Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“…Hello, my name is Tang Bai, thank you for saving me.” Tang Bai raised his face and looked at him, his amber eyes shining.
Looking at those beautiful eyes, he was so stiff that he didn’t even know where to put his hands. Finally, he said in a dry voice: “Xiao Cheng.” This was a pseudonym, and Xiao was his mother’s surname.
He was now using the identity of “Mouse” and if he took off his human/skin mask now, it may cause some trouble to Tang Bai.
Nobles like Tang Bai should look down on the players in the underground arena.
He and Tang Bai sent the attacker to the police station together. Neither of them spoke on the way, but his keen intuition made him realize that Tang Bai had been peeking at him.
But so did he. He looked at Tang Bai when Tang Bai was looking out the window in a daze.
He himself was good-looking, so he rarely thought about others looks but now he thought, “This person is so good-looking.”
But Tang Bai was really good-looking, delicate and beautiful, with a face as clear as an angel, and a cat-like cunningness between his eyebrows.
He was like a passerby looking at a carefully tended rose in the garden through the fence, wanting to pick it off and steal it home to look at every day, but he knew in his heart that the best outcome was to let this rose continue to bloom in the garden.
All he could do was watch from afar, but that was fine.
“I actually want to visit the underground arena and black market this time. Can you accompany me?” Tang Bai said to him with a red face.
He accompanied Tang Bai to the underground arena. They had to choose a mask first. Tang Bai chose a white feather mask, and also helped him choose a matching black feather mask.
The competition in the underground arena made Tang Bai uncomfortable. Seeing that Tang Bai’s expression was not right, he reached out and covered Tang Bai’s eyes.
People were cheering and roaring all around. He was very close to Tang Bai, so close that he could hear Tang Bai’s shallow breathing.
Thick eyelashes trembled across his palms, like butterflies flapping their wings in his palms.
“I don’t understand, what is the meaning of the existence of the underground arena?” Tang Bai asked him.
He said that for the players, the meaning of the existence of the underground arena should be survival, in order to survive, to obtain the one in ten thousand slim chance to have a better life.
Becoming an underground arena star may be the only way for a kid from the slums to get ahead.
After hearing this, Tang Bai said seriously that studying should be the ladder for each person to rise.
Tang Bai said that he wanted to contact people who could help the slums. He said that he wanted to build a school here. He said that everyone should have a bright future.
He let go of the hand covering Tang Bai’s eyes and saw the eyes behind the mask swaying with the firelight of the underground arena.
Then his heart trembled slightly.
“Wearing this mask makes it look like we are attending a masquerade party. By the way, can you dance?” Tang Bai looked at him with bright amber eyes. Knowing that he couldn’t, Tang Bai laughed, “Then shall I teach you how to dance next time?”
So they met again.
In the square with flying white pigeons, Tang Bai happily taught him how to dance.
“When you invite someone to dance, you have to say, Sir, may I ask you to dance?” Tang Bai extended his hand to him in a decent manner.
So he also imitated Tang Bai, putting one hand behind his back and reaching out to the person in front of him with the other, lowering his head slightly, “This young master, may I ask you to dance?”
Tang Bai was arrogant. He nodded and placed the hand with the rose ring on his palm.
Gorgeous music flowed from the rose-shaped optical brain ring, like magnificent petals floating on gurgling water.
At first they were still dancing, but later Tang Bai said that the music of the square dance was really too brainwashing. As he spoke, he suddenly took his hand and led him onto the huge dance floor.
The fountain changed its water shape with the music. Tang Bai held his hand and laughed and danced. He had only thought it was noisy when he heard the music in the past, but at this moment he felt the charm of music that Tang Bai said.
He always felt that everything was beautiful in Tang Bai’s eyes, whether it was roadside stalls, square dances, dirty children or even the person “Xiao Cheng”… they were all beautiful.
The first time he heard Tang Bai’s evaluation of “Xiao Cheng” was on Mechanical Coffin.
At that time, he didn’t know that the mecha manufacturer was Tang Bai, and Tang Bai didn’t know that “X” was Xiao Cheng. They shared their lives like normal netizens with a good relationship.
Tang Bai said to him, I seem to like someone.
The place where that person lived was crazy, sinful, and chaotic, but he is sober, kind, and didn’t grow wildly.
He is completely different from me. I have been tamed and made docile by this society, but he maintains the dignity of freedom in his heart.
When he covered my eyes, I seemed to hear the sound of the rivers flowing in his body and the roar of the sea. It made me want to go to his world and adventure with him…
Tang Bai said that man was too good, so good that he never thought that the person was himself in the first place.
He asked Tang Bai, does that person like you?
Tang Bai said, yes, he likes me. When I looked away, his eyes on me were very gentle.
He said to Tang Bai, you have mentioned so many advantages, but what are the other party’s shortcomings?
Tang Bai said, the shortcoming is that he is too slow. When I close my eyes, he doesn’t even know to kiss me.
So he gave Tang Bai a suggestion: if you really like him and are sure that the other person’s character is guaranteed, then take the initiative to kiss him next time.
Tang Bai said to him embarrassedly, but I haven’t kissed anyone yet. What would he do if I kissed him and he just avoided me?
Then he said, if you really want to kiss, should you spray some kind of mouth freshening spray in advance? How about a fruity one…
Falling in love was so good.
When he saw Tang Bai’s thoughts filling the screen, he couldn’t help but feel this way in his heart.
