The bright and gorgeous lights flickered brightly, and the elaborately decorated hall was filled with people in fancy dresses, voluptuous and sexy cat ladies, green-faced monsters, the mysterious witches in black, and princesses in pure white veils. The only thing that was common in the hall was the masks over everyone’s face, which were unable to cover their lower half filled with excited smiles.
Yu Hui appeared in the doorway standing straight and upright, wearing a Baroque nobleman’s gown that showed off his extraordinary dignity. The blood-red high-necked shirt and solid black cloak intertwined, giving off a hauntingly fierce and dangerous aura. The pointy fangs of his thin lips showed that he was a handsome vampire.
After glancing at the noisy chaos in the hall, he frowned slightly, his silver mask revealed his eyes sweeping over every inch of the crowd, searching for something, and a little while later, he dropped his eyes in disappointment.
Before leaving the house, Jiang Fu cheerfully stated that they were coming to the ball separately, and the one who recognized the other first without being told in advance of what the other wore, could make one request.
The offer was too tempting, so Yu Hui hurried to the ball and began looking for a familiar figure.
He was already imposing, and his vampire costume made him look tall and extraordinarily eye-catching, even if he exuded a cool pressure all over. Still, he couldn’t block the admiring glances he received from bystanders, and the presence of the mask made many people bold enough to come forward and talk to him.
Yu Hui’s cold gaze was like a cold sharp sword, possessing an invisible intimidating aura that frightened people and made them unable to approach easily. He fidgeted and tried to pinch his brow, but he touched his cold mask.
Where the hell is Chéng?
After searching the sides of the hall, Yu Hui moved to the corner, but his eyes still continued to search without stopping.
Not far away was a dressing room, the door ajar, and the sounds of merry mingling were faintly audible.
“The last time we agreed to let us dress you up. You can’t cheat us, Jiang Fu!”
After sensitively catching Jiang Fu’s name, Yu Hui turned sideways to follow the voice. He wanted to walk in, mentally preparing himself, his taut back quietly relaxed.
So there he went.
The voices in the dressing room seemed to grow clearer as he walked closer, he listened attentively, and the familiar warm soft voice seemed to be glued to his ears.
“Okay, okay, I’m not going to be a brat, so be merciful, ladies.”
“Hahahaha, we’ll never be hard on Jiang Fu, but we especially want to see you wear this.”
“Right! Jiang Fu would look super good in this!”
After a rustling noise, when Jiang Fu saw the dress, he was unable to look at it with a straight face, and his hopeless voice was full of disgust.
“Come on, I’m a boy eh, this dress…”
“Quick, quick, quick! You promised.”
“Exactly! Fufu said no cheating. Come on, let’s get you dressed.”
“Hey, hey, hey! I’m not wearing it!…”
Jiang Fu’s dissatisfied voice was gradually silenced, followed by the excited and thrilled squeals of the girls, as if they had seen some dreamy sight.
“Aaaahhhh! It’s over I’m getting a nosebleed!”
“Jiang Fu, I love you so much!”
“Why am I actually a girl?!! Ahhhhh!! Wanting to- ahhhhhh!”
Yu Hui looked faintly moved, his eyes stared motionessly at the dressing room’s door, his heart beating faster and faster in anticipation.
After a while, the door to the dressing room was finally pushed open, and the first few people to come out were a few girls dressed as flower fairies. Even as they were chattering, their eyes were unmistakably glued to the person behind them, their eyes amazingly bright.
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Jiang Fu was very uncomfortable and reached out to tug at his skirt, revealing half of his snow white face as he turned slightly to the side. He looked covered in girls’ makeup. His lips were as red as blood, his curled, dark lashes trembled, his eyes full of helpless compromise.
“Well, I’m wearing them all, can I change back now?”
The girls put a red mask on his face and gave him a matching feather fan, laughing and pushing him down the hall.
“That’s no good, we’ve gone to a lot of trouble to dress you. Fufu must wear it for an hour.”
Jiang Fu slapped his palm with the feather fan in his hand, his compromising tone was full of indulgence.
“I know, little fairies, I’ll just wear it.”
Jiang Fu swept his gaze around carelessly, and Yu Hui, who was always looking at him, felt his heart skip a beat. He was scared that Jiang Fu would recognize him but also longed for Jiang Fu to recognize him.
Yu Hui lowered his eyebrows to hide the loss that was spreading out in his heart and thought to himself.
Forget it, wouldn’t I be blamed for cheating by Fufu?
