Qin Cheng lay lazily on the table, yawning as he watched Jian Heng throw the cola he just bought into the trash can.
A girl saw it and covered her mouth and exclaimed ‘Wow’.
Was that worth a ‘Wow’? Jian Heng used his cola to show off.
Qin Cheng tilted his head: “…Jian Heng, I’m telling you, I’m just too lazy to move because it hurts everywhere.”
More than three yuan. Qin • diligent and thrifty • Cheng felt a pain in his flesh.
Jian Heng glanced at him, took out a bottle of mineral water from the desk, and placed it on his desk. Then he flipped open his English book and exercise book and began to write——this studious appearance of ‘I’m studying, don’t disturb me’ made Qin Cheng unsure where to put his raised hand.
They, the school slag, all have a kind of reverence for the school tyrants. They subconsciously acknowledge their excellence in this aspect. Especially when the school tyrants are studying, they are generally unwilling to disturb them.
The reason is: Although I don’t study, I won’t disturb the school tyrant’s studying. School tyrants appreciate people like me, I still have good qualities.
They inexplicably found a sense of identification in school tyrants.
Qin-ge, who had lost his cola but gained mineral water and a sense of identity, plopped back down on the table. He grabbed Jian Heng’s jacket, folded it haphazardly, and put it underneath him, looking like he was getting ready for bed.
The bell for the class was the horn for bedtime. Qin Cheng closed his eyes comfortably and instructed him: “Tan Qi, come over and tell him that Dad is asleep. If he dares to wake me up, I will sentence him to death.”
Jian Heng ignored him.
Qin Cheng thought for a while before he fell into a daze. It seemed that since he met Jian Heng, his sleep quality had been rising. Except for the day when he was livestreaming until 2:30, dragged up by Jian Heng, and couldn’t sleep because of anger.
As long as Jian Heng was next to him, he would sleep well.
Now, he can fall asleep in seconds.
The neurasthenia1神经衰弱 (shén jīng shuāi ruò): nervous breakdown; mental breakdown; (euphemism) mental illness; psychasthenia; neurosism; neurasthenia. Neurasthenia is an ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance., insomnia2失眠 (shī mián): to suffer from insomnia. Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder where people have trouble sleeping. They may have difficulty falling asleep, or staying asleep for as long as desired. Insomnia is typically followed by daytime sleepiness, low energy, irritability, and a depressed mood., and excessive dreaming3多梦 (duō mèng): (of one’s sleep quality) be dreamful; (TCM) profuse dreaming; epic dreaming; vivid dreaming. Epic dreaming is defined as the recall of relentless, neutral-content dreaming throughout the night, with feelings of exhaustion upon awakening and fatigue during the day. Frequent, vivid dreams may be related to stress, medications, sleep disorders, or early pregnancy. More information: Link 1; Link 2; Link 3. that had tortured him for many years were cured by Jian Heng. It was like a miracle worker was reborn. He thought about giving Doctor Jian a banner made of willow leaves as a token of appreciation when he had the chance…
The English teacher was in a bad mood today. Upon entering the classroom, she saw Qin Cheng sleeping on the table like an arrogant idler. The teacher’s anger was directed at him immediately, with a strong emotional tone: “Qin Cheng, wake up!”
Normally, Qin Cheng was a light sleeper and could wake up immediately in most situations. But now that there is Doctor Jian next to him, he fell asleep in seconds and even dreamed…
In the dream, Jian Heng made a green wreath out of willow branches and insisted on putting it on Qin Cheng’s head. In the dream, Qin Cheng was also seriously injured and stood no chance against Jian Heng. After reluctantly putting on the wreath in humiliation, Jian Heng asked him coldly, “Does the color look good?”
Qin Cheng: “You put a green one on my head? Could that look good? Fuck.”
Jian Heng: “If it doesn’t look good, why do you give it to me?”
Qin Cheng: “…”
“Qin Cheng.” It seemed like someone was calling him. Qin Cheng tried to open his eyes while pulling the wreath in his dream, but sleepiness followed him like a shadow, and his eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds.
“Qin Cheng.” The voice got louder, and the wreath in the dream was getting tighter and tighter. Qin Cheng pulled it hard.
