TSIBAMS Chapter 97
by VolareYe Xing finally understood what it meant to be caught in a dilemma. Looking at the back of Qi Guang’s head, which hadn’t moved all night, he was unable to sleep.
He tried to put himself in Qi Guang’s shoes and realized that Qi Guang was quite wronged. He hadn’t done anything wrong in the first place, but he got a cold shoulder just because Ye Xing was a little unhappy. And after getting the cold shoulder, he even failed to soothe him with gentle words?
It was actually he who got upset himself.
What the hell was going on?
He would never meddle in other people’s business again! Let them be!
The more he thought about it, the more frustrated he became. He looked at the back of his head so close yet unable to reach out, he finally couldn’t help but get up when it was almost dawn.
He should just sleep on the sofa!
To prevent the cold air from getting into the blanket and waking Qi Guang, he carefully lifted the corner of the blanket, first extending one leg to find his shoes, then slowly moving his body out in parallel.
Just as everything was ready and he was about to get up, Qi Guang suddenly grabbed him.
He was so startled he almost rolled off the bed.
“Fuck?” He exhaled, his heart still racing.
He was hiding it so well!
Why is it that everyone else can’t sleep, yet this person can maintain one position for so long without moving?
“Where are you going?” Qi Guang was still holding him.
That was a good question.
If he said he was going to sleep on the sofa now, it would undoubtedly confirm that he was being guilty and pretentious.
“Going to… the bathroom,” Ye Xing said.
“You don’t have a habit of getting up at night to go to the bathroom,” Qi Guang bluntly exposed him.
He’s observing so carefully, it’s like he sleeps with his eyes open to make sure no one falls off the bed, isn’t he?
Ye Xing was too lazy to hide it, “I’m going to sleep on the sofa.”
“There isn’t an extra blanket for you to sleep on the sofa.”
Qi Guang’s voice was cold, and he didn’t seem like he was going to let go.
It was already a bit cold after getting out of the blanket, and after this stalemate, Ye Xing’s nose couldn’t take it anymore, and he sneezed twice in a row.
Qi Guang pulled him back onto the bed with a sudden force, then smoothed the blanket, naturally putting his leg on Ye Xing’s body, wrapping him up completely. “Don’t be so restless.”
Maybe it was because the bed was too comfortable, or maybe it was Qi Guang’s body temperature that made him feel at ease. Even though it was a complaining tone, Ye Xing cleverly heard a hint of doting tenderness, and he quickly seized the opportunity to step down.
“If you don’t sleep with your back to me, I won’t be restless,” Ye Xing said, only to realize that his nasal voice was a bit heavy, like he had just woken up or had a cold, probably because he had just sniffled a bit.
It caused Qi Guang to hug him a little tighter, rubbing his cold hands back and forth, “Still making trouble with me?”
“No trouble,” Ye Xing sniffled.
The next day, both of them went to school with panda eyes, and even Zhou Tian was shocked when he saw them.
He sat on Ye Xing’s desk and looked at him with disdain for a while, then leaned closer to them and lowered his voice, “You two have such dark circles, you wouldn’t have been playing all night…”
“Mind your own business!” Qi Guang glared at him.
“Tch,” Zhou Tian was indifferent, “What’s so shameful about playing games all night? Is it that embarrassing?”
Ye Xing was laughing so hard he couldn’t stand up straight, pulling out a bag of steamed buns and soy milk from his drawer and handing them to Zhou Tian, “Get lost!”
Zhou Tian happily accepted the breakfast, “Thank you, Star God!”
“Thank your ass!” Ye Xing pushed him off the desk, preparing to continue pushing him towards the door, but he stood firm and didn’t move, Ye Xing couldn’t help but frown, “Don’t take advantage of me!”
“I have something to do! Don’t push me!” Zhou Tian went back again.
Qi Guang, who was seriously eating a steamed bun, helplessly raised his head and glanced at him, “What do you want to say?”
He happily placed his butt back on Ye Xing’s desk, “Sister Xiaoyun is coming back for the New Year’s holiday, when should we all get together?”
“Oh, it seems like you two are in frequent contact?” Ye Xing raised an eyebrow teasingly on the side.
“Of course, Sister Xiaoyun and I have a great relationship!” Zhou Tian smiled.
Are you sure she’s not contacting you to inquire about your respected English teacher?
Ye Xing also laughed.
He was about to tease him a bit more when his phone vibrated, Ye Xing looked at the screen and walked to the bathroom.
