OVTTGTBE Chapter 24
by VolareNew Dorm, New Roommates
Bai Yao couldn’t help but sneer.
“What the hell, do you think I don’t know you’ve been lying to me all along?”
After a moment of hesitation, he replied, “The thing I hate most is being lied to. And I’m not one for ‘leniency for confessors’, so think carefully before you speak.”
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: ……
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “Don’t be like this, do you… not want me anymore? [Pouting]”
Bai Yao: “But if you don’t come clean, I’ll delete you right now, put your game account up for sale, and we’ll never contact each other again.”
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “I’ll confess.”
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “Actually, I’m not in City X right now.”
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “[Location]”
Bai Yao clicked on the location he sent. It wasn’t Liu Yucheng’s hometown, nor was it the location associated with the PeachMilk phone number; he checked it on the map and it was a very old residential area.
Bai Yao: “It’s almost New Year, you’re telling me you’re not going home? What are you doing in City K?”
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “Working.”
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “I took on a voice acting job for an online drama, and I have to go to the recording studio to record with other CVs, so I rented a room nearby for a short period. The conditions here aren’t great, but the monthly rent is very cheap…”
Since the start of the holiday, Liu Yucheng’s meals had been very frugal, and tonight’s frozen dumplings were a feast for him. In addition to voice acting, he also took on a few power-leveling jobs in the game, barely scraping together his tuition.
If he didn’t work hard during the winter break, he would starve when the semester started.
Bai Yao: “Oh… are you short on money? You can tell me if you need money.”
Bai Yao: “[Transfer of 8888 yuan]”
He’s so perceptive. Liu Yucheng looked at the transfer he’d sent him, and his heart trembled.
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “…”
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “Young master, not everyone has wealthy parents like you, and not everyone can afford to drive a Cayenne during their student days like you. I’m just a poor commoner, it’s normal to work overtime during the New Year, don’t pity me.”
Bedside Exclusive Shizun: “Also, didn’t I tell you not to randomly transfer money to people you meet online? There’s no way I can accept this money.”
Bai Yao: “Not enough?”
Bai Yao: “[Transfer of 66666 yuan]”
Bai Yao: “Is that enough? Actually, this is just a portion of my monthly allowance, you don’t have to be polite with me.”
Liu Yucheng was so angry that he felt cold all over for the first time, his fingers squeezing his phone tightly, his knuckles turning a little white.
Sixty thousand yuan to a stranger, transferred just like that.
Their family backgrounds were too different, and it was difficult for him to understand Bai Yao’s thought process at this moment. But Liu Yucheng knew that Bai Yao didn’t have the ability to earn money right now, and this money was undoubtedly transferred to him by Bai Yao’s parents, and it was hard-earned money, not some miraculous windfall.
He doesn’t cherish it at all.
Liu Yucheng curled up in his chair and took several deep breaths with his eyes closed before gradually calming down.
About twenty minutes later, he saw another message from Bai Yao.
Bai Yao: “It’s not that you think I gave you too little money, but that you can’t even receive money, right? Your WeChat isn’t verified, it’s your alt account.”
Bai Yao: “You’re not even willing to let me know the last character of your name, so you don’t have to worry about me being scammed, after all, I know this WeChat account of yours can’t receive money; and I wouldn’t believe even the punctuation marks in the things you tell me.”
Liu Yucheng felt his heart turn cold as he looked at the two long paragraphs he had sent.
He sat upright in front of his computer, lowered his head, held his phone, and began to edit a text message. He wanted to tell Bai Yao that besides the concealment of his identity, the other things… he said were all sincere.
Before meeting Bai Yao, Liu Yucheng had never thought that he, who had always been indifferent to feelings, would actually fall in love with someone; he not only liked Bai Yao to death, but when he was with Bai Yao, his body would sometimes react even before his brain did.
For example, in the very beginning, he took the initiative to walk over and strike up a conversation with Bai Yao, his mouth saying, as if he had practiced it ten thousand times, “incredibly easily,” “Classmate, hello, can I add you on WeChat?”
Also, on the night of the heavy rain, the two of them were trapped outside the school together. Bai Yao suggested getting a room nearby for the night, Liu Yucheng’s mind went blank, but his body directly nodded in agreement.
And then, still that night, his brain told him that he had to be rational, that the two of them were just ordinary friends; but his body couldn’t control itself from moving closer to Bai Yao, until his fingers trembled and crossed the line, touching Bai Yao’s lips…
After the breakup, Liu Yucheng gradually realized that he seemed to have reached the point where he couldn’t live without Bai Yao.
Even if it was psychological dependence, Liu Yucheng felt that he seemed a little sick.
But when he thought of the breakup message that Bai Yao had sent, Liu Yucheng felt a suffocating sensation as if all the oxygen around him had been sucked away. Even though they had been on voice chat for the past few days, he was still thinking about Bai Yao so much that he couldn’t sleep, but Liu Yucheng was too embarrassed to say it.
The information in the dialogue box was deleted and edited again and again, and after repeatedly typing out hundreds of words, reading them, and then deleting them all and retyping them, Liu Yucheng’s phone began to warn him that the battery was low.
