Jiang Xuan went to the bar that Ji Chen often goes to, he likes to have a good time, and he usually likes bars that is bustling with noise and excitement. However, maybe today’s mood is not very good, he chose Xiaoqing Bar, there are singers singing on stage, and the customers are interacting with each other under the stage, the confession from one table to the other table is bold and passionate, if one succeed, they may also be able to get a good night life.
It’s not too quiet, but at least it’s better than other bars, it should be regarded that he took care of Jiang Xuan’s preference, he likes it quieter.
When Jiang Xuan arrived, Ji Chen was surrounded by two boys and two girls, everyone was telling some jokes to Ji Chen, which made Ji Chen laugh out loud, and the two girls even poured a few glasses of wine into him.
When he saw Jiang Xuan sitting down, he drove them away, he hasn’t forgotten his brother’s obsession with cleanliness, he doesn’t like to meet too many strangers, otherwise, he can sit there for an hour without talking, just drinking or playing on the communicator.
Ji Chen is leaning on the sofa, where there is a so-called lovelorn appearance: “It’s hard to get you out for a drink, it’s just the two of us today, we can drink as much as we want.”
“Didn’t call anyone else?” Jiang Xuan asked him, Ji Chen has a lot of friends, and usually when he comes out, he usually comes out with a group of people.
Ji Chen drank some before Jiang Xuan came, and now he is a little drunk: “I can’t be bothered to call them, I didn’t play the game well tonight, if they came, they’re going to tease me all the time, I’m not in the mood to meet them, once in a while, I also wants to relax by myself.
Jiang Xuan poured himself some wine and said: “In fact, you didn’t perform at your usual level in today’s game, it was much worse.”
Ji Chen took a sip of his wine and said regretfully: “You’re right, I really deserved to lose, I shouldn’t have gone out racing the night before! Do you know? Lin Zimao took the initiative to call my communicator, I thought he was trying to comfort me, but guess what, he told me that he is ‘Jiaoyan’s Dad’! I knew there was no hope for me when I found out, moreover, he told me straight out that we weren’t a good match! He refused very quickly!”
He downed a glass of rum on the rocks, “Hey, although I didn’t put much effort and time into him, but for the first time, my self-esteem as a man was still hurt, I thought I could take the first place, and I also thought I could get Lin Zimao.”
Jiang Xuan was certain that Ji Chen wasn’t upset because Lin Zimao had rejected his pursuit, but rather because he had failed to enter the semi-finals and suffered a serious blow professionally, Ji Chen was naturally also very proud, he had always taken pride in his skills and knowledge in his major, which were his strength, but today, being bested by Lin Zimao came as a shock, it was inevitable he would feel down, the higher the expectation, the greater the disappointment.
Jiang Xuan: “You thought Lin Zimao would have a whole new level of respect for you?”
Ji Chen: “No, he’s an excellent boy.” He continued to drink again, he had always been a heavy drinker, but now he is slightly drunk and his eyes are beginning to glaze over, “It’s a pity, the person doesn’t fancy me, but it’s okay, I’m just interested in it for a while, if I had to marry him, maybe I’ll still choose freedom, he should be a very serious person.” He hiccuped.
Jiang Xuan agrees with his last point: “Um, he’s very serious.”
Ji Chen said: “Should I not give up?”
Jiang Xuan: “Give up, if you don’t, I might hit you.”
Ji Chen muttered: “Um? Come on, just because you don’t get along with him, doesn’t mean that you can stop your brother’s road of love like this.”
Jiang Xuan asked him: “Do you still remember what you told me about our Jiang family and Lin family before school started?”
Ji Chen is drunk, but he’s still a little aware at present: “Eh? Um? The marriage between the Jiang family and the Lin family?”
Jiang Xuan: “Um.”
Ji Chen leaned on the sofa and expressed his doubts: “But it doesn’t seem to be spreading anymore, haven’t the Jiang family and the Lin family already cooperated? Aren’t your cousin brothers and your cousin sisters both fine and single?”
Jiang Xuan shook his wine glass, staring at the swaying brown liquid: “But, have you ever wondered if I’m single or not, I’m also a member of Jiang’s family, you’ve excluded me alone.”
“Nobody can be single, but you must…” He paused for a moment, carefully pondering the meaning of Jiang Xuan’s words, and thought of something as if someone had poured a basin of ice water, “Damn, don’t scare me, your parents let you get married! What are they thinking? Who can you marry? The Lins’ daughter or son?”
Only then did he remember, Jiang Xuan said he was going to tell him something tonight!
After a long time, the one who was going to marry is his brother?
Jiang Xuan asked him: “Would you like some more wine?”
Ji Chen was almost dying of anxiety by Jiang Xuan’s calmness: “Why didn’t you say anything? Compared with your affairs, my little love is nothing! This is a lifelong event for you1終身大事 (zhōng shēn dà shì): big event in one’s life (usually referring to marriage); major turning point of lifelong import (esp. marriage).! If the other person is greedy, he will get half of your property after getting divorced later, you can’t be so hasty in agreeing to this! Why don’t my family help the Lin family, anyway, you can’t get married! The Jiang family is not bankrupt, and there is nothing wrong with it, what can you gain by sacrificing your marriage?”
