Don’t Be a Kept Man

 

“What?”

Yan Yu said, 

“I broke half of his teeth.”

When Yan Yu’s cigarette was snatched away from him, quite a few of his hooligan friends had seen it.
They huddled together, shoulder to shoulder, smiling and giggling as they pointed over at them; all watching for Xun Chuan’s future downfall.

Xun Chuan didn’t mind, and as if to challenge him, he blew out a full mouthful of smoke right at Yan Yu.
He had even wanted to give it back to Yan Yu, but Yan Yu slightly turned his head, not letting him do as he wished.

Xun Chuan seemed to get a bit mad, and he coldly snorted, 

“Hit me then.
If you can, break all the teeth in my mouth.”

Yan Yu shook his head, 

“Naïve child.”

A female waiter passed by then, holding a tray, and on it, there was a flaming blue cocktail.
Perhaps it was because the floor was uneven, but her body suddenly twisted when she had been walking perfectly fine, and in the midst of all the shocked gasps, that glass of alcohol flew right towards Xun Chuan’s face.

Shocked, Xun Chuan instinctively brought his hands up to block, when he felt a strong push at his shoulder.
He was immediately pushed further into the booth, and at the same time, Yan Yu threw the coat beside him, and with a twist of his hand, blocked all, if not most, of the alcohol away.

The coat began to burn a little but the flames were quickly stomped out by Yan Yu.

When Xun Chuan came back to his senses, he discovered that at some point his whole body had lain over Yan Yu’s leg and his face was directly facing…… directly facing his……

Yan Yu lowered his eyes to look at him, with his lips slightly tilted up, 

“You’re not getting up? What, want to help me…… hmm?”

Xun Chuan’s face burned red.
Ignoring the female waiter beside them who was bending at the waist and apologizing, he quickly and clumsily climbed back up from Yan Yu’s body.

Xun Chuan: “You big pervert!”

Yan Yu laughed, 

“I am a pervert.
They all say so.”

Facing up against those uncaring laughing eyes, Xun Chuan’s already burning red face burned to an even higher degree, so much so that he felt his whole body smoking up.
He forcefully scrubbed the sweat off from his palms and tried his best to put on an arrogant and stubborn front, 

“They…… they said it right.
You are a scummy pervert.
This was my own misfortune, always getting into no good every time I meet you.”

Yan Yu said, 

“That is because you aren’t having a good year.
You shouldn’t have stepped out of your door today.”

And then he stood up to leave.
Before he left, he purposefully squeezed Xun Chuan’s buttocks, and in the midst of this bomb he dropped onto Xun Chuan, he calmly judged it as, 

“Hmm.
Quite busty.
A bit of springy-ness.”

Xun Chuan blew his top, 

“Fuck!”

Yan Yu said, 

“Yes, you are to be fucked.”

And then he came back to earth, eyes once again faced with the icy cold room, instead of the rowdy nightclub.
Yan Yu took the cigarette back from Xun Chuan’s hand and smushed it against the table, 

“Did you forget what I said yesterday.”

“Then kill me……”

Even if he turned into a ghost, that bad habit of Xun Chuan where he liked to provoke Yan Yu had not changed a bit.
He slowly loosened the strength in his hands and brought his cold, dead lips next to Yan Yu’s cheeks, staring right into his eyes, 

“Why don’t you kill me?”

Yan Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, 

“You know that I can’t kill you right now, so go reincarnate.
After all, Dong Zi has already died.”

Xun Chuan’s resentment was growing stronger with each day that passed.
The few times Yan Yu stayed his hand meant he had already missed the best time to kill him.

“He died.
Does that mean I can live again?”

The color of blood almost filled up Xun Chuan’s eyes again, and the hand that was grabbing onto Yan Yu tightened unconsciously.
With his face murderous and filled with hatred, he said in a faint voice, 

“Him dying a thousand times, a million times, still won’t resolve my hatred, do you understand?”

Yan Yu suddenly flipped his hand and went to embrace Xun Chuan’s waist.
Slightly pushing him forward, he forced Xun Chuan to come closer.

Xun Chuan was momentarily shocked.

The two of them were silently frozen in this position and after a while, Yan Yu finally said, 

“Do you have any more regrets or things to do to resolve your resentment? I’ll help you.”

After it was all resolved, it would be time to go for his new life.

Xun Chuan immediately understood his meaning.
He was not annoyed, and he was not angry.
His cold fingers slowly curled over Yan Yu’s eyebrows, and his face turned contemplative.
Yet it held that feeling of a cat playing with its prey as he said, 

“Unfulfilled wishes huh…… there are too many……”

Yan Yu looked at him, 

“Like?”

Xun Chuan chuckled lowly, looking exactly like the malicious ghost he was, 

“Like? Like how you are still alive, like how after I reincarnate, you will still live freely.
What do you think? How could I ever be willing in these circumstances?”

Xun Chuan seemed to be really hurt and both of his hands covered his face, as if he was crying.
Yet Yan Yu could see through the gaps of his fingers his twisted and crazed eyes.

“So? How could I ever be willing……?”

Yan Yu didn’t respond and the two of them were frozen like this.
Until suddenly a squeaking noise, “zhi ya zhi ya” rang out from upstairs.
It was accompanied by low panting and moans, as if it was crying in pain, but it also didn’t seem to be like that.

“Ah…… Ah…….
help…… help…… help ah ah ah ah ah ah…….
ah ah ah ah…… no……”

The woman’s voice was delicate and soft, trembling at the ending tilts of the cries, and it was not hard for other people to imagine what was happening.
And that bed seemed to be taking on an arduous task, squeaking nonstop and transmitting all its sound without fail to a human and a ghost.

These sounds sounded absolutely not normal.

Yan Yu looked up at the ceiling and a golden light flashed by his left eye, but he could only see a cloud of thick black “ghost” energy.
His feet moved slightly, but whatever he was thinking, they receded back instead.

That sound continued and following the passage of time, those cries were getting louder and louder, making it even more easy to imagine a scene.

Xun Chuan seemed to sense something then and he also looked up, with his eyes turning playful.
Seeing that Yan Yu’s eyebrows were furrowed, he couldn’t help but slightly hook up the corners of his lips.
A finger slowly brushed up and down on Yan Yu’s cheek, bringing on some flavor of an ambiguous meaning.
With a sweet and seductive tone of voice, even more charming than that woman’s above, he said,

“Do you want……”

Yan Yu raised his eyes, and he was greeted by the sight of Xun Chuan’s pale white beauty of a collarbone.

TL Tidbit:

Just a quicker reminder that was previously mentioned in Volume 1 and 3: “xiao” can be a part of a name or as a prefix for someone younger, or for an affectionate way to call someone (at least someone a bit better than acquaintance).
Xiao-Su here is a nickname of sorts/affectionate way to call her, rather than her actual name, which will be appearing later (and we’re using the dash here to our advantage to hopefully be helpful in denoting difference.
As I mentioned in the updates section, we are currently in progress to update previous chapters of better wording (could be debated) and just fixing up some inconsistencies between the volumes/chapters and this is sort of a change we’ll looking to adopt.
But in any case, just a note, in case it gets confusing of the two separate names used for Xiao-Su later!) 

Hope you all had a great weekend, and see you thursday, Galactic Judges ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