SPDO Chapter 30

Cheng Bin’s face was already not good because of hangover, and it became even worse after seeing Wu Mu.

Qin Cheng belatedly realized he might have caused trouble.

He couldn’t help but tap Jian Heng’s shoulder and asked in a low voice: “Holy shit, what is this situation?”

Jian Heng glanced at him: “You knock on the door without knowing what’s going on?”

Qin Cheng was very innocent. He held up the watermelon and said: “My mom, your aunt, asked me to bring you watermelon.”

Jian Heng put his hand on his shoulder and pushed him. Qin Cheng walked into the bedroom. Shao Ze stood at the door and smiled when he saw him.

He could still smile, Qin Cheng guessed it wasn’t a big disaster.

Jian Heng closed the door smoothly, leaving space for the two people outside.

Qin Cheng habitually sat down on his computer chair and tapped the keyboard twice. tilted his head, and asked a little uneasily: “The people outside, won’t start fighting, right?”

“Perhaps,” Jian Heng said, “You can go out and drag them.”

“You’re very angry,” Qin Cheng coughed and said, “I apologize. I sincerely apologize for what I said. I shouldn’t have said that it’s not good to engage in homosexuality. I will never say it again in the future.”

Jian Heng looked at him and said nothing.

“This student, can you give me a chance,” Qin Cheng’s attitude was sincere, he was very willing put aside his pride to plead with him. “I also don’t know about Cheng Bin. I haven’t… been around many people like that before. Give me a chance, okay?”

The atmosphere was deadlocked. Just when Qin Cheng thought Jian Heng was still unhappy, he hummed in agreement.

Shao Ze’s iceberg face froze for a few seconds, his eyes darting back and forth between the two of them, wondering where this was coming from.

Being gay?

Cheng Bin is indeed gay, and so is Jian Heng. He is the only straight man among the three brothers. Why does Qin Cheng seem to think that only Cheng Bin is gay?

The situation is not very optimistic. Shao Ze couldn’t help but shake his head. Heng’er still has a long way to go.

Qin Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, but couldn’t help but want to laugh. He stretched out his arm and took Jian Heng’s hand, pinched his little thumb, and said to himself: “The little guy has quite a temper. Didn’t talk to me for a day.”

Jian Heng walked next to him, put his hand directly on his neck and let him pinch it, grazing Qin Cheng’s glands with his thumb.

Qin Cheng couldn’t help but want to avoid it at first, but later he got used to it and simply stopped moving.

The feeling on the glands was numb, and Jian Heng’s fingertips felt hot. The glands were heated up by the rubbing. Occasionally, he rubbed them with the protrusions of his knuckles, leaving a mark that could not be ignored.

It was very comfortable.

Shao Ze once again felt that he was redundant. He raised his head and met Jian Heng’s eyes. Jian Heng looked at the door with a smile in his eyes.

Shao Ze sighed, what else he didn’t understand. He went out silently without uttering a word.

Before leaving, he glanced at Qin Cheng, who leaned comfortably on Jian Heng’s hand. An Alpha’s most vulnerable part was being held casually in the palm of another Alpha’s hand, but there was no reaction. He squeezed Jian Heng’s hand repeatedly and even closed his eyes.

What a big ‘straight man’.

…..

After the problem was solved, Qin Cheng felt the big knot in his heart was relieved. He couldn’t help but invite Jian Heng: “Come and stay at my house today?”

“Mn.” Jian Heng tugged the back of the chair and dragged it to the side of the bed. After sitting down, he put both hands on his shoulders and squeezed them with moderate strength.

“Mm… so comfortable…” Qin Cheng closed his eyes, feeling a sense of drifting, then two bony hands were placed on his shoulders and began to massage. The pressure was perfect, making him feel like his soul was being rubbed away. He couldn’t help but hum, “Technique… um… not bad… this… handsome brother…”

Jian Heng’s hands continued their work, leaning slightly forward and whispering in his ear. The proximity of their bodies made his voice echo in Qin Cheng’s ear, low and pleasant, with a sensual warmth: “How comfortable is it?”

