After Being Reborn, I Became Explosively Popular Across the Entire Internet CHAPTER 107
Chapter 107: Why aren’t you calling me brother anymore?
The afternoon sun was lazy.
The villa had an indoor gym, filled with expensive exercise equipment. A man in loose-fitting sportswear was currently doing pull-ups.
Gu Fei lived a regular life, exercising every week, either running outdoors or in the gym. Therefore, his good figure and strong physique were not without reason.
Lin Qingyan had once seen his eight-pack abs, envying him greatly.
Lin Qingyan sat watching. A thin layer of sweat covered the man’s mature and handsome face, large beads of sweat sliding down his well-defined cheeks, finally disappearing into his collar.
The air was thick with hormones.
Lin Qingyan thought the man would look even more attractive without his clothes, but he could only think this in his heart; he could never say it out loud.
He unconsciously lifted his shirt to look at his own abdomen. There was definitely no eight-pack; it was flat, with only faint four-pack abs, thanks to his daily dance practice during his time on the talent show.
Now that his hand was injured, he couldn’t exercise.
He guessed these four abs would soon become one.
Gu Fei noticed the young man’s movements from the corner of his eye. Seeing his slightly furrowed brow, a smile appeared in his eyes. He stopped his exercise. “YanYan, come here.”
The young man, sitting cross-legged on the floor, like a small animal summoned by its owner, immediately put down the chubby Little Orange on his lap and went to the man’s side, looking up at him slightly.
“Fei ge, what’s wrong?”
Gu Fei: “Let’s exercise.”
“But my right hand isn’t healed yet.” Lin Qingyan questioned.
“It’s fine.”
…
It really was fine.
A minute later, Lin Qingyan lay on the floor, face flushed. Gu Fei’s hands were on either side of him, pressing him down as he did… push-ups.
Um… purely push-ups.
He could do them with both hands, or just one, and his form was impeccable.
Lin Qingyan: “…”
With each of Gu Fei’s dips, Lin Qingyan felt himself enveloped in the man’s hormonal aura.
Those beautiful thin lips were also very close, the hot breath exhaled in his breathing all over his face. His fair cheeks were flushed, like a half-ripe peach.
Gu Fei would deliberately lower his head to kiss him.
While this man often had a stern expression and didn’t smile, looking serious like an old cadre, he had a lot of mischief hidden inside. Saying he wanted to exercise was just an excuse to take advantage.
He could see the smile in Gu Fei’s eyes!
When Gu Fei lowered his head to kiss him again, Lin Qingyan raised his hand to cover his lips, staring at the face so close to his, complaining不满地控訴道: “You’re lying, I don’t have to move at all lying here.”
He thought his eyes looked fierce, but in Gu Fei’s eyes, those moist peach blossom eyes, with a touch of anger, looked more like he was acting coquettish.
“YanYan looks great like this, no need to exercise.”
Lin Qingyan’s hand still covered the man’s lips, his breath falling on the man’s palm as he spoke. He was warmed, his heart trembling slightly, and he quickly withdrew his hand.
In the end, he quickly fled the gym.
Who made Gu Fei so unfair.
Watching the young man’s hasty retreat, Gu Fei chuckled, sitting directly on the floor. Little Orange opposite was licking its fur, its eyes meeting its owner’s.
Little Orange paused, then ran off in the direction where its little owner had left.
Lin Qingyan fed Little Orange some dried fish. The little guy, having eaten his fill, happily ran off to play. Lin Qingyan, now free, began to sort through the things he had brought back from the Lin family.
He placed the rabbit carving on his desk and took out a notebook about the size of an adult’s palm, sitting down at his desk to read it.
He didn’t have any memories of its contents, only knowing he had written it when he was eight. The paper was old and yellowed, the handwriting very childish, the content equally so.
It recorded daily events, both happy and unhappy. The unhappy days were many, like the day he was beaten by his father or scolded by his mother, and so on.
Happy events also existed, like the day he collected trash and exchanged it for money to buy candy; a few pieces of candy could make him happy for a whole day back then.
“So easily satisfied,” Lin Qingyan smiled faintly, but there wasn’t much joy in his eyes. He didn’t even want to recall those days, but the diary forced him to relive that dark period.
However, when he saw the entry for August 2nd, 2005, Lin Qingyan was somewhat confused. The diary said he and his mother went to a beautiful castle and met a very handsome but unsmiling older brother.
Zhou Yuelan likely worked as a maid for a wealthy family, and this older brother was probably the young master of the villa.
But Lin Qingyan had no memory of this.
Lin Qingyan continued reading. For the next two weeks, the diary entries were all about that older brother.
