Chapter 71: CH 71

Since Chen Yi said it like this, to reject him would mean that he was hiding something more. And so Fu Xiu Nian could only stutter out in agreement, 

“O…..Ok.”

His normal calm and logical processing was all scrambled up right now, and the pictures on the television were slowly becoming incomprehensible. He could only see the people move their mouths, but he could not register a single word that entered his ears.

When it was almost 11, the two of them couldn’t stand it anymore and prepared to head to bed. Fu Xiu Nian found a loose set of casual loungewear in his closet and gave it to Chen Yi, 

“This is new. I haven’t worn this before, so you can wear this after your shower.”

“Thanks.”

Chen Yi threw the clothes over his shoulder and headed towards the bathroom. When he passed by the kitchen however, his eyes caught a very familiar sight. He couldn’t help but double back as he hadn’t been paying attention a second ago, 

“Did you make the takeout today?”

Fu Xiu Nian smiled with his eyes curved up, and he tried his hardest to push down the corners of his mouth that were trying to tilt up. He nodded his head with force, 

“I followed some recipes online.”

Chen Yi raised his eyebrows, 

“No way. Your food tasted so bad before.”

Fu Xiu Nian explained with a serious tone, 

“That’s because there weren’t a lot of options, and I didn’t know how to start a fire with the primitive stove before. The rice could only either be raw or overcooked into a pile of mush, so it can’t be helped.”

Chen Yi didn’t say anything else and instead just gave him a look. Then he turned towards the bathroom and headed to shower.

Wah la la. 

The sound of water could be heard through the door very clearly, even with that barrier, and Fu Xiu Nian silently sat on the couch with this sound in the background. His eyes were locked onto the screen of Chen Yi’s phone, and after a long while, he was about to move his gaze away, when suddenly someone sent a message and the phone on the coffee table chirped once.

The black screen lit up, and Fu Xiu Nian casually panned his gaze over to it. His eyes couldn’t help but lock on to the words —

Xiao Meng: Take care of yourself outside.

Chen Yi had never exposed any information about his family and with Chen Xiao Meng practically living in the hospital before, very few even knew that he had a sister.

Fu Xiu Nian was surprised at this message, and his mind blanked out for a while. In that time, Chen Yi, freshly changed into a black t-shirt and grey lounge pants, had already walked out of the bathroom. His hair was still dripping with water and from a glance, one could see that his body was very thin. Compared to the regular him in the day, there was another sexiness, a coolness emitting out of him.

Fu Xiu Nian retracted his gaze and was slow in standing up, 

“Someone seemed to have sent you a message just now.”

Chen Yi used a towel to dry his hair, and upon hearing this, he picked up his phone to take a look. His fingers quickly composed a simple and short message and didn’t say anything else.

Fu Xiu Nian lowered his eyes, deep in thought and then he smiled, 

“Is it your girlfriend?”

Upon hearing him, Chen Yi raised his eyebrow, fakely smiling at him with his hawk eyes. With the white towel around his neck, his aura suddenly changed into something very thug-like. Stepping right into Fu Xiu Nian’s personal space, he said, 

“What does it matter if it is; what does it matter if it isn’t?”

His words were as if he had said nothing at all.

At this moment, the two of them were so close to each other that they could be breathing in each other’s air. Fu Xiu Nian took a step back to avoid Chen Yi and turned to clean up the garbage on the table. He gently said, 

“Nothing. Go blow dry your hair. It’s very cold at night, and it’s easy to get a headache that way.”

Chen Yi walked into the bedroom and fell back on the bed, making anyone who could see him like this feel the urge to beat him up, 

“False impression.”

Chen Yi: “Are you climbing a wall?1 Which celebrity? Do I know them?”

Fu Xiu Nian: “……No.”

Chen Yi’s hair wasn’t long, so it only took about seven to eight minutes before it was completely dry. He then proceeded to laze around on the bed, playing the snake game on his phone. While he relaxed, Fu Xiu Nian put the hair dryer away and then went to clean up the mess in the living room.

There were a few bags of snacks left on the coffee table and the kitchen was not cleaned up yet either. Fu Xiu Nian first cleaned up the island in the kitchen and then went to wash up the dishes. He was putting the cleaned and dried dishes into the cabinets when his eyes caught the box of pumpkin flavoured snacks on the side.

He opened the box and a few twenty or so failed samples greeted him. Some were burnt, some were not cooked all the way through, and some were missing some sugar. All of them were piled up messily and unable to be consumed.

