Looking at the way Yao Qi’s expression immediately turned cold after bidding goodbye to Shao Qing, Liu Lin frowned and pursed his lips, ferocity spreading across his face.
Before that guy left, Yao Qi was obviously still smiling so gently.
He maliciously thought that Shao Qing had stolen his Yao Qi, and even had the impulse to kill Shao Qing.
He was jealous.
He couldn’t tolerate Yao Qi smiling at other people when he refused to smile at him.
Shao Qing was right, he was indeed a lunatic.
A dangerous lunatic.
While Liu Lin was still immersed in his thoughts, he saw Yao Qi taking out a comforter from the closet.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m going to sleep on the sofa.”
“Huh?” Liu Lin was anxious, “Why?”
“I think I should give you some time to find out what you did wrong.” In fact, he just didn’t want to deal with Liu Lin at the moment.
“What did I do wrong? I don’t know!” Seeing how serious Yao Qi seemed to be, Liu Lin no longer insisted that he hadn’t done anything wrong and immediately admitted his mistake.
Yao Qi’s attitude of not wanting to pay him any attention—he really couldn’t take it.
Yao Qi shot him a glance. Then, without speaking, he walked out of the bedroom holding the comforter.
Liu Lin followed behind him.
Yao Qi lay down on the sofa and slipped underneath the comforter.
Liu Lin stood in front of the sofa, looking down at him.
Having someone continuously stare at him, not to mention that he wasn’t actually sleepy at all, Yao Qi wouldn’t be able to fall asleep no matter how drowsy he felt. Seeing Liu Lin at this moment made him feel very annoyed, so he sat up, grabbed hold of a cushion, and threw it at Liu Lin.
“Go away!”
Liu Lin put away the cushion and changed his position, standing in a place where Yao Qi couldn’t see him.
Yao Qi rubbed his temples, feeling an incoming headache. “I can’t sleep with you staring at me like that.” After a pause, he added, “I really want to sleep now.”
Liu Lin shifted on his feet, then turned off the lights in the living room and went back into the bedroom.
Hearing the door close, Yao Qi finally lay back down.
He wasn’t sleepy, but he just didn’t want to look at Liu Lin right now.
Yao Qi was lying on the sofa thinking about various things when he unexpectedly fell asleep, the reason being that he was too mentally exhausted.
What he didn’t know was that after he fell asleep, Liu Lin walked out of the bedroom to look at him again.
Yao Qi didn’t sleep well, and his dream was very bizarre. One moment he dreamed that he and Liu Lin were playing with bubbles like two fools, but the next moment he saw Liu Lin covered in blood from head to toe, telling him that he was in pain, making his heart ache like never before.
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Liu Lin was seemingly just as startled, getting up from the floor as Yao Qi retracted his feet in shock, but he forgot about the tea table positioned by the sofa. At once his head slammed against the panel, and it hurt so much that he crouched back down, hugging his head.
Yao Qi’s brain had yet to warm up. After being stunned for a while, he realised that Liu Lin should have slept below the sofa without even using a blanket. It was no wonder that his body was even colder than Yao Qi’s feet.
Thinking of this, Yao Qi’s heart was once again filled with distress—this bastard was still wounded, alright!
He really regretted falling asleep after driving Liu Lin away into the bedroom. How could he have forgotten how much this guy depended on him!
He grabbed Liu Lin’s arm and pulled him onto the sofa, wrapping him inside the quilt. Underneath the same cover, Yao Qi could feel just how low Liu Lin’s temperature was, and he shuddered from the cold the moment he pulled Liu Lin into his arms. Immediately, Yao Qi hugged him even tighter.
Eyes curving into crescents, Liu Lin grinned like a fox who had gotten his fill.
Yao Qi’s care and worry made him feel very content, happy even. He thought that getting slashed a few times was definitely worth it if he could get Yao Qi to look at him like this in exchange.
“Do you really want to go to the hospital? Hm?” Yao Qi pursed his lips as he gripped Liu Lin’s hand.
