Translator:- Max
Yao Xiuyuan’s home was on the 23rd floor. Tang Yu looked at the towering floors in front of him, took out his phone, and began to call Ying Nian. However, Ying Nian had long ago blocked his number.
He sent another text message to Ying Nian, but Ying Nian did not reply.
Tang Yu had no choice but to call Yao Xiuyuan.
Contrary to what he expected, Yao Xiuyuan quickly answered and asked, “Who is this?”
“It’s me, Tang Yu.”
“Tang who?” Yao Xiuyuan obviously enjoyed this joke and never got tired of it.
Tang Yu said angrily, “Are you deaf at a young age? Tell Xiaonian that I’m downstairs and I have something to say to him.”
Yao Xiuyuan was a little curious when he heard what he said. He walked to the window and took a look. When he saw that he was not downstairs in his bedroom, he went out with his phone and looked down from the balcony. Indeed, he spotted Tang Yu standing by the station.
Ying Nian walked out from the guest room and asked him, “What are you looking at?”
Yao Xiuyuan glanced at him, smiled, and continued teasing Tang Yu, “Why can’t I see you? Niannian is still sleeping, don’t disturb him. Ex-boyfriends should have the self-awareness of an ex-boyfriend, understood, ex-boyfriend.”
“You guys really live together!”
“Otherwise?” Yao Xiuyuan laughed.
“Is he next to you right now?”
Yao Xiuyuan looked at Ying Nian, who was standing nearby with a puzzled expression, and confirmed, “That’s right.”
Tang Yu listened to his words and combined with what he said before, “Niannian is still sleeping”, he instantly imagined a not so pure scene! He held the phone and felt that the top of his head was turning green. He said angrily, “Yao Xiuyuan, how dare you touch him!”
Yao Xiuyuan burst into laughter upon hearing this. “Why can’t I touch him? Is he your private property? Tang Yu’s exclusive, others can’t touch it. Sorry, but now you’re just an ex-boyfriend. You don’t have that privilege.”
Tang Yu was so angry by his constant mention of ex-boyfriend that he wished he could kick him on the spot. But unfortunately, he couldn’t even see Yao Xiuyuan in person. He could only say, “Give him the phone; I don’t feel like talking nonsense to you.”
“After all, I said Niannian was sleeping. He doesn’t have the time to answer your calls. I’m done talking. I’m going back to sleep too. I’ll hang up.” Yao Xiuyuan said and hung up the phone.
Tang Yu was so angry that he scolded him fiercely on the other end of the phone.
Upon hearing his and Tang Yu’s names, Ying Nian walked over and asked, “Tang Yu’s call, is he causing trouble for you?”
Yao Xiuyuan pointed downstairs, “He’s standing downstairs right now.”
“How did he get in?” Ying Nian asked in confusion. “Isn’t the security here very strict?”
“It’s normal.” Yao Xiuyuan wasn’t so surprised. “After all, his surname is Tang. If he really wants to come in, the security won’t dare to stop him. But don’t worry, he can’t come up here. The elevator card here, except for the owners, is only held by the captain of the security office. If he dares to give that card to Tang Yu, then he certainly will get laid off directly.”
Upon hearing this, Ying Nian felt a bit distressed. He had moved several times to avoid Tang Yu, and finally ended up moving in with Yao Xiuyuan. But now, he had been exposed again, causing trouble for Yao Xiuyuan.
He and Yao Xiuyuan weren’t particularly familiar, just friends of a friend’s boyfriend’s friend, barely friends. It was for this reason that he was reluctant to trouble Yao Xiuyuan.
“Or, I’ll move out.” Ying Nian said. “I know Tang Yu’s temper. Since he knows I’m here, he won’t easily give up. If I stay, it’ll only cause you more trouble. It’s better for me to find another place.”
Yao Xiuyuan felt that he really didn’t mind the trouble. “Are you a rabbit? Even cunning rabbits only have three burrows. How long are you going to keep moving around like this?”
Leaning against the balcony wall, Yao Xiuyuan’s phone rang again, and he glanced at the number, and knew it was Tang Yu’s. Therefore, he didn’t answer it and continued speaking to Ying Nian. “Tang Yu won’t let you go unless you give up your current job, go far away, hide in a less-known place, and become an ordinary employee. Otherwise, whether you become a star, become a civil servant, or even be a decent talent in some industry, he’ll find you again. Are you willing to change your entire life for him?”