“I’m almost asleep,” Qin Cheng rubbed his head and breathed a sigh of relief, “You didn’t talk to me all day, I couldn’t even sleep well, I was so sleepy…”

Qin Cheng yawned as he spoke. There is a little moisture in his eyes when he opened them.

Most people would appear soft and pitiful at this time. However, Qin Cheng’s eyes were still sharp, his facial features were profound, and his eyebrows set off his arrogant eye shape, always carrying a fierce energy.

It’s just that he’s a little more lethargic now.

“Have you done your homework?” Jian Heng asked.

“No, you don’t even talk to me anymore. How can I be in the mood to write this stuff?” Qin Cheng said nonchalantly, “Lend me yours so I can copy it tomorrow.”

Having a school tyrant as a deskmate really gives him confidence.

“Not in the mood?” Jian Heng looked at him, his movements suddenly stopped, and he looked into his eyes from above and asked, “Why?”

“Why else,” Jian Heng suddenly pulled his hand away, and his shoulders and neck suddenly felt cold. Qin Cheng rubbed himself uncomfortably, “Don’t I have to reflect on myself and think carefully about how to coax you?”

Speaking of this, Qin Cheng couldn’t help but laugh. Looking up at him, he narrowed his eyes slightly as he laughed, and he said in an exaggerated tone, “Damn it, student Jian Heng, you’re freaking awesome, you know that?”

Jian Heng raised his eyebrows.

“Where have I ever coaxed anyone so much before?” Qin Cheng closed his eyes, enjoying this feeling. He handed his back to others easily, and his whole body and mind were relaxed, “If Tan Qi and the others were to do this with me, I would’ve cut open their heads¹開瓢兒 (kāi piáo ér): T/N: a Beijing dialect word, which means to describe a person’s head being broken and bleeding. It originally means cutting a gourd, and because the gourd is round, like a human head, in some places it is used to refer to a head injury. And it generally refers to a situation where someone intentionally attacks someone with external force..”

Qin Cheng paused and added: “Of course, besides Tan Qi, they wouldn’t dare to act like this with me.”

“You won’t cut open his head if Tan Qi act like that?” Jian Heng placed his palms on the glands on the back of his neck, warm and hot.

“Not opening… hey, why is your hand so hot,” Qin Cheng felt so comfortable that he sighed, “That silly son just needs a beating²一頓飯 (yī dùn fàn): lit. a meal. T/N: According to the netizens, this phrase could be used to talk about ordinary meal, but it could also mean teach others a lesson by beating or scolding them.. How can I treat him so delicately as I treated you?”

Jian Heng chuckled, a low, soft sound that indicated a good mood.

Qin Cheng’s mood involuntarily soared along with him.

The awkwardness, discomfort, and uneasiness of the past few days were all eliminated by these light chuckles, returning to the familiar feeling of peace and tranquility.

He never experienced this kind of feeling with anyone else before. Only when he stay by Jian Heng’s side could he feel this kind of feeling.

This must be Jian Heng’s personality charm. Qin Cheng thought. Although the thought of Jian Heng charming others made him feel a little uncomfortable, the atmosphere was so comfortable now that he didn’t want to think about it anymore.

When Qin Cheng followed Jian Heng out in a daze, there was no one in the living room. Cheng Bin and his boyfriend were nowhere to be found, and even Shao Ze was nowhere to be seen.

“Where’s everyone,” Qin Cheng scanned the room, “they didn’t go out for a fight, did they?”

Jian Heng tilted his head and raised his eyebrows in question: “You really haven’t had a girlfriend?”

“Why?” Qin Cheng also asked, “Qin-ge keeps himself clean, do you understand? How can I casually accept someone I don’t like? Isn’t it just a waste of time for that girl…”

“Indeed,” Jian Heng pushed open the door, “normal couples need to go out for a fight when quarreling.”

Qin Cheng followed with a hmmm, and then felt something was wrong: “Damn it, Jian Heng, why are you scolding me in such a roundabout way? I’m just saying it casually.”

“Yes, just a casual remark.” Jian Heng agreed.

