerful songs reverberated throughout the amusement park. But even though it was the Chinese New Year, there was a Christmas song playing, and he didn’t know what it meant.

       A child fell while running past Li Zhenruo. Li Zhenruo was about to squat down to help him but saw that the original little boy had turned into a large lizard and quickly crawled forward.

       Li Zhenruo was taken aback. He stood there watching the people coming and going in the amusement park, and suddenly realized that these people were not human, but were all demons.

       Then what is he?

       Li Zhenruo thought about it for a long time and felt that he could only be considered a half-demon at most. Although he was a half-demon, he was at least related to a demon, so he calmly walked inside.

       At the fork in the road ahead, a giant panda was selling balloons.

       Li Zhenruo looked him up and down, thinking about whether it was a real giant panda, someone wearing a giant panda doll suit, or some other demon that had taken on the appearance of a giant panda.

       The giant panda just handed the balloon to a child, and then looked in Li Zhenruo’s direction.

       Li Zhenruo put the car key in his hand into his coat pocket and walked towards it, asking, “Hello, are you a real giant panda?”

       The giant panda looked at him in a daze, suddenly approached him to smell it, and then said, “What is your real form?”

       Li Zhenruo thought that he had already arrived in this environment. He was not afraid that others would see him as a cat. Instead, he should be afraid that others would think he was a human being, so he simply showed the giant panda his cat form.

       But it was only a matter of moments. Li Zhenruo, who had recovered his human form, picked up the coat that fell on the ground to put it on and smiled at the panda.

       The giant panda looked at him without saying a word.

       Li Zhenruo was a little puzzled and wanted to go around it. He continue to walk inside, but unexpectedly the giant panda suddenly reached out and handed him a balloon, “For you,” the giant panda said.

       Li Zhenruo took the balloon thread from its paws and said, “Thank you.”

       Then, without further delay, they walked to the centre of the amusement park.

       The surroundings were getting more and more lively, the amusement facilities were all open, and there were colourful lights and happy music everywhere.

       Li Zhenruo saw Song Jun standing in front of the merry-go-round and beckoned to him from a distance, so he quickened his pace and walked over, “Song Jun!”

       Song Jun looked in the direction behind him.

       Li Zhenruo asked strangely, “What?”

       Song Jun said, “The giant panda is watching you.”

       Li Zhenruo also looked back and saw the giant panda holding a handful of balloons in his hand, and he was still looking at him. Because of the poor lighting, Li Zhenruo couldn’t see the expression on its face, so he turned around and said to Song Jun, “Where’s Master?”

       Song Jun pointed to the merry-go-round behind him.

       Li Zhenruo turned his head to look and saw that the merry-go-round was empty and there was no one else, only a black leopard was lying in the middle, his head resting on a wooden horse, expressionlessly following the giant carousel.

       To say it was a black leopard was not quite right. When Li Zhenruo looked closely, he found that Xia Hongshen’s form was somewhat different from the leopard. It looked more terrifying and fierce.

       When Xia Hongshen saw Li Zhenruo, he yawned deeply, turned into a human form and sat lazily on the wooden horse, and hooked his fingers at him.

       Li Zhenruo jumped on the rotating wooden horse turntable, walked to Xia Hongshen’s side, and bowed slightly, “Master, what’s the matter with you calling me here?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “The demon market will be opened tonight, let’s see if you can find anything to improve your cultivation.”

       Li Zhenruo was turned dizzy by the merry-go-round, and he said, “Master, can we talk in another place?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “No good.”

       In the end, Xia Hongshen still didn’t go down, Li Zhenruo simply sat down cross-legged beside him, closed his eyes and leaned his head on the wooden horse in front of him, and asked, “What is the thing that enhances my cultivation?”

       Xia Hongshen thought for a while, “I don’t know, you can watch it at the auction tonight.”

       Li Zhenruo asked again, “What will happen to me if I improve my cultivation? Become an immortal?”

       Xia Hongshen said, “As if. Do you think it’s easy to become an immortal?”

       Li Zhenruo was silent for a while, “Immortality?”

       Xia Hongshen said to him, “It is still possible to live for hundreds of years.”

       Li Zhenruo heard the words and said in a sullen voice, “Then I don’t want to, I just want to live for a few more decades and die with my second brother.”

       Xia Hongshen looked down at him. He had raised his foot, but in the end, he couldn’t bear to step on him, and finally said only one word, “Get lost.”

       He accepted a super unpromising apprentice, but Xia Hongshen didn’t think there was anything wrong. Li Zhenruo was not like him, he had Song Jun and the others by his side for a long time. If only one person had an endless lifespan, sometimes it might be a tragedy.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t really go away. Although he was thinking about Li Zhenran’s desire to go back to spend the New Year with him, he still wanted to stay and watch the so-called auction.

       Song Jun rubbed up to Li Zhenruo’s side and said to him, “Don’t worry about it, senior brother is actually doing for your own good.”

       Li Zhenruo said, “I understand, but I’m just embarrassed for causing Master to accept an apprentice who can’t learn anything from him.”

       Song Jun said, “He was just saying that. He can’t afford anything on the auction tonight.”

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help turning his head to look at Song Jun, “Master is already so poor?”

       Song Jun smiled, “Actually, he is not poor. He has a few priceless treasures around him, but unfortunately, he is reluctant to sell them all his life.”

       As soon as he said that, the lights of the carousel dimmed, and all the projection lights shone on the small stage next to it. A host took the microphone to the stage, announcing that the auction was about to start, and the entire amusement park crowded over there, including those that Li Zhenruo thought of as children.

       Li Zhenruo couldn’t help but turn his head to look around. He saw Xi Anling standing with a gentle young man in the crowd, snatching cotton candy from the man’s hand; Long Xing was with a tall young man and he didn’t know what they were talking about, and he was hugged up by the young man; Feng Junyuan stood beside Luo Fei, grabbed a c0cktail from somewhere and wanted to drink it, but Luo Fei snatched it away.

       The very lively New Year’s Eve was much more lively than that of the Li family sitting in the living room and watching TV. For this reason, Li Zhenruo was more and more eager to go back to accompany Li Zhenran.

       Xia Hongshen shifted his position and lay on the top of the merry-go-round with his black tail swinging carelessly behind him.

       The host saw that almost everyone gathered, knocked on the auction hammer, and announced the official start of the auction.

       Li Zhenruo felt that tonight was an eye-opener. There were all kinds of messes in the entire auction. Of course, most of them were valuable to these monsters, but he didn’t know the significance of those things.

