“What do you understand?” Su Jingyan pressed, leaning closer, his doe eyes blinking as he asked again.
Lu Yichen raised his head gloomily, his eyes flickering, and said nothing.
Seeing that the other boy wouldn’t answer, Su Jingyan curled his lips, but he wasn’t angry. He began to think the reason through in his little head.
Why on earth do I want to have met Lu Yichen earlier?
Su Jingyan lowered his head.
Because I like Lu Yichen very much, and I especially want to get closer to him.
At the thought, his expression fractured for a moment, and his mind went blank.
I…
I like Lu Yichen?!
Su Jingyan instinctively covered his face with both hands. His heart sped up, and his face turned red.
Before he could sort out the tangled, bewitching thoughts in his heart, which kept being cut off and jumbled, he gasped in pain.
He had been so worried about Lu Yichen just now that Lu Yichen was the only one he had noticed, completely ignoring himself, and he hadn’t even felt the dull pain in his knee until now.
Lu Yichen paused and frowned.
With that frown, the gloomy aura radiating from his whole body grew even heavier, and he seemed to give off an ominous feeling that warned strangers not to come near.
Su Jingyan had lowered his head and didn’t see Lu Yichen’s expression, but he could feel the other boy’s gaze on him. He opened his mouth weakly. “My right knee seems to hurt.”
The next moment, Su Jingyan was startled as Lu Yichen picked up his whole body like a little chick.
Lu Yichen supported his buttocks with one hand and wrapped the other around his waist. His movements were so quick that by the time Su Jingyan came to his senses, he was already in the other boy’s arms.
Another princess carry…
Su Jingyan’s heartbeat quickened even more, and his whole body flushed uncontrollably like a crayfish. This time it wasn’t only his face but his neck, too, that turned red.
Lu Yichen didn’t carry him back to the infirmary. Instead, he picked Su Jingyan up and sat him on a nearby table tennis table.
Perhaps because it was class time and the infirmary was relatively remote, with few people coming by, there was no one around to see the scene.
Su Jingyan raised his head weakly.
With a cold face, Lu Yichen rolled up the other boy’s right pant leg.
Luckily, I knew we had gym class today, and I wore loose sports pants. Otherwise, wouldn’t I have had to take off the whole pair to let him check the wound?
Su Jingyan seemed to realize suddenly that he was letting his mind run wild, and he froze at once, too ashamed to move.
Lu Yichen narrowed his eyes as he looked at the white, smooth leg. In the sunlight, Su Jingyan’s leg seemed to shine with a delicate luster.
So beautiful.
He chuckled.
It was just that the bruise on the knee looked rather garish where the skin had been slightly scraped, with a little blood that had seeped out and dried on it. It wasn’t a serious wound.
Su Jingyan felt Lu Yichen’s eyes on his legs. There was an indescribable strangeness to it, and, probably from overwhelming shame, he instinctively tried to pull his legs back.
But Lu Yichen held him in place before he could.
Su Jingyan raised his head and met Lu Yichen’s gaze. Lu Yichen said nothing and simply covered the wound with his mouth, under Su Jingyan’s astonished gaze.
Su Jingyan looked at the scene in front of him. His heartbeat stopped suddenly, and his mouth fell slightly open.
He could clearly feel something icy cool carefully licking his wound.
It was like wild beasts deep in the forest, comforting one another and calmly offering their wounds to be licked.
It tickles…
Su Jingyan lowered his head, propping himself up with his hands behind his back, and could clearly see Lu Yichen’s scarlet tongue moving slowly.
It felt as though a string somewhere had been gently plucked, and something had been driven straight into his heart.
It was his heartbeat.
Lu Yichen’s eyes were a little red, the bloodshot eyeballs looking ready to fall out of their sockets from how intensely he was staring, and his body trembled slightly.
Several times he wanted to bite down, to see the senior suck in a breath from the pain, to see his frightened eyes, to possess him completely!
No! I can’t!
Lu Yichen’s fingers on the ping-pong table curled into a fist, making a faint cracking sound.
What he wanted to see even more was the corners of the senior’s eyes curving and his doe eyes full of a sea of stars.
Senior…
I can’t let the beast in my heart escape…
I’ll kill you!
Ah.
Su Jingyan would never know how restrained this gloomy-looking boy was, or how much he suppressed himself so that he wouldn’t hurt him.
I admit that I’m a devil, but I also yearn for the light.
“Keyin, look at the pictures of those seniors that someone posted on the school forum.”
Chu Yanyan nudged Song Keyin, who looked pale and lifeless, with her elbow.
