CH 38

The Jiang couple stayed at Jiang Xu’s house for three days. The housing price in City A is expensive, so Jiang Xu’s apartment was the most common type for single people, with two bedrooms, one living room, and one bathroom.

One of the bedrooms was made into Jiang Xu’s study, so there was only one bedroom for sleeping in. Whenever his parents came over, Jiang Xu would vacate the bedroom for them and sleep on the sofa.

Originally, he wanted Shen Fangyu to go back to his place, but Shen Fangyu was afraid that he might get uncomfortable at night. In addition, he had already lied to the Jiang couple so he slept on the floor in the living room.

The living room was large, and the floor was tiled, which was much cooler than the wooden floor of the bedroom. Jiang Xu tried to dissuade Shen Fangyu several times, saying that it was easy to catch a cold, but Shen Fangyu didn’t care, only saying: “I haven’t had a cold for more than ten years, it’s impossible to catch a cold.”

The Jiang couple paid attention to their health and lifestyle, and they ordered Jiang Xu to lie down by ten o’clock to rest.

In the first two days, Jiang Xu could sleep normally because he was exhausted from the week, but by the third day, he couldn’t sleep no matter what, probably because his biological clock had long been accustomed to the life of sleeping late.

After tossing and turning countless times, Jiang Xu finally gave up forcing himself to sleep. He opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling for a while, and then his gaze gradually moved to Shen Fangyu’s face.

The sofas in his house were low, not as high as the bed frame, so when sleeping on the sofa, he felt like Shen Fangyu was very close to him, and he could see him as soon as he turned his head.

The moonlight spilled in from the balcony and fell on Shen Fangyu’s face. He seemed to be asleep, there was no movement, and he didn’t make much noise. The moonlight made a faint shadow under the bridge of his nose, highlighting his handsome facial features.

Jiang Xu suddenly stretched out his hand and pinched his nose.

“What are you trying to do, murder me?” Shen Fangyu grabbed his hand and opened his eyes to look at him. “Then you have to cover the mouth too, otherwise you would be disappointed.”

Jiang Xu was startled and subconsciously withdrew his hand, saying, “You weren’t asleep? ”

Shen Fangyu had grabbed his hand but did not let go, “I don’t dare sleep when you’re not asleep, Dr. Jiang is still angry, I’m afraid for my life.”

Jiang Xu knew what Shen Fangyu was talking about when he splashed tea on him that day.

Although he knew that Shen Fangyu did not mean to curse him, he was still very angry.

Aside from Shen Fangyu, he was the child’s other parent, what was the difference between saying the child’s mother was dead and saying he was dead?

“You are a doctor, is it appropriate to arrange for people to die at every turn?” He couldn’t help but say.

“I was talking about my wife, are you my wife?” Shen Fangyu said casually.

Jiang Xu felt suffocated and chose to lie back and look straight ahead, not at the person who annoyed him.

Shen Fangyu got the upper hand, and he raised his eyebrows in triumph. While still holding Jiang Xu’s hand, he got his mobile phone and opened the night mode, took a picture of their hands, and then shook the phone in front of Jiang Xu, saying, “That was attempted murder, I have collected the evidence.”

Jiang Xu sighed. He knew Shen Fangyu, the more you give him attention, the more he pesters you, so he didn’t pull his hand away.

Shen Fangyu admired the photo for a while, then threw the phone aside. After a while, he suddenly realized that he was still holding Jiang Xu’s hand, and Jiang Xu had not broken free.

A soft breeze passed through the gap in the window, sweeping over the overlapping hands of the two. Because neither of them broke free, the action did not seem like a tease between friends but like… intimacy between lovers.

Mother Jiang’s earlier words came back to his mind, and Shen Fangyu suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

She said that Jiang Xu did not want to get married because of him.

This sentence sounded really ambiguous, making Shen Fangyu a little dizzy and his thoughts jumbled, and he couldn’t tell what he was thinking.

He just wanted to tease Jiang Xu earlier, so after seeing that Jiang Xu was too lazy to pay attention to him and didn’t struggle, he should have lost interest and let go. But perhaps because he remembered Jiang Mu’s sentence, he suddenly didn’t want to let go.

Jiang Xu’s wrist bones were very distinct, and the skin felt soft.

He felt like he was holding a hot potato, not knowing whether to throw it or keep holding it, so he could only let the temperature of his palm rise little by little.

And Jiang Xu obviously did not expect that Shen Fangyu would not let go.

