SC Chapter 18

Chapter 18

A glass slammed heavily on the table, spilling yellow beer.

“Damn it! You scared me! Are you crazy slamming it down so hard?” If Wang Xin hadn’t been quick, her phone would have fallen.

Yun Muye rolled his eyes: “You never seem to be able to get rid of that habit.” With that, Yun Muye reached out and snatched Guo Xi’s glass.

Guo Xi laughed: “Oh, you know what kind of person I am.”

Wang Xin smacked the back of Guo Xi’s head: “Act normal for me! Don’t you see there’s a genius here?”

Duan Sirong turned his head, pretending not to see.

Liu Lan clinked glasses with Wang Xin: “If it weren’t for Brother Yun, wouldn’t you be jumping on the table and shouting nonsense in the next second?”

“You get me!”

Liu Lan gave him the middle finger.

Wang Xin inadvertently clicked into the Class 9 group chat for the third year, and a message popped up.

Wang Xin: “…” This kind of occasion is not suitable for talking about this kind of thing.

“Parents’ meeting the day after tomorrow, huh?” Yun Muye looked at Duan Sirong’s phone screen. “Looks like it starts in the third period in the afternoon.”

Liu Lan started a game: “Let it happen, my dad doesn’t care about me anyway.”

Guo Xi: “Damn, you guys still keep this group chat? I deleted it a long time ago.”

Yun Muye didn’t say anything, because Duan Sirong beside him looked unhappy, but that was normal. No one is born a genius. It all comes from the expectant eyes of parents.

Yun Muye took Duan Sirong’s hand: “Don’t be afraid, I’m here.”

The other person didn’t say anything, but his eyes did brighten a bit.

Liu Lan: “We’ve eaten enough, it’s time to go back, right? Guo Xi, go pay the bill!”

The moon hung high, a full moon tonight, with no clouds around it. Though alone, it was very conspicuous.

After saying goodbye, everyone went home. Yun Muye said to Duan Sirong: “Accompany me to the flower shop.”

Duan Sirong nodded.

“Xiaoli Florist” is a famous flower shop around Yun Muye. They sell both real and fake flowers.

According to the old men and women who frequent this shop: The real flowers look like fake flowers, and the fake flowers look like real flowers.

Yun Muye didn’t browse for long. He picked a fake sunflower and a small fake rose for Duan Sirong.

The proprietress had her hair pinned up with a hairpin. She looked young and very pretty, wearing an apron with gardenias painted on it.

Yun Muye was about to hold out the payment code on his phone, but Duan Sirong beat him to it and put cash on the table.

Yun Muye: “?” Damn! I already owe him a BBQ dinner.

The proprietress quickly packed the two bouquets and put a Shin-chan sticker on the packaging bag.

“Thank you for buying our flowers. May you be as carefree as Shin-chan, and we look forward to your next visit.”

Although Hanyang will enter winter tomorrow, the wind here is still a bit warm. This may be the unique climate of Wuhan.

Yun Muye handed the rose to Duan Sirong at the entrance of the neighborhood, saying that he had left something at the BBQ restaurant and needed to go get it, and then quickly ran away.

Duan Sirong stared at the rose in his hand, unable to return to his senses for a long time. It exuded a very pleasant perfume scent, like the milky scent that Yun Muye had.

But Zhang Hongxiu in the surveillance footage will definitely ask about this rose.

Duan Sirong put the rose in his large pocket, took a deep breath, and pushed open the door.

“Sirong, you’re back so soon? Did you understand what your classmates were saying?”

Duan Sirong put down his schoolbag and nodded in response.

Zhang Hongxiu: “Sirong, you better go out less in the future. Mom recently saw something about homosexuality! It’s terrible. Mom is afraid that others will have disgusting thoughts about you.”

Duan Sirong frowned: “Mom, don’t think wildly for no reason. I’m not that kind of person, and I won’t become that kind of person.” This is just a necessary lie. For Zhang Hongxiu, homosexuality is a disgusting disease, like a cockroach in the gutter, unwelcome by the world.

Zhang Hongxiu was more relieved: “That’s good, go back to your room, I have a client to talk to.”

Duan Sirong turned around and went back to his room, took the rose out of his pocket, and put it in the drawer of the desk.

It’s a bit ridiculous. The flower that should be displayed beautifully is placed in darkness.

On the other side, inside the BBQ restaurant.

Yun Muye took the key from the boss’s hand, his eyes a bit fierce, and said to the boss: “What’s the purpose of deliberately hiding my key?”

The boss raised his eyebrows: “Of course, it’s to have a chance to be alone with you.”

“Don’t say disgusting things to me here! Yun Shang…”

Yun Shang tore off his apron, his eyes smug, and when he chuckled, he looked like an evil devil. He sat on the dining table: “Why do you hate me so much? I’ve already told my dad about you two.”

