OVTTGTBE Chapter 33

“You have bodyguards now, that’s good.”

Liu Yucheng looked like he was about to shatter, but Bai Yao still heard him say, “You won’t get hurt anymore in the future.”

He didn’t take the 50,000 yuan, but bent down to pick up his backpack from the floor. Then, he opened the wardrobe, took out his umbrella and a windbreaker, and left Dorm 219.

Anyway, this kind of thing wasn’t happening between him and Bai Yao for the first time.

It was probably because he had gone back to his hometown before and been away for too long. And then, Peach Milk wasn’t able to show up in time and wasn’t there to keep Bai Yao company, which led to Bai Yao becoming so irritable.

Plus, Bai Yao was concerned about his image and always liked to act tough in front of Zhang Yifang and the others. His anger wouldn’t subside anytime soon.

It didn’t matter, anyway, they would still see each other in the next few days. Even if Bai Yao took a day off on Tuesday, they still had to give a joint presentation on Friday.

He just needed to coax him a little when the time came. Bai Yao sometimes did things entirely based on his mood. As long as he was in a good mood, he probably wouldn’t move out.

“Hello, hello, it’s me.”

After leaving the dorm, Liu Yucheng wandered aimlessly around the campus with his umbrella. After thinking it over, he decided to call Bai Junyi.

The weather was also strange today. Even in the north, it was rare to see snow at this time of year.

“Bai Yao got hurt, do you know?”

“Oh, okay…”

“Who?!” Liu Yucheng dropped the umbrella in his hand to the ground. “He said it himself??”

On the phone, Bai Junyi’s tone wasn’t much better, “Yes. He wouldn’t let me interfere. He said he had to deal with it himself to vent his anger, otherwise your brother would probably already be in jail by now.”

After hanging up, Liu Yucheng stood alone in the snow for a long time, getting soaked through. The umbrella that had fallen to the ground had also been blown far away by the wind.

It was Liu Angran, no wonder… no wonder Bai Yao was so angry today.

Six knife scars…

Liu Yucheng didn’t dare to think about how many terrifying scenes Bai Yao had experienced that night; or how long it would take him to truly emerge from the shadows.

After all, Bai Yao was already afraid of the dark and had nightmares…

His eyes reddened as he rummaged through his backpack for the confidentiality agreement. He borrowed a lighter from a student smoking by the roadside and burned the agreement.

Instead of letting Liu Angran off the hook, he decided to tell Bai Yao everything he knew, including the relevant details about Cheng Tianyang that he had learned. As for his identity as Peach Milk… he didn’t want it anymore, he wanted to be honest with Bai Yao.

He really wanted to tell Bai Yao that the attraction between them was definitely not groundless. Their connection had existed long ago.

…

In the following days, Liu Yucheng went to classes and worked during the day, and stayed overnight in the cheapest guesthouse nearby. He arrived at the classroom early for every class, but Bai Yao never showed up. Later, he heard that Bai Yao had taken leave until Thursday.

Liu Yucheng also wandered around downstairs in the dormitory building, seeing a woman always standing downstairs in the men’s dormitory, sometimes two.

These two women were twins, and the clothes they wore were the same brand and style as the dozen or so bodyguards that Bai Junyi had brought to his hometown before. They should be the new bodyguards that Bai Yao had mentioned.

He finally made it to Friday.

Liu Yucheng put some effort into his clothes and hairstyle, and went to the lecture hall an hour early. But he didn’t go into the classroom right away. Instead, he waited in a relatively hidden place nearby until Bai Yao appeared and slowly entered the lecture hall with the two women.

Recently, the rumors at school had been particularly intense. Some said that Bai Yao had been stabbed several times but was still alive and strong, and was now back to class with bodyguards; others said that Bai Yao had been stabbed by his roommate, Liu Yucheng, for unknown reasons.

Liu Yucheng didn’t care about any of this. He just wanted to take the opportunity today to have a good talk with Bai Yao.

He had prepared three copies of the presentation. One was for when the two of them gave the presentation together, which would guarantee their group score.

The other two were backups. One was Liu Yucheng’s own presentation in case Bai Yao didn’t want to cooperate with him; the other was written by him out of selfishness in case Bai Yao forgot about the presentation because he was injured.

After taking several deep breaths at the classroom door, Liu Yucheng walked into the lecture hall.

