OVTTGTBE Chapter 47

Travel (5): The Only Answer

Travel (5): The Only Answer

Bai Yao, of course, knew what he wanted to hear.

But Bai Yao still couldn’t get over the hurdle in his heart. How many lies had Liu Yucheng told before? It wasn’t something that could be forgiven with a few apologies.

Like yesterday, even though Liu Yucheng confessed his heartfelt feelings with tears in his eyes, Bai Yao still couldn’t completely believe him.

Even if Bai Yao himself was very willing to believe that what Liu Yucheng said was true, his heart was always loudly reminding him: Liu Yucheng doesn’t speak the truth; he’s lying.

“Bai Yao.”

Liu Yucheng reached out and gently touched his chin, saying to him, “You… you don’t need to be so conflicted. I don’t mean to force you.”

“Really?”

“My approaching you was involuntary. I accept being beaten… but you, just do what you want. Don’t have any concerns. Just be happy.”

Liu Yucheng said.

Bai Yao pursed his lips, looking at him without continuing the conversation.

Liu Yucheng’s eyes had captivated Bai Yao countless times, and this time was no exception.

“If you don’t mess with me in the future, we can be friends.”

Bai Yao turned his head to look into the distance, “The kind of friends who are very close.”

He heard Liu Yucheng hum in agreement.

“But right now, there’s still one thing I want to confirm.”

As Bai Yao spoke, he reached out and hooked his arm around Liu Yucheng’s neck, pulling him close.

Their breaths mingled, and Bai Yao stopped about two centimeters away from his lips.

Liu Yucheng looked at the pair of deep brown eyes so close to him, almost losing his breath.

Soon, Bai Yao released him, turning his head and saying, “Okay, confirmation complete.”

He still liked Liu Yucheng, and he also felt desire, but he just… couldn’t bring himself to kiss him.

From affection, to desire, to dimness, Liu Yucheng captured the change in his eyes at that moment. The sadness in his heart was indescribable.

But in order not to let Bai Yao notice the change in his emotions, Liu Yucheng simply cooperated with Bai Yao, humming a faint agreement.

That look just now confirmed Liu Yucheng’s guess. Bai Yao didn’t actually dislike him; it was just that he had accumulated too much disappointment.

This was also why, when they were together, Bai Yao’s heart wasn’t without fluctuations, and his desires were easily ignited. But there was too much disappointment beforehand, too much to digest, so he wasn’t willing to make up.

“Let’s go. Let’s go down the mountain and look around somewhere else. I still want to buy some local specialties for Li Jinyang and the others.”

“Okay.”

…

After going down the mountain, the two took a bus back to the city. Because they returned early, there weren’t many people on the bus, and Bai Yao didn’t chat with the stranger in the seat next to him. Instead, he stared out the window in a daze, pondering the grudges between his mother, Xiao Bingbang, and Cheng Tianyang, and also pondering his relationship with Liu Yucheng.

Liu Yucheng had fallen asleep, his head resting on the side of the window.

Sunlight occasionally peeked through the shade of the trees on both sides of the road, falling on his eyelashes. Bai Yao subtly adjusted his posture, craning his neck and staring at his sleeping face for a long time.

When military training started at the beginning of the last semester, Bai Yao noticed this face because he found that someone was always staring at him. Fair-skinned, with perfectly proportioned features.

Bai Yao had seen Liu Angran, and from the bottom of his heart, he felt that Liu Angran’s appearance was far inferior to Liu Yucheng’s. Therefore, Liu Yucheng probably looked more like his mother. Xiao Bingbang should also be a particularly beautiful woman.

When the bus drove to a bend on the mountain road, Bai Yao took out his phone and opened the camera.

The lush mountain scenery outside the window, his elegant sleeping face, and Bai Yao’s mood at that moment.

All of these converged into a photo with just the right saturation, which was saved to Bai Yao’s phone album.

“You’re taking sneaky pictures of me.” Liu Yucheng said softly, still with his eyes closed.

Bai Yao was stunned, “Are you awake, or weren’t you asleep at all? That’s not right; I didn’t turn on the sound on my phone…”

“The car bumped just now, and I woke up.”

His neck was a little uncomfortable, and Liu Yucheng leaned in a different direction, but he was careful not to touch Bai Yao. “I just happened to see you take out your phone.”

Bai Yao was embarrassed for a while, and found that Liu Yucheng didn’t seem to want to pursue the matter or continue to ask, which eased his breath slightly.

After hesitating for a long time, Bai Yao whispered, “Does it hurt your neck to sleep like this? Or… can you lean on my shoulder?”

Liu Yucheng opened his eyes and stared at him for a few seconds. This one glance almost messed up Bai Yao’s heartbeat.

“No need.”

He closed his eyes again and said, “I’m afraid you’ll get tired.”

Until they got off the bus, neither of them spoke again.

Bai Yao felt that after chatting on the mountain, the atmosphere between the two of them had become different from before again.

But this wasn’t the first time this kind of change in atmosphere had occurred between them. He didn’t know what Liu Yucheng was thinking, and he was already too tired to guess, so he simply let it develop as it would.

Because there were no suitable return train tickets, Bai Yao decided to stay in this city for one more night and take the 7:30 train tomorrow morning.

In the afternoon, the two took a taxi to a relatively famous business district to stroll around. Bai Yao found the “Something Something Cake” that Li Jinyang had specifically asked for. In addition, he also bought some local snacks for Tao Lin and Zhang Yifang according to their usual tastes and sent them directly by express delivery.

Although Liu Yucheng had been accompanying Bai Yao while he was shopping, this person seemed to have returned to the factory settings, and he didn’t say a word the whole time.

