TSIBAMS Chapter 16

Chapter 16

After chatting in the study for a long time, the two finally chose an obscure foreign vinyl record.

Back in the living room, Ye Xing sat awkwardly on the sofa. He felt it was a pity that such a moment deserved a carpet to match the lazy and comfortable atmosphere created by the gramophone.

Especially when the jazz music started.

It was as if they had returned to the days of barbecue and beer.

But now there was no barbecue and beer, and after turning on the music, they didn’t know what to do. Two boys sitting on the sofa quietly listening to music was indeed a bit awkward.

Qi Guang touched his face, it seemed to have calmed down a lot. He tentatively asked, “Do you want to have barbecue?”

“Yes!” Ye Xing replied extremely quickly.

He was a person who was extremely afraid of embarrassment and also extremely prone to embarrassment.

When the music started, he realized that he needed to find something to say or do, but the previous topic was not appropriate. Although he was still recovering from the shock, he pretended to be calm.

After all, it was obvious that Qi Guang had gone through a great psychological struggle to bring this up.

He could feel Qi Guang’s internal conflict and his efforts to change the topic, so much so that he started the topic without properly ending it.

And his original intention was to explain why he didn’t call the police.

Forget it, he understood it now anyway.

Ye Xing decided not to ask any further questions.

Qi Guang took out his phone and called the owner downstairs, “Hey, boss, are you busy right now?”

The loud voice of the barbecue stall owner came from the other end of the phone, “Busy or not, I can’t leave you out, what do you want to order, let me note it down!”

Qi Guang turned to look at Ye Xing.

Ye Xing replied, “Anything, as long as there’s meat.”

Qi Guang spoke a bunch of beef, mutton, and vegetables into the phone, and also ordered a grilled fish.

After hanging up the phone, Qi Guang went to the kitchen, opened the refrigerator door, and returned to the living room with the only can of beer left.

As soon as Ye Xing saw the beer, he said, “I’m not drinking today, I have to go home after eating a couple of bites.”

“It’s still early, is there a curfew?” Qi Guang laughed.

“No, I live alone,” Ye Xing replied.

Qi Guang looked at him doubtfully.

Among the people here, apart from himself, he had never seen a student living alone. They either lived with their parents or with their older relatives.

But the day he bumped into Ye Xing, it did seem that he had been dragging his luggage alone to this place.

“Running away from home?” Qi Guang successfully found a pack of cigarettes from under the coffee table, took one out, and lit it.

“Run away from home my ass,” Ye Xing’s good mood instantly vanished.

Thinking of the phone call with Fang Rong that evening, his mood plummeted to the bottom.

Qi Guang didn’t look at him, he just smoked his cigarette, and insisted on saying, “Looks like you are self-reliant then.”

“Don’t ask! Unless you want to fight,” Ye Xing started to get a little annoyed.

“Alright, alright, I won’t ask! I can’t beat you anyway,” Qi Guang pretended to surrender.

“That’s right! Everyone has things they don’t want to talk about, don’t keep trying to ask sideways,” Ye Xing glanced at Qi Guang, “Do you think I can’t tell?”

Qi Guang felt very wronged.

He really wasn’t trying to ask sideways, he was just being a jerk, and always unconsciously wanted to tease him.

Ye Xing continued, “Like the things you just said, I didn’t ask any further either.”

Qi Guang’s expression darkened.

“Ye Xing, what I just said, I actually just wanted to tell you – we can never stand in someone else’s shoes and fully experience what they’ve gone through, so we are not qualified to make decisions for them, let alone bear the consequences of those decisions for them.”

“Oh,” Ye Xing replied impatiently.

He had actually understood it long ago, but changing his stance so easily would be very embarrassing for him.

Qi Guang knew that Ye Xing was stubborn, so he tried to give him an out, “Today, the senior might not necessarily not understand you, but it’s not enough just for her to understand you. She needs the classmates, friends, and family around her to also understand the reasoning. Only when everyone’s perception is like you said, will the victim not be hurt a second time after making the truth public. Do you understand?”

He understood.

Very well understood.

But Ye Xing couldn’t act like an educated elementary school student, being taught patiently.

Just tonight, he had first been crushed by Qi Guang’s IQ, and then crushed by his EQ, the imbalance in his heart was more than just a little.

He nodded, indicating that he had learned from the lesson, but stubbornly answered, “I don’t understand!”

Qi Guang suddenly felt like laughing at his expression.

Ye Xing’s appearance was extremely childish.

Qi Guang pretended to be angry and said to him sternly, “Ye Xing! It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand now, the day you get raped here, you will understand everything!”

“What the hell?” Ye Xing didn’t expect that he had successfully led Qi Guang astray and made him act like a jerk just like him.

“Be civilized, don’t say ‘what the hell’ all the time,” Qi Guang said.

Ye Xing was very dissatisfied with Qi Guang’s analogy just now, and retorted, “Why would I be ‘raped’? Who is on top is not a given!”

This guy’s ability to grasp the important points was really worrying.

Qi Guang shook his head, completely giving up on persuading him, but not giving up on teasing him, “I can’t tell that little Ye likes this kind of thing.”

“You’re asking for a beating!” Ye Xing pushed Qi Guang into the corner of the sofa with force.

The faintly tense atmosphere was successfully broken.

