Just in Time Chapter 115
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 115
Extra 5 - Qi Huo and Chang Ziqi (4)
Qi Huo, who had been playing games all night, blinked dully. His brain was a bit slow to process. "Huh?"
Chang Ziqi suggestively caressed his lips. Seeing no rejection, he leaned in and kissed him.
Qi Huo leaned back in his chair. The soft sensation on his lips already felt familiar. Perhaps it was because he had just enjoyed a good game, or for some other reason, he instinctively put his arm around Chang Ziqi's waist, pulling him onto his lap.
Chang Ziqi asked him, "... Do you still want to play games?"
"F*ck," Qi Huo leaned back, staring at him intensely. "To hell with games!"
The two computers were forcibly shut down by their owners. One chair got a rest, while the other was forced to work overtime, bearing a weight it shouldn't have to bear. It creaked under the strain, making the other chair blush if it could hear.
Midway through, Qi Huo vaguely remembered that he had come to Chang Ziqi's house to get clothes. But now, not only had he failed to get clothes, he might even have to leave an extra set here.
This f*cking—
His mind wandered halfway through, but Chang Ziqi noticed.
"What are you thinking about?"
"... Clothes, f*ck—"
"Choose me or choose clothes?" Chang Ziqi smiled slightly at him in the lamplight.
"... You." Qi Huo swallowed.
With blood rushing to his head and beauty before him, Qi Huo immediately cast his poor clothes to the back of his mind.
The next day, Qi Huo was woken up by Chang Ziqi.
Last night they had fooled around until midnight, only falling asleep after 3 AM. Now it was just 6 AM. Qi Huo opened his eyes, glanced at the time, and buried his head back to sleep.
"Get up, we still have school today," Chang Ziqi said, turning him over and stroking his face.
Qi Huo impatiently swatted his hand away. "I'm skipping class today."
Chang Ziqi was silent for two seconds. "Today I'm checking attendance for the first-year students."
"Mmm, that's great," Qi Huo mumbled sleepily. "Just mark me as present."
"... I'll mark you down," Chang Ziqi said mercilessly.
"F*ck," Qi Huo opened his eyes and glared at him tiredly. "I sleep with you, and this is how you treat me?"
Chang Ziqi calmly replied, "Business is business, personal matters are personal."
"Go to hell!" Qi Huo, with severe morning grumpiness, pulled the covers over his head. "I'm not going and that's final. Mark me down if you want!"
Chang Ziqi pulled back the covers, pinched his face, and said, "Get up, I'll take you for breakfast."
"Screw off!" Qi Huo turned away, ignoring him.
Chang Ziqi lay on top of him, kissed him once, and pinched the soft flesh at his waist. "Come on, be good and get up."
Qi Huo was ticklish there. Usually, he couldn't help laughing when someone pinched him, but now he was both sleepy and irritable. He laughed painfully, "F*ck, I just want to sleep!"
After all this commotion, he wasn't sleepy anymore. Chang Ziqi pulled him out of bed and dragged him to the bathroom to wash up.
Qi Huo brushed his teeth in front of the mirror with drooping eyelids. Chang Ziqi stood beside him, his hand mischievously ruffling Qi Huo's kiwi-like head. "You can nap during breaks and lunch time."
Qi Huo couldn't be bothered to respond. He took a big gulp of water, gargled, and spat out the toothpaste foam, letting out a cold laugh. "Heh."
Chang Ziqi washed his face, getting some water in his hair. He grabbed a towel to wipe it off, staring at Qi Huo in the mirror. "Why are you in such a bad mood?"
Qi Huo turned and poked Chang Ziqi's shoulder arrogantly. "If you hadn't treated me so well last night, I'd beat you up right now."
Chang Ziqi smiled, pulled him close, and exchanged a kiss that still tasted of toothpaste.
"Feeling better now?" Chang Ziqi kissed the corner of his mouth.
