Chapter 49
Wan Heyi shuddered. Only then did he realize that he had actually stood against everyone. He looked at Lian Yu, who was surrounded by the crowd, and gritted his teeth.
"I'm sorry!" Wan Heyi suddenly rushed to Lian Yu and bowed deeply. "Please forgive me!"
Lian Yu lowered his eyes and looked at Wan Heyi who almost bent over to complete a right angle, with no expression on his face.
"You should apologize to him, not me," Lian Yu suddenly pulled Zhou Fei over. Zhou Fei's eyes widened slightly, looking at him in confusion. He pushed Zhou Fei in front of Wan Heyi and said, "You should apologize to him. First, for what you said, and second, for betraying Zhou Fei's trust in you."
Wan Heyi remained bent over, his face flushed red. Hearing Lian Yu's words, he briefly looked up at Zhou Fei, his features contorted for a moment.
If it weren't for Chu Tian standing by and pressuring him, he would never apologize to Lian Yu. Apologizing to Lian Yu would be fine, but now he's being asked to apologize to this damn monkey!?
His face was as stinky as rotten pickled cabbage that had been pickled in a jar for thirty years. Wan Heyi took a deep breath and bowed deeply to Zhou Fei: "I'm sorry!"
Normally, Zhou Fei had two choices at this time, either to accept the apology or not to accept the apology, but Zhou Fei's train of thought was tortuous, and he suddenly clenched his fist and punched Lian Yu's arm.
Alarm bells suddenly rang in Lian Yu's head.
Sure enough, the next second, Zhou Fei heard her voice pinched and grumbled: "Husband, do you think I should forgive him?"
Lian Yu held his forehead with his hand.
The team soon erupted in laughter. After all, they had been together day and night for a week, and they were already accustomed to Zhou Fei's occasional rants. Someone whispered, "Sister-in-law, please consider the occasion!"
Oh yes.
Zhou Fei then remembered that Chu Tian and the principal were still nearby. He quickly withdrew his hand, lowered his head, folded his arms in front of him, stared down at the tips of his shoes, and said to Wan Heyi in a muffled voice, "Okay, I got your apology."
After being messed up like this, Wan Heyi couldn't even apologize. The principal coughed lightly and sighed with Chu Tian, "After all, it's a new era."
"It's free enough." Chu Tian said, his eyes falling on Qin Yi beside him.
Qin Yi had a dark face and stared at Lian Yu from afar across the bustling crowd. His pair of black pupils were so deep that it seemed as if he wanted to plunder the young man with a bright smile in the crowd and then eat him up.
Chu Tian raised his eyebrows.
"It seems like you're still a long way from success." Chu Tian casually put his hands in his trouser pockets as he watched the young men's receding figures, not even glancing at Qin Yi beside him. "We just sent Chen Yuan away, and now here comes Zhou Fei. When will it be your turn?"
Qin Yi clenched his fist fiercely: "Just don't forget what you promised me."
After saying this, he walked towards the group of young people without looking back. As if sensing something, Lian Yu turned around in the group, and the team members also stopped and turned back to look at Qin Yi. Lian Yu smiled, revealing a row of white teeth, and waved at Qin Yi: "Teacher Qin, hurry up!"
The team members followed suit and started shouting "Teacher Qin" and "Teacher Qin".
Qin Yi started to jog.
Chu Tian stood there for a moment. Soon, an employee respectfully asked him if he needed anything, but he simply turned around and walked to the bottom of the audience. "Aren't you going to the celebration party?"
The hand holding the phone suddenly trembled, and Wan Heyi quickly covered the phone screen, stammering and shaking his head: "No, no."
Chu Tian glanced at his phone which was still on, curled his lips, and turned away.
The hand covering the screen was released, and the screen was stuck on a video. Wan Heyi watched the video and gritted his teeth: "Lian Yu, I wonder how long you can be so arrogant."
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The celebration banquet was arranged on the spur of the moment; no one expected such a half-baked team to win in such a satisfying fashion. Since it was peak season, booking a proper restaurant was impossible, so the players simply booked a private room at a random street vendor, which offered them some freedom.
As soon as they entered the private room, the boys pushed Lian Yu to sit in the main seat.
"Our great hero must take the biggest position!"
"That's right, Brother Yu, don't be embarrassed!"
Lian Yu still waved his hand and stepped back behind the crowd: "Teacher Qin, Coach Gao, please come in."
Everyone then realized that their actions were inappropriate. After Qin Yi and Coach Gao took their seats, Lian Yu pushed Zhou Fei to the door.
On the way here, Lian Yu realized that the hug almost ruined his efforts to match the protagonist and the bottom. He had been busy with training for the past week and gradually forgot about the mission. Now that the game was over, he should put the mission back on the agenda and keep a distance from Qin Yi.
"Brother Yu, I understand you." Zhou Fei whispered to him, "Just leave it to me tonight. I will never let Qin Yi get close to you."
Although Zhou Fei didn't know the reason, he knew that Lian Yu didn't want to get back together with Qin Yi.
He spoke softly but the team members next to him still heard him. Someone whistled and said, "I know. Brother Yu wants to sit with his sister-in-law."
"Lian Yu." Qin Yi suddenly spoke.
There was a moment of silence. Lian Yu met Qin Yi's eyes, which contained a complex mix of emotions that Lian Yu couldn't quite decipher. Qin Yi tilted his head toward the empty seat beside him, his beautiful black eyes fixed on Lian Yu. "Come sit here."
The air pressure dropped to the lowest point invisibly. Lian Yu nodded and sat down next to Qin Yi.
