Chapter 13 - "I'm drunk."
The bell rang signaling the end of school on Friday, and the subject teacher for the last class of Grade 3 Class 1 of Senior High School kept talking about something, thus, dismissing them later than the other classes.
Shen Yi glanced at the time and stuffed his books into his school bag.
“Are you going over to my house today?” Fu Cheng asked while holding his schoolbag.
“Ah…” Shen Yi showed a regretful expression, “I have something on today.”
“What are you doing?” Fu Cheng asked.
Shen Yi: “I’ve made an appointment.”
Fu Cheng: “With who, exactly?”
Shen Yi tapped his lips with his fingertips: “Huh… I can’t tell you that.”
He kept denying telling it to him, raising his curiosity. Moreover, Fu Cheng has not forgotten that Xu Fanchao’s threatened Shen Yi last time. Apart from being curious, he is also worried about him. Although Xu Fanchao has not done anything so far, every time they met each other at school, Xu Fanchao showed an expression that suggested that he wouldn’t give up easily.
But from Shen Yi’s expression, Fu Cheng could infer that it wasn’t related to them.
“Well, if you really want to know, I can take you there.” Shen Yi changed his words again.
…
“The entire apartment is fully furnished, you wouldn’t need to buy the basic furniture yourself. The room faces north, with good ventilation and an attached balcony. It’s spacious and you can bask in the sun and enjoy the breeze…” The man in the suit had his hair combed back. While introducing the room, he was observing the two teenagers who were obviously still students in their school uniforms.
This apartment is pretty spacious for one person to live in, and the surrounding environment is also very good. However, the rent is a bit on the expensive side, and to rent the place, at half a year’e rent needed to be paid in advance.
The phone rang, and the man in the suit took out his phone, and smiled at the two teenagers opposite him: “Excuse me, I’ll answer the call.”
Shen Yi nodded, watching the man in the suit walk away, he went to the balcony.
The apartment was on the sixth floor. It wasn’t very high, and the scenery overlooking it was very beautiful. Fu Cheng followed him to the balcony, “Shen Yi.”
“Do you want to rent this place?” Fu Cheng glanced at the man who was still on the phone and asked.
Shen Yi didn’t answer but asked: “What do you think? It will be convenient to go over in the future.”
It’s self-evident where he was going over, this place is not far from Fu Cheng’s villa area.
It turns out that when Shen Yi said that he had an appointment, he was talking about his appointment to see a house.
“I think it’s pretty good.” Fu Cheng said.
Shen Yi said: “I think so too.”
The wind blew towards the balcony, he stretched out his hand, and the air flew past the gaps between his fingers, tracing their outline. It didn’t take long before they finished looking at the house. Shen Yi decided to rent this place, the price was also within acceptable range.
After the matter was over, Fu Cheng asked Shen Yo to go to his house, and he didn’t refuse.
Fu.family’s villa.
Shen Yi followed Fu Cheng past the familiar gate, and when he saw that a pair of familiar house slippers were missing from the shoe rack at the door, he looked up and looked inside.
…He’s back.
This is one of Fu Yuhe’s early returns from the company in the last few days.
“Your brother is back.” Shen Yi said casually.
Fu Cheng glanced up, “Probably in his study.”
Shen Yi: “Do you want to say hello?”
Fu Cheng: “It’s alright, he’s busy, let’s go to my room first.”
His room had accumulated a lot of miscellaneous things over time. Teenagers, they were easily attracted by novel things.
Shen Yi’s room was filled with comics, game consoles, basketball, baseball… If his bedroom is classified as that of a “hot-blooded youth”, then Fu Cheng’s bedroom probably belongs in the category of an “otaku”.
There are many famous novels in his room, and single-player games, including go, chess, and flying chess.
When Shen Yi came to his place, his favorite thing to play was one of his LEGO games. He had finally reached the final stage in the past two days. When he took out the LEGOs, he accidentally found a novel object on the side shelf.
“Binoculars?” He picked it up, placed it in front of his eyes, and looked out the window.
When Fu Cheng was dealing with the things he liked, his body with energy, so much that seemed to shine. He glanced at the binoculars in Shen Yi’s hand and taught him how to use it. He said that these binoculars were something that his brother bought for him when he went out on a business trip. He gave it to him as a birthday present.
“You can see the back garden from the balcony. I have a telescope. I like to use it to watch the stars at night-do you want to see it?” Fu Cheng asked.
Shen Yi took the binoculars, “I am just looking at your back garden, this is enough.”
The balcony was facing the direction of the back garden, and Shen Yi hadn’t been to the back garden of the villa before, so he looked at the back garden of the villa with binoculars, only to realize that Fu’s family villa had a hidden pavilion-like structure there. He glanced at it casually and suddenly paused.
He took away the binoculars and saw the man sitting facing him on the chair in the gazebo¹ in the back garden. He was wearing casual comfy clothes with house slippers on his feet. It didn’t match his serious aura, but it held a sense of unexpected harmony.
