Chapter 31

Chapter 31 – He Wants To Treat Bai Huai Better

He originally wanted to send a group message, but accidentally turned it into a group chat.

Nonetheless, he received a lot of replies.

I am a fat mushroom: [super diet pills!]

Fortune-teller 40% discount: [I hit cp’s marriage license!]

Xu Dashuai: [Goddess of a night of spring!]

Zhou Xiaolu: [The god’s one night of sex!]

Xu Dashuai: [Wait, Brother Song, did you miss someone?]

Lu Qi Feng: [I doubt that this is all for our birthdays. Is this for Bai Huai? If this is for Bai Huai then this will be easy just send it to him.]

Lu Qi Feng: [You can refer to Zhuo Luo’s opinion.]

Jian Songyi: [How can I refer to it? Find a moneyboy for Bai Huai? Isn’t that illegal?]

B.: [Theoretically speaking, it is against the law if you hire one, but if you wouldn’t pay him then it won’t be illegal.]

Zhou Xiaoluo: …..

Yang Yue: …..

Yu Ziguo: …..

Lu Qi Feng: …..

Everyone stared at that “Xu Dashuai invited B. and joined the group chat” for three seconds.

And in an instant, everyone left the group chat one after another.

Xu Dashuai: [What is going on? Why did they all leave? Are they excluding me or Master Bai?]

Xu Dashuai: [shit! You are going to hire a moneyboy for Master Bai?! That’s so exciting!]

Jian Songyi left the group chat before throwing his phone away from him. He covered his head with a pillow and just wanted to kill himself on the spot.

Those bunch of idiots.

He finally understood why Bai Huai didn’t normally like making friends. It’s because friends dig holes all the way until you can bury yourself easily.

His mobile phone rolled to the ground with his ringtone ringing. Jian Songyi pretended to not hear it.

He originally thought of preparing a birthday surprise for Bai Huai, but he personally caught him and Lu Qi Feng discussing: finding a money boy for him.

He just wants to kill himself.

But doesn’t it seem normal for boys their age to open their mouths about pornography? It doesn’t seem to be something to be ashamed of to the point that you wanted to kill yourself, right? It seems like it’s not impossible to let go, though.

When he hit the mental block, Jian Songyi finally realized that his phone stopped ringing already.

But then, before he could even react, the door rang. 

It was accompanied by Bai Huai’s low voice: “What? You dare search a male prostitute for me and then dare not to reply to my messages? Are you afraid to open the door for me now?”

Jian Songyi: …..

It’s better not to say anything anymore.

He covered his head and said nothing. Jian Songyi pretended to be dead.

But then again, it didn’t do the trick. There was a sound of the door handle being twisted. “If you don’t speak, then I’ll just come in.” Bai Huai warned.

“Don’t! I am naked!” Jian Songyi exclaimed as he quickly pulled out his head from the pillow covering it.

Bai Huai smiles slightly: “So you still have this hobby at home? What if I want and became more eager to come in more?”

“…..” Jian Songyi’s breath hitches. Bai Huai turns out to be so good at being a pervert.

“Don’t you understand the Alpha-Omega second genders? How can you be so perverted?!”

“Aren’t you the one having wrong thoughts during the group chat?”

“…..” Every time Jian Songyi feels ashamed, he feels guilty and could not speak. After holding his tongue back for a long time, he managed to compose himself and spoke: “I am asleep!”

Bai Huai refrained from smiling, let alone laughing for there’s no way for him to speak like that if he is indeed sleeping. “Okay, you are asleep. Then can you please tell someone that I do not need any birthday presents or rituals? I do not like to bother others and plan lively and grand occasions. “ 

“Oh, I see. I’ll make sure to tell him. You can now leave.”

Somehow, Bai Huai heard a hint of gloom and grievance from Jian Songyi’s voice. While he hesitated for a moment, Bai Huai still twisted the doorknob and turned his heels to leave.

A devil will always be a devil. Everyone knows that even after the military training, the third-year students of Nanwai returned to their old habits. They receive worksheets and answer them vigorously as they try to pick up knowledge points; They fool around and laugh so carefree; Yes, none of them became a ruthless exercise machine.

The brief bustle and murmuring bustled down as if the morning ceremony had just begun. Only Bai Huai and Jian Songyi understood that in the past five-day training, the ice walls between them that have been standing and growing for the past three years had finally melted and turned into long steam of sunrise.

Without saying a word for the whole day, Jian Songyi holds a real Chinese reading questionnaire for the college entrance exam. He looks very fresh and refined among the vast amount number of people who looks like they were tortured mercilessly by their science and mathematics reviewers.

