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In the midst of the panicked gazes of everyone on the training ground, with the ball just inches away from his hand, Xiao Shengyu skillfully caught the deadly ball at the last moment.
On the sidelines of the court, the coach, whose legs had gone weak from the scare, just as his heart, which had been on the verge of falling, suddenly dropped, accompanied by a piercing whistle and a roar that shattered the almost serene training ground.
“Xiao Shengyu!!!”
In the office:
“You were daydreaming on the field during training time, Xiao Shengyu, don’t think…”
Facing the coach’s long lecture, Xiao Shengyu didn’t pay the slightest attention. He was undoubtedly the unbeatable winning weapon of the team in every game. As long as he was present, the shooting guard position belonged to him.
In contrast to the coach’s incessant words, Xiao Shengyu’s thoughts drifted to his home. He wondered if Xiao Miao would be bored alone at home and what he would be doing.
Thinking of that name, Xiao Shengyu’s heart started to itch again. He even lost all interest in the upcoming training.
Suddenly, he interrupted the coach’s words and said, “Today’s incident was indeed my fault, I apologize.”
The coach was taken aback. This guy in front of him was usually a troublemaker. He never apologized, and he was the most disobedient when it came to discipline. Why would he…
Before the coach could finish his thoughts, Xiao Shengyu continued, “The main reason is that I had a headache today. My brain felt heavy, which caused a delay in my reaction time. So, Coach, give me a day off. I’ll go to the hospital to get checked and take some medicine. Tomorrow, I promise I’ll be a dead shot shooting guard for you.”
Upon hearing these words, the coach finally understood. He had said so much, but this guy clearly had an issue with the impromptu special training arranged yesterday, which was why this incident happened today.
Originally, he had planned to reject Xiao Shengyu’s proposal directly. However, when he looked up and saw that the person’s mind was clearly not on the training ground, he knew that even if he kept him here today, there might be a series of dangerous incidents.
Moreover, the troublemaker was someone that higher-ups had specifically instructed not to let anything happen to. If something happened to him and he got injured, the coach’s position would be uncertain.
Gritting his teeth, the coach pretended to be oblivious and said, “Can you recover from feeling unwell in just one day?”
Xiao Shengyu, although a troublemaker, knew when to stop. So he replied, “Just an old problem. One day is enough.”
“Then I’ll be waiting,” the coach said, waving his hand at the person, signaling for him to leave. Every time he had to confront the other person, he felt annoyed even looking at him.
He really didn’t understand why Xiao Shengyu, who had a good life as a second-generation rich kid, didn’t stay at home to look at financial reports and count money all day long. Why did he have to come here and endure such hardships and exhaustion?
While changing clothes, Xiao Shengyu saw Lu Zhiyu walking in. As soon as he saw his figure, Lu Zhiyu’s eyes brightened, and he immediately approached with concern. “Brother Xiao, you scared me just now. I almost thought that ball was going to hit you in the head.” He added, “What does the coach plan to do to punish you?”
Xiao Shengyu, who was taking off his training uniform, revealed his well-built upper body and raised an eyebrow. “Punish?”
“Yeah, when the coach took you away just now, his expression was so grim,” Lu Zhiyu said, his concern impossible to conceal.
But only he knew that when he saw that ball, which was about to hit Xiao Shengyu, his eyes couldn’t hide the satisfaction. At that moment, he genuinely hoped that Xiao Shengyu wouldn’t have time to react and would be hit by that ball, suffering a concussion and ending up in the hospital.
But obviously, even Xiao Shengyu, who was absent-minded, had a speed that ordinary people couldn’t match.
As for the concern now, it was just because he wanted to witness the miserable state of the other person. Given the coach’s nature, after making such a big mistake on the field, Xiao Shengyu would definitely be scolded mercilessly.
And the proud Xiao Shengyu would definitely retort, so he was eagerly anticipating hearing words like being granted an indefinite leave of absence from training. However, it was clear that Lu Zhiyu had guessed the outcome but not the process.
Seeing Xiao Shengyu, who had changed into his own clothes, looking at him with a meaningful smile, and said, ” He gave me a day off to rest and come back to train tomorrow.”
