Chapter 24 - I Chase Myself (5)

Subtitle: Ruan Yan, you're a psychopath ah

 

Ruan Yan had never felt as uncomfortable as he had now.

 

He was seemingly immersed in a sticky, chaotic substance, with every pore in his body blocked, unable to feel the touch of cool, fresh air. It was extremely hot and dry.

 

Chu Nan’s hand was placed on his collar, steamingly hot. Ruan Yan called out, “Hot… Your hand… Let go.”

 

Chu Nan replied, “Take your clothes off if you’re hot. It’s the middle of Summer, do you think you can feel cold wrapped in long sleeves and long pants?”

 

From a certain perspective, Chu Nan was also quite straight (1).

 

Wasn’t Ruan Yan feeling hot because he’d been drugged? If he were to take off his clothes and lie on the floor, then he would certainly feel better. The floor was so cold- could it be possible that the heat still wouldn’t disperse if he were to lie on it?

 

Ruan Yan wasn’t completely muddled. In any case, he wouldn’t take off his clothes.

 

But Chu Nan wouldn’t have such patience towards him. He directly moved to pull off Ruan Yan’s clothes, holding the zipper and tugging it down.

 

Ruan Yan’s two hands grasped onto the clothes tightly. “Won’t… take off.”

 

Chu Nan’s resentments had accumulated for a long time, “Do you want your clothes or your life?”

 

Ruan Yan: “…Both.”

 

Chu Nan was angered to death. With one hand, he forcibly pulled the zipper down whilst the other hand sneaked into the gap between the open zipper, wanting to attack from both the inside and other outside. Following the zipper line, he directly ripped open Ruan Yan’s clothes.

 

Just as Chu Nan’s hand reached in, it touched Ruan Yan’s smooth and slightly hot skin. The second Ruan Yan was touched, his entire body shuddered, and he tremblingly moaned out before gritting his teeth and refusing to speak.

 

Chu Nan was expressionless. He’d thought that he would be nauseated to the point of vomiting by the sound of a man’s moan, but in the end, he wasn’t.

 

In fact, he’d even thought, with Ruan Yan’s skin and voice, if he really were to be gay then he would certainly be the one on the bottom.

 

Chu Nan let out a ridiculing laugh before putting strength in his hands. The zipper was half opened. Ruan Yan frantically wrapped two hands around his jacket.

 

However, the pink cloth inside still wasn’t completely covered and a bit of its flowery lace edges were revealed.

 

Chu Nan squinted his eyes, “…Your taste is quite special.”

 

Ruan Yan covered it quickly and Chu Nan didn’t see it clearly, thus he didn’t link it to what Ran Yan had worn during the day.

 

He said, “Take off the pants as well.”

 

Ruan Yan’s entire body trembled, and he only knew to shake his head in refusal.

 

Chu Nan let out a ferocious laugh, “You refuse a toast to drink forfeit. Stupid gay, do you just like this kind of play?”

 

Ruan Yan shook his head, “I’m not… gay…”

 

“Do you think you’re lying to a ghost?” Chu Nan ridiculed.

 

He normally seemed to be so cool and cold, and yet he secretly wore pink lace.

 

Chu Nan stopped talking nonsense and pulled Ruan Yan’s pants down in a single stroke. A little pink skirt almost blinded Chu Nan’s eyes.

 

He was dazed for a second. Ruan Yan had already immediately pulled the pants back up, almost humiliated to the point of crying, “Chu Nan… Who let you randomly take off other people’s pants?”

 

Ruan Yan dizzily thought, it was all because he didn’t educate Chu Nan well when he was Ran Yan, thus resulting in Chu Nan being so bad.

 

Chu Nan: …

 

Fine. He couldn’t bear to do it anymore.

 

Ruan Yan was a psychopath- wearing a girl’s skirt inside his clothes to come stroll around a gay bar.

 

He really was impressed (2).

 

He couldn’t bear to keep on stripping him anymore. Sitting down on the sofa, his forehead creased into the “川” (3) character as he made a phone call to call the waiter over.

 

The waiter immediately came in, “How may I help you, Sir?”

 

Chu Nan’s heart was tired to the point that he didn’t want to talk and merely pointed at Ruan Yan.

 

Ruan Yan held onto the wall for support. Even his legs were shaking. Those cold peach blossom eyes were enchantingly blurred by a thin layer of water vapour.