Lao Bai was so moved that Jian Songyi finally gave it a shot that he was about to burst into tears. He took off his glasses and touched his face with his hand. He could feel his shoulders tremble while doing so. He is so excited that he wasn’t able to speak a word for a while. 

When he had his share of joy from the scene before him, Lao Bai wiped the fake tears in the corner of his eyes and wore his glasses again. He went and patted Jian Songyi’s shoulder: “I know that I just have to wait for the day that you change your mind. All the wishful thinking in the world was all worth it.” He then stumbled away. Lao Bai walked as if he was floating above the clouds. He is that thrilled.

Jian Songyi: “…..”

Jian Songyi: “Have I been that scornful of our Chinese subject before?”

“The answer for that is yes.” It was Xu Jiaxing that said that, but he then suddenly pushed Yang Yue away. He just bolted out, squeezing himself in between other students or tables without even further notice.

He was so in a hurry that he hit Jian Songyi’s table abruptly enough to make his pen go rolling to the ground.

Jian Songyi frowns discontentedly: Is he in a hurry to be reincarnated to his next life already?”

Yang Yue pursed his lips together. “He ate too much meat last night and had diarrhea last night. Do you think he had done so many wicked things that he has to suffer that? All of us ate so much meat last night but he is the only one with diarrhea the next day. He shouldn’t have gone to school.”

“I am actually a little bit uncomfortable too.” Jian Songyi said as he picked up his pen ever so casually. “My stomach hurts all night, and I still feel bad.

And then Yang Yue’s double standard came knocking in: “Think about it this way, though. You have a young master’s body, Brother Song. Meanwhile, Xu Jiaxing only has evilness flowing through his veins. That’s two different things.”

Bai Huai, who was correcting the wrong question, suddenly stopped writing in the middle of the formula and stood up: “I’ll go out.”

Jian Songyi raised his brow at him. “Dinnertime is almost over. Why are you going out? Do you want to stay up late for self-study?”

Bai Huai cracks a small smile. “I can’t take you with me when I am going to skip the night study. I can’t have you complaining to Aunt Yun.” He said before taking his phone and leaving.

Jian Songyi chewed his lower lip and buried himself in his reading comprehension for a long time without being able to answer a single question.

He doesn’t understand if the teachers who had penned these questions are sick. It kept asking him what the author is thinking about during writing the piece. Does he seem to be the kind of person who can guess what the author was thinking?

It happened years ago for heaven’s sake.

Meanwhile, Bai Huai was beside him, answering naturally as if he is just normally breathing air. Jian Songyi could not guess what was on his mind. How does he know what those people are thinking when they’ve already died hundreds of years ago. Not to mention the fact that he hadn’t met them before either.

It is so irritating for him.

“It’s so much better in Math and Physics. It’s much more simple and more linear. If you write it casually, you’ll eventually get full marks.” Jian Songyi mumbled but happened to do so way out loud. As a result, everyone around him glanced his way.

 Yu Ziguo would’ve swooned on the spot: “If I hadn’t worked out the answers to all the multiple-choice questions by fortune-telling, I wouldn’t be as good at physics and math as you are.”

“Can fortune tellers work out the answers to multiple-choice questions?! Shit. Yu Ziguo. Teach me quickly! I’ll guarantee you a semester of chicken rolls!”

Jian Songyi could not understand the bystanders who are pinning their hopes on metaphysics.

Yo Ziguo shook his head. “Of course, you can figure it all out this way. I have never made a mistake with fortune-telling. It holds some exclusive secrets, so I do not spread them out.”

Yang Yue hits him in the face: “Are you still going on about Brother Song being an Omega? And that Brother Song and Master Bai would end up together? Are you still going to claim those things or does your face hurt already?”

Yu Ziguo: “…..”

Jian Songyi: “…..”

If Yu Ziguo was a little embarrassed because of this, imagine Jian Songyi. He had never been embarrassed in his whole life. 

Fortunately, Xu Jiaxing returned, although he walked back rather quickly while clutching his stomach. “I have finally accomplished the things I wanted to do after living for so long.” He started. “I would die with no regrets.”

Jian Songyi looked over at Xu Jiaxing. “Is he mocking him because he is not good at their Chinese subject?

But before he could question, Xu Jiaxing explained himself already. He propped himself against Jian Songyi’s table before speaking: “I just went to the toilet and saw the guard duty on the school gate. He told me that someone was looking for Bai Huai outside the school premises.”

