Bite Your Fingertips

45th -【Don’t do this again】

I did not expect that liiiiittle bit of waiting to be three days… teheeWe’re busy ah! Sorry everyone~~~ TT

Chu Yu could faintly hear the noise around him. Someone was cheering, some were talking loudly, and there was the sound of wheels rolling over gravel.

Everything seemed to be very close to him, but also very far away.

His eyelids were too heavy to lift while his limbs had lost strength. If not being supported by someone, he probably wouldn’t be able to stand firmly.

There was a familiar female voice calling the doctor.

Chu Yu’s brain was like a rusty clock as it turned slowly for ten seconds before realizing that the one speaking was his sister.

She was usually vigorous and resolute, but now she was in a helter-skelter, even with a hint of crying.

“Xiao Yu’s okay, you’ve already come out. The doctor will come over immediately, don’t be afraid, it’ll be okay…”

Chu Yu moved his lips, subconsciously wanting to answer. Jie, don’t cry, your eyes will swell if you cry too much and it won’t look good.

But when he discerned the meaning of the words that passed through his ears, the string that had always been taut in Chu Yu’s heart abruptly trembled.

He unconsciously clutched Lu Shi’s clothes. “Lu Shi… Lu Shi, don’t need a doctor…”

He thought he was speaking very loudly, but in fact, he spoke as soft as a mosquito.

Perceiving Chu Yu’s subtle movement, Lu Shi held the uneasy person firmly in his arms and questioned, “What?”

Chu Yu closed his eyes and leaned on Lu Shi’s shoulder. The exposed half of his face was pale, his lips had completely lost blood, and his eyebrows were knitted.

Chu Xi wiped her tears with her fingers and asked anxiously, “Xiao Yu, what do you want to say?”

Chu Yu’s lips moved again, but he couldn’t make a sound.

Lu Shi lowered his eyes and suddenly spoke, “Chu Yu said that he’s not going to the hospital.”

After these words came out, Chu Xi saw Chu Yu’s frowning eyebrows relax.

She promptly calmed down. “Okay, I’ll listen to you. If you don’t want to go, we won’t go to the hospital.”

Chu Yu felt that his consciousness seemed to be floating on a surface of water, drifting up and down, half-confused and half-awake. Leaning on Lu Shi’s shoulder, he rubbed against it lightly.

This was a person who knew his secrets and understood his fears.

One who’d protect him.

The experts and people in charge of the rescue team came over and Chu Xi and Chu Xuan went to thank them.

Lu Shi noticed Chu Yu’s lips instinctively rub against the position of his collar, so he whispered, “Be good, there’s too many people, let’s wait. I’ll allow you to suck吸: (xi) to breathe, to suck in, to absorb, to inhale. The author always uses this word when Chu Yu feeds on Lu Shi’s blood, in fact, my editor and pr are just helping me translate it sometimes to drink, consume, etc. in the right places. soon.”

When Chu Yu regained consciousness, he moved his fingers subconsciously. The place where he lay was soft and warm, with light blue curtains and white chandeliers as far as he could see.

Quite familiar.

He heard the family doctor tell Chu Xuan and Chu Xi to go outside and then a ‘click’; the door was closed and the room became quiet.

Lu Shi walked to the side of the bed.

He stooped down and leaned close as he said, “Awake?”

All of a sudden, his neck was softly circled by Chu Yu’s laboriously lifted arms. Lu Shi didn’t break away, but instead followed along with the force, and delivered his shoulder to Chu Yu’s mouth.

Chu Yu bit the collar with his teeth to loosen it a little, and licked the cold skin with the tip of his tongue.

Lu Shi relaxed, letting Chu Yu move. His voice was very gentle. “Fiercely hungry?”

“Mmh.” Chu Yu’s nasally, sticky voice was extremely aggrieved. “Very hungry.”

As he replied, he licked Lu Shi’s shoulder listlessly.

