Translator: Abo Dammen
Editor: Miha
Proofreader: Abo Dammen
A crowd of students pressed in behind Bai Tang. After standing on tiptoe and still being unable to see Zhou Zhaoyu’s face, he sulkingly returned to his seat.
“Still here?” Zheng Ruyun approached and ran his hand through Bai Tang’s hair.
Bai Tang cupped his own face glumly. “I want to talk to Senior.”
“All right then, I’ll go prepare lesson materials first,” Zheng Ruyun said.
When there were finally only two people left, Zhou Zhaoyu stood atop the podium and saw his junior seated at the bottom, admiring him attentively. After taking a quick glance at his watch, he smiled and instructed the other two students, “Let’s do it like this. I’ll give you both my number and we can continue this discussion after class. The bell is about to ring, I’m afraid I’ll cause you both to be late.”
That’s fantastic! The two students nodded their heads in unison as though a huge pie had suddenly appeared in front of them.
After they had gone, Zhou Zhaoyu smiled and asked, “Little schoolmate over there, do you also want my phone number?”
“Ah…” Bai Tang felt harassed for some reason. He approached. “Senior is beginning to resemble Dr. Qin!”
“Alright, it’s time to go to class,” said Zhou Zhaoyu. “What’s the problem?”
Bai Tang pressed his slender fingers to his mouth, leaned in close to Zhou Zhaoyu’s ear, and murmured, “Jiang Yunsu really isn’t Jiang Yunsu…”
Despite the fact that they had always suspected it, Zhou Zhaoyu was taken aback. “Really? Are you certain?”
“He told me and proved it to me,” Bai Tang stated firmly. “That is to say, if it was Jiang Yunsu in a rut, he would not...” He abruptly stopped speaking and looked at Zhou Zhaoyu with a worried expression. “You wouldn’t capture him for dissection, right…”
Zhou Zhaoyu tapped Bai Tang on the forehead and asked in exasperation, “What is going on inside your little head? Nobody would believe you if you said something like that.”
Bai Tang recalled the day Jiang Yunshu confessed. He sat quietly on the couch, calmly describing himself in his original world. He also talked about what happened after he arrived in this world, always revealing a tinge of loneliness.
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“In a nutshell, he is not Jiang Yunsu,” Bai Tang said in a repressed voice. “He introduced himself as Jiang Yunshu, a retroflex consonant. I’m not lying… If you don’t believe it, why don’t you let him prove it to you? I believe he came here for no apparent reason. I only wish that more people knew that he is not that sick demon…”
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Zhou Zhaoyu, “….”
He kept his doubts to himself and responded calmly, “Okay, when I’m free I’ll check it out.”
“However… even though I know that someone has already changed, I’m still terrified.” Bai Tang rubbed his left wrist repeatedly on his school uniform. Now that the weather was warmer, the wrist guard was no longer necessary. “I’m terrified of everything associated with that abominable monster. I’ll have a trembling spell when I hear the pronunciation of his Su. That, that body was still his… What if there’s a chance he’ll return one day? What if he returned?”
“I’m always waking up in the middle of the night. I’ll wrap myself in a quilt, not daring to run over and ask, ‘Who are you?’ in case…in case I get a different answer…”
“But I think this is especially unfair to Jiang Yunshu. He has done so much for me, yet I am still terrified of him… Just because, because of that body and that face. But I can’t help myself… Anytime he’s in the same room as me, I get so tense that I can’t move.”
Zhou Zhaoyu listened patiently without interrupting. He stopped Bai Tang’s right hand from scratching his left wrist, and asked, “Bai Tang, you’re not the problem, that bastard is. Both you and this person are victims.”
“…I know,” Bai Tang said softly.
Zhou Zhaoyu asked again, “Are you free on Sunday?”
“Y-Yes…”
“We’ll all meet together. Bring him with you so we can talk about your desensitisation treatment.”
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Jiang Yunshu still came to pick up Bai Tang from school on Friday evening. The road was a bit congested today so he came late. He arrived to find the school gate already full of cars, so he had to park on the opposite side of the road.
He received a call from Bai Tang as soon as his foot touched the ground. “Hello…is this Jiang Yunshu?”
Jiang Yunshu acknowledged. This was indeed the first time Bai Tang called him. “It’s me.”
A soft, sweet voice kept coming from the phone. “Jiang Yunshu…Shiwu—shu, right?”
Jiang Yunshu’s mouth twitched. “Mhm, it’s me.”
