Are You Addicted? [1] – Chapter 98

你丫上瘾了？
(Are You Addicted?)

「Chapter 98: The Culprits Are Finally Found.」

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The BL drama “Addicted” was adapted from this novel.

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In the morning, Bai Luo Yin got up, digging out a pair of underwear from the blankets and putting it on. Only when he had put it on did he realize that something was wrong, and when he lifted his eyes, he saw the other person in the room grandly standing in front of the mirror, wearing Bai Luo Yin’s underpants and shaving.

“We’ve both worn the wrong underwear,” Bai Luo Yin reminded him humorously.

Gu Hai looked down, then turned his face to Bai Luo Yin, his face full of foam, his smile very sexy.

“I wondered why it was so tight!”

“Stop showing off!” Bai Luo Yin glared at him. “Our underpants are obviously the same size.”

“Oh……” Gu Hai smirked. “Did you secretly try to feel what size my underpants are?”

Bai Luo Yin could not tolerate him, stretching out his leg to violently kick at his strong buttocks. Gu Hai hadn’t prepared himself, and his face was planted onto the mirror, leaving behind a large circle of foam on it.

“Change it!” Bai Luo Yin angrily scolded Gu Hai.

Gu Hai turned his body around, with a particularly relaxed expression. “Fine, let’s change, you can take yours off first.”

Bai Luo Yin hesitated.

“Take it off, how do we change if you don’t take it off?” Gu Hai went to tug at Bai Luo Yin’s underpants.

Bai Luo Yin took a few steps back, with Gu Hai chasing him, and they both fell onto the bed, their eyes bright with aggression, their hands and feet in combat, their laughter ringing out and bringing vigour to this quiet, tired morning.

“Yin Shu! Yin Shu!”

Yang Meng’s charismatic voice rang out from the courtyard. Bai Luo Yin opened the window and looked out, then forcefully pushed Gu Hai away. “Wear your clothes quickly, Yang Meng’s here.”

“Why did he come?” Gu Hai arched his eyebrows.

Bai Luo Yin reminded him, “I’m telling you, don’t be hostile to him again!”

“Fine, I know.” Gu Hai’s tone was unwilling and reluctant.

Yang Meng opened the windows of Bai Luo Yin’s room, seeing Gu Hai wearing his clothes and Bai Luo Yin putting on his shoes, the blankets of the bed rolled up into a ball. There were two pairs of socks under the bed, and from the house came a strange manly smell. Although the two men were generally doing their own thing, the atmosphere was very harmonious.

They went to Aunt Zou’s little restaurant to eat together, and Yang Meng watched in disbelief as he watched these two strong men eat portions five times the size of his own.

On the way, Bai Luo Yin and Yang Meng walked behind while Gu Hai rode his bicycle slowly in front of them.

“Have you two always lived together?” Yang Meng asked softly.

“We’ve lived together for almost a month.” Bai Luo Yin admitted.

Yang Meng was quite shocked. “Haven’t you always disliked sleeping with other people?”

Gu Hai heard this from in front of them and felt quite accomplished. The speed at which he was riding slowed down.

Bai Luo Yin looked at Gu Hai, saying flatly, “He doesn’t have anywhere else to go, so can I complain? The only solution was for us to sleep together!”

Gu Hai’s two legs hit the ground, his eyebrows arched fiercely and his eyes sent daggers into Bai Luo Yin’s face. The meaning of his menace very clear: this was nothing, would Luo Yin like him to call him his wife in front of this person?!

After walking halfway, Bai Luo Yin had summed up his and Gu Hai’s situation to Yang Meng, and Yang Meng was very apprehensive.

“Huh? You mean, he’s the son of your mother’s second marriage? That… the son of that general?”

Bai Luo Yin nodded his head.

Gu Hai was listening silently from in front without interruption or hindrance. Besides, this matter was not something embarrassing, so if Bai Luo Yin wanted to say it he could. Besides he had already, long ago, told everything to Li Shuo and Hu Zi.

As Yang Meng listened, he became more and more confused. In the end, he couldn’t resist interrupting Bai Luo Yin.

“Was it your mother who married his father, or was it his mother who married your father?”

Bai Luo Yin tapped the back of Yang Meng’s head. “What do you think? Of course it was my mother and his father.”

“Then why has he run to your house? This isn’t logical!” Yang Meng blinked rapidly.

Bai Luo Yin’s head was starting to hurt; this matter was really hard to explain.

“He couldn’t get along with his father and I can’t get along with my mother, so it just became like this……”

Yang Meng nodded in confusion, then twisted his hands, his expression full of envy.

“Sounds just like a play! It was lucky that I found those people, or they would have gone to the ceremony and made trouble, disturbing the wedding, otherwise where would you have found such a great brother?”

Bai Luo Yin really couldn’t dismiss this matter from his mind.

“Oh, yes, at first I didn’t ask you, but what happened to those people? Why did they take the money, then quit their responsibilities?”

