OVTTGTBE Chapter 46

Traveling (4): Awkward

Traveling (4): Awkward

“I, uh, just wanted to see if you were hot.” Bai Yao said guiltily, “I thought you were already asleep…”

“You’re hot?”

Liu Yucheng sat up, turned over, and got out of bed, “I’ll adjust the air conditioner temperature.”

It was April after all, and it looked like it wanted to rain outside but not heavily. The weather was indeed a bit stuffy.

The air conditioner was set to warm air, displaying 26 degrees Celsius. No wonder Bai Yao felt hot. Liu Yucheng came back after adjusting the temperature and saw a large cutie had appeared on his bed.

This large cutie was covered with his quilt, with only half a face exposed, staring at him with big, expectant eyes.

The hallway light in the room was on, so it wasn’t dark. There wasn’t a storm raging outside, and there were occasional sounds of other guests in the hotel hallway, so it wasn’t completely quiet either. Bai Yao shouldn’t be afraid.

Liu Yucheng really didn’t know why he had come to his bed for a moment.

“Do you want to…switch beds with me?”

“No.” Bai Yao reached out and grabbed Liu Yucheng’s pajama pants, “Come lie down quickly.”

“???”

“No thanks.”

Liu Yucheng instinctively dodged backward, feeling wronged, “Bai Yao, do you want to lure me into sleeping with you, and then when I touch you, you’ll beat me up so you’ll have a reason to leave? You don’t have to do that.”

“We’ll sleep platonically, nothing sexual.”

Bai Yao patted the bed, “Just lie down quickly, I’m so sleepy, but I can’t fall asleep. If you coax me to sleep, won’t I stay?”

Liu Yucheng: “…”

He had actually felt the same way just now, very sleepy, but unable to fall asleep. The words they had argued about in the evening also lingered in Liu Yucheng’s mind, making him feel very annoyed.

Since Bai Yao said so, Liu Yucheng had no choice but to obediently lie down next to him.

“I don’t want to make up with you, I just want to fall asleep quickly.”

Bai Yao said this as he naturally snuggled into his arms, “You have a…smell I can’t describe, like a forest scent, but not quite. Anyway, it smells good, a bit hypnotic.”

“…”

What a strange description.

Liu Yucheng said, “Maybe it’s the scent of the shower gel.”

“No, I can tell the difference between that cheap hotel shower gel smell.”

Alright, the quilt that didn’t feel hot at first was now starting to get hotter and hotter.

Bai Yao was actually very seductive in bed. But Liu Yucheng couldn’t tell when he was being unconscious and when he was being deliberate.

Every time Liu Yucheng recalled the first time they had rented a room overnight to avoid the rain, and finally kissed and confirmed their relationship, he felt that it was a fifty-fifty split of responsibility.

Especially when he had deliberately showered to smell especially good, and sat on the bed pretending to watch TV after coming out of the bathroom, Bai Yao said, “Why do you smell so good? Did you not wash off the shower gel completely?”

“How can I sleep when you’re like this?”

Liu Yucheng said helplessly. Looking at the person in his arms, he felt tense all over and didn’t dare to move.

Bai Yao closed his eyes, and his hand had already reached into his pajamas, surprised, “Have you been working out your muscles lately? The feel is different from before.”

“Young master, please spare me…it’s a bit ticklish like this.”

Liu Yucheng said tearfully, “Wait until I’ve developed all eight abs, then you can touch them, okay?”

Bai Yao withdrew his hand, remained silent for a while, and asked him, “Liu Yucheng, what do you actually like about me?”

“Since you said that you only learned about those things from the past after we broke up, why did you approach me in the first place? Because of my looks? Or my personality? Or for money?”

Bai Yao didn’t seem to want to wait for his answer. After asking, he turned over.

Liu Yucheng didn’t expect him to ask that. After thinking for half a minute, he looked down and saw that Bai Yao was already asleep.

See, the young master really knows how to tease people, asking such a question that makes people unable to sleep, and then using other people’s arms as a pillow and falling into a deep sleep. Although, this scene made him feel quite at ease…

Liu Yucheng freed one hand to lift the quilt and let out some heat, closed his eyes and carefully considered the question Bai Yao had just raised.

He wanted to find an answer that was both genuine and would move Bai Yao. He felt that if he answered well, maybe he could hold Bai Yao to sleep every night like tonight.

The next morning, both of their phone alarms went off at the same time.

Liu Yucheng, who hadn’t slept all night, turned off his alarm in a second, but Bai Yao’s phone was too far away, and he couldn’t reach it.

His arm had long gone numb after this whole night.

But the large cutie who was using his arm as a pillow hadn’t turned over for several hours, and only hummed softly when he heard the alarm, with no intention of opening his eyes at all.

Liu Yucheng watched him sleep so warmly and comfortably, and couldn’t help shaking him a few times.

“Bai Yao, wake up, it’s time to get up.”

“Bai Yao?”

Bai Yao just hummed again, and squirmed on the bed, seemingly adjusting his sleeping position to continue sleeping.

Liu Yucheng reached into the quilt with his free hand and gently pinched his already awakened little brother.

“Hiss—”

Bai Yao finally opened his eyes and glared at him lazily, “Are you sick?”

“It’s time to get up.”

Liu Yucheng suppressed a smile and said to him, “It’s dawn. We still have to catch the bus to the mountain.”

“It’s rare to have a vacation, let me sleep a little longer.”

Bai Yao closed his eyes again, and as if to retaliate, he secretly reached his hand over to Liu Yucheng and pinched him hard too.