Yao Xiuyuan chuckled lightly. “No need for that. Ruining your entire life over a scumbag because of a relationship? How ridiculous. If one day you’re tired of living here and want a change of environment, you can move out, I won’t object. But for Tang Yu, it’s not necessary. Just live your life here peacefully. After all, he can’t come up here, he can’t see you. You shouldn’t care whether he is downstairs or not. Let him stand downstairs if he wants to.”
Ying Nian was stunned for a moment by his words. After a long time, he whispered, “I’m afraid it will bring you trouble.”
“You’re overthinking it,” Yao Xiuyuan chuckled. “If it were Ah Cheng chasing after you relentlessly today, then I might indeed have some trouble. But someone like Tang Yu, even if there were two more like him, it would just be a bit more lively.”
Hearing this, Ying Nian was amused by him. “Do you talk about Chu Cheng like this in front of him? Does Chu Cheng know?”
“Just don’t tell him, that’s fine.” After Yao Xiuyuan finished speaking, he stretched lazily. “Alright, go cook. Since you’re up, let’s have breakfast.”
Seeing this, Ying Nian asked him what he wanted to eat, then turned around and headed into the kitchen.
After Yao Xiuyuan finished washing up, he noticed that there were several missed calls on his phone again.
He felt that Tang Yu was quite persistent, so when the phone rang again, he picked it up and said, “Tang Yu, do you have nothing to do this morning. Can you please stop disturbing others? I’m just about to have breakfast.”
Tang Yu was speechless, “Yao Xiuyuan, let’s talk.”
“Do you and I have anything to talk about?”
“Of course I have,” Tang Yu said, “Ying Nian.”
“Then there’s even less to talk about. You’re in the past tense now, and being in the past tense means being discarded. What’s there to talk about your discarded past with me?”
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Tang Yu felt that his words indeed lacked a beating, but he tried to control his anger. “Yao Xiuyuan, I’ve known Ying Nian for nine years, and we’ve been in love for eight. Half of his life is with me. We may argue and have conflicts, but we won’t really break up. No matter what your relationship with him is now, there’s one thing you better understand: I’m not only his past tense, but also his future tense. Once we sort things out and resolve our conflicts, we’ll still be together. What you’re doing now will only delay our reconciliation, it’s useless. Do you understand?”
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As Yao Xiuyuan walked towards the dining room, he continued advising him, “Stop pestering him relentlessly. Harassing will only make people feel more disgusted. If one day he is forced to go away from home by you, then you’ll never find him again.”
Yao Xiuyuan hung up the phone and walked into the dining room, where Ying Nian had already prepared soy milk and made sandwiches.
“Thanks.” Yao Xiuyuan picked up a glass of soy milk and took a few sips.
Ying Nian helped him bring the sandwiches to the table and asked him, “Did he call you again?”
Yao Xiuyuan nodded.
“You don’t have to answer.” Ying Nian advised him. “Just ignore him.”
“Did you add him to your blacklist or delete all his contact information?”
“Yes.”
Sure enough, Yao Xiuyuan smiled and said, “You are quite decisive.”
Ying Nian responded with a helpless smile, “Because I really don’t want to be entangled with him anymore.”
After saying that, he lowered his head to eat the sandwich.
Yao Xiuyuan watched him, and for some reason, he thought of what Tang Yu said about them knowing each other for nine years and being in love for eight. After eight years of love, it all came down to a simple statement of not wanting to be entangled anymore, it was indeed somewhat sigh. Yao Xiuyuan suddenly felt that Ying Nian was quite strong. From the moment he first saw him until now, he always appeared calm, even with a smile on his face. It seemed that this failed relationship hadn’t brought him much pain. If Tang Yu hadn’t reminded him today, he might have forgotten that Ying Nian and Tang Yu had been together for eight years, not eight months, let alone eight days.
He should be sad, but he didn’t seem to be sad at all. Such a person, so strong yet also made other people feel distressed for him. Yao Xiuyuan sighed and cursed in his heart once again, Tang Yu, this scumbag. Eight years, even after victory in the war of resistance, and he still cheats! Scum! biggest scum!
After breakfast, Yao Xiuyuan went to the balcony to take a look and saw that Tang Yu was still downstairs.
“Still very persistent.” Yao Xiuyuan sighed.
As Ying Nian was walking back, he heard what he said, so he walked over and took a look, and saw Tang Yu.
He was already accustomed to such situations. The first time he caught Tang Yu in bed with someone else and in order to beg for forgiveness, Tang Yu stood under their apartment building for a week. On the last day, it rained heavily, and he stood there without an umbrella, betting on Ying Nian’s soft heart.
