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Ch60 - If you have me you won’t be bitter anymore
Shen Xiao Shi’s flying kick seemed to have descended from the heavens above, as the mistress appeared rather dumbstruck in the aftermath.
“Shit, who the fuck are you?” I could no longer see him, but I could still hear his furious line of questioning.
Shen Xiao Shi sneered and exclaimed, “Your grandfather!” before leaping towards him.
Seeing the two begin to fight each other, I raised a leg about to follow Shen Xiao Shi’s footsteps of leaping across the flower bed. My foot was already placed down when I suddenly realised that I didn’t have to follow his actions, as I withdrew my foot and circled the flowerbed instead, running towards them.
Wei Shi had drank too much as well and was comparable to the mistress in his dumbfounded expression towards what just happened. He looked stunned at the two brawling on the floor, his expression a total loss at what was occurring.
“What are you doing just standing there? Separate the two of them!” I roared at Wei Shi, as I hurriedly stepped forward, restraining the mistress.
My target wasn’t short, as he was roughly the same height as me. Amidst his current rampage, I found it hard to hold him back.
After being yelled at by me, Wei Shi was galvanised into action as he scrambled into the scene. Wei Shi approached him from behind and looped his arms under Shen Xiao Shi’s armpits, applying brute force to separate the two of them.
“Fuck, don’t stop me, I’m going to kick this bastard and finish him!” Shen Xiao Shi breathed out alcohol, his eyes bloodshot, as his attempted to continue sending kicks his way, “And he dares to sexually harrass someone in public, I think he’s bored of being alive!”
“What does it have to do with you though, are you ill or something?” The mistress approached him again, angered, dragging me along with him and seemingly wanting to resume their fight.
“Yes, I do have an illness – it’s where if I see a slut I’ll want to fight them. To cure it I think I’ll have to beat your ass to death!”
Shen Xiao Shi had cursed at his target so thoroughly that the mistress had no room for rebuttals, as he trembled with anger instead. He asked Wei Shi instead, “Wei Shi, who is this person? Do you guys know each other?”
Wei Shi ignored him, not sparing him a single glance as he softly comforted Shen Xiao Shi instead.
“Alright, alright, don’t get too angered over it, it’s all okay now.” He pressed his lips to Shen Xiao Shi’s ear, as he tightly ensconced him in his chest.
Shen Xiao Shi panted heavily, and gradually actually began to calm down.
He was shorter than Wei Shi by a half, and currently he was obediently leaning into Wei Shi’s embrace, giving an illusion that he was going to completely sink into Wei Shi’s body.
There were many cliques in prison, and conflicts were extremely common to see. Shen Xiao Shi happened to have an appearance that looked as if he was an easy target to bully as well. Whenever a new prisoner arrived in jail and wanted to establish a reputation for himself, he would often be chosen as the fated one. However, those people weren’t aware that though Shen Xiao Shi looked weak, he was most definitely a little white rabbit who hid steel teeth. If a whole group of people attacked him, they might have some advantage, but he had never been afraid in any one-on-one.
Everyone had some kind of flaw. Wei Shi was the type who when he got angry would stay enraged for a long time, while Shen Xiao Shi was someone who if he got into a fight would continue brawling endlessly, all attempts to hold him back being futile. Each time it got to this point, Wei Shi would act as a tranquilizer, like how he was now, pulling Shen Xiao Shi away before the prison guards arrived.
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Though now there were fewer chances to end up in a fight, Shen Xiao Shi still retained habits of the past as he automatically stopped in his tracks after being hugged, as if it had triggered a conditioned reflex of his.
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I couldn’t deal with his sorrowful tone as I frowned deeply, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I had no hands free at the moment, I would’ve wanted to rub the goose bumps on my arm.
After hearing this, Wei Shi finally raised his eyes and looked over towards him. The glance he directed over was extremely cold, to the point where even I trembled three times when I saw it, let alone the person he was staring directly at.
“Leave.”
The mistress’ body stiffened, as he quietly looked at the two people who were leaning against each other for a moment, before asking me to let him go.
I determined it didn’t seem like he was going to become violent, so I loosened my hold of him.
He patted the dust on his body, adjusted his shirt, glanced at Wei Shi one last time and then left silently.
With the target gone, Wei Shi naturally no longer needed to restrain Shen Xiao Shi either, as he slowly loosened his strength. However, none of us expected Shen Xiao Shi’s behaviour just then to be from a brief moment of lucidity, as after the blood rushed to his head the alcohol hit him even more strongly. Without Wei Shi supporting him anymore, he crumpled directly on the floor.
“Xiao Shi!” Wei Shi had half an arm around Shen Xiao Shi’s body which was sliding downwards. He anxiously checked his pulse, and only allowed himself to be relieved when he was certain that Xiao Shi had passed out from being drunk.
I explained to Wei Shi why Shen Xiao Shi had appeared here tonight, and also asked Wei Shi what the whole situation with the mistress was.
“I accidentally ran into him a while ago and he has been harassing me since. I’ve been ignoring him, but I didn’t expect him to follow me here.” He and I supported Shen Xiao Shi as we grabbed one arm each and walked towards the side of the road.
“My guess is that he wants to turn back to graze upon a pasture he had already passed.”
Wei Shi spat, “Well even if he wanted to graze upon this pasture, I would have to let him do it! Fuck, I really must have been blind to have liked him. I was overcome by lust and bewitched by his appearance to have not realised he was such a disgusting being.”
I saw an empty taxi approaching so quickly stepped forwards to hail it.
“That’s normal, humans are visual animals. It’ll always be easier to have more people like you if you’re good looking.”
