Translator- 7qqy
Editor- Lily & DragonReadingAmongFlowrs
Chapter 36
“Let’s eat.”
The man’s voice was hoarse, and the light in his eyes shimmered. He slowly walked out of the kitchen, cast a deep glance at Su Jingyan, who was sitting on the sofa, and gently put the prepared pasta on the coffee table next to him.
When Su Jingyan heard the man’s voice, he opened his eyes suddenly and sat up with a jerk, his entire body feeling groggy.
He doesn’t know if it was because of being too tired or because of other reasons, but the man had just entered the kitchen for a while, and within a few minutes of sitting alone on the sofa, his eyelids began to close, and then he leaned against the cushion and fell asleep on the sofa.
The moment the man called him, he suddenly woke up with a sense of distortion like a dream. He sat on the sofa and blinked, and he couldn’t even turn his brain around.
“Ah? Okay.” Su Jingyan looked left and right and turned his head. His expression looked dizzy, with a bit of childish stupidity, and the bed hair on the top of his head exploded, and there was a moment of being indescribably cute.
The man stared at Su Jingyan with a fiery gaze; his dark eyes were as calm as a pool of stagnant water, his eyeballs moved in a small arc and landed on the top of Su Jingyan’s head. The originally expressionless man hooked the corners of his mouth at this moment unexpectedly, and without speaking, directly reached out to touch the top of Su Jingyan’s head.
Su Jingyan was unprepared and shivered. His sleepy mind was stimulated by the man’s sudden action, and most of the sleepiness disappeared in an instant, and he was completely awake.
As his brain began to resume functioning, his face also belatedly flushed red.
The man still quietly stared at Su Jingyan with his perverted eyes that seemed to be able to see through everything. His whole face was still expressionless, and under the hazy yellow light, the man looked very pale, without a trace of vitality.
He gently sat next to Su Jingyan, with his thighs touching Su Jingyan’s, intentionally or not.
Su Jingyan involuntarily took a breath, swallowed, and his body trembled twice before he managed to stabilize himself.
It was not that he didn’t like the intimacy of men with him, but that his body reacted very strongly to these movements, like a conditioned reflex, completely out of the control of his brain.
And…
His reactions…
Before meeting Lu Yichen, it had never happened before…
It was completely aimed at Lu Yichen alone…
The more Su Jingyan thought about it, the more frightened he became, and an answer that was ready to come out took shape in his heart.
He panicked and didn’t dare to think about it. He quickly stopped his wild thoughts, slowly retracted his eyes, and looked at the food that the man put on the table for him.
A bowl of noodles with shredded pork and wood ear mushrooms that were rare to come by.
It was colorful and fragrant, with a hot aroma, and covered with onion and garlic, along with some side dishes.
Of course, those weren’t the main point.
The main point was that there was a fried egg on top of this bowl of noodles, which had been fried into a heart shape…
Su Jingyan blushed and opened his mouth as if something suddenly exploded in his mind, and his scalp felt a little numb.
He paused with his hands, picked up the bowls and chopsticks on the table cautiously, and then carefully peeked at the man sitting next to him from the corner of his eye.
Unexpectedly, his eyes just looked in the direction of the man for a little bit, and they directly met the man’s obscure and changing eyes.
With a “boom”, Su Jingyan felt the blood in his brain start to flow back . His whole body was numb and sore; he forgot to blink his eyes and stood motionless on the spot, looking at the man.
Su Jingyan’s heart also missed half a beat.
It was a very delicate experience.
The kind of experience where a glance at each other’s face, as long as two people look at each other calmly, even if they don’t do anything, their hearts will be moved ten thousand times.
It was his…
First experience with such emotions.
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It might be that he was the only one lost in his own mind, which made the terribly silent voice even more embarrassing.
Su Jingyan raised his head, looked around the surroundings, dared not look at the man’s expression, held back a sentence for a long time, and finally asked, “Do you like collecting things very much?”
Although the man’s home was simple, concise, and a bit horribly clean, there were many things hanging on the walls that ordinary people would never hang – specimens.
Numerous animal and plant specimens.
There were plants, butterflies, and insects. But generally speaking, they were small once-living things, not very big.
The man sitting next to him pursed his lips after hearing Su Jingyan’s words. His face was still calm, but when he looked closely, he noticed that the moment Su Jingyan’s voice fell, the man’s brows also sank. Even those unfathomable eyes flickered slightly.
The man tilted his head, avoiding Su Jingyan’s eyes, rolled his eyes, and asked hoarsely, with his unique low tone, “Why do you say that.”
And at the moment he spoke, his hand also seemed to inadvertently reach out to the back of Su Jingyan’s neck, without touching it, but simply placed his hand on it, with an indescribably weird feeling.
Su Jingyan wasn’t settled, and because of the man’s casual small movements, he would have a big reaction. When the man’s hand suddenly rested on his neck, it scared him so much that he almost dropped his chopsticks on the ground.
