Arc 2: Chapter 19
Fu Cheng was used to pretending and wearing a mask in front of strangers. Regardless of who it was, he could fake his personality as he wished.
But now, Lin Yuan was in his arms and moving restlessly, intimately calling out ‘husband, husband’ while the older brother was looking at them.
Fu Cheng had never imagined a scene like this before and really didn’t know what to say.
Lin Yue also didn’t know what to say. He only wanted to sigh. He had seen many couples in high school and in college, but amongst all of the heterosexual or same-sex couples, he had never seen any vegetables like his family’s Lin Cabbage, who desperately drilled into the pig’s mouth and even helped the pig chew.
How did his family turn out like this?
In the end, Fu Cheng didn’t speak, and Lin Yue didn’t speak. An awkward silence spread across the sidewalk of the old road.
The drunk Lin Yuan was still energetic. He approached the teenager’s ear and his soft lips gently covered it. The top of his tongue poked out and gently licked: “Fu Cheng~”
Fu Cheng’s breath stagnated and the temperature on his face rose. He had to first appease the other and calm him down.
“En, it’s me, I’m here.” Fu Cheng stroked the other’s hair and said softly.
Lin Yuan dazedly heard Fu Cheng’s words and a sudden fulfilling sense of satisfaction spread through his heart. He hugged Fu Cheng tightly and buried his face in the other’s neck. His voice was a little nasally and soft: “I missed you so much, I really missed you……”
They were only apart for three hours, and Fu Cheng thought that Lin Yuan was exaggerating. The person Lin Yuan was thinking of couldn’t be him. He was a stand-in again.
Lin Yue never thought that one day he would be a spectator watching his little brother and another teenager kiss and flirt.
Really want to dig out my eyes.
Lin Yue coughed twice and looked at the little couple as an elder: “I’ll give Cabbage… oh no, Ah Yuan to you now. He kept on asking for you after he got drunk, so I could only send him here. Sorry to trouble you.”
Fu Cheng was best at pretending to be a model student, and in front of Lin Yuan’s brother, that appearance would be the most suitable and most likable.
“No problem, this is what I should do. I will take good care of him.”
Lin Yue nodded and thought a bit but didn’t say anything in the end. He could tell his little brother to not do messy things, but saying this to a teenager he just met seemed a little strange.
However, Lin Yue still wanted to protect his white cabbage and could only rephrase his words: “The college entrance exam is approaching, I’ve heard from Ah Yuan that you’ve been helping him review. For the rest of these days, you both should continue to work hard and concentrate on studying.”
Fu Cheng understood Lin Yue’s hidden meaning and smiled: “En, I know. Lin Yuan and I will focus on studying.”
Lin Yue felt a little more satisfied. Compared to his family’s hopeless Lin Cabbage, the number one student was much more measured.
Fu Cheng piggybacked Lin Yuan and walked to his home. Hearing the sound of the engine behind him, he asked the person on his back meaningfully: “Your brother knows about us, when did you tell him?”
Lin Yuan hummed and tilted his head and thought for a while. After Fu Cheng carried him upstairs and put him down to open the door, Lin Yuan wrapped his arms around the teenager’s neck and said joyfully: “A long time… A long time ago, when you got injured and went to the hospital~”
Fu Cheng looked at Lin Yuan in disbelief: “When I was hospitalized?”
Lin Yuan nodded obediently: “Yup, yup……”
Fu Cheng couldn’t parse it out. At that time, their relationship was still estranged, so what did Lin Yuan say to Lin Yue?
He opened the door and helped the person onto the sofa. Fu Cheng looked at the drunken teenager and squeezed the other’s chin and kissed him: “Ah Yuan, don’t you think that this situation is familiar? Last time was also like this, you were drunk and you wouldn’t let me go. You wanted me to kiss you and touch you.”
Lin Yuan couldn’t understand this many words in his drunken state, but he immediately corrected the most important point: “It’s Sui Sui! I’m not Ah Yuan, I’m Sui Sui!”
“Sui Sui?”
Fu Cheng was puzzled. It was Lin Yuan’s brother who called him Ah Yuan, so it shouldn’t be wrong. Sui Sui sounded like a nickname, but even if Lin Yuan had two nicknames, it shouldn’t be wrong of him to call Ah Yuan.
Fu Cheng looked at Lin Yuan’s face and smiled lightly: “You’re Ah Yuan, not Sui Sui.”
When Lin Yuan heard Fu Cheng say that he was not Sui Sui, he immediately got agitated: “No! I’m Sui Sui! I really am Sui Sui! Husband, I’m Sui Sui. I’m Sui Sui ah, Fu Cheng……”
Fu Cheng thought that when Lin Yuan called out ‘husband’, Lin Yuan was thinking of someone else again, but then when Lin Yuan said his name accurately, he became confused.
