In the afternoon, the playground was bustling with voices; today was the weekly physical education class for the second-year students.
On the volleyball court, the boys from Class One and Class Four were engaged in a friendly match.
Smack! The volleyball zipped over the net, and a setter immediately set it up for the second setter.
Standing in the back row, Xia Xihe's eyes followed the ball flying back and forth, but his mind seemed to drift elsewhere.
Yao Jialin's words troubled him. Had Yan Yulong really changed his feelings...? He thought blankly, feeling that there hadn't been any signs before... But given how slow he usually was to react, even if there had been signs, he probably wouldn't have noticed them anyway... Xia Xihe thought to himself with some self-awareness.
However, if the other party no longer bothered him in the future, he could return to a normal school life. This should have been something to be happy about, but why did he feel a pang of sadness in his heart...?
Lost in thought, he suddenly heard a thud as the ball bounced away from him.
"Huh?" Xia Xihe came back to his senses; the opposing team had scored with a spike.
His teammate frowned at him, "Xihe, what are you daydreaming about?"
"Sorry..." Xia Xihe apologized, his face turning red.
"The ball rolled down there—" one teammate shouted, pointing towards a small slope beside the playground that led down to a patch of woods.
"I'll go get it..." Xia Xihe knew it was his responsibility and ran off without hesitation.
He carefully searched through the grass and finally found the ball under a row of bushes. As Xia Xihe crouched down to pick it up, he caught sight of a familiar figure standing at the bottom of the slope...
Yan Yulong? Holding the ball, Xia Xihe stood up and stretched his neck to take a closer look—he wasn't mistaken; it was indeed him!
Yan Yulong was leaning against a tree trunk with his eyes closed, head tilted back, lips slightly parted, and an expression on his face that seemed to be suppressing something.
Xia Xihe tilted his head in confusion and suddenly saw the girl kneeling in front of Yan Yulong.
The girl had her hands resting on Yan Yulong's hips, her face full of ecstasy as she was sucking on something...
Thud! The ball in Xia Xihe's hand fell. The moment Yan Yulong opened his eyes and looked over, he quickly turned around and ran away.
Xia Xihe rushed up the slope and ran back to the playground.
In fact, what he had just seen was nothing extraordinary... The first time he encountered Yan Yulong, he was also engaged in that kind of activity with a woman. At that time, he only felt shock and embarrassment, but this time...
He pressed his aching chest, wondering why, besides being surprised, he felt so uncomfortable... Why did he run away... He couldn't figure it out either. Xia Xihe's mind was in chaos, the scene he had just witnessed swirling in his head, and his legs moved unconsciously.
His teammates watched him return empty-handed and asked in confusion, "Where's the ball?"
"Uh?" Xia Xihe opened his mouth like a fool.
"Didn't you find it?" His opponent looked at him reproachfully.
"I'm sorry, I..." Xia Xihe was so honest that he couldn't even come up with an excuse. A teammate saw that he couldn't say anything after a long pause and finally said:
"Forget it, I'll go look for it. If we lose the ball, the gym teacher will be angry..."
"Ah! Don't go!" Xia Xihe blurted out.
"What's wrong?" Everyone looked at him in confusion.
"Um... it's just..." He couldn't possibly tell them that Yan Yulong was fooling around with a woman in the woods... Xia Xihe stammered, unable to articulate a reason. Seeing that he couldn't explain himself, the teammate ignored him and walked away.
"Ah! Don't go..." Xia Xihe hurriedly ran up.
"Why can't I go?"
"Uh... it's just..." Xia Xihe was racking his brain to come up with an excuse when he suddenly saw Yan Yulong coming up the slope with a ball in hand.
Wow~~ He appeared~~!! He had a ghostly expression and took several big steps back. The students on the field also showed fear at the sight of Yan Yulong, each looking like they were facing a formidable enemy.
Xia Xihe ’s eyes drifted through the crowd, thinking about how to quietly hide. As for why he wanted to hide... he couldn't quite say...
Unfortunately, heaven did not give him a chance.
Yan Yulong locked his gaze on him and walked straight up to him, holding the ball with one hand and asking, "Is this your ball?"
"No..." Xia Xihe denied it without thinking, and Yan Yulong turned to his teammates.
"Who went to pick up the ball just now?"
Everyone pointed at Xia Xihe in unison, and he internally screamed.
"Why did you throw down the ball and run away?" Yan Yulong stared at him, and Xia Xihe didn't dare look up, staring at his toes, feeling anxious. A glint flashed in Yan Yulong's eyes as he asked, "Did you see it?"
