It's Hard Being the Bad GuyChapter 9

Wen Ai’s entire body became stiff.

He could clearly feel Xu Changzhou’s strong and powerful heartbeat. All at once, it felt as if it’s pounding at his back. qPkNA8

Xu Changzhou closed his eyes, and his voice contained a hint of drowsiness: “Sleep again for a bit.”

Wen Ai pushed away Xu Changzhou’s arm which was hugging his waist, and sat up with a jump: “Why are you in my bed?!”

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Xu Changzhou opened his eyes and sat up slowly: “There’s only one bed in the room.”

Wen Ai continued to question him: “Then just go to sleep! What are you hugging me for?” NSZ6Bk

Xu Changzhou said helplessly: “You are the one who got into my blanket.”

Xu Changzhou pointed to the edge of the bed on Wen Ai’s side. Wen Ai then bent over and took a look. Sure enough, there really was a blanket under the bed. However, he was still suspicious: “But I never kick the blanket in my sleep!”

Xu Changzhou rubbed his temples: “You didn’t just kick the blanket last night. You also kicked me.”

Wen Ai’s legs moved uncomfortably under the blanket: “That…I probably had difficulties not sleeping in my own bed.”

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When he was moving his legs, he was suddenly stunned. He remembered that last night, he felt that the room was warm enough, so he only put on a t-shirt before pouncing on the bed. His legs were bare right now.

Seeing Wen Ai’s body suddenly stiffened again, Xu Changzhou asked: “Where did you put your suitcase?”

Wen Ai’s heartbeat sped up: “Why are you asking this?”

The corner of Xu Changzhou’s mouth secretly raised up: ”To help you get your pants.” wA4eDk

Wen Ai’s brain exploded with a “boom”. Xu Changzhou actually knew it!

A pillow was thrown over to Xu Changzhou’s direction. Wen Ai glared at Xu Changzhou in shame, his whole face was bright red: ”Mind your own business!”

Xu Changzhou didn’t dodge and he earnestly endured the pillow smash. After he got dressed, he got out of the bed to look for the suitcase.

Wen Ai abruptly fell back on the bed. He was so annoyed that he unreasonably stretched out his arms and kicked out his legs like a tortoise turned upside down. ATb9Os

After a couple of minutes, Xu Changzhou found the suitcase in the living room and he pushed it to the bedside: “Get up for breakfast.”

Wen Ai turned his head and buried his face in the pillow, pretending to be dead.

Xu Changzhou turned around and entered the small kitchen. After a while, the room was filled with the familiar smell of coffee.

This time, Wen Ai was revived from the dead. tvmnOF

In the itinerary drawn up by the school, excluding the travel time to go back and forth, they would spend a total of six days on the island. There was no schedule on the first day, giving everyone time to adjust to the jetlag and to restore their energy. From the second day to the fourth day, the leading teacher and the local tour guide would organize everyone to visit the scenic spots together. The remaining fifth day and sixth day were given to the students to arrange their schedules freely.

The tour guide that accompanied their group was a very talkative Greek man. He spoke both Chinese and English very fluently. The most important thing was that he was tall and handsome, and his smile was particularly charming. Seeing their leading teacher who was following beside the tour guide, blushing like a lovely young girl, the students slowed down their steps tacitly. The group was gradually scattered and in the end, they basically strolled by themselves separately.

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When wandering around the souvenir shop, Wen Ai was drawn to a box of rings. The copper rings were embedded with a small version of ancient Greek coins, which was quite distinctive. Wen Ai picked one and put it on to try, but who knew that it couldn’t be taken off. After engrossing himself in turning the ring back and forth around his finger for a while, his finger became more and more red and swollen. Yet, the ring had taken root on his finger.

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When Xu Changzhou heard a hint of crying in Wen Ai’s voice, he felt funny yet also distressed. He comforted Wen Ai: “Don’t worry, there will always be a way.”

Wen Ai’s little voice trembled: “You promise?”

Xu Changzhou said seriously: “I promise.” x15oIU

Not far away, a few girls who were watching them excitedly jumped in place while holding their phones.