After a few more lingering glances at Jiang Fu, whose back was turned to him, Yu Hui moved away and turned in the direction which he came from. Soon, he was standing in the doorway of the hall feigning as if he had just arrived, but his sunken eyes were wrapped in urgent heat as he tried to find his darling.
Cutting through the dazzling crowd, he could see from afar that Jiang Fu was talking to someone by the champagne tower, a sweet smile and soft dimples beneath his mask.
The man beside him was dressed like a medieval knight, a heroic and sharp-witted man, who matched the red-skirted, black-haired Jiang Fu exceptionally well.
A perfect match. This thought pierced his heart.
Yu Hui’s face sank in displeasure and he strode over towards them.
The closer he got, the more clearly he could hear what they were saying.
“Zhou Chuan, you’re super handsome today!”
Jiang Fu’s eyes were shining brightly, and the smile curled at the corner of his lips was wry and seductive. It was somehow fresher than the coldness of the recent days, just like the soft stare he used to have.
Yu Hui’s footsteps fiercely stopped.
Zhou Chuan took Jiang Fu’s hand and dropped a burning kiss on the back of the white hand.
“My princess is also very beautiful today.”
Jiang Fu did not withdraw his hand, but instead used his feather fan to nudge the tip of Zhou Chuan’s nose in anger, an intimate and natural gesture that caused Yu Hui’s blood to freeze into cold ice.
For a moment, all was silent, not a sound could be heard.
Slowly drowned by the sound of hearty conversation, each careless sentence was a barbed iron whip that drew blood from Yu Hui’s heart and caused it to collapse and shatter.
“Jiang Fu, why don’t you go find Yu Hui?”
“Ugh… I don’t want to go to him.”
“Then stay with me all night, okay?”
“Yeah.”
It took a long time for Yu Hui’s disorganized vision to clear, and the sight in front of him was like thin paper stained with water. Sticky.
Yu Hui stared expressionlessly at Jiang Fu, as if he was an icy statue.
The smiling Zhou Chuan played with the dark hair that hung at the side of Jiang Fu’s shoulders, his thin white fingers stiffening abruptly as he inadvertently glanced at the vampire not far away.
Immediately across his handsome white face, was a trace of panic that swiftly flashed past, and even the soft smile of his, dissipated a little.
Yu Hui walked towards him and gently unmasked him, softly but without any warmth in his tone.
“Chéng, I’ve found you.”
Jiang Fu unnaturally lowered his eyes, nervously biting his lower lip, and quickly glanced at Zhou Chuan beside him.
His glance was like seeking some sort of reassurance.
“Hui Hui, let’s break up.”
Jiang Fu didn’t dare to look at him, his lowered eyelashes trembling, but his tone was extremely firm.
Fingertips pinching the red mask, Yu Hui looked at him in a daze, as if he didn’t understand what he was saying.
“Chéng, let’s go home, okay?”
Like a puppy trying to please his master, he eagerly went to grab Jiang Fu’s hand, then gripped it so hard that he was even shaking a little.
“Chéng, Chéng.”
But Jiang Fu shook off his hand like he was electrocuted, his brows knitted together and his face paled.
“Yu Hui, let’s break up.”
It was the first time Yu Hui had heard him call like that, so distant and unfamiliar, full of disgust and that hurt.
“Why?”
Yu Hui raised his head, his wet eyes filled with overwhelming sadness, even his voice was careful.
“Chéng, did I do something wrong somewhere? Will you tell me? I don’t want to break up with you.”
Jiang Fu stopped looking at him, lowered his head, pulled at the soft fur on the feather fan, and said carelessly.
“Just tired of being with you, I don’t want to be with you anymore.”
Yu Hui hugged him abruptly, almost strangling him, the force of his strength contained a paranoid harshness and with a fierce gnashing of teeth, said.
“Chéng, I was the one who found you first, and I won. You have to promise me, no breakups ever, forever.”
The teenager in his arms, however, shoved him hard with impatience, the malice in his voice like pounding ice scraps.
“Are you done?! I said I don’t want to be with you anymore! Let go of me!”
A huge external force ripped Jiang Fu away from Yu Hui, and he stumbled a few steps unprepared, his arms felt empty, and when he looked up again, Zhou Chuan was already in front of Jiang Fu, staring at him proudly and hostilely.
“Yu Hui, haven’t you heard? Jiang Fu said he wants to break up with you, so you’d better leave.”
They were making so much noise that the eyes of everyone in the hall had gradually focused on them, as if they had guessed what was going on. The whispers wrapped up in the loud music were like the heavy weight of a stone hanging overhead, and the eyes cast were full of sympathy and gloom.
