Chapter 42: Catching the Goose — “You’re bleeding!” part 1
After washing his hands, Shen Yunqian shook off the water droplets. Seeing Lu Xunye standing motionless, he quietly scanned the object in his hand.
His brain strangely transmitted a signal of pain—vague and inexplicable. He started to get cold feet. “How about we don’t apply it? It doesn’t hurt much.”
Lu Xunye thought: It’s good enough I didn’t use a needle to pop them for you, and you’re still being picky.
But ultimately, it was because of him. He couldn’t just ignore it.
Even if it didn’t affect his life, seeing these scars on those hands was just an eyesore no matter how he looked at it.
So, he crushed the other’s thought of deserting at the last minute, pronouncing each word clearly: “Im. Poss. Ible.”
“It’s just applying ointment for abrasions. These blood blisters will disappear in a few days.” Lu Xunye said slowly, “Are you trying to stall for time, waiting for someone to come find us?”
Shen Yunqian pondered for a long while before finally spreading his hand open.
The moment the cold ointment touched his palm, the forgotten pain was suddenly awakened. He shrank his hand back, but was firmly clamped by Lu Xunye.
“Don’t squirm.”
“But you’re using too much force.”
“…Then I’ll be gentler.”
“Mhm.”
The fingertip stained with white paste slid across the palm like a feather, bringing a wave of itchiness.
Shen Yunqian suppressed the urge to curl his fingers and looked up at the person with the serious brow.
From the shadow cast by his eyelashes under his eyes to his moist red lips, he stared unblinkingly. His gaze was tranquil and deep.
Lu Xunye’s pitch-black eyes were focused, his thin lips slightly pursed. The breeze fluttered the hair hanging before his eyes. Everything was the picture of gentleness.
Lu Xunye sensed the gaze and looked back, ignoring the flutter in his heart. “What are you looking at me for?”
He asked, but the force of his hand became even lighter.
Shen Yunqian looked away and took a step forward.
With the sudden closing of distance, Lu Xunye immediately thought of the hugging pillow incident this morning. Feeling guilty, he took a step back.
One step back leads to a second. He retreated until his back hit the dead tree by the goose pen. His heartbeat hadn’t stabilized yet when Shen Yunqian raised a hand towards him.
Lu Xunye closed his eyes. After waiting for a while with nothing happening, he opened his eyes blankly, only to see a piece of goose down pinched between fingers in front of his eyes.
The snow-white down was blown by the wind, its fluff drifting like a jellyfish swimming in the deep sea.
Shen Yunqian released his fingertips, and the down drifted away with the wind. “Why did you back away?”
Lu Xunye said internally: I was afraid you’d take revenge on me.
He moved his left foot horizontally, unobtrusively shifting himself out from between Shen Yunqian and the tree. He quickly changed the subject. “Of course, it’s because I feel you’re a bit different compared to before.”
Shen Yunqian took in all his little movements. He rubbed the residual warmth on his fingertips. “Is that so? Different how?”
Became poisonous-tongued? Clingy? Tsundere? Fragile? Gentle?
Are these words that can appear on one person?!
Lu Xunye shook his head to disperse the inappropriate vocabulary floating in his mind.
He composed himself and said ambiguously, “Became cuter.”
The person in front of him had an expression so flat it made Lu Xunye scratch his head in confusion: No! Shouldn’t he be shy? Maybe give some points or something?
He scanned Shen Yunqian suspiciously, his thoughts diverging: Could it be not amnesia, but split personality?
If that were the case, it would explain the young man’s abnormalities.
Moreover, in the later stages of the original book, the schemes Shen Yunqian cooked up to kill Si Jinyan really made it hard to believe he was mentally stable.
Actually, he quite understood Shen Yunqian. After all, he also had a period where he wasn’t mentally stable.
Lu Xunye opened his mouth, then closed it. No, asking about these symptoms is useless. Better observe first.
Shen Yunqian asked relentlessly, “Then which version of me do you like? Do you like the current me, or the previous me?”
Lu Xunye had the illusion of being led astray: The way he says it, it’s like whatever I like, he can become that way.
