OFBL Chapter 15

T.N: Hello everyone, I wanted to explain the title. Sharking people basically means to kill them. It’s a homophonic joke, where they use 鲨 (shark) instead of 杀 (kill). They have the same pronunciation, but 鲨 is usually used for online chat.

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The next morning, as soon as the alarm clock rang, Zhang Yuze got up from the bed, but not before kicking Xu Li next to him.

 

“Get up!”

 

Xu Li turned over, pushing his buttocks towards him. He frowned impatiently and said: “I don’t want to get up. You go by yourself.”

 

Zhang Yuze sat by the bed, angry as soon as he got up. Thinking that he was about to run to work in the middle of winter, while that guy could stay at home thanks to his arm injury, made him so full of anger.

 

So he simply kicked him again.

 

However, Xu Li slept like a dead pig, only managing to raise his hand and push his feet away before falling back to sleep.

 

Zhang Yuze cursed while putting on his clothes: “Just sleep, sleep to death.”

 

Xu Li closed his eyes and said angrily: “Be careful on the road, boyfriend, muah~”

 

“…”

 

It snowed all night. When he went out in the morning, the road was already covered in a thick layer of white. Zhang Yuze got in the car tremblingly, turned on the warm air conditioner to the maximum, and drove all the way to the hospital with a sad face.

 

As soon as he entered the garage to park the car, he received a WeChat message.

 

Li Chenghong: Second Bro, have you arrived at the office? I’ll be there soon. Come and pick me up.

 

Although he and Li Chenghong did not work in the same hospital, there were only a few large hospitals in Yanjing, so it was common for cardio surgeons to communicate and meet with each other. Zhang Yuze was already used to it. He went upstairs by pressing the elevator, shoved his face against the wind, passed through the parking lot outside the hospital, and greeted Li Chenghong, who looked to be in a hurry outside the gate.

 

“Why are you here today?” Zhang Yuze opened the gate for Li Chenghong.

 

Li Chenghong smiled and answered: “It’s my turn to have a regular exchange meeting at the end of the year. I just happened to have some free time to come see you. How are you doing? Are you satisfied with your new relationship?”

 

Zhang Yuze sneered and didn’t answer.

 

Li Chenghong continued: “Second, I have something to tell you. Don’t be angry…”

 

Zhang Yuze glanced at him: “Tell me, what’s the mystery?”

 

“I discussed it with Old Four, but I still can’t rest assured because of you.” Li Chenghong seemed to sigh like an old father: “Although we have been forcing you to start dating again… Xu Li is really not worth dating.”

 

Looking at his worried face, Dr. Zhang was happy enough to ask: “How to say it… What on earth did Xu Li do to make you and Han Jinhang so worried?”

 

“We have sorted out an Excel, just take a look!” Li Chenghong took out his mobile phone from his pocket and clicked on a document full of indignation.

 

Zhang Yuze: “…”

 

Why didn’t you just make a PowerPoint?!

 

Li Chenghong continued: “Time was tight and the task was heavy, so having everything sorted out in an Excel document seemed fitting.” He pointed to the address in the line above and said to Zhang Yuze: “Look, these addresses are all bars that Xu Li frequented when he was in college. See, every single place is super popular… Who would go there with good intentions?!”

 

Zhang Yuze looked down at the document, only to see a lot of places that Yanjing college students liked.

 

“And here… Here’s the gossip we collected from the campus public network, all about his affairs. Is terrible!” Li Chenghong turned the mobile phone to the side and Zhang Yuze came forward slightly to look at it for a while.

 

“Isn’t it ridiculous to talk about having four partners at the same time, all of them of different genders?! Xu Li is 100% curved, more curved than a spring¹maybe the boy is pansexual, Idk!”

 

Zhang Yuze smiled, locked Li Chenghong’s mobile phone and returned it to him, saying: “You don’t know our campus’s public network. Nine out of ten posts are rumors. Maybe Xu Li cared about it, but I don’t.”

 

Li Chenghong stared at him for a long time, finally saying: “I suddenly feel that you have a bit of a love brain.”

 

“Not really.” Zhang Yuze stomped down the snow on the soles of his shoes and said calmly: “It’s just that after surviving Shen Mo, I don’t have any expectations from anyone. I’m very sober now. I’m happy to be with Xu Li and continue dating him. However, as soon as I stop being happy, I’ll also stop seeing him. Why think so much?”

