Chapter 52#
World 2: I Want to Be a Fish in Your Pond#
Qin Qing walked out of the police station, with 996 following at his feet, and Ye Rongzheng, Mu Feiyan, and Yun Siyu following behind.
Yan Boxing was not criminally detained. His coach heard about the incident and immediately rushed over from the school to plead for him. Considering his promising future, the police only asked him to stay for two hours of legal education.
Qin Qing walked slowly and said in his heart: “I think Ye Rongzheng and Mu Feiyan also need legal education.”
“Yeah, yeah, Gong 1 and Gong 2 are both scumbags. Don’t steal their luck anymore. Just leave these two pieces of trash to the equally trashy protagonist shou.” 996 raised its big head, blinked its round eyes, and said with a sincere look.
Qin Qing shook his head and didn’t respond. His face, which always wore a gentle smile, now revealed a bit of fatigue.
Mu Feiyan quickly caught up and said, “Qin Qing, I’m sorry.”
“Qin Qing, I know I was wrong, please look at me!” Ye Rongzheng also shouted bitterly.
Yun Siyu stood not far away, looking at the three with a face full of grievance. He had a lot to explain, but no chance to say it. He wanted to tell them that he wasn’t actually bad.
“Tell me, why did you take revenge on me like that? Just owing a sum of money shouldn’t be serious enough to drive me to death.” Qin Qing turned around and looked at Mu Feiyan with extremely pale eyes.
His pitch-black pupils reflected this person’s figure, but it seemed as if he was washing this person away layer by layer.
Mu Feiyan panicked and froze in place.
He dared not answer this question.
If he didn’t answer, Ye Rongzheng answered for him: “He said he used to raise a cat. That cat scratched him, so he threw it into a pack of wolves. You are that cat. You shouldn’t have betrayed him after gaining his trust. He doesn’t allow this to happen.”
Mu Feiyan glared at Ye Rongzheng with malice in his eyes.
Ye Rongzheng also widened his eyes and glared back fiercely.
What, want to fight?
The two confronting each other like fighting cocks were attracted by Qin Qing’s half-lonely, half-bitter chuckle.
Qin Qing shook his head, and a layer of clear and wet tears slowly surfaced in his deep eyes.
“So,” he stared straight at Mu Feiyan, making this figure blurred in his eyes, “so you didn’t treat me as a human at all? You can manipulate my fate at will, just like manipulating a kitten or a puppy?”
The hot tears gradually became cold, wetting Qin Qing’s eyelashes.
Mu Feiyan shook his head, wanting to defend himself, but his throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton, unable to speak. He never disdained lying, so he couldn’t defend himself. Before meeting Qin Qing, he indeed thought so.
However, after meeting Qin Qing, everything changed.
Ye Rongzheng added fuel to the fire from the side: “Yeah, Qin Qing, he is the worst in our dorm. If he hadn’t brought it up, I wouldn’t have participated in such a stupid plan at all.”
Qin Qing didn’t even spare a glance for Ye Rongzheng, his eyes full of pain fixed on Mu Feiyan all the time.
“Did you know, before knowing the truth, I planned to tell you that I also like men, maybe we could try.”
Tears hung on his eyelashes, about to fall.
Mu Feiyan’s heartstrings trembled violently, and then a series of harsh screams vibrated in his mind. Qin Qing actually likes men too, and wanted to be with him.
Those sweet words he said and gentle things he did were indeed not unintentional. He was indeed capturing him, but for such a beautiful vision.
Such an opportunity was missed by his stupid self.
Mu Feiyan’s face, which usually didn’t have much expression, frowned at this moment, his eyes reddened, and his lips turned white. He regretted it!
If time could turn back, how good that would be!
Ye Rongzheng stood aside and asked in disbelief: “Qin Qing, didn’t you say the person you like is Yun Siyu?”
Mu Feiyan suddenly woke up, then turned to look at Yun Siyu not far away, biting malice bursting from his amber pupils.
Yun Siyu was scared stiff on the spot, and it took a long while to find his voice: “Qin Qing, you like me?” A secret delight of revenge quietly surfaced in his heart.