Zhou Fei quickly sat down on the other side of Lian Yu and asked people to pour more wine. The atmosphere soon became lively again. They were a group of young people full of vigor and at the age when they could drink the most. They quickly finished a dozen beers. Lian Yu's wound was almost healed, so he couldn't help but drink a few more sips.
When they were halfway through drinking, Zhou Fei started crying again while hugging Lian Yu: "I will be starting my internship soon and we won't be able to see each other anymore. I will miss you, Brother Yu. You must never forget your brother, wuwuwu."
Lian Yu's brain was a little dull from the alcohol, and he mumbled incoherently: "Internship... What internship?"
"Drink more, drink more." Zhou Fei raised the wine glass and put it on Lian Yu's chin.
After a long while of talking at cross purposes, some clever fellow suddenly slapped his head and shouted, "Brother Yu and sister-in-law, let's have a toast!"
"good!"
"Drink it quickly!"
"I've already poured the wine!"
Everyone was so noisy and crowded that no one noticed Qin Yi quietly leaving the table at this time, except Lian Yu.
Lian Yu suddenly felt a sense of melancholy in Qin Yi's departing figure. Perhaps he was truly drunk, Lian Yu told himself, but his heart still clenched uncontrollably. He couldn't help but stand up, lied about needing to go to the bathroom, and quickly followed him out.
It was late autumn, and the autumn wind was blowing outside the store. Lian Yu couldn't help but shrink his neck.
He looked at the figure leaning against the shop door, arms folded. Qin Yi was lightly dressed, his light brown windbreaker swirling in the autumn breeze, revealing a thin, pale neck. The lines of his neck were smooth, the cyan veins were clear, revealing a morbid beauty. Lian Yu stared at that fragile skin, inexplicably feeling the urge to bite down hard.
He shook his head quickly, pushing the dangerous thought out of his mind.
"Sober up." He leaned forward to try to get closer.
"Is that so?" Qin Yi secretly turned off his phone.
But Lian Yu still saw that Qin Yi's phone screen saver had changed, no longer displaying his apology letter. Lian Yu couldn't describe his current mood, nor could he explain the sudden surge of bitterness in his heart. He lowered his gaze and pursed his lips: "Why did it change?"
It was strange, even he could hear the sourness in his words. Drinking really was harmful.
Lian Yu laughed at himself, stood up and wanted to go back, but the next second, someone grabbed his collar fiercely.
Qin Yi kissed him, a kiss that felt like a punch. How could one describe this kiss? It wasn't gentle, nor was it affectionate. Instead, it was filled with anger, the sharp bite of teeth, the grinding of lips, like a sharp, pointed question. It was like a battlefield filled with the smell of gunpowder, a hail of bullets.
"You're drunk." A bit of fresh blood condensed on Qin Yi's pale lips, adding some color to his lips. "I'll take you home."
The blood-colored spots that moved with the words swung like a pendulum. Lian Yu felt that he was bewitched, and he nodded.
Qin Yi returned to the private room and returned the phone to Coach Gao, smiling politely: "Sorry, I was in a hurry to leave, and I seem to have taken the wrong phone."
After saying that, he took his phone off the table, glanced at the time above the note, and gave everyone a guilty look: "Sorry, Lian Yu is drunk, I'll take him home."
"You..." Zhou Fei struggled to raise his head, staring at Qin Yi's lips with his dazed eyes: "Why is your mouth injured?"
Qin Yi curved his eyebrows, picked up the coat that Lian Yu had left behind, and finally nodded politely to everyone: "Sorry, I have to leave first."
"Look," Qin Yi said outside the door, gently putting his coat on Lian Yu. "Your boyfriend drank more than you did and couldn't even take you home. Besides, I just saw him drinking with another boy, but I must have seen it wrong - let's go."
Qin Yi helped Lian Yu leave and passed by two people who walked into the store side by side.
After turning a corner and going upstairs, Zhang Yi suddenly came to his senses the moment he entered the private room. "Was that Brother Qin just now? Who was he holding?"
Yu Qiuting smiled but said nothing. She shook her head and nudged her drunken brother, who was lying on the table. "Hey, Zhou Fei, get up."
Zhou Fei groaned and muttered, "Where's Brother Yu?"
"Ah, I remember now!" Zhang Yi exclaimed, completely unaware that everyone in the room was looking at him. "Wasn't the person Teacher Qin was supporting just now the one from the forum?"
"forum?"
"Yes, that's it." Zhang Yi quickly opened her phone and saw a few conspicuous words on the popularity list on the forum homepage:
A contemporary academic Lao Ai becomes gay for power and hooks up with a doctoral student in his group.
When I clicked on the hot post, the first thing I saw was Lian Yu in the video. Except for Lian Yu, everyone else’s face was blurred.
"Do you know who I am? If you have offended me, apologize to me!" A voice came from the video. Anyone around Lian Yu could tell that it was not Lian Yu's voice. However, no matter how crude the malicious editing method was, it could not compare to the indignation of a large number of uninformed onlookers.
Add to that the long, slangy paragraph below. Concern for the injured Lian Yu was portrayed as sympathy for her lover, and defending Lian Yu during her argument with Wan Heyi was portrayed as oppressing ordinary students out of love. In short, it's as outrageous as it gets. Yet, a large number of people believed it, and the comments section was filled with insults and insults, making it unbearable to watch.
Zhang Yi suddenly slapped his head. "Wait a minute, this doctoral student, is he talking about Senior Brother Qin?!"
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