On Sunday, a few of the girls in their class organized a movie night in the class group chat. After they informed everyone in the group chat by tagging @EVERYONE, someone else tagged @Qi Feng and Ling Ke privately, telling them two of them to come together.
This time Qi Feng and Lin Ke had no reason to refuse since the two of them were just idling around the dormitory.
Their class representative, Gao Junfei had left the dormitory, it was unknown where he had gone off to. Xie Qibao was playing video games in the dormitory, so he didn’t want to go out. Then, they proceeded to ask the guys from across the halls if they were interested in going with them. Some of the guys said they didn’t want to spend money to watch a movie in a movie theater when they could just download movies from pirate websites online. While others expressed that they weren’t interested in the movie the girls had picked out.
After they tried desperately to gather more guys to go with them, there were only four guys who were willing to go with them.
A large group of girls began walking towards the boys that were waiting by the school gate.
The students were now quite familiar with one another after half a month of military training. However, everyone was wearing military training uniforms before, so none of them really stood out. They all looked alike.
Today, everyone finally had the chance to wear their own clothes that express their unique personality and character. This was especially true for the girls since they were all at an age where they liked to dress up and date. How could they continue showing the unkempt appearance they had when they were training before when they were now in the presence of handsome boys?
A few of the girls were average-looking during their military training. But now, after they put on a dress, wore high heels, and applied some makeup, they were now more eye-catching.
The two boys that came with Qi Feng and Ling Ke felt like they were floating on cloud nine when the group of girls surrounded them.
The group walked towards the nearest movie theater from school. Their tickets were bought by a girl online and would be paid back to her after all the bills were settled. After everyone received their tickets, someone suggested that they should buy some drinks for the movie.
There was a milk tea shop not far from the movie theater, but it was inconvenient if they had all gone together. Therefore, they decided to send a representative, the campus idol, Qi Feng, to help them buy the milk tea.
“Qi Feng, you should go!”
“That’s right, the campus idol should go! Use your killer smile and help us get a discount for milk tea!”
A guy glanced in the direction of the milk tea shop and asked, “The person managing the milk tea shop is a guy, why should Qi Feng go? Shouldn’t we send a pretty girl instead?”
Everyone burst into laughter in an instant. After their laughter died down, someone spoke up, “There’s no need! Our Qi Feng can melt the hearts of both men and women!”
Qi Feng raised an eyebrow and joked along with them, “Even if I can melt the hearts of both men and women, will the shopkeeper of the milk tea shop give me a discount just because I’m handsome?”
Several girls were already laughing nonstop, but it was unknown what they were laughing at.
Qi Feng saw that if they continued to drag this on, they would be late to the movie, so he asked busily, “Okay, okay, I’ll go buy it. What do you guys want to drink?”
“I want kumquat lemon iced tea!”
“I want pudding milk tea!”
“A large three brothers milk tea!”
“Mandarin milk tea!”
“Wait, wait…I can’t remember so much!” Qi Feng felt as though his head would explode from trying to memorize everything. He turned around to Ling Ke and said, “Help me remember their orders, and come with me to buy milk teas later!”
Ling Ke didn’t immediately respond, but his expression revealed everything; This is such an easy task, yet you still need someone’s help. In the end, he could only sigh helplessly and pulled out his phone. He turned on the recording function on his phone and said to the girls, “Come here to record your orders one by one. Make sure to think about what you want first before I record your order because you won’t be able to change your order once I’ve recorded down your order. Otherwise, everything will be chaotic. Let’s start.”
Everyone, “…”
Qi Feng suddenly felt like he was looked down on by the top student, Ling Ke.
After he finished recording everyone’s order, Ling Ke still went along with Qi Feng to buy the milk tea. After all, there were a dozen or so cups of milk tea, it was better if he was there to help him carry some.
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After Qi Feng returned with the milk tea, the girls handed the money to Qi Feng. But Qi Feng generously said, “Forget it, think of this as a treat from me.” If everyone had bought them individually, then it would’ve been fine. But since he was sent to buy them, it didn’t make sense to ask each girl to pay him back individually. Everyone was excited but was also somewhat embarrassed. Qi Feng was afraid that everyone would be concerned about it, so he blinked his eyes and said, “In exchange, I won’t pay for my movie ticket.”
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The girls chose an ethical film directed domestically that focused on cracking down on the abduction of women and children. This film might’ve sparked some interest with them because some of them entered the journalism department. While for others, they all wanted to watch something on a controversial topic or theme that will ponder and reflect on the film.
The film narrated the conflicting views between the families that lost their child and the families that raised the abducted children. Many social issues were presented in this film, but the film focused the most on the conflicts between law and ethics in situations like this. The portrayal of the topic was realistic, thoroughly explaining everything.
