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CH 42

Chapter 42

“Congratulations on finishing your scenes!” Xu Wen smiled and stuffed a large bouquet of flowers into Qu Xueyu’s arms, then hesitated and asked, “Did young master Lu not come today?”

Qu Xueyu accepted the flowers, saying: “Thanks.” He smiled as he remembered something, his eyes instantly becoming gentle, “He’s waiting for me at home.”

Xu Wen was surprised, but smiled and exclaimed, “You should go home early tonight! You can eat with Mr. Lu at the final banquet.”1QXY has finished filming all his scenes for the web drama “The Immortal”. They still need to shoot other people’s scenes so production will continue for a bit, but QXY no longer needs to be on set. When everyone is finished they will hold a banquet where they invite everyone who was involved back. Then it moves on to post-production for editing and visual effects before going to the CFA who decides if it can be seen as is or needs to go back and be changed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China#:~:text=The%20Film%20Public%20Screening%20Permit,before%20they%20can%20be%20released.

Qu Xueyu nodded and stated, “Put everyone’s meals on my account tonight.”

Xu Wen grinned and accepted his offer with a cheerful attitude, saying, “Many thanks to Teacher Qu, then.”

Qu Xueyu turned around in mid-stride and glanced back at Xu Wen, “You are a very talented director and screenwriter, thank you for taking care of me throughout this time.”

Xu Wen froze, his eyes rimmed with red. He opened his mouth and couldn’t manage to say anything, so he waved his hand energetically at Qu Xueyu, who laughed and then turned back around to leave.

Qu Xueyu was wearing the windbreaker given to him by Lu Bai and walked along the sidewalk where pedestrians were scarce. Overhead are the golden leaves of Ginkgo trees. Arriving at the corner Qu Xueyu paused under a ginkgo tree’s overhanging branches. When he saw the car, he grinned and quickly waltzed over to it.

The car door swung open, and Lu Bai with an armful of roses rushed out of the car. When he saw Qu Xueyu, he clutched the bouquet of blossoms into his arms, the roses were red like fire, and with so many of them together, they simply blinded people’s eyes. There were really so many flowers, and there were even some delicate red petals on Lu Bai. Lu Bai didn’t seem to notice, he just grabbed the flowers sent by the crew to Qu Xueyu and threw them into the car, before stuffing his own bouquet into Qu Xueyu’s arms, a few of the flowers had directly covered Qu Xueyu’s lower face. Lu Bai had a smile revealing a mouthful of white teeth, “Xiao Qu, Congratulations!”

Qu Xueyu raised an eyebrow as he held his arm full of flowers, “Red roses?”

Lu Bai nodded, casually voicing out a cheesy line of love, “The roses represent my feelings.” He paused, “Of course, I definitely have more love for Xiao Qu than this.”

Qu Xueyu nodded in understanding and decided to go back and check if there was a way to preserve fresh flowers forever.

In order to sit in the front and be closer to Lu Bai, these flowers naturally couldn’t be held. So the bouquet of roses received the same fate as the crew’s bouquet of flowers and were relocated to the backseat.

After arriving quickly at home, Lu Bai parked the car but did not get out. He just looked at Qu Xueyu and asked, somewhat mysteriously, “Xiao Qu, do you like to eat fruit?”

Qu Xueyu raised an eyebrow, “They’re not bad.”

Lu Bai: “Then… do you like watching me eat fruit?”

Qu Xueyu’s eyebrows flew up, but he still nodded-feeding the teenage rabbit apples was indeed one of his great pleasures.

But it was still a strange question, so Qu Xueyu asked, “Xiao Bai, why are you asking this?”

Lu Bai’s eyes twinkled as he shook his head, and then he was laughing, “Let’s get out of the car. It’s time to unbox the packages at home.”

Qu Xueyu watched as the teenager’s eyes shone brightly, the corners of his mouth curved up, and he leisurely said, “Alright.”

When they got inside, there were really two slightly larger boxes in the living room. Lu Bai’s eyes shifted and his cheeks suddenly turned a little red as he exclaimed, “I’m going to take a shower, so Xiao Qu, you can just unpack the boxes first.” With that, he was about to run away but was caught by the youth by the wrist.

The youth threw the roses in his hand upwards, and the petals were scattered all over Lu Bai, who had frozen, before he could even register anything, he was picked up and placed on the dining table by the youth.

“Wu…”2SFX of surprise, think ‘whoa’, ‘ah’, or ‘wah’ Lu Bai’s eyes were wide open, the young man’s own eyes were so close to him that they seemed to be containing a terrifying hurricane.

Qu Xueyu kissed the other hard, prying open the teenager’s lips without restraint. His teeth even deliberately nibbled on the lips so hard that he was about to puncture through them.

Breaths entwined together, causing the air around them to heat up.

Lu Bai was nearly out of breath, but Qu Xueyu didn’t relent. As he gorged himself on the young man’s soft lips, his palms pressed firmly against the back of the other’s neck, fingers gently caressing skin.

Lu Bai’s body seemed to be electrified, his heart beating so fast that it felt as if it was going to jump out of his chest. He was very close to being suffocated.

When he was finally released, Lu Bai sat on the dining table with arms around the youth’s neck, his lips red and swollen, parted and gasping for air. His eyes were brimming with moisture, and he looked at the youth with a bewildered look, looking somewhat distressed and a bit pathetic.

“Aren’t you usually-” Qu Xueyu pressed down on the young man’s neck firmly and urged the other to come closer to him. His eyes were slightly shadowed, and a dangerous light flickered in them. He slowly reached out and caressed the young man’s tingling lower lip, “-very good at provoking me?”

