TWSITAOCP Ch. 09

“……”

“Forget it.” Yu Sui managed to regain his composure. “Can I put it in the refrigerator?”

“You can.”

After all the fuss, it was already past dinner time. Yu Sui hastily shoved everything into the fridge and pushed all the unpacked things he hadn’t had time to organize to the door, as if putting them out of sight meant they were considered organized.

Finally free to deal with Yang Feiwen, he sprawled across his bed and scrolled through two hours’ worth of accumulated messages.

Yang Feiwen was extremely envious when he rented a house in the city to live on his own during the holidays. At this time, the high school students had been at home for half a month, which was just the stage when their parents treated them worse than dogs. If they were seen at home, they would be nagged and scolded.

Yu Sui rented outside, isolating himself from the disturbance with a distance. After Yang Feiwen found out, he wanted to come over and take a look.

Yu Sui sent the address and added, “I don’t have any game consoles here.”

Yang Feiwen replied quickly: As long as there is a TV, we can cast the screen and watch the movie.

Yu Sui thought about the scene of two boys crowding into a room to watch a movie in broad daylight and frowned in disdain.

Yang Feiwen asked again: What do you want to eat? I’ll bring you some snacks.

Yu Sui: I ordered takeout, just come over.

Soon, the doorbell rang.

Yu Sui put down his phone and went out to open the door.

Most of the tenants in this building were from outside Yandu. But during holidays, many of them had gone home. The other units were either empty or hadn’t been rented out yet, so there weren’t many people around. On the floor where Yu Sui lived, there were no people on either side.

The express delivery boxes and unopened parcels that Yu Sui hadn’t had time to throw away today were piled outside the door, making the hallway narrow and difficult to walk through.

The moment he opened the door, Yu Sui raised his eyebrows in surprise.

The delivery man looked very young; Yu Sui initially estimated that the driver was about the same age as himself, maybe even a high school student.

He didn’t even wear a delivery hat and uniform, just a baseball cap and a mask. Through the cap and mask, a pair of peach blossom eyes scanned the pile of stuff at the door that Yu Sui had presumably left as trash, with a somewhat wicked look.

He didn’t say a word, but just stood outside near the boxes and raised his hands which were full of takeout food.

When Yu Sui glanced over, he felt that the man looked strangely familiar. For a moment he suspected it was one of his friends pretending to be a delivery man to tease him. But looking back, he couldn’t think of anyone who matched him.

The young master pulled the box aside and reached out to take the takeout.

This delivery man must be very handsome without his mask; even just the shape of his face is very attractive.

“Thank you.” Yu Sui thanked him out of habit, staring at the sweat dripping down the delivery man’s face for a while. Then, suddenly his mind spoke. “Would you like to come in for a glass of water?”

As soon as the words left his mouth, the corners of his eyes twitched violently. Having said that, he awkwardly tried to soften his seemingly strange request: “Thank you for your hard work. Have a glass of water before you leave.”

The delivery man lowered his gaze and looked at him. And, Yu Sui felt more and more that these light-colored eyes seemed familiar.

“Okay.” His Adam’s apple moved slightly.

Yu Sui: “…”

He grabbed the takeout and walked back slowly inside. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the delivery man stopped at the door but didn’t go in.

Yu Sui subconsciously glanced at his feet.

The shoes were not dirty and were a brand he could name. They were one of the most popular shoes among students.

Who would wear shoes like that when delivering food?

Young Master Yu scratched his head, before taking a paper cup to fill with water, and walked back to the door.

The delivery man took it and paused for a moment. He held the cup stiffly, as if he just remembered to take off his mask.

Yu Sui saw it all.

He glanced at the cup in the delivery boy’s hand and smiled warmly: “Do you know Yu Liao?”

The delivery boy looked at him: “……”

Yu Sui paused, as if talking to himself: “No, my eldest brother is too busy to take care of me now. Only my third brother can do such a boring thing.”

Yan Xiu: “…”

Boring?

Yu Sui raised his eyes and said, “Sorry to trouble you, but please don’t tell Yu Si that there is trash piled up at my door. In fact, if you had come a little later, I would have taken it downstairs and thrown it away.”

