translator: daisy
Once again, Xing Ye followed him to the hotel and into the same room as before.
However, upon opening the door, he noticed that there was something…different about the interior.
A large suitcase was thrown haphazardly onto the ground, with many piles of clothing strewn around messily.
Sheng Renxing closed the door, looked back at the suitcase, and threw the key on the bedside table like he was shooting a basketball: “Ah! I’m moving tomorrow, so I’ll pack my things tonight.”
Xing Ye stared at him, and then at the mess behind them, and felt that the other’s idea of tidying up was just shuffling items around, “Will it all fit inside?”
“If it could, why would I leave it on the floor?” Sheng Renxing replied matter-of-factly and looked at if the other asked a stupid question.
“…”
“If you organize it like this, after you take them out to wear, they’ll look like wrinkled plums.” Xing Ye pointed at the stack of clothing in the suitcase, unsure of whether they were actually folded or not. Clearly, Sheng Renxing didn’t do much housework himself.
The person in question walked over and replied, “I tidy them in the same way my housekeeper auntie does at home.” He bent over to grab an article of clothing and folded it as a demonstration.
Xing Ye painfully watched him forcefully knead the sweater into a ball, and then took it from him: “If your housekeeper is at this level, how many times has she been fired?”
He shook it out, folded the top in half horizontally, and aligned the two sleeves. Turning the sweater around, he rolled it starting from the bottom and used the hem to secure it in place.
After ten seconds, the sweater was now neatly rolled up, “This method of folding saves a lot of space.”
Sheng Renxing stared at the other amazingly for a long while, “Fuck! What kind of snail girl are you?”
“…” Xing Ye threw the clothes back into the suitcase, “Do it yourself.”
“Ge! Don’t!” Sheng Renxing fished out the sweater and took a closer look. Originally, he had planned to toss the outfits he couldn’t take with him, but who knew that Xing Ye had such a clever hand?
“With your abilities, you could totally participate in competitions.” He took out his phone to take a picture of the folded top.
Xing Ye moved his eyes from his phone to his face in quick succession: “What would that involve?”
“…Folding clothes?” The other thought for a while and vowed, “If you enter, you’ll definitely get first place! I’ll help you sign up if I encounter something like this!”
Xing Ye lifted himself up by propping a hand on the other’s shoulder. Upon rising, he gently ran his fingers across Sheng Renxing’s hair.
“Tsk!” Sheng Renxing raised his gaze in a sharp glare, “I won’t be able to grow tall if you do that.”
“How tall are you?”
“176 centimetres.”
“Didn’t you say 175 centimetres last time?” Xing Ye stuffed his hand in his pocket and raised an eyebrow curiously.
“You still remember?” Sheng Renxing was stunned stiff, “I got taller! How about you?”
‘178.”
“Ah?” He playfully whacked Xing Ye with the sweater and grinned, “Then that’s boring.”
“Are we comparing?”
“…”
“You should go take a shower first.” Sheng Renxing changed the topic smoothly, and said with concern, “Don’t catch a cold.”
“Mn.” Xing Ye nodded with a slight smile, and didn’t linger on their previous conversation point either.
Until he felt that there was something wrong with what the other was implying, “My body isn’t that weak!”
“Ah? Have your ribs healed?”
“…No.”
Sheng Renxing tutted: “Xing Daiyu.”
“…”
While the two debated about who would shower first, Sheng Renxing put down his phone and walked over to his suitcases.
As he rummaged inside to fish out two clean outfits, he stared agitatedly at the piles of clothing, “Xing Ye, help?”
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Xing Ye sat on the sofa, glanced at him, but continued to pat his hair dry: “Who’s Xing Ye? I don’t know him.”
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The welt wasn’t there at school.
Xing Ye squeezed his hair until it was half-dry, and seeing that Sheng Renxing was just staring up at him motionlessly, tilted his head up with an inquiring expression. Xing Ye’s damp hair was messily strewn across his forehead, and some color returned to his pale lips, and his entire aura somehow radiated a strange form of sexiness.
Sheng Renxing swallowed, and immediately reacted with a cajoling smile, “Come on, help a guy out. Xing ge? Ye ge? Xing Ye gege?”
Xing Ye regarded him with pursed lips, like he was holding back a grin, and tilted his chin, “You go wash first.”
Taking this as a sign of agreement, Sheng Renxing flashed a smile and strolled into the bathroom with the change of clothes on his shoulder.
When he stepped out of the washroom, he was stupefied by the sight in front of him.
Xing Ye sat on the floor and was folding clothing.
There was an indescribable bizarreness about the scene. Unmovingly, Sheng Renxing leaned on the door frame and just looked at the other.
After a long while, Xing Ye asked without lifting his head, “Supervising?”
“Tsk.” Sheng Renxing sighed, “From my point of view, you look…” Xing Ye looked up at him, and narrowed his eyes, revealing a dangerous aura.
He paused, a corner of his lips lifting up into a half-smile, “Like a good wife helping her husband pack for his business trip.”
Xing Ye lowered his head without any reaction: “I’m more like a servant helping out his young master.”
