In this late autumn weather, it was quite a happy thing to sit in a grilled fish restaurant and eat fish around a grill plate with the charcoal fire still burning.
Pei Qing sat next to Zhan Weiyang, casually putting some fish and vegetables on his plate. He watched as Zhan Weiyang focused on eating, revealing a small section of his clean, fair neck.
Chen Youyou sat opposite them. While stuffing food into his mouth, he said vaguely, “My mom, doesn’t allow me to eat this, because she says, it’s making my body hot.”
Pei Qing smiled, “If you eat too much, your body will get hot. You can drink more water.”
Chen Youyou nodded.
Zhan Weiyang put down his chopsticks and looked up at Pei Qing, “Why are you in our school?”
“I came to pick you up from school and treat you to dinner,” Pei Qing said with a slight smile.
Chen Youyou said, “Then, you can come often.”
Pei Qing nodded and said, “No problem. Whenever you want to go out for food, just contact me, and I’ll pick you up.”
Chen Youyou hurriedly said, “Okay.”
But Pei Qing noticed that Zhan Weiyang didn’t answer.
Zhan Weiyang still seemed a little absent-minded. He picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks and put it into his mouth. As soon as he swallowed it, he was choked by the chilli and couldn’t help but cover his mouth and cough.
Pei Qing picked up the water cup and handed it over, saying, “Drink some water.”
Zhan Weiyang quickly took it and drank a sip of water, but his face was still red from coughing.
Pei Qing handed him a tissue to wipe his mouth. Zhan Weiyang’s eyes were also a little red. He wiped his mouth carefully, rolled up the tissue and threw it into the trash can beside the table, then looked up at Pei Qing.
Pei Qing asked him, “Are you happy at school recently?”
Zhan Weiyang looked a little confused. Chen Youyou didn’t pay attention to this and concentrated on looking for the lotus root slices he liked in the baking tray.
Pei Qing picked up his water cup, drank slowly from the straw, and asked Zhan Weiyang, “No one bullies you in school, right?”
Zhan Weiyang shook his head.
Pei Qing asked, “How was the midterm exam?”
Zhan Weiyang turned his face away nervously, grabbed the chopsticks with his right hand in a panic, and pinched the edge of the table with his left hand.
Pei Qing smiled and said to him gently, “It doesn’t matter. I won’t blame you whether you do well in the exam or not. What can’t you tell gege?”
Zhan Weiyang lowered his head and was silent for a long time, then raised his head and leaned close to Pei Qing’s ear. He put one hand over Pei Qing’s ear and whispered, “I didn’t do well in the exam.” After that, he looked at Pei Qing with some guilt.
Pei Qing then leaned close to him, lowered his voice and said, “It doesn’t matter.”
Zhan Weiyang looked at him.
Pei Qing continued, “It doesn’t matter whether you do well in the exam or not. We just need to find out why you didn’t do well.”
Unexpectedly, Zhan Weiyang immediately replied, “Because there is something wrong with my head.”
Pei Qing was stunned by what he said. When he reacted, he immediately raised his hand and put it on Zhan Weiyang’s head, saying, “Who said that? Don’t talk nonsense.”
Zhan Weiyang didn’t even have the mood to eat. He stared at the smoking grill in front of him silently, and his chopsticks didn’t move for a long time.
Pei Qing helped him pick up a lot of meat and vegetables and put them on the small plate in front of him. Seeing that he didn’t move his chopsticks, he said, “Do you want me to feed you?”
Zhan Weiyang picked up the chopsticks and ate without much appetite.
Although Chen Youyou was eating, he also noticed the conversation between the two of them. Feeling that the atmosphere was not right, he chose to remain silent and only secretly glanced at them from time to time.
Pei Qing didn’t say anything else. He waited until Zhan Weiyang and Chen Youyou had almost finished eating and everyone slowed down, then suddenly asked Zhan Weiyang, “Have you lost all your points?”
Zhan Weiyang looked at him suddenly, his face pale.
Chen Youyou was also stunned for a moment and looked at Pei Qing.
Pei Qing turned to Chen Youyou and asked, “Youyou, do you know how many points Zhan Weiyang has deducted?”
Chen Youyou was completely unprepared and said in a daze, “No, I don’t know.”
Pei Qing continued, “He said that when his points are deducted, he will turn into a tree. Did he tell you?”
Chen Youyou had almost forgotten about this matter. When Pei Qing suddenly mentioned it, he suddenly remembered it and said, “Oh— I remember, he said this.” He was a little unsure of what Pei Qing meant and couldn’t help but look at Zhan Weiyang’s expression when he spoke.
Zhan Weiyang shook his head vigorously at him.
