He Wei experienced another astonishing event today in addition to Gu Yunchi agreeing to join the trip. As they made their way to the elevator, He Wei leaned on Lu Heyang’s shoulder and whispered, “I was about to suggest that I give up my room and share with you, so that Xu Ze could sleep in the single room.”
“But you didn’t say it,” Lu Heyang glanced at him, “Aren’t you usually quick with your words?”
He Wei was dumbfounded and stuttered twice before replying, “I didn’t expect you to be quicker than me.”
“Not necessarily,” Lu Heyang replied.
The statement puzzled He Wei for a moment. Then he quickly reacted and grabbed Gu Yunchi, pointing at Lu Heyang who had already entered the elevator, and accused, “He’s actually that kind of person!”
“He’s spot on, so you’re pissed?” Gu Yunchi fanned the flames and calmly asked in reply.
“Get lost!”
The two elevators stopped at the fifth floor at the same time, the alphas sleeping in the single rooms were below this floor. Lu Heyang looked behind him as he walked toward the room, Xu Ze was walking at the back.
Lu Heyang swiped the card to open the door. After pushing the door in, he didn’t enter the room. Instead, he stood by the door holding the handle and inserted the room card into the card slot in passing.
After a few seconds, Xu Ze reached the door. Probably not expecting Lu Heyang to be waiting at the door, his steps paused for a moment, and then he quickly walked into the room while saying, “I’m sorry.”
Lu Heyang smiled, closed the door behind him, and asked, “What’s there to be sorry about?”
Xu Ze stood in front of the TV with his backpack on his back, looking somewhat stiff and unsure of what to do. He said, “I walked too slowly.”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
“You didn’t.” Lu Heyang put his bag on the sofa and asked, “Which bed do you want?”
We If abbx boo tlr yjmxqjmx jcv tfiv la lc tlr tjcvr. Lf rajgfv ja atf jlrif yfakffc atf akb yfvr jcv rjlv jr mjiwis jr qbrrlyif, “Slatfg bcf lr olcf.”
“Tbe mjc ajxf atf bcf ys atf klcvbk,” Oe Lfsjcu echlqqfv tlr ieuujuf, “Oecmt lr ja cbbc. P’ii riffq obg tjio jc tbeg olgra.”
“Okay.” Xu Ze still stared at the aisle.
Lu Heyang went to the bathroom with his pajamas. After changing, he came out. There was a banging noise coming from the next room—room 503, where the water pipe was broken. Someone should be fixing it now.
Xu Ze was sitting at the foot of the bed. Lu Heyang took out a sleep mask and earplugs and looked at Xu Ze’s profile. He said, “If I don’t hear the alarm, please wake me up.”
“Okay.” Xu Ze’s ten intertwined fingers loosened as he stood up and closed the curtains.
The curtains were effective in blocking out the light, and the room became dimly lit. Lu Heyang asked, “Are you going to sleep too?”
Xu Ze sat back down at the end of the bed and said, “I won’t sleep.”
“Then it’s okay to keep the curtains open. I have a sleep mask.”
“It’s fine.” In the dark, Xu Ze’s tone seemed to relax, and he said softly, “You should rest.”
“Mn.”
Lu Heyang lay down on the bed and put in his earplugs, but he didn’t put on the sleep mask right away. From his perspective, Xu Ze was sitting at the end of the bed next to him. He wasn’t scrolling through his phone or watching TV. He was just sitting there motionless and silent.
The room was dark, and it didn’t matter if he didn’t wear the sleep mask, but after a while, he put the sleep mask on anyway.
Xu Ze sat at the foot of the bed for over half an hour. Even with the noise coming from next door, he took out his phone with minimal movements to check the time. The teacher had sent a message in the group chat, reminding everyone to get ready to go downstairs for lunch at noon.
He stared at the screen until it went dark. Xu Ze put the phone back in his pocket and sat for a while. Eventually, he turned his head to look at Lu Heyang, who was still sleeping.
In reality, he couldn’t see much except for the sleep mask on Lu Heyang’s face. Xu Ze stood up and walked over to Lu Heyang’s bed with his feet silent on the carpet. He tried to breathe calmly, but his heartbeat became heavier, and even his outstretched hand trembled slightly.
Xu Ze gently patted Lu Heyang on the shoulder.
After waiting for two seconds with no response, Xu Ze withdrew his hand and said, “Lu…”
He stopped after just calling out his surname because his voice was hoarse. Xu Ze felt that his ears and face suddenly heated up uncontrollably. He stretched out his right hand again and patted Lu Heyang’s shoulder.
In the next second, without any warning, Lu Heyang grasped the back of Xu Ze’s hand and used his other hand to remove his sleep mask. He stared at Xu Ze in the dark.
It was dead silent, not even the noise from the construction in the next room could be heard. Xu Ze instantly held his breath and instinctively sensed the danger from Lu Heyang, who had just awakened.
The two of them stared at each other for a moment. Lu Heyang moved his hand away, removed his earplugs, and calmly said, “Sorry, I thought something had crawled onto my shoulder.”
Xu Ze straightened up, unconsciously touched the back of his right hand with his left hand, and replied, “It’s fine, the teacher asked us to go downstairs to eat.”
At that moment, the phone alarm went off. Lu Heyang turned it off and said, “All right.”
Xu Ze went to draw the curtains, and Lu Heyang got up to change his clothes by the bed. Without glancing back, Xu Ze looked out the window and suddenly heard Lu Heyang say, “There’s a dim sum place here with delicious egg custard buns.”
“Egg custard buns?” Xu Ze thought that Lu Heyang had already changed his clothes, but when he turned around, Lu Heyang was still shirtless. Xu Ze immediately turned his eyes away and looked at his backpack.
“Yeah, but it’s a bit far, in the city center.” Lu Heyang put on a t-shirt, “I went there with Yunchi last year, I’m not sure if it’s still there.”
It was possible that the food wasn’t actually that delicious. It was just that at that time, he and Gu Yunchi got the idea of getting rid of their bodyguards, so they wandered through the winding alleys and stumbled upon that unknown small restaurant. In that situation, the food may have tasted better than it really was.
Now that he was back in this city, he remembered the incident and mentioned it in passing. More importantly, he felt that Xu Ze was too tense, even though he didn’t know the reason, perhaps chatting could help him relax a bit.
It was time to go downstairs. Lu Heyang picked up his phone and was about to go out when he heard Xu Ze ask, “What street… was that place on?”
Lu Heyang didn’t expect Xu Ze to continue the conversation. After thinking for a moment, he replied, “I think it was called Jinqiu Street, but I can’t remember exactly which alley it was on.”
“Then, what was the name of the restaurant?”
Lu Heyang looked at him. Xu Ze didn’t avoid his eyes this time and the expression on his face seemed rather serious. Lu Heyang smiled and replied, “I only remember that there was the word ‘happy’ in the name, but I forgot the rest.”
Xu Ze nodded and didn’t say anything more.
Author’s note:
Just mentioned it in passing, just mentioned it in passing (＃｀д´)ﾉ
They are steamed buns that are filled with runny salted egg yolk custard. The literal translation is “flowing sand bun”(流沙包 ) 
Keywords for today’s chapter:
“Mentioned it in passing”
“Forgot the rest”
I’m formulating my hypothesis as of now🧐
Anyway, I finally caught up! I’ll be staying here for a while until the next update arrives! Lovelots <3
Can’t wait to know what’s going to happen next! Thank you for the upload!! 💕
Dont tell me he’ll buy them. 😭