The lecture hall was large and noisy. More than a hundred students were chatting or scrolling through their phones.

Bai Yao was sitting in the last row of the lecture hall, on the outermost seat. This made it convenient for the two bodyguards to stand beside him without taking up seats.

Seeing Liu Yucheng walk over, the two women reacted quickly, immediately reaching out to stop him three meters away, their movements almost identical.

“Don’t do that.”

Bai Yao said to them casually, “I still have to give a presentation with him today.”

“Come on, sit over here, sit next to me. I see that the other groups are all sitting together.”

He patted the empty seat next to him, the smile on his face very deceptive. For a moment, Liu Yucheng almost thought that Bai Yao wasn’t angry with him anymore.

Because this was also the only empty seat in the last row, it was obvious that Bai Yao had saved the seat for him.

Liu Yucheng subconsciously clutched the strap of his bag on his left shoulder and floated to that seat, sitting down next to him.

“How interesting.”

Bai Yao looked at the students chatting in front of them and said with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, “I couldn’t see your emotions before, but now I can. Why do you think that is?”

Liu Yucheng pretended to be relaxed and asked him, “Then what do you think my emotion is right now?”

“Nervous, probably,” Bai Yao said directly without looking at him.

Liu Yucheng pursed his lips and smiled wryly.

It wasn’t just nervous, he was about to explode.

“I… I wrote a presentation for you.”

The two of them had nothing to say, so Liu Yucheng quickly unzipped his bag. “Did you write one? Should we go over them together?”

“No need.”

Bai Yao raised his chin slightly. His laptop bag was placed at his feet, and it contained the presentation he had carefully prepared.

The class began, and according to the drawing of lots, groups of students began to go to the podium to give their presentations with their presentation or computers.

In addition to Teaching Assistant Xu, several other teaching assistants who also taught this experiment were grading them.

“Liu Yucheng, is there anything else you want to say to me?”

Bai Yao suddenly asked him in a low voice, “After this class, I’m going to move out of the dorm. You don’t have to stay outside either, you can go back to the dorm tonight.”

Even though so many things had happened before, at this moment, before the presentation began, Bai Yao couldn’t help but feel a touch of softness.

“Yes, I have a lot of things I want to say to you.”

He was giving himself a chance, he was willing to give himself a chance!

Liu Yucheng was flattered and became somewhat incoherent, pressing down his voice and saying, “I… I did have something going on recently, I signed a confidentiality agreement, but that agreement has already been burned by me. I have to tell you about this slowly. Let’s find a place where we can talk tonight, a place without other people, okay?”

“I asked you if there was anything you wanted to say to me, and you want to tell me about this, is that it?”

Bai Yao was extremely disappointed.

Liu Yucheng was stunned, not understanding what he meant.

Bai Yao’s eyelashes fluttered slightly as he took out his laptop. “You think I don’t know? That confidentiality agreement of yours was signed with my mom. I don’t know the details of the agreement, but my mom already told me the reason why you took leave those few days two days ago. She said you went back to your hometown.”

After he finished speaking, the two bodyguards received a look and came over to support Bai Yao on either side, helping him up from his seat.

“What are you doing standing there blankly? Grab your presentation.”

Bai Yao took a deep breath. “The next group is going to be us.”

“Bai Yao, Bai Yao.”

The people in the group in front of them had just finished their presentation, Liu Yucheng didn’t dare to speak loudly; even though there were a few students around them who kept paying attention to them, he couldn’t care about that anymore.

He stood up and grabbed Bai Yao’s hand. “I do have something I want to confess to you, I… I…”

“Bai Yao, I’m sorry, I’m really sorry, uh… that, the person you were dating online, Peach Milk, is actually…”

Liu Yucheng, who was usually articulate, also known as CV Yuan Shuang, suddenly stuttered.

“Next group, Bai Yao, Liu Yucheng, hurry up,” Teaching Assistant Xu urged, his voice amplified by the loudspeaker echoing through the lecture hall.

Bai Yao turned his head and glanced at him lightly, saying the last sentence to him, “I already knew.”

Liu Yucheng was still standing in the same spot.

He watched Bai Yao being helped down the steps by those two women, walking to the podium.

The projector quickly switched to Bai Yao’s computer desktop.

“Liu Yucheng, what are you doing? Hurry up and come down?” Teaching Assistant Xu urged.

