Chapter 89 Yellow Heart

Chapter 89: Yellow Heart

When Lin Jianyuan arrived at the ward, Xiao Liu was standing by the window, lost in thought.

The lean, tall young man, dressed in a hospital gown, cut a lonely and helpless figure by the window.

Lin Jianyuan instantly jumped to conclusions.

—Although Wang Fu said, "Xiao Liu slept with Red-Hair," who knew what actually happened!

Xiao Liu was so small, vulnerable, and helpless—how could he have made the first move?

Maybe that scoundrel Red-Hair forced Xiao Liu… ugh, forced, sat, sat on Xiao Liu’s… ugh, body…?

Lin Jianyuan: "…"

He couldn’t stand the suspense.

He really wanted the juicy gossip!

Wang Fu happened to have something else to do, so Lin Jianyuan gestured for him to attend to his business. He wanted to talk with Xiao Liu.

"Xiao Liu," Lin Jianyuan called out as he walked into the ward. "Long time no see. How have you been?"

Hearing his voice, Xiao Liu turned around in surprise.

"Brother Yuan! What are you doing here!"

Xiao Liu had started calling him that, just like Pei Shuo. Lin Jianyuan immediately felt even more sympathy for the kid.

He pulled Xiao Liu to sit down, steeled himself, and cut to the chase: "What exactly did Red-Hair do to you? Tell me everything. I’ll help you figure it out!"

Xiao Liu: "…"

Xiao Liu’s gaze was like: →_→

Lin Jianyuan encouraged him: "Don’t be afraid. I’ve already heard. So you slept with Red-Hair—so what? You must have had your reasons. I believe you."

Xiao Liu: "…→_→"

A complicated expression appeared on his face.

Lin Jianyuan: "?"

This completely stumped Lin Jianyuan.

At the same time,

it made him even more curious!

"So what exactly happened?" Lin Jianyuan asked suspiciously. "Don’t tell me you two… actually got together?"

That shouldn’t be the case.

If Xiao Liu was willing, why would he end up in a psychiatric hospital after sleeping together?

Sure enough, Xiao Liu blew up at that. He jumped up and exclaimed, "How is that possible!!!"

Lin Jianyuan: "Then hurry up and tell me, what exactly happened?"

Man, he was dying to know!

Xiao Liu sat back down, looking gloomy and anxious.

After a long while, he sighed dejectedly and said, "Brother Yuan, I… I really don’t know what to do."

An excellent opening, pushing Lin Jianyuan’s curiosity to its peak.

Lin Jianyuan immediately sat up straight, all ears.

Xiao Liu: "Last time when we were hospitalized together, Qin Ye came to find me, remember?"

Lin Jianyuan: "Qin Ye?… Oh, Red-Hair. Go on."

Xiao Liu considerately corrected himself: "…Red-Hair came to find me, and then I, uh, pretended to be Diu Diu and bit him. And then you found out."

Lin Jianyuan nodded: "What happened after? I remember he came to find you again, and the two of you went out to talk."

Xiao Liu: "Right. That time, he also suspected I was faking my illness and pulled me aside to question me. I… I was afraid he would hit me if he found out I was faking, so I slapped him a couple of times."

Lin Jianyuan: "…"

That sounded familiar.

Such a familiar twist.

Lin Jianyuan immediately recalled the feeling he had when he first heard the story of how Xiao Liu became famous with one yank.

Lin Jianyuan: "And then?"

Xiao Liu: "Then for a long time, he didn’t bother me. So I was discharged. After all, staying here is quite expensive…"

Lin Jianyuan nodded.

Xiao Liu was still a student, and student health insurance is different from employee health insurance—the reimbursement rate is lower.

Besides, psychiatric hospital stays are pricey to begin with.

Lin Jianyuan: "So you went back to school?"

Xiao Liu nodded: "Yes. Then one day, Red-Hair suddenly came up to me and said I should be his wife."

Lin Jianyuan: "Huh???"

Lin Jianyuan didn’t process it at first and wondered if he had misheard: "Said you, should be, his wife???"