 

The waiter let out an understanding smile. “Sir, excuse me but do you need a condom and lubricant? We have different priced ones.”

 

“F**k!” Chu Nan wasn’t able to keep it in and swore out loud.

 

“Are you blind? Don’t you see that he’s been drugged?” Chu Nan yelled, “Are you guys not a legalised bar? If you don’t give me a proper explanation today, then I’ll see you at the police station.”

 

Finished talking, he pulled out his phone.

 

The waiter immediately panicked. “Sir, you…”

 

They really weren’t a legalised bar here ah. These two sirs knew and yet they still came?

 

Chu Nan said, “Your place here is so messy, you can’t possibly not know what he's drugged with right? Take out the antidote, otherwise, let’s go to the Bureau (4) and police station to have a talk.

 

The waiter had a clear impression of Chu Nan’s outstanding appearance. He recalled that when their gang of people had come in, someone had called him Brother Chu.

 

Rich second generations with the surname Chu…

 

The waiter bowed, “Ok, Sir.”

 

Ruan Yan opened his mouth in a timely manner, “And also medicine for heatstroke… It would be best to have a set of maths papers as well.”

 

Chu Nan had a fierce expression on his face and shot a glance at him before saying to the waiter, “Do as he said.”

 

Only when the waiter went out did Chu Nan say, “Are you crazy ah? You want a maths paper? You’re at a gay bar to do papers?”

 

Ruan Yan caught onto the main point, “Gay bar?”

 

He unhappily said, “Chu Nan, you… you’re gay?” In between his words, he became a bit anxious and coughed a few times, “If you’re gay, what about Ran Yan?”

 

Ruan Yan was a bit panicked. He told himself that he wouldn’t be able to complete the mission if Chu Nan was gay.

 

Chu Nan replied, “Rotten eyes see everything as gay (5), I’m too tired to bother with you.”

 

But Ruan Yan wouldn’t let him off, “…If it wasn’t for you, then why would I be here? Liar… I’m going to tell Ran Yan…”

 

Wanting to sow discord yet again!

 

Chu Nan was angered immediately, “I’m completely sincere to Yan Yan! If you keep on telling lies, then lao-zi’s going to beat you death!”

 

“Then why would you come to a gay bar?”

 

Chu Nan almost turned crazy, “Are you a supervisor who checks in on everyone?! I have stuff to do here, didn’t you see Ju Ping and the others go out just then? This is my first time here, why do you have to ask about everything? So unreasonable!”

 

“…Oh.” Ruan Yan didn’t argue with him anymore, “Repeat what you are to Ran Yan again?”

 

Chu Nan provokingly replied, “I said, I’m completely sincere to Ran Yan. My feelings won’t change even unto death. You - this type of person who’s liked by both guys and girls - won’t understand. Let go of your affections earlier ba.”

 

Ruan Yan’s heart settled down.

 

After a moment, the waiter knocked on the door and entered, handing the medicine and paper to Ruan Yan, “Sir, the paper is what we printed out from Qin Lin High School’s monthly examination on the internet, please enjoy.”

 

Ruan Yan held up his sick body and moved onto the sofa. “Water…”

 

You can’t pour it yourself?

 

Chu Nan looked at his weak, frail appearance and unwillingly poured him a cup of water, “Take it.”

 

Ruan Yan’s hand hadn’t even touched the cup yet when he took it back, “Hot… It’s too hot.”

 

“Then let it cool for a while.” Chu Nan ruthlessly said.

 

Ruan Yan had already crept up to him and clasping onto his hand, he swayed it. “Chu Nan, I’m uncomfortable… Help me.”

 

F**k.

 

Stupid gay.

 

Chu Nan really wanted to send a kick over, but without knowing why - probably because he’d been annoyed by Ruan Yan too much - but he blew a couple times until the water turned warm. “Drink it. If you keep on swaying lao-zi’s hand and the water splashes onto you, then you’ll have to lick it clean yourself.”

 

“…You’re so crude.” Ruan Yan drank the medicine muddle-headedly.

 

Chu Nan replied, “Wait until the drug’s effects are gone and then we’ll go out. Yan Yan’s still waiting for me to call her.”

 

He complacently took a glance at Ruan Yan and boasted, “Yan Yan and I make telephone porridge (6) every day, every time it goes on for at least 2 hours.”

