SAYE [Run Freely]

Chapter 47

Translate: Sae | Edit: Ice freezing-slowly

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The fried rice cakes were indeed delicious. When it came to finding inconspicuous but delightful food, Jiang Cheng felt that Gu Fei's skills had been maxed out.

Having cried to his heart's content, done perverted things - although that matter shouldn't be recalled in detail - had his stomach fed to the fullest, and bought all the things he was in need of, Jiang Cheng hiccupped as they made their way out of the small rice cake shop, feeling a lot more at ease.

"Go back ba." Gu Fei checked out the time on his phone. "Don't you still have to study?"

"I don't need to study, but I do need to sleep," Jiang Cheng said with an insouciant shrug. "I never study during the last two days before an exam. I mainly sleep, regardless of how big or small the exam is."

"Oh," Gu Fei merely sounded in response. "Me too. Regardless of how big or small the exam, I've pretty much slept through them all the year before."

Jiang Cheng couldn't help laughing, and the two ended up laughing their heads off together. He almost laughed the mucus out of his nose and quickly took out a tissue to press against his nose. "Shit."

"Go back and quickly get some sleep. Don't fall asleep halfway through the exam because of the cold," Gu Fei said.

"I won't." Jiang Cheng waved his hand, "I can finish writing it even with my eyes closed."

"Don't," Gu Fei said. "It's hard enough to understand those words of yours when you write them with your eyes open, with your eyes closed..."

"Shut the hell up for laozi.[1]" Jiang Cheng burst into another round of laughter.

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The two of them rode their bicycles back to the rented apartment very slowly. Gu Fei didn't go upstairs this time. He only retrieved the goods on the bicycle and handed them to him, "If you ever get lost again, just call me, and I'll tell you how to get there."

"... I already know my way now," Jiang Cheng said.

"Goodnight." Gu Fei gave a gentle smile.

"Goodnight." Jiang Cheng pushed the bicycle toward the stairwell, locked it up on the railing, and carried the supplies upstairs.

Although the room he opened the door to was just as desolate as that of Li Baoguo's place, the feeling, however, was already completely different. He no longer had to concern himself over Li Baoguo's irritating problems, no longer had to help him pay his debts again and again, and no longer had to listen to his coughs and shouts from the top of his lungs. Most of all, he no longer had to worry about his bedroom door swinging open out of the blue.

Jiang Cheng adjusted the temperature of the boiler until it was just slightly scalding and rinsed himself from top to bottom. There was even hot water here for him to shower in; he no longer had to fill up a bucket of hot water every single day like at Li Baoguo's... actually, he had never even seen Li Baoguo take a bath before. Perhaps, he had always gone to the public bathhouse instead.

The slightly scalding hot water flowed down his face, neck, and across his entire body. He closed his eyes and propped himself against the wall, letting his whole body slowly relax.

But after rinsing for just a short while, he turned off the water, quickly wiped himself down, and walked out of the bathroom.

Although it wasn't strange at all to think of Gu Fei and the things that he and Gu Fei had done in this situation, it was still somewhat awkward.