Lu Bai’s body quivered, his throat moving, but he couldn’t say anything. Qu Xueyu buried his face in the teenager’s neck, ambiguous warm breath teasing the young man. After a while he raised his head, biting a rose petal between his lips. He casually removed the petal from his mouth, and then brought his lips closer to the teenager’s hot ear, whispering, “You have flower petals all over you, so let me take them off for you.”

After saying that he hefted the teenager off the dining room table and mischievously told the soft youth within his arms, “Xiao Bai, you can go take a shower now. I’ll unpack the boxes.”

Lu Bai suddenly woke up, pushing the other away before barely managing to stand. He rushed into the bedroom with gusto, only to come back out a short while later, red-faced, and shoved an …orange into the young man’s hands.

Qu Xueyu’s distinctive hand with its strong bones held onto the orange, but his eyebrows shot up, “???”

Lu Bai’s heart was racing, he was unusually a little shy. Slightly ducking his head, his voice was somewhat trembling and low: “This, this is a navel orange. When we bought the stuff, we got it as a complimentary gift. That pamphlet said, send this to you, and you’ll be happy.”3开心 kāi xīn to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of After a pause, he remarked without any qualms, “Of course I know exactly what that means!” With that, he turned and scampered back into the bedroom.

Qu Xueyu stayed standing in the living room, holding the orange in his hand, watching the teenager’s back. Once he disappeared from the room, he stared at the door, his eyes scarily dark.

He raised his eyebrows and looked at the orange in his hand. After a while, he turned around and looked at the two boxes.

~~~~~

After Lu Bai finished his shower, he saw that Qu Xueyu had already washed up in the other bathroom. He was now leaning against the bed, holding the orange in his hand and waiting for him. When he saw him, his eyes went suddenly profound.

Qu Xueyu curled his lips, his smile was somewhat meaningful, and his eyes looked to be hiding a bottomless dark sea. “Xiao Bai, come here.”

Lu Bai’s fair toes subconsciously curled, and his throat moved, but he still approached the young man.

As soon as he was close enough, he was seized aggressively into a warm embrace, his body sinking into the soft, white comforter.

Qu Xueyu had wrapped one hand around the back of the youth’s neck, while the other laid on the youth’s delicious butterfly bones4Shoulder blades. Only a layer of white shirt separated his palm from the youth’s warm skin.

With his forehead resting against the teenager’s, he quietly asked, “Only wearing one of my shirts after taking a shower, did you learn that from that pamphlet as well?”

“No…” Lu Bai wrapped his arms around the youth’s neck and brought himself even closer, his cheeks were burning, but at this moment, he was rolling his eyes as if he didn’t feel like answering.

“Hmm?” Qu Xueyu kneaded the back of the teenager’s neck harshly.

Lu Bai then blurted out, muttering, “It was that time when I went home and wore your clothes, you seemed a little happy.5referring to when QXY’s identity was revealed and LB went back to his family home with two of QXY’s shirts.“

Qu Xueyu’s heart was like a stormy sea, but it was overwhelmingly soft. He wanted to immediately tear this teenager apart and swallow him whole, carving him into his bones and blood. Instead kissed the young man on his forehead with incomparable tenderness.

“It’s all here,” Lu Bai buried his face into the youth’s chest, “Shall… shall we do it?”

Qu Xueyu quietly laughed out, slowly wrapping the quilt over the teenager’s shoulders, and then using his strength, he pressed the teenager underneath his body completely and utterly.

“Where’d the orange go?” Inside the narrow tent formed by the youth’s arms and the quilt, Lu Bai’s eyes shone brightly, but his cheeks were so red, yet he still asked so adorably.

Qu Xueyu gave the tip of the teenager’s adorable nose a peck, his voice held some teasing, but it sounded husky: “Xiao Bai, were you thinking it would only happen once?”

~~~~~

The lights were dimmed. Even the night light felt dimmer, and the house sank into the ambiguous yet safe darkness of the night.

~~~~~

Early morning.

Lu Bai snuggled into the young man’s embrace, exposing his white shoulders, the protruding bumps of bone peppered with bright red hickeys that resembled rose petals in the morning dew.

“Xiao Bai,” Qu Xuyue kissed on top of a hickey and whispered into the youth’s ear, “Who am I to you?”

“Mmm…” Lu Bai frowned slightly at being disturbed, but then he reached up and wrapped his arm around the youth’s neck, nuzzling into the youth’s embrace to find a more comfortable position and fall back to sleep, his voice muffled as he muttered, “Boyfriend… “

Shiotamari: I have no idea what significance the navel oranges are supposed to mean. When I looked it up I only got health benefits and not any slang meanings. Krone and I think it’s just a nice gift from the adult product company since they bought so much stuff, with a side of ‘wink, wink, nudge, nudge,– Try to eat something and keep your energy up for all the fun you’re about to have. ‘ If anyone has any other ideas let us know in the comments!

PS: This is as spicy as it gets, thanks to the censorship crabs

This chapter is not yet proofread. I decided to post it anyway and will update this chapter when my PR gets back to me.

Edit: Krone

1QXY has finished filming all his scenes for the web drama “The Immortal”. They still need to shoot other people’s scenes so production will continue for a bit, but QXY no longer needs to be on set. When everyone is finished they will hold a banquet where they invite everyone who was involved back. Then it moves on to post-production for editing and visual effects before going to the CFA who decides if it can be seen as is or needs to go back and be changed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_censorship_in_China#:~:text=The%20Film%20Public%20Screening%20Permit,before%20they%20can%20be%20released.2SFX of surprise, think ‘whoa’, ‘ah’, or ‘wah’3开心 kāi xīn to feel happy; to rejoice; to have a great time; to make fun of4Shoulder blades5referring to when QXY’s identity was revealed and LB went back to his family home with two of QXY’s shirts.