GBROTAH CH86

The wound on Xie Yuanxing’s forehead scabbed over quickly, leaving a faint, thin brown scar on his forehead.

Shen Bianye stared at that barely perceptible scar, looking at it again and again. “It’s already scabbed over. You don’t need to wear a band-aid anymore.”

Xie Yuanxing stubbornly shook his head. “No, I have to.”

The one that was originally on his forehead had already been peeled off by Shen Bianye. As Xie Yuanxing spoke, he reached into the drawer to get a new band-aid.

Shen Bianye frowned, not quite approving. “The wound needs to breathe. Once it has scabbed, it’s not suitable to keep a band-aid on it.”

Xie Yuanxing: “No, a scar on my forehead doesn’t look good.”

Shen Bianye said flatly, “It’s not like you look that much better without a scar.”

Xie Yuanxing was a little unhappy. “You make it sound like I’m really ugly.”

Shen Bianye: “Not ugly.”

He said nonchalantly, “But just average, I guess.”

Xie Yuanxing said “oh,” then pinched the band-aid and thought for a moment. He pressed his lips together and said, “But you seem to like this very average person you’re talking about.”

Shen Bianye’s tone was exceptionally calm. “It just means my taste is also average.”

For some reason, a wave of nameless anger suddenly rose in Xie Yuanxing’s heart.

With that tone, that expression, and those words, Shen Bianye’s handsome face looked extremely punchable at that moment.

Xie Yuanxing stared at him for a while, considering the consequences of hitting him. A moment later, he let out a heavy snort. “Thinking everything looks average means there’s a problem with your eyes.”

“Have you considered getting eyeball removal surgery when you have time?”

As he spoke, he started to unwrap the band-aid in his hand. A hand reached over from the side and took the band-aid away without any room for argument.

Shen Bianye: “Vicious.”

Xie Yuanxing ignored the word “vicious,” his attention completely captivated by the snatched band-aid. “What are you doing? Give it back to me.”

Shen Bianye: “The wound is healed. Why do you insist on wearing this band-aid?”

As he spoke, while Xie Yuanxing was glaring at him, he reached out and also took away the box of band-aids from Xie Yuanxing’s drawer.

Xie Yuanxing was furious. “What’s it to you?”

“Give it back.”

Shen Bianye put it directly into his own drawer. “If I remember correctly, I’m the one who bought this new box of band-aids.”

“I was just taking it back.”

Xie Yuanxing: ……

His small face carried a trace of indignation. “Taking back something you bought for someone else, you’re so stingy.”

“I’ll go buy a new one myself later.”

Shen Bianye frowned. “Do you just have to wear a band-aid?”

“The scar on your forehead is very light. It doesn’t affect your appearance. Besides, it’ll be fine once the scab falls off.”

Xie Yuanxing: “You don’t understand.”

Shen Bianye sneered. “Tell me, and I’ll try to understand.”

Seeing Xie Yuanxing remain silent, Shen Bianye started adding to his offer. “If you tell me, I’ll give the band-aids back to you, and I’ll never bring up the stuff online again.”

Xie Yuanxing hesitated for a moment. He was a little embarrassed to say it, but if he could really settle the score just like that, it seemed like a pretty good deal.

After thinking about it, he still said, “Don’t you think it’s cool?”

Shen Bianye: ?

He frowned slightly, his eyes filled with confusion, not understanding what was cool about it.

Xie Yuanxing felt uncomfortable under his gaze, the tips of his ears turning a little red. He stammered, “It’s just, it’s very handsome, like in anime.”

The corners of Shen Bianye’s lips twitched, as if he wanted to laugh but held it back. He thought Xie Yuanxing was very cute, but his words were merciless. “This box of band-aids is from the hospital. Why don’t you try putting on one of your old ones?”

“Let’s see where your aesthetic sense finds the coolness.”