The taxi stopped right in front of us and I opened the door to allow Wei Shi and Shen Xiao Shi to get in. When I was about to step into the taxi as well, Wei Shi said that he would be fine sending Shen Xiao Shi off alone and told me to get home early.
I subconsciously glanced at Shen Xiao Shi who was leaning on Wei Shi’s shoulder, and happened to catch his eyelashes fluttering unnaturally and realised that he was only pretending to be asleep. It appeared that Wei Shi had also realised this and wanted to take the opportunity to talk through their matters once and for all and to spare me from being a third wheel.
“Alright, you guys be careful and stay safe.”
I closed the car door and watched them disappear into the distance. With a long sigh, I tucked my hands into my pockets and stopped another taxi before I washed up and called it a day.
I woke up early the next day, washed and got dressed before I left the house neatly, whistling a tune in my mouth. I hadn’t even taken a few steps before I bumped into a courier delivery boy in the corridor.
“Are you Mr Lu, Lu Feng?” The courier boy held in his hands a tiny parcel, “I’ve called you previously, do you remember?”
The parcel that Yi Da Zhuang mistakenly sent over to my address had arrived a few days ago, but I had to work in the day, and the courier service didn’t operate at night so I could only arrange for the delivery to happen early in the morning.
There had been too many things which occurred recently, and I almost forgot there was a delivery coming to my place. Luckily I met the courier here, otherwise who knows when I would’ve been able to receive the package.
“I remember, sorry to have you specifically come back to deliver it again. You can give it to me now.”
After signing off on it, I accepted the parcel from the courier and decided I was too lazy to go back home to leave it there. Seeing that it was a small item, I simply stuffed it into my outer pocket and brought it with me to Sheng Min Ou’s house.
The security guard there remembered me, and this time he only made a simple visitor record of me before letting me in.
As I arrived outside Sheng Min Ou’s apartment, I placed an ear on the door, trying to detect any movements inside. However, the door was too firm and thick to hear anything. Given the current time, I guessed that I should still be able to catch him so I entered the password and pushed the door to enter. Sure enough, Sheng Min Ou was there, with a neat shirt and tie, as he looked ready to leave for work.
My entrance was rather sudden as he stood there holding a cup of coffee, his motions stilled in mid-air as he furrowed his brows and looked over at me.
“Who allowed you to enter?”
I changed my shoes and closed the door for him.
“Yeah okay, if you didn’t want me to come in then why didn’t you change the password?”
I didn’t know if it was because that one sentence had called Sheng Min Ou out, but he was silent for a moment, then he said nothing of the matter when he spoke again.
“What are you doing here so early?” He put the coffee cup back on the tray, a crisp clink sounding when the porcelain clattered against each other.
“I came here to see how you were going with thinking about it.” I had hurried over to Sheng Min Ou’s apartment so was feeling quite thirsty as I took off my coat and placed it on the back of the dining chair. I lifted up the cup of coffee that was put down by Sheng Min Ou and drank it.
I finished it all in one sip, and the astringent taste of it was hard to endure.
“It’s only been one night since then.” Sheng Min Ou’s eyebrows raised slightly in response.
“I said I’d allow you a few days to think about it. It has been two days if we count yesterday and today. Isn’t that enough?” I clicked my tongue, finding myself unable to rid the bitter taste in my mouth, “Ge, you’re honestly lacking sweet things in your life. This isn’t good, it’s not good at all.”
I put the cup back on the tray in disgust, and noticed a stack of sugar cubes on the side as I quickly tossed a cube in my mouth.
Sheng Min Ou leaned against the dining table and crossed his arms to his chest before asking, “Then what do you propose?”
“I’m sweet.” I pointed to myself and smiled, “If you have me you won’t be bitter anymore”
He glanced at my mouth when hearing the words, “I’m afraid of tooth decay if it’s too sweet.” After speaking, he picked up the car keys on the table and strode to the door.
I watched him leave and didn’t chase after him. Instead, I shouted from behind him, “Drive safe on your way there!”
Sheng Min Ou suddenly stopped and looked back at me, a hint of suspicion flashing in his eyes.
He must be wondering why I wasn’t following him. After all, I used to be overjoyed to be able to drive for him.
“I want to live here.” Under his gaze, I patted the back of the chair without batting an eye, “My house was robbed and turned upside down. Now the interior is in chaos, and there’s no way for me to live in it. Plus 
I’m also afraid.”
“There was a break in?” Sheng Min Ou narrowed his eyes.
“It happened just last night.”
“Someone with your gutsiness is afraid of thieves?”
“I’m not afraid of the thief stealing from me, I’m afraid of the thief keeping me on their mind. What if the thief comes to steal again while I’m at home, and I bump straight into them. What if this time he decides to commit to his decision and kills during his act of theft too?” I approached Sheng Min Ou, standing closer to him and adjusted his tie which wasn’t crooked in the first place, as my hand gilded easily to stroke his chest, “Ge, are you able to leave me like this?”
Sheng Min Ou gave one glance to my hand which was wreaking havoc and grabbed my wrist as he pulled it away from him.
“Sleep outside, and you’re forbidden to enter my room.” He released my hand, turned around and left again.
I had achieved my goal so I didn’t call out to him to stop him again. When the door closed behind him, I danced wildly on the spot for a while to celebrate, then ran to his bedroom at lightspeed.
Today was a public holiday at the pawn shop so I don’t have to go to work. I laid down on his bed that had been neatly made up and curled up with the quilt that had Sheng Min Ou’s scent all over it as I fell asleep, not keeping his words in mind at all.