As the words fell, the face of Lu Zhiyu on the opposite side seemed to be cracking apart.
The phrase “impossible” was on the verge of roaring out of his mouth, but was forcefully suppressed in his throat.
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.
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Facing Xiao Shengyu’s departure, Lu Zhiyu closed his eyes and stood alone in the locker room for a long time.
…
Meanwhile, Gu Weizhou at home was diligently washing clothes with his two soft little hands immersed in water, like a busy bee.
As someone who couldn’t proactively ruin his image, Gu Weizhou naturally couldn’t go out alone. After being bored to the point of explosion and lying around all day, he had no choice but to clean the entire house. Unexpectedly, he discovered a basket of unwashed clothes by the balcony.
Looking at the basket of clothes and thinking about Su Miao’s silly and innocent personality, Gu Weizhou rolled up his sleeves and began his own great mission.
In this world, Su Miao had an extremely tragic and unlucky background. First, his father died when he was young, and then when he grew up a little, his mother also passed away.
Living in a small mountain village where people were superstitious, the villagers, seeing the consecutive misfortunes, avoided him like the plague. They even spread rumors that he was a jinx who caused the deaths of his parents when he was just a few years old.
When Su Miao, who was alone and destitute, was on the verge of starving to death, an old blind woman in the village kindly took him in. Since then, Su Miao regarded her as his grandmother, and the two of them started a life of relying on each other.
Perhaps due to being treated differently from a young age, coupled with the fact that every time he went out even to collect firewood, the villagers would gossip about him, the naturally timid Su Miao gradually developed mild social anxiety. Whenever he encountered a stranger, he would become nervous and couldn’t speak clearly.
Not to mention having friends, he hardly had anyone to talk to. The only companions that accompanied him as he grew up were pen and paper.
Some people are born with unparalleled talents, like Su Miao.
Although he was timid and could barely speak without stuttering out of nervousness, he had exceptional logical thinking and imagination. So from a young age, he loved writing.
A few months ago, his blind grandmother passed away due to health reasons. Since the village didn’t allow the random burial of corpses, in order to give his grandmother a proper burial, Su Miao knelt in front of the village chief’s house for two days. In the end, when the old woman’s body was starting to decompose. The villagers couldn’t stand it anymore and came to the village chief’s house to make a fuss, which reluctantly forced the village chief to lend him some money for the funeral.
After taking care of his grandmother’s affairs, Su Miao held his own work and contemplated whether he could exchange it for some money. It was then that his aunt, who hadn’t contacted him in centuries, suddenly found him. She subtly implied that he was pitiful on his own and asked him about his plans for the future.
Faced with the concern of a relative, the innocent Su Miao excitedly and anxiously told her his thoughts. The woman said she would help him find a solution, and a few days later, she came back and said he could directly submit his work to a newspaper. She also told him that his cousin Lu Zhiyu was currently a national team athlete, and if he went to the city and found his cousin, Lu Zhiyu would take him to the newspaper office.
As soon as Su Miao heard that he could earn money and pay off his debts, he packed his belongings and left home, arriving in this unfamiliar city.
And then, shortly after getting on the car, Su Miao, who was full of expectations for the city, became Gu Weizhou.
After parking the car, Xiao Shengyu opened the door and casually grabbed the cream cake he bought, entering the house.
As soon as he entered, Xiao Shengyu scanned the living room back and forth, searching for someone. He placed the cake casually on the coffee table.
When he couldn’t see anyone after a while, wondering if the person had gone out. Just then, he heard a faint movement coming from the balcony.
Curious, he walked towards the balcony and saw Gu Weizhou standing on a chair, holding a clothes pole and hanging clothes.
The balcony’s clothes rack was adjustable, but obviously, Su Miao, who had just come from a small mountain village, didn’t know how to use it. So Gu Weizhou had to bring a chair and now he was struggling to hang the clothes while standing on the chair.
Because the position was a bit high, and hanging clothes required lifting the pole, Xiao Shengyu, who had just arrived, inevitably saw the white underwear wrapping around the rounded buttocks hidden beneath Gu Weizhou’s oversized T-shirt.
