Chapter 032: “I’ll beat you to death. I’ll beat you dead!” (04/10)
You Huang underwent a series of medical checks and returned to the hospital bed to lie down.
The doctor did not follow him back, but the nurse escorted him and also intended to leave: “You have a good rest first. If there is anything you need, just ring the bell, okay?”
You Huang nodded obediently.
Waiting for the nurse to leave, You Huang then returned control to Xie Chenyang.
You Huang: “This is trivial, but you wanted me to do it?”
Xie Chenyang crossed his legs, bobbing and wiggling, justified: “I’m afraid I won’t act right, and fall off the horse.”
You Huang: “Afraid for what? Xie Yunyao is a relatively well-behaved and obedient child. Whether at home or at work, he’s a very polite person, understand?”
Xie Chenyang: “Well behaved, ah ……”
You Huang: “Your eyes are not similar though, so don’t look at anyone with your flirtatious self.”
Xie Chenyang, dissatisfied: “What’s wrong with my eyes? I always look like this. Do you think they’re gentle? In fact, I’m very fierce!”
“See,” You Huang sighed, “even if you rage and beat people, your tyranny is suppressed in the bottom of the eyes, always looking warm and affectionate, as if flirting.”
Xie Chenyang beat the bed. “You’re insulting me!”
You Huang let out a light chuckle.
He was laughing at him, huh?
He was laughing, right?
Xie Chenyang sullenly said, “Ah-Huang, you’ve changed. You used to be nice to me, now you’ve learned to be snarky.”
You Huang tenderly said, “What are you saying, how can I be sarcastic with you? I am seriously telling you about the biggest difference between you and the original body, so that you will not be seen through, ah.”
Xie Chenyang: “Really?”
“Uh huh.”
Xie Chenyang wanted to ask more, but someone knocked on his door.
“Enter.”
The moment the door opened, Xie Chenyang was suddenly excited.
[It’s my lover–he’s coming, he’s coming!]
You Huang: “I know, I know–it’s your lover, it’s your lover.”
Wei Xiu’s hidden apprehension in his heart settled down when he saw Xie Chenyang’s blazing gaze as he looked at him. He set the fruit basket he was holding on the bedside table. “Recognize me?”
The data transfer was untested after all. Compared to inside the game, Wei Xiu’s voice in reality was a bit colder.
Xie Chenyang reached out and held his hand. “Ah-Xiu.”
Wei Xiu’s hand was a bit cold. Unlike his, Xie Chenyang’s hand was very warm. He didn’t pull his hand away and sat down smoothly. “How’s your body?”
“I feel fine. I just had my checkup. The results aren’t out yet.” Xie Chenyang lay on his side and stared at him. “I see that you brought oranges. Are they sour or sweet?”
Wei Xiu hesitated. “Sweet, I think?”
“You peel one for me to try. I want to eat sweet, I don’t want sour.”
Wei Xiu withdrew his hand and picked an orange from the fruit basket which he began to peel.
You Huang quietly sighed, “Is he going to taste it or are you?”
[Of course he will, ah. If I try it and it is sour, then how will I eat?]
You Huang: “Then what if he also doesn’t like sour?”
Xie Chenyang was torn for a moment. [Why don’t you have it then?]
You Huang: “And you think I like it?”
At this moment, the door to the room was knocked on again. But this time, the person outside didn’t wait for a response and just opened the door.
You Huang: “It’s Ding He.”
Xie Chenyang instantly became furious, his hands itching.
You Huang: “Keep it controlled. This is a hospital.”
[Isn’t that perfect? If he breaks, he can also be fixed.]
Ding He saw that there was someone else sitting beside the bed, and after a moment of bewilderment, smiled gently. “Yun Yao, I heard that you woke up and rushed over. Seeing that you’re fine, I’m relieved.”
Xie Chenyang looked impatient. “Who are you?”
“You don’t recognize me?” Ding He froze, a bad feeling rising in his heart. “I’m Ding He, ah. We’re lovers, ah. Don’t joke, I’ll be worried.”
Hearing this, Wei Xiu squeezed the orange he was peeling too hard, his nail sinking into the pulp. He expressionlessly threw away the orange, pulled out a paper towel to wipe his hands, and picked up a new one to start peeling.
