Although he went back to get the car, Sheng Renxing didn’t even enter the house. He went straight to the underground garage to get the car. When he got there, he took a look and Sheng Yan’s car was not there yet, indicating he hadn’t returned.
Other parking spots were already taken by other cars. Nothing had changed from when his car left to when it returned; no one had touched it.
“Which one are you going to ride?” Qiu Huaixin looked at the car beside him and made a clicking sound. He even tried to ride it with his leg, almost tripping Sheng Renxing.
Sheng Renxing didn’t answer. He walked back and forth, taking off the motorcycle covers of this row of cars, then walked further away to take a picture of them.
He then looked down and tapped on his phone, sending a message to Xing Ye: [Which one do you like?]
Xing Ye’s reply came quickly: [The third one on the left.]
Sheng Renxing: [Why?]
Xing Ye: [The model looks good.]
Sheng Renxing: [What a good taste.]
Sheng Renxing then chose the third one.
Indeed, it looks good.
When they arrived at the foot of the mountain, it wasn’t yet time, but several people were already standing around. There were no lights on the mountain, so everyone had their headlights on, illuminating the area.
But Qin Feng didn’t arrive until it was almost time to start, and there was a petite girl behind him.
As soon as he arrived, someone teasingly said to him, “Come on, Qin ge, you’re going mountain climbing and still have the time to bring your girlfriend!”
“That’s too much, too much.”
“Can’t you give us single dogs a break!”
Every time someone said something, Qiu Huaixin would chuckle coldly.
Sheng Renxing couldn’t stand it: “Your car can also carry people. Go, get her back. I’ll support you.” Half-heartedly encouraging, he suddenly remembered, “Don’t you have a girlfriend? You were just checking out someone’s skirt, and now who is this little lady?”
“It’s Xiao Chen!” Qiu Huaixin snorted, “She’s my sister! Qin Feng looks like that, I don’t want him to mistreat her.”
Sheng Renxing chuckled, “Who gave you the right to judge others? They’re all scumbags, no need to distinguish high or low.” He softly hummed a few lines from a song he heard from Huang Mao.
“Bullshit, I already said she’s my sister, I have no intentions with her! What are you humming?”
Sheng Renxing glanced at him and hummed a bit louder, “She’s just my sister. My sister said purple is very charming.“
Qiu Huaixin: “…”
Qiu Huaixin: “You faggot don’t understand!”
Sheng Renxing raised an eyebrow. Just then, Qin Feng came over to say hello, “You’re back without saying a word. If I had known you were here, I wouldn’t have chosen this car. Can’t show off in front of the expert.”
“I just got back today. I’m just here to have fun.” Sheng Renxing chuckled, not arguing about ‘showing off’,and nodded at the girl, “Your girlfriend?”
“Hmm,” Qin Feng touched his nose and looked affectionately at Xiao Chen, “Sister, sister.”
Qiu Huaixin: “…”
Sheng Renxing patted Qiu Huaixin’s shoulder, shaking his head, “Indeed, you don’t understand.”
He hummed a song as he walked towards the car, “She’s just my sister. You don’t care about that explanation.”
Qiu Huaixin: “…”
The road was narrow. Sheng Renxing put on his helmet, and he heard Qiu Huaixin’s voice from beside him, “Remember to keep an eye on my taillights!”
He turned his head, gave Qiu Huaixin the middle finger, and then lowered his visor.
As he revved the engine, the roar surrounded him. His vision was limited to the illuminated path ahead; he couldn’t see anything else.
Sheng Renxing squinted his eyes, enjoying the moment, and then he squeezed the throttle.
He burst out.
Most of those running together were experienced riders.
The kind of stupid accident that happened to him last time in Xuancheng would not happen again.
Sheng Renxing honked his horn and arrogantly overtook Qiu Huaixin, making him curse from behind.
Up ahead was Qin Feng. Because of what was said earlier, he had no intention of overtaking. He stayed behind, watching the girl in front embracing someone, and even started to daydream.
