Bite Your Fingertips

38th –【Doesn’t smell anymore】

Bonus ko-fi chapter thanks to Beverly, Bee, and a wonderful person~

Standing on the sports field, Chu Yu’s sleepiness was instantly blown away by the cold wind.

He subconsciously hid behind Lu Shi, shrinking his neck and pitifully saying, “It’s obviously autumn, why is it so cold…”

In order to look good, Chu Yu had firmly refused to wear thick clothes no matter how cold it was.

Before going out, Lu Shi had told him to put a thin v-neck sweater on top of his white uniform shirt, but even if Chu Yu was beaten to death he’d still refused.

As a result, as soon as they got to the sports field, he was taught how to behave by the temperature.

“Want to go together?”

Chu Yu promptly declined, “No no, I’ll stand here and count your laps, I won’t run. The wind’s so cold it could shave someone’s face off and my face can’t stand such hardship.”

“Hm.”

Lu Shi took the other to a leeward position, took off his jacket, and threw it to Chu Yu.

Chu Yu swiftly caught it with both hands and hugged it tightly, barely blocking the wind.

“Clothes.”

“Ah?”

Seeing Lu Shi stretch out his hand, Chu Yu was puzzled but still passed the jacket over.

In the next second, Lu Shi took a half step closer, raised his arms, and enclosed him in a circle shaped by his arms and chest.

Then, a jacket still carrying body warmth was draped over him.

Lu Shi lowered his eyes, closed Chu Yu’s collar for him, and asked, “Still cold?”

Chu Yu blinked, reacting half a beat slower. “I-it’s not cold anymore.”

There weren’t many people on the sports field before seven in the morning. After Lu Shi finished his warm-up exercises, he stepped onto the track.

His proportions were excellent; a slim figure with straight and slender legs, a back that was extremely upright at all times, and lastly an outstanding temperament.

Most importantly, his face was handsome.

Chu Yu discovered that as soon as Lu Shi stood on the athletic track, three girls who had finished running and were about to leave went back and started running laps again after a few conversations.

This gave him a hunch— maybe, the number of students who’d get up early tomorrow morning would double.

Lu Shen was incredible. With his own efforts, he’d made a huge contribution to Jianing Private’s sports activities.

After yawning, Chu Yu wrapped Lu Shi’s jacket around himself and became a little sleepy again.

Thinking that just staring at Lu Shi wouldn’t do, plus he was getting sleepy after staring for a long time, Chu Yu’s line of sight wandered and abruptly froze.

Fuck, Dream-Ge!

Today’s Dream-Ge was obviously meticulously dressed up.

In this chilly weather, Dream-Ge had pulled out his long-cherished Houston Rockets limited edition jersey, causing deserted Chu Yu who was watching to be all the more cold. His feet were treading on a co-branded AJAJ: Air Jordan, co-brand alliance of Nike and Michael Jordan, and his hair was fixed with hair gel, their roots distinct. He was very patient as he ran in reverse while jogging with a girl.

Just based on Dream-Ge’s 1.8 meter long legs, he could basically be described to be racewalking.

Most importantly, Chu Yu was merely standing beside the athletic track, yet Dream-Ge passed by without noticing him.

Chu Yu eavesdropped.

Dream-Ge controlled his vigorous voice and said to the girl almost shyly, “I missedThe character 想 could mean think, miss, or want depending on context. you yesterday.”

Only to hear the girl, who somewhat hated iron for not becoming steel, answer, “Don’t think about me, think more about your exam results!”

Dream-Ge felt wronged. “Oh, okay.”

Chu Yu: Hmm??

Chu Yu stood there unmoving.

Dream-Ge passed by him once, twice, thrice, four times this way—

Fuck, you actually still haven’t seen me yet!

At that moment, Chu Yu heard someone speak next to him.

“That… hello.”

Turning his head, Chu Yu saw a girl in a high school uniform standing in front of him a little nervously.

Chu Yu responded politely, “Hello.”

The girl breathed a faint sigh of relief, then handed Chu Yu a paper box with a pink-blue vertical stripes pattern tied with a bow. “This is strawberry nougatStrawberry nougat. Apparently, it’s something like a candy. made by my classmate. She’s embarrassed so she asked me to give it to you. She said it’s not you she likes, but rather your face.”

