It's Hard Being the Bad GuyChapter 4

The tennis courts were near the school’s rear entrance, but the nurse’s office was in the first building, immediately next to the school’s front entrance, so there was quite a bit of distance in between. 

However, this wasn’t Wen Ai’s problem. He leisurely slumped over Xu Chang Zhou’s back, his feet dangling in the air as the male lead walked. It was very comfortable. ZDsLGO

The two of them were plastered together, Wen Ai’s front to Xu Chang Zhou’s back. Only two thin layers of cloth separated them; basically, they were pressed skin to skin against each other, the warmth and the shape of their bodies obvious to them in this position. Wen Ai was paying attention to Xu Chang Zhou, and he was surprised to find that even though the male lead looked pretty skinny, there was actually quite a bit of muscle hidden underneath his clothes. Just from Xu Chang Zhou’s back muscles alone, Wen Ai could tell that the male lead had a very lithe but solid build. 

This time of the year was the middle of the osmanthus flowering season, the sweet scent of osmanthus blossoms drifted along the billowing wind from the plants on either side of the path. When the breeze startled the butterflies from their perch, the fragrance of osmanthus blossoms spread over the entire path ahead of them. 

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Wen Ai took deep breaths, as if trying to fill up his lungs with the fragrant air. His actions were just like that of a kitten, greedily savoring a pile of dried fish— he couldn’t stop himself even if he wanted to. 

While Wen Ai was having a great time enjoying himself, warm puffs of his breath tickled Xu Chang Zhou’s ear. When Wen Ai leaned in a bit too close due to the bounce from Xu Chang Zhou’s stride, the poor ear wriggled at the tingling sensation as his breath blew over it.  AcVNBy

Wen Ai was probably too relaxed. For a moment, he forgot his character setting and slapped Xu Chang Zhou’s shoulder in excitement. “Hey! Your ears can move!”

“En,” Xu Chang Zhou replied, and then scooted Wen Ai up a little on his back.

Wen Ai squeezed his arms that were wrapped around Xu Chang Zhou’s neck. “Move it again! I wanna see!”

Xu Chang Zhou didn’t reply. His ear didn’t respond either. 

Wen Ai ordered domineeringly, “If you don’t, then I’ll blow into your ear!” And then he began to wriggle on Xu Chang Zhou’s back in an attempt to bring his mouth closer to Xu Chang Zhou’s ear. 

The male lead’s body visibly stiffened. Just as Wen Ai took a deep breath in preparation, the much-threatened ear finally wriggled back and forth complacently. 

Xu Chang Zhou retorted helplessly, “Okay now?”

Wen Ai laughed and laughed, but he couldn’t slap his own knee in mirth, so he had to make do and borrow Xu Chang Zhou’s chest.  MxY uy

Wen Ai’s fist came down and Xu Chang Zhou let out a puff of air that trailed off into a chuckle. 

As Wen Ai revelled in his evil little joke, he suddenly thought of something.

“System, how’s Xu Chang Zhou and Sun Meng Zhen’s progress going?” 

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System: “Did you forget? The two of them were only secretly in love with each other during high school; the type of love that’s shy, hidden, and suppressed. All those hot and heavy feelings were buried deep in the bottom of their hearts, just waiting to erupt— which they did, when they eventually met again many years later.”

Wen Ai: “Oh.”

When they reached the infirmary, the ‘bruise’ on Wen Ai’s leg had completely faded without a trace. There was only a small patch of light pink where the ‘bruise’ once was. At the beginning, the school nurse had thought it was actually something serious, and that he had injured his bone, so he was very careful as he checked Wen Ai’s leg, out of fear of causing secondary injury to a possible fracture.  Dtzdoh

Five minutes later, the school nurse sat back in his chair with a rather displeased expression.

What secondary injury! There wasn’t even a primary injury! Students these days, always ducking into the infirmary when they wanted to skip class. But still, this was his first time seeing such a bad act! Even a random pat on his leg would show up redder than that little patch of pink on the boy’s leg.