       Until the host took a wooden box and showed it to everyone, and said, “This is the elixir that fell out of Taishang Laojun’s1Taishang Laojun believed to be the true incarnation of the spiritual philosopher Laozi, he was already identified as a personification of the Tao as early as the beginning of the Later Han dynasty. single furnace. Eating one can increase your cultivation for five hundred years.”

       “Do you want it?” Xia Hongshen suddenly appeared behind Li Zhenruo and asked him in a low voice.

       Li Zhenruo was startled, but he didn’t rush to say whether he wanted it or not, but instead asked Xia Hongshen, “Can you afford it?”

       Xia Hongshen said confidently, “I can afford a black box2something unknown on the inside and can only be speculated.”

       As he said that, he heard someone beside him bidding loudly.

       Li Zhenruo heard the voice and looked over, and saw that the bidder turned out to be a giant panda. For a while, all the people who could talk began to whisper, and Li Zhenruo heard an old man next to him say, “Giant panda, how many are there richer than him? If he wants this thing, the others must have no hope.”

       Another person said, “We can’t just give it to him without raising the price, right?”

       The old man said, “Are you stupid? You can’t win the auction, and you even raise the price to offend the giant panda. What are you trying to do?”

       The man pondered for a moment and stopped talking.

       Song Jun asked curiously, “Why does the panda want this?”

       No one answered him. The giant panda stood in the distance, holding a bamboo in his hand, nibbling on it and looking at the auction table on tiptoe.

       Li Zhenruo was also curious, “Are giant pandas rich and powerful?”

       His voice was not too loud, but people around him all looked at him, and someone gave him a roll of eyes, “Giant panda, national treasure, don’t you know?”

       Li Zhenruo suddenly felt a little stupid.

       It was already past eleven o’clock in the evening when the auction ended. Li Zhenruo said that he did not want to increase his cultivation. Xia Hongshen disliked him for not being ambitious but didn’t make it difficult for him.

       Li Zhenruo looked at the time and planned to say goodbye to Xia Hongshen, but when he was about to leave, the giant panda stood in front of him and blocked his way.

       “?” Li Zhenruo was baffled.

       The giant panda suddenly reached out, stuffed a wooden box into Li Zhenruo’s hand, and said, “It’s for you!” Then his heavy body ran away like a gust of wind.

       Li Zhenruo stared at the wooden box that was stuffed into his hand, and after a while, he responded and said, “Is this the elixir just now?”

       Song Jun leaned closer to smell, “It should be.”

       Li Zhenruo raised his head to look for the giant panda but found that he could not find the panda. He said blankly, “He said it was given to me?”

       “Well,” Song Jun nodded.

       Li Zhenruo said, “Then what should I do?”

       Song Jun said, “It’s yours if he gave it to you, you can do whatever you want. This is a matter of no regrets.”

       Li Zhenruo still didn’t know what was going on, “Why did he give me this?”

       Song Jun thought for a while and said to Li Zhenruo, “It’s getting late, you go back first, and I’ll ask him for you.”

       When he heard this, Li Zhenruo took another look at the time. He had to go back quickly, otherwise, Li Zhenran would probably be angry if he didn’t get home at twelve o’clock, so he could only say, “Well, if you have any news, give me a call.”

       He was only able to put things away first.

       When he drove back to Li’s house, the lights in the living room were already dimmed. It must be because Li Jianglin couldn’t stay up too late. After returning to the room, everyone went to rest.

       When Li Zhenran heard the sound of the car, he went downstairs to pick him up and opened the door of the living room. Li Zhenruo rushed into Li Zhenran’s arms with air-conditioned air, and said vaguely in the kiss, “Happy New Year.”

       When they returned to the room, Li Zhenran pressed Li Zhenruo behind the door, sucked his earlobe and asked, “Where did you go? Can you tell me now?”

       Li Zhenruo gasped slightly and replied, “I was called by Master to the amusement park.”

       Li Zhenran raised his head, “There are still people in the amusement park at this time?”

       Li Zhenruo raised one leg and hooked his waist, “Keep going, please.”

       Li Zhenran moved slightly away from him, and reached out to touch his chest, “What is this?”

       What he took out from the inner pocket of Li Zhenruo’s shirt was the box given to Li Zhenruo by the panda. He inexplicably lifted the lid to see it.

       Li Zhenruo didn’t stop him, just stared at the so-called elixir in the box thoughtfully.

       He didn’t want a few hundred years of cultivation to increase his life expectancy by a few hundred years, but if this thing could increase Li Zhenran’s lifespan, it would be another matter.

       If he could add a few hundred years of cultivation to Li Zhenran’s body, even if he could not live forever, he would certainly be able to prolong his life. At that time, he might have had the mind to cultivate, just to spend more time with Li Zhenran.

       However, this thing should not belong to him, but to a giant panda. Although the other party said that it was given to him, Li Zhenruo still did not understand what happened.

       What if the giant panda comes back at the end?

       Li Zhenran saw that Li Zhenruo was starting to fret and asked, “What?”

       If the giant panda came to ask for it, he could say that he had accidentally eaten it, and he would return all the money that the giant panda spent at the auction.

       Li Zhenran raised the box, “Something your master gave you?”

       Li Zhenruo shook his head, “The panda gave it to me.”

       “Giant panda?” Li Zhenran looked at him strangely.

       Li Zhenruo felt that he should not continue to be indecisive. He reached out and picked up the medicine pill in the box and said to Li Zhenran, “Open your mouth.”

       Li Zhenran asked suspiciously, “Ah?” Li Zhenruo threw the medicinal pill into him.

       This time, he swallowed too quickly and almost choked on his organs. Li Zhenran covered his mouth and coughed a few times. He frowned while pouring water and asked, “What is that?”

       Li Zhenruo was still standing there, suddenly unable to contain his excitement. The corner of his mouth lifted into a smile, “Good thing,” he said.

       The next morning, Li Zhenruo woke up in the warm bed, and before he opened his eyes, he subconsciously reached out to touch Li Zhenran who was beside him, trying to shrink into his arms.

       But the hand felt empty and nothing was touched.

       He thought that Li Zhenran had gotten up. Li Zhenruo opened his eyes blankly and saw a pair of dark eyes looking at him at a very close distance.

       He was startled and stepped back suddenly, only to realize that it was a black and white Garfield lying on the pillow.

       “Where did the cat come from?” Li Zhenruo sat up in shock, looking back and couldn’t find Li Zhenran’s shadow.

