CH 72.2

Fu Yuanzhou’s foot was mostly healed, and he could basically walk on his own. After this day, he didn’t let Ran Shutang come over to take care of him. Ran Shutang also understood his feelings and didn’t come again, but he still sent messages every day to ask about his condition.

Fu Yuanzhou was very troubled about this. Although he didn’t know what he was struggling with but when Ran Shutang didn’t come to him, he would think of him from time to time, especially when he went to the cafeteria or to eat out, he missed Ran Shutang even more. It was no fun to eat the rice cooked by others.

It’s over, he was raised by Ran Shutang to become picky about food…

Fu Yuanzhou was struggling to swallow the food on the dinner plate, when suddenly someone patted him from behind: “What are you thinking?”

He turned his head and saw the petite and delicate girl smiling at him, it was Du Man, his high school classmate.

They were considered to be very familiar with each other, but they were just good friends, and they could even be called buddies. Although Du Man was small in stature, she had a very tough personality, which often made their group of boys ashamed in front of her.

After the college entrance examination, Du Man and him were admitted to the same school, she was even in the department next door, so they often met after college. Fu Yuanzhou hesitated for a few seconds, got up and took the dinner plate to the recycling place, and walked out of the canteen with Du Man who had already eaten: “Let me ask you something.”

“Aren’t you eating?” Du Man was surprised, “It seems like you haven’t even moved a mouthful?”

“I don’t have much appetite.” Fu Yuanzhou felt guilty, it was shameful to waste, but he really couldn’t eat anymore.

“Should we get some medicine?” Du Man asked.

“It’s okay.” Fu Yuanzhou said, “I have something to ask you.”

“What’s the matter?”

“It’s just…” Fu Yuanzhou carefully chose his words, “If you have someone who hates you, and you think that person hates you too? But later you found out that it was actually a misunderstanding, and the other party liked you quite a bit, what would you do?”

Du Man: “Huh? You mean yourself?”

Fu Yuanzhou: “… I’m just asking, it was my friend, tell me what you would do.”

“What else can I do?” Du Man said, “Either be a stranger, or shake hands and be friends, and see if you can get along with each other.”

“What if both situations are not good?” Fu Yuanzhou hesitated.

“Why?”

“Being a stranger, it seems a bit unbearable, and it’s not appropriate to be a friend…” This was where Fu Yuanzhou was struggling.

Du Man looked at him suspiciously for a few seconds: “Could that person have confessed to you?”

“My friend was confessed to, and he is worried.”

“Why are you so entangled, just refuse.”

“I have refused, but it doesn’t work.”

“Then refuse more coldly and refuse until the person gives up.”

This, would it work?

Fu Yuanzhou muttered quietly in his heart.

As far as he knew, Ran Shutang was a very persistent person, otherwise he wouldn’t know how to practice long-distance running, let alone like him for ten years and not want to give up… Probably he might even be married to someone else by now.

Du Man poked him: “Who the hell, who confessed to you, tell me?”

“I told you it’s not me, but my friend.”

“Come on, who are you fooling, don’t I know you yet?”

He didn’t say anything, but Du Man kept poking him. Even if it was a joke, Fu Yuanzhou wouldn’t fight back against the girl. He could only face being bullied by her bitterly, until someone called him behind them.

“Fu Yuanzhou.”

Fu Yuanzhou immediately recognized the voice of the person who came, and his heart tightened. Du Man turned her head and saw that the person who called him was Ran Shutang, so she couldn’t help being surprised: “Ran Shutang?”

She froze for a while, her eyes turned back and forth between the two of them, and she suddenly showed a look of surprise, “Ah”, then she said: “Could it be that he treats you–“

“Don’t guess, it’s really my friend, Ran Shutang has something to do with me, so I’ll go first!”

Feeling guilty, Fu Yuanzhou quickly dragged Ran Shutang away and ran until he reached a remote place in the campus, and then stopped while panting, but even though he had managed to escape from Du Man’s side, now there was someone else he needed to deal with.

“What’s your relationship with her?”

Ran Shutang grabbed his wrist with a bad expression, as if angry.

