After a while, Sheng Renxing lowered his voice, quietly asking him, his voice dripping with honey as he flaunted: “How is it?”
From the time he was born all the way up until now, the young master Sheng had learned many things, but he just never learned how to flirt.
In the very beginning, he worked hard at flirting. He teased diligently, going online to search for articles– how to reply to these ten sentences, how to avoid worrying about not finding a partner because when you do these ten things her heart will move for sure! … …
Copying every step of the way, the results were rather brilliant. After another night of being diligently considerate and wrapping up a container of honey brown sugar tea for Xing Ye, Xing Ye finally shared his thoughts, asking him seriously: “Can’t you see I won’t get menstrual cramps?”
Sheng Renxing: “… …”
He continued to flirt by following the online instructions a few more times, eventually reaching the conclusion that “all of it’s trash!”
After ditching that rubbish, he racked his brain for a long time, until he finally thought of a promising path forward.
Selling meat.
Just thinking of his own biceps, and his abs, his waist, his legs– not to mention his face! He couldn’t believe it wouldn’t work!
If this tactic didn’t work, then the problem clearly didn’t lie with him.
Sheng Renxing’s eyes secretly traced a circle around Xing Ye’s lower half.
“… …” Xing Ye didn’t say a word, acting as if nothing had just happened, smoothly transitioning his movements into taking a puff of his cigarette.
He extinguished the tail of the cigarette and stretched his hand out of the window.
“It’s raining.”
The weather today wasn’t sunny and the layers of clouds were thick. This morning, they’d already been worried it would rain in Wu Hu, driving towards Wu Hu with a “maybe” feeling, thinking that perhaps today would be sunny. But the further they drove, the thicker the clouds grew.
Right now the cold wind had a fine drizzle mixed in. The forecast only predicted more and more rain.
Sheng Renxing’s eyes traced his hand, looking outside the window, not at all caring about whether it was raining or not. But seeing Xing Ye’s intention to change the subject, he turned his face, letting out a sulky “en”.
Great! The timing of this rain– just perfect!
Who knew in the next second, Xing Ye would bring his hand back, a thin layer of rainwater coating his finger. He gently wiped his finger on Sheng Renxing’s lip.
Sheng Renxing felt the slight chill on his lips. He stared blankly for a few seconds, before abruptly looking at Xing Ye.
Xing Ye bent down to pick up a bottle of mineral water from his bag, handing it over to Sheng Renxing with a calm expression: “Your lips are so dry.”
As if he wasn’t the one who just did that kind of thing.
“… …” Sheng Renxing’s cheeks were bright red as he grabbed the bottle, raising his head to sip without talking. With puffed up cheeks, he nestled down into the car seats, unwilling to say another word.
In the front seat, Jiang Jing’s phone rang.
It was Huang Mao who was calling.
He put it on speakerphone.
It was chaotically noisy on the other side.
“Did you guys see? It’s raining!” Huang Mao’s voice was rhythmic and pleasing to hear.
Like a fan, blowing the atmosphere between the two people away.
Sheng Renxing was still holding that mouthful of water in his cheeks. Impatiently, he glanced at his phone, what’s there to yell about? Not only did I see it, I ate it too! And did I say anything?
Naturally, the person on the other side of the phone couldn’t feel his resentment and was still loudly shouting, “What do we do now? Are we still going?”
Jiang Jing turned around, seeking an answer from them.
Before they could reply, the other side had begun shouting again.
Dong Qiu: “Of course we’re going, we’re already halfway there! If we turn back now, we won’t have done anything on this trip except stare at the 9am rain clouds and waste money on the fare!”
Lu Zhaohua smiled as he said: “I don’t have any objections, but if we go, some facilities may be closed and we’ll have to stay indoors”.
Huang Mao immediately picked on his meaning: “What about Aquatic Paradise?”
Lu Zhaohua: “Well that won’t work. It’s not the right time.”
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“So what?” asked Jiang Jing, “How about we vote, anybody who wants to go make a noise.”
He continued, “I vote we go. We’re already here, after all. It would be really unfortunate to turn back now. And if it really comes down to it, can’t we just wear rain jackets?”
Huang Mao: “Go go go. Did anyone bring a rain jacket?”
Dong Qiu: “Let’s go! If no one brought any, there at least must be stores that sell them. Besides, there are less people when it’s raining, so there’s no need to wait in line”.
Lu Zhaohua: “I don’t have any objections. Anyway, it would just be going to an internet cafe if we went back.”
Cui Xiaoxiao: “Xiao Ting and I will also go, we’ve already come all this way after all.” Besides, her focus in coming here wasn’t to ride the rides.