“Only idiots want to go there.” He put his head in the crook of Yao Qi’s neck, muffling his voice.
“Then don’t do this next time.”
“I wouldn’t have done this if you didn’t sleep separately from me.”
“Who…” Yao Qi was about to say ‘who was it who made me angry’, but a few things reappeared in his mind. When he thought about yesterday’s incident, he began to frown. “Ah-Lin.”
“Hm?” From the lightness of the tone, it was clear that the owner of the voice was in a good mood.
“Have you figured out what your mistake was?” When he had just woken up, how could he have realised that Liu Lin purposely didn’t use a blanket to make him feel bad and push aside the matters from yesterday? But Liu Lin telling him not to sleep apart from him instantly reminded Yao Qi of their conflict. If his mind had been just a little slower, he would have agreed to Liu Lin.
He had always known that Liu Lin was actually very smart, but the man kept acting like a fool, unconsciously making him relax his vigilance.
“Huh?” Liu Lin froze, obviously not expecting Yao Qi to suddenly change the subject.
Feeling that Liu Lin’s body had regained some warmth, Yao Qi let him go and clearly spelled out, “In regard to this matter, your clever tricks will only work the opposite way.”
His cold voice pricked Liu Lin’s ears—it was painful to hear.
No matter what Liu Lin said after that, Yao Qi acted as though he didn’t exist.
In the afternoon, the building manager knocked on Yao Qi’s door and asked him a few questions.
From the man’s words, Yao Qi learned that the security guard was found knocked unconscious in his post with a long slash wound on his arm. The security camera managed to capture the figure of a child before it was unplugged, but because the child was dressed in baggy clothes on top of wearing a mask and a cap, they couldn’t pick out any distinctive features to identify the culprit.
In fact, he shouldn’t have shared the details of this incident since the tenants were prone to make a fuss if they knew that there was a problem with the security, but the manager had no other choice. If he hadn’t said so much, he wasn’t sure if Yao Qi would answer his questions truthfully or not.
After all, the tenant below said that because he couldn’t sleep last night, he heard noises coming from the unit right above him.
And that unit was Yao Qi’s house.
“It’s a girl, twelve or thirteen years old. She had a knife, so I drove her away.”
Just as Yao Qi was thinking about how to answer the manager, Liu Lin appeared behind him and answered the questions.
“Then do you know where she went to?”
“I don’t.”
The man asked several more questions, but Liu Lin kept saying he didn’t know.
In the end, he kindly reminded them, “If you see her again, you can call the police.”
Liu Lin nodded perfunctorily, indicating that he knew.
Call the police? What a joke, they wouldn’t bother to catch her.
At last, they managed to send the man off.
No one knocked on their door after that. Yao Qi also didn’t go out, leaving his flower shop closed.
At night, when Liu Lin was about to enter the bedroom, Yao Qi spoke in a light voice, “If you repeat what you did this morning, then you can just go outside and stay there. Don’t lie around in my house and be an eyesore.”
This was the first sentence Yao Qi said to him since this morning, but it only chilled Liu Lin to the bones. He couldn’t stop thinking about why Yao Qi was so angry.
Yao Qi’s cold violence made him hurt as if he was about to die. It was too unbearable—just one day of it was more than he could take.
Yao Qi was also wondering whether he had gone too far. Someone with Liu Lin’s character shouldn’t be receiving this kind of treatment, but he had slapped and even ignored him. Yao Qi had obviously promised to treat him well, but the current situation was the total opposite of his original intention.
But when he thought about the probability of something similar happening again in the future if he didn’t teach Liu Lin a lesson, Yao Qi steeled the heart that had begun to soften. Ah-Lin might not care about his own well-being, but Yao Qi did.
When he saw how Liu Lin still took a bath regardless of the numerous wounds on his body, Yao Qi felt as if he had been buried inside a cave of ice. That feeling—he never wanted to taste it again.