He suddenly became curious. Who was he in Lin Yuan’s eyes right now?
“Ok, you’re Sui Sui.” Fu Cheng sat down on the floor. He picked up Lin Yuan from the sofa and let the other sit on his lap. He held the other’s burning face and asked with a smile: “Sui Sui, who am I?”
Lin Yuan heard himself being called Sui Sui again and was so happy his eyebrows bent because of laughter and his eyes were particularly bright and clear: “You’re my husband, you’re Fu Cheng~”
Up until now, Fu Cheng didn’t mind that Lin Yuan had someone else in his heart while he liked himself, and also didn’t mind that Lin Yuan regarded himself as another person when drunk. After all, when they hugged and kissed, he was the one doing those things with Lin Yuan.
But right now, Lin Yuan's words made him amused and speechless. Calling both ‘husband’ and ‘Fu Cheng’, wasn’t he too busy?
“I’m not your husband.” Fu Cheng deliberately teased the other: “Your husband isn’t here. There’s only Fu Cheng.”
Lin Yuan blinked in confusion and raised his hand over the teenager’s face. His hands were also hot, and his fingertips slowly traced the teenager’s forehead down to the bridge of the other’s nose, and finally pressed on the other’s lips.
Fu Cheng’s pale skin made his red lips particularly eye-catching and attractive.
Lin Yuan leaned over and wanted to kiss him, but his own finger blocked the way. He couldn’t understand why and hummed and asked: “Fu Cheng, why can’t I kiss you? Why can’t I kiss...”
Seeing him like this, Fu Cheng’s heart softened and he took off Lin Yuan’s finger that was pressing on his lips. He clasped the back of Lin Yuan’s head and kissed the other. In the midst of their entangling lips and tongue, he gasped and said: “Look, now you can kiss.”
Lin Yuan nodded and wrapped his arms around Fu Cheng’s neck and kissed him again. Fu Cheng’s kisses were always deep and long, as if he wanted to dig inside of the other’s body.
“Fu Cheng……”
Near the end, Lin Yuan unconsciously let out a sound.
Fu Cheng rested his head against the other’s forehead and suppressed the tumultuous desire in his body and answered hoarsely: “En, it’s me. Sui Sui, I’m here.”
Hearing his nickname being called, the emotions that had been long suppressed in Lin Yuan’s heart burst out.
The corners of his eyes turned red and his voice broke. Lin Yuan was like a child who had finally returned home after being lost outside for a long time: “Huo Chen……. Fu Cheng……. Why is it always you?”
Fu Cheng had known of the existence of the other man, but he never knew the other’s name. This was the first time that he heard the other’s name from Lin Yuan.
He thought to himself that Lin Yuan had confused them again.
“What’s always me?” Fu Cheng pecked Lin Yuan again and again. His time was running out, and the amount of seconds left decreased after every kiss and hug.
Lin Yuan looked at Fu Cheng. His eyes were still muddled by drunkenness and were a little hazy. Tears fell from his wet eyes drop by drop, and his words was incoherent yet clear.
“Why is it always you? Why do you always encounter so many painful things? I want you to live well. Fu Cheng, I want you to be happy, live happily……”
Fu Cheng was stunned by Lin Yuan’s tears and words. Fu Cheng’s deceitful and beautiful eyes suddenly soured and turned red. Clear and pure tears seemed to flow towards the deepest part of his heart.
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 31%.】
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 28%.】
【Di! Congrats host, the villain’s blackening value has decreased to 25%.】
Fu Cheng was tempted to respond to Lin Yuan with false comfort like before, but he couldn’t bring himself to lie to the the person he liked when the other was hugging him and crying.
The teenager remained silent and could only cup the other’s face and help him wipe his tears.
Lin Yuan saw that Fu Cheng was silent, and faintly remembered the final ending of the teenager in the plot, and an extreme bitterness hit his heart.
“Why can’t you live well… why can’t you be happy……”
“Why did you…”
...Die?
Lin Yuan thought of the darkness, despair, and the final breath of the teenager that all resulted from a broken family. Fu Cheng didn’t have a family, didn’t have a place to return, didn’t have a house, didn’t have a home……
He suddenly looked around in a hurry: “Phone… where’s my phone? I want my phone! I want my phone!”
Fu Cheng silently found Lin Yuan’s and put it in the other’s hand.
Lin Yuan fiddled around on his phone for a long time until he found what he was looking for. He straightforwardly said: “Look, Fu Cheng. I have a lot of money. A lot, lot, lot of money.”
Fu Cheng nodded and made a sound of acknowledgement.
Lin Yuan made sure Fu Cheng saw clearly and then put his phone in Fu Cheng’s hand. He looked at the other with teary eyes and begged: “It’s enough money to buy a house. Fu Cheng, this money is enough to buy a home……”
“I will treat you very very well. Together with me, will you……”
...Live?