Fang Yu went back to work at the Grand Century Restaurant.
Fang Yu also knew what happened with Zhou Er. Everyone in the entire Jianghai gangdom knew how Yang Lei had avenged Fang Yu. Everyone knew exactly what would happen if they messed with Fang Yu.
After this fight, Fang Yu and Yang Lei’s fame had reached a peak. With such brave fighters, Yan Ziyi and Luo Jiu’s status became even more undefeatable.
The Grand Century Restaurant became calm again. Once Fang Yu returned, he was busy day and night. When he was recuperating, he constantly thought about this place. After returning, he was even more diligent.
When people become busy, they can avoid thinking about many things. Similarly, Fang Yu had some things on his mind that he couldn’t say aloud, so staying busy was the only way to forget them.
After Fang Yu recovered, Hua Mao was extremely happy. He orbited around Fang Yu all day and didn’t do his own work.
“Aren’t you going to watch the Jiangbei arcade?”
“They are obedient there! There’s a little brother watching. I can guarantee that no one will dare to make trouble!” Hua Mao just wanted to see Fang Yu more. He had been worried sick about Fang Yu’s injury this time.
After staying with Fang Yu at the restaurant for a few days, Hua Mao picked up on something .
“Da Ge, is there something on your mind?”
Hua Mao was definitely good at reading people’s tones and expressions.
“Nothing,” Fang Yu said.
“Don’t lie to me. You know that even if you’re a little unhappy, I can tell. I…”
Hua Mao was fond and resentful.
“Let’s go. Drink,” Fang Yu said.
Hua Mao felt that Fang Yu drank very strangely that day.
Ever since he followed Fang Yu, Hua Mao rarely saw Fang Yu bury his head and drink. In front of the elderly, in front of neighbors, and in front of those who didn’t know his identity, Fang Yu was definitely a good youth. In the gangdom, in Jianghu where he was a gold class fighter, he was a generous and loyal Da Ge. Fang Yu was used to not showing his distress in front of his brothers, so now, when Hua Mao saw that Fang Yu was speaking very little and only drinking, Hua Mao became worried.
“Hua Mao.”
Fang Yu suddenly called Hua Mao.
“Yes, I’m here,” Hua Mao quickly answered.
Fang Yu raised his eyes and looked at him.
“…Tell me about your matters.”
Fang Yu hesitated for a moment before saying this sentence.
“Ours? Mine and whose?” Hua Mao didn’t understand.
“…Just you all… your kind of people!” Fang Yu had a little difficulty.
Hua Mao understood.
“Da Ge, don’t you know? …It’s just like that.” Hua Mao’s sad matters were brought up.
“That’s right. I like men, but this isn’t a sickness. It really isn’t. I was born like this. Many people are born like this. I heard my friend in the circle tell me that it’s because China is feudalistic, so it’s said to be a sickness. In fact, in other countries, this is quite normal, and there are so many of us. I’ve heard that one in many men can like other men. And there are many people who can like both men and women…”
Hua Mao seemed to be seizing the opportunity to talk unceasingly. He hoped that he could win over Fang Yu’s heart.
“You all also… do that?”
Fang Yu asked with difficulty.
Hua Mao understood what “that” was.
“Yes… of course. This is love. Love’s highest state is uniting…” Hua Mao saw Fang Yu furrow his brow, and he leaned over: “Da Ge, did you watch the tape I gave you last time? In there… wasn’t that…?”
Fang Yu didn’t think about the tape. His mind was a little muddled.
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
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Fang Yu was annoyed and cut him off.
Hua Mao already felt in his heart that something was wrong. He observed Fang Yu’s expression.
“Da Ge, how did you think of asking these things?”
How could Hua Mao know that Fang Yu’s heart was already a mess?
“I wanted to ask, so I asked!”
Fang Yu was impatient.
“Could you…” Hua Mao felt a wave of joy, and his heart thumped. “Could you think that… I’m actually pretty good…”
“Drink!”
Fang Yu had a headache because of Hua Mao again.
Fang Yu really didn’t know what exactly was going on between him and Yang Lei.
No matter how slow Fang Yu was, he knew that he and Yang Lei had long been abnormal, too abnormal.
Of course, Fang Yu still had no way of thinking about this as love. It was too difficult for Fang Yu to admit that it was love. Fang Yu was a normal man. In the past twenty years and more, he had never been abnormal, but after meeting Yang Lei, something had already changed and had become messed up.
