CH 22

Ye Jiuyue, just as he was in the post-illness weak stage, had a choice between going to class or facing Shen Weixing who was acting up again. He chose the former as he believed that it was more inductive to him in recovering from his illness. 

Of course, this type of thinking was inconvenient to say aloud. Ye Jiuyue could only tactfully express his passionate love for learning.

Shen Weixing said, disapprovingly, “Last night I told your dorm mates to call in sick for you, it’ll be more difficult to get better if you get sick again.”

Don’t say any more, whether I got sick because of what you carelessly said still hasn’t been resolved yet. Ye Jiuyue feebly thought. 

“Today I only have the third-period class in the morning.” Ye Jiuyue explained, “It’s a required course.” 

Shen Weixing saw that he was determined, and so was too lazy to keep trying to change his mind, so he just said, “Then you can still rest for a bit, I’ll drop you off later.”

Ye Jiuyue was afraid that he was going to grab him and talk life advice with him again, so said, “I’ll slowly walk over, breathe in the fresh air, who knows, maybe I’ll get better quicker.”

The look that Shen Weixing was leveling at him had a touch of weirdness added to it. “Even I know that the thing about breathing in fresh air in the morning is fake. At night, the trees and plants have no way of photosynthesizing, so it’s all carbon dioxide; it’s only now that they just started producing oxygen.”

Ye Jiuyue：“……”

The reading that Shen Weixing did was quite varied, as the goal of going through all those questionnaires was to know more facts. Now, he was a little smug saying these facts, but afterwards was a little worried that Ye Jiuyue would think that he liked showing off and couldn’t help feeling complicated. 

Ye Jiuyue is so annoying, he affects my emotions. Shen Weixing furrowed his brows, and said, “Shut up, I don’t want to talk to you.”

Ye Jiuyue, who hadn’t been planning on speaking：“……” 

As expected, persevering and attending class were conducive to recovering from illnesses. What was even more conducive to recovering from illnesses was going straight to the dormitory after class.

And so, Ye Jiuyue spoke. “Then after I finish class, I’ll go directly back to my dormitory.”

The furrow between Shen Weixing’s brows deepened. “Why?”

Ye Jiuyue reminded him, “Today’s Friday, you have something to do in the afternoon, and won’t be here during the weekend.” 

Shen Weixing paused, and remembered. 

Xia Qiu’s dad, Professor Xia, had his birthday on Saturday. Before, he had already booked his airplane ticket in front of Ye Jiuyue. This afternoon he would fly over and planned to personally choose a present at a mall once he’d gone over.

But Ye Jiuyue hadn’t fully recovered yet. Shen Weixing thought, wavering a little. 

“When I’m not here, you stay here to rest as well. There’re too many people at the dorms, it’s too rowdy.” Shen Weixing said.  

Ye Jiuyue still remembered the horror movie that his dorm mates had watched. He didn’t keep it from Shen Weixing and said frankly, “I saw a horror movie recently and am too afraid to stay here by myself.”

“……” Shen Weixing was disdainful of him. “You’re so gutless?”

Ye Jiuyue was completely open and unperturbed.

“Then how about this, you come with me.” Shen Weixing suddenly got a peculiar idea. 

“Huh?”

Shen Weixing acted without delay and started booking the airplane ticket, head lowered. “You go with me, a change of scenery will do you good. Once there, I have some stuff to do, you can look around the area near the hotel. Who knows, maybe you’ll be all better by then.”

Ye Jiuyue tried to stop him. “I need a lot of rest.”

“It’s not like I’ll get you tired, and anyways, with me by your side I can take care of you a little.” Shen Weixing didn’t give him the chance to refuse, booking the airplane ticket as he muttered, “You’re so troublesome, you know? If I don’t see you I’m forced to worry—” 

What?! The Fuck?!

Realizing what he had just done and said as well as what he had just thought, Shen Weixing was shocked.

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When interacting with Shen Weixing, if you were too serious, then you would be angered to death. Ye Jiuyue leisurely thought.

A long time ago, Shen Weixing had deliberately detained Ye Jiuyue’s ID card in order to ascertain his identity (?), so he still had Ye Jiuyue’s ID number. Because of that, right now he could directly book the plane tickets. 