Pei Qing asked, “What is he being deducted for?”
Zhan Weiyang was still shaking his head at Chen Youyou, and Chen Youyou didn’t dare to continue. He hesitated and wanted to answer that he didn’t know, but “I, I—” Pei Qing interrupted him before he finished speaking.
Pei Qing said, “I just invited you to dinner today, can you bear to lie to me?”
Chen Youyou’s eyes widened, thinking about what he should do. Pei Qing had not only invited him to dinner but also drove him home and gave him his coat. If he didn’t answer Pei Qing, he would truly feel uncomfortable. He could only look at Zhan Weiyang and say, “Isn’t this your older cousin? Is there anything you can’t tell him?”
Zhan Weiyang wanted to stop him, but before he opened his mouth, he heard Pei Qing say in a deep voice, “Yangyang.” He then glanced at Pei Qing nervously, unable to speak.
Chen Youyou said, “He, said he has a S-system, in his head.”
“What?” Pei Qing didn’t understand for a while.
Chen Youyou had to repeat, “A System.”
“What System?” Pei Qing frowned slightly.
Chen Youyou couldn’t remember too clearly at the moment, but he did recall that Zhan Weiyang’s previous pursuit of Xie Ling seemed to be related. He said, “It’s some sort of, a dating System, you must t-talk to that person…” He spoke more and more quietly because he saw that Zhan Weiyang was really anxious.
Pei Qing patiently asked, “Who?”
Chen Youyou was embarrassed and said, “Older cousin, don’t, treat me like this… Y-you look at Zhan Weiyang.”
Pei Qing turned his head and saw Zhan Weiyang staring at Chen Youyou with red eyes.
He was a little helpless, and after hesitating for a while, he could only say, “Alright then, I won’t ask you anymore.”
Chen Youyou breathed a sigh of relief. He grabbed the cup on the table and drank a big sip of water. He looked at Pei Qing and then at Zhan Weiyang. He really wanted to leave, but he was embarrassed to do so.
Pei Qing stretched out a hand and pressed it on Zhan Weiyang’s shoulder.
Zhan Weiyang then turned his eyes away and looked at him with a somewhat pitiful and aggrieved expression.
Pei Qing gently pinched his soft neck with her hand, soothing his emotions, and said, “It’s nothing, be good.”
Zhan Weiyang’s chest rose and fell twice.
Pei Qing asked them, “Have you eaten? Let’s go after you’re done.”
Chen Youyou immediately replied, “I’m done!”
Pei Qing came directly from the company today and did not drive. They left the mall, where they had dinner and stood on the roadside to call a taxi for Chen Youyou.
Pei Qing sent Chen Youyou to the car, bent over, and said to him through the open car door, “Be careful. Send a message when you get home.”
Chen Youyou nodded, but he couldn’t help but look at Zhan Weiyang, and he found that Zhan Weiyang didn’t look at him.
Pei Qing stood up straight, raised his hand to close the car door, and the taxi quickly took Chen Youyou away.
Only Zhan Weiyang and Pei Qing were left.
Zhan Weiyang was a little scared for some reason, and he subconsciously turned around and wanted to hide.
Pei Qing reached out and held his shoulders, pulled him back, made Zhan Weiyang face him, and said, “Do you want to tell me yourself?”
Zhan Weiyang didn’t look at him.
Pei Qing continued to ask, “Who do you have to date?”
Zhan Weiyang still didn’t say anything.
Pei Qing let go of his hand, and after a while, he sighed softly and asked Zhan Weiyang, “Are your points almost all gone?”
Zhan Weiyang seemed a little nervous and nodded.
Pei Qing said, “When you become a tree, you will never be able to talk to me again. Are you still unwilling to tell me now?”
Zhan Weiyang raised his head and looked at him palely.
Pei Qing said to him, “If one morning, I wake up and go into your room, I only see a fortune tree lying on the bed, and I don’t know why. Do you think it’s fair to me?”
Zhan Weiyang said in a panic, “No, I will bury the soil in the flowerpot myself.”
“So you really don’t want to tell me anything before you get into the flowerpot?”
Zhan Weiyang lowered his head and didn’t speak.
After a long time, Pei Qing noticed something was wrong. He bent down and looked closer at Zhan Weiyang and found that he was crying.
Zhan Weiyang didn’t make a sound but just shed tears silently. When he found that Pei Qing looked at him, he raised his red eyes, wiped the tears on his cheeks with his fingers, and said, “I can’t bear to leave you.”
At that moment, Pei Qing couldn’t tell what he felt, but he felt that his whole heart softened with sourness. He reached out and hugged Zhan Weiyang in his arms, saying, “Don’t be afraid. You won’t leave me.”
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