Don’t Be a Kept Man

>Seeing Bai Yang looking down at his phone, with his head down, he thought about the comedy relief act the MC had done and jokingly asked, 

“Ah, they’ve all said that Bai Yang is my partner.
Are you?”

Bai Yang lifted his head and looked at him, bringing that foolish air about him, 

“Yes.”

And then Wen Chuo was giddy by himself and didn’t speak afterwards.
The car was parked at a parking lot near the mall, and Bai Yang undid his seat belt.
Like usual, he shuffled closer over to Wen Chuo’s face to kiss him.

Wen Chuo leaned to the side, very familiarly and proficiently kissing back before patting him on the butt.
He purposefully made a joke, 

“You know, my self control isn’t the greatest……”

Bai Yang hugged him, his cheeks softly leaning against his shoulder, 

“We’ll do it after we go back.
I want to eat cake right now.”

Wen Chuo raised his eyebrow, 

“You’re the king.
Whatever you say goes.”

The restaurant they were going to would be on a cruise ship.
It was expensive, but the area was serene and beautiful.
Although, at this time of day, there weren’t a lot of customers. 

Wen Chuo had picked a spot by the windows, and when they sat down, he wanted to laugh, 

“Why do I feel like I’ve been scammed? There’s not a single customer on site, and I even specifically reserved our seats three days ago……but the view is amazing.”

Their seats were in a very good spot.
Following the tall windows and looking down, it was an endless horizon of the beauty of the river.
There were the high bridges crossing the water, and the water itself was glistening, as if stars had fallen in. 

There was quite a wait for the food, so when Wen Chuo saw Bai Yang drawing, he shuffled closer and grabbed himself a sheet of paper.

His hands were too used to a mouse and keyboard that holding a pen again felt a bit unfamiliar, too rusty, so what he drew wasn’t very good.
When he leaned over to see Bai Yang’s, he chuckled and said, 

“Ah, the disciple has finally beaten his master.
I’m not as good as you now.”

The waiter brought up the dessert then, and it was a strawberry ice cream cake.
Bai Yang fed Wen Chuo one spoon before burying his head to eat it all in tiny bites.
Only at times like this would he be like a little child.

Wen Chuo held up his chin with his hand, waiting for his steak.
In his boredom, he grabbed Bai Yang’s sketchbook, and flipped through page after page that was filled with memories from the years at Lin Xian, of all the times they had cried or laughed.

When his steak arrived, Wen Chuo cut it into little pieces before dipping it into the black pepper sauce.
He placed them on Bai Yang’s plate as he said, 

“The creamy pasta was a bit too heavy on the cream.
I’ll order a cold drink for you in a bit.”

Bai Yang still had the same personality as before, always being careful with money and saving wherever he can.
Even if it was too overwhelming and as overbearing as the taste could be, he would still eat everything up on the plate clean.
Compared to their daily meals of mantous before, their lives were way better now.
And it could be seen that he really treasured these days.

Wen Chuo leaned against the chair, looking up at the crystal chandeliers on the ceiling.
Before long, his eyes were getting blurry. 

He blinked and he suddenly saw a ball of blue light floating above him, twirling around him.

Wen Chuo thought about it, feeling that this was probably the system.

[ Ding, the galaxy’s strongest self-sufficient system is happy to be at your service ]

Of course…….

[ This service is about to end.
Time used: 4 years.
My host, you have successfully relied on your own efforts to walk down a path that has been different from your previous life.
The galaxy judges have judged this as passing, and we hope you will continue to work your hardest, continuing to keep this up~]

Wen Chuo realized, 

“You’re leaving? To where?”

The ball of light playfully twirled in a circle above the table, but no one else could see it.

[ Ding! To find the next host hmm~ ]

Wen Chuo smiled, saying with all seriousness, 

“Then the person to be picked by you must be really lucky.”

This was the first time that someone has ever said that, and the system moved a few times before falling onto the sketchbook.
Its aura was like a ball of jelly that could emit light.

[ And this system thought, that you must have thought, extremely unfortunate ]

Wen Chuo said, 

“When I didn’t understand, I thought it was very unfortunate, but then I realized later, and found that it was good luck, a blessing.”

If it was not forced upon him to be self-reliant and self-sufficient, perhaps he would never have thought, what kind of road could he pave for himself to walk down on.

Bai Yang’s head was lowered as he ate, his expression very serious.
Under the gaze of Wen Chuo, the system lightly dropped onto his shoulder.

[ Last life, he suffered a lot by himself.
Never give up and toss away, that person that will always accompany you because of the wealth in front of your eyes.
This time, please be really really good to him hmm~ ]

Wen Chuo’s face twitched.

[ Ding! The withdrawal process has been activated.
My dear host, please prepare yourself,

Starting Self-Check,

Self-Check Complete.

Releasing Bond,

20%

50%

100%

Withdrawal Complete.
This service is completed perfectly.
We are thankful for each world’s every goodbye, see you never again ~ ]

That ball of light went through the glass window, and following the river, dissipated into the night, never to be seen again.

With his head lowered, Wen Chuo took a long while before saying, 

“Bai Yang……”

Bai Yang lifted his head up, his eyes as clean and pure as ever.

Wen Chuo: 

“Have you hated me?”

Last life I tossed you aside and lost you.

Bai Yang paused in surprise and then lowered his eyes.
He lightly patted the sketchbook on the table, where inside was, without an exception, drawings of two young men and their lives.

Bai Yang tugged Wen Chuo’s hand, waved it and smiled at him.

No.
How could he have ever hated……

He only ever wanted to find him.

The last page of the sketchbook, was of two old men with wrinkly bodies and white hair.
There were trees in front of a house, flowers behind, and a blue chubby cat lying on the roof, lazily enjoying the sun.

Wen Chuo reached out to ruffle Bai Yang’s hair, 

“When we are old, let’s go back to Lin Xian.”

Bai Yang lightly hooked their pinkies together, pulling a promise.

 

TL Tidbits:

And that’s a wrap on Wen Chuo and Bai Yang… It’s certainly been an interesting story of Wen Chuo finally taking responsibility for his own life and future, rather than to depend on a family that was never interested otherwise, and for a better ending for our couple! I hope you’ve enjoyed their story!

And can you believe we’re so close to the end??? It’s a crazy thing for me to look back on, and realize what I have done haha.
And I definitely thank each and every one of you who made it this far with me! ʚ♡⃛ɞ(ू•ᴗ•ू❁)

In regards to the new volume, I’ve been thinking to change the release dates, possibly to Tuesday/Saturday (AoE timezone still), and Plum has been thinking to change the usual time they help me publish the chapters.
So I am going to tentatively say either Sept 28th or Oct 2nd for the next chapter… but if there’s any changes, please take a look  – I’ll update that section as soon as Plum and I can work out what we’re thinking.

So for now, hopefully I’ll see you all Galactic Judges very soon for the next volume (which is historical again… ahh….
pain is incoming… |_-｡) ).

Plum here with a quick note:

Winteree has noticed some weird links being accessed through our posts and wanted to give all of you a little warning, please be careful when clicking links if any of them look odd (please double check the hyperlink before you click if you can).
In general we only have pics, links to Youtube and links to reference previous chapters so exercise caution Galactic Judges!