 

Li Chenghong accepted his words but still looked at him like he was incompetent. For a man like him who got married early and took on the heavy responsibility of having a family, he really couldn’t understand Zhang Yuze and Xu Li’s wandering and casual concept of marriage and love.

 

Zhang Yuze thought for a minute and explained: “Anyway, you and Han Jinhang don’t need to worry too much about me. I’m very measured, but still different from you. I don’t need to think about marriage or the future. I only need to think whether I’m happy with this person.”

 

“As long as you’re happy…” Li Chenghong shook his head with a sigh, turned around, and said with a smile: “Second, shall we make a bet?”

 

“Bet on what?”

 

“Let’s bet on how long you can date Xu Li.”

 

“…”

 

Zhang Yuze hammered him on the shoulder and said with a smile: “You’re looking to get hurt.”

 

However, Li Chenghong was not afraid, answering: “Both me and Old Four bet on three months. Anyway, you’ll still break up before his wedding.”

 

Zhang Yuze said: “Seriously… If both of you weren’t my roommates, I would definitely turn against you.”

 

“Don’t say useless things. Do you want to bet?” Li Chenghong poked him with his elbow.

 

“Let’s bet. Have I ever been afraid of you?” Zhang Yuze was amused.

 

“Okay, I bet the two of you will definitely break up before Old Four’s wedding. What do you choose?” Li Chenghong looked at him.

 

“Then I bet we won’t break up before the wedding, okay?” Zhang Yuze felt truly helpless. That guy only left him an option… If he didn’t choose that one, what was the point of betting?

 

Li Chenghong smiled and continued: “That’s it. The bet is the money for Old Fourth’s wedding. The loser will have to pay double.”

 

“Fine.” Zhang Yuze gave him a blank look.

 

After saying this, they finally walked to the reception hall of the hospital. The snowy road was slippery. Li Chenghong walked up the steps first, and Zhang Yuze followed him, carefully avoiding the black mud under his feet. However, Li Chenghong suddenly stopped, and Zhang Yuze almost hit his back head-on.

 

“What are you doing?!” He shouted.

 

“Second Bro…” Li Chenghong’s voice sounded a little fluctuating. He raised his finger to the bulletin board in the office hall and said: “I think I just won our bet.”

 

“What?” Zhang Yuze didn’t react.

 

“Look at it yourself.” Li Chenghong said.

 

Raising his eyes in the direction of his fingers, Zhang Yuze was suddenly stunned in place. In the middle of the crowded office hall, the people who came to register tacitly gave way to a circle. In the center of that empty space, a thin and small boy stood with crystal tears hanging under his cheeks…

 

… And on the ground behind the boy, a gray-haired old lady curled up on a piece of cardboard, wrapped in a thin quilt and trembling, making people feel pity.

 

Zhang Yuze took two more steps forward, and his eyes fell on the object in the boy’s hand. This time, he saw it clearly.

 

The boy held a sign in his hand, which read: Looking for my lover – Dr. Xu Li of the Cardiac Surgery Department.

 

“Is there someone else with that name in your hospital?” Seeing that Zhang Yuze’s face looked wrong, Li Chenghong hesitated to ask.

 

Zhang Yuze shook his head, but before he could speak, the busy doctors and nurses in the reception hall looked up and saw him standing at the door. At that moment, everyone suddenly gasped collectively, and the atmosphere froze for three or four seconds before they all had to pick up the work at hand, at the urging of an unknown patient.

 

It’s just that the mocking smiles on their faces were still vivid.

 

Seeing that Zhang Yuze was slow to speak, Li Chenghong gently pulled his sleeve and said softly: “Second, don’t worry. Maybe there’s a misunderstanding. Let’s ask clearly first.”

 

“What’s the hurry?” Zhang Yuze’s eyes soon returned to their former stagnant water and uneventful state. He took a step forward and urged: “Let’s go. Don’t watch the excitement. I’m almost late to clock in.”

 

Li Chenghong looked at his indifferent and dashing back and then glanced at that boy’s thin and trembling shoulders. He shook his head and followed his friend into the elevator.

