CH 9.1

Living Together (1)

Bai Jing and another boy rushed into the dormitory side by side, carrying a big plastic bag that contained seven or eight bottles of iced coke bought for the brothers in the dorm.

They had just got to the staircase when Bai Jing suddenly halted his steps and poked the person beside him. “Who is that over there? Ruan Qingmu and….”

The boy beside him was called Huang Ya. He was the one whose face was photographed by him during the day, who had a bumpy face like the moon’s surface. He turned his head to look and was also startled. “Fuck, is that Boss Qin beside him? What are both of them doing together?”

They were standing face to face without saying anything, and the mood was bizarre. Were they going to start fighting again?

Boss Qin had fought against several gangsters before, and he was so strong that he had beaten those guys until there was blood all over their faces!

Bai Jing gritted his teeth and ran over. He patted Ruan Qingmu’s shoulder hard. “Ah, hahaha, Ruan Qingmu, ah? You’re also living at the school?”

He warmly embraced Ruan Qingmu. “Here, I’ll take you to the dorm. Where are you allocated to? The next door 403 still has a vacant bed. Is it there?”

After all, they were from the same class, and he couldn’t bear to see a person from his class suffering losses.

Ruan Qingmu was almost knocked down by him. He speechlessly looked at this person who sat two seats in front of him. “….I live on the first floor.”

Huang Ya also moved closer to them. “Oh, I understand. It’s not convenient for your leg. Then, we’ll send you there. Where is your suitcase?”

Ruan Qingmu raised his chin and pointed at Qin Yuan behind them. “My roommate is already helping me take it.”

Qin Yuan lowered his eyes, dragged the two suitcases, turned around, and walked toward the first floor’s corridor.

Behind them, Bai Jing covered his mouth. “What?!”

The two people were stunned and stared at Qin Yuan and Ruan Qingmu. After a long time,

Huang Ya absent-mindedly asked, “Say….Will Ruan Qingmu be beaten to death?”

Bai Jing was equally dazed. “According to reason; it won’t happen. Boss Qin is a cool-headed person.”

Huang Ya took out one bottle of iced coke and opened it; the foam splashed up high. “Even though he is, what if he tears Boss Qin’s clothes again?”

……

The conditions of Experimental No.3’s dorm were excellent. It was just renovated two years ago.

Each dormitory’s door key was changed to a smart door card. Every room was equipped with air conditioners. There were toilets and shower faucets in it. Most of the rooms were quadruple rooms. Every person got a loft bed and a desk below the bed. A large cabinet near the door was divided into four separate storage spaces for students to put their clothes and personal things.

Only the first-floor dorms were double rooms.

The school encouraged group living. The double rooms were for the students with special needs. Every year, a few people in the third year would suffer from neurasthenia1 and need peace. Some were temporarily injured, like Ruan Qingmu, and it was inconvenient to go down the stairs.

But in reality, there were many mosquitoes on the first floor, and sometimes the pipe easily clogged up. The majority of students weren’t willing to live there, and only a few were like Qin Yuan, who actively requested to live on the first floor.

Ruan Qingmu followed on his crutches behind Qin Yuan, who swiped the card and entered the dorm room.

After not living there for more than a month, there was a bit of dust inside, but the entire room was neat and orderly to the extreme. One bed was vacant, while the bedsheet on the other bed was flat and clean. The pillow was neatly placed, and the thin summer quilt was folded into a square. It was exactly like the ‘tofu blocks quilt folding method2’ shown in military camps on television.

Qin Yuan lifted his hand, switched on the ceiling lamp, and familiarly turned on the air conditioner. He continued to unload his backpack and silently put it on his desk. He then placed Ruan Qingmu’s suitcase in front of the other vacant bed.。

Without looking at Ruan Qingmu anymore, he opened his suitcase and silently sorted out the things inside.

As the slender teenager bent his waist. The shape of his back was clear, showing a neat waistline and elegant shoulder.

His forearm muscles weren’t distinct but slightly flexed with his movements. Under the bright fluorescent light, there was a little gleam of sweat on his skin.

Once the suitcase was opened, it contained some neatly folded changes of clothes, several short-sleeved summer school uniforms, and toiletries put inside a transparent thick plastic bag.

Soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, and towel; everything was arranged neatly.

Ruan Qingmu sat on his small desk, propped his cheek, and wordlessly watched his movements.

Qin Yuan frowned as he raised his head.

He straightened his waist, put the toiletries inside the bathroom, then turned around and came out. He began to place his things inside his cabinet.

Ruan Qingmu was behind him as he watched him put four sets of summer school uniforms into his cabinet in one breath. He finally couldn’t hold in his curiosity, “Didn’t everyone get two sets? Why do you have four sets?”

Qin Yuan didn’t turn his head and indifferently replied. “There’s no limit. You can also apply to buy ten sets.”

Ruan Qingmu clicked his tongue.

He was still so tidy.

Qin Yuan silently sorted out his suitcase and didn’t glance at Ruan Qingmu. Instead, he took a change of clothes and walked into the bathroom.

The pitter-patter of water sounded from the bathroom. After a while, the sound of water stopped.

Qin Yuan changed into the school uniform and walked out.

He had just finished taking a bath, his hair was still wet, and some drops of water slightly dripped down from the tips of his hair. His face was refreshing and handsome. Tch, he was as cold as the iceberg protagonist in a costume drama poster.

Ruan Qingmu’s suitcase was opened wide on the room’s floor. The things contained inside were rummaged into a mess. On the diagonal opposite in the upper bed, a certain someone was currently busy.

Who knew how he dragged his inconvenient leg to climb up, but he had just finished setting the summer sleeping mat. He crouched on the bed and struggled with the mosquito net wrapped around his head.

Upon listening to the noise, Ruan Qingmu rapidly turned his head. He poked his sweaty head out from the mosquito net. “Hey, I want to ask about something.”

Qin Yuan calmly opened his schoolbag and took out his teaching materials and resources. “Mm?”

“There are mosquitoes here at night, right? Can you hang the mosquito net?”

Qin Yuan raised his head and looked at him sitting there with crossed legs and a bitter face. He silently stood for a while, then took a stride with his long legs and climbed up into his own bed.

Across the bed rails, he took no time at all to find two corners of the mosquito net that had been messed up by Ruan Qingmu. He figured out the binding rope, and swiftly tied it to the small iron hook hanging down from the roof.

Ruan Qingmu was entirely tangled up with the net on the other end of the bed, and he was struggling while gasping for breath.

Footnote:

1 Neurasthenia is one of the diagnoses of neurosis in China . It is due to the long-term tension and pressure, the phenomenon of mental excitability and mental fatigue, often accompanied by emotional troubles, irritability, sleep disorders, muscle tension pain, etc.

2 Like this : http://p0.ifengimg.com/a/2017_46/72199c00ee63af7_size95_w488_h300.jpeg