Chapter 123.2
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“Xiao Tangqiu!”
Xiao Tangqiu woke up suddenly, only to realize he was lying on the table in an internet cafe.
…Wait, on a table in an internet cafe?
Why was he in an internet cafe?
Xiao Tangqiu looked around in a daze, suddenly eting the eyes of the boy who woke him up. The boy had fair skin, beautiful features, and a tear mole on the corner of his left eye.
He was in a trance for a mont, and called out unsurely, “…ng Xinghe?”
“Hey, hey, what’s with that uncertain expression on your face? You don’t rember who I am after you fall asleep?” ng Xinghe stretched out two fair and slender fingers and pinched Xiao Tangqiu’s cheek.
“Ow, that hurts!” Xiao Tangqiu yelled, dodging ng Xinghe’s pinch attack, “Why are we in the internet cafe?”
“You slept yourself muddled! Did you forget that we ran away from ho after school let out in the afternoon!” ng Xinghe hmphed and reached out again to ruffle Xiao Tangqiu’s hair.
Xiao Tangqiu ducked but his shoulder was pressed by ng Xinghe again. He could only accept ng Xinghe’s playful attacks. He asked in a daze, “Running away from ho? Since school let out in the afternoon? We are running away from ho right now?”
ng Xinghe pursed his lips, “Yeah! We’ve been in the internet cafe all night. I played gas all night, and you slept all night… Speaking of, you can really sleep! The internet cafe is so loud yet you were able to fall asleep!”
Xiao Tangqiu looked dazed, “I seem to have had a… long, long dream…”
“A long, long dream?” ng Xinghe asked curiously, “What dream?”
Xiao Tangqiu thought hard, but couldn’t rember anything, “…Forgot.”
“Nevermind, since you can’t rember it, it’s probably not a good dream,” ng Xinghe yawned, “Our internet money is almost exhausted, let’s go to a park to sleep.”
“Go to the park to sleep? Sleep where?” Xiao Tangqiu couldn’t react for a while.
“Sleep on a park bench,” ng Xinghe said with a righteous look on his face.
Xiao Tangqiu, “This is too sad…”
“We don’t have any money!” ng Xinghe pinched Xiao Tangqiu’s cheek, “We left right after class, there was no ti to go ho and get money!”
Xiao Tangqiu then rembered that it was indeed the case. He touched his pocket and found only a few bucks, “How much money do you have on you?”
ng Xinghe patted himself casually, “A few dozen or so left. Even adding it up, it’s not enough to stay in a hotel. Why don’t we stay in the internet cafe all night?”
Xiao Tangqiu shook his head and looked at ng Xinghe seriously, “It will be your birthday in a bit, right? Why not buy a cake for your eighteenth birthday?”
ng Xinghe paused for a mont before scratching the back of his head, “Should we buy a cake? I don’t really care, but after buying a cake, we’ll be completely out of money.”
Xiao Tangqiu shook his head, “It’s more important to celebrate your birthday. Let’s go and buy a cake.”
ng Xinghe laughed, “I see that you are the one who wants to eat cake! Okay, let’s go! Let’s go buy cake!”
The two teenagers left the Internet cafe and went to the nearest cake shop only to find that it was closed. They went to several cake shops in succession, and finally successfully bought a small cake at a 24-hour convenience store, the kind for one person.
“It’s so small! It’s not enough for the two of us! We should’ve just gotten malatang!” ng Xinghe muttered while looking at the cake in his hand.
Xiao Tangqiu grinned, “But birthdays are all about eating birthday cakes!”
ng Xinghe hmphed, “That’s the tradition of Westerners, we don’t like it.”
Xiao Tangqiu smiled, “Alright, it’s already bought. Let’s find a place to sit down and eat. Let’s go to the park you ntioned.”
ng Xinghe nodded. “It’s actually pretty cool to sleep on a park bench.”
Xiao Tangqiu was speechless, “How cool is it to sleep on a park bench, only holess people sleep on park benches…”
He hesitated and said to ng Xinghe, “Let’s go ho tomorrow morning, ng Xinghe.”
ng Xinghe suddenly paused, “Go ho? You’re kidding!”
Xiao Tangqiu frowned, “But we are broke now, and we can’t even buy food, so how can we run away from ho?”
“Stop joking, we agreed to run away from ho so we will run away from ho!” ng Xinghe insisted, “Are you going to betray ?”
“Where did I betray you? Didn’t I run away from ho with you for a day?” Xiao Tangqiu bit his lip, “We don’t even have a minute now, if we don’t go ho, do we really have to live on the streets? “
“I can go find work!” ng Xinghe gritted his teeth, “No matter what, I won’t go back!”
