TSIBAMS Chapter 67

This kid is way too nervous!

His upper body has been exposed in front of me countless times, and just last week he was wrapped in a bath towel sharing a kiss of confirmation with me on the hotel sofa. Now he’s trying to play the innocent little white rabbit again?

Unacceptable!

Ye Xing’s head was buried on his shoulder, laughing so hard he was shaking.

“Laugh your ass off!” Qi Guang’s chest heaved up and down. “You want a beating?”

Ye Xing couldn’t stop laughing. He slowly raised his head and sat up, using the back of the sofa for support.

Only then did he see that Qi Guang’s hand was tightly gripping his waistband.

He froze, his smile stuck on his face… He finally realized that Qi Guang wasn’t nervous, but rather had misunderstood him.

Qi Guang lay on the sofa, looking at him without moving. He moved his gaze up to meet his eyes.

Awkward.

This guy thought I was going to pull down his pants when I said that?

Immediately, Ye Xing lay back down, squeezing against Qi Guang at the edge of the sofa, unable to help but sigh, “I didn’t think my boyfriend would be so shy. Aren’t you supposed to be the guy who could never be on the bottom?”

Qi Guang turned his head to look at him and gently kicked him off the sofa. “That’s right, you stay on the bottom!”

“Damn it!” Although the sofa wasn’t high and he didn’t feel anything after falling off, the drastic change in treatment after experiencing the whirlwind of events left him wanting to curse, “Scumbag!”

“You’ve cursed me countless times in your heart, haven’t you?” Qi Guang leaned over the edge of the sofa, poking his head out. “Now, the scumbag is going to take you to do your homework.”

Ye Xing almost thought he heard wrong.

What kind of unique sadomasochistic romance is this? Or some newly developed method of abstinence?

Qi Guang helped him gather the scattered textbooks and dragged him into the bedroom, then, using the excuse that he had missed two weeks of class and needed to catch up, forced him to open his textbooks and practice questions.

“Don’t you want to go to university?” Qi Guang’s right elbow was propped on the table, his face resting on his hand as he looked at him. “Big Brother Qi promises to take you flying.”

“Oh,” Ye Xing replied, his head drooping.

It seems this guy wasn’t playing abstinence but really wanted to start tutoring him.

Was it because he didn’t perform well in a certain area just now that he immediately wanted to flex his muscles in his area of expertise to save face?

What kind of straight boyfriend did I find?!

Ye Xing sighed and buried his head, starting to work on the problems. Although he always adhered to the principle of copying whenever possible instead of using his brain, with Qi Guang by his side, his mind seemed to be enlightened.

Yeah, I’m not stuck anymore.

Not that he had any desire to learn, but at least he didn’t have any aversion to learning.

This kind of good thing where he got a boyfriend and a free tutor at the same time, no matter how you looked at it, was a win.

And he even got a free chef.

By the time he had finished all the problems Qi Guang had assigned, the latter had already cooked dinner. It wasn’t as extravagant as the first time, nor as simple as lunch. A balanced meal of meat and vegetables, two dishes and a soup, was already a blessing for Ye Xing’s kitchen that had been neglected for months.

They had only confirmed their relationship on the first day, but there was a strange feeling of being an old married couple.

Ye Xing leaned against the kitchen door frame, watching him take off his apron. “Hard work, Mr. Snail.”

“It’s not hard work,” Qi Guang hung up the apron. “Who told my boyfriend that he can’t do anything.”

“Then your boyfriend is too lucky.” Ye Xing smiled and leaned over to kiss him on the forehead.

Happy times are always short-lived. Qi Guang had originally wanted to go to 1984 early to help with preparations, but by the time they finished dinner, it was already past opening time, and he hurriedly prepared to leave after helping Ye Xing clear the dishes into the sink.

“Looks like you didn’t plan on asking me to come along?” Ye Xing watched him put on his shoes with his arms crossed.

“Is this a new excuse to avoid washing the dishes? You haven’t even washed the lunch dishes yet!” Qi Guang squatted down, tying his shoelaces without looking up. He thought Ye Xing would jump up when he heard this, but after a long while, he didn’t hear any movement. He looked up, and Ye Xing was still watching him with his arms crossed.

How many times has he miscalculated my reaction?

This kid has become so stable after getting a boyfriend!

Qi Guang cleared his throat and added, “With what happened at noon, I figured they would ask questions if you came, I was afraid you would be uncomfortable.”

“Uncomfortable about what?” Ye Xing raised an eyebrow.

Qi Guang stood up, explaining patiently, “Like being seen as…”

Being seen as gay?

What are you worried about? That’s already a fact!

You’re way too thoughtful!

“So what? If you like someone, you like them,” Ye Xing smiled and took his hand, “I’ll go out with you and come out of the closet.”

“You don’t mind?” Qi Guang looked at him suspiciously.

Mind your ass? You’re treating me like a little girl!

Ye Xing held his hand with one hand and slid one foot into a sneaker, then used the other hand to pull the back of his heel, putting them on without moving the laces, perfectly demonstrating how a lazy person puts on shoes. “I don’t mind, the only reason I might mind is if you mind.”

“You’re so eloquent now,” Qi Guang frowned, then laughed. “You confused me for a second.”

“Dating lowers IQ, please be careful, genius!” Ye Xing glanced at him and picked up the keys from the table.

“Then aren’t you at an advantage?” Qi Guang asked.