Xiao Liu said excitedly: "Right!!! It’s so random!!! I thought he’d lost it too!!!"

Lin Jianyuan nodded eagerly: "And then? And then?"

Xiao Liu: "I thought, he’s a jerk, a school bully, and he actually wants me to be his wife? He must be out of his mind! And I’m a dude! I’m not gay! Even if I were gay, there’s no way I’d be his wife, someone who bullied me! So I slapped him again."

Lin Jianyuan: "You didn’t happen to slap him into submission, did you?"

Xiao Liu: "How’d you know?"

Lin Jianyuan tried to imagine that he was professionally trained and usually didn’t laugh in ordinary situations.

He took a deep breath to calm himself and said, "So what happened next?"

Xiao Liu: "Then he said: If you be my wife, I won’t bully you anymore. I’ll even have your back. If anyone bullies you, I’ll knock them out."

Xiao Liu’s voice shook with anger as he spoke, his eyes slightly reddening. "I was so pissed at that time! I said, ‘Haven’t you been the one bullying me all along? You should beat yourself up first!’"

Lin Jianyuan: "Yeah, no way he’d beat himself up."

Xiao Liu: "Yeah."

Xiao Liu was so mad his fists were clenched, his whole body trembling. His blood pressure and adrenaline surged sharply, and his face turned flushed.

Then that idiot Red-Hair went: "He’s blushing. He loves me." ❤️

Xiao Liu instantly lost it.

As everyone knows, Xiao Liu usually seems quiet and gentle, but when he goes crazy, he could bite Red-Hair’s head off.

Xiao Liu: "Then I, uh, did him."

Lin Jianyuan: "…Huh???"

Just a second ago, Lin Jianyuan was empathizing so hard his fists were clenched, but the next moment, Xiao Liu suddenly changed the subject to something else entirely.

Lin Jianyuan’s brain shut down instantly: "You what? You did what to him?"

Xiao Liu covered his face with his hands and said painfully: "I did that to him! I regret it so much! I really regret it! At that time, I really… I don’t know what came over me, I just… I was so fucking pissed, I really wanted to punch him. The more I looked at his grinning face, the angrier I got, and then, then… I regret it to death!"

Lin Jianyuan: "…"

Lin Jianyuan took a deep breath and said calmly, "That’s, um, reasonable. After all, uh, violence can trigger adrenaline, and maybe it also, uh, got him aroused. It’s like how wrestlers get hard mid-match."

"Yeah?!" Xiao Liu suddenly looked up, tears glistening in his eyes, full of hope. "Is that what it was?!"

Lin Jianyuan: "…"

Actually, it’s probably not exactly that.

But whatever.

Lin Jianyuan: "Then what? After you, uh, did Red-Hair, he definitely wasn’t going to let you off the hook."

"Right…" Xiao Liu showed a pained expression again. "That day, he was kneeling on the ground and couldn’t even get up. I was terrified, so I ran away… A few days later, after he recovered, he came to confront me. He grabbed me by the collar and called me a dog, asking how I could bite him so badly."

Lin Jianyuan: "…"

He bit him too? WTF!

How exactly did he bite him, and where?!

Lin Jianyuan struggled to control the urge to ask for details.

He tried to stay calm and said, "Then what?"

Xiao Liu said aggrievedly: "He was freaking out at the time! And he was driving me crazy too! I said, dude, you’re insane! Can you just leave me alone?!"

"He said, 'F*ck your mom, you f*cked me and won’t take responsibility.'"

"I was really about to lose it. Then someone happened to walk by, and he was still cursing nonstop. I had to cover his mouth to shut him up."

"Then he struggled like hell and even bit my hand. I was afraid he’d go around spreading rumors, so I shoved him into the sports storage room and pinned him. I pressed him down on the sit-up mat, sat on his abs, and held his hands and feet to keep him from shouting."

Lin Jianyuan said matter-of-factly: "Then you did him again."

Xiao Liu covered his face in agony.

Lin Jianyuan: "Then a few days later, after he recovered, he came looking for you again?"

