translator: daisy
Xing Ye opened his eyes and regarded the other coldly, causing the two to engage in a quiet face-off.
Sheng Renxing blinked innocently. Holding back a smile, he explained, “You agreed to let me vent!”
He retracted his hand while rubbing his fingertips: “Your hair is so soft.”
Xing Ye dragged his fingers through the strands, and then touched the place where he got flicked: “Who has hard hair though?”
“But it’s softer than mine!”
Xing Ye stared at him, and abruptly stretched out his hand to tussle the other’s hair.
Sheng Renxing froze on the spot and asked jokingly: “How is it? Whose is harder?”
The other didn’t speak, as if he was deep in thought. When Xing Ye’s fingers shuffled through Sheng Renxing’s hair, his fingertips ended up inadvertently rubbing his scalp.
It felt like an electric shock.
Sheng Renxing “tsk-ed”, and tilted his head to hide from, but Xing Ye chased after him and pressed his elbow onto his shoulder.
“Yours is softer.”
Sheng Renxing’s hair was getting slightly too long and had already covered the tips of his ears. The other’s fingers were wrapped around the strands as Xing Ye’s knuckles gently stroked his hair.
“Pftt!” Sheng Renxing immediately rejected the notion, “My hair is very hard!”
“It’s soft.”
“Your hair is soft!”
Xing Ye paused with his hands hovering in midair, “There’s a lingering fragrance too.”
“?” Sheng Renxing slapped his hand off, “That’s the smell of hair dye!”
It had only been a few days after the dye job, so the chemical scent hadn’t faded entirely.
Xing Ye moved to touch his own hair, while crying internally about how Sheng Renxing was the one with better hair.
He crossed his legs, placed his elbow on it and chatted idly: “I want to dye my hair too.”
“?” Sheng Renxing glanced at him and asked hesitantly, “What color are you planning to do?”
Xing Ye shook his head, then turned to look at Sheng Renxing’s hair: “Maybe like yours?”
The other imagined Xing Ye with a head full of red hair. Contrasted with his fair skin, it would probably look…really good.
He didn’t speak, and Xing Ye shook his head again: “Or maybe not; it’s too eye-catching.”
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“…” Sheng Renxing swallowed the next sentence he was about to say and changed the subject instead, “Has your forehead turned red?”
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Sheng Renxing’s mind ran through several emotions, but settled on amusement, “I’m really embarrassed to take away your first time like that.”
He copied Xing Ye’s previous sitting posture and stretched out his legs, placing his palms on the ground, saying jokingly, “I didn’t use any force, you must’ve turned into porcelain!”
The other’s eyes wandered over to his lap.
Sheng Renxing was wearing tapered sweatpants that exposed his ankles and showed off his long legs.
“Are those your pajama pants?” He wondered.
“Nope. I changed into this style when I left.”
Xing Ye was silent for a while: “Thank you.”
Thank you for running over so late at night to sit in this cold alley with me.
Just because of my inexplicable phone call.
“Ah,” Sheng Renxing rubbed his nose awkwardly, unused to the other being so serious all of a sudden, “I only came here to beat you up.”
Midway throughout his reply, he smiled and sighed: “You really know how to choose the topic. Had it been someone else who called me in the middle of the night to talk about Shelley, I would’ve beat them up so badly that they’ll never want to see Shelley again in their lifetime!”
Xing Ye also realized the extent of his stupidity at the time. He pursed his lips and laughed, pointing to the place where his forehead was flicked: “Using this?”
“Are you disagreeing with my methods?” Sheng Renxing glanced at him.
“Of course not.” Xing Ye nodded seriously.
Sitting in that dark alley, the two made inconsequential small talk with each other.
The other wasn’t sure if Xing Ye’s mood had recovered or if it was just temporarily forgotten, considering he couldn’t tell the other’s expression, but at least the number of words he was saying now increased.
Sheng Renxing deliberately didn’t ask him why he stayed here so late, as if the issue had slipped his mind.
Until several drunkards stumbled by.
One voice was particularly loud; the alcohol had loosened his inhibitions as he rambled on while being propped up the others.
The two stopped talking and looked over.
When they reached the end of the alley, the other drunkard probably couldn’t stand his speech anymore, and vomited it all out with a “wow”.
Sheng Renxing frowned and stared sternly in their direction as an unspeakable smell wafted towards them.
He immediately couldn’t stand it anymore and wanted to walk away.
Unexpectedly, Xing Ye was one step faster than him. He got up and patted his pants,”Let’s go.”
“?” Sheng Renxing didn’t react, “Where to?”
“I’ll take you back.” Xing Ye said.
“No,” Sheng Renxing waved his hand, “I know the way, I can get back myself.”
He wanted to ask whether or not he was also heading home, but couldn’t get the words out. In the end, his mouth opened and closed uselessly without uttering a single sentence.
Xing Ye insisted: “I’ll walk you.” Seeing the other party’s expression, he added, “It’s very chaotic here at night.”