Qin Qing smiled with curved lips, his tone sarcastic: “Don’t you know? You took quite a few red envelopes on Valentine’s Day, Qixi Festival, and 520.”
Yun Siyu was instantly dumbfounded, and then saw Ye Rongzheng casting an extremely hateful look at him, and Mu Feiyan’s eyes looking at him were also bone-chillingly cold. As long as Qin Qing spoke, he seemed to be increasingly rejected by these people.
“You like him?” Mu Feiyan questioned with an incredulous hoarse voice: “Why?”
Qin Qing did not answer.
Ye Rongzheng begged: “Qin Qing, I don’t like men, nor do I like women, but I like you. How about you try with me, okay?”
Qin Qing still did not answer.
Mu Feiyan was still dwelling on the previous matter, asking aggressively: “Qin Qing, tell me what exactly do you like about Yun Siyu? Do you like his lack of conscience and ungratefulness? Do you like his greed and selfishness, demanding insatiably? Do you like his pretended kindness but actual hypocrisy? Do you like his uselessness yet lack of self-knowledge? Do you like his heart full of delusions but no ability to realize them? Do you like his humble background but extravagant nature? What do you like about him? Where is he worthy of your liking?”
With every question Mu Feiyan asked, Yun Siyu’s face turned a shade paler.
He always thought Mu Feiyan liked him, otherwise why would he smile so gently and amiably at him? However, at this moment, Mu Feiyan personally shattered this illusion and described him with such unbearable and vicious language.
How much hatred must there be to be like this?
Yun Siyu’s thin body swayed, already somewhat unstable.
996’s chubby body also swayed, its fat paw pinching its philtrum hard.
“Help meow! Can Gong 2’s impression of the protagonist shou be any worse? Qin Qing, this is all your doing!”
Ye Rongzheng felt it wasn’t enough and added: “Yeah, Qin Qing, where exactly is Yun Siyu worthy of your liking? This kind of disgusting trash, I wish I could punch him to death!”
996 started rolling its eyes: “Help~ Gong 1 wants to kill the protagonist shou! Where is the oxygen tank? Where is my oxygen tank?”
Qin Qing ignored the paralyzed 996 and glanced lightly at Yun Siyu.
“I don’t like him anymore. Having been sucked dry of the last drop of blood, I no longer have the ability to like him.” He withdrew his gaze, his tone full of weariness.
Yun Siyu’s pale face slowly flushed red again, shame and embarrassment filling his heart. He looked at Mu Feiyan with red eyes, and then desperately found that this person turned his head away, showing an expression of extreme disgust. From now on, he could never let him get close again.
In the dark, Yun Siyu felt as if he had lost the most important thing, right here, right now!
Hearing that Qin Qing no longer liked Yun Siyu, Mu Feiyan stopped being aggressive. He looked at Qin Qing longingly and said urgently: “Then like me! We can try!”
“Sorry, I can’t like you.” Qin Qing shook his head without hesitation.
Ye Rongzheng showed a secretly happy expression and quickly said: “Qin Qing, like me then. I promise to listen to you from now on.”
Qin Qing continued to shake his head and said calmly: “I won’t like either of you. Losing contact after borrowing money was indeed my fault, and I want to say sorry to you here. But I really can’t accept your revenge on me. Have you ever thought about what would happen if I couldn’t see through your true colors and fell into those traps according to your plan?”
Painful tears resurfaced in his already dry eyes, “I would lose everything, fall into desperation, end up in prison, and finally follow in my father’s footsteps! You are playing with my life, understand? I am not a cat or a dog, I am a human! If you can’t even learn the most basic equality, respect, tolerance, and understanding, what right do you have to be liked by others?”
Qin Qing pointed to his trembling heart, then pointed to Yun Siyu: “You say he is bad, but how much better are you than him? I no longer like him, so how could I like you?”
His hand fell dejectedly, and Qin Qing shook his head wearily: “I have paid off the money, let’s leave it at that. Don’t contact me anymore.”
He shook his head again, turned and left, a trace of sad redness at the corner of his eyes.
