“So you just left the person like that?” Tan Qi furrowed his brows, his expression twisted with surprise.
“Ah,” Qin Cheng also felt an indescribable awkwardness. In order to seek the truth, he had specifically invited Tan Qi to a private room at a barbecue restaurant, spending quite a lot of money. Seeing Tan Qi’s expression at this moment, he got angry. He kicked the table and said, “Do you have any insights? If you do, speak up; if not, just get takeout, roll, and eat at home.”
“Holy shit!” Tan Qi pointed at him. “Look at your cold and ruthless appearance; it’s only because my love for you flows endlessly like a mighty river that I can endure it!”
“Yes, you are truly remarkable.” Qin Cheng took a sip of beer, glancing at him sideways. “So can this affectionate and righteous student start your analysis now?”
“That’s more like it,” Tan Qi said with satisfaction, taking a bite of the meat skewer. He tapped the table and pondered for a moment before starting to analyze. “Jian Heng is a gay man who likes Alphas. He is actually gay. He——”
“What’s wrong? Do you have an opinion? Did gay people eat your family’s rice?” Qin Cheng felt a surge of anger whenever he heard someone talk about homosexuality in such a strange tone; he couldn’t hold it in.
“I, what did I say?” Tan Qi mumbled in shock, shrinking back from his glare. He complained with a look of dissatisfaction, “Why don’t we just stop analyzing? Qin-ge, just get married already. You’re being so protective that I don’t even dare to speak.”
“Okay, okay, I was wrong,” Qin Cheng said, leaning back. He simply poured himself a glass of baijiu and started sipping. “From now on, you ask a question, and I’ll answer; if you don’t ask, I won’t say anything.”
Tan Qi snorted, holding up a pen and gesturing: “You, Qin Cheng, learned that Jian Heng is gay from someone who you weren’t willing to tell me who it was. When you turned around to question Jian Heng, not only did he admit it! He even confessed his feelings!! He even kissed you!!!”
“Can you stop speaking in such a fucking cadence?” After that kiss, Qin Cheng didn’t even dare to think too much about it. Tan Qi shouted so loudly that he practically wanted the whole world to hear it, leaving Qin-ge unable to maintain his old face anymore.
“You! Shut up!” Tan Qi commanded confidently, as if he had received an order. “Listen to me!”
“You say, you say,” Qin Cheng replied, taking a bite of meat, trying hard to suppress the heat rising behind his ears.
Why is it that whenever Jian Heng is mentioned, his ears just want to move, whether he’s present or not?
The ‘Ear-Moving Divine Power’ is actually some kind of curse, right?
Tan Qi continued, pointing at him: “You, a straight man! Let’s just assume it was shock that made you not resist when Jian Heng kissed you. Anyway, if a gay person were to kiss me, I might just fly up and kick——!”
“You can’t beat him,” Qin Cheng couldn’t help but speak up. After receiving a glare, he didn’t stop talking and mumbled out the second half of the sentence, “He doesn’t want to kiss you either.”
Tan Qi pointed at his hand, which he hadn’t had the chance to put down yet. Qin Cheng coughed, pressed his hand down, and said: “You continue.”
“Fuck, he kissed you, and you’re still quite proud of it,” Tan Qi took a deep breath. After a while, his expression suddenly turned serious. “Then, does it make you feel sick?”
Qin Cheng was taken aback: “What?”
Tan Qi took a bite from the mutton skewers in his hand. Keeping his eyes on him, he swallowed before repeating: “Qin-ge, looking back now, did you feel disgusted when Jian Heng kissed you?”
“I…” Qin Cheng frowned. The memories of that day were indeed a bit muddled, but that kiss was as unforgettable as Jian Heng’s words, ‘I like you’. It would stay with him for a lifetime.
He hasn’t even forgotten the feeling of Jian Heng’s lips. It’s very soft, a stark contrast to Jian Heng’s appearance and personality. When they press together, he barely applies any force, and they become even thinner. It’s really soft…
“You’re not disgusted,” Tan Qi suddenly said, with a look of certainty. “If you were disgusted, you wouldn’t have this kind of expression.”
Qin Cheng subconsciously retorted: “How do you know I’m not disgusted?”
Tan Qi took out his mobile phone, activated the front camera, and pointed it at him: “Here, hold this.”
Startled by his own reflection in the camera, Qin Cheng leaned back in shock, asking: “Holy shit, am I really that ugly?”
“Be content!” Tan Qi scolded, “People like you are blessed with good looks but don’t even realize it. We’ve all already changed into different species; at least you’re still human.”
Qin Cheng didn’t say anything more. He took the phone, held it up to himself, tilted his head left and right, and upon closer inspection, he was still handsome. “What are you trying to do?”
“Yesterday, there was a post that blew up on the school forum. Don’t get too worked up,” Tan Qi said, looking at him seriously. “Zhao Hai said he likes you.”