Looking at Ji Chen’s anxiousness for himself, Jiang Xuan thought to himself that Lin Zimao was still quite good at reading people, he said he had a very good friend.
Ji Chen continued to worry about Jiang Xuan like a cannonball: “You can’t agree to this! I disagree! How can my brother be reduced to a tool of marriage!”
Jiang Xuan poured wine for him, and the two of them drank again.
Ji Chen was anxious, he drank and asked Jiang Xuan again: “You rejected Cheng Chen also because of the marriage?”
Jiang Xuan said: “It has nothing to do with Cheng Chen, I have never cared about him, I made it clear to him a long time ago, but now I’m just making it clear again.”
Ji Chen scratched his ears and cheeks2抓耳撓腮 (zhuā ěr náo sāi): to tweak one’s ears and scratch one’s cheeks (as an expression of anxiety, delight, frustration etc) (idiom); scratch one’s head (out of anxiety); be filled with joy; be beside oneself with joy., plus drinking, his face turned red.
“Fuck, what the hell, I eat melon3吃瓜 (chīguā): (literally) to eat melon or melon seed; (figuratively, neologism, slang) to be a mere bystander or onlooker. Derived from 吃瓜群眾 (chīguā qúnzhòng), (neologism, Internet slang, humorous, often used as self-address) onlookers (who are unaware of the situation); clueless commoners; peanut gallery., but it turns out that the melon is related to my friend4吃瓜吃到我朋友身上了 (chī guā chī dào wǒ péng yǒu shēn shang le): an internet slang, used humorously. Usually, one eating melon (watch gossip) about other people, unrelated to them or something that wasn’t their business, but in this expression, the melon (gossip) they enjoy turned out to be related to them, specifically their friend.! I really want to slap myself! Are you still in a hurry now?”
Jiang Xuan continued to pour him wine: “Come on, have a drink.”
Ji Chen drank it and became even more dizzy.
Before Jiang Xuan came, he drank a little too much, now that he drinks two more glasses, he almost speak in a lisp.
Ji Chen: “No, I can’t, I must make it clear today! Are you mar, married or not?”
Jiang Xuan answered very simply: “Married.”
Ji Chen scratched his hair: “Fuck, is it Lin Zifeng?”
Jiang Xuan shook his head and said lightly5輕描淡寫 (qīng miáo dàn xiě): to touch on lightly; to mention casually; to play down; to deemphasize (idiom); make little/light account (of); refers to talking about writing important issues over.: “No.”
Ji Chen: “Then who is it? Lin Zifeng’s sister? Did her family lie about her age to marry you! Or do they just find some random cousin brothers or cousin sisters and stuff it over!” He really wants to cry now, “Jiang Xuan, you are so excellent, how can you be with these people! You’re the white moonlight6白月光 (báiyuèguāng): (Internet fiction) A cherished memory of the first blush of love, pure and unsullied by reality. “白” means “white,” and “月光” means “moonlight.” Quoted from late Chinese author Eileen Chang’s novel “Red Rose, White Rose,” this term refers to a spotless woman a man cherishes in his memory whom he loved but who is no longer with him. The term caught on with the popularity of a TV series by the name of “Yanxi Palace,” in which the role of a deceased queen is called by netizens “the emperor’s white moonlight.” of so many people! How can you be ruined!”
Jiang Xuan: “I didn’t get ruined, and you also know that person.”
Ji Chen has stopped listening: “Sob, sob, sob, my best friend is married! You might as well marry me…”
Jiang Xuan: “…” That won’t be necessary.
Ji Chen is already drunk and started to go crazy.
In the end, before Jiang Xuan could finish his confession, Ji Chen was already in a deep drunken stupor, so he had to drag him back to his home.
Anyway, he’s already going to tell him, so he don’t care if he sees Lin Zimao, sooner or later he’ll be found out, so he might as well take the initiative and tell him.
When he got home, Lin Zimao was lying on the sofa watching a movie, the movie was playing while he drifted into a light sleep.
When he heard the noise, he woke up with a start, and heard Jiang Xuan say: “Lin Zimao, give me a hand.”
Lin Zimao smelled a strong smell of alcohol, and then watched as Jiang Xuan helped Ji Chen, who couldn’t stand up straight, into the living room.
Ji Chen muttered: “Am, I, dreaming, why do I seem to see, uh, Junior Lin.”
Lin Zimao asked Jiang Xuan: “Is he drunk?”
Jiang Xuan nodded: “Um.”
Lin Zimao: “Then help him to the guest room first.”
The two first worked together to help the tall and burly Ji Chen into the guest room on the first floor.
After coming out, Lin Zimao pointed at himself: “Because of me?”
Jiang Xuan said: “No, because of me.”
Lin Zimao is confused: “What did you do to him?”