Jian Songyi raised his head warily. “The front of the back gate?”

“It’s from the front gate, of course. I am not even aware we have another gate behind the school.”

Jian Songyi heaved a sigh of relief.

Outside the back gate is a small shopping center. Students usually use it to skip classes, so he was relieved that Bai Huai is not meeting anyone there.

Nevertheless, both reason and intuition told Jian Songyi that the person looking for him is Wang Hai.

Thus, Jian Songyi stood up and picked up his school uniform coat sitting on the back of his chair. After walking two steps ahead, he stopped and turned back around: “Don’t tell Bai Huai that someone is looking for him. And if he comes back and asked for me, tell him that I went to the office to ask some question.”

As soon as autumn hits Nancheng, the atmosphere gets cold easily as the wind blows harder, making someone’s stomach even more uncomfortable.

Jian Songyi loosely put on his coat and quickly made his way to the school gate.

He knows about Wang Shan. 

The poor student joined the class. At first, he was just reticent and a little too introverted so everyone didn’t like talking to him. But then, later on, every time the class needs to pay fees, he would postpone his share and give all the kinds of excuses enough to hold the class and make his classmates annoyed of him.

At that time, Bai Huai, as the monitor, helped him hand in money every time. There was no other meaning to that, but Wang Shan regarded it as them being friends.

Bai Huai was not that cold back then. Although he was not the friendliest still, every time Wang Shan would ask him for help, he would give him a hand.

As a result, some students then later accused Wang Shan as a thief. Wang Shan refused to admit it and asked Bai Huai to testify for him. Unfortunately, Bai Huai did not testify, saying that he doesn’t express his opinion on things he was not sure about, but advocated Wang Shan to give any evidence of his own.

Wang Shan felt that Bai Huai had betrayed him.

Then that night, Bai Huai lost something and saw it in Wang Shan’s drawer.

He asked Wang Shan to return it, but it didn’t get through smoothly. Bai Huai hoped that Wang Shan would stop stealing too. Because of this, Wang Shan threw it directly from the sixth floor, and Bai Huai, who had never been emotional, actually lost his temper at that time. The two of them quarreled in the classroom and broke up in discord.

Just the next day, the people who had lost something before found Wang Shan and planned to give him a piece of their minds while Bai Huai asked for leave to go out.

That’s when the tragedy happened.

Jian Songyi felt that Bai Huai was wronged. He was only thirteen years old by that time.

Besides, there’s one thing he could not understand. Bai Huai is not a materialistic person nor usually care that much about his things. In addition, he is a clean freak. If one of his things had been stolen, who would not want it back? But then, not only did he want the stolen good back, he even fought for it.

So what exactly did Wang Shan steal? Jian Songyi was always curious about it but Bai Huai didn’t tell him. 

If Wang Shan hates Bai Huai then it is only natural that Wang Hai would cause all the trouble for Bai Huai. He is also the type of scoundrel who wants and would do anything for money.

Jian Songyi sneered and found himself at the school gate.

Students are not allowed to leave the school from Monday to Friday. Likewise, outsiders are not allowed to come in. But Jian Songyi is different for his father is the one who donated to the school security system.

As soon as he went out, he saw Wang Hai standing against the outer wall of the school.

He is a plain-looking Beta wearing his ordinary school uniform. Just by looking at him, Jian Songyi already feels uncomfortable.

Wang Hai also saw him step out of the school premises. With that, he squinted his eyes at him before pulling a strange smirk: “Why is it you? Did Bai Huai dare not come and made you go instead?” 

“Bai Huai has a lot of things to do, and since I have more time than him, I decided to help him and come have a look.” Jian Songyi answered lazily, “Just say what you have to say. I am free, but I do not have much patience.” 

Wang Hai is not in the mood to catch up either, so he went straight to the subject. “Did you go to my store yesterday?”

“It’s just a coincidence. There’s no need for you to go all the way here.”

Wang Hai spits and ran over his shoe on the ground twice with a sly look on his face: “I just want to ask Bai Huai for some money this time. Do you understand the cost of mental loss?”

“Mental damage fee?” Jian Songyi smiled sarcastically. He had never seen such a brazen person. He stepped forward and looked down at Wang Hai. “I don’t quite understand. Why are you asking for a mental damage fee? Just because Bai Huai is a fool and didn’t bully your brother with the other students?”