“?” The image appeared within his mind, and Sheng Renxing couldn’t help but smile, “You’d definitely be a bodyguard in that case.”
Watching Xing Ye’s hunched body and the shadows under his wide neckline, as well the thin collar bones concealed until the shirt, he changed his mind: “Oh, maybe not a bodyguard, you’re too thin.”
Xing Ye raised his head and glanced at him, his eyes revealing a little helplessness: “Young master, do you want to help?”
Sheng Renxing was taken aback as he walked over and sat on the ground, rubbing his ears, “Don’t call me that.”
However, as someone well-versed with his limitations, Sheng Renxing didn’t bother to actually help, knowing that it would end up becoming more of a hindrance. Instead, he blurted out, “Do you have abs?”
Xing Ye was getting rather impressed by his conversation starters, “Ask me again when I go look for a job.”
Playing with his earring, Sheng Renxing stared at Xing Ye, worried thinking about how he hadn’t vented his pent up energy in too long, and was at risk of behaving inappropriately.
He sucked in a breath and lifted the hem of his clothes: “I have them.”
Previously, Sheng Renxing had trained for six pack abs—ones that weren’t obnoxiously apparent.
“But it’s faded to four pack abs.”
“…” Xing Ye raised his eyes, glanced at the other’s abdomen and wordlessily lifted his own top.
Sheng Renxing looked at him and silently tucked in his shirt.
Just when Xing Ye thought that was the end of this conversation, the other spoke up, “Can I touch them?”
“?” Momentarily stunned by his question, Xing Ye stared back blankly.
He knew that the guys would have their friends feel their muscles after they exercised. Huang Mao would sometimes randomly flex his muscles in the middle of class and grab the hand of the person sitting next to him to show off.
But he seldom participated, mostly because they didn’t dare play this sort of game with him.
Upon making the bold request, Sheng Renxing relied heavily on his towel to cover up his red ears. He had regretted the words almost immediately, but he had already gone too far to back down now. Sheng Renxing could only rack his brains for how straight men reacted and stared at the other’s face with an inscrutable expression.
As long as the other party showed even the slightest bit of reluctance, he would jump in to say that it was a joke.
However, Xing Ye didn’t seem to show any odd reactions; his expression was mild and his chin bobbed up and down a few times in agreement.
Sheng Renxing silently breathed a sigh of relief and reached out his hand.
And stuck them onto his abdominal muscles.
Under his palm were warm and firm muscles, and as Sheng Renxing pressed on it, he could almost feel its vigorous power. He lightly stroked the contours and marveled its shape.
“Are you studying a map or something?” The other asked, a little irritable and itchy, feeling like there was a weak current between Sheng Renxing’s fingers that kept zapping him.
Sheng Renxing pulled back slightly as if he was scalded. Fingers trembling, he didn’t dare look Xing Ye in the eyes as he asked, “Where’s the fracture?”
This way, it seemed like he was actually looking for them instead.
“Here.” Xing Ye lifted his clothes with one hand, grabbed his hand with the other, and placed it somewhere on his ribs. “Don’t use force.”
The other was taken aback for a moment, but immediately withdrew his hand, “Ah, does it still hurt?”
Seeing him withdraw his hand, Xing Ye dropped the hem of his shirt: “It’s okay.”
He then turned to Sheng Renxing, “Lift yours up now.”
The other snapped his head so rapidly it seemed comical.
“Courtesy demands reciprocity.” Seeing that he was still motionless, Xing Ye’s hand inched towards his shirt.
“Fuck! Let’s not!” Sheng Renxing moved backwards in response, looking like he was about to take off on the spot.
“?” The other regarded him suspiciously.
Sheng Renxing’s backside was dripping with sweat as his body burned like flaming coals. Lamenting the uselessness of his shower, he desperately shouted: “In terms of muscles, I am inferior!”
“…” Xing Ye didn’t see a trace of the other’s self-proclaimed interiority complex written on his face. Although he didn’t necessarily have to touch them, seeing Sheng Renxing’s expression made him want to tease the other for a little. He squinted his eyes, “You touched me just now.”
Sheng Renxing licked his lips, and he didn’t know whether to cover his head or his legs with the bath towel. From the moment he touched Xing Ye’s body, he was on fire.
Afraid of getting discovered, he slowly inched back, “But you agreed to let me touch them! I’m not agreeing!”
Xing Ye moved towards him and muffled his voice: “So you’re disagreeing?”
“Yes!” Sheng Renxing continued to struggle unyieldingly moments before his death as he shrank towards the wall, but didn’t dare to stand up.
Xing Ye asked him: “Who am I?”
“Xing ge!” Sheng Renxing was very flexible, okay!
The other “tsk-ed” unsatisfactorily.
“Ge! Xing Ye gege! Father Xing!” Sheng Renxing reacted extremely quickly.
Xing Ye was so amused by him that he couldn’t help but burst out laughing. Slapping the other on the shoulder, his eyes bent into curves as he was overcome with mirth.
Sheng Renxing had never seen him laugh like this before, and remained rooted in position, staring with awe.
Xing Ye laughed for a long while before returning to his original position and glancing at Sheng Renxing’s abdomen, “Let’s wait for next time then.”
