CH 5

As she thought of this, Peijin quickly, cautiously glanced at He Xun.

He Xun’s head was lowered so she was only able to faintly see a small outline of his sharply contoured side-profile.

His thin lips were tightly closed and his eyes were slightly drooping, so he looked to be expressionless.

The phone screen displayed that he was still in-game, yet the character he was controlling was slow to move.

Right now, his in-game teammates couldn’t help but start to cuss him out.

“Where’s he? Did he straight up hang up?”

“Haha, I’ve run into another shitty teammate. (1)”

(1) The slang used here is 辣鸡, which means spicy chicken, but it also means “trash/rubbish.”

“ mmp (motherfucker) (1), at any rate, there is no lack of stars like this, I’m also hanging up.”

(1) mmp is Chinese slang for motherfucker, t/l will place full words in parentheses next to Chinese abbreviated slang.

Peijin’s heart flipped, I’m done for. The argument in-game was in full swing and He Xun hadn’t responded at all. She couldn’t have really upset her big boss roommate to the point this big boss really was angry now?

Truthfully, her actions prior truly went a bit too overboard. She had directly gone on to act without the other party’s allowing her to do so, which was very rude. Furthermore, most boys didn’t like it when people randomly touched their hair and would get offended.

But she really had been very angry with him earlier and when she became angry, she would get a bit impulsive. When she was impulsive, she would act without thinking about the consequences.

Peijin pursed her lips, intent on wanting to explain herself. However, right then, the sound of an orderly knock happened to come from outside the door.

After He Xun heard it, he silently got up and opened the door, receiving the lunchbox from his nanny outside.

Seeing that He Xun going to close the door right away, the Nanny hurriedly started to speak, “Young Master He, President He has expressed his dissatisfaction with your action of not receiving his phone calls. He has asked you to give him a call back as soon as possible.”

He Xun looked the nanny in the eyes, his lips rising into a half-hearted smile, “If you’re delivering meals, then do so, don’t talk so much, understand?”

The father and son duo of the He family each had a very large temper, so the nanny dared not displease either of them and could only summon up all her courage to explain, “Young Master He, President He has entrusted this matter to me, I am obliged to do so.”

“I got it.” He Xun briskly replied and slammed closed the door. Two seconds passed and like he had just remembered something, He Xun opened the door again.

The nanny thought that He Xun had a change of heart and would agree to peacefully talk with President Xun. However, she didn’t even have the time to breathe a sigh of relief before He Xun dropped the phrase “Bring a double portion meal tomorrow.” and then slammed closed the door again afterward.

After closing the door, He Xun placed the lunch box onto the table and raised his eyes to look at Peijin, “Go get tableware from the kitchen.”

Peijin was stunned for two seconds, but she nodded her head like she was just starting to return to reality.

The accommodations at the boys’ only highschool were superb. With the large spaciousness of the room aside, the dorm had even come with a bathroom and kitchen. The kitchen was equipped with a kettle, coffee machine, blender, and a minifridge with quite a few soft drinks stocked inside of it. As for the new bowls and silverware, naturally, the kitchen also had them.

There was even a washing machine inside the bathroom so that boarding and living at the school were extremely convenient.

Peijin entered the kitchen and washed two bowls and two pairs of chopsticks before she walked out with the tableware in hand.

He Xun pushed the first layer of the lunchbox, which was filled with rice, in front of Peijin, “You first.”

The lunchbox that He Xun’s nanny had sent was large and the scooped in rice filled it to the brim. Yet Peijin knew that at this age, boys had a big appetite and all of this rice originally should’ve been for He Xun’s appetite only.

But since he had already said for her to, so Peijin had no choice but to fill a small bowl with rice.

When He Xun saw that small amount of rice in Peijin’s bowl, he raised an eyebrow, “That’s all you’re eating?”

Peijin nodded, “This is enough.”