Song Keyin was in a state of extreme panic and helplessness.
She wanted to protect her senior from harm, but now she didn’t know how.
Song Keyin turned her head, glanced at the photo Chu Yanyan was talking about, and was shocked.
In the photo were two boys with their arms around each other’s shoulders. One of them was extremely familiar to her: the senior she admired.
The other boy had gauze wrapped around his head and wore a very ill-fitting school uniform, his bangs half covering his eyes. He looked gloomy and was taller than the senior.
Song Keyin clutched her chest. She could clearly feel her heartbeat begin to race wildly, and she almost forgot how to breathe.
This person…
The fear in Song Keyin’s heart surged again, and cold sweat poured uncontrollably down her forehead, more and more of it within a single minute. She felt almost in a trance.
Chu Yanyan, sitting next to her, was shocked to see her like this. “Keyin, what’s wrong with you?”
Song Keyin’s heart pounded as if her ears were ringing. She could hear only her own heartbeat and couldn’t hear the shouting around her at all.
This person…
He’s the devil who killed the senior!
I’m sure of it! It’s definitely him!
Song Keyin’s heart throbbed painfully, and her whole body seemed to be seizing. She couldn’t stop twitching.
She opened her red, swollen eyes, looked at Chu Yanyan next to her, and asked word by word, “Who is this person?”
Chu Yanyan immediately explained, “Keyin, you haven’t heard yet. In physical education class this afternoon, Senior Jingyan almost fell while running, and this is the person who rushed over and became a human cushion for him. The senior helped him to the infirmary, and some students on the playground secretly took this picture at the time.”
Song Keyin’s brain exploded with a “boom.”
It wasn’t the senior who got hurt, but someone else?
“What about Lu Qingye?” Song Keyin’s voice trembled.
Chu Yanyan looked puzzled and asked, “Lu Qingye? Do you mean the junior-year cheerleader? What happened to her?”
Song Keyin stopped talking. A chill ran down her back, and the soles of her feet turned bone-cold, as if she had fallen into an ice cellar and the warmth of her whole body had been sucked away.
Everything has changed!
Everything has changed!
Song Keyin’s anxious eyes turned red.
What should I do?
Chu Yanyan voiced her own doubts. “It’s so strange. There are countless people claiming that this boy is the one who brought the senior to school this morning. Why is it that after looking through thousands of replies, no one can figure out which class he’s in?”
And because everyone was curious, they had even tried to find him by process of elimination.
Replies piled up one after another under the post asking about him: [I’m in a certain class in a certain grade, and I can testify that this boy was definitely not from our class.]
The whole thread was especially strange.
As the saying goes, the speaker has no intention, but the listener does. Song Keyin froze in place as if she had been drenched in rain, in a state of acute unease.
As soon as the school day ended, Su Jingyan rushed happily to the school parking lot, thinking that he could ride on the back seat of Lu Yichen’s bicycle to go home again.
He snickered the whole way, his steps so light that he looked ready to jump or skip, full of joy.
After finishing physical education class, he had thought about his feelings for Lu Yichen.
They made him unable to help wanting to get closer to Lu Yichen, even wishing to see him all the time.
And there was no doubt about the answer.
He had to admit that he had really fallen for Lu Yichen.
This kind of joy, of having confirmed his feelings and now going to see his sweetheart, was truly indescribable.
It could only be described as sour and sweet, and it made him very nervous.
As soon as Su Jingyan came within sight of his parked bicycle, he saw, as expected, Lu Yichen unlocking it from a long way off. He was standing tall and still, waiting for him to come.
Seeing this, Su Jingyan couldn’t help pursing his lips, the corners of his mouth lifting, and he strode forward.
He didn’t know why, but even just looking at Lu Yichen from far away and then approaching him step by step, he always felt an inexplicable sense of security.
He even felt that the scene in front of him seemed familiar, as if there had once been a person who stood there holding a bicycle, waiting for him.
“I’m here.” Su Jingyan’s eyes were bright and couldn’t hide his joy, and the tear mole under his right eye moved as the corner of his eye lifted slightly.
Lu Yichen looked at him, his eyes flickering, and gripped the handlebars tightly without saying a word.
The next second, he sat on the front seat of the bicycle, his back straight.
Su Jingyan felt a rush of sweetness. Without hesitation, he sat sideways on the back seat and hugged the other boy’s waist, with a little pride and a little joy.
He felt no resistance from Lu Yichen, and the joy in his heart grew even greater.
“Let’s go, let’s go home!” Su Jingyan said.
The eyes of the boy in the front seat flickered slightly.
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