He lowered his head, pointed to the surrounding furnishings carefully with his index finger, and his voice became smaller and smaller, as if he had no confidence at all, “Because all the plants hanging on your wall are specimens, I feel like there were very few people who hang these things in their homes.”
Following his instructions, the man glanced at the specimen map hanging on the wall of the room, raised his eyebrows, did not speak, lowered his eyes again, and briefly looked away from Su Jingyan.
But the man’s hands that were just resting on Su Jingyan’s neck moved as if they were beating a drum. The beat was in a small arc that scratched and Su Jingyan felt a little shy and shrugged his shoulders..
In addition, the man’s hands were already cold, and because of the low temperature at night, Su Jingyan shivered inexplicably when he felt the temperature on his neck.
But simply, it may be that he was born with some stubbornness, or he really didn’t have the slightest suspicion and defense against men, and he didn’t think about it at all. Taking advantage of his stomach protesting because of hunger, Su Jingyan buried his head again and put his heart and soul back into eating.
The man sat by the side and stared at Su Jingyan for a long time with a weird and veiled gaze, as if sizing up a precious collection. From head to toe, he looked at Su Jingyan seriously.
The man hooked his lips silently, and his Adam’s apple rolled.
I want.
A dangerous gleam flashed in the man’s eyes, with a bit of cruel bloodthirst, like the calm before the storm.
While Su Jingyan was immersed in eating the food, thinking that the man would not answer his question, the man kept silent for a moment, then slowly spoke, but a strange light flashed in his eyes.
Responding casually in a voice and tone that was almost talking to himself, “Yeah, I really like collecting those beautiful things.”
The moment the man mentioned the words “beautiful things,” the man’s gaze fell on Su Jingyan, and the corners of his mouth even trembled uncontrollably.
It was almost like…
Su Jingyan was what he mentioned…
“Beautiful things.”
The eyes were bland, with a strong aggression and an aggressiveness which makes people feel a little frightened and cannot be ignored.
The man stared at Su Jingyan and slowly tilted his head.
Then make them into specimens, keep their most beautiful moments, and keep them forever.
Tsk.
Su Jingyan nodded when he heard the man’s answer, but didn’t notice the man’s strangeness at all.
Chewing the noodles in his mouth, he continued vaguely, “Then what do you usually collect?”
The man raised his eyebrows, his eyes drifted inadvertently to a direction, and there was a locked door in that direction.
He didn’t know that the man was staring at this door, as if there was something hidden in that room.
The man’s hand resting on Su Jingyan’s neck also started tapping with his fingers and gradually changed to pinching Su Jingyan’s neck.
This action made Su Jingyan shiver straight this time.
The neck was the most vulnerable part of a person; it was connected to every pulse, and as long as it was casually pinched, it could kill a person.
Ah.
The man had an expression as if he was seriously remembering what he had collected, and his eyes moved slightly and flashed.
There was an indescribable sense of excitement all over his body, and his voice was hoarse with a bit of madness, and he replied, “There are quite a lot of them. I have everything. When I see something I like, I will collect it.”
Cat carcasses, wolf eyes, snake skins, tiger skins…
Hehe.
Su Jingyan blinked his thoughtful eyes, as if he had a small notebook for memorizing things in his heart he was secretly remembering the man’s preferences.
He hastily asked several questions about the man’s life.
Such as “usual recreational activities”, “what kind of food do you like to eat”, “what is your favorite thing to do”… just like a questionnaire survey, asking one question after another.
The man answered them one by one very patiently.
The moment the man finished answering the newest question and the sound of voice faded, Su Jingyan’s doe eyes trembled twice. After swallowing the noodles in his mouth, he involuntarily pursed his lips and bit his flesh inside the lip.
It was as if he was having some psychological struggle in his heart, where he wanted to say something, but for some reason it was stuck in his throat and he didn’t say a word for a long time.
Su Jingyan took a deep breath, his eyes were a little erratic, they could even be said to be guilty, and began to look around. He just didn’t dare to look at the man’s face, it seemed to be unintentional, but in fact he asked what he wanted to know the most in his heart.
“Have you always lived here alone? Where’s your lover?”
After finishing that question, Su Jingyan felt that his question was really inappropriate. Who would start to report their family name after they had just met for less than an hour.
It was also because of this that Su Jingyan felt so guilty, so embarrassed that he was almost ashamed, and even a little annoyed, why did he really ask everything, it was so useless.
And even the purpose behind his words was too strong, it was just as if he had said it aloud, and everyone knew it.
Su Jingyan lowered his head even more because of this.
When the man heard his words, his expression paused, and the hand on Su Jingyan’s neck also moved down slowly, before it was actually slowly pulled away.
Su Jingyan felt the change on his neck and his heart sank suddenly, tightening. He held his breath.
But when the man’s hand finally stopped on the sofa, he hadn’t completely let go of Su Jingyan, but continued to stick to his skin.