Xie Chenyang looked at Wei Xiu and said sincerely, “I genuinely don’t know him. You’re the only one I love. He’s touching porcelain[mfn]Its a reference to an old scheme that grifters used to do. They would use cheap knockoff products that mimicked expensive porcelain and use various means to make other people ‘responsible’ for ‘breaking/cracking’ it and ask for money. Sometimes real porcelain would be displayed with hidden damage and when potential marks came in and lifted it to inspect the seller would accuse them of the damage. Thus the phrase ‘touching porcelain’ came to mean ‘falsely being blamed'[/mfn].”
Because these were true words, his eyes were especially sincere. Wei Xiu faintly responded.
Ding He’s entire person was bad. He had returned to reality and found Xie’s father and mother according to the address Xie Yunyao provided, and had also learned from them that Xie Yunyao was not in a relationship at all, so where did this love affair come from?
Ding He walked to the bed. “Yunyao, don’t be like this. I know you’re upset. I made you wait for a long time, but don’t break my heart with these kinds of words ……”
“Upset?” Xie Chenyang violently jumped up from the bed, bare feet on the ground, with a punch that sent Ding He careening back a few steps, his face contemptuous. “Just because of you, make me sad? Are you worthy of that?”
Ding He reached out and covered his jaw, looking at him as if he was in the presence of a monster.
Xie Chenyang wanted to punch him again, but was stopped by Wei Xiu, who had suddenly gotten up and hugged his waist.
Wei Xiu expressionlessly lifted him onto the bed. “The floor is cold and dirty.”
Xie Chenyang: “……” Oh, he’s still barefoot.
Ding He’s face clouded over. “Xie Yunyao, are you playing with me? You have a partner and you still have a relationship with me? But now you still want to turn the other cheek? I was the one who took care of your parents’ burial affairs!”
Wei Xiu jerked back to look at Ding He, his eyes blank. Wei Xiu hadn’t told Xie Yunyao about his parents. And this man just boldly blurted out what he hadn’t prepared for?
You Huang had no more hope of Xie Chenyang maintaining the original persona and said with a headache, “You’ve just woken up, so you shouldn’t know about Xie Yunyao’s parents yet… You don’t need me to tell you how to act, do you?”
[Understood.]
Xie Chenyang put on his slippers then angrily went up and kicked Ding He to the ground. “What nonsense are you talking about? How could anything happen to my parents? What is your intention? I’ll beat you to death, ah, I’ll beat you dead–”
He kicked again and again.
Ding He tried to fight back, but his lower body was in so much pain from Xie Chenyang’s kicks that he couldn’t get up, so he could only yell, “Doctor–Doctor!”
Wei Xiu’s heart ached when he saw Xie Chenyang losing his mind (not really) and reached out to pick him up and took two steps back. “Alright, don’t beat people with mental problems.”
Xie Chenyang glared angrily. “He’s cursing my parents!”
To Wei Xiu, it looked like his lover’s eyes were red with anger. He held the man in his arms and comforted him. “I’m here, it’s fine.”
Xie Chenyang sullenly buried his face in his shoulder.
[Ugh, I haven’t hit him enough.]
You Huang: “Then why don’t you quickly and angrily push your lover away and go fill in a few more kicks?”
[Can’t bear to push him away.]
You Huang: “……” Closed mic.
Ding He covered his waist and stumbled as he stood up, drenched in cold sweat. His face twisted and snapped, “Who said I was cursing them? Wasn’t it Big President Wei Xiu? Xie Yunyao, you’re so generous. Your mom and dad died on the roof of his company, and you’re still in a relationship with him.”
Xie Chenyang looked up. “You’re making things up again? I’ll beat you to death if you keep it up!”
“Heh, you don’t believe me? If you don’t believe me, take a look at the news. Your mom and dad–they died because of his company.“ Ding He gritted his teeth. “They both died because they wanted the game company to release you earlier.”
Wei Xiu’s hold on Xie Chenyang tightened.
“Shut up, trash!”
Just then, the nurse who had heard the commotion came running over, frowning. “What is going on here?”
Ding He covered his waist and rasped, “Your patient went crazy and attacked me. Quickly take me for a checkup… I feel like my bones have been broken. Then, issue an injury report.”
