Chapter 14

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We talked about the past and secrets\n

“Xie Qingcheng, why did you follow me into the fire?”\n

Upon finally managing to comfort Xie Xue, Xie Qingcheng let her obediently sit and rest on the benches with the others that were saved by the rescue team, He Yu and Xie Qingcheng suffered the fire brigade’s stern criticism again. After the criticism ended, the pair walked aside. He Yu glanced sideways at Xie Qingcheng, who was lighting a cigarette— he got from the police. He thought he couldn’t see through Xie Qingcheng’s previous actions, and so he asked.\n

“The half you went to hadn’t burnt to a particularly dangerous stage.” Xie Qingcheng took a smoke and exhaled it out slowly. This time, he finally relaxed for a bit.\n

Sparks sparkled, dimming and lighting up again between his fingers, and the ashes fell to the ground like snow.\n

“Tell me about your condition,” Xie Qingcheng flicked the ashes off the cigarette, looking forward, “When did it start.”\n

He asked about the blood parasite.\n

He Yu said, “……Not long after you left. I went to a private hospital to get a re-check, and met a psychiatric patient, I coincidentally found out. They’ll listen to me after using my blood as bait, .—You knew about this type of condition?”\n

“Yes,” Xie Qingcheng coughed lightly, and took another smoke, minimizing the description as much as possible. “Blood parasite, a variant of ‘Mental Ebola’. …….You didn’t tell anyone else about this, right?’\n

He Yu chuckled, his gaze a little sombre. “You’re the only one that knows.”\n

“……”\n

“Someday, if I decided to kill someone to shut their mouths, I’ll just kill you.”\n

Xie Qingcheng rolled his eyes at him. “Try me.”\n

\nThe cigarette the police gave didn’t match Xie Qingcheng’s tastes. It was too coquettish, it was even a bursting mint flavour, Xie Qingcheng choked a few times, felt a little irritated and put the cigarette’s light out.\n

“Don’t tell other people about this. Not even doctors.”\n

“I’m not that dumb, Xie Qingcheng.” He Yu said softly. He really was of noble birth, even after going through so much, he was still the neatest and looked as handsome as ever. Some of the rescued people nearby were even peeking glances at him.\n

“The ‘Mental Ebola’ was already a solitary case, and having this condition that allows me to decide the fate of mentally unsound patients…… I don’t even need to think of having a peaceful death,”\n

“But Xie Qingcheng, you need to remember—”\n

He suddenly moved near him, almond shaped eyes examining Xie Qingcheng’s face, moving slowly: “This pair of eyes of yours, are the only pair of eyes that witnessed everything”\n

He was very close, his eyelashes looked like they were going to touch Xie Qingcheng’s. Amidst the chaos, his voice slowly creeped into Xie Qingcheng’s ears, allowing him to only listen to him.\n

Gently whispering, but just like a threat.\n

“This mouth of yours, is the only one that can disclose the secret.”\n

His gaze landed on Xie Qingcheng’s lips again, gazing at them like he could actually touch the pair of thin lips. His gaze was gentle, but the threat hidden in them was heavy.\n

While Xie Qingcheng had already put on a shirt that the fire brigade prepared for the rescued people.\n

He Yu stood in front of him, staring at his face while tidying Xie Qingcheng’s collar. It was the type of tidying that would make it look like he was being courteous from other people’s perspective—but only Xie Qingchen and He Yu understood that He Yu used a lot of strength while tidying his collar, and the collar was silently being tightened: as both a warning and forceful coercion.\n

He was especially polite when he was done, and smiled particularly gracefully. “So, this secret—\n

You better honor it, and honor it well.”\n

Xie Qingcheng coldy replied, “Are you threatening me?”\n

“How would I dare. It was just a reminder.” He Yu’s hands slid down from Xie Qingcheng’s collar, sighing, “I just want to live a normal life.”\n

Xie Qingcheng was too lazy to speak with such a lunatic.\n

Why would He Yu need to?\n

If he really wanted to reveal He Yu’s condition, he wouldn’t have reminded He Yu to not expose his condition.\n

