OVTTGTBE Chapter 6

Enemies Always Meet on a Narrow Road

Enemies Always Meet on a Narrow Road

Bai Yao seriously considered it for a long time and finally chose the song he sang during military training.

“Can you sing this song?”

He typed the song title into their chat box.

“Yeah.” Peach Milk said softly, “I can.”

God knows, recently, to savor the beautiful feeling of that day, he had looped this song countless times.

However, the truth was that every time the song played, the image of that cheerful young man who once stood in the sun and sang loudly during military training, ordering him to let go with a cold face, would replay in his mind.

He opened the lyrics and slightly adjusted the angle of the microphone, “I’m starting.”

Although there was only him in the room, it was impossible not to be nervous since he was on voice chat with Bai Yao. After all, he had hardly ever sung in front of people, except during the flag-raising ceremony on Mondays.

He hoped that only Bai Yao could hear him sing tonight, and also hoped not to disturb the people in the next room.

…

After the song ended, Liu Yucheng carefully adjusted his breathing, and the knuckles of his hand, which was clenched tightly due to nervousness, turned a little white.

He was waiting for Bai Yao’s evaluation and feedback.

“Holy crap.”

Bai Yao pressed the pause and save buttons on the recording interface, and very carefully saved the audio of his singing just now, “You sing… so well!!”

Liu Yucheng breathed a sigh of relief.

“I feel like, why don’t we form a group in the future and debut together? You might have to take me along, I might not sing as well as you.”

Bai Yao exclaimed from the bottom of his heart, “If it really doesn’t work, you can start a live broadcast, singing live, and I’ll be your top fan!”

“Listening to you talk, I can feel that your voice is good.”

Peach Milk paused, and continued, “I… I might not be good at it. It’s okay to sing for just you, but I can’t sing in front of other people, let alone do a live broadcast… that would kill me.”

“Haha, are you socially anxious?” Bai Yao asked.

Being so socially anxious and still being a CV, it was obvious that he was short of money. However, CVs record their voices in advance, which is indeed different from live broadcasts or live singing.

“…Yeah.”

“I don’t know what social anxiety feels like, but I know that you can train your skin to be thicker.”

Bai Yao said seriously, “My ex was also socially anxious, very, very socially anxious.”

“Is that so.”

“Yes.”

Bai Yao recalled, “I knew he was socially anxious a long time ago, and he was very introverted, so after we were together, I often teased him, deliberately doing things that might embarrass him, wanting to help him train his skin… After all, he was so aloof, what would he do after graduation and work?”

“But then I found out… he would get angry because of it. So I stopped teasing him.”

“He probably thought I was teasing him for fun; or, he didn’t like me that much, at least not enough to want to hold hands with me and walk side by side outside.”

He said a lot at once, and after he finished speaking, Peach Milk was silent for a long time.

Bai Yao suddenly had a question – did he not want to hear him talk about his ex-boyfriend?

“Sorry, I won’t talk about him anymore. It’s all in the past.” Bai Yao quickly said.

Peach Milk chuckled softly and said, “Say it if you want to, it’s easy to hurt your body if you hold it in your heart. Don’t worry, I don’t know him, I won’t tell him you’re saying bad things about him.”

“Hehe.” Bai Yao smiled knowingly, “How do you understand so well?”

“I… I need to go to the bathroom.” Peach Milk said, “Wait for me for a moment.”

“Okay, go ahead.”

…

More than ten minutes later, Liu Yucheng, who had washed his face repeatedly with cold water countless times, returned to the computer and put on his headphones.

He heard Bai Yao’s steady breathing.

Liu Yucheng didn’t make a sound, because judging from the experience of the two sleeping in the same bed in the past, Bai Yao was probably already asleep.

He couldn’t bear to hang up the voice chat, and sat quietly in the chair with his eyes closed, quietly enjoying this moment of beauty.

…

The next morning, the wound on Bai Yao’s leg was poked by the headphones, and he woke up directly in pain.

He forgot to plug in his phone last night, and it automatically shut down at some point.

He recalled carefully that the voice chat last night didn’t seem to have been hung up; he fell asleep before Peach Milk went to the bathroom.