“Huh?”

“You have no room to go lower,” Qi Guang opened the door and stepped out. “Maybe negative times negative equals positive, and you’ll actually increase.”

Ye Xing pushed him, “If you want to fight, just say so!”

“We’re adults now, don’t start fighting at the drop of a hat, be mature!”

Unlike usual weekends, 1984 was practically deserted today. Not only at the entrance, but inside was also exceptionally desolate, so desolate that you only noticed that the people sitting there were Bai Shu and a few others when you got closer.

Besides them, there were no customers, and Brother Xu was nowhere to be found.

Qi Guang had a bad feeling, his face immediately darkening. “What’s going on?”

“Qi Guang! Ye Xing!” Zhou Tian stood up, looking at them worriedly with his hands tightly clasped. “Something happened!”

Bai Shu sat on the chair expressionlessly, his voice a bit hoarse, “Brother Xu was taken away by the police.”

“What?!” Qi Guang widened his eyes, exchanging a look with Ye Xing.

Brother Xu had always been running a clean business. Even his old street gangster debts only involved fights and brawls, which although illegal, were not serious enough to warrant investigation now.

Shuai Xiaoyun handed him her phone. “Don’t worry, it’s probably related to this.”

“A forum post?” Qi Guang took the phone. It was a post titled “Sisters!! Don’t go to a certain numbered bar again! Let me tell you about my experience of almost being forced into prostitution!”

What the hell kind of nonsense is this?

He held back the urge to swear and patiently scrolled down.

Then came the tearful accusations from the poster——

“Our little 18th-tier town probably doesn’t have a second numbered bar, right? Yes, that’s the one you’re thinking of!”

“But sisters! Listen to my advice! For your own safety!! Promise me you won’t go there anymore?? I don’t know if anyone else has had the same experience as me. If you have, please speak up! Don’t be afraid! Let’s resist this unscrupulous bar together!”

“Let me tell you about my experience. Last weekend, I had a date to go there and watch a show. It was rock night, and there were a lot of people. But my friend had to cancel at the last minute, so I went alone.”

“I know it’s not good for a girl to go to a bar alone, but I’ve been there several times with my friends and nothing ever happened, so I got a bit bolder. I didn’t think you shouldn’t rely on luck!! And maybe the bad guys have had their eyes on me for a while! But this time they finally made a move!”

“I was dancing in the dance floor that day when a handsome guy came over and started chatting me up… To be honest, the reason I started going to that numbered bar was because there were so many handsome guys there. Can you say there’s anyone from the staff to the owner that isn’t handsome? But sisters!! Open your eyes and don’t be blinded by their good looks! You might just be lured into the arms of a perverted uncle and still end up helping the handsome guy count his money!!”

“Sorry, I got too excited and digressed! Back to the topic! I was saying a handsome guy started chatting me up! We were having a great time, and then he invited me to go to the karaoke room upstairs… I hesitated a bit because I came to see the rock show, not to sing myself!”

“Then he kept telling me that many of his friends were upstairs and that he wanted to introduce me to them. EXOME?? We just met and now he wants to introduce me to his friends? Not that I don’t have self-confidence! It’s just too unscientific!”

“Later, I went to the restroom, and when I came back, I found him talking to another girl! Although the show was pretty loud that day, I couldn’t hear what they were talking about, but a woman’s intuition told me there was something fishy about him! I hid and didn’t let him see me and watched what he was going to do… It seemed that the girl rejected him too, and then he left a little discouraged…”

“I followed him out the door out of curiosity, and the scene that followed scared me so much that I’m still having palpitations. He was making a phone call at the time. He didn’t know I was behind him. I heard him cursing angrily, saying that he had gained nothing today and couldn’t explain to the boss!”

“Sisters! Do you understand? If I had gone upstairs with him! I would never have been able to come back!! I was going to be captured and forced into prostitution!!!!!!”

…

Qi Guang felt a headache looking at this pile of rambling text and countless exclamation marks. He had no patience to continue reading, so he swiped to the comment section.

The level of excitement in the comment section was just as bad, with everyone unleashing their imaginations to a degree that would make their language teachers gasp in amazement.

-What boss? Is it the boss of the numbered bar??

-Of course it is!!! Who doesn’t know that the owner of the numbered bar and the karaoke room is the same person??

-OMG!!!! That’s scary! Are they that shady? I’m never going there again! Handsome guys are all liars!

-What’s so surprising about that, the boss used to be the leader of this street! Although he looks honest now, don’t even think about whitewashing his past! I advise everyone to be careful and not easily enter the den of thieves!

-I can vouch that what the person above said is true, and I also know his real name, Xu WenX! DM me if you want to know!

-Don’t talk nonsense if you don’t know! My classmate works at that bar, it’s not as dirty as you say! Besides, the poster is just making up stuff, where’s the evidence?? It’s meaningless to slander people with no proof. All the lines are secretly leading to the bar owner, are you trying to push your own agenda?

-The person above??

-?????

-Please be a little kinder. Yes, I’m talking to the 6th floor! The poster was almost kidnapped, and you’re still making sarcastic remarks? I hope you’ll be as generous if your mom gets kidnapped and forced into prostitution in the future!

…

Disgusting.

Without scrolling down any further, he knew it would be full of vulgarities. Qi Guang closed the page and returned the phone to Shuai Xiaoyun, and without saying a word, he rushed out of the bar door.