Yu Rui followed the address on the card, which was scrawled with two misspelled words, to an old neighborhood in Q City.
The street is not far from D High School in terms of distance, with many food stalls and a variety of stores on the first floor, with narrow storefronts and staircases in between.
Walking up the hallway that looks dirty, dark, and old, the world on the second floor is even more “exciting”.
As soon as he climbed the stairs, a roar came from the first door on the left-hand side of Yu Rui: “Dead – all to love – without soaking without pain – how deep the feelings, only then, enough to confess – dead – all to love – without crying until smiling without pain – universe destroyed, the heart is still there….”
Yu Rui: “….”
The resident singer seems hysterical, with the microphone almost in his throat, he seems very excited.
Yu Rui looked down with difficulty to confirm the address: After going upstairs, the third room on the left.
Yu Rui put the card away.
“Hey, handsome boy!”
Yu Rui’s stop was caught by a waiter who went out to look for customers. The other party greeted him enthusiastically, “Are you alone? Come in and listen to a song!”
There was a pungent smell of men’s perfume on his body, so Yu Rui took half a step back and smiled softly, “I’m not 18 yet, I can’t go in.”
The light on the second floor was dim, and only after the waiter stepped forward did he see Yu Rui’s face.
His eyes lit up, then darkened pitifully after hearing Yu Rui’s words, “Not 18. Aish, what a pity.”
Yu Rui didn’t want to explore the meaning of “what a pity” in the other party’s mouth, he just nodded politely and prepared to walk away.
He didn’t think this person was familiar with him.
“Don’t rush, handsome boy, tell your brother how old you are this year.”
Yu Rui stopped and looked at him.
In the half-light, the young man’s eyebrows and eyes were traced with light and shadow, creating a sense of depth and three-dimensionality. It was only then the waiter realized that the boy’s features were not soft, but had a cold beauty: when he looked at people with a smile, he somehow carried a coldness that pierced to the bone.
The waiter smiled stiffly.
Before he could react, he realized that the coldness in the smile of the teenager in front of him had vanished again, as if it were his illusion. When he blinked again to disperse his illusion, the teenager he had dragged under the lamp still looked as kind and comforting as ever.
“16.” The boy seemed to answer him helplessly.
The waiter retracted his hand in embarrassment, and his eyes shifted from side to side. When a person had a guilty conscience, it was easy to say something stupid, “Ah, only 16, then actually none of our floors fit you.”
Yu Rui’s eyes twitched slightly. Then he smiled, “I’m here to find someone.”
“You’re looking for someone? What kind of person could you be looking for up here?”
“Well, a gentleman surnamed Zhan. My father borrowed money from him. I’ll ask him about the situation.”
“Hmm… Are you looking for Mr. Zhan?” The waiter’s expression was instantly sharp, “How much does your father owe him? And how come he allowed you to come?”
Yu Rui looked down and smiled slightly. He didn’t speak, but it was enough for the waiter to make a decision.
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The waiter’s gaze towards Yu Rui was immediately filled with sympathy, accompanied by a sigh and a smirk, “Nowadays almost anyone can be a father, there’s no way around it. But the good thing is that Mr. Zhan is not an unreasonable person, although the interest rate he lends is not low, it is always within the legal limit; even if you can’t pay it back for a while, talk to him for leniency, he will give you a break…”
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It was just after eight o’clock in the evening, it was not yet time for the bar to be full, and since the bar already had very little business, the waiter has been at the door for half a day without finding any customers to bring in.
With the tray in his hand, he leaned over the low concrete wall and watched the traffic on the first floor for a while before turning around to go back.
Then he looked up just in time to see a young man emerge from the dark hallway.
The light was too dim, and the waiter was slightly blind at night, so he couldn’t see the man’s face from that distance, but he seemed young.
The waiter instantly pulled up his smile and greeted him, “Handsome boy, are you alone? Have you come to the bar to pla-”
The words stopped abruptly.
When he got close enough to have a look, the waiter stopped his blabbering and looked a little dazed. The ” handsome boy” greeting this time was very accurate, the boy who approached looked no worse than the previous one, only his eyelids were droopy, and he had an extra touch of laziness and indifference.
He was as lazy as a cat about to take a nap.
The thing is, he didn’t look like he was of age either.
The waiter took a deep breath: “Handsome boy, are you also underage this year?”
Xie Li, who was about to walk past, stopped his long legs and turned around, “Also?”
“….”
The waiter froze at the look on the boy’s face.
He withdrew his previous thoughts about the boy being like a lazy cat… he looked more like a predator, and with its eyes open it was more like the kind of creature patterned after a king poked its head out.
Xie Li’s fingers that were unconsciously rubbing his tennis ball paused as he squinted slightly, “Did another student just walk by?”
The waiter gave an awkward and forced smile, “Yeah, what a coincidence, I’m sure you are too hahaha.”
“A guy about 170, with black hair and a friendly smile?”
The waiter froze, “Hey, you guys know each other, huh, you two have a date together? He just walked in.”
“….” Xie Li’s eyes deepened, and after a moment he laughed, “No, it’s not a date.”
“Huh? So you guys are…”
“Fate, I guess.”
“……”
The waiter shuddered.
Normally he should have felt bitter when a handsome guy said that, but for some reason, when it came out of the guy in front of him it was accompanied by a sort of gnashing of teeth.
But it wasn’t malicious, it was closer to…
The waiter didn’t want to understand what kind of emotion was in the boy’s eyes when he saw him move his eye to look behind him towards the bar.
The bar was fairly quiet at the time, as the hysterical resident singer had probably left the stage to rest his voice. It was not very well lit. Whether it’s for ambiance or to save electricity, anyone could guess.
Xie Li dropped his eyes, “Give me cards.”