“Chickens eat more than you.” As he finished speaking, He Xun simply used his own hands to add a large spoonful of rice into Peijin’s bowl. After Peijin saw this she quickly cried aloud, “It’s enough, enough! Really, it’s enough, if you keep adding more I won’t be able to finish.”

He Xun threw a critical look at Pejin’s thin little body and mercilessly commented,” No wonder you’re so short, you eat so little.”

When he mentioned the topic of her height, Peijin didn’t dare to speak again, if they continued there would only be tears.

She was the shortest ‘male student’ in their class, the second to last shortest student was already over 170 centimeters. If they were to talk more on the topic of her stature, what would she do if it made He Xun suspicous?

Peijin ate a bite of rice and then warily said, “Sorry.”

“What?”

“When I made the acted on my own and helped blow dry your hair, I’m sorry. Please don’t be angry anymore, okay?”

He Xun glanced at Peijin, “Who told you I was angry?”

Peijin didn’t hide her surprise as she replied, “You’re not angry?”

He Xun smirked, “What? Do you really want me to get angry?”

She quickly shook her head, “No, no, no, how could I.”

Using his free hand to knock on the table, He Xun set his next words in stone, “From now on, you will have an older brother to watch after you.”

Peijin replied with an ‘Ah”.

Not only was her big boss roommate not angry, but he even said he would look after her.

She wasn’t dreaming, right?

Peijin was overjoyed by this development. She couldn’t help but have a obvious, albeit faint smile as she replied, “Thank…. Thank you, Big Brother Xun.” Peijin felt that she couldn’t go wrong calling him, He ‘Big Brother’ Xun like everyone else.

He Xun’s lips tilted upwards and he sarcastically replied, “Promising.”

After he had laughed, He Xun’s face no longer held the usually cynical look he had prior.

In his eighteen years of living, aside from the barber at the hair salon, there wasn’t anyone else who was patient enough to dry his hair. He never had anyone tell him words such as ‘if you don’t dry your hair then you’ll easily catch a cold.’

With no one to care for him, he still had brothers to look after, a nanny who was afraid to be involved with him, even his own family…..

Ah.

However, He Xun only remained in low spirits for a few seconds. Two seconds after, he put everything he had thought of before behind him and returned to becoming Young Master He again.

For tonight, Peijin ate to her heart’s content.

These dishes from the He family were so good that Peijin could explode, she had never eaten such delicacies before. Ah, the evils of capitalism.

And, she remembered that He Xun had told the nanny earlier, to bring double portion meals starting from tomorrow. It seemed that boss really was going to look after her.

After dinner, Peijin, out of habit, took the bowls and chopsticks to the kitchen to wash them.

He Xun stood up and stretched, indifferently saying, “Leave it, my nurse will clean it tomorrow.”

Peijin shook her head, her hands moving nimbly as she cleaned the dishes, “It’s fine, it won’t take long to clean.”

Unlike He Xun, who just had to open his mouth to eat and stretch his hands out to get dressed, Peijin had to take care of herself since she was small. So, tending to these matters came easy to her.

He Xun raised an eyebrow at her, but didn’t try to convince her any further.

As it was announced there was no homework today, Peijin took a shower in the restroom, washed her clothes, brushed her teeth and washed her face before going to bed.

When Peijin got into bed, He Xun was still playing video games. Wrapped in her blankets, her heart felt a bit curious, so she asked, “He Xun, have you had a lot of girlfriends?”

He Xun’s voice was lethargic as he replied, like he was about to fall asleep at this moment,”No.”

“Ah?” For a moment, Peijin thought she had heard wrong and couldn’t help but ask him again, “Why?”

He Xun took his time as he replied, eyes fixed onto the phone, “I haven’t tried.”

Peijin pursed her lips, “But you even said earlier ‘what would I do in the future’ and so.” The words that He Xun had used earlier to ridicule her, made her think that he was a veteran, but in actuality both of them were spring chicklings. Neither was more experienced than the other.

Maybe it was because this round in-game had just ended, but He Xun put down his phone and gave a ‘che’, “I don’t want to get one, but for you, no one wants you, how can we be the same?”