Xie Chenyang snorted coldly. After the nurse took Ding He away, Xie Chenyang hugged Wei Xiu back. “I won’t believe his nonsense.”
Wei Xiu lowered his eyelids. Paper couldn’t contain fire, Xie Yunyao would eventually find out.
“It’s true.” Wei Xiu tightly clasped Xie Yunyao’s waist. “After we learned about you, our technical department was already troubleshooting, but Uncle and Aunt didn’t believe us and secretly ran upstairs to our company roof to commit suicide.” Wei Xiu whispered, “Without waiting for help, they misstepped and fell down.”
In truth, there were far too many media and onlookers who had come.
Xie’s parents were honest people who hadn’t ever done this kind of thing, and although they could go all out for their son, they were nervous in the end. That was why they didn’t have control over the situation. In his panic, Xie’s father lost his footing and fell; Xie’s mother tried to help him and followed him down as well.
The tragedy thus unfolded.
Xie Chenyang felt that it was all Ding He’s fault.
Without the mention of a certain person’s suicide because he couldn’t get fair treatment from the company, Xie’s parents would never have imagined that they would commit suicide.
Wei Xiu’s intention wasn’t to force them to death, but the fact that they indeed ran out of the meeting because of his words caused such a tragedy.
Whether it was deceiving Xie Yunyao’s feelings, taking the opportunity to cheat away Xie Yunyao’s data, or confusing the Xie family’s parents, what Ding He did made Xie Chenyang feel sick.
But Ding He didn’t feel this way.
He just mentioned a single comment about such a case. He didn’t ask the Xie family’s parents to make a scene; it was they themselves who had formed the idea. It was none of his business. That was how Ding He thought about it.
Xie Chenyang’s silence made Wei Xiu’s heart sink a little.
“Ah-Yao ……”
Xie Chenyang didn’t know how to tell Wei Xiu. He had known about this for a long time. But he couldn’t act like he knew it already.
It wasn’t right.
He simply raised his head and kissed Wei Xiu’s mouth, fiercely and passionately.
Wei Xiu closed his eyes and carefully responded.
You Huang: “……” Some people, when talking about things, talk and kiss.
Xie Chenyang hugged Wei Xiu and sat down, temporarily unable to manage his expression. He could only bury his face in his arms, not letting Wei Xiu see his expression.
“Ah-Yao, I’m sorry.”
Xie Chenyang, muffledL “My mom and dad …… are really gone?”
“Was it an accident?”
“Yes.”
“Then what are you apologizing for?”
“I……”
Xie Chenyang pushed him away. “Stop apologizing. Where is my orange?”
Wei Xiu: “……” Huh?
Still thinking about oranges at this time? Wei Xiu didn’t know if he was using it as a diversion or to distract from his grief. But he still let go of him and picked up the orange that he had placed back in the fruit basket, peeled a slice, and stuffed it in his mouth.
Xie Chenyang looked at him expectantly. “Is it sweet?”
“Uh-huh.” Very sweet.
“Then what are you waiting for? Give it to me.”
Wei Xiu handed him the orange.
Xie Chenyang took the orange and ate it, squinting his eyes. “Really sweet, ehehe.”
You Huang was speechless. “No, at a time like this, shouldn’t you be grieving the loss of your parents?”
[But I am not Xie Yunyao, ah. I can be angry, can regret, but I can’t feel sad.]
You Huang: “Pretend, ah.”
[Can’t pretend …… ]
You Huang: “Imagine your lover suddenly died, how would you feel? Is it not easier to understand what it feels like to be sad?”
[I don’t understand. He died, I followed him in death. Then go to the next world to find him.]
You Huang: “…… Then you imagine that he greened[mfn]Long story short, a woman used to put a green hat outside her door every time her husband left to tell her lover he could come over safely. Over time the color green, green hats, and ‘having grass/a prairie on your head’ is now slang for being cheated on.[/mfn] you?”
[How could he green me?]
You Huang: “What if?”
[Then I also wouldn’t feel sad. I would chop up the person who seduced him, and then trap him by my side and never let him be hooked by someone else again!]
You Huang: “……” Forget it. It’s hopeless. At least you’re happy.
First chapter of 2025! Lets hope the next 4 years go by smoothly, love to everyone and stay safe 💚
Editor: Krone
Proofread: Choux_choux
Lol he’s really a one track mind