       He turned his head to look at the cat again. When he saw that the cat was serious and a little angry, he suddenly had a strange thought. He asked, “Who are you…?”


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Warmly Celebrate the First Bouquet of Flowers That xiao Tang Bought For Mr Chen

Warmly Celebrate the First Bouquet of Flowers That xiao Tang Bought For Mr Chen

       1.

       He died three days ago, and before he died, he sent me a bouquet of flowers.

       I looked at the white Chinese Bellflower1Platycodon grandiflorus gently swaying by the wind in the clear, thin-necked vase on the windowsill, there were red stars on the petal, and a strange idea suddenly popped into my mind—how did he think of buying me this kind of flower? Well, now, the flowers were still there, but he was gone.

       Was he honestly trying to give me a hard time?

       Speaking of which, he was not even my lover.

       If you die, then you die.

       …

       I didn’t feel much either.

       Yes, I was a little stuffy. But maybe it was because of the bad weather. I got up and took the vase on the windowsill into my bedroom.

 

       2.

       He was a failure as a person. He had no family or friends, and I was the one who collected the ashes. If it weren’t for the fact that he lived with me for eight years, I would not be willing to put off my work and take him home.

 

       3.

       He held the bouquet of flowers in his arms the whole time. When I arrived, he handed it to me and smiled at me. I didn’t pick it up and turned around to get him a tissue, yet he died.

       He didn’t have time to say anything to me, his mouth was full of blood, and his bloody smile was very miserable that I actually tried to get a tissue to wipe him off, but he died.

       The doctor suggested that I throw away the bunch of flowers, probably because he thought it was unlucky to have blood on it or something. I watched his face covered with a white cloth by the doctor, and the bunch of flowers was gently picked up by the nurse and thrown into the medical trash. I subconsciously took it over and wanted to exchange some pleasantries, but I couldn’t speak then. I just looked at the blood-stained petals, and my throat was blocked.

       This was the flower he gave me.

       I think it was the last bouquet of flowers he gave me.

 

       4.

       My mind was a bit messy now, and I couldn’t handle the company’s affairs either. The documents were scattered in my mind. Secretary Zhang advised me to rest for a couple of days, and I did not refuse. I drove home in the afternoon.

       His urn was given by the funeral home. It was a simple wooden box with no scent of wood and the quality of the material was poor. When I got it back two days ago, I put it on the coffee table in the living room. I glanced at the box when I first walked in, and I didn’t feel unlucky, just a little bewildered.

       He’s not coming back? I asked myself.

       Is that urn on the coffee table him?

       He won’t be coming back. There was a voice in my heart that kept rising up. I couldn’t swallow it, and my heart ached.

       How strange.

 

       5.

       I sat on the sofa and looked at him.

       If it were in the past, at this time, he would have whispered my name with a red face and asked if I needed anything. After he asked, he would get up and do it for me.

       He was a little afraid of me because he always loved me carefully.

       He would listen to anything I said. He once said that human language was a way to express emotions clearly and that if I was impatient, I would scold him off on the spot. After he finished speaking, he giggled as if he had deliberately told a joke to amuse me, and I gave him a kick to make him fall into convulsions.

       He laughed like an idiot and was shaking all over. I watched it for a while and wanted to reach out and nudge him to sit still, he was too outrageous.

       The hand that reached out only touched the edge of the wooden box.

       Oh. So he’s not laughing anymore.

 

       6.

       The first time I saw him was at the mall when my dad took me on an inspection tour, and he was dressed like a little beggar, squatting dirty in front of the gate and eating steamed buns from his hand.

       I looked at him, and he raised his head almost simultaneously. Helplessness and panic appeared in his large bright eyes. I walked a little closer towards him, and he immediately stood up and stammered, “…Yes, I’m sorry, I… I didn’t mean to be here, it was so cold, I’ll just warm up some more and go.” The steamed bun in his hand was rubbed out of shape by the fingers he took and folded haphazardly, and his arm was injured somewhere, and a large gash was dripping blood.

       Perhaps I felt the novelty of it, so I handed him a handkerchief and said, “Wipe the blood on your arm. Does your body still hurt? Shall I ask my father to take you to the hospital?”

       He hurriedly shook his head, “It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t hurt, I’ll leave right away!”

       He looked really pitiful, so I couldn’t help but reach out and give him a hand.

       It was just a small favour, and not even could be considered a help.

       Yet he had always been grateful to me.

       On the way to the hospital, he said he had no money to pay me back, so I could just leave him on the side of the road. When I said no, he cried and said, “I can’t afford it. It’s not good.”

       He had a really pretty eyes, and he looked very sincere and cute when he looked at people. I paused for some reason and said, “Then just follow me, and you don’t have to pay it back.”

       He opened his eyes wide, I smiled at him, and he fell silent. He seemed to think very hard for a while and nodded solemnly. He then said seriously, “I will repay you.”

       He really repaid me later, and he had always been very good to me. There was probably no one in the world who treated me better than he did.

       He was nine years old at that time, but he remembered things clearly. He told me that he was an orphan and that he had been in a welfare home since he was a child, then he was kidnapped and sold all the way to beg on the street. He told me that last week, he took the opportunity to escape because the bad guys wanted to break his hand because he said he didn’t want to cheat people out of money like that. I thought he was so silly and cute. What was wrong with that?

       He was very aggrieved and said that being a human being shouldn’t be deceitful, not even as a child.

       Then why didn’t he run away before?

       He was a little surprised when he heard my question, then he laughed and said, “I ran away, but I was caught and beaten so badly that I almost broke my leg, so this time I ran for a long, long time, not daring to stop, hoping that one day I would find a place where I could lie down in peace and never have to run again.”

       “Then don’t run away anymore. Just follow me,” I told him.

 

       7.

       He really did follow me.

       For years after that, until he died.

       I put the junk on the coffee table on another table. I just wanted him to be there by himself, in peace and quiet just by himself.

       I looked at him and thought to myself that he had indeed found a place where he could lie in peace and never have to run again.

       I begged my dad to keep him and fund his schooling, and he would be with me every day, from morning to night, from school to home.

       I didn’t think that I liked him.

       At best, he was a servant of my family, a playmate my father raised for me. He was not as good-looking as the young master of the Rongsheng Group, nor was he competent, and he was too dumb to be true.

       I would never, ever have liked him.

       So, when he confessed, I beat him. He was kicked by me and fell over; the present in his hand fell to the ground. It was a large bottle of colourful hand-folded stars that fell to the ground.