“What the fuck?!” Qin Cheng was so disgusted that he almost threw his phone away. “That little bastard, I——”
“Stop.” Tan Qi quickly pressed the shutter a few times and flipped to the photo album to show him, “That’s what you call a disgusted expression.”
Qin Cheng choked and looked down to look at the photo of himself.
His entire face was scrunched up, his eyes looked like they were spewing fire, and every pore on his body seemed to scream ‘disgusting’, ‘roll away’, ‘Grass Mud Horse1草泥馬 (cǎo ní mǎ): lit. grass mud horse; (Mandarin, euphemistic) fuck your mother. Near-homophone of the profanity phrase 肏你媽 (cào nǐ mā, “fuck your mother”) in Mandarin, literally “grass mud horse”. Coined circa 2009, when Internet users in Mainland China used 草泥馬 instead of 肏你媽 (cào nǐ mā) to circumvent censorship. Pictures of alpacas are often used by later hoaxes to depict 草泥馬 as if it were a real horse-like animal. The Grass Mud Horse is a Chinese Internet meme and kuso parody based on a word play of the Mandarin profanity cào nǐ mā (肏你妈), which literally means “fuck your mother”. Grass Mud Horse is one of the made-up “Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures” created in a hoax article on Baidu Baike in early 2009, whose names all come from obscene puns.‘…
Seeing that he had fallen silent, Tan Qi took back his phone and asked: “Do you know what your expression was like when you talked about Jian Heng just now?”
Qin Cheng asked, somewhat reluctantly: “What?”
Tan Qi propped his chin up with one hand and held a wine glass with the other, looking at him with an indifferent gaze. At times, he widened his eyes in surprise, and at other times, he took a sip of wine out of boredom. His face displayed all kinds of expressions, but there was no resistance.
Qin Cheng was at a loss for words and after a while managed to squeeze out a sentence: “Am I really like this?”
Tan Qi nodded, his expression serious: “If I were lying to you, I’d be a dog.”
“Dog thief2狗賊 (gǒu zéi): lit. dog thief; (insult) brigand; swindler. It refers to those people who are inferior to pigs and dogs. They are very hypocritical and corrupt.,” Qin Cheng cursed at him. “Fuck.”
“You just have nothing to say,” Tan Qi replied. “Every time you run out of arguments, you just end up cursing me.”
Qin Cheng truly had nothing to say. The affairs of the heart are just like a battlefield; the person who had been flirting with Omegas since they were in open-crotch pants was simply different. Just a few words, and he was nailed to death.
Qin Cheng couldn’t quite express what he was feeling right now. On one hand, he thought Tan Qi’s words made some sense; he really wasn’t disgusted.
Now that he thinks about it, even if the two of them hugged each other and pressed against each other, he wouldn’t be disgusted. However, whether it was comfortable or not was another matter.
But reason made him instinctively refute it; after all, can Jian Heng and Zhao Hai even be compared? No, they can’t!
One is a brother who has the cheek to stay even if he kisses him, while the other is a scoundrel he would want to kick to death even if he kneels before the Buddha and repents for eight thousand years.
First of all, this starting line is different.
To be compared with Jian Heng, that person has to be at the level of a brother like Tan Qi.
Qin Cheng’s gaze fell on Tan Qi, lost in thought.
His gaze made Tan Qi’s hair stand on end. “What are you doing?”
“You,” Qin Cheng said, looking at him and beckoning with his finger, “come here and give me a kiss.”
“What?!” Tan Qi’s face was filled with shock as he covered his chest and scooted back vigorously. “This person3人家 rén jia: (chiefly, Mandarin, feminine) I; me (first-person singular pronoun), used by young girls/ladies to address themselves in a cute, innocent or flirtatious tone, informal and only used in colloquial language. doesn’t want to!”
“A kiss won’t kill anyone. Come here,” Qin Cheng said with arms crossed, looking at him. “Let me compare.”
Tan Qi shook his head frantically.
“Did you forget that you kissed me when you were drunk last time?” Qin Cheng persuaded him with reason. “I didn’t even resist.”
“You also fucking kissed me when you were drunk! And that kiss was on the cheek, not the lips!” Tan Qi looked like a virtuous woman about to be assaulted, his face full of vigilance. “Just think back to last time! Feel it like it was moving towards the mouth!”
Qin Cheng looked at him for a long time, then took the initiative to get up and walk over to his side. Tan Qi was so frightened that he shrank back into the corner. Qin Cheng took the opportunity to squeeze in front of him, pressing his hand against the wall with a serious expression as he gradually approached him.
Even from eight hundred meters away, Tan Qi started screaming like a pig being slaughtered: “Indecent assault——! Help——!”
Qin Cheng cursed under his breath, thinking that the sooner they kissed, the sooner it would be over. He suddenly leaned down to go for it.
“Bang!!!”
The door was kicked open from the outside. Qin Cheng’s collar tightened, and the once arrogant Qin-ge now looked like a big chick being picked up by someone.
