RES Chapter 67

Alcohol was a magical thing, it could dull the senses and relax the mind.

Chi Qiu completely forgot that he was pretending to be blind, and he couldn’t remember what nonsense he just said. He only knew that he suffered a lot of grievances. He could tell no one, but he could tell Lu Ming.

Because he felt that Lu Ming loved him and only loved him, so he would definitely accept such an imperfect self.

So, Chi Qiu nestled in Lu Ming’s embrace, greedily seeking Lu Ming’s warmth, and the words he poured out were gurgling water, lingering in the quiet night.

He held Lu Ming’s fingers as he raised his head and asked for a kiss, the blush on his cheeks had already betrayed his ‘sobriety’.

Lu Ming looked at him with his deep eyes, but he didn’t kiss him in the ambiguity.

Chi Qiu was unwilling and didn’t understand, but he couldn’t afford to think about anything else. He rubbed his head against Lu Ming and let out a breath: “I’m sleepy.”

Lu Ming put Chi Qiu on the bed without hesitation: “Sleep, ba.”

“You haven’t…given me a goodnight kiss today.”

“…”

After receiving Lu Ming’s brief silence, Chi Qiu suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight at Lu Ming. His eyes were moist as he complained like a drunk person: “You…you didn’t kiss me before you left the house this morning either.”

Chi Qiu had learned to give in since he was a child, but his heart had never been insecure.

This void in his mind made him know how to keep a certain distance from anything, but only to Lu Ming, Chi Qiu couldn’t help but be greedy and eager. It seemed to be like a blazing fire that was burning dry, and after it burned to ashes, it would be scattered beside Lu Ming.

He mustered up his courage, got up recklessly before leaning in and taking the initiative to kiss Lu Ming’s face.

The movement was consistent and the position was exactly the same.

And Lu Ming was a motionless sinking mountain.

At the moment when Chi Qiu’s lips left him, Lu Ming grabbed Chi Qiu’s hand and met his eyes.

Lu Ming saw that these eyes were full of love for him, as strong as wine, that he would get drunk after just one sip. Therefore, Lu Ming hurriedly looked away, and even the sentence ‘can you see?’ that was stuck in his throat was forcibly chewed up.

Lu Ming quietly looked at Chi Qiu, unable to ask the question.

The curtains in the bedroom were not completely closed, making the moonlight shine down, and Chi Qiu’s sleepiness came without warning, wrapping him in the rich moonlight.

After taking the initiative to get a goodnight kiss, Chi Qiu slept extraordinarily well, leaving only one unanswered question for Lu Ming.

When Chi Qiu fell asleep, Lu Ming removed Chi Qiu’s hand that was hugging him and walked barefoot into the bathroom.

He picked up Chi Qiu’s clothes and pants in the dirty clothes basket and found a ticket to the exhibition from his pants pocket. He fixed his eyes on it for a while, then silently put the ticket back into the pocket of his pants.

Then he sat on the edge of the bed, as if he was lost in thought.

By the time he came back to his senses, half an hour had passed. He got up and moved the glass of water that Chi Qiu had left to drink from its fixed position to the shelf table opposite the bed. He never put the glass at this place and it was also a place that Chi Qiu rarely used.

And every morning, Chi Qiu would habitually pick up this cup to take a sip of water.

Even after doing all this, Lu Ming was still sleepless.

He even suspected that he was being paranoid, but he also hoped that he was being paranoid.

Otherwise, if Chi Qiu could see it, then wouldn’t his expressionless face during all this time had been seen by Chi Qiu? Since this was the case, how could Chi Qiu still say the words that he loved him?

Lu Ming’s lack of emotion and indifference was a layer of ice that covered his heart.

He couldn’t understand.

Who would truly love someone like him after witnessing his symptoms?

During the long late night, Lu Ming tossed and turned. This time, the insomnia was more and more torturous than before. He suddenly had a heartache, and his lonely heart had a place for restlessness.

 

The next morning, Lu Ming with a tired face, knocked on the door of Ji Yanchen’s room.

Ji Yanchen slept late and was in a sleepy state at the moment. He looked at Lu Ming with an unhappy face, and with a sense of getting up, he said in a bad voice: “You’re sick, staying awake in the middle of the night.”

“It’s six o’clock in the morning.”

But six o’clock for Ji Yanchen, was not daytime yet. He still had to continue to sleep!

Ji Yanchen looked at Lu Ming who was talking seriously, his whole face was wrinkled together. He scratched the back of his head angrily: “…I really don’t know how Chi Qiu lives with you.” After saying that, he turned back to the guest room bed; he didn’t intend to deal with the crazy Lu Ming.

Within a few seconds, he snored loudly, very deliberately, as if urging Lu Ming to scram away.