“Aww—!!!”

A sharp scream came from room 8317 of the hotel.

……

When checking out, Bai Yao saw that Liu Yucheng’s face was pale, standing there tottering as if a gust of wind could blow him away, and couldn’t help saying, “You didn’t sleep all night, did you?”

Liu Yucheng looked down at him, his eyes full of resentment, “Not sleeping all night is nothing.”

If his little brother was broken, that would be the real end.

Bai Yao coughed awkwardly for a while and said, “Who told you to pinch me first? Don’t use this method to wake me up next time.”

“Then what method do you want to use?” Liu Yucheng asked him.

Bai Yao was too embarrassed to answer in the hotel, and waited until he was out of the hotel door before whispering, “…Don’t you have a mouth?”

Liu Yucheng was amused and laughed.

Yesterday, because he used his mouth, the result was that he was kicked and his mouth was full of blood. Besides, the two of them had a huge unpleasantness.

The two of them ate breakfast at a roadside breakfast shop, took a taxi to a nearby station, and successfully got on the bus to the mountain.

Liu Yucheng had been brewing all night and had already thought about how to answer Bai Yao’s question.

Thinking that the bus ride was two hours long, and there was nothing else to do on the bus, they would have enough time to talk about this “sweet” topic.

But what Liu Yucheng didn’t expect was that he really underestimated Bai Yao’s social skills.

During the two-hour bus ride, Bai Yao and the aunt sitting next to him actually chatted all the way across the aisle. From the weather to Bai Yao’s major, to the aunt’s family affairs…

Except for the two sentences “I’m a little thirsty” and “Is there any more mineral water,” Bai Yao hardly spoke to Liu Yucheng, who was sitting next to him.

Liu Yucheng looked at the scenery outside the car window, feeling sullen all the way.

It wasn’t until he got off the bus that the aunt and her family said goodbye to Bai Yao reluctantly because they were going to take another mountain road. Bai Yao turned around excitedly and said to Liu Yucheng, “That aunt just now was so nice! She even gave me a big bag of mulberries, they’re washed, do you want to eat some?”

“Look at you, a bag of mulberries is enough to trick you and your luggage away.”

Liu Yucheng said silently, “Look at me, pouring my heart and soul out to you, and you always think I’m being hypocritical.”

Bai Yao: “…What’s wrong with you again?”

Liu Yucheng didn’t sleep much last night, and he was kind enough to let Liu Yucheng sit by the window on the bus, just wanting Liu Yucheng to take this opportunity to get some sleep.

However, looking at Liu Yucheng now, he probably didn’t fall asleep on the bus.

“Nothing.”

Liu Yucheng shook his head, “Let’s go up the mountain, I’ll take you to see Cheng Tianyang’s grave.”

The process of walking the mountain road in Bai Yao’s imagination was a muddy path, a silent forest, a gloomy sky, and occasional gusts of wind.

As a result, the actual situation was very different from what he thought. Not only were there many tourists going up the mountain to worship their ancestors, but the sun even came out, and the surrounding air quality was also very good.

“I’ve thought about it, I won’t scatter his ashes, I’ll accumulate some virtue for myself. Besides, if my mom knew, she wouldn’t be happy either.”

“But since we’re here, let’s take a look and then leave… What are you laughing at again? Why didn’t I realize you liked to laugh so much before?”

Bai Yao walked while eating mulberries, his mouth full of color, but the expression on his face when he spoke was particularly serious. Liu Yucheng couldn’t hold back for a moment, and laughed quietly for a while before holding up his phone as a mirror and letting Bai Yao look at his teeth.

“Damn it, why do these mulberries stain so much?!”

Bai Yao immediately closed his mouth after blurting out, but even his lips had turned purple, looking like he had been poisoned. So he raised his hand again to cover his mouth.

Liu Yucheng smiled and touched his head, and said softly, “Why are you hiding it? It’s so cute, let me take another look.”

“…Get lost.”

The two walked and rested on the mountain road. Around noon, Liu Yucheng found Cheng Tianyang’s grave according to the location recorded in the diary.

The location of this grave was very remote. There was only this one tombstone around, and it looked like no one had come to sweep it for many years.

Bai Yao didn’t come to sweep the grave for him, so he didn’t bring any offerings or incense. He just stood in front of the tombstone and looked at it for a while. He didn’t recognize the name of the person who erected the monument. Liu Yucheng said that it was Cheng Tianyang’s mother, and from a bloodline perspective, she was also your grandmother.

“The feng shui of this place isn’t very good. After seeing it, that’s it.”

The two sat down on a large rock nearby, where they could see the scenery in the distance.

“Qingming Festival, you came out with me, aren’t you going to help your parents sweep their graves?”

Bai Yao asked him.

Liu Yucheng shook his head, “I usually go every year. But Aunt Bai just moved my parents’ graves a while ago. The place is very far away. I’ll go see them next year.”

After hesitating for a moment, Bai Yao asked euphemistically about the cause of his parents’ deaths.

“I firmly believe that they were murdered, and their car accident was definitely not an accident. As for who the murderer is, I also have a clue; but I am currently lacking key evidence.”

Liu Yucheng said silently, “The confidentiality agreement I signed with Aunt Bai before is also about this matter.”

“If there’s anything I can help with, just tell me directly.” Bai Yao sighed and patted him on the shoulder, “Liu Yucheng, thank you for accompanying me on this trip.”

“But what I want to hear is not thank you.”