Bai Tang had already searched a whole lap for the alpha but couldn’t find him. He saw a bus at the bus stop nearby that he could take home but he was a little hesitant. “Did you not come today? How about I just take the bus back by myself…”
“I came, don’t worry.” Jiang Yunshu hurriedly cut off his words then walked forward with large strides. “There’s no more parking space so I parked on the side of the road. I’m on my way to the school gate… I see you, Bai Tang. Turn around.”
Under a tree, he spotted Bai Tang, who had his back to him. On his pure white backpack hung a black dog keychain. Bai Tang turned his head from side to side in search of him, and when his gaze fell on him, he froze briefly before slowly trotting towards him.
After they got in the car, Jiang Yunshu lectured again, “You must not go home alone, okay? It’s far too risky.”
“Oh.” Bai Tang perfunctorily replied, “But if you always come to pick me up, it’s too troublesome…”
“It’s not troublesome,” said Jiang Yunshu. “It’s not that far.”
The car became quieter. Bai Tang’s face brightened and dimmed with each street light quickly flashing outside the window. He clenched his knuckles in an arrhythmic manner. Does such a good person really exist? Selflessly giving, giving with no particular goal in mind? Are all of the people in his world so lovely?
After a while, both of them spoke at the same time, “You—”
“You first,” Jiang Yunshu said.
Bai Tang promptly voiced, “You speak first!”
“Then I’ll go first.” He looked directly ahead. “We have an appointment with Professor Zhou on Sunday. Have you made plans for this Saturday?”
“Ah?” Bai Tang subconsciously replied, “No.”
“I’d like to take you somewhere.”
Bai Tang shifted his gaze to the side. “Where…?”
Jiang Yunshu turned to him as well, taking advantage of the red light. “The cemetery, Jiang Yunsu’s tomb. Will you be scared?”
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Saturday, 10 am.
“I-I don’t want to go,” Bai Tang crouched in front of the kennel and hugged Heitang. “I’m a little scared…”
His body grew icier the nearer he got to the door, and his chest hurt and felt swollen, as if it had been gnawed.
“You should go,” Jiang Yunshu calmly persuaded. “Let’s try it first, Bai Tang, okay? He’s already gone. We’ll have to go there someday.”
Bai Tang sipped his lips into his mouth, his drooping eyelashes faintly quivering. After a while, he seemed to have made up his mind, and slowly let go of Heitang. But when he tried to stand up, he almost fell. He spoke with difficulty, “Oh….it looks like my leg has gone numb.”
Jiang Yunshu held out his hand to Bai Tang and tried to pull him up.
Just as Bai Tang stretched out his hand, he withdrew when he saw the alpha’s face. “You…You’re Jiang Yunshu, right?”
“It’s me.” Jiang Yunshu did not change his posture. He remained silent and waited patiently for Bai Tang’s fingertips to touch his own, and when they did, his hands were ice cold. “Are you really scared?”
Bai Tang was pulled up. He endured the numbness and moved his legs, his teeth chattering. “K-Kinda….”
He said, “It’s okay, let’s go next time. I was in too much of a hurry.”
The reason why Jiang Yunshu wanted Bai Tang to see Jiang Yunsu‘s tomb was to give Bai Tang a reality check that the alpha who had abused him and mutilated him had really died completely and thoroughly.
His heart throbbed in pain every time he looked at Bai Tang’s pale face, trembling, and the firm repetition of asking him if he was Jiang Yunshu.
That extremely insecure appearance was distressing and sparked an uncontrollable rage.
What kind of beast was he, to be so cruel to a living being?
Jiang Yunshu knew very well that perhaps at this very moment, Zhou Zhaoyu could give Bai Tang a much more sense of security than him.
Despite the fact that his arm was already sore from exertion, he strained to pull a man out of the thick of the swamp; thankfully, the other man also held on to him tightly and pushed through the pain to move forward.
The hand that had gripped him ashened with force, as if saying, “Wait for me, wait for me.”
Bai Tang said, despite the glint in his eyes, “I-I can do it, I want to try.”
Thank You for the new chapter (⋈◍＞◡＜◍)。✧♡
Thank you for the update!!!!!!!!! <333
Well, it’s obvious his specialty wasn’t surgical psychology 😄. It’s one single day before their visit with Zhou Zhaoyu, the person actually qualified to determine whether it’s a good idea to visit his tormentor’s grave.
Thanks 😊