SEBLS Chapter 11

Qin Qiyue was stunned. He thought back to Zhuang Wu’s various attitudes during this period. At first, he thought Zhuang Wu just said he liked him just to disgust him, and he probably wouldn’t be able to hold on for a week or two. But the fact was, Zhuang Wu had persisted for much longer than a week or two.

Even if he didn’t want to believe it, he had to admit that what Zhuang Wu said about liking him might be true.

When they arrived at the door of Qin Qiyue’s house, Lin Mengyu was wandering around in front of the door again. When she saw Zhuang Wu and Qin Qiyue coming back together, she came over with a smile. “Xiao Zhuang, Qiyue, you’re back.”

Zhuang Wu nodded obediently. “Good evening, Auntie. Since Qiyue-Gege is already here, I will go back first.”

“Okay, go to bed early, Xiao Zhuang.”

After saying goodbye politely, Zhuang Wu returned to his home and immediately took out his phone to send a message to Qin Qiyue.

[Haze: Goodnight, Gege.]

He originally thought Qin Qiyue would not reply to his meaningless message, but he unexpectedly replied shortly after he sent it.

[1: Mm, goodnight.]

After looking at the screen several times, Zhuang Wu was sure that he had not sent the message to the wrong person. Qin Qiyue actually replied to such a meaningless message, and even replied with two words!

He has a chance!

After Qin Qiyue replied, Zhuang Wu fell asleep peacefully, but Qin Qiyue lay in bed for a long time, unable to fall asleep. The scene of Zhuang Wu pushing him against the wall kept lingering in his mind.

He was very confused. He clearly had no feelings for Zhuang Wu and was even a little disgusted by his persistence. But why, when Zhuang Wu came so close to him earlier, even though he still wanted to push Zhuang Wu away, he no longer felt that sense of rejection?

Compared to the beginning when he was annoyed with Zhuang Wu and didn’t want to say a word to him, has his attitude towards Zhuang Wu now changed slightly?

On Saturday, Zhuang Wu had to go to cram school early in the morning. After successfully getting out of bed with great difficulty, Zhuang Wu quickly packed up, picked up his schoolbag and went out.

It would be late when he returned from cram school, and Qin Qiyue might have other things to do after he came back, so Zhuang Wu must go to Qin Qiyue to make his presence felt this morning.

After buying breakfast, Zhuang Wu knocked on Qin Qiyue’s door.

The person who opened the door was Qin Qiyue, who looked like he had not fully woken up yet. He was leaning against the door frame in loose pajamas, with an unhappy look in his eyes. It seemed that he was unhappy about being woken up by a knock on the door in the middle of his sleep.

Seeing Zhuang Wu, Qin Qiyue was visibly stunned. Then, his already unhappy expression darkened a little. “What are you doing here so early in the morning?”

He hadn’t finished anything yet. If Zhuang Wu came to his house to ask him to explain a problem to him again and they continued to do so for the whole morning, he would definitely get angry.

“Good morning, Gege. I brought you breakfast.” Zhuang Wu ignored Qin Qiyue’s unhappy expression and continued to hand over what he was carrying with a smile.

It was the same words as last Saturday. Qin Qiyue held the door handle tightly and refused, “No, I’ll go out and buy it myself later. If there’s nothing else, I’ll close the door.”

Up until Qin Qiyue was about to close the door, Zhuang Wu still didn’t see Lin Mengyu come out. It seemed that he came a little early today, and Lin Mengyu was probably still asleep.

In other words, no one could stand up to support him at the moment, but Zhuang Wu still subconsciously put his hand on the door and pushed it with a bit of force, trying to stop Qin Qiyue from closing it. He just wanted to give Qin Qiyue breakfast and he wouldn’t do anything else, so why was Qin Qiyue resisting so much?

Is there something unspeakable going on in the house that he’s so wary of?

Qin Qiyue was a little angry. How could Zhuang Wu be so shameless as not to let others close their door? Immediately after, he pulled the door inwards with force.

The next second, Zhuang Wu shouted, “Ah—stop!”

The voice was not right. Qin Qiyue’s heart tightened. He quickly opened the door and grabbed Zhuang Wu’s hand to check.

He was just trying to hold the door with his hand, and didn’t expect the other person would get caught on it.

Looking at Zhuang Wu’s purplish fingers, Qin Qiyue suddenly regretted not letting Zhuang Wu in. He didn’t have any medicine to reduce swelling at home. He couldn’t just cause Zhuang Wu’s hands to be like this and then abandon Zhuang Wu.

After thinking for a while, Qin Qiyue sighed. “Wait here for a moment while I change my clothes.”

After saying that, he turned around and walked towards his room, leaving Zhuang Wu waiting foolishly outside the door.

Why was Qin Qiyue going to change clothes? Zhuang Wu looked at his middle finger which was becoming increasingly purple, and felt as if it was about to break.

If I had known, I wouldn’t have been idle and hung around in front of Qin Qiyue. Not only did I not get breakfast, but my hand is now like this. Qin Qiyue, you bad man!

Not long after, Qin Qiyue came out of the room and stood in front of him again. “Let’s go.”

Zhuang Wu paused, wondering, “Where are we going?”

“That.” Qin Qiyue glanced at Zhuang Wu’s flattened hand. “I don’t have medicine at home, and I don’t know how to handle it. Let’s go to the hospital to get it checked.”

“!!!”

