[Online Gaming] Love You 59 Seconds - Chapter 52
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Title Explanation: Ok guys, before we all jump the ship XDD it said “live together” not “living together”; so this chapter is just about them having sweet time together~ I know we all are going to jump in happiness if that really happens~ but not so soon ok? XDDD
Wu Han Ying was in so much pain that he almost teared up.
“Are you hurt?” Xia Chen pushed up onto his arms, he was afraid of crushing the boy.
“No, I’m okay.” Wu Han Ying clutched his forehead. Earlier he was still in his sleepy state, but after such a hard crash his body was sobered up a bit, yet his mind was still hazy.
The room was very dark and their positions were very close to each other. Wu Han Ying felt his body temperature rising, so he looked up and was met with Xia Chen’s eyes; they were very bright and clear. Somehow they made his heart start thumping extremely fast.
A small creak was heard from the bed, Wu Han Ying felt the body on top of him get lighter. He realized the other person had stood up and immediately the light in the room was turned on.
“Does it hurt? Do you want to apply some ointment on it?”
Wu Han Ying only felt his forehead heating up a bit, he was guessing it had probably turned red by now. Even thinking that, he knew it was nothing serious, so he just shook his head. It was his first time seeing Xia Chen without glasses, he wondered whether it was his illusion or not. This image of Xia Chen gave off a soft and gentle feeling, instead of the usual cold and stoic front.
“If it doesn’t hurt, go back to sleep.” Xia Chen looked at Wu Han Ying’s incoherent expression and just shook his head.
Wu Han Ying was not fully awake, although his eyes were open, he really was no different than a sleeping person; hearing what Xia Chen said, he took a few seconds to react before he lied back down on the bed and closed his eyes.
The bedroom temperature was much lower than the study room, he unconsciously crawled into the quilt and shrank his body into the warmth. He reached out his hand and touched something that felt cool. Wu Han Ying cracked his eyes open a bit and saw it was the frameless glasses. So this is why Professor Xia did not have his glasses on. With that thought in his mind he clutched onto the glasses with his hands and fell asleep.
Xia Chen felt quite amused and helpless, he watched Wu Han Ying open his eyes, stare at his glasses for a long time and then finally holding them went back to sleep…
Xia Chen thought about it for a moment before he turned off the light and turned back to his study room.
Wu Han Ying was really sleepy, so he slept for quite a long time. It was only when he remembered that he had to go back home at 10 o’clock that he suddenly woke up. He sat up in the dark, it was so dark that he could not see anything clearly. But he was certain this was no longer the study room, but he really did not know how he made his way to the big bed.
As he tried to get off the bed to see what time it was, his hand grabbed onto something that is very warm. Wu Han Ying was shocked and immediately released his hold, only then he saw someone lying sideway next to him.
Xia Chen did not get woken up by him, Wu Han Ying heaved out a sigh of relief as if he had done some bad deed. He hazily remembered that he was being carried into the bedroom by Xia Chen and even remembered that he had knocked his forehead on the other’s chin.
When his eyes finally adapted to the darkness, he looked at the clock on the wall displaying 4 o’clock. Wu Han Ying did not dare to move while he was sitting up because he was afraid of waking up the other person. He placed his hand on his chest, thump thump thump his heart was pounding loudly, as if it wanted to break his eardrum. He wondered whether it was due to him being scared earlier, yet how was it that his heart still had not calmed down after such a long period. {Translator Input: There is only one answer to this honey~ XDDDD}
Xia Chen slightly frowned while sleeping, the edges of the angular face were softened and made him appear more approachable than normal. Wu Han Ying stared at the other for a long time, suddenly he thought of Love You 59 Seconds. These two really do give a vibe that they are unapproachable, very taciturn, and have a strong personality.
When he was chatting with Love You 59 Seconds last time, from the other’s tone it seemed that they were also from his university, but the other did not say anything further; Wu Han Ying suddenly got stunned by a shocking idea, if the other is not his senior and not his junior, then could the other really be a teacher? {Translator Input: Sorry guys but I have to say this: Right on honey~ Let this idea drive you crazy~ XDDDDD}
Thinking about unnecessary matters for a long time, Wu Han Ying’s sleepiness had completely worn off. Wu Han Ying scratched his head wondering where he had left his cell phone, he wanted to know if his family had called him. But there was an 80% possibility that they did not call, because if they did he was sure that Xia Chen would have woken him up.