“Huh?”
Shen Yi didn’t need to look carefully, he was completely sure that it was Fu Yuhe. He obviously wasn’t in his study, but what was he doing in the back garden?
“What’s wrong?” Fu Cheng asked when he heard his voice.
Shen Yi said softly: “It’s nothing, I just saw something interesting…” stuff.
His last word was spoken too lightly and dissipated in the wind.
Shen Yi’s hand holding the binoculars hung down on the balcony railing, and he rested his chin, on the other hand, to continue watching. His figure looks lazy and out of shape on the balcony.
He took out a piece of chewing gum from his pocket, unwrapped it, and stuffed it in his mouth, watching Fu Yuhe put his notebook on the table, reading it, and occasionally he would answer a phone call.
Shen Yi blew out a pink bubble, raised his binoculars, and scanned every detail on Fu Yuhe’s face and body. His hair fell messily on his forehead, covering it completely. He didn’t give out a profound sense of alienation, seeming more handsome and down-to-earth.
The collar of his sweater was wider, and it could be seen that the marks on his neck had completely disappeared. His hand typing on the keyboard, had a band-aid on its index finger—was he injured?
The weather was a bit colder today, but Fu Yuhe didn’t wear any socks, and his ankles were bare—they were beautiful and pale. If you look closely, you may be able to see his blood vessels, maybe his skin was a little too pale. Anyway, it was beautiful.
Downstairs in the back garden.
Fu Yuhe placed his phone back on the table and suddenly looked up. He saw Shen Yi holding binoculars on the balcony.
Shen Yi didn’t panic when he got caught peeping. He unhurriedly took off the binoculars, raised his hand, and waved, which could be translated into one word – “Hi”.
Fu Yuhe paused, looked away, and ignored him.
So Shen Yi continued to watch in a grandiose manner.
Fu Yuhe wasn’t dealing with any official business. After a while, he couldn’t bear the sharp gaze trained on him, picked up his phone, and turned on the screen.
Upstairs balcony.
Shen Yi’s phone vibrated in his coat pocket with a “buzzing” sound, he took out his phone to look at it, and a chuckle escaped from his lips.
[Brother Fu: What are you looking at.]
[Shen Yi: Look at the scenery.]
[Brother Fu: …don’t look at me.]
[Shen Yi: Why?]
The two of them, one upstairs and the other downstairs could clearly communicate with each other face-to-face, but they resorted to using their mobile phones.
[Brother Fu: It’s annoying.]
Shen Yi’s gaze was too piercing, it made him a little self-conscious so, of course, it was very annoying.
[Shen Yi: But I want to watch you.]
[Shen Yi: Brother, you are the most beautiful scenery in the back garden.]
Fu Yuhe: “…”
He suddenly tightened his grasp on the phone, and almost crushed the screen. These words made him feel as if in a group of beautiful flowers, and he was the most beautiful.
Fu Yuhe didn’t reply to the message and didn’t look up again, just pretended that that line of sight didn’t exist, not long after, he closed his notebook, took his mobile phone and notebook, and left, Shen Yi looked at his back and sighed with regret.
He also turned around and went back to the room.
“Fu Cheng, your binoculars are really useful.” Shen Yi said.
Fu Cheng: “If you like it, I’ll give you one—this is my brother’s birthday present to me, so I can’t give it to you.”
“No need.”
Shen Yi smiled, “It’s enough for me to play with it when I come to your house. Maybe it won’t be long before I get tired of it.”
…
Shen Yi did not have much time to personally follow up the matter of moving places, so he freed some time to sign the contract and pay the deposit, and then the end of the month came ushering in the monthly examination. Shen Yi moved his things over slowly during the holiday.
He didn’t have many clothes, so they could easily fit in a box. They were mostly summer and autumn clothes, and only one or two sets of winter clothes. On the day he moved, Fu Cheng came over to help him clean up.
The newly rented apartment was very clean, with only a little dust in it. After the bed was wiped clean, sheets were spread on it. Shen Yi brought the bookshelf over. Fu Cheng sat on a small bench and put comic books and textbooks onto the bookshelf one by one.
After tidying up, it was already getting late.
Shen Yi: “Thank you, I’ll treat you to dinner tonight, order whatever you want.”
Fu Cheng raised his hand and said, “I want to eat barbecue.”
Shen Yi sat on the stool with his legs crossed, his shoulders leaning against the back of the stool, holding a mobile phone in his hand, he said: “Let me check the nearby barbecue restaurants…”
“Let’s do it ourselves.” Fu Cheng said.
Shen Yi paused, then raised his eyes: “Do it ourselves?”
Fu Cheng: “We have a barbecue, I…”
He scratched his head shyly: “I just want to experience the feeling of making barbecue with my friends.”
“Ah… a rite of passage.” Shen Yi said clearly, “That’s no problem, leave it to me.”
