translator: Oyen
There happened to be a pharmacy near the hotel. Qiu Zongping asked the driver to stop. He went to the pharmacy to buy iodine, gauze, and the anti-inflammatory medicines listed by his sister.
Yuan Xi took the plastic bag he gave and politely said, “Thank you.”
Qiu Zongping frowned slightly—— because Yuan Xi was too polite to him, a little like a stranger, which made him uncomfortable.
After arriving at the hotel, Yuan Xi naturally went back to his room to have a rest.
When he walked into the elevator and pressed the fourth floor, Qiu Zongping stood beside him and did not speak. Yuan Xi thought that Qiu Zongping also lived on the fourth floor like him, so when Qiu Zongping walked out of the elevator with him, he had no doubt. Until he walked all the way to the door of room 407 where he lived, Qiu Zongping stopped at the door of 407.
Yuan Xi: “???”
Finding that the other party had no intention of moving, Yuan Xi finally reacted and couldn’t help wondering, “Aren’t you going back to your room?”
Qiu Zongping replied. “Let me take care of your wound.”
Yuan Xi waved his hand. “Don’t bother, I can handle it myself.”
However, Qiu Zongping still did not intend to leave, instead stood stubbornly behind him.
“You really don’t have to bother.” Yuan Xi replied.
This attitude of refusal was quite obvious. Yuan Xi didn’t even open the door and waited for Qiu Zongping to turn around.
Qiu Zongping was silent for a moment, and his voice lowered. “I don’t mean anything. It’s not convenient for you to bandage yourself. In case of wound infection, it will be very troublesome to go to the hospital. My sister said that the wound needs to be cleaned repeatedly with iodine as soon as possible. So, let me help you.”
He said so, and Yuan Xi’s refusal was a little unreasonable. Without any better option, he had to brace himself to reply. “Thank you, then.”
When the door was opened, the quilt on the bed was neatly folded by the cleaning aunt, but the suitcase on the ground was a bit unsightly, and the clothes inside were turned upside down like there was a thief in the house. Yuan Xi took advantage of his inattention, quickly closed the lid of the suitcase with his feet, and then walked to the bed and sat down casually.
Qiu Zongping put the plastic bag next to him, found a cotton swab, walked up to Yuan Xi with iodine, and tore off the band-aid on his arm.
—— Through the lights in the room, he found that the wound was not deep, and it was about five centimeters long, and it should not leave a scar after healing.
At that time, Yuan Xi suddenly fell into the river. Qiu Zongping’s mind was blank, he lost his rationality, and he was so anxious that he thought he was badly hurt. Now it seemed that the branch had made a small cut in the skin, and the blood didn’t stop before, perhaps it was really because it had been soaked in water as his sister said.
After seeing the wound, Qiu Zongping finally breathed a sigh of relief, dipped in iodine, and began to disinfect the area around the wound.
He lowered his head, and Yuan Xi could just see the hair whorl above his head. His movements were also very gentle, and Yuan Xi didn’t feel any pain at all.
After repeatedly disinfecting with iodine several times, Qiu Zongping took the gauze, carefully wrapped it, and wrapped it very neatly, no worse than the professional nurses in the hospital.
After the wrapping was finished, Qiu Zongping’s lip curved with a smile, “Well, don’t touch the water. You should be able to heal after a few days of rest.”
He raised his head and met Yuan Xi’s gaze.
Yuan Xi was in a daze, his pair of round black eyes looked very cute.
Because the distance was too close, his face was right in front of his eyes. As long as he leaned forward a little bit, he could touch his rosy lips…
Qiu Zongping’s breath suddenly stopped, immediately took a step back, and quietly pulled open the distance.
——D*mn, why did the scene where Yuan Xi kissed him flashed through his mind at the moment just now?
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—— Even came up with a strange idea to taste what Yuan Xi’s lips taste like when he is sober.
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Yuan Xi also came to his senses, nodded his head and replied, “En, thank you captain Qiu.”
Qiu Zongping turned and left the bedroom, and found that his heart was beating a little fast. The clear eyes that Yuan Xi used to look at him, kept flashing in his mind…
The more he thought about it, the more jitter he was. Qiu Zongping went back to his room and changed his swimsuit to swim in the swimming pool. He wanted to use sports to drive away more and more confused thoughts in his mind.
As a result, he actually saw a couple kissing in the forest by the pool, and then remembered the scene of kissing Yuan Xi that night …
Foreigners were open-minded, they embraced each other and kissed each other closely without avoiding suspicion.
The more Qiu Zongping saw it, the angrier he became, because he suddenly wanted to try what it was like to kiss deeply, and would it be as enjoyable as it was on TV? That night with Yuan Xi, in fact, just a little bit, to put it bluntly, Yuan Xi was clumsily gnawing at his mouth, and he didn’t respond.
How would it feel if he responded?
Qiu Zongping found that the more he thought about it, the weirder he became, so he had no choice but to dive into the water, so as not to continue to watch the couple show love.