He hid in the bushes to secretly watch the older brother, and was discovered. He mustered his courage and gave the older brother a hawthorn candy, his favorite. The older brother accepted it and said thank you.
From then on, after finishing his work for Zhou Yuelan, he would go to play with the older brother and give him a candy, which he always accepted. The older brother wasn’t very expressive and was quiet, but he always said thank you.
He followed the older brother like a little shadow, and the older brother gradually started to accept his presence, initiating conversations, bringing him delicious snacks, and even smiling at him…
From the words, Lin Qingyan could feel the happiness of his eight-year-old self spending time with the older brother in the “castle.” The last diary entry read:
August 28th, 2005, Friday, Sunny
Today, big brother gave me a beautiful little cake. It’s the best cake I’ve ever eaten. I wish I could eat a cake like this every year on my birthday, but Mom only celebrates my brother’s birthday; I’ve never had a birthday.
Oh, big brother smiled at me today. He looks so handsome when he smiles, like an angel. I really want to stay with him forever, so I can eat little cakes every day!
There was no more content after that. Whether the wish in the diary came true was a definite no. In Lin Qingyan’s memory, there was never an “older brother.”
He also never ate little cakes every day.
Closing the notebook, Lin Qingyan fell silent, lost in thought for a long time, searching his memory for any trace of a castle or an angel-like older brother.
The diary didn’t mention his name.
It only said he was very handsome.
Lin Qingyan even suspected that it was a character he had imagined as a child, that the older brother didn’t really exist. If such a person existed, why didn’t he remember him?
Suddenly, the door to the room opened, and Gu Fei’s appearance interrupted his thoughts. “YanYan, what are you thinking about?” He had just come from the gym, sweat still on his face, his clothes damp.
Lin Qingyan looked up at him, pausing for a moment before softly uttering three words, “Older brother.”
Gu Fei’s heart tightened, distant memories surfacing in his mind, the young man’s soft voice overlapping with the childish voice of his memory.
He swallowed, his gaze resting on the diary in Lin Qingyan’s hand, then shifting to the young man himself. His voice was slightly hoarse, “Why are you calling me that?”
Did the child remember something after seeing the diary?
“Nothing… I just suddenly felt like calling you that.” Lin Qingyan smiled awkwardly, not noticing Gu Fei’s strangeness.
He just felt that compared to the person from his childhood, who he wasn’t sure even existed, the man before him was his “older brother,” because Gu Fei was the one who was good to him and gave him little cakes every day.
He wanted to be with Gu Fei forever.
Gu Fei understood. YanYan hadn’t remembered.
He felt… nothing in particular, no disappointment. Whether Lin Qingyan remembered or not didn’t matter anymore. He reached out and ruffled the young man’s hair, his magnetic voice gentle, “I like you calling me that.”
After saying this, he strode towards the bathroom, needing a shower after sweating so much.
Lin Qingyan watched the bathroom door close and couldn’t help but smile faintly. He mumbled softly, “Older brother? Brother?” It sounded a little mushy, but it wasn’t impossible to call him that.
Ten minutes later, Gu Fei emerged from the bathroom, only wearing a bath towel, casually wiping his wet short hair with a towel.
Lin Qingyan was still sitting in the same spot, his gaze fixed on the man. He finally saw those incredibly sexy eight-pack abs. He stood up, his voice soft and gentle, “Brother, let me dry your hair.”
“…” Gu Fei paused in his hair-drying. Brother? For a moment, he suspected his ears had malfunctioned. He turned his head towards the source of the sound; the young man’s expression was natural.
Um, maybe it was just an auditory hallucination.
He continued to dry his hair without incident.
However, not long after, he heard the voice again: “Brother, where’s the hairdryer?”
Gu Fei heard this “brother” clearly.
The hairdryer was always in the same place; Lin Qingyan couldn’t possibly not know, unless he was deliberately asking. Gu Fei looked again at the source of the sound, catching the mischievous smile in the young man’s eyes before he could hide it.
Gu Fei: “…”
Gu Fei remained calm, his voice steady, “In the third drawer on the left of the cabinet.”
It didn’t seem to work. Gu Fei didn’t seem interested in the “brother” title. Lin Qingyan could only open the drawer and take out the hairdryer. “Fei ge, sit down.”
Gu Fei sat on the bed. Lin Qingyan stood beside him, about to turn on the hairdryer, when his waist was suddenly encircled by a strong arm, and he was forced to sit on the man’s lap.
“Fei ge, you…”
Gu Fei: “Mm? Why aren’t you calling me brother anymore?”
