OVTTGTBE Chapter 40

Friends

Friends

Back at home, to facilitate conversation, Liu Yucheng was called into Bai Yao’s VR room by Bai Junyi and Assistant Zhou.

Bai Yao initially tried to eavesdrop at the door, but after being discovered by Bai Junyi, he was reprimanded. Feeling awkward, he had to go upstairs to take a shower alone.

He didn’t know what the three of them were talking about. Liu Yucheng drank so much alcohol, Bai Yao didn’t even know if the person would remember the conversation after waking up tomorrow morning, but none of this was his business.

After taking a shower, Bai Yao lay on the bed and scrolled through his phone. Just as he was about to fall asleep, Liu Yucheng knocked on his bedroom door.

“I’m almost asleep…”

“Damn, you reek of alcohol, don’t come over here.”

Bai Yao pinched his nose and retreated, disgusted, “Go take a shower quickly!”

Liu Yucheng closed the bedroom door behind his back, his fingers gently turning the lock. “Auntie just said, have you find me a set of your pajamas.”

“Okay, okay, I’ll find you some, hurry up and go wash… What do you want to do?”

“Shhh.”

Liu Yucheng cautiously wrapped his arms around Bai Yao, “So loud, do you want your mom to hear?”

The smell of alcohol on his collar and in his mouth instantly filled Bai Yao’s nostrils. Bai Yao frowned and questioned, “Then why don’t you let go? Trying to take advantage? You drank so much tonight, I’m afraid you can’t even get it up.”

“Really? Do you want to try and see?” Liu Yucheng chuckled, his body weight gradually shifting towards Bai Yao.

“I’m a little unsteady, just support me this once tonight, okay?”

His nose lightly touched Bai Yao’s cheek, “Although the time has passed, but… happy birthday.”

“Tsk.”

Bai Yao pushed Liu Yucheng away with force, sneering, “If you had even one true word in your mouth, we wouldn’t have broken up so badly. Stand on your own, I won’t support you.”

Liu Yucheng: “…”

“You did put some effort into my birthday, so I reluctantly agreed to let you sleep in this room tonight. If you take it any further, we can’t even be friends anymore.”

Bai Yao warned.

Liu Yucheng was stunned for a long time, then asked, “You… really willing to be friends with me?”

“I suddenly don’t want to anymore, why don’t you just get lost.”

“No, I’ll go take a shower now.”

Liu Yucheng raised his hand and unbuttoned his clothes, the corners of his mouth already unable to suppress a smile, “Remember to get me a set of pajamas.”

…

The two people lay in bed, back to back, worlds apart.

When Liu Yucheng came out of the shower, he saw the clean pajamas and pants that Bai Yao had placed on the chair, and also saw the three quilts placed in the middle of the bed.

Besides the two people using one each to sleep with, the remaining one was probably the dividing line.

Liu Yucheng knew he wasn’t asleep.

“Next week after the exam is the Qingming holiday, are you going back to your hometown to sweep the graves?” he asked softly.

“I’m not going back this year, my mom is offering incense on my behalf.”

Bai Yao’s voice sounded like he was about to fall asleep, “I plan to take advantage of the holiday to investigate my dad’s affairs, and also take care of your brother while I’m at it. Do you have anything you want to say?”

Liu Yucheng sat up and looked towards the other side of the dividing line. Bai Yao was currently lying on his side facing him, his eyes closed.

He had always been curious as to why Bai Yao had dragged his feet for so long without taking action against Liu Angran. But thinking about it carefully, Bai Yao had a lot going on with his studies and other things while he was recovering from his injuries, and he really wasn’t idle.

The day before yesterday, his aunt, whom he had blacklisted, even used someone else’s phone to call him, saying that your brother was injured and hospitalized, send 50,000 yuan, or I’ll dig up your parents’ graves.

Liu Yucheng certainly didn’t have that much money, and even if he did, he wouldn’t give it. He asked Bai Junyi for help, hoping that she could help protect his parents’ graves. What Bai Junyi and Assistant Zhou were talking to him about in the VR room tonight was this matter.

She said that she had already sent people to move the graves a long time ago, to a place with better feng shui and strict security.

“No matter what you want to do… I won’t stop you.”

Liu Yucheng said in a low voice, “About Liu Angran… I’ve already told you everything I know, including which hospital he’s in.”

“Even if you didn’t tell me, I could find out.”

Bai Yao said lazily, “Why don’t you tell me something I don’t know?”

“About Liu Angran, there probably isn’t anything.”

Liu Yucheng pondered for a moment, then said, “But about your dad, I really do have some news you don’t know. If I tell you, can you…”

He wanted to negotiate.

Bai Yao didn’t hesitate much, he directly turned over, and pulled the small quilt up to cover himself, “If you don’t want to say it, then forget it, I didn’t mean to force you. Good night.”

Liu Yucheng: “Uh…”

The young master had actually learned to play hard to get.

“Okay, I’ll tell you.”

“I know where your dad’s grave is.”

Liu Yucheng said.

Hearing this, Bai Yao sat up straight.

“Damn, I’ve been asking since I was little, my mom never tells me where Cheng Tianyang’s grave is, nor does she tell me how he died, but she told you this???”

“That’s not it, it wasn’t her who told me.”

Liu Yucheng also sat up, gazing at Bai Yao’s eyes by the light of the floor lamp in the room, “I found out from the diary my mom left behind. The one we mentioned at the dinner table today, Little Popsicle.”