Qi Guang shrank into the corner of the sofa to fend off Ye Xing’s punches, which were not very forceful, and deliberately provoked him, “Star Lord, please spare me, even though you are good-looking, I cannot be the one on the bottom!”

Ye Xing was stunned.

Acting, right?

Alright!

Let’s see who’s the better actor!

Ye Xing snatched the cigarette from Qi Guang’s hand and looked at him with a smile, “Looks like we are on the same team.”

Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!!!

Was Ye Xing serious???

The joke was too big!

Qi Guang felt his face suddenly become very hot.

The gramophone was playing ambiguous jazz music, and the whole house was slowly exuding an unspeakable subtlety.

Ye Xing really chose a good record!

Qi Guang was so embarrassed at this moment that he wanted to run out the door.

But, this was clearly his own house!

He sighed silently in his heart and said, “I’ll go downstairs to get the barbecue!”

After speaking, he fled the scene.

Ye Xing was still holding Qi Guang’s cigarette, frozen in his original position.

Was that guy blushing just now?

What did the blush mean?

Ye Xing tried hard to recall everything that had happened from the first time he met Qi Guang until now, and it didn’t seem like anything strange had happened.

Unless sleeping in the same bed was considered a strange thing!

He tried hard to recall his feelings again, and it really didn’t seem strange. He didn’t seem to be repulsed.

At this moment, Ye Xing’s mind was about to explode.

The music playing from the gramophone also seemed to be chaotic.

Bah! Chaotic my ass.

He smacked his forehead and opened the beer on the coffee table and took a big gulp.

Qi Guang, carrying the barbecue, was also brainstorming.

So, last time Ye Xing got drunk and he dragged him to bed to sleep together, the next day he left without saying a word…

Was it because of his own sexual orientation that he couldn’t accept sleeping in the same bed with a man?

So, he dragged the drunk Ye Xing to bed to sleep with him without Ye Xing’s consent, which was simply a beastly act.

And Ye Xing was ashamed and annoyed, but didn’t have a reason to explode, so he just ran away without even saying goodbye.

This explanation seemed reasonable.

This reasonable explanation made Qi Guang even more uneasy.

And, it really seemed like he had never seen him interact with a girl.

Even when the so-called school beauty Shuai Xiaoyun stood in front of him, he didn’t seem to give her a second glance.

Unlike Zhou Tian!

Zhou Tian was the epitome of a straight guy!

That’s right, Ye Xing was always hanging out with Zhou Tian, Zhou Tian should know more than he did, maybe he could ask him about it.

The barbecue in Qi Guang’s hands seemed to weigh a ton, he moved for a long time before finally making his way back home.

Ye Xing was looking down at his phone, playing.

“What are you looking at? So serious,” Qi Guang put the barbecue on the coffee table.

“Looking at Weibo, my favorite band is going to perform in my previous city, damn it!” Ye Xing said without raising his head.

“Weibo?”

“Yeah,” Ye Xing looked at Qi Guang in confusion, “Don’t you use it?”

As soon as he said this, Ye Xing regretted it, if the other person said, ‘Let’s follow each other,’ he would definitely slap himself twice.

He didn’t want people in his real life to enter the world that was closer to him.

This was an anonymous place to surf the internet, whether it was venting or feeling emotional, no one would know what kind of real person the owner of the account was, even though he usually only updated some emotionless photography and painting works.

Besides, he had over a hundred thousand followers without revealing his account to any of his friends.

Fortunately, Qi Guang didn’t give Ye Xing a chance to slap himself, he replied, “I used to use it, but I don’t remember my account anymore.”

The two ate the barbecue in silence, both tacitly pretending not to care about what happened before Qi Guang went to get the barbecue.

It was just that the jazz music in the background was too overbearing.

The two of them had their own secret agendas under this music.

If Ye Xing wasn’t holding skewers in his hand, he would want to slap himself again right now.

He chose the record himself, so he had to listen to it even if he had to kneel…

Ye Xing couldn’t help but break the silence, “The name of the bar you chose, is that for the one downstairs from the KTV?”

“You know that too,” Qi Guang said while continuing to eat.

“Just guessing, I saw that it was under construction when I passed by today, it’s still missing a sign,” Ye Xing paused and asked, “Will you be working there later?”

“Yeah, welcome to come have a drink!” Qi Guang replied.

“Can I use my face to pay? How much of a discount will you give me?” Ye Xing asked.

“Of course, I’ll give you a discount that’ll break your bones!” Qi Guang said with a smile, “But with your alcohol tolerance, you probably won’t be able to drink a few glasses before I have to send you to the guesthouse next door.”

“…” Ye Xing couldn’t refute it, after all, the incident of him getting drunk at Qi Guang’s house was still fresh in his mind.

Qi Guang, seeing his hesitant look, couldn’t help but tease, “You can’t be from a strict family and haven’t drunk much, you don’t even smoke.”

“You can’t shut your mouth even when you’re eating!”

“Hey! Where did my beer go, you bastard!” Qi Guang shook the empty can and threw it at Ye Xing.

Without drinking, there was naturally no overnight stay.

Qi Guang originally wanted to drive Ye Xing home, but was directly rejected.

If Ye Xing was to sit on the motorcycle with Qi Guang so closely now and be held around the waist, he really couldn’t convince himself that it wouldn’t be awkward.

He would take a three-wheeled vehicle to be safe.