“Classmate, Du Man… oh, you may not know her, she is from class 7.” Fu Yuanzhou replied while calming down, not knowing why he asked about her.

“Just classmates?” Ran Shutang asked.

“We’re still friends, we’re pretty close.” Speaking of this, Fu Yuanzhou finally realized that Ran Shutang’s tone was wrong, and he was taken aback for a moment before saying, “You don’t think we have something between us, right?”

Ran Shutang said, “You two were too close.”

“Really?” Fu Yuanzhou tried his best to recall, but he couldn’t recall any other physical contact they had besides Du Man poking him with her finger, “No?”

“Yes.” Ran Shutang lowered his eyelashes.

“What’s that?” Fu Yuanzhou was absent-minded, and said casually, “I’ve been closer to you…Damn, no, I don’t mean anything else.”

Before he finished speaking, he knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and almost slapped himself. Ran Shutang’s handsome face turned red, but he didn’t let go of Fu Yuanzhou’s hand, but tightened it even more.

“Then what kind of relationship do we have?” he asked.

Fu Yuanzhou: “Uh, classmate… Hey, hey, don’t force yourself, it hurts!”

“Sorry.” Ran Shutang pursed his lips and relaxed his fingers a little.

“Then what do you want me to say? Aren’t we classmates?” Fu Yuanzhou shrank his neck and whispered even lower, “Do you still have to use that word to describe it?”

“What?” Ran Shutang asked.

“…”

“…”

“Okay, don’t look at me anymore, I said, don’t be angry when you say it… That’s right, friends. Friends… Damn, I told you not to be angry, don’t– Uh!”

Ran Shutang kissed him forcefully, he must be stupid, this was a school!

The moment his lips were blocked by Ran Shutang, Fu Yuanzhou’s heartbeat almost stopped, and he glanced around nervously. Fortunately, the position here was very remote and no one was there. He was glad that he dragged Ran Shutang here just now.

Dissatisfied with his distraction, Ran Shutang kissed him even harder. Fu Yuanzhou couldn’t breathe, and he finally remembered to struggle, so he quickly pushed Ran Shutang away.

“Are you crazy?”

Fu Yuanzhou wiped his wet lips in astonishment. He had always thought that Ran Shutang was a very calm person before, but this was the second time he asked him that.

When Ran Shutang looked at him, there was anger in his eyes, and a hurt look had also appeared: “Is that how you look at me?”

Fu Yuanzhou thought that he was wronged too. It was obviously Ran Shutang himself who asked him, what else could he do? Not reply? They couldn’t even be called friends, let alone lovers.

But seeing Ran Shutang’s eyes, he couldn’t say any extra words. Fu Yuanzhou bowed his head and apologized obediently: “I’m sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn’t describe it like that.”

“There was nothing wrong. You can speak well if you want to speak. Why are you using your mouth so casually?”

“I’m sorry.” Ran Shutang also calmed down and apologized to him.

Then Fu Yuanzhou didn’t know what to say. After a while of silence, the two of them were a little cold, and Ran Shutang asked suddenly.

“Have you…have experience with other people?”

“Ah?” Fu Yuanzhou didn’t react.

“That night,” Ran Shutang lowered his voice, “You were very proactive. Maybe you have experience. I don’t know how I performed and whether I could satisfy you. Maybe I didn’t do well enough, but…”

Fu Yuanzhou was dumbfounded. He didn’t expect that Ran Shutang would ask him this, and when he realized it, he became angry: “I have a fart.”

It turned out that they were not in the same place and Ran Shutang didn’t let him say the word friends. He though he had experience, he had a ghostly experience…

Fu Yuanzhou was angry, and his tone was very unhappy: “If only I had experience, I won’t sleep with you. How could I like you? Am I not at a loss, I gave you my first time…”

After he finished speaking, he didn’t want to entangle with Ran Shutang anymore, so he turned and left, but within a few steps, Ran Shutang hugged him from behind.

The author has something to say:

During the communication,

Ran Shutang: I am worried that he was not satisfied…

Fu Yuanzhou: Why was he so fierce?