Just like that he gently lied back down, even though it was past 4 o’clock, it didn’t seem kind of him to disturb Xia Chen’s sleep. So he decided to wait until morning to go back home. He had been tossing around on the bed and could not sleep, his eyes were still wide open staring at the ceiling.
It was too quiet in the room, there was not even the sound of the clock ticking, only Xia Chen’s breathing could be heard clearly next to him, so it made Wu Han Ying feel awkward. But he could not explain what kind of awkward. Was it due to his lack of sleep, or it was due to his excitement…
By the time Wu Han Ying finally fell back to sleep it was almost dawn. During his hazy state, he realized something that made him extremely embarrassed! He did not take a bath and did not change out of his clothes; he just directly slept on someone else’s bed like this…
At 7 o’clock in the morning, when Xia Chen woke up, Wu Han Ying was sleeping soundly. The boy curled his body in the quilt, he could only assume that the boy was still clutching his glasses in his hands…
He did not wake him up, instead he went out to wash up. He was extremely busy until late into the night. Jun Zhe called again to poke around his current life for some time before getting to the main topic. He told him that his father was hinting of persuading him to come back for the New Year. The other also told him to quickly meet up with Xiao Wu, then bring the person home for the New Year to directly end this whole situation.
Xia Chen thought about Xiao Wu sleeping soundly in the next room, he just smiled and said, “I did.”
On the other line, Jun Zhe immediately burst, soon he could heard loud shouting coming from the other line. He was saying that he did not expect to see Xia Chen be this quick. The other went on to ask how the person looks, if they had a good personality or not, and blah blah blah a lot of things.
Xia Chen thought about it, “Very obedient, very good and very adorable.”
Jun Zhe laughed haha for a long moment, saying something like Lao Da you can’t be saved. You dare to tell me that you don’t have feelings towards this person, you don’t like them? When we have asked you to evaluate someone before, you would always say one word, “Uhm…”
You would not say anything else after “uhm”, because basically you don’t even bother to take a glance at them, let alone to think up an evaluation and the like…
Xia Chen did not bother to argue with him, he just directly asked where a good place to buy a suit would be.
Actually asking Jun Zhe was useless because he does not go out to buy his clothes. He normally just has all of his clothes custom made, usually his secretary would arrange this for him. The most he would do is tell her if he wanted one or two things. In the end, he came up with two words…”Xi Dan”…all the girls in the company always said to meet up at “Xi Dan” to go shopping during their days off…right…
After Xia Chen washed up, he looked inside the refrigerator and found that it was bare of ingredients. Xiao Wu seemed to be in a deep sleep and he was not sure when he would wake up. He decided to just simply head out to buy breakfast for them.
By the time he returned home, it was some time past 8 o’clock since the wait was quite long. As he opened the bedroom door, he found Wu Han Ying sitting in a daze on the bed, hands still holding onto his glasses…
“…Professor Xia!”
Wu Han Ying immediately jumped out of bed, this time his sleepiness had completely disappeared. He felt incredibly embarrassed since he had stayed the whole night.
“I bought breakfast.” Xia Chen held up the big bag in his hand, “Hurry and go wash up. I’ve already prepared everything for you in the bathroom.”
“Oh, okay.” Wu Han Ying rubbed his nose, he could smell the sweet jellied tofu and deep-fried doughcake. Their delicious scent made him a bit hungry, his stomach only accentuated his desire to eat by grumbling. He quickly dashed into the bathroom and as expected, a cup, toothbrush and towel had already been prepared for him.
Sweet Jellied Tofu
Deep-fried doughcake
When he walked into the dining room, he saw the table was filled with their breakfast. As Wu Han Ying looked at the table, he suddenly had a sad feeling surge up within his heart. He had forgotten how long it has been since someone was willing to go buy breakfast for him.
“After we finish eating, I’ll drive you home.” Xia Chen handed him a pair of chopsticks, “Also, my glasses.”
Wu Han Ying was being moved by the breakfast on the table, at the mention of “glasses” his face immediately turned crimson. He actually held onto the other’s glasses while he slept all night…so he quickly handed them back.