This left Peijin dissatisfied, “How do you know that no one wants me?”

He Xun laughed,”Isn’t this something obvious?”

Peijin closed her mouth and wordlessly buried her head into her blankets, refusing to speak.

He Xun called out to her, but seeing that she still wouldn’t reply, he couldn’t help but laugh at her, “Look at your success today. With Brother Xun, you’re still scared that you can’t get a wife?”

Peijin stuck her head out from the covers, unable to stop herself from venting at him, she said “Find yourself a girlfriend, then we’ll talk about this again!”

He Xun sounded out a ‘Hey’, “Didn’t I tell you, brother doesn’t want one, what don’t you understand about ‘don’t want’?”

With a ‘Ah’, Peijin retorted, “Who cares about your reasons, long story short, we’re both single dogs, no one is higher than the other.”

He gave a surprised “Well”, replying, “Alright, you’ve got a lot of nerve, huh? You dare to make fun of even your brother?”

Only then did Peijin remember that her roommate was a boss and that she would have to rely on his existence in the future. With this thought, Peijin hurriedly appeased to him, “I don’t dare to, I don’t, Brother Xun, it’s late, sleep.”

With that, Peijin quickly buried herself into her blankets and pretended to sleep.

The next day, the two ate breakfast at the canteen. They hadn’t even neared the classroom before they saw Fatty, Zheng Li, and Zhang Chen standing by the corner of the staircase. .

They had clearly been waiting for He Xun.

Fatty seemed to be currently playing a sport-centered game, similar to soccer. His eyes were fixed onto the phone screen and didn’t notice He Xun, Peijin walking over. Right then, it so happened that he had scored a goal and excitedly shouted loudly, “It went in!”

With his hands in his pockets, his posture relaxed, He Xun nonchalantly added on, “How deep?”

Zheng Li also easily joined in, “How tight?”

Zhang Chun chuckled, asking euphemistically, “Does it feel good?”

Fatty couldn’t hold back his laughter, “It’s deep, tight, and feels great, it really feels so tm (damn) great that the earth is shaking.” After they finished calling out to one another, out of the five people in this scene, only four had talked. Which left Peijin, who had been silent from start to finish.

The four couldn’t help but turn their sights onto Peijin.

Peijin, who was receiving the attention of these four, momentarily felt a mountainous pressure on her.

Why were all the students at All Handsome Men’s Highschool so dirty-minded!

What they had just said earlier was too much! She didn’t want to join in on their dirty schemes!

However, no one was able to hear what Peijin was thinking.

Fatty asked her oddly, “Aren’t you going to follow?”

Follow? Follow with what?

What was she supposed to say?

She was only a little pure and naive, virgin? Why did reality have to be so cruel to her?

At this point, He Xun faintly glanced at Peijin, who had been helplessly cornered. Benevolently, he spoke out and came to her rescue, “This nerd has studied so hard they have become stupid, they’re not used to our sort of fun.”

Fatty and Zheng Li, these two, couldn’t hold back the sound of their laughter.

Zhang Chen went directly on to taunt her, “Are you a man, huh? You don’t even know how to speak casually (1)?”

(1) Zhang Chen is referring to 黄话, in literal definition it means “Yellow Language”, however it pertains to a sort of joking, endearing mockery between friends; loose, casual, more profane speech. (i.e American colloquial, main-stream jargon such as ‘bruh’, ‘mofo’, phrases like ‘bro I’ll tell your mom you said gn when we see each other tonight’)

Peijin felt she had been wronged, she had never been a man in the first place. Right then, she pursed her lips and an epiphany came to her. She thought of the correlating patterns within the words, ‘How deep’, ‘How tight’, ‘Does it feel good.’

In order to appear more friendly, she promptly said, “Who said I can’t. Listen to me well. Was it an accident, were you surprised, was it exciting or not?”

Fatty, Zheng Li, Zhang Chen, “…”

Mmp (motherfucker), it was really exciting.