translator: daisy
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After speaking, Xing Ye pinched Sheng Renxing’s neck implicitly, applying pressure onto his shoulders, and stood up.
Sheng Renxing was honestly still a little stunned, but having received the other’s hint, he smoothly asked Jiang Jing, “Have you guys eaten yet?”
“Mh.” Jiang Jing swallowed a sip of water, “We already ate at Xiao Yamei.”
Sheng Renxing nodded—as if he actually understood the name that Jiang Jing mentioned—and turned around towards Xing Ye, “Was it good?”
“It was okay.” Xing Ye stood behind him, and to everyone else, he looked like someone who just casually hooked an arm around Sheng Renxing in a playful manner. However, the person in question could feel exactly how much weight Xing Ye was applying, as if he was using his body as a support.
“Did you not have lunch yet?” Huang Mao asked him.
“Nope, something came up just now.”Sheng Renxing didn’t want to discuss what had passed in the principal’s office.
Sheng Renxing didn’t directly say that he wanted to leave either. This stemmed from sheer force of habit; with Sheng Renxing’s old group of friends, he wasn’t used to speaking in great detail, and would always leave some gaps for the others to fill in.
To a certain extent, he rather hated this type of mannerism, and the consequence of having to guess what the other party’s meandering words really meant.
However, a roundabout way of speaking is indeed more convenient in some cases.
For example, when it wasn’t appropriate to express that you wanted to leave, one could give a hint, and the other side would automatically raise the suggestion after understanding.
Sheng Renxing felt that the hint he sent was pretty obvious.
Huang Mao quickly received it: “I’ll tidy up and accompany you? I want to go back to the classroom to get something!”
“…” Sheng Renxing looked at him, and then at Jiang Jing. The feelings of annoyance he had in regards to this kind of evasive talking was growing ever the more apparent.
He put down his arm and adjusted his stance: “I don’t want to trouble you, Xing Ye will accompany me instead.” Then, he glanced at Xing Ye knowingly and waved at Huang Mao, “Bye.”
Xing Ye also greeted him and left with Sheng Renxing.
“Huh?” Huang Mao was stunned, “How is it troublesome to eat together?” Feeling a little hungry after exercising so much, he lightly pressed on his stomach.
But the two were already long gone.
Lu Zhaohua smiled, “He wasn’t afraid to trouble you.”
Jiang Jing finished the sentence: “He just thought that you were troublesome.”
He packed up his things and was ready to leave. Some students who were still in the audience were sending green light signals as they stared at him. If they didn’t hurry up, the group might be stopped to answer some stupid questions.
Lu Zhaohua nodded in agreement, patted his hand, and threw his empty water bottle to a student in the bleachers at random, “Please help me throw this away!”
“You don’t have long legs.” Huang Mao also tossed his bottle, “By the way.”
He then ranted, still dissatisfied, “It’s just a meal!”
“Are you even close with Sheng Renxing?” Jiang Jing didn’t toss his water bottle. Instead, he placed it inside his bag and walked out.
Huang Mao: “Won’t we get closer after eating lunch together?”
At first, Dong Qiu didn’t want to toss out his water bottle: it wasn’t that he didn’t have long legs. However, Wan Guanxi’s aggrieved face was too good to resist and so he threw his bottle towards the audience, imitating the way Sheng Renxing had scored before. Unfortunately, his aim was slightly off when he ended up smacking a student on the head.
“Fuck!” After sulking for approximately half a second, he smiled playfully at Huang Mao, “What do you want to eat? French food?”
“Acting handsome, are you even worthy of that?” Huang Mao sneered, “What’s wrong with the roadside stalls? Isn’t it delicious?! And it’s not like Xing Ye and him had French food today, right?”
Dong Qiu, “It’s Xing Ye, how can you even compare?”
After thinking about it, Huang Mao admitted defeat and sighed, “How do they even know each other? And they became this close within a few days? If it was me, I’d definitely think that he has some ulterior motives.”