Xiao Tangqiu hesitated for a mont, “ng Xinghe, don’t be like this, your mother is only trying to care about you. You’re her only son…”
“She just wants to control !” ng Xinghe’s eyes darkened, “She wants to control as a person, control my life, impose her subjective will on , live vicariously through with no regard for my personal wishes! I will never go back!”
He looked at Xiao Tangqiu and asked, “Are you already afraid? You want to betray ?”
“How can this be considered betrayal? I have kept you company wandering outside all day! My parents must be worried about now!” Xiao Tangqiu also got a little angry.
“Kept company all day? Company?” ng Xinghe suddenly laughed, “You are just pitying . Have you never regarded as a friend? You just feel sorry for and pity ?”
“What pity or sorry!” Xiao Tangqiu was completely angry, “Forget it! Do whatever you want! I’m going ho!” He turned his head and started walking back.
He was in a rush and forgot to check the surrounding street for cars first, so naturally he didn’t see a car coming straight for him.
“Careful!”
ng Xinghe dashed over and shoved Xiao Tangqiu away.
After a shrill and piercing braking sound, Xiao Tangqiu was pushed out far away.
He laid on the ground in a daze, and at this mont, countless terrifying images flashed across his eyes in an instant. Destroyed cakes, bloody ng Xinghes, icy morgues…
Xiao Tangqiu imdiately got up from the ground and threw himself towards ng Xinghe, shouting, “ng Xinghe! ng Xinghe!”
The next mont, he saw the ruined cake on the ground and ng Xinghe with blood all over his face…
His heart almost stopped, and he cried and scread, “ng Xinghe! ng Xinghe! Don’t die… don’t die!”
At this mont, ng Xinghe slowly opened his eyes, and his voice was very weak, “Qiu… Qiuqiu… I’m not dead yet…”
Xiao Tangqiu grabbed ng Xinghe’s wrist excitedly, “Great! Don’t die! Don’t die! Ambulance… Yes! Ambulance! I’ll call an ambulance right now!”
The driver who accidentally hit soone got out of the car and almost fell to his knees. After realizing that ng Xinghe was not dead, he imdiately took out his mobile phone and called an ambulance.
“Don’t die… don’t die…” Xiao Tangqiu clung to ng Xinghe’s hand tightly and murmured repeatedly, “Don’t die… don’t die…”
ng Xinghe’s voice was weak, “Hey, I just had a little nosebleed, it’s not that serious…”
Xiao Tangqiu shook his head desperately with red eyes.
Monts later, the ambulance ca.
After hesitating for a while, Xiao Tangqiu finally found soone to borrow a phone and called both his parents and ng Xinghe’s mother to the hospital.
As soon as Xiao Tangqiu’s parents arrived at the hospital, they imdiately scolded Xiao Tangqiu, but ng Xinghe’s mother comforted Xiao Tangqiu after knowing that there was nothing serious with ng Xinghe, “It’s fine.”
“You brat, you’re really promising! You even learned to run away from ho!” Mother Xiao pointed at Xiao Tangqiu’s nose and scolded, and then ca over to comfort Mother ng.
Xiao Tangqiu was still in shock, his spirit elsewhere.
After a while, ng Xinghe ca out. His face was covered with bandages, wrapped like a mummy. He said in a muffled voice, “I just finished getting stitches. I will stay in the hospital for a day’s observation and then be discharged tomorrow.”
The three parents breathed a sigh of relief and Xiao Tangqiu imdiately said, “I’ll stay with you.”
“You brat, you have class tomorrow!” Mother Xiao glared at Xiao Tangqiu.
“ng Xinghe beca like this to save so I’ll stay to take care of him,” Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth, “Once he’s discharged from the hospital, I’ll go to class with him.”
Mother ng smiled helplessly, “If my Xinghe can go to class obediently from now on, it will be a blessing in disguise.”
Mother Xiao shook her head and sighed, but Xiao Tangqiu was indeed responsible for ng Xinghe’s accident. In the end, she had to let Xiao Tangqiu go. The three parents and the perpetrator discussed all the procedures and paid the fee before leaving.
In a blink of an eye, only Xiao Tangqiu and ng Xinghe were left in the ward.
ng Xinghe laid on the hospital bed, bored. Looking at Xiao Tangqiu’s dazed expression, he couldn’t help raising his eyebrows, “Why are you looking like I’m dead. Don’t worry, I’m still alive and well.”
Xiao Tangqiu looked uneasy, “For so reason… I feel like this car accident has happened once before…”
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