Bite Your Fingertips

68th -【Yes】

Translator: Xena Editor: Sammy Proofreader: Bubbles

On the first day of the new year, a rare occurrence of Chu Yu waking up early happened.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, yawned sleepily, and went to nudge Lu Shi. “Lu-Ge, get up. It’s said that if you sleep in on the first day of each year, then you’ll sleep in every day for the rest of the year! You don’t want to be up late every day, do you? Get up, get up!”

After nudging twice, his wrist was suddenly grabbed and pulled down, causing Chu Yu to be off-balance and fall onto the bed.

Lu Shi gathered the boy in his arms and kissed his forehead. With a hint of impatience between his brows, he followed along with Chu Yu’s words, “Sleep with your Lu-Ge for a while more.”

Having said that, the quilt was pulled over, covering the person within.

Chu Yu, with his tenacious willpower, continued speaking aloud, “Although the bed’s very warm, we still have to get up! Let’s go have breakfast, I’ll read comics and you’ll answer problems, it’s the first day of the new year—”

“Chu Yu.”

Lu Shi had his eyelids half-drooping, a little irritated.

Chu Yu stopped talking and thought expectantly; was Lu Shi going to get angry at him? Or were they going to fight on the bed?

Thinking about it was quite exciting!

Unexpectedly, Lu Shi simply kissed him the next second.

Lips to lips, very soft.

After a while of confirming that Chu Yu had indeed quieted down, Lu Shi hugged the other person once again. “Be good, sleep.”

Chu Yu, who felt somewhat enchanted because of the kiss, agreed absently. “O-okay.”

So on the morning of the new year’s first day, the two idled in bed together.

After a comfortable sleep, Chu Yu wasn’t fully awake yet when he heard a knock on the door which made him bury his head in Lu Shi’s arms. “So noisy…”

After muttering, he felt Lu Shi getting out of bed to open the door.

As soon as it was opened, Wei Guanglei and Zhu Zhifei rushed inside and quickly locked the door.

“Dammit, the weather dropped a few degrees again, it’s cold as fuck! Guarding against the cold depends on willpower, and my willpower is on the verge of giving out!”

The awakened Lu Shi, who had only slept during the early hours of dawn, displayed a frosty expression. “What is it?”

Zhu Zhifei stomped his feet in the cold. “You forgot to sleep, Lu-Ge? Didn’t we agree to cheer Shitou on at his competition?”

Chu Yu roared from the bedroom, “I didn’t forget! The game starts at 1:30 this afternoon!”

Wei Guanglei was delighted, “Young Master really is a brother!”

The four went first to a soup pot store for lunch before turning around and going to the largest arcade near Qingchuan Road.

The owner had hung a big red banner at the entrance of the arcade, appearing very festive with the words “The 3rd Doll Catching Grand Prix” written on it.

There was also a sign at the doorway with very official content. It was in honor of celebrating New Year’s Day and thanking the masses for their support. In short, it was 88% off for everyone present.

Wei Guanglei had scars on his face, was dark-skinned, had a buzz cut, and looked like someone not to be trifled with. As he didn’t talk or laugh, everyone assumed he was a big boss and gave way.

After passing through the crowd, Wei Guanglei slapped the ten yuan registration fee on the table with a ‘pa’. “I want to sign up for the competition!”

The owner caught a glimpse of the scar on Wei Guanglei’s face and promptly replied, “Yes! Of course you can! P-please!”

Chu Yu, Lu Shi, and Zhu Zhifei stood at the periphery while watching the situation inside.

Zhu Zhifei pushed up his glasses and commented, “When I look at Shitou, why do I always feel that he’s full of the imposing aura of a mile-devouring tiger? He can definitely take first place, right?”

After saying so, he pointed towards the contestants who were waiting to sign up behind Wei Guanglei. “The biggest ones in the back aren’t older than junior high school, and the youngests are definitely in elementary school. If he loses, everyone who visits the auto repair shop can mock Shitou! As for me, I can laugh at him for 20 years!”