Yuan Xi slept in the hotel for an afternoon. In the evening, he was hungry and went downstairs to search for food. As a result, he saw Qiu Zongping sitting on a couch near the swimming pool next to the elevator entrance.
He didn’t know that Qiu Zongping had actually been sitting here in a daze after swimming.
It was the first time that he had been in a daze for such a long time, and he felt that his whole brain was numb and his feeling was completely unclear.
Seeing Yuan Xi, Qiu Zongping returned to his senses, immediately stood up and asked, “Are you going to have dinner?”
He was only wearing a pair of black swimming trunks, clear abdominal muscles at the lower abdomen, and two strong and slender legs, all bare in front of him. Yuan Xi couldn’t stand such visual stimulation, immediately didn’t look back, replied. “I want to go out to eat something.”
Qiu Zongping immediately picked up the bath towel on the recliner and wrapped it around his waist and replied. “I happen to be hungry, too. Let’s go together. Give me five minutes. I’ll change my clothes.”
Yuan Xi suddenly remembered that he had borrowed his clothes today and forgot to return them, so he simply followed him upstairs and went back to his room to get the clothes.
As for the underwear…
If he had worn it, it was not good to give it back to him, right?
Yuan Xi didn’t return it, and Qiu Zongping didn’t ask, and both of them didn’t mention this topic quite tacitly.
After changing clothes, they walked out of the hotel together.
Qiu Zongping followed the navigation to find a Chinese restaurant and said, “Isn’t your stomach uncomfortable? Let’s go and drink some light porridge.”
Yuan Xi thought: I didn’t feel uncomfortable, I was pretending to have a stomachache to avoid you at the time…
He really wanted to eat Indonesian fried rice. It was said that Indonesian fried rice was quite delicious. He hadn’t tasted it yet.
But when he dug the pit himself, he had to jump down on his knees. In the end, he could only follow Qiu Zongping to the Chinese restaurant to drink porridge—— he had drunk this countless times in China and even drank porridge when he went abroad.
But it was true that he was hungry, so Yuan Xi impolitely drank a large bowl of crab porridge.
After drinking the porridge, both of them walked along the beach back to the hotel. Yuan Xi kept looking down at the road under his feet without saying a word. After walking in silence for ten minutes, Qiu Zongping finally couldn’t help it, and took the initiative to say. “Meeting me here, are you… really unhappy?”
He finally asked.
In the lobby of the hotel that day, he could see it clearly that Yuan Xi wanted to turn around and run away; The occasional encounter in the restaurant, when Qiu Zongyue asked to sit together, the awkwardness on Yuan Xi’s face did not escape his eyes; when he was rafting today, after he heard that he was going to be the same boat with him, everyone could see how unwilling Yuan Xi was from his expression.
Yuan Xi must be very troubled to meet him here, right?
Out of politeness, he didn’t avoid him face to face.
Qiu Zongping suddenly felt a little uncomfortable. When he was young, Yuan Xi also avoided him for a period of time, but at that time it was because Yuan Xi had a knot and felt that he had robbed him of the position of captain, so he quarreled with him, and he didn’t take it seriously.
But this time, he knew that Yuan Xi wanted to avoid him because his confession was politely refused and his true feelings were revealed with alcohol influence. Yuan Xi would be awkward in front of him.
… Did he make Yuan Xi feel such awkwardness?
Qiu Zongping stopped and looked at the person beside him.
He kept his head down as if he was thinking about something. The dim street lamp shone on his side face. Qiu Zongping suddenly found that he had really lost a lot of weight during this period, and his chin had become a little slimmer—— Yuan Xi’s face used to be quite fleshy and round, and he was full of energy.
But now he was so thin that Qiu Zongping had a slight pain in his heart.
Probably aware of Qiu Zongping’s gaze, Yuan Xi also stopped.
After a long silence, he replied. “How should I answer you? Don’t you know it well?”
The voice of this sentence was deliberately lowered by him, and it sounded calm, but it still revealed a bit of choking that was difficult to conceal.
Yuan Xi looked up into Qiu Zongping’s eyes and said, “Captain Qiu, I know you don’t like me, and I also know that I did something wrong after drinking that night. You adults don’t care about it, but I really can’t raise your head in front of you…”
“Every time I see you, I think of how stupid I am…” As he spoke, his eyes flushed slightly. “I’m really tired. I didn’t dare to show anything wrong in front of your sister. When you talk to me, I’m embarrassed to ignore you, but I… I really don’t want to see you.”
“I said I would give up this relationship, and I will do it. It’s just that it may take a little longer to let go of a relationship, but I promise that after the holiday is over, I will return to the team at my best condition. I will never slow you down next season. Will you please believe me again?”
Qiu Zongping: “……”
Yuan Xi’s voice seems to have been tinged with the coolness of the night, with a slight trembling at the end. Listening to it, Qiu Zongping’s heart couldn’t help but feel chilly.
——He said he would give up the relationship and he would do it
——He said, please believe me again.
—— Believe in what? Believe that you will definitely give up your love for me?
Qiu Zongping suddenly didn’t know how to answer, because he was surprised to find that he didn’t want Yuan Xi to let go completely.