It was already 12:55 AM.
The new year had already started 55 minutes ago.
Liu Yucheng looked at the message he had just deleted, which only had a few words left at the beginning, and couldn’t help but sigh.
Bai Yao would probably be annoyed to death if he saw him like this now. But if he didn’t say anything tonight, then in Bai Yao’s perspective, it would probably be the same as before—not only did his ex-boyfriend like to run away, but PeachMilk chose to run away at this time too.
After struggling for a long time, Liu Yucheng finally sent a paragraph:
I’m sorry, I thought about it for a long time and really don’t know how to explain it to you.
I didn’t pay attention to the time just now, you might already be asleep, I hope I didn’t disturb you. I just wanted to say that I really like you, and I wasn’t lying when I said I missed you.
Good night, Happy New Year.
At this moment, Bai Yao was leaning against the bedside, holding a comic book that he had reread countless times.
His phone vibrated a few times, he glanced at it, and the [The other party is typing…] prompt that had lasted for a long, long time in the chat box finally ended.
That column changed back to the note [PeachMilk]. This was also because Bai Yao was so bored during the waiting period that he deleted [Bedside Exclusive Shizun] and changed the note back.
Bai Yao carefully read the few paragraphs he sent, this time he didn’t delete Liu Yucheng’s WeChat alt account, but he didn’t give him any reply either.
For the rest of the holiday, Bai Junyi stayed at home, so Bai Yao also had a fulfilling time. When Aunt Zhou was not around, he took the initiative to do housework, and occasionally helped his mother organize documents or make a PPt. He wanted to keep busy and try not to think about Liu Yucheng’s affairs.
As for the game, he hadn’t logged in since the server crashed that night. Zhang Yifang, who knew the inside story, said that he had posted in his own community in the game – due to the inability to buy plane tickets, the face-to-face meeting plan has been temporarily put on hold, and will be discussed after the New Year.
Three days before the start of the semester, the counselor sent a message in the Goose Group, saying that he hoped that the students could return to school early. Because the dormitories would be changed this semester, it was best for the students who had not finished moving their things before the New Year to come back early to pack up.
Bai Yao directly ignored this message – his plane ticket was difficult to reschedule, as long as he could make it to class.
In addition, since the dormitories were being reallocated, he also hoped that he would not live on the same floor as Liu Yucheng, so as to avoid running into him when returning to the dormitory after class.
On the afternoon of the day before the start of the semester, Li Jinyang had already returned to school in advance, and chatted privately with Bai Yao, who was packing his luggage, on WeChat for a while.
Li Jinyang: “Brother Yao, there’s good news, we’re still in the same dormitory, on the 2nd floor, 219.”
Bai Yao: “How many people in the dormitory?”
Li Jinyang: “Still four, I’m the only one who’s back so far. The new dormitory is very clean, just a little smaller than our previous dormitory, but the toilet is bigger than before.”
Bai Yao: “That’s good, and we don’t have to climb to a high floor, so I’m relieved!”
Hearing that he was still in the same dormitory as Li Jinyang and the others, Bai Yao’s mood relaxed a lot. At night, he lay in bed and didn’t feel too reluctant to leave home—after all, there was basically no one at home usually.
His mother would go to the airport with him tomorrow, and then the two would go their separate ways. Bai Junyi would be going abroad again for a trip, and wouldn’t be able to return for more than a month.
In a better mood, Bai Yao’s desire to indulge came. After all, once he returned to the dormitory, he wouldn’t be able to relax as much as he could at home, which was very inconvenient.
He picked up his phone, took the initiative to break the ice, and sent a message to PeachMilk: “My semester starts tomorrow.”
PeachMilk replied quickly, asking: “Want to relax tonight?”
Bai Yao: “You’re quite understanding… Are you busy right now?”
PeachMilk: “[Resentful]”
PeachMilk: “Am I some cheap voice lover?”
Bai Yao: “Forget it then, I’m going to sleep, good night.”
PeachMilk: “I didn’t say I wouldn’t.”
PeachMilk: “Good boy, how do you want it tonight?”
Bai Yao: “Let me see what kind of underwear you’re wearing first.”
……
The next day in the evening, Bai Yao got out of the taxi with his luggage, while using the front-facing camera of his phone to check himself, and walked towards the school dormitory.
His complexion seemed to be a little bad.
This morning at the airport, Bai Junyi noticed his complexion and went to the airport gift shop, buying a few boxes of nourishing gift sets and paying extra to have Bai Yao check them, so he could take them to school and eat them slowly. Bai Yao was already extremely embarrassed, but since his mother didn’t say anything, it would only make the situation more awkward if he tried to explain.
A large group of students were gathered around the notice board outside the dormitory, all looking at the new dormitory assignments. Bai Yao, dragging his luggage and a bunch of stuff, was too lazy to squeeze into the crowd, so he went straight into the dormitory building and headed for the 219 dormitory that Li Jinyang had mentioned.
