Birth… day…?
Yu Rui stared at the light blue box in Xie Li’s hand, a little surprised. No wonder he always felt like he had forgotten something today, it turned out he had forgotten his birthday.
The first thing was the disgusting employer he met at the part-time job interview, then Yu Congsheng’s debts…
It turned out that his birthday was on such a depressing, hopeless, and frustrating day.
Yu Li probably prepared a gift for him, no wonder he kept it a secret when he knocked on the door at noon…
For the first time in his sixteen years of life, Yu Rui seemed to have received a birthday gift from someone other than Yu Li.
Yu Rui, “How did you know it was my birthday?”
Naturally, Xie Li couldn’t betray Yu Li, who had been good enough to sell all of Yu Rui’s information to him that day outside T Elementary School. He smiled, “I counted with my fingers.”
Yu Rui hesitated, “I can’t accept it.”
“It’s just a birthday gift. If you feel bad about it, you can pay me back in return when it’s my birthday next month.” Xie Li said.
“Your birthday is next month?”
“Yes.” Xie Li replied, “And as the first one to give you a gift, I should have a privilege, right?”
“??”
“When it comes to my birthday gift, the gift you send should meet my requirements.”
Yu Rui: “….”
Meeting Yu Rui’s ever so suspicious look, Xie Li laughed: “I haven’t even said the requirements yet, why do you look like you want to call the police?”
“….”
Yu Rui looked down and saw that the corners of the box that were in Xie Li’s palm were still stained with blood. He hesitated, but he reached over and took it from Xie Li.
“Open it and take a look.” Xie Li said, “It took me a long time to choose it.”
“What is it?”
“An engagement ring?”
“!!”
Yu Rui’s hand trembled and was about to throw the box away.
Xie Li couldn’t help himself, “I’m joking! See for yourself.”
Yu Rui looked at him blankly before lowering his head and opening the light blue box with a throbbing heart.
Inside was a pair of silver-white, square-shaped jewelry with two small diamonds embedded in the corners.
Yu Rui looked for a few seconds and asked uncertainly, “Are they…. cufflinks?”
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Xie Li raised an eyebrow, “What, you don’t like it?”
“No…” Yu Rui sighed as he put the box away in his backpack, “I like it, thank you. Now I’ll take you to the hospital.”
Yu Rui turned on the flashlight of his cell phone and walked forward. The teenager’s back was thin, and the sharp lines of the silhouette were cut off by the cell phone’s light.
Xie Li narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at him silently for a few seconds before following him.
Yu Rui sent Xie Li to the nearest hospital for an X-ray to make sure there were no broken or fractured bones before finally calming down. However, apart from the bruise on his shoulder and back, Xie Li had received a lot of “attention” due to the mob they were stuck in earlier, and there were several other bruises all over his body.
After scrutinizing them several times like seeing delinquents, the ER doctor sighed and gave them some medicine for bruises, telling them to look for a nurse to put the medicine on.
Xie Li came in and sat on the emergency bed, pulling back Yu Rui who went out to find a nurse, handing him the medicine and cotton swabs he had just received, “Since the nurse is not available, you can do it for me.”
While Yu Rui was surprised, Xie Li had already turned around and lifted his T-shirt with one hand.
After the fight, bruises crisscrossed the back of his shoulder, and the bruise left by the bat on his right side looked especially horrible.
Yu Rui’s pupils tensed slightly and the hand holding the cotton carefully applied the medicine to the wound.
Xie Li noticed something and turned around, “You…. ”
As soon as the words came out, Yu Rui’s hand trembled. After stiffening for a few seconds, he hurriedly raised his eyes, “What did you just say?”
Xie Li did not reply but narrowed his eyes to stare at him.
Yu Rui hesitated, “Did I make a heavy move and hurt you?”
A smile escaped Xie Li upon his words, “I was trying to tell you that you don’t have to act like you are dealing with your sister, I’m not that delicate.”
“But the injury is serious.”
“Can that even be considered an injury?” Xie Li snorted slightly and turned around, “Class President, if you’re so afraid of pain, I’ll have a hard time doing it in the future.”
Yu Rui did not understand Xie Li’s words. His mind was completely distracted during the conversation. Yu Rui found it hard to take his eyes off those wounds, the self-blame and apology made his brow furrow more and more.
The medicine was almost finished when a nurse approached.
Seeing the two and hearing from Yu Rui about the situation, the nurse, who looked to be in her late thirties or early forties, gave them a nagging look.
“You guys are young, don’t do this kind of thing again. In the end, it was only a small superficial injury, you can consider yourselves lucky. How many fights have I seen with broken bones? Not to mention injuries to the back; a little higher up in the middle and you could have been paralyzed, a little higher up to the head and you could have had a life-threatening hematoma.”