“That’s even more wrong.”

Bai Yao frowned, looking disgusted: “Since Little Popsicle is my mom’s friend, then how would she record my dad’s… Huh? Wait…”

“We’re not half-brothers, nor are we related by blood, don’t think so dramatically.”

Liu Yucheng looked at the wonderful expression on his face, and couldn’t help but laugh lightly under the influence of alcohol.

“Your dad, Cheng Tianyang, was once my mom’s stepbrother for a period of time. Years ago, my grandmother contracted a terminal illness and passed away very early. My grandfather then found another one, consider her a girlfriend, this woman was also divorced, Cheng Tianyang was raised by her alone, calculated, she should be your grandmother.”

“…”

Bai Yao clenched the quilt tightly. The concept of grandmother, he never had when he was young.

Although he and Liu Yucheng aren’t brothers, but this is pretty much just as dramatic!

“Then, what happened later?”

“Later, Cheng Tianyang passed away, that woman, which is your grandmother, I only know that my grandfather didn’t marry her; as for what happened after that, I don’t know either.”

Liu Yucheng said.

“Qingming Festival, do you have any plans?” Bai Yao suddenly said, “Can you take me to see Cheng Tianyang’s grave?”

Liu Yucheng looked at him in astonishment, because his expression really didn’t look like he was going to sweep Cheng Tianyang’s grave.

…

The next day at noon, Bai Yao answered a phone call and got up, Liu Yucheng was still in bed, hungover.

“Beep beep, my head hurts so much, how is the after-effect of this wine so strong.”

He grabbed the sleeve of Bai Yao’s pajamas, “Can you lie with me for a while longer?”

Bai Yao raised his foot and kicked him on the butt, “Get lost, Beep beep is also something you can call? My friend is almost here, either stay in the room and don’t come out, or get up quickly and wash up, I’ll lend you my clothes.”

“What friend, are Zhang Yifang and them coming?”

“No, you don’t know them.”

Leaving these words, Bai Yao ducked into the bathroom, Liu Yucheng even heard the sound of an electric razor.

Although Bai Yao is usually particular about his appearance, this flurry of activity still made Liu Yucheng feel a sense of inexplicable panic.

After a while, Bai Yao came downstairs wearing a suit of clothes that could be considered decent, Duan Junran was already sitting on the sofa in his house.

“Yo? You’re up? Sorry I didn’t make it to your birthday yesterday, my dad punished me, I knelt in his office for several hours.”

Duan Junran greeted him with a smile.

Bai Yao was amused as soon as he heard it, “What did you do again? Wait, let me guess… A few days ago I saw on the news that a car caught fire near your dad’s company, the car owner was fully responsible, was that you?”

“Yes, but that was all an accident.”

Duan Junran clutched his chest with heartache, “My car is completely scrapped, luckily no one was injured… My dad won’t buy me a car again before the end of this year, can I borrow your car for a couple of days?”

Bai Yao held up a cup and took a sip of the drink, his face expressionless, “My car is still at home, I haven’t even driven it over, the keys aren’t with me either. Besides, it’s not up to me, you have to ask Boss Bai if she’s willing.”

Duan Junran: “…”

Duan Junran: “Uh, I have a gift for you! You’ll definitely like it! Really!”

“Hmm?”

“Ta-da!”

Duan Junran took out a plastic package from his clothes, “Look! Your favorite game is having a concert, guessing that you might not know about this, I specially got a ticket for you through connections, how is it? Do you like it?”

Seeing Bai Yao standing there without saying anything, reacting unusually calmly, Duan Junran quickly took off the watch on his wrist, “Oh dear, if you really don’t trust me, I’ll leave this watch with you as collateral first…”

This watch was expensive, Bai Yao was just about to take it to examine it carefully, when Duan Junran didn’t hold it steady, and the watch slipped and fell on the carpet.

“Crack.”

Liu Yucheng came down the stairs quickly with a cup in his hand, and stepped on that watch.

Liu Yucheng and Bai Yao: “…”

Duan Junran: “…”

“Sorry.”

Too busy observing what Bai Yao and this man were doing, Liu Yucheng didn’t even see what he stepped on.

Lifting his foot to take a look, he realized that it was a watch, one that was obviously a branded product, and a crack had appeared on the top layer of the watch crystal.

“Damn, you’re actually hiding someone at home??”

Duan Junran looked at the two bodyguards standing not far away pretending not to see them in surprise, and then turned to look at Bai Yao, “What, you have a new love and didn’t even tell me? No matter who I’m with, I always tell you the first time!”

“What new love, he’s just my ex.”

Bai Yao bent down to pick up the watch, inspecting it, fortunately it was just the watch crystal that was broken.

Duan Junran said “Oh,” and looked Liu Yucheng up and down—he’s really tall, that’s enviable; his face is not bad-looking, belonging to the more delicate type, but he looks a bit thin, his skin has an unhealthy paleness to it.

“You’re Beep Beep’s ex?”

Duan Junran stretched out his hand, “You broke my watch, pay up, this watch is three million something.”

Since he’s Bai Yao’s ex-boyfriend, his family’s financial situation is probably about the same as Bai Yao’s.

The cup in Liu Yucheng’s hand almost slipped, he frowned slightly, confirming, “…How much?”

This person actually called Bai Yao by his childhood name, and Bai Yao actually didn’t express any dissatisfaction, like he just did when he called him.