TSIBAMS Chapter 92
by VolareA few days after sending off Ye Xing and Li Ke, Qi Guang also started school. He had repeatedly told Lu Yueyang about Ye Xing not transferring schools, but he was still worried. The first thing he did when school started was to go to the teacher’s office to check the student list. Only when he saw Ye Xing’s name safely on it did the stone in his heart finally fall.
The first day without Shuai Xiaoyun and Ye Xing acting as breakfast messengers felt a bit strange.
This stomach couldn’t be spoiled. Before, when he didn’t know Ye Xing, he would skip breakfast sometimes, but now it’s like his heart is set on going home, yearning for all the restaurants, especially the stir-fried rice from Shuai Xiaoyun’s house.
It was as if this elder sister had received his brainwaves; she sent him a message.
-Don’t leave after school, I’ll bring you food.
Wonderful!
On the first day of school, the teachers and students hadn’t fully settled down, and they were talking loudly for half the day without any serious classes. Qi Guang simply started organizing his notes alone, then took pictures of each page and sent them to his boyfriend.
Time always flies when you’re focused on something. Before he even felt hungry, school was dismissed.
The students cheered and dispersed, and the classroom quickly became quiet. There were still a few who were so engrossed in studying that they didn’t move. Qi Guang was bored waiting, so he simply got up and left the classroom.
As soon as he reached the corridor, he saw Shuai Xiaoyun coming up with two packed lunches. He jumped down the stairs three steps at a time and took the lunches. “Oh, there are two portions. How did you know I’d have a big appetite today?”
“Don’t touch it, this one’s not for you,” Shuai Xiaoyun snatched one back.
“Tch!” Qi Guang shook his head and went upstairs. “I knew it, bringing me breakfast was just a side thing, huh?”
“If you keep whining, I’ll take this one back too,” Shuai Xiaoyun followed him upstairs.
“I’ll shut up. You’re going to the teacher’s office, right? I know the way, I’ll take you there!” Qi Guang said, taking long strides up the stairs.
The office door wasn’t locked, indicating that there was a teacher inside. Qi Guang knocked twice and directly pushed the door open.
The office after school was as deserted as the classroom. Except for the ceiling fan still spinning on its own, there was almost nothing moving. Of course, it could be that the only one left at the desk, teacher Lu Yueyang’s brain was working frantically.
However, it wasn’t preparing for classes, but playing games.
She was leaning back in her chair, with her legs crossed like a man. The game sound effects were so loud that she didn’t even hear anyone come in.
Shuai Xiaoyun also didn’t treat herself like a stranger; she went straight over and placed the packed lunch on the desk in front of her. “I’m leaving tomorrow. Since you’re on duty for evening self-study tonight, I guess you won’t have time to eat together. I came to say goodbye without being invited.”
Lu Yueyang looked up at her with some surprise, not sure if she was surprised that she appeared here or that she was leaving tomorrow. She slowly put down her crossed leg. “So soon? Isn’t school supposed to start in a week?”
It seemed she wasn’t surprised that she was here.
“The chef at my dad’s store is going back home for a wedding and took a few days off, so my dad just decided to close the store for a few days and will send me tomorrow,” Shuai Xiaoyun said, sitting in the empty seat across from the desk.
“Ah?” Qi Guang, who was pulling a chair over to sit down, was stunned. “Then I won’t send you to school?”
“You just rest, don’t miss me too much,” Shuai Xiaoyun said.
“Tsk,” Qi Guang said with disdain, opening his lunch box, “It won’t be long until National Day, and you’ll be back to bother me.”
Lu Yueyang quit the game, got up, pulled her chair closer, and started opening her lunch box as well. “What time do you leave tomorrow? Shall I see you off?”
“I’m leaving early in the morning; you have to do morning self-study, don’t bother seeing me off,” Shuai Xiaoyun said.
Qi Guang stopped what he was doing, reached into his pocket, and took out a set of keys, from which he unhooked a key that looked quite new. “Sister, take this key, if you don’t like living in the dorm or don’t want to go back to school on weekends, you can live here.”
Shuai Xiaoyun stared at the key for a while, “This isn’t the one your aunt left you…”
What is a big city? It’s where everyone’s dream universities are located, like S City.