He had clearly decided to ignore Liu Lin until he realised what his mistake was, but his heart refused to calm down. His eyes were closed, but he couldn’t fall asleep, his mind full of Liu Lin’s aggrieved look at being neglected.
Click.
His ears picked up on the faint sound—it was the sound of a door being lightly pushed from inside.
Yao Qi’s heart skipped a beat. He was already feeling very irritated, but now he was burning with anger. He never expected that Liu Lin would still dare to come out even after he gave him a warning. He even had the urge to jump up and shove Liu Lin onto the sofa to give him a round of beating, but in the end, his rationality still won.
Thinking of the words he had used as a threat, it was impossible for him to really lock Liu Lin out of the house. The night was too cold. Although Liu Lin would feel the physical pain if he caught a cold and fell ill, based on the fact that he didn’t care about his own body, it was Yao Qi who was going to suffer the mental pain for him.
So he helplessly stayed on the sofa and pretended to sleep.
He would wait until tomorrow morning and find an excuse to lock Liu Lin inside the house for the whole day.
Yao Qi closed his eyes, waiting for Liu Lin to come and pounce on him, but after a long time passed, nothing happened.
He sat up and looked towards the bedroom, and saw that the door was closed.
There was no one else in the living room.
Did he hear it wrong?
Putting down the stone in his heart, Yao Qi closed his eyes and let himself fall into a dream.
When he woke up the next morning, Yao Qi reflexively looked down from the sofa. There was no one there. Liu Lin was not lying on the ground beside the sofa. He sighed in relief, but another suspicion soon appeared in his mind, so he hurriedly ran to the bedroom without even putting on his slippers.
The bulging blanket on the bed proved that someone was really lying on it.
Yao Qi was relieved for real this time.
He must’ve heard it wrong last night.
The man on the bed stirred and sat up, facing him.
“Oh, morning.” Liu Lin’s gaze was still hazy. His eyes appeared particularly long and narrow under the heavy lids, and coupled with the slight curve of his lips, he looked incredibly alluring—despite this word having nothing to do with how he usually behaved.
“…—” Good morning, Yao Qi was about to say, but he remembered that their cold war wasn’t over. And so the greeting that had already reached his throat was abruptly swallowed back down.
After rigidly closing the door, Yao Qi breathed out a long sigh.
That was dangerous. He almost couldn’t hold back.
The next few days similarly passed by without a hitch, but Yao Qi always felt that something was wrong.
Each night, he kept feeling like someone was staring at him, but never saw Liu Lin outside when he woke up in the morning.
Liu Lin had been obediently sleeping in the bedroom.
But Yao Qi thought there was something different about him.
However, he couldn’t tell what it was exactly. He just sensed that something was very amiss.
Yao Qi was so vexed he kept getting a headache, yet he didn’t even know what it was that vexed him, and that agitated him even more.
Several days later, after changing the dressing on Liu Lin’s wounds, Shao Qing asked Yao Qi to send him back. He reasoned that someone had recently tried to rob him when he was walking home, so he was a little afraid to go back by himself. This was obviously a made-up excuse, and Shao Qing’s real purpose should be to talk privately to Yao Qi.
Yao Qi suppressed the irritability in his heart and agreed with a smile.
While he and Shao Qing walked in front, Liu Lin trailed far behind them. This situation annoyed Yao Qi even more, to the point he almost couldn’t control his anger.
Small Theatre
As a pet keeper, Xiao Qi felt that he was very tired.
His pet was too naughty, always getting itself dirty (injured) outside and even hoped to be praised after coming back. Why can’t it just sit back and wait for him to feed it?
In order to let his pet realise its mistake, keeper Xiao Qi steeled his face and decided to teach it a lesson.
Xiao Qi: *takes the blanket and sleeps on the sofa*
Ah-Lin: Ah? Nononono don’t, I was wrong QAQ
Xiao Qi: What did you do wrong?
Ah-Lin: *totally stumped*
Xiao Qi: Heh.
As the real female protagonist—I mean—male protagonist of this drama, Xiao Qi said: Let’s sleep separately.
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