In the living room shrouded in night, the two inexplicably went silent, the only intersection being their clasped hands. Jiang Xu could even feel his pulse hitting Shen Fangyu’s fingertips with every heartbeat.

Jiang Xu strangely felt that the temperature of his hand was rising a little. He cleared his throat, wanting to find a topic to break this strange silence, but Shen Fangyu spoke at the same time as him:

“Are you hot?”/”Can’t sleep?”

…… They were all stupid questions.

“I’m not hot.” Shen Fangyu said.

Jiang Xu let out an “oh” and said dryly: “Then you sleep.”

“I don’t want to sleep.” Shen Fangyu took a deep breath and sat up with his head propped on the sofa, so his eyes were on the same level as Jiang Xu’s line of sight. The silkworms under his eyes were curved, looking distinct under the moonlight.

“What are you thinking that can even make you lose sleep? ”

Jiang Xu glanced at him but didn’t say anything. Shen Fangyu held his hand tighter and made a guess: “Are you thinking about the child?” He added, “Are you planning to keep it a secret, or…”

Jiang Xu was silent for a moment, then he said: “Let’s keep it a secret for now.”

His parents did not understand medicine like Shen Fangyu. Shen Fangyu knew that his pregnancy was just an abnormality in his physique, like suffering from some kind of disease, so he could understand and accept him, but he didn’t know if his parents could.

Shen Fangyu nodded, understanding that now was not a good time to talk about it, so he said, “We’ll tell them when you feel you’re ready.” He paused, then added, “You don’t have to worry about my parents, I can handle it.”

Jiang Xu’s eyelashes trembled, and the small mole under his eyes seemed to move with the action.

He looked at the young man in front of him, and his heart fluctuated a little.

“It’s been hard on you the past few days.” He suddenly said to Shen Fangyu.

Shen Fangyu was just a few months younger than him, but he handled life’s trivialities and affairs like someone way beyond his age, as if everything could be solved and settled, making one feel that he was strange on the one hand, but inexplicably steady and at ease on the other.

During the time that his parents were at home, Shen Fangyu really did his best, and although he was very busy with work, he had been taking time to accompany the Jiang couple, which made Jiang Xu, who was accustomed to enjoying the care and concern of his parents, a little embarrassed.

Shen Fangyu would order lunch in advance, then have it directly delivered home to the Jiang couple. Before returning from work in the evening, he would ask Mother Jiang what ingredients he needed to bring and then chat with Mother Jiang as he washed and cut vegetables.

The Jiang couple liked to play flower cards, but Jiang Xu was always too lazy to learn. Unexpectedly, Shen Fangyu learned very patiently, and also accompanied the two in some games every night, serving cards for the old couple, and helping Mother Jiang win money every night amidst much laughter.

When he heard that Father Jiang loved calligraphy, he went to the most famous handmade brush shop in City A and ordered an expedited pen for Father Jiang. It was said that the master was very proud, and one had to make an appointment several months in advance to find him. So Jiang Xu wondered what Shen Fangyu said that moved him.

He was really more attentive than their son.

Tomorrow, the couple was to return to B City, and Shen Fangyu bought a lot of gifts and specialties for them to take back. Although Jiang Xu knew that Shen Fangyu has always been an attentive person, he couldn’t help but feel touched.

Jiang Xu felt that the laughter of his parents seemed to have increased in the past two days, and their mouths always had the name “Shen Fangyu” coming out of them. He was almost recognized as a godson.

“Your parents finally came over, but they were frightened, so we can only do everything to comfort them.” Shen Fangyu explained.

“Your parents should like you very much.” Jiang Xu said casually.

Shen Fangyu smiled but didn’t say anything about that. He turned his head and said, “Since you can’t sleep, do you want to watch a movie?”

Before Jiang Xu could answer, there was a “click” sound from not far away. It was from the bedroom door being opened.

Jiang Xu suddenly withdrew his hand, buried his head in the quilt, and closed his eyes. It was only after Mother Jiang returned to the bedroom after going to the bathroom that he carefully pulled down the quilt, opened his eyes, and then bumped into Shen Fangyu’s smiling eyes.

“What are you laughing at?” Jiang Xu’s heart was beating a little faster, and he glared at Shen Fangyu. Afraid that Mother Jiang would hear him speak, he deliberately lowered his voice and spoke viciously under his breath.

“Nothing…” Shen Fangyu’s smile deepened, and he also spoke in a whisper: “I think you’re very cute.”