Xiao Liu: "Yeah… He came to yell at me, demanding to know why I left him alone on the sports storage room mat… He busted his head open from hitting it, and he totally passed out at the time…"

Lin Jianyuan: "……………………"

Lin Jianyuan couldn't help but size Xiao Liu up,

wondering how this slender, tall, and seemingly gentle boy managed to knock out a fiery guy like Red-Hair.

"Brother, what should I do now!" Xiao Liu said with a face full of despair. "I don’t even dare go back to school. Every time I do, he comes looking for me. Lately, he’s been lurking around my apartment building too. I think he’s planning to tie me up and beat me to death…"

Lin Jianyuan: "I suspect the one who’ll end up tied up might not be you. And tying up might not just be for beating…"

Xiao Liu: "?"

Lin Jianyuan was still baffled: "But how did you pull that off??? Where did you get so much strength?!"

Xiao Liu scratched his head helplessly: "Ah, well, I was just really angry…"

Lin Jianyuan: "…Alright, then."

Thinking back to Xiao Liu’s legendary feat of making a name for himself with four wins in one day across different locations,

it now made sense how he kept countering, dominating Red-Hair, and pinning him down every time.

Such is the power of rage.

"What do I do, brother? I really don’t know…" Xiao Liu said in distress. "And what’s bothering me the most is—I’m clearly straight, so why did I… just… ahhh, why?!"

Lin Jianyuan thought for a moment and asked: "You said you sat right on his abs and held him down and hit him in the sports storage room?"

Xiao Liu nodded.

Lin Jianyuan: "I feel like if I were straight, I wouldn’t say 'sat on his abs.' I’d say 'sat on his stomach'…"

Xiao Liu: "?"

Xiao Liu’s eyes slowly widened in shock.

"So, you’re asking me what to do—truth is, I don’t know either."

Lin Jianyuan scratched his head. "Just… you decide for yourself? You should, uh, calm down and really think about your relationship? After all, he did bully you before. That can’t be erased, no matter what."

Xiao Liu fell silent.

After a while, it seemed like he had figured something out.

He murmured: "Right. It can’t be erased."

Lin Jianyuan patted his shoulder sympathetically.

It seemed Xiao Liu didn’t really need Lin Jianyuan’s help after all.

What followed was their own story.

Evening.

After a busy day, the first thing Lin Jianyuan did upon returning home was share this weird story with his wife.

"…By the end of it, I thought, well, I better not get involved in these Diamond High School dramas."

Lin Jianyuan said while in the kitchen with his wife as she cooked. "Anyway, when I was straight, I wouldn’t have cared whether the idiot I was pinning down had abs or not. I’d be too mad to notice, seriously—who gives a damn about his abs?!"

"Is that so." His wife smiled, her mouth quirking up. "I don’t follow."

"Then you definitely wouldn't understand, since you're not a straight guy anyway." Lin Jianyuan washed the vegetables, recalling how he had misunderstood his roommate back then, and couldn't stop laughing again.

The two laughed and bantered for a while, and the roommate said, "By the way, didn’t you go meet that full-time combatant? What was his name, Wang Fu?"

"Oh, right. Speaking of that, it’s absolutely wild, it's so ridiculous!!!" Lin Jianyuan turned around with a "can you believe it" expression. "Didn’t Shi Shaoning tell me this guy was doing scientific research? I thought he was some elite holding down a day job while doing groundbreaking research at night. But guess what he’s been secretly holed up doing in his little room every day?"

Roommate: "What?"

Lin Jianyuan, utterly dismayed: "He’s filming suggestive videos! You know, the kind where he’s gyrating and striking suggestive poses in those risqué little clips!!!"

Roommate: "Huh?"

Lin Jianyuan wiped his hands clean, pulled out his phone, and showed him: "Look, it’s this account. No face shown, most videos just show an arm writing calligraphy. Sometimes he even does something like the XX shake—damn, how is his XX shake so popular?!… I'm so done, holy shit. At first, he tried to fool me by saying he was just a calligrapher. Who knew this was how he ‘wrote calligraphy’?! It’s total degeneracy!!! And the most crucial part is, his research progress is still at zero!"