But He Yu didn’t think that way, he didn’t trust Xie Qingcheng that much.\n

He only thought that Xie Qingchen’s mouth, from his point of view, has become a threat that he would really like to block just like a hostage being tied—if he didn’t let him speak, then he wouldn’t disclose the secret.\n

Xie Qingchen looked at him. “You said you only want to live a normal person’s life , so why would you risk going inside the fire, using the Blood Parasite and stealing time to save those patients?”\n

“Because I want to be and what I am are never the same,” said He Yu. “I want to be a normal person. But I am a mentally ill patient in the end.”\n

“I went in to save people, firstly was because the fire hadn’t spread to that side, and I know I can still make it, Secondly, do you remember me telling you, humans can never understand each other, and can never think the same as each other? Just like two entirely different species. Compared to you all, I think those people are the same as me, the only difference I have with them is that I’m better at pretending.”\n

He Yu said indifferently. “If even I think that their lives are dispensable, who else would treat them like an actual human being?’’\n

Just like a society, a group, a justice organization, a gangster alliance. No matter the kind of person, they needed to find those who belong in the same group as them. \n

Because absolute loneliness will drive people crazy.\n

He Yu was exactly someone who was too lonely. No one could understand his pain, other people could only listen to him describe, and know the pain he’s having only on a surface level. Furthermore, the three people that had the same illness as him all died.\n

He could only go to crowds similar to him, trying to find that little connection he has with the world.\n

But at the same time, this was dangerous to He Yu. He could bewitch those of the same kind’s hearts, his blood was just like a prize to the mentally unsound patients, and his words were an irresistible order to those people.\n

If he wanted, he could use it to do crimes.\n

—No wonder he didn’t want others to know.\n

Nobody could blame him for wanting to zip the only person that knows his condition—Xie Qingcheng’s mouth.\n

Xie Qingcheng said, “The same kind is so important to you, to the point you can ignore your own life.”\n

He Yu desolately said. “Doctor, you won’t understand us. You’re standing in the light, you can’t see the dark.”\n

“……” Xie Qingchen sighed, he didn’t want to continue this topic with him.\n

“Last question. Since you have the Blood Parasite, why didn’t you use it when we were facing Jiang Lanpei before?”\n

“Because it isn’t stable.,” said He Yu. “My blood can also make patients even more crazier, I can’t bet on those situations, unlike you—”\n

He suddenly stopped when he said this.\n

“You too, you were already being held hostage by her, yet you still spoke about the Cinderella incident. Betting like that, weren’t you scared that I wouldn’t react in time?”\n

“I dared to bet like that, because I thought that you were pretty smart,” said Xie Qingcheng indifferently. “Plus, didn’t you want to mention Cinderella when I went to your dorm to change clothes the other time?”\n

He Yu was silent for a while. Finally, he chuckled with his head down. Xie Qingcheng raised his hand to his forehead too. It was only then that there was some relaxation and cooling down after surviving such an incident between the two of them—\n

Yeah, they both remembered that incident, who would’ve thought it’d become a code to call the police in the nick of time.\n

It happened when He Yu was about eight or nine years old.\n

Xie Qingcheng thought that aside from the basic medical treatment, going out to relax was also needed. A lot of doctors believe that the treatment for mentally unsound patients mostly consists of medicines, but Xie Qingcheng had other thoughts. He believed that the mental state of a person was a reaction of the environment they lived in, and that they shouldn’t treat these patients like they were isolated and split then apart from society. Medicine cannot play a decisive role in the fight against mental illness—it cannot be the key to a patient coming out to re-establish a bridge between them and their society and family.\n

And so, he told this to Lu Zhishu.\n

Ms. Lu, who was busy in between business calls, lifted her gaze and smiled embarrassedly at Xie Qingcheng. “I don’t have time, Dr. Xie, why don’t you bring him out?”\n

Xie Qingcheng suppressed his anger and said, “He is your child.”\n

Ms. Lu had talked business to the point that she was used to it and said. “I’ll add money to your salary.” She said it without lifting her whatsoever.\n