“I fought back.” The low voice actually began to threaten people. It was inexplicable. Qin Cheng pulled it again. This wreath grip is really good.
“Qin Cheng!!!” A sharp female voice penetrated the dream and shattered the wreath. Qin Cheng suddenly opened his eyes. He was startled awake, his breathing became a little rapid, and his heart beat too fast.
Qin Cheng was about to sit up when the thing in his hand suddenly moved, and he subconsciously grabbed it.
“Are you going to drag me to class?” Jian Heng’s voice came from the side.
Qin Cheng was startled, and the hand holding the object moved from his head to his eyes.
He, the top Alpha Qin Cheng, tightly grasped the fingers of another top Alpha Jian Heng in his palm, so hard that his joints turned white, as if they were parting forever.
Jian Heng moved his fingers, signaling him to let go.
“Holy shit!” Qin Cheng suddenly reacted. He threw it away and rubbed his hands vigorously as if he had seen a ghost. Halfway through rubbing, he realized how stupid his behavior was and how dozens of eyes in the classroom seemed to be watching him.
These eyes also included the English teacher, who looked so angry that she was about to breathe fire.
Qin Cheng was completely immune to the various looks of the teachers and immersed himself in incredulity.
He could fall asleep so quickly and deeply, and he was still grabbing the wreath in his dream——wreath my ass. If Jian Heng needed him, he should just call him properly; what was he doing, touching his hair? It was terrifying inside and outside of his dreams…
He has been eating and sleeping with Jian Heng these past two days. Jian Heng couldn’t possibly drugged him, right…?
The thought was terrifying.
“Qin Cheng, don’t you want to study!” The English teacher was so angry that she picked up a piece of chalk and threw it at him, but maybe because Qin Cheng was sitting too far away, the chalk went completely off course and went towards Jian Heng.
Qin Cheng turned his head violently, just in time to see the scene where Jian Heng slightly tilted his head to avoid the chalk.
Oh boy, expressionless and without blinking. With such aura, Qin Cheng wanted to ask you; why you didn’t hold the chalk with one hand and bounce it back to make a hole in the blackboard.
The English teacher’s aura weakened a bit because of the chalk that strayed off course, but she was still angry. She picked up a pile of papers on the podium, looked at him, and said: “Qin Cheng, out of the 48 people in the class, you’re the only one, the only one who turned in a blank paper!”
“Um?” Qin Cheng looked innocent, his gaze moved from Jian Heng’s face to the teacher’s face. He said sincerely, “I wrote my name.”
“You still——” The English teacher pointed at him angrily.
“And the number sequence.” Qin Cheng spread his hands. So theoretically he didn’t hand in a blank paper.
The class burst out laughing one after another. Tan Qi pinched his throat and shouted ‘Dad Qin is freaking awesome~’, and the laughter became even louder.
As soon as Qin-ge opened his mouth, he knew whether he was right or not.
“Get out,” the English teacher said with a heaving chest, pointing outside the door, “Qin Cheng, you get out! Go find your homeroom teacher!”
In the past, Qin Cheng would absolutely leave as soon as he was told to go with a cheerful step. But now is different. The susceptible period has not passed yet. If he leaves, both he and Jian Heng will be in trouble.
“Teacher, I was wrong,” Qin Cheng stood up, took a step to the side, and looked at her sincerely, “I will stand there as punishment, teacher. I want to listen to your lectures. The monthly exam is coming soon. This study cannot be delayed.”
The English teacher choked for a moment and then reacted. She lost her composure and yelled at him: “…Have you ever learned!!!”
“I’ll start learning from now on,” Qin Cheng responded quickly. He stretch out his arm and patted Jian Heng’s shoulder, “My school tyrant deskmate profoundly influenced me. I was enlightened and realized my mistake.”
“You turn around and roll out of here!”
Qin Cheng glanced at Jian Heng, but his words were addressed to the teacher: “Why are you still so stubborn and determined to let me out?”
Qin Cheng has always been very well-behaved towards his teachers because his mother taught him to respect his teachers since he was a child. This often led to many teachers always forgetting the fact that he was the most difficult student to deal with in the entire Fifth High School when facing him.