Qin Cheng suddenly turned around, his hand raised as if to hit someone. Jian Heng’s cold face unexpectedly came into his line of sight. His gaze darted back and forth between him and Tan Qi a few times.
For some reason, Qin Cheng felt a wave of guilt wash over him. He lowered his hand and hid them behind him. Involuntarily, he began to explain, “That, I was just playing around with Qi’er.”
Jian Heng squinted his eyes: “We’re all Alphas; can’t you play with me too?”
Qin Cheng chuckled awkwardly: “No…”
Jian Heng’s expression turned quite unpleasant: “Why not?”
Qin Cheng was defeated; his gaze wandered wildly with a guilty conscience.
Just after rejecting someone on grounds of being a straight man, he turned around and got caught kissing another Alpha.
Although he was just trying it out, completely in a playful mood.
However, he was even more curious about how Jian Heng managed to kick the door open, walk behind him, and lift him up all in just two seconds…
Qin-ge is already tired of saying ‘Freaking awesome’——these two words.
Qin Cheng froze in embarrassment for a long time; his mind went blank4腦子一抽 (nǎo zi yī chōu): 腦抽 (nǎo chōu), lit. brain twitching; brain dysfunction. T/N: Same as 腦殘 (nǎo cán), (neologism, slang, derogatory) brain-dead; stupid; moronic; retard. Brain twitching, causing abnormal behavior (speech and behavior)., then suddenly pointed at Tan Qi and said: “He seduced me.”
Jian Heng probably didn’t expect him to go off the rails like this. He raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Tan Qi looked horrified: “??? When the fuck did I——”
“Don’t you fucking try to seduce me.” Qin Cheng was also shocked by his own words. After the surprise, he decided to throw all shame aside, kicked Tan Qi, and pulled Jian Heng’s arm to head outside. With a dramatic expression of hating iron for not being steel, he exclaimed, “How could you do such a thing behind my sister-in-law’s back? That’s just shameless!”
Tan Qi, who broke up with his ex almost three months ago and still got kicked, exclaimed: “…………Fuck!”
This little friend had a billion question marks on his head!!!
***
After leaving the barbecue restaurant, Qin Cheng let go of his hand but still didn’t dare to look at Jian Heng. He cleared his throat and looked around, then asked: “That, do you want to eat something? There’s a place that has really good rice noodles, and another one with snail noodles…”
Jian Heng crossed his arms and looked at him with a half-smile: “I want to eat you.”
Qin Cheng choked, waving his hands while forcing a smile: “That’s really not necessary.”
Jian Heng’s expression turned cold, and he continued to look at him without saying a word.
In terms of keeping silent, Qin Cheng could never compare to him; he gave up in less than ten seconds and actively explained: “I really, really, really didn’t kiss him because I like him. Tan Qi and I have been good brothers for so many years. Really. You know that.”
Jian Heng raised his hand to press against his gland, pushing firmly towards himself. The two of them bumped their foreheads together, gazing into each other’s eyes at close range: “Didn’t you say we were good brothers too?”
“That’s different.” The distance was too close; the breath they exhaled brushed against each other’s faces, not to mention the faint scent of incense on Jian Heng, which was more pleasant than any kind of perfume in the world.
Qin Cheng subconsciously paid attention to his own reaction——he actually didn’t feel uncomfortable at all.
“What’s the difference?” Jian Heng asked.
“He likes Omegas.” Qin Cheng swallowed hard, his Adam’s apple moving.
“Oh, so I’m different for you?” Jian Heng lightly pressed his thumb to trace a circle around his gland, his thin lips curving into a smile, his gaze playful.
The glands can be said to be Alpha’s secondary sexual organs. In the past, Qin Cheng didn’t pay much attention to this matter, perhaps because he was carefree. Now that he knows Jian Heng’s sexual orientation, being touched like this by him feels completely different, both physically and emotionally.
Jian Heng intentionally released pheromones, his fingers drawing in such an ambiguous manner. The slight touch was dangerously tight, making Qin Cheng’s soul almost fly away.
As his soul took flight, so did his consciousness. He opened his mouth and blurted out: “Ah, yes, you’re even better…”
The corner of Jian Heng’s lips curled in a silent arc, his thumb pressing against the gland, and before he could react, he released it and left behind a teasing remark: “There is progress.”
Qin Cheng covered his eyes.
Damn it, with this kind of teasing, I’m going to go crazy sooner or later.
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From what JH says here, it looks like TQ is also an Alpha.
List of Idiom in Chapter 37
有情有義 (yǒu qíng yǒu yì): having affection and faith; affectionate and just/righteous; loyal (idiom); there are ties of friendship; have deep feelings and affection for people.抑揚頓挫 (yì yáng dùn cuò): rising and falling in cadence; intonation; speaking in measured tones; (of speech) cadenced; in rhythmic/measured tones.
眼疾手快 (yǎn jí shǒu kuài): sharp eyes and agile hands or nimble fingers; be quick of eyes and deft of hands; sharp eyes and quick hands; describe being clever, alert, agile, and quick to respond.
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