The phone was charged and turned on, Bai Yao directly clicked into WeChat, and then clicked on Peach Milk’s WeChat profile picture, and suddenly his eyes went black – it showed that their most recent voice chat lasted three and a half hours.

No way, that’s a little scary.

He remembered that he restarted the voice chat after going to bed last night, and at most ten minutes passed until he fell asleep; the remaining three hours… was Peach Milk chatting with his back spirit, or chatting with the school dormitory’s “mascot”?

Although he knew that the talk of ghosts and monsters was not scientific, that all schools were built on cemeteries, and that the shadows of the past were wandering in the dormitories, were all nonsense.

But Bai Yao still felt a chill down his spine, and goosebumps rose on his arms. He quickly lifted the bed curtain, trying to let more light from the window outside come in.

Bai Yao: I fell asleep last night, sorry.

Bai Yao: What’s going on, who did you voice chat with for more than 3 hours after I fell asleep?

Peach Milk didn’t reply. Bai Yao didn’t care, after all, today was Saturday, and Peach Milk might not have gotten up yet.

He opened the takeout APP, ordered himself a luxurious lunch, and then hopped out of bed on one leg to wash up.

Their school doesn’t allow takeout deliverymen to enter the school, but the distance from the dormitory to the school cafeteria is about the same as the distance to the south gate of the school. But on Saturdays and Sundays, some of the restaurants in the cafeteria are closed, so takeout is more comfortable.

His leg, which had been exposed overnight, seemed to be slightly better than yesterday, which was good news for Bai Yao.

Seeing that the delivery driver had picked up the food and set off towards the south gate, he took out his loosest pair of sweatpants to change into, put on a mask, and limped out the door.

His current walking speed was comparable to a turtle’s pace, but since he was able to walk back to the dormitory from the school gate yesterday, he would be able to successfully pick up his takeout today.

The only thing that made him uncomfortable was that although these pants were already very loose, they would still occasionally touch the wound, and touching it would hurt like hell.

Zhang Yifang got up at this time and sent Bai Yao several messages.

Zhang Yifang: How are you feeling? Can you get out of bed? If it really doesn’t work, ask the counselor to take care of you, don’t starve to death in the dormitory!

Bai Yao: I’m fine, I’m already on the way to pick up takeout.

Zhang Yifang: By the way, there’s something I’ve been thinking about all night… We’re all brothers, so I decided to tell you.

Bai Yao: What’s the matter?

Zhang Yifang: About your ex, Liu Yucheng.

Zhang Yifang: Someone saw him go out to rent a room last night. I didn’t expect him to be so perverted. How long has it been since you two broke up? He already has someone else, and it’s even developed to the point of renting a room… Who is he with? Do you have any clues?

Bai Yao looked at this line of text and had the feeling of being punched in the heart.

Not because of anything else, but because he knew that his ex was doing better than him. He wasn’t magnanimous enough to be happy for his ex at this time.

Last night, he endured the pain and climbed onto the top bunk of the bed with a grimace. In order to take care of the injury on his leg, he didn’t cover his right leg with a blanket all night; but his ex Liu Yucheng was renting a room outside with his new love.

Damn him, he didn’t know if it was with a man or a woman.

Before he reached the south gate, the delivery guy called and said that his food had arrived and asked him to come over to pick it up.

Bai Yao couldn’t bother to reply to Zhang Yifang, so he had to speed up his pace and limp towards the south gate, enduring the pain.

As a result, after struggling to the south gate, before he could see the delivery guy, a familiar figure carrying a black backpack squeezed into his field of vision.

It was Liu Yucheng.

He still had that cold look as before. He was 191 in height, so his vision was also high. It was as if no one was in his eyes, and he was too lazy to pay attention to anyone.

The pitiful look he had when he was beaten by himself some time ago could not be seen at all now.

Bai Yao couldn’t help but curse in his heart: Damn it, what bad luck!

His ex went out to rent a room at night and returned to school the next morning. How could he just happen to run into him? Enemies always meet on a narrow road?

Did Liu Yucheng’s black backpack contain condoms, or the clothes he took off last night because they were dirty? And it’s noon now, and he’s only just returning from the hotel. It shouldn’t have just been last night. He probably had a lot of fun this morning too. He didn’t know how many rounds he had with his new love.