He didn’t know what it was about today that caused his English teacher, who usually paid little attention to him, to lash out like crazy. But the reason didn’t matter, it was just that he had inadvertently provoked her.
Coincidentally, she also provoked him.
It was already annoying enough that he had to fight with the scoundrels yesterday. His live streaming bonus was also at risk because of these trivial things. Now, he felt so sore all over that he wished he could just sleep on the table for a year without getting up. Right at a critical moment, she asked him why he hadn’t done his homework and told him to roll out.
Fine, he would roll out now, but…
“Teacher, I’m feeling sick, I don’t feel well,” Qin Cheng raised his hand and then patted Jian Heng’s shoulder, “Jian Heng, help me to go to the punishment corner.”
Upon hearing this, Jian Heng glanced at him, and Qin Cheng raised an eyebrow at him.
Jian Heng didn’t say anything. He stood up and pulled his hand over his shoulder. Fully playing the drama of supporting him as they walked out.
The English teacher remained silent for a while, probably out of anger. It wasn’t until the two of them reached the door that she called out again, “Jian Heng! I let you——”
Jian Heng turned around and glanced at her. That ‘like he’s going to pull out a knife the next second’ look in Tan Qi’s mouth appeared again. She didn’t say a word until their figures had completely disappeared.
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“Hey, what’s wrong with her today? She never cared about me before.” Qin Cheng was brought to the rooftop door by Jian Heng. Thinking that he was going to sit there, he frowned, “Let’s go to the cafeteria. It’s so cold and gloomy here.”
Jian Heng put his hand on the lock, knocked it, and said, “Go to the rooftop.”
Qin Cheng leaned on the side, and suddenly felt a little funny: “Shall we rely on our mind to go there?”
Jian Heng glanced at him with his head tilted, his eyebrows slightly raised, and the corner of his mouth curled up: “Watch.”
Qin Cheng couldn’t help but sigh when he smiled. This person is really good-looking when he smiles; handsome and approachable.
Qin Cheng followed his line of sight and saw him take out a piece of wire from his pocket. His fingers deftly bent the wire into a shape and put it into the lock core. In less than a minute, the lock opened with a ‘click’ sound…
Qin Cheng was shocked. He took the lock in disbelief and looked at it over and over again. Finally, he came to the conclusion that the lock core was not damaged at all. Jian Heng really knew how to open the lock.
Qin Cheng followed him to the rooftop, picked a clean place to sit down, and looked back at him: “I can’t describe how I feel at this moment.”
Jian Heng sat next to him with one leg straight and the other bent in a relaxed posture. “Do you want to kneel down?”
Qin Cheng tilted his head, “Why do I feel that this is not something that should be worshipped? Sneaking in and picking the lock is against the law, right?”
Jian Heng turned the wire in his hand: “Remove the ‘right’.”
Qin Cheng pushed him with his arm: “Then why did you still learn it.”
“Did I break the law?” There was a little smile in Jian Heng’s eyes, and his deep voice couldn’t hide the levity in his tone.
Jian Heng was in a good mood now, Qin Cheng could hear it, although he couldn’t figure out the reason.
“There is no violation of the law,” Qin Cheng’s mood also felt better for some reason. He took the wire from him and studied it in front of his eyes. “It’s just that your school tyrant’s skills are a little confused with mine. This kind of thing doesn’t match you at all.”
“Don’t look at the grades,” Jian Heng took out a flower wreath from his pocket, twirling it on his fingertips, “How about looking at the face?”
Qin Cheng put his hand down, tilted his head, and looked at his face carefully from a very close distance.
His facial features were cold and hard, his eyebrows were sharp, and his eyes… looked like he was about to pull out a knife. His height and figure… like a small scoundrel with a stick.
“Alright,” Qin Cheng couldn’t help but chuckle, “Indeed, there’s a bit of mischief there.”
For Qin Cheng, days like this, sitting quietly outside with someone beside him to look up at the sky, are rare, or almost non-existent.
Most of the time, he would rather play a few games with Tan Qi to practice his skills or take a nap in the last row. On rare occasions, he would suffer from insomnia and have a splitting headache, so he would lie on the table in a daze.
How long has it been since he has experienced the phrase ‘peaceful days’? Since that day… it has never happened again.
