Chapter 362 - Owen Wishaw

“I still have an appointment with some friends. I hope I’ll see you when the new freshmans enter college. See you.”

Owen gave the remaining medicine to Zhou BIn and waved before confidently walking away.

“Even his back is so handsome. Is it really impossible for ordinary men to make a living?” Mao Xian sighed.

“Wait, he seems to really think you’re a middle schooler…… wouldn’t it be better to just tell him?” Zhou Bin asked.

“…… Forget it .”

Nie Chuan wanted to turn to avoid Reece’s eyes but found that he couldn’t look away because this kind of Reece had an inexplicable charm that captured and pulled at Nie Chuan’s line of sight, making him unable to move.

“Then do you want a reward?” Reece asked in return.

His voice was deliberately dragged out. Nie Chuan felt as if the rhythm of his heartbeat seemed to also slow down alongside Reece’s voice.

“Ah? What reward is there?”

Could it be some luxurious grade of Swiss chocolate? For example, Frey?

Reece tilted his head slightly and leaned towards Nie Chuan. His eyes were getting closer and closer to Nie Chuan, causing him to unconsciously lean back.

“I can kiss you, do you want it?”

Suddenly, Nie Chuan thought about the joke that Reece had previously made and his face flushed once again.

“Hey! Don’t play with me!” Nie Chuan pushed Reece with his hand but Reece didn’t budge.

He slowly straightened up and replied dully, “Since you don’t want it then nevermind.”

Nie Chuan felt as if his world was collapsing. Just now…… he really thought Reece would kiss him.

Even if he told others, nobody would believe him. Reece really had a bad habit of playing with others.

“Next time you make this kind of joke, I’m cutting off relations with you,” Nie Chuan said very seriously.

He can accept Reece’s ridicule and taunts but some matters are very important to Nie Chuan.

“I know, your first kiss is reserved for that girl named Celine.”

Nie Chuan stopped talking.

Reece lowered his head and carefully unraveled the gauze on his knee.

“Your wound was handled very neatly. The binding is also acceptably tight. Zhou Bin helped you with it?” Reece asked.

Nie Chuan shook his head. “No, it was a medical student. He seems to be from CBU. He said he’s on the CBU basketball team.”

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MadMadamMims: Oof! I need a drink! This is giving me heart palpitations! *sweats*

Re: So I noticed in the comments from ch 36.1 that some readers seem to feel Owen is being creepy with the interest he is showing in NC, especially in the situation where he mistook NC for a middle schooler (minor), and I just wanted to share my thoughts on that and hopefully clear some misunderstandings about Owen. From my perspective in respects to 36.1, Owen isn’t interested in NC romantically. As both a fellow basketball player and a member of CBU’s basketball team, he’s just interested in this “kid” who happened to have great potential and wanted to scout him for his team because he appreciates his talent. He showed his goodwill by treating NC’s wounds and then he got NC’s number as a means of maintaining a connection, albeit in a bit of an underhanded way xD From their exchange, I did not manage to find anything inappropriate. All I perceived was a college student treating some middle-schooler-looking kid like, well, a kid. He teased NC a little but, ultimately, he realized that he may have said something wrong and I personally thought that the way he tried to communicate with NC about it was very mature.

I feel that, as readers, we tend to develop a bit of a bias when reading certain genres. For instance, just by being aware that a novel is BL, we might unconsciously think a certain way about certain character’s words or actions and attach a romantic/flirtatious meaning to them, particularly if they are male. To sum things up, I just hope that you guys will give Owen a chance and not think badly of him just from that one exchange. I really liked his character and I truly hope he will come to grow on you as well ^^ thank you for reading the chapter and special thanks to those of you who took the time to read my Great Wall of Text! Stay safe 🙂