Bite Your Fingertips

86th -【Lu-Shen, you’re so sweet】

Translator: Xena Editor: Sammy Proofreader: Bubbles

On the second day after returning from the spring outing, before everyone could relax, Old Ye gave them an extra assignment— writing an essay with the spring outing as the theme.

Dream-Ge scratched his head, spread out his composition paper, and wrote the first sentence with a pen: “It was a little hot on the day of the spring outing. After all, it was summer, so I brought three bottles of mineral water.”

Yang Yuchan happened to be passing by and swept a glance at the beginning of Dream-Ge’s essay, only to be shocked. “Considering your elementary level word choice and sentence structuring, how did you even pass Chinese literature?”

Dream-Ge pondered seriously. “It’s probably all because the teacher who graded my papers was sincere, kind, and merciful?”

Yang Yuchan had nothing to say and instead passed by Dream-Ge and headed towards the classroom’s last row.

There was nothing written on the composition paper in front of Chu Yu and he was mumbling words with dazed eyes. “We went hiking, there was a Taoist temple on the mountain, there was a well and ginkgo trees next to the Taoist temple, and there was a stream at the back of the mountain. Ah, I was really happy that day!”

After he finished reciting, he asked Lu Shi, “If I wrote that and handed it in, would Old Ye doubt lifeFeeling that the development of things is strange and unreasonable.?”

“No, he’ll make you rewrite it.”

Lu Shi placed a piece of draft paper in front of Chu Yu. “Fine outline, follow it.”

Yang Yuchan, who’d been standing to the side for a while now, quickly cleared her throat and said, “Uh… Hello?”

Only then did Chu Yu notice Yang Yuchan. “Are you looking for me? What’s the matter?”

“It’s about the project I discussed with you last time. I just received news that someone invested money ahead of me and lost profits. A visual assessment states that it’ll collapse even more severely in the future.”

Yang Yuchan was incomparably glad. “Fortunately, you stopped me at the time, otherwise it would’ve been me who lost money.”

Chu Yu didn’t take the credit. “I only spoke, you were the one willing to listen, right?”

He then remembered. “By the way, didn’t you say that you haven’t found any good projects to practice your hands on recently? I actually found one. I’ll send you an email later so you can take a look at it.”

Yang Yuchan didn’t ask any more questions, replying succinctly, “Okay, I’ll respond after reading it.”

After Yang Yuchan walked away, Chu Yu leaned close to Lu Shi to talk to him, stunned. “It’s over. If it continues like this, I think I might become a genius investor in the business world! Alas, I’m only 18!”

Lu Shi smiled lightly, raised his hand, and pinched Chu Yu’s soft, white earlobe. “Genius Investor, you need to write your essay first.”

Chu Yu grimaced for a second while looking at the composition paper in worry. “My god, this genius investor is about to be killed by the clutches of an essay composition!”

The closer it drew to the third year of high school, the faster the spread of a tense atmosphere.

For example, Fang Ziqi’s dark circles had gotten heavier by two points, which made Chu Yu want to ask him how late he stayed up every night. He was also very worried about what to do if the Study Committee Member couldn’t hold on any longer and fainted in the classroom.

Another example was the rapid decrease in the number of times Dream-Ge jumped out to play basketball, and him taking make-up lessons four out of the five times he was on dates with his girlfriend.

Dream-Ge sighed. “It’s terrifying reviewing lessons with a girlfriend. If I still don’t know it after she’s explained it three times, my girlfriend will cry. Those tears are too lethal!”

Chu Yu answered, “I’m different. When I take make-up lessons at Lu Shi’s place and I don’t understand a topic even the third time, Lu Shi will coax me.”

Dream-Ge felt deeply puzzled. “Why would he coax you?”

Chu Yu replied, “For fear that I’ll cry!”

Dream-Ge murmured in his heart, I finally had the chance to show off my relationship, but why does it seem like I was shown off to instead?

That one spring outing was like allowing prisoners outside for exercise. When the students were once again faced with stacks of test papers, they constantly wondered whether that memory was real.

During evening self-study, Chu Yu picked out a stack of test papers and couldn’t help but mutter, “Where did our teachers find so many papers?” He then asked Lu Shi, “Do you have any opinions on what materials I should bring back for this weekend?”

“Math and Physics.”

“Okay, I’ll listen to you. For this weekend, Zhen will favor mathematics and physics!”

After quickly packing up the materials, Chu Yu tucked a classical poetry booklet that must be memorized into his school bag. “Let’s go, it’s finally the weekend again and I’m going to sleep until nine o’clock tomorrow! No, ten o’clock!”

