Transmigrated into the School Idol’s Love Rival and Lover

Chapter 25 - I Chase Myself (6)

Subtitle: Chance for the hero to save the beauty

Under the light, Ruan Yan could not distinguish Chu Nan’s expression clearly.

He only heard Chu Nan’s low reply, “Really? I hate being lied to the most, you better not lie to me.”

Ruan Yan was even more anxious, but he displayed a calm, humiliated smile, “I didn’t lie to you. I like pink the best, it’s so pretty, just as cute as Ran Yan.”

Chu Nan’s face darkened, “I can say Yan Yan’s cute, you can’t. You better behave yourself.”

Ruan Yan took note of the situation and obediently chose not to speak.

When Ruan Yan’s situation became slightly better, Chu Nan held him by the arm and supported him home.

Originally, he planned to just send Ruan Yan home and throw him off the car when the time came, but after thinking about it, he realised that his parents might not necessarily know about the fact that Ruan Yan was either bisexual or homosexual.

If he just hastily sent Ruan Yan home, then it was estimated that Ruan Yan would be beaten to death.

Chu Nan’s family was quite strict towards him, and thus he felt a mutual sympathy for fellow sufferer Ruan Yan.

He had a slight anxiousness in his heart as he asked, “Your family doesn’t know about your sexuality, right? Will they beat you up if they find out about it?”

Ruan Yan half walked, half crawled, leaning against Chu Nan’s neck. The hot air he breathed out teased the edge of Chu Nan’s ear, “Beat me?”

Chu Nan’s back stiffened, “Stay away from me.”

Ruan Yan acted like he hadn’t heard and concentratedly spoke, “If you’re talking about the fact that I’m homosexual, then if my parents were to know, they’d probably spend money to hire me a stylist and style my appearance in the way homosexual’s find the most attractive.”

“They might also set foot in the homosexual industry, like opening a few gay hotels, gay bars, to let me play around with…”

Ruan Yan spoke in a normal, relaxed fashion, and Chu Nan scornfully exclaimed, “You’re quite good at boasting.”

Chu Nan didn’t believe Ruan Yan’s words. His family tradition was to be strict and rigorous, and they would never think that there could be a family like Ruan Yan’s in the world.

When they reached the Chu Manor, Chu Nan told Grandma Chu that little Teacher Ruan had gotten heatstroke before taking Ruan Yan to the ordained guest room.

Even though his fitness was good, but after supporting him the entire way, he was now tired to the point of having sweat all over his head.

Chu Nan put Ruan Yan down on the big bed. “You can just rest here for a bit. If you need something then call me, if nothing’s wrong then don’t spout nonsense.”

He was very angry. He had actually helped the hateful Ruan Yan.

Ruan Yan extremely naturally pulled on Chu Nan’s sleeve, “Don't I need to take a shower? I think my body’s feeling a bit dirty.”

As he spoke, it could be seen that his clothes had long become creased, the big, spacious coat losing its normal, cold, pressuring aura and instead appearing overly big, making his entire person appear more slim and fragile.

Chu Nan squinted, reflecting on himself for the first time as to whether calling over ten or so people to surround and block off Ruan Yan had been a bit too overboard.

Chu Nan said, “Can you wash by yourself?”

Ruan Yan froze, “…I don’t have any strength left.”

“Then I’ll help you wash?” Chu Nan impolitely mocked him, “Wake up! You have bad intentions towards Yan Yan and I want to hit you every time I see you, understand? I only took you back to my house because I had no other choice. It’s for you to rest, not for me to get a room (1) with you. What’s the point in washing yourself so clean?”

Ruan Yan: …

He pulled the quilt up to his chest. “If I can’t shower then I just won’t shower, why do you have to be so fierce?”

He shut his eyes once he finished speaking.

Chu Nan stifled a belly of anger and went back to his room to play games.

When he once again successfully managed to eat chicken (2), Chu Nan rejected Ju Pings team up request. “I’m going to go call.”

His love for calling Ran Yan at this time was unshakeable.

Today, the phone rang for a long time, but no one picked up.

Ruan Yan had already slept for two hours. The phone was in his pocket and after vibrating for a long time, it finally woke him up.

Chu Nan.

