Chapter 27
In the end, I couldn’t figure out what Nin Yiheng was thinking.
I still think he might prefer Li Xiaoming, but… Forget it, I can’t figure it out. I’m even too embarrassed to ask and I don’t know where to start.
I can’t just say to my boss, “Boss, since you taught me how to write a novel, you’ve got me in the mood for spring like a teenager who just got into contact with a certain website, so you’ve got to expound the Buddhist teachings to me.”
For the time being, I still can’t believe that I can give up the goddess in my cloud file storage so easily, turn my head, and like men. Moreover, I even regarded my ignorant little brother that day as a misunderstanding.
Ning Yiheng didn’t mention the lunar New Year’s Eve afterwards. His behavior was nothing unusual but on that day, it was as if my little brother had been bewitched during the night. It was just like I had a guilty conscience. I always felt like the way he looked at me was wrong.
It must be that I’ve been sleeping in the same bed with a gay for too long which caused me to become paranoid myself.
I had a lot of things to do for Chinese New Year. I didn’t have time to calm down and think about my relationship with him. I had to accompany my parents to pay New Year’s visits to various relatives’ homes.
Every day was filled with endless banquets and strings of relatives. Ning Yiheng didn’t have to follow me to see my relatives. He strolled around by himself and waited for me to come home every day.
That’s right, my boss waited for me to come home like a beloved wife. He even tied an apron to help our family cook dinner every night.
Ning Yiheng bought my mom a pair of jade bracelets and gave my dad a set of fishing gear. They were small items that didn’t cost much in his words but in my eyes, who didn’t want to be indebted to Ning Yiheng, had already started to feel pain in my wallet.
Fishing gear was the pink tax of a retired old man like my dad, who had nothing to do. My dad didn’t say much about it, but his heart had actually been ruthlessly grasped by Ning Yiheng.
My parents were very satisfied with him, and I felt incredibly horrified in my heart.
Fortunately, holidays always pass by quickly. In the blink of an eye, my annual leave bottomed out. We returned to City B on the seventh day of the first month and officially resumed work on the eighth day.
Ning Yiheng didn’t return home throughout the year, so he had to go back and see them. He got off the plane and went back to his parent’s house.
I was relieved when Ning Yiheng left; I worked energetically. As soon as I got home, I shoveled clean Mimi’s cat litter box and swept its house.
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Two minutes later, I closed my cloud file storage.
I covered my face, closed the laptop, and lit a cigarette in silence.
After smoking a cigarette, I opened the laptop again.
I clicked on the cloud file storage for office use and found the photos of the company’s activities. The computer screen’s light dazzled my eyes.
I zoomed and zoomed in on Ning Yiheng in the group photo and solemnly moved the tissue box on the table to pull out tissues.
Fifteen minutes later, I threw away the balled tissue, stared vacantly at the ceiling, and lit another cigarette.
With regard to myself, there was a total of good news and bad news.
The good news was that my little brother hadn’t malfunctioned, and the bad news was that it only reacted to Ning Yiheng.
Having been straight for over twenty years, I really couldn’t accept this reality.
I shook the cigarette ashes, looked at Ning Yiheng’s face on the screen that was enlarged to a blur, and once again covered my face indignantly.
F*ck, how can Ning Yiheng be so handsome.
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I didn’t have Ning Yiheng’s personal photos, so I stared at the company’s activity photos for a night.
These photos were taken very casually but Ning Yiheng’s face could really be a hit that the passerby tourists in the photo also couldn’t take their eyes off him.
I built a new folder dedicated to him and spent the night silently cropping all the photos of the activities where he appeared as a single person in the storage.
I must be crazy, I turned my hand and dragged that folder into the Recycle Bin.
The next day, I insisted on working at my workstation with dark circles under my eyes. My head was muddled, and all I could think about was Ning Yiheng.
To bend or not to bend, that was the question.
I Baidu-ed my problem and was quickly diagnosed by the Internet as having suspected cancer of the reproductive system.
F*ck, who needed to Baidu this problem other than me ah?
No, I can’t accept it. It must be because I’ve had too little contact with girls, and I’ve never been in love, and Ning Yiheng was just too good-looking that I can even ignore my gender.
Besides, Ning Yiheng might still like Li Xiaoming. I clearly saw them getting close that day, my eyes wouldn’t lie.
When I thought of this possibility, I couldn’t even slack off.
I was in a bad mood.
My work efficiency was greatly reduced and I dragged on all morning without finishing the contents of the plan. I took advantage of my lunch break and touched Li Xiaoming’s workstation.
I was suffocating into madness, I couldn’t think of any clues. I must have someone to talk to.
I pulled Li Xiaoming and hid in the men’s restroom. I looked around to make sure there was no one in the restroom and I could speak freely. Then I turned to the sink, looked at my haggard self in the mirror, and said, “Xiao Ming, I have a question I want to ask you.”
Of course, I dare not reveal too much to Li Xiaoming. He was my colleague and was ambiguously involved with Ning Yiheng. But the only people I was able to make friends with were him and First List Dage.
However, after I inexplicably blushed last time, I suddenly didn’t want to talk to First List Dage about anything Ning Yiheng-related, and I had no one to talk to except Li Xiaoming.
I can only do some artistic processing not letting him see it but also talk about my depression.
But before that—
“How did you know that I write doujin novels?”
Li Xiaoming was so surprised that his mouth turned into an O, “Ya, he told you?”
Recently, my life has been so overly exciting that I almost forgot about it under the successive blows. But as soon as I saw Li Xiaoming, the shame of oblivion began to attack me.
It was too shameful. There was no better way to die in society than to let people in reality circulate my novel.
Li Xiaoming revealed a worried look and said, “Sorry, Cheng-ge. When I went to your computer to copy files that day, you forgot to close the web page, so I looked at it a few more times… But I only told the boss, I didn’t tell anyone else about it.”
“I don’t know much about 2D anime or anything, but your short text was really well written. Just the part where the Cat Girl chased after Princess Star to confess, she suffered three car accidents, two amnesia, and a misdiagnosis of cancer were all—”
“Stop!” I blushed with shame and I couldn’t hate to dig out my ears. “Please, don’t talk about it. I also don’t care about this.”
Li Xiaoming really doesn’t understand Cat Star. Obviously the cat-eyed girl and the little alien princess star… Forget it. As long as he doesn’t read out my plot, I’m thankful.
I adjusted my stiff expression and said, “Actually, I just asked that without thinking, I don’t care about that. I have another question for you.”
“Have you ever had a situation where your *** got out of control?”
Author’s note:
Xiu Xiu is about to wake up.
Diagnosed for cancer of reproductive system 🤣🤣
Googling ANY symptoms will get you diagnosed for at least one sort of cancer but definitely dying within a year.
true😭
Trust good old Google to diagnose whatever tf you have 🤣
Dr. Google is an alarmist.
Thanks for the translation!
Ah yes, it’s cancer for sure~
Thank You for the chapter ( ∩ˇωˇ∩)♡
OMG h-h-he …. omg omg he tended to his little brother 😭😭😭 i was so slow to realize that i needed to read this whole chapter again
Ooh the awakening.
Thank you for the chapter!