Jiang Jing heard this and laughed, asking, “Is there anyone who doesn’t want to go?”
No one spoke.
“Alright, let’s go then,” he said while laughing.
The driver also chuckled, clicking his tongue with a sigh: Young people ah….”
Shen Renxing turned, asking Chen Ying: “What about you? Are you going?”
Chen Ying: “Huh?”
“If you don’t want to go, I can send you back later,” Sheng Renxing’s face was full of concern.
Conveniently sending him off himself.
Nobody could make him take a single step into the haunted house! No one!
Not even Xing Ye could.
In the face of Sheng Renxing’s faint expectation, Chen Ying stammered: “No, I think I can go.” If everybody went except him, how disappointing would that be.
Shen Renxing made a noise in response, giving him a loaded look.
Chen Ying seemed to be able to see the disappointment.
Chen Ying: “… …?”
After driving for less than an hour further, they finally arrived at the door of the Fangte Amusement Park. Contrary to what they expected, the rain here wasn’t actually too bad. They quickly paid the fee, exited the bus, and braved the rain to run towards the main entrance.
There weren’t a lot of people in line at the moment, causing the ticket seller to give them a few looks.
After buying the tickets, Jiang Jing sweetly asked: “Jiejie, are there any places that sell raincoats inside?”
The ticket seller thought about it: “There is. Turn right when you get inside.” She looked behind him again: “The weather today is really not good, you should ride all the outdoor roller coasters first while it isn’t too bad, otherwise they might close when it starts raining more.”
Jiang Jing’s eyes lit up, not expecting the roller coasters to still be open: “Thanks so much, Jiejie!”
She waved her hand: “Go quickly.”
They first went to buy several raincoats.
The raincoats here were all single-use, translucent yellow or white.
Sheng Renxing picked a white one. After putting it on over his clothes, he turned towards the store’s floor-to-ceiling mirror, took a picture of himself, and then took another.
“What?” Xing Ye had also taken a white one, holding his phone as he asked.
“Don’t you think,” Sheng Renxing turned left and right looking, “this seems a little familiar.”
“?” Xing Ye also looked into the mirror, unable to see anything of note. He saw that the others had started leaving and so put on the hood of his rain jacket. “Let’s go.”
Sheng Renxing scrunched his eyebrows, still thinking that these looked familiar, yet unable to remember clearly where.
He kept his head down and thought about it for a long time, until glanced at Cui Xiaoxiao wearing her yellow rain jacket and suddenly realised where he had seen them before.
He immediately grabbed Xing Ye. “You can’t tell?”
Xing Ye was taken aback, carefully giving him a once-over, before shaking his head.
Sheng Renxing took two steps to meet him face-to-face, spun around in a circle, and looked backwards at him: “How about now?”
“… …” Xing Ye hesitantly put his phone back into his pocket and clapped his hands a few times. “Your spin was good?”
“… …” Shen Renxing looked at him, unimpressed. He couldn’t help announcing the answer: “Teletubbies!”
Xing Ye: “… …”
From his expression, Shen Rexing could already tell what he was going to say, so he rushed to reply: “Shut up!”
Xing Ye laughed in spite of himself: “I haven’t said anything yet.”
Sheng Renxing gave a cold chuckle: “I can already tell what you are going to say!”
Xing Ye was curious: “What was I going to say?”
Sheng Renxing mimicked Xing Ye’s usual expression, opening his mouth emotionlessly: “Childish.”
Xing Ye pursed his lips, laughing for quite a long time.
Then he shook his head: “it’s not like this.”
“Then what is it?” Sheng Renxing didn’t believe him.
Xing Ye said nothing, only shaking his head in reply.
Sheng Renxing wanted to follow up and ask more, but Huang Mo suddenly shouted from up ahead.
They walked closer.
Huang Mao was talking to the staff member beside the roller coaster.
He lifted his head to look at the roller coaster that was already closed.
They were too late.
A few minutes later, the group stood in the shed and started to discuss what they should do next.
The operator of the roller coaster also had nothing to do and began to make conversation with them.
After chatting for a bit, Jiang Jing asked: “Do you know where the haunted house is?”
From where he was half-leaning against the railing, Sheng Renxing suddenly stood straight up.
“Oh, oh you guys are going to the haunted house, huh,” the operator who was very familiar with the way began to point it out to them.
Sheng Renxing found no peace in standing.
After asking, Huang Mao waved for them to come, excitedly shouting: “Let’s go!”
Sheng Renxing fiercely glared at him.
Huang Mao: “?”