Xia Xihe shook his head vigorously, feeling guilty for no reason! He hadn't done anything wrong at all~~~
Yan Yulong threw the ball to someone nearby and grabbed Xia Xihe's hand. "Come with me."
He pulled Xia Xihe towards the men's restroom by the side of the field, and Xia Xihe couldn't keep up with his pace, being half-dragged and half-carried inside.
The few boys inside the restroom saw Yan Yulong walk in with a face full of anger, and they were so scared that they hurriedly pulled up their pants and ran out mid-urination.
"Speak up, what did you see?" Even though it was Yan Yulong who had done something wrong, he questioned Xia Xihe in a tone as if interrogating a criminal.
Is this what they call getting things backward...? Xia Xihe thought blankly.
"Hey, I'm asking you a question, why are you daydreaming?" Yan Yulong pinched his soft cheek in annoyance.
Xia Xihe touched his pinched face and replied softly, "I saw..."
"You saw, so what?" Yan Yulong crossed his arms leisurely.
"So..." Xia Xihe pouted and bowed deeply. "I'm sorry for disturbing you..."
The corner of Yan Yulong's mouth twitched, and his voice was cold enough to freeze someone under the September sun: "What did you say?!"
What did I say wrong again...? Xia Xihe thought, feeling wronged. Yan Yulong glared fiercely and shouted, "Don't look down! Look at me!"
A boy who was about to enter the restroom heard this lion's roar and hurriedly retreated.
Xia Xihe timidly looked up at him, and Yan Yulong continued to shout, "I’m being intimate with other women, and you don’t care at all?!"
"Can I care...?" Xia Xihe mumbled softly.
Yan Yulong's sharp ears caught every word. "Of course you can! If you care, then ask me!"
"Um... then... I asked..."
"Ask away."
"Um... it's just... that girl... do you like her?"
Yan Yulong raised an eyebrow in his signature expression. "I don't like her."
"Then you..."
"I've been holding it in for almost a month. If I don't find someone to relieve me, I'm going to get sick," Yan Yulong said, unusually vague.
"Huh?" The clueless one didn't understand again.
Suddenly, Yan Yulong wrapped his arms around his waist and lifted him up, took off his glasses, and kissed him forcefully as if venting his frustration. Xia Xihe whimpered and struggled. Another boy wanting to use the restroom approached the door but quickly ran away.
"Woo woo woo... there's... someone..." Xia Xihe said, resisting under Yan Yulong's lips. Yan Yulong muttered against his lips and pulled him into the stall, slamming the door shut.
"There's no one here." Without saying a word, Yan Yulong grabbed his shirt.
"Wait... wait a minute!" Xia Xihe shouted in panic, wondering how things escalated so quickly.
"Wait for what?"
"Um... what are we going to do now?"
"Make love," Yan Yulong summarized in one word.
"Uh..." As he saw Yan Yulong closing in again, Xia Xihe backed away, only to find himself pressed against the toilet in the cramped stall.
"Can we not do this...?" Xia Xihe asked pitifully.
"Not do it? Then I'll go find someone else!" Yan Yulong said sulkily. To his surprise, Xia Xihe hesitated for a moment and then relievedly patted his chest.
"Fine then..." Rather than being forced by him, it was better to let him find someone else.
"Go to hell, alright!" Yan Yulong got angry again. "You really have issues! You see me with other women and get upset, but when I ask you to do something, you refuse! Now that I'm going to find someone else, you say it's fine! I've never seen anyone so indecisive!"
Xia Xihe was scolded to the point of tears, biting his lip and not daring to speak. When Yan Yulong saw him like this, his heart softened again, and he spat, "Tsk! Fine, I'll admit defeat to you."
He then changed his tone and said forcefully, "I was planning to wait until after your next test to make a move, but since you've come to me, don't blame me!"
"Test?" Xia Xihe recalled the last time he met Yan Yulong and finally realized. "You didn't come to see me just so I could prepare for the test?"
"What else did you think? Didn't you say I was the reason your grades dropped?"
"No..." Xia Xihe felt extremely touched; it turned out he wasn't so self-centered after all and could be considerate of others. However, Yan Yulong's next action immediately shattered that illusion.
"I don't care anymore! Whether you're falling behind or not, I'm going for it now!"
After declaring this, he pulled down Xia Xihe's sweatpants with one hand.
"Wah~~~"
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