Mu Feiyan and Ye Rongzheng had long been defeated under Qin Qing’s questioning one after another. Only then did they realize that their mistake was not just simple, but outrageously wrong. If Qin Qing really jumped from a high building like his father…
Mu Feiyan and Ye Rongzheng’s breathing stopped almost simultaneously. They dared not even think about such a scene.
Qin Qing walked into the depths of the street, withered yellow leaves falling from above, paving under his tired feet.
Mu Feiyan shouted with red eyes: “Qin Qing, wait a moment!”
Qin Qing did not wait.
996 looked back and was shocked: “Damn it, is Gong 2 crazy? He’s taking off his clothes on the street!”
Qin Qing then stopped and looked back.
He saw Mu Feiyan quickly take off his sweater, peel off the plastic gloves on his hands, and stride over bare-chested. The late autumn wind carried a chill, blowing on his lean body.
Passersby on both sides of the road looked at him in extreme astonishment, then showed excited expressions.
Broad shoulders, solid chest, well-defined abs, tight waist, deep V-lines… This is a perfect body hard to see even on the international supermodel stage. This is the masculine beauty that Michelangelo’s sculptures could hardly express!
Qin Qing was stunned.
996 asked in horror: “What is he doing? He won’t… you on the street…”
Ye Rongzheng looked at Mu Feiyan in astonishment, and after reacting, he immediately took off his shirt, revealing a bronze muscular body. His muscles were stronger and his physique more magnificent, like a male lion roaring on the grassland shaking its thick mane. He believed he would never lose to Mu Feiyan!
“Men, two superb men! Ahhh, sisters, I can’t take it, I’m going to faint!” A little girl screamed by the roadside.
Qin Qing still stood blankly in place.
Mu Feiyan walked straight to Qin Qing, extended his arms, hugged this person tightly, and then pressed the back of this person’s head, letting his face, cold from the wind, press against his hot chest.
“Equality, respect, tolerance, understanding, I can learn whatever you want! I do have spiritual mysophobia, but for you, I can change.” Mu Feiyan whispered hoarsely in Qin Qing’s ear.
“My body has never been touched by others, except you. I have never taken off my gloves to touch others, except you. Qin Qing, to me, you are the most special. Don’t turn and leave without looking back, okay?”
He hugged Qin Qing even harder, his tone full of painful pleading.
Qin Qing looked up at this person’s unparalleled handsome face, his eyes overflowing with passionate love.
Qin Qing opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but a hotter and stronger body pressed up from behind.
“Qin Qing, my body is better than his, look at me! I’ve never lost in body comparison. If you want to pick a boyfriend, pick someone like me. I can let you inspect the goods.” Ye Rongzheng hummed and blew hot air into Qin Qing’s ear.
Obviously, he hadn’t figured out the situation yet.
Qin Qing, who was originally somewhat moved: “…”
Mu Feiyan looked at Ye Rongzheng with a fierce gaze, and Ye Rongzheng raised his chin, glaring back equally murderously.
Two tall, handsome, strong, and cold men fought like lions fighting for a mate across a beautiful, slender, and bewitching man.
This picture…
“Sisters, I risked my life to film this scene for you! Ahhhhh, the bewitching beauty shou is really so good-looking! Being glanced at by him, I lost my life! Fight, fight, fight!”
A little girl shouted while filming a video with her phone, not minding the chaos.
Yun Siyu looked at the three entangled people in disbelief, finally slowly realizing that both Mu Feiyan and Ye Rongzheng actually liked Qin Qing!
Yes, why not like him? Qin Qing is so good-looking. Although his temper is a bit sharp and his thoughts are extreme, aren’t men easily bewitched by such moody and fickle beauties? Don’t powerful men like challenging high difficulties?
Yun Siyu clutched his heart, the ominous feeling of having lost the most precious thing becoming stronger.
996 pinched its philtrum hard: “Damn it, Qin Qing, you snatched the protagonist gong again! You are shameless!”
Qin Qing still cared about face. Being hugged front and back by two bare-chested men, his nose full of the strongest male hormone smell, his snow-white cheeks had long burned red.