The Sheng Renxing, without any ulterior motives, was currently with Xing Ye at the canteen buying two bottles of mineral water.
Xing Ye was still draped against him.
“I think that the others all bought some water, why didn’t you?” With the other being so close, Sheng Renxing couldn’t help but feel a little nervous and rambled on.
“I forgot about it,” Xing Ye’s voice was very soft.
Sheng Renxing could feel that the other was in a lot of pain. He wanted to head straight towards the hospital, but Xing Ye wanted to buy some water first.
Apparently, the water there had a strange taste.
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Sheng Renxing: “…” He took the money and quickly walked away with Xing Ye. On the way, he couldn’t help but lift up his arm to show the other, “Do you see it? Goosebumps.”
Xing Ye didn’t say a word; he now needed to prepare for a long time before speaking a single sentence, just like a slow booting computer.
Before Sheng Renxing’s brain caught up with his mouth, he had already blurted out, “The boss was probably just thinking, ‘what the hell is with these fucking gays?’”
An intake of breath was heard by his ear, like a faint laugh.
Sheng Renxing licked his lips. He couldn’t control the urge to say something in order to test Xing Ye’s attitude.
Even though it was very dangerous.
Even though Xing Ye is straight.
Even though Sheng Renxing was gay, his radar was not sensitive; it was difficult to detect, from those around him, who had a similar sexual preference. Sometimes, even the dimwitted Qiu Datou could tell that the other party was fishing for information.
But when he saw Xing Ye for the first time, his radar had been like an alarm, beeping in warning that he didn’t share Sheng Renxing’s preferences.
At a time when it shouldn’t be operating well, it suddenly performed spectacularly.
While walking on the road, Sheng Renxing would often sneak glances at the other.
After they got to the entrance of the school, he raised his hand to hail a taxi. Sheng Renxing went in first, and after sitting on the other side, Xing Ye entered.
The door went “Bang!”
Driver, “Where to?”
Sheng Renxing turned towards Xing Ye: “Which doctor did you see before?”
Xing Ye frowned and said to the driver, “Second Hospital.”
“Mn, okay.”
Xing Ye moved towards the other and whispered, “The previous hospital I visited was actually a small clinic, so they probably won’t be much use for this type of injury.”
“?” Sheng Renxing frowned, thinking that it didn’t sound like a proper hospital at all, “How did your doctor treat you last time?”
“I was prescribed a painkiller.”
The two stared at each other silently.
“Was that it?” Sheng Renxing raised his eyebrows.
The other didn’t speak; by now, it wasn’t worth the effort and the time it took to recover.
“Does that doctor even have a qualification certificate?!”
Xing Ye thought for a while, “Hm, there should be one…probably.”
Sheng Renxing glared at him in disbelief, “And you dared visit that hospital!?” Please take yourself more seriously!!!
Again, the other didn’t speak.
The irritated feeling in which Sheng Renxing had experienced during the basketball game resurfaced.
He silently thought that the other party was going to become an invalid sooner rather than later at this rate.
Then, in a half sour, half bitter tone, he exclaimed, “You’re too awesome.”
Xing Ye ‘tsk-ed’ and squeezed his shoulder.
With this pinch, Sheng Renxing remembered what he was going to say before. He changed the topic and relaxed his countenance: “When you suddenly hooked your arm around me back then, I thought that you were going to beat me up because I robbed you of the limelight.”
He held the bottle of mineral water in his hand and pinched the container with his thumb until it made a loud creaking noise.
Xing Ye was currently trying his best to slow down his breathing so as to better endure the pain. He couldn’t help but laugh at the other’s playful accusations, but whenever he did, the wound would flare up. He warned Sheng Renxing: “Don’t mess with me.”
He then frowned and stared at the other, “Did you steal my limelight?”
“How could that be!” Sheng Renxing blinked innocently, “Even without doing anything, you held the audience captive, like exposing your waist to those little fangirls of yours.”
“…” Xing Ye paused for a moment, “I did that?” After all, he wasn’t Wan Guanxi.