Yun Muye punched him in the head: “I’ll go to your mother!”

Yun Shang is Yun Muye’s uncle’s son, a few years older than Yun Muye, in short, already an adult. He opened this store without telling anyone.

Yun Shang has disliked Yun Muye since he was a child, because the halo around him was too dazzling, and he was very jealous.

“Let me tell you a secret, Zhang Hongxiu, Duan Sirong’s mother; Duan Sirong, your lover; Zhang Hongxiu, my dad’s business partner!”

Yun Muye grabbed Yun Shang’s collar, his voice threatening and fierce, as if he would tear Yun Shang into pieces in the next second: “What the hell do you want to do!”

Yun Shang laughed wildly, not afraid of the person in front of him: “Hahaha! Why are you always in the spotlight? I insist on having your halo trampled by everyone!”

Time passed quickly, and the day of the parents’ meeting had arrived.

Guo Xi propped his chin: “What’s going on? Has Brother Yun been in a bad mood recently?”

Yun Muye had been strange lately, smiling like a fake smile every day, and speaking without energy.

Yun Muye leaned on Duan Sirong’s shoulder, his eyes dull: “It’s nothing, I’ve been staying up too late lately.”

The conversation from that day kept playing in Yun Muye’s mind: “Why! We just got together!”

“I finally crawled out of the darkness! Why?!”

“I bet you won’t tell Duan Sirong, because with Zhang Hongxiu’s strength, she can completely force you to drop out of school!”

“You will be judged! What about Duan Sirong? He will also be affected by you!”

Liu Lan put down his water glass: “This doesn’t look like someone who’s been staying up too late. Brother Yun, what’s wrong with you?”

Yun Muye forced a smile: “I told you, I’ve been staying up too late.”

Yun Muye has no way to go now.

Accompanied by the sound of high heels, Xiao Mo patted her hands at the back door: “Come on, everyone, arrange your seats. The parents’ meeting will start in ten minutes.”

Yun Muye glanced at Duan Sirong’s face, shrinking his head into his body, smelling the scent on him.

Duan Sirong touched Yun Muye’s head and kissed him on the face.

Liu Lan: “Genius Sirong, is your mom coming today?”

Duan Sirong patted Yun Muye on the back: “My mom is out of town on business.”

The class bell rang, and Xiao Mo asked all the students in the class to come up and get a chair and put it next to their desks for their parents to sit on.

Xiao Mo: “Students whose parents didn’t come don’t need to come up.”

That’s good. Yun Muye and Duan Sirong’s seats are in a place that is not easy to be discovered, so Yun Muye can sleep peacefully.

After the benches were taken away, the parents who had been waiting outside the door entered one after another.

But one thing is very strange – the parents have been looking for Duan Sirong from the moment they stepped in the door, leaving their own children aside.

“Oh! You must be Duan Sirong! You’re so handsome!” The parent of Guo Xi’s deskmate’s eyes lit up when they saw Duan Sirong.

Duan Sirong responded indifferently: “Thank you.”

The parent sat down, still wanting to get some benefits for their own child: “Where are your parents? Why didn’t they come?”

Duan Sirong replied calmly: “My mom is out of town, and my dad is underground.”

Parent: “…”

“Oh! Muye!” Compared to this parent’s dignity, Guo Xi’s mother’s appearance seemed a bit wild, and she was even more familiar with Yun Muye.

Yun Muye naturally handed over a candy.

“Look at this child! He’s so well-behaved!”

The parents’ meeting lasted a total of one hour. Yun Muye didn’t listen at all, and put his hand in Duan Sirong’s pocket to keep warm.

At the end, the atmosphere in the class was not very serious, which was not surprising.

After a few perfunctory classes, the school gate opened on time. After the bell rang, a lively atmosphere resounded throughout the campus, with everyone planning how to spend the weekend.

Yun Muye: “Let’s go out and play on the weekend?”

Duan Sirong: “I probably won’t be able to, my mom manages me strictly.”

Yun Muye: “Okay.”

The moment he pushed open the door of his house, Yun Muye’s phone started ringing “ding-dong-dong”.

When he turned it on, he saw that the messages in the group chat he and other friends had created had already reached 21.

Invincible Liu: When is Guo Xi’s birthday?

Guo Xi: Soon.

Xin: It seems like there are still ten days or so.

Guo Xi: Okay, let’s go to KTV then!

Muye: Sounds good to me.

Yun Muye’s hand was still on the phone’s keyboard when a strange phone call suddenly came in.

This was a local Hanyang phone number, so Yun Muye simply answered it.

“Brother… I beg you… take me home…”