TSIBAMS Chapter 77

Chapter 77

As students about to enter their senior year of high school, the entire second year was not easy. They watched with envy as the seniors escaped the sea of bitterness and embraced their freedom, while they themselves had suddenly become the most miserable people in the entire school. Not only were they under intense school supervision, but even after finally enduring the last exam of the semester, they were immediately notified of mandatory make-up classes.

Summer vacation was severely reduced, and the entire grade building was filled with wails of sorrow.

Only Ye Xing happily walked out of the exam room and went to the entrance of Qi Guang’s exam room to wait for him.

Qi Guang had also finished his test and was slowly packing up his papers and pens.

Ye Xing waited impatiently outside the door and simply rushed in. He stuffed all the things on the desk into his bag and pulled at the collar of Qi Guang’s school uniform to drag him out.

“Hey!” Qi Guang yelled behind him, “You’re shoving everything in, what’s the rush?”

“Bro!” Ye Xing looked anxious, but his eyes couldn’t hide his joy, “I’m starving! This morning, I don’t know how many brain cells and dopamine were killed! Hurry! I really want to eat your sister’s teppanyaki fried rice right now!”

“What? Want to relive our second meeting?” Qi Guang muttered under his breath.

Ye Xing frowned and glanced at him, “Keep your face in check! I might trip you later, and you can relive our first meeting by the way!”

Because they had called Shuai Xiaoyun in advance, they were able to eat the warm teppanyaki fried rice as soon as they arrived.

This made Ye Xing extremely satisfied. He didn’t even care that the table wasn’t wiped clean and sat down, eating for a full ten minutes before speaking, “It’s so fragrant! I’m telling you, I was so hungry during the exam just now, my mind was full of this plate of rice!”

Qi Guang looked at him and wanted to laugh.

He took a can of cola from the refrigerator, opened it, and placed it in front of Ye Xing, “Really? Looking at your flushed face, I thought your mind was full of me!”

“Tsk!” Ye Xing picked up the cola, looking like he was going to splash it on him at any moment, “Do you believe I’ll immediately tell Xiaoyun what you just said and let your sister know what kind of person you are!”

Qi Guang shrugged his shoulders, “Suit yourself, my sister doesn’t dislike me as much as you do.”

“But you were right about one thing, I’m really in high spirits today!” Ye Xing said mysteriously, taking a sip of cola and adding, “I think I have a chance of passing all the subjects except math this time!”

Looking at his sparkling eyes, Qi Guang was a little surprised, but even more, he felt a headache at the long road ahead.

He clapped his hands stiffly, “Then you are really…very awesome!”

Ye Xing kicked him under the table.

“Can you be a little more sincere? Actor Qi?”

“I invested the most in your math, and the result is so insignificant,” Qi Guang looked at him, “Do you think I should shed a few tears?”

“Yes!” Ye Xing didn’t prepare to give Qi Guang any leeway, even giving him a spotlight, “Come on, I’ll get you a pack of tissues, not crying is not Chinese…”

After saying that, he opened Qi Guang’s bag and started rummaging through it. He didn’t find the tissues but grabbed a handful of draft paper.

If he was not mistaken, it should be the draft paper the teacher issued during the exam.

“Why did you bring this out?” Ye Xing looked confused, unconsciously smoothing the paper little by little.

“I should be asking you!” Qi Guang tapped the table in front of him, “I told you not to just shove everything in! I was going to throw that away…”

He suddenly stopped as if he remembered something, and hurriedly reached out to snatch it from Ye Xing.

Unfortunately, he was one step slower than Ye Xing.

“Holy shit!” Ye Xing looked at the content on the draft paper, stunned.

Qi Guang quickly covered it with his hand.

Ye Xing pulled apart his fingers one by one, held them in his hand, and admired the content on the draft paper again.

[You are you,

Just like the sun,

But still just a morning star.

