Chapter 72: The Cannon Fodder in a Dogblood Novel 72
Not long after, Shen Tangqing couldn’t help yawning, a bit of physiological moisture seeping from the corners of his eyes.
He blinked.
Why did he suddenly feel a bit sleepy?
Was the hot spring soak too comfortable?
Or was this sofa too comfortable to lean on?
He adjusted his sitting position, unaware of his lethargic body.
His gaze fell back onto the screen.
The next second—
His pupils constricted violently.
He saw on the screen…
Right.
It was two men.
Something was wrong.
Something was twelve out of ten points wrong.
Did he see it wrong when he blinked just now?
Or was he hallucinating?
“Qiuqiu, did you play the wrong movie?”
He looked at Li Qiulan beside him in confusion.
As soon as the words fell, it was like a clap of thunder exploding by Shen Tangqing’s ear.
It made his cerebellum shrink for a moment.
His originally sleepy brain instantly cleared. He turned his head abruptly to look at the screen.
Great.
These two men were fighting.
This wasn’t a romance movie.
This was f*cking—
A hand suddenly rested on his arm.
The warm touch made the hair on Shen Tangqing’s body stand on end.
Reflexively, he threw that hand off violently, looking at Li Qiulan as if he were seeing a ghost.
Li Qiulan didn’t mind. His expression was calm, even close to eerily calm in the dim room.
He looked at Shen Tangqing and spoke word by pause.
“Brother, can I [do it] with you? Like on the screen…”
Shen Tangqing felt like he was having auditory hallucinations.
He stared blankly at Li Qiulan.
Under the dim light, he felt he couldn’t see Li Qiulan’s expression clearly.
“What did you say?”
A smile of excitement appeared on Li Qiulan’s beautiful face.
His gaze landed accurately on Shen Tangqing’s lips.
“I said…”
This movie was something Li Qiulan had spent a lot of effort finding.
Both protagonists were good-looking, and the plot was engaging.
Of course…
The fighting parts were very good-looking too.
Li Qiulan knew Shen Tangqing wasn’t one, but he had no choice; he liked Brother too much. Being with Brother, he couldn’t just do nothing, right?
That would be disrespectful to Brother.
So, he could only use this method to help Brother “get enlightened.”
The amount of information was too overwhelming.
Shen Tangqing’s pupils constricted violently.
His mind was full of: Li Qiulan is actually gay!
He’s f*cking gay!!
Li Qiulan, whom I treated like a younger brother, is actually gay!!!
And he even harbored such dirty thoughts about him.
After the extreme shock, Shen Tangqing actually birthed a trace of absurd amusement.
F*ck, did I poke a gay nest?
One, two, three people who were clearly straight men in the original plot actually all confessed to him.
Do I look that much like I’m gay?
“Did I scare Brother?”
Shen Tangqing snapped back to reality, suppressing the chaos in his heart, and looked at Li Qiulan with a complex expression.
“Qiuqiu, you don’t have friends and you’re still young. You might be mistaking your friendship for me as love. You…”
“Friendship?” Li Qiulan interrupted him.
When repeating these two words, the ending note tilted up lightly, but there was no warmth in it.
“Brother, from the first moment I saw you, I wanted you to belong only to me.”
Shen Tangqing lost his patience. He stood up from the sofa. The displeasure of being offended made his tone serious and cold.
“Li Qiulan, I advise you to cut off this thought as soon as possible. I have absolutely no interest in men. I’m leaving.”
Shen Tangqing had originally agreed to stay overnight at Li Qiulan’s house, but in this situation, he just wanted to get as far away from Li Qiulan as possible.
A ball of fire was suppressed in his heart.
What the hell is this!
Are these people sick?
They don’t want to date properly, just looking for thrills in twisted relationships?
Truly seriously sick—
Just as he turned around, the lights in the room suddenly turned on.
The next second, Li Qiulan grabbed his arm.
His tone was a bit aggrieved. “Brother, do you hate me that much?”