He took two steps forward before returning to the position where he was shoulder-to-shoulder with Lu Shi, anticipation in his eyes. “Accompany me?”

“Mm, I’ll stay in bed with you.”

Chu Yu beamed with a ‘piu’; eyebrows raised in delight and eyes all smiles. “I’ll send you a good boyfriend card!”

The two walked downstairs together and Chu Yu recalled what Old Ye had said today. “I can’t believe I have to take make-up classes during summer vacation, I can’t even take a few days off!”

“Yeah yeah yeah!” Dream-Ge suddenly came out from behind. “We’ve been deprived of the right to enjoy our summer vacation! How aggravating! How resentful!”

The strap of his bag was broken so Dream-Ge held onto it with one hand. He remembered, “By the way, School Flower, are you going to an overseas or a domestic school?”

Chu Yu had discussed this matter with Lu Shi. “Probably a domestic university. When I want to go abroad, I can apply for it at that time. I can surely go either way.”

Dream-Ge nodded. “My mother will send me abroad to study. Li Hua will probably also go abroad, but the countries we’ll be moving to are different and half a world away.” Maybe because it wasn’t that time yet, but they had no realistic feelings when talking about going abroad or studying overseas.

Chu Yu’s footsteps halted. “What about your girlfriend?”

Dream-Ge embarrassedly touched the back of his head. “Of course we’re going together. We’re applying for the same school. My mother also said to live up to expectations and not let only my girlfriend be admitted while I don’t.”

He then wondered, “By the way, School Flower, which university are you intending to apply to? Do you have a target in mind?”

Chu Yu answered this question without hesitation, “Of course it’s the university which Lu Shi applies for.”

Dream-Ge thought there wasn’t anything wrong. “Sure enough, you‘re super scary when you’re serious! School Flower, your grades have risen too fast, maybe you can really attend the same school as Lu-Shen.”

He slapped Chu Yu on the shoulder. “I believe in you!”

Lifting his chin, Chu Yu didn’t think that there was a chance he’d fail the exam. “That’s a given!”

He then added, “When you go abroad, I’ll mail you hot pot ingredients across the Pacific!”

Dream-Ge was moved. “Good brother!”

When they reached the school gate, all kinds of private cars parked on the side of the road could be seen at a glance. Out of the corner of his eyes, Chu Yu caught a glimpse of a car that was vaguely familiar. He was about to take a second look when he suddenly remembered. “Hey, wait a minute, it seems like I didn’t grab the comic I never finished reading in the dormitory!”

He stood still, wondering whether to go back and get it, but Lu Shi had already turned around and begun walking back to the school.

Chu Yu followed. “Going to the dormitory?”

“En.”

Lu Shi casually and naturally put his arm on Chu Yu’s shoulder, hugging the person to his side. “Otherwise, if someone talks in their sleep at night, they’ll talk about the ending they’ve yet to read.”

Chu Yu was surprised. “Really? You’ve heard me talk about this in my sleep?”

“Hm, I have.”

“Really?” Chu Yu became curious. “What else? Besides talking about comics, what else did I say in my sleep?”

“You called my name.”

“What?” Chu Yu didn’t process it.

On the path where the lights hadn’t been maintained, Lu Shi lowered his eyes and repeated to Chu Yu in a low voice, “You called my name in a dream.”

After getting the comic book, the two exited the dormitory building. The back and forth delayed them, so almost everyone in the school had left already.

Chu Yu handed the comic book to Lu Shi and asked him to stuff it into his school bag. When the zipper was pulled back up, he gazed at Lu Shi’s long, narrow eyes as well as the exquisite lines of his profile underneath the street lamp. An itch emerged at the tip of his heart.

Going to a dark place where there was no one around, Chu Yu boldly stretched out his hand, pinched the corner of Lu Shi’s school uniform, and tugged it.

Noticing this small force, Lu Shi lowered his eyes, the end of his syllable rising slightly as he uttered, “Hmm?”

Taking advantage of that moment, Chu Yu raised his head and quickly kissed the corner of Lu Shi’s lips.

The kiss was very light, but with the early summer night scene, it was extraordinarily provocative.

Chu Yu smiled slyly. “Lu-Shen, you‘re so sweet!”

Lu Shi inserted his hands into his pockets, his eyes dark. But just as he was about to speak, a female voice came over: “Chu Yu.”

Chu Yu’s heart skipped a beat. He initially thought it was his own auditory hallucination, but when he followed the voice, he saw Shi Yaling dressed in a well-cut white trench coat, standing in the distance with an assistant.

The smile on Chu Yu’s face faded.

• 1Feeling that the development of things is strange and unreasonable.