Fu Cheng: “Do you know how to make barbecue?”
“Of course.” Shen Yi snapped his fingers, “Let’s go. To the supermarket, we go.”
…
When Fu Yuhe returned home, he heard Fu Cheng talking in the living room.
“Drink! Who said I can’t drink.” Fu Cheng spoke nonsense in a haughty manner.
“Stop drinking.” Shen Yi said, “Look at me.”
“Look at you..” Fu Cheng said, “One, two, three…how come there are so many of you?”
“It’s because you drank too much.” Shen Yi’s voice sounded sober.
Fu Yuhe stood at the door, frowned, and smelled the appetizing fragrance coming from the living room.
Shen Yi murmured: “It’s a good thing we didn’t call the rest over, otherwise everyone would be like this, making a mess in your house, and your brother would kill me…”
“I’m sorry…” Fu Cheng said apologetically, “If it wasn’t for me, my brother wouldn’t hate you.”
Shen Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise and said, “Your brother spoke ill of me?”
Fu Cheng muttered, “No… yes! Yes, he did!”
Fu Yuhe at the door changed his shoes, and the footsteps that were about to go in suddenly stopped in place.
Fu Cheng said confusedly: “Don’t blame my brother, I was bullied before, I misunderstood him… My brother made them drop out of my school, and someone said that I still had my brother watching over me. I was only ten…over ten years old, and I was in my rebellious phase, so how could I be happy about that? I quarreled with my brother, said lots of bad things, and made him sad…”
Shen Yi: “You actually have a rebellious phase.”
Fu Cheng stretched out his index finger and pointed at him: “Who are you looking down on?”
Shen Yi held his index finger and put his finger, “I didn’t look down on you.”
“Really?”
“Hmm, really.”
“Come on, drink, let’s go—brother!?” Fu Cheng’s voice changed.
Shen Yi turned the skewers over for a bit, turned his head, and saw Fu Yuhe walking over from the door, he raised a smile: “Brother, do you want to eat barbecue?”
Fu Yuhe walked to them and glanced at the grill, his eyes stayed on Fu Cheng who was standing obediently, Fu Cheng showed a big-toothed grin.
Fu Yuhe: “…”
He glanced at the multiple beer cans that had been tossed aside and felt a dull ache in his forehead.
“Brother, do you want to drink?” Fu Cheng handed his brother beer with both hands, all with a respectful gesture.
“…Go upstairs and sleep for me!” Fu Yuhe’s lowered voice sounded like a harbinger of a devil.
Fu Cheng was shocked: “Yes! Sir!”
“Brother, don’t scold him, he is drunk.” Shen Yi straightened up.
Fu Cheng hid behind him, pulled the hem of his clothes, and repeated Shen Yi’s words in a low voice, “I’m drunk.”
Shen Yi winked at Fu Yuhe, smiled captivatingly, licked his lips with the tip of his tongue, thought of something, and suddenly said: “Brother, I’m drunk too.”
“I…I’m going to the bathroom.” Fu Cheng put his fist to his lips, stumbled, and ran off to the bathroom to vomit.
The living room was silent, Fu Yuhe looked at Shen Yi calmly, and the arc of Shen Yi’s smile remained unchanged from the beginning to the end, the two confronted each other until Shen Yi broke the situation and took a step forward.
“I’m drunk,” he said.
“Really?” Fu Yuhe didn’t move, just looked at him quietly.
When Shen Yi’s slender fingers grabbed his collar. He hadn’t reacted yet, but his fingers had already turned his collar into a crumpled one. Closing the distance, Shen Yi’s breath rushed over his face and his lips were covered with warmth and softness. The tactile sensation spread.
Fu Yuhe’s pupils suddenly constricted.
With Shen Yi’s half-closed eyelids, the look at the bottom of his eyes was as gentle and peaceful as the surface of a lake. With his Adam’s apple rolling, he got his wish and tasted the long-awaited taste again.
The feeling of kissing makes one feel the electricity coursing through their body, so much so that the limbs start to feel numb. It was a feeling that made people addicted to it.
This pleasant and intimate contact is as refreshing as rain after a long drought, and it made Shen Yi want to ask for more.
When he is drunk, he can do whatever he wants, just like Fu Yuhe did that night, this is what Fu Yuhe taught him.
Translator Note:
Hey y’alll. If you have read my translations starting from the beginning you would kow I am a horrible time manager and I fail at doing exactly what I’ve promised so we are going straight to ‘go with the flow approach’. Ome step at a time. I hope to bring you at least 1-2 chapters every week, it could be more, it could be less, all of it depends upon my college schedules (though am on holiday right now. I know holiday means more updates, wah, wah, wah, no. Like lot good it did last time.) So yeah just wanted to let you in on the situation. Happy Readings!
A gazebo is a pavilion structure, sometimes octagonal or turret-shaped, often built in a park, garden, or spacious public area.
Gazebo (pavilion-like place)