When Shuai Xiaoyun received her admission notice, Qi Guang had already prepared to give her a key, but he was always busy with the store and didn’t have time. Today, he suddenly found out that she was leaving early, and he didn’t have time to go home and get a spare key, so he directly took the key he had on hand and gave it to her.
“It’s just going to be empty anyway,” Qi Guang quickly stuffed the key into her hand and picked up his chopsticks to eat. “There are two rooms, you can live in whichever one you like. Just don’t bring boys home, I don’t mind if you bring your girlfriends.”
Shuai Xiaoyun laughed, “What’s going on? As a boy, you’re discriminating against your own gender.”
“It’s not really discrimination,” Qi Guang raised his eyes, “I might be a bit of a clean freak, girls are generally cleaner, and boys… well, not everyone is like me and Ye Xing…”
“Cough,” Before he could finish, Shuai Xiaoyun coughed, and pushed a can of cola towards him, “I can’t open my soda, can I borrow your hand?”
Qi Guang knew what she meant and didn’t continue.
However, he and Ye Xing were already semi-public in a small circle. The people at school probably didn’t know because he rarely interacted with them, and he didn’t hide anything with Xu Ge and the others. Lu Yueyang often went to the bar, so she probably knew something, so he was too lazy to pretend in front of her.
But being too lazy to pretend doesn’t mean he could do whatever he wanted.
Lu Yueyang smiled, opened the drawer, took out a red envelope, and put it in front of Shuai Xiaoyun, “Take it.”
Actually, when Shuai Xiaoyun first received her admission notice, her family had a joyous banquet, invited many friends and relatives, and received a lot of red envelopes. However, she did not invite Lu Yueyang, firstly because she was not her teacher, and secondly, she felt that Lu Yueyang was not much older than her, and these banquets required red envelopes. She was too embarrassed to let her spend money.
She originally thought that this matter had passed, but she didn’t expect that Lu Yueyang still remembered.
“Don’t! No teacher gives students red envelopes…” Shuai Xiaoyun pushed the red envelope back.
“Oh,” Lu Yueyang laughed, “It’s the first time I’ve heard you call me teacher.”
Shuai Xiaoyun frowned and thought for a while. “Bullshit, the first time I met you at your class door I very politely called you teacher!”
“Yeah, polite,” Lu Yueyang said, “Now please politely take what your teacher is giving you.”
Shuai Xiaoyun didn’t move, “I always treat you as a friend, but with this red envelope, you’ve automatically made yourself my elder.”
“There’s not much money. Originally, I was going to prepare a gift for you when you got into university, but you never said what you wanted,” Lu Yueyang held the red envelope and without saying anything, shoved it into Shuai Xiaoyun’s pocket and patted it a few times, “Keep it.”
Qi Guang, finished with his meal, wasn’t planning to listen to the two of them chatting, mainly because he couldn’t join their topics. After cleaning up his lunchbox and throwing it in the trash, he took out his phone, tapped a few times, and walked out.
Ye Xing quickly answered the phone, “Qi, you finished eating fast today.”
“Not as fast as you answered the phone,” Qi Guang walked to the classroom door, glanced inside to see that there were still a few people buried in their studies, turned around and went upstairs.
“I didn’t go out to eat today, it’s raining, so I ordered takeout,” Ye Xing said.
“Don’t you have an umbrella?” Qi Guang opened the door to the rooftop and walked out.
“I was using Li Ke’s before, but he forgot to take it today. It’s fine, it’s so cold, and I don’t want to go out,”
“I’ll buy you an umbrella…”
“Don’t,” Ye Xing refused directly.
Qi Guang was puzzled, “It’s not expensive.”
“Pears aren’t expensive either, but do you see couples sharing them? Same idea, you can send whatever you want, but why an umbrella?” Ye Xing explained seriously on the phone.
Love makes people girly!
After silently sighing in his heart, Qi Guang said with a smile, “Then wear more clothes, do you have enough to wear?”
“Do I have any reason not to have enough to wear?” Then he heard a string of complaints from Ye Xing. “I even suspect you packed up your grandpa’s clothes as well. Although Li Ke is driving, it’s still hard for me to carry the luggage upstairs, okay! And there’s no elevator!”
“I packed the clothes one by one, I’m sure I didn’t pack your grandpa’s, they’re all your boyfriend’s.”