Shen Tangqing’s body stiffened for a moment. He struggled, but couldn’t break free.
“Let go.”
“No. Brother, be with me…”
His voice carried traces of bewitchment.
“Brother, I’ll treat you very well. I have money. I can satisfy whatever you want. And…”
The movie was still playing.
But Shen Tangqing only felt nauseous.
“Shut up!” A burst of anger rose from Shen Tangqing’s heart. He struggled hard to break free from Li Qiulan’s restraint.
He took two steps back, as if avoiding a flood or wild beast, his voice filled with bone-piercing chill.
“Li Qiulan, with you acting like this, we can’t even be friends.”
A trace of hurt flashed in Li Qiulan’s eyes, and he bit his lower lip. “Is Brother really so heartless?”
Shen Tangqing looked away.
Li Qiulan was born too good-looking. When he looked at him pitifully with grievance, Shen Tangqing felt that even speaking harsh words was a sin.
He felt like he had done something unforgivable.
“It’s not that I’m heartless, it’s that I don’t like men.”
As soon as Shen Tangqing’s voice fell, the next second, Li Qiulan suddenly chuckled aloud.
He blinked at Shen Tangqing and spoke leisurely.
“Then Brother can start liking me from now on. The kind of like where we date together.”
People really want to laugh when they are extremely speechless.
At least that was Shen Tangqing’s mood right now.
He watched coldly as the disguised grievance in Li Qiulan’s eyes instantly faded, leaving only crazy paranoia.
He couldn’t help sneering.
“I won’t like men. Don’t be unreasonable.”
“Unreasonable?”
Li Qiulan suddenly laughed low.
There was no trace of his usual obedience in that laughter; instead, it revealed a chill that made one’s spine go cold.
He took a step forward.
Shen Tangqing’s gaze landed on his legs.
There was no problem at all!
Liar!
He didn’t see the slight frown on Li Qiulan’s brow at that instant.
His heart was full of anger at being deceived.
“Your legs, they’re fine?”
Li Qiulan paused for a moment.
He didn’t explain.
Instead, he reached out and grasped Shen Tangqing’s wrist.
“Brother, I just want to keep you by my side, that’s all.”
After speaking, he turned to glance at the screen, then his gaze fell back on Shen Tangqing.
…
“And,”
Toward the end, Li Qiulan’s voice took on a hint of seduction.
“…”
Shen Tangqing: !
Li Qiulan definitely has some strange attributes.
“Li Qiulan, are you sick?” Is this something a human can say?
Li Qiulan lowered his eyes slightly. His long eyelashes cast a small shadow under his eyes, hiding the surging darkness in his gaze, revealing only a nearly eerie smile at the corner of his mouth.
“I’m not sick, Brother…”
His voice was very light, but every word fell completely into Shen Tangqing’s ears.
Shen Tangqing: …
He felt Li Qiulan’s brain circuit was very peculiar.
Was that what I meant?
Too lazy to tangle with Li Qiulan anymore; he simply couldn’t be reasoned with.
“Let go.”
“I won’t…”
Not only did Li Qiulan not let go, but his other hand suddenly reached to Shen Tangqing’s lower back and clamped down hard,
Forcing Shen Tangqing to look at him.
“Brother, do you think I spent effort finding this movie just to let you watch them talk about love?
I wanted you to see that we can be together…”
The sounds from the screen continued to spread wantonly.
Li Qiulan turned his head to scan it again.
His pupils constricted slightly, then he turned back, his vision glued deadly to Shen Tangqing’s tense side profile.
Shen Tangqing’s scalp went numb from the stare. He suspected Li Qiulan was crazy.
——
(Hundreds of words were deleted for censorship. I really had no choice. Just make do with reading the parts that don’t flow smoothly!)
T/note: It’s really not there. Huhu. We just have to make do with it. Oh, censorship, why are you like this??? I checked the app as well to make sure it’s really omitted, and yes, it is. (Don’t mind me hahaha)
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