Sometimes, when Bai Yao asked him questions like, “What do you think of this thing?” he would just hum in response or say, “It’s pretty good. Buy it if you like it.”

The only thing that was different from the past was that Liu Yucheng wasn’t following behind him now, but walking side by side with him.

As they walked on the bustling street, Bai Yao suddenly asked, “Do you have something you want to say, but you’re afraid I’ll get angry, so you’re holding it back?”

Liu Yucheng looked at him sideways and quietly asked, “How did you know?”

“Did you even need to know? You’ve become like you were before again, not saying much.”

“…”

“Say it. I’m in a good mood today and willing to listen. Besides, even if I get angry, I can’t directly beat you up on the street.”

Bai Yao said, “We’ve been out here, and we’ve fought, we’ve made a scene, and you’ve even eaten me once… how much worse could it get?”

“Actually, there’s nothing special I want to say.”

Liu Yucheng said faintly, “I’m just feeling sad.”

“Because we’ve become like this, it’s because you were disappointed in me to the extreme. Even without the reminder of that diary, when we were a couple before, I didn’t do anything.”

After he finished speaking, Bai Yao drank the rest of the jasmine green tea in his cup in one gulp.

He finally understood.

“Seeing you sad makes me feel much better.”

Bai Yao threw the plastic cup into the trash can. “I’m sad about our love process, while you’re sad about the current outcome.”

“Is there… is there any chance we can make up?”

Liu Yucheng lowered his eyes and asked him, “I mean, the kind of making up where you’re still willing to kiss me.”

“I don’t know.”

The current situation was a hundred and eight thousand miles away from Bai Yao’s original plan of “never seeing each other again.”

He gradually realized that some feelings and decisions might only take a moment. Just like the night they got together, a light kiss decided their relationship, but in reality, they didn’t understand each other at all.

He and Liu Yucheng had already missed too many moments when they could have made up.

Bai Yao looked across the street, pointed, and said, “There’s an event going on in that square. Come with me to take a look.”

“Okay.”

It was a newly opened dessert shop, and the store had set up a stage in the square for promotion.

The host was speaking very loudly into the microphone. Bai Yao had just heard that as long as someone volunteered to go up and sing and compete, there would be prizes.

Since Liu Yucheng was so sad, then he should make him happy a little bit.

After all, even if Bai Yao didn’t want to admit it, this was the first time the two of them had come out on a trip together.

Bai Yao was a very soft-hearted person. Even if they went their separate ways in the future, he hoped that Liu Yucheng would feel happiness, not sadness, when he recalled today.

“What are you doing?” Liu Yucheng was dragged by him into the crowd, squeezing to the front of the stage.

“Wait for me for a while.”

After Bai Yao said that, he directly raised a hand and shouted to the host on the stage, “Me, me, me! I want to compete!”

Before Liu Yucheng could react, Bai Yao was enthusiastically invited onto the stage by the host holding the microphone.

“Hello everyone. I’m a tourist from out of town, traveling with my friend.”

“Of course, I’m standing here today for your prizes. Can I choose any song?”

“Okay, then I’ll choose one. Let me think…”

Bai Yao stood on the stage, holding the microphone, looking dazzling and free.

He had just said that this was a trip.

With a friend.

Although Bai Yao seemed to hesitate for a while when choosing a song, in Liu Yucheng’s view, he had already made his choice in his heart at the moment he dragged him into the crowd.

The prelude began, and Bai Yao took out his phone from his pocket, handed it to Liu Yucheng, who was standing offstage, and said into the microphone to him, “Don’t just watch; help me record it. Use your phone too.”

For a time, many people around turned their heads, curiously looking at the so-called companion of this Social Cow-X Syndrome youth.

Liu Yucheng raised his phone and started recording, while also feeling his cheeks become scalding hot.

What reassured him was that he knew he wasn’t someone who blushed easily, so none of the surrounding onlookers would notice his emotions at that moment.

Only Bai Yao, standing on the stage, saw the touch of red on the tips of his ears.

The song that Bai Yao chose was originally a duet for a man and a woman, but Bai Yao sang the whole thing by himself. The people offstage were screaming and applauding for the affection he sang out.

Liu Yucheng looked up at him, occasionally glancing at Bai Yao in the phone recording.

Listening to the lyrics of this song, listening to Bai Yao’s tone when singing, in a trance, Liu Yucheng remembered the snow that fell last year.

That day, the two of them stood under the deep yellow streetlights, and he saw a very beautiful snowflake fall on Bai Yao’s hair.

If he had had enough courage to kiss Bai Yao at that time and confess to Bai Yao that he was Honey Peach Milk, the two of them might have already made up that day…

“I’m done singing. Thank you.”

Bai Yao bowed.

“Congratulations to this lucky guest, for getting the highest score tonight in this PK session!!”

The host excitedly announced, “Please choose a gift that you like!”

“Uh, my friend, he’s heartbroken and not in a good mood tonight. So, I want him to choose this gift and give it to him.”

After Bai Yao finished speaking with the microphone, he reached out to Liu Yucheng offstage: “Come on, come up and choose something you like.”

First singing, and now letting him choose something he likes. This set of moves caught Liu Yucheng off guard.

He had always wanted to make Bai Yao happy, but he had never been able to do it. Now, the situation was completely reversed. Bai Yao was trying hard to make him happy, and he had succeeded.

After Liu Yucheng got on stage, he didn’t even look at the gifts displayed on the stage. Instead, he stared straight at Bai Yao.

If the two of them hadn’t broken up, if he could really choose something he liked, then his answer at this moment would definitely be the only one.

But Bai Yao seemed to see his intention and quickly tapped the stage where the gifts were placed with his finger, “Just a reminder, choose from here.”

Don’t keep looking at me.