Chapter 68 - II
Xie Qi felt embarrassed. Wasn’t it strange for a boy like him to be hugged like a princess by the same sex? He immediately said, “Put me down, I can leave by myself.”
Qin Yizhi lowered his eyes and glanced at him, then whispered, “Don’t be so competitive next time. I am your husband; you can rely on me.”
Xie Qi had goosebumps on his skin and raised his voice a bit. “…What are you talking about? It’s so disgusting.”
Qin Yizhi: “…”
Xie Qi said, “What you say works for girls, but not for me. I’m a boy.”
“…” Qin Yizhi stopped, looked down at Xie Qi, and asked word by word, “Am I not your husband?”
Xie Qi: “…”
Xie Qi softened his tone and said, “That’s true, husband.”
What was going on, Xie Qi thought, ‘even though I could call him husband openly before, why do I feel a little… shy when I call him husband now?’
It seemed like… He couldn’t say it out loud anymore.
It seemed so. He rarely called Qin Yizhi his husband lately because he felt more and more disgusted and could no longer say the words easily.
But no matter what, for a man to be hugged by another man, a princess style, was really… too strange!
Qin Yizhi hugged him and walked inside. At this time, a maid was cleaning. Seeing them like this, she took a few more glances. Xie Qi felt the scrutinizing gaze and felt ashamed. He couldn’t help but put his arms around Qin Yizhi’s neck and bury his face in the crook of Qin Yizhi’s neck.
After Qin Yizhi carried him upstairs and away from the maid’s sight, Xie Qi raised his face and said in his ear, “They were looking at us just now. I’ve lost all my face.”
Qin Yizhi said coldly, “Compared to this, it seems more embarrassing for you to injure your waist at eighteen.”
Xie QI: “…”
‘You know how to kill the mood.’
Qin Yizhi carried him to the bed and went to get ice cubes to apply to Xie Qi.
Xie Qi quickly refused and said, “I can do it myself.”
Qin Yizhi: “You can’t.”
Xie Qi: “??”
Qin Yizhi ignored him and took advantage of his stunned moment to lift the hem of his white T-shirt, asking, “Where does it hurt?”
Xie Qi said stubbornly, “I can do it myself…”
Before he finished speaking, Qin Yizhi directly pressed the ice pack on his waist. Xie Qi screamed and gasped, “Be gentle, be gentle, your hand is too strong.”
Qin Yizhi became visibly gentler and asked in a low voice, “Where does it hurt?”
Xie Qi obediently showed Qin Yizhi the spot this time. “Here. I was holding on here just now; didn’t you see it?”
Qin Yizhi said in a calm tone, “I only heard your screams, like you were a pig being killed.”
Xie Qi: “…”
‘When did you evolve into a poisonous tongue? You were obviously not like this before. =.=’
Qin Yizhi applied the ice gently and asked in a low voice, “How many times has your waist hurt?”
Xie Qi felt quite comfortable, his whole body slowly relaxing. He answered Qin Yizhi, “It seems to be the third time?”
Qin Yizhi said, “You didn’t get enough rest after the first lumbar flash, so you got injured again and again. Stay in bed these days and don’t get up and move around.”
Xie Qi asked, “But don’t I need to go to your old house with you in a few days?”
Qin Yizhi said in a calm tone, “You better hurry up and get better before you can go with me. You will rest in bed from now on. I will give you a hot compress after a while.”
Then he asked in a low voice, “Does it hurt now?”
Xie Qi felt it and said, “It seems much better…”
He suddenly felt an indescribable emotion and said calmly, “You don’t need to be so careful with me. I am a man after all. It doesn’t matter my skin is rough.”
Qin Yizhi raised his eyes to look at him. From this angle, he could only see the back of Xie Qi’s head. His hair had grown out, and the back of his head was full and beautiful. Strands of fine broken hair fell on his forehead, slightly modified. The unique cold emotion on his face disappeared, and it became a bit softer and more beautiful.
Qin Yizhi’s eyes slid down from the back of Xie Qi’s head to the back of his neck—on the raised bone connecting the neck and cervical vertebrae was a small, round red cinnabar mole.
Every mole on Xie Qi’s body was very beautiful. Qin Yizhi wanted to touch it. Xie Qi’s neck was so slender that one hand could hold it.
Qin Yizhi looked away and said lightly, “I feel bad for you, so I don’t mind.”
Xie Qi: “…”
He turned around and saw that Qin Yizhi indeed said such words with an indifferent expression. Because of this, what he said seemed particularly weighty—after all, he was not the kind of person who spoke sweet words at first glance. His words were, of course, his true feelings.
Ah…
Xie Qi’s heart surged with an emotion he couldn’t explain, causing his cheeks to turn slightly red. However, he was too ashamed to show his face in front of Qin Yizhi, so he turned his head and buried his face in the pillow without saying a word.
Qin Yizhi was not as hypocritical as he appeared, but he truly cared about him and felt sorry for him.
But it was so strange. They had not known each other long, less than half a year, but he was so kind to him, and he still felt sorry for him, loved him, and cared about him from the bottom of his heart.
The love and care he inadvertently showed when he came to hold him were as shining as a pearl, and he could see it no matter how blind he was.
Xie Qi raised his face, rested his chin on his arms, and said softly, “You can’t be so nice to me.”
‘If you treat me so well and I become dependent on you, what will I do in the future?’
Qin Yizhi said, “You should have had lunch and speak louder next time.”
Xie Qi: “…”