“Ah?”

Chu Yu was a bit stunned.

“I’ll be troubling you, but you must accept it!” Without saying more, the girl tossed the paper box into Chu Yu’s arms, turned around, and ran.

Chu Yu caught it subconsciously. When he looked again, the girl had already quickly ran far away.

Familiar footsteps approached and Chu Yu turned his head. He saw Lu Shi stop by his side and he subconsciously explained, “Someone just gave me a gift, something like a handmade strawberry nougat.”

“Do you want to keep these sweets?”

Lu Shi’s voice seemed to be soaked cold in the mist of the early autumn morning.

Chu Yu quickly shook his head. “No no, I can’t taste anything when I eat candy, so I won’t waste others’ kind feelings.”

Dream-Ge happened to pass by at that moment. This time he was finally no longer blind and gleefully greeted, “School Flower, Lu-Shen, you’re here too?”

As soon as he finished speaking, a box of candy was thrown into his arms.

He confusedly caught it, and when he looked again, Lu Shi had already taken Chu Yu away.

After contemplating, Dream-Ge thought that Lu Shen and School Flower really knew how to be tactful. They realized that they weren’t suitable as light bulbs and took their leave quite nimbly.

Chu Yu bundled Lu Shi’s jacket on himself while talking about the enemy intelligence that he’d just scouted.

“I took note of what I saw. There were several class B students on the track, and two other class C students. I’m familiar with all of them. They’re probably preparing for the sports competition as well!”

He then lowered his voice a bit. “And and, there must be something going on with Dream-Ge!”

“He was so absorbed with talking to that girl that he neglected his friends见色忘友: to neglect one’s friends when smitten with a new love., blocking out the entire world! He passed by 800 times from only three steps away without seeing me once, tsk tsk.”

Lu Shi commented, “I saw them twice in the cafeteria, after evening self study.”

Chu Yu simply kept some of Lu Shi’s blood at night, so he basically didn’t need to go to the cafeteria.

He thought for a while. “Yi, that girl, isn’t she the one who sat in front of Dream-Ge during the monthly exams and allowed him to copy as he pleased?”

Lu Shi nodded. “Mn, yes.”

At this time, Lu Shi suddenly stopped.

Chu Yu was baffled. “What’s the matter, did you leave something behind?”

“No.”

Lu Shi lowered his head, holding Chu Yu’s wrist, he put it under his nose and sniffed.

Itchy.

Chu Yu was surprised. “What’s with my hand?”

“It stinks.”

How could I be stinky!

As a refined boy, Chu Yu firmly disagreed with this statement.

He leaned in and sniffed for himself, but remained unconvinced. “What smell? It’s obviously fragrant!”

Recalling something, he added, “Could it be that the candy box’s packaging was sprayed with a lot of perfume? And so there’s a bit of smell on my hands.”

Lu Shi uttered, “It’s smelly.”

At this moment, Chu Yu seriously suspected that Lu Shi’s sense of smell had a defect.

After walking towards the school building for a while, Lu Shi suddenly grabbed Chu Yu’s wrist and pulled him beside a sink.

Turning on one of the faucets, Lu Shi first reached out to test the water’s temperature, then he took Chu Yu’s hand and placed it under the faucet, beginning to wash it.

The water was a tad bit cold.

Crowding in front of the same faucet, the two were standing very close.

When Chu Yu shifted his eyes, he could see Lu Shi’s profile.

His eyelashes were drooping and one could clearly see the thin, purplish blood vessels on his slender eyelids. The end corners of his eyes were slightly raised and shaped a very nice arc.

The other’s fingertips traced the palm of his hands, and the soft itching sensation followed along his arm and spread all the way to his heart.

Chu Yu even completely forgot to struggle.

The tap was switched off.

Lu Shi raised Chu Yu’s dripping wet hands and smelled it again. Only then did he satisfyingly say, “Doesn’t smell anymore.”

Chu Yu mentally said, “Of course it doesn’t smell anymore. With you rubbing it here and there. Your washing method didn’t even spare the seams in between my fingers, it’s impossible for any smell to remain.”

When he arrived in the classroom, Chu Yu looked around, and sure enough, Dream-Ge hadn’t returned yet.

