Chapter 27

“…What stabbed it?” Fang Yu asked.

“Triangular bayonet.” Yang Lei didn’t know how much longer Fang Yu wanted to ask about this wound.

“Can you not always be that rough?” Fang Yu knew what a triangular bayonet wound was like. Seeing that large bandage on Yang Lei’s shoulder, his heart felt tight.

“I’m really fine.” As Yang Lei spoke, he went silent.

Fang Yu cared about him. He was touched and didn’t know what to say.

“These days, were you intentionally avoiding me?” Fang Yu asked, after a moment’s silence, without beating around the bush.

“Perhaps a little. I also had to work.”

Yang Lei also spoke the truth.

“…That night, you sat downstairs from my house all night?”

Yang Lei didn’t know how Fang Yu knew.

“You knew?”

“I saw the cigarette butts the next morning.”

Yang Lei didn’t speak.

“You don’t want to see me ever again?” Fang Yu raised his eyes, looking at Yang Lei. These days, he had been upset when looking for Yang Lei.

“Am I that petty?” Yang Lei even smiled. “What’s the big deal? Must we not meet again?”

“I’m being serious. I’m not joking with you.” Fang Yu didn’t smile.

“I’m also being serious. It’s really not a big deal.”

Yang Lei had already thought about it. There was a result from his thinking. If it were a few days ago, he might tell Fang Yu right now that he wasn’t “playing” with him. He really liked him and had fallen in love with him. As to whether or not you, Fang Yu, like me, I like you anyway. So what? Weren’t you also aroused by my body? Doesn’t this also mean that you have feelings for me?

But Yang Lei didn’t think that way now. Right now, he thought that Fang Yu and he were different. Fang Yu had said that, in his heart, he just wanted to be brothers with him. That was why Fang Yu was so dejected, because brothers wouldn’t do these things. Even if Fang Yu really had different feelings for him, could Fang Yu be indifferent like him? He could be indifferent about everything, but what about Fang Yu? Could Fang Yu really not care?

There was yet time while they were still at the edge of the cliff. While he still hadn’t really dragged Fang Yu into the water by him, putting him back onto the shore seemed to be the best for Fang Yu.

So, before he came, Yang Lei had thought about how he should discuss with Fang Yu that night. He had already considered it.

Weren’t they just going to be brothers? Weren’t they just not going to do those things?

If Yang Lei truly liked a person, he wouldn’t care about give and take. Right now, he just wanted to be a fool who didn’t ask for anything in return. He just wanted to play a game of self-sacrifice.

“That day, I hadn’t figured it out. These days, I figured it out,” Yang Lei said.

“You were right. It’s not right for us to play like this. We really shouldn’t continue playing,” Yang Lei said word by word.

“Actually, I also knew in my heart that it’s wrong for us to play like this. It just felt too good. I couldn’t bear to let it go,” Yang Lei said sentence by sentence.

“Fang Yu, you are also my best brother. For you, I can even give up my life. This little thing shouldn’t affect our relationship. We’ll still be good brothers in the future.”

Fang Yu kept listening. He felt that in these few days they hadn’t met, Yang Lei seemed to have suddenly grown up.

He was so calm, rational, and steady. The words he spoke, the things he considered, all were not like the Yang Lei who used to be impulsive and impatient.

But seeing this Yang Lei, Fang Yu didn’t know why his heart ached faintly.

Perhaps until now, Fang Yu still hadn’t figured out the question he had asked Yang Lei that night. But he clearly knew, that night, he had hurt Yang Lei.

That kind of hurt wasn’t Yang Lei right now lightly saying, “That day, I hadn’t figured it out.” When Fang Yu thought of the way Yang Lei had left that night, it was like his heart was pierced.

“…You really think that?” Fang Yu asked.

“Really.” Yang Lei truly was sincere.

Fang Yu was silent for a moment.

“Then are you still going to avoid me?”

Fang Yu was afraid that Yang Lei would avoid him again like before.

“Why would I avoid you? Can you eat me?” Yang Lei’s tongue was sharp again, and his tone was relaxed.

“Because you have a record!” Fang Yu also relaxed slightly. It was only now that the atmosphere recovered a little feeling of their previous familiarity.

“What record? It sounds so awful. Don’t curse me into jail.” Yang Lei purposefully created an atmosphere that was the same as before.

“Who cursed you? Whoever cursed you, I’ll cut him.” Fang Yu was also cooperating.

In the past, they bantered together every day. They both had incomparable chemistry. They didn’t even need to use their minds to respond to each other’s words. Thus, when they were talking together, it was even hard for others to interject. It was this kind of chemistry.

Yang Lei smiled at Fang Yu, smiling like he was truly quite relaxed.

Fang Yu also responded to his smile, but Fang Yu’s heart was still heavy…

“Tomorrow is Hua Mao’s birthday. We’re holding a feast at our restaurant. Let’s go together,” Fang Yu said.

“Okay, no problem,” Yang Lei said.

Fang Yu arranged Hua Mao’s birthday splendidly. He set up many tables at Grand Century Restaurant. Not only did he invite his close brothers, but there were also respected friends from the streets, enough to honor Hua Mao. Hua Mao was also very touched. He had never had this much honor.

Hua Mao was seriously injured last time. Fang Yu was also giving Hua Mao prestige here, telling the streets that Hua Mao was Fang Yu’s person, Luo Jiu’s person. Touching him was no different from touching Fang Yu. He wanted those who wanted to touch Hua Mao to all think about it a little and know their place.

Fang Yu messing around in Jianghu was because he had this capability to make people submit with their mouths and their hearts. His subordinates willingly followed him and risked their lives for him.

Hua Mao’s feelings for Fang Yu were not just love. There was also respect, admiration, gratitude… He had never encountered someone who had respected him as a person like this. That night, Hua Mao got very drunk. He even lay on the table and cried loudly and uncontrollably. He later said those were tears of gratitude, tears of feeling.

Yang Lei, Fang Yu, and Hua Mao sat at one table. That day, Hua Mao also brought one of his friends, a stranger. No one had met him before.

The person Hua Mao brought was called Ding Wen. He wasn’t a gangster; he was an educated person. This Ding Wen was very handsome, but his whole person felt rather frail. When he introduced himself, he said that he did technical work, and he was a college student. Yet, he was the friend of a big gangster like Hua Mao. That was already strange enough. And although this Ding Wen was refined, not long after he sat at the table, he kept staring at Yang Lei. At first, no one had noticed yet. Later, all the people at the table felt it a little because Ding Wen was really staring too obviously.

Yang Lei was also confused by his staring.

“Have we met before?” Yang Lei couldn’t help but ask.

“No, today is the first time we met.” Ding Wen’s voice was the same as his person, very elegant.

“Oh…”

Yang Lei didn’t ask anymore. He felt that this Ding Wen’s eyes were fixed with an indescribable strangeness.

Hua Mao saw this situation from the side. He understood in his heart, and he smirked.

This Ding Wen was actually a friend Hua Mao knew from the homosexual circle. Although he looked much more normal than Hua Mao and wasn’t a sissy, he was fundamentally the same as Hua Mao.

That day at the dinner table, he met Yang Lei. He had fallen for Yang Lei at first sight.