The roommate leaned in, watching with keen interest.

Lin Jianyuan suddenly grew alert and sternly lectured: "Baby, it’s fine to watch on my phone, but whatever you do, don’t go searching for him on your own phone!"

Roommate: "Why?"

Lin Jianyuan: "Because Xiaohongshu has this big data algorithm that keeps pushing topics it thinks you’re interested in. If you actively search and click on something, the algorithm will assume you like it. Then it’ll keep pushing similar content nonstop. Don’t pollute your big data!"

Roommate: "Oh, okay."

Lin Jianyuan actually felt quite at ease about his roommate in this regard.

After all, the roommate was an anomaly—from a human perspective, he was actually very naive.

He simply didn’t understand all that indecent nonsense.

Otherwise, the whole "dick sleeve" joke wouldn’t have happened.

Thinking about the "dick sleeve" incident again, Lin Jianyuan felt like laughing once more.

At the same time, he found his roommate incredibly, adorably cute.

There was no way the roommate would actively seek out that kind of raunchy content.

Lin Jianyuan believed that even if the algorithm occasionally tried out suggestive content and pushed it to him, his roommate definitely wouldn’t click on it.

The roommate’s interests were entirely focused on food, travel, and little household tips.

He was such a gentle, well-behaved, innocent, frugal, and homely offal baby~

In the warm yellow sunset, Lin Jianyuan savored every moment spent with his roommate.

Cooking together in a lively, bustling atmosphere.

Eating together with warmth and affection.

Blanching vegetables together in a cozy, sticky mess.

Even if these happy times repeated day after day, they still felt uniquely joyful.

After finishing the blanching, Lin Jianyuan felt a bit dizzy.

Not sure if it was from soaking in hot water for too long or from being teased in the bathtub.

He collapsed limply onto the bed, completely drained of energy.

Yet, despite his physical limitations, he mustered the strength to roll over and reach out to hug his roommate.

His freshly showered roommate felt warmer and softer than usual.

If they were still in their old, cramped apartment with the faulty air conditioning, Lin Jianyuan might not have been able to hold on like this.

But now things were different.

Now he lived in a fully smart, ultra-luxury mansion flat!

He slept on pillows, sheets, and duvet covers as comfortable as those in top luxury hotels!

More importantly!

He was holding the one and only incredibly adorable, gentle, amazing, and loving wife in the entire universe!

(Who had just been freshly showered, no less)

(The texture was amazing.)

He couldn’t take it anymore.

"Ah~"

Lin Jianyuan hugged his wife and rolled around under the covers.

His bare legs rubbed against his wife and the sheets and duvet.

"Ahh~" He let out another contented sound.

His roommate laughed at him, poked his cheek, and said, "Are you making sushi?"

Lin Jianyuan looked down and saw that the duvet had indeed rolled them up like sushi.

"Yay! It’s sushi!" Lin Jianyuan hugged his wife and gave her a big, smacking kiss. "Great, we’re saved!"

"We’re saved!" His roommate couldn’t stop laughing. Though he thought it was silly, he joined in the joy. "Woo-hoo!"

Lin Jianyuan: "Woo-hoo!"

The two fools started playfully roughhousing on the bed again.

They could even have this much fun just rolling around in the duvet~

After enough playing, it was time to sleep.

Lin Jianyuan habitually checked his phone before bed.

The old colleagues' group chat was as lively as ever, with everyone passionately venting about some idiot instead of sleeping.

Dr. Cen sent him a message, reminding him to take his medicine. He also told him not to overthink it, as it’s normal for the condition to fluctuate. Just like emotions, they can have ups and downs daily.

Shi Shaoning sent a message that read, "Thank you."

He didn’t say anything else—just those two words.

Firmly maintaining his cool guy persona.

Pei Shuo asked how that patient from yesterday was doing, if he was feeling better today, and if he needed any more comforting.

Xiao Liu: "Brother! That sachet is so effective, I really haven't seen any mosquitoes around here!"

Someone below posted a picture of a mosquito repellent sachet.

Lin Jianyuan replied: "That's good."