“Weren’t you alone before I came though?” No matter which way you looked at it, Sheng Renxing wasn’t someone who needed to be sent home.
Xing Ye shook his head: “It’s not the same.”
Sheng Renxing raised his eyebrows, but the other stopped talking, and reached out his hand, “Come on.”
After hesitating for a moment, Sheng Renxing decisively gripped his arm and pulled himself up.
Walking past the drunkard, several people were taken aback by their sudden appearance.
A woman who was taking care of the drunkard patted her chest in shock, and gave them an angry scowl: “You scared this old woman to death! Can’t you choose a better place to do your indecent acts instead of coming to this ghastly place?!”
She was complaining to the people right next to her, yet had no control over her volume. Seeing Sheng Renxing looking over, she gave them a middle finger.
Sheng Renxing frowned and glared down at her coldly.
Seeing that they were both men, she stared back unflinchingly: “Oh! So it’s two gay guys!”
Her companions all looked over.
“You better stop using such dirty words!” Sheng Renxing stopped walking.
“Don’t tell me what to do?!” Unafraid, the woman yelled even louder.
The drunkard next to her vomited again.
Sheng Renxing’s face was growing increasingly dark, and Xing Ye, sensing that things were boiling over, pulled on his arm, “Don’t pay attention to them, let’s go.”
The other slapped his hand away and stepped forward.
Xing Ye immediately moved to stand in front of him, and turned to the woman who was still rambling incessantly, “Shut it!”
The woman rolled her eyes and continued to lambaste them until she was pulled away by her companion: “Stop talking!”
He apologized to them with a slight smile: “I’m sorry, she’s drunk.”
Despite this supposed apology, he kept staring at Xing Ye without moving, his whole body tense as if he was facing an enemy.
Can you forget basic human decency when drunk? Sheng Renxing sneered coldly and thought, “So can I beat them up while sober?”
Xing Ye ignored the group, turned around and tugged at him again: “Let’s go.” His tone changed slightly.
Sheng Renxing looked into his eyes and obediently went with him.
After the two walked for a while, Sheng Renxing gradually calmed down as Xing Ye’s last expression flashed in his mind.
It was the same one he wore when Sheng Renxing first saw him tonight.
However, Xing Ye wasn’t taciturn like before. Instead, he carefully explained as if he was afraid of Sheng Renxing getting angry, “A few are drunk; those who are inebriated aren’t afraid of getting rough in a fight.”
So the other pinpointed the core of the situation, “I didn’t say that I would hit them, it’s just a hypothetical.” He “tsk-ed.”
Xing Ye tilted his head: “You can’t out-argue them. Have you ever encountered those shrews who curse without abandon in public?”
“Fuck.” Sheng Renxing furrowed his brows and mussed up his hair. Remembering those people, he couldn’t help but curse again, “What the fuck was that?”
“It’s not a special case, everyone on this street is like this.” Xing Ye was composed, wearing an insipid expression, “A whole pile of garbage.”
Sheng Renxing was stunned and looking at Xing Ye’s profile, he thought “what about you?”
However, as he was dragged along by the other somewhat painfully, he swallowed the words without asking.
At the door of the hotel, Xing Ye let go of him, and tilted his chin, “Go in.”
Sheng Renxing didn’t move: “How about you, are you going home?”
The other pursed his lips and shook his head.
Sheng Renxing frowned slightly: “Then where do you live?”
Thinking about how he had less than a hundred yuan within his possession, he was probably going to end up sleeping at the West Beng tonight.
To the other party, however, he replied casually, “I’ll find a hotel to sleep in.”
“There’s one right here.” Sheng Renxing pointed to the hotel behind them.
“…”
Sheng Renxing turned to look at him: “Mind if you share a bed with someone?”
daisy: tbh when i first read the title i thought it was going to be about something other than hair uh i-i mean-runs away
and so they fall into the same bed together aiyaaa
also i’m very sorry i just checked my upload schedule for the past two weeks and legit none of them fell on the same day. after this we will be be back to the normal release dates i’m dying a little from coursework please bear with me ;-;;
Reading the title my thoughts were very. . . . .whose is harder, hehe.
Playing with each other’s hair, giving their firsts to each other, walking each other home, and sleeping in the same bed. Something only the best of friends would do~
And damn lady, you aren’t completely wrong about them being gay for each other, but rude.😕
+1!
rude +1
Read the title and thought other things, well I guess we are all in the same club, let’s drag our brains from the gutter. Also how cute, one is ready to call and the other is ready to answer. When will official cohabitation start? So much subtle tension and romance
My man SRX what is up with the ambiguous words??
Thanks for the chapter + goodluck with your coursework € ^ *^)/// ~~ ♡♡♡♡♡
Adorable, these two!
Thanks for the chapter <3
Ah such a sweet friendship ne❤
Sleeping in the same bed again eh? Interesting…
Ty for the chapter!!💜💜💜
That title… I need a mind cleanse.