***

In the end, Jian Heng, this study fiend, monitored Qin Cheng until he finished his homework.

When Qin Cheng was washing up, he kept saying that he would definitely be able to go to the Tsinghua University and the Peking University³清北 (Qīng-Běi): the Tsinghua University and the Peking University. Both Tsinghua University and Peking University is a public university in Haidian, Beijing. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. T/N: Both universities are known to be prestigious universities in China. According to the netizens, Tsinghua is the MIT of China whereas Peking is the Harvard of China. Tsinghua is better in engineering, while Peking is better in humanities, science, and medicine. if things continued like this. No, domestic colleges and universities couldn’t accommodate him anymore, he had to go abroad.

Jian Heng put his hand on the back of his neck and rubbed it: “Um, they recruit people based on their appearance.”

Qin Cheng spat out the mouthwash, and for a moment, he couldn’t tell whether Jian Heng was praising him or scolding him.

This school tyrant is just different. Even his speech level is better than a school slag like him.

Before going to sleep at night, Qin Cheng asked in a daze: “Did Cheng Bin break up with his boyfriend?”

Jian Heng hummed.

“Why?” Qin Cheng turned over and asked. Even though he was obviously so sleepy that he couldn’t even open his eyes, he still couldn’t help but ask, “Can you tell me more? There is no one around me who is the same… that is, two Alpha. I’m a little curious.”

It was quite rude to ask this, but Qin Cheng was too relaxed in front of Jian Heng and just couldn’t control his mouth.

He already asked, and there’s no taking it back. Jian Heng was about to go to sleep if he didn’t say anything.

But Jian Heng was silent for a while, then said: “Wu Mu’s family found out and made a scene at the school, asking them to break up.”

Jian Heng stopped talking after that. Qin Cheng waited a few seconds, seeing that he really didn’t intend to elaborate, shook his head and said: “It’s really not easy, now… it’s not that open yet.”

Jian Heng said nothing.

After a long time passed again, when Jian Heng thought Qin Cheng had fallen asleep, he suddenly said again: “Tell me… why does Alpha like another Alpha?”

Seeing him looking over, Qin Cheng quickly explained: “I didn’t mean to say that this is bad. You know what I mean.”

“Mn,” Jian Heng’s voice was very soft, unexpectedly tender in the darkness, “If you like it, you just like it. Do you have to have a reason?”

“…Ah,” this sentence inexplicably pierced the depth of his heart. Qin Cheng sniffed and his voice was a little low, “It’s not necessary. If you still need a reason to like someone, then living is also too tiring.”

After what happened today, Qin Cheng couldn’t say what his attitude towards homosexuality was. Before, he didn’t accept, didn’t understand, and didn’t criticize them either.

Up to now, Qin Cheng didn’t think this kind of sexual orientation was wrong, but it was still inconceivable.

An Alpha, because of like, breaks through so many constraints to get close to another Alpha with all their strength. The same gender, but separated by thousands of mountains and rivers. Embracing each other with all their strength at all costs even though the path is covered in brambles…

Qin Cheng had never seen this kind of emotion before, but he seemed to have some understanding.

Indeed.

If a person is not even free to like another person, then what’s the point of living?

***

Qin Cheng didn’t remember when he fell asleep. Anyway, when he woke up the next day, his head was resting on Jian Heng’s shoulder, and his whole body was stuck to Jian Heng like a glue. The air filled with the scent of incense, so fragrant it made his head dizzy.

He turned his head; he still grabbed Jian Heng’s hand and held it with their fingers intertwined…

Jian Heng was lying on his side facing him, one hand was held by him, and the other hand was around his waist. His hand reached into his pajamas, and that small patch of skin was warm.

After this series of observations, no matter how sleepy he was, his brain woke up. Qin Cheng raised his hand and was about to push him away when his eyes fell on Jian Heng’s sleeping face, and his hand couldn’t come down.

Jian Heng slept deeply, his long eyelashes covering his eyelids. When he was awake, his eyes were cold and expressionless, but when he was asleep, he was surprisingly gentle and peaceful, his danger level reduced to zero.