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Fu Xiu Nian threw that box right into the garbage. Chen Yi had heard him cleaning, and with that sudden noise, he finally shifted his attention away from the game. He yelled out, 

“Go shower and sleep already. Cleaning up outside while I’m here playing games. Making me look like an animal, not even a decent human being.”

Fu Xiu Nian really wanted to reply, so you know.

But he still followed Chen Yi’s orders and put down what he was doing.

Not long after, the sound of water running could be heard. Chen Yi was quite bored with his game by then, and he lifted his eyes to look at the door of the bathroom. He couldn’t help but think back to when they were watching the program and of an inconspicuous comment that had flown by.

>> Does Fu Xiu Nian like Chen Yi? Why does he do everything that Chen Yi orders him to do?

Chen Yi was doubtful in his heart, was that true?

When Fu Xiu Nian finally came out of his long shower, he looked like one of those princes from the ancient dynasties, with his long lean body and the air of elegance that he projected. Normally Chen Yi wouldn’t even have noticed, but once he took a closer look, Chen Yi found that Fu Xiu Nian’s waist was too skinny to be of this world.

The other could feel his stare and his heart that had finally calmed down was suddenly ramping up its rhythm again. He hurriedly turned off the lights and climbed up the bed, calmly saying, 

“It’s late. Let’s go to sleep.”

The room was drenched in darkness, but neither of them had an inkling of sleep.

Fu Xiu Nian normally lived by himself and he had always internally lacked a sense of safety, so he had not ordered a very big bed. The two of them just perfectly fit within the tight space, and the cons of such a small bed were beginning to show up when Chen Yi could casually flip his body around and still brush against Fu Xiu Nian’s arm.

Fu Xiu Nian discreetly shuffled towards the edge of the bed, thinking, why didn’t he just go sleep on the couch.

Fu Xiu Nian didn’t know if Chen Yi was purposefully trying to provoke him as he kept flipping around and then shuffling closer to him. He would then naturally shuffle farther and farther away, trying to avoid him.

Closer, farther, closer, farther.

Just when Fu Xiu Nian was about to fall off the bed, a strong arm suddenly wrapped around his waist and used a little strength to pull him back in.

Chen Yi said, 

“Do you have OCD?”

OCD was a better word, but for something a bit worse, this was called paranoid personality disorder.2

Fu Xiu Nian took a sip of his juice and said with his eyes lowered, 

“Perhaps I have gotten used to it, but since I was young, I have always wanted to do things until they are perfect.”

Chen Yi laughed, 

“Not bad. Like me.”

“Chen Yi, I’m not going to even talk about what you have done these past few days, but you better keep your mouth shut on this! Don’t think you can learn to be like Li Su Li, that crazy woman, willing to destroy herself and her future. There will be no good ending for you if you even think about trying to hit an egg on a rock3!”

He followed Chen Yi all the way to the entrance of the company, when he realized that there was a group of reporters about to swarm them outside. Zhou Ming was so shocked by the sight that he immediately turned around to run back in, but the reporters were like flies to garbage, catching him before he could run.

Seeing this, Zhou Ming’s eyes darkened and he whispered quickly to Chen Yi, 

“You should know what words you can say, what words you cannot say.”

Chen Yi nodded his head, 

“Absolutely clear.”

The group of reporters rushed over, and the one who was the fastest to approach quickly stuffed, with some difficulty, a microphone into Chen Yi’s face, 

“Mr. Chen Yi, you and Li Su Li are artists signed by Global Entertainment. Is it true that they have forced you to have an anti-fan persona?”

Chen Yi: “It’s true.”

Zhou Ming: “?!!!”

Notes:

*1 climbing a wall: So climbing walls either means to cheat/have an affair or, if you are a fan of someone, moving on from them to another idol/celebrity. Came from some part of history (by literary means) where a lady climbed up a wall to stare at another man who she thought was handsome/having an affair by “climbing out” of the estate.

*2 So just to clarify, the author specifies paranoid personality disorder and on the basis of what this was defined as in Chinese when searching, it was true but if you search up english research articles, there is a bit of a difference in the classification.

*3 An egg against a rock: A saying that is metaphorical for how the person doesn’t know what they are up against/what they are doing (thinking they are the top when in reality they are like a newbie facing up against a veteran). Usually, if it’s said to someone, it means why are you finding yourself your own suffering kind of meaning.

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