If it were normally that Ruan Yan had been forcibly woken up by, then he definitely would’ve ignored Chu Nan, but today he’d been attended to by Chu Nan, and so he carefully picked up the call.

He extremely quietly greeted, “Chu Nan, night.”

Chu Nan asked, “Yan Yan, why are you talking so quietly?”

…Because I’m in the room right next to yours. If I say it any louder then I’m afraid you’ll hear.

Ruan Yan suppressed his volume to the utmost, even to the extent that he covered his head with the quilt, talking to Chu Nan inside the quilt. “Because my mum and dad are both asleep, I’m afraid I’ll wake them.”

Chu Nan nodded, “It’s only 7 right now, your parents sleep so early.”

For a moment, Ruan Yan couldn’t guess Chu Nan’s intention and could only wittily keep quiet.

Luckily, Chu Nan didn’t go too deep into the subject, saying, “Maybe they've been too busy at work.”

Ruan Yan let out a breath of relief, “En en.”

“Yan Yan, why’s your voice… a bit hoarse today?” Chu Nan curiously asked, “Did you also get a heat stroke?”

Ruan Yan’s heart once again strung up, extremely scared that Chu Nan would find out the similar aspects between ‘him’ and Ruan Yan.

“…I didn’t get a heat stroke. Today the water heater suddenly broke when I was showering so I caught a cold.” Ruan Yan disguised himself. In order to prove the truthfulness of his words, he even coughed two times.

As expected, Chu Nan was successfully fooled by him. “Have you had medicine yet?”

“Yes.”

Chu Nan continued, “Wear a bit more tomorrow. Oh right, let me tell you something big about Ruan Yan.”

Chu Nan exaggeratedly described the scene of Ruan Yan wearing a pink skirt in a vivid manner in order to completely blacken Ruan Yan’s image, “Yan Yan, don’t you think that he’s psychopath? He’s got five bigs and three coarses (3), yet he copies you in wearing a dress, not to mention… His dress today looked quite similar to yours.”

Ruan Yan: …

He was anxious to the extreme, “Did you see clearly?”

“No, the lighting was too dim, and I only saw a flash. But then again, he’s at my house right now, I can go and have a look now.” Chu Nan thought that he’d at least saved Ruan Yan once right?

Using Ruan Yan’s dress to coax his Yan Yan wouldn’t be too much ba.

Ruan Yan: …If Chu Nan really were to come and look carefully then wouldn’t he be done for?

Ruan Yan immediately said, “You… You already said that he was a psychopath, don’t go look ma. The next time he wears female clothing you’re also not allowed to take a single look.”

Chu Nan caught the main point, “Yan Yan! You also think that he’s a psychopath?”

Ruan Yan’s heart was crying blood, but he had no choice but to act spoiled and agree, “En… He’s a man and yet he actually likes wearing pink. Even I don’t like wearing pink, he’s so girly. So, you better not go and look at him!”

Ruan Yan had already begun to feel dizzy. He told himself that men needed to be adaptable, he could certainly endure being occasionally slandered by others, or even slandering himself.

Chu Nan replied, “Understood.”

Even though he didn’t plan to go look at Ruan Yan’s dress, but he still thought of how Ruan Yan was sleeping without knowing whether he was dead or alive. If something happened to him, then no one would know either.

Chu Nan talked to Ruan Yan whilst walking to the guest room.

Ruan Yan’s heart was in his mouth as he focused on replying to Chu Nan and didn’t at all notice any other sound.

The door made a soft sound.

When Chu Nan came in, he received a huge shock.

He took a couple steps forward and roughly pulled the covers off, dragging Ruan Yan out. “You have a heat stroke and yet you’re still covering your head with the quilts?!”

Ruan Yan: …

He was scared to the point that his three immortal souls and his seven mortal forms (4) had pretty much all dissipated. Grasping his phone, he dropped it with a “pah”.

The call was abruptly cut off.

Chu Nan was extremely angry and didn’t notice, fiercely interrogating, “What were you doing hiding inside the quilts?”

Calling with you ah…

Even Ruan Yan’s face had turned white from fear, “…playing games.”

“You’re tossing your life away for games?” Chu Nan spread out his hand, “Hand over your phone. What game were you playing? I’ll help you delete it.”

If he handed the phone over, then wouldn’t it be over?