Lu Ming, who was standing by the bed, did not care about his childish temper and instead coldly said, “Did you take Chi Qiu to the art exhibition yesterday?”

Just this one sentence, ten words, startled Ji Yanchen so much that he said goodbye to the dreamland and woke up abruptly: “How did you know?!” Ji Yanchen thought badly, it shouldn’t be Chi Qiu who said it, ba. If he even took the initiative to confess about the art exhibition, then the matter of eyes… would he also confess about it??

The damn wine!

Ji Yanchen became completely awake. His face turned pale as his dry lips moved. He decided to answer Lu Ming’s question honestly first: “Yes, ah. My ge gave me the tickets. I forced Chi Qiu to go with me. Why, is it not allowed, ah?”

Lu Ming did not answer, just calmly looking at Ji Yanchen.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Forced? He did not ask for it?”

“Lu Ming, are you bothered? He can’t even see, so how can he ask to go to the exhibition? I didn’t want to go alone, so I took him with me. I used to take Chi Qiu to the cinema to watch movies. Do I have to report to you one by one?”

Ji Yanchen was full of ‘I can do whatever I want to do’ arrogant expression.

But according to Lu Ming’s understanding of Ji Yanchen, he wouldn’t be interested in these.

Lu Ming asked: “You are interested in the art exhibition?”

Ji Yanchen said frankly: “Yes, ah!”

“…”

Ji Yanchen saw that he had blocked Lu Ming and secretly had fun. With the mentality that as long as he was not serious and he could understand everything he did, he deliberately said: “Hey, I won’t hide it from you, I really have no interest in art. But I heard that your uncle is good-looking and a famous painter. Is there anything wrong with me going to have a look? I saw him yesterday, from a distance. He is not bad, much better than you.”

When these words came out of Ji Yanchen’s mouth, there was no sense of inconsistency. It was indeed a ridiculous thing he would do.

But in fact, even though Ji Yanchen said these words, his heart was still not at ease. But soon, after he finished these words, Ji Yanchen caught a trace of uncertainty in Lu Ming’s eyes. He immediately understood that this could…just be a test from Lu Ming for him.

Ji Yanchen relaxed, it seemed that Chi Qiu did not say anything.

It was a false alarm. He then pretended to be sleepy and got into the quilt, yawning and saying, “I am at least your guests. It’s rare to stay overnight, so why don’t you let me sleep!”

Lu Ming: “…”

Ji Yanchen’s mouth was a wall welded with steel bars. No matter what Lu Ming said, he could drag you to other places.

Lu Ming didn’t know how Ji Feining put up with such an inconsiderate younger brother. If it were him, he would want to carry him straight to the door and cut off the relationship.

Fortunately, Lu Ming didn’t really want to get an exact answer from Ji Yanchen’s mouth.

When he saw Ji Yanchen’s reaction, he had probably guessed that Chi Qiu wanted to go to the exhibition and Ji Yanchen went there together with him. This was why for the past two days, Chi Qiu had been hesitant to say where he would go to play.

He stayed in the guest room for a moment, and before he left, he kindly reminded Ji Yanchen, “About my uncle, if you are joking, I hope you don’t overdo it and don’t go asking for trouble.”

“What do you mean?”

“My uncle is not straight. He looks gentle, but actually not easy to mess with.” Lu Ming spoke plainly.

Having said that, Ji Yanchen woke up from his drowsiness.

To be honest, at best he only saw Lu Fengshen’s back, he didn’t even know exactly what Lu Fengshen looked like, so how could he really go play with fire? Seeing Lu Ming’s serious lectures, he instantly thought of last night’s grievances. Pursing the corners of his mouth wickedly, he began to talk nonsense: “So coincidentally, ah, I am not completely straight.”

Lu Ming paused for a moment and hit the nail on the head: “Does your brother know that you are not?”

Ji Yanchen slammed ‘fuck’ in his heart, and jumped: “If you dare to tell my brother, I will give you im…” Half way through, his momentum suddenly fell down, and before the word ‘potence’¹I think he’s about to supplement for the impotence jumped out, he was stopped by his own reason.

Ji Yanchen covered his head with the quilt on his own.

Lu Ming was puzzled: “What?”

“Nothing.”

“…”

“I’ll let you go because of my friend, you’re lucky today.” Ji Yanchen had so many secrets in his stomach that he almost suffocated himself.

Lu Ming, of course, would not look deeply into what Ji Yanchen said. He only thought Ji Yanchen was not awake and was in a frenzy, so he left the guest room quickly.

As soon as the door was closed, Ji Yanchen muttered: “I’ll send you supplements later, I’ll kill you!”

 

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  I think he’s about to supplement for the impotence