 

Nonsense. The longest time was only 30 minutes.

 

Ruan Yan couldn’t unmask him and merely felt that the medicine was a bit bitter in his mouth. “Chu Nan… get me a piece of candy. Drinking the medicine makes me uncomfortable.”

 

Ruan Yan’s tone was extremely soft. It was a good thing that his current voice was already hoarse, it’s texture becoming rather coarse, or else Chu Nan might’ve recognised it despite how careless of a person he was.

 

Immediately, Chu Nan’s urge to boast plummeted by half.

 

He thought, a big man even had to eat a piece of candy when he was drinking medicine - really a gay.

 

What point was there in boasting to a gay?

 

Chu Nan carelessly gave a mint candy to Ruan Yan and Ruan Yan thanked him.

 

He put the cool, refreshing candy into his mouth. After drinking the medicine, he didn’t want to sleep and took the paper out, spreading it out across his lap.

 

“First question, C.”

 

“Second question, B.”

 

Chu Nan saw how he picked an answer in less than a minute and thought that his brain must have been turned to paste, “Pack it up, go out.”

 

Ruan Yan raised his eyes, “What would you choose for the third question?”

 

Chu Nan glanced at the question, “A, let’s go.”

 

Ruan Yan shook his head. “No, it’s D.”

 

Ruan Yan meticulously explained the solution to him. At first, Chu Nan thought that he was saying nonsense, but as he slowly listened, it really did seem to be correct.

 

Ruan Yan only had this one hobby. As he explained each question to Chu Nan, he almost finished doing the entire paper.

 

There wasn’t much strength in his body and as he talked to Chu Nan, they very naturally got closer and closer to each other, with his head almost lying on Chu Nan’s shoulder.

 

Chu Nan normally hated getting too close to people. Even his parents and good friends couldn’t do so, and only Ran Yan could get close.

 

Today, maybe it was because he was too concentrated on listening to what Ruan Yan was saying, but he didn’t think there was anything wrong at all.

 

When Ruan Yan got up to question that needed him to draw a tangent, he directly used a finger to draw on Chu Nan’s leg. “Just like this…”

 

As his fingers traced around on Chu Nan’s leg, it didn’t hurt nor itch at all, but Chu Nan reacted as if he’d been electrocuted and immediately grabbed onto his hand.

 

He always thought that something wasn’t quite right, but he just couldn’t identify it.

 

After all, normal people wouldn’t ever think of Ruan Yan’s perverted actions.

 

Chu Nan muttered in a low voice, “Ruan Yan, I forgot to ask you just then. It’s so hot today, why are you wearing a skirt inside your clothes?

 

Chu Nan spoke according to his instinct, “Yan Yan was also wearing a pink skirt today. Ruan Yan, tell me, why?”

 

Ruan Yan quietly sat there. He was especially calm and confident when he was giving a lecture, so even if he were to lie right now, nobody would be able to see his guilt.

 

He didn’t speak. Under the amorous lighting, his skin was like fine jade.

 

Chu Nan continued to ask, “Why did you just so happen to wear the same pink skirt as Yan Yan?”

 

“Because I like pink the best.” Ruan Yan slowly replied.

 

Chu Nan: …

 

You – a big man – likes pink, do you really want your face this much? (7)

 

Translator’s Notes:

(1) Straight as in straight man

(2) Kind of a more derogatory impressed? More like he’s impressed because he’s accepted that he can’t do this kind of thing himself (i.e. wearing a skirt and going to a gay bar)

(3) Pinyin is “chuan”, means waves. Here, it’s just taking the structure of the character because the character itself looks like 3 frown lines knitted or running down a persons forehead

(4) The Bureau of Industry and Commerce, essentially the people who supervise and deal with different companies or businesses

(5) A popular internet slang (particularly with BL becoming more popular + the rise of fujoshi’s fudanshi) referring to when someone sees two guys together and thinks they’re gay even if they’re just normal friends

(6) Because making porridge takes a long time (especially the nutritious kinds which can take about 2-3 hours for the nutrients to go into the porridge), here it’s referring to the fact that they call for a really long time

(7) Sarcasm (in case it wasn’t obvious enough lol); it’s more like he’s saying that he doesn’t want face ahaha

 

Lol, short chapter today (about 1200 words less than the last chapter). I almost thought that my translating speed increased but welp... guess not heh.

 

(Edited: 27/11/2021)

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