You are not you,

Not the sun,

But a star on earth.]

“I’m telling you this is a public place…” Qi Guang took out his hand, and then quickly reached out with the other hand to grab the draft paper.

Before he could make a move, Ye Xing snatched it away, and his other hand held Qi Guang’s hand, with a mix of embarrassment and joy on his face, “Brother Qi, you can even write poetry?”

Qi Guang met his gaze, scratched his hair, and then lowered his head shyly.

“Have you ever seen such ugly poetry?” Qi Guang’s eyes darted everywhere, and he swallowed, “The teacher didn’t allow us to hand in the papers early, so I just scribbled on the draft paper.”

Ye Xing moved the paper further away and glanced at it again, a smile forming on his lips, “Although it sounds like nonsense at first glance, it also has that kind of nonsensical beauty of Western modern poetry…”

Qi Guang reached out to snatch it, but only grabbed air.

“Thank you for your high opinion, I was just writing nonsense!”

“Did you write it for me?” Ye Xing looked at him with squinted eyes, and when he didn’t speak, he changed the way he asked, “Did you write about me?”

Qi Guang ignored him, buried his head, and took a few bites of rice.

“Tsk tsk, a love poem from my boyfriend, I’m going to frame it and carry it with me everywhere.” Ye Xing carefully folded it, and then carefully placed it in the innermost layer of his backpack.

Although strictly speaking, it couldn’t be concluded that it was a love poem, Ye Xing’s saying of “carry it with me everywhere” was not just empty words. Even when he was packing his luggage to go to the art studio, he put the so-called “love poem” on the flyleaf of his sketchbook and then put it in his suitcase.

This was a day of celebration for the second-year high school students. The exams were over, and the mandatory few weeks of make-up classes were finished. Although it was very likely that they would be notified of make-up classes before the official start of school in September, this summer vacation, which was comparable to the winter vacation in its shortened length, could almost only allow them to take a breath in the cracks. However, for the second-year high school students who usually didn’t even have a chance to take half a breath, it was already a gift.

For Ye Xing, it was just a change of location for his classes.

In order not to delay the progress of his professional courses, he had to leave for the art studio tomorrow. Unlike the last time when he left impulsively, he felt a little different this time because he had someone he cared about in this place.

When he was packing his things, he was not in high spirits, “From tomorrow on, we’ll have a long-distance relationship until December.”

The words “long-distance relationship” sounded very forbidden, and when they were said, that sense of helplessness seemed even more concrete.

Qi Guang, who was folding his clothes for him, stopped what he was doing and looked at the person in front of him with a wronged face.

“You little , when you come back, you’ll hear gibberish.” Qi Guang smiled.

What is it like to be in a relationship with a boyfriend whose mind is only filled with studying?

It’s probably like doubting that you are dating a straight guy!

Ye Xing sighed, “Then it will depend on whether my study-god boyfriend can stand it…”

“I’ll try to find some time to see you.” Qi Guang said.

“No.” Ye Xing refused decisively, those two words seemed to come out subconsciously, and he only realized how decisively he had refused after saying them.

In fact, the reason for such a quick reaction was nothing more than the fact that he had already made such a preset in his mind.

A preset that he would not let Qi Guang come to this city he hated.

Before dating, he had never realized that he was so afraid of others making concessions for him.

Afraid of others sacrificing for him.

Afraid of others changing their life track for him.

Even if the other person was his lover… or rather, especially if the other person was his lover.

He also knew all along that, due to their upbringing and personal experiences, Qi Guang was more mature than him and considered more things. So, under such circumstances, he didn’t want Qi Guang to treat himself unfairly in order to please him.

Seeing his serious look, Qi Guang frowned, “So heartless?”

“I’m just that heartless! But I’ll secretly come back to see you.” Ye Xing pushed aside the clothes on the bed, sat down, grabbed Qi Guang’s hand and looked up at him.