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

Wen Ai was sitting on the bed of the infirmary, squirming with discomfort under the nurse’s probing gaze. His face felt hot, and he wanted nothing more than to hide from the disapproval radiating from the nurse. He really regretted not thinking more before he acted. He was only focused on bullying Xu Chang Zhou. Now that an actual medical professional had seen through his lie, the feeling of awkwardness had him staring hard at his own shoes as he avoided raising his head to look at the nurse. 

“Nurse, my classmate is okay, right?” Xu Chang Zhou stood in front of the nurse’s desk, conveniently blocking Wen Ai from view.  Ri wA1

The school nurse looked at him speechlessly, thinking: These brats, are they just going to go with that clumsy attempt of a lie and continue acting in front of me? Screw it. I get it, everyone has spent time in school, and everyone has pulled these cheap tricks to get out of class. I get it. 

“You guys can rest for a bit here, make sure to leave once your classmate can get up and walk on his own again.” The nurse grabbed a pack of cigarettes along with a lighter, and decided to go to the empty room next door. He even closed the door to the infirmary behind him as he left. 

All of a sudden, the infirmary fell into a bizarre silence. It was so quiet that a pin drop could’ve been heard. The spacious room suddenly felt very small, and the two boys inside suddenly became very aware of each other’s presence. 

The moment seemed to be frozen in time before Xu Chang Zhou moved the chair next to the window and sat down, facing the scenery outside. Once he settled into the chair, he stopped moving.  LKZw7A

Wen Ai’s leg, which dangled over the edge of the infirmary bed, began to swing back and forth. The bed creaked softly with his movements, the soft sound repetitive, and after a while of listening, Wen Ai became a little sleepy. 

The atmosphere slowly became more relaxed. Wen Ai’s gaze fell on Xu Chang Zhou’s back as he inadvertently recalled the sensation of resting against that warm and solid back. Wen Ai sighed, the little puff of breath escaped his pout and dispersed into the silent air. 

Actually, Xu Chang Zhou was a pretty nice guy. He was kind of cold and distant on the surface, and usually didn’t interact with the other students much, but deep down, he was still a kind and patient type of person. If Wen Ai’s mission wasn’t to bully him but to help him, he believed that he would’ve done a much better job. 

The System heard Wen Ai’s moping and was so shocked that it even lost at Snake. “What kind of misunderstanding do you have? How can a future mafia boss be a ‘kind and patient type of person’?” g7dnpD

Wen Ai disagreed vehemently, “Well, he’s not a mafia boss right now, is he? Human nature is kind by default. Can’t he be a nice guy before he gets sucked into his family issues?”

The System argued back, “No! Xu Chang Zhou’s cruelty is bone-deep. The plotline has already been set, it’s impossible to change. You try infuriating him to the extreme next time, I’m telling you now, there wouldn’t even be a single, intact digit left once he’s done with you.”

Wen Ai stopped talking. He just remembered, he had never truly angered Xu Chang Zhou. All of a sudden, Wen Ai began to worry about the future direction of the plot. 

The System also stopped talking; a new round of Snake had begun. jYnPxT

The temperature of the room was a little on the lower side. Wen Ai pulled the blanket over to cover himself and called out to the figure sitting beside the window, “Hey, you can go now, I want to stay here by myself.”

No response?

Wen Ai fluffed the pillow roughly, trying to make as much noise as possible. He raised his voice and called out again. 

Xu Chang Zhou still didn’t move.  sC2ehz

Wen Ai jumped off the bed and walked over. “What kind of bonsai are you pretending to be? There’s no more space on the window sill for a big, fat bonsai like y—”

When he finally made his way over, Wen Ai immediately stopped talking. 

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

No wonder the male lead didn’t reply— he fell asleep!

