Chapter 47: Extra 4: Brother Chen(ii)

The next morning, Chen Shan was woken up by kicking.

He was still lying on the bed but had the misfortune to meet it unaccountably.

Li Che didn’t care if the two of them had been lovey-dovey yesterday afternoon. He kicked Chen Shan off the bed with an impassive countenance. Chen Shan fell down the bed, which made him shocked and angry, but he couldn’t reprimand or complain.

After all, Li Che had said that he didn’t allow him to sleep with him.

Chen Shan was a little unhappy, but also angry. They had already had an affair, so why couldn’t he just sleep with him?

However, Li Che ignored Chen Shan for the whole morning because of the fact that he had been ‘sleeping in his bed’. Silently, Li Che took the apple as breakfast, sat on the sofa silently, drinking coffee, and doing everything in silence.

The videos of the phone cracked Chen Shan up while the person beside him still sat expressionless. So Chen Shan also stopped laughing after a while and became impassive.

‘Damn it.’

Chen Shan felt wronged.

And he also felt hungry.

So he ran away from home.

Li Che didn’t give him the car key, so Chen Shan used the car-hailing app on his phone to take a taxi. But there was no car around him receiving the order, so he clicked on the option hard that the driver could run the meter when coming to pick him up and Chen Shan would give the driver a tip of 250 RMB.

The driver quickly arrived, who was a local man and said with an accent, “How do you live here?! It used to be a graveyard!”

Chen Shan was speechless. No wonder he felt chilly when he was asleep at night.

As soon as Chen Shan went into the town, he found a hot pot restaurant to warm himself in the cold winter. He ate a warm meal. After that, he seemed not to enjoy himself to the full that he took some photos of the hot pot and sent them to Li Che.

Li Che didn’t reply to him at all.

Chen Shan was used to it. He was about to pay the bill and look for his car, but he found that he didn’t have a wallet on him.

He also didn’t get his car key.

The female cashier looked at him for a long time before saying, “You can transfer money to our account by the phone.”

Chen Shan paid for the hot pot with a gloomy face.

Without the car key or wallet, Chen Shan walked on the streets, feeling a little cold because he didn’t wear a lot of clothes.

His phone rang suddenly and he saw that it was a call from Li Che.

As he thought that the brat finally knew he was wrong, Chen Shan saw that Li Che hang up the phone again.

The call just lasted for ten seconds, which meant that it was not hanged up automatically at all! It was him who hung up the phone! It was him!

Chen Shan felt so angry!

But then there was another WeChat message from Li Che.

‘The Mini Meek Boy of the Universe’ said, “I am hungry.” and sent him an emoji of aggrieved expression.

Chen Shan looked at the screen name and the emoji, sighed and couldn’t help replying to him.

‘The Huge Bad Guy of the Universe’ asked, “What do you want to eat?”

‘The Mini Meek Boy of the Universe’ answered, “lamb soup.”

Chen Shan googled a restaurant with a sterling reputation on his phone. He took a taxi there by the car-hailing app and ordered a packed meal. Then he sat at a table at the door and wait for it.

The two people’s screen names were changed by Li Che when he was not paying attention. If there was anyone whom Chen Shan could not see through in his life, it could only be Li Che.

Li Che seemed to be mentally ill that there were many people living in his mind. Every now and then, one of those personalities would show up, which occasionally would be so childish that it made Chen Shan laugh.

Chen Shan felt that he seemed to be mentally ill as well that he would actually feel that such a person was cute.

He couldn’t figure it out.

He really couldn’t figure it out.

The young waitress felt that the melancholic man sitting by the window was a little handsome. He clearly had a manly face, but his eyes look brooding as if he was an abandoned puppy.

After finishing making the lamb soup, she served the soup with the pot according to the customer’s request and told him some dos and don’ts for eating it. Then, she watched as the costumer leave.

Chen Shan felt that he was so stupid that he gave another tip of 250 to another driver and went back to the graveyard by taxi, holding a soup pot.

Li Che was wearing a white shirt and a grey suit and lay lazily on the sofa, looking at the book from time to time. Seeing Chen Shan come in, he suddenly sat up and then fell back onto the sofa.

Chen Shan asked, “Why do you get dressed like this?”

Li Che answered in a slightly aggrieved voice, “I feel cold.”

Chen Shan put the pot on the induction cooker and stewed the lamb again. He came out and pinched Li Che’s hand, which was really cold.

He didn’t know if Li Che was frozen to death in his previous incarnation that his hands and feet were cold throughout the year and only in dog days would they become warm. As long as Chen Shan turned on the air conditioner, Li Che’s limbs must turn cold again after a while.

Chen Shan sat on the sofa, holding Li Che’s cold hand and staring blankly as he listened to the lamb soup bubbling away in the kitchen.

Li Che pulled his hand out and Chen Shan looked down at him. Li Che said, “You are so bad.”

Chen Shan was confused but did not know what to say.

Li Che got up and leaned against Chen Shan, “What arrangements do you have in the Spring Festival?”

Early this year, the Spring Festival was only less than a month away after New Year’s Day. Chen Shan shrugged after heard it and said, “I will accompany my parents and sister. That’s all.”

Chen Shan wasn’t sure if it was because he get older, but he was becoming a family man. He would get anxious if he didn’t see his sister for a few days.

“I heard that there is a new hot spring manor near Haicheng,” Li Che said, “The service there is… very good.”

He said the word ‘service’ in a sing-song voice and beautiful voice. Chen Shan looked at Li Che with a strange expression and asked in a low voice, “What… what service?”

Li Che smiled, a little charming.

Chen Shan couldn’t help but turn over and press him onto the sofa.