Zhang Yueshan and Li Hua had already arrived and were discussing problems with Fang Ziqi.

Chu Yu sat in his seat and waited for them to finish their discussion before poking them with one hand. “Guess what I saw today?”

Zhang Yueshan was curious. “What?”

Li Hua and Fang Ziqi also turned around.

Chu Yu looked around before whispering, “I saw Dream-Ge jogging with a girl on the sports field! That girl also urged Dream-Ge to study hard!”

Li Hua appeared profound. “It’s autumn, now Dream-Ge is different from before.”

He restrained his expression. “Anything else?”

“Lu Shi said that after evening self-study, he’d seen them twice in the cafeteria!”

Zhang Yueshan concluded, “Dream-Ge must have something going on! Sure enough, a man’s mouth is a deceitful ghost. Who the hell solemnly vowed that in order to advance to the NBA, one must single-mindedly love basketball, overflow with hot blood on the court, resolutely not look at girls, and especially not fall in love!”

Fang Ziqi rolled his eyes. “You believed him?”

Chu Yu and the two stared at Fang Ziqi. “Aren’t you Dream-Ge’s roommate, do you have an inside tip-off?”

“Have.”

Fang Ziqi yawned. “In any case, Dream-Ge has fallen head first. You don’t know this, but it’s very difficult for Dream-Ge to get out of bed, and it’s even harder for him to get up early. It’s different nowadays. Everyday, he gets up at 6 am and heads to the sports field at 6:30.”

“Half an hour early?”

“Yeah, otherwise how will he have time to worry about what clothes to wear and what hairstyle to choose? I hear his alarm clock every fucking morning,” Fang Ziqi pinched his voice, “Alipay has received, 500,000 yuanHere’s what the alarm/Alipay notif voice sounds like https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15b41137aV/. My goodness, it even sounds once every two minutes! I’ve dreamed more than once that I suddenly became rich, dropped out of school, started a business, and embarked on the pinnacle of my life! That alarm is extremely poisonous!”

Li Hua nodded. “I’ve learned.”

Zhang Yueshan’s hand quickly pressed his deskmate’s head. “Li Hua, calm down, let’s not use this kind of impractical alarm!”

Fang Ziqi sighed. “Maybe Dream-Ge will be the first to find himself a partner among all of us. A cute and beautiful girlfriend who’s even good at studying.”

Zhang Yueshan and Li Hua looked at themselves, who were as single as ever, and sighed together.

Chu Yu didn’t feel anything, he thought it was good enough to look in the mirror every day.

Chu Yu wasn’t very sleepy even though he got up too early, but felt that he wasn’t getting enough sleep and had to make up for it.

In between classes, he nimbly lay on his desk. As soon as he closed his eyes, he heard someone shout, “School Flower, someone’s looking for you!”

Chu Yu looked over with half-opened eyes and saw He Zhihao waving at him.

In the corridor, Chu Yu asked him, “Why’re you suddenly looking for me?”

“You didn’t reply when I sent you a message. I can only climb the stairs to find you. Feel sorry for this young master’s feet!”

Chu Yu then remembered that his phone was thrown into his school bag. He forgot to take it out, and it was also turned off and on silent.

“What matter is worth your hard work of climbing the stairs to come to me?”

He Zhihao sized up his expression. “My brother will come over at night and ask if you have time to have a meal together.”

Chu Yu leaned against the railing, puzzled. “Your brother has no classes?”

“Maybe… they have a relatively loose time in college?”

He Zhihao knew that Chu Yu had always disliked his cousin. “My brother insists on requesting me to ask you, and I just can’t refuse him directly. But if you don’t want to, I’ll turn him down.”

Chu Yu had never forced himself, so he nodded. “En, all right, tell him that I said I won’t go.”

At five o’clock, the bell rang and several students made appointments for dinner.

No matter how many kinds of dishes there were in the cafeteria, one could still get tired of eating them every day. Zhang Yueshan proposed to eat outside the school for a change of taste and several people agreed to go out together.

Dream-Ge had been so hungry since earlier that his chest had stuck to his back. He wished that he could just teleport to the restaurant, and it urged him to walk faster along the way.

