Now that EAMRF has finished, this series officially takes its place in my update schedule! It will be updated every Tuesdays and Fridays!
|| Little fool, you don’t remember to breathe?
Xia Zhiye just wanted to tease Song Yan, and was ready to be kicked by Song Yan. But then, he found that the other youth just froze in place after his teasing.
A splatter of crimson flush trailed down the cold skin, from the base of his ears down to the root of his neck. Even the tiny earring hole on the right ear blushed like a tempting cinnabar mole1I think this came alongside the word “white moonlight”, from Zhang Ailing’s novel “Red Rose and White Rose”. Paraphrase (because I don’t fully remember): “Maybe every man has had two such women, at least two. Marry a red rose, and over time, the red one has changed into a mosquito blood streaked on the wall, but the white one is the white moonlight in front of your bed. If you marry a white rose, the white one is a grain of rice stuck on your clothes, but the red one is a cinnabar mole on your heart.” Please correct me if I’m wrong..
Xia Zhiye’s fingertips followed his heart’s desire, hooking itself on the dark blue bow on Song Yan’s neck. The bow, the symbol of the significance of a gift, unraveled, fluttering to the ground. It revealed the teenager’s beautiful clavicle, long and slender neck, all tantalizing expanse of skin. Xia Zhiye’s throat felt dry.
Xia Zhiye, who didn’t have that kind of perverted thoughts at first, felt his Adam’s apple roll when he saw this scene.
If he doesn’t kiss Song Yan at this time, then he’s not a man.
Xia Zhiye began to quickly recall how the male protagonists in the novels Kong Xiaoxiao sent him did at this time.
If he recalled correctly, he had to grab Song Yan’s waist first, then push him against the wall so he couldn’t escape, and finally kiss him hard until the corner of Song Yan’s eyes turned red and his legs turned jelly.
He fantasized about Song Yan’s reddening eyes, and it was enough to fuel Xia Zhiye to put his arms around the youth’s waist. He pushed forward, making Song Yan’s back hit the wall. Xia Zhiye lowered his head little by little, and as his gaze fell on the other youth’s lips, he felt the palm of his hands covered in sweat.
The two teenager’s hot breaths intermixed in this cold snowy night, creating an ambiguous white mist. The distance between their lips were getting smaller, close enough that they could hear each other’s quickening heartbeat, close enough to see melted snowflakes on each other’s eyelashes.
Closer, closer, closer, until they could taste each other’s warm and youthful fervor on this winter night.
Then they heard an earth-shattering cry: “Song Yan! Xia Zhiye! The food is served! What are you two doing there!”
So all the ambiguous atmosphere came to an abrupt end.
Song Yan, whose brain was temporarily offline because of Xia Zhiye’s words and actions, also suddenly recovered from the state of confusion just now. He immediately tried to push Xia Zhiye away and pretend that nothing happened just now.
However, their footsteps were getting closer and closer. It’s quite possible that the other party will find them within 3 seconds or so.
This dense bamboo groove led into a dead end, so there’s no escape route or a place to hide. Song Yan’s scarf was still on the ground, and his face and ears were still hot and flushed crimson. If he was to get caught now, there’s no way he could explain his way out of this situation.
Song Yan didn’t want to die from mortification at such a young age.
So when he saw Chen Rui’s bewildered little head sticking out from the bamboo forest behind Xia Zhiye, his wittiness and ruthlessness reared its head. He raised his foot, kicked Xia Zhiye away, voice high as he scolded, “Are you finished already? I said I’m not interested in your online dating partner, the scarf is just a coincidence, can you stop looking for trouble?”
After he finished speaking, he blushed and bent down, picked up the scarf on the ground and walked quickly into the hot pot restaurant.
One second before this, Xia Zhiye had a blushing beauty on his arm. Then in the next second, the said beauty punched him and stomped away. A question mark appeared on top of his bewildered little head.
Then when he turned around, he saw Chen Rui standing at the small crossroads with a shocked expression, shouting, “Fuck! Lord Xia! You and Yan-ge are rivals in love?! It must be a love triangle!”
Xia Zhiye: “…”
If it wasn’t for him now having a family, Chen Rui would not be able to get out of here alive.
But considering that Song Yan could not be left as a widow at a young age, he could only resist the urge to assassinate Chen Rui, walked over, and patted Chen Rui on the shoulder with a mysterious smile on his face. “Very good.”
Chen Rui: “?”
What’s good?
Why does he think Xia Zhiye is smiling strangely?
Does Xia Zhiye enjoy the thrill of competing for the love of one person?
The pure and naive Chen Rui couldn’t figure out what was going on, so he ignorantly followed the two back to the private room.
In the private room, Ruan Tian has also returned from the phone call with her boyfriend, and was serving dishes in the bubbling hot pot base.
When she looked up, she felt that the atmosphere of the three was a little weird. With slightly raised eyebrows, she asked, “What’s the matter?”
“It’s nothing. It’s just that Lord Xia’s online dating partner seems to have given Lord Xia and Yan-ge the same scarf, so there’s a slight mishap due to jealousy. But fortunately, I arrived in time to stop this atrocity from worsening, to avoid a tragedy of brothers who turned against each other!”
“…”
The more Chen Rui said, the more awesome he felt, and at the end he even became proud of his good deeds.
However, when he finished speaking, he was greeted by a dead silence. Even the bubbling sound of the hotpot gurgling was like the mournful sound of dying ingredients.