       I cursed at him for being sick, and he looked up at me a little woefully. He only knew how to smile, but there was a hint of helplessness and hurt under his eyes that he couldn’t retrieve in time. He seemed a little puzzled and said, “Can’t I like you? But many people like you.”

       I simply laughed at his stupid question and wanted to kick him to death.

       “Others are others. How can you like me?”

       He said, “But I really like you.”

       “Why can’t I like you? Because you don’t like me?”

       …

       He asked me that question, but I didn’t know how to answer. I really didn’t like him, I just didn’t want to leave him behind, I didn’t want …… him to stop filling his heart with me.

       I was so selfish.

       I didn’t love him, yet I wanted him to love me, but I didn’t allow him to love me.

       It was hard to be a man in this world, and in my case, it was even harder to be him.

 

       8.

       I put the bellflower by his side. I had breakfast and felt that the noodles I made were not as tasty as his, and I couldn’t eat them after two bites.

       His cooking skills were honed over the years, and what he used to make was really something to behold from afar and not to be messed with. However, so that I could eat something warm when I got home, he signed up for a cooking class.

       He always took everything seriously.

       Even the first time he had sex with me was rigorous and restrained, which was a bit funny when you thought about it. Who would look at your bed partner with a serious face and command them to wear a condom and then recite the 30 items of adult sex life safety precautions for you before doing it?

       Idiot.

       …really an idiot.

 

       9.

       After graduating, he joined the company with me and became my secretary. In fact, he had always done an excellent job and had a great work ethic, but I still recruited Secretary Zhang and put him at the back of the line. He no longer had the opportunity to stick around me every day.

       In the morning, he made breakfast at home, called me to get up, dressed me, and then chatted about today’s schedule. On the first day, I interrupted him, “Zhang Xing is responsible for the company’s affairs, and you don’t need to worry about it. “

       He showed a blank expression, and after a while, he said, “Am… I not also your secretary?”

       I became impatient, “Can you compare yourself to Zhang Xing? What kind of education does he have, and what kind of education do you have?”

       “…But what I did, wasn’t it good?”

       Good, but I didn’t like it.

       I felt too lazy to talk to him anymore. He was always like this, like a newborn calf, ignorant. Always asking why for everything, how can there be so many whys?

       If I didn’t like it, then I didn’t like it.

 

       10.

       I didn’t know where he got so much enthusiasm, and it was like his whole body seemed to have endless energy.

       On my birthday, when I returned from a reception party with Secretary Zhang, I was thinking of taking a shower and drinking a bowl of sweet soup2 for my birthday. But when I opened the door, I was greeted with a burst of fireworks.

       The pieces of paper flying in the sky were colourful, and they were mixed in the broken-coloured tin foil. He smiled at me, holding the fireworks tube.

       I wanted to give him a slap with a calm face, but Secretary Zhang, who was standing next to me, burst out laughing, “…Xiao Tang, you’ve done a good job.”

       I glared at him, looked around for something, and then looked behind Tang Nianhuai.

       A large banner with white characters and a red background hangs in the centre of the living room, with a row of characters written on it—Warmly Celebrating Comrade Chen Yu’an’s 26th Birthday!

       “…”

       When he noticed that I was gnashing my teeth in anger silently, Zhang Xing quickly said he had to go home and that he would send me the itinerary for tomorrow later.

       Tang Nianhuai, this idiot, waved the person away, came back and kissed me on the face, and said with a smirk, “Happy birthday Yu’an! It’s etiquette for you to kiss me back since I kissed you.”

       My head exploded, and I ground my teeth, “Where’s the etiquette from?”

       “France?” he said questioningly.

       I think he hadn’t been beaten by me for too long, and his skin itched.

       So that night, I was honest with him—perhaps he didn’t expect to succeed. He was not mentally prepared, so he cried in a mess, humming and saying, “Mingming… Don’t do it!”

       Maybe it was because what he did that night was too outrageous, and my brain became uneasy, and I couldn’t help but make him stagger, anyway…he likes me.

       I’m not responsible.

 

       11.

       I don’t like him!

 

       12.

       Tang Nianhuai’s name was like a tongue twister, so I asked him to change his name. He thought about it and told me that this name was left on a note by his parents when he was a child. Although he didn’t know who he was missing, he still used it for the left and right. He said he didn’t know what name was better anyway. At the end of the sentence, he laughed again, like a fool.

       I told him, Name yourself Tanggua3malt sugar candy.

       He laughed and giggled and actually took out an eight-treasure candy4八宝糖出 from his pocket and handed it to me, “Mr Chen eat this candy, don’t get so angry on a hot day~”

       I wrapped my mouth around Babao Candy and reached out to rub his lower back. Yesterday, I reluctantly did an excellent job with him at his repeated request, and today he was too sore to stand up, grunting and giggling.

       He said, “So tired, So painful, Clearly said that if there is a secretary Zhang, no one else is needed~”

       “…”

       I didn’t expect my idiot to hold a grudge.

 

       13.

       Zhang Xing would occasionally come up and tell me three hundred and sixty-five of xiao Tang’s virtues, such as being honest and cute, being beautiful, cooking deliciously, walking more in more a straight line than others…etc.

       I couldn’t bear it anymore, so I took Zhang Xing to find Tang Nianhuai. Xiao Tang looked innocent, “I didn’t ask Secretary Zhang to say good things about me in front of you!”

       “How do you know I came to you for this?” I asked him.

       He scowled, “You even picked up Secretary Zhang.”

       I laughed angrily at him, “Don’t make it difficult for Secretary Zhang. Someone in their thirties still has to rack their brains in front of me to talk about your merits. Can’t you just be considerate of the elderly?”

       Zhang Xing interrupted and interjected, “Elderly people are those who have reached the age of sixty ……”

       I threw him out. Tang Nianhuai stretched his neck to look and even raised his head and smirked at me.

       I don’t know what’s going on, but today’s dummy was a little sweet.

       I gritted my teeth, but I couldn’t help it. I reached out and squeezed his face. Xiao Tang was white and beautiful, and his big eyes were sparkling.

       “Yu’an?” He called me with a look of innocence and dazedness as if he was a hamster was gnawing on the food.

       It was much, too much.

       Damn you, hamster idiot!

       I touched his head and repeatedly struggled with myself in my mind.

 

       14.

       I changed the water for the bellflower in the afternoon. I don’t know how to keep flowers. I asked several friends, and they all said that changing the water a few times a day would be better and it would be best to give the flowers some love.