“Let go of me!” He pushed Mu Feiyan hard, but Mu Feiyan grabbed his wrist and hugged tighter.
Ye Rongzheng hugged from behind, tightly hooping Qin Qing’s slender waist, his nose pressing against Qin Qing’s hair, sniffing deeply, making intoxicated humming sounds like a puppy.
“Qin Qing, you smell so good.”
Mu Feiyan’s head also lowered, his nose sniffing, inhaling, and exploring in Qin Qing’s pitch-black hair.
“They seem to treat you like a bone.” 996 rolled its eyes and complained.
Seeing the increasingly strange gazes of passersby, Qin Qing stepped fiercely on the insteps of the two, and threatened coldly: “If you don’t let go, we really won’t meet again in the future! I don’t want to lose face with you!”
Hearing that they could meet again in the future, Mu Feiyan and Ye Rongzheng hesitated for a moment before letting go of their arms.
Qin Qing hurriedly passed under their armpits and fled in panic.
In a small park by the road, Qin Qing and 996 each held a cup of milk tea, sitting on a wooden bench to calm down.
A huge osmanthus tree stood behind them, the tree full of tender yellow small flowers emitting a strong fragrance, falling like raindrops under the blowing of the cool autumn wind. Many small flowers fell on Qin Qing’s hair, cute like stars.
Qin Qing took a sip of hot milk tea and let out a faint sigh.
996 pawed at the small yellow flowers on the bench and snorted coldly: “I didn’t sigh, what are you sighing for?”
Qin Qing looked at the woods dyed yellow by autumn with blurred eyes, his tone carrying melancholy: “Did you know, I have never seen love that lasts for lifetimes.”
996 gulped down the milk tea and said maturely: “Me too. Those couples who promised to be together for lifetimes eventually separated. Losing past memories, they are brand new people. Brand new people will always make brand new choices. Ten lifetimes is probably the limit that love can continue, but I haven’t seen it.”
Qin Qing sighed and shook his head: “I haven’t seen it either.”
One person and one cat watched the autumn wind sweep away fallen leaves, falling into silence.
A moment later, Qin Qing said sadly: “Theoretically speaking, as long as there is love, I can exist forever. But love will disappear one day, I am waiting for that day.”
“That doesn’t sound like something you would say.” 996 looked at Qin Qing strangely.
Qin Qing laughed softly: “But before that day comes, I will still try hard to love.”
996 immediately rolled its eyes: “So you mean, you will continue to seduce the protagonist gong! Why doesn’t God strike you dead!”
“I won’t be discovered by the Heavenly Dao.” Qin Qing shook his head.
“Why?” 996 was shocked.
“Because that flower that originally bloomed and disappeared gave me the source energy of the world. I am one with the source of the world, so how can I be rejected by the Heavenly Dao?”
Qin Qing lowered his eyes to look at 996, his sad face slowly blooming into an extremely gentle smile: “So you see, even if the people I love have disappeared, the love they gave me is still silently protecting me.”
“Xu Yizhi and Cang Ming are the source of the world?” 996 finally realized.
After the shock, it immediately denied this incredible guess: “Impossible, isn’t the source of the world God? God is in God’s palace, how could he be in this small world? Bah, you are making up stories to trick me again!”
Qin Qing touched 996’s round big head, his eyes full of gentleness pitying a mentally retarded child.
With this silly thing accompanying him, the long journey and painful pursuit seemed to become a bit easier.
In the evening, Qin Qing returned home holding a pot of succulents.
There was little money left in the card. To buy oxygen tanks and dried fish for 996, he owed thousands of yuan on Huabei.
“Eating is a problem for you now, right?” 996 said gloatingly.
Qin Qing placed the pot of succulents on the dining table and sprayed a little water with a watering can.
The phone placed aside buzzed. It was messages sent by Ye Rongzheng one after another. He continuously sent many red envelopes of hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands, filling the chat box.
As long as Qin Qing moved his little hand, let alone money for food, there would be enough money to buy a house.
996, squatting on the dining table, looked at the phone screen speechlessly and said contemptuously: “You are really shameless! These men belong to the protagonist shou! You actually hooked them all!”