“……”

Hearing another name from Yu Sui’s mouth again, Yan Xiu paused. Originally, he thought that Yu Sui invited him in for water because he recognized him. Unexpectedly, not only did Yu Sui not recognize him, but also seemed to have mistaken him for the wrong person.

Maybe he took a little too long to think, so Yu Sui thought he was hesitating.

Then, the fair-skinned young man in front of him clasped his hands together and said in his usual gentle and clear voice, “Please, brother.”

“……” Yan Xiu swallowed the explanation that was about to come out. “Okay.”

It was a scorching day, with the ground temperature reaching the point where you could fry eggs. In the lobby of the apartment building, a delivery rider was squatting on the side of a motor vehicle with his right pant leg rolled up high above his knee. The knee had been treated with antiseptic and roughly bandaged.

Seeing Yan Xiu coming out, the delivery rider looked at him gratefully.

Yan Xiu bought a cold drink from the vending machine for the rider, while he held the paper cup he brought down.

The mask hangs on his chin, outlining the boy’s exceptionally good-looking cheekbones.

“Thank you! Thank you so much!” The rider thanked repeatedly.

Yan Xiu’s expression was not good: “Drive slower in residential areas.”

The rider was embarrassed, but didn’t mind being scolded by a student, probably because Yan Xiu had just helped him deliver an order for him.

After the rider left, Tang Ying called at the right moment and asked, “How is it?”

For half a month, even the best-behaved children would be criticized by their parents at home, and Yan Xiu was no exception.

The Yan family was close to the Yu family, but over the years, it was usually their cousin’s family that had contact with the Yu family. In the past ten years, Tang Ying hasn’t even mentioned the Yu family, let alone Yu Sui.

It was said that Uncle Yu had a lot of conflicts with his youngest son during this period. This was mentioned by Uncle Yu himself.

There was a type of parents who couldn’t keep their mouths shut after drinking. While people said that family shame shouldn’t be made public, Uncle Yu didn’t have this awareness. What he often did was to slander his youngest son in public.

Anyone with a discerning eye could tell that he was having a conflict with his youngest son, and perhaps he was waiting for someone to come and comfort him. However, the people that Uncle Yu talked about this with were either drinking buddies or business friends, none of whom had frequent contact with his youngest son.

Besides, this method could only escalate conflicts.

Tang Ying and her husband jointly managed the business and interacted with Yu Jingyuan many times. Like most people, they were too lazy to listen to Yu Jingyuan’s drunken talk. They would listen today and forget it tomorrow, or they simply never really listened to it.

However, she couldn’t help being influenced by this and had an impression of the young master.

Tang Ying became concerned only after hearing that his youngest son had run away from home.

She watched the news on time every day and remembered cases about teenagers getting lost and abducted.

When Yu Jingyuan was drunk, he described his youngest son as a spoiled child who couldn’t hold a heavy bowl, had no common sense, no safety awareness, and was more ignorant than a six-year-old child.

“……”

Tang Ying, who also had a son the same age as Yu Sui, said: “Your Uncle Yu is a bit impulsive, and it’s wrong to do this. Even if he’s a jerk, he’s still a child. It’s so dangerous for him to go out like this.”

She only learned from Yan Ying that the young master went to the same high school as her son.

It’s one thing to read about news—she totally knew that she couldn’t help, but now that a typical case has appeared around her, Tang Ying kept reminding her son every day: “Help if you can. He’s practically your half brother.”

She even asked for Yu Sui’s current address and asked Yan Xiu to bring a bag of fruit to visit his half-brother ¹Some people might be confused why is this half-brother. In Asian households, despite not being blood related, you can call them half-brother just because your parents are friend with their parents..

“He’s okay.” Yan Xiu said, his eyes sweeping over the three men who were sitting on a park bench outside the building, with their legs crossed and reading newspapers.

From afar, he saw a boy wearing glasses walking towards him. He didn’t know him, but he looked somewhat familiar, like a student from No. 26 High School.

Yan Xiu hooked his fingers on the edge of the mask, pulling it up, and left while talking on the phone.

