“What’s wrong? Can’t sleep?”
Gong Ze put away his phone and leaned against the wall, looking at him with a faint smile.
Lu Youling walked over and leaned against the wall beside him, unhurriedly looking back at him. “How does it feel staying at the home of a one-night stand?”
Gong Ze raised an eyebrow.
So this was how the world fusion rationalized his and Lu Youling’s relationship? Heh… a one-night stand…
“I thought we made it clear then. After that day ended, we wouldn’t know each other.” Gong Ze narrowed his eyes and deliberately bluffed him. Even if they had not said that, Gong Ze could say he thought it was common sense for adults at the time.
Hearing this, Lu Youling said: “That’s what was said, but can’t you satisfy my curiosity?”
Gong Ze understood. So they had said it.
He nodded. “Please ask.”
Lu Youling: “Who was the person who made you realize your sexual orientation? Or rather, do you have someone you like? Otherwise you wouldn’t have found a man to experiment with. Are you two together?”
“If I say there’s no such person at all, and I discovered it naturally?” Gong Ze countered.
“Impossible.” Lu Youling said decisively, looking at Gong Ze and raising his chin. “I’m ten years older than you. My life experience is longer than yours. Don’t try to fool me.”
Hearing this, Gong Ze chuckled quietly.
If it came to life experience, he had lived several more worlds than Lu Youling. Calling him an old monster would not be excessive. As for fooling people, had Lu Youling not just been fooled by him?
Seeing him laugh, Lu Youling frowned. “What are you laughing at? Answer my question.”
“Never mind that we’re a one-night stand with no feelings at all. I have no obligation to answer your question. That’s my privacy, but…” Gong Ze’s lazy fingers tapped slowly on the wall. Under Lu Youling’s increasingly sharp eye-daggers, he gave an “mm”: “Congratulations, you guessed right. I do have someone I like, but we’re not together yet.”
Hearing Gong Ze’s affirmative answer, Lu Youling did not know why his mood instantly became extremely irritated, and his chest ached stuffily.
For a mere one-night stand partner, he felt the sourness and grievance of being betrayed by a boyfriend who had doted on him for years.
The usually cool Lu Youling nearly reddened his eye rims.
Hateful Gong Ze!
He clearly said he only liked—wait, Lu Youling’s expression blanked for a moment. What was I just thinking…
But seeing Gong Ze, his blurry, brief daze stopped, and he came back to himself, as if he had forgotten what he was just thinking, and said unhappily: “You fought for him?”
“No.” Gong Ze wanted to laugh seeing him angry and deliberately teased him with nonsense. “It’s because I was caught two-timing. I’m very popular, you know. They all want to be my boyfriend. I couldn’t refuse, so I agreed to all of them, and then I got caught.”
What?!
Lu Youling’s eyes went round and he angrily roared at him: “Gong Ze!!”
Not to mention, this shout really sent Gong Ze back to Lu Youling’s world, as if he had been called by his full name by an old married Lu Youling.
“Be serious! I’m asking you seriously.”
“What I said is true.”
He had already become a scumbag, so one more time did not matter.
The person who had been messed with by the fusion until he lay flat shrugged. “If you don’t believe me, ask Feng Xueping. He can testify.”
Hearing this, Lu Youling felt as if stabbed by a needle, and his heart was fiercely poured another bucket of vinegar. Angrily he raised his hand and punched the handsome yet annoying bastard’s shoulder.
“You scumbag, last time was clearly your first time. How long has it been and you’ve already become a sea king? Did it make you addicted?!”
Taking the experience you honed with me to sleep with others.
Lu Youling wished he could kill Gong Ze.
Gong Ze savored his words. So in this world, Lu Youling was still his sexual awakening partner.
He did not know whether to laugh or cry. Seeing Lu Youling so angry his eyes were red and about to cry, the wicked person immediately restrained his bellyful of bad water, straightened his expression, and raised his hand to wipe Lu Youling’s face.
Jokingly he said: “Don’t cry. Shedding tears for a scumbag isn’t worth it.”
Lu Youling was stunned, then pressed his lips, pushed Gong Ze coldly, and left.
“Angry?”
Gong Ze muttered to himself, smiled, and continued leaning against the spot with arms crossed, waiting until Feng Xueping called him from inside, then raised his voice to answer.
After Feng Xueping came out, towel on his head, he looked left and right and asked Gong Ze: “Who were you talking to just now? I thought I heard my cousin’s voice.”
Unfortunately the bathroom water was too loud, so he heard only vaguely.
Gong Ze replied nothing much.
Feng Xueping did not pay much attention. Smiling, he patted Gong Ze’s shoulder. “Thanks, bro. Go ahead. I’ll guard the door for you.”
Gong Ze: “No need. Don’t think about peeking at me showering. Get lost.”
Feng Xueping: “Hey! You’re a man and afraid of being seen? I don’t even mind you looking at my jade body.”
“Yue, don’t disgust Daddy!”
“Bullshit, I’m your daddy.”
The two traded insults. After Gong Ze showered, they played games in Feng Xueping’s room.
First they played Wangzhe, then PUBG. By the end Feng Xueping had no fear left at all. His mind held only rage at blowing up all his teammates.
“Fucking hell, play two rounds of this crap game and my resentment is bigger than a ghost’s! Not fucking playing anymore. Sleep, sleep!”
“Then I’ll go back to my room.”
“Bye bye.”
Gong Ze put away his phone and left Feng Xueping’s room, going to another guest bedroom. Fortunately Lu Youling’s home really was very big. Otherwise he and Feng Xueping would have had to squeeze into one blanket.