Girl A: “Mother is grinning!!”

Girl B: “I got the photo!”

Girl C: “It’s so sweet!” EKQiYp

These girls were the ones who gave up their seats to Xu Changzhou and Wen Ai. Xu Changzhou walked over and said something to them. When he came back, he had a hand cream in his hand and he squeezed out a large amount of it on Wen Ai’s stuck finger. Finally, the ring was taken off.

Xu Changzhou picked up the ring and looked at it carefully: “This is a woman’s ring.”

Wen Ai wiped off the hand cream from his fingers with a tissue and dully said: “I don’t know. They are all put in the same box.”

Xu Changzhou: “In the future, look carefully before putting it on.” g2tVxk

Wen Ai still had a lingering fear: “No! I won’t put it on anymore in the future.”

Xu Changzhou touched his swollen middle finger: “That’s not necessarily true.”

The ring was messed up by the hand cream. Although it had been wiped clean, Wen Ai was too embarrassed to put it back in the box, so he took it to the cashier on the second floor to pay for the bill.

Xu Changzhou waited for him at the door on the first floor. Halfway through waiting, he went to find those girls and copied the photos they had just taken to his mobile phone. v4WAP9

The photo was taken from the side. In the photo, Xu Changzhou was holding Wen Ai’s left hand in one hand, and his other hand was squeezing the ring on Wen Ai’s middle finger as if he was putting it on for him.

Very beautiful, very happy, and you can even smell the sweetness across the screen.

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However, this photo was seen by Jiang Cheng.

In the evening, girls A, B, and C gathered on the hotel terrace to chat and mentioned Wen Ai’s name in their chatter. Jiang Cheng who was walking by them listened to them while passing by. The more he listened, the more strange he felt, so he stopped them and asked them to understand what they were talking about. 1GrCdz

When leaving the terrace, Jiang Cheng’s face was gloomy and awful.

He found an open place to smoke. One stick by one stick, the cigarette butts he finished and threw away filled the ground. He wiped his face and knocked on Wen Ai’s door.

Wen Ai only slapped a coat on his T-shirt before coming to answer the door. His collarbone was wide open: “What’s wrong?”

Jiang Cheng’s gaze lingered under his neck, and finally moved away with difficulty: “I heard that your hand was injured.” bdycZn

Wen Ai raised his left hand and took a look. The swelling of his middle finger had completely disappeared: “It can’t be counted as an injury. It’s already healed.”

After waiting for a while, Jiang Cheng didn’t let out any answer. Wen Ai asked: “Cousin, is there anything else? I want to sleep.”

The word “cousin” woke Jiang Cheng up like a sharp needle. After hurriedly saying “good night”, he walked away hastily.

Jiang Cheng went outside the hotel to buy two packs of cigarettes and then sat back at the previous place to smoke. gzSD5A

When he heard those girls say about whatever CP back then, he really lost his temper. If the ones standing opposite him were not girls, he would have beaten them so badly that the plastic surgeon wouldn’t even be able to save them.

He knew that he had other thoughts about Wen Ai and he had never wanted to admit it before. After he kept avoiding it, he had forgotten about it. Now that the fuse was ignited, those thoughts were pulled into the light again.

He liked Wen Ai, but what could he do about it? They were separated by blood relations and also by their parents. When both he and Wen Ai were still small peas, they took off their padded jackets and rolled into the snowbank. Wen Ai was taken back to soak in a bath and was fed ginger soup, but he was taken back to have a hard ass-spanking.

If he went back and told his family that he wanted to have a relationship with his cousin now, he would probably be beaten and disabled before being thrown out of the house. zMqCd3

Jiang Cheng laughed suddenly, and laughed till the end, his face slightly distorted.

After sending Jiang Cheng off, Wen Ai locked the door and returned to the bedroom. Xu Changzhou was already lying on the bed. Wen Ai climbed onto his half of the bed, wrapped up in the blanket, and moved to the edge of the bed little by little, like a squirming baby silkworm.

Xu Changzhou suddenly stretched out a hand to hold him down: “If you move again, you will fall down.”

Wen Ai stopped moving. h3k7bM

The bedroom became quiet.