When Li Che was going to have sex with him, he wasn’t himself at all.

Chen Shan couldn’t help but want to have sex with him, but Li Che kicked him off the sofa again as he got an erection.

“The soup has bubbled.”

Li Che’s voice was still charming when he said this, and the corners of his eyes were red. Chen Shan couldn’t help but blurt out, “You still want to eat now in such a situation?”

Li Che still answered, “I’m hungry.”

Chen Shan thought that this guy almost hadn’t eaten anything since noon yesterday. He just had some instant noodles in the evening and ate an apple in the morning. So how could he not be hungry?

Chen Shan had no choice but to endure his desire and go to the kitchen to bring the soup for him.

Li Che lay on the sofa, his eyes seemingly washed-out, but actually he kept looking at Chen Shan.

When Li Che was full, Chen Shan also had no stomach for sexual intercourse. Someone from his company called him coincidently and therefore he went into another room and closed the door to answer the phone.

He couldn’t make the door open because Li Che had the habit of teasing him when he was answering the phone.

This time, Chen Shan didn’t see anyone coming in after finishing a telephone conversation. When he went out, Li Che still lay on the sofa, his eyes washed-out.

Chen Shan walked over and looked down at him, “What’s wrong with you?”

Although Li Che was always moody, he was obviously happy when the two of them were together and wouldn’t have been in a bad mood like this.

Li Che pursed his lips while Chen Shan squatted down and kissed him.

The two of them rarely kissed so ‘purely’ that they didn’t even touch each other’s tongue. When they finished, even Chen Shan was stunned.

Li Che said, “Grandpa asked me when I would get married.”

‘Yeah, he is almost thirty. With such a big family property, it was indeed time for him to get married.’

Chen Shan thought to himself.

“So do you think I should get married?” Li Che’s eyes rarely glittered with perplexity.

Chen Shan didn’t know how to answer this question. He wanted to say that he should marry but felt that it was such a forbidden word. Although the two of them were called ‘f**k buddies’, once he spoke the word out, it would definitely become different.

But wasn’t it the life plan of people like them to go out with a woman, get married and give birth to a child?

Even Chen Shan himself thought like that a few years ago.

When it was time to marry, they had to get married.

Chen Shan didn’t say anything. Li Che smiled sarcastically, “You can leave now.”

Chen Shan booked tomorrow afternoon’s flight. By convention the two of them would usually went gooey over each other until the last second.

But this time, something seemed to be different.

Chen Shan didn’t say anything. He felt that he should calm down, then he get up, grabbed his clothes and put his wallet and car key into his pocket, ready to go out.

Before he went out, he heard Li Che say, “Don’t come here again.”

Chen Shan paused before walking out.

He was still sitting in the seat of the taxi that he had sat this noon with the tip of 250 yuan. And the driver was still the one who ran the meters since he came to pick Chen Shan up.

The driver smiled when he saw him and said, “Hey, lad! Are you doing something illegal here, aren’t you?”

Chen Shan shook his head without saying anything.

The driver glanced at him in the driving mirror and silently drove the car into the town. Then they were held up in traffic. The driver might be a little worried that the one sitting at the back was not a human being, so he tried to make conversation, “The place you came from used to be a graveyard!”

Chen Shan said with a bored expression on his face, “You have told it to me this noon.”

The driver replied with an awkward ‘oh’. After a while, he said, “I didn’t finish it at noon, right? Originally, they were going to build a factory at that place, but later, they didn’t put it in practice. Do you know why?”

Chen Shan shook his head.

The driver said mysteriously, “I heard that a wealthy person was going to build a castle there!”

Chen Shan didn’t say anything.

“Don’t look at me like this!” The driver seemed to be interested as he said, “Coolrunning, a company of selling shoes. Do you know it? That place is just theirs!”

Chen Shan sat up and looked at the driver, “What did you say?”

The driver was even deeper in conversation as he talked about the gossips, frothing at the mouth, “I forgot the name of the son of Coolrunning’s boss! He was the one who died in a car accident with his pregnant wife! The two of them originally thought the child was a girl, so the boss’s son was thinking about building a castle for his daughter. Who would have expected that…”

The driver tut-tutted and shook his head, “Later, they got into a car accident. People had a hard job to save the child, but it was a boy!”

Chen Shan remembered that Li Che once said with a smile in his eyes, “Before I was born, my family thought I was a girl.”

“But boy is also okay! After all, there is someone who could inherit their family property and carry on the family name! But that child was pitiful too that he just lost his parents after he was born…”

The driver’s voice became lower and lower. Chen Shan couldn’t help but think of the villa in the waste ground.

“Go back!” Chen Shan said abruptly.

The car was about to arrive in the hotel and the driver was stunned immediately, “What did you say?”

“I said go back!” Chen Shan said, “Go back! I’ll pay you double!”

The driver stopped talking and sent him back in the middle of the night. He didn’t even ask for the double fare and left in an instant.

He probably felt that someone sitting in his car was mentally ill.

Chen Shan took a few steps back to the villa. The villa was so quiet and dark that he didn’t know if anyone was inside.

He took out the set of keys. Because of the biting wind outside, he almost couldn’t open the door.

Fortunately, Li Che didn’t have a sudden impulse to change the lock and the door was opened. Chen Shan walked in and found that Li Che was still lying on the sofa, maintaining his appearance when he left.

Chen Shan’s heart skipped a beat.

He felt it painful.

He stood there and looked down at Li Che.

Li Che also stared at him with big eyes but didn’t ask why he came back.

Chen Shan squatted down and kissed Li Che, “You don’t need to marry.”

‘We won’t get married.’