The waiter froze and smiled, “You know about cards, you’re quite knowledgeable, it’s not your first time in a bar, right? But we don’t serve under….”
The waiter didn’t finish his sentence, Xie Li lifted the jacket hanging on his arm and waved an ID card in front of the bartender’s eyes.
It was a solid 18 years old.
The waiter was speechless.
Indeed, the bar was very small and quiet, and aside from the resident singer, it didn’t seem too out of place to say that it was a bar that served alcoholic beverages.
The waiter kept asking when he led Xie Li to a table, “Are you sure you don’t want to change to a private table? There is a minimal charge for booths, and there is a waiter at your disposal.”
“Is the waiter as handsome as he is?”
“Huh? Who?”
When the waiter was confused, Xie Li had already looked down, “How much is the minimum charge?”
“200 for a table, unlimited for a private one.”
Xie Li took out two pink bills and added another, “One beer. Remind me when he comes out.”
The waiter froze, but immediately took it with a smile, “No problem.”
When the waiter returned with the beer, the resident singer had already started singing “The Departure Song”.
In that hysterical uproar, the waiter trudged over to the card table and was about to make noise, he found the boy at the card table had already fallen asleep on his side.
The jacket that had been hanging over his arm was now over his head.
The music roared in the ears, and the older brother roared back, “It’s the most – lonely thing when you want to stay and you can’t…”
“….”
The waiter, whose eardrums were shattered, looked at Xie Li, who had just fallen asleep, and plunged into deep thoughts. After a few seconds, he sighed and turned to go stand guard at the door.
Yu Rui quickly came out.
In fact, according to his people, Mr. Zhan was not here most of the time. One has to make an appointment to see him.
Yu Rui left his contact details and the first payment and turned around to leave.
This ancient street, which also houses many street food stalls, has a smoky atmosphere, especially at night, with layers of smoke insulating light from near and far in circles.
Yu Rui approached the low barrier and stopped.
After all the years he had spent in the city, he still got excited often. The morning dew, the midday sun, and the evening breeze returned through the gaps of the tall buildings at night.
Contemplating such a landscape, even the most troublesome things can be forgotten, even if only for a while, it is already a rare moment of relief and enjoyment.
The knot in his heart dissipated a little, and Yu Rui turned around to leave.
Then his arm tensed up.
“Shit! Little handsome brother, life is too short! You’ve only lived a dozen or so years, you can’t be so inconsiderate ah! So what if you owe money? You have to grit your teeth and pay back what you owe. It’s okay to be miserable. You could always work hard to get through! Listen to me, I’ve got a lot more experience than you! And this is the second floor, even if you don’t die, your life will be over!”
Yu Rui was probably dazed by the smoky atmosphere of the floor below, and his head was not spinning his thoughts. The waiter, whose voice was familiar to him, was already forcibly dragging him back.
When Yu Rui saw the black entrance of the bar getting closer and closer to him, he uttered, “I’m not going to….”
“I understand, I understand everything! These past six months we have carried three away from the first-floor entrance of this bar, let’s move away from the wall, no no no let’s not think about the wall first, come this way, it’s safe! Let’s go in, let’s calm down and talk!”
The anxious waiter dragged Yu Rui into the bar.
Inside, it was another break for the resident big brother, the silence was interrupted by the sound of the door.
On the edge of the table, the man with the jacket over his head stirred slightly. A few seconds later, he removed his jacket, revealing a pair of deep-set eyes.
Looking at the familiar figure being dragged in, Xie Li slowly and uncontrollably curved the corners of his mouth.
He smiled wickedly with excitement.
And at that moment in the bar.
“Ah?” The waiter turned his head awkwardly, “It’s just, no, you weren’t going to jump, huh?”
Yu Rui looked at him speechlessly.
“Er … Then I was mistaken. Right, sorry ah, I saw you standing by the wall for so long, so I thought you were going to seek death….”
The waiter’s eyes drifted awkwardly, and almost unconsciously, he turned to look at the card table where Xie Li was and then found that the bottles were all there, but the person was gone.
While the waiter was perplexed as sudden darkness veiled his eyes, and, after a few seconds of stony silence, the shouts of several customers sounded from deep inside the bar.
The waiter was confused, “Is the power out?”
“No!” Someone shouted from the other side of the bar, “There’s still power next to us and downstairs, the fuse probably fused; I’ll take a look, don’t panic.”
Relieved, the waiter turned to reassure the young man he had just dragged in, but he saw what looked like a figure suddenly walk past him.
The waiter blinked his eyes to adjust to the darkness and see, though his slight night blindness did not allow him to make out details in the dark.
It was already night, and the windows were sealed to make them airtight.
When the power went out in the bar, Yu Rui was also plunged into darkness.
He frowned and tried to grope his way out, following his memory and the dim light from the door. However, in an instant, the dim light from the door was blocked by what appeared to be a man taller than him.
“Excuse me.” Yu Rui’s voice was soft with a smile, “Please let me pa-”
Before the words left his mouth, he was suddenly held by the back of his neck.
And in the darkness, Yu Rui sensed a sudden pain pressed upon his lips.
The big bad cat of pray caught his victim~
PREY I MEAN PREY praying won’t save you from yandere
We’re getting some action now 👌🏼
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OMG THEY’RE KISSING, RIGHT??? AAAA
can’t wait for the next update, thanks for the chapter!! <3
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Ooo First kiss? (*∩ω∩)(∂ω∂)
Whattttttt omggggg Xie Liiiiiii
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Ohhh! did they kissed??!!!?? Hehe! Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
👀 I really cannot predict what will happen xD
Is he biting? Xie Li bit him didn’t he? I knew it! Or maybe he’s just feeding Yu Rui hot peppers.