“Jian Heng.” Qin Cheng called out to him.
“Um.” Jian Heng said.
The sunlight in the morning was not that strong yet, and the morning breeze brought a little coolness to his face, which made him feel indescribably comfortable. It was this comfort that made Qin Cheng suddenly have an impulse to have a heart-to-heart talk.
“Where was your family originally from? Why did you move over by yourself?” Qin Cheng didn’t turn his head to look when he asked. This was a private matter and Jian Heng had the right not to say anything. Staring at him made it seem like he wanted to know.
It’s rude.
Jian Heng really didn’t respond. Qin Cheng smiled and nudged him with his elbow, “Don’t be nervous, Qin-ge is not a bad person.”
“What’s for lunch?” A heart-to-heart talk that was at the right time and in the right place4天时地利 (tiān shí de lì): in fine weather and favorable geographical position; opportune time and geographical advantages. Part of the idiom; 天时地利人和 (tiān shí dì lì rén hé), lit. at the right time, in the right place, and with the right people; the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom); a good time to go to war; conditions required for success; knock on wood; if everything goes according to plan; with a little luck; everything goes right. was strangled in the cradle. Qin Cheng changed the topic in a relaxed tone, “I don’t want to let Tan Qi, who has that kind of brain, have——”
“Chuan City,” Jian Heng interrupted him, his tone calm and emotionless, “had a falling out with my family.”
“…Ah.” He suddenly confessed. Qin Cheng didn’t know what to say in turn. He thought that Jian Heng would reject him.
“Why do you have to win the perfect attendance award?” Jian Heng turned his head and looked at him seriously.
Qin Cheng found that Jian Heng not only likes to exchange cola for mineral water with him, but he also likes to exchange questions with him.
The author has something to say:
The author stood in front of the window and looked out. After a while, they sighed: Day by day, I don’t know who is teasing whom…
Frequent Chinese readers should understand QC’s dream, right? In Chinese culture, wearing a green hat is cause for mockery because of its hidden meaning. “Wearing a green hat” [戴綠帽 (dài lǜ mào)] is an expression that the Chinese use when a woman cheats on her husband or boyfriend because the phrase sounds similar to the word for a cuckold. This apparently dates back to the Yuan Dynasty when the relatives of prostitutes were forced to wear green hats.
List of Idiom in Chapter 15
如影隨形 (rú yǐng suí xíng): lit. as the shadow follows the substance; as the shadow follows the body (idiom); closely associated with each other; be inseparable; to follow relentlessly; like the shadow following the body—be closely related to each other; a shadow always follows the body. It means that two things are closely related or two people are closely related and cannot be separated.生離死別 (shēng lí sǐ bié): to be parted forever by death; separated in life and death; to part forever; be parted in life or separated by death—part never to meet again; separation is like farewell to the deceased. It refers to a separation that is difficult to see again or a permanent separation.
醍醐灌頂 (tí hú guàn dǐng): lit. to anoint your head with the purest cream (idiom); to anoint one’s head with ghee; fig. to enlighten people with perfect wisdom; flawless Buddhist teaching; (Buddhism) to enlighten someone with wisdom for achieving nirvana; (figurative) to inspire someone with insightful words; be enlightened.
浪子回頭 (làng zǐ huí tóu): the return of a prodigal son (idiom); refers to a prodigal son who does not do his job properly and corrects his evil ways, repenting and making a new start. There’s also a proverb for this, 浪子回頭金不換 (làng zǐ huí tóu jīn bù huàn), lit. a wayward son who returns is more precious than gold; a prodigal son returned home is worth more than gold; it is rare when someone who has gone astray turns over a new leaf, so we should accept that person with open arms when the person does reform; a person who does not follow the right path is extremely valuable after he corrects his evil ways.
尊師重道 (zūn shī zhòng dào): to respect a teacher and revere his teachings; honour the teacher and respect his teaching; honour teachers and esteem truth; respect one’s teacher(s) and honour truth; respecting those who teach and attach importance to the moral norms that should be followed.
翻來覆去 (fān lái fù qù): toss and turn sleeplessly; repeatedly; again and again; move from side to side; time and again,
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