Chapter 19

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We finally stopped arguing\n

“He-laoban, there’s an emergency kit in the cave on the island. In the second tier there are a few boxes of condoms. If you need, just go look in the box. Don’t forget to send me a red packet if you use it……”\n

He had only just finished writing the message and sent it, when there was suddenly a voice behind him.\n

“Lil’ student.”\n

The black merchant senior had a guilty conscience and therefore easily startled, he almost flipped into the water.\n

The other party was very quick to react, he immediately stabilized the boat. He smiled and said: “Lil’ student, did I scare you?”\n

“Ah, n-no.”\n

The senior raised his head and saw a man with sparse facial hair standing in front of him, roughly in his thirties or forties, wearing a singlet tank and flip-flops, looking sloppy as hell. He didn’t know who he was, but the man’s eyes had a glint to them.\n

Flip-flops guy smiled and asked him, “Are you using this boat?”\n

“Oh, the boat.“ The senior started bullshitting, “The boat is broken.”\n

“…… broken?”\n

“Yeah, there’s a hole on the bottom. You can’t use it, you can only dock it in shallow waters.”\n

Flip-flops guy say, “Is that so? The bridge you had that connects to the island also seemed to be broken.”\n

“That’s right.” The senior said with conviction, “I cu—cough, I think someone probably cut it down. Who are you?”\n

Flip-flops guy gave a toothy grin, “I’m the school’s electrical maintenance worker. I got a notice to check the island. See, I brought my toolbox with me.”\n

When the senior heard it was a school employee, he felt a little guilty. He cleared his throat, glanced left and right, then went over to him: “Da-ge, I’ll be honest with you, there’s a rich guy wanting to make a love confession on the island today, so he booked the entire island. Think about it, do you want to be that shitty guy that breaks up a couple? No, right?”\n

Flip-flops guy seemed to have a revelation, his eyes sparkled brightly, and gossiped, “Oh, he booked the island for a confession. So romantic; you young people really know how to have fun.”\n

“I know right?” The senior slapped his thigh, put his two fingers together and rubbed his thumb with his forefinger\n\n. “Most importantly, he has money.”\n

Flip-flops guy chuckled. He seemed to be quite understanding.\n

“Alright. Then this boat of yours, when do you think we can use it?”\n

“Probably after midnight. But I’m afraid that for a young couple, once they confess, they can’t hold themselves back. Their desires are uncontrollable after tasting the forbidden fruit. So it’s possible to be a bit later too.” The senior saw that the uncle was pretty easy to talk to, so he blabbed on with him.\n

For men, when they’re talking about this kind of thing, it’s inevitable for them to look a bit devilish.\n

The senior said slyly, “Why don’t you come back tomorrow morning, they would have left by tomorrow morning for sure. One of them is a model student, there’s no way he’d skip class.”\n

Flip-flops guy snorted with laughter. “What the fuck, even beauty can’t hold back a model student from going to class.”\n

“Of course, or else how can he be a model student?”\n

The man exchanged a few more words with the senior, then took his toolbox and left.\n

When there was no one around anymore, he stopped and lit a cigarette, and took out a phone from the toolbox. It was an extremely old style brick phone, one that was no longer sold on the market. “Hello. Captain Zheng, you gotta give me some more time, I won’t be able to go on the island tonight…… Problem? There’s no problem,  just two students occupying the island for a confession. En, okay. I got it, I’ll go back first thing tomorrow morning.”\n

He shook the ashes off the cigarette, and sighed helplessly. “Say, this informant of ours, he’s a bit too careful. He doesn’t even want to send a message. Everytime he gives us information, he has to fucking write it on this sort of student guest book. Said something about it’s harder for people to notice…… sigh…… forget it, I’m going back to the station. I just came to get some information and instead got force fed dog food from these little brats, it ain’t easy being a police officer……”\n

Flip-flops guy muttered as he walked away.\n

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Inside the dream island cave.\n

The entrance to the cave was small, and it was dark inside. If not for the sudden rainstorm, Xie Qingcheng felt no one would come here under normal circumstances. But when he bent down and walked inside, he noticed that he was wrong.\n

Using light from their cell phones, one can see some common outdoor activity equipment in the artificial cave: lantern, tarp, foldable lawn chair, LED flashlight, and even a set of outdoor cooking utensils.\n