“…….”\n

Ms.Lu then continued to walk away with her cellphone, chatting. It was like she was a business woman before she was a mother. The chubby rich lady was smiling happily saying, “CEO Zhang, CEO Li”,  to the phone from the beginning until the end, and her gaze had never once landed on Xie Qingcheng.\n

Not to mention the He Yu who was standing behind Xie Qingcheng.\n

Xie Qingcheng turned around, lowering his gaze, and noticed that He Yu didn’t care much about his mother’s actions. It seemed like he was very used to this type of mother-son relationship, sitting on the couch, peeling a bright orange tangerine and not sparing a look.\n

The tangerine was larger than his hand, and halfway through peeling the tangerine, He Yu didn’t manage to hold it and the tangerine fell to the floor, rolling under the coffee table. He jumped off the couch and reached his hand out, wanting to pick it up, but a juicy and yummy-looking apple came into view.\n

“It already fell on the ground, you still want to eat it?” Xie Qingcheng sighed, he didn’t know why he became softhearted either. He gave the apple to He Yu, and picked up the tangerine on the floor.\n

“I’ll take you to the amusement park tomorrow.”\n

So the next day, Xie Qingcheng took his sister and He Yu to the amusement park together. Xie Xue always had a good personality —she laughed a lot, and knew how to look after He Yu didi. He Yu’s whole mood seemed to be much better.\n

But as they were leaving, it started to pour.\n

By the time they were able to get a taxi, all three were drenched through. The He Manor was located in a further district and was quite a distance away, so Xie Qingcheng took the two kids to the medical school dormitory first.\n

Xie Qingcheng’s university dorm was similar to the one He Yu is currently in. The room was shared by four people.\n

When he brought the two drowned chickens back, the other roommates were all busy at the lab, so no one was in the room.\n

“Gege! Your cactus bloomed!” As soon as Xie Xue got in, she sat at his desk with familiarity. She fiddled with the little yellow flower on the cactus planted in an eggshell pot with a bright smile on her face. “Wow…… it’s so pretty.”\n

It was clear this was not the first time she had visited her brother’s dorm.\n

Xie Qingcheng made each of them a cup of hot ginger tea, and handed it to them without their asking.\n

“Drink it while it’s hot.”\n

Xie Xue liked food with spice. She held the cup and happily chugged down the hot ginger tea, finishing it very quickly. But He Yu could not—the young master cannot handle flavors that are too intense, so he held the cup with his head down and barely took any sips.\n

Xie Qingcheng had gone to the bathroom to wash his hands. He Yu was just thinking how he should get rid of his cup of nose-stinging beverage, when he heard Xie Xue exclaim with a satisfied sigh, “That was so good.”\n

“……” He Yu turned his face over, observing her silently.\n

Noticing his gaze, Xie Xue turned her head as well, grinning at him while eyeing his cup intently. “If you don’t like it……”\n

“No, I like it very much.” He Yu said calmly.\n

“How’s that possible, you barely drank any!”\n

He Yu smiled a little. “It is because I like it that I can’t bear to drink it too fast.”\n

“…… Oh……” Xie Xue seemed convinced, and nodded in disappointment, about to turn away.\n

Only at this moment did He Yu hand over the mug he had long since wanted to get rid of. “For you.”\n

“Eh? D-Didn’t you say you like it?”\n

“If you want it I’ll give it to you.”\n

The little idiot’s eyes immediately widened, accepting the hot ginger tea with gratitude.\n

He Yu did not forget to calmly advise the little idiot. “Drink it quickly, don’t let your brother find out I gave my cup to you, or he’ll scold you again.”\n

“En en en.” Xie Xue unknowingly thanked the person that was taking advantage of her idiocyShe drank the tea so quickly she almost choked. “Cough coughcoughcough……”\n

He Yu patted her back with a smile.\n

“Ginger tea is my favorite.” Xie Xue eased up, eyes watery, holding the mug with leftover warmth, and whispered to He Yu. “When we were little, we lived in a small alley, there was no source of heat, so my brother would make this for me every time it snowed……”\n

It was obviously a difficult time in their lives, but when she reminisced about it, her eyes sparkled brightly.\n