“He should be first place.”

Chu Yu hesitated, “That’s what I said, but why am I having… a bad premonition?”

At 1:30, the game started. Wei Guanglei rolled up his sleeves, and stood in front of the claw machine in a steady half-horse stance.

The dramatic owner started a commentary with the microphone.

“Currently, our Player No. 1 has taken the lead, bravely holding the joystick first! What an exciting moment! What an intoxicating moment! This is the beauty of competition!…”

After Chu Yu listened for a while, he said, “I think the owner should be doing commentaries at esports competitions!”

Zhu Zhifei was also shocked by the owner’s momentum. “Hahaha yeah! The claw machine can’t uphold such passionate commentaries!”

The competition lasted for 20 minutes, in which Wei Guanglei caught four dolls and suffered a crushing defeat.

“…Look at our No. 1 player standing in front of the doll machine with a desolate back! This time’s defeat doesn’t matter, let’s shed tears on the racetrack and return next year!”

“Fuck your return next year.”

Wei Guanglei murmured in a low voice. He then released the joystick and looked at the four dolls he’d caught— each doll’s big eyes seemed to contain contempt for him.

He tilted his head to look at the first place standing next to him— an elementary school student with black-rimmed glasses.

“What grade are you in?”

The elementary school student was a little scared. He swallowed his saliva before answering, “Fourth grade.”

Wei Guanglei stretched out his hand and patted the elementary school student’s shoulder. “In fourth grade, you should be studying hard at school, completing lots of homework, and attending cram schools, ya know?”

After coming out of the arcade, Zhu Zhifei was the first to burst out laughing. Chu Yu also couldn’t hold back and laughed intensly while tugging at Lu Shi’s hand.

“Holy shit, so the owner thought you were going to punch the kid, so he quickly gave four dolls to appease your bigshot anger from losing the gameSo I double checked, and it really said that Shitou caught the dolls himself, those weren’t given to him, so ZZF is probably exaggerating here., and even asked you to go hahaha!”

Chu Yu waited for Zhu Zhifei to finish speaking before imitating Wei Guanglei’s tone. “Elementary school students should be studying hard, why did you come participate in the competition and take away my first place?!”

Wei Guanglei glared. “Laughing laughing laughing, is one doll for each of you not enough to block your mouths?”

Zhu Zhifei put his hand on Wei Guanglei’s shoulder. “Okay, we’ll stop laughing! Shitou suffered a shameful defeat at the hands of a grade three elementary student. Would you like to open a can of beer to vent your unreached ambition?”

“It was grade four! Who the fuck is in grade three!”

Wei Guanglei shook Zhu Zhifei’s hand away and turned to Lu Shi who was holding a doll in one hand and Chu Yu in the other. “Lu-Ge, would you like a drink?”

“Hm, let’s go.” Lu Shi added, “Don’t be sad, just come back next year.”

Chu Yu stabbed the knife deeper. “Shitou can practice his skills and strive to defeat that fifth-grader next year!”

“Aren’t we brothers?”

Wei Guanglei acted as if interfering with the stabbing of the knife into his chest. “Lu-Ge, you don’t mind this at all?”

Lu Shi replied, “Doesn’t matter, let him be happy.”

Wei Guanglei: “…”

The four went to a familiar store, bought a few cans of beer, and headed for Qingchuan River together.

The wind was strong by the river, causing Zhu Zhifei to tremble. “Oh my god Shitou, you fucking lost at a mere doll game, is it worth it to jump into the river and commit suicide because of that?”

Wei Guanglei raised his foot and kicked Zhu Zhifei’s calf. The scared Zhu Zhifei hurriedly ducked to the side while shouting, “Besides jumping into the river, I can’t find any other reason as to why you’d bring us here to the riverside to freeze like quails!”

