OVTTGTBE Chapter 50

Wings Have Hardened

Wings Have Hardened

In the evening, Bai Yao, who didn’t bring his laptop, played UNO with Li Jinyang, Yan Hao, and Liu Yucheng in the dorm. Tao Lin and Zhang Yifang came over for a visit and joined their game, and the six of them played until after 1:00 AM.

Bai Yao’s phone showed 74 missed calls, all from the two bodyguards.

It was because he sent them a message saying that he wouldn’t be going home anymore and would still be living back in the men’s dorm. He also said, “You don’t have to keep guarding downstairs tonight, you might as well go back and rest.”

When washing up before bed, Liu Yucheng took two new toothbrushes and followed Bai Yao into the dorm’s bathroom.

“Are you planning to just move back like this?” Liu Yucheng asked softly.

Bai Yao took the toothbrush and glared at him, “What, you’re not welcoming?”

“How could I not be welcoming when you want to come back.”

“Your expression doesn’t look like you mean that at all.”

Bai Yao said while brushing his teeth, “I paid the dorm fee, I can live wherever I want. It’s none of your business.”

“It’s none of my business.”

Liu Yucheng couldn’t help but sigh and asked him, “But do you think now is the right time? By doing this, you’ll only anger Aunt Bai.”

Bai Yao kicked him out of the bathroom.

He didn’t want to hear a single word of that.

When he was little, Bai Junyi didn’t care about many things she should have cared about, and only gave Bai Yao money. It was as if as long as she had money, she could get rid of anything, whether it was a god or a pile of dog poop.

Now that it came to matters of the heart, she suddenly had the urge to interfere.

Bai Yao had always been a good kid in the eyes of others. Except for the occasional fight, he usually listened to her. But this matter alone aroused Bai Yao’s rebellious spirit.

Bai Yao was actually very afraid of his mother finding out that he was with a man, mainly because he was afraid she would be unhappy, especially since this man was the only son of her best friend.

But the problem was that he and Liu Yucheng were currently broken up and hadn’t made up, so her interference seemed unreasonable to Bai Yao.

She was the one who invited Liu Yucheng over for his birthday, and she even let Liu Yucheng spend the night in his bedroom. She never asked Bai Yao if he was willing to do any of these things.

Bai Yao became even more unhappy when Liu Yucheng said that.

He originally thought that Liu Yucheng would be the happiest person if he moved back to the dorm, but it seemed he was thinking too much.

…

It was already 2:00 AM.

Bai Yao put down his phone and was in a half-asleep, half-awake state when he heard a rustling sound from Liu Yucheng’s side.

He raised his head and saw Liu Yucheng lifting the bed curtain near his feet.

“What are you doing?” Afraid of waking others, Bai Yao asked softly.

“I was waiting so much I was about to fall asleep, but you didn’t come to my side.”

Liu Yucheng tiptoed over to him, “So I came over.”

Bai Yao turned over and didn’t look at him, “I don’t want to sleep with someone who doesn’t welcome me back.”

“Then why are you pouting like that?”

Liu Yucheng suppressed a smile and patted his hip, “Like a sulky little white pig, I can’t help but want to touch and poke you.”

Bai Yao raised his foot to kick him off the bed.

“I worked so hard to get my figure so perfect, are you blind?”

“Okay, okay, it’s my fault.”

Liu Yucheng grabbed his ankle and coaxed in a low voice, “Stop making a fuss, okay? Don’t wake them up.”

The two people lying on the opposite beds, fiddling with their phones and not really asleep: “…”

Hearing conversations they shouldn’t be hearing, was this the punishment for staying up late?

Li Jinyang directly opened Wechat: Are you asleep yet?

Yan Hao: No… I didn’t realize Liu Yucheng was so perverted in private, I’m shocked.

Li Jinyang: I think he’s not putting on airs, he just doesn’t have very expressive facial expressions.

Yan Hao: Wait, let’s listen to what they’re saying.

Li Jinyang: I was just about to put on my headphones! You, how can you have this kind of habit!

Li Jinyang: [Evil smile]

Yan Hao: Hehe, don’t you want to eat melons? They keep saying they haven’t made up, but I think… it feels pretty subtle.

Li Jinyang silently took off his headphones and put them back in the case.

“To be honest, I really want you to move back, but definitely not now… hiss, don’t pinch me yet.”

After lying down, Liu Yucheng whispered in his ear, “Even if she knows we’ve already broken up, she needs time to digest this.”

“But if you add fuel to the fire at this time, what do you think Aunt Bai will do?”

“Hard to say.”

Bai Yao confessed, “She seems to rarely get angry with me from childhood.”

Liu Yucheng: “…So you were this well-behaved when you were little.”

“Not really, when my height could reach the fish tank at home, I used to scoop out her expensive little fish to play with. After she found out, she spanked my butt until it was swollen, that’s one of the more vivid memories I have.”

As soon as Bai Yao finished speaking, his phone screen lit up.

It was a Wechat message from Bai Junyi.

Bai Yao had a bad feeling and was at a loss for a moment. He had no choice but to ask Liu Yucheng in a low voice, “My mom sent me a message, what should I do, should I look at it?”