“Cool in the sense of having a pink, pouting, and incredibly creepy Crayon Shin-chan on your pretty face?”

Xie Yuanxing: ……

“Are you annoying or what?”

“I know you paid the bill at the hospital. I’ll just transfer the money to you, okay?”

The smile on Shen Bianye’s face slowly faded. “That’s not what I meant.”

He looked at Xie Yuanxing, paused for a moment, and continued, “I just wanted you to stop wearing the band-aid. The area around your wound where the adhesive has been sticking is already a little red.”

He hadn’t said it just now because he didn’t want it to seem like he had been observing Xie Yuanxing so carefully, watching him for a long time, very intently.

He had already lost the substance; he had to save at least a little bit of face.

Xie Yuanxing was like a peacock with its tail fanned out. He lifted his chin slightly, his tone even more impolite than Shen Bianye’s had been just now. “Then why couldn’t you have just said so?”

“What’s the point of being all roundabout and passive-aggressive?”

“Do you even know how to talk?”

Shen Bianye glanced at him, sighed, and apologized, “Okay, my mistake.”

Xie Yuanxing snorted. “As long as you know.”

As he spoke, as if remembering something, “You said your taste is average.”

“My taste, however, is excellent.”

“I would never fall for someone with Shen, Bian, or Ye in their name. A name like that sounds unreliable at first listen.”

Being repeatedly jabbed by Shen Bianye, he thought that by saying this, Shen Bianye would become angry out of embarrassment. Instead, he just glanced at him. Calmly, he just said flatly, “Got it.”

…

Xie Yuanxing, feeling that he had finally put it behind him, walked into the classroom the next day just a few minutes before the morning reading session, as usual. When he got to his seat, he saw that the person who was supposed to be there had changed.

Zhou Chao raised his hand with a grin and greeted him, “Hey, deskmate.”

Xie Yuanxing looked at Zhou Chao, then at Shen Bianye, who was sitting in Zhou Chao’s seat. Shen Bianye had glanced up when he walked in and then immediately looked away.

?

Did his words yesterday hurt Shen Bianye?

Xie Yuanxing first frowned, feeling a little apologetic, but then he sat down in his own seat naturally without saying anything.

Their seating arrangement changed from being deskmates to sitting in front and behind. It seemed like they were still very close, but they had indeed lost a lot of contact.

Shen Bianye was a very qualified back-row deskmate. He pulled his desk far back, leaving plenty of space for Xie Yuanxing. He wouldn’t poke Xie Yuanxing’s back, nor would he accidentally kick Xie Yuanxing’s chair.

Xie Yuanxing started off a little unaccustomed to having Zhou Chao sitting next to him. By the end of the day, he found himself hoping that Shen Bianye could stay seated behind him forever.

After the evening self-study session, he said goodbye to Zhou Chao and walked out the back door with a light step.

Shen Bianye was still sitting in his seat. Zhou Chao, from the seat next to him in the front row, turned around and said in a devil-may-care tone, “What are you going to do? It seems like he’s not falling for your ‘one step back, two steps forward’ tactic at all.”

The evening self-study session was already over, and the classroom had emptied out by a large margin. There was no one sitting around them.

When Zhou Chao spoke, his tone was tinged with schadenfreude. “It seems like Xie Yuanxing wishes you were farther away from him.”

Shen Bianye got up with his things. “There was no ‘one step back, two steps forward’.”

“I’m not planning to pursue him. It’s fine just like this.”

Right now, he had nothing, and Xie Yuanxing really didn’t like him. Why should he go and make himself disliked? It was better to keep a little distance, lest after spending a long time together, he would leave an indelible sense of resistance in Xie Yuanxing’s heart.

Zhou Chao’s expression became one of surprise. “What? You’re not interested in Xie Yuanxing anymore?”

“Then you might as well just switch your seat to be even farther away. What are you doing sitting behind him?”

Shen Bianye glanced at him. “Class is over. I’m leaving.”