The dismayed Yu Hui turned a deaf ear, as if his handsome, tall body had been stripped of its only supporting spine. The sunken eyes stared at the figure behind the irksome Zhou Chuan, suddenly searching for a way to save him.
“… Zhou Chuan, it’s all you, as long as you disappear, Chéng won’t leave me.”
His dull murmur reached the ears of Jiang Fu, who was startled and sharply cried out in alarm.
Jiang Fu suddenly passed Zhou Chuan and rushed towards Yu Hui, who was gradually breaking down, clutching his arm tightly. The lowered tone was like a gentle coaxing, but it spat out the cruelest of blades.
“It’s not because of Zhou Chuan. Yu Hui, I just don’t want to be with you anymore, I might be with anyone but you.”
Eyes that already had fluorescent green scrambled code running through them closed abruptly for a moment, and after a few seconds of suffocating disorientation, they were opened again only to show a deep, dark blackness.
Yu Hui dropped his eyes to look at the beautiful looking teenager and stretched out his hand to touch the side of his face, not saying a word.
Jiang Fu saw that he no longer seemed to have thoughts of destruction, and after scanning the gossipy-looking crowd, he took a few steps back and said to Zhou Chuan.
“Zhou Chuan, let’s go.”
Zhou Chuan’s eyes brightened and he was suddenly smiling with joy as he went forward to pull him up.
Jiang Fu glanced at the calm looking Yu Hui and hesitated, dodging his hand.
Zhou Chuan was stunned, still smiling.
“Let’s go.”
Jiang Fu nodded and turned to follow him out of the ball.
The standing Yu Hui was still in his pale, gloomy vampire costume, his black cloak and blood-red collar shirt painted a bizarre eerie light. The faintly exposed fangs between the thin lips were sharply glowing with a cold light, as if they were ghosts coming out of the castle of hell, gazing deeply at the direction where Jiang Fu had disappeared.
Zhou Chuan first took him back to his dormitory to change out of his complicated clothes, and when his invitation to stay overnight was rejected by Jiang Fu, he had to send Jiang Fu back to his apartment again, asking expectantly.
“Jiang Fu, you don’t have to live here anymore. I’ll help you move back to the school dormitory tomorrow, okay?”
Jiang Fu, who was about to go upstairs, was startled, and his seemingly laughing voice withdrew its previous intimacy, it turned gentle and casual.
“Zhou Chuan, you’d better not take tonight’s matter to heart.”
“Why?”
Zhou Chuan eagerly went forward and grabbed his arm, delighted but hesitant.
“Jiang Fu, you went with me at the ball, so the princess went with the knight.”
Jiang Fu smiled, then moved his hand away.
“Zhou Chuan, the knight didn’t take the princess, the knight failed.”
He didn’t know what came to mind and sighed sadly.
“And the poor princess is going to be imprisoned in a black room by an angry vampire.”
OMG YU HUI SWEETIE 😭😭😭 NOOO IDVDJ 😭😭 Also, wtf did that last part mean?? I’m very confused and I can’t think bc– YU HUI 😭😭
Thanks for the chapter! 🙂
Ummm, I think this chapter has been uploaded under the wrong novel on NU. it’s been uploaded under the novel The Peach Blossoms Begin to Dance.
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/the-peach-blossoms-begin-to-dance/
hello! You linked this to the wrong book. You uploaded it to Peach Blossom something, which is not the book title. Peace!
GAHHHH I know they are trying to get feelings and use them for the humans who no loner have them but what about HUI HUI?! He’s the one growing feelings cries
Thanks for the chapter <3
Is this gonna turn horror?
‘Cause I’m down for it XD
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ty 4 the chapter!
okay but in all honesty jf is very professional lol… my heart is aching for yh. this netorare arc kinda crazy 😳 but we’ve covered jealousy so early on, which i think is a good thing, cuz if it was explored in the later arcs, i dont think jf could do it lol… the gamut of human emotion is so wide, looking forward to jf awakening feelings like confidence, and tenderness (but from real love, not infatuation). cmon baby, you can do it!
When I saw Yu Hui so broken:
AHHHHH JIANG FU YOU SLAG MAN HOW COULD YOUUUU I know this is part of your job and you’re doing what’s essential but still- HOW COULD YOUUUU BABY HUI IS SO BADLY HURT 😭😭😭
Thanks for the chapter <3
This iss soo saddd😭😭😭Why he made Yu Hui sadddddd..My heart hurtss for himmm