No, no, what like or dislike.
In a flash, Lu Xunye realized this was a death question!
Two scenarios automatically floated before his eyes.
[Scenario 1:
Lu Xunye smiles: “Of course I like the current you.”
Hearing this, Shen Yunqian’s eyes shine. The two get along harmoniously, points go up.
Scene changes. Pouring rain outside the eaves.
After regaining his memory, the cold and indifferent Shen Yunqian glances at him coldly: “I am not him. Since you didn’t like my personality, why did you befriend me in the beginning? You indeed had an agenda.”
Lu Xunye tries his best to defend himself.
Shen Yunqian remains cold: “I have cancelled the lease on the apartment. There is no need for us to meet again. I don’t need any friends, including you.”
After the person leaves, the system emits a sharp blast: Points -100,000, -200,000… Points zero. Mission failed.
Life countdown: “10, 9, 8… 3…”
Lu Xunye stands messy in the rain.]
[Scenario 2:
Lu Xunye reminisces: “I like the previous you.”
Hearing this, Shen Yunqian’s hand, reaching out to grab him, slowly drops. His eyes lower, mood depressed: “Is it because I’m not good?”
Lu Xunye looks at the palm he pinched into a bloody mess just after applying medicine and hurriedly says: “You are also very good.”
“But he is better.”
“So when you appeared in the ward that day and didn’t admit to being my boyfriend, it was because I was no longer the way you liked.”
Water marks appear on the cement bricks under Shen Yunqian’s feet. He hides his scarred hands behind his back, holding on strong: “In that case, I will return him to you.”
System blast again: Points plummet, Zero warning! Zero warning!… ]
For a moment, his ears were filled with alarm sounds.
His scattered thoughts returned. Lu Xunye felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head, sobering him up: Wait, the system isn’t here.
Lu Xunye rubbed his ears which were hallucinating, his chest heaving unsteadily. He found the scene in front of him was still frozen at the beginning.
He tried his best to stay calm. “I like you no matter what you are like. I like you as a person, not you at a certain moment or with a certain personality.”
Shen Yunqian didn’t comment. Seeing the fine sweat seeping from Lu Xunye’s forehead, he asked in confusion, “Are you very hot?”
“I,” Lu Xunye just said one word when Shen Yunqian grabbed his collar and pulled him close. Two bodies collided heavily, falling against the tree.
Shen Yunqian sucked in a breath of cold air, still clutching Lu Xunye’s collar with one hand, while covering his mouth and nose with the other, burying his head low.
Lu Xunye straightened his head quickly, touching his numb lips in shock and uncertainty.
Accompanying this were two panicked screams from behind.
“Aaaaaah help Mom Dad aaaaaah.”
Two little boys had tripped and fallen. Scrambling on hands and feet, they ran past them, plunging headfirst into the vegetable garden and eating a mouthful of dirt.
After they ran away, Lu Xunye saw the white shadow behind them stretching its neck low, almost touching the ground, wings spread flat, charging over like a firecracker.
Because it used too much force, it couldn’t brake in time. Its head got stuck right in the gap of the fence next to where Lu Xunye was standing just now.
Its fluffy butt stuck out, two orange-red legs kicking wildly in mid-air without any rhythm.
Lu Xunye squinted. What the hell?
The grip on his collar loosened. Lu Xunye didn’t think much of it.
At this moment, the two kids crawling out of the vegetable patch complained: “Big Brother, that’s our goose. Can you help us catch it back to the goose pen?”
As soon as the words fell.
Honk honk honk honk honk honk—the big goose flapped its wings desperately. Hoooooonk honk honk honk honk—
Lu Xunye: “…”
What is this?
A runaway goose?!
“Big Brother, please.” The two little beans blinked their starry eyes.
Actually, this age gap was very subtle. Their parents were more than ten years older than Lu Xunye, and Lu Xunye was more than ten years older than these two little guys.
If these two little ones called him “Brother,” but he called their parents “Big Brother/Sister,” it would be very weird…
“Children, the generation is messed up.” Lu Xunye said as a matter of course, “Call me Uncle.”
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