Little Fatty and Zhou Ziqiu who know the truth: “…”
They are wondering how to mourn their new friend, who’s now going to die soon.
Jiang Yuanyuan, Zhao Ruiwen, Kong Xiaoxiao: “…”
‘Fuck, so exciting…’
Ruan Tian, who technically had to supervise the students and prevent them from having a “puppy love”: “…”
She was thinking about whether she should persuade Xia Zhiye not to fall in love this early in life, or should she comfort her students first.
Xia Zhiye and Song Yan: “…”
They simply thought that Chen Rui was really a fool.
However, this incident was caused by Song Yan’s urgent excuses, and Chen Rui just conveyed it truthfully.
If he directly denied it now, how could he explain the behavior of him and Xia Zhiye blushing in the small bamboo forest just now?
Song Yan was not afraid to admit that he likes boys; it’s simply that he’s thin-skinned, and if he openly acknowledges his feelings for Xia Zhiye, there might be concerns. If this becomes public, Xia Zhiye might tease him even more. Therefore, unless absolutely necessary, he won’t come out of the closet.
Xia Zhiye might be shameless, but he’s not.
So after gnashing his teeth in silence, Song Yan clenched his fists. With a cold face, he gritted out a murderous sentence, “I’m not interested in Xia Zhiye’s online dating partner, it’s all a misunderstanding .”
Chen Rui also put his arms around his shoulders with great relief. “That’s good, that’s good, I’ll just say, you two brothers who have such a good relationship. You should never let a possible online dating partner drive an edge between you two.”
At a glance, Xia Zhiye saw Chen Rui’s dirty claws on Song Yan’s shoulder. He felt that Chen Rui probably never tasted the sense of approaching doom before. He embraced Song Yan, exerting a slight force to snatch him back from Chen Rui’s arms into his own embrace.
However, leaning on Song Yan, this sloppy youth nonchalantly said with a smile, “Hmm, yes, I can confirm that Yan-ge has no interest in my online dating partner. It was just a misunderstanding on my part. Yan-ge isn’t angry with me either, so we’re still the best of brothers in the future. Right, Yan-ge?”
His pronunciation of the word “brothers” carried a slightly lingering tone, accompanied by a hint of ambiguous and unclear laughter. He tilted his head towards Song Yan, looking at him with a provocative and enticing arch of the eyebrows, adding an element of suggestiveness.
“Well, you’re right.” Song Yan replied expressionlessly. But his left foot fiercely stomped on the paw of a certain troublemaking fox who seemed to want to stir up trouble in the world.
Xia Zhiye squeezed his fingers in pain, and clasped Song Yan’s shoulders even tighter, but still showed a virtuous and dignified smile.: “As expected, we still have a good relationship.”
Ruan Tian had no idea about the playful banter between the young couple in private. She just sighed with relief, as the relationship between this pair of brothers are still seemingly harmonious.
Otherwise she really doesn’t know how to mediate the emotional disputes of boys of this age.
But…
Teacher Ruan Tian, an angel educator, considered her sentence carefully before looking at Xia Zhiye. “You see, Xia Zhiye, Laoshi has something to say.”
Regardless, whether she liked it or not, it’s worth mentioning.
“Actually, you know, it’s quite normal for emotions to stir at your age. After all, which young girl isn’t a little sentimental, and which young boy isn’t infatuated? So, even though the school doesn’t officially support it, the teachers believe that as long as it doesn’t affect your studies and doesn’t cross boundaries, these beautiful emotions of adolescence can still have a healthy development, or at least they shouldn’t be stifled. However…”
After a long pause, Ruan Tian finally came to the point, “But an online relationship… isn’t a bit unreliable?”
After speaking, as if afraid of offending Xia Zhiye’s fragile heart, she quickly emphasized, “Of course, Laoshi doesn’t mean that all online relationships isn’t worth pursuing. I’m just talking about special circumstances.”
“You see that technology is so advanced now that many photos, audio, and video are not necessarily true to life. The person behind the online dating account may not be the person you think it is. They might not have a malicious purpose to fool you, they might do it just for fun. You are still young, and often your emotions will eclipse your rational judgment, so it’s easy for teenagers your age to get manipulated and hurted. In this case, you need to know how to protect yourself. You should understand what Laoshi means, right?”
Xia Zhiye originally wanted to tease a certain “Rich and Beautiful Young Lady” a bit more, but he suddenly felt a foot reaching the edge of his shoe. So, he immediately said with a serious tone, “Mhm, I understand, Laoshi. Rest assured, I will definitely take care of myself. I promise that my online relationship will not affect my studies.”
In Ruan Tian’s heart, Xia Zhiye belongs to the kind of student who was not very reliable on the surface, but was actually very reliable. After hearing his answer, she finally nodded with relief in her heart. She then looked at the others, “You should also remember what Laoshi said just now, you hear me?”
“We remember!” Zhao Ruiwen gave her a lot of face, and after answering, he specially glanced at Zhou Ziqiu, who was methodically eating hot pot, and commented, “Did you hear that, Mr. Internet addicts who play games every day?”
Zhou Ziqiu, an Internet addict who plays games every day, casually picked up a piece of fat beef and replied, “I heard that, I’m not stupid, can I not tell the good from the bad? “
He said the same.
Ruan Tian still has some confidence in the intelligence of her students, so she waved her chopsticks with satisfaction. “Okay, let’s eat quickly, I’ll pay the bill for this meal. You all go back to the dormitory early, as you all still have class tomorrow morning. Don’t be late.”
“Okay! Thank you Tian-mei!”
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