The nurse’s words made Yu Rui feel absent-minded as they walked out of the hospital.
The two stopped at the entrance, Xie Li waved his stiff right hand, and when he glanced sideways, he met Yu Rui’s expressionless but worried face.
Xie Li paused and laughed, “Shall I come to your place for dinner tonight?”
Yu Rui frowned and nodded after two seconds of silence, ” Fine.”
Seeing Yu Rui turn around to pick up the bicycle he had left earlier, the smile on Xie Li’s face sank. Looking at Yu Rui’s back, he couldn’t help but frown.
It was midnight when they arrived at Yu Rui’s house.
Yu Rui parked his bicycle in the basement and walked up the old stairs.
The sensor lights on the first floor were probably broken, and only three or two lights on the outside of the building were working, vaguely tracing the figure of Xie Li standing in the first-floor hallway, leaning against the wall with his head half bent, motionless.
Remembering the nurse’s words, Yu Rui’s heart clenched.
He unconsciously quickened his pace and approached, while whispering the person’s name, “Xie Li?”
The air was quiet and no response was heard.
Yu Rui panicked and raised his hand to try to pull Xie Li, “Xie Li, you…”
His wrist, which had been raised in the air, was suddenly grabbed.
Yu Rui’s body stiffened.
But he only heard muffled laughter in his ears, “Class President, you’re weird today.”
“You…” Yu Rui seemed to suddenly let out a sigh of relief, “Are you alright?”
“What could be wrong with me?”
“You didn’t move. I thought-”
“You thought I was dead?” Xie Li lost his smile and raised his eyes, “Why are you so worried about me today?”
Yu Rui completely regained his senses at that moment, and his first reaction was to withdraw his hand. Only when he thought about how many wounds this person still had on his body, did he stop again.
After a few deadpan seconds, Yu Rui spoke, ”Since it’s okay, let’s go upstairs.
“Tsk.”
When Xie Li saw that Yu Rui wasn’t struggling, the smile on his face sank, as he grabbed Yu Rui’s wrist and slowly pulled Yu Rui toward him.
Yu Rui only stiffened but did not resist.
Their breathing grew closer and closer to the dimness, and the mood in Xie Li’s eyes became gloomy.
He suddenly remembered what he had said to Kan Qing that day.
[He doesn’t like to owe favors.]
[If I pay this debt for him and then say I want to fuck him. He won’t even refuse.]
“… you really won’t refuse me?” At an extremely close point, Xie Li suddenly asked in a muffled voice. There was a certain uneasiness in his voice that he didn’t even know.
Yu Rui remained rigid, “Refuse what?”
“Would you have done the same thing if it was anyone else?”
“Xie Li, what the hell are you talking about?”
Suddenly, Xie Li’s hand pulled hard, and Yu Rui was caught and pushed against the wall.
Almost instinctively, he tried to resist, but the next moment he stopped. He gritted his teeth slightly and raised his eyes to look at Xie Li.
In the gloom, the pair of eyes were exceptionally bright, with a gloomy and turbulent mood.
Yu Rui heard Xie Li’s voice deepen.
“Are you sorry because I got hurt today because of you, and you don’t dare to refuse or fight against anything I do?”
Yu Rui said nothing.
Xie Li laughed in exasperation and moved closer to him, “Then how far can I go before you start to resist?”
Yu Rui kept silent. After a while, he looked up and glared at Xie Li with cold eyes.
But what Xie Li saw was not coldness, not indifference, but only seduction. Hundreds of insects and ants in his heart were nibbling at him, nibbling so much as to drive him mad.
At a certain point, he finally seemed unable to help himself: Xie Li slowly approached him with dark eyes.
As if about to kiss, he lowered his eyes and looked at Yu Rui’s cold, pursed lips. When he came closer, he stopped in front of Yu Rui’s lips, slightly sticking out his tongue.
The end of Yu Rui’s eyebrows flicked, the clenched hands hung free at his side, but then finally slowly loosened.
Yu Rui closed his eyes.
The air was still.
For a long time, nothing happened.
After all the psychological preparations had already been made, Yu Rui opened his eyes uncomprehendingly and heard faint laughter drift past his ears.
In the corridor, which could barely be seen through the dim light, Xie Li had already stepped back a few centimeters.
The man was leaning with one hand on the wall above Yu Rui’s head, bending over and laughing. The dark eyes were full of suppressed desire to the point of being hideous.
“Do you know how desirable you look right now, Class President?”
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THE AUTHOR HAS SOMETHING TO SAY:
Xie Hentai: I thought I just coveted his body, then I found out that children choose what adults want.
Thanks for the chapter ❤️❤️
Haha he counted on his fingers to figure out a birthday 😂. Smart, funny, perverted… maybe an engagement ring wouldn’t have been rejected?