The film had a golden line-up, most of the actors were well known in the entertainment industry. Therefore, their acting was superb, making everyone engrossed in the plot.
Ling Ke could see several girls sitting in the front rows secretly wiping away their tears whenever there was a sad scene.
He and Qi Feng were sitting side by side, so he could see that Qi Feng was quite engaged in the film too.
In one of the scenes, a couple had lost their child. Because of this, they continued quarreling and blaming each other for losing their child. They continued blaming each other until they went to a marriage consul where the actress that was playing the mother of the lost child finally fell apart. She burst out crying and apologized, “I’m sorry I lost our child.”
When this scene came out, Ling Ke noticed that Qi Feng had reached out and grabbed his milk teacup on his side, but he didn’t pick the cup up to drink it. Instead, he was clenching the cup tightly while his eyes were focused on the screen.
At the end of the film, when the lights in the theater were turned back on, Ling Ke was surprised to find out that the rims around Qi Feng’s eyes were red too.
Because many people were crying from the movie, they didn’t pay much attention to what other people were doing. Many people were immersed in melancholy at the ending of the film as they slowly walked out of the theater, discussing the plot.
The only one who was paying attention to Qi Feng was Ling Ke. Ling Ke heard Qi Feng whispered to himself, “I’m going to the restroom.”
There were many people at the restroom, but Qi Feng didn’t head toward the crowded restroom which was right outside the movie theater they exited. He turned around and walked downstairs.
The movie theater had five halls and two floors. If the layout of each floor was the same, then there should be a restroom downstairs in the same location.
Ling Ke paused for a moment before he followed behind Qi Feng.
Qi Feng went to the restroom downstairs. Compared to the crowded restroom upstairs, the restroom here was deserted.
Qi Feng entered the restroom alone and walked in front of a sink. He bent over and began washing his eyes with cold water.
Hearing movements behind him, Qi Feng turned around with his eyes red-rimmed, “…”
Ling Ke, “…”
Qi Feng lowered his head and continued washing his face. He pretended to be calm and asked, “Why did you come here?”
Ling Ke, “There are too many people upstairs.”
Qi Feng, “…oh.”
Ling Ke pretended to use the restroom. He knew that most guys are ashamed to show their fragile side to others, but the way Qi Feng was trying to hide his fragile side was inexplicably cute.
After he finished pretending to use the toilet, Ling Ke turned around and saw Qi Feng supporting himself by holding the marble sink with both hands. Qi Feng was vexed as he stared at his reflection which revealed that the rims of his eyes were still red.
Since Ling Ke had already seen his red-rimmed eyes, it was meaningless to hide the fact that he had cried. Qi Feng needlessly tried to find a leeway out of this embarrassing situation, “The movie was…quite touching.”
Ling Ke couldn’t help but want to laugh when he heard how Qi Feng’s voice was slightly wavering as he said that.
He now understood why girls loved it when men tried to cover their fragile side because all he wanted to do right now was to go up to Qi Feng and give him a hug.
“…aren’t you touched by the movie?” Qi Feng asked as he tried his best to deepen his voice. He was trying to alleviate his sadness by having a conversation with Ling Ke.
“Of course, I’m touched.” Ling Ke replied while he washed his hands.
However, Ling Ke was still very calm. To be honest, he didn’t understand why some people cried so easily… although this doesn’t prevent him from admiring Qi Feng’s rare fragile appearance.
Qi Feng glanced at the expressionless Ling Ke and said, “You don’t seem to be feeling anything at all.”
As soon as he finished talking, a tissue appeared in front of him.
Ling Ke felt fortunate that the tissue he bought could finally be used on Qi Feng. He pondered for a minute and asked, “Were you emotionally stirred up by the scene where Lu Xiaojun apologized for losing their child?”
Qi Feng took the tissue. He had finally suppressed his emotions, but Ling Ke’s sudden reminder stirred up waves in his heart again. He couldn’t get the scene out of his head and instantly burst into tears.
Ling Ke, “…”
Was…it that emotionally moving?
Qi Feng wanted to curse himself for showing his vulnerable side. He hurriedly covered his eyes with the tissue to prevent Ling Ke from seeing his tears; otherwise, he would feel completely ashamed and embarrassed.
Qi Feng tried to peek from the tissue to see Ling Ke’s reaction, but he unexpectedly felt two arms wrapped around his waist…
Someone hugged him.
There was only one other person in the restroom and that was Ling Ke. This meant that Ling Ke was the one hugging him right now.
After coming to this conclusion, the tears that were about to spill from Qi Feng’s eyes suddenly flowed back into his eyes from shock.
But before he could relish in this abrupt hug, his butt was patted on gently.
…!
…huh???
Then he felt Ling Ke leaned in closer to his ears and said in a cold whisper, “What’s there to cry about? It’s just a movie.”