Ying Nian did indeed soften. When Tang Yu was nearly unable to stand any longer, he went downstairs to see him. Though he felt disgusted in his heart, he also extended an olive branch of reconciliation.
He had softened his heart for Tang Yu before, and he had also felt pity. But precisely because he had softened his heart before, when he saw Tang Yu cheating again later on, all that remained in his heart was disappointment and sadness. He just wanted to end it all, to give both himself and Tang Yu some final dignity. However, Tang Yu didn’t even want to give him that dignity. As Ying Nian looked at him standing downstairs, his heart felt numb, without any waves.
Yao Xiuyuan asked him, “You say, how long can he stand there?”
“He stood downstairs for a week before.”
“So long.” Yao Xiuyuan was shocked.
Ying Nian smiled, “The last day was still spent in the rain.”
Yao Xiuyuan felt that this was too much like an idol drama, “You two are like Romance in the Rain.”
“That’s a pity. He probably can only play a one-man show now. Let’s go. Don’t bother about him. When he gets tired of standing, he’ll naturally rest.”
“You say, if I were to pour a bucket of water on him right now, would he leave early?”
Ying Nian had never thought about it. He thought about it and said honestly, “I don’t know.”
“If I were to pour it, would you mind?”
Ying Nian shook his head, “You do as you wish.”
“Don’t you feel bad?” Yao Xiuyuan was curious.
Ying Nian chuckled. He had long been indifferent towards Tang Yu. “If I have the time, I’d rather feel sorry for myself, constantly moving because of him chasing me.”
Seeing that he truly didn’t mind, Yao Xiuyuan gestured for him to go to the bathroom and fetch a bucket of water while he himself took out his phone to call Tang Yu.
“You’ve figured it out?” Tang Yu asked him.
“No, I’m just reminding you. If you don’t leave soon, there might be local rainfall.”
Tang Yu snorted coldly. “Do you think I’m afraid?”
“Of course not. But after all, it’s artificial rain, so I thought I’d let you know in advance.”
“What do you mean?” Tang Yu obviously didn’t expect Yao Xiuyuan to be so senseless.
“It means you still have time to leave.”
Tang Yu refused.
Seeing that he wouldn’t listen to his advice, Yao Xiuyuan stopped trying to persuade him. He watched as Ying Nian came back with the water, then hung up the phone and walked over to take the bucket from him.
Ying Nian asked him, “Are you really going to pour it?”
“If you don’t want to, then I won’t pour it.”
Ying Nian handed the bucket to him and let go, then calmly said, “I don’t care.”
Yao Xiuyuan took the bucket, turned around, opened the window, and then aimed it at Tang Yu, pouring the water down with a “pa”.
Tang Yu, who was still standing downstairs, was suddenly drenched by a bucket of water pouring down on him, and the whole person was completely stunned. His hair was soaked, and most of his clothes were wet. He wiped his face in disbelief, then quickly looked up, only to see Yao Xiuyuan poking his head out and even waving at him. Tang Yu was so angry that he burst into a stream of curses. Was this fucking Yao Xiuyuan a primary school chicken? Pouring water on him! Was he three years old?!
Yao Xiuyuan pulled back and handed the basin to Ying Nian, “Get another bucket.”
Ying Nian helplessly took it and heard Yao Xiuyuan calling Tang Yu on the phone. “Are you still standing there? We’re expecting a heavy rainstorm here today.”
“Yao Xiuyuan, are you crazy? Are you a fucking primary school chicken!”
“The main reason is because you are an eyesore to me. Look at yourself, why don’t you just leave obediently?”
After cursing at him for a few more times, Tang Yu angrily hung up the phone. Fine, you want to pour water? Bring it on! It might just soften Ying Nian’s heart. He didn’t believe that Ying Nian really had no feelings for him now!
Yao Xiuyuan poured two more buckets of water and watched as Tang Yu downstairs stood drenched like a drowned rat. Satisfied, he closed the window and asked Ying Nian to put away the bucket.
He took out his phone, but this time he didn’t call Tang Yu but instead, Tang Yu’s father. Upon hearing that his son was disturbing the people during the weekend, Tang Yu’s father promptly sent his secretary to bring him back.
Ying Nian was puzzled. “Since you had his father’s phone number, why didn’t you just call him directly to resolve the issue? Why did you have to pour water on him?”
“I have my temper too.” Yao Xiuyuan said, looking at him. “He came to my building early in the morning, disturbing my rest. I was also very unhappy about it.”