Liu Yucheng held his three copies of the presentation, slowly walking from the last row to the podium, and then to Bai Yao’s side.

He had never felt that the steps in the lecture hall were so difficult to walk.

“Hello everyone, my name is Bai Yao.”

Bai Yao took the loudspeaker directly from Teaching Assistant Xu, looked at the students in the lecture hall, and smiled cheerfully.

“I know that it’s easy to feel sleepy during afternoon classes, but please rest assured that my PPT will not be so boring. I know that you all like to read chat logs, so please take a look at my PPT——”

An enlarged screenshot of a WeChat chat log was displayed on the screen in the lecture hall.

[Peach Milk]: You’re still playing the game so late, I knew you were lying yesterday when you said you were going to go to bed at 10 o’clock.

“The Peach Milk on WeChat is my presentation partner today, Liu Yucheng. There are two purposes for today’s presentation. One is to introduce our topic; the second is to tear off his mask.”

This chat log only had a few lines of dialogue. The students sitting in the classroom instantly woke up, the whole place was in an uproar, and even a few teaching assistants were craning their necks to watch with great interest.

After Bai Yao introduced this with a smile, he continued, “The presentation topic for me and Mr. Peach Milk is——”

The PPT flipped to the next page, which only had a few words on it, which was exactly their presentation title.

The entire presentation lasted a total of 9 minutes and 03 seconds. Liu Yucheng stood next to Bai Yao the entire time, facing him, without saying a word.

In these 9 minutes and 03 seconds, Bai Yao displayed the 25 pages of PPT he had carefully prepared, of which 16 pages interspersed screenshots of their chat logs.

Although the content displayed was very healthy and there was nothing shameful about it; Bai Yao had only used a few minutes to talk about their months of online dating, from the beginning to the end of the relationship.

How many sleepless nights, how many unspeakable longings, how could the people listening to the presentation understand these things.

No one in the classroom was dozing off anymore, the whole place was silent. Teaching Assistant Xu looked down at his grading sheet. Although the presentation process was extremely absurd, Bai Yao had mentioned all the points that needed to be scored.

Tearing off Liu Yucheng’s mask, but the mask that Bai Yao usually held tightly also fell off.

From the moment the first tear couldn’t be controlled, Bai Yao had a premonition that today was probably the most vulnerable moment in his four years of college, even more vulnerable than the night he fought desperately with several people.

“Liu Yucheng, I’ve known that Peach Milk was you since the beginning of last semester.”

By the end of the presentation, Bai Yao’s sleeves had been soaked with tears, but he was still using his sleeves to wipe away the unstoppable tears.

“I didn’t expose you because I still liked you at that time.”

“But now, the presentation is over, and we are over too… I’m sorry, teachers, I’m really not feeling well, I have to go first.”

Bai Yao’s injury hadn’t healed, and he had a leave note. It was already not easy for him to come today. Teaching Assistant Xu nodded and said, go back and rest well, don’t delay your studies.

Everyone’s attention, including the teaching assistants responsible for grading, was focused on Liu Yucheng.

Unlike Bai Yao, this boy was crying very quietly.

The students also started to discuss quietly.

“Damn, approaching male classmates with a fake identity and online dating? 6, I didn’t realize this Liu Yucheng was so good at playing!”

“I feel like Bai Yao is usually quite concerned about his image? He actually cried in public… sigh, I can’t see clearly! If I had known, I would have sat in the front row!”

“Both of them are crying, I can see clearly. Not to mention them, I feel sad listening… this is a large-scale breakup scene!”

“Holy shit, I know that CV! Yuan Shuang! He dubbed a lot of radio dramas, both top and bottom voices are okay! I’m his fan! So he’s at our school!!”

“I also know this CV! He also does voiceovers for male-oriented novels, I didn’t expect him to actually like men.”

Yan Hao, Li Jinyang, Zhang Yifang, and Tao Lin were also sitting in the classroom, none of whom participated in the surrounding people’s discussions.

Seeing the ending between the two of them, everyone felt bad.

From the moment Bai Yao opened the PPT, until Bai Yao took the computer and was helped out of the classroom by the bodyguards, Liu Yucheng had never moved, nor had he thought of stopping him.

“I’m sorry, teachers.”

“Give me a score of 0 for today’s presentation.”

After saying that, he finally raised his arm and wiped his face with his sleeve, then tore up all three copies of the presentation in his hand and ran out after Bai Yao.