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“Overtake my ass, if he swerves and your sister falls off, who’s responsible?” Sheng Renxing felt very calm now and decided not to overtake.
Qiu Huaixin fell silent.
“Look at the night view, calm down, or should I sing you a song?”
Qiu Huaixin remained silent and frustrated.
After a while, Sheng Renxing was puzzled, ‘Is he out for a stroll?’ Perhaps because no one behind seemed to be planning to overtake him, Qin Feng slowed down a bit, watching and chatting with the girl behind him.
That taillight was provoking him.
“What?” Qiu Huaixin snapped out of it, “What are you doing? Isn’t this road even narrower? Don’t- you‘ve passed this section, damn it!”
Before he finished speaking, he saw Sheng Renxing dangerously cut in from the outside, with his tires almost on the edge between the road and the dirt, leaving tire tracks in the mud at the roadside.
Qin Feng was caught off guard and the car swerved, but he managed to regain control, giving Qiu Huaixin a big scare.
Qiu Huaixin cursed, “You crazy bastard,” and followed suit, squeezing past where Qin Feng had made room.
Sheng Renxing shrugged it off, laughing, “Were we too much?”
“Not me!” Qiu Huaixin said, “Just overtaking Qin Feng is enough for me. You can play by yourself. He almost made my sister fall off. Who’s responsible if something happens while he’s carrying someone?”
“That’s because his skills aren’t good,” Sheng Renxing said, looking ahead at the wide open road, feeling great.
This good mood lasted until the two of them went to the bar. Qiu Huaixin drank and chatted with him.
It started as idle chatter, with the two of them talking nonsense and gossiping. As they drank more, the conversation became deeper.
Qiu Huaixin finished his drink and said, “Are you really not coming back to study? It must be hard for you there.”
“No,” Sheng Renxing stared at his glass, shaking his head slightly. “It’s fine.”
“What’s good about it?” Qiu Huaixin asked.
“It’s all good,” Sheng Renxing took a sip of his drink, “better than here.”
“Even if it’s good, you can’t stay there forever,” Qiu Huaixin frowned. “What about your family’s company? Aren’t you always talking about getting rid of your dad and taking over the company?”
Sheng Renxing pouted, “That won’t happen. Staying here is useless anyway, I’m only in high school.”
“Will you work at your dad’s company in the future?” Qiu Huaixin asked, “My mom said she’ll send me to Germany after college. Do you want to go together?”
“I don’t know,” Sheng Renxing frowned irritably. “I won’t go.”
“Why?” Qiu Huaixin widened his eyes, which were a bit blurry.
“Haven’t you always wanted to go abroad?” Qiu Huaixin asked, “I was thinking I’d go wherever you go.”
Sheng Renxing ran his hand through his hair. He had indeed always wanted to go abroad, even thinking about spending a year in each country, traveling around the world before coming back. Sheng Yan hadn’t said much about this.
He touched the earring on his left ear and muttered without much thought, “But Xing Ye can’t go.”
“What?” Qiu Huaixin half-opened his mouth, his semi-sober mind trying to understand his words. “Why can’t he go?”
Sheng Renxing lowered his eyes and stared at his drink.
He began to think about Xing Ye. If Xing Ye couldn’t go abroad to study, wouldn’t that mean he couldn’t go either, or else they would have to separate.
He suddenly grabbed a tissue from the side and threw it at Qiu Huaixin, frowning with anger, “You’re so annoying!” Why would he say that.
Qiu Huaixin was stunned by the tissue thrown at him. He stared blankly at Sheng Renxing for a while, then pursed his lips and began to wail, “How am I annoying! I just want to go abroad with you! Why won’t you take me!” His words were choked with emotion.
Sheng Renxing pressed his head with one hand and shouted louder than him, “I won’t take you! I won’t take you! Got it, I won’t, take, you!”
At this moment, a phone rang beside them. He looked down and saw the number “18” flashing on the screen. Sheng Renxing grabbed something and threw it at Qiu Huaixin, hitting him, “Shut up! Or I’ll beat you up!”