Although it was just a brief glance, Xiao Shengyu could tell at a glance that the plump buttocks wrapped in white underwear must have the best touch.
As he thought about the peach-like shape he unintentionally caught a glimpse of earlier, the sex-deprived Xiao Shengyu stared intently at the boy’s perky buttocks and couldn’t help but swallow.
What should he do if he wanted to devour it?
After hanging the clothes in his hand, Gu Weizhou turned his head and suddenly saw someone standing behind him.
Fuck!
Startled, Gu Weizhou quickly stepped back, feeling the ground disappear from beneath his feet. He found himself tilting back towards the window.
“Ah—!”
“Be careful—!”
In that moment of instinctual retreat, Xiao Shengyu swiftly stepped forward, intending to grab the person, but the person unexpectedly fell toward the balcony.
At the sound of the exclamation, Xiao Shengyu, the SG of the team, quickly moved forward, extending his long arm to grab the person’s arm, narrowly rescuing them from falling off the balcony.
As expected, the anticipated pain didn’t come. Gu Weizhou, who had a pale face and instinctively curled his body when he was scared, instead felt himself being lifted into a broad embrace.
In that second of feeling the person being caught in his arms instead of falling out of the window, Xiao Shengyu’s heart, which had almost leaped out of his throat, suddenly dropped back into his chest.
God knows, his heart had almost stopped when he saw the person being frightened and falling towards the open window. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and didn’t let the person fall out of the window, considering they were on the fifth floor.
As his pounding heart gradually calmed down, Xiao Shengyu looked at the person who was still in shock. Initially, he wanted to scold them for standing so high and not closing the window, but when he saw the pale face and slightly trembling pink lips, he couldn’t bring himself to speak.
Well, if he hadn’t left psychological trauma on the person from the previous two times, the other party wouldn’t react like this every time they saw him.
Unusually, this time Xiao Shengyu didn’t take advantage of the situation, but instead carried the person to the nearby living room and gently placed him on the sofa.
Looking at the person, who remained shocked for a while, Xiao Shengyu reached out and touched his short hair, which felt surprisingly good. “It’s okay now. Don’t stand so high when hanging clothes in the future.”
With a comforting voice and a gentle touch on the top of his head, Gu Weizhou, who was immersed in the eight-pack abs, snapped out of his daze. He turned his head and glanced at the man beside him.
Unlike his fierce and intimidating demeanor in the morning when he wanted to swallow him whole, the man’s sharp facial features now seemed softened by an almost imperceptible tenderness. His entire demeanor resembled that of a caring older brother next door.
Recalling the man’s words from this morning and the scene just now, Gu Weizhou’s shoulders instinctively tensed, and he managed to squeeze out two stuttering words from his lips, “Tha… Thank you.”
The soft and gentle sound, resembling a newborn cub, unexpectedly sounded enticing to Xiao Shengyu’s ears.
But no matter how enticing it was, it was in vain, because the person was afraid of him.
Seeing how frightened the person still was, Xiao Shengyu’s gaze fell upon the cream cake on the coffee table.
When he passed by a sweet-smelling cake shop earlier, for some reason, he thought of the kiss from this morning, and the taste of the teenager was similar to the fragrance lingering in the air—sweet and intoxicating.
Then, as if driven by some unknown force, he bought a cute rabbit-shaped cream cake for the person.
Gu Weizhou saw the man next to him suddenly place a beautifully decorated cream cake in his hand. Looking at this cake that appeared incredibly delicious, Gu Weizhou as Su Miao, who had rarely eaten snacks since childhood, couldn’t help but swallow his saliva. However…
Xiao Shengyu saw the hesitant look in the young man’s eyes and the slight confusion in his damp eyes.
Facing those timid eyes, Xiao Shengyu smiled and said, “Eating something sweet will make you feel better. Give it a try.”
As if he had remembered something, he added, “You eat the cake here, and I’ll go hang the clothes.” With that, he proactively headed towards the nearby balcony.
[I remember he bought me this kind of cake before.]
[I didn’t expect that scumbag top to be so attentive.]
[And then, in his haste to… vent, he accidentally knocked it over.]
[…] I didn’t say anything just now.