Hearing that Qin Qiyue was willing to waste his time taking him to the hospital, Zhuang Wu forgot the pain for a moment and followed Qin Qiyue closely. “Okay, thank you Gege~”

Qin Qiyue frowned. Even in this situation, Zhuang Wu could still grin and thank him.

“Are you stupid?” Qin Qiyue couldn’t help but ask.

Because the most handsome boy was worried and was willing to waste his time taking him to the hospital, Zhuang Wu didn’t care whether Qin Qiyue was scolding him at this time, “Yeah, I am.”

“……”

If someone else had hurt his hand like this, he would definitely be angry, but this person was Qin Qiyue. Moreover, it was his mistake in the first place for blocking the door. Qin Qiyue had no obligation to take care of him or take him to the hospital, but Qin Qiyue did it anyway.

On the way, Zhuang Wu glanced at Qin Qiyue’s intersecting steps from time to time, and spoke seriously, “Gege, do you like me a little bit?”

After these words were spoken, Qin Qiyue slowed down his pace and turned his head to look at Zhuang Wu, his eyes clearly filled with doubt. “No, why do you think so?”

“Weren’t you concerned about me just now?” Zhuang Wu expressed his true thoughts. “If you don’t have feelings for me, why are you in such a hurry?”

Qin Qiyue replied, “I’m not concerned about you. Your hand is swollen because of me, so I’m taking you to the hospital. I was in a hurry because I had my own things to do.”

His tone was frank, and Zhuang Wu couldn’t find any clues on his face to prove that he was lying.

In the end, Zhuang Wu could only lower his head slightly and say in a muffled voice, “Oh……”

When they arrived at the hospital, the doctor simply applied some anti-swelling medicine to Zhuang Wu and wrapped up the bruised finger.

The bruise looked scary, but it was not very serious. After finishing all this, Zhuang Wu and Qin Qiyue left the hospital.

Maybe because of the awkwardness earlier, neither of them spoke on the way back.

He glanced at Zhuang Wu quietly and found that Zhuang Wu was still lowering his head. He was probably still a little sad. He suddenly felt a bit reluctant. What he said was a bit hurtful after all, but he just didn’t want Zhuang Wu to misunderstand and then feel that he had hope.

Just as he was about to say something to ease the tension, Zhuang Wu glanced at the watch on his wrist, was startled for a moment, and then started running forward, “I have something else to do, so I’ll leave first. Goodbye, Gege.”

The cram school he signed up for was supposed to start at 7:50 in the morning, but now he was already far past that time. He was late on his first day. Zhuang Wu was speechless with himself.

Zhuang Wu turned around before he ran away. When his hand was caught earlier, Qin Qiyue went to get the breakfast. However, it has probably cooled down on their way to the hospital.

Qin Qiyue didn’t want to eat the breakfast he gave him anyway, so Zhuang Wu grabbed the bag. “It’s cold now, so I’ll throw it away first.”

After saying that, he really threw the breakfast into a random trash can.

Qin Qiyue was inexplicably curious while watching Zhuang Wu’s back as he ran away. Did Zhuang Wu have something to do that made him so anxious?

Thinking back to earlier this morning when Zhuang Wu came to see him, the other didn’t seem to want to go into the house and was just standing outside. It was not until he was about to close the door that Zhuang Wu probably thought of pushing the door open.

So, at that time, Zhuang Wu just wanted to give him breakfast and leave, but he misunderstood and thought that Zhuang Wu came again to force him to explain questions to him.

After figuring out the whole cause and effect, Qin Qiyue became irritable, and he looked unhappy when he went home.

He should have taken the breakfast instead of refusing Zhuang Wu the door, causing Zhuang Wu’s hands to be so bruised.

The teachers in cram schools were not like the teachers in schools who treated every student seriously and responsibly. So even when they saw that Zhuang Wu was late, they didn’t say anything. Except for being annoyed that Zhuang Wu interrupted them while they were teaching, they merely let him in.

When he sat down to take notes, Zhuang Wu suddenly felt lucky that it was his left hand that was pressed. If it was his right hand, it would be a bit difficult to write now.

Zhuang Wu had not been able to keep up with the progress in class, but now it was not that difficult for him to understand in this cram school because the teacher explained things clearly.

No wonder so many people were willing to spend extra money to enroll in cram schools.

After slowly solving the problems, Zhuang Wu constantly felt that he was one step closer to becoming deskmates with Qin Qiyue.

When he came out of the cram school, it was already getting dark outside. Zhuang Wu was already hungry after using his brain all day, so he quickened his pace and rushed home.

When passing by Qin Qiyue’s house, Zhuang Wu subconsciously glanced over, but didn’t see anything. The door of Qin Qiyue’s house was closed.

When he returned, Wen Jia had already prepared the meal. Zhuang Wu ate a few mouthfuls of it. After eating, Zhuang Wu locked himself in his room without saying a word and did the homework assigned by the tutor.

He has plenty of time to finish the exercises. He only goes to cram school every Saturday, which means he could finish this homework from today until next Friday.

While he was solving problems, Zhuang Wu’s cell phone suddenly rang. It was a message alert. He picked it up to check and was stunned. It was from Qin Qiyue. Qin Qiyue had also sent him a message earlier, but he didn’t take his cell phone with him when he went to the cram school so he wasn’t able to reply. Qin Qiyue sent another message probably because he waited for a long time and didn’t see Zhuang Wu reply.