“Yeah, it’s pitiful, my little boyfriend is going to have no clothes to wear. I think you’re about to empty the closet…”
“Pitiful? I don’t think so,” Qi Guang kicked the cigarette butts on the ground to one place, while teasing Ye Xing, “Of course, your little boyfriend bought new clothes to wear.”
“Awesome!” There was a burst of applause from the phone, “Qi, that’s it for now! There’s nothing else to talk about, you’re busy!”
Qi Guang knew that Ye Xing was getting into character, so he didn’t humor him. Of course, he didn’t really hang up the phone. He immediately blurted out after Ye Xing, “But I miss you.”
Ye Xing, who was planning to have a verbal battle with his boyfriend for three hundred rounds, suddenly slammed the breaks.
What kind of ability was this that put someone in a bind! Only someone as thick-skinned as Qi Guang could pull it off!
Ye Xing clicked his tongue, “I lost.”
Then he picked up a pen and started scribbling randomly on the weathered wooden drawing board. It was already full of watercolor and pencil marks because of its age, so it didn’t matter how much he drew on it.
Of course, the main reason was that it wasn’t his drawing board.
“Are you hanging up?” Qi Guang asked.
Ye Xing had no choice, “No.”
You shameless person! Always taking advantage of others! Ye Xing forcefully wrote Qi Guang’s name on the drawing board, and then added the three words, “bastard.”
Just as he finished writing, someone tapped on his drawing board, scaring him so much that he thought he had destroyed public property and had been caught.
However, he immediately realized that this was his personal property!
Ye Xing looked up and saw the owner of the drawing board, Li Ke, staring at him with takeout in hand, “I can’t even have peace when I go to the bathroom, didn’t you hear the doorbell ring?”
“No!” Ye Xing took off his left earphone, leaving the right one hanging, and said to Qi Guang, “I’m eating.”
“Was that Li Ke’s voice just now?” Qi Guang said, “How are he and Bai Shu doing now? Are they still in contact?”
“I don’t know,” Ye Xing glanced at Li Ke. He was pulling a chair by the aisle and using it as a dining table. He didn’t chase him away for stealing his seat. He looked the same as before, carefree. Then he asked over the phone, “What’s wrong?”
“Just curious, ever since Bai Shu brought the keys to Xu Ge last time, they seem to have gotten a little closer,” Qi Guang said.
Although he said it casually, Ye Xing knew the reason why Qi Guang was so concerned about this. It was nothing more than if there was a sliver of hope that Xu Ge cared about Bai Shu, he would immediately stand by Xu Ge’s side.
And then?
In what was clearly a movie of three, Li Ke still didn’t have a name?
Ye Xing had no interest in interfering in other people’s affairs, and he wasn’t keen on playing matchmaker for anyone. As the saying goes, “The master leads you to the door, but the practice is up to you.” Li Ke was the type that was brought to the door, glanced around a few times, and then couldn’t help but climb over the wall himself.
According to him, the clean, gentle, and refined types like Bai Shu were very popular in their circle, the kind that were like a white moonlight.
White moonlight?
Ye Xing smiled, so Xu Ge was also Bai Shu’s white moonlight?
“Why are you so gossipy now? What’s the deal? Are you going to place a bet?”
“Shut up!” Qi Guang laughed and yelled, “I just saw that there might be a breakthrough here, I wanted to see if there was any action on your side.”
“Shall I find out for you?” Ye Xing said and turned his head to shout, “Li Ke!”
Li Ke, who was swiping through his phone to find something to watch while eating, was so startled that he almost dropped his phone. He frowned and looked over, “Damn!”
Qi Guang on the other end of the phone was so anxious that he wanted to teleport over and cover his mouth, “Don’t! Damn it! You’re poisonous!”
Ye Xing ignored Qi Guang, looked at Li Ke with a “Do you have a problem?” expression, smiled shamelessly, “Eat well, don’t multitask, here, let me get you a piece of paper to use as a mat.”
Saying that, he pulled out a sheet from a stack of papers that were either homework or drafts, and without a word, placed it in front of his chair.
This small action made Li Ke take a deep breath.
It wasn’t often that Li Ke showed such an expression. Ye Xing almost thought he pulled out a drawing he shouldn’t have seen, but when he saw what was on the paper, he couldn’t help but take a deep breath as well.
This character sketch, from the hairstyle to the eyebrows, and the curve of the smile, was clearly pointing at one person.
Good heavens! That was indeed the so-called white moonlight!