Twenty minutes later, the rustling sound of the sheets made an appearance again. The baby silkworm twisted his clumsy body once more.

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Xu Changzhou sighed lightly and grabbed Wen Ai’s hand. The person along with the blanket was dragged back together to the center of the bed.

“Go to sleep. Tomorrow I will take you to the beach to watch the sunrise.” b16s4C

Wen Ai this time really didn’t move anymore.

The weather app said that today’s sunrise was at 6:30. Wen Ai and Xu Changzhou went out half an hour earlier. They had not walked far away from the hotel before Xu Changzhou realized that Wen Ai was shrinking his neck into his shoulders too much. Xu Changzhou then turned back and retrieve a scarf and tied it on Wen Ai’s neck.

Wen Ai was holding onto a coffee cup to keep warm, and he glanced at the pattern on it. Today’s puppy was still cute, it was naively raising its front left paw and there was even a ring on the paw.

Wen Ai raised the cup in front of Xu Changzhou: “Why do I think this scene is so familiar? Did you draw my story from yesterday?” n5GcC2

Xu Changzhou nodded: “Yeah.”

“How can you be like this! Yesterday I even increased my favorability points for you, but you drew my embarrassing matter right away today. I’m telling you, that favorability points fell back down in a flash!” Wen Ai unhappily curled his lips: “No, not only did it fall back down, but it also hit a big hole and became negative!”

Xu Changzhou’s eyes were soft when looking at him: “It’s not embarrassing.”

Wen Ai took a sip of coffee to moisten his throat: “I didn’t tell you clearly before. Those of you who are engaged in art, your brain circuits are different from others.” dB95 w

The buildings on this slope of Santorini were all in blue and white tones, echoing the blue sea water surrounding the island. The two went all the way downhill, and it was only 6:15 when they reached the beach.

Wen Ai ran on the soft beach for a while. When he stopped, he turned around and beckoned to Xu Changzhou to indicate for him to follow up quickly.

Xu Changzhou laughed. He took a long stride and quickly caught up with Wen Ai.

The two picked a place and sat down side by side, with the blue sea in front of them and the island of lights behind them. 5BM97D

The sky slowly brightened. Wen Ai hugged his knees and looked at the place where the sea and the sky meet with unspeakable expectations in his heart. He bumped into Xu Changzhou’s shoulder: “I should have brought the SLR at my home here. Although I am not very good at taking photos, it is still good to keep a portrait of this.”

Seeing that there was no response from his side, Wen Ai turned his head and found that Xu Changzhou had put on the headphones at some point in time.

Wen Ai unplugged one of his earphones: “This is why I said you artists’ brain circuits are too peculiar. What song are you listening to at this time?”

Xu Changzhou looked at Wen Ai and held Wen Ai’s hand which was still holding onto the earphone, putting the earphone into Wen Ai’s ear. f0NkQd

Wen Ai heard the melodious notes and the lyrics laden with sorrow.

“…Should there be tacit understanding when loving someone? I thought you know the secret that I hide whenever I look at you. Every morning, I warm up the coffee and give it to you quietly…”

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Wen Ai’s heart jumped, and the coffee in his hand suddenly became extremely hot.

He looked at Xu Changzhou, and the other person’s eyes were no longer holding the indifference they had when he first saw them. Instead, they were eager, straightforward, expectant, gentle, and— EH7xWV

Love.

Wen Ai shook off Xu Changzhou’s hand abruptly: “I won’t watch the sunrise anymore. I’m so sleepy. I want to go back to catch up on my sleep.”

Wen Yai almost fled from there.

The sun rose behind him, illuminating the entire island and all the secrets. gdvkX3

 

T/N: There you go, chapter 9!!

Commentary on this chapter. Contain spoiler!!

Awww…the ending was so sweet…the author surely knows how to put a cliffhanger there. Btw, Jiangcheng…I did have suspicions regarding how you react to things that had to do with Wen Ai, but I brushed it off and think that that you might only had an extreme case of brother complex…but who knows that you actually…haish.

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Hope you guys enjoy the chapter 😀