Fang Yu didn’t know that he could lust over a man’s body. To be exact, he felt lust for Yang Lei’s body. Fang Yu never had even the tiniest bit of such a thought towards men other than Yang Lei. He couldn’t even think about it at all. He couldn’t even understand why he would get excited by Yang Lei’s body. He had the same body structure as his, but every time he did that with Yang Lei on the bed, he would get hard, very hard. Fang Yu couldn’t control that kind of excitement and lust.
Just how close could two men, two brothers, two brothers who could give their lives for each other, be? What was the limit of their closeness? Fang Yu already couldn’t figure out what was over the line, what was the line, and what was beyond the line and too far.
Fang Yu had dated before. He started dating long ago. All those in the gangdom matured early.
But now, Fang Yu was already perplexed. He didn’t know how to define the feelings between him and Yang Lei. If it were brotherly love, then it was definitely different from him and other brothers. Even Da Hu, who was also the closest to him, was completely different. If it wasn’t brotherly love, then what was it? Just how could everything that had happened between him and Yang Lei, as well as everything that was happening, be explained?
Could he and Yang Lei continue to “play” like this? Now, every time they “played,” it made Fang Yu feel depressed. He himself didn’t know where this depression came from.
Perhaps Fang Yu already vaguely felt the answer. However, instinct caused him to reject thinking deeply…
Before he could think more about it, Fang Yu met someone in Yang Lei’s small building.
In the 1990s, there was a group of “returnees.” If there were so many returnees now that they could only be turtles, returnees in those days were really precious and rare.
Fang Mei was one of them.
Fang Mei was Yang Lei’s childhood friend. Her house was just one house away from Yang Lei’s small building. She was a girl who had grown up in another Republican Era house. Ever since Yang Lei was in kindergarten, he had been classmates with her, all the way until elementary school and middle school. And then in high school, Fang Mei went abroad.
Yang Lei and Fang Mei were so close that, according to Yang Lei, he didn’t want to see her face anymore, because he was already too tired of seeing it.
Of course, when Yang Lei said this, Fang Mei hit Yang Lei hard. It wasn’t the hit of a little girl pretending to be cute; it was a real hit.
Fang Mei had returned to the country for a period of time, and she had contacted Yang Lei, and they even ate together. Now, Yang Lei had moved back into the small building, and Fang Mei had just returned from traveling. Knowing that Yang Lei had returned, she came over to see him.
When Fang Yu returned to the small building, Yang Lei was chatting with Fang Mei, and he introduced Fang Mei to Fang Yu.
The first impression that Fang Mei gave off was grace.
That wasn’t the grace of a rich mistress, but a very individualistic and independent grace of one who had really seen the world.
“You’re Fang Yu? I’ve heard Yang Lei mention you many times.”
Fang Yu was smiling. She was very beautiful, dressed fashionably and trendily, and full of Western style and beauty.
“I’m Yang Lei’s childhood friend and his bro.”
Fang Mei looked Fang Yu up and down openly and appraisingly.
“You’re really handsome. Looks like Yang Lei didn’t lie to me.”
Yang Lei had said before that all the girls who liked him were bold and independent. The facts proved that this was truly so.
Fang Yu’s impression of this girl with a modern appearance and Western personality was also quite good. And from that day on, Fang Mei often came over.
Ever since Fang Mei was very young, she had secretly been in love with Yang Lei. At the age when she started to understand love, it became an open love.
Until now, even though she had gone abroad, Fang Mei still had Yang Lei in her heart. Anyone with eyes could tell.
At the middle school Yang Lei attended, Fang Mei stunned the whole middle school as soon as she entered. In order to pursue her, boys in higher grades would line up, waiting at the school gates, wanting to pick her up on their bikes.
But Fang Mei only rode on Yang Lei’s bike, and Yang Lei’s bike didn’t even wait for her at the gates. Rather, she would run to the bicycle shed and grab Yang Lei.
Yang Lei was the common enemy of middle school boys because the school flower only rode on his bike and was also childhood friends with him. They didn’t even have the slightest chance.
But to Yang Lei, Fang Mei was like a right hand to a left hand. They were too close, so there were no feelings between them.
Girls were quite persistent about their first love. Especially since this first love was also close at hand, but it could not be easily attained.
Fang Mei often came over to visit at night. When she visited, she would chat with Yang Lei and Fang Yu.
“He’s my first kiss. At that time, I was just fourteen. He was also fourteen,” Fang Mei said to Fang Yu.
Yang Lei almost choked on a grape.
“Why are you talking about this?”
He was embarrassed, and didn’t want Fang Yu to hear about it at all.
“Why can’t I say it? You were even the one who initiated it!”