After returning to the room, Gong Ze got into bed, scrolled his phone for a while, then turned off the light and prepared to sleep. But when he closed his eyes, his mind could not help starting to sort through today’s events.
The more he thought, the more fucked up it felt.
It would be best if the world fusion could be undone. Otherwise, wouldn’t he have to shuttle between Feng Yuan, Sang You, Lu Youling, and his teacher?
Never mind whether an n.p. was morally acceptable, even the site review would not pass it!
Besides, Gong Ze wholeheartedly loved only his wife. He had gone to so much trouble precisely to collect his wife’s soul fragments. But because of the accident, not only had his wife’s soul not fused, it had become four pieces. Everyone his wife had reincarnated as had come to the real world.
Well damn, I instantly became a scumbag!
If the world fusion could not be undone, Gong Ze would either have to choose only his teacher, then watch the other people formed from his wife’s fragments be with other men.
Or he would have to woo them all and make the reputation of scumbag sea king real.
Although Gong Ze could do it, no matter whether for his teacher, Feng Yuan, Lu Youling, or Sang You, it would be a kind of harm.
The more Gong Ze thought, the darker his face became: Idiot Main God.
Anyway, when there was no one else to blame, blaming the Main God was always right.JPG
This messy thinking went on into the deep night. Gong Ze frowned and rubbed the space between his brows. Just as he planned to hypnotize himself to sleep quickly, a knock suddenly sounded at the room door.
Gong Ze: …
Gong Ze thought it was Feng Xueping, that brat. He found it funny and sat up, turning on the bedside lamp. “So much for not being afraid. Feng Xueping, how old are you, scared by a nightmare and unable to sleep so you need someone to accompany you? Come in, the door isn’t locked.”
But when the door opened, outside was Lu Youling.
Gong Ze’s smile froze on his face.
The young man wore striped pajamas. There was still sleepiness on his face, but his color was pale. He held a pillow under his arm and said stiffly: “…I thought about it. After watching a horror movie today, you kids will definitely be too scared to sleep. How about this, I’m the only adult in the house, so I can only sleep with you.”
The more he spoke, the more natural his expression became, as if that was really what he thought.
Before Gong Ze could react, he walked in, closed the door, and swoosh-swoosh got into bed. He pressed his pillow next to Gong Ze’s pillow, wrapped himself in the blanket, and covered his head too.
Gong Ze: …
Gong Ze: “…Pfft.”
He could not help laughing, shoulders shaking. Lu Youling, embarrassed into anger, kicked his calf from under the blanket. “What are you laughing at, fart! What time is it and you’re still not asleep.”
Gong Ze lay down, propped his head on one hand, and looked sideways at the “big lump” beside him. His voice still carried laughter. “Why didn’t you go find Feng Xueping? I’ve had that kind of relationship with you. Aren’t you afraid I’ll do something to you? Besides, we’re not even familiar. Mr. Lu, your sense of defense is too low.”
“…You think I didn’t want to?”
Lu Youling immediately yanked the blanket off his head and glared at him angrily.
“Feng Xueping’s snoring can’t even be blocked by the door. He didn’t hear me knock at all!”
As for why he so naturally came to Gong Ze…
“I don’t know either.”
Lu Youling was equally puzzled. It was as if he had lived with Gong Ze for more than ten years. The thought of sleeping with Gong Ze not only brought no unease or resistance, but made him especially eager to try.
His brain and body betrayed their owner, happily lying down on a stranger’s bed.
Hearing this, Gong Ze paused. He naturally knew the reason.
He and Lu Youling, in the world before last, had lain in the same blanket from their twenties all the way until burial. In life, same bed; in death, same coffin. The world fusion had erased his memories, but could not change the closeness that had already become habit.
Restraining his smile, the look in Gong Ze’s eyes became gentle. He turned off the light and did not chase the person away. Instead, after lying down, he directly scooped the person back into his arms.
Lu Youling was startled and struggled twice, but found that after being held by Gong Ze, his bones went lazy and lost strength. And Gong Ze did nothing besides holding him.
Instead, because of this hug, he nearly felt his nose sting and tears fall.
“So strange…”
Lu Youling grievance-ladenly hugged Gong Ze’s arm lying across his chest and said quietly.
“Strange things are many. Two more won’t matter.”
Gong Ze kissed his ear outline and soothed him.
His hand skillfully tucked Lu Youling’s stiff back and butt into the hollow of his abdomen, arranging the posture, like a missing-corner puzzle piece finding the shape connected to it, perfectly fitted and full of security.
But Lu Youling was somewhat sensitive. “Have we known each other in a past life…” He originally did not believe in this kind of thing, but it really was so odd.
Gong Ze did not answer, only said: “Sleep.”
“…”
As Gong Ze’s words fell, Lu Youling’s eyelids really did start fighting. Dazedly he rubbed against Gong Ze’s arms twice, hugged Gong Ze’s arm, and fell asleep in seconds.
In the darkness, Gong Ze listened to his little snoring and smiled. His expression grew gentler. He kissed the sleeping young man’s lips, lightly bit Lu Youling’s lower lip.
A night without dreams.
The next day the two were woken by knocking.
Lu Youling grumbled unhappily twice in Gong Ze’s arms before reacting. He flailed in panic twice. Fortunately Gong Ze timely covered his mouth, otherwise Lu Youling would have cried out.
Seeing Gong Ze, Lu Youling’s sleep-muddled head finally remembered yesterday’s events. He widened his eyes in panic at the door: “Mm mm.”
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