Originally, Ye Jiuyue had wanted to refuse, but he watched as Shen Weixing soulfully stared at him for ages. In the end, Shen Weixing said, ears a little red, “But I can only come back after two days and a half.”

Ye Jiuyue：“……”

What…did this mean? 

Why are we suddenly so much like lovers that can’t part for a minute? What happened? Shen Weixing wouldn’t actually—

Nonononononononono, Shen Weixing very likely doesn’t even know what he’s saying. 

Ye Jiuyue calmly thought. 

But he thought, Shen Weixing is an adult, and had debuted so many years ago, he wouldn’t not know what he was saying. 

Then, what did Shen Weixing mean by this?

Was he…pursuing me?

Just now he was suddenly so concerned over my future plans……

Nononononononononononononononono, don’t think too highly of yourself, don’t overthink things, we’re just fuck buddies, we go for the body not the heart, adding in feelings is bad for everyone. Ye Jiuyue resolutely thought.  

Ye Jiuyue then thought, his idol was very kind, perhaps he thought that my getting sick was caused by his jinx, so he has a sense of responsibility, was feeling a little guilty, and wants to make it up to me. 

This explanation was very logical and had evidence, and was convincing. 

Ye Jiuyue successfully convinced himself, then kindly comforted Shen Weixing. “I’m really alright, I’m almost better, you don’t have to take it to heart. Actually, the latency period of the flu is very long, who knows, perhaps I’d already gotten sick two weeks ago, it’s just that the symptoms hadn’t shown yet.”

What the heck was all this nonsense? Shen Weixing impatiently said, “Then since the cold’s almost gone, then there’s even less to discuss, come with me.”

Ye Jiuyue was considerate of his feelings of guilt, and thought about it: national airplane tickets weren’t that expensive, going to city S for a short vacation would be good too; so he said, “Alright then.”

When Ye Jiuyue finished class, he was directly picked up by Shen Weixing and taken to the airport. When he found that Shen Weixing’s short air trips were also first-class, he silently sighed to himself that having money sure was great. However, no one knows me, I can sit in economy class ah. 

The cost of the gift in return was going to double.  

Free things truly are the most expensive, I’m almost unable to afford meeting up with this fuck buddy. Ye Jiuyue couldn’t help but let out a sigh. 

Shen Weixing asked, with a frown, “You’re already tired? You only had to go through security.”

Ye Jiuyue denied it. “It’s not that.”

Shen Weixing asked, “Then why are you sighing?” 

Ye Jiuyue said, “It’s nothing.”

“If it’s nothing, then don’t sigh, how old are you, already sighing.” Shen Weixing lectured at him calmly. 

Ye Jiuyue replied with his multi-use answer, “En.”

“‘En’ again—” Shen Weixing had gotten a bit addicted to the feeling of lecturing Ye Jiuyue. Taking advantage of Ye Jiuyue’s weak state where he didn’t like to speak or reply, he wanted to get back the upper hand. Just as he was going to continue, he heard someone say from behind him, “Oi, Weixing?” 

Shen Weixing froze, hurriedly pressed down his hat, put his sunglasses back on, and looked over warily.

“Fuck, you can’t even recognize my voice?” Boss B unhappily said.

Shen Weixing recognized him now, took off his sunglasses and asked,  “What a coincidence?”

“Yeah.” Boss B, also known as Dai Xiaojing, was a well-known Entertainment Company Chairman(’s son (one son amount many)). Dai Xiaojing got up and sat in the seat next to Shen Weixing, his eyes stuck staring at Ye Jiuyue, who was sitting on Shen Weixing’s other side. “What a coincidence, what a coincidence, this is?”    

Shen Weixing, feeling miffed, blocked his sight, then gave him a warning glance. 

Dai Xiaojing was as much of a playboy as Wen Dong, but Wen Dong at least knew how to flirt and be romantic. Dai Xiaojing, on the other hand, was that sort of pure philanderer and had no integrity regarding such matters. The sole reason for not going to those parties and galas was that he was afraid that his dad and older and younger brothers would get blackmail material on him and rob him of his right to the inheritance. If it weren’t for that, he would live at the parties, and wouldn’t just have sugar babies for fun.