“Whether you look at it now or tomorrow morning, it’s the same.” Liu Yucheng gently patted his back, “See what she says.”

Bai Yao nervously clicked into Wechat.

Bai Junyi only sent four words plus a punctuation mark:

Wings have hardened?

“Damn, what does this mean? It’s too late at this time, and I don’t dare to ask… Or should I pretend that I just saw the message in the morning?”

Bai Yao felt cold sweat break out on his back, “Wait, will she fly over here tomorrow?”

“I don’t know.”

Liu Yucheng sighed, “But if she comes, we can explain it to her in person, say that we haven’t made up, we’re just ordinary friends.”

Bai Yao locked his phone.

For now, that was all they could do.

Li Jinyang and Yan Hao didn’t know if these two had fallen asleep or not.

Li Jinyang: It seems like Yao-ge’s mom found out about their relationship, I guess there’s going to be a bloodbath next.

Yan Hao: I feel like most parents can’t accept this… I’m not homophobic, but if it were me, my dad would probably break my legs.

Li Jinyang: You haven’t seen Yao-ge’s mom. I’m telling you, she doesn’t need to do anything herself… with just one word from her, she can make it so that they can never see each other again.

Yan Hao: Is it that scary?

Li Jinyang: Sigh, let’s see what happens tomorrow.

The next morning, Liu Yucheng stood in front of the mirror and unbuttoned his pajamas.

A large area of his abdomen was rubbed red. It seemed that practicing more was still beneficial, at least Bai Yao liked it.

“What are you doing?”

Bai Yao appeared at the bathroom door with sleepy eyes, muttering while yawning, “If you’re just looking in the mirror, hurry up, I need to wash up too.”

“You don’t have class this morning, why are you up so early.”

Liu Yucheng said softly, “Did I wake you up?”

“No, my mom’s message last night was too scary, how could I sleep peacefully.” Bai Yao scratched his hair, “I have to be ready at any time to welcome her.”

“Then do you want to come to class with me?”

Liu Yucheng said quietly, “And then we can have breakfast together.”

Bai Yao was a hundred times unwilling to get up early on a day off to accompany someone to class.

But he was so anxious now, like he was waiting for the verdict after committing some terrible disaster, he was already restless, let alone going back to sleep.

Being with Liu Yucheng, at least he wasn’t facing this alone.

“Okay.”

Bai Yao agreed, “Then hurry up, we’ll go to the cafeteria to grab food in a bit.”

Liu Yucheng’s class today was a large class, starting at 9:00 AM.

The two of them went to the lecture hall together, found a seat, and Bai Yao took out his phone and started scrolling through his Moments.

About ten minutes into the class, Bai Yao received several text messages in a row.

After reading the contents of those text messages in order, Bai Yao gently tugged on Liu Yucheng’s clothes.

Liu Yucheng stopped writing and turned to look at him, “What is it?”

“The good news is, my mom probably won’t fly over to make trouble for us right away.”

Bai Yao said softly, “The bad news is…”

“Mm?”

“All of my bank cards have been suspended.”

Bai Yao opened his balance, “I just transferred all my money into the cards a few days ago, now there’s only a little over a thousand yuan left in my spare change.”

Liu Yucheng frowned.

For parents to sanction a child with no working ability, cutting off their source of income is the simplest and most effective method.

He should have thought of that sooner.

After class, the two found a place that wasn’t too crowded but where they could sit and chat.

“No, I’ve tried every app, I can log in and see the balance, but it says the card is frozen and I can’t transfer money out.”

Bai Yao asked him helplessly, “A thousand yuan, if I’m thrifty, can it last me until the end of the month?”

“I still have some money saved, I definitely won’t let you go hungry.” Liu Yucheng replied.

“My two bodyguards sent me messages saying that they’ve been recalled by my mom, telling me to be careful of my safety recently and not go to places where there aren’t many people.”

Bai Yao lowered his head, feeling particularly frustrated.

Being sanctioned by his family was something he had only heard from Duan Junyi, and he never thought he would have such a day.

However, this may be a good thing.

“I’m an adult too, since my mom says my wings have hardened, then I’ll fly for her to see.”

Bai Yao turned to look at Liu Yucheng, “Do you have any part-time jobs you can recommend to me? I can take this opportunity to improve my work skills.”

“There are some.”

Liu Yucheng said quietly, “But those jobs are very hard, even if you can do them, I don’t want you to do them.”

“What do you mean by that?” Bai Yao was a little annoyed, “Do you think I can’t do it??”

“No, that’s not what I meant.”

Liu Yucheng opened his backpack and took out a card from the hidden pocket.

“This is the money I’ve saved little by little before.”

He handed the card to Bai Yao, “The password is your birthday. I can earn more money, you use mine first, buy whatever you want, don’t be thrifty.”

Looking at Liu Yucheng’s sincere eyes, Bai Yao only felt a pang in his nose.

This time he wasn’t lying, but…

Although he didn’t say it, this card was hidden so well, it shouldn’t just be the hard-earned money Liu Yucheng saved by being thrifty, but also the money he used for emergencies and to save his life.