CHAPTER 45.2

I said I’m okay, but when Li is no more than five steps away from me, I panic, thinking of only one person in my heart— the one who can give me shelter.

“Where are you going?” Yaren wonders, looking at me, who’s tidying up my plates in fluster.

“I, I’m just going to look for Gu Yan.” I bow my head and respond haphazardly, not even realizing what I had said, let alone noticing Gui Shang’s raised eyebrows opposite me.

However, just as I’m about to leave, Li has already stepped in front of me.

The teenager in front of me is as slender as a young lady. He is obviously shorter than me, even his shoulders are thinner than me, but he has a pair of shocking and convincing aura and eyes, blood-red eyes that send shivers down my spine.

“Yo, you’re looking great. I thought you had lost half your life without dying.”

A few locks of straight black hair conceals half of Li’s fair face, seemingly sultry and beautiful, but extremely ice-cold. When his eyes land on the bruises on my face, he slightly raises the corners of his mouth, “The slap marks on your face have faded? I thought it would stay longer, it seems that I didn’t hit it hard enough back then…”

My back breaks out in a cold sweat, and my rapidly beating heart makes my fingers tremble slightly.

The following parts of the text will be scrambled to prevent theft from aggregators and unauthorized epub making. Please support our translators by reading on secondlifetranslations (dot) com. If you are currently on the site and and you are seeing this, please clear your cache.

—Qw Zyd.

Yu tygl pwcnsdpnkswpzu nbyplp vsoyaep vbl ekalnvksd oblal Qw Zyd kp… Tsolhla, R esd’v jdso pkdnl obld, cwv Qw Zyd kp pweeldzu yzalyeu pvydekdt clpkel xl.&dcpr;

“Nk, esd’v vswnb xu rlsrzl.” Qw Zyd’p vsdl kp nsze yde pbyar.

“Qw Zyd…” Mbl alpvzlpp clyvkdt kd xu blyav nyzxp esod y ckv, yde R aykpl xu lulp vs tygl yv Qw Zyd.

“Zsw’al ps iwknj vs nsxl swv yde elqlde obyv’p uswap?” Nk nbwnjzlp ekpeykdqwzzu.

Mbl yka yaswde hytwlzu clnsxlp qkzzle okvb vbl pxlzz sq pxsjl yde yway sq qktbv, yde vbl pwaaswdekdt rakpsdlap cltkd vs pvka alpvzlppzu kd vblka rzynlp.

“Ebyv yal usw clkdt osaakle ycswv, Qw Zyd?” Nk vkzvp bkp fyo yde takdp yaastydvzu yv Qw Zyd obs’p kd clvolld vbl vos sq wp, “R byhld’v lhld zyke y qkdtla sd bkx ulv…”

Jlqsal Nk’p osaep yal lhld qkdkpble, bl’p kdvlaawrvle cu y zswe pzyr, lnbskdt vbaswtbswv vbl byzz okvb y nakpr pswde vbyv xyjlp lhlausdl qallgl. R zssj yv vbl schkswp ale xyajp vbyv pwaqynlp sd Nk’p obkvl xlzsd plle qynl, yde nyd’v blzr cwv vyjl y ellr calyvb.

“You’ve already touched him— this slap is the price you paid for moving what’s mine. I wonder if you hit harder? Or did I hit you harder than the slap on Wolf’s face?” Gu Yan sneers.

Li clutches his cheeks, changing from his initial shock to anger.

“…Fvck you!”

“Li!”

Li rushes up to beat Gu Yan, and the quick-eyed Teal on the side steps forward to stop L.

“Calm down!”

“Go away! Or I’ll beat you up too, Teal!”

“Li! You shut up, don’t force me to beat you!” Teal roars, who’s dead set on stopping Li.

To my surprise, Teal, who is clearly smaller than Li, is actually able to contend against Li’s strength.

“Li—” Compared to Li’s fury, Gu Yan’s attitude is a field of coldness and calmness, but I know that this is how Gu Yan acts when he’s provoked. He says coldly, “You better stop troubling my territory, or next time this slap will not hit your face… and instead will land on Josh’s face, and I’ll return all that you did to Wolf to Josh.”

From the vision of Gu Yan’s profile in my eyes, I can see his fair face that doesn’t carry any emotion.

—Gu Yan is not joking, I understand.

“You—!” Li’s eyes widen, and his whole person becomes still for an instant. I see from the bottom of his eyes carrying a momentary flash of panic, before surging with waves of anger and hints of killing intent.

“Gu Yan, I will definitely kill you if you dare!”

“It all depends on what you do, Li.”

Li’s flaring arrogance suddenly halves. He gnashes his teeth angrily at the sight of Gu Yan and me, like a blade being sharpened, making me feel flustered and uneasy.

“Gu Yan, don’t forget, I’ll settle this score with you again.”

“Go ahead.”

Li snorts, glances at me with his sharp eyes, then turns around and walks to the kitchen to ask for a meal for two before leaving the Dining Hall, not even batting an eye to Teal who’s following him and shouting at him the whole time.

“Phew! That was scary. You two are like two screaming beasts, a panther and a snake.” Yaren whistles, and then giggles.

“Hmph, it seems that you’re in big trouble, Gu Yan.” Gui Shang utters to Gu Yan, but his golden pupils are looking at me, and the right corner of his mouth is arched in a sense of watching an interesting show.

“It’s a pain in the ass… He makes people sick,” Gu Yan grunts again with that unemotional sneer of his. He turns his head and stares at me, reaches out his hand and pulls me away, and then says to Yaren: “No more snatching Wolf, I’m taking him back.”

“Hey! You’ve already promised me, why…”

“Oh, you want to switch tables, that’s good. I think I’ll change the table, too.” Gui Shang mumbles, takes his plate, and evacuates himself away.

“You can’t do that! Gui Shang!”

All of a sudden, only Yaren is left sitting in the same position, facing an empty table.

Translator’s Note: This should have been posted earlier if not for the typhoon here ><. A tree fell right onto my family’s wifi wirings, fortunately it’s fixed now.