Nan Luo Extra: 3. The Shadow of the Dying Cave
Luo Hao returned to school and the next day, he deliberately went for a morning and night run, circling Jin Nan's apartment. He hoped to bump into her by chance, and then see the delighted look on her face. She'd run towards him, giggling, and throw herself into his arms for a kiss. She whispered that she missed him, begging him to leave again. But, but, but, he never ran into her; of course, he knew full well that even if he did, he wouldn't be so lucky. He ran until he was nearly exhausted, then willingly returned to his dorm, sweating profusely. His roommate, Yu Chuanbei, had just returned from the library. He sighed and said that his advisor was his boss, and the workload of his new quantitative analysis project was so huge and time-sensitive that he was almost exhausted. Luo Hao had no heart to listen to such mundane complaints. He lay on his bed, like a corpse lying dead on the street, his eyes wide open, staring blankly at the wooden ceiling. "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?" Yu Chuanbei, clutching a pile of books and unable to free his hands, kicked the corner of his bed and asked. Luo Hao's voice drifted, "I've fallen in love with a breathtakingly beautiful woman. I'll never be so obsessed with another woman in my life. But, after just one night together, she won't let me see her again." Yu Chuanbei tidied his messy desk, clearing a space for homework. Listening to Luo Hao's sad, soul-destroying sigh, he couldn't help but chuckle, thinking to himself: This is quite like his second sister. It seems that more and more women are now willing to please themselves and seek quick pleasure. "Do you think she's thinking about me right now?" Luo Hao suddenly sat up and asked, like someone who had woken up from a near-death illness. Yu Chuanbei's phone suddenly rang. Seeing that it was his second sister on caller ID, he didn't have the energy to respond. He immediately silenced Luo Hao and pushed him back onto the bed, pretending to be dead. After answering the phone, he said, "Second sister, my roommate is already asleep, and I still have homework to do. My supervisor has a massive project for us... Go ahead and make your big bucks tomorrow. Do you need me to take you there?... Of course, everything I say is true. How could I possibly lie to you? If you want to check on me, go ahead. I'll video chat with you." He then opened his phone's video interface and scanned the entire dorm, including Luo Hao, who lay dead on the bed. He then paused the video on the desktop computer screen, verifying his own unequivocal truth. "Alright," Second Sister believed him for the moment and decisively hung up. Yu Chuanbei's initial melancholy suddenly vanished. He pulled Luo Hao up again and said, "Hey, tomorrow we'll go to Weng..."
Luo Hao returned to school and went for a morning run and a night run the next day, running back and forth around Jinnan's apartment.
He wanted to meet her by chance, and then see the overjoyed expression on her face. She would run towards him with a smile, throw herself into his arms and ask for a kiss. She would say in a sweet voice that she missed him, and beg for mercy, saying that she would never drive him away again.
However, however, however, he could never meet her; of course, he knew very well that even if he did meet her, he would not be so lucky.
He ran until he was almost exhausted, and then he returned to the dormitory sweating profusely.
My roommate Yu Chuanbei just came back from the library. He sighed and said that the supervisor is the boss. The workload of the new quantitative analysis project he is leading is extremely heavy and the time is tight. He is almost exhausted.
Luo Hao had no intention of listening to such mundane complaints. He lay on the bed with his eyes wide open, staring at the wooden ceiling in a daze, like a corpse lying dead on the street.
"What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?" Yu Chuanbei was holding a pile of books and had no hands free, so he kicked the corner of his bed and asked.
Luo Hao's voice drifted as he spoke, "I fell in love with an incredibly beautiful woman. There will never be another woman in my life who I'm so obsessed with. However, we were only together for one night, and she didn't let me see her again."
Yu Chuanbei tidied his messy desk, clearing a spot to continue his homework. Listening to Luo Hao's melancholic sigh, he couldn't help but chuckle, thinking: This is quite like his second sister's behavior. It seems that more and more women are now willing to please themselves and just seek quick happiness.
"Do you think she is thinking about me now?" Luo Hao suddenly turned over and sat up and asked, with the posture of "sitting up in shock from a dying illness".
Yu Chuanbei's cell phone suddenly rang. When he saw that the caller ID was his second sister, he had no intention of responding to any stupid words. He immediately told Luo Hao to be quiet and pushed him back onto the bed to pretend he was dead.
After he answered the phone, he said, "Second sister, my roommate is already asleep, and I still have homework to do. My supervisor has a massive project for us... Go ahead and make your big bucks tomorrow. Do you need me to take you there?... Of course, everything I said is true. How could I lie to you? If you want to check on me, go ahead. I'll video chat with you then."
After saying this, he opened the video interface on his phone and used the camera to scan the entire dormitory, including Luo Hao lying dead on the bed. Then he paused the video on the computer screen on his desktop to verify his own unequivocal truth.
"Okay." The second sister believed him for the time being and hung up the phone decisively.
Yu Chuanbei's depressed mood suddenly disappeared. He pulled Luo Hao up again and said, "Hey, let's go diving on Wenggang Island tomorrow!"
"What are you doing?! Didn't you tell me that your second sister kept a close eye on you when she came to Hong Kong this time and wouldn't let you try deep diving again?" Luo Hao was not interested. Apart from Jin Nan, nothing else interested him.