Qi Feng, “…”
***
After the movie ended, the girls organized dinner for everyone.
It was unknown when and how Qi Feng and Ling Ke had returned to the big army unit, even Qi Feng and Ling Ke didn’t know how they ended back there either.
Qi Feng was still completely shocked by the sudden hug Ling Ke had given him. He thought that Ling Ke, who was as straight as an iron, hated to have skin-to-skin contact with people of the same gender as him. But now it seemed like that was not the case.
In the past few days, he felt that Ling Ke was slowly putting down the walls around him. In the past, he didn’t seem to like to joke around, but recently, he would try to crack a joke every now and then.
He suspected that Ling Ke wasn’t a cold person, he was just slow to warm up to someone else.
But Qi Feng still couldn’t ignore the strange feeling from the part of the body that Ling Ke had patted gently…
Normal straight men comfort each other by patting the other party’s shoulder and back, right?
…how do you comfort someone by patting their butt?
During the meal, Qi Feng and Ling Ke didn’t sit next to each other, there was a guy sitting between them. Qi Feng tried his best to prevent himself from staring at Ling Ke up with an odd gaze, but he couldn’t control himself. He would glance at Ling Ke from the corner of his eyes from time to time throughout the meal.
As always, Ling Ke was calm and collected with a wooden expression on his face.
Qi Feng suddenly remembered how Ling Ke joked with him after he had just stepped off the stage in the freshman orientation.
——“You won’t be able to see it anyways.”
You won’t be…able to…see it anyways…
Hahaha….
Qi Feng suddenly felt gloomy and depressed.
He suddenly had the urge to grab Ling Ke’s shoulder and shake him violently, asking him what the f**k he meant by that!
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【Extra】
(One)
Qi Feng: “I think I’m more handsome than him.”
Qi Yu: “I have something to say, but I don’t know if it’s appropriate.”
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(Two)
Ling Ke: “Do you have a picture of your brother?”
Qi Feng: “…I don’t.” ← What if Keke falls in love with my brother? Before I capture Keke, I shouldn’t find more competitors for myself. After all, that egghead had stolen my mother, who had originally loved me! (* ￣︿￣)
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(Three)
Qi Feng: “You don’t look like you are emotionally moved.”
Ling Ke handed him a tissue.
Qi Feng: “…” Your mother! Ling Ke actually gave me a tissue! I’m about to cry from happiness! (Q_Q)
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【Note】The movie mentioned in this chapter is called《亲爱的》or 《Dearest》. It’s a story revolving around a couple living in a remote village who is dealing with the disappearance of their missing son.
T/N: Sorry for the late update > < I’ll try to update more frequently. On a side note, do you think I need an editor?
thank you for the update (*˙˘˙)♡
Thank you for the chapter!! I don’t think you need an editor, but I also tend to not notice stuff so shrugs 😄
LMAO ahahhas
The butt patting never gets old… omg insecure QF~
I don’t think there was anything wrong??? So an editor is not immediately needed… but they might help you bounce back ideas whenever you get stumped???
Thanks for the chapter~ ( ^ ♡ ^ )/
I LMAOed so hard at these two! Also, I don’t think you need an editor, this doesn’t seem to have any mistakes, as far as I could see at least
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Thank you for the chapter ❤️
Ling ke, I see what you doing ಡ ͜ ʖ ಡ) I love how Qi Feng is low-key gay panicking XD
Butt comforting.. I have to remember that xDDD
I too think it’s okay without an editor, but since I’m not a native I don’t really realize small errors x’D
Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)
Oh crap, now I’m starting to get confused lol! Who’s the shou and who’s the gong?? 😂 But honestly, that crying and fragility was really adorable~
They might end up switching positions haha after all, sharing is caring 🤣
Great story, great translation!😍
What an emotional movie. With that bunch of people I think they’ll see some popular film.
Consoling him with a pat in the butt?! What’s Ling Ke thinking?!
Thanks for the chapter!
Thanks for the chapter.
Butt patting and holding is normal for us, as just laughed about it omg QF reaction is priceless
fck now i wanted to see the movie as well!
Qi Feng is so adorable. But really, I’m not curious what Both Ling Ke and Feng Zi would feel once they learned that time with Qi Yu.
Thanks for the translation!
QF is absolutely adorable.. My god.
Did he learn about butt patting from their other roommate? 😂
I don’t think QF is ever going to cry in the presence of LK😂😂😂
I’m 3 years late reading this cute story, but… thank you for continuing the translation and no, you don’t need an editor! 🙂
Interesting, if Qi Feng followed their mother and Qi Yu followed their father (per the previous section), I wonder why the mom had Qi Yu come play violin and I wonder why Qi Feng feels like his mother was stolen away by his brother (in the extra at the bottom)?