[In the end…] smirking, [I couldn’t resist breaking character and castrating him, then it electrocuted me to death.]
[…] So, host, is this exactly how you used to court death in the past?
When Xiao Shengyu returned to the living room after hanging the clothes, he found the person on the sofa still holding the cake just as before, with no traces of it being touched.
Xiao Shengyu was a bit puzzled. Based on his speculation about the young man’s personality from their short interactions, he thought the person would enjoy eating sweets. So why…
“You don’t like cake?” Almost instinctively, Xiao Shengyu thought of this possibility.
Contrary to his speculation, as soon as the words fell, the person in front of him immediately responded, “No… it’s not that.” After cautiously glancing at Xiao Shengyu, the person looked down at the cake in their hands and blushed, whispering, “It’s… it’s too… beautiful.”
Too beautiful, so he couldn’t bring himself to eat it?
Upon hearing this response, Xiao Shengyu found it both amusing and exasperating. In his eyes, beautiful things were meant to be eaten, just like the excessively beautiful youth he had in mind.
“It’s just a cake, no matter how beautiful. It’s okay, you can eat it, and I’ll buy you another one next time.”
Upon hearing this, Gu Weizhou hesitated for a moment and softly said, “But… even if you buy another one, it won’t be the same. This one is unique.”
“Hmm?”
Xiao Shengyu couldn’t understand the person’s notion of uniqueness. In his consciousness, there was nothing in this world that was truly one-of-a-kind. Everything could be replaced, whether it was his bed partner, his position as an SG, or anything else.
All he could do was enjoy what he had before it was replaced and strive to do his best.
Facing the man’s perplexed gaze, Gu Weizhou bit his lip, feeling a little embarrassed, and said, “This is the first gift I’ve ever received in my life, so… it’s unique.”
The youth’s clear eyes were already excessively pure and beautiful. When he wasn’t smiling, he exuded a quiet and lovely aura. Now, with the flickering starlight in his eyes, he appeared even more pure and captivating.
Although the words he spoke were heart-wrenching, it was accompanied by an intangible warmth and tenderness that enveloped the room. Suddenly, Xiao Shengyu found himself at a loss for what expression to use when facing such a pure and pristine person.
As if trying to shift this pure and pristine atmosphere, Xiao Shengyu casually asked, “Xiao Miao, what are your plans for the future?”
Upon hearing this question, Gu Weizhou’s eyes brightened, and in his extremely innocent manner, he replied, “Earn money, repay the debt, and then go back home.”
“Repay the debt?” Xiao Shengyu frowned, “How much do you owe?”
“Um… I don’t know. The village chief said it’s a lot, and that even if they sell me… I won’t be able to pay it back.” As he mentioned this topic, Gu Weizhou’s expression noticeably became dejected.
“Heh… can’t even pay it back even if they sell you? I wonder how much they would sell you for. Maybe I can buy you and take you home.”
[He wants to buy me.]
[So, what are you trying to say?]
[I want to express my attitude through song.]
[…] I have a bad feeling about this.
Clearing his throat, Gu Weizhou began to sing, [In the beginning, it was you who wanted to break up. You wanted to break up, so we did. And now you want to use true love to coax me back. Love is not something you can buy. You can’t just buy it…]
[…Shut up!]
Lol!!!! I imagine this scene with Mike from Monsters INK
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The discrepancy between Gu Weizhou’s actions and his thoughts is really… impressive.
Also, that Xiao guy holding back seems to be a change in plot?
Thank you for the chapter!
his inner and outer expressions are ying yang
I dont think it’s a change in plot. Xiao only likes mutual consent in his intimate relations and its clear theres no consent here with mc so he feels guilty for taking advantage of him.
Huh, compare to the last gong this guy is practically wholesome. He’s a horny asshole but at least he’s got a bottom line that makes moral sense. He could be a decent person if given the proper incentive. Lets see if Gu Weizhou becomes the incentive or if he lures him down the path of evil.
This one does seem like a decent human who has never actually fallen in love with anyone. This will be an interesting ride
XD I actually know this song.
For those who want to know: 爱情买卖 (Ai Qing Mai Mai)
Mc is so silly lol i love him