Jiang Xuan: “I told him about my marriage.”
Lin Zimao: “And then?”
Jiang Xuan: “Hasn’t mentioned you yet, but he already like this.”
Lin Zimao rubbed his chin: “Maybe he had a crush on you for many years? Stimulated?”
Jiang Xuan glanced at him: “Hurry and go to sleep.”
Lin Zimao laughed softly: “Why else would he get himself so drunk when you’re married? The more I think about it, the more it makes sense.”
Jiang Xuan looked at him speechlessly: “Lin Zimao, are you going to sleep or not?”
“Sleep, at once.” Lin Zimao obediently went upstairs, then turned around and added a sentence to tease Jiang Xuan, “Then, Brother Jiang Xuan go to bed early, good night.”
The corners of Jiang Xuan’s mouth trembled slightly: “…Good night.”
This is the first time the two have said good night to each other.
Ji Chen had a dream, and this dream was very real!
He dreamed last night that his best friend was being forced into a marriage! Can’t remember if the marriage partner is Lin Zifeng or his sister, or who it is? In short, he was so scared that he almost cried.
He seems to have told Jiang Xuan that it is better to marry him than to marry someone else!
Before he even opened his eyes, he kicked this terrible nightmare out of his mind.
How could Jiang Xuan marry someone, even if he was beaten to death, he wouldn’t believe it.
No, how did he get back last night?
When he opened his eyes, there was no holographic poster of his favorite female star in the room, nor rows of mecha models, nor his king-sized water bed, but an empty guest room, this was not his home.
Jiang Xuan brought him back?
It’s not impossible, they often sleep at each other’s house for a night after getting drunk, but he rarely sleeps at Jiang Xuan’s house, this person is too calm, he is the first to slip away every time, no one has a chance to sleep in his house.
Looking at the time, it’s almost time for class, the morning class was still a professional class, and he can’t skip it, otherwise the credits would be lost.
Ji Chen held his head and got up, in the brother’s house it’s casual, the room should be prepared with toiletries.
After washing up, he came out wrapped in a towel to look for Jiang Xuan: “Jiang Xuan, do you have any clothes, lend me a set first.”
Jiang Xuan said: “On the couch, help yourself.”
Ji Chen only heard the voice but did not see the person, he walked around the living room before seeing someone in the open kitchen.
And then, he was scared to death.
Jiang Xuan is wearing an apron and frying eggs, the juicer next to him was working, he skillfully fried the eggs and put them on the plate, then pour the juice into glasses.
Fuck, is he still asleep? No, probably not sober yet!
It’s too magical, in all the years he’s known Jiang Xuan, when did he ever seen him in the kitchen?
Last night, what the hell happened last night?
I couldn’t have done something wrong to Jiang Xuan, and then he changed his nature7轉了性 (zhuǎnle xìng): changed his sex; refers to the change of character. overnight8一夜之間 (yī yè zhī jiān): (lit. and fig.) overnight; T/N: The usual title drop, but in this instance, the title of this chapter is actually, 一夜之後 (yī yè zhī hòu), lit. After one night, or one night later, but since the author almost always title drop each chapter, I decided to keep the tradition., right? Sacrifice for love?
Ji Chen suddenly realized that he was wearing a bit less, looked down at his chest, feeling cold.
It’s over, it’s over, he still has some bruises on his body, the battle last night was a bit intense…
Ji Chen covered his chest and asked him with a trembling voice: “Jiang, Jiang Xuan, last night, last night…”
Jiang Xuan gave him a cold look: “You still don’t get dressed?”
Ji Chen decisively went to the sofa, carry his clothes and went back to the room to change, trying to calm himself down!
What the hell did he do last night?
No, must ask clearly, it’s not impossible to marry Jiang Xuan!
When he returned to the dinning room again, he found that there was one more person at the dining table, who looked a little familiar.
The other party greeted him in a friendly manner: “Good morning, Senior Ji, did you sleep well last night?”
Ji Chen felt that he had to go back to his room to lie down for a while, the room where he sleeps may have a space-time disorder problem, which can confuse the timeline and the characters’ plots, so, it’s possible that he is experiencing strange things like traveling through time and space?
It’s so magical this early in the morning!
Ji Chen was dumbfounded: “Good, good morning.”
Jiang Xuan said to Lin Zimao: “Give me the oven gloves.”
Lin Zimao handed over the transparent gloves on the side of his hand to Jiang Xuan.
A fat cat jumped onto the chair next to Ji Chen, pawing at the edge of the table, and licked the goat’s milk in the bowl with its little pink tongue.
Lin Zimao looked at Jiaoyan, licked the corner of his mouth and said: “Seems like goat’s milk tastes better than fruit juice.” Then he looked up at Ji Chen, “Senior Ji, don’t you want to eat?”
Ji Chen who thinks he really might have crossed over: “Ah, oh, what star calendar year is it now? I seem to have amnesia.”
LMAO, JC is so hilarious… He’s such a good friend, JX is blessed to have him as a friend.
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