It made people very much want to rua⁴rua: an Internet buzzword. It was first used in various local dialects. Its Chinese character is written as 挼 (ruó). In Beijing dialect, rua means weak physique and poor skills; in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, it means “touch, knead, rub, pinch” and so on. T/N: According to the netizens, rua usually used when one see something cute and couldn’t help but want to rub/squeeze it. This phenomenon is called cute aggression, or playful aggression. It is the urge to squeeze or bite things perceived as being cute without the desire to cause any harm. the short stubble on his head.

For Qin Cheng, it was rare to see Jian Heng sleeping so soundly in the morning. Every time, Jian Heng would buy breakfast and call him, and he would still lie in bed for a while before getting up. If he stayed up late streaming and couldn’t get up, Jian Heng would have to come in again after finishing his meal to call him.

Today, for the first time ever, Qin Cheng woke up earlier than Jian Heng. Looking at the two people’s arms and legs entangled inseparably, Qin Cheng suddenly realized a problem.

He had never woken up early before, so, in the past, were the two of them also sleep like this before?

Jian Heng actually put up with him until now?

The author has something to say:

Looking at the two mangoes and one tomato on the table, hesitating which one is more suitable for the big teapot, the author touched his chin and said: Jian-ge’s short stubble, who doesn’t want to rua it? There is life to rua but there’s no life to live. Tsk, tsk, tsk.

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List of Idiom in Chapter 30

深思熟慮 (shēn sī shú lǜ): deliberation; deep and careful consideration; mature reflection; cogitative.

迷迷糊糊 (mí mí hū hū): in a daze; bewildered; difficult to make out; to make a person confused, agitated, or muddy.

拐彎抹角 (guǎi wān mò jiǎo): lit. going round the curves and skirting the corners (idiom); to twist and turn; to turn a corner here and there; (figuratively) to speak in a roundabout way; to beat around the bush; to equivocate; proceed along a zigzag road; talk in a roundabout/crab-wise way.

千山萬水 (qiān shān wàn shuǐ): lit. one thousand mountains and ten thousand rivers; many rivers and mountains; distant, dangerous and difficult path; a journey filled with numerous difficulties and dangers; numerous hills and streams―long and arduous journey; describe many mountains and rivers, and it is a metaphor for the difficulty and distance of the road.

荊棘載途 (jīng jí zài tú): lit. a path covered in brambles; a course of action beset by difficulties (idiom); path overgrown with brambles―path beset with difficulties; the road is full of thorns. It means that the environment is difficult and there are many obstacles.

難捨難分 (nán shě nán fēn): loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate; cannot bear to part (with); be reluctant to part (with); can hardly tear oneself away/part from; describe a good relationship and unwillingness to be separated.

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  開瓢兒 (kāi piáo ér): T/N: a Beijing dialect word, which means to describe a person’s head being broken and bleeding. It originally means cutting a gourd, and because the gourd is round, like a human head, in some places it is used to refer to a head injury. And it generally refers to a situation where someone intentionally attacks someone with external force.
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  一頓飯 (yī dùn fàn): lit. a meal. T/N: According to the netizens, this phrase could be used to talk about ordinary meal, but it could also mean teach others a lesson by beating or scolding them.
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  清北 (Qīng-Běi): the Tsinghua University and the Peking University. Both Tsinghua University and Peking University is a public university in Haidian, Beijing. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. T/N: Both universities are known to be prestigious universities in China. According to the netizens, Tsinghua is the MIT of China whereas Peking is the Harvard of China. Tsinghua is better in engineering, while Peking is better in humanities, science, and medicine.
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  rua: an Internet buzzword. It was first used in various local dialects. Its Chinese character is written as 挼 (ruó). In Beijing dialect, rua means weak physique and poor skills; in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, it means “touch, knead, rub, pinch” and so on. T/N: According to the netizens, rua usually used when one see something cute and couldn’t help but want to rub/squeeze it. This phenomenon is called cute aggression, or playful aggression. It is the urge to squeeze or bite things perceived as being cute without the desire to cause any harm.