 

The elevator of the hospital was always very busy in the morning, with people going up and down on every floor, so climbing to the 18th floor of the Cardiac Surgery Department seemed especially long.

 

All the employees who came and went looked at Zhang Yuze. Surprise was accompanied by curiosity, curiosity was mixed with gossip, and gossip was mixed with mockery.

 

However, Zhang Yuze looked straight ahead, with his hands in his pockets, and his body cold enough that he could freeze people to death. To be honest, he was neither jealous nor angry. He knew what kind of virtues Xu Li had, and since he chose a rotten cabbage at the beginning, there was no point in complaining about all the dirty insects it attracted.

 

In fact, Zhang Yuze felt that he was very calm. As calm as water and as quiet as the moon…

 

… Although he really wanted to slap the slow elevator into a malfunction!

 

But he was still very calm…

 

… Calm enough to pick up God’s sword and kill Xu Li, and then sit on the ground and become a Buddha!

 

The damn mobile phone in his pocket rang. Zhang Yuze sighed from the bottom of his heart, glanced at the call, and his eyes darkened a little.

 

Li Chenghong had been silently observing Zhang Yuze’s expression all the way until that moment. His face was very normal, even a little too normal… But the second he saw the caller ID on his mobile phone, Zhang Yuze’s expression suddenly became more terrifying than ever.

 

Just like the visual effects they put on villains from TV series, shining white light on their faces before they go and commit evil.

 

Sharking people to death!

 

Li Chenghong quietly raised his ears, eager to know who was calling. However, he only heard Dr. Zhang’s low voice, full of a yin and yang tone. He picked up the phone and said: “It’s only nine o’clock in the morning. I said, Xu, you really know how to get up early.”

 

Exciting! Li Chenghong thought silently that that day’s exchange meeting was over.

 

On the other end of the phone, Xu Li held the phone with his shoulder, hearing Zhang Yuze’s weird tone. He asked strangely: “Why are you going crazy in the morning? To be serious, our family is out of toilet paper, so I want to order takeaway. Is there anything else you need? Do I need to buy you a toothbrush and a toothcup or something? Anyway, you’ve been living with me…”

 

Xu Li talked a lot to himself but was ruthlessly interrupted by Zhang Yuze.

 

Zhang Yuze: “I’m sorry, Boyfriend Xu, I can’t afford your ‘our family’ since your little lover is still waiting to reunite with you in the hospital hall. You still have time to ask him what he needs. Bye Bye~.”

 

Zhang Yuze hung up the phone, looked at Li Chenghong with a smile, and said: “Look, I really don’t care.”

 

Li Chenghong: “…”

 

If only Dr. Zhang didn’t have a clenched fist and a blue vein on the back of his hand…

 

He might have believed it.

 

…………

 

Xu Li looked at the hung-up phone in a daze, his brain a mix of “Our family is out of toilet paper” and “Your lover is still waiting for you to reunite”.

 

Why was Zhang Yuze acting crazy?!

 

Although he didn’t understand, Xu Li still clicked on the supermarket’s delivery page, buying Zhang Yuze a set of toothbrushes and towels, as well as a pair of slippers.

 

After buying all that, he even remembered that Zhang Yuze complained about cold hands every morning, so he ordered a pack of warm patches as well.

 

After settling the account, he returned to WeChat and saw Zhao Xiaole and Xiao Jie sending him dozens of WeChat messages, acting like the world was coming to an end.

 

It’s just that his WeChat never alerted him when he received a new message. He only knew when he looked at the app and saw the little red dot…

 

… And so, he clicked on it.

 

Zhao Xiaole: Assistant Xu, Help!!!!! Reply to me quickly!!!! I’m now at the risk of being caught by the head nurse messaging you!!!

 

Zhao Xiaole: Come here now!!!

 

Xu Li said: “…”

 

Xiao Jie: Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!

 

Xiao Jie: Fuck, ah, ah, ah!

 

Xu Li said “…” again.

 

Finally, all the second-hand pieces of information were put together, and more than a dozen new messages arrived in an instant.

 

Xu Li suddenly stared wide-eyed and finally figured out what the content of his previous conversation with Zhang Yuze meant.

 

He quickly tore off his coat from the hanger, stepped on his shoes, and jumped out of the house.

 

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  maybe the boy is pansexual, Idk