Jianing Private, like most schools, had a food street located at the back door of the school, with stalls and shops of all sizes.

Li Hua commented, “Other schools all have savory, home-cooked dishes, with names that give the aura of leading a plain and hardworking life. While the shops in our school’s food street一 what Turkish Style, Above the Clouds, Inside Fragrant Pavilion, and Thorns and Roses, they all display a decadent, capitalistic, and flamboyant atmosphere!”

Chu Yu stood next to Lu Shi, playing a game on his phone. After hearing what was said, he nodded wildly. “Right right, I went to that shop called Thorns and Roses in my first year of high school, intending to eat an exquisite French meal and such. I didn’t expect that the shop would turn out to be selling barbecue!”

“Anyway, I haven’t eaten barbecue in a long time, how about we just have that?”

As long as there was meat, no one had objections.

Entering the store, Chu Yu was about to find a vacant spot when he heard someone call him. “Chu Yu!”

“He Zhihao?”

As soon as he moved his eyes, Chu Yu saw He Zhiyuan who was sitting opposite He Zhihao.

The two came over.

He Zhiyuan smiled warmly. “Coming over for dinner with classmates? Do you want to sit together? My treat.”

Dream-Ge, who’d always been carefree, didn’t say a word and waited for Chu Yu’s response.

Chu Yu never cared about losing face, especially towards people he didn’t like.

“No, you can eat with He Zhihao and I’ll eat with my classmates.”

He Zhiyuan’s expression stagnated for half a second and then he immediately plastered on a smiling face. “In that case, it’s really regrettable.”

When they returned to the classroom after eating, Dream-Ge asked, “School Flower, who’s that person from earlier who said that he’d treat us to dinner? He seems to be smiling gently, but why’s there a feeling of… not being a good person emanating from all over his body?”

“It’s He Zhihao and his cousin.”

Dream-Ge scratched the back of his head. “I don’t know if it was just my illusion, but I constantly felt that the guy’s gaze was a bit disgusting.”

Chu Yu felt the same way.

During the evening of self-study, Chu Yu read comics for a while as usual. When his hands itched to do something, he played a game on his phone. The game was newly released and Chu Yu had just started playing it, so he was very unskilled. The point was, this game couldn’t be topped-up with money just yet.

Afterwards, because of his weak skills and not being a player with the RMB halo yet, Chu Yu was abused.

He didn’t believe it and started another round, but he was still abused to death.

So angry!

Chu Yu realized his level and turned around sharply. “Lu Shi Lu Shi, do you have time?”

Lu Shi closed his book. “Yes.”

Chu Yu’s expression was invigorated in an instant and he held the phone in front of Lu Shi, murmuring in a low voice, mourning and dragging his tone as he said, “I’m so angry, I’ve been abused for a long time! Can you play this game? Can you teach me? It doesn’t need to be very powerful, just being invincible in the rookie area is fine, can you?” After that, he added, “Please, please!”

His eyes were full of anticipation, just like a storehouse of stars.

Lu Shi took the phone, looked down at the screen, and softly said, “Chu Yu.”

“Yeah?”

“Speak well, no need to act coquettishly.”

Chu Yu: ??

Who the fuck is acting coquettish?

The author has something to say: Here’s a faucet shaped into a heart ~

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I was planning to stabilize the update time, but I overestimated myself and I really can’t stabilize it wuwuwu QAQ

My speed is a bit slow, I basically wake up and sit in front of the computer, and then when I finish writing is when I will update QAQ

But I will persevere more every day, absolutely always, for the little fairies who love me~

Updates are in the afternoon, I will try to announce the estimated time of the update, kisu!these are all the author’s not my notes hahhaa but same same, I’m also working hard on my promised compensations. I hope I can release another two this week

• 1AJ: Air Jordan, co-brand alliance of Nike and Michael Jordan
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• 3The character 想 could mean think, miss, or want depending on context.
• 4Strawberry nougat. Apparently, it’s something like a candy.
• 5见色忘友: to neglect one’s friends when smitten with a new love.
• 6Here’s what the alarm/Alipay notif voice sounds like https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15b41137aV/
• 7these are all the author’s not my notes hahhaa but same same, I’m also working hard on my promised compensations. I hope I can release another two this week