Chapter 106: Long Xing Who Couldn’t Hold Back
“I promise I’ll never do that again!”
To deal with the system, An Han had no choice but to sound confident while making a promise to Su Peng.
Once this sports day is over, he’d find a way to completely stay away from them! Maybe he could even move out of the dorm and live off campus!
He had a good relationship with their counselor, Ren Chi. If he begged enough, he’d probably get permission to live outside.
Once that happened, he could keep his distance from his current group of friends and the system’s daily missions wouldn’t involve Su Peng or Long Xing anymore.
Su Peng just looked at his pretty face and said nothing.
“Really! Just team up with me for the sports day, okay? We’re the best partners, master and apprentice! We play games well together, of course we’ll do great in the three-legged race too!”
“You don’t know how bad Wang Sheng is! I practiced with him for just half an hour, and he made me fall so many times that I scraped my hand!”
An Han pitifully raised his arm, showing his elbow, where the skin was torn and bleeding. He looked so wronged and miserable.
“If I keep practicing with Wang Sheng for a few more days, I’ll probably end up unable to take care of myself…”
Of course, that wasn’t what he told Wang Sheng earlier, but talking differently to different people wasn’t wrong, right?
“Look, here too! And here! Even my knees are scraped…”
He looked up at Su Peng with misty eyes, sounding more and more pitiful, and even a little like he was about to cry.
“Alright, alright.”
Su Peng sighed helplessly. He couldn’t stand it anymore, he gave in.
Mainly because when An Han looked that hurt and fragile, it really made people want to protect him.
He reached out his hand toward him. “Come on, let’s go take care of your wounds first.”
“Mm!”
The tears in his eyes and the sob in his voice instantly vanished. An Han’s face lit up with a bright smile as he grabbed Su Peng’s hand and stood up.
Got him!
He cheered secretly in his heart. As a man himself, he knew exactly what a man’s weakness was, especially when that man, like Su Peng, saw him as a woman and secretly liked him!
Serves you right for liking me!
If Su Peng didn’t have feelings for him, he’d probably be like Wang Yu, annoyed by a “girly guy” who acted spoiled and emotional all the time.
This was poetic justice!
Walking side by side with Su Peng toward the campus supermarket, An Han was full of satisfaction. But slowly, something felt off.
Wait… why does this feel like I’m enjoying toying with him?
Did I just act a little too much like a flirty drama queen?
Su Peng didn’t notice the change in his mood at all. Hands in his pockets, he walked in the night air and kept muttering,
“First we’ll clean the wound with saline, then disinfect with alcohol, and finally wrap it with gauze…”
Before he could finish, An Han suddenly turned toward a public restroom nearby, went to the sink, and directly rinsed his wound under the tap.
“You’ll get an infection if you do that.”
“It’s fine, it’s just a scratch! You’re making it sound like surgery. Look, it’s clean now.”
Then he lifted one leg, put it on the sink, rolled up his pants, and rinsed his scraped knee under the running water for two seconds before turning back to ask,
“When you were a kid, didn’t you handle scrapes like this?”
“……”
“Come on, let’s go buy some snacks before heading back to the dorm. They’ll start roll call soon.”
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When they got back to the dorm, it was already nine thirty.
Feeling tired, An Han sat down on Wang Sheng’s bed, glancing now and then at the scrapes on his body.
It was just a few small scratches, yet Su Peng had made such a big deal about how to treat them. He was surprisingly detailed about such a small thing.
Stretching lazily, An Han lay down flat on Wang Sheng’s blanket.
“An Han! You were just sweating outside, and now you’re lying on my bed!” Wang Sheng couldn’t hold back anymore and complained loudly, “At least take a shower first!”
An Han quickly noticed that Wang Sheng’s attitude toward him had softened a lot. In the past, just sitting on Wang Sheng’s bed would make him scowl, but now he only asked for a shower?
“Too lazy to move~”
An Han started teasing Wang Sheng the way he used to, rolling around on the bed twice on purpose, messing up the neatly folded blanket completely.
Wang Sheng was about to lose it. He was just getting up when he suddenly noticed the scrape on An Han’s knee.
Remembering that he was the one who caused it during practice, Wang Sheng’s guilt instantly kicked in. He awkwardly looked away and turned his eyes back to his computer screen.
If he didn’t look at An Han messing up his bed, he wouldn’t feel so bad.
“Wang Sheng’s mattress is so soft~”
“This blanket smells like sunshine~ Next time you dry it on the roof, help me dry mine too, okay?”
An Han teased him with exaggerated sweetness, but when Wang Sheng didn’t react at all, he turned his head toward Long Xing instead.
Normally, his conversations with Long Xing were limited to small daily things, waking each other up, reminding each other to go to class, or asking him to bring food. But since they lived under the same roof every day, their relationship was naturally close.
Maybe, after spending so much time together, Long Xing might not be able to hold himself back one day.
Thinking that, An Han leaned over and peeked at Long Xing’s screen. He was playing League of Legends. Suddenly, An Han reached out and covered Long Xing’s eyes with both hands.
“Damn it! I’m in a team fight!”
Before Long Xing could react, his teammate Chen Junjie shouted through voice chat,
“Brother Long! You missed your ultimate!”
Perfect!
An Han grinned slyly. “Guess who I am?”
Long Xing sighed helplessly, grabbed An Han’s hands, and moved them away.
There was no need to guess, among all the guys in the dorm, or even among most adult men, only An Han had such small, soft hands.
“Don’t mess around,” Long Xing said with a smile. “We could’ve turned that fight around if we won it.”
On the screen, the big word ‘Defeat’ appeared, but he didn’t seem angry at all. Only Chen Junjie was losing it, shouting like crazy.
“My promotion match! My promotion match is gone!”
No reaction.
Didn’t work, An Han thought, ignoring Chen Junjie’s frustration. He sighed quietly and was about to leave, when he suddenly realized that Long Xing was still holding his hand.
Not only that, Long Xing even squeezed it twice.
An Han’s expression instantly changed. He yanked his hand back and stepped away.
What the hell is wrong with you, pervert!?
Long Xing smiled awkwardly, clearly embarrassed, but that smile only made An Han’s skin crawl. He quickly ran to the balcony, turned on the faucet, and scrubbed his hands under cold water several times.
So gross!
‘Looks like Long Xing really can’t hold it back anymore!’
Thinking of that creepy smile just now, An Han shivered again.
Standing on the balcony with a dark look, he started planning his next move.
‘He didn’t even get mad after losing an important team fight… which means he thinks I’m more important than the game.’
‘A guy like that is terrifying! How can someone not care about losing a ranked match?’
If he lost a ranked match because someone messed with him, he’d be mad all day! But Long Xing didn’t even flinch.
‘I need to settle this off-campus living thing as soon as possible! I’ll talk to Ren Chi tomorrow!’