Wen Ai turned and rifled through the nurse’s desk for the air conditioning’s remote control. He turned down the AC before returning to the spot beside the window.  29tuTc

Xu Chang Zhou was half caucasian, so he had the handsome, deep set features typical of the caucasian race. There was usually a sense of distance and aloofness to his expressions. Now that his usually cold gaze was covered by his eyelids, and the sharp angles of his features were sharpened by the warm sunlight, there was an atmosphere of tranquility and gentleness about him.

For some reason, Wen Ai took out his phone and pointed it at Xu Chang Zhou’s face. 

The moment he clicked the button to take a photo, a loud ‘click’ broke the calm silence of the room.

Wen Ai stiffly moved his phone to the side. The sleeping beauty from before was gone. Xu Chang Zhou’s amber eyes were open and stared straight at Wen Ai. No trace of sleep lurked in those eyes as he looked at Wen Ai unblinkingly. 62stWH

Without warning, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward. 

Xu Chang Zhou’s line of sight moved towards the phone clutched in Wen Ai’s hands. His tone was calm and even as he spoke, “What are you doing?”

Wen Ai flinched as if he was burned. He rapidly shoved the phone back into his pocket, and pretended to be cool as a cucumber. “Nothing.”

Xu Chang Zhou looked at the rectangular bulge in Wen Ai’s pant pocket and continued, “You’re secretly taking pictures of me.” pMijCt

Wen Ai reflexively turned to the side and covered up his pocket with his hand before he remembered that he was supposed to be acting calm and let go of it. He lashed out indignantly, “So what if I took a picture! You were drooling so much that I just had to record it and show you how disgusting you looked. That way, you can see for yourself and improve! When it comes down to it, you’re the one who started everything, or else we wouldn’t be here!”

As Wen Ai spoke, Xu Chang Zhou’s hand moved towards his own face, as if to check if there was actually drool on it. 

Wen Ai hurriedly lifted the bottom of his shirt and wiped at the corner of Xu Chang Zhou’s mouth before the male lead could touch his own face and discover Wen Ai’s lie. As he scrubbed Xu Chang Zhou’s mouth, Wen Ai purposefully put on a disgusted expression. 

“Okay okay, there’s no more drool left. Consider this as my thank-you for carrying me here. Now we’re even.” zD2 r8

“I think you missed a spot.”

Wen Ai froze. “What?”

Xu Chang Zhou’s tone was sincere as he spoke up again, “Wipe it again.”

Wen Ai: “…” abdSBP

The moment Wen Ai gripped the edge of his shirt, Xu Chang Zhou had lowered his eyes. Wen Ai was oblivious to the direction of the male lead’s gaze as he lifted up his shirt to reveal the soft and small waist that trembled as  cold air brushed up against the sensitive skin there. 

Wen Ai thought that Xu Chang Zhou made the request to get back at him. Still, it was just wiping the male lead’s mouth, Wen Ai couldn’t understand how the male lead thought this was a form of retribution. 

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

Didn’t the male lead want Wen Ai to wipe his face for him? Then Wen Ai will definitely wipe it! And he’ll make sure to wipe it well! He’ll wipe it so much that the male lead would think twice next time he asked Wen Ai for something like this!

For an entire five minutes, Wen Ai scrubbed at the male lead’s face. He finally stopped when he felt that he was about to wear a hole through the fabric of his shirt with all that rubbing.  cZlWUn

As Wen Ai was pulling his shirt back down, Xu Chang Zhou raised his head. His chin was completely red. “Thanks.”

Wen Ai replied unabashedly, “You’re welcome.”

Xu Chang Zhou suddenly got up and reached for the remote control for the AC. “It’s a little hot in here.”

Wen Ai suddenly noticed that the base of the male lead’s ears were completely red. Wow, the male lead really couldn’t stand warm temperatures, huh. It was barely hot inside the room but his ears were already red from the heat.  NK6v7L

T/N: I am BACK from the ded. Hehe. I basically failed orgochem, but oh well 🙁 Also, this book does have NSFW content so the onus is on y’all to…idk what. I’m just going to assume that everyone who chooses to read this are 18+ :)))