Sheng Renxing shrugged, “They said that it was revealed after you jumped up to grab the ball. You were even photographed.”
“Who? By you?” Xing Ye tilted his head.
“Why would I take photos of you?” Sheng Renxing retorted and quickly found a flaw in his reply—he had literally photographed the other this morning. Patching it up, he added, “I mean, it’s not like I haven’t seen you in real life up close.”
Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Xing Ye’s faint expression. Feeling slightly off-center, Sheng Renxing decided to dig a deeper hole for himself, “I’ve even touched them.”
Xing Ye turned to look at him.
The driver in front also glanced at him through the rearview mirror.
When Sheng Renxing finished speaking, he reverted back to his cold expression, as if he didn’t say a thing just now.
After arriving at the hospital and getting off the car, Xing Ye said, “The driver is also thinking, ‘what the hell is with these fucking guys?’”
Sheng Renxing suppressed the shame in his heart and sneered: “He’s just making a big fuss over nothing.”
The hospital was very big.
Sheng Renxing looked around and asked Xing Ye, “Have you ever been here before?”
“Once.” And it was to accompany his mother to the obstetrics and gynecology department.
Sheng Renxing frowned and looked at the sign above his head, and then turned around to look at the seating area: “You sit down, I’ll help you register.”
“No.” Xing Ye went with him.
The other glanced at him but didn’t insist.
The procedures at big hospitals were complicated, and they ran a few prescriptions before they could see the doctor.
Doctor: “Where does it hurt?” He said, pressing his hand on Xing Ye’s abdomen.
Xing Ye frowned, “Not there.”
The doctor nodded and began to move his hands.
“How about here?”
“It’s fine.”
“Here?”
“Mn.”
Sheng Renxing listened beside him as his gaze swept across the other’s abdomen which had been revealed after he lifted up his clothes.
Xing Ye’s ribs were covered in patches of red, and it looked much more serious than what Huang Mao’s looked like.
The conversation lasted for a short while before the doctor nodded, “I’ll take an X-ray.”
After the image came out, the physician looked at it, then at Xing Ye, then at the image, and then at Xing Ye.
Just when Sheng Renxing was getting impatient, the doctor sighed, “Did you manage to remain vertical this entire time?” He sounded rather surprised.
Sheng Renxing had just about enough of this physician’s long-winded ramblings and snapped: “No, I carried him in!”
The other glanced at him, but didn’t get angry, “You may be young and brave now, but why didn’t you call an ambulance with how bad it is? You’re really good at saving resources for the country!”
He pointed to several places on the image with his pen.
Sheng Renxing didn’t quite understand how serious it was, or if it was even that serious.
After all, the doctor’s facial expression looked rather exaggerated, while Xing Ye remained nonchalant as if there didn’t seem to be any problems.
Standing behind him, Sheng Renxing hugged his arms and asked, “What treatment is effective?”
The doctor pondered, “There’s a fracture here, but the bone didn’t shift out of place. Even though it may seem like it’s just a small matter, it’s the second time that it’s been injured…” He spoke in great detail for a while, “Anyways, I would recommend hospitalization—”
Before he could finish speaking, Xing Ye cut in, “No, thank you.”
The physician couldn’t help but stare at him again, wondering how the young man still seemed so calm. Generally speaking, people with these injuries would cry and sob as if it was the end of the world. Or they would ask questions like their fracture would immediately expand into the Great Rift Valley within their chest cavity without immediate treatment.
His attitude was so unusual it was bizarre!
In the end, the doctor accepted his patient’s willingness to suffer and offered another suggestion, “I’ll prescribe some medicine for you, and you can take it to get better.”
Sheng Renxing frowned: “What kind of medicine is that? Will it speed up healing? Does he not require a splint? What if the bone shifts out of place?” He stared at the doctor condescendingly, as if he was about to punch the other within the next second.
The doctor kicked his feet so that the chair moved back a little, and answered his questions one by one.
After talking for a while, Sheng Renxing thought that the doctor was quite patient, so he looked at the name badge.