Wang Wai wasn’t angry, but he won’t back down. “I’ll ask you, If Bai Huai didn’t take my brother as a friend, then why did he help him that time? If he took my brother as a friend, why should he always take the first place in the examination so that my brother can’t get the scholarship? Is he that short of money? Why would he even accuse my brother of stealing? On the day of the accident, my brother clearly told him that he thought that someone is looking for trouble. But he still had asked for a leave to go out, which made it clear that he was instructing the group to do so! It is a go sign signal! So he is the one responsible for what happened to my brother! That’s why I need the mental damage fee.”

With that, he waved his hand mercifully: “I am not that greedy either. I do not want much. Just give me two thousand to buy some cigarettes and be able to pay my net fees. After that, this is over. Otherwise, I will write it clearly and post to your school and other social media sites what happened. I am sure, it would be a great discussion for others. Let’s see how Bai Huai behaves after that.”

This is a complete scoundrel, to put it bluntly, he just wants some money.

Jian Songyi is not short of that little money, but he would rather give it to a beggar than give this garbage in front of him some money.

He grabbed Wang Hai’s collar and pushed him against the wall. Jian Songyi gave him a snicker before talking: “Your brother is mentally ill because he has been stealing from others? He doesn’t need to see a doctor because he is paranoid. He just wanted to put the blame on others.”

“You’re talking nonsense!”

“It’s not up to you to decide whether I am talking nonsense or not. Anyway, I’ve recorded our conversation from the very beginning until the end. It’s not too much to sue you for blackmailing a minor. But I don’t think you have the guts to jump off a building like your brother, so it’s up to you to go in for a few days and let your parents pay for a settlement. “

Wang Hai didn’t learn well at an early age that extortion of money from students is wrong. He must’ve thought that these kinds of rich young people are easy to handle and would give in after a few pokes here and there. He didn’t expect to handle such a hard stubble now, did he?

Wang Hai was so embarrassed that he lets a youngster pin him like this. “You don’t have to give anything to me. You don’t have to give me money. Just put me down. Put me down.” He stammered. “I am not only here for that today. My brother wants to see Bai Huai, saying that he wants to untie his previous knot. Y-you’re crazy… Real crazy…”

Jian Songyi, not a crazy man, raised his arm calmly to grasp Wang Hai’s neck. He clenched his fingers on his neckline and twisted it in a certain direction to strangle him.

 Jian Songyi frowns coldly. “Then tell your brother that Bai Huai is as happy as a fool every day and there is no easy way out. Didn’t he want to know why Bai Huai had to ask for a leave to go out that day? I am telling you now, that it is because of my acute gastroenteritis that day that I went to the hospital. So if you two brothers must find someone to blame, it is me. Don’t bother Bai Huai again.”

Wang Hai wanted to speak, but Jian Songyi refused to give him a chance: “Don’t ask me what I can do if I have to get into trouble with Bai Huai. Nothing will happen to me. At best, Bai Huai is unhappy as much as you and your brother are. I don’t like threatening people, but if you want your parents to live in peace for a few more years, you can take care of yourself. “

“Also, if Bai Huai wants to scold your brother one day, I will go with him, but not now. Do you understand? “

Wang Hai was completely out of breath, his face was purple and he could only nod desperately.

Jian Songyi loosened his hand and wrung his wrist a bit before turning back to the school gate.

Wang Hai leaned over the wall to gasp for air. He then suddenly laughed mockingly as soon as he recovered. “Are your shoes at least seven or eight thousand on the market now?”

Jian Songyi paused.

Wang Hai continued to laugh. “I’ve flipped through its fake replica, but I still couldn’t even afford it. Did you know that my brother really hated Bai Huai beforehand? People like you have money, good grades, and growth, and everyone likes it. You have everything. And then you are hypocritically kind to others to satisfy your sense of superiority. When you get unhappy, you will then take back that hand out. So have you ever thought about how people like us feel? Why should you look down on us? You just happen to be born in a good family.”

Jian Songyi did not feel that he is a saint, and he did not feel like reasoning out with him, but he just smiled faintly: “Reincarnation is my skill, and you can’t be envious about it. If you weren’t born into a good family, then let others live their good life. You don’t have to ruin it.”

But after walking two steps, Jian Songyi thought of the thin and haggard couple whole loved to laugh at the barbecue shop yesterday. Thus, he could not help saying: “The livelihood of your family is bought with your brother’s two legs. Now you are the only one in the family who has a full-functioning body. Can’t you try and live like a man?”

After that, he really left him there without looking back.

Jian Songyi thinks that he is not cool at all, but he really hates Wang Shan. 