Zhou Tian sighed lightly, adding, “Although it’s always me who looks for her to chat…”
“It’s only a couple of days away,” Qi Guang, having finished all the steamed buns in his hands, joined the conversation, took a sip of soy milk, and continued, “Brother Xu also said to get together then, how about we have a New Year’s Eve party at 1984?”
Ye Xing only returned to the classroom when the bell was about to ring. Seeing that the teacher was already writing on the blackboard on the podium, he tiptoed to his seat.
When he sat down, he couldn’t help but look in Qi Guang’s direction.
His top student desk mate was emotionlessly organizing his notes.
Perhaps sensing his gaze, Qi Guang asked while writing, “What’s wrong? Your teacher has been calling you a lot recently.”
Ye Xing was stunned.
Amazing, how did this person know who he was talking to?
He answered while looking for his textbook, “It’s nothing, just telling me about the application exams for some schools, doesn’t really have much to do with me.”
“What application exams?” Qi Guang turned his head to look at him.
This wasn’t the first time he had heard him say this term. Although he always made it seem insignificant, strangely, if it really wasn’t important, why would his teacher keep calling him?
“It’s some specialized schools that will go to different cities to recruit students for exams on their own,” Ye Xing opened his textbook and then took Qi Guang’s book to look through his previous notes, “I’ll see how many key points I missed.”
“Does your teacher really want you to go?” Qi Guang was still looking at him.
“Brother Qi,” Ye Xing sighed, put down the book, and explained to him seriously, “I’ve checked, the school you want to apply to doesn’t have an application exam, and my professional skills are solid.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the bell rang, and he lowered his head again to continue flipping through his books.
Qi Guang remained in the same position for a long time, and only after the bell rang did he speak, “But for those of you studying art, isn’t it better to go to a specialized art college?”
Ye Xing heard the hesitation and unease in his voice, and lightly kicked his shoes, “Class is starting, don’t think too much.”
At this time, the teacher cleared her throat and started calling on people to go on stage to solve problems, and the whole classroom suddenly fell silent. Ye Xing buried his head and didn’t make a sound, silently writing something on a piece of scrap paper.
Qi Guang thought that he had become enlightened and was solving the problem on his own, but unexpectedly, a moment later the scrap paper was passed over, with Ye Xing’s flamboyant handwriting on it.
-Brother Qi, I haven’t apologized to you for last night, I’m sorry.
Qi Guang smiled.
He was making progress, the little kid had learned to apologize.
Although from waking up to going to school, and until Zhou Tian came to cause trouble, the two of them had very tacitly not mentioned what happened last night, and the atmosphere had been a bit subtly awkward. Qi Guang had thought that this matter had been resolved without any issues.
Of course, it wasn’t a big deal after all.
But he didn’t expect that Ye Xing had been bothered by it and hadn’t said anything, choosing the most primitive way of communicating as desk mates to apologize.
It was rare for him to take the initiative to apologize, how difficult for the guy.
Qi Guang restrained his satisfied expression, reached under the desk, and was about to rub his leg.
Ye Xing pulled his leg back, avoiding his hand.
Is he trying to soothe a puppy?
A few days later, Shuai Xiaoyun came back for her holiday. Those who had classes went to classes, and those who worked went to work. It was hard to find a New Year’s Eve when they could gather. Xu Ge, who usually loved to be lively, was not in a hurry to organize it this time, and only called Qi Guang in the afternoon that day.
“What day is it today, I’m asking you?” Xu Ge questioned him.
“Even if you didn’t call, I was going to ask you!” Qi Guang was using his head and shoulder to hold the phone, pulling up his pants to go wash his hands.
“Wasn’t it you who said we’d spend New Year’s Eve together? Where is everyone?” Xu Ge asked.
“You never replied, so we didn’t know what time to meet, right?” Qi Guang smiled helplessly, “And Brother, I’m in my senior year of high school! We don’t get out of evening self-study until after school!”
Xu Ge’s tone softened this time, “I saw your sister brought that female teacher, I thought your school was on holiday.”
“Female teacher?” Qi Guang was stunned.
Oh, it’s Lu Yueyang.
Goodness, she skipped class and evening self-study today?
He’s stuck with such a troublesome homeroom teacher.
Of course, there was also Shuai Xiaoyun who was troublesome.
If the phone hadn’t been on silent, it would’ve vibrated his thigh numb just from being in his pocket.