Ruan Yan just barely managed to force out a slight smile, “Chu Nan, you don’t need to delete my game, I just won’t play it okay?”

“You think I’ll believe you?” Chu Nan icily replied, “Didn’t you have quite a few sly ruses before? Hand the phone over or else I’m snatching it.”

“Chu Nan, do you really have to be like this?” Ruan Yan forced himself to be calm. As soon as he was calm, he looked just like how he usually was when he was picking on Chu Nan’s shortcomings.

Chu Nan: “Definitely.”

Ruan Yan had no choice but to go all out. “Chu Nan, everyone here’s a male so I won’t conceal it from you anymore. Just then… I was looking at educational action enlightenment (5) videos, are you sure you want to take it to see?”

…………….

Educational action enlightenment videos? Saying it so elegantly, wasn’t it still just ‘that’ in the end?

Chu Nan was really speechless. He had a feeling that he was going to be angered to death.

He replied, “Your addictions quite big. Turn the phone off yourself.”

What kind of person was this ah, hiding in the quilts to watch this kind of stuff.

Chu Nan added another strike on Ruan Yan’s list of charges.

Once Ruan Yan’s body had pretty much recovered, he left the Chu Manor.

The next few days were passed quite peacefully.

But, it was also about time to push the plot forward.

In the original plot line, Ruan Yan had obtained first in the monthly examination whereas Ran Yan had done quite badly, being scolded by her parents.

Because of this, Ran Yan had started to idolise Ruan Yan, even expressing her admirations for him in front of Chu Nan.

Ruan Yan thickened his face and forced himself to push on with this section of the plot. He waited until Chu Nan once again spoke bad words about Ruan Yan in his ear one day, before saying, “Chu Nan, why do you always talk about other people? Ruan Yan’s the first in the grade, can’t you have a look at his merits?”

Chu Nan’s expression suddenly sank, “Yan Yan, you’re speaking up for him?”

Ruan Yan replied, “…No, I’m not!”

Chu Nan’s fingers softly tapped the stone table in the school’s courtyard, “Yan Yan, he’s suspected to be bisexual, wears a pink skirt meant for girls, and has a couple tens of rumoured girlfriends. You’re really going to speak up for this kind of person?”

…Ruan Yan’s heart was tired. He really wasn’t that bad.

He very quietly murmured, “But… He’s good looking and very handsome. His grades are also good, and he even knows how to write essays… He’s not that bad.”

“Heh.” Chu Nan let out a cold laugh, his entire face darkened from jealousy.

Ruan Yan was scared that he would go crazy on the spot and actively hugged him, “You’re not allowed to get angry, I’m only speaking the truth. If you get angry now, then I won’t dare to speak the truth to you in the future.”

He rubbed against Chu Nan like a cat.

Chu Nan forcibly suppressed his anger, not getting angry easily.

But a sense of discomfort always lingered in his heart. He felt that Ruan Yan’s methods of pursuit had started to move Yan Yan’s heart.

Chu Nan decided that he would find Ruan Yan and beat him up a bit again.

Ruan Yan would also change into male clothing once each day, waiting to accomplish the plot task.

The Ruan Yan in the original novel was an unfaithful person. He not only liked Ran Yan, rather, he liked the female protagonist Su Xue even more, flirting with her time after time.

What Ruan Yan had to do now, was flirt with Su Xue once and be exposed by Chu Nan on sight, letting Chu Nan have the chance to enact the scene of hero saving the beauty.

Translator’s Notes:

(1) Get a room = get a hotel room to have s*x

(2) Common phrase used in PUBG and similar games, essentially derived (somewhat) from “winner winner chicken dinner”, where basically you’re said to have eaten chicken if you won the game

(3) 5 big refers to the hands, feet and ear being big, the shoulder being broad and the buttocks being plump; whereas 3 coarse refers to the waist, legs and neck being thick

(4) In Buddhism it’s believed that a person has 3 immortal souls and 7 mortal forms (also known as three hun and seven po or the three ethereal souls and seven corporal souls). Essentially, the 3 immortal souls forms a person’s spiritual soul and the 7 mortal forms form a persons ‘physical soul’. Here’s a link in English if you wanna know more: https://daoistgate.com/understanding-the-human-soul/

(5) Uh… porn videos that ‘teach’ you how to do it