He didn’t plan to pursue him, but he still wanted to keep him under his watch at all times.

He wanted to know who Xie Yuanxing talked to, who he smiled at, what topics they chatted about, and what they said. He wanted to know all of it.

Being too far away meant he couldn’t pay attention to him at all times. Sitting behind him was just right.

This kind of thinking was quite perverted. Shen Bianye still had some sense of shame, so it was impossible for him to tell Zhou Chao everything.

Returning to the empty dormitory, Shen Bianye looked down at his phone. The chat interface with “Ruan Xing” was still on the last message he had sent.

In front of the message was a conspicuous and clear red exclamation mark.

Taking advantage of the fact that Xie Yuanxing would never have a chance to see it, Shen Bianye typed in the dialogue box.

X: “Baby is so beautiful when he’s writing with his head down. A little bit of the back of his neck is exposed, it’s so white it’s killing me, so tender, baby.”

“Will a scent gland grow there in the future? Will baby cry if I bite it? So cute, baby.”

“What will baby’s pheromones smell like?”

“Baby is so fair and tender, will it be milk pudding?”

“Let me have a taste, baby. I’ll be gentle.”

“Baby is so beautiful. It’s normal to keep a close eye on baby, right, baby?”

“Can I lick baby? The tear mole under baby’s eye is so cute. It’s so small, it wants to be tasted too, right, baby?”

“Besides the tear mole, can I lick other places too?”

“I’m not really a pervert, baby. It’s just that baby smells so good, it’s driving me crazy.”

“Zhou Chao even asked me why I’m sitting behind baby. I can’t just tell him I want to visually ravish baby. That would make me seem like a pervert.”

“Will baby think I’m a pervert? Don’t be afraid of me, baby. I just like baby.”

“It’s okay to say these things to baby here, right? We’re dating, aren’t we, baby?”

“Baby was the one who initiated it with me. I didn’t agree to break up, baby.”

As Shen Bianye typed these words, there was no logic in his mind. He just typed whatever came to mind.

These were all thoughts that had appeared throughout the day. The words he hadn’t said to Xie Yuanxing during the day were all typed into the dialogue box at this moment, like a monologue with no one to answer.

It was just that the person behind this account was Xie Yuanxing. Shen Bianye’s overflowing desires, whether it was the desire to talk or something else, were all revealed here, little by little.

It was very strange, with a swamp-like stickiness. Once you fell in, it was as if you could never break free.

He typed those words and casually hit send.

The half-bright, half-dark circular loading bar in front of the long message spun twice. Shen Bianye paid it no mind.

He knew that when the circle finished spinning, it would turn into a red exclamation mark after the network stabilized. So he casually put his phone aside and got up to do his own thing.

The moment the phone was placed on the table, it buzzed and vibrated slightly. In the chat interface, a sentence popped up.

Ruan Xing: “It will.”

Ruan Xing: “You’re really a pervert.”

Shen Bianye’s pupils contracted slightly. He quickly scrolled up the messages. In front of the long chat box, there was indeed no red exclamation mark.

Which meant that this message, which he thought would absolutely never be seen by Xie Yuanxing, had in fact been seen by the person who shouldn’t have seen it in the first place.

Shen Bianye: ……

The tall man stood in front of the desk, his body slightly, imperceptibly stiff, as if he couldn’t feel himself, his soul had left his body.

Shen Bianye stared at those two replies with an extremely complicated expression. His mind, for a rare moment, buzzed.

He didn’t know when Xie Yuanxing had unblocked him from the blacklist.

But at this moment, apart from that little bit of pleasure, what he felt more was embarrassment.

Shen Bianye rarely had such awkward and embarrassing moments. Although the dormitory was empty except for him, he felt as if Xie Yuanxing were right in front of him.

Watching his embarrassment, watching his desire, watching his fall.

It was strange. Thinking like this, he inexplicably became excited again.