Yang Meng felt a little embarrassed. “It so happened that on that day two reporters came out of nowhere carrying cameras and frenziedly taking everything. The moment those four saw the reporters they became afraid of the publicity! They went over to try and take the cameras away, but who would have expected those two reporters to be so savvy! When they started chasing them, those two just threw down the cameras and ran away. It was my uncle’s fault, he picked four people who were obsessed with money, so they just took the camera and ran away, and I heard that they sold it for no small amount of money……”

Gu Hai immediately stopped the bicycle.

Yang Meng was walking behind Gu Hai, and when he saw Gu Hai stop the bike he jumped back in shock.

“What did you say? You sent people to mess up the wedding?”

Yang Meng cautiously glanced at Bai Luo Yin. “He asked me to find some people.”

“Then who did they bump into?”

“Two reporters.” Yang Meng stretched out two fingers to gesture.

Gu Hai’s face had turned green. “Then?”

Yang Meng repeated, “Then…… They took away the reporters’ cameras, and the thing wasn’t carried through to the end.”

……

So actually, the strange case Gu Hai had struggled with these entire three months had its roots here! He had painstakingly looked for the criminals for almost two months, the entire situation making his head spin, but in the end the cause had been his beloved wife!

Gu Hai felt like crying, and yet had no tears.

Bai Luo Yin looked at Gu Hai’s reaction and his heart thumped a little. He couldn’t resist asking, “Were those two reporters people you hired?”

Gu Hai pinched his mouth and didn’t reply, but Bai Luo Yin could tell the answer from his reaction.

“Did you also get those two to go and mess up the wedding?”

Gu Hai’s expression became even uglier.

Even Yang Meng, standing at the side, could see everything now, and he couldn’t resist thumping his chest and proclaiming, “My God! You two were in harmony the whole time, and still managed to spoil each other’s plans?”

Bai Luo Yin and Gu Hai both glared at him, reminding him never to talk about this embarrassing incident ever again.

Yang Meng instead became the peacemaker, and patted first one shoulder, then the next, saying, “You two should be happy; this is called fate. Think about it, if you had caused their wedding to fail that time, you wouldn’t have left home and run to this school to study, and you wouldn’t have met Yin Shu. And you, you wouldn’t have met such a good counterpart which you willingly allow to stay at your home, treating him particularly well and telling him everything, and your relationship wouldn’t have been so close. What do you say, is what I say logical?”

Yang Meng’s expression was very merry.

Gu Hai and Bai Luo Yin looked at Yang Meng in unison.

“Even if you did not say it, we already know.”

Yang Meng: “……”

Every night when coming home after school, Bai Luo Yin would first look at the dog cage, seeing what Ah Lang’s mood that day was. Whether his food was sufficient or not. If he should change the water in his bowl…… Bai Luo Yin was very detailed and patient in the way he cared for Ah Lang, always playing with him before and after school, otherwise Ah Lang would always be bored and spiritless the entire day.

“We should go out and walk the dog,” Bai Luo Yin said to Gu Hai.

Gu Hai opened the cage and let Ah Lang out. The moment Ah Lang came out it latched itself to Bai Luo Yin’s body, lovingly panting. By the time Bai Luo Yin gently pried him away, he looked at Gu Hai and realised that his eyes were red.

The two of them walked out of the courtyard and walked eastwards. There was a little stream there, a path which older people usually took to look at the scenery.

On the way, whenever Ah Lang saw a stranger he would try to bite them, so everyone kept far away from him.

They walked along the curve of the river, a flock of sparrows flying swiftly above their heads.

The day was really very cold, and there was already a thin layer of ice on the banks of the river. The wind blowing across the surface of the water cut into the skin of their faces. Bai Luo Yin’s hand holding the leash was so cold that it had turned a little green and purple. Gu Hai moved over, and pulled up the zipper of Bai Luo Yin’s coat.

Bai Luo Yin gaze travelled to the other bank of the river, and paused.

Aunt Zou was wearing a red woollen sweater, her hand tucked in her pocket, occasionally smiling, her entire face turning red and cheery from the extreme cold, as if she had turned into the Aunt Zou of twenty years old. The exhaustion and fragility could no longer be seen on her countenance. The man standing beside her had taken off his coat and was wearing very little, his expression tender and warm, his face without its usual coarseness and tiredness.

They had not noticed that there were two people looking at them, their eyes looking only at each other, and expressing an unutterable love.

Bai Luo Yin’s emotions were very complex.

He felt both happy and melancholy.

“Find a day to get things settled.”

The entire atmosphere was broken by these words of Gu Hai.

Bai Luo Yin looked at Gu Hai. “Do you think marriage is such an easy matter?”

“I’m just anxious for them to get married soon.”

Bai Luo Yin was confused. “What are you being anxious for?”

“After they get married, aren’t you just going to be a third wheel? When that happens, we useless wheels can leave together, and go back to our new home to spend our days. Isn’t that great?”

Bai Luo Yin was silent for a few moments, then he patted Ah Lang’s head. “Go and bite him!”

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