“Secret Utopia.”\n

“What?” Xie Qingcheng turned around.\n

He Yu shone his cell phone flashlight towards the wall. “It’s written here.”\n

Xie Qingcheng then noticed that on the smooth walls of the artificial cave, there were many messages left by those warriors of the past—it’s full of graffiti left by those students who had accidentally found this place.\n

And the biggest of those words was “Secret Utopia”.\n

Xie Qingcheng had no interest in these graffiti. He took a quick glance, then went back to the cave entrance and watched the rain fall.\n

But He Yu was studying screen adaptation. He’s interested in reading any types of work he comes across.\n

“Buddha has once saved the common people by guiding them to the shore, why couldn’t he help me escape this sea of books?”\n

“I’ve loved Mr. Zhou for my entire life, but when we met again he was already someone else’s husband. I could not chase after him, and my thoughts became crazed, but I couldn’t voice it out, only watch from a distance.”\n

He Yu held the lantern near the wall, reading out loud as he goes, and shook his head. “So poetic, all so bitter with sentiment.”\n

Then he walked to the other side.\n

On the other side, the messages were all over the place. He began reading again. “Advanced math should GTFO of the university curriculum.”\n

“I’m graduating soon, I hope I can become a big director. Go me.”\n

“Taking shelter from the rain, we……”\n

He Yu’s voice suddenly died down, he stopped reading.\n

Xie Qingcheng was instead curious. “We what?”\n

“…… nothing.”\n

Xie Qingcheng didn’t believe him, he turned around to look, and was immediately speechless—\n

“Taking shelter from the rain, we made love. Thank the heavens for this fated opportunity.” \n

Underneath it were the names of those two lovebirds, with a big heart drawn around them.\n

This scenery was rather awkward, no wonder He Yu stopped reading. Xie Qingcheng said indifferently, “Did you get dyslexia after these few years of me not seeing you, that you have to read things out aloud when looking at them?”\n

“You don’t think this is interesting? Who knows where these people are now, they have probably long forgotten the kind of content they wrote here.” He Yu raised his hand and brushed over a mottled section of words, “Perhaps some of them have already returned to the earth and don’t exist anymore, but their words are still here.”\n

Xie Qingcheng coldly said, “Then why don’t you leave a message too, for the future generations to appreciate.”\n

He was just making a sarcastic comment, he didn’t expect He Yu to actually pick up a sharp rock. He Yu found an empty space, and said thoughtfully, “That makes sense, what do you think I should write.”\n

He Yu finished speaking and glanced at Xie Qingcheng, his gaze carrying a hint of disgust he couldn’t hide. Yes…… Taking shelter from the rain, we made love. Thank the heavens for this fated opportunity, how many familiar classic love stories began like this. The white snake borrowed an umbrella from Xu Hanlin in the boat with a smile on her face. Benigni laid a red carpet down the entire stairs for Nicoletta in the rain.\n

If the one here was Xie Xue, perhaps this night would have been much more pleasant. Perhaps they can follow the example of those previous, under the words of the two upperclassmen brought together by the rain, scribble “So did we”.\n

Unfortunately the one currently stuck on this island is Xie Qingcheng.\n

It’s already very boring when a straight man and another straight man are stuck together, not to mention their relationship isn’t very good.\n

Xie Qingcheng noticed He Yu’s gaze wasn’t very friendly, so he gave him an even unfriendlier look,.“What are you looking at me for?”\n

“Sorry, there’s no one else I can look at.” He Yu tossed the rock a few times in his hand, and carelessly scribbled a few words: “Make your dreams come true.”\n

Powder from the rock rustled down.\n

He Yu finished writing, threw the rock away, and turned around. “Would Dr. Xie like to be childish too?”\n

Xie Qingcheng’s eyes gleamed slightly, and finally moved his gaze towards the pouring rain outside again. Within the warm misty lights, his silhouette looked as thin as a piece of paper blowing in the wind.\n

“No need. Mine is a daydream.”\n

“Oh.” He Yu said casually, “Then tell me, what kind of daydream is it. —Is that okay for me to ask? I’m not being rude right?”\n

It stormed wildly outside. Xie Qingcheng did not reply for a long time. Just as He Yu thought he wouldn’t bother answering, Xie Qingcheng watched the rainwater flowing outside and said calmly, “I didn’t want to be a doctor before.”\n

“You’re not a doctor now either.”\n

“From the very beginning, I did not want to study medicine.”\n

This made He Yu a little surprised, he raised his almond eyes. “Then what did you want to study?”\n

