CH 6

After Shen Kanyu recovered, he took the internal user ID of《Laughter in the Vast Seas》 given to him by Gu Yansheng and arranged a meeting with a group of his closest friends from that group of delinquents—Guo Teng, Xu Jun, Lu Zhihang, and Jiang Mo. The five of them made a group video chat and started gaming.

***

Shen Kanyu played《Laughter in the Vast Seas》until the skies turned dark. He cheerfully held onto the few large sheets of paper he had written for Gu Yansheng with improvement and refinement measures, intending to find Gu Yansheng and discuss it with him.

As a result, once he pushed open the door, he found Mother Gu, Song Li, playing with Gu Yutian while seated on the ground.

As if he was struck by lightning, his legs became slightly weak. He even wanted to close the door and slip back into his room, but that’d be way too rude.

He blinked his eyes as he looked at Gu Yutian who was on the sofa. Then with a forehead covered in cold sweat, he mouthed in prayer “mother-in-law can’t see me, she can’t see me” while holding his breath and tiptoeing toward the direction of Gu Yansheng.

Yet Song Li didn’t let him off. Although she didn’t look him in the eyes, her tongue was just as sharp as she said, “You’re a grown man and you still play games like this. You didn’t even make dinner. Do you know your position? No wonder your husband scorns you, and your daughter dislikes you.”

Shen Kanyu felt like a steel needle had pricked inside his heart and nailed him in place so he couldn’t move a single step.

Song Li continued, “Quickly go and find a proper job. Doing those shady live broadcasts all day, those who don’t know would think you’re living off selling yourself.”

Shen Kanyu licked his dry lips, then wiped the sweat on his eyes. Smiling and slightly bowing at Song Li, he obediently said in a hoarse voice, “I know, Auntie. I will change.”

“Change my foot. You’re so stubborn in your ways.” Song Li glared at him.

Shen Kanyu thought that his mother-in-law was a little cute like this. He really wanted to laugh, but his face didn’t dare to reveal his thoughts.

He sat beside Gu Yansheng and handed him those few pages. “This is today’s harvest~ Then again, it’s fair to say you’ve put your blood, sweat and tears into making this game, right? I feel like I’ve only touched the surface after playing it for an entire afternoon.”

Gu Yansheng accepted the pages and glanced over it. He lightly glimpsed at him, saying, “Did you think up all of this by yourself?”

With his mother-in-law still behind him, Shen Kanyu was sitting on pins and needles. He could dimly sense the frown in Gu Yansheng’s tone and eyes, so he rushed to shake his head in denial, afraid that Gu Yansheng wouldn’t listen to his suggestions. “How could I ah, the others came up with most of it. I just played, it was too much fun. It’s my first time playing such a fun game!”

Gu Yansheng let out an “en” before bowing his head to earnestly look at the contents.

***

Hiding in a dark corner of the hallway, Shen Kanyu hugged an abandoned cardboard box and firmly pressed a corner into his heart that was struck with chest pain.

He was in so much pain his whole back was drenched in cold sweat, his damp shirt clung to his body, and his hair was wet. He hugged the box with so much strength he was like a drowning man tightly holding onto a rock on the shores.

He freed a hand with difficulty to rummage through his pockets for medicine. Since his eyes grew dim and he kept seeing overlapping images, he couldn’t clearly see whether it was Danshen pills or aspirin he had carelessly stuffed into his mouth. After stuffing down the pills, he bit onto his own hand.

It hurts so much. He was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from shouting, or even calling out Gu Yansheng’s name.

Actually, he had called out for him many times in his heart. He wasn’t hoping for him to be called over; he was really scared of disturbing him. He only wanted a solace so it wouldn’t hurt that much.

He recalled how when gege had a heart attack, it was also this agonizing. Their parents were so worried their eyes reddened, and they looked like they couldn’t even stand steadily. Yet he couldn’t help out at all; his heart hurt a lot as he watched.

Fortunately…fortunately his husband scorned him, his daughter disliked him, and he wasn’t an important existence to his parents and older brother. No one would be worried about him the way his parents worry about gege.

That way his heart won’t have to hurt anymore, it already hurt enough.