Feeling itchy due to his cat-like movements, Lu Shi said hoarsely, “But you don’t even have the strength to bite me?”

Chu Yu really was drained of strength.

He opened his mouth and tried to bite, but no blood was drawn.

Loosening his bite, Chu Yu looked at Lu Shi, his light-colored eyes moistening.

“How pitiful.”

Lu Shi got up and rolled up his cuffs, revealing the cold-white skin of his wrist.

He moved his wrist to Chu Yu’s lips. “Try again? If you really can’t bite it open, then I’ll cut it so you can drink.”

Chu Yu didn’t hear the latter half of the sentence quite clearly. He held Lu Shi’s wrist in his mouth and grinded his teeth for a while before finally breaking open a small wound. He sucked the blood that spilled over and swallowed it down his throat.

Tasting this flavor again, Chu Yu’s breath shook and his eyes were inexplicably a bit sour.

Lu Shi sat on the edge of the bed, feeding Chu Yu with one hand, and gently touching his soft hair with the other.

“Why are you crying?”

His finger moved down and stopped at the end of Chu Yu’s eye. When he hooked it, there was a little wet mark on his fingertip.

Putting the fingertip to his mouth and tasting the saltiness, Lu Shi asked, “Was it scary inside?”

Chu Yu nodded lightly.

At the beginning, he was afraid of ghosts, then later he was thirsty for blood. It was too uncomfortable. He didn’t have the mind to fear ghosts anymore and began worrying about whether he’d die or become a ghost.

Lu Shi asked again, “Were you starving?”

Chu Yu nodded once more.

Lu Shi leaned closer until he could see his silhouette in Chu Yu’s pupils, then he questioned, “Did you also miss me? Was that why you were always on the verge of crying when you saw me?”

Chu Yu let out a very low ‘umm’.

Lu Shi still heard it clearly.

A cheerful chuckle sounded from his throat as his fingertips traced the shape of Chu Yu’s eyes, then he suddenly asked, “Zhang Yueshan’s palm was injured and bleeding, and the cave reeked with his blood. You were hungry, yet you still didn’t drink his blood?”

Chu Yu released Lu Shi’s wrist. He’d drank blood and now had a bit of strength to speak. “Well, I promised you.”

Chu Yu knew that Lu Shi was close to being paranoid about him only consuming his blood. Subconsciously, he didn’t want to make Lu Shi sad.

“Chu Yu.”

“What?”

“Don’t do this again.”

Lu Shi’s thin eyelids drooped, masking all the emotions in his eyes. As if talking about something insignificant, his tone was flat. “What’s more important than whether you’ve sucked other people’s blood or not, is that you have to survive, understand?”

Chu Yu’s eyelashes trembled slightly.

He vaguely realized that there seemed to be something different.

When Fang Ziqi, Dream-Ge, and Li Hua went to visit Zhang Yueshan, they cried there first. When they arrived at Chu Yu’s room, they shed yet another burst of tears.

For the first time, these young students’ world drew so close to the line of life and death.

Fang Ziqi stared at Chu Yu’s bandaged ankle, his eyes reddened and he was about to cry again. “School Flower, is your foot still good? Can you walk on the ground in the future?”

Although it felt good to be cared about, Chu Yu couldn’t help but joke first, “Study Com, can you not stare at my feet with a ‘Wah, this leg is already destroyed’ expression? Really, it’s just dislocated and sprained, there’s no bone injury. I can get better soon and will be able to walk on foot.”

Fang Ziqi nodded. “Really?”

Chu Yu nodded frantically. “Really! My foot truly isn’t crippled. When it’s healed, I’ll do two hops for you to see.”

When Chu Yu and Fang Ziqi finished chatting, Li Hua pointed outside the window. “We’ll have to go back to school with Old Ye in a while. School Flower, we’ll come back as soon as you’re better.”