“Building B is so hard to find. Why did you pick such a remote one…” The boy with glasses held up his phone and made a video call with the people inside. He passed by Yan Xiu and said, “I’m at the building entrance now. Open the door, open the door…”

On the park bench, the fake-bearded man turned his head and asked his companion: “Did that kid look at us just now?”

“So what if he did.” The accomplice said. “Don’t bother me. Someone is looking for the young master again. I’ll tell the third young master.”

“……”

“The Yu family won’t let anything happen to him.” Yan Xiu changed his posture to answer the phone and patiently clarified the matter to Tang Ying.

To be honest, although Yu Sui was quite adorable to look at, he didn’t want to spend the rest of his vacation time on this young master.

“He has three bodyguards downstairs.” Yan Xiu said calmly. “There is a Fulai Dao five minutes away from here. He won’t starve to death.”

Tang Ying: “…”

At this point, her short-lived sympathy and pity for Yu Sui came to an end.

After Yan Xiu finished the call, he casually flipped through WeChat. Most of the chats on his interface were group chats, and many chat records were refreshed every day.

The most active chat group today was the student council. Several major events of this year were already clear, and by checking their messages, one could easily figure out what happened.

The class assignment list was out.

The young man’s finger didn’t linger there, just swiping past. Until a new message brought him back.

This time, it’s from the Discipline Inspection Department.

The Discipline Inspection Department has the most demanding recruitment process every year, with many privileges and heavy responsibilities. After class division, they automatically became the discipline inspector of the class. Only when there were more than two people in a class would another be selected.

Yan Xiu was the head and destined to be the disciplinary officer of the new class.

Chen Zhanni casually dropped the class division table in the Discipline Inspection Department group chat and said, “This is the class assignments. If the committee members have time, they can familiarize themselves with their classes in advance.”

Yan Xiu’s name was marked with an asterisk, and he knew that this meant that there were many regular violators in his class.

Usually, it took at least three rule-breakers to warrant an asterisk.

Out of respect for the asterisks, Yan Xiu reluctantly looked through the class schedule in advance.

In fact, most of the arts and sports students would be assigned to the same class; so he could guess which ones with his eyes closed.

Tang Bohu, Liang Wen, and Yang Feiwen.

Three already.

He glanced down and saw another one.

Yu Sui.

His half-brother.

Yan Xiu: “…”

Why is it him again?

 

Yang Feiwen jumped over the garbage at the door and squeezed in. As soon as he entered, he saw the young master sitting cross-legged on the sofa with a serious expression, facing a table full of takeout.

The only bag that was open was just a bag of fruit.

“Why that face? I have something important to tell you.” Yang Feiwen sat down and grabbed a pear with his hand. “You and the minister have been dominating the school forum’s top spot for two straight weeks. There is no sign of it going down anytime, and the hype is rising every day.”

“On average, twenty new fanfics about you two get posted daily, and there are even art masters drawing fan art of you two.”

“Someone gave you two fortune readings and said there’s an eighty to ninety percent chance you two were partners ten lifetimes ago. It’s just that it’s hard to come up with a CP name. However, since his name contains the character ‘ren’ (人 ²Yan Xiu (晏休)) and yours also contains the character ‘ren’ (人 ³Yu Sui (俞綏)), you can barely be called ‘ren ren’ (人人 ⁴人人 (rénrén) its primary meaning is every person; everyone. But in literary sense, it was also ‘a lover or intimate friend’.).”

“Also, the fan club has been established, and I’ve already applied. From now on, I’ll be one of the top CP fans of your fan club.” Yang Feiwen said, shaking the pear in front of him. “What are you thinking about… By the way, if you want to eat fruit, just tell me. I just passed by several stores.”

“… My brother—no, it was given to me by a kind person.” Yu Sui always felt that the delivery boy looked familiar and had a familiar voice too.

He just sent a message to Yu Si thanking him for the fruit, and Yu Si asked him if he was so hungry he’d gone crazy.

Thinking about it carefully, that voice was somewhat similar to the laughter he heard in the old house in Fu Village.

The young master stared at the fruit and suddenly shuddered.

In a broad daylight, did I run into a ghost?