It was just that the man at this moment was looking at Su Jingyan with weird eyes because of what Su Jingyan said just now. There was a flash of emotion in his eyes, and he continued to stare at Su Jingyan with a very complicated expression..
The sickness and madness in the man’s eyes did not diminish, but it seemed that something was added, restraining, or suppressing something.
Even the blue veins on the man’s forehead were almost bursting, looking terrifying.
It was a pity that Su Jingyan didn’t realize this.
The man lowered his gaze for a moment, looking at the nervous and anxious young man next to him, squinted his eyes, and replied with a monosyllable of affirment, “Mm.”
it can be regarded as answering Su Jingyan’s first question, and it can also be regarded as affirming the fact that he is single.
When Su Jingyan heard this, he was overjoyed.
He immediately turned around excitedly to the man’s face, beamed with joy, and repeatedly confirmed without any reservation, “Really?”
After he finished speaking, he probably noticed that his reaction at this time seemed to be a little too excited, so he immediately restrained his expression, pretended to cough twice, and narrowed his eyes.
It was just that the blush around his cheeks had not dissipated and because he was really excited he looked at the man from time to time, meeting the man’s thoughtful eyes several times.
Su Jingyan was so ashamed that he immediately sat up straight, forced his movements to go back to the original position, turned his head, and tried his best to restrain his excitement so as not to look at the man’s face.
It was too shameful!
How has he been so shameful today!
The man looked at Su Jingyan’s ears and neck that were reddened by shame, and his eyes changed, revealing a naked and aggressive gaze.
His heart had become very different from the past when he saw beautiful things and was so excited that he wanted to make a specimen.
It was as if someone had simply thrown a small stone, but the entire lake that was originally calm began to ripple.
The man paused, his eyes were momentarily dulled. His right hand subconsciously touched the position of his heart.
Well, no heartbeat, so no heart.
But this place seemed to be filled with something, making every cell in his body keep shouting crazily, fascinated, even happy.
This was an experience he has never experienced before.
Not bad, it was even a little joyous, even…
sweet?
The man was startled. His eyes, which had been out of focus due to thinking, refocused again.
At this moment, the way he looked at Su Jingyan became very strange.
This look carried a bit of scrutiny and seemed to be unbelievable, as if he thought it was impossible in his heart.
The man looked at Su Jingyan with extremely complicated eyes, but there was something mixed in his eyes, as if it was not the first time the man saw Su Jingyan, he was very familiar with Su Jingyan.
This kind of scrutiny was like seeing the little white mouse he raised suddenly behave abnormally, letting the owner who was not interested in him suddenly become interested in him.
Su Jingyan, who didn’t know anything about the change in the man’s eyes, opened his mouth and quickly swallowed the last few mouthfuls of noodles in the bowl.
But the last bite was too big, causing him to have to bulge his cheeks all at once.
What’s even more funny was that at this moment, because of the tension and excitement just now, there was still a blush on his face that hasn’t faded.
At this time, his face turned into a monkey’s butt, big and red, which looked very funny.
The whole person opposite seemed a little bit amused.
Su Jingyan himself could hardly hold back his laughter.
He chewed the food stuffed in his mouth with some difficulty, holding the bowl and chopsticks in one hand and covering his mouth with the other.
Probably to ease the embarrassment, he sat up from the sofa in a jiffy as soon as he finished the mouthful.
Speaking in asmall voice, “I’m done eating, I’m going to wash the dishes now.”
Then, without looking back, not daring to look at the man’s face, he walked briskly and rushed directly to the kitchen.
Just like a little kid who did something bad and didn’t dare to tell his parents, he fled the scene as fast as he could to cover it up.
The man sat quietly on the sofa, his eyeballs following Su Jingyan’s movement, the speed of rotation was very slow, and there was no expression on his face, just like an emotionless robot.
If it weren’t for his eyeballs still moving, the man would have looked like a lifeless puppet. To add to this, his face was very pale and his lips were bloodless. He was no different from a corpse in a hospital morgue.
If it weren’t for Su Jingyan’s embarrassment, so that he didn’t dare to come out of the kitchen to face the reality, he spent a long time in the kitchen abruptly even washing the dishes instead of coming back.
The other man’s eyes slowly retracted from the kitchen and slowly moved to the folds of the sofa that the young man had just sat on, the place where it still retained some of his body temperature.
It was as if this room was originally so cold that there was no trace of it, but because this sudden person added a bit of smoke and fire for no reason it was a little warm.
It makes the surrounding house, which should be so meticulous that even sofa folds should not be left unstraightened, look a little more homely.
The man’s right hand was slowly placed on his heart, feeling a change in his emotions.
This was a feeling that he can’t describe at all, or even describe,
– Do you want to kill him and turn him into a specimen?
– I want to, but this time, I suddenly can’t bear to.
The author has something to say: “but this time” (emphasis added)
You savor it slowly.
Thanks for the update
Thank you for the update! I absolutely love that after they say their names, their souls recognize each other again and again.
Thanks for the update