Chu Yu knew that Li Hua and the others had stubbornly stayed on the mountain, waiting for news of him and Zhang Yueshan. Now that they’d been rescued, Li Hua and the rest had no reason to remain on the mountain anymore.

Chu Yu nodded. “Okay, you guys go back first, I’ll probably return in two days.”

The 1.8-meter tall Dream-Ge cried more fiercely than anyone else, and was still choked up and couldn’t speak till now.

Chu Yu was moved but also wanted to laugh. “Dream-Ge, remember to wash your face in a while, otherwise when you return to school and the little fairy you’re chasing after sees it, your illustrious name will be ruined!”

After Li Hua and Dream-Ge dragged Fang Ziqi out of the room, Chu Xi opened the door and entered not a moment later.

She’d tidied up her appearance and looked more energetic. Holding her cellphone, she said with a smile, “The wound on your class monitor’s hand is being treated in the other room. There’s a bit of an infection. The doctor dealt a cruel hand and made the boy howl in pain.”

She watched Chu Yu, who was lying on the bed, for a while before finally letting go of her tight nerves. “Fortunately, you’re fine.”

Chu Yu sold obedience卖乖: mai guai, its usually mai meng or sell meng. The author replaced cute with well-behaved/obedient/clever.. “Jie, I’m very lucky. Wasn’t it just a landslide? Look, not a single hair of mine was hurt, so don’t worry.”

Chu Xi glared at Chu Yu. “Just a landslide? You actually talk so dexterously!” After speaking, she stretched out her hand to pinch Chu Yu’s face.

Chu Yu’s skin was white and delicate, with one pinch a reddish mark formed. He wailed loudly, “You can pinch other places, don’t pinch my face! My face can’t stand this torture! Let go, let go, I’m going to be disfigured!”

Chu Xi laughed in amusement. “How come you’re in your teens and already so old, but one still can’t touch your face?”

Chu Yu, who was massaging his cheeks, retorted, “Then how come you’ve grown from your teens to your twenties, but the problem of liking to squeeze my face hasn’t been corrected?”

Gathering the quilt once more as he sat up, Chu Yu was a bit more serious. “Jie, if you have something to do with elder brother, go first. I still have my hands and feet so there’s nothing wrong with me. I can even jump out of bed right now. All of you don’t have to worry.”

Chu Xi shook her head. “No, how can I leave now?”

“Why can’t you?” Chu Yu reached out to push her forward. “I was trapped inside for almost 60 hours. You were also delayed for 60 hours, what about the documents not yet completed? The meetings that haven’t started? Or is our Chu family going bankrupt?”

“Little villain, where did our family going bankrupt come from? Don’t want pocket money anymore?”

Chu Yu answered with a smile, “Would I know how busy you and brother are? Pocket money is definitely needed, so hurry up and work hard to earn an allowance for your younger brother!”

“Tsk, earning pocket money, this task is quite heavy.”

The things in Chu Xi’s hands had indeed been backlogged for a few days. Chu Yu hadn’t been found then, so she had no thoughts of working.

Touching Chu Yu’s forehead, she asked softly, “Can I really?”

“Yes, you all really don’t need to worry about it. I remember both brother and you joined the board of directors to listen along when you were my age. I love to play so I can’t help much, but I can’t delay your time either.”

Chu Xi smiled while Chu Yu urged, “Hurry, pull brother together and go.”

The sound of a car’s engine came from downstairs, then farther and farther until it gradually disappeared.

Chu Yu leaned on the pillow and gazed out the window, feeling that he was really sensible.

Turning his head, he saw Lu Shi who was sitting on the bedside, using his cellphone to answer questions. Chu Yu instantly no longer intended to be sensible. He shifted over and covered the phone’s screen with his head then looked up at Lu Shi. “Is the phone better looking than me?”

Lu Shi threw the phone away and asked him, “Bored?”

Chu Yu nodded. “I’m bored.”

“What do you want to do?”