Chu Yu put his hands directly into Lu Shi’s jacket pocket to keep warm. “It’s, it’s because Shitou wants to shed tears into Qingchuan River!”

Chilled to the bone by the wind, Wei Guanglei also regretted coming to the river a little, but due to tradition— he came all the way here.

He very resolutely led the group to sit in a row by the river, and took out beers from the plastic bag and distributed them.

Everyone was given pure beer while Chu Yu was handed a can of pineapple beer.

He wasn’t nitpicky about it. Pineapple beer it was then; the word beer was on it anyway.

Wei Guanglei had met a strange customer in the auto repair shop a few days ago, and he was quite proud that he’d learned a new repair technique.

Zhu Zhifei clicked his tongue in wonder immediately afterwards. Then he suddenly remembered a question, so he asked Lu Shi about it quickly.

While listening to Lu Shi giving Zhu Zhifei a lecture, Chu Yu hugged his doll and watched the river. He couldn’t help but smile.

He liked this kind of life very much.

Once the New Year’s Day was over, time inexplicably flew by faster than before.

As the examination papers of each subject were stacked one by one, it seemed as if the time for the final exam arrived in the blink of an eye.

The day before the exam, Dream-Ge sent an invitation. “Champs-Élysées in the food street outside is offering a 150 set menu. Do you want to eat there at noon? For good luck!”

Chu Yu didn’t understand. “How would you have good luck by eating that?”

“School Flower, look, a set meal for 150, that’s one step closer to a perfect score once you finish eating! Think about it, doesn’t it make sense?!”

Chu Yu thought that these were all superstitions! But he still succumbed to everyone’s beautiful vision and went.

After class ended in the afternoon, they began tossing aside the tables and chairs. The sound of table legs scraping against the ground was hard on the ears.

Chu Yu sat in the last row so it wasn’t too convenient to move tables and chairs.

He squatted on the ground, rummaged through the things in his table compartment, and found that the bizarre incident that happened every semester had really occurred again.

He obviously had a pen, but now only the cap had been found. As for the eraser and so on, they’d all been missing for 800 years already.

Seeing a few pens on Lu Shi’s desk, Chu Yu reached out and grabbed one, spinning it around in his hand. “It’s a requisition! Will you give it or not?”

Lu Shi looked at him, suddenly leaned close, and said in a slow tone, “All of it is yours.”

What was Chu Yu most afraid of?

It was Lu Shi approaching like this occasionally. His words were quite ordinary, not the least bit flirty, but they would scratch at Chu Yu’s heart quite a lot.

After taking a bath come nighttime, Chu Yu, wrapped in his soft pajamas, placed his hands on Lu Shi’s knees, waiting for him to trim his nails.

The desk lamp wasn’t bright enough, so in fear of hurting Chu Yu with the clipper, Lu Shi got up and turned on the ceiling light.

The nail clippers were Chu Yu’s, candy-colored and decorated with resin glue.

Lu Shi’s fingers holding the nail clippers were agile and distinct, very beautiful.

Chu Yu glanced at it, then glanced at it once more, until he finally couldn’t hold back. He lowered his head and kissed the back of Lu Shi’s hand, as well as his raised, smooth, rounded joints. After kissing, he pretended like nothing had happened and sat back up again.

“By the way, when I think about it, when I’d awaken to this problem of blood-sucking, my nails and hair started growing really fast! At that time, I cut my nails every day, cause if not, they’d resemble the claws of a little monster. The hair too. If it wasn’t cut for a week, my hair would’ve probably reached my waist!”

Chu Yu rested his chin on his hand. “But it didn’t take long for it to return to normal, making me feel like a plant. It grows well during its period of rapid development, then stops.”

Lu Shi was very focused on helping Chu Yu cut his nails. After trimming the nails of his index finger, he asked, “Were you scared?”

“Yeah, I didn’t pay attention at first, then I got scared later on. But—”

“But what?”

“But then after you told me not to be afraid, I really wasn’t afraid anymore.”