This kind of approach was totally scum in romance novels. It felt like, ‘I don’t like you, but you have to continue to like me.’
For what reason?
Yuan Xi wanted to let go. Qiu Zongping, shouldn’t you be happy and say that’s great, we can be simple friends again.
However, Qiu Zongping couldn’t say it.
He didn’t know why, his voice seemed to be stuck in his throat, looking at Yuan Xi’s red eyes, listening to Yuan Xi earnestly saying. “Please believe me, I will let go”, he couldn’t find any lines, but only felt a burst of tightness in his heart.
After Yuan Xi finished, he took a deep breath, and his voice was calmer. “From tomorrow on, we’d better not meet. If your sister and aunt ask about it, you can say that I joined a group to experience the local customs. They don’t know what I think of you, don’t say it. Just leave me some dignity.”
Hearing this, Qiu Zongping’s chest pain became clearer, as if he was slammed with a fist.
Yuan Xi put himself in a very low position, as if it was a great mistake to fall in love with Qiu Zongping. He even felt that Qiu Zongping himself and his family would despise him for this.
But in fact it was not like this…
Qiu Zongping wanted to explain something, but he saw that Yuan Xi had turned and left.
His back was stretched by the street lamp, and he was really too thin.
What had he been through alone all this time?
How sad was it in his heart that he had changed from that energetic teenager to the gloomy look now?
Qiu Zongping was so distressed that he could hardly breathe. Suddenly he wanted to step forward and hold him in his arms, telling him that he had never hated him. However, looking at Yuan Xi becoming thin, but trying to straighten his back, Qiu Zongping finally didn’t dare to make such a misleading action.
Since it was necessary to break it, then break it completely.
He couldn’t be so shameless, he had obviously rejected Yuan Xi, but gave Yuan Xi hope.
After making his words clear that night, Qiu Zongping didn’t see Yuan Xi again the next day.
At breakfast time, he couldn’t help looking around the restaurant. Even Qiu Zongyue noticed it and smiled. “Are you looking for Xiao Yuan?”
Qiu Zongping didn’t deny it, but remained silent.
Qiu Zongyue continued. “Maybe he sleeps late. By the way, we are going to play in the water sports center today. Shall we ask him to go with us?”
“No need.” Qiu Zongping shook his head.
—— He didn’t like to see me.
Qiu Zongping didn’t say this sentence, but when he thought of this reason, his heart would still be very uncomfortable.
Throughout the day, Qiu Zongyue found that her brother’s face wasn’t very good. In fact, there were many interesting projects in the water sports center, such as water parachutes and flying fish, especially parachutes, which were particularly thrilling and exciting. Dragging the parachute into the air with the speed of a speedboat was like flying a kite. People sitting on the parachute could experience the feeling of ‘flying up.’
Qiu Zongyue’s family of four went to experience it and asked Qiu Zongping to try it, but he looked uninterested. “No, I’ve played it before.”
Aunt Qiu smiled. “It’s not easy to come here. Go and play again! I will feel sorry if you as the tour guide need to accompany us and don’t play anything by yourself.”
After his aunt said so, Qiu Zongping had no choice but to buy a parachute project and experience it alone.
The moment he was released into the air, he suddenly thought, if only Yuan Xi was here.
Would Yuan Xi scream with excitement like yesterday?
When he was rafting yesterday, except for the last unpleasant episode that hurt him, he had a good time in the process before.
He also chatted and laughed with the coach in broken Chinese-English.
There was a cool sea breeze blowing in his ear. Qiu Zongping looked at the sea under his feet and thought with some regret that it was a pity that Yuan Xi was not in such an interesting project. But he seemed a little afraid of heights, right? Yesterday, when the kayak flew over the waterfall, he held his hand nervously, and his fingers were still trembling slightly…
He must be afraid of heights, right? Then he couldn’t play in high-altitude projects like parachutes, or was it important to be safe in case he had a heart attack?
However, he could recommend banana boats, speedboats and other projects to him. Instead of flying into the air, he could play in the sea. It was also very interesting to walk on the bottom of the sea. Diving underwater to see beautiful marine life. There were also snorkeling, with professional coaches, to experience the thrill of scuba diving.
Qiu Zongping was suddenly stunned—— why did he keep thinking about Yuan Xi?
He flew high into the air by parachute, with a vast blue sky above his head and an endless sea beneath his feet—— but his mind was full of Yuan Xi.
Ahhh so close, just a bit moreeeee 😘 these two, gahhhhh, it’s too cute! Think of him moreeeeeeee, he’s worth it! Thanks for the translation!
Agreed, he’s really worth it 👏
You’re welcome~ ❤
Lmao, he still don’t realize that he likes Yuan Xi ?
Thank you for the chapter 💜
he will realize soon 😏
You’re welcome~ ❤
Qiu zongping go get your man!!!! 😭😭
Damn. My kokoro hurts.
yes, just feel the regret of hurting poor yuan xi. you need to give more effort to earn him back!
Im crying!!!! Poor yuan xi…. 😭
+1 😭