“Take whatever you want to eat, I brought a lot of snacks. But you’re not allowed to touch my toilet paper, Brother Yao is a neat freak, we can only use our own stuff in this dormitory, got it?”
Bai Yao had already heard Li Jinyang’s voice in the corridor. Feeling a little excited, he pushed open the door of the 219 dormitory and shouted happily, “Brothers, I’m back!!”
After shouting, the 219 dormitory was silent.
There were only two people in the room.
Li Jinyang was standing by the window, a look of horror flashing across his face for a moment, a dry smile hanging on his face, but he was so guilty that he couldn’t even utter a word.
The other person, with his long legs splayed, was sitting in front of a certain table. Two black suitcases were placed at his feet, as if he was planning to stay in the 219 dormitory and not leave.
“He chose the corner by the window. There are three beds left.”
Liu Yucheng looked at Bai Yao calmly and said softly to him, “You choose first.”
If you want a bed further away from me, you can also have it.
Bai Yao didn’t answer, but turned to look at Li Jinyang, and said with a smile that wasn’t a smile, “You’ve got some nerve, huh?”
You even dare to lie to me? Are you still a good brother?
“I, I, I…”
Li Jinyang stammered for a long time, then said with a smile, “I’m sorry, Brother Yao, I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to accept it, so I didn’t dare to tell you the truth… Peach and Zhang Yifang are in the next room, the four of us can still… visit each other sometimes.”
Bai Yao gripped the handle of his suitcase tightly and chose the other window seat opposite Li Jinyang.
All four beds were bunk beds with desks underneath. If Liu Yucheng was still willing to be a decent person, then he should sleep in the bed that was head-to-head with Li Jinyang. Although that position was closer to the door, it would inevitably turn into a doorman; but Bai Yao had also slept in the same doorman position last semester, and felt that it was okay.
Liu Yucheng looked up at Bai Yao, watching him climb onto the top bunk to make his bed.
Bai Yao’s expression just now looked so fierce…
He seemed to have lost some weight compared to before the winter break, and his complexion wasn’t very good either, he must have overdone it last night.
He was still unwilling to pay attention to himself, and didn’t even want to take another look.
After a while, Bai Yao’s bed was made, all that was left was to hang up the curtains, but Liu Yucheng was still in the same position as before, sitting still.
“What are you looking at?”
Bai Yao glared at Liu Yucheng and said unhappily, “I’m not going to kick you out, hurry up and choose your bed.”
“Okay.”
Liu Yucheng couldn’t help but feel secretly happy when he heard this. As soon as he stood up, another person came to the 219 dormitory with a suitcase, and this person even knocked on the door symbolically twice.
“Hello!”
Yan Hao walked in with a smile, “New roommates, hello! It’s good that I know you all, I really breathed a sigh of relief after reading the list downstairs.”
Bai Yao was in a very bad mood at the moment, but he couldn’t be impolite, so he perfunctorily hummed and said, “219 welcomes you.”
Yan Hao even walked up to Liu Yucheng, and although he was a little shorter than Liu Yucheng, he still patted Liu Yucheng’s shoulder with a grin and said, “Little Liu, we’re roommates again, you and Bai Yao used to be good friends, that’s great! Just say if you have anything, don’t keep it to yourself.”
Liu Yucheng: “…”
Bai Yao: “…”
“Hey, there are only two beds left?”
Yan Hao threw his backpack onto the bed next to Li Jinyang with a “whoosh”, “Little Liu, you sleep next to Bai Yao, you two seem to have a better relationship, you can still whisper to each other at night.”
As soon as these words came out, Li Jinyang couldn’t hold back a little, and said, “Buddy, my feet are very smelly, are you sure you want to be next to me? Or you and Brother Yao…”
“It’s okay, it’s okay, my feet are also smelly!”
Yan Hao didn’t take it seriously at all, and even raised his foot and said, “I secretly brought my mom’s treasured rose-scented foot soak, we’ll supervise each other at night and wash our feet together!”
Li Jinyang was helpless now. In order to make up for lying to Bai Yao, he even put the hat of smelly feet on himself; but Yan Hao was really heartless, why didn’t he observe the expressions of those two over there…
Liu Yucheng looked up at Bai Yao, with an unspeakable innocence hidden in his eyes.
When Bai Yao hung up his bed curtains, Liu Yucheng’s bedding was also laid out. His movements were very light when making the bed, and the bed hardly shook, seemingly intentionally avoiding the two beds from colliding.
If it wasn’t for the school’s rule that the student’s head in the window seat must face the direction of the door, saying that it can effectively prevent students from being blown out of shape by the wind outside the window, Bai Yao would never want to sleep head-to-head with Liu Yucheng, and he would have to sleep like this for a semester.
“Brother Yao, we’re here to visit, are we welcome?”
The atmosphere in the 219 dormitory was extremely strange, Zhang Yifang and Tao Lin received Li Jinyang’s SOS message and quickly ran over from next door to save the day, “Have you eaten? Let’s go out for a meal together, brothers? Brother Yao said he would treat me to dinner during the winter break!”