       I wondered, is this raising flowers or raising people?

       I didn’t even do this to Tang Nianhuai when he was still alive. He left me a bunch of flowers. Do I need to go through all this trouble?

       Why should he let me take care of the flowers he bought himself?

       I was furious at the thought and stared at the wooden box on the coffee table for a moment. I became discouraged.

       Why should I bother with a dead man?

       It was not like he would come alive and apologise to me, and he won’t…continue to love me with care.

 

       15.

       I remember that Tang Nianhuai was very good when he was a child. He treated me politely and respectfully. However, when he saw my father, he was like a mouse to a cat. When he heard a sound in my room, he would dig into the cabinet.

       Later, after a long time, he became more sophisticated, and he was not afraid of anyone except my father. He was actually pretending to be afraid of me. I knew in my heart that he was a bad guy, and he was used to pretending to be pitiful.

       In the summer, if you didn’t let him eat popsicles, he would lie on the sofa and grumble. He would whine that he had a headache for a while and a sore back. When you put a popsicle in his hand, his head won’t hurt, his back won’t be sore, and he will be so full of energy that he can fight 800 fat tigers on the spot.

       I’ve never liked him very much because I know everything about him. I know everything, and I know him even better than he himself.

       I couldn’t walk side by side with such a person. Everything about me was mixed with the trivialities of society and the family’s disputes. I know better than anyone that loving him was not the best thing for me to do, and I had to choose the best.

 

       16.

       When I changed the water today, I accidentally knocked off a green leaf of the bellflower, which fell lightly on the wooden box.

       There was silence.

       I wondered, didn’t he know what kind of person I am?

       How could he not know when he loved me so much?

 

       17.

       I thought about him a lot. I looked at him every day. I was still impulsive at the end.

       He was driving an advertising car, and there was a row on the LED display – Congratulations Comrade Chen Yu’an on the love bento from xiao Tang today! Xiao Tang loves you! ♡

       He couldn’t help rushing downstairs, closing his car door tightly, turning off the monitor, and messing around.

       It made xiao Tang cry and wail.

       I hugged him and couldn’t help saying, “I love you too.”

 

       18.

       I am in love with him.

       Secretary Zhang sees no evil and hears no evil every day and had a very hard time.

       Xiao Tang was happier and more like a dork every day.

       Secretary Zhang continually educated him not to get carried away and to be cautious when engaging in office romance!

       The goofy Tang had a serious face, “I know, Mr Zhang! Comrade Chen and I will definitely remember what you taught us!”

       Mr Zhang nodded with satisfaction.

       I coughed behind them, and Mr Zhang gave me a caring look, “Xiao Chen, what’s the matter?”

       “…”

       Zhang Xing, I think you have been infected by a fool. What a shame!

 

       19.

       We had three years of a very slimy love life.

       Only three years, that was all.

 

       20.

       Today was the third day I received this bouquet, and today another leaf has fallen.

       It was strange. The flowers hadn’t wilted yet, but the leaves kept falling off. Sometimes I looked at it and always felt like he was crying.

       Falling lightly, like tears.

       He didn’t use to cry a lot either. He used to pout and would act like a spoiled child if he made me angry, act like a spoiled child if he couldn’t eat delicious food, and act like a spoiled child if he felt unhappy. He would stick to you close like a kitten until you touched him with tender lips.

       Later, he still seldom cried, probably because I cared less about him, and I didn’t know if he cried.

       I looked at the leaf, still falling on him5his ashes.

       There was a slightly yellowed and curled-up leaf next to it.

       I felt a little bit in my heart, like a yellowed and rolled-up leaf, cringing in pain.

 

       21.

       He was buying flowers for me when he was hit by a car. I heard he was buying flowers when he came out and saw a child running across the road, and he was hit by a fast-moving car to save the child.

       Nevertheless, he still bought flowers for me.

 

       22.

       In the evening, I asked the restaurant to send a candlelight dinner for two, and I put one next to him.

       “I think I regret a little,” I whispered.

       “I shouldn’t have posted what Moments the day before yesterday, some nonsense about flowers, so what if it’s pretty, so what if the flower language is good, I can’t figure it out.”

       “Do you understand?”

       He didn’t answer.

       I took a sip of wine and said with a smile, “You don’t understand, you are a fvcking idiot, and you are peeking at the great me’s Moments. The big one is deleted, and the small one is added, and you dare to fvcking cheat and say that I’m a customer. I’ll give you a face.”

       “…”

       I felt just a little sad.

       I just wanted my xiao Tang to act coquettishly again.

 

       23.

       My dad was a rather gentle person. As long as you obeyed his will, he would allow you to do anything.

       If you didn’t obey, he would meddle in everything.

 

       24.

       When I was in a relationship with xiao Tang, our daily life was no different from that in the past, except that we were happier. When xiao Tang was distressed, he would pour out all his troubles with me when I was ranting about my problems, and when he was happy, xiao Tang would rack his brains in celebration.

       Xiao Tang really loved me.

       I once thought of letting xiao Tang warmly celebrate our 60th anniversary, hanging ten banners at the community’s gate and hiring a hundred publicity vehicles to broadcast “Warmly celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mr Chen Yu’an and Mr Tang Nianhuai!”

       …I thought about it now.

 

       25.

       When we broke up, Secretary Zhang had a rare moment of seriousness and said to me, “Xiao Tang is the one I watched go all the way with you. You guys are good at everything, well-matched and in love. He had a miserable life as a child. What the hell are you doing?”

       I didn’t think it was appropriate for Zhang Xing to speak on this issue. It was not his turn to be in charge, and where has Tang Nianhuai gone?

       Later, I learned that this fool was crying in a mess, and he could not stop the tears. He squatted on the rooftop for a long time and was finally pulled away by Zhang Xing. At that time, I watched them walk out of the company. He stretched out his sleeves and wiped away his tears obediently.

       Like a fool, like a hamster, like a kitten.

       And like the love of my life.

       Because from now on, he was no longer my lover.

 

       26.

       I obeyed my dad and went on a blind date with a wealthy daughter. The first one caught my eye, and we got married within a few months.

       My dad was very satisfied with my obedience and obedience. He pulled back all the people around the fool and let him continue to come back to work. He was still my secretary.

       Zhang Xing, this useless thing, actually let xiao Tang climb on top of him to become my personal secretary.

       The food was even dumber than before. He had become silent, his eyes were gloomy and sad, and he was often distracted.