Fang Mei had truly studied abroad. She was very open about these topics.
“I never dated her! At that time, I was just curious… I was too young to understand anything!”
Yang Lei explained to Fang Yu. He really hadn’t dated Fang Mei. At that time, during puberty, boys were all impulsive.
“Why aren’t you taking responsibility?” Fang Mei goaded Yang Lei.
“Fuck, what did I do to you, that I have to take responsibility for?” Yang Lei had gotten used to bickering with Fang Mei.
“Did you kiss me or not?”
“Girl, can you be more reserved?”
The two of them bickered back and forth. Fang Yu seemed to be extraneous on the sidelines. He couldn’t get a word in.
Yang Lei’s first kiss really was Fang Mei.
During puberty, when he was the most curious about sex, he really couldn’t resist the impulse. One night when he was bringing Fang Mei back home, he kissed Fang Mei in a dark alley.
It was not because he liked Fang Mei, but because Fang Mei was the girl he was closest to.
Fang Mei was lost in that kiss.
That kiss decided her whole life.
Even though, many years later, her life would be changed because of Yang Lei, she had never hated Yang Lei.
This was a woman who was really brave in the face of love. Many people could not do what she did.
Fang Yu could tell that this girl liked Yang Lei.
Furthermore, she had liked him for many years. When she and Yang Lei were together, as long as they spoke, it pretty much had nothing to do with Fang Yu. Because there were too many common conversation topics and a past that belonged to just the two of them. Later, when Fang Yu saw Fang Mei, he would chat for a while and find an excuse to leave.
Yang Lei was also quite annoyed. He started to be annoyed by Fang Mei always coming and interrupting his and Fang Yu’s alone time. Ever since Fang Yu returned to work at the Grand Century Restaurant, every day, the two of them only had a little time to be together at night, and Fang Mei always disrupted them.
“My young lady, can you go walk around somewhere else?”
Yang Lei couldn’t hold back from urging her to leave.
“Why, are you annoyed with me?”
“You’re a young woman. It’s not appropriate for you to always come over to a man’s place at night,” Yang Lei said.
“Why isn’t it appropriate? I’m going to the person I like. What’s inappropriate about that?”
Fang Mei was just that straightforward.
“…”
Yang Lei didn’t speak. Every time they spoke about this topic, he didn’t have anything to say.
He had rejected Fang Mei many times. But Fang Mei still wasn’t willing to give up. Yang Lei always felt guilty towards her. Every time the two of them spoke about this, they got stuck.
“Do you have a girlfriend right now?” Fang Mei asked, after a moment’s silence.
“No,” Yang Lei said.
“I also don’t have a boyfriend. Then let’s make do for a bit,” Fang Mei said quietly.
Yang Lei was silent. His intent to refuse was very obvious.
“Why?”
Fang Mei raised her beautiful face and looked at Yang Lei.
“I have someone I like.”
Yang Lei pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, lighting it up.
“In the future, I probably won’t like anyone else.”
Yang Lei exhaled smoke, looking into the distance…
At the upstairs window, Fang Yu leaned by the window, looking at Yang Lei and Fang Mei speaking in the courtyard below.
“Those two children were suited for each other since they were young.” Aunt Zhang handed an apple to Fang Yu, smiling.
“Xiao Mei’s grandfather and our old commander were old comrades. The way I see it, the two families are going to be even closer sooner or later.”
Aunt Zhang hoped that Yang Lei would get married soon and give her a grandson. She really regarded Yang Lei as her own son.
“Xiao Yu, do you have a girlfriend?”
“No.”
Fang Yu smiled.
“How could you not have one? Godmother will introduce you to one!” Aunt Zhang thought that a good young man like Fang Yu had to have a girlfriend.
“Thank you, Godmother. I’m not in a rush.”
Fang Yu’s gaze turned again to the two people downstairs.
“As soon as you find a girlfriend, get married early, so your heart will be settled. Men should start a family early. Only when you have someone who loves and cares for you, will you know what’s good…”
Aunt Zhang kept rambling on.
Fang Yu was silent, thinking…
why do I have such a bad feeling with this chapter?
thanks for the chapter <3
Broooo the vibes from this chapter are NOT immaculate!! 😭😭😭😭
Thanks for the chapter!
I feel like even if Fang Yu tries to put distance between them Yang Lei won’t let it happen. His persistence is really good and one of his quality traits.
But is this a happy ending?? 😭😭🤣🤣😭😭
Fang yu you should admit you feeling, OMG really i want them together already please
Thanks for the chapter!
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