He answered the phone, “Xing Ye!”
Xing Ye’s end was quiet. He said “mm” and something else, but since they were in a bar, Sheng Renxing couldn’t hear clearly.
Qiu Huaixin had stopped wailing, and his tears dried up in an instant. He blinked with a puzzled look, “Who is it?”
Sheng Renxing raised his chin, boasting, “My boyfriend.”
Qiu Huaixin said, “Oh,” and after a moment of thought, suddenly shouted into his phone, “Do you want to go to Germany with us?!”
“Are you trying to deafen me?!” Sheng Renxing was stunned by the shout, then turned and shouted back even louder.
Before they could shout much, the owner of the bar, Xiao Yang, came over to them. Leaning against their booth door, he looked helpless, “How did you two get so drunk? Do you want me to sing folk songs here? We’ve received complaints. Stop shouting! I’ll take you home.” Saying this, he sighed and walked over, covering Qiu Huaixin’s mouth with a piece of fruit.
But Xiao Yang didn’t dare to cover Sheng Renxing’s mouth; this guy would hit people when drunk.
Fortunately, Qiu Huaixin calmed down and stopped shouting. He sat quietly on the sofa, talking on the phone.
“Sheng Renxing? Are you still sober?” he asked.
“Do you think I’m Qiu Da Tou?” Sheng Renxing sarcastically replied, looking up at him.
Still relatively sober, Xiao Yang said, “Shall I arrange for someone to take you home?”
“No need,” Sheng Renxing said to him, then into the phone, “You come pick me up.”
After a while, “No, I want you to come pick me up!”
Xiao Yang simply sat at their table, poured himself a drink, and looked at Sheng Renxing curiously, wondering who he was talking to.
Sheng Renxing seemed upset after hearing something, frowning as if he was about to explode. But in a moment, he held back, pouted, and muttered quietly, “I’m not drunk.”
He then handed the phone to Xiao Yang, saying with a confused expression, “He wants to talk to you.”
Xiao Yang: “?”
He took the phone, puzzled, and said, “Hello?”
“Hello,” came a cold voice from the other end, sounding young, “I’m Xing Ye, Sheng Renxing’s friend.”
“He’s drunk. Could you please take him home?”
“Huh?” Xiao Yang looked at Sheng Renxing, who was staring straight at him with a somewhat dangerous look. “Didn’t Sheng Renxing just say you were coming to pick him up?”
There was silence for two seconds on the other end. “I can’t go get him. Could you please do it?”
“Oh, okay, okay, no problem!” Xiao Yang said hurriedly. “We’re all friends here, and I was planning to take him home anyway.”
“Thank you,” Xing Ye said.
Xiao Yang handed the phone back to Sheng Renxing. Looking at Sheng Renxing, who initially looked reluctant and didn’t respond, and not knowing what was said on the other end, he nodded slightly, put the phone in his pocket, and stood up, saying to Xiao Yang, “Let’s go.”
On the way, Xiao Yang couldn’t help but ask, “Who was that you were talking to just now?”
Although the person was said to be a friend, Xiao Yang felt something was off.
Sheng Renxing looked at him, “Didn’t he tell you?”
“He did,” Xiao Yang chuckled.
“My boyfriend,” Sheng Renxing said, leaning against the car window with one hand, squinting as the wind blew in his face.
There was silence for a while.
Xiao Yang muttered, “Fvck.”
Sheng Renxing: “What’s wrong?”
“Just didn’t expect it, caught me off guard,” Xiao Yang said. Although there had been rumors about Sheng Renxing’s sexual orientation, as he had never dated anyone, there was no definite confirmation. Now, being confirmed by the person himself, Xiao Yang needed a moment to digest this information, then quickly returned to the present. “Too bad, why didn’t you say it earlier? I missed my chance!”
Sheng Renxing looked at him puzzled, “Don’t you look in the mirror? Even if I had told you, you wouldn’t have had a chance.”