Qi Guang wrote out the detailed problem-solving process and placed it in front of Ye Xing. He took out his phone and scrolled through Shuai Xiaoyun’s text message bombardment one by one. As expected, they were all fancy group photos and selfies. The background was a chaotic crowd of people in a bar.
There were even several unfamiliar faces in the group photos, a few older men, showing awkward but polite smiles.
He frowned. Shuai Xiaoyun was not a social person. Even if she suddenly felt like making friends, it shouldn’t be with the rough faces in the photos.
Qi Guang flipped through the photos one by one until he got to the photo of Xu Ge with those people and realized that they were Xu Ge’s old brothers!
He looked at the teacher on the podium who was still buried in her lesson plans, opened the conversation box, and started typing.
-Lots of people.
In a moment, Shuai Xiaoyun replied with a message.
-It’s lively, the only miserable students in the world are you seniors in high school ha
Qi Guang looked at the half-finished sentence she sent, guessing that her phone had been bumped while she was typing.
Hopefully, it wasn’t bumped into a wine glass.
He smiled and was about to put away his phone when another message came in, still from Shuai Xiaoyun, only this time it was a voice message.
Such a busybody.
Qi Guang helplessly took out his earphones, put them on, and tapped the voice message.
Amidst the noisy background sound, the other party was practically shouting, it was Xu Ge’s voice, “You kid! I’m telling… telling you, hic! That… that… if you don’t come, I… we…”
It seemed like Xu Ge was in a good mood today, and got drunk to this state before 12 o’clock.
Then another new voice message appeared, this time it was Bai Shu’s voice, “He wants to say that if you guys don’t come, our first round will be over. Qi Guang, focus on your class, don’t mind him, we’ll talk after school.”
Qi Guang tapped the keyboard and typed a line.
-Is everyone able to handle it? It seems like there are more people than usual.
-Since you haven’t come, Xu Ge asked Xiao Ma to come help.
Qi Guang stared at the two words “Xiao Ma” for a while, confirming that he had not encountered or heard of this person in his life.
-Who is Xiao Ma?
-Didn’t Xu Ge tell you? It’s not important, focus on your class.
Maybe it was because Xu Ge was drunk, or maybe it was because he was inexplicably a little irritable. Qi Guang felt a little uneasy throughout the entire evening self-study, and he had to look up at the clock a dozen times every minute.
In fact, it wasn’t difficult to sneak out early, and besides, they both had the unique advantage of location.
After struggling with this in his heart all evening, the head of the grade suddenly appeared when it was twenty minutes before the end of class.
Many of the students who were secretly playing on their phones, listening to music, and doing all sorts of small actions immediately straightened their backs and started studying.
“Ye Xing,” the head of the grade raised his chin towards Ye Xing, “Come out for a moment.”
Ye Xing looked up from a stack of practice questions, and dazedly glanced at Qi Guang, then turned to look at the head of the grade at the door, raised his thumb and pointed at himself, looking puzzled.
“You heard right, come out for a moment!” the head of the grade said and then retreated.
“Okay,” Ye Xing responded, moved his chair and followed him out.
Qi Guang didn’t know what had happened, he just felt that everything tonight was too strange, and that feeling of unease was getting stronger. He pulled out his phone again as if by some ghostly will.
This time, it really seemed like ghosts and gods were helping him. As soon as he pulled it out, it was a phone call, from Shuai Xiaoyun.
He glanced at the teacher on the podium who was still putting out a fire, and almost without thinking, he slipped out through the back door.
Ye Xing and the head of the grade had not gone far on the way to the office, Qi Guang headed towards the restroom in the opposite direction.
He pressed the answer button and said in a low voice, “Stop rushing me!”
“Qi Guang! Something happened!” Shuai Xiaoyun’s voice was flustered, and strangely, unlike the chaotic background noise when Xu Ge sent the voice message, this time it was unusually quiet.
Qi Guang also panicked a little now, he took a deep breath to calm his breathing, “Sister, don’t panic, tell me slowly.”
“Just come straight to the police station.”
He breathed a sigh of relief.
This news was within the scope of bad news he could imagine, and it wasn’t the worst.
For example, the hospital.
Besides, it wasn’t the first time Xu Ge had been invited by the police for tea.
“I thought it was something big, did you guys fight again?” Qi Guang tried hard to think of things in a good way, and even let out a couple of dry laughs, “I really have to educate Xu Ge this time.”
“This time is really serious!” Shuai Xiaoyun almost shouted over the phone.
“What happened?” Qi Guang stopped walking.
“Bai Shu is going to be locked up this time!”