Bai Huai looks cold but his mind is really delicate and sensitive. All his emotions are digested into his heart and then he will be hurt even more. Apart from being hurt, he will also be accused of resentment. He is obviously the victim, but he falls into self-remorse because he is kind.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Bai Huai will lead a more and more deserted life. If he is not still with him, what is the difference between him and a loner?

Jian Songyi was suddenly angry that Bai Huai had robbed him of his school’s most handsome and first place. But then, the man is so unlucky that he should give way to him.

While rubbing his stomach, he went back to the classroom.

Bai Huai has already sat in his seat and started doing exercises, while there is a cup of steaming granules on his desk.

Jian Songyi frowned and turned to go.

Bai Huai did not raise his head and said lightly, “Come back and drink medicine.”

Jian Songyi felt that if he was persuaded to drink medicine in the classroom, it would be a bit of a shame, so he could only rub his stomach reluctantly while looking at the cup of medicine with bitter hatred.

As soon as he helped Bai Huai, this man would bite the hand that feeds him.

He has no conscience at all

Bai Huai stopped writing and looked at him. “Isn’t it because of stomach discomfort?”

“I don’t like that.” Jian Songyi said with a relaxed tone and yet a warying voice signaling that he was about to lose his temper.

Bai Huai then started to coax him like he would a child: “This is sweet.”

“Black liquid but sweet? So far, I only know coke as the only one who qualifies for that.”

“It is really sweet. Why would I lie to you?” Bai Huai looked at Jian Songyi’s serious face and really wanted to laugh.

Jian Songyi is relaxed but is still unconvinced. He can’t eat anything bitter, and he is very much aware that he would lose his temper after drinking it.

Bai Huai helplessly took off his thin-rimmed glasses and pinched his eyebrows: “In the hospital before, you said I would do you a favor, and you promised me a request.”

“That’s what happened.”

“Did you mean what you say?”

Yes. But-”

“My request is that you eat three meals a day, drink this gastritis granule on time, and finish a course treatment.”

“No.” Jian Songyi said firmly. “This is such a good opportunity and you are wasting it on this? What good will it do you good at the expense of others? Can you at least make some valuable demands?”

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree because technically, this is the favor you’ve promised me.”

“…..”

Mind dog! Jian Songyi could not believe that Bai Huai was challenging him this way.

Jian Songyi tried to make a straight face before holding his breath and finishing his drink.

Um…

It’s really sweet.

Jian Songyi loosely licked the corner of his lips and then awkwardly said: “Well, I do not think of it as a request. You can change it and have another one.”

Bai Huai wrote something in his right hand and handed over a cup of water on his desk through his left hand: “No. Drink some water and moisten your mouth, or you will taste the bitterness later.”

Bai Huai’s left hand quietly slipped a piece of milk candy to him. The position of the fall was blocked by the cup. Thus, no one had seen it. 

Jian Songyi quickly took the sugar under the table and peeled it off. He threw it into his mouth and sipped it. The hint of sweetness oozed from the tip of his tongue.

No one had found out, so it did not affect Jian Songyi’s school image.

Jian Songyi felt that Bai Huai seemed to be a good person. He has no ulterior motive as he expected and was very considerate. He had misjudged him before. 

And to think that this kind of person has bad luck and can still be kind-hearted, Jian Songyi suddenly felt distressed. He is now determined to be nicer to Bai Huai in the future. 

His friends are Bai Huai’s friends and so are his parents. He will share his luck and good things with Bai Huai.

So long as it will make Bai Huai’s life better.

On the other hand, Bai Huai, a classmate with “nothing in mind”, calmly turned over a page of the problem book.

Jian Songyi was easy to coax, and later he estimated that he would be able to coax many more opportunities to make demands, but this time it would not be a pity. Anyway, his greatest demand for Jian Songyi was to live healthily and happily to the age of 120.

But if you think about it this way, it’s not impossible since he is about to have his birthday.

It is also a good idea to coax Jian Songyi to owe him a few more wishes, He thought that he could use them to spice up his love life in the future.

Bai Huai turned his pen, thoughtfully.

……….

Author’s Note: 

Spoiler alert, this is the ending of Wang Shan’s plot. In the end, Wang Shan will complete an assist of the century! And received a mouthful of saliva from Yu Ziguo, who is optimistic and strong.

These chapters are about Bai Huai’s feelings for Jian Songyi, not because he unconditionally likes the article in the papers, but due to the fact that in his unlucky days, Jian Songyi became his greatest luck.

 The next chapter begins with a new charter: the evolution of the straw bug into a shy rose.

The sour and astringent days are over, and the little green plum is starting to ripen and will become sweeter.