Contractual Marriage: We’re Meant to Be Together

21. I’m Fine, Go Ahead, Curse Me!

Translator: Alanese Fantasy

When the terrible scene of the college student’s death in the newspaper flashed across his mind, Wei Qing got nervous and straightened up all of a sudden. He quickly grabbed his phone from the table and dialed a series of numbers.

“Dooh, dooh…”

“Hello? Who is that?”

“Why did it take you so long to pick it up?” Wei Qing yelled.

“Ah, cousin?” Wei Yuan cleared his ears which had been shocked and yawned, “Why did you call me in the middle of the night?”

“Where’s Yan Chuyang? Ask him to answer the phone.” Wei Qing knew that Yan Chuyang and Wei Yuan shared the same dormitory.

“Chuyang?” Wei Yuan cried in surprise, “Isn’t Chuyang with you? The two of you didn’t live together?”

Wei Qing’s fingers were cold. ‘Hasn’t Yan Chuyang go back to the school dormitory?!’

“Cousin?” Wei Yuan asked anxiously, “What happened? Isn’t Yan Chuyang by your side? It’s 2 o’clock in the morning.”

Wei Qing lifted the blanket and said calmly while he hurriedly threw his shoes on, “It’s fine. He said he wanted to go back to school in the morning. Sleep blurred my memory so I thought he has been back to school.”

“Ah, where is Chuyang now? Is he by your side?”

Wei Qing didn’t have time to keep talking with him. He immediately said, “I’m hanging up.” Then he pressed the ‘hang-up’ button and took a few strides to open the door of the bedroom, walking outside.

He had to check the small apartment that Yan Chuyang used to lived first. If he wasn’t there, he had to call the police.

But just as he opened the door of the living room with a sinking heart, something round plumped onto his feet.

“Ouch!” Yan Chuyang yelled and shouted, “My butt.”

Wei Qing abruptly breathed a sigh of relief; then he dragged him up and asked angrily, “I asked you to go back to your dormitory. What are you doing here?”

Yan Chuyang rubbed his painful butt and frowned, “I also wanted to go back to school, but the dormitory has been locked at that time.”

“Don’t you have a rented apartment?”

“Since I moved into your house, I have terminated the tenancy and the key has been taken back by the landlord.”

“Why not find a hotel?”

“I didn’t get my ID, or money.”

Seeing the boy’s reddened eyes, Wei Qing loosened his grip by his collar, “Why are your eyes so red?”

“No idea,” Yan Chuyang shook his head, “I’ve been dizzy since I squatted at the door.”

Wei Qing touched his forehead. As he felt the burning skin, his face changed, “You have a fever.”

“Really?” Yan Chuyang touched it himself and muttered, “It’s fine. I’m just a little dizzy.”

But just as he finished his words, Yan Chuyang went weak at his knees suddenly and fell to the ground. Wei Qing held him in his arms in time and shoveled him into the room, while cursing in a low voice, “You deserve it!”

After eating more than half a bucket of ice cream, and then squatting for about four or five hours in cold wind in the dead of night, only a superman would still be fine!

Yan Chuyang leaned weakly on the sofa and looked at the cold remedy Wei Qing passed to him, “Does this work? I feel particularly uncomfortable right now. My throat feels like burning. ”

Wei Qing handed a pill to him. “You only have a fever now. Since there are no other symptoms of a cold, it shouldn’t be serious. You will be fine when the fever is gone.”

Yan Chuyang took the water he handed over and washed down the pill. He rubbed his throat in surprise and said, “I think you’re resourceful. Aren’t you majoring in design? Why do you also know about illness?

Wei Qing smirked, “I was a school dweller since I was young. Nobody cared or inquired about me. If I didn’t learn to take care of myself, I won’t be able to survive.”

Yan Chuyang looked at him with an aching heart and said in a low voice, “It’s OK. They were all bygones. I’ll protect you later.”

Wei Qing didn’t hear what he said. Seeing that the boy’s shoulders still trembling, he covered him with a blanket and said, “Take it easy. You’ll feel comfortable when the heat retreats.”

Yan Chuyang nodded and tucked him in, saying. “Why are you going out in the middle of the night? Are you going to find me?

Wei Qing’s expression changed, “What for? To annoy me? ”

Yan Chuyang reached out from the blanket and tugged at the man’s clothes. “I was wrong. I apologize to you, sincerely.”

Wei Qing snorted, shook off his hand and crossed his arms across his chest. “Wrong in what way?”

Yan Chuyang said earnestly, “I shouldn’t have added beef to the noodles. I shouldn’t have eaten all your ice cream, I shouldn’t have entered your room without your permission.”

When it came to beef, Wei Qing thought of his quality beef again. His anger was back again, so he said coldly.

“No matter what you do, let me know in advance. To be frank, the relationship between us isn’t real. We’re just partnership. If we do business with each other, we should do it…” Wei Qing stared into the eyes of the boy in front of him, his voice becoming smaller and smaller. Finally, he stopped and said, “Don’t look at me like this, OK?”

The limpid eyes of the boy were wavering all the time and the pitch-black pupils were as if immersed in a thin film of water. He gazed at Wei Qing in such an innocent manner that he couldn’t have the heart to scold him again.

“I‘m fine.” Yan Chuyang coughed weakly and continued gazing at him in a pitiful way. At the same time, he said thoughtfully, “Go ahead, curse me. As long as you can feel better, I don’t mind.”

” Damn it!’

Wei Qing cursed inwardly. How could he scold him under such a condition? Yan Chuyang was just about to put his face under his hand. How could he still say anything?

“Not again.” Wei Qing said coldly, “This time, we will both take a step back.”

“You have forgiven me?” Yan Chuyang’s eyes lit up.

“Mm-hmm.” Wei Qing lowered his eyes to avoid Yan Chuyang’s sparkling eyes, “This is a lesson. I hope that you can learn your place when you get along with me in the future.”

Yan Chuyang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. ‘Well, it is alright. Fortunately, I have been smart enough to know that only by placing myself in the most dangerous condition could I strike back again.’

‘If I just left mopishly as soon as Wei Qing drove me away, then all my plans to get close to him would be in vain.’

‘Fortunately, Wei Qing is kind, and he couldn’t handle my self-injury ruse at all.’