It may not be possible to describe exactly what it felt like, but Chu Yu reckoned that even after a long, long time, he’d clearly remember that night when Lu Shi sat next to him and told him not to be afraid.

An impulse suddenly surged in his heart as Chu Yu pulled his fingers away and threw himself directly at Lu Shi. His strength was a little out of control, so even the chair Lu Shi was sitting on was pushed several inches backward.

Lu Shi hugged the boy firmly and threw away the nail clipper in his hand. Before he could speak, Chu Yu aimed at his lips and bit them.

His movements were ferocious and vicious, akin to a provoked kitten.

Lu Shi’s lips were kissed till they hurt, yet a smile overflowed from the corners of his lips. “So hurried?”

Chu Yu was in no mood to answer.

He found that kissing truly was one of the most beautiful things in the world.

Many emotions couldn’t be uttered accurately in words, and many emotions couldn’t be clearly expressed.

But kissing could.

He really liked this person.

Chu Yu’s kiss was heavy and strong. Lu Shi indulged him and kissed however he wanted.

It didn’t take long for Chu Yu, who was sucking on Lu Shi’s lips, to be the one to feel weak instead.

At that moment, Lu Shi supported his butt with his hands and carried him directly.

The startled Chu Yu quickly climbed on Lu Shi. “Lu Shi what are you doing?”

Lu Shi took a few steps to the door while hugging the person. “Turn off the light.”

Chu Yu didn’t understand what was going on, but he still turned off the light obediently.

His field of vision sunk into darkness. His eyes hadn’t adjusted yet so he couldn’t see anything.

Without warning, Chu Yu was pushed against the door.

Lu Shi’s breath approached aggressively, and even deliberately covered his earlobe. “Isn’t this more exciting?”

Outside the door was the corridor. Lu Shi lived in the penultimate room on this floor. No one would pass by outside, but Chu Yu was still subconsciously nervous.

“Lu Shi—”

At that moment, there was a sudden knock on the neighboring door, followed by Dream-Ge’s voice, “School Flower, are you there?”

Chu Yu’s back stiffened.

Lu Shi enjoyed his reaction very much. He slowly traced kisses up along the side of Chu Yu’s neck, and finally stopped at the corner of his lips.

Outside, Dream-Ge was still knocking on the door next door. After realizing that there was no response, he muttered, “Did School Flower go out for a walk this late?”

Soon, there were vibrations and sounds from the door that Chu Yu was leaning against— Dream-Ge was knocking on it.

“Is Lu-Shen there?

Chu Yu subconsciously pressed his fingers down and hugged Lu Shi’s back tightly, he even held his breath, for fear that the person outside the door would hear his slight movements.

Lu Shi licked and kissed the corner of Chu Yu’s lips before breathily asking, “Like it?”

The door panel vibrated, and the knocking sounds seemed as if they were falling on his eardrums. Chu Yu felt so hot. His fingertips were shaking because of his nervousness and excitement.

He replied in a very small voice, “I li… like it.”

Lu Shi still wasn’t satisfied and asked another question, “Want me to kiss you?”

The corners of his lips hooked up, but didn’t move anymore after.

Chu Yu felt like he was going crazy, the corners of his eyes were moist. “…Yes.”

Thinking of the endearment Chu Yu shouted that one night, Lu Shi’s eyes darkened. “Say Gege and I’ll kiss you well, alright?”

Worried that his voice would be heard by Dream-Ge outside, but also wanting Lu Shi’s kiss, Chu Yu suppressed his voice with all his might and called out as he trembled, “Gege, kiss me quickly.”

The author has something to say: Here’s a small shell in the shape of a heart~

staff shenanigansDream-Ge, omygash XD Idk how many times this is now, but pls stop passing through landmines!!! You might suddenly discover a new world Hahahahaha

• 1So I double checked, and it really said that Shitou caught the dolls himself, those weren’t given to him, so ZZF is probably exaggerating here.