“…”
After a while, his reaction eventually subsided, though Sheng Renxing didn’t dare to sit so close anymore.
He opened WeChat, and saw a message sent by Qiu Huaixin after seeing what he said: [What’s the situation?!]
Sheng Renxing ignored him in favor of asking: [Looking at abdominal muscles? ]
He knew that Qiu Huaixin deliberately exercised his figure, and would even show off to them from time to time.
Although the other was rumored to have good looking abs, Sheng Renxing had never paid them any attention.
Soon, several photos of Qiu Huaixin’s abdominal muscles posed at different angles came: [How are they?]
Sheng Renxing replied [Handsome.] in a perfunctory manner and looked at each picture carefully. They really were good-looking; like a sculpted piece of artwork that exuded power.
He turned off his phone and looked up at Xing Ye with a complicated expression.
After Xing Ye folded his clothes, he helped him organize them into his suitcases.
Sheng Renxing “wow-ed” exaggeratedly: “Xing ge is so awesome!”
“Let’s sleep.” The other turned a deaf ear to his flattery.
They laid in bed together.
Sheng Renxing could sense that Xing Ye wasn’t asleep behind him, but restrained himself from moving around.
Debating internally about what to do, in the end, Sheng Renxing asked, “Asleep?”
“Nope.”
“Aren’t you tired?”
Xing Ye turned over and laid on his back, “This bed is too soft.”
He couldn’t get used to it.
“Let’s chat a little, then?” Sheng Renxing turned over as well, imitating the other’s position.
“What do you want to talk about?”
“Why did you get kicked out?” Sheng Renxing asked.
After a period of silence, Xing Ye’s voice drifted over in the dark, “I thought you wouldn’t ask.”
“Tsk, I was trying to hold it in.” Sheng Renxing glanced at him, unable to see his face in the darkness, “Couldn’t hold back, though.”
“Why not?” Xing Ye sounded like he was trying to suppress his laughter.
Sheng Renxing played with the duvet, although his voice didn’t falter when he replied: “I thought you might want to talk about it.”
He could feel Xing Ye turn his head to glance at him, and then turn back.
“I couldn’t stand it, so I left myself.”
Sheng Renxing closed his eyes and listened intently to the other’s voice: “Because of the school calling your parents?”
There was another silence.
“No.” Xing Ye’s voice was very soft, almost a sigh.
“Because of your underground boxing participation?”
“…”
There was some rustling, and Sheng Renxing opened his eyes to see the other staring at him while sitting up. His voice was a little cold: “Who told you?”
Estimating the approximate position of Xing Ye’s eyes, Sheng Renxing stared back unaffectedly, “Do you actually want me to say?”
After a long while, Xing Ye laid back down, “You’re too curious.”
“It’s because you’re too mysterious.” Sheng Renxing turned over and faced him, “It leaves people wanting to know more.”
Xing Ye barked a laugh, “Mn, it’s my fault.”
Sheng Renxing felt that the other was locked in an internal battle with how to proceed the conversation, and so he waited quietly without interrupting.
“My mother is very opposed…”
Sheng Renxing nodded: “And you got discovered today?” So his mother angrily kicked him out following the discovery?
“I told her myself.”
The other was a little surprised, “Why?”
“I don’t know.” Xing Ye looked at the ceiling in a haze of confusion, “Just wanted to say what I want.”
Sheng Renxing laughed: “Very capable, ge.”
Xing Ye followed his example and chuckled a little as well.
“How long will she remain angry?”
“I don’t know. Probably until I promise that I won’t go again.”
“Can you guarantee that, though?”
Xing Ye was silent for an even longer time, “…I don’t know.”
Sheng Renxing also remained silent before replying: “The house I rent has two rooms. If you want, you won’t be charged.”
Xing Ye rolled over in the dark and faced him, “Why though?”
Sheng Renxing pursed his lips, “Good people do good deeds?”
The two simultaneously stared at each other before Xing Ye smiled, “I’ll have to trouble the young master then.”
“Tsk!” Sheng Renxing rolled over in dissatisfaction.
daisy: aiyaa and so they end up living together ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
God, the sexual tension between these two ‘friends’. If I didn’t know better, I’d probably think they’re already smashing behind the scenes. Well, I guess they did smash, in their own way.
+1 the atmosphere is so ambiguous I feel like I am the one who can’t breathe
+2
Ahh ni cuanta ambigüedad
🤗🤗
+3
CUTE!!!! Them flirting with each other is just ugh so cute!!
Thanks for the chapter € ^ *^)/// ~~ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡
I see the start of a beautiful ahem friendship!
Thanks for the chapter <3
😊😊 kyahhh masters of flirting 🧐🍭🍨 tooooo sweet
….and they were roomates😃
Thanks for the chapter!
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Oh my god they were roommates
Their interactions are so cute (≡^∇^≡)
KYYYAYAHHHH BRUH IM SQUEALING SO MUCH SKDJAJSJJA
Feeling each other up AND living together???? They seem like a couple to me 😀
Ty for the chap!💜💜💜
Squealing in excitement… We are all moving in with you two cute love birds.