Bai Yao quickly pulled up his mask and adjusted his walking posture.

Even if the wound on his leg was rubbed by the pants and hurt again, in front of his ex, Bai Yao would instantly transform into an incredibly strong and fearless iron man – his walking posture tended to be normal, and besides the counselor, few people knew he was injured. Liu Yucheng shouldn’t be able to see anything.

Liu Yucheng was going into the school, and Bai Yao was speeding up his pace to rush out of the school gate; when the two brushed past each other, Bai Yao “inadvertently” turned his face in the other direction.

This indifferent man didn’t even turn his head, and didn’t notice anything unusual, which was good.

After getting the takeout, Bai Yao stood outside the south gate for a while, wanting to wait for Liu Yucheng to walk away before entering the school gate. If possible, he hoped that the two of them would never meet again.

After waiting for about ten minutes, Bai Yao stretched his head and peered into the school. After confirming that he didn’t see Liu Yucheng, he limped back with his takeout.

When passing through the small side door next to the south gate, a figure rushed out of the security room in a stumbling manner and bumped into Bai Yao head-on.

The backpack the person was carrying scratched Bai Yao’s right leg squarely. Bai Yao’s scalp went numb with pain, and the takeout in his hand slipped, spilling soup and water all over the ground.

“Hiss——”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry! I’m in a hurry, I didn’t notice you…” the boy said, and when he saw Bai Yao, a trace of surprise was added to the anxious look on his face, “Bai Yao, it’s you!”

The pain in his leg was excruciating, and Bai Yao couldn’t care about anything else. His face turned pale, and beads of sweat were dripping from his forehead.

The person who bumped into him was called Yan Hao, and he was a classmate in the same department as them. His dormitory was 519, and he was also Liu Yucheng’s roommate.

Bai Yao gritted his teeth tightly, and muffled out four words through his mask: “What are you doing?”

“I’m really sorry, I’m rushing to work, it wasn’t intentional…”

Yan Hao glanced at the spilled takeout on the ground, and then took out his phone to check the time, anxiously spinning around in place, “Your takeout… I’m really sorry! I’ll pay you for it! Add me on WeChat, and I’ll transfer the money to you?”

“Let’s talk about it when we meet in class later. Aren’t you in a hurry?”

Bai Yao didn’t want him to discover his embarrassment, frowned, and pulled up his mask again, urging, “Hurry up and go!”

It hurt too much.

Hurry up and leave!

“Okay, okay, I’m really sorry, Bai Yao, you’re so nice!” Yan Hao looked really anxious, carrying his backpack in one hand, he ran a few steps forward quickly, and turned around to wave to him, “I’ll find you when we meet in class later!”

“Yeah.”

Until Yan Hao ran to the nearby bus stop and got on the bus, Bai Yao was still standing in place, unable to move his feet.

His leg hurt too much, he couldn’t move anymore.

At this time, a person in a large green frog outfit, who didn’t know where he came from, ran towards this side from a distance, and stepped on the soup and water spilled on the ground.

Bai Yao watched the big frog hold the wall with one hand, and slowly lifted his frog leg, looking at the dirt on the bottom of his foot.

“I’m very sorry, I haven’t had time to clean it up yet.” Bai Yao said with difficulty, “I can take responsibility for cleaning your frog outfit.”

The big frog was obviously a boy, and he wasn’t short.

He raised his hand to hold the headgear, and sized up Bai Yao: “Student, why is there so much sweat on your forehead, are you feeling unwell somewhere?”

His voice was a little strange, he spoke in a local dialect, and Bai Yao couldn’t tell which dialect it was; the only thing he could be sure of was that he didn’t know this big frog at all, and he shouldn’t be from their department either. He tried to take a look at the person’s face through the frog’s mouth, but only saw a blue disposable mask, and a black windbreaker hat on the person’s head.

Since they didn’t know each other, Bai Yao’s Social Cow-X Syndrome started to kick in, and he said, “Buddy, to be honest, there’s a problem with my leg, and if it gets more serious, I might have to have it amputated… I’m having a little trouble moving around right now, I don’t know if it’s convenient for you to help me?”