Ying Nian found his reason somewhat amusing and didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but after all, he was the one who caused the trouble, he could only say to Yao Xiuyuan, “Thank you.”
“Don’t mention it. Well, let’s go back to our rooms. This guy should be picked up by his father’s people soon,”
Ying Nian nodded and went back with him.
“What are you going to do later?” Yao Xiuyuan asked him.
“Watch some anime?” Ying Nian said. “I read a book yesterday, so today I want to relax a bit.”
“Which anime?”
Ying Nian opened the video app on his phone and showed Yao Xiuyuan the anime he had been watching recently. Yao Xiuyuan chuckled. “This anime is so old! I watched it back in junior high school. Why are you watching it now?”
“I got into it late, and every time I planned to watch it, I never had enough time. I still haven’t finished it.”
Yao Xiuyuan hadn’t watched that anime in a long time. It was good, and he wanted to look back on it. Thus, he urged Ying Nian, “Come on, let’s go to my room and watch it.”
Ying Nian looked puzzled, and Yao Xiuyuan gave him a helpless look. “You’ve been in my room a few times too. Forgot that I have a projector in there?”
Now Ying Nian understood, “Okay.”
He and Yao Xiuyuan entered the master bedroom together. Yao Xiuyuan set up the projector, selected the video, and said, “Wait a moment”, before leaving again. When he returned, he saw that he was carrying a bunch of snacks and two bottles of drinks!
Yao Xiuyuan had Ying Nian pull the movable crossbar from the foot of the bed into the middle, placing the snacks on it. He then drew the curtains before walking over to the bed, lifting the covers, and getting in. He warmly patted the spot next to him, saying, “Come on up.”
Ying Nian: ……
Ying Nian felt that he was really good at enjoying himself. Besides the lack of a massage chair, it was practically a private cinema!
He silently sat down beside Yao Xiuyuan, and Yao Xiuyuan pulled the table in front of them, opened a pack of potato chips, and started his movie-watching experience.
He was watching when suddenly a pack of potato chips was handed to him. He took a handful and said to Yao Xiuyuan, “Thanks.”
“Don’t mention it.” Yao Xiuyuan said as he opened a bottle of cola and smoothly opened another one for Ying Nian.
Ying Nian could only take it again, continuing to thank him.
Yao Xiuyuan still replied with a “You’re welcome”.
The two of them were eating and watching at the same time. When the two teams started playing, as someone who had watched it before, Yao Xiuyuan leaned closer to Ying Nian and asked, “Guess who won this match?”
“I have no idea. Logically speaking, the protagonist team should win, but they seem to also have lost quite a few times, so it’s hard to guess.”
“I’ll tell you, it’s…”
Before Yao Xiuyuan finished speaking, Ying Nian covered his mouth with lightning speed, “Watch the movie in harmony, no spoilers allowed!”
“Even this is not allowed?” Yao Xiuyuan mumbled under his hand. “I thought it was just that I couldn’t tell who the murderer was.”
“Of course not.” Ying Nian, as a member of the anti-spoiler party, seriously educated him. “Any form of spoiler means being a rogue.”
Yao Xiuyuan nodded innocently, “Okay.”
Ying Nian withdrew his hand just now but because he had been covering Yao Xiuyuan’s mouth just now. Yao Xiuyuan had whispered a few words into his palm, causing it to inevitably feel a bit warm now. He hadn’t felt anything just a moment ago, but suddenly retracting his hand made Ying Nian inexplicably feel somewhat uncomfortable.
He reached out and grabbed a tissue from the bedside table, using it to wipe off the stickiness of potato chips from his fingers, and also wiping his palm. Then, he resumed watching the anime.
After finishing the third episode of the anime, Yao Xiuyuan’s phone rang. He glanced at it and saw that it was Tang Yu again, so he didn’t answer. However, shortly after, he received a text message. Yao Xiuyuan picked it up and saw that it was from Tang Yu: Tell him, I have a fever.
Yao Xiuyuan: ……
Yao Xiuyuan replied: You don’t have a fever, you are lecherous!
However, after a while, Ying Nian’s cell phone rang. Ying Nian didn’t answer the call since it was from an unknown number.
Yao Xiuyuan asked him, “Aren’t you going to answer?”
“I’m a public figure. I don’t answer calls from unknown numbers.”
“That’s true. If it’s work-related or business matters, your agent will contact you.”
“Yeah.”
“But I guess it should be Tang Yu.” Yao Xiuyuan shook his own phone, “He just texted me, saying he has a fever.”
Ying Nian instantly thought of the three buckets of cold water that Yao Xiuyuan poured down. “Is it because of those three buckets of water?”