       There was a picture of my wife and me on my desk, and I accidentally knocked it off when I was cleaning the desk and shattered a piece of broken glass on the ground.

       I used this as an excuse to kick him out, so he wouldn’t have to return.

       His eyes suddenly turned red, his lips trembled, and he couldn’t help it, and even his nose was twitching.

       I told him to stop pestering, and he opened his mouth and made a choked sound, “I …… What exactly don’t you like about me?”

       “…” Unfortunately, I can’t answer.

       I still like him no matter what.

       He was terribly sad, the tip of his nose red from crying, and he kept looking at me for an answer. I gritted my teeth, swallowed, and said cruelly, “I’ve never liked you, I’ve never loved you, and you can’t feel it when I play with you? Don’t you always know how bad I am? You insist on telling you so openly. I just don’t I don’t love you! I don’t even like you! Not a single bit!”

       Tang Nianhuai cried really stupidly.

       I couldn’t stand it any longer and dragged him out by the collar.

       He didn’t want to leave, crying and hugging me, I looked at him coldly, “I’m already married, Mr. Tang, if you insist on pestering me, I’ll have to call the police.”

 

       27.

       I blocked and deleted all his contact information and brought Zhang Xing back again. Zhang Xing hesitated to speak every day, and he was coldly ignored by me.

       Until one day someone applied to add my work number, the avatar is a silly Plants vs. Zombies inside the wall of nuts, nosebleed, the name is tomorrow will be better, the signature was: Waiting for my wife to come home.

       I thought this guy couldn’t get any dumber. If he were this stupid, he would live on another planet.

       But still, I accepted it.

       If I had known, I knew later …… I would never have given him any chance to approach me again.

 

       28.

       I posted a message about bellflower in the circle of friends three days ago, but it was actually just some information posted casually.

       Even my wife didn’t care.

       It was just that he cared about everything about me.

 

       29.

       I sometimes wondered how good would it be if people could live as they pleased?

       Xiao Tang was not even my lover when he died.

       As I thought of this, my rolled-up heart fell into the clouds again, like being tortured and wanting to follow the leaves, and fell beside him.

       Stayed with him.

 

       30.

       The bellflower he bought was the most common variety, called echo in English and huíshēng6echo in Chinese.

       Three days ago, I posted a message in my circle of friends, “If love is the wind, then the wind is full of echoes of you and me.”

       These words were worthless, not even chicken soup for soul kind of words. I just saw the flower language of this flower and sighed with emotion.

       If I knew, if I only I knew.

       I’d rather have never had this love, this echo, this bouquet with him.

 

       31.

       All the flowers withered today.

       I guarded this bunch of flowers at home for 20 days and finally waited until the flowering period fell, and the white petals were dyed dark yellow by the wind and air, just like the past with Tang Nianhuai.

       I sat on the sofa and picked him up. I didn’t want any family interest, taking care of the overall situation, or obedience.

       All I want is a scarred person, a crying fool, a wronged hamster, a gentle kitten, and a lover who will always be in love with me.

       No one could hurt him again.

       I couldn’t either.

       Because of me, he has left me.

 

       32.

       There was a greeting card in that bunch of flowers. Xiao Tang did not write a warm celebration today but left an echo of flowers—sincere and unchanging love.

 

       33.

       Warmly celebrate the first bouquet of flowers xiao Tang bought for Mr Chen.

 

       34.

       I closed my eyes. Tang Nianhuai slept in my arms, and we were going to have a good dream together.

       In the dream, Chen Yu’an has been with Tang Nianhuai all the time.

       Always sincere, never change.

 

       Always loving each other.


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About xiao Chen’s wife: There is no love in a marriage out of interest. Everyone is just being cooperative in using the relationship, and the woman also has her own lover. Therefore, the final ending of Gong is actually the best ending for the woman. She can get what she needs, separate from gong in an honourable way, and stay with her lover.

2021 Weibo Extra Archive

Sunday, December 31st, Light Snow and Windy

 

I didn’t know what kind of luck we had in our dormitory last night. With a leaky heater and a broken window, the whole room was like a blowing ice cellar.

 

The roommate was rushing to use the heater and went to the classroom and the library to review early in the morning, and I was woken up at 8 am by the maintenance man.

 

I made a bowl of breakfast, Jinmailang’s knife cut wide noodles1. When I brought it in, I could see the white air that was condensed from the cold floating on it.

 

The maintenance worker asked me, Are you cold?

I said, Not cold.

 

He continued to fiddle with the radiator and chatted with me as he worked.

He chatted and said, The Art Plaza is very slippery. I heard that several students broke a bone there, so don’t go there if you have nothing to do.

 

I said, En, the class groups have sent reminders.

 

The uncle said, When I came here, I saw some students chasing and making trouble in the square. You college students are really lively.

 

I ate my noodles and joked casually, that was abnormally lively, and that was an unfortunate thing.

 

The uncle laughed.

 

Before he left, I helped him carry the things downstairs. The uncle’s back disappeared into the snow. When I turned back, someone suddenly appeared there.

 

He called out Ge, and the next thing I knew a chill ran down my back.

I didn’t even think about it, I grabbed the perpetrator with my backhand and shook the snow behind me.

I said, How old are you Xie Chenmin?

 

He probably didn’t expect me to react so quickly. His thick eiderdown2 collar was pulled up by me, and he looked like a big penguin forced to crane its neck.

He recklessly approached and carried me up, and there was still unmelted snow on the red scarf.

 

I said, I’ll come down for a little while go back later.

 

The big penguin carried me upstairs whole. The melting snow was so cool that it wet my shirt.

—There was no doubt that he was beaten.

 

At the door, the red scarf that still had his warmth was wrapped around my neck. He walked into the dormitory, frowned and said, Ge, are you trying to keep yourself fresh?

I said, The radiator was broken last night, it was just repaired, and the heat hasn’t spread out yet.

 

I wanted to take off the scarf and give it back to him, but the penguin covered my hand. He breathed into my cold palm, the warmth swirling in it.

He argued, If it’s broken, you should go to sleep with me, can you live in this ice hole?

 

He didn’t give me a chance to say “I can”, and he arbitrarily urged me to get dressed, threw away the instant noodles I had just eaten, and packed me back to their dormitory.

 

I wasn’t afraid of cold, but Xie Chenmin thought I was.

 

He said he wanted to put me in his pocket, just like a hamster, to keep me warm.

Also, he would bring in food on time for three meals a day to eat on time, and he would not allow me to eat instant noodles.