Dai Xiaojing, who’d suddenly been guarded against by his kid：“……”

Can you take a look at what type of person I usually take on as sugar babies?!

Dai Xiaojing was going to be angered to death by Shen Weixing. He didn’t want to pay him any more attention, so directly swerved around him and said to Ye Jiuyue, “Hello, it’s Jiuyue right? I’m Dai Xiaojing, Weixing’s friend. You can call me Xiaojing Ge.”

Ye Jiuyue glanced at Shen Weixing, feeling that it was a little strange. He didn’t really understand why Shen Weixing’s friend was so overly familiar and knew him, but still politely said, “Nice to meet you, I’m Ye Jiuyue.” 

Although, this self-introduction seemed to be unneeded.

So why did the other party recognize him?

Ye Jiuyue glanced at Shen Weixing again.

Shen Weixing impatiently tore open a packaged blanket and tucked it around Ye Jiuyue. “You go to sleep.”

“……”

Although Ye Jiuyue didn’t want to sleep and didn’t know why he had to sleep, faced with the other option of continuing to face Shen Weixing, Ye Jiuyue chose to go to sleep. 

Shen Weixing watched him close his eyes, then shook him awake again. “Can you not put some more importance on your own matters? Take the medication, once you’ve taken them then you can go to sleep.”

After he finished speaking, Shen Weixing took out a package of pills from his pocket.

Ye Jiuyue：“……”

Dai Xiaojing：“……” 

【Have we included  to play today, is  done for today yet】 

Dai Xiaojing: Wei Xing is dooone for.

Wen Dong: ?

Dai Xiaojing: You’re on your phone during work hours again, your bonus is gone.  

Wen Dong: I’m on my rest day, boss. 

Boss A: What is it this time? What’s going on with Wei Xing?

Dai Xiaojing: I ran into him and Xiao Jiuyue on the plane. Don’t ask me how I recognized Jiuyue, Wei Xing’s gaze is very disgusting, I don’t want to recall it.

Dai Xiaojing: Fuck, I just saw them again when I raised my head, my eyes are going to go blind. 

Dai Xiaojing: Wei Xing is dooone for.

Dai Xiaojing: Let’s change the group chat’s name. 

Dai Xiaojing: He’s in the middle of feeding pills to Jiuyue; one pill for one sip of water, even my mom hasn’t fed me medicine like that before.

Boss A: Didn’t Hua Lin say he fed one pill with one sip of water and would even give a kiss and say ‘you’re so great and good’ last time?  

Dai Xiaojing: The impact isn’t as big as seeing it in person.

Dai Xiaojing: You guys, would I still be in time to strike and get between them? You guys, if I were to get with Wei Xing, would he feed me medicine like that? My mom doesn’t even take care of me like that, my mom’s busy fighting with my dad’s other lovers and mistresses, my childhood was so pitiful, I want Wei Xing to feed me medicine like that too.

Wen Dong: Calm down….. 

Dai Xiaojing: Envy makes me unrecognizable!  

Dai Xiaojing: Alright I’m done talking, the plane’s taking off, I’m turning off my phone.

Boss F: If you’re going to get with Wei Xing, then it would be better to just get with Jiuyue. Didn’t Wei Xing say that Jiuyue normally ‘comes whenever called, doesn’t mind physical or verbal jabs and comes with an all-inclusive ‘massages for legs and shoulders, feeds you food, makes little presents, and will perform a bilingual newspaper reading service before bedtime’ package?

Dai Xiaojing: Just listen to him boast.

Dai Xiaojing: I think he’s living in his own world.  

The author has something to say: 

Come whenever called: Oh yea~ Idol I’m coming~ Perfect, I don’t have classes, let’s hurry over and look at that face close up~

Doesn’t fight back: Bastard goes blah blah, not listening, not listening (and there were no actual hitting or swearing)

Massage legs and shoulders: Kicked this sensitive idol in his sleep, if Ye Jiuyue didn’t massage his leg then he would chatter on for the whole night. 

Feed food: Feeding idol achievement unlocked~

Make little presents: Giving in return as a courtesy~

Bilingual newspaper reading service before sleep: Assiduously studying English.

For the above, everything that Shen Ge says is true! (Shen Ge…send me…money)

Rinrin: He really is….living in his own world, that is