Chu Yu didn’t feel any guilt at all about disturbing Lu Shi’s studying as he enthusiastically suggested, “Let’s read comics together! I brought up a lot of comic books this time from the detective series, they look great!”

“Okay, I’ll accompany you.”

Lu Shi also sat on the bed.

He’d just taken a bath, so there was a faint smell of shower gel on his body. The wound on the back of his hand had been rinsed with water and had turned white.

In accordance with what Chu Yu said, Lu Shi picked one out of a stack of comic books, and the two leaned on the headboard to read it together.

Chu Yu was very attentive and engrossed while reading the comic.

“This friend B must be the murderer! He had a guilty expression and couldn’t tell where he was around half past five, so questionable! Lu Shi, what do you think?”

Lu Shi replied, “The man who came with him is the murderer. This person is guilty simply because when he went to the reading room at half past five, he accidentally saw his friend outside and not in the room, but he didn’t dare say it.”

Chu Yu flipped a few more pages and found that it was exactly the same as what Lu Shi stated.

Full of zest, he switched to another comic book. After reading half of it, Chu Yu asked again, “Then what about this case, who’s the murderer? I think it’s the sister in the red dress!”

Turning to the next two pages, Chu Yu’s expression collapsed. “Ah, why is the sister in the red dress dead? She definitely isn’t the murderer.”

Seeing his disappointed look, Lu Shi couldn’t help but comment, “Half of the guess was right, there’s progress.”

“The murderer was her twin sister. In the upper right corner of page 4, and the lower left corner of page 12, the direction of the tattoo on the wrist of the woman in the red dress is different. They’re two people.”

Chu Yu turned straight to the end and found that it was the same as Lu Shi said again!

Fuck, this is the sense of reality of the so-called collision of IQ and logic.

He questioned Lu Shi, “Do you find it particularly boring reading detective stories?”

“Yeah, I do.”

Chu Yu threw away the comic book.

After a while of silence. “Actually… I just don’t dare to sleep.”

“I know.”

Lu Shi gave a solution. “Hug?”

Chu Yu disgustedly said, “What hug this, hug that, so noisy.”

That was what he said, but his body still very honestly leaned in Lu Shi’s arms.

After taking a deep breath, the reality that he hadn’t died in the cave and had already been rescued dawned on Chu Yu.

“Don’t turn off the lights.”

“Okay, I won’t.”

Chu Yu tried to close his eyes.

After a while, he opened one eye to look at Lu Shi.

Lu Shi smoothly patted his waist and asked, “Can’t sleep?”

“I want to ask a question, after that I’ll sleep.”

“Ask.”

“If,” Chu Yu didn’t dare look at Lu Shi’s eyes, staring at the bedside lamp instead, he continued with hesitation, “I mean if, if I hadn’t been saved this time and really died inside, would you let another little monster suck your blood?”

He didn’t realize that when he uttered the word ‘die’, Lu Shi’s fingertips trembled slightly before quickly being held tightly in his palm again.

“Chu Yu.”

“Hm?”

“I won’t.”

Chu Yu turned over, knelt down on the bed, and stubbornly stared into Lu Shi’s eyes to get to the bottom of the matter. “Won’t what?”

The corner of Lu Shi’s lips hooked up, and as Chu Yu wished, he said the whole thing, “I won’t let a second little monster suck my blood.”

The author has something to say: Here’s a heart made of dancing orchids~ muamua!

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Dictionary entry [Symbiotic Relationship]: A relationship in which two organisms live together, and if separated from each other, neither can survive.

• 1We’re busy ah! Sorry everyone~~~ TT
• 2吸: (xi) to breathe, to suck in, to absorb, to inhale. The author always uses this word when Chu Yu feeds on Lu Shi’s blood, in fact, my editor and pr are just helping me translate it sometimes to drink, consume, etc. in the right places.
• 3卖乖: mai guai, its usually mai meng or sell meng. The author replaced cute with well-behaved/obedient/clever.