As if she was recalling some incredibly delightful memory.\n

Xie Qingcheng came back after washing his hands. He glanced at the two kids sitting on the edge of his dorm bed/ “You’ve both finished drinking?”\n

The two children gave each other a knowing glance, like exchanging a secret. He Yu was very calm, but Xie Xue was a little nervous, so she rapidly nodded her head. But as she was nodding, because she was bloated, she couldn’t help but open her mouth a little and let out a small burp.\n

Xie Qingcheng did not mind them any longer. He turned around to look for a change of clothes in the closet. The place where Xie Xue studied Sanda was close to the medical school, after every lesson she would be drenched in sweat. Xie Qingcheng especially prepared a few cool outfits for her so she can easily change. It turned out to be useful for this situation too.\n

“Do you want Belle or Cinderella?” The big brother dug through the closet, but what came out of his thin lips were the delicate names of two fairy tale princesses.\n

The little girl replied happily, “I want Belle!”\n

Xie Qingcheng handed her a pale yellow princess dress. Xie Xue gave an enthusiastic cheer, and bounced over to the bathroom to change.\n

Xie Xue left, but He Yu was still dripping wet beside the bed.\n

Xie Qingcheng looked through his closet for a bit longer. Finally he sighed, came back to his senses, and did something very inhumane—\n

“You can put this on.”\n

He Yu took the dress, spread it out, and calmly said, “Dr. Xie, you got the wrong one.”\n

“I did not.”\n

He Yu froze for a moment, slowly raised his head, and narrowed his eyes. His expression gradually revealed a coldness that could not be hidden.\n

“You gave me a dress.”\n

And it was Cinderella’s blue princess dress.\n

Facing He Yu’s suppressed anger, Xie Qingcheng, not sure whether intentional or not, actually let out a laugh. But with such a cold and frosty face, even when you put a smile on it, you can’t tell whether it’s a sneer or a real laugh.\n

“You’ve no choice. This is the only thing I have in your size.”\n

He Yu said, “I think I can wear your button-down shirt.”\n

Xie Qingcheng folded his arms, leaned against the ladder on the bunk bed, and stared down at him. “Xiao Gui. My shirts are too big for you.”\n

“……”\n

“Don’t wanna wear it? Then you gotta go out naked.”\n

“……”\n

The pitter-patter of rain outside became the background melody of this conversation……\n

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The fire at Cheng Kang Hospital was slowly coming under control. The firefighters went in and out; the police were busy doing investigations. Xie Qingcheng and He Yu met each other’s gaze, and saw the reflection of the past in each other’s eyes.\n

He Yu said, “You told me at the time, that it’s not a bad deal. There’s a candy in the dress’s pocket, you suggested I dig through it, and consider it my mental compensation. But I said that was poison, I’m not eating it. Now that I think about it, you were really an asshole back then.”\n

Xie Qingcheng said, “…… I don’t remember anymore.”\n

Then he got up to leave.\n

“Who the fuck are you trying to kid?” He Yu immediately raised his hand and blocked off his path, his hand landing on the tree behind Xie Qingcheng. He narrowed his eyes. “You don’t remember? If you don’t remember then why, when you were captured by Jiang Lanpei, did you remind me to dig through your shirt pocket for your phone, telling me about Cinderella’s candy?”\n

Xie Qingcheng showed no signs of guilt, he coldly replied, “Coincidence.”\n

He Yu became furious.\n

He thought when he brought Xie Qingcheng back to his dorm and lent him a T-shirt, he was really too kind to him. Looking at things now, even if he had to order an immediate delivery, he should’ve gotten him to wear a wedding dress, and it had to be the sexy kind with a lace garter belt, complete with stockings. If he refuses he’ll get handcuffed and thrown on the bed, with the dress forced on him. Or else he can’t humiliate him, for this man was too shameless!\n

“You don’t remember right?”\n

He lowered his head and spoke.\n

“Then you should be careful from now on, don’t get yourself so wet again……” He Yu’s eyes slowly swept over Xie Qingcheng’s brows, he said gently, “What I lend you next time won’t simply be just a T-shirt.”\n

Xie Qingcheng’s reaction to his threat was to raise his hand and pat He Yu’s face. “Don’t worry Xiao Gui, you won’t have a chance. If I get wet, I can just walk out naked.”\n