On the way there, Sheng Renxing stayed at the back of the group, folding his arms and looking indifferently at the group of people in front of him, frantically thinking of excuses in his mind.
What kind of excuse could he give that would not expose his fear of ghosts and yet be very reasonable at the same time?
Before he could come up with one, Xing Ye, who was walking beside him, suddenly grabbed him.
When he looked over, Xing Ye pointed to a stall selling fried sausages beside him.
Then he raised his voice and asked the people in the front: “Who wants some?”
The group stopped, looked over, and everyone nodded.
Xing Ye: “we’ll buy some, you guys go line up first.”
Dazed, Sheng Renxing walked over to the stall with him.
“Do you want any?” Xing Ye asked him.
Sheng Renxing looked over to the stall that really couldn’t be called the word “clean” and shook his head.
Xing Ye looked at the vendor: “One stick”.
Sheng Renxing: “?” He looked at Xing Ye: “What about theirs?”
Xing Ye paid the vendor and turned his head: “You really want to go with them?”
Sheng Renxing was a little dumbstruck:“What do you mean?”
Xing Ye’s expression was very level. He pointed at another door that read leaping past the limit. “I want to ride that one.”
“?” Sheng Renxing couldn’t keep up with the speed of Xing Ye’s leaping: “You aren’t going to the haunted house?”
“Do you want to go?” The sausage was ready and Xing Ye took it from the vendor: “They haven’t gone far yet”.
Sheng Renxing hummed, pretending to think deeply, before impatiently agreeing: “Well, of course I will accompany you!”
Xing Ye nodded without any other expressions, his attitude calm as always. He raised the hand holding the sausage, “Do you want some?”
Sheng Renxing’s mood suddenly cleared and he was even willing to give this kind of street snack that he would usually never touch the honour of bearing his mysophobia to try a bite. “Not bad.”
Xing Ye started eating from where he had taken a bite and within a couple of mouthfuls was finished: “Let’s go.”
This leaping past the limits ride was a little like an indoor roller coaster, complete with a 4D storyline. There were a lot of people and the two of them stood in line for nearly half an hour before getting on.
Truth be told, this ride was actually pretty fun. In complete darkness, sounds explaining the storyline would play, with some frightening props. One truly needed to experience it for themselves. One of the plotlines in the middle involved stopping in a pitch black cave, noises continually threatening them, with the sound of a sledgehammer whistling in the air above their head, back and forth.
Everybody on the ride was screaming.
After getting off the ride, Sheng Renxing was still high on adrenaline, asking Xing Ye: “Was it fun?”
Xing Ye nodded: “Pretty fun.” It was better than he thought it would be.
“Have you been in one of these before?” Sheng Renxing asked after seeing his complexion.
Xing Ye paused, shaking his head: “I’ve never thought about coming here before.”
“Oh,” Sheng Renxing took his bottle of mineral water out of his bag and drak some, licking his lips: “You did it on purpose, right?”
He had never even come here before. Whether it was the haunted house or the 4D ride, everything here was about the same in terms of amusement value for Xing Ye.
So, it must have been for him.
Sheng Renxing had already arrived at this conclusion inside.
Xing Ye took the bottle from his hands, tipping his head back to drink too.
Sheng Renxing was staring at his Adam’s apple and suddenly opened his mouth to speak: “Do you know what I wanted to do when we first got on the ride?”
“On the car ride over, what did you want to say about me?” He took the opportunity to offer an exchange: “If you tell me, I’ll tell you what I wanted to do.”
The hand Xing Ye was using to hold the bottle paused, before he drank again. He turned his head to sweep his gaze over Sheng Renxing, suddenly laughing before declining the offer.
“?” Sheng Renxing’s eyebrows shot up, “You don’t want to know?”
“I know,” Xing Ye stopped walking and looked at him straight on, like he was afraid Sheng Renxing wouldn’t understand and said again:“I already know what you wanted to do”.
He lowered his eyes, calmly and coldly sweeping his gaze over Sheng Renxing’s lips.
Sheng Renxing was stunned for a second, before he suddenly covered his lips with his hand, coughing as he looked away.
But in the next second, he turned back around, meeting Xing Ye’s gaze head on, licking his lips: “Then, do you think it’s alright?”
Thanks for the chapter!
Ahhh… How cute… I am so single… Sigh…
Look at them behaving like a cute couple😍 Also damn! Xing Ye can flirt!!! I love seeing shy Sheng Renxing~
Ty for the chapter!!💜💜💜
gosh, i can’t with them flirting back and forth (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
just kisssss (┛✧Д✧))┛彡┻━┻
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️