Qin Qing smiled and didn’t speak.
Ye Rongzheng begged: [Qin Qing, look at your phone. Pay attention to me.]
[Aren’t you out of money? At least take a red envelope to buy something to eat, okay? You are too thin!]
[Qin Qing, don’t stop contacting, don’t stop meeting, I really like you. Liked you from the first sight!]
Qin Qing picked up the phone and replied to a message: [Your liking is to buy my life with one hundred and fifty thousand? Someone like you, I am really afraid of.]
There was no sound from the other side, perhaps unable to refute, or perhaps really gave up.
Qin Qing put down the phone and continued to take care of the small succulents on the table.
About half an hour later, the doorbell rang.
Qin Qing walked to the entrance and looked through the peephole. He could probably guess who was outside and had already made up his mind not to open the door for the other party. However, the scene shown in the peephole really shook his heart.
A small cart was parked outside the door. There were two high and low wooden shelves on the cart, with many flowers on the shelves, including brilliant bougainvillea, delicate begonias, magnificent tulips, enchanting spider lilies, and even an epiphyllum with buds, waiting to bloom tonight.
Qin Qing’s eye was glued to the peephole motionless, as if unable to pull away.
The person outside rang the doorbell a few more times.
996 jumped off the dining table and ran over, asking curiously: “Who is it meow? Why are you staring blankly?”
Qin Qing sighed faintly, and then opened the door.
Ye Rongzheng stood outside holding a small cart, with hundreds of flowers blooming in the cart, the fragrance assailing.
996 instantly understood, thinking that Gong 1 was even smarter than Gong 2, knowing how to cater to preferences. Qin Qing just casually mentioned wanting to raise flowers, and he remembered.
“Can I come in?” Ye Rongzheng asked cautiously.
“Come in.” Qin Qing bent down to move the flower pots.
Ye Rongzheng pursed his thin lips, snatched the flower pot, put it on the balcony, then walked back, moving all the flower pots trip by trip.
After washing his hands, he sat opposite Qin Qing and placed a phone on the coffee table.
“I came to tell you why I implemented that revenge plan.” He seemed to have considered for a long time and struggled for a long time before making this visit.
“Maybe you will hate me more after hearing my reason, but I don’t want to lie to you anymore.” He raised his head as if determined, looking at Qin Qing with slightly trembling eyes, fearfully and reluctantly.
Qin Qing had a premonition, and his heart couldn’t help but lift.
“I told you many secrets, mostly about my mother going crazy. Maybe you forgot, I also said a sentence. At that time you thought I was joking, didn’t care or ask further. But that sentence is true.”
Ye Rongzheng lowered his head, his hands on his knees slowly clenching into fists. Thick veins beat slightly on the back of his bronze hands with a rapid pulse. He was nervous, even somewhat tormented.
Qin Qing involuntarily held his breath, quickly recalling every sentence Ye Rongzheng said to the original owner in his mind.
Before he could figure it out, Ye Rongzheng spoke hoarsely: “I once told you that I killed someone. This sentence is true.”
“What?” Qin Qing almost thought he was hallucinating.
996 snorted coldly with lack of interest. It knew this secret long ago! It was written in the script. If the protagonist shou hadn’t helped Gong 1 heal this psychological trauma and bridge the relationship between Gong 1 and his mother, Gong 1 would have killed himself long ago.
Gong 1’s crazy actions constantly walking on the edge of death stemmed from this dark secret.
He hated himself, and even denied the meaning of his existence.
“Qin Qing, I think if Gong 1 is with you, he will seek his own death. The protagonist shou’s golden finger can heal Gong 1’s spiritual trauma, but you can’t. In this world, except for the protagonist shou, no one can save Gong 1.”
“So, what is that golden finger?” Qin Qing asked heavily in his heart.
“It’s appearance. You think you can snatch Ye Rongzheng just because you are prettier than Yun Siyu? Too naive. Yun Siyu’s appearance looks very much like the most important person to Ye Rongzheng, and also the person he accidentally killed.” 996 finally gave the most important piece of information.