“Who knows.” Yao Xiuyuan shrugged, “Do you want to reply to him with something?”
Ying Nian shook his head. He didn’t want to say anything to Tang Yu. Any words would just be unnecessary entanglement. If he had a fever, he should go to the hospital. If he could remember this time and never come back again, that would be the best.
Seeing that he didn’t want to talk, Yao Xiuyuan continued watching the anime without bothering with Tang Yu. He switched his phone to silent mode and focused on the anime.
As he was watching the seventh episode, Ying Nian started feeling a bit sleepy. Leaning against the headboard, he involuntarily closed his eyes and fell asleep silently.
Just when Yao Xiuyuan saw something interesting was about to discuss it with Ying Nian when he noticed that he had already fallen asleep, without him noticing. He slept quietly, breathing lightly. His long eyelashes were drooping because they were closed eyes, and were not very curly but unexpectedly thick, resembling a blurry barrier.
Yao Xiuyuan looked at him. There were no lights on in the room, only the projection light casting a shadow on Ying Nian’s face. He was indeed very handsome. Most people who could become stars were good-looking. Yao Xiuyuan still remembered the first time he saw him at the bar. He stood there, looking distant and perhaps unhappy, but was persuaded by Tang Yu to return to his seat.
This first meeting was almost forgotten by him until recently when Ji Qingzhou invited them to watch a movie, and he asked Shao Yong about it, only then did he recall it. His most memorable impression was their second meeting. Ying Nian and Ji Qingzhou were having dinner, and because it happened to be Valentine’s Day that day, he naturally worried about his friend. At that time, he carefully sized up Ying Nian and had to admit, in the end, that he was a with good looks.
Now, thinking back, Ying Nian had reserved seats and meals in advance, probably intending to spend time with Tang Yu. However, Tang Yu didn’t come, so he and Ji Qingzhou had dinner together instead. At that time, what was the relationship between Ying Nian and Tang Yu? How far had their relationship progressed? Yao Xiuyuan was curious, but he quickly suppressed his curiosity.
He leaned in closer and reached out to hold Ying Nian, intending to help him move down a bit and lay flat on the bed for a more comfortable sleep. However, Ying Nian wasn’t deeply asleep. With this movement, he slowly opened his eyes and asked, “What’s wrong?”
“It’s nothing, just helping you adjust your sleeping posture.”
Hearing this, Ying Nian shook his head and said softly, “I’ll go back to my room to sleep.”
Yao Xiuyuan felt that he seemed to regard him as an outsider. “Aren’t you tired from all this fuss? You could just lay down and sleep.”
Upon hearing him say that, and feeling quite tired himself, Ying Nian didn’t refuse anymore. He obediently lay down under the quilt and closed his eyes again.
Yao Xiuyuan noticed that he had fallen asleep again, so he pulled the blanket up for him and continued watching the anime. But after a few episodes, he also started feeling sleepy. He pressed pause, lay down under the quilt, and went to sleep.
When Ying Nian woke up again, he found himself being held in someone’s arms. Reflexively, he pushed the person away and quickly sat up. Then, he heard a familiar voice saying, “What are you doing?”
Yao Xiuyuan opened his eyes drowsily and saw that the room was dark. He reached out and turned on the bedside lamp and looked at Ying Nian in confusion.
Ying Nian looked at him, coughed, and pretended to be calm and said, “Conditional reflex.”
“Your reflex is to push people when you wake up?” Yao Xiuyuan thought that this reflex was a bit strange.
Yao Xiuyuan fell silent for a moment, then asked him, “Do you have a habit of holding onto things while sleeping?”
“Why do you think I should be holding?”
“When I woke up, you were holding onto me.”
Yao Xiuyuan’s eyes instantly widened in disbelief. “I was holding onto you?!”
The author has something to say:
Yao Xiuyuan: I was holding onto you?!
Ying Nian: Yes
Yao Xiuyuan: How is this possible? I am a straight guy!
Several months later
Yao Xiuyuan: Or shall we hug again?
Ying Nian: ? ? ? ! ! ! Calm down! You’re a straight guy!
Translator’s note:- Hi guys, this chapter had extra 3 and 4 together, and I wasn’t able to cut this chapter nicely into halves so I just updated this together as last week and this weeks update. Hope you enjoyed it and I hate Tang Yu ahhhh wish he dies ahhh! And I promise I wasn’t dirty minded while translating the second half of the chapter
. So here’s an early update for this week and next chapter will be posted on next Sunday!