Speaking of which, Wu Han Ying ate a lot at breakfast, so later when he was sitting in the car the motion sickness made him want to spew out everything. He secretly casted aside his own shame, it would be wasteful to not finish everything since Professor Xia went to the trouble to buy a lot.
Actually, what he meant by driving him back was too extravagant…the two places are practically one street away, it would only take roughly less than 10 minutes by walking. The time it took Xia Chen to go down to the underground garage and get the car basically took up to 10 minutes. After starting the car and driving out of the parking garage, less than 2 minutes had passed before the 6-story building appeared in front of them…
“Xiao Wu.”
Wu Han Ying was about to get out of the car, but his hand trembled at the sudden call of “Xiao Wu” from Xia Chen. It scared him a bit.
“Isn’t it that you want to buy some clothes?”
Wu Han Ying got even more shaken when Xia Chen called him “Xiao Wu”, he suddenly had a guilty conscience and immediately thought of TLBB. But then again, his surname is Wu so it’s normal to be called “Xiao Wu”. Yet, to buy clothes…
“I saw your invitation for an interview this Sunday.” Xia Chen still had a calm face on as the man casually pointed out this fact.
“Oh, yeah, I want to go out and buy them today.” Wu Han Ying was looking through his resume earlier throughout the ride and reviewed the company’s introduction and the like, so after hearing the other say that he nodded his head.
“Want to go to Xi Dan?”
Xi Dan Shopping Mall
Wu Han Ying was stunned for a moment, because he had not thought about where to buy the clothes. But Xi Dan…it was the weekend and there would probably be a lot of people. Not to mention the traffic jam would naturally be indispensable. Moreover, the clothes there are not that cheap…
“I’ll take you there, it’s on the way.”
In the end, Wu Han Ying agreed to go, so he quickly ran upstairs to put away his backpack. He just had to remember that the most important point was to bring money along! Going out to buy clothes, he should bring enough money for it.
He went up the stairs and knocked for a long time before hearing some movement behind the door, he waited for a long period. Maybe they were not yet up at this hour.
“Why are you only coming back today?” Wu Han Ying’s uncle opened the door, with only one look it was obvious that the man was not fully awake yet. He opened the door then rushed back into the house to shout, “You’re out here so why didn’t you answer the door?”
His aunt came out of the kitchen and looked at Wu Han Ying, “How was I supposed to hear it? The kitchen door was closed.”
Wu Han Ying quickly greeted them, rushed to his room to put his laptop away and then grabbed some money before heading out.
“You dropped something.”
Wu Han Ying was rushing around so he could go back downstairs, he was afraid to make Xia Chen wait for too long. He heard the people in the room saying something like, “This is a recruitment letter. Do you want to do an internship during your winter break?”
“Ah yes, I found a place. I’m going to do an internship there during the break.” Wu Han Ying replied back.
“Oh, I have heard of this company. My little sister has been working here for about a month now.” His aunt picked up the paper that Wu Han Ying dropped and looked at it, “Their requirements are very high for new hires, but for an intern, you don’t have to have any experience.”
Wu Han Ying did not say anything after hearing that since he did not have much hope when he sent in his application. The people outside were still discussing something along the lines of, I see that this profession is more suited for you. You have so many years of experience, plus this company has much better benefits than your current one. You should also consider switching your job, just send in your resume. I believe you have a much better chance at getting hired when compared to him.
Wu Han Ying paused with what he was doing, obviously these words were not spoken for him; his aunt was telling this to his uncle. He felt a sudden irritation in his heart. {Translator Input: Wow, just wow, even wanting to steal your own nephew’s job…should I say you’re too confident or should I say you are too wicked?}
“I’m going out for a bit, I’ll probably be back in the evening.” Wu Han Ying saw that they were still holding onto that recruitment paper. After throwing that sentence at them he headed out of the door. When he was one floor down, he heard someone shouting, “Don’t forget to take your keys with you. Who would wait at the door for you, we also want to go out ah.”