“You’re the cute one!” Jiang Xu rolled his eyes at him, but because his voice was lowered, it didn’t sound intimidating enough, causing Shen Fangyu’s lips to curve even more.

After being an adult for so many years, this sneaky behavior felt novel.

The two whispered for a long time; one was genuinely angry, and the other watched the play happily, until the angry one finally got tired, and directly put his index finger on the other party’s lips, sealing his noisy voice.

Let’s just watch a movie.

Jiang Xu used his other hand to get Shen Fangyu’s tablet, then clicked on the local video playback software.

Unexpectedly, the cache list was full of surgical videos.

“……”

“Don’t make such an expression, I don’t think you’ve downloaded any other videos on your tablet besides surgical videos.” Shen Fangyu said and suddenly gave a meaningful “oh,” “But that might not be the case.”

“I don’t look at those kinds of things.” Jiang Xu turned his face away.

“Which kinds of things?” Shen Fangyu hooked the corners of his mouth.

Jiang Xu, who realized that he had been led into the pit: “…”

Shen Fangyu stared at his expression and continued to tease: “Do you like Japanese and Korean products, or European and American… Or domestic ones? ”

Jiang Xu flatly denied it: “I don’t like any.”

“Then what kind of movie should we watch?” Shen Fangyu clicked on the app store, pointed to a bunch of normal movie apps, and said to Jiang Xu: “You have to choose one, right?”

“You meant movies?”

Shen Fangyu answered lightly, “Of course, what else could it be?”

Jiang Xu, who was teased twice in a row, was obviously pissed off. He directly clicked on an app, downloaded it quickly, used Shen Fangyu’s saved payment method, and then went to the horror film category. He picked one and stuffed an earphone into Shen Fangyu’s ears.

“…… There’s no need,” Shen Fangyu waved his hand again and again: “There’s really no need to go that far.”

However, Jiang Xu did not give Shen Fangyu a chance to repent. He sat up and pulled Shen Fangyu to sit beside him, holding his hand tightly and looking like he would ruin his life if he dared to leave.

Shen Fangyu finally looked at the tablet in despair. Unexpectedly, he met a female ghost as soon as he lowered his head. He was so shocked that his face went pale, and he covered his heart. Jiang Xu on the side laughed softly, and Shen Fangyu raised an eyebrow.

Shen Fangyu said weakly, “Hasn’t this ghost appeared too early? ”

Then he soon discovered that Jiang Xu’s malice did not stop there.

This ghost plot was probably related to a midterm exam, and the order of exam ranking determines the order of death, which was simply a large-scale anti-involution incident… As the first place, the second place, and the third place tragically died in turn, Shen Fangyu, who had been competing for first place for many years, gradually became pale.

The house was extremely silent, and the living room was large and dark.

Shen Fangyu’s heart beat faster and faster, like the sound of several footsteps.

Suddenly, his ears heard a rustle, and then there was a weight on his shoulders. His heart jumped violently, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

He suddenly found that Jiang Xu had not made a sound for a long time, as if he had suddenly disappeared.

So who was sitting next to him now?

Fuck, what if it was that female ghost?!

Startled by his speculation, he stiffened his neck, repeatedly prepared his mind, and turned his head extremely slowly.

Then he found Jiang Xu leaning on his shoulder, fast asleep.

“……”

His guts must be made of diamond.

Jiang Xu slept deeply, and because he was so close, his breath fell on Shen Fangyu’s neck, slowly warming his stiff and cold neck.

The hand that was holding him as a threat, was slackened because Jiang Xu was in a deep sleep, and it was now gently resting on the back of his hand, the palm warm and soft.

He didn’t know why, but his heart suddenly calmed down even though the horrifying BGM and the victims’ screams were still blaring through the earphones.

He silently turned off the movie, took out the earphone, and reached out to take off the other earphone in Jiang Xu’s ears.

His fingers accidentally touched Jiang Xu’s face as he was pulling it out, and he paused. After a few seconds, he suddenly raised his hand and touched Jiang Xu’s face again.

It felt good to the touch, with just the right temperature to soothe his hand that had gone cold from fright.

Then he realized what he was doing and suddenly withdrew his hand. He turned his gaze away for a long time before looking at Jiang Xu again.

The man’s eyes were closed, his eyebrows relaxed, and his lips were slightly upturned, as if he were having a good dream.

A thought suddenly popped up in Shen Fangyu’s heart— he was indeed … quite cute.