Xie Qingcheng got up and came back inside the cave. He stared at the words “Make your dreams come true”, then said, “…… It’s been too long. I can’t remember.”\n

This lie was so indisgenuous, very obvious, that he didn’t even bother to hide the disappointment in his eyes. He Yu almost suspected Xie Qingcheng was using this as an opportunity to make fun of his intelligence.\n

Xie Qingcheng turned his face, as if he did not want to continue this topic anymore. He went inside the cave and asked He Yu, “Do you have anything to eat?”\n

It really is just about dinner time now. The only food He Yu brought onto the island was the mango mousse. He originally made that for Xie Xue.\n

But right now it can only be sacrificed as their food source.\n

He Yu wasn’t particularly interested in Xie Qingcheng anyway. Since Xie Qingcheng didn’t want to talk about the life plans he had in the past, then he won’t bother asking either.\n

He took out the cake, and handed a piece to Xie Qingcheng. Xie Qingcheng must’ve been very hungry; he didn’t even look at it, just started eating as soon as he got it.\n

“Do you have any napkins?” Xie Qingcheng likes to be neat and clean. After he ate, he had to ask Secretary He for napkins too.\n

Secretary He scanned around, he saw an emergency kit on the folding table. These kind of kits will sometimes have stuff like napkins, so he went over to take a look.\n

It was too dark. He found a pack of something that looked to be about the right size, and threw it over to Xie Qingcheng.\n

Xie Qingcheng caught it and was just about to open it, when he felt the texture of the packaging wasn’t quite right. Why is it a paper box?\n

He took another look.\n

Xie Qingcheng, “……”\n

“What’s wrong?”\n

Xie Qingcheng coldly threw back the box of Durex to He Yu.\n

“Do you have eyes.”\n

He Yu took a look, was silent for a few seconds, then quietly put the box back in the emergency kit.\n

God fucking dammit.\n

And it was the kinky kind with ribbed texture.\n

But both of them had a rather thick face when it came to stuff like this. He Yu’s acceptance of things is typically pretty high. It was nothing more than a misunderstanding, really not a big deal.\n

As for Xie Qingcheng, his personality is steady and calm, and will rarely have any emotional fluctuation. Also he was already a divorcee, even though he’s not particularly interested in this kind of thing, he wouldn’t have any reaction to seeing adult products either.\n

Xie Qingcheng only frowned a bit. “How are you students so reckless these days?”\n

“It’s not that bad,” He Yu calmly replied. “You haven’t seen the more reckless things.”\n

As he said that, he noticed a notebook beside the emergency kit.\n

“Utopia Guest Book”\n

These types of notebooks are usually a book of secrets. Those who leave a message can continue off of the messages left previously. Even though the people from before will not likely see it, the people after can still add to it. They’re quite interesting to read.\n

Of course, most of these types of notebooks will eventually be about love and dating, so the contents will probably be intriguing.\n

He Yu switched gears, he picked up that notebook, and said to Xie Qingcheng, “Does Dr. Xie want to have a look? There should be lots of content in this notebook that will help you understand the current generation a little bit better.”\n

……\n

There was nothing else to do, so the two started reading.\n

As expected, the notebook was densely filled with all kinds of writing, most of them are declarations of love, dating announcements, secret confessions and other similar type things.\n

As they flipped through the pages, He Yu suddenly made an “En?” sound.\n

“Xie Qingcheng, someone mentioned you here.”\n

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The author has something to say:\n

Mini Theatre “How to make Xie Qingcheng lose his composure”:\n

Xie Xue: Pour water on his head, then take out a $4000 hair dryer, and a broken one at that.\n

Result: Not effective; he’d only scold you with a few harsh words, he won’t lose his composure.\n

Chen Man: Take away all his cigarettes and not admit to it no matter what?\n

Result: Not effective; he’ll just pull it out of your shirt pocket and light it with an indifferent expression.\n

The senior: Hand him a box of Durex as a box of napkins?\n

Result: Not effective, even though he’s a bit frigid, he’s not a virgin, and he won’t be embarrassed. In the end he will just calmly throw it back and ask if you grew any eyes.\n

He Yu: (following the script of the lowly author) …… Xie Qingcheng, if I fucked you will you lose composure?\n

Xie Qingcheng: Are you not awake yet? If not then go back to sleep.

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