Wu Han Ying touched his pocket, fortunately he remembered to take them. Then he ran downstairs in one breath. Xia Chen’s car sure was garish, it can be recognized with just one glance. The owner does not have to stand outside of the car to wait. {Translator Input: what he means here is that such an expensive car is a rare sight, so Xia Chen does not have to stand outside of the car to let Wu Han Ying know which car is his ^^}
Xia Chen was unwillingly replying to some text messages. Early in the morning Jun Zhe sent over a text asking if everything was going smoothly, he also added that since they are going to buy clothes at Xi Dan, then he might as well buy a diamond ring for Xiao Wu. After that, he received two more messages, one from Xiao Yan and the other from Xiao Mo. He he did not need to read the content of the messages to know what they were about. Jun Zhe is not a good secret keeper, within one night he has told everyone the news.
“That was fast.” Xia Chen looked up to see Wu Han Ying running towards him, which got him to casually deleted what he wrote and put the phone away.
To go to Xi Dan during the weekend is always an unwise choice, the traffic was extremely horrible. The shopping mall opens at 10 o’clock, which is exactly the time that people start to pour out to the street, which naturally results with more cars travelling on the road.
Fortunately, it was not that cold in the car, Wu Han Ying thought that this was way better than fighting his way in the crowded bus to go to the shopping mall. Moreover, it was a very luxurious car…
But his motion sickness is becoming a huge problem…
Wu Han Ying was having a minor case of motion sickness, but it was nothing serious normally. However, it is a different story when he has a full stomach. They kept on stopping and moving in this traffic jam, which irritated his stomach causing him to feel quite a bit of discomfort.
Xia Chen noticed the boy’s face did not look good and he was certain the boy must be experiencing motion sickness. Even if that was the case, the boy did not tell him anything; instead he noticed that the boy was trying his best to endure through it. Xia Chen decided to look for a small coffee shop to take a break and let the boy rest for a while. Anyway, they still had a lot of time so there was no need to rush it.
By the time they reached Xi Dan, it was already 11 o’clock. Wu Han Ying and Xia Chen were not hungry, so they decided to look at clothes first.
Honestly speaking, it was such a strange sight to have two grown men browsing the clothing stores together, it was a bit awkward; however, what made it even more strange was Xia Chen. Obviously they were here to buy clothes, but the other man looked all serious with his squinting eyes…which had caused Wu Han Ying to glance over several times, he really tried to suppress his nerve to laugh.
The two of them made one round of the shop, it was quite fast. Wu Han Ying did not even buy one article of clothing, it wasn’t that the place didn’t suit his taste it was that the place was not made for a student like him; he could not afford these luxuries..
Xia Chen did not say anything and just made another round. He helped Wu Han Ying pick up a few sets that the boy could chose from. Even though Wu Han Ying felt very good in them, the price was quite expensive…
Once they finished with their second round, Wu Han Ying had silently given up. If he were to buy the clothes here, then next month he would be in a bind with his budget; he might not be able to buy his own food. Xia Chen on the other hand had bought quite a few, but he did not try any of them on, he just simply looked at the brand of the clothes and then directly paid for them.
Wu Han Ying looked at the time displayed on his phone, they did their shopping at an ungodly speed; it was 12 o’clock, they did not even need to spend an hour shopping. He remembered back to the last time he went shopping with Jiang Tan and his other roommates, each of the boys had brought their girlfriends along. They walked into the shopping mall at its opening hour at 10 o’clock, it was almost 4 o’clock when they finally came out. After they had finally left he realized that they did not even eat lunch and their legs were about to break from the tiredness.
“Where should we go eat?” Xia Chen looked at the time, though he was not really hungry.
After saying that, he shoved all the bags he was carrying towards the boy.
Wu Han Ying thought that the other man wanted to free his hands so he could drive, so he just took all the bags, “I don’t know, anywhere is fine.”
“Go back and try these on, see which one you want to wear tomorrow.”
Wu Han Ying was about to say yes, but the words died away in his throat. What did the other man mean by “go back and try”…
“These…” they are for me?
Wu Han Ying’s mouth fell open as he stared at Xia Chen without saying anything, but his facial expression clearly showed what was on his mind…
“I saw that you did not buy anything.” Xia Chen said and unlocked the car so the other man could put the bags he was carrying on the backseat, “Going to an interview for the first time, it’s best to dress a bit more on the professional side for the job.”
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End of Chapter 52
