My Ghost Lover Is Too Annoying

72. Holding Hands with the Boyfriend

Translator: Haunted

The two of them walked in the street together. The back of their hands constantly touched, which made Zhou Nan had an itch in his heart. He looked up at Chen Ming’s expression for a few times and found that Chen Ming was still unfathomably calm. But he didn’t know that every time he looked away, there was always a smirk on Chen Ming’s face.

“I… Can I hold your hand?” Zhou Nan finally couldn’t stand the silence and asked in a low voice.

Chen Ming glanced at Zhou Nan and immediately held his hand with fingers interlocked together, as a silent affirmation. Chen Ming shook his hand gently and said, “Look at you. If you just want to hold hands, you should’ve said it earlier. I’m just a straight guy who can’t read others’ mind.”

Zhou Nan wanted to say it earlier. Although he didn’t mind, two men walking down the street holding hands, in this not too open era, could inevitably attract people’s attention. He was just afraid that Chen Ming would feel embarrassed.

But now there was no need to worry anymore. Zhou Nan held Chen Ming’s hand, feeling extremely happy in his heart.

Sure enough, those two continued to attract glances. Chen Ming completely ignored all of them, and Zhou Nan looked back without showing any weakness, as if saying: “I have a boyfriend but you don’t, and this is the reason for me to do whatever I want”.

In the past month of being a ghost, Zhou Nan only felt the looks from Chen Ming and Hu Yuelan. At this time, facing the gaze of the strangers, he was not shy at all, and felt a bit fresh.

“Where do you want to go?” Chen Ming tried his best to think about the places for dates, “Cinema? Western restaurant?”

“Forget it. If we go to those kinds of places, and spend that much money, you must feel devastated. Let’s be frugal.” While he was saying this, Zhou Nan noticed that there was a pigeon feeding spot not far away by the street. An elder lady was guarding the bags of pigeon food, and surrounded by black or white pigeons.

Chen Ming saw that Zhou Nan couldn’t stop staring at the pigeons. He realized what Zhou Nan was thinking about for the first time, “Yo, this little fairy wants to feed the pigeons?”

The penniless Zhou Nan nodded, with his eyes full of anticipation, waiting for Chen Ming to give him some change. Chen Ming looked at Zhou Nan and had the illusion that he was raising a kid.

He didn’t count, and just casually put the money into Zhou Nan’s hand and patted the latter’s back, “Go ahead, and be careful with your keen eyes. The pigeons might think you are going to eat them when they see that.”

Zhou Nan rolled his eyes at Chen Ming. He took the money and ran.

When Chen Ming came close slowly, a few pigeons were startled. Zhou Nan handed him a packet of pigeon food with a smile, “I can’t play alone, right?”

Chen Ming hesitated and didn’t take it, “You can feed it yourself. This is for kids, I…”

Zhou Nan immediately stopped smiling, showed a vicious look, and ordered him, “Are you saying that I’m immature? Just take it! You have to feed them even if you don’t want to! This is called returning to your original nature, understand?”

The old lady beside him was amused and quietly retreated to the side to laugh.

Chen Ming didn’t reply and just listened. He didn’t intend to feed them though. He just wanted to wait for Zhou Nan to finish feeding the pigeons the current bag and then give this one to Zhou Nan to continue.

The two of them sat on a street bench. The pigeons were afraid of strangers. They would only come closer when Zhou Nan sprinkled pigeon food, and they were all flapping wings and keeping a certain distance for the rest of the time.

Chen Ming was bored and tossed the pigeon food in his hand with plastic wrap. People always liked to recall the past when they were bored: “You were concerned and hesitated to confess to me for a long time. Were you afraid that you would die before me, and then get me into trouble?” He always said things directly.

Zhou Nan was just about to sprinkle the pigeon food in his hand. Hearing Chen Ming’s question, he stopped for a second and then slowly took his hand back. After a while, he slowly said, “Yes, but eventually, I still got you into trouble, didn’t I?”

Chen Ming was just about to open his mouth, and Zhou Nan hurried to interrupt, “Don’t say anything like that you might die before me. Now that I have my soul back to the body, you should apologize to the ghost officers and Yang Wang, then perhaps you could continue to earn merit!” He blushed a little for making such a long statement.

Chen Ming suddenly smiled, reached out his hand to Zhou Nan’s head and rubbed it, “Okay, whatever you say.”

Zhou Nan shook his head to save himself from Chen Ming’s claws, and said indignantly, “I’m serious about this!”

“I’m serious too.” Chen Ming looked into Zhou Nan’s eyes, “I’ve figured it out. If either of us dies first, the other one would suffer a lot. So I plan to share our lifetime equally in the future.”

Zhou Nan was surprised, feeling that Chen Ming was joking with him.

“Although I’m not capable of letting both of us live a long life. But it’s still easy for us to die on the same day in the same year. Right?” He leaned down and shortened the distance between the two of them. The tips of their noses almost touched, “Zhou Nan, you don’t love me enough to go to the afterlife with me?”

Zhou Nan blushed and stammered, “I, I… you…” He wasn’t even able to say a full sentence for a while. How could he not like Chen Ming enough to live and die together? Of course he would love to!

“Alright, feed your pigeons. You have to have fun while we’re still alive.” Chen Ming grinned, crossed his legs and leaned against the back of the chair.

Zhou Nan wanted to seize the moment to say something, but a cry from the distance interrupted his words. Both of them looked over and saw a small black dot outside the fence on the top floor of the building, which was apparently a person.

Chen Ming immediately became serious and stood up to take a careful look.

The person was shaking and it seemed that his mental state was not good. A passerby called the police, but the fall came suddenly. The moment the small black dot fell from the edge of the building, Zhou Nan didn’t dare to look anymore and covered his eyes with his hands.

Chen Ming, who had a strong mind, did not avert his eyes. He watched the person smashing into the car downstairs directly. The sound was loud, and he could almost see the blood.

Suddenly, screams, cries for help, and car alarms all came together. The pigeons in front of them were shocked and they all flew into the sky, circling around.