 

I said, I can sue you for illegal imprisonment.

He said, Raising a hamster doesn’t count.

 

He laughed, unable to move his neck because of the scarf, and when he turned his head to look at me, he had to twist his shoulders together, smiling like a tall and silly landlord’s son.

 

I reached out, patted the back of his head lightly, and was taken away by the warm palm.

 

Eight o’clock, light snow, not too many people yet. I held hands with him on the roadside while the hustle and bustle hasn’t started yet.

 

Bold as if Judgement day had passed, leaving only two people who didn’t know how to be afraid.

 

He said he would take me to the Art Plaza for a snowball fight.

I shook my head, saying that it was slippery.

He said it was fine because he had just come back from playing there this morning.

 

I remembered the lively big goofball the maintenance man had been talking about and frowned and asked, It was you?

 

He was puzzled, Huh?

 

I scolded, Stop messing around there, a student broke a bone there.

He said, I know, the youngest in our dormitory fell there the day before yesterday.

I’m quite proud to say that you know him, the one called Han Shiyu. He calmly talked about his ‘feudal superstition’ and said, It was because he fell that I dared to make trouble. The youngest was sacrificed to heaven, and his mana was boundless3refers to gameplay where when one person is sacrificed, the other party gained more power and also a TV series 琉璃 recently used the joke a lot.

 

I was silent for a while.

I said, Can your dormitory do somethings that’s normal?

 

Xie Chenmin pointed at himself again and said, This is the most normal one for you to get, so you just have to enjoy the show.

 

I couldn’t help laughing.

 

The lake in front of their dormitory was called Abandoned Bed, and the surface of the water had frozen a few days ago. The stone engraved with the name was covered with a thin layer of snow, which he wiped away by hand as he passed by.

 

He said that he was worthy of the alma mater sermon and that he had forgotten all about eating and sleeping except for one thing when he was young4referring to the Abandoned Bed lake.

I said, So am I.

 

At his words, deep affection fell into his dark eyes like snow on his eyelashes, probably reflecting a person in them.

He said, That’s what I like about you.

 

I don’t think my alma mater would have expected a student to take the unorthodox pledge of affection in front of this sign when it was erected.

 

He was expecting me to say “me too” again.

But I felt bad about lying and was honest. That thing I never forgot was the sophomore data structure final exam.

 

He was clamouring that he wanted to break up with me and that I should write my own AI and fall in love with it.

Suddenly I thought that was a good suggestion on his part.

 

I said I’d try to write a prototype when I had nothing else to do.

(Added on January 8: Xie Chenmin secretly deleted it for me and scrupulously cleared the record. This bastard.)

 

Because the pitiful youngest went home and left an empty bed in their dormitory, Xie Chenmin called and asked me to stay in their dormitory after obtaining permission.

 

I saw that they had a table full of revision materials and recalled the headache of the course schedule in my sophomore year, Xie Chenmin was much busier than me at the end of the term.

I asked him how come he had time to find me today.

 

He said, Ge, look what day it is today.

I thought about it.

Oh, the last day of the year.

 

They had a “grand” New Year’s Eve ceremony, three dormitories joined together, plus me, twelve people in total.

 

I always thought that life was a one-person affair and that being in love was a two-person affair. So I didn’t pray for the envy and blessing of others, nor did I think that at some point I would have to sink my teeth into the complexity of the world. What’s more, he and I were deviant5because both of them are homosexual.

 

But Xie Chenmin was a naturally fiery person, and he cannot be trapped in the narrow confines. When I look ahead, this man would do his best to fill the road with light and roses. I watched him laughing in the crowd, clustered in the centre almost at midnight.

 

It was a Cantonese song, and I couldn’t understand the lyrics.

 

But I stared into his eyes, and for a split second in this roaring crowd, my heart went off track—it told me, you’re going to show it off.

You’re going to show off Xie Chenmin here and make everyone here envy you for having him.

This “childish” thought made me laugh out loud.

 

Xie Chenmin finished the last line of his song, and I heard the sound of fireworks in the distance outside the window.

 

A new year.

Happy New Year.

 

Monday, 1st January, Cloudy day

Too busy with revision, skipped the day.

 

Tuesday, January 2nd, Light Snow, temperature -17°C

 

Xie Chen Min broke his foot, at the Art Plaza.

It seemed that the lucky buff that was added when they offered Han as sacrifices to heaven was not very effective.

 

I actually wanted to go and say you deserved it to this unheeding fool.

But seeing how pitiful he looked, I was reluctant to say it.

 

I went to their dorm to take care of him and when I was bored while reading a book, a song came on my headphones.

 

I suddenly remembered the song he had sung on New Year’s Eve and asked him what it was called.

 

He sang it to me again and said, Listen to the tune for yourself. Actually, I wasn’t really interested in what the song was called, I just had a feeling that he was trying to say something to me, something very important.

 

Some Cantonese pronunciations were still very similar to Mandarin, and I didn’t understand them completely, but I just want to make sure.

 

I asked, What does the last sentence, the last sentence of the lyrics mean?

 

He said affectionately, Chu.

 

I said back, En.

He said, Not gonna tell you.

 

New Year, eight o’clock, Light Snow.

It was still one of those days.

 

I had to go and search the lyrics myself. It probably went something like this.

 

“It may be easy to give you a kiss, you’re the only one who’s so special.

 

“Make me spur myself to reflect on how many times, and stick up for you even when it’s hard.

 

“No matter how many winds and rains6trial and hardships may arise in the days to come, I will hold on to this word of love, for richer or poorer, for life or death, I am willing to do so.

 

“I’m not afraid of the endless sacrifices we’ll have to make as we roam the skies together and look at the low-lying areas, remembering that we’ll both grow old one day.

 

“The world wants to shake me and I’m afraid of nothing, so listen carefully and live and die together, okay?

 

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Chapter 11

       Afterwards, all the conflicts I had with him disappeared.

       He was just like he always was.

       He stayed out of trouble, and lived his life as he should, like an old cad.

       Except that the whole class had to take a detour when they saw him.

       It was as if the words ‘not to be messed with’ were plastered on his face.

       ……

       I felt amazing when I spent time with him.

       I couldn’t help but want to say more. He listened quietly every time, and the expression on his face was as flat as ever. He never talked nonsense, and his reply could hit the nail on the head every time.

       I tried so hard to make waves on his face, to get him to reply to me as if it were a daily challenge.

       I wanted to get closer to him, I wanted to do everything related to him, read the books he usually read, find out what he liked to do, worked and saved up to try and buy him something, even though he never asked for it.