Xiao Liu: "What kind of sachet is this? It smells like bug spray."

Lin Jianyuan: "If something smells like bug spray, looks like bug spray, and actually works like bug spray, then it is bug spray."

Xiao Liu: "?"

I'm just kidding.

Of course it's not bug spray.

The sachet contained a "Summon."

This was also a spur-of-the-moment idea for Lin Jianyuan.

Previously, he had gone to the Management Bureau to pick up the "Summon" because he mistakenly thought his roommate attracted mosquitoes. Now that the misunderstanding was cleared up, the "Summon" had just been sitting around.

This thing is actually pretty much useless.

Its only function is to attract mosquitoes.

At first glance, it seems like a downside, but if you reverse that idea—what if you placed the "Summon" near yourself but kept it at a certain distance?

Then all the mosquitoes that enter the room would head straight for the "Summon," right?

And they wouldn’t bite people.

Today, while at the Jingwei inpatient department, Lin Jianyuan noticed Xiao Liu had a lot of mosquito bites.

The inpatient department has lush greenery, so there are plenty of mosquitoes in the summer.

The floor they were on was a bit on the lower side, and Xiao Liu is basically a mosquito magnet, so he was covered in bites and miserable.

Lin Jianyuan tossed the "Summon" into a sachet and gave it to him.

Of course, he did make it look like something else.

He sprayed some "Sobering Potion" on it.

But after all, "Sobering Potion" is "Sobering Potion," not real bug spray. Compared to actual bug spray, the scent lingers longer.

And it doesn’t repel mosquitoes but attracts them…

If Xiao Liu were to check out this sachet, he’d probably find it strange. But he’s probably not really up for that right now.

Besides, regular people can’t see these things. So even if Xiao Liu opened the sachet, he wouldn’t see anything.

Xiao Liu’s feedback just proved Lin Jianyuan’s plan worked.

Nice.

Another good deed for the day.

Lin Jianyuan was pretty pleased with himself.

"Baby, good night."

Lin Jianyuan leaned in and gave his partner a soft, brief kiss on the lips.

"Good night," his partner said tenderly.

Held by his sweetly fragrant and soft wife, Lin Jianyuan closed his eyes and drifted into a sweet, deep sleep.

Lin Jianyuan fell asleep quickly.

Xie Yu, however, was still awake.

He didn't need sleep at all, so he held his adorable human, tilted his head, and continued scrolling through Xiaohongshu.

Xiaohongshu was on silent mode, with the brightness turned all the way down, so there was no worry about disturbing his human.

The only thing to worry about was holding back his intestines from trembling with laughter when he came across funny videos.

But it didn't matter if his intestines trembled.

If his human was awakened by his movements, he would drowsily lean over to kiss him and, in a muffled, sleepy voice, ask, "Wife, what are you watching?"

Then they would watch it together and laugh together.

After laughing, he would kiss him once more before drifting back to sound asleep.

It felt like some kind of maximalist ritual.

It seemed like no matter what they did together, they had to kiss.

And they had to kiss at every step.

So annoying.

Being in a relationship with a human is really so annoying.

Thinking this, Xie Yu couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile, his appendix swaying gently.

His intestines coiled around his human.

His adorable human.

The human, in his deep sleep, sensed his warmth.

So he buried his head against Xie Yu's neck, gently nuzzling his cheek.

It was an instinctive movement after falling asleep.

Xie Yu didn't actually have a heart.

But at this moment, really, truly—

He truly felt a soft feeling in his heart.

An overwhelming sense of being loved flowed through him.

*Chu~*

He couldn't resist leaning down to kiss his human once more.

*Thump. Thump.*

A human heart was beating in his arms.

Xie Yu suddenly felt a desire as well.

He wanted a heart just like his human's.

How exactly… is a heart shaped/formed?

He exited the comedy video and went to the search page.

Just as he was about to type "human heart" into the search box, his attention was suddenly caught by a post.

It was a post with both pictures and text.

It had a simple cover: plain white with a yellow heart in the center.

The title was just one short sentence.

"What does it feel like when it all goes in?"

Xie Yu: "?"