Qi Huo, suddenly feeling refreshed in body and mind: "....."
——
Qi Huo had his legs propped up on the desk, leaning back and staring at the ceiling fan. Only two of the chair's four legs were touching the ground, making his deskmate nervous, fearing he might fall at any moment.
"That bastard ruined my lifelong reputation!" Qi Huo grumbled angrily, turning to ask his deskmate, "Who do you think is more handsome, me or Chang Ziqi?"
The deskmate thought seriously for a moment, "You both have your merits."
Qi Huo's gaze turned threatening.
The deskmate quickly changed his tune, "Of course, if I had to choose, it'd be you."
"Tch." Qi Huo fell into deep thought.
He couldn't understand why he, a straight-as-an-arrow guy, had fooled around with Chang Ziqi once while drunk, and then did it again while sober.
Qi Huo carefully recalled last night's events, his facial expressions becoming increasingly colorful.
That Chang Ziqi, looking all proper but not behaving properly at all. He'd been setting traps since adding him as a friend at the hospital, one after another, scheming to get him into bed.
Damn.
This calculating man.
Although Qi Huo was usually carefree and thoughtless, he had an extraordinary intuition for sensing danger. For example, he instinctively saw through Yun Fang's attempts to trick him, and as for Chang Ziqi... he might not be able to outplay him.
As an experienced player, Qi Huo was like a fish in water when it came to matters of the heart. His motto had always been that playing around was fine, but real feelings were off-limits. So far, his longest relationship record was two months. When that girl started talking about plans for sophomore year, he immediately took off.
To hell with the future.
He had no future with anyone, no exceptions.
After all, if it was just for fun, why did it matter who it was with?
Qi Huo spent half of the self-study period thinking and decided to stay away from that bewitching Chang Ziqi.
He, Qi Huo, was a free and wild stallion. The whole prairie of flowers and grass was his playground. How could he possibly stop his carefree gallop for one particularly good-looking school flower!
So Chang Ziqi found that after that day, he couldn't catch Qi Huo anymore.
He couldn't find him during self-study checks, couldn't catch him being late, and Qi Huo wouldn't reply to messages or answer calls. It was an arrogant attitude of "I'm just not going to pay attention to you, and what can you do about it?"
Chang Ziqi had originally planned to slowly reel him in, but Qi Huo had pulled the rug out from under him. He didn't see him for most of the semester.
Until the start of the next semester.
A friend was going abroad and invited a group of people to sing at a KTV. Chang Ziqi didn't particularly like such occasions, but their families had business dealings, and although he disliked social niceties, he handled them well enough. So he went along with the crowd.
This friend who was going abroad loved to party. Chang Ziqi felt stifled inside and excused himself to go to the bathroom. He was washing his hands at the sink, feeling a bit dizzy, when he heard a familiar cursing voice from one of the stalls.
Chang Ziqi shook the water off his hands and took out his phone to call that friend.
"Hey, Brother Chang! Why have you been gone so long? We're all waiting for you!" the friend shouted over the phone. "Come back quickly! What are you doing?"
Chang Ziqi looked at himself in the mirror and unbuttoned the top two buttons of his shirt, revealing just the right amount of collarbone.
Although he didn't think it was anything special, Qi Huo seemed to like kissing there before.
"I'm not coming back," Chang Ziqi smiled slightly at the mirror, hearing the stall door being kicked open. "I'm waiting for my prey."
The person who came out of the stall angrily looked up and glared at the person in the mirror. "What the f*ck are you looking at, you b*stard!"
Chang Ziqi hung up the phone, curled his lips into a smile, then turned around and looked at Qi Huo expressionlessly.
"Chang Ziqi!?" Qi Huo looked at him in shock. "What the f*ck are you doing here?"
Chang Ziqi noticed his gaze lingering on his collar for a few seconds and raised an eyebrow.
Looks like he'd caught his rabbit.