       I especially like this feeling.

       ……

       I didn’t know when did I go from liking the feeling to liking him as a person.

       It might have been that one time when the light of Tyndall1Click more to see about Tyndall Effect was suddenly released in a not-so-clear sky and he was there waiting for me as I rushed to the point.

       Or maybe it was that one time when I was studying with him at night and I just couldn’t get back before the gate, and he took me into his dorm to stay the night.

       It left a deep impression on me.

       It was a bit cold in his dormitory, everyone was busy with their own work and the only sound you could hear when you went in was the sound of code being pounded.

       He changed into a very large black vest, which made his skin very fair. His figure was slender, and he looked a little weak.

       He said, Want some fruit?

       I snapped back to my senses and said, Yes.

       So he unscrewed two tins with his empty hands.

       I thought I must be going crazy, my heart was beating inexplicably faster and I couldn’t keep my eyes off him at all.

       I saw the strong muscular lines in his stomach and arms, and his light eyelashes that were flapping several times from time to time.

       When we were on the same couch, I could smell the fragrance on the back of his neck.

       It was very annoying.

       I tried my best to stay away from this dangerous smell and pretended to casually ask him, Senior, you smell so good, what brand of shower gel do you use?

       He said he didn’t know, and that his mother bought all his toiletries for him. After he recognized a brand, he would keep buying them.

       I remembered that night vividly.

       With his back to me, my heart was going crazy, and I had to fight to keep the heat inside me from kissing the swirl of his hair or biting him hard on the neck.

       I realised something unbelievable and irreversible.

       I might have fallen in love with a man.

       There was a certain desire that allowed me to clearly separate this feeling from the friendship.

       What would Lin Chu think of me if he found out?

       I didn’t want to think about it.

       I was spooked to learn about this area, and I went to the hospital to get a blood test on my own.

       It was ridiculous and childish to think about it now.

       This person unknowingly took root in my heart until his every move touched my whole heart, and I knew I was hopeless.

       ……

       That day I told him, I like you, Lin Chu.

       Can you try it2refers to trying to have sex with me?

       He was silent.

       When people were in their second grader syndrome phase, they always felt that they were fearless and resolute. But at that moment I was scared to death.

       I thought what if we couldn’t even be friends anymore.

       I thought that even if he ignored me, I would stick to him stubbornly.

       I wanted to find a reason to treat this as a joke, such as a bet played by my roommate and me…

       Then he agreed.

       I felt like I was dreaming. I actually pinched my thigh blue and still felt like a dream.

       It wasn’t until he took the initiative to kiss me, and we embraced in a deserted corner of the restaurant for a long time with our lips intertwined, that I pulled myself out of a daze.

       I didn’t think I was dreaming, the warmth was real and it was coming from this man.

       I was happy to the point of madness.

       I went back and catch my roommates who have escaped everywhere and hug them one by one.

       ……

       I made love to him for the first time the very next day.

       I really couldn’t wait, and I was just so inexperienced, green and reckless, to possess him in a youthful and reckless manner, to mark him for all those females and male juniors who coveted him.

       This was Xie Chenmin’s, and no one was allowed to touch it.

       If he hadn’t warned me that he would beat me up if I dared to leave the mark, I would have actually carried out this crazy and childish idea.

       The first time he held back and said nothing. I asked him if it hurt and he just frowned and said to keep going on.

       It wasn’t until he finally couldn’t help but wet the corners of his eyes red that I knew I’d done a terrible job the first time.

       He would always adapt to me.

       At all times.

       So much that I had a feeling of what I should rely on if I didn’t have this person.

       ……

       Before I opened my eyes, I saw his memory and me like a revolving beacon in my mind.

       Every moment was flashing instantly in my eyes.

       Only for the moment when we first begin, it was very, very long, so long that I could even clearly feel how I was feeling at the time.

       It was always good to have more memories of good things, to temporarily break free from the reality that I had lost him for a while.

       But one must always look ahead, and even dreamers would have to wake up one day.

       I guess I’ll just have to keep on living.

       The sun was shining brightly on the day I was discharged from the hospital. Zhaocai came to pick me up, wagging his fluffy white tail and came over to nuzzle my leg.

       I said, Come on, let’s get some sausages to eat.

       He gave a woof.

       Mom was still worried, and I apologized to her and promised her that I won’t have these assholes’ suicidal ideas again.

       That day I took Zhaocai and he went to see the kitten, Mum went to see our dad and I went to see you.

       What a family full of trouble and misfortune we were.

       ……

       ……

       Lin Chu, Chu.

       I have finished reading your diary.

       I listened to you and read it one day at a time for five years.

       You can’t blame me for that, blame yourself. A number of your entries just watered past in one sentence, and I couldn’t help it… So I just read a few more entries.

       I’m doing pretty well now. I quit my job and become a freelancer. I write a little every day and took on some planning work and whatnot.

       My three roommates were planning to start a business together, so they dragged me over to make up the number.

       Now our company is doing well, except for those kids in the programming department who occasionally get into some trouble.

       They joked that if you were the head of the department, we could be three or four times stronger than we are now.

       I now earn enough money to support myself and my mother and all the little ones in the house.

       I picked up another kitten from the street, but it had totally different temperament from Jinbao, that I thought I had two huskies.

       Apart from the fact that these two worked very well together to make a mess in the house when I’m not around, they almost always fight over food and make a mess.

       They made the house very lively.

       Also, I’ve become a ‘dad’.

       Did not expect it?

       They were a mother and a daughter. I adopted the woman driver’s child as my goddaughter and I thought I could do what I could to help them out.

       Chu, I had a really good time.

       I’m trying to adjust to life without you, don’t worry about me.

       Chu, I miss you.

       And I still can’t forget the way you look, your voice. I can’t go looking for another half who can keep me company.

       Forget it, I still have our mother, a daughter, a cat and a dog. I am not lonely at all, and I’m not in a hurry to find another companion.

       Chu, after five years of coaxing and pestering, your parents finally let me in for a cup of tea.

       I think if I continue to grind for a year or two, I will probably be able to completely change their mind about me.

       Ha ha.

       ……

       Chu, there were more and more kindhearted people in this world.

       I compiled our story into a novel and posted it on the Internet, and I didn’t expect it to be quite popular.

       The Lin Chu inside it lived a hundred years old.

       And the Xie Chenmin inside it still likes Lin Chu very, very much.

       Chu……

       ……


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