Xiao Yang: “Tomorrow, when you wake up, I’ll add ten percent to your drink bill.”
Xiao Yang: “So, are you going public with this?”
“Not yet,” Sheng Renxing glanced at him, “Do you want to help me go public?”
“No way,” Xiao Yang gossiped, quickly turning his head away.
“Up to you,” Sheng Renxing turned his head to look out the window.
As he turned his head, Xiao Yang noticed a small patch of red on his neck.
When he got home, a middle-aged woman came out and was surprised to see him in such a state. “Oh, you’re back. What happened? Why are you drunk?”
Sheng Renxing nodded stiffly at her, “Auntie Lin.”
Auntie Lin sighed and helped him inside. Xiao Yang explained a few things to her.
She supported Sheng Renxing back to his room and whispered in his ear on the way, “Your father is in the living room.”
Sheng Renxing nodded slightly.
Sheng Yan sat on the living room sofa, looked at him, and frowned slightly, examining him from head to toe.
Sheng Renxing glanced at him, then lowered his head to change his shoes, acting as if he didn’t exist.
Auntie Lin explained a few more things to him.
Sheng Yan nodded, then returned his gaze to the papers in his hand. After the two went upstairs, he instructed Auntie Lin, “Give him a glass of milk.”
“No need,” Sheng Renxing’s voice came from upstairs.
Sheng Yan said, “Don’t bother.”
Auntie Lin stopped in her tracks. This kind of confrontation was not the first time she had witnessed it. Since a few years ago, whenever the two met, it would almost always end up like this.
Sheng Renxing turned and looked at him from the stairs. Sheng Yan sat on the sofa, lifted his head, his gaze calm as if waiting for him to say something.
Sheng Renxing’s face darkened for a while, then he said, “I’m not going to argue with you,” and turned to go upstairs.
Sheng Yan also hesitated, nodded to Auntie Lin, and then lowered his head to tidy up the things on the table before heading to the study.
Back in his room, Sheng Renxing felt a bit dizzy as he sat on the sofa. He looked through the French window at the night view outside for a while, then remembered something and took out his phone from his pocket. “Xing Ye?”
There was silence on the other end.
He squinted and looked at the phone again, making sure the call hadn’t dropped. “Xing Ye!”
Still no response.
“Xing Ye, speak,” Sheng Renxing raised his voice, “I heard you smoking.”
There was a “hmm” from the other end.
Sheng Renxing muttered, “Are you really smoking?”
“I just called you, why aren’t you talking?”
Xing Ye: “Are you home?”
“I am, didn’t you hear me?” Sheng Renxing leaned back on the sofa, “I even saw Sheng Yan. Don’t change the subject, I called you several times just now.”
“I was lost in thought, didn’t notice,” Xing Ye’s voice was calm.
“Okay,” Sheng Renxing felt something was off, but didn’t pursue it, “About your question, no, you have to call back.”
Sheng Renxing felt like he wasn’t drunk, just a bit dizzy. He closed his eyes, listening to the breathing on the other end, but felt his body swaying.
After a moment of silence: “Sheng Renxing.”
“You’ve changed,” Sheng Renxing frowned uncomfortably, “You didn’t used to call me like this.”
Xing Ye chuckled lightly. Sheng Renxing heard the flick of a lighter, and Xing Ye, with a cigarette in his mouth, spoke somewhat unclearly: “Brother Sheng?”
He frowned, “No.”
Xing Ye: “Brother Xingxing?”
He shook his head, “No.”
Xing Ye: “Xingxing?”
Sheng Renxing made a sound, still shaking his head, “No.”
There was a pause, then Xing Ye said, “If I call you ‘dad’ now, it would be incest.”
Sheng Renxing remained silent for several seconds before murmuring softly, “You’ve never called me ‘husband.'”
Silence followed.
After a moment, Xing Ye sounded puzzled as he asked, “Who am I married to?”
“You’re married to me!” Sheng Renxing replied.
“Mm.”
Don’t really know how to feel about this chapter tbh but the husband part is adorable