Yu Chuanbei anxiously slumped over the table, searching the web for car and boat booking service numbers. His eyes were fixed on the computer, and he interrupted him with two minds: "She's going to Wan Chai for an event tomorrow. It sounds very important, and she said she won't be back early tonight. The water temperature and current in Wengjing are perfect for diving right now. It will be too late if my second sister leaves. I must seize this opportunity to go diving, otherwise I will regret it for a whole year!"
Luo Hao still refused: "I won't go. I want to stay here. What if my goddess suddenly looks for me? What if the signal is bad at the beach and she can't contact me? I can't let your hobbies ruin my lifelong relationship."
"Brother, you're so young, and you're always talking about a lifetime and a lifetime of marriage! Don't forget, you're in hardworking Hong Kong. There are people typing code or having video conferences on the beach. How could there be no signal?" Seeing that he was still unmoved, Yu Chuanbei used his persuasive skills and said, "The cave diving in Wenggang Island is amazing. I'll take you diving once. When you come back, you'll have more things to talk about with your goddess. You can even take her out to play. The blue sea and sky, the soft beach, you two will be inseparable, isn't it great?"
"Let's go! What time tomorrow?" Luo Hao suddenly jumped up from the bed and asked.
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When Luo Hao finally reached the sea tunnel at Shatangkou Cave, he immediately regretted his decision. The temple-like rock formations seemed like a tomb to him, and the oppressive pressure of an unknown source suffocated him. He kicked and clawed helplessly. Yu Chuanbei noticed his anomaly and immediately grabbed him, quickly lifting him back to the surface.
When Yu Chuanbei dragged Luo Hao to the beach, he was already in a semi-comatose state. Yu Chuanbei quickly took off his oxygen mask and patted his face, forcing him to wake up. His dazed eyes began to regain signs of life, and he muttered, "Jinnan, Jinnan, I want to see Jinnan for the last time..."
Yu Chuanbei was scared to death by him. He took off his deep-diving equipment at an extremely fast speed and opened the zipper of his diving suit. He had no time to listen to what he was muttering.
At this moment, the same angry voice burst out in their hearts: I'm almost scared to death by you, and I will never dive with you again!
Seeing that Luo Hao was half dead, Yu Chuanbei had no choice but to take him to eat something quickly and then returned home disappointed.
Unexpectedly, upon arriving downstairs, Yu Chuanbei saw a woman in a tight, cream-colored sports suit. He immediately screamed, "Damn it! I've fallen for a trap! My second sister is using a sting operation!"
He pushed both sets of diving equipment onto Luo Hao. Luo Hao also saw the woman's face at the same time. She stood upright with more than 100 pounds of equipment hanging on her body. She was not tired or exhausted, not depressed or discouraged. The half of her life she had lost in the morning was immediately returned to her.
"Yu Chuanbei!"
Seeing Yu Chuanbei turn around and try to run, Yu Jinnan shouted angrily, and the roar echoed throughout the entire street.
Yu Chuanbei knew he was exposed and couldn't run away anymore. Otherwise, if his second sister continued to yell at him, he would be in trouble. He had no choice but to walk back and admit his mistake.
Yu Jinnan grabbed his ears, put her hands on her hips, and cursed angrily, "Yu Chuanbei, I just used a little trick, and you made such a big fuss about it! Now you dare to skip school to go scuba diving. I rented an apartment specifically to guard your school gate. I couldn't keep an eye on you for the past two months in Hong Kong. Won't you be even more unscrupulous after I leave? You are your parents' only son, and you are enjoying extreme sports! Can't you just suppress your urge to commit suicide? You have to make the whole family worry about you all day and night to make them unable to sleep or eat, so that you can be happy, right?"
Seeing Jinnan giving Chuanbei the ear-to-ear instructions of an older sister, Luo Hao felt she was truly breathtakingly beautiful. Her beauty was breathtaking, her bearing commanding, and she possessed the poise of a sister yet the allure of a young woman. He was drooling, and he couldn't help but approach her with slow, heavy steps. The diving gear was damn heavy, but of course he didn't feel the weight at the time, because his heart felt like it was instantly filled with thick syrup, its sweetness tickling his insides.
"Jinnan--" He called her name solemnly, and his voice trembled.
Yu Jinnan was in the middle of cursing when she glanced impatiently at the newcomer and froze. She saw Luo Hao, wearing a loose floral T-shirt and beach shorts, standing there in a daze, not knowing what to do.
"Second sister, do you know each other?" Yu Chuanbei's voice instantly woke her up.
"No, I don't know him. How could that be possible!" She tried to force a disdainful smile to match her line about how she couldn't possibly know such a young man, but it just came out looking awful. "W-Where did I just scold you?" She tried to assert herself again, but no matter how hard she tried, it came off as a weak front. So she gave up. "Reflect on yourself!"
She poked Yu Chuanbei's head with her finger, turned around and walked away angrily.
Luo Hao hurriedly handed both sets of diving equipment to Yu Chuanbei and quickly chased after Yu Jinnan.
Yu Chuanbei didn't even have time to react and pick up the two sets of equipment. They clattered to the ground. He wailed in pain, "My SCUBAPRO!" and hurriedly squatted down to pick them up. Halfway through, he suddenly realized, "Shit, the goddess Luo Hao was talking about, can't she be my second sister?"
His instinct was to catch up with them, but then he realized, what would happen if he caught up? The thought of them doing unspeakable things made his mind collapse, and his brain seemed to be replaced by magma, burning him so much that he wanted to explode on the spot.
Author's Note
Liu Qiu
author
08-09
The whole story will end at the end of August. If you have anything to say, please talk to me!
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