Qi Guang lowered his head, squeezed his palm, “For the sake of you being so sentimental, I’ve decided to see you off tomorrow.”

“See me off at the station, you mean!” Ye Xing pulled him down, and Qi Guang almost lost his balance. Ye Xing pulled him closer and shouted in his ear, “Do I need to specifically mention that? If you don’t see me off, I’m afraid you want to start a fight!”

“See you off at the art studio.” Qi Guang rubbed his ear.

Ye Xing was stunned for a while, and after coming back to his senses, he looked at him with a frown, “What the hell? Say that again?”

“See you off at the art studio, do I have to say it again?” Qi Guang picked up a book that he didn’t know what it was for, and rolled it up with his hand, “Rolling up a book can amplify sound, I think, how about…”

“Brother Qi!” Ye Xing pulled down the book that he had rolled up into a megaphone, “You really don’t need to make a special trip for me, and I didn’t plan to have you see me off.”

“What if I say I have to go?” Qi Guang said.

Ye Xing glanced at him, not knowing what trick he was playing, “Then I’ll suspect that you’re going to meet some little goblins.”

Qi Guang raised his chin, “Going to meet an old goblin.”

For a moment, Ye Xing couldn’t tell if Qi Guang was joking, and after staring at him for a while, he almost jumped up with excitement.

“What the hell? Your dad?”

“Yeah.” Qi Guang patted him comfortingly.

Ye Xing felt a mix of emotions, and looked at him with a complex expression, “I don’t want you to go even more.”

“What’s wrong?” Qi Guang asked.

“I’m afraid if you go, I’ll never see you again.” It was really embarrassing to say such sentimental words, and Ye Xing looked away after saying it, squatting down to continue organizing his suitcase.

Qi Guang didn’t expect Ye Xing to think so much. Seeing his attempt to hide his disappointment, he felt a little lost. He simply squatted down as well, half-kneeling beside him.

“Let me correct that,” Qi Guang pinched his face, trying to make a joke to eliminate his worries, “Even if the old goblin doesn’t let me go, at the very most, I’ll be your boss a few years later, and you can personally experience the drama of the domineering CEO falling in love with me. It’s not like we’ll never see each other again.”

“Tsk!” Ye Xing brushed off his hand, looking a little agitated, “Tsk tsk tsk! I’m telling you, if you leave me and run away, I’ll never see you again in this lifetime. Don’t pull that ‘everything is for my own good’ card and leave me, that kind of pretentious drama doesn’t suit you, really, and it doesn’t suit me either. We’re only suitable for living happily in the moment, don’t do all these fancy things!”

Qi Guang was startled by Ye Xing’s reaction, and didn’t dare touch him again, moving back to sit on the rug leaning against the bed.

There was a sudden awkwardness in the air. He sniffed, and said calmly, “I was just joking, are you taking it too seriously?”

Ye Xing didn’t look at him, and spoke expressionlessly, “I’m just a little scared.”

“Don’t be scared, I’m here.” Qi Guang raised his hand, wanting to hug him, but he stopped in the air for a couple of seconds and then put it down.

“Do you think we’re in a bad place?” Ye Xing took a deep breath, “Like…we’re like a lone piece of grass, without a family to support us, no fixed source of income, and even our future is a complete darkness.”

Everything felt so unreal.

Since meeting Qi Guang, his life seemed to have been fast-forwarded. Everything had happened so quickly, and all the feelings had to be endured.

It was so fast that he didn’t even have time to stop and feel his pain and despair, his satisfaction and happiness.

Those good and bad emotions appeared alternately, and the wheels of fate turned and turned. When he had nothing, a boyfriend turned up, and then his boyfriend’s father appeared.

Because it was too fast, too unreal, it was not so much that he didn’t have the time to stop and feel, but rather that he didn’t dare to stop.

In this world where everything was a mess, was this light just a flash or something permanent?

He didn’t dare to think too deeply about it.