Such beautiful things were like luxuries to him. He had a lifespan of less than forty years after being injected with the disguise drug.
In the average life span of an interstellar person of two hundred years, if he really wanted to fall in love, he could only give his lover a short-term love.
Such love would be selfish and mean.
Ignoring the problem of life span, just to enjoy short-term happiness, he would be leaving his lover with long-term pain.
Therefore, he had never had the extravagant hope of love, but he had also never met an alpha that made his heart beat, so he didn’t regret it.
At the end of the conversation, he ordered a sunflower energy gun from Tang Bai. He wanted to give it to Tang Bai for self-defense.
The days during that period were full and wonderful. Although the pressure of running for chief was very high, he could often go out to meet with Tang Bai, and he could also talk to his friend on the Mechanical Coffin at night.
At the time he thought he had made two friends all at once.
At that time, he saw that the slums were getting better little by little. Tang Bai don’t know what method he used but he got Bai Zhi to bring everyone’s attention to the education issues in the slums. He passed the dance segment in the etiquette exam with the help of what Tang Bai taught him, and everything started to get better.
He thought everything was getting better.
Until he and Tang Bai met again, and he gave Tang Bai the sunflower energy gun.
“Are you ‘X’?!” Tang Bai exclaimed.
It turned out that the seller was Tang Bai.
He was immersed in the coincidence of this matter, then he heard Tang Bai’s careful probing: “Then you…then you know everything?”
What did he know?
He looked at Tang Bai blankly.
Tang Bai groaned and looked at him with a look that said, “I knew it was like this.”
Then…
Tang Bai stood up on tiptoes and kissed him with a blushing face.
It was strawberry flavored.
——”If you really want to kiss, should you spray some kind of mouth freshening spray in advance? How about a fruity one?”
——”The disadvantage is that he is too slow. When I close my eyes, he doesn’t notice. He knew he was going to kiss me.”
——”When he covered my eyes, I seemed to hear the sound of the rivers flowing in his body and the roar of the sea. This made me want to go to his world and adventure with him…”
It turned out that when they were watching the fireworks together, Tang Bai suddenly closed his eyes to let him kiss him.
It turned out that that day when he removed his hand and they looked at each other, the flame-like light he saw in those amber eyes, was “love”.
It turned out that when he understood all this, he also lost him forever.
How could he be with Tang Bai? He was an omega who would not live long, and Tang Bai would be laughed at if he was with him.
He took a step back, Tang Bai looked at him blankly, he could only apologize: “I’m sorry, I have to leave.”
“Please don’t leave, okay.” There was still a blush on Tang Bai’s face, which was the expression when he confessed. The sparkling eyes were his favorite light: “I like you.”
“Young Master, you don’t even know my true identity, how could you fall in love with me?” He had told Tang Bai that Xiao Cheng was his false identity.
Tang Bai looked at him with bright and firm eyes, with no hesitation to love someone across mountains and seas. He said: “Although I don’t know who you are, I really, really like you. We are here. How about working hard together?”
Okay.
How he wanted to say that.
“I can’t be with you, I will hurt you. All I can give you is a short love with this false identity.”
He saw the thin layer of red remaining on Tang Bai’s face. The words had faded cleanly, and the face was as white as a piece of paper.
“I’m sorry.” He said softly.
The amber eyes were filled with tears, making them brighter and brighter. Tang Bai seemed to be going to cry at any time, “Xiao Cheng, you bastard!”
Don’t cry, my little master, I’m not worth you crying for me.
“Don’t think that because you saved me, don’t think that because you accompanied me as ‘X’, don’t think that because you have done this, I really have to depend on you!”
Yes, that’s it, you don’t have to depend on me. No, you can have a wonderful life. You will marry a husband who is the right match for you and who will love you. He will accompany you till the end of your life. You will have a family full of children and grandchildren, and you will be happy forever.
He turned around and walked out, not knowing where he was going.
“If you leave, I will go on a blind date and find another alpha to be with. I will never pay attention to you again!”
“Xiao Cheng!”
“Don’t leave, okay!”
“You are not allowed to leave.”
“Don’t go…”
He didn’t look back because he didn’t dare to look back.
He walked farther and farther, and when he could no longer hear the call of the person behind him, he stopped.
He found that he had severe pain in his chest, which was located in the left atrium. It was so tight that he could hardly breathe. It was so depressing and painful, and it throbbed with every heartbeat.
Loss always brought pain. He only got along with his young master for such a short time. They only had such a short period of happiness. It was so painful when only such a little happiness was deprived. What if they had been together for longer?
What if it was so long that Tang Bai had no choice but to be his, but he was destined to be unable to save him from death?
Would Tang Bai be even sadder at that time than he was now?
Xie Ruheng covered his mouth and coughed up a large mouthful of blood. The blood flowed in his hands, but he didn’t care enough to wipe the blood on his lips away with the back of his hand.
A message alert sounded. It was a message from Tang Bai on the Mechanical Coffin. Tang Bai asked him if he still wanted the Rabbit Mecha.
He said no more.
Tang Bai asked, why not.
Xie Ruheng closed his eyes. He thought that he should say some heartless words at this time. The more heartless the better. It would be best to break Tang Bai’s heart so that Tang Bai would be hurt enough and stop liking him and realise that being with him was a waste of time.
So he said, I just see you as a friend, I don’t like your love, which makes me feel a little sick.
Sure enough, Tang Bai never contacted him again.
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