“What naked?” An officer walked over and noticed it was the two lunatics that ran into the fire, he immediately said, “Don’t go in naked again! It was so dangerous! No, I meant, don’t go in even if you’re not naked……”\n

He Yu smiled gently, eyes full of kindness. “Yeah, I was just telling him. So dangerous, right Xie-ge?”\n

“What are you telling him for? Didn’t you go in first so he had to follow you?” The little officer glared at them. “Sigh, forget it. Did you get your injuries treated? If so, then come back with me to the station, we’ll be real busy tonight.”\n

Because this was a big incident, with many people involved, everyone had to be interviewed in detail and recorded properly.\n

The police cars made several trips to bring related persons back to the station. Because there were just way too many people, they couldn’t get to everyone, so they prepared a few lounge rooms. Those who didn’t get their turn yet can spend this chaotic night in those rooms.\n

Xie Xue also arrived following Xie Qingcheng.\n

She was a girl, so she got put in a room with a female nurse. He Yu and Xie Qingcheng were placed in the room next door.\n

Before Xie Xue went to sleep, she had already recovered quite a bit. Because she was passed out for most of the event, she didn’t see anything too gory, so she was relatively unaffected. Instead, she started comforting the still rattled nurse-jiejies.\n

“It’s alright, we survived a big incident, so we must be pretty lucky. Let’s rest first, when it’s our turn an officer will come and call us.”\n

“I can’t sleep waaaahhhh……”\n

“If you can’t sleep then I’ll sing you a song. Toss, toss, toss the handkerchief……”\n

“Ahhhhh don’t sing this kind of creepy song!”\n

Xie Xue was puzzled. “I don’t know why this song popped into my head. When I was unconscious I think someone was singing this beside me… Then I’ll change the song…. Within the galaxy in the blue sky, there was a little white boat ……”\n

The nurse, “???”\n

Xie Xue looked dejected. “I’m braindead, sorry sorry. How about I tell you a joke instead.”\n

Xie Qingcheng and He Yu were placed into one room.\n

“You two can sleep here. The condition of the room isn’t that good, but just make do for now. If you need anything, come find us. When it’s your turn, someone will call.” The little officer left after explaining quickly. There were still a bunch of witnesses he needed to get to.\n

Xie Qingcheng and He Yu opened the door and entered together. When they saw the room’s arrangement, they both froze-—\n

This really is a temporarily prepared lounge……\n

Inside the room, there was only one fucking sofa bed.\n

How can they sleep like this??\n

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Mini Theatre:\n

Character card: He Yu\n

Gender: Male\n

Age: 19\n

Height: 189cm\n

Favorite color: Black\n

Disliked colours: Purple, pink, blue, white\n

Favorite food: Nothing in particular\n

Food you dislike: A lot of things, particularly the spicy stuff\n

Favorite animal: Cold-blooded ones\n

Animals you don’t like: Most humans\n

Is there a person you like at the moment: Yes\n

Anecdote: \n

Because He Yu is very pretty, having an elegant and refined face, he was harassed by a boy when he was in school. In the end this resulted in He Yu breaking his legs. He Yu didn’t know if Xie Qingcheng’s intentions when he gave him that princess dress was the same, if this evil doctor wanted to woobifyhim. He dwelled on this for a long time. He really despised when other people try to woobify him. Fortunately once he grew to 189cm those people finally opened their eyes, and know what to say and what not to say. He hasn’t been openly harassed by a man since.\n

He Yu: Xie Qingcheng, just admit it, you wanted to woobify me at that time didn’t you?\n

Xie Qingcheng: I really didn’t have children’s clothes for boys in my closet.\n

He Yu: I know you want to woobify me, just you wait when I handcuff you on the bed and force a wedding dress on you!\n

Xie Xue: I want to ask—why does it have to be a wedding dress?\n

He Yu: Isn’t a wedding dress the adult version of a princess dress?\n

Xie Xue: ……\n

Xie Qingcheng: (scoffing) Xiao Gui, go wash up and sleep, everything exists in your dreams.

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