He decided to look for him next time.
Although not having to come to see him again would be even better.
After they got out of the hospital, they still had classes in the afternoon, but Sheng Renxing had asked Chen Ying to request a leave of absence.
Chen Ying texted him saying that Teacher Yu was looking for him again.
Sheng Renxing replied with a “Mn”, thinking that this was the third time today.
He turned towards Xing Ye, “Will you wait at school or…” Go home and sleep? Sheng Renxing didn’t finish speaking, remembering that the other party had already run away from home.
Xing Ye calmly replied: “School. I am willing to drink tea in the afternoon.” He was talking about the basketball game: recently, the school had been on a tough crack down surrounding these instances. Both friend groups were in precarious positions, but because they didn’t end up fighting, the consequences probably wouldn’t be that bad.
Which was why he needed to show his face.
Sheng Renxing nodded, “Does it still hurt?”
“It feels okay after taking some medicine.” He could only feel a slight, dull pain emanating from his ribs as if they were separated from him by a layer.
“Isn’t that a little too fast for results to show?” Sheng Renxing was a little skeptical. After all, the other’s endurance abilities were first-rate.
Finding a taxi, Sheng Renxing got in first, moved aside, and let Xing Ye come in, “No. 13 High School.”
After Xing Ye sat down, he slowly drank a sip of water. The liquid wetted his dry lips, causing a reflective sheen to appear. He furrowed his eyebrows slightly, “Don’t be like that, ah.”
Sheng Renxing agreed, “Okay, okay, Xing Daiyu.”
“…”
“Ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!”
“Xing Ye—!!!”
Once Xing Ye and Sheng Renxing returned to school, the two were called to some staff member’s office immediately.
When they opened the door, Director Li was inside.
Sheng Renxing heard a very small voice from Huang Mao, “Fuck, stay calm.”
“…”
The opposing group of idiots was also present.
Director Li asked them sternly: “What was going on at noon! Make your explanations clear!”
Both parties glanced at each other. Although they couldn’t get along, they needed to make a united front while facing the teacher: “We just made an appointment to play basketball together? Nothing else happened? Was there a betting market? No! Of course not! No fighting occurred! Yes, nothing of that sort happened!”
They managed to leave after just a few words of mild scolding.
Among the other group, the student whom Sheng Renxing had met in the dumpling shop last time smiled at him, “It’s not over yet.”
Jiang Jing also smiled at him, “Let’s fight again?”
The student glanced at Sheng Renxing, smiled without speaking, and turned away.
The student with the middle-part hairstyle—who was the last to leave among the bunch—suddenly turned his head and cursed at them before walking out.
“Why is he so angry?” Huang Mao inexplicably asked, “Is the psychological shadow of Xing ge beating him up so huge?”
Xing Ye was stunned: “I hit him?” He couldn’t remember at all.
Dong Qiu explained, “He had different hair before. It was the shape of a, uh, a soaring cannon of indescribable color. He also had bangs that covered half his face, so it’s not surprising that you couldn’t recognize him.”
Xing Ye thought for a while before finally recalling a bit of what had happened.
Jiang Jing was astonished: “I thought that you had used this to provoke him at the game before.”
“If this wasn’t it, what exactly did you say to make him so angry?”
Xing Ye was taken aback and subconsciously glanced at Sheng Renxing, who was also staring at him. He changed what he was about to say before replying, “I goaded him on with this.”
daisy: ah sxr i assure you that your radar is still malfunctioning bc there’s no way that xing ye is straight 
Thanks for the chapter!
thank you for the chapter
When everyone knows that they are into each other but them.
thanks for the chapter <3
Thanks for the chapter!
“a soaring cannon of indescribable color” 😂😂 Thank you for the update!
Hope xing ye realises soon he’s gay for SRX lol
+